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Why is it not acceptable to cast white actors to play Chinese characters on stage or on screen?
Brit/Chinese Culture, Campaigns, The Arts December 19, 2016December 19, 2016 Editorial
David Lee-Jones' stage appearances include Skin in Flames (Park Theatre) and #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead Theatre). He has also appeared in "traditionally white" roles in Western classics including by Shaw, Coward and, above all, Shakespeare. He is an Artistic Associate of Yellow Earth Theatre and Artistic Director of Wild Consort.
Acting is not guaranteed as an easy career path for anyone, but British East Asians may be justified in believing they get a particularly raw deal for opportunities on stage or screen, even compared to other minorities.
There are appallingly few race-specific roles available to us, and those that are available tend to the very minor and stereotyped, or "other" and stereotyped. The tropes are easy to trot out: male characters are desexualised or inhumane, while female characters are objectified and/or doomed.
As for non-race-specific roles – roles that an actor of any race SHOULD be able to play – they tend to be kept white by unconsious bias and a lack of imagination.
All this means that British East Asian actors rarely get an equal chance to build their experience in a professional context or to develop the industry contacts and trust necessary to advance their careers. It's a drama-school commonplace that there are no such thing as small roles, only small actors, but anyone who isn't extraordinarily lucky in this business learns fast that small roles have to be their own reward, particularly on screen. If you only ever get seen for one-line parts as "Chinese waiter" or "Chinese prostitute", how can you possibly build a career? And how can you get the industry to see you seriously as more than that?
Accordingly the core industry gets away with maintaining its low expectations of our potential. In the last couple of years we've seen maybe one or two East Asian faces regularly on British TV but it's hardly blown wide open or fully escaped the "otherness" trap. There have certainly been a handful of higher-profile theatre productions in London that have accorded weightier roles to British Chinese actors but this is soley on the very rare occasions when a play focuses on a Chinese theme, and even those same theatres seems to struggle with the concept of integrating East Asian actors into their casts as a matter of course.
This is a wider issue than one of employment. We are all seeking to establish for ourselves and to the wider society what it means to be British Chinese. That isn't possible when we are made relatively invisible, in public life and in fiction. I have a young nephew and niece with Chinese heritage, and I demand the right for them to find mirrors in the stories they see.
I am a frequent theatregoer and at almost every play I attend on the fringe or in the West End, I feel this exclusion. Every time there are roles that did not NEED to be cast as white, but were. I've been told to my face that only white actors should play Shakespeare. "We aren't allowed to play Chinese, so you don't get to play white," runs another argument.
Sadly, it seems a lot of the time we don't get to play either. This is exactly what is happening at The Print Room, a theatre in Notting Hill staging "In the Depths of Dead Love" early next year. This is a new play by Howard Barker set in Ancient China with, it has been announced, a cast of four white actors.
When a production of a modern play comes along where the lead characters are written as Chinese and then white actors are cast in every single role, it isn't just that our careers are being stolen from us. It's that the dominant culture is taking for itself our very right to any representation of ourselves. The Chinese body becomes abstracted as a stage Chinaman, and conforms to whatever orientalist assumptions the story requires. There's a long, ugly history of this and it's still appropriate to call it yellowface even if there is not literally makeup being applied – the practice is if anything more pernicious because it's easier to get under the radar.
Perhaps not any more. Ever since the "Orphan of Zhao" casting controversy in 2012, when the Royal Shakespeare Company was bombarded with passionate, strongly worded – and often witty – complaints regarding its racial insensitivity, the British East Asian artistic community has been finding its voice with increasing authority. Over the last three days the Print Room has faced a Twitter storm regarding its insulting, tone-deaf decisions and, incredibly, has yet to respond. The sense I get is that an apology will now be insufficient; utter contrition and strong evidence of a genuine (and overdue) commitment to include East Asian artists in their future output is the minimum required.
Do let them know on Twitter at @the_printroom if you agree.
I argued a long time for colourblindness but I don't believe it's a useful term any more. It's become a way to repress discussion of these issues under the pretence that there is a level playing field, that the creative industries and wider society are perfect meritocracies. Every single person of colour will tell you that is not the case, so a better aspiration than colourblindness is colour awareness. A casting decision is a political act that informs the dialogue between the artists and the audience, and we should not be encouraging anyone to claim that they "don't notice" race. Better that they notice, and they talk about it. This year the UK and US have been thrown into turmoil by white voters with anxieties about immigration and national identity. A frequent complaint is that they arent "allowed to talk about race". So let's bring on that discussion, and one of the ways we can do that is through the simple fact of the bodies that we are able to place into stories on our stages and screens.
David Lee-Jones as Richard III – (c) Michael Dyer
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Pastor Sheldon also serves the Lexington community as assistant football and basketball coach at Lexington Middle School. In his spare time, Sheldon enjoys playing basketball and disc golf, and coaching his kids' sports teams, a good cup of coffee, and spending time with his wife and four children.
Sheldon holds an Masters of Divinity from Regent University and strives to use his ministry experience to train up young leaders for the 21st century Church.
Additionally, he serves as the Finance Director of Mission Lexington www.missionlexingtonsc.org
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Cortex Logic Continues Rapid Expansion with Appointment of New CEO, Deon van Heerden
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa, 11 April 2019 – Cortex Logic Continues Rapid Expansion with Appointment of New CEO, Deon van Heerden.
Cortex Logic is an African Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software and Solutions company that helps businesses thrive in the Smart Technology Era. We work across multiple business and industry domains seeking to augment and automate legacy processes, ultimately transforming them into intelligent systems, using the Cortex Logic AI Engine. We leverage a unique AI Engine for Business that solves strategic and operationally relevant problems by unlocking the value offered by the 4th Industrial Revolution and by mobilizing Data Science, Internet of Things (IoT), as well as Big Data and Analytics.
Today, we proudly announce the appointment of Deon van Heerden as the new Chief Executive Officer of Cortex Logic – an accomplished technology executive and entrepreneur, who aims to spur exponential growth and lead the company through the next phase of expansion.
Dr Jacques Ludik, recipient of the AI Leader of the Year 2019 award and Cortex Logic Founder, Managing Director and Cortex Group CEO said, "We're experiencing a mammoth increase in demand from enterprises, both in local and international markets, for our Artificial Intelligence products and solutions. Being on an aggressive growth path, expanding our team not only means attracting the brightest young minds but growing our senior executive team as well. We're onboarding leaders who can hit the ground running and contribute a wealth of knowledge on how to grow businesses and industries by leveraging cutting-edge 4th Industrial Revolution technologies".
Dr Ludik continued, "Given the traction received since announcing Cortex Logic's investment injection in February 2019, we are poised to expand the Cortex Logic product portfolio and deploy our AI-based enterprise solutions to both local and global markets. Parallel with van Heerden's vast experience in scaling and leading tech-based companies globally, we're certain that we have a winning combination that will further propel our positioning as one of Africa's Artificial Intelligence pioneers."
Some may say van Heerden has 'done this before', having occupied various leadership roles at tech-based companies, overseeing international expansion efforts and spearheading significant revenue growth within those businesses. Prior to van Heerden's appointment, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Clickatell Group and Chief Executive Officer of the Clickatell Engage Business Unit. Clickatell is a global customer engagement company headquartered in Redwood City, California – funded by leading Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists such as Sequoia Capital and DAG Ventures. Van Heerden has also served on the Clickatell Board of Directors since 2011 and has spent significant time in Silicon Valley – spearheading expansion efforts of Clickatell into UK / Europe, India, Nigeria and most other parts of Africa. Prior to Clickatell, he served as the COO of ViaMedia and as Senior Manager at Accenture in both South Africa and the UK.
Van Heerden said, "I'm excited to join Cortex Logic at this pivotal point in its history. Having actively advised on productization, strategies and go-to market efforts for the past 2 years, I've noted Cortex Logic's three key ingredients for success – great customers, great products and great people. The opportunities for leveraging cutting-edge 4th Industrial Revolution technologies are growing exponentially and Cortex Logic presents an enterprise product portfolio that can be deployed to the broader international market. We're growing our customer and client base at a phenomenal pace, which is paving the way for an incredible future for Cortex Logic and its team."
About Cortex Logic
Cortex Logic is an African Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and solutions company that helps businesses thrive in the Smart Technology Era. We provide an AI Engine for Business that solves strategic and operationally relevant problems by leveraging Data Science, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data & Analytics. We help platform businesses and corporates operationalise real-world AI by unlocking the value from all available structured and unstructured data – in parallel, supporting businesses through the change programme to deliver the step change and business advantage AI-based technologies offer. We work in all major market segments with clients in banking, insurance, healthcare, mining, manufacturing, retail and telecoms.
Learn more at www.cortexlogic.com.
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Practice Machine Drawing questions and answers for interviews, campus placements, online tests, aptitude tests, quizzes and competitive exams.
This set of Machine Drawing test focuses on "Preliminary Decisions for Making a Drawing".
Explanation: The first preliminary decision for making drawing is types of projections. There are two types of projections which are used in industry are first angle method and third angle method. Find the type of projection method which is used in the industry follow the same in types of projection.
Explanation: Object orientation is the object can be placed in several positions with respect to the projection plane. When the object is oriented in such a way that its faces are parallel to picture plane is the simplest view of viewing.
3. An object is placed at an angle with picture plane________ the drawing.
Explanation: An object is placed at an angle with a picture plane complicate the drawing unnecessarily. It is the most important parameter which is used in object orientation. From that point of view the object should be oriented by the proper angle for best viewing.
4. __________ of the object should be the largest of all the other views.
Explanation: Front view of the object should be most important or largest of all other views. Also, it shows the maximum part of the object or maximum details of the object. Selecting View is another rule or decision which is used in making a drawing.
5. Which side view gives more details about the object?
Explanation: Right hand side view gives more details about the object as compared to left side view. Side view is either left or right side depending upon which side gives more details about the object. Two views are also given if one side view does not clear all dimensions of the object.
6. The number of views to be drawn depends upon the _______ of the object.
Explanation: On the shape of the object number of views is to be drawn. The number of views is the preliminary decisions for making a drawing. A rectangular object has six phases but only three views are easy for understanding.
Explanation: Axis symmetric objects may require only two objects, because of their axis symmetry property. Because of that there are only two views is required. Both two views give complete details of the object. Objects having negligible thickness can be shown with one view only.
Explanation: By using a selection of scale we can enlarge or reduce the size of the object for better understanding. It is another rule for preliminary decisions for making a drawing.
9. The dimension put on the drawing is _______ dimensions.
Explanation: The dimension put on the drawing is the actual dimension and not scaled dimension. Large parts drawing are not fit on the sheet due to this reason the size of the drawing is reduced by reducing scale.
Explanation: The reduced scale is 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20, 1:50, 1:100 1:200, and 1:500. The reduced scale is shown by 1: X and enlarged scale is shown by X: 1. Enlarged scale is 50:1, 20:1, 5:1, and 2:1.
11. A gap of about ________ mm should be kept to accommodate dimensions and view titles.
Explanation: In spacing of views, a gap of about 25-40 mm should be kept to accommodate dimension and view title. Spacing of views is another preliminary rule for making a drawing. Views should be placed at a proper distance from the axis for better appearance.
12. For sheets of A3 size, a border is at _______ mm from left and ________ mm for all other sides from the edges of the sheet.
Explanation: For sheets of a3 size, border is at 20 mm from left and 10 mm for all other sides from the edges of the sheet. This distance or proportion is selected for the better appearance of view and easy for understanding.
13. If there is another left side view for the object also, extra width is needed.
Explanation: There is another left side view for the object an extra width is needed or added. X and Y represent the size of the border. This is the most important rule which is used in making a drawing.
14. A represent the ________ gap and B represent the ________ gap between views from the border.
Explanation: A represent the horizontal gap and B represent the vertical gap between views from the border. It is not representing right or left gap. If values of A and B are less than 25 mm, select standard reduction scale.
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Flying the flag for Tendring's Tourism
May 9, 2011 | Latest News
Brightlingsea's beach has been named as one of the best in the country. Our beach, along with Martello Bay at Clacton and Dovercourt Bay – retained the prestigious and internationally recognised Blue Flag Award, one of only 16 chosen throughout the whole of Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk to receive the coveted accolade for 2011. The announcement followed hot on the heels of one of the best starts to the season with high visitor numbers recorded across the District over the past month.
In addition to the Blue Flags, Tendring's beaches also scooped six Quality Coast Awards for this year.
Those have gone to Martello Bay at Clacton; West Beach, Clacton; Frinton Beach; Harwich Beach, Albion Beach, Walton and the Naze at Walton.
Tendring District Council (TDC) made the bids for all nine awards and was delighted to be successful with all its applications.
Neil Stock, TDC's Executive Leader, said it was great news for everyone involved with the holiday industry in the area.
"It is a fantastic achievement to retain these prestigious awards for our nine beaches," he said.
"It means that flags will be flying high once again this season, giving confidence to both visitors and residents that we have some of the best beaches and facilities in the country.
"Our seaside resorts are only part of the rich variety of attractions we have on offer for families wanting to come to Tendring but they do play a very significant role in pulling in the visitors."
Cllr Stock added that the guidelines for water quality will be changing in 2015 and the Council will looking carefully at the way it promotes it beaches in the future.
The awards were announced today by Keep Britain Tidy, which administers the scheme in England.
The Blue Flag programme was initially launched by the Foundation for Educational Education in 1987.
To receive a Blue Flag beaches reach certain standards in a number of criteria covering environmental education and information, water quality, environmental management, safety and services.
Quality Coast Awards were first introduced four years ago to recognise and reward beaches that achieve high standards of management.
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In a few weeks, all rabbit groups died of cancer, EXCEPT FOR ONE.
One group survived. These rabbits shared the same cage, but they received exactly the same food, treatment, and medication as all the other groups. They were in exactly the same environment. Nothing seemed to be any different. But why did these rabbits NOT get cancer?
After looking at the day logs, the scientists noticed that the lab assistant who took care of this particular group did something different. When he administered the medicine, he would hold, pet, and talk to each rabbit.
A simple act of LOVE saved their lives.
This is a well-known documented case of a terminal cancer patient, who was given the dire prognosis of six weeks.
Perhaps to maintain his positive attitude, or to distract himself from negative thinking, or to keep his mind from panic, he went to visit his parents on a farm. For two weeks, the patient walked in the woods, breathing in fresh air, smelling the flowers, listening to the birds. He wrote in his journal that he "found nature magical". Everything in the forest was so alive.
In two weeks, he went back to the hospital and found that cancer was in remission.
Once upon a time, a yogi traveled through Tibetan mountains in search of a teacher.
A few village men were carrying a crying woman. She was in pain and a dark red stream colored her clothes as the blood gushed out of a large wound in her belly.
The young yogi asked a stranger where they were taking her. "To the mountain temple," he found out.
He followed them up the hill. As he walked into the round structure, the procedure of healing was about to take place.
The woman was placed in the middle on a slightly elevated bamboo bed. Her wound was cleaned up, exposing the ugly gash. The head monk knelt beside her, holding his hands a few inches away from the wound. Thirty to forty monks mindfully formed a perfect circle around them.
A deep guttural sound emerged from throat of the head monk, "OOOMMMMMM", creating a vibration that filled the temple. The monks followed suit, "OOOMMMMM".
They went on for a couple of hours, raising and adjusting the tone of the vibration. The head monk moved his hands in a circular fashion right above the woman's belly, as the yogi observed the wound shrink in front of his eyes.
In two hours, the woman got up, no wound in sight, knelt in front of the monk in deep gratitude for a few minutes, saying her prayers, after which she walked away.
Popular documentaries "The Secret" and "What the Bleep Do We Know?" had detailed interviews with leading quantum physicists and scientists.
Although the general public has not accepted it as fact, the science has proven that the modern world-view (that physical matter is real) is a thing of the past.
What's real is Consciousness, which gives birth to energy, which presents itself as matter when we are looking for it. In other words, an atom exists only because the scientist is looking for the atom.
We cause our world into existence by believing in it.
By the same token, we cause our illness by believing it (consciously or not), or believing our predisposition to the illness.
Our glands and nerves are influenced by hate, anger, fear, depression, and other negative thoughts and feelings. Our bodies produce poisonous chemicals in response.
Instead, we need to practice continual cultivation of positive attitude in the form of joyful thoughts and loving feelings.
Anything less than feelings of Love depresses the body functions. Calm, vibrant, and joyful, Love vitalizes all body functions, propelling us toward unending life and optimal health.
This does not mean that we need to suppress or deny our negative emotions. We do need to acknowledge them also, just like passing rain clouds, and then simply re-focus on the what produces Love, and maintain positive attitude despite all odds.
So the secret of perfect health is to eliminate every thought and feeling that is less than unconditional Love for everybody and everything. Toxic thoughts are the energetic cause of disease. Positive attitude, thoughts of love and healing, treat the root cause of any illness.


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Why does two-time former Chief Minister of Kerala Oommen Chandy stay put in Delhi?
The children of Chandy and Chennithala are waiting in the wings.
Published: 17th November 2021 06:34 PM | Last Updated: 17th November 2021 06:46 PM | A+A A-
KPCC president K Sudhakaran having a word with Oommen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala.( File | Photo)
By IANS
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There seems to be no end to the infighting in the Kerala Congress with faction leaders taking their grievances to the party high command as two-time former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy stays put in Delhi.
Even though the party has been seeing internal differences for since long, matters took a turn for the worse in May when the party suffered a rout in the April 6 Assembly polls, when the CPI(M)'s Pinarayi Vijayan easily retained power.
Following the defeat, the party high command stepped in and decided to go for a major overhaul and appointed K Sudhakaran as the new state party president and later VD Satheesan as Leader of Opposition ruffling many feathers. This left the erstwhile faction managers Oommen Chandy and outgoing Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala fretting and fuming.
The party then witnessed new formations with traditional rivals Chandy and Chennithala joining hands against Sudhakaran and Satheesan.
Luck favoured Sudhakaran and Satheesan, when the all-powerful KC Venugopal decided to support the new faction.
The old guard of Chandy and Chennithala decided to fight back and has decided to play spoilsport after Sudhakaran decided to go ahead with the revamp of the party at the lower and district levels.
According to a source, Chandy has reached Delhi and will meet party president Sonia Gandhi.
"The Chandy-Chennithala faction is of the view that if there are plans to conduct organisational polls, then the present revamp should not happen. They know that through a revamp - which is mere nomination of new office-bearers, they will be able to further consolidate the party and the biggest losers will be the old guard. Already if one sees the manner in which disciplinary action has been taken by Sudhakaran, it is a clear indication that they are weakening the old guard," said the source who did not wish to be identified.
The latest to be given a show-cause notice is one of the closest aides of Chandy in the state capital district - MA Latheef, a former party secretary and treasurer.
As soon as Latheef was suspended, his supporters organised a massive show of strength and marched down the streets in the capital city.
"The strategy of Sudhakaran is very clear, target the leadership in the Chandy-Chennithala faction and weaken them. But the seasoned veterans, especially Chandy, who though not keeping good health, is sure to use his six decades in politics to put up stiff resistance. What happens is going to be unpredictable, but for the old guard, they have nothing to lose, but for Sudhakaran and Satheesan, it is not like that," added the source.
With Chandy now in Delhi, sensing that things can go out of hand, Satheesan on Wednesday told the media that everything will be discussed in the party, especially with the veteran leaders.
"If one looks around, revamp has taken place in other states also. I will speak with all the leaders," said Satheesan.
Reports have come out that there have been complaints against them (Chandy-Chennithala) by way of e-mails and fax messages to the party high command stating that they are trying to destroy the party and their aim is to bargain for posts for their children.
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Institutional Effectiveness Criterion: Enrichment
The Board of Trustees of Northwestern Michigan College believes that public school academies can serve a useful function in the education of students within its boundaries. In an effort to foster diversity of educational opportunity without sacrificing quality of education or unnecessarily duplicating existing educational opportunity of a like nature, the board may review and accept or reject applications for contractual authorization of public school academies.
All approved programs must have clearly defined educational goals, competent administration and staff to carry out those goals, sufficient financial resources for achieving those goals, and means and methods for ongoing evaluation of the program.
A regional public school academy review committee shall be appointed to consider concept and/or application proposals and to recommend approval, modification, amendment, or rejection to the president and board from time to time. The recommendation shall include the proposed length of term of the initial agreement (not to exceed three years, renewable at the discretion of the board), as well as the proposed date of the start of education. The agreement, including monthly financial and operational status reports and annual audit, shall be subject to review by the board.
It is further understood that the board has the authority to suspend the charter at any time when it is deemed in the best interest of the Northwestern Michigan College or the students enrolled.
The review committee shall be advisory only and will not usurp authority from local agencies authorized to charter one or more academies. The review committee shall afford potential candidates an opportunity to gain insight and information relative to criteria necessary to receive a charter. It shall serve to provide a consistent process and "user-friendly" initial steps to those interested in the establishment of an academy.
Special attention shall be paid to and a detailed description shall be included concerning the fiscal arrangement proposed by the applicant. The President is authorized to develop staff policy and procedures necessary for the implementation of this policy.
If any provision(s) of this policy or set of bylaws conflicts with laws applicable to Northwestern Michigan College, including the Community College Act of 1966, the Freedom of Information Act, or the Open Meetings Act, as each may be amended from time to time, such laws shall control and supersede such provision(s).
Initially adopted as D-702.00 by the Northwestern Michigan College Board of Trustees September 23, 1996
Renumbered D-202.00 December 18, 2006
Reviewed without revision November 2008
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Haredi rabbis rank airlines' modesty
Rabbinical transportation committee publishes ad naming Israeli, foreign airlines offering immodest, 'particularly heinous' films
Neta Sela |Published: 07.12.08 , 16:19
The Rabbinical Committee of Transportation published an ad Tuesday in official haredi newspapers ranking airlines operating flights from Israel to the United States and Europe in terms of the films screened on the planes.
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'Girls, go to the back'
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Rabbinical transportation committee calls on young women to ride buses in halachic manner, meaning to congregate in back of bus, even in those buses not deemed 'kosher', in which driver won't open back door
Under the title "There is another way", the committee rabbis – operating under the authority of the greatest sages of Israel, including Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, Hasidic leaders, as well as Shas' spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, whose son Yitzhak Yosef is a member of the committee – stated that "the film problem constitutes a dreadful spiritual danger."
Modesty categories
The airlines ranked as a top priority, according to the committee, are those which do not offer any films on their flights.
The airlines ranked as a second priority are those which offer private screens which can be turned off. However, since the neighbors' screen can still be seen from the passenger seat, the rabbis recommend taking along a "foldable curtain" supplied to the passengers by "the support for filmless flights".
The airlines ranked as a third priority are those which offer private screens on their planes, which in the peak hours are joined by planes with collective screens and in addition, the ad states, "the films screened there are particularly heinous and ugly."
The airlines which won the privilege of being included in the modest category are mainly eastern European companies such as Aerosvit, which provides flight services to Ukraine and later on to the rest of Europe, Malev, which flies to Hungary, and Brussels Airlines, which provides flights to Belgium.
As for flights to the US, British Airways and Continental Airlines were ranked as a second priority, and Swiss International Air Lines was rated second in flights to Europe.
What about Israeli airlines?
The Israeli airlines did not win much praise in the haredi committee's ranking. El Al was included in the third category in flights to the US and London, while Israir and Arkia did not even make it to the list of "permitted" airlines.
According to the rabbis, Israir and Arkia "severely breach the fences of modesty and desecrate the Shabbat and one must not travel with them at all."


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Conference of Australian and Indonesian Youth – Makassar, 5-8 September 2018
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Jack McNaught, the founder of International Internships, was a CAUSINDY delegate in 2013 at the very first conference, held in Canberra. He truly has a strong engagement with Indonesia, which has continually brought him back to the country.
"CAUSINDY is a great opportunity to meet people. I am still in contact with a lot of CAUSINDY alumni and become good friends with them and have even collaborated with some of them for work, too."
Jack started International Internships about 12 years ago. The program aims to facilitate internships, study intensives, immersion and unit-based programs, along with career mentoring, professional skills development, cross-cultural communication, and language training – all to provide the participants with the tools to work and communicate internationally.
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In 2004, when it all began, he spent a year traveling, half of which he spent in Indonesia, learning Indonesian language in Yogyakarta and volunteering in Bali. He loved his time there and left with a desire to return. Jack then started working as a lecturer at Deakin University, maintaining his connections back in Indonesia.
While he was lecturing, he started an internship program called Indonesian Internships, which at the time was only held in Yogyakarta. This was later expanded to other regions of Indonesia and other countries, and became International Internships.
For Jack, doing business in Indonesia can be challenging, but is enjoyable. He finds that Indonesian people are generally honest and share a sense of humour with Australians, especially by not taking themselves too seriously.
When he started, the biggest thing for him that made it quite easy and gave a positive feeling was that students from Australia always felt welcomed by universities or organizations in Indonesia. When asked what changes he would like to see in Indonesia to make his work easier, Jack suggests increased transparency of laws and procedures in Indonesia is the biggest factor would help.
"Overall they have a great time here."
Yes, the Australian students did enjoy their time in Indonesia. The team got a really wide range of students from Australia, some of them learned Indonesian language at school or have been to Indonesia before, while the others have never traveled to Indonesia and they did not know what to expect.
They get off the plane and are absolutely blown away by all the differences – the heat, the traffic, all those things. But overall, they have a great time in Indonesia even though they have never been here, and a lot of them had come back to visit. They have become friends with the people in Indonesia, which shows how exciting the things are during the program.
The plan for the future is to make Indonesia a place that most Australians want to engage with, and encourage them to visit and discover parts of the country other than Bali. Jack thinks that the opportunities for cooperation between Australia and Indonesia are endless and will be supported by the new IA-CEPA (Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement).
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Sleep issues start at young age study finds
31 Jul, 2014 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read
The researchers say the rates of recent suicidal thoughts or self-harm in the survey were similar to rates found in studies of tertiary students overseas. Photo / Thinkstock
By: Martin Johnston
Senior journalist, NZ Herald
martin.johnston@nzherald.co.nz@MartinJohnston6
Depression and anxiety leading causes of disruptions among university students.
Nearly 40 per cent of Auckland University students in a survey had significant sleep problems, with depression and anxiety the leading causes.
Other causes were suffering from a delayed cycle of sleeping and waking, problematic alcohol use and "parasomnias" such as sleep-walking, sleep-talking and tooth-grinding.
The researchers said it was the first New Zealand study to explore rates of causes of sleep symptoms in young adults.
The survey, conducted among students at six schools at the university, also found rates of depression and anxiety that were slightly lower than those reported for the general population aged 16 to 24 in a national survey in 2003.
The study, by Auckland University and Middlemore Hospital researchers and published in today's NZ Medical Journal, found medical students had lower rates of depression than those in other fields.
Rates of potential problem drinking were higher among students of engineering, law and architecture than among medical, nursing and health science students.
One of the researchers, Auckland University psychiatrist and sleep specialist Dr Tony Fernando, said the survey showed that sleep disorders, depression, anxiety and alcohol problems started when people were young.
"We need to know how common it is so we can address it at an early stage."
Ten per cent of all respondents had delayed sleep phase disorder, in which, typically, people can't get to sleep until after midnight and in some cases much later.
Dr Fernando said the disorder was a worse form of the normal, mild tendency of teenagers and young adults to go to sleep - and to prefer to wake up - later than younger and older people.
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High schools and universities ought to consider starting and finishing academic classes later to accommodate this.
He said the majority of patients diagnosed with the disorder experienced improvements following treatment.
"We can make it much easier for them. It's possible to adjust their body clock by two to three hours earlier."
Others went to sleep as early as 5pm and woke soon after midnight. This was quite rare and harder to treat.
The researchers say the rates of recent suicidal thoughts or self-harm in the survey were similar to rates found in studies of tertiary students overseas.
Potential causes for depression and anxiety among such people include long work hours, sleep deprivation, increasing debt, challenging career decisions and uncertainty about job prospects.
• 1292 Auckland University students completed the questionnaire
• 39% - had significant sleeping problems for more than a month
• 17% - depression
• 20% - anxiety
• 16% - potential drinking problem
• 9% - used recreational drugs in the preceding three months
• 7% - recent thoughts of being "better off dead" or of hurting themselves
• 62% - "satisfied" or "extremely satisfied" with life
Source: NZ Medical Journal
From night owl to early bird
Dr Torrance Merkle sought help to change his sleep habits.
For Torrance Merkle, a good night's sleep would naturally start at 3am and finish at 11am. He couldn't nod off any earlier.
He has had to re-fashion his sleep habits to fit his day job as a doctor.
A second-year house officer at North Shore Hospital, Dr Merkle, 25, sought help for delayed sleep phase syndrome during the fourth year of his medical studies at Auckland University four years ago.
"For the first few years of university it was fine. I could stay up late and study. Morning classes were a bit of a struggle, but I often had a nap late in the afternoons."
As a fourth-year, he had to attend hospital ward rounds in the mornings but couldn't get to sleep any earlier than usual.
"Every time I sat down I felt like falling asleep when it was at its worst."
A sleep specialist put him on melatonin medication and recommended bright-light therapy on winter mornings. Dr Merkle takes the medication 90 minutes before he goes to bed and wakes just before 7am. Light therapy involves sitting in front of the bright lamp while eating breakfast when he is starting work before sunrise.


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The following excerpt is from Muslims Against Sharia. It originally appeared in The American Center for Democracy.
Please click the Muslims Against Sharia link above to see what else they have to say.
The Hamas PR Machine in America
By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
On August 8, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the al-Salah Society as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), calling it "one of the largest and best funded Hamas charities." Treasury revealed that Hamas had used al-Salah, "to finance its terrorist agenda." The designation was one of many actions taken against Hamas front groups dating back to 1995, when Washington first designated Hamas a terrorist organization. Unfortunately, these actions do little to hinder Hamas activities in America.
The problem is not that Treasury's actions are insufficient. Rather, U.S. companies continue to knowingly or unwittingly facilitate Hamas Internet and television services. Moreover, professors, media outlets, and even a former U.S. president, help Hamas broadcast its messages throughout America, even as Washington attempts to weaken the terror group following the violent takeover of Gaza.
Whitewashing Hamas in the Classroom
While Hamas represses its own Palestinian people in Gaza and continues to launch rockets into Israel indiscriminately, a legion of U.S. apologists, including Muslim lobby groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), propose that the U.S. recognize the terrorist government, so it may be influenced to modify its agenda. Leading the charge, alongside the Muslim lobby groups, are American academicians.
Boston University professor Augustus Richard Norton and Harvard University Middle Eastern Studies scholar Sara Roy recently co-authored an article for the Christian Science Monitor entitled, "Yes, You Can Work With Hamas," encouraging Washington to recognize the legitimacy of the terrorist organization. Writer Cinnamon Stillwell notes that Roy, in particular, has "long been invested in forging the idea of a 'New Hamas' by attempting to downplay the group's openly genocidal ambitions and picturing them instead as an enlightened group of do-gooders interested only in social services and education."
Roy and Norton are not alone. Scores of other professors, including the University of Maryland's Shibley Telhami; associate professor of political science and international relations at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Virginia Tilley; and Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi, have increasingly sided with Hamas, blaming all Palestinian woes on Israel, despite the fact that an internationally recognized terrorist organization now governs Gaza.
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The positions advanced by these academicians are also buttressed by the mainstream press, which has helped Hamas spread its propaganda. On November 1, 2006, for instance, The New York Times ran an opinion piece penned by Ahmed Yousef, an advisor to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Yousef claimed that Israel refused a Hamas-proposed ceasefire with Israel. What the Times failed to note was that Yousef's call for a hudna was essentially a call to let the guns fall silent in the near term, but did nothing to assure that Hamas' long-term goal of destroying Israel would be addressed.
On June 20, immediately following the violent takeover of Gaza, both The New York Times and The Washington Post, America's newspapers of record, ran two different op-eds by Yousef. The Times piece, entitled "What Hamas Wants," falsely claimed that after the Hamas coup, "the streets of Gaza are now calm," promising reform and disarmament under Hamas rule. In truth, Hamas has imposed a Taliban-like regime in Gaza that includes the killing of innocents, arbitrary confiscation of property, muzzling the media, and increased links to Iran and al-Qaeda. The Times, however, insisted that running the Hamas opinion piece contributed to a greater understanding of Gaza's new rulers.
I hope their fatwah insurance premiums are up to date over at this blog.
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Posted by Dymphna at 10/07/2007 06:44:00 PM
Despite repeated requests not to abbreviate Muslims Against Sharia, people keep doing that. MAS, a Muslims American Society is a PRO Sharia group connected to terrorists. If you feel compelled to abbreviate, please use MASH as an acronym. We would much rather be confused with a TV show than with a terrorist front.
MASH--
I do apologize. I thought of that acronym for those bums when I linked to your post but I was hoping *you* wouldn't notice.
I promise in the future: MASH it is. In fact, that's a great acronym! I'm glad you thought of it. The best I could do was MUAGASH...not nearly as interesting or intelligent as your choice.
I like what you have up on your site, but I was only half-joking when I said I hoped your fatwah insurance was paid up. It takes great courage to stand up to these people and you have my admiration.
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THE ABOMINATION OF SHARIA LAW: A DIRECT CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONS AND RULE OF LAW
By:Larry Houle
www.godofreason.com
intermedusa@yahoo.com
Wherever Muslims live under Sharia law adulterers are publicly flogged or stoned to death, sometimes before thousands of spectators in public stadiums. There are no rights for women or children, with women genitally mutilated, and beaten in the streets for the slightest infraction. They care nothing for other beliefs, about being fair, have no juries, no free speech. Television and radio are forbidden, music and dance prohibited. It is their way or execution, the death penalty, with no appeal, no delay. You are simply shot in the head where you stand, and your children shot before you. And these practices of the Sharia, once largely confined to the Middle East, even though mostly finished in Afghanistan, are now spreading to other parts of the world.
Here are the top eleven reasons why Sharia or Islamic law is EVIL for all societies.
11. SHARIA LAW AND SLAVERY
Islam's Black Slaves notes: "the Quran stipulated that female slaves might lawfully be enjoyed by their masters." Mohammad himself owned many slaves, some of whom he captured in wars of conquest and some he purchased. The names of forty slaves owned by Mohammad are recorded by Muslim chroniclers. Islamic law (Sharia) contains elaborate regulations for slavery. A slave had no right to be heard in court (testimony was forbidden by slaves), slaves had no right to property, could marry only with the permission of the owner, and were considered to be chattel, that is the movable property, of the slave owner. Muslim slave owners were specifically entitled by Sharia law to sexually exploit their slaves, including hiring them out as prostitutes.
One reason why very little has been written about the Arab involvement in slavery is that traditional Islamic culture still condones slavery. The Sharia, the codified Islamic law which is based upon the teachings and example of Mohammad, contains explicit regulations for slavery. One of the primary principles of Islam is following the example of Mohammad. Whatever Mohammad did, we must do, what he forbade, we must forbid, what he did not forbid, we may not forbid. As Mohammad himself traded in slaves and owned slaves, accumulating multiple wives, even marrying a six year old, and having concubines - slavery and the sexual exploitation of women is deeply ingrained in Islamic tradition. Muslim nations had engaged in the slave trade for over 600 years before Europe became involved in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
THE RIGHTS OF SLAVES UNDER ISLAM
According to the Hughes Dictionary of Islam, slaves had few civil or legal rights. For example:
a) Muslim men were allowed to have sex anytime with females slaves - Sura 4:3, 4:29, 33:49.
b) Slaves are as helpless before their masters as idols are before God - Sura 16:77
c) According to Islamic Tradition, people at the time of their capture were either to be killed, or enslaved. Shows you that they were at the bottom of the barrel to start with.
d) According to Islamic jurisprudence, slaves were merchandise. The sales of slaves was in accordance with the sale of animals.
e) Muhammad ordered that some slaves who were freed by their master be RE-ENSLAVED!
f) It is permissible under Islamic law to whip slaves.
g) According to Islam, a Muslim could not be put to death for murdering a slave. Ref. 2:178 and the Jalalayn confirm this.
h) According to Islam, the testimony of slaves is not admissible in court. Ibn Timiyya and Bukhari state this.
i) According to Islamic jurisprudence, slaves cannot choose their own marriage mate. - Ibn Hazm, vol. 6, part 9.
j) According to Islamic jurisprudence, slaves can be forced to marry who their masters want. - Malik ibn Anas, vol. 2, page 155.
Slavery continued in Islamic lands from about the beginning to this very day. Muslim rulers always found support in the Quran to call 'jihad', partly for booty, part for the purpose of taking slaves. As the Islamic empire disintegrated into smaller kingdoms, and each ruler was able to decide what Islam's theology really meant. Usually, he always found it in support of what he wanted to do. Their calls of jihad against their neighbor facilitated the taking of slaves for Islam. The Quran and Islamic jurisprudence support the taking of slaves, so, those petty Muslim rulers were following the Quran when they needed slaves.
WHO CAN BE MADE SLAVES UNDER ISLAM?
1) Islam allows Muslims to make slaves out of anyone who is captured during war.
2) Islam allows for the children of slaves to be raised as slaves
3) Like #1, Islam allows for Christians and Jews to be made into slaves if they are captured in war. After Muslim armies attacked and conquered Spain, they took thousands of slaves back to Damascus. The key prize was 1000 virgins as slaves. They were forced to go all the way back to Damascus.
4) Christians and Jews, who had made a treaty with the ruling Muslims could be made into slaves if they did not pay the "protection" tax. This paying for 'protection' was just like paying a Mafia racketeer! This allowed Muslim rulers to extort money from non-Muslim people.
10. Islam commands that drinkers and gamblers should be whipped.
In 2001, Iranian officials sentenced three men to flogging not only for illicit sex (see reason no. nine), but also for drinking alcohol.
In 2005, in Nigeria a sharia court ordered that a drinker should be caned eighty strokes.
In 2005, in the Indonesian province of Aceh, fifteen men were caned in front of a mosque for gambling. This was done publicly so all could see and fear. Eleven others are scheduled to undergo the same penalty for gambling.
After going through two previous confusing stages before coming down hard on drinkers and gamblers, the Quran finally prohibits alcohol and gambling in Sura 5:90—91; they do not prescribe the punishment of flogging, but the hadith does. A poor 'criminal' was brought to Muhammad who became angry:
The Prophet felt it hard (was angry) and ordered all those who were present in the house, to beat him [the drinker dragged into Muhammad's presence]. (Bukhari, Punishments, nos. 6774—6775)
Thus, we see no offer of help for the alcoholic when he is dragged before Muhammad and his followers. Why does Muhammad not offer rehabilitation? Why does he immediately go to corporal punishment?
The later classical legal rulings follow the Quran and the hadith, so we do not need to examine them here.
9. Islam allows husbands to hit their wives even if the husbands merely fear highhandedness in their wives.
In 2004, Rania al—Baz, who had been beaten by her husband, made her ordeal public to raise awareness about violence suffered by women in the home in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi television aired a talk show that discussed this issue. Scrolling three—fourths of the way down the link, the readers can see an Islamic scholar holding up sample rods that husbands may use to hit their wives.
The Quran says:
4:34 . . . If you fear highhandedness from your wives, remind them [of the teaching of God], then ignore them when you go to bed, then hit them. If they obey you, you have no right to act against them. God is most high and great. (MAS Abdel Haleem, the Qur'an, Oxford UP, 2004)
The hadith says that Muslim women in the time of Muhammad were suffering from domestic violence in the context of confusing marriage laws:
Rifa'a divorced his wife whereupon 'AbdurRahman bin Az—Zubair Al—Qurazi married her. 'Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah's Apostle came, 'Aisha said, "I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!" (Bukhari)
This hadith shows Muhammad hitting his girl—bride, Aisha, daughter of Abu Bakr: Muslim no. 2127:
'He [Muhammad] struck me [Aisha] on the chest which caused me pain.'
It is claimed that Islamic societies have fewer incidents of fornication and adultery because of strict laws or customs, for example, women wearing veils over their faces or keeping separate from men in social settings. But these results of fewer incidents of sexual 'crimes' may have unanticipated negative effects in other areas, such as the oppression of women. Generally, sharia restricts women's social mobility and rights, the more closely sharia is followed. For example, in conservative Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive cars. In Iran, the law oppresses women. For example, women's testimony counts half that of men, and far more women than men are stoned to death for adultery.
8. Islam allows an injured plaintiff to exact legal revenge—physical eye for physical eye.
In 2003, in Saudi Arabia a man had two teeth extracted under the law of retaliation.
In 2003, a court in Pakistan sentenced a man to be blinded by acid after he carried out a similar attack on his fianc饮
In 2005, an Iranian court orders a man's eye to be removed for throwing acid on another man and blinding him in both eyes.
5:45 And We ordained therein for them: Life for life, eye for eye, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth and wounds equal for equal. But if anyone remits the retaliation by way of charity, it shall be for him an expiation. And whosoever does not judge by that which Allah has revealed, such are the Zalimun (polytheists and wrongdoers . . .). (Hilali and Khan, The Noble Qur'an, Riyadh: Darussalam, 1996)
This passage allows for an indemnity or compensation instead of imposing the literal punishment of eye for an eye. No one should have a quarrel with this option. According to the hadith, the plaintiff also has the option to forgive, and this is legitimate, provided a judge oversees the process. The problem is the literal law of retaliation.
The hadith and later legal rulings demonstrate that this excessive option was actually carried out, as do the three modern examples linked above.
Islamic law calls all of humanity to march backwards 1,400 years BC and to re—impose the old law of retaliation—literally, and the evidence suggest that the Torah never intended the law to be carried out literally.
7. Islam commands that a male and female thief must have a hand cut off.
This punishment is prescribed in the Quran, the eternal word of Allah. It does not exist only in the fevered imagination of a violent and sick radical regime like the Taliban, which once ruled in Afghanistan.
A Saudi cleric justifies chopping off hands here.
5:38 Cut off the hands of thieves, whether they are male or female, as punishment for what they have done—a deterrent from God: God is almighty and wise. 39 But if anyone repents after his wrongdoing and makes amends, God will accept his repentance: God is most forgiving and merciful. (Haleem)
At first glance, verse 39 seems to accept repentance before the thief's hand is cut off. But the hadith states emphatically that repentance is acceptable only after mutilation. Muhammad himself says that even if his own daughter, Fatima, were to steal and then intercede that her hand should not be cut off, he would still have to cut it off (Bukhari, Punishments, no. 6788)
6. Islam commands that highway robbers should be crucified or mutilated.
In September 2003, Scotsman Sandy Mitchell faced crucifixion in Saudi Arabia. He was beaten and tortured until he confessed to a crime he did not commit: a bomb plot masterminded by the British embassy. The article says of this punishment that it is the worst kind of execution and that two have been carried out in the last twenty years.
In 2002 Amnesty International reports that even though Saudi Arabia ratified the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention against Torture) in October 1997, amputation is prescribed under both Hudud (punishments) and Qisas (law of retaliation). AI has recorded thirty—three amputations and nine cross—amputations where the alternate hand or foot is mutilated.
5:33 Those who wage war against God and His Messenger and strive to spread corruption in the land should be punished by death, crucifixion, the amputation of an alternate hand and foot or banishment from the land: a disgrace for them in this world, and then a terrible punishment in the Hereafter, 34 unless they repent before you overpower them: in that case bear in mind that God is forgiving and merciful. (Haleem)
It may be difficult to accept, but the hadith says that Muhammad tortured these next people before he executed them. This scenario provides the historical context of Sura 5:33—34. The explanations in parentheses have been added by the translator:
Narrated Anas: Some people . . . came to the Prophet and embraced Islam . . . [T]hey turned renegades (reverted from Islam) and killed the shepherd of the camels and took the camels away . . . The Prophet ordered that their hands and legs should be cut off and their eyes should be branded with heated pieces of iron, and that their cut hands and legs should not be cauterized, till they died. (Bukhari, Punishments, no. 6802)
The next hadith reports that the renegades died from bleeding to death because Muhammad refused to cauterize their amputated limbs. Then the hadith after that one reports that the renegades were not given water, so they died of thirst. They probably died of both causes: thirst and loss of blood.
Islamic law says that these punishments are imposed for highway robbery, and in some cases crucifixion does not need a murder before it is imposed.
5. Islam commands that homosexuals must be executed.
In February 1998, the Taliban, who once ruled in Afghanistan, ordered a stone wall to be pushed over three men convicted of sodomy. Their lives were to be spared if they survived for 30 minutes and were still alive when the stones were removed.
In its 1991 Constitution, in Articles 108—113, Iran adopted the punishment of execution for sodomy.
In April 2005, a Kuwaiti cleric says homosexuals should be thrown off a mountain or stoned to death.
On April 7, 2005, it was reported that Saudi Arabia sentenced more than 100 men to prison or flogging for 'gay conduct.'
These homosexuals were lucky. Early Islam would have executed them, as these hadith demonstrate.
Ibn Abbas, Muhammad's cousin and highly reliable transmitter of hadith, reports the following about early Islam and Muhammad's punishment of homosexuals: . . .
'If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done' (Abu Dawud no. 4447).
This hadith passage says that homosexuals should be burned alive or have wall pushed on them:
Ibn Abbas and Abu Huraira reported God's messenger as saying, 'Accursed is he who does what Lot's people did.' In a version . . . on the authority of Ibn Abbas it says that Ali [Muhammad's cousin and son—in—law] had two people burned and that Abu Bakr [Muhammad's chief companion] had a wall thrown down on them. (Mishkat, vol. 1, p. 765, Prescribed Punishments)
Though this punishment of a wall being toppled on them is extreme, the Taliban were merely following the origins of their religion.
4. Islam orders unmarried fornicators to be whipped and adulterers to be stoned to death.
Fornication:
In 2001, Iranian officials sentenced three men to flogging for illicit sex.
24:2 The fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not pity withhold you in their case, in a punishment prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of the believers witness their punishment. [This punishment is for unmarried persons guilty of the above crime (illegal sex), but if married persons commit it (illegal sex), the punishment is to stone them to death, according to Allah's law]. (Hilali and Khan).
The additions in the brackets, though not original to the Arabic, have the support of the hadith. These command flogging only of unmarried fornicators: Bukhari, Punishments, nos. 6831 and 6833.
The classical legal rulings follow the Quran and the hadith closely, so we do not need to analyze them here.
According to this report, in Iran a teenage boy broke his Ramadan fast, so a judge sentenced him to be lashed with eighty—five stripes. He died from the punishment. Though his sad case does not deal with fornication, it is cited here because it shows that lashing can be fatal.
Adultery:
In December 2004, Amnesty International reports:
An Iranian woman charged with adultery faces death by stoning in the next five days after her death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court last month. Her unnamed co—defendant is at risk of imminent execution by hanging. Amnesty International members are now writing urgent appeals to the Iranian authorities, calling for the execution to be stopped.
She is to be buried up to her chest and stoned to death. This gruesome hadith passage reports that a woman was buried up to her chest and stoned to death: And when he had given command over her and she was put in a hole up to her breast, he ordered the people to stone her. Khalid b. al—Walid came forward with a stone which he threw at her head, and when the blood spurted on his face he cursed her . . . (Muslim no. 4206)
The Prophet prayed over her dead body and then buried her. Truthfully, though, how effective was the prayer when Muhammad and his community murdered her in cold blood? The rest of the hadith says that Muhammad told Khalid not to be too harsh, but the Prophet's words drip with irony. Perhaps Muhammad meant that Khalid should not have cursed her. However, if they really did not want to be harsh, they should have forgiven her and let her go to raise her child.
Later Islamic legal rulings follow the Quran and the hadith closely, so we do not need to analyze them here.
3. Islam orders death for Muslim and possible death for non—Muslim critics of Muhammad and the Quran and even sharia itself.
In 1989, Iran's Supreme Leader issued a fatwa (legal decree) to assassinate Salman Rushdie, a novelist, who wrote Satanic Verses, which includes questions about the angel Gabriel's role in inspiring the Quran. Now the extremists in the highest levels in Iran have recently renewed the fatwa.
In 2005, The Muslim Council of Victoria, Australia, brought a lawsuit against two pastors for holding a conference and posting articles critiquing Islam. Three Muslims attended the conference and felt offended. The two pastors have been convicted based on Australia's vilification law. While on trial, one of them wanted to read from the Quran on domestic violence (see 9, above), but the lawyer representing the Council would not allow it. The pastors are appealing their conviction.
In 2005, British Muslims have been campaigning to pass a religious hate speech law in England's parliament. They have succeeded. Their ability to propagandize has not been curtailed. Opponents of the law say that it stifles free speech that may criticize Muhammad, the Quran, and Islam.
Here are the classical legal rulings.
First, the Muslim deserves death for doing any of the following (Reliance of the Traveler pp. 597—98, o8.7):
(1) Reviling Allah or his Messenger; (2) being sarcastic about 'Allah's name, His command, His interdiction, His promise, or His threat'; (3) denying any verse of the Quran or 'anything which by scholarly consensus belongs to it, or to add a verse that does not belong to it'; (4) holding that 'any of Allah's messengers or prophets are liars, or to deny their being sent'; (5) reviling the religion of Islam; (6) being sarcastic about any ruling of the Sacred Law; (7) denying that Allah intended 'the Prophet's message . . . to be the religion followed by the entire world.'
It is no wonder that critical investigation of the truth claims of Islam can never prevail in Islamic lands when the sword of Muhammad hangs over the scholars' head.
The non—Muslims living under Islamic rule are not allowed to do the following (p. 609, o11.10(1)—(5)):
(1) Commit adultery with a Muslim woman or marry her; (2) conceal spies of hostile forces; (3) lead a Muslim away from Islam; (4) mention something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet . . . or Islam.
According to the discretion of the caliph or his representative, the punishments for violating these rules are as follows: (1) death, (2) enslavement, (3) release without paying anything, and (4) ransoming in exchange for money. These punishments also execute free speech—even repulsive speech—and freedom of religion or conscience.
Ultimately, censorship testifies to a lack of confidence in one's position and message. If the message of Islam were truly superior, one could trust in the power of truth. As it stands, sharia with its prescribed punishments for questioning Muhammad, the Quran, and sharia itself testifies to their weakness since sharia threatens those who dare to differ.
How confident was Muhammad (and today's Muslims) in his message that he had to rely on violence and force to protect his message, besides reason and persuasive argumentation?
2. Islam orders apostates to be killed.
In Iran an academic was condemned to death for criticizing clerical rule in Iran. The rulers assert that he was insulting Muhammad and Shi'ite laws. He was charged with apostasy.
This analysis tracks the application of apostasy laws around the world, citing many examples.
Apostates are those who leave Islam, like Salman Rushdie, whether they become atheists or convert to another religion. They are supposed to be killed according to the Quran, the hadith, and later legal rulings.
See the previous point no. three for acts that entail leaving Islam according to Islamic law.
Citing Quranic verses and hadith passages.Sayyid Maududi, a respected Islamic scholar, argues that Sura 9:11—12 refers to apostates and that they should be put to death. Apostates should be given time to repent, but if they refuse, they must be killed.
And the number one reason why sharia is bad for all societies . . .
1. Islam commands offensive and aggressive and unjust jihad.
Muhammad is foundational to Islam, and he set the genetic code for Islam, waging war. In the ten years that he lived in Medina from his Hijrah (Emigration) from Mecca in AD 622 to his death of a fever in AD 632, he either sent out or went out on seventy—four raids, expeditions, or full—scale wars.
They range from small assassination hit squads to kill anyone who insulted him, to the Tabuk Crusades in late AD 630 against the Byzantine Christians. He had heard a rumor that an army was mobilizing to invade Arabia, but the rumor was false, so his 30,000 jihadists returned home, but not before imposing a jizya tax on northern Christians and Jews.
Money flowed into the Islamic treasury. So why would Muhammad get a revelation to dry up this money flow?
What are some of the legalized rules of jihad found in the Quran, hadith, and classical legal opinions?
(1) Women and children are enslaved. They can either be sold, or the Muslims may 'marry' the women, since their marriages are automatically annulled upon their capture. (2) Jihadists may have sex with slave women. Ali, Muhammad's cousin and son—in—law, did this. (3) Women and children must not be killed during war, unless this happens in a nighttime raid when visibility was low. (4) Old men and monks could be killed. (5) A captured enemy of war could be killed, enslaved, ransomed for money or an exchange, freely released, or beaten. One time Muhammad even tortured a citizen of the city of Khaybar in order to extract information about where the wealth of the city was hidden. (6) Enemy men who converted could keep their property and small children. This law is so excessive that it amounts to forced conversion. Only the strongest of the strong could resist this coercion and remain a non—Muslim. (7) Civilian property may be confiscated. (8) Civilian homes may be destroyed. (9) Civilian fruit trees may be destroyed. (10) Pagan Arabs had to convert or die. This does not allow for the freedom of religion or conscience. (11) People of the Book (Jews and Christians) had three options (Sura 9:29): fight and die; convert and pay a forced 'charity' or zakat tax; or keep their Biblical faith and pay a jizya or poll tax. The last two options mean that money flows into the Islamic treasury, so why would Muhammad receive a revelation to dry up this money flow?
Thus, jihad is aggressive, coercive, and excessive, and Allah never revealed to Muhammad to stop these practices.
Therefore, Islam is violent—unjustly and aggressively.
The nightmare must end. Sharia oppresses the citizens of Islamic countries.
dw said...
Tell us MAS, why did you pick an acronym that offeNds you? Were you unaware of the Muslims American Society prior to your 'awakening'? We may be forgiving and welcomning but we are not stupid. That is YOUR ERROR AND everywhere you go you complain about it.
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