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The West - tempting! excessive! influential! - traps another victim:

WA’s highest court has rejected a young Muslim man’s argument that he deserved a reduced sentence on drug charges because his cultural background made him vulnerable to drug dealers in WA’s “excessive” Western lifestyle.

Via Raffi. In the UK, further western lifestyle problems:

A father killed his wife and four daughters in their sleep because he could not bear them adopting a more westernised lifestyle, an inquest heard yesterday.

Mohammed Riaz, 49, found it abhorrent that his eldest daughter wanted to be a fashion designer, and that she and her sisters were likely to reject the Muslim tradition of arranged marriages.

Mr Riaz wasn’t immune to Western temptations himself:

Riaz, who had spent the evening drinking, set himself on fire and died two days later.

Western values were also brought to heel this week in Pakistan:

A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist was shot dead Tuesday by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil.

Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was about to deliver a speech to dozens of party activists, by a “fanatic”, who believed that she was dressed inappropriately and that women should not be involved in politics, officials said.

At least someone is standing up for traditional goodness:

A white handbag dangling from his left arm, this is the towering 6ft 2in figure of a July 21 bomb suspect disguised in a full-length burkha.

Yassin Oman allegedly fled London dressed as a Muslim woman after failing to blow up an Underground train.

Posted by Tim B. on 02/22/2007 at 04:28 AM
  1. So fashion design is outlawed but crossdressing isn’t - just what sort of crazy religion is this anyway?

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 02 22 at 04:40 AM • permalink

  2. If you are brought up in a culture that rejects drinking, drugs, and immoral behaviour, and that encourages prayer and then you go on to commit drug crimes, I think you deserve greater punishment than someone who commits the same crime but was brought up in a liberal (decadent) society.  I’d love to see the “cultural background” defence backfire on someone some day…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2007 02 22 at 05:09 AM • permalink

  3. A white handbag with a black burqa?  That alone should have told them it was a man under there.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 02 22 at 05:43 AM • permalink

  4. Dressing as a woman? That’s not taqqqqiya - that’s just tacky.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 02 22 at 05:48 AM • permalink

  5. Pity those daughters weren’t so westernised as to be able to reject the muslim tradition of honour killing.

    Pity the west lacks the civilisational confidence to reject the muslim tradition of expansion.

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 02 22 at 06:04 AM • permalink

  6. The point is, legal people in the mold of Kirby, who are appointed to the bench, swallow all this crap, and these people go on to undermine our justice system each time.
    I sometimes curse being born a white anglo saxon hetrosexual male of Irish/German parentage.

    Posted by BJM on 2007 02 22 at 06:07 AM • permalink

  7. “...South African Muslim community…”

    Since when are South Africans adverse to drug use and crime in general?

    Posted by AussieJim on 2007 02 22 at 06:09 AM • permalink

  8. Its malignant and its spreading. Hopefully not terminal, but forgive me for seeking a 2nd opinion to Dr Obama’s diagnosis.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 02 22 at 06:17 AM • permalink

  9. Silly twats can’t get anything right; he’s supposed to set himself on fire first, then kill his honour.

    Posted by stahlblume on 2007 02 22 at 06:38 AM • permalink

  10. A new form of sectarian sledging in Iraq (Yanks v. Poms):
    From last Sunday’s BBC Panorama programme, on the Army in southern Iraq, we learn that our land forces have been dubbed The Flintstones by the Americans, reflecting the antiquated equipment operated by them.
    EU Referendum

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 02 22 at 06:52 AM • permalink

  11. Are the Poms pulling out in a huff?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 02 22 at 06:53 AM • permalink

  12. #6 yes, apparently Kirby swallows quite a lot.

    Posted by hooligan on 2007 02 22 at 06:56 AM • permalink

  13. #5 - it is difficult to reject the muslim tradition of honour killing if you are already dead.

    Herein lies the problem.

    Posted by Hump B Bare on 2007 02 22 at 07:41 AM • permalink

  14. This story about the mass murder in Accrington has been around for months.

    The BBC and UK cops did everything to hide the Islamic nature of the crime.  Typical.

    The other slant is that the oldest brother was not murdered because he was in hospital receiving treatment for leukemia.  He’s since passed away.  Nice of the old man to make sure that his son had his family around to help him through…

    Posted by murph on 2007 02 22 at 08:06 AM • permalink

  15. I’m surprised the old man allowed the boy to receive “westernised” medical treatment for leukemia.

    Posted by C.L. on 2007 02 22 at 08:17 AM • permalink

  16. Completely OT:

    Just thought I should give a nod to the Chinese New Year of the pig. Apparently this sort of thing offends Muslims…...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2818809.stm

    ...... So I got quite enthusiastic about it. Here’s my little homage, via a link:

    http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/happy_chinese_new_year_1.jpg

    Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 02 22 at 08:18 AM • permalink

  17. Burka Boy lived in bloody Golders Green for fucks sake? A 6’2” homicidal jihadi transvestite would really blend in there for sure- what brilliant planning.

    A bit like infiltrating a Grand Imperial Dragon of the Klan into South Central. And these fucktards think they have a fart in a hurricanes chance of actually winning this conflict?

    Posted by Habib on 2007 02 22 at 08:23 AM • permalink

  18. Does the Koran mention carbon credits?

    Posted by rhhardin on 2007 02 22 at 08:46 AM • permalink

  19. I never expected the Cold War’s end would give rise to a cross-dressing, pyrotechnical, traditionalist youth menace from the East.

    Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 02 22 at 08:56 AM • permalink

  20. My wife was telling me last night about some muslim fella who bashed his wife’s head in with a hammer, then called her sister over to the house and did the same to her. Then went over to the mother-in-law’s house the next morning and whacked her as well. After he was arrested he claimed it was his sacred right to kill them for insulting his manhood. Evidently the wife didn’t feel her husband was fulfilling his husbandly responsibilities. I told her this was not uncommon in muslim dominated countries. She replied that this was in the States (Michigan, I think).
      I’ve met a lot of muslims who seemed to be decent enough folks, but as far as religions go, this one sucks hind tit.  We are fortunate to live during such interesting times.  Its like witnessing the fall of Rome.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 02 22 at 10:27 AM • permalink

  21. So what does the Left have to say about all this—are honor killings ok because they are part of the tradition of another culture and all cultures are equal except for the decadent western imperialistic paternalistic one?

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 02 22 at 10:37 AM • permalink

  22. rbj1 #21:

    The Left will have nothing to say about it. Just as they had nothing to say after the Iron Curtain fell, revealing the Communists to be not the peace-loving, misunderstood moral equivalents the Left always claimed, but murderous totalitarians as ugly as Solzhenitsyn had tried to warn us.

    It’s been 17 years and I haven’t heard any apologies yet.  Have you?

    Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 02 22 at 10:58 AM • permalink

  23. #22 Rittenhouse,
    The day after Gorbachev announced the dissolution of the USSR, one of the headlines in the NY Times was:
    “Soviet Union, Born of a Dream, Dies.”

    I cannot imagine the Times saying anything like that about any other country.  The Left loves the ideal of communism, if it doesn’t work, it is because there weren’t the right people in charge, or people didn’t work hard enough for it, or there were evil outside (USA) forces trying to bring it down.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 02 22 at 11:09 AM • permalink

  24. Officers fired Taser stun guns, punched him in the face and nearly shot him with a submachine gun while arresting him.

    I know I am taking far too much pleasure in reading about the capture of Yassin Oman.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 02 22 at 11:16 AM • permalink

  25. #24

    I was doing fine until I got to “nearly”.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 02 22 at 11:26 AM • permalink

  26. #20—sadly, the family involved in that story was Christian. From the Middle East, but Christian.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 02 22 at 11:47 AM • permalink

  27. Would that more of these types set themselves on fire. I just wish they’d do it before they off their families or innocent by-standers.

    Relatives broke the news [of his mother’s and sisters’ murders and his father’s suicide] to the couple’s son, Adam, 17, as he lay terminally ill with cancer at the Christie Hospital, Manchester. He died six weeks later.

    Almost as though Nature were on a corrective course.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 22 at 12:02 PM • permalink

  28. I think this
    is the story FAM Texas Bob is referring to.  It’s pretty much self-explanatory, I think.

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 02 22 at 01:30 PM • permalink

  29. What, you’re not supposed to bludgeon your family to death if they disrespect you?  Thanks for telling me now; I’ve got a mess to clean up here.

    Posted by rbj1 on 2007 02 22 at 01:44 PM • permalink

  30. 8 FAM Texas Bob

    Its malignant and its spreading. Hopefully not terminal, but forgive me for seeking a 2nd opinion to Dr Obama’s diagnosis.

    Dr. Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri.
    (I believe Dr. Zawahiri is recommending, both radiation and chemotherapy)

    Dr. Obama suggested the above, Specialist.

    Both are in the running for POTUS. Both are being promoted by the Left, the academic community and the MSM, as highly qualified.

    Can’t beat that, huh?

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 02 22 at 02:46 PM • permalink

  31. #10 blogstrop -

    “From last Sunday’s BBC Panorama programme, on the Army in southern Iraq, we learn that our land forces have been dubbed The Flintstones by the Americans, reflecting the antiquated equipment operated by them. “

    So, it’s not just the Royal Navy that’s been getting shafted by the British government.

    Posted by steveH on 2007 02 22 at 03:01 PM • permalink

  32. There must be some frigging place in the Quran (Koran, qorn, whatever) that says that you ought to blame all your problems on someone else. It would explain a lot.

    Posted by SoberHT on 2007 02 22 at 03:26 PM • permalink

  33. Just what is it about personal responsibility, self-control and self-determination that these people do not understand?

    Posted by deblucar on 2007 02 22 at 03:36 PM • permalink

  34. deblucar

    Just what is it about

    Every word after that, they don’t get.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 02 22 at 03:42 PM • permalink

  35. #10, 31 et al. Steyn on the British “withdrawal” from the Australian:
    http://tinyurl.com/2s2tcv

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 22 at 04:04 PM • permalink

  36. Sorry, s/b Australian.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 22 at 04:05 PM • permalink

  37. #20, Fam Texas Bob:

    Its like witnessing the fall of Rome.

    Yes.  It is.  For those who have studied that history, the parallels are ominous.  The thing to note is that the fall didn’t occur in one catastrophic event, but was actually a long, slow decline of one set of values, into another that allowed the state to fail in increments.  A slow decline is much more difficult to see as a decline because people acquiesce more easily.  It’s just one little thing, after all, and people feel they can live with one little thing.  They don’t look at the accumulation of all the little things. 
    Change light bulbs people use by fiat.  An inconvenience.  But the state demonstrates its power over one more aspect of the day to day life of the people.  Accommodate a particular Muslim’s religious beliefs and remove all piggy banks?  Laughable, but what are you going to do?  In the meantime, your own little innocuous tradition has been wiped out in favor of one you don’t believe in, and a precedence has been set to use the same power to wipe out bigger traditions and beliefs.  Accept defeat in one war, not because you lost militarily, but because you accepted the enemies’ idea that you didn’t deserve to win and/or decided that it wasn’t worth the fight, and watch every two-bit barbarian clamor at your gates.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 02 22 at 04:07 PM • permalink

  38. #37

    One might even call it a slow bleed.

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 02 22 at 04:11 PM • permalink

  39. Muslims don’t prosletise, islam metastatises.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2007 02 22 at 05:27 PM • permalink

  40. It’s Friday it’s sing song day..

    It’s to go with this new Islamic story

    PLEASE READ what a hoot!!

    null

    Egyptian blogger jailed for insulting Islam


    Abdel Karim Suleiman, 22-year-old former law student who has been in custody since November, is first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for his Internet writings. Alexandria court sentenced him to four years in jail
    By Islamic Reuters


    OKIES, ready to sing song to my rabbit song..


    On the farm, king tut is resting,
    cause they’ve put away a blogger protesting.


    On the farm, every Friday
    On the farm, its blogger pie day.
    So, every Friday that ever comes along,
    I get up early and sing this little song:

    Run blogger - run blogger - Run! Run! Run!
    Run blogger - run blogger - Run! Run! Run!
    Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
    Goes the King tuts islamic gun.
    Run, blogger, run, Islamic, run.

    Oh, I forgot, Islam is the dumb dumb religion and Egypts president is a dumb dumb for being a dumb dumb.

    4 years for that?

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 02 22 at 06:41 PM • permalink

  41. Riaz, who had spent the evening drinking, set himself on fire and died two days later.

    Well, at least that story had a happy ending!

    Posted by rinardman on 2007 02 22 at 07:02 PM • permalink

  42. #33
    Resisting temptation seems to be a Judeo-Christian virtue, the corner-stone of the notion of freedom of choice.  It’s a concept which can be ignored just by claiming in’sh allah.

    Posted by lotocoti on 2007 02 22 at 08:08 PM • permalink

  43. Riaz, who had spent the evening drinking, set himself on fire and died two days later.

    Flaming sambucca’s are best left to experts, deathbot.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 22 at 08:32 PM • permalink

  44. Funny, I never heard of the Pakistani women’s rights activist murdered for her refusal to submit, on ABC television news!
    Your sisters are with you…mmmmm!

    Posted by Brian on 2007 02 22 at 08:46 PM • permalink

  45. Blogstrop #11—Are the Poms pulling out in a huff?

    No, in about a month-and-a-huff, I think.

    (With apologies to Groucho)

    Posted by BIWOZ on 2007 02 22 at 09:41 PM • permalink

  46. O/T but Australia rules!

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 22 at 10:15 PM • permalink

  47. null

    Guys you’re not allowed to holiday here, it’s the first lesbian all women holiday resort.

    Men and woman are not allowed to mix together in public with sex segregation laws said to be in place to protect women.


    Can they wear bikinnis in the compound as there are no men?

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 02 22 at 10:20 PM • permalink

  48. Hi Margo’s what a great post!!! Have a great weekend..

    Posted by 1.618 on 2007 02 22 at 10:22 PM • permalink

  49. Islam may have a new revert.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 22 at 10:51 PM • permalink

  50. #49 - The prophet and him can compare notes on kiddies. Probably should steer clear of dancing and singing though.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 22 at 11:07 PM • permalink

  51. #49

    The call to prayer could probably use a “shamon” and an “ee-ee-ee”

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 22 at 11:25 PM • permalink

  52. If the Muslims had any shame, they’d be mortified at having Michael Jackson “revert” to the fold.  I bet the Jehovah’s Witnesses, at least, are breathing a sigh of relief.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 02 22 at 11:41 PM • permalink

  53. The monkeys, the kiddies, the plastic surgery and now Islam. This man/child/woman is one sick puppy.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 02 23 at 01:12 AM • permalink

  54. Excuse my ignorance, but was curious to see if FAM Texas Bob is some new incarnation of plain old Texas Bob. Feel free to explain the tag if you wish, but what I really just want to say is:

    If your birth date in 1905 is no joke, then congratulations, sir! I meet many people 30 years younger than yourself who have given up on even trying anything new. Mention “computer” or “Internet” and you can see the mental barriers going up.

    102, brilliant!

    Posted by Dminor on 2007 02 23 at 01:32 AM • permalink

  55. Maybe his birthday is 19 May.

    Posted by amortiser on 2007 02 23 at 01:56 AM • permalink

  56. BJM - “I sometimes curse being born a white anglo saxon hetrosexual male of Irish/German parentage.”

    Be proud of it. Males of Anglo-Saxon and European parentage invented Western civilisation.

    Take Western civilisation away and the world goes back to tribalism and clan society.

    Posted by dee on 2007 02 23 at 02:50 AM • permalink

  57. #49, Kyda Sylvester:  Islam may have a new revert.

    Looks like they have a new pervert.

    Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 02 23 at 03:59 AM • permalink

  58. #54 Dminor. I thought all us Amercians were now referred to as Fat American Minions (FAMs)?
    And never mind about my age, young man; respect your elders!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 02 23 at 04:10 AM • permalink

  59. ‘...young Muslim man’s argument ...’

    Victim culture infantilism meets anti-western multicultural prejudice. 

    A potent mix which the judge didn’t swallow. He must be, in correct order, a fascist and a racist.

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2007 02 23 at 06:53 AM • permalink

  60. OT but I found it amusing: From our fave mufti comes this gem

    Q:My friend died in a car accident. The accident was really bad that he burned to death in the accident. My friend wasn’t that good of a Muslim. He made bad mistakes in his life but may Allah have mercy on his soul. My question is he still considered a Sheed? even if he wasn’t a good Muslim? And will Allah have mercy on his soul if I go to his grave and make Du’ah for him? What can i do, I do not want my friend to go to hell? Please help me

    A:Apparently, your friend may have passed away as a sinner, but Allah awarded him with the exalted position of martyrdom. Jaabir [radhiallaahu anhum] is reported that Nabi [sallallaahu alayhi wasallam] mentioned, ‘Besides the one who has passed away in the path of Allah, there are seven other people who are regarded as martyrs from these seven.’ Nabi [sallallaahu alayhi wasallam] is reported that the one burnt to death is also a martyre.’ (Abu Dawud)

    Insha Allah, Allah will accept his martyrdom and grant him Jannah. Allah has also awarded us with the great bounty of Isaal-e-sawaab (conveying one’s actions). Even though he may have left the world, you may do righteous actions with the intention of benefiting him. These actions will benefit you and him, Insha Allah.

    and Allah Ta’ala Knows Best

    Mufti Ebrahim Desai

    I read this and all I could think of were car-b-qs and taxis.

    Not sure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I also had a bit of a snicker at it.

    You’d think I’d be past finding it all mindboggling, but nope. Not at all.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 02 23 at 09:03 AM • permalink

  61. A:Apparently, your friend may have passed away as a sinner, but Allah awarded him with the exalted position of martyrdom. Jaabir [radhiallaahu anhum] is reported that Nabi [sallallaahu alayhi wasallam] mentioned, ‘Besides the one who has passed away in the path of Allah, there are seven other people who are regarded as martyrs from these seven.’ Nabi [sallallaahu alayhi wasallam] is reported that the one burnt to death is also a martyre.’ (Abu Dawud)

    Hmmm… “Ya know, you don’t have to kill other people to get into paradise. Just douse yourself in gasoline and light a match!”

    Sounds like a message we need to spread throughout the Muslim world!

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 02 23 at 09:14 AM • permalink

  62. any white handbag is a monstrous fashion crime, typical of deranged grannies in the final stages of bowls mania.  clearly this poor young man is very unwell, & must be confined to a comfy penthouse with a blanky & a teddy to make up for his cruel foster parents’ neglect

    Posted by KK on 2007 02 23 at 09:20 AM • permalink

  63. ot tonight an angry christian iraqi taxi driver drove me home.  he was seething from his experience at the local pool, where he had taken his young daughters.  at 2pm the pool guys told everyone to leave because it was muslim women’s swimming day. he was outraged, & his very fine rant to me included his ringing endorsement of peter costello for saying if you want to live under sharia, don’t come to australia, & many sentiments along the lines of if they want this kind of archaic segregation, let them build their own pool.  worth a $10 tip i thought

    Posted by KK on 2007 02 23 at 09:29 AM • permalink

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