60 Punk Children in Aceh cleared by Sharia police

As reported by AFP news agency on Wednesday (12.14.2011), the arrest was conducted on Saturday (10/12) and in Banda Aceh. A total of 59 young men and 5 women arrested by police sharia. The youths shaved and women cut their hair short. They were then told to bathe in the lake, then changed clothes and prayers.

"We are concerned that if the application of Islamic sharia law in this province would be tarnished by their activities. We hope, by sending them to rehab, they will soon repent, "said Deputy Mayor of Banda Aceh, Illiza Sa'aduddin Djamal who ordered the arrests.

At that time, hundreds of punk fans from different regions had come to Banda Aceh to attend a concert held to raise money for orphans. However, when the police also raided the location of the concert and catch people who look with punk mohawk hair, tattoos and tight jeans and a full chain. After the arrest, they brought home a moral rehabilitation and will be there for 10 days.

According to police, these arrests are carried out in order to prevent these young men and women of the behavior of 'deviant'. "They never bathe, they lived on the streets, never to pray. We need to fix them so that they can behave morally correct and appropriate. They need treatment and decisively to alter their mental behavior, "said provincial police chief, Inspector General of Police Iskandar Hasan.

Aceh police and government actions have been appropriate for the local rules, however these liberal NGOs meddling with Aceh's sharia police action. This rule was criticized local activists, Evi Narti Zain. The arrest is considered arbitrary and violate human rights. "What do the police really weird. Being a punk is a lifestyle. Such people do exist around the world and they do not violate any rules or harming others, "he said.

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Not just a nosy local NGOs, foreign ambassadors had come to interfere in the affairs of local regulations as well as Aceh. Aceh Police Chief Inspector General Iskandar Hasan claimed ambassadors called by two friendly countries, Thursday, December 15, 2011. This was said by Alexander at the invitation of the House of Representatives of Aceh (DPRA) to report on security conditions in Aceh and explain about the raids that police routinely held the last two weeks. "It's the punk kids catch, I got a call two ambassadors yesterday, namely Germany and France," said Iskandar told members of Parliament Aceh.

According to him, ambassadors of two countries were asked why the police arrested punk kids. He admitted that he wondered why so much attention to foreign countries and media-related arrests and coaching children in Aceh punk.

The ambassador also asked why they were pushed into the pool. "I say this tradition. I just entered Akpol time (Police Academy) was also pushed into the pool, "he said to laughter from some members of the DPRA.

Foreign media are preaching this case, the New York Daily, The Telegraph, Washington Post, the Daily Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, CBS News and so on. They wrote that the average child's arrest and the driver of the punk who violates Human Rights

 

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Iran Share Stories of Women, Rights, and the Islamic World in Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta - Three women of Iran to share their stories about women, human rights and the Islamic world with the people of Yogyakarta, Thursday (15/12). They are Fereshteh Ruh Afza, Tahereh Nazari, and Shayesteh Khuy.
They are not ordinary Iranian women. Fereshteh Ruh Afza were women elected in 2010 from the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as TV programs manager for the comparison of women's rights between Islam and the West. Tahereh Nazari is chairman of the International Committee of Women Social Cultural Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as international affairs director of women's rights. Meanwhile, Shayesteh Khuy is a division of female teachers and administrators Consultation Center Astan-e Qods-e Razavi, Mashad, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Third Iranian women are accidentally imported into Indonesia to share stories about women in the struggle for human rights in the Islamic world. According to organizers, the chairman of Raushan Fikr Institute, AM Safwan, Indonesia should learn from Iran about women's rights.
Iran, which seem very fundamentalist, the fact is a very open country. It was seen from the system of government and law. In Indonesia as a democracy, said Safwan, the fact of a woman depends on her husband in a divorce case. Also in the political world, Iran is more open to women.
"In addition, they also introduce fairness in the world related to women," said Safwan on Reuters. Safwan added, the most we should learn is the power of Iran since last able to withstand the pressure of the West.
In his description, Fereshteh Ruh Afza more revealing of media issues that the longer considers objects of women was limited towing for his best-selling their programs. Tareheh Nazari tells more about the role of women in Islamic societies, especially in Iran.
Then Shayesteh Khuy that a teacher tells of women's role in the rise of Islam. According to him, the struggle of women's movement has two stages, first when the imperialist domination of Western and Eastern mid-20th century, and the second stage is the events of the Islamic revolution in Iran by Khomeini. However, continued Khuy, the women's movement was weakened because of pressure by the imperialist.

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Again, Israel burned 2 Moesque

Palestinian local government on Thursday (15/12/2011) catapult criticism to the government of Israel who invaded their land, because it seemed to deliberately let Jewish extremist groups to act brutally without any threat of punitive sanctions. It was reported that Jewish extremists in Israel burn again two mosques and scrawling other mosques with graffiti that read dirty words in Hebrew.

"The burning of the mosque is a declaration of war by a group of Jewish settlers against Palestinians," said presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina as quoted by AFP news agency.

The criticism of the Palestinian response to the events burqa burning mosques in the area, in the West Bank, Palestine. Reported that the mosque was burned after dicorat-graffiti with graffiti that read dirty words in Hebrew.

Within seven days of the week, there was the burning of two mosques by Jewish extremists. On Tuesday (12/13/2011), a group of Jewish extremists tried to set fire to a mosque in downtown Jerusalem again after all dicorat-graffiti walls with slogans racist anti-Arab and anti-Islamic. The incident left alone by the government of Israel.

Some photographs showing graffiti graffiti on walls and doors of the mosque, which reads sentences shabby in Hebrew:

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Iran Will Unloading U.S. Stealth Aircraft

Stealth aircraft will be stripped down to reveal the advanced technology used, and then reproduced. Head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security Commission, Parviz Sorouri declare it in an Iranian television quoted by AFP news agency.
"Then we will take action to disassemble the aircraft engine. We will be able to produce it in bulk in the future. Iranian engineers will soon make a plane that is superior to America by the method of reverse-engineering, "said Parviz Sorouri, Wednesday (12/14/2011).
Sorouri further stated that Iranian engineers have reached the final stage in breaking secret codes found on U.S. aircraft. The next stage, technology and secrets that exist on the unmanned aircraft will be able to learn by Iran.
"The information will be valuable intelligence that we get by outlining the methods the U.S. espionage and covert intelligence, immediately after the code is solved," said Sorouri.Iran: "We do not need co-operation with Russia or China. They will not be involved .... "
Head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security Commission also asserted that Iran will not cooperate with other countries to dismantle and study of this reconnaissance aircraft. Sorouri warned against looking eye Iran's ability to dismantle these sophisticated aircraft."We do not need co-operation with Russia or China. They will not be involved. This capability provided defense for us, and we are not ready to share it with others. We will use this to deterrence. And I doubt that the Islamic Republic will share this technology with other countries, "said Sorouri.
According to a U.S. lawmaker, U.S. Stealth Aircraft Fall Alone, not imposed by Iran
Meanwhile, U.S. lawmakers from the Commission on Intelligence, Mike Rogers, a claim Iran denies that circulated in the media. Rogers asserts that the technical problems that make stealth aircraft crashed, and not imposed by Iran.
"I say without hesitation, that this has nothing to do with dropping the plane, but due to technical problems," claims Mike Rogers, as quoted by AFP news agency on Wednesday (14/12/2011).
Republican senators such denials mean the Iranian government has denied claims stating it had dropped the RQ-170 stealth aircraft belonging to the U.S. Sentinel on December 4 ago, when it passed over the city of Kashmar, about 225 kilometers from the Afghan border.
The fall of the U.S. stealth aircraft into the hands of Iran is a slap in the face of the U.S. government. Because of the pride of the U.S. advanced aircraft was deliberately designed to be able to avoid radar detection, making it very difficult to be shot immediately. Mike Rogers therefore dubious claim that says that Iran paved the sophisticated controls that exist in the plane, the plane fall in the territory of Iran, he said, is more likely caused by damage or engine problems.
"There are technical issues that become our problems, not someone else's problem. I think it takes more PR work here, "said Mike Rogers.
U.S. officials doubt Iran's ability to disassemble and study the U.S. Stealth Aircraft, unless assisted by Russia or China
Next, Mike Rogers underestimate the ability of Iran's claim to be able to disassemble and analyze aircraft RQ-170 Sentinel technologically advanced country's pride.
"The good news: When they are too busy to spend time to disassemble and reassemble, we (the U.S.) will use that time to make new ones, and that's the biggest difference," said Mike Rogers added.
According to estimates by Rogers, Iran would need a lot of time to study and reproduce the spy plane. And at the same time, the U.S. will develop a new technology is more sophisticated than the aircraft.
"They are very proud that they will disassemble and reassemble this plane, and I think they will spend five, six, seven, even eight years to do just that. That's good for us, because at that time we have been through it all, "he added.
Not only the dubious Mike Rogers, a U.S. government official who declined to be named also doubted the ability of Iran to create a replica or duplicate spy planes such RQ-170 Sentinel. U.S. officials argue that Iran will not be able to duplicate the aircraft if not aided by Russia or China.
"The ability of the U.S. is very sophisticated, and it is not certain that Iran has the same capabilities," claims the U.S. government official told AFP news agency reporter

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President of Germany: Islam Part of Germany

JAKARTA - The German government wanted the Muslim country's relations with Indonesia more closely. This desire is not without reason, given that Germany has made Islam as part of the State's

"We want more tightly between the Muslims in Germany and Indonesia. In October I delivered a speech of Islam has been part of Germany," said President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Christian Wulff when giving a joint press keterangn with the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Presidential Palace independent, Thursday (1 / 12).

According to the experts on Islam in Germany is actively providing education on Islam in the country. While governments still maintain the right to obtain education. "If we help the world's religions there will be more peaceful," he said.

Germany also praised the religious life in Indonesia. Freedom in choosing a religion in the country has been in the development of democracy.

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The all-out hypocrisy of Arab League and the West

Kourosh Ziabari Salem-News.com

94 Yemenis were killed and over 800 injured since UN Resolution 2014 was issued...

Courtesy: politicsontoast.wordpress.com

(TEHRAN) - After the Arab League hypocritically suspended the membership of Syria amid the mounting pressures of NATO and the United States, the resurgence of violence in Egypt and the increasing use of excessive force in Bahrain and Yemen and the unrelenting massacre of innocent civilians by the barbaric regime of Al Khalifa and Ali Abdullah Saleh once again attracted the attention of conscientious observers in the international community.

According to official figures released by the "Bahrain Center for Human Rights" website, so far 44 Bahraini citizens were killed at the hands of the mercenaries of Al Khalifa regime.

The Bahraini martyrs include the 6-year-old Mohammed Farhan, 14-year-old Ali Jawad Alshaikh and 15-year-old Sayed Ahmad Saeed Shams. The Bahraini organization has reported that many of these martyrs were killed while in custody. The Center has also published documents indicating that more than 1,500 Bahrainis including about 100 women were incarcerated since the eruption of turmoil in the Persian Gulf country on February 14, 2011 and that more that 90 journalists face life threat.

It's also said that the Bahraini government has blocked the citizens' access to more than 1000 opposition websites which are mainly used to organize and plan protests and mass demonstrations.

Bahraini Shi'ites wave a Bahrain flag as they attend a funeral, March 2011. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images. Courtesy: The New Statesman

The Bahraini regime commits all of these aggressive and brutal actions with the direct involvement of the Saudi Arabia and the implicit support and backing of NATO and the United States. The author of the "Hidden Harmonies China" blog in a March 14, 2011 post referred to the abuses of human rights in Bahrain with the flagrant, duplicitous support of the White House: "the Entry of Saudi security forces to crack down on the protesters with deadly force is a complication for U.S. policies, to say the least, since U.S. is reluctant to criticize its oil ally dictators in the region."

He also called Bahrain the "Las Vegas" of the Middle East, host to the U.S. 5th Fleet and a haunt for the rich Saudis who are forbidden by Islamic laws at home from indulging in alcohol and other immoral enjoyments, "but who often vacation in Bahrain for these reasons."

Bahraini citizens have uploaded several video files on the internet, showing the cruel and ruthless torturing and persecuting of the protesters by the Al Khalifa lackeys. These videos depict the Bahraini forces using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters and killing many of them straight away. Some of these videos also show the Saudi and Bahraini cars nonchalantly running over Bahraini children and women, killing them at once.

The U.S.-Saudi project of crackdown on the Bahraini people was also empowered by many of the European cronies of Washington. In July 2011, Germany sold a set of 200 62-ton Leopard tanks to Saudi Arabia which sparked a huge controversy among the German parliamentarians and anti-war activists. According to the Daily Telegraph, Wolfgang Gerhardt, former leader of the Free Democrats, the junior collation member to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, said it was "unacceptable" the deal went through without the knowledge of his party's MPs. However, the agreement which was worth around USD 1,252 million was concluded and the Saudi government dispatched many of these newly-bought tanks to Bahrain to accelerate and facilitate the bloody clampdown on the protesters.

Humanitarian situation in Yemen

The situation in Yemen, however, is far more deplorable and appalling. Allvoices.com has reported that as of September 25, 1,870 Yemenis were killed in the revolution and the majority of the martyrs were unarmed civilians taking part in anti-government demonstrations.

The Yemeni dictator who has remained defiant in the face of frequent calls by the tribal leaders, opposition groups and demonstrators to step down and give up power has turned his country into a bloodbath and made the Yemeni uprising the longest, most devastative revolution in the revolutionary wave of protests in the Middle East. The protests in Yemen started on February 3, 2011 and have continued so far. The only reaction of the international community to the brutality in Yemen was an indecisive and faltering resolution by the UNSC which called for "an end to violence" and asked President Ali Abdullah Saleh to accept a peace deal brokered by the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council. However, Abdullah Saleh who is tacitly supported by the U.S., kept up with the brutalities and according to Yemen Times, 94 protesters were killed after the Security Council adopted the resolution 2014.

In a report published on Yemen Times on November 17, it was revealed that "ninety-four Yemenis were killed and over 800 injured since UN Resolution 2014 was issued on October 21."

"Tentative reports show that over the last three weeks in Yemen, 124 homes, seven mosques, six public institutions including one hospital, two community wells, and 17 vehicles were effectively destroyed," Yemen Times reported.

In the days leading to the detainment and death of Moammar Gaddafi, the Western mainstream media were only talking about the Libyan civil war, and the reason was clear: NATO had secured a UNSC resolution to enact a no-fly zone over Libya and it was in the interests of the U.S. and its European partners to give coverage to the tumultuous situation in the North African country. However, the reports and news regarding the carnage in Bahrain and Yemen were predominantly shunned and boycotted, simply because these two despotic regimes were close allies of the U.S. in the Middle East.

In a report published on "Independent Australia," Zaid Jiani alluded to the violent crackdown on the protesters in Bahrain and Yemen and posed the question that "is the media downplaying these events because the two dictatorships are firm allies of the West?"

"A Think Progress analysis of press coverage by the three major U.S. cable news networks -CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News - from March 14 to March 18 finds that Bahrain received only slightly more than ten percent as many mentions as Libya and that Yemen received only six percent as many mentions as Libya."

Now what concerns the independent thinkers, scholars, university professors, journalists and peace activists is that Syria has become the target of international pressure, simply because it has strong ties with Iran and resistant groups in Lebanon and Palestine, while the reactionary regimes of Bahrain and Yemen are getting away with the felonies which they commit by the virtue of their alliance with the United States.

Arab League has vindictively suspended the participation of Syria while it has taken no practical step to normalize the situation in the turbulent and chaotic Yemen and Bahrain in which innocent people are being killed on a daily basis by their tyrannical rulers and their loyalists.

All that can be said is that the performance of the Arab League in neglecting the situation in Yemen and Bahrain and exaggerating the unrest in Syria which is mainly caused by the foreign intervention and the West's indifference toward the plight of the suppressed nations in Yemen and Bahrain is an all-out hypocrisy and a clear, undeniable exercise of double standards. Who can really devise a clear-cut solution for this unsolvable dilemma?

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Strengthening ACIS in Islamic Indonesia

 

YOGYAKARTA - Forum Annual Conference meeting of Islamic Studies (ACIS) has entered the implementation to-11. Much has been achieved mainly in the development of studies and Islamic studies. Looking ahead, ACIS is directed to continue to play a role in building the people and nation.

Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Prof. Dr. Akh Minhadji admitted happy with the progress of Islamic studies at a number of Islamic universities. He even refers to what has gone before is able to reflect expectations.

One that should be appreciated, he continued, ie more incentive to scholars conducting research field related to the condition of Muslims in Indonesia. This is an interesting change, given previous research more directed towards the study of texts, norms, or values​​.

But now is different, the reality of society that shot. Color and context of Islamic studies also increasingly diverse and extensive. When speaking of the Indonesian Islamic community, he continued, it can not be separated from the traditions that exist in each community.

''What to do with Islam, so this is what had been the object of research,''said Minhadji, some time ago. A number of research and then presented during the forum to the ACIS-11 in Louth.

From his view, the results of such research is essential in order to provide an overview regarding the relationship between local traditions and Islamic teachings. According Minhadji that at the meeting this time acting as ACIS / convener / (pengampu expert), it is not possible without berislam accommodate reality, in this earlier tradition.

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Austria Not Ready to Receive Public Islamic Presence

 
VIENNA - Austria is one European country that recognizes Islam as a state religion. Nevertheless, still visible in the Austrian public unpreparedness to accept the existence of the Muslim community. The response to the issue of radicalism and that the burka is a form of unpreparedness.
Austrian Right Wing Party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, said Austria as well as other European countries face problems related to the presence of Muslim immigrants from Turkey. According to him, more than 50 percent of Muslim immigrants from Turkey are reluctant to integrate into Austrian society.
"They do not intend to learn the language and culture prevailing in Austria. Not to mention the matter of radical groups. They inhibit the development of the foundations of peace and democracy in Austria," he said as quoted rt.com, Wednesday (23/11).
Strache realize Austrian society respects Islam. Islam is part of the world religions. Unfortunately, there is a sign of the birth of radical groups. That's reflected in the effort to build minarets and prayer with loudspeakers repercussion.
"They are guests, but they are guaranteed freedom of religion. Meanwhile, in Islamic countries, we Christians do not have the same freedom," he said.
That is why, said Strache, Austrian society need to be sensitive to the development of Islam. Therefore, this issue also involves the preservation of European culture. "We need to keep the culture of Europe in order not to disappear politically and demographically. This is what we try try in Europe," he said.
Related video game-laden traditional power structures, Strache condemned the action. Because, the way it is not justified. "We must stick to the truth," he said.
Ironically, despite condemning the activities of traditional power structures nuanced, Strache nevertheless support a ban for Muslim women wearing the burka in public spaces. He said the ban was referred to the fact that every Muslim should not hide their faces.
"Everyone is free to do whatever you want. In the case of the burka, every Muslim must integrate and adapt to our conditions and observe our laws. And, that's what we expect of them," he added.

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Russian Gave Fund For Institute of Islamic Education

MOSCOW - More than 32 million Americans or about one billion rubles allocated to the Kremlin during the next two years to educate the Russian Muslims to be an expert of Islamic history and culture. Allocation of funds it is the policy of the Russian President, Dmitry Medvdev in an effort to prepare professionals who spread Islamic values ​​correctly.

Medvedev, speaking in a meeting with scholars in Russia's Ufa said the important mission is to promote Islamic education and Islamic education institutions integrate with the Russian education system.

"Russia for the first time the state set standards for Islamic higher education institutions to prepare qualified Muslim clerics," he said as quoted heraldmalaysia.com, Wednesday (23/11).

Medvedev said the Russian government has a special concern for the effective conduct of Islamic education throughout the Russian federation. Harapanya forward, he said, the Muslim cleric Russia would provide the influence and example to the world.

"Only in this way, we can have the right frame of mind within the Muslim community," he said.

Further said Medvedev, Russia's Muslims has grown rapidly. Currently, the Federation throughout the region there are 7 thousand more mosque but does not have any Islamic educational institutions. "Hopefully, I'll be standing 96 Islamic schools and universities in our country," he concluded.

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