Womens Groups Stand Where Regarding Islamofacism?

Mighty quiet over there on their website concerning the attrocities perpetrated against women in Islamic counties.

I was reading a post on
With Sticks and Stones concerning Pakistan changing it's rape laws to give a little more human rights to women. ariadneK, Ph.D. is just a little ticked at these 'holy men' in Islam that protested because they can't rape women to teach 'em a lesson for having a brother that has an affair with a woman above his station in life...

From Yahoo News (Link subject to disappearing. Trust me and ariadneK, Ph.D. this is what it said - She has posted more of it than I): International and local calls for change intensified after the 2002 gang-rape of a woman, Mukhtar Mai, who was assaulted after a tribal council in her eastern Punjab village ordered the rape as punishment for her 13-year-old brother's alleged affair with a woman of a higher caste.

So the law gets changed a touch to protect women and the Islamopoohbutts (My pastor reads my blog on occasion so I can't use the words I really want to...) get upset.

Pro-Islamic lawmakers stormed out of the National Assembly Wednesday in protest of the new legislation, known as the Protection of Women Bill.

"We reject it," Maulana Fazlur Rahman, a top Islamist opposition leader, told reporters after the vote, which he described as a "dark day" in Pakistan's parliamentary history.

Rahman and other Islamists vowed to devise a strategy to block Senate passage of the bill. Islamic political groups have previously staged mass rallies to denounce moves by the military-led government deemed contrary to Islam.

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The amendments include dropping the death penalty and flogging for people convicted of having consensual sex outside marriage and giving judges discretion to try rape cases in a criminal rather than Islamic court. Strict Islamic law dictates that a woman claiming rape must produce four witnesses, making a trial almost impossible.

Discussion on the bill broke down in September after the government failed to win support from opposition Islamic groups, particularly for abolishing the need for four witnesses to a rape.

In a compromise, the government proposed the clause allowing a judge to try cases in either a criminal court or in an Islamic court. The new bill also removed the right of police to detain people suspected of having sex outside of marriage, instead requiring a formal accusation in court.

This led me to wondering about the U.S.Womens lib outfits and their stand against women being raped for their brother's sins all in the name of Islam and their god allah.

Well! Let's see. Try the NOW nags first. Hmmm - Link here for Global Feminism... Hmmm Here is an article -
What Now for the Women of Afghanistan and Iraq? - dated 9/04??? - That's over two years ago. Oh well, Lets see what it says. Hmmm Bush is at fault for women being mistreated in both countries. Things were better for women under Saddam Hussein.

Tell that to the little girls his sons were raping...

Back up and try this link for violence against women articles. Looks like articles on the U.S. and Mexico. Nothing on Islam.

Try Googling - Womans Issues -. Let's see - Women's Issues Demoted to Political Untouchables - pro ripping babies out of mother's wombs site...

Google - Womans Issues Islam - Muslum Womans League - Hmmm. Quote - The Muslim Women's League regrets Pope Benedict's recent comments regarding Islam at a time when the world needs religious leaders to act with enlightenment and knowledge to bring peace, justice and harmony to a world on the verge of chaos, violence and ignorance. - end quote - Hey idiot!!! It is YOUR so called religion that is causing all the chaos, violence and ignorance. - Probably written by a man hiding behind a woman's skirts...

All the rest of these hits are Muslum web pages saying how wonderful their religion is.

Oh well. Never mind. I guess all is well and we can go back to sleep now...

The National Organization for Women is right to ignore it...

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Elton John is in the news

Elton John has hit the news recently with a comment that religion should be banned. - Elton John and the Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears discuss what it means to be a gay star, just what constitutes a gay sense of humour - and why everyone is welcome in their world. -
says a headline in the Guardian Unlimited -

Prior to the banning religion statement Elton John had said:

I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion ...

Italics = prying1 who wonders at the contradiction in this statement???

Elton John's words about banning religion in context:

... We should all be together. I've got this really naive idea of what life should be like - it's an idealistic idea but it's completely integrated. We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. - This I agree with - We can't judge a book by its cover.

From my point of view I would ban religion completely, even though there are some wonderful things about it. I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together? I said this after 9/11 and people thought I was nuts: instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'

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His opening lines about being naive are proven in his last paragraph about the leaders of each religion having a conclave. "It's all got to be dialogue... "

There are no LEADERS of each religion except the Catholic Church and maybe the Dali Lama. In the Muslum religion there is a myriad of local Imams and such but which of them are considered THE LEADERS of the Muslum religion? All of them by their local congregations.

Christianity has so many branches and disagreements on such little issues that it would be impossible to gather them together and decide who is in and who is out. Many of those that the Main Stream Media calls "Christian Leaders" are rejected as such by the majority of Christians... Tony Campolo and Hillary Clinton come to mind...

Hindoo and Buddhist religions are pretty much the same way by what I gather.

Then, if and when, they get to the meeting who is going to lead it?

Elton?

I think not.

The meeting would be filled with a bunch of people pointing fingers and claiming the others are wrong. Plus you have the problem of definitions of words. For example the Muslums and Mormans and Jehovah's Witnesses and Hindoos and Buddhists and Catholics and Protestants all have a different definition of the word 'salvation' and even the need for it...

No Elton. A Holy Conclave would not work. You are as you said, "naive"...

As far as the religion is filled with hate towards gays aspect of your statements, Christianity as I know it simply disagrees with the gay lifestyle. Because a person (religious or not) says, "I do not think that the word 'Marraige' should be redefined to denote a relationship between two men or two women", or "I do not think the gay lifestyle is a viable one", they are tagged as hate filled.

Often times by those that are filled with hate towards religion...

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Think about it. To ban religion would really cause troubles in this world.
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I think it would be easier to ban toupees than it would be to ban religion.
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"Adult" Stem Cells Once Again Show Promise

An Article at CBC NEWS (WWW.CBC.CA) - Stem cell injections fight muscular dystrophy in dogs - Says:

In promising new research, stem cells worked remarkably well at easing symptoms of muscular dystrophy in dogs, an experiment that experts call a significant step toward treating people.
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Sharon Hesterlee, vice-president of translational research at the Muscular Dystrophy Association, called the result one of the most exciting she's seen in her eight years with the organization. Her group helped pay for the work.

She stressed that it's not yet clear whether such a treatment would work in people, but said she had "cautious optimism" about it.

Two dogs that were severely disabled by the disease were able to walk faster and even jump after the treatments.

The study was published online Wednesday by the journal Nature. It used stem cells taken from the affected dogs or other dogs, rather than from embryos. For human use, the idea of using such "adult" stem cells from humans would avoid the controversial method of destroying human embryos to obtain stem cells.

The last line I thought rather telling. There has been good results from "Adult" stem cell research. That is where the corporate money has been going. In the meantime we have liberals shouting for state and federal funding of "Embryonic" stem cell research which has shown no promise or results by most reports... Often times the key words "Adult" and "Embryonic" are left off to further muddle the controversy...

With TAXPAYER dollars going into either type of stemcell research we will have more and more stories like this from LifeNews.com:

Hwang Woo-Suk: I Can't Prove How Stem Cell Research Funds Used - Hwang Woo-suk has been charged with embezzling public and private research dollars, told the court he could not prove how all of the money was spent.
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Hwang told the court in July that he spent more than $1 million in corporate donations on "peripheral activities related to research."
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Prosecutors have said that Hwang misspent $2.9 million in state funds and private donations, some of which went into a personal bank account. Other money is alleged to have gone to paying reporters for favorable coverage and expensive trips and gifts for other scientists.

prying1 sez: There must be oversight when huge amounts of monies are being spent or there will be mismanagement and fraud. Throwing massive amounts of federal funds into the mix will only be increasing the temptations for human nature to kick in.

Some Taxpayer dollars Should be allocated for "adult" stem cell researches but there needs to be accountability and results that goes along with it. "Embryonic" needs to be researched in private hands with private funding with or without results...

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The Upcoming Presidential Election

Can't we have a break? It is like maggots crawling from beneath a lump of road kill all these politicians setting up 'EXPLORATORY COMMITTEES" for their "PRESIDENTIAL RUN"...

All it really means is GIMMEE Money!!!

Seems like politicians have nothing better to do than to run for office. Son't they have jobs to do?

There are not too many congressmen, senators or governors (or even mayors for that matter) that that would demur at having PRESIDENT on their tombstones instead of their current appellation. Just seems to me that they ought to take a break for a few weeks or months in between elections.

How does this sound for a new law:

Any politician that does not give his adoring public a 6 week campaigning break after each election will be strung up by his thumbs and pelted with paint filled balloons.

Or should it be 6 months?

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Say No To Crack Contest Winner Recieves WONDERFUL Prize

Those that follow my blog on a regular basis know that I entered a contest at "Say No To Crack".

Whooo Hooo! Guess who won???

The only prying1 I know about.

ME!!!

I hear my own horn tooting!

Wait a second. Perhaps that is not a horn but a reaction to the Taco Bell food I had for lunch...

I was offered as a Prize:

- $20 cash
- $20 gift certificate/card (or equivalent example: blogmad or blogexplosion, 2,000 credits instead)
- Our super secret gift

My reply was:

- $20 I can 'borrow' from the wife
- Gift certificate I can get for Christmas
- Blogmad/Blogexplosion credits I can have the wife blogsurf for 'em

I'll take the super secret gift!

All these years of watching Jeopardy have finally paid off!

Whoo Hoo! This is more exciting than watching repeats of Lucy,
Gilligan's Island or Green Acres!

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The Super Secret prize arrived BUT!
You will have to visit Say No To Crack - Announcing our toilet contest winner! - and check the comments to see what it is. I put a link in the third comment. I figger that the time and expense Anita B went through deserves mucho visitors. - Be sure to click HOME on the above linked page and see what is new on the site. Go back often. Comment often. Link to the site often. Quite a hoot! - I've had visitors to my site say they don't miss a day without checking what Anita is up to... - That sez a lot for anyone's blog...

AND if you win one of the future contest choose the Super Secret Prize!

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P.S. Another contest is ongoing at I'm Thinking of the "O" Word... (Easy to find a link for Baby Pool and even easier to enter...)
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T.L. IS BACK! With the Rosemead Herald

This is one blog you will want to put in your favorites. For those who know him, He's Baaaccckkkk! - For those who don't know him now is a good time to get introduced to him. Witty, insightful and an all around nice guy. Visit T.L. and leave a comment to let him know you've been by...

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Lieberman Stands Strong On His Principles

From Boston.com - Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut said yesterday that he will caucus with Senate Democrats in the new Congress, but he would not rule out switching to the Republican caucus if he starts to feel uncomfortable among Democrats.

"I'm going to caucus with the Democrats both because it's good for my constituents in Connecticut, because I retained my seniority, I become a committee chair, but also I want to continue to work to bring the party back to its historic traditions of strength on national security, foreign policy, and innovation and progress in domestic policy," Lieberman said.

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He was asked about the possibility that he might switch caucuses if he became uncomfortable as Democrats sought to enforce party discipline, particularly if the GOP offered to keep him as a committee chairman and respect his seniority.

"I'm not ruling it out, but I hope I don't get to that point. And, and I must say, and with all respect to the Republicans who supported me in Connecticut, nobody ever said, 'We're doing this because we, we want you to switch over,' " he said.

"I believe that the American people are considering both major political parties to be in a kind of probation, because they're understandably angry that Washington is dominated too much by partisan political games, and not enough by problem-solving and patriotism, which means put the country and your state first," Lieberman said.

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prying1 sez: Lets pray the Dems, led by Pelosi, Michael Moore, Daily KOS, etc., tick the good Senator off enough to switch parties. It would be rather fitting and quite a turn of events. Similarly the shoe was on the other foot in 2001 when Jeffords (VT) switched from R to D changing an evenly divided Senate to a Democrat majority. This would make it 50-50...

I don't think Lieberman is the kind of person to set his principles aside just to appease foaming at the mouth lefties.


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Join the Blogmad Baby Pool Contest!

Cary Cartter is going to have a baby!

Well actually, his wife is going to have the baby but Cary will be standing by with a stopwatch in hand. At the appropriate time the button on the stopwatch will be pressed and the person who guessed the closest to the baby's arrival time will win MUCHO GRANDE (Taco Bell lingo for those of you in Rio Linda) Blogmad Credits.

If you are a member in good standing with Blogmad
here is the contest for you.

If you are not a member of Blogmad you can sign up real quick for free! Get free credits for joining and use them to enter. There is a seven day waiting period before you can transfer credits and you may not enter if the transfer will leave you with less than 25 credits - so you WILL have to do a bit of blog surfing first. So JOIN NOW! Use the name "carycartter" for the recomendation name. - The link above is for his account...)

Cost to you to enter is: 5 Blogmad Credits - Amount to win is well over 250 credits. As people enter the amount goes up and Cary is distributing all the entries as prizes. -

Blogmad Transfer page says...

Transfer Credits

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AMOUNT: - - - 5 (per each time frame guessed - example: 10 guesses = 50 credits - multiple guesses allowed)

Comment: STATE the day and time (24 hour time, Arizona MST w/o Daylight Savings Time) you think the joyous event will occur. (prying1 sez: I would have said, "Write here the times you think the baby will start squalling." but I'm safe in California where TMBWitW can't smack me upside the head.

Projected due date is December 25th, 2006. As of Monday, September 18, 2006, she was 27 weeks along. -

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Join BlogMad.

Surf Blogs.

Transfer five credits to me, with a comment about time/date.

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Questions??? Cary Cartter has the answers!

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