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Muslim Cabbie Charged With Running Over Students After Religious Dispute
Monday, February 19, 2007
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Muslim cabdriver from Somalia ran over two college students near Vanderbilt University after getting into an argument with them about religion, police said. Ibrahim Ahmed, 37, a driver for United Cab, picked up two men near the Vanderbilt campus early Sunday morning, Capt. Mike Alexander of the Nashville Police Department said, referring to the incident report.
The two men, reportedly college students from Ohio who were visiting Nashville, were on their way back to the campus.
A conversation about religion ensued between the driver and his two fares. The local FOX affiliate in Nashville confirmed from a friend and fellow co-worker that Ahmed is a Sunni Muslim from Somalia.
At some point, according to the police, the two men exited the cab, and the cabbie also got out. They paid him his fare, and then they exchanged words.
According to the incident report, Ahmed then returned to his cab as the students fled on foot. Ahmed then allegedly drove across a parking lot, jumped a curb and struck the two men.
One of the students, identified as Jeremy Invus, was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with critical injuries. The other passenger, Andrew Nelson, avoided the cab.
Hospital spokeswoman Kathy Rivers told FOX News that Invus is recuperating and does not want to talk to the media about the incident.
Ahmed, charged with assault and attempted homicide, is being held on $300,000 bond. He also was also charged with theft because police said the license plate on his cab was listed as stolen.
"We are working with the police to see what happened," United Cab manager Cherrie Machado said.
"I don't believe he will be working here anymore, but that is up to the licensing cab board — whether they will pull his permit — and the owners of the company."
Machado said she would not feel "comfortable" to have Ahmed back working at the company. She noted that he also teaches English as a second language next door to the cab company.
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No doubt stories like the one below will further enahnce their image...
Father killed family for being too western
By Nigel Bunyan
Last Updated: 2:16am GMT 21/02/2007
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. On Hallowe'en last year he sprayed petrol throughout their terraced home in Accrington, Lancs, and set it alight.
Caneze Riaz, 39, woke and tried to protect her three-year-old child, Hannah, who was sleeping with her, but was overcome by fumes. Her other daughters, Sayrah, 16, Sophia, 13, and Alisha, 10, died elsewhere in the house.
Riaz, who had spent the evening drinking, set himself on fire and died two days later. Clockwise from top left: Caneze Riaz with daughters Sayrah, Alisha and Sophia
Relatives broke the news to the couple's son, Adam, 17, as he lay terminally ill with cancer at the Christie Hospital, Manchester. He died six weeks later.
Michael Singleton, the coroner, recorded verdicts that Riaz killed himself and that his victims were unlawfully killed.
Riaz, who had spent all but the last 17 years of his life in the North West Frontier region of Pakistan, met his Anglo-Pakistani wife when her father sent her to the sub-continent to find a husband.
After an arranged marriage, she developed a career as a community leader in Accrington while he, handicapped by a lack of English, took on a series of low-paid jobs.
After Mrs Riaz's father died she "suddenly felt less beholden to Mohammed", a friend said. "She started to develop her own circle of friends and allowed the girls to express themselves in a more western way."
She began to work with women who felt suppressed by Asian culture and many saw her as a role model for young Asian women.
Strange country. Hundreds of honor killings every year, laws which until recently required four witnesses to prove rape, yet they’ve had more female heads of state than we have.
I’m guessing this guy didn’t vote for Benazir Bhutto.
A suspected Islamist zealot shot dead a Pakistani woman provincial government minister on Tuesday because he believed women should not be in politics, officials said…
Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat told Reuters the gunman had been implicated in six previous murder cases but had never been convicted because of a lack of evidence.
“He is basically a fanatic,” Basharat said. “He is against the involvement of women in politics and government affairs.”…
“He considers it contrary to the teachings of Allah for a woman to become a minister or a ruler. That’s why he committed this action,” the police said in a statement.
Six previous murders? Update: Not a surprise to find that the victims in those previous murders were also women.
“He killed her because she was not observing the Islamic code of dress. She was also campaigning for emancipation of women,” said Nazir Ahmad, a local officer, adding that the suspect was a known extremist with a history of targeting women he considered “immoral”…
The man - identified as Mohammad Sarwar – was overpowered by the minister’s driver and arrested by police, who claimed that he confessed to the killing. A former student and stonemason in his 40s, Sarwar was previously held in 2002 in connection with the killing of four prostitutes, but was never convicted due to lack of evidence…
Ms Usman, a married mother of two sons, joined the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League after being elected in 2002. A strong supporter of the President’s policy of “enlightened moderation” - designed to tackle extremism - she was appointed to her current post in December last year according to her government biography.
Radical Kashmiris promise they will kill would-be "Indian Idol" contestants if they appear on the vulgar production.
Radical Islamists warned Kashmiris about partaking in nasty dance numbers like this one. (Indian Idol)
Islamic radicals are threatening Kashmiri contestants of the Indian Idol competition with harsh punishment if they participate in the vulgar television production:
A rebel group in Indian-held Kashmir has warned young people in the region not to audition for the hugely popular television show "Indian Idol" or face harsh punishment.
"No leniency" will be shown to anyone trying out for the show, a spokesman for the al Madina Regiment, which has claimed responsibility for suicide and other attacks in Kashmir, told the local Current News Service late on Monday.
Sony Entertainment Television had said earlier it would hold an audition on Wednesday for singers in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-held Kashmir. Sony is looking for that "one voice that will be the pride of the nation," a television advertisement said.
But the rebel outfit, which authorities believe is an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba group, told youngsters not to participate in the talent hunt. "These shows are just displays of vulgarity," said group spokesman Sadiq.
A local Kashmiri boy Qazi Taqeer did well last year in the talent hunt show of "Fame Gurukul".
...But, radicals promise to kill those Kashmiris brave enough to compete in this year's Idol competition. (Indian Idol photo)
Interesting the british Muslim that torched his family for 'westernizing' was drinking all day, since Islam absolutely forbids alcohol -- and that's Quran, not Hadith.
This muddies the water in Iraq, like we needed it -- on the surface it sounds like same-old-Islam although there are obviously political overtones. But this is what happens to women in Egypt, Pakistan, etc if they claim rape.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday fired a top Sunni official who had called for an international investigation into the rape allegations leveled by a Sunni Arab woman against three members of the Shiite-dominated security forces.
A statement by al-Maliki's office gave no reason in announcing the dismissal of Ahmed Abdul-Ghafour al-Samaraie, head of the Sunni Endowments.
Al-Samaraie, speaking from Amman in neighboring Jordan... said the woman who made the rape allegations was one of many who he said are sexually assaulted by the security forces. "Many girls are raped but they refuse to appear in the media so as not to tarnish their reputations," he said.
The 20-year-old woman said she was assaulted Sunday at a police garrison where she was taken on suspicion of helping Sunni insurgents.
Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, the chief U.S. military spokesman, said the woman was admitted to a U.S.-run medical facility Sunday and was released the next day. He refused to divulge details of her medical treatment or examination for privacy reasons, and said she left the hospital with her medical reports.
Caldwell also told reporters that Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, ordered an inquiry into the case and appointed an investigating officer who already has begun collecting information on the allegations.
He said that if the Iraqi authorities needed it, U.S. officials would make that information available "once the Iraqi government makes a decision on how they are going to move forward."
Al-Maliki's office released what it said was a medical report indicating no signs of rape. The grainy document was marked as page two of three and did not have the name of the patients or any of her personal details. A handwritten note in English said she had no bruises or injuries. The Iraqi government and Sunni officials have identified the woman; The Associated Press does not name alleged rape victims.
Al-Maliki has said the rape allegations were being used by his critics to discredit the security forces and undermine a major, U.S.-led Baghdad crackdown. In exonerating the three officers Tuesday, al-Maliki said they should be rewarded as a sign of confidence in the force.
"The Sunni Endowments strongly denounces this horrific crime and lets out a cry for help from the international community and human rights organizations, demanding that they launch an immediate investigation into this crime," said the statement, signed by al-Samaraie.
His dismissal is the latest move in a highly publicized and increasingly bitter dispute over the rape allegations, pitting al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated government of al-Maliki against its Sunni Arab critics. The public quarrel is fueling charges by the Sunnis that the Baghdad crackdown was targeting Sunni neighborhoods and leaving unaffected Shiite areas harboring militias blamed for sectarian killings.
In his Tuesday statement, al-Maliki said the woman "had not been subjected to any sexual attack" and that three outstanding warrants had been issued against her for unspecified charges. He also accused "certain parties" — a thinly veiled reference to Sunni politicians — of fabricating the allegation.
Word of the allegations first came from main Sunni Arab parliamentary bloc, the National Accordance Front, on Monday, a day after the alleged rape. The woman later told Arabic language television stations that she was assaulted by the three policemen after she was taken into custody for allegedly helping Sunni insurgents. Although the woman did not say her attackers were Shiites, many Sunnis associate the police with the rival sect.
Rape is considered especially heinous in conservative Muslim countries, and victims rarely come forward since they risk not only public scorn but possible "honor killing" at the hands of male relations seeking to restore the family's honor.
The speed with which the officers were exonerated outraged many Sunnis at a time when sectarian tensions are high.
Whatever happened, there are reports that the rate of rape is extremely high in Iraq -- rape has always been a major Muslim war tactic, since it destroys family and community honor, and essentially eliminates the women from ever marrying or having children.
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I especially love how they "honor kill" the rape victim instead of the rapist. Nothing says peace and love like a father murdering his daughter for being raped.
Nuke 'em.
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I especially love how they "honor kill" the rape victim instead of the rapist. Nothing says peace and love like a father murdering his daughter for being raped.
I really miss how good Christians in the USA lynched 30,000 blacks in the name of god and culture.
So these retards of today are 40 - 50 years behind us, the best people in the world.
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I really miss how good Christians in the USA lynched 30,000 blacks in the name of god and culture.
So these retards of today are 40 - 50 years behind us, the best people in the world.
I wouldn't really call those people "good christians", nice try though.
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Clockwise from top left: Caneze Riaz with daughters Sayrah, Alisha and Sophia
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