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[1] From: WebXpurt <webxpurt@yahoo.com Date: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:07 am Subject: Protest in Amsterdam - http://ultracurrents.blogspot.com/ Protest in Amsterdam against anti-Quran film http://ultracurrents.blogspot.com/ Mar 23, 2008 - AP Amsterdam: Demonstrators of all races and colours crowded Amsterdam’s central square on Saturday braving wind and sleet to show their opposition to anti-immigration lawmaker Geert Wilders. The protest, called “Netherlands Shows Its Colors,” is primarily a reaction in advance to the short film Fitna, Wilders says he will release later this month criticising the Quran. The protestors allege the movie is part of a witch-hunt against Muslims. Wilders has also been receiving death-threats after he made some alleged anti-Islamic comments. One protester carried a sign saying “standing together against the right wing populist witch-hunt.” “I’m very much against Geert Wilders and racism in general, but I think it’s really important to show not only Holland but the rest of the world that there’s a lot of people who do not agree with his ideas,” said Elisa Trepp. Wilders, who says he is not racist, heads a reactionary party with nine seats in the 150-member Dutch parliament, elected on an anti-immigration platform. Dutch officials fear the movie could spark violent protests in Muslim countries, similar to those two years ago after the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. But no prominent politicians were among the 2,000-3,000 people who police estimated turned up for the demonstration, to the frustration of some attendees. “The government could really do something. That’s in the interest of the country — stop him, just stop him,” said Hassan Iaeti, who traveled hours from the far south of the country to attend. He said he believed Wilders is abusing the right of freedom of speech, which he said has limits. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/protest-in-amsterdam-against-antiquran-film/61759-2.\ html? xml Male Honour Murders @ http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx? GUID=A6A9577D-95EA-49F6-A613-EFC8\ 6B36B48B ------------- [2] From: WebXpurt <webxpurt@yahoo.com Date: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:12 am Subject: Baptism by Pope - Muslim baptized by pope says life in danger http://ultracurrents.blogspot.com/ March 23, 2008 Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Muslim author and critic of Islamic fundamentalism who was baptized a Catholic by Pope Benedict said on Sunday Islam is "physiologically violent" and he is now in great danger because of his conversion. "I realize what I am going up against but I will confront my fate with my head high, with my back straight and the interior strength of one who is certain about his faith," said Magdi Allam. In a surprise move on Saturday night, the pope baptized the 55-year-old, Egyptian-born Allam at an Easter eve service in St Peter's Basilica that was broadcast around the world. The conversion of Allam to Christianity -- he took the name "Christian" for his baptism -- was kept secret until the Vatican disclosed it in a statement less than an hour before it began. Writing in Sunday's edition of the leading Corriere della Sera, the newspaper of which he is a deputy director, Allam said: "... the root of evil is innate in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictual." Allam, who is a strong supporter of Israel and who an Israeli newspaper once called a "Muslim Zionist," has lived under police protection following threats against him, particularly after he criticized Iran's position on Israel. He said before converting he had continually asked himself why someone who had struggled for what he called "moderate Islam" was then "condemned to death in the name of Islam and on the basis of a Koranic legitimization." His conversion, which he called "the happiest day of my life," came just two days after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden accused the pope of being part of a "new crusade" against Islam. The Vatican appeared to be at pains to head off criticism from the Islamic world about the conversion. "Conversion is a private matter, a personal thing and we hope that the baptism will not be interpreted negatively by Islam," Cardinal Giovanni Re told an Italian newspaper. Still, Allam's highly public baptism by the pope shocked Italy's Muslim community, with some leaders openly questioning why the Vatican chose to shine such a big spotlight it. "What amazes me is the high profile the Vatican has given this conversion," Yaha Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, vice-president of the Italian Islamic Religious Community, told Reuters. "Why could he have not done this in his local parish?" ANOTHER DEATH SENTENCE Allam, the author of numerous books, said he realized that his conversion would likely procure him "another death sentence for apostasy," or the abandoning of one's faith. But he said he was willing to risk it because he had "finally seen the light, thanks to divine grace." Allam defended the pope in 2006 when the pontiff made a speech in Regensburg, Germany, that many Muslims perceived as depicting Islam as a violent faith. He said he made his decision to convert after years of deep soul searching and asserted that the Catholic Church has been "too prudent about conversions of Muslims." At a Sunday morning Easter mass hours after he baptized Allam, the pope, without mentioning him, spoke in a prayer of the continuing "miracle" of conversion to Christianity some 2,000 years after Christ's resurrection. The Vatican statement announcing Allam's conversion said: "For the Catholic Church, each person who asks to receive Baptism after a deep personal search, a fully free choice and adequate preparation, has a right to receive it." It said all newcomers to the faith were "equally important before God's love and welcome in the community of the Church." http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080323/wl_nm/pope_muslim_dc ------------------ Personal law no bar to maintenance demand Legal Correspondent Cr.PC applicable to all religions, says Supreme Court New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that a Muslim’s marriage to his wife’s sister, while the earlier marriage still subsists, will be irregular but the second wife and children are entitled to maintenance. The Muslim personal law prohibits “unlawful conjunction” — a man cannot marry his wife’s sister in her lifetime or till the dissolution of the first marriage. The personal law would not come in the way of the second wife claiming maintenance under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code since an obligation has been cast on the person to maintain her and her children until the first marriage is declared null and void by a competent court, said a Bench consisting of Justices Altamas Kabir and J.M. Panchal. The Bench rejected the contention that Section 125 Cr.PC could not override the Muslim personal law, holding it was applicable to all persons belonging to all religions and had nothing to do with the personal law of the parties. “The fact that the marriage was not solemnised as per custom and was irregular cannot be a ground for depriving the woman or the children from that marriage of the maintenance claims.” Writing the judgment, Justice Kabir said: “The bar of unlawful conjunction [jama bain-al-mahramain] renders a marriage irregular and not void.” Consequently, “under the Hanifi law as far as Muslims in India are concerned, an irregular marriage continues to subsist till [it is] terminated in accordance with law and the wife and children of such marriage would be entitled to maintenance.” The Bench said: “There are two types of marriages — which can be declared either “void” or “irregular” if they are held in violation of the provisions of the [Muslim] law. While a “void” [batil] marriage is illegal from the time of its very occurrence, an “irregular” [fasid] marriage can be regularised or made valid, provided the irregularity is rectified.” Under the Muslim law, a man’s marriage to the sister of his wife could become lawful with the death of the first wife or when he divorced her. An irregular marriage had no legal effect before consummation. But if the consummation took place, the wife would be entitled to dower. In the instant case, Chand Patel challenged an order of the judicial magistrate, Chincholi, Karnataka, directing him to pay a monthly maintenance allowance of Rs. 1,000 to his wife’s sister Bismillah Begum, whom he married. A sessions court and the Karnataka High Court confirmed this order. Dismissing the appeal against this order, the apex court directed Mr. Patel to pay Bismillah Begum the maintenance arrears within the next six months and to continue to pay the current maintenance with effect from March 2008. http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/25/stories/2008032559791300.htm |
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