THE MAYANS AND THE DRESDEN CODEX – an ancient people not to be underestimated or taken for fools

The Dresden Codex, named after the city where it had been lodged is a strange book inscribed with hieroglyphs which no one could decipher until 1880. A German scholar, who worked at the Dresden library, managed to crack the code of the Mayan calendar and made it possible for other academics to translate the many dated inscriptions found on buildings, stelae, and other ancient Mayan artifacts.

He discovered that the Codex contained detailed astrological tables that calculated the year to be 365.2420 days long, more accurate than the Julian calendar we use today – and to calculate the lunar cycle as 329.53020 days, thousands of years ago, only 34 seconds out – and without the latest modern scientific instruments, too!

THE MAYAN CALENDAR – To Those Human-Apes That Say That The Mayan Calendar Does Not Extend Beyond 2012

This is by I, myself, and me; and it is personal:

I wonder whether it has occurred to any of you human-Apes out there – albeit my dear readers and fellow-Apes, but Apes all the same – that the Mayan Calendar extends not beyond 2012 because the Mayans did not need to extend it beyond 2012? They knew!

Human-Apes would do well not to scoff at the Mayans – a strange but wise people who knew enough to be able to calculate the cycle of the moon as 329.53020 days thousands of years ago, only 34 seconds out; and without the latest scientific instruments, too!

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE! THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING – It Has Begun. Lands Retreat as Seas Advance

WEST AFRICA: Coastline to be submerged by 2099

Gleaned from: IRIN/Plus-News

ACCRA 25^th August 2008: Huge swathes of West Africa's coastline, extending from the orange dunes in Mauritania to the dense tropical forests in Cameroon, will be underwater by the end of the century as a direct consequence of climate change, environmental experts warn.

BENIN: Coastal erosion threatening to wipe out parts of Cotonou

COTONOU 2^nd September 2008: Rising sea levels have destroyed hundreds of homes, hotels, roads and harvests, and threaten to engulf large areas of Cotonou, the capital of Benin. A government-commissioned study about a year ago recommended urgent action to hold back the rising tides, and save the city's ports, airport, and coastal communities, but political infighting blocked funding.

Daniel: Dear readers and fellow-Apes; surely you do not believe for one moment that sea levels will rise in only one part of the world!?

Mosquitoes fly wild and free, and bite; and diseases spread wide and far, and kill

Gleaned from: IRIN-News / Plus-News

Read: 292 / 293 / 294 / 295 / 296 / 297 and here are a few facts before I begin:

Hepatitis A virus/HAV lives in faeces in the intestinal tract. It is spread when infected individuals do not wash their hands after…

Hepatitis B virus/HBV lives in blood and other body fluids. HBV is transmitted from person to person through unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person, or through sharing infected needles or other sharp instruments that break the skin...

Hepatitis C virus/HCV, identified in the mid-1980s, is a slowly progressing infection that is primarily spread by intravenous drug users and blood transfusions…

Hepatitis D virus/HDV, found in blood, is transmitted through the sharing of infected needles or through sexual contact with an infected person…

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) lives in faeces and is transmitted through contaminated food or water. HEV is found primarily in countries with poor sanitation…see HAV

UGANDA: Hepatitis E/HEV outbreak in Kitgum

KITGUM June/July 2008: Uganda's Ministry of Health sent a team of experts to the northern district of Kitgum to investigate an outbreak of Hepatitis E/HEV in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) over the past 8 months. Very poor Sanitation and hygienic conditions in IDP camps and villages to which people returned in the wake of rebel insurgency in the north were very poor. HEV is a viral disease spread along the faecal-oral route. Outbreaks tend to be linked to contaminated water and food supplies. Mortality rates are generally low, ranging from 0.5 to 4.0%, but among pregnant women in their third trimester this rate can rise to 20%. More than 3,082 cases had been registered in the district since October 2007, with 64 deaths.

Don’t look now but, in my not-so-humble opinion, these people are making a terrible mistake. Viral means caused by a Virus; and Virus means Vector-borne; and Vector-borne means Mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas, among others; but these three are the best in the business and the mosquito is the King; or should I say: the Queen, since it is the female anopheles of the species that do all the very dirty work. Very poor sanitation and hygienic conditions mean ticks and fleas, and surely they do not think or believe – or even dream that the mosquitoes, that are the experts in the field, are going to sit or stand or fly by and let the ticks and fleas have all the fun and action!? No way, José!

Moreover, to say that Hepatitis HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, and HEV live in faeces, in the intestines, and blood is putting the cart before the horse. What these Human-Apes need to ask themselves is: How do these viruses get into faeces, intestines, or blood? To get into faeces and intestines, the viruses need to get through skins, under skins, and into blood or blood-streams. Get my drift? Among all the vectors, the anopheles mosquito is the undisputed Queen and champion. Ticks and fleas wait for their victims to come too close, but the anopheles mosquito can fly and is able to sense body-heat and movement a mile away  What are we; Etc, and so forth and so on!?

KENYA: Cholera confirmed in western region

NAIROBI June/July 2008: Outbreak of cholera confirmed in the Kisumu municipality in the western region with 134 cases reported since the outbreak – reported means at least half the actual cases – most affected areas included the slums of Manyatta, Nyalenda and Obunga which lies in the district of East Kisumu … new outbreak attributed to heavy rains … contamination of wells…the main sources of water for residents…aggravated the already poor sanitation in slum areas. Cholera is a very serious and acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Symptoms include watery diarrhoea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death, if treatment…

TIMOR-LESTE: Porous border increases avian flu risks

DILI June 2008: With little capacity to prevent avian flu from crossing the border from the neighbouring Indonesian region of West Timor, health officials fear possible outbreaks … black-market trading in oil, rice, and chickens … and cock-fighting …

PAKISTAN: Dengue fever threat in Karachi

KARACHI July 2008: Dengue fever re-emerged, with the death of… In 2007, at least 22 dengue-deaths were reported (note) in the country, most of them in the southern province of Sindh. Some, 2,600 people were reported (again) to were infected with the virus. Dengue fever sometimes takes the form of the more severe dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), and is a viral disease borne by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

DRC The Democratic Republic of Congo: Monkey-pox kills 22 in Equateur Region

KINSHASA July 2008: An outbreak of monkey-pox in the DRC Equateur province killed 22 of the 470 people infected since the beginning of 2008, according to medical officials

BURUNDI: Fatal chicken disease a blow to food source

BUJUMBURA July 2008: Food source in Burundi's Kayanza province were threatened by an untreatable disease that killed more than 1,000 chickens in one commune … the disease is similar to Newcastle Disease…the result was egg-production dropped by 80%. Health officials claimed the meat of infected chickens did not pose a threat to human health as long as it was well-cooked…and although the disease itself can be passed on to humans, the only effects are mild conjunctivitis.

Newcastle disease: a highly contagious disease of birds caused by pathogenic strains of Avian Paramyxovirus type 1 APMV-1. Virulent strains of Paramyxovirus of pigeon APMV1 can infect poultry causing Newcastle Disease. Birds affected by this disease include fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea.

Conjunctivitis: inflammation of the conjunctiva – a delicate mucous membrane that covers the internal part of the eyelid and is attached to the cornea

MYANMAR: Malaria risk high in cyclone-hit delta

YANGON July 2008: The risk of malaria remained high in Myanmar's cyclone-affected Ayeyarwady Delta, almost three months after Cyclone Nargis had struck the area…140,000 people killed or missing…the National Malaria Control Programme said very few cases of the mosquito-borne disease…UNICEF reported again over 100 cases…salty water inland created perfect breeding sites for Anopheles sundaicus in coastal areas, while early onset of monsoon rains created favourable breeding grounds for Anopheles dirus and minimus…

GUINEA-BISSAU: Cholera epidemic lessons ignored

BISSAU August 2008: A Cholera epidemic sweeping across Guinea Bissau infected 1,077 people… killed 25…leading experts asked…Cholera killed 400…infected 25,000 in 2005…

NIGER-NIGERIA: Border on high-alert for bird flu

DAKAR August 2008: Bird surveillance along 1,500-kilometre-border with northern Nigeria intensified after recent resurgence of bird deaths…more than 20,000 birds suspected of carrying the virus killed…northern Nigeria reported several thousands of poultry deaths in July. Birds were sent to laboratories in Italy to determine if the H5N1 avian flu virus was…

AFRICA: TB failures threaten HIV treatment gains

August 2008: Tuberculosis (TB) biggest killer of people living with HIV in Africa…but only one percent of HIV-positive people were screened for TB in 2006…oversight that threatens to roll back the gains made in placing more than three million people on life-prolonging anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment. ARV-drugs do not cure HIV/AIDS. They only prolong the victims’ lives, thereby giving them more time and space to infect others. That’s all.

COTE D'IVOIRE: Yellow fever epidemic feared as vaccinations start

ABIDJAN August 2008: The Ivory Coast Ministry of Health confirmed 19 people infected with yellow fever

NIGERIA: Sickle-cell disease kills 100,000 infants every year

WHO: 200,000 infants are born with sickle-cell disease in Africa every year…with Nigeria accounting for about three-quarters of these births. 60% of the 200,000 will die

Sickle-cell disease is an incurable genetic disorder widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and among descendents of Africans worldwide; no visible symptoms…periodical severe pain and anaemia because the blood cells break down between 10-20 days…sickle-cell is particularly prevalent in areas of high malarial transmission Malaria causes sickle-cell disease which makes the victims more vulnerable to malaria because of their weakened condition – It’s a vicious cycle. Never underestimate Mama Anopheles Mosquito

MYANMAR: Dengue-fever still a risk in cyclone-hit south

YANGON August 2008: Health experts credited effective interventions for preventing an increase in Dengue haemorrhagic fever DHF in Myanmar’s cyclone-hit south, but warn…

PAKISTAN: Ramadan could boost dengue fever risk, warn experts

KARACHI August 2008: Dengue-fever, also known as break-bone fever is caused by a vector-borne virus transmitted by the aedes aegypti and albopictus mosquitoes… number of dengue patients in Karachi…287…Last year, 22 deaths were reported in Sindh Province. This is the fourth consecutive year dengue-fever has spread in Karachi…

During the Holy month of Ramadan, Moslems get together before sunrise to have their last meal before beginning their fast, and at sunset to break their fast…the increased number of people going to mosques at sunrise and sunset…anopheles mosquitoes bite most often at these times…using the mosque pond for ablutions and those fasting drink more water…

FIJI: Dengue fever outbreak

IRIN/Plus-News and Xinhua News via the Daily Star Lebanon Sept. 2008

WELLINGTON: Outbreak of Dengue-fever confirmed by Medical authorities in Fiji

IRIN/Plus-News

TANZANIA: Cholera kills four in northern districts

DAR ES SALAAM Sept. 2008: Four people died and dozens were admitted to health centres in the northern Tanzanian region of Mara

IRAQ: Cholera claims five

IRIN/Plus-News

BAGHDAD Sept. 2008: Five people died in a cholera outbreak that hit Baghdad and the southern provinces since late August and at least 22 other cases were confirmed

SYRIA AND THE IAEA – Monkey-antics, Jitter-bug Dances, Rotten Ruses, and Run-around Ring-around-the-Roses Rigmaroles; and I TOLD YOU SO!

IAEA: Contact man's murder delays Syria nuclear probe

Gleaned from: the AFP via Yahoo! Alerts Thursday 25^th 2008

Daniel: What I saw and knew and said yesterday, you have seen and heard today, and you will see and hear tomorrow; but when will those of you know and admit it?

IAEA chief Mohamed El-Baradei told a closed-door session of the IAEA/International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board that the UN atomic watchdog's probe into Syria’s illicit and covert nuclear programme(s) in Syria has been delayed because the agency's contact-man in Syria was murdered – in Syria; he did not provide any further details about the identity of the man or the circumstances of the assassination. AFP, however, managed to obtain a recording of his remarks.

Daniel: Who needs details, especially from this piece of cat-shit?

According to Arab media – The Saudi Arabia Pan-Arab daily: Al-Hayat; Al-Bawaba, the Lebanese Anti-Syrian Al-Mustaqbal, the Lebanese Daily Star and Al-Nahar – you name them, they had it – all reported on the assassination with details of who he was, and how and where and when – as for the why and by whom, only Daniel in The Lion’s Den knew. Read: 328 / 329 / 337 / 341 / 365 / 371/ 372

El-Baradei's revelation came on the fourth and final day of the IAEA’s board meeting, in which Syria was the final matter of debate. During the discussions, Western countries, and the United States and Australia in particular, complained that Syria was dragging its feet in the IAEA investigation. Washington claimed that Damascus had built a covert nuclear facility at Al-Kibar – a remote desert area near the Euphrates River in north-eastern Syria – it was bombed by Israeli planes in September 2007.

Syria denied the allegations as ridiculous, saying the edifice was simply a disused military building. Syria allowed a three-member IAEA team to visit the site in June; it has since refused any follow-up trips.El-Baradei said the IAEA was still evaluating samples taken from the site but that the IAEA inspectors have found no indications of any nuclear materials so far. He also said that Syria has not yet responded to IAEA requests for additional access to individuals, sites and information.

During the debate, the US envoy to the IAEA called for a comprehensive report by agency inspectors in time for the next board meeting in November, and that the report should provide written/typed details on the status of the investigation in Syria and Syria's co-operation with that investigation. El-Baradei replied that although the IAEA had not submitted a report, they would submit a report as and when they had enough facts and/or assessments to include in a report but that a report would be submitted as soon as possible – Daniel: My dear readers and fellow-Apes; you have heard and read a lot of Horse-shit and Farts by Asses in my postings; but have you ever heard or read such Horse-shit or Fart? If the Horse knew I used his Shit and Fart for this Shit and Fart, only Satan knows what he would do to me.

He had the nerve and the gall to insist that he was not trying to be evasive. BY GOD!

WHAT IS SYRIA UP TO NOW? Up to no good for Lebanon for sure

Original title: Syria to occupy Lebanese city – so it begins, and here we go again

United Press International (UPI) and Times-Online Via Yahoo! Alerts Wednesday 24^th September 2008

DAMASCUS, Syria: Military sources: Syria plans to occupy the north Lebanese city of Tripoli. A reliable news site reported that allegedly 10,000 Syrian troops are massed on the northern Lebanese border ready to follow an advance force. The advance forces occupied seven villages around Tripoli earlier this month, the report said. A Lebanese army spokesman said Beirut had asked Damascus for clarifications and was told the measure was internal and was in no way directed against Lebanon.

Daniel: HORSE-SHIT! Bashar Al-ASS-Ad has begun his semi-final moves to cover his tracks and save his ASS! This is a message to the UN, the UNSC, the IC, and the rest of the Arab world – Iran is not Arabic; it is Persian – and especially, the International Tribunal: Lay off, or else we go back in to Lebanon; and you know what we can do with that puny little piece of land that is part of Syria, and its silly little people and their so-called leaders and politicians, and their religious leaders, too; all or almost all of them with our boots on their necks and Iran’s boots in their mouths!

QUEENS IN HISTORY AND QUEENS AND FEMALE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT CURRENTLY IN OFFICE – Including leaders of Self-governing External Territories

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; this is going to give all the Mad-Manic-Arab-Moslem-Male-Moron Monkeys (Apes) – Osama Bin Ladin and all the rest like him – a heart-attack (I hope), and their Rabid-Rats, Jackals, and Hyenas, the shock of their lives:

There have always been female rulers. Egyptian Queens ruled from around 3000BC and the first to be named by the sources without any doubt is Ku-baba, who ruled the Mesopotamian City-State of Ur round 2500BC.

4530BC: The Legendary Queen Eyleuka of Ethiopia: Also known as Dalukaha and, according to legend, she was one of the rulers before the Antediluvian (the flood). She succeeded king Borsa, who had ruled for 67 years, and ruled for 45 years.

2585BC: Legendary Queen Nehasset Nais of Ethiopia

2570BC: Queen Meresankh III of Egypt

2500BC: Queen Ku-Baba Azag-Bau of Kis – Ancient Mesopotamia

2334BC: High-Priestess Enheduanna of the Moon Temple – Ur, Ancient Mesopotamia. The daughter of King Sargon of the Sumerian Dynasty

1875BC: Queen Kasiopo of Kush – The Sudan

1590BC: Co-Regent Tawananna Herapscheki of the Hitite Kingdom – Ancient Turkey

Around 1472BC: Joint-Reigning Queen Jopes Cassiopeia of Jaffa, Israel.

1470BC: Joint-Queen Itey of Punt in Somalia – With King Parahu

1300BC: Queen Ninurmahmes of Ayalon (Israel)

981BC: Dowager-Queen Ishaq of Thama (Arabia)

811BC: Legendary Queen Elissa Dido of Chartaga (Tunisia)

745BC: Queen Zaire of Higaz (Arabia)

738BC: Queen Zabibe of Kedar ( Jordan)

733BC: Queen Samsil of Kedar (Jordan)

730BC: Queen Mout of the Sudan

526BC: Dowagar-Queen Pheretime of Cyrene of Salamis (Lybia)

268AD: Regnant-Queen (reigning Queen) Zenobia of Palmyra (Syria)

421-443AD: Empress Athenais-Eudokia of the Byzantine Empire (Greece and Turkey)

The above were selected from a list covering too many pages and, I could go on and on and on……but, so much for the past; now, for the current……

1952- H.M. Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Her other Realms and Territories, Defender of the Faith, and Head of the Commonwealth. Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, in each of which she is represented by a Governor-General.

1972- H.M. Queen Margrethe Alexandrine Þorhildur Ingrid II of Denmark; her motto is: with God’s help, the People’s love, and Denmark’s strength. Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces and Head of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church, and The Rigsfælleskab – or Commonwealth of the Realm: the external territories of The Faero Islands and Greenland.

1980- H.M. Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands; alsoPrincess of Orange-Nassau; Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld; Marchioness of Veere and Flushing; Countess of Katzenelnbogen, Vianden, Diez, Spiegelberg, Buren, Leerdam and Culemborg; Viscountess of Antwerp; Baroness of Breda, Diest, Beilstein, the city Grave and the land of Cuyk, IJsselstein, Cranendonk, Eindhoven, Liesveld, Herstal, Warneton, Arlay and Nozeroy; Hereditary and Suzerain Dame of Ameland; Dame of Borculo, Breedevoort, Lichtenvoorde, Het Loo, Geertruidenberg, Clundert, Zevenbergen, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Naaldwijk, Polanen, Sint-Maartensdijk, Soest and Baarn.

1997- President Mary Patricia McAleese Irish: Máire Pádraigín Bean Mhic Ghiolla Íosa of Ireland.

1997- Her Excellency Hon. Dr. Dame Calliopa Pearlette Louisy Governor General of Saint Lucia

1999- Prime Minister Hon. Helen Clark of New Zealand

2000- President Tarja Halonen of Finland

2001- Executive President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of The Philippines

2004- Prime Minister Luísa Días Diogo of Mozambique

2004- President of the General Council Nassimah Magnolia Dindar; Réunion: French Overseas Territory

2005- Governor-General Michaëlle Jean of Canada

2005- Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany2006- Executive President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia

2006- Executive President Michelle Bachelet Jeria of Chile

2006- Prime Minister Emily Saidy de Jongh-Elhage, of the Nederlandse Antillen (Self-governing Part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands): Formerly Emily Saidy Elhage of Lebanese descent

2007- President Pratibha Devisingh Patil of India

2007- Executive President Cristina E. Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina

2007- Governor General Dame Louise Agnetha Lake-Tack of Antigua and Barbuda

2007- President Borjana Kristo of The Federation of Bosnia (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

2007- Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko of the Ukraine

2007- Premier Viveca Eriksson of Åland, Finland: (Finnish External Territory)

2008-October Captain Regent Rosa Zafferani of San Marino

2008- Governor-General Dr Quentin Bryce of Australia

First female ministersIt was not until during and just after the World War I that the first few women became members of the revolutionary governments in the Ukraine, Russia, Hungary and Ireland. Nina Henriette Wendeline Bang née Ellinger, Danish Minister for Education, was the first woman to be minister in a democratically elected parliamentary government. Nevertheless, development was slow and it was not until the end of the 20th century that female ministers stopped being unusual.

First female Prime Minister and President

In 1960, Sirivamo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first female elected Premier Minister; and in 1974, María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón or Isabel Peron of Argentina became the first woman President.Today, the only two countries that never had a female member of government in at least a sub-ministerial position are Monaco and Saudi Arabia. The Vatican has got one Assistant Vice-Minister. In 1999, Sweden became the first country to have more female ministers than male: 11 women and 9 men; and in 2007 the Finish government was composed of 60% women.

Current female heads of state and government

There are 192 members of the United Nations, 2 independent states outside, a few self-declared de-facto independent states, and many self-ruling dependencies. 23 have got female leaders at the moment.

Of the monarchies, there are reigning Queens in three countries: Denmark, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom; the latter is represented by female Governor-Generals in Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Canada and Saint Lucia, who function as their countries' de-facto Heads of State.

The 8 female Presidents are in Argentina, Chile, Finland, India, Ireland, Liberia, The Philippines and San Marino.At the moment there are 8 women-Prime Ministers; in Germany, Haiti, New Zealand, Moldova, Mozambique, the Netherlands Antilles, Ukraine and the Aland Islands.

OSAMA BIN LADIN – What to do with him; when – and if – he’s captured

The problem:

What can you do about Osama Bin Ladin? I mean, what do you do to him after he’s been captured? Hang him or shoot him and he becomes a martyr. Don't hang him or shoot him and he's a hero to the extremists. Imprison him for life and the extremists raise hell and demand his release; after blowing up not a few places and killing not a few people. Set him free again and he goes back to his old ways with new ideas.

The solution:

Capture him alive, and convict him for his crimes against human-Apes in general, and Islam in particular, and then sentence him to…a full-blown sex-change, of course!

Then, send him back to Afghanistan to live out the rest of his life as a woman under the Taliban regime.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; thank you for taking the trouble and the time to read my not-so-humble postings; BY GOD!

HONOUR KILLING VI – Archives: Honour-Horrors and Cursed Crimes against Women and Girls – including Children, Infants, and Babies

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; never mind where I got the following from! Just read…

10^th September 2008: SAUDI ARABIA: Child-marriages: Another issue directly linked to weddings and brides at any age is the money one pays for a bride. Many old men temporarily marry young girls and divorce them soon afterwards. This is exactly like paying for the services of a prostitute and child abuse. Take away the girls virginities against their free will because they paid the parents for them, and then dump them. This practice must end. Women and girls or children are not properties to be bought and/or sold and abused. They should be free to decide for themselves who they marry, or even if they want to get married at all, and with whom they have sex. Saudi Arabia needs to address the purchasing of human-slaves under the guise of child-marriages and forced-marriages; otherwise the minimum-age issue and the terms and conditions for marriages will never be resolved – Daniel: Like I wrote in my posting: 379; there could be only one reason for child-brides and child-grooms: Their Arab-Moslem-Male-Ape-Perverted-Parents had sexually molested and abused them – raped them – so marrying them off as soon as possible is the only way of covering their tracks and saving their asses – and assuring further enjoyment of their young and innocent bodies. Rape them first, and then marry them off, mucho pronto! Read: 306

11^th May 2007: AHMADABAD, India: A man was arrested and charged for burying his 6-day-old twin daughters alive near his home in western India The baby girls later died, police said today. Samantsinh Sodha wanted a son but his wife gave birth to baby girls last week in Nakhtrana. Indian societies have long favoured boys, who do not require the enormous dowry payments that bankrupt many poor families when their daughters marry. Sodha, a gas station attendant, picked up the twins and took them away while his wife was asleep and buried them in a pit on a cold dark rainy night. Police arrested him the next day. Many expectant couples in India will abort a fetus if they discover it is a girl. International groups say the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses has killed more than 10 million female fetuses in the last two decades, leading to an imbalance in the ratio between males and females in India – Daniel: BY GOD! It is written, in the History of the Arabs and Islam, that the giant, Omar – the fierce apostle of Islam – wept and shed tears only once in his life; when he remembered how, in the days of darkness, before Islam, his little child – his baby girl – tried to wipe the dust off his beard with her tiny hands just before he laid her in her grave – and buried her alive!

19^th February 2007: PAKISTAN: The insanity continues: Condolences to the family of Zilla Huma Usman. The minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf’s 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. Zilla, 35, was wearing the shalwar kameez worn by many professional women in Pakistan, but did not cover her head. As Zilla, 35, stepped out of her car – where she was greeted by her co-workers throwing rose petals – the attacker pulled out a pistol and fired a single shot at close range, hitting her in the head. She was airlifted to a hospital in Lahore, but died soon afterwards.

16^th January 2007: ISRAEL: A 19-year-old girl was shot by unknown assailants at her home in the Jawarish Moslem neighbourhood of Ramle, Israel; in what police said was an honour killing. According to police sources, the girl was not involved in a forbidden relationship, but was considered a rebel in her behavior and choice of clothes. Police forces that arrived on the scene were not surprised to learn the teen's identity, as she had been threatened by her family members for a long time. About a year before, the victim returned to her family's home after residing in a women's shelter for an extended period of time due to fear for her life. When she turned 18, she left the shelter and returned to her parents' home, in spite of the threats on her life; even though police had informed her of the threats. The teen insisted on staying with her parents and even signed a police statement saying she was aware of the dangers. The Ramle police Chief Superintendent said it was a terrible murder and condemned it, and said the police would do everything possible to find the assailants. The year before, 8 women were murdered for what was termed honour killings. One cannot trust one’s own family or relatives. What a lovely Islamic message to pass on to one’s children: you might end up murdered by your own flesh and blood.

25^th December 2005: Merry Christmas, Muqadas Bibi: MULTAN, Pakistan – A father, angry that his eldest daughter had married against his wishes, slit her throat as she slept and then killed three of his other daughters in a remote village in eastern Pakistan. Nazir Ahmad, a labourer in his 40s, feared the younger girls, aged 4, 8, and 12, would follow in their sister's footsteps. Ahmad surrendered to police after the killings late on Friday in Burewala, about 70 miles east of Multan; a main city in eastern Punjab province. The 25-year-old woman, Muqadas Bibi, had married the man of her choice against her father's wishes some weeks before. Ahmad contacted Bibi that week, saying he was ready to forgive her. During a visit by Bibi to her parents' house, Ahmad slit her throat as she slept and then killed the other three girls. The police were investigating whether other relatives helped in the killings and were also looking for Bibi's husband. Hundreds of women are killed in Pakistan every year, many by male relatives, after they have been accused of staining their families' honour by having affairs or marrying for love without family consent. On a personal note – how about Nazir Ahmad and other men who commit these acts have their penises cut off while they're wide awake, and then have their throats slit? Would that be a fair sentence for what they do to their women? – Daniel: BY GOD! He took the words right out of my keyboard! Damn it!

22^nd June 2005: ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Beasts kill only for food; and only when they’re hungry

A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions that apparently had chased off her captors. The girl, missing for a week, had been abducted by seven men in the provincial capital of Bita Genet, about 350 miles southwest of Addis Ababa, who wanted to force her to marry one of them. She was beaten repeatedly before she was found by police and relatives on the outskirts of Bita Genet. She had been guarded by the lions for about half a day. They stood guard until they found her and then they just left her like a gift and went away. If the lions had not come to her rescue, then it could have been much worse. Often these young girls are raped and severely beaten to force them to accept the marriage.

A local government official, who corroborated the events, said that everyone thought it was a miracle. A wildlife expert with the rural development ministry said the girl may have survived because she was crying from the trauma of her attack. A young girl whimpering could be mistaken for the mewing sound of a lion cub, which in turn could explain why they didn't eat her. Ethiopia's lions, famous for their large black manes, are the country's national symbol and adorn statues and the local currency. Despite a crack-down hunters killed the animals for their skins, which could fetch $1,000. Officials estimate that only 1,000 Ethiopian lions remain in the wild. Kidnapping young girls has long been part of the marriage custom in Ethiopia. The United Nations estimates that more than 70 percent of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, practised in rural areas where most of the country's 71 million people live.

9^th July 2004: The SUDAN: Female Sexual Slavery and Male Sensual Savagery

Arab militias in Sudan gang-raped and abducted girls as young as eight and women as old as 80 and systematically killed, tortured, or used them as sex slaves – Amnesty International. Militias known as Janjaweed, which rights groups say were backed by the government, had been fighting rebels in Sudan's western Darfur region since the year before; triggering one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. As many as 30,000 people were killed in Darfur and more than a million displaced, their homes bombed by government planes, their crops stolen. In a report called Rape, as a Weapon of War, Amnesty International outlined sexual violence against women it said was taking place on a massive scale. It said Khartoum was actively violating its legal obligations to protect civilians. Soldiers of the Sudan government army were present during attacks by the Janjaweed and when rapes were committed, but the Sudan government had done nothing till then to stop them.

6^th June 2004: INDIA: Haseena Hussein is blind and disfigured. Her college friends don't visit anymore, and children are terrified of her. On rare trips out of the house, she hides behind a cotton scarf. Her anger still burned. Five years before, Haseena Hussein's former boss flung acid all over her, angry that the woman he'd become infatuated with had resisted coming back to work for him. In July, that man may walk free from jail in this southern Indian city, a place best-known for its software engineers and high-tech millionaires. Haseena, 25, said she wanted the worst for him. She had lost count of the skin grafts she had had on her face and body. Haseena had once dreamt of being a fashion designer. She spent most of her day applying creams to her scarred face and body and sat on the porch of her parents' apartment, keeping her back to the road to spare passersby a glimpse of her badly burned face. Hussein was not alone. Thousands of Indian women are burnt in acid attacks, some by spurned lovers, and others by relatives who believe that the women have somehow tarnished the family honour. Although there are no precise figures on the number of victims, women's groups contended that cases were on the rise.

19^th April 2004: SAUDI ARABIA AGAIN: A popular Saudi television host showed her bruised and bloodied face and shocked her compatriots into openly talking about one of the kingdom's long-hidden problems: violence against women. Rania al-Baz was hailed as a hero for letting newspaper photographers snap pictures of her face and for frankly discussing her case after a beating by her husband earlier that month left her unconscious. Her story was widely reported in the Saudi media. A Saudi princess stepped forward to pay al-Baz's medical bills. Representatives of the new Saudi National Human Rights Association visited her in the hospital. Rania told The AP in a telephone interview that once she was back at work, she would press for a violence-against-women awareness campaign. Many women in Saudi Arabia are badly beaten and when she recovered she would do a programme on that. She said she would also tackle other crimes and abuses, like rape, that were usually not publicly discussed in conservative Saudi Arabia. Rania was well known throughout the kingdom for her chatty, magazine style show: The Kingdom This Morning. The programme usually offers lighter fare and is shown on state-run Saudi Channel One.

There are no statistics available on wife abuse in the kingdom, but husbands rarely meet disapproval for chastising spouses deemed disobedient by hitting them. Read: 350 / 351

25^th September 2003: NIGERIA: Victory for Amina! May she and her baby have long, safe, and healthy lives. The Sharia Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday (interestingly near the eve of the Jewish New Year) that Amina Lawal's conviction was invalid because she was already pregnant when the harsh Islamic Sharia law was implemented in her home province. The 31-year-old, who was in court with her baby, Wassila, had been appealing a death sentence for two years. It was the view of the court that the judgment passed by the Upper Shariah Court, Funtua, was wrong and Amina Lawal’s appeal was accepted. She was acquitted and released. Shariah law, based on the teachings in the Quran, Islam's holy book, is practised in 12 of Nigeria's 36 states, but any way you looked at it, there was no justification for stoning her to death! Daniel: Have you read 375 / 376 / 377 / 378 / 379

14^th August 2003: NAIROBI, Kenya: Dozens of Kenyan women carrying children they said were the sons and daughters of British soldiers who raped them protested outside the British mission in Nairobi. Holding posters reading all the colonialists should go! 60 women from the nomadic Masai and Samburu tribes delivered a petition to the high commissioner; calling for a public investigation and money to provide schooling for their children. The children born to these women had lighter skin and hair and some were blonds. 650 women from the rural north, where the British army had exercised for three decades, said they had been raped by soldiers while herding, fetching water or collecting firewood. The women said their children were treated badly in their communities because of their mixed blood. The British government said it was taking the matter very seriously and would get to the bottom of it and prosecute anyone responsible for such acts.

4^th July 2003: EL SALVADORE: Dismemberments! There had been half a dozen instances since November 2002 in which body parts, mainly female, have turned up in El Salvador. Several suspects, all reputed gang members, had been arrested and taken into custody for participating in the killings. In Guatemala, the figures were even more chilling; 158 women were killed there in the first three months of 2003, and more women had turned up dead and dismembered. A non-profit Guatemalan group, the Network to Oppose Violence Against Women, called on authorities to bring an end to the killings, noting they had become increasingly gruesome.

15^th June 2003: CAIRO, Egypt: An Egyptian woman, married to a man with six daughters from previous marriages, drowned herself just hours after giving birth to a baby-girl because she feared her husband's reaction to one more daughter. The woman, only 27 years old, left her home in Saff, south of Cairo, and drowned herself in an irrigation canal three hours after giving birth to her second daughter. Before she gave birth, her husband had threatened to kill or divorce her if she had any more daughters. Society in rural Egypt is largely conservative, and many parents often prefer having sons to daughters for cultural and economical reasons. Divorce is also considered a taboo in such areas; many women would rather their husband took a second wife than be divorced. The Arab-Moslem husband had been married three times before. In each case, he divorced his wives after they had given birth to girls. Seems to me the problem was the man (the father determines the child's gender, not the mother), his attitude, and the backward idea that girls weren't as valuable as boys! It was their child, no matter what gender it is. How could they not love what they created? Pity the daughters who are left with him. Daniel: More words taken right off my keyboard! Damn it again!

HONOUR KILLING V – Faint Cries in the Wilderness of Depraved, Demented, Despicable, and Heinous Hideous Honour-Horrors – Arab-Manic-Moslem-Male Madness

Murders with Moral Motives – If Arabs-Moslems-Arabs Must Kill For Honour – that is, if Arab-Moslems had any Honour at all – then they would go after and Honour-Kill all those that have brought disgrace and dishonour to Islam and Moslems – blemished, distorted, mutilated, and isolated Islam; and converted Islam from a Religion of Peace, Love, Respect for Life and Property, and Tolerance, to a Religion Of Violence, Hatred, Enmity, Death, Intolerance, and Destruction!

The following gleaned and adopted from various sources, and adapted to fit:

March 2005:

A report on a significant rise in Honour Killings in Europe

Police across Europe had reported that Moslem Honour Killings had increased quite significantly on the Continent, and only then did they recognise the phenomena. AFP reported that Britain had provided leadership on the issue and that the killings might be more numerous than any of the nations presume. Known cases of murder and rape committed to protect so-called honour had risen beyond belief across Europe, forcing police to explore the reasons behind such crimes and how to stop them.At a two-day conference in London, British police spearheaded a campaign to fight so-called honour-based violence, typically committed against women and girls to protect their families’ already-soiled reputations.

The problem was greatest in Islamic communities in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa; but it spread as families migrated, bringing their traditional SHIT with them. British authorities began to recognise honour crimes over the past three years, but it was a problem that affected countries throughout Europe, where police only just became aware of it.

Where Arab-Moslem communities were allowed to remain insular through political correctness, like in Germany, they had brought their antediluvian pre-Islamic customs and traditions. Among the less noble of these are the chattel laws that reduce women to commodities in Arab-Islamist communities. Their families force them into marriages at young ages, and when they resist, they wind up beaten, raped, or worse. In some cases, women become the vessel through which clans receive punishment like Mukhtar Mai's gang-rape in Pakistan.

When Europe experienced Arab-Moslem emigration in answer to its chronic shortage of cheap labour as well as the inevitable result of its colonial history, the scolds of the left warned against efforts to get the new emigrants to assimilate into Western culture. The result, especially in the most leftist of these countries, are Moslem communities with little loyalty to their countries, and almost no connection to the laws and norms of traditional European society and justice. European leadership has remained so clueless that they do not even know for sure that honour killings and rapes have increased – just that they have learned to distinguish them better.

This should provide an object lesson for countries like the USA and other Western nations that take in large amounts of immigrants. Allowing segregated societies to flourish especially by providing services in multiple languages as the norm only creates interest groups with less connection to the central society. In the extreme, it means that the governments cannot conduct their basic raison d'etre – underlying principle – the protection of its citizens. Due assimilation, and not undue accommodation, should be the rule. You fit in or fuck off; you merge or emerge; you either play ball or stay out of the game; you adopt and adapt; you do as we do or go back home; you immigrate and integrate; you blend in or bugger off; or else you’re incarcerated or incinerated

Honour Killings are straight and simple premeditated corroborative murders, nothing less. The why might ostensibly be cited as to save our family honour, but that is as much of a load of bullshit as the psychopath that insists that little voices told him to do it, or the insane serial murderer who, when caught, claims that each victim was chosen because they were evil, and it was his divine calling and duty to mete out judiciary, jury and justice in a single swoop-and-swish of a blade.

Honour Killing is one of the facets of the fundamental problems of the Religion of Peace: that its mindlessness, its self-appointed imamery and mullahcracy, and specific Haddith and Quranic verses not only authorize, but require believers to act as Allah's vigilantes, judge, jury, hangman, and stone-men – and even Allah’s protectors and defenders; and justifiers of Allah’s existence – all in one. The deep tribalism and barbarism that pervades fundamental Islam then gives small groups of socially-knit so-called faithful the collective authority and hazy control to weed out their own, for reasons – obliquely derivatives – of fine Islamic principles.

There is the rub though, right there. As observed variously but not widely, pervasive Islam – as misinterpreted and/or misquoted by some shukh-schmuck-sheikhs, itching- imam, or muffled-mufti, Etc – is a totalitarian enterprise, and is socialist – almost Marxist, if not worse – to the core.

It revels in the commonplace; it wallows in the old-ways, the old-stories, the return-to-the-peaceful-times-of-the-elders. It also states unambiguously in both the Qur’an and the Haddith that the Qur’an is the perfect word of Allah, and that it can never be mutated, modified, reformed, or even translated into other languages without harm to the message contained therein. But the extraordinarily few Western scholars who have bothered to learn ancient Aramaic have discovered that, even in its most original form, the Qur’an is a hopelessly haphazard collection of contradictions and adjustments-to-undo Allah's malapropos logic – exactly like the Bible. Read: 250 / 302

It is this dichotomy: the Qur’an is the Word of Allah and the Word of Allah is Perfect; and any contradictions are to be ignored, as the only last-stance on any particular point, is God’s final word on it; then gives families, cabals, tribes, patriarchs, and even pogroms the right to interpret the Qur’an in the context of the supposedly sinful and/or wanton unmarried girl, or elder child, or third wife; and then mete out whatever sentence one happens to pick as appropriate for the crime.Honour Killings!? Not at all; premeditated and planned murder; Honour Horrors; nothing less.

The entire families should be prosecuted to the very limit or full extent of the law; first, to make examples of the cases and to set precedents; second, to show that there are no tribal or cultural laws that in any way supersede, abrogate, or abridge the Laws of the Land that afford freedom and equal-justice to all its citizens and residents. Third, to stand as a counter-cultural challenge to all who believe that they can immigrate to a liberal Western nation, and retain their Paleolithic-socio-luddite ways; when in Rome, obey Roman laws.

Dichotomy: a separation into two divisions that differ widely from or contradict each other

Paleolithic: the early part of the Stone Age, when early human-Apes made chipped-stone tools, from 750,000 to 15,000 years ago

HONOUR KILLING III – More about this Heinous Hideous Horrific Horse-shit

I almost used Monkey-shit instead of Horse-shit, because the Horse raised an uproar and almost kicked me into the middle of next week for using his shit for this shit, but I managed to convince the Horse that Monkey-shit wouldn’t go well with the three “H” words that came before it, and that his shit was the best shit for this shit – it cost me an extra bale of fresh hay and a sack-full of lumps of Tate-and-Lyle sugar (the best); but, it was worth it. However, the Horse warned me: His shit for this shit this time only

HONOUR-KILLING II – A COVER FOR OTHER CRIMES AND VICES

Upholding the Family Honour, a Licence to Kill, or a Sure Means and/or Method of Ensuring More Inheritance and Gaining Wealth and Properties – in better words: Kills for Wills?

Situations, conditions, and circumstances, in which the maxim or adage: the more, the merrier no longer applies. It’s the fewer, the better; and every male Human-Ape for itself and the female Human-Apes can go to paradise to automatically become virgins – no matter what their conditions are when they die – to await their coming and pleasure

Jordan honour killings cover for other crimes

Gleaned from: Agence France Presse (AFP) Saturday 6^th September 2008

AMMAN: An 18-year-old young woman decided that she wanted to quit her family's prostitution ring, so her brother killed her; and later alleged it was to cleanse the family's honour. She was one of hundreds, if not thousands, of women in Jordan and other conservative societies who Rights Groups say are killed every year by their male relatives in so-called honour crimes for sullying the reputation of their families.

Jordan's first woman coroner reported that the 18-year-old woman no longer wanted to prostitute herself, so her brother, who was a drug addict with a criminal record, and who ran the family's prostitution ring in an east Amman neighbourhood, killed her. He later turned himself in and claimed that he murdered her to cleanse the family's honour. Of course, forensic examination proved that she worked in prostitution, and he was sentenced to two years in prison. Honour killings can be misleading in male-dominated societies. The woman coroner also said that nobody cared that the young woman wanted to quit the prostitution business. Her brother got away because it is a male-dominated society – which was unfair. In another case, a few years ago, a man beat his 16-year-old daughter to death, claiming she was pregnant. Investigations proved later that he had molested the girl. Read my postings: 127 / 139 / 182

The UN has reported such crimes in Brazil, Britain, Ecuador, India, Israel, Lebanon, Italy, Sweden, and Uganda as well as in all Moslem countries such as Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey – you name it, they have it. Accurate figures on such killings are difficult to come by because they often go unreported.In Jordan, between 15 and 20 women are murdered annually in the name of honour and at least 8 such killings have been reported so far this year, according to Jordanian authorities. Last year 17 such murders were recorded – Daniel: My dear readers and fellow-Apes; remember! Always multiply estimated figures by 5.  BY GOD!

Judges, lawyers, activists and experts agree that in most cases, men exploit lenient laws and social misconceptions about women to murder them for inheritance, settling family feuds, or to hide other crimes. Read: 323 / 324

A Judge, who is the spokesman for the Judiciary Council, said that court records show that many honour killings are committed for reasons related to inheritance. Under Sharia-based laws in Jordan, female heirs are entitled to an inheritance, even though it is half of what male heirs receive. Forensic tests proved that a lot of the victims were virgins, which showed that there were other motives behind the killings, including family problems. It is a very sensitive issue in mostly Moslem-Arab societies – Daniel: THAT is not necessarily true. There might have been other motives or family problems involved, but the fact that they were virgins does not mean they hadn’t been fucking, or weren't being fucked. The question is whether it was their fathers, brothers, uncles, and male relatives who had been fucking them; and who had to kill them in order to wipe their tracks. Read: 139 / 182 / 324

In early August, this year, a 26-year-old man shot his unmarried 23-year-old sister near Amman because she had disappeared from home for four months with a man. But a medical examination showed that the woman had been a virgin when she died. Daniel: See 139

According to Human Rights Watch, 95% of women killed in 1997 in Jordan in alleged honour killings were later proven to be innocent. Many women are forced to give up their rights or face death. Their families might kill them and allege it was related to honour, and not money. However, the truth cannot be known since the women are dead. The entire family and the neighbours would lie and claim they were honour killings. Mothers testified against their daughters to protect their sons or husbands – Daniel: and to protect themselves, first; otherwise they would follow them.

Illiteracy and ignorance plus poverty and squalor are a deadly mix. Read 323

A University of Jordan sociologist blamed the legal system, and said that most of the judges were males who used their powers to reduce the sentences. They forgot that the women were victims of their male relatives' greed, and even those convicted seldom spend more than two years in prison.

A lawyer of the rights group, Amnesty International, said that in the past 50 years, only a handful of accused were able to meet the requirements of the law, and that many of those killings were not related to honour.

Jordan's King and Queen have led efforts to fight honour killings and reform the law.

The Queen said that Honour Killing was murder without trial – a licence to murder; a licence to kill with impunity – and is contrary to Islam, and that there should be no tolerance or acceptance of them; and that some, if not most, cultural and societal perceptions of the place and value of women in society needed to be changed – Daniel: Were those a King and a Queen talking? JEEZ! Is that what Kings and Queens have come to, or have become, today? There was a time when a King spoke, and it was done – so, it was written; and so, it was done. If he, as the King, and especially she, as the Queen, cannot impose a law that would protect women and girls from their fathers, brothers, uncles, male-cousins and other male-relatives, or husbands, then they might as well abdicate, or better still, resign – give up the thrones and let the government be responsible for this outrage and atrocity against the other half – and the better half, too, to boot – of Jordanian societies. Read: 124

The present Jordanian King isn’t half what his father was, but the present Queen is twice what the former is – she’s still alive. DAMN IT!

HONOUR KILLING Part I – Upholding the Family Honour, or a Licence to Kill?

An honour killing is generally the murder of a family or clan member, most often females, when they – and perhaps the wider community – believe the person to have brought dishonour upon them. A woman can be targetted commonly for: refusing an arranged marriage; being the victim of a sexual assault; seeking a divorce – even from an abusive husband – or allegedly committing adultery or fornication. These killings result from the perception that the defence – upholding – of family honour justifies killing a woman or a girl whose behavior and/or actions dishonour her family.

Human Rights Watch defines honour killings as follows: Honour crimes are acts of violence, usually murder, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targetted by (individuals within) her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arranged marriage; being the victim of a sexual assault; seeking a divorce – even from an abusive husband – or allegedly committing adultery. The mere perception that a woman has behaved in a way that dishonours her family is sufficient to trigger an attack on her life – Daniel: HORSE-SHIT! Honour killing is murder with impunity, knowing fully well that one would only be given a slap on the wrist; murder without trial – a licence to kill

The United Nations Population Fund UNPF estimates that the annual worldwide total of honour-killing victims may be as high as 5,000 women – Daniel: The UN This and the UN That or These or Those! BY GOD! 10% of the world’s peoples – the other 90% are composed of the illiterate and ignorant fools who are being duped, manipulated, and exploited; and the knaves and heels who are duping, manipulating, and exploiting them – know by now that whatever the UN, or any of its affiliates or branches says, or does, or plans, or crimes and sums admits it stole or misappropriated, is at least 5 times less than what it actually is: (speeches ÷ 5) (deeds ÷ 5) (plans ÷ 5) (estimates x 5) (sums misappropriated or stolen x 5), (crimes committed x 5) and (errors and blunders made x 5) Etc and so forth and so on. Read my posting: 28

As for Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Child-Sponsorship Programmes or Organisations, Women’s Rights Groups Etc and so forth and so on, I, Daniel in The Lion’s Den, call them: The GNFRI/WTM – The Gullible Naïve Fools Rush In; With Their Money. Read: 289

Gleaned from: National Geographic News Tuesday 12^th February 2002

Tens of thousands of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family honour. It is difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honour killing – murders frequently go unreported, perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honour justifies the act in the eyes of some societies.

The director of International Women's Rights Action Watch at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota reported that most honour killings occur in countries where the concept of women as the vessel of family honour and reputation predominates. Reports submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights show that honour killings have occurred in Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Britain, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, the USA and all countries where there are Moslems, and all Moslem-Arab and Arab-speaking countries – you name the country, they have it. In countries not submitting reports to the UN, the practice was condoned under the rule of the fundamentalist Taliban government in Afghanistan, and has been reported in Iraq and Iran.

But while honour killings have elicited considerable attention and outrage, human rights activists argue that they should be regarded as part of a much larger problem of violence against women.

In India, for example, more than 5,000 brides die annually because their dowries are considered insufficient, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Crimes of passion are treated extremely leniently in Latin America.

An advocacy director for Human Rights Watch said that in countries where Islam is practised, they're called honour killings, but dowry deaths and so-called crimes of passion have a similar dynamics in that the women are killed by male family members and the crimes are perceived as excusable or understandable. The practice goes across cultures and across religions.

Amnesty International reported that complicity by other women in the family and the community strengthens the concept of women as property and the perception that violence against family members is a family affair or matter and not a judicial issue. Females in the family – mothers, mothers-in-law, sisters, and cousins – frequently support the attacks. It is a community mentality – Daniel: Well, they’ve got no choice. It’s either that or they’re next on the hit-lists.

Women as Properties

A woman professor, specializing in women's issues at the Agha Khan University in Pakistan, wrote in Chained to Custom, a review of honour killings published in 1999: There is nothing in the Qur’an, the book of basic Islamic teachings, that permits or sanctions honour killings. However, the view of women as properties with no rights of their own is deeply rooted in Islamic culture.

Women are considered the properties of the males in their family irrespective of their class, ethnic, or religious group. Only the owner of the property has the right to decide its fate. The concept of ownership has turned women into a commodity which can be exchanged, bought, and/or sold.

Honour killings are perpetrated for a wide range of offenses. Marital infidelity, pre-marital sex, flirting, or even failing to serve a meal on time, can all be perceived or construed as impugning family honour.

Amnesty International reported on one case in which a husband murdered his wife based on a dream that she had betrayed him. In Turkey, a young woman's throat was slit in the town square because a love ballad had been dedicated to her over the radio – Daniel: How could he know it was dedicated to her? Was she the only woman with that name in Istanbul or Ankara, or in Turkey? Was the love-ballad explicitly in her name?

In a society where most marriages are arranged by fathers and money often changes hands, a woman's desire to choose her own husband or to seek a divorce can be viewed as an act of defiance that damages the honour of the man who negotiated the deal.

The teenage brothers of victims are frequently directed to commit the murder because, as minors, they would be subject to considerably lighter sentences if there is legal action. Typically, they would serve only three months to a year; and they're later called heroes.

Officials often claim that nothing can be done to halt the practice because the concept of women's rights is not culturally relevant to deeply patriarchal societies. Politicians frequently argue that these crimes occur among mostly illiterate and ignorant people whose attitudes cannot be changed. Nothing can be done!? HORSE-SHIT!

The story of Samia Imran is one of the most widely cited cases used to illustrate the vulnerability of women in a culture that turns a blind eye to such practices. The case's high profile no doubt arises from the fact that the murder took place in broad daylight, was abetted by the victim's mother, who was a doctor, and occurred in the office of a prominent Pakistani lawyer and the UN reporter on extra-judicial, and summary or arbitrary executions.

Samia's case received a great deal of publicity but honour killings are virtually ignored by community members. In many cases, the women are buried in unmarked graves and all records of their existence are wiped out.

Women accused by family members of bringing dishonour to their families are seldom given the opportunity to prove their innocence. In many countries where the practice is condoned or at least ignored, there are few shelters and very little legal protection.

In Jordan, for example, if a woman is afraid that her family wants to kill her, she can check herself into the local prison, but she can't check herself out again; and the only person who can get her out is a male relative, who is frequently the person who poses the threat – the very male family-member or relative who intends to kill her.

Daniel: That is their idea of the protection of women. Mind boggling, isn’t it?

In Pakistan, the case of one of the victims who was examined was heartbreaking but also hopeful. Zahida Perveen, a 29-year-old mother of three, was brutally disfigured and underwent extensive facial reconstruction in the United States; she was the only one of the survivors to somehow successfully prosecute her attacker – her husband.

Ending Violence Against Women

Violence against women is being tackled at the international level as a human rights issue. In 1994 the UN's Commission on Human Rights appointed a special rapporteur on violence against women, and both UNICEF and the UN Development Fund for Women have programmes in place to address the issue.

But the politics of women's rights can be complex. Last year the special rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions was criticized by a coalition of member countries for including honour killings in her report, and a resolution condemning honour killings failed to pass.

Amnesty International was prepared to launch a worldwide campaign to halt violence against women in 2003. But a lot of work needed to be done at local levels. Police officers and prosecutors needed to be convinced to treat those crimes seriously, and countries needed to review their criminal codes for discrimination against women – where the murder of a wife was treated more leniently than the murder of a husband, for instance. Countries that didn't recognize domestic violence as a crime at all needed to bring their penal codes up to international standards; increased public awareness and greater education about human rights would also help.

Some progress has been made. In a National Geographic Documentary which was aired in February 2006, an NG reporter investigated honour killings in Pakistan where it is estimated that, every day at least three women – including victims of rape – were victims of the practice.

The reason honour killings have emerged as a human rights issue is that it's the only way ultimately that it can be addressed. Identifying the problem or crime and drawing international attention to it highlights the refusal of some of the governments to shine any kind of light on their failure to protect their own citizens. Changes cannot happen if it's just people working inside the system; the odds against them are too great; they're overwhelmed. International campaigns and media attention give them some ballast and the ability to say: Look, the world is watching what is going on here, and provides support for making changes in their own countries. WHAT HORSE-SHIT!

Daniel: Also, we, as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watchers, Etc, and so forth – we only watch; we do nothing – it is our solemn duty to ourselves to watch for any opportunities and/or chances; and to cash in on them.

JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM – what the Human-Apes have done with them

If Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed ever returned, the first and only question they would ask is: What have you done with what I gave you?

Over the centuries, a lot of Jews, Christians, and Moslems, have converted to other religions but have remained the same Ass-hole-Apes.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were 3 Pure Crystal Balls handed over to the Jews, the Christians, and the Moslems by the Prophets: Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed; and which the Human-Apes have managed to smash into too many pieces: denominations and sects – branches, sections, divisions, sub-divisions, sub-sub-divisions, and......

Judaism: from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה Yehudah, Judah in Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת Yahedut, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean eáqnov is the religion of the Jewish people. In 2007, the world Jewish population was estimated at 13.2 million people, 41% of whom lived in Israel.

Judaism is a monotheistic religion based on principles and ethics embodied in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, as further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts. Judaism is among the oldest religious traditions still being practiced today. Jewish history and the principles and ethics of Judaism have influenced other religions, such as Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith.

According to Jewish tradition, Judaism began in 2000BC with the Covenant between God and Abraham, and the Israelites and their descendants, and revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah. Throughout the ages, Judaism has adhered to a number of religious principles, the most important of which is the belief in a single, omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent, transcendent God, who created the universe and continues to govern it.

Denominations and Sects:

Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Haredi, Hasidic, Modern Orthodox, Re-constructionist, Renewal, Rabbinic, Humanistic, Karaite, Samaritanism

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Christianity: is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, born in Bethlehaem in Judea, as presented in the New Testament.

There are a wide variety of groups associated with Christianity. There are official denominations, break-away sects, orthodox movements within denominations and sects, heretical movements, and extra-church groups which have associated themselves with Christianity. Below is a list of official denominations and sects of Christianity – in Alphabetical order. Some are larger, some are smaller, and some don't really (or may not) exist any more – but all have played a role in defining the course of Christian traditions. If you have ever wondered what some of them are and what they believe, this listing will help:

Amish, Anabaptism, Assemblies of God, Baptists, Calvinism, Christadelphians: Brethren of Christ and as Thomasites, Christian Identity, Church Universal and Triumphant, Church of Christ, Church of England, Congregationalism, Coptic Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal Church, Ethiopian Christianity, IURD: Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus, Jehovah's Witnesses, Lutheran Church, Maronites, Mennonites, Methodism, Old Catholic Movement, Pentecostal Church, People's Temple, Pilgrims, Presbyterian Church, Protestant, Puritanism, Quakers, Roman Catholicism, Shakers, Spiritual Baptists, Thomas Christians, Unification Church, Unitarianism, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalism

Church Groups and Movements:

Below is a list of official movements and groups which can be found in various Christian churches and traditions. They do not qualify as independent churches or sects – instead, they have helped define those churches and sects.

Acoemetae, Adelophagi, Adventist Movement, Ad-millennialism, Armenian Theology, Augustinians, Benedictines, Cahenslyism, Capuchins, Carmelites, dispensationalist, Dominicans, Evangelicalism, Franciscans, Fundamentalism, Gnosticism, Huguenots, Hutterites, Liberation Theology, Mainline Protestant, Mendicant Orders, Neo-Orthodoxy, Pietism, Post-millennialism, Pre-millennialism, Primitivism, Quietism, Sabbatarianism, Scholasticism, Thomism, Transcendentalism, Trinitarian, Universalism

Heretical Movements:

Below is a list of movements and ideologies which have been declared heretical in Christian tradition. These groups either challenged orthodox beliefs or their existence caused more official groups to define what those orthodox beliefs should actually be. Sometimes, heretical groups play a larger role in defining orthodoxy than orthodox groups do.

Adamites, Adoptionism, Albigenses, Antinomianism, Apollinarianism, Arianism, Cathars, Docetism, Donatism, Ebionites, Jansenism, Lapsed Christians, Lollards, Manicheism, Monophysite, Montanism, Nestorianism, Pelagianism, Waldenses

Below is a list of groups and movements which are not actual sects or denominations and which are not officially a part of any church, but nevertheless have associated themselves with Christianity in one way or another.

Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Salvation Army

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Islam: Arabic الإسلام al-'islām is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. The word Islam means submission, or the total surrender of oneself to the Islamic conception of God, Arabic: الله‎ Allah. An adherent of Islam is known as a Moslem, meaning one who submits to God. There are between 1 billion and 1.8 billion Moslems, making Islam the second-largest religion in the world, after Christianity.

Moslems believe that God revealed the Qur'an to Mohammad, God's final Prophet, through the angel Gabriel, and regard the Qur'an and the Sunnah (words and deeds of Mohammed) as the fundamental sources of Islam. They do not regard Mohammed as the founder of a new religion, but as the restorer of the original monotheistic faith of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. Islamic tradition holds that Jews and Christians distorted the revelations God had given to these prophets by either altering the text, introducing a false interpretation, or both.

The Moslems you might meet and talk with probably do not all hold the same set of beliefs and doctrines;  just as within Christianity there are different denominations – too many – and individually or collectively held beliefs within each.  However several main denominations can be identified.

Sunni and Shiite Islam split within a generation after the death of Mohammed, over disputes about succession.  Doctrinal differences are not great but bitterness, antagonism,  hatred, and persecution can be extreme – e.g. under Saddam Hussein in Iraq

Sufi Islam is more mystical and concerned with a personal relationship with the almighty.

Wahabi Islam arose in the 18th century in Saudi Arabia, and would probably have remained insignificant and considered heretical by the mainstream but for twentieth century oil wealth;  Wahabism adopts a much more hard-line interpretation of the Qur'an and Hadith,  and indeed added requirements such as the covering of women and the prohibition on them driving cars.  The excesses of the Taliban in Afghanistan originated in Wahabism as did the Al-Qaeda terror campaign against the West – 352

Although Wahabi Islam is a smaller and later strain of Islam, it has disproportionate influence because of its base in Saudi Arabia which gives it control of vast oil wealth and Islam's holy sites;  Saudi Wahabism has been exported around the Islamic world – and the rest of the world – by the sponsorship of schools, colleges, universities and mosques in which their doctrines are advanced.

Islamic Sects, Subdivisions and Groups:

Islamic sects are not merely denominations, if that word is understood to mean various valid approaches to the same religion. Members of one Islamic group do not usually recognize members of other groups as fellow Moslems, and open conflict between sects is not uncommon.

Yet, as a whole, Islam is less divided than Judaism or Christianity, especially – the vast majority of the world's Moslems are Sunnis. And Sufism is a mystical approach to Islam that is approved as orthodox by nearly all Muslims. Follow a link below to learn about some of the largest Moslem sects and groups.

Ahmadiyya, Allawite, Druze, Shiite, Sufism, Sunni, Wahabism

The Druze (Arabic: درزي derzī or durzī‎, plural دروز durūz) are a religious community found primarily in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel whose traditional religion is said to have begun as an offshoot of Islam, but is unique in its incorporation of Gnostic, neo-Platonic and other philosophies, similar to other followers of Ismaili Shi'a Islam. Because of such incorporation, many Islamic scholars label the Druze as a non-Muslim religion, even though the Druze are officially classified as Muslims and are considered Muslim by most Ismaili Shi'a Muslims

The theology of the Druze Religion is called hikma and its main theme is that God incarnated himself in the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim, who they claim disappeared in 1021. While most Moslems believe he died in 1021, the Druze disagree and believe that al-Hakim is waiting to return to the world in order to bring a new golden age to true to true believers – Daniel: JEEZ! One more Messiah, Jesus, and Mahdi to come and save and rule the world for a thousand years! There are others, but……enough is enough!

The Druzes believe in One God and claim that the qualities of God can neither be not understood nor defined by Human-Apes. Druzes worship Al Hakim and his cruelties and eccentricities are interpreted symbolically. He is called Our Lord – just as Jesus and Mohammed are called Our Lord. However, Moslems do not worship Mohammed.

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