יום חמישי, 14 במרץ 2013

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Muslim Brotherhood rants against draft UN document against violence to women

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 06:14 PM PDT

From AP:
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood sharply criticized an anticipated U.N. document on combatting violence against women, saying on Wednesday that it was "deceitful," clashed with Islamic principles and undermined family values.

The text or details of the document have not been published yet, but it may be issued at the end of a meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women this week in New York.
Negotiations have been bogged down in debate.
The Brotherhood, which has emerged as the most powerful political faction in Egypt since the 2011 uprising, say the draft under discussion advocates sexual freedoms for women and the right to abortion "under the guise of sexual and reproductive rights."

In its strongly worded statement, the Brotherhood also decried the document's defense of homosexual rights, which are not recognized in Islam, and the equating between children born in and out of wedlock.

Here is their statement, and here is what appears to be a decent translation (I made one change; this translation refers to the CEDAW but the original text does not seem to:)
In the name of God the Merciful
Statement of the Muslim Brotherhood about The Commission on the Status of Women paper which violates all principles of the Islamic Sharia and the Islamic community

The Commission on the Status of Women holds a conference in the period from the 4th to the 15th of March 2013 to approve a document titled "Prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls", a deceptive headline that includes items that collide with the principles of Islam and its basic unanimous elements of Quran and Sunnah, destroy Islamic ethics, and seek to demolish the institution of the family, which the Egyptian constitution declared it as the building block of the society, and hence achieve the dismantling of the community, and end to the last step of the intellectual and cultural invasion, and eliminate the singularity that preserves elements of Islamic societies and its cohesion.

It is enough to give a closer reading at some articles to realize what is meant to us, and these items are:

1. Grant girls their complete sexual freedom, as well as the freedom to choose their sex and the freedom to choose their sex partners (i.e., choose to have a normal sexual relationship or atypical) with rising the age of marriage.

2. Provide contraception for adolescent girls and train them on how to use it with the legalization of abortion to abort undesirable pregnancy under the name of sexual and reproduction rights.

3. Grant equality between an adulterous woman and a wife, and equality between adultery children (outside of marriage children) and legitimate sons in all rights.

4. Granting homosexuals all their rights, protection and respect, and grant protection for women in prostitution.

5. Grant wives all the right to sue their husbands with charges of rape or harassment, and the competent authorities should grant same penalties similar to raping or harassing a stranger.

6. Equality in inheritance.

7. Replace guardianship with partnership, and fully share the roles within the family between men and women such as: spending, child care and home affairs.

8. Equal access to the marriage legislations such as: Stop polygamy, Iddah, mandate, and the dowry, and stop obligatory spending of man on the family, and to allow Muslim women to marry non-Muslims.

9. Withdraw the authority of divorce from husbands and authorize it to judiciary and share property after divorce.

10. Cancel the obligatory authorization of the husband in: travel, work or going out or use contraception.

These are the destructive means of the institution of the family and community that calls for the return for the early Jahiliyyah.
The Muslim Brotherhood call upon rulers of Islamic countries and Foreign Ministers and their representatives in the United Nations to reject this document, and also we invite this organization to live up to the level of the pure family relations prescribed by Islam.

Also Muslim Brotherhood calls Al-Azhar to act according to its leading role and to condemn this document and declare the position of Islam towards its articles, as it is the reference for Muslims.

As well we call other Islamic groups and associations to take a decisive stand against this document and its like.

We also call for women's organizations to adhere to their religion and the morals of their communities and the elements of our social life and not to be seduced by the deceptive, misleading and destructive calls for urbanization.


The Muslim Brotherhood
Cairo: 13 March 2013
I would love to see the draft document they are referring to and compare it with their interpretation.

Wednesday Links Part 2

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 02:00 PM PDT

From Ian:
Ariel Students Excluded from Obama Talk
Obama's staff sends speech invites to Israeli schools, but Ariel University students off the list. MK protests to ambassador.
"If the president invites students from every Israeli university, he should invite representatives from Ariel University as well," Chetboun declared. Ignoring Ariel University is a sign of non-recognition of the Israeli government's decision to give it university status, he said.
Chetboun has written to U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro in protest. "I cannot understand or accept your decision," he wrote. "Ariel University was recognized as a university by Israel's government. In excluding students from Ariel, the American government is taking a clear, one-sided stance, while declaring that the visit is not political.
The apartheid libel
Israel Apartheid Week kicked off this year in Europe on February 25 and runs through March 17 in South Africa.
However, as noted by Gideon Shimoni – the former head of the Hebrew University's Institute of Contemporary Jewry, who was born and raised in Johannesburg – the term "apartheid" has become "a code word that is not being used to analyze a sociopolitical phenomenon, but rather as a rhetorical weapon... to demonize and excoriate the State of Israel, a political entity that defines itself as Jewish and democratic."
Brother of Infamous Nazi Hermann Goering Up for Prestigious Righteous of the Nations Award
Albert Goering, the brother of infamous Nazi Hermann Goering, is now among the candidates to receive the Righteous Among The Nations award. Albert was a German businessman who died in 1966.
According to accounts, Albert saved hundreds of Jews and political dissidents during the Second World War by helping them obtain exit permits and through other means.
Film looks at NY Times and Holocaust
A student documentary about the paper's shallow coverage of the genocide — just six front-page stories throughout the war — will premiere at one of America's most prestigious festivals
In promotional materials, the young filmmaker notes that she's not breaking entirely new ground, acknowledging that the project was "inspired" by "Buried By the Times," Laurel Leff's critical study of how the paper chose to cover — and not cover — the genocide.
Both the book and the film allege that the Sulzberger family, the Times' Jewish owners, feared becoming closely associated with Jewish causes, and restricted the prominence of reports on the killing. A scholar interviewed in the film notes that the Times printed six front-page stories on the Holocaust during all of World War II, an average of one per year.
In New York, Signs Of A Quiet Exodus Of Jews From France
Last March's killings at a Jewish elementary school in Toulouse shocked many, but French Jews have been feeling less secure for years. Some leave, though security isn't the only reason.
Every Saturday at around 12pm on the sidewalks of the Upper West Side you can hear French being spoken. It's coming from groups of people who are coming out of the synagogues on 75th, 78th and 84th streets, where increasing numbers of French Jews are appearing each week.
They're families with kids, young people, teachers and executives. The consulate on Fifth Avenue hasn't estimated the exact numbers of this phenomenon but it's definitely increasing. In the "Manhattan Day School" the teachers are showing the daughter of a family around, who just arrived with very few days warning.
Jewish Leaders Call for Further Measures to Protect Mount of Olives Cemetery
Leaders of Jewish groups including the Rabbinical Council of America, the National Council of Young Israel, Agudath Israel of America, the Orthodox Union, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations wrote a letter to Netanyahu commending the prime minister "for the great strides made by his government to secure and protect the ancient Jewish cemetery—which has increasingly come under attack in recent years with continuous violence against visitors, rampant grave desecration, dumping of refuse and gross defilement of the cemetery by local Arab youths," the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim (ICPHH) said in a press release.
Polish Jewish museum unveils reconstructed shul roof
Scheduled to open next year, Warsaw cultural center hopes to join ranks of Yad Vashem and US Holocaust Museum
A Jewish history museum in Warsaw has unveiled a reconstructed synagogue roof with an elaborately painted ceiling modeled on a 17th-century structure, presenting the first object that will go on permanent display in the highly awaited museum.
The wooden roof, with its frescoed ceiling, will be a key attraction in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which is due to open next year in the heart of the city's former Jewish quarter. Reporters in Warsaw were invited to view it Tuesday.
Drug candidate to enhance bone marrow transplant success
The drug makes the donor tissue less likely to destroy the patient's organs, while allowing the regular immune activity against the cancer.
In bone marrow transplants, between 30 to 70 percent of all patients develop a disease caused by the immune system in the donor tissue. Like in a sci-fi horror movie, the tissue transplant starts attacking the patient's own organs. This graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) means a lifetime of immune suppressant drugs – chemicals that come with their own bag of problems.
But the Israeli company Enlivex has developed a new trick to help a patient accept foreign tissue more readily, improving the odds and outcomes for people suffering from leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers requiring bone marrow transplants.
NYC Event Raises $27 Million for IDF
Donors give millions to IDF, honor commander who lost arm.
Attendees honored Captain Ziv Shilon, who was badly wounded in a Hamas attack near Gaza in October 2012. After losing an arm and suffering significant injury to his other arm in the initial attack, Shilon charged the terrorists who had attacked him, using his mouth and nose to help operate the gun.
Shilon inspired Israel with his positive attitude and determination in wake of the attack.
Israel's Bold New Queen
The latest Miss Israel, Ethiopian-born Yityish Aynaw, says it's about time a black woman wore the crown
Aynaw will get a taste of foreign relations this year: This week she flies to New York to address a gala at the Waldorf Astoria for the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces. This winter, she'll be in Paris. And pageant director Cohen says organizers of this year's Miss World competition in Indonesia—a country with which Israel shares no diplomatic relations—are working on securing a visa for her to compete.

Palestinian death toll in Syria rises above 1000

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 12:00 PM PDT

From the beginning of the Syrian uprising until the end of February, 1036 Palestinian Arabs have been killed, according to the "Working Group of Syrian Palestinians."

Since then, it appears that several more are being killed every day:

4 on March 2
5 on March 5
12 on March 6
5 on March 9
8 on March 10

You must have seen the news coverage of the many "pro-Palestinian" demonstrations outside world embassies protesting these deaths every day, right?

Here's a video that claims to be of a Palestinian Syrian woman in front of her sister's husband's body who was hung for allegedly being a "spy" for the government.

Better Business Bureau accepts "Hamas" as member

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:15 AM PDT

From the LA Times:
For generations, Americans turned to the Better Business Bureau to find out if the local grocer was cheating customers or if the neighborhood dry cleaner was mishandling clothes.

But this week the 101-year-old consumer watchdog turned its sights on one of its own — ousting the Los Angeles chapter that grades local businesses. BBB of the Southland was expelled after years of internal strife and a slew of audits by the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

The chapter, which was the organization's largest and covered Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties, was accused of demanding that businesses pay membership fees in exchange for good ratings. It even reportedly issued an A-minus rating for a fake business named after Hamas, considered a terrorist group by the U.S. government.

...In 2010, ABC News reported that a group of Los Angeles business owners critical of the BBB paid dues for several fake companies, including Hamas. A leader of the BBB of the Southland said that at the time the Hamas business was being presented as a youth camp and the name was pronounced differently.

The dummy businesses were accepted by the BBB of the Southland, given ratings and accredited.
Unfortunately, that same scheme to "accredit" Hamas could work in international politics as well. Pay the petrodollars, pretend to be a respectable group, mouth the right words, and eventually you can get your way.

(h/t EBoZ)

Wednesday Links Part 1

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:00 AM PDT

From Ian:
National Post editorial board: More proof of Israel's restraint
But the relative handful of potential violations pales next to the enormous scale of the military operation. Israel conducted 1,500 air strikes on targets within Gaza, as well as seven naval attacks and several hundred strikes with artillery, but the UNHRC found that only 101 civilians deaths could be attributed to Israeli military action. Considering the densely populated nature of Gaza, such accuracy represents a level of precision essentially unknown in any prior war in history.
But the UNHRC report can, and should, be read as further proof that Israel makes every reasonable effort to wage war against a determined, indiscriminate enemy with precision and restraint.
CAMERA: Crickets at Electronic Intifada Over UN Finding Hamas Responsible for BBC Reporter's Baby Death
Electronic Intifada, the anti-Israel web site run by activist Ali Abuminah, was extremely agitated over what it saw as the failure of the BBC to vociferously condemn Israel for the murder of the 11 month old infant son of BBC journalist Omar Misharawi. In an article titled, When BBC ignores Israeli murder of its own cameraman's baby, what hope for other Palestinians?
Western funded Palestinian TV insists, "land occupied in 1948 will return to us one day"
In yet another revelatory video, Palestinian Media Watch shows how despite consistent calls for a two-state solution, Palestinian television is still teaching its children to await the destruction of Israel


PA arrests Palestinian over ties to Al Jazeera By Khaled Abu Toameh
Sarkaji, who lives in Nablus and also works as a TV producer, said his problems had begun when he returned to the West Bank after attending a training course for the Doha-based Al Jazeera TV station.
His father, Yusef, was a senior Hamas commander who was killed by the IDF in 2002.
Al Jazeera's relations with the PA leadership have deteriorated ever since the station published documents about the peace talks with Israel that were stolen from the office of PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.
Hamas calls for 'collaborators' to turn selves in By Khaled Abu Toameh
Gaza Interior Ministry: Effort aimed at opening door for "repentance" for Palestinians who have been working for Israel.
Egypt Bans Film About Local Jewish Community
Egyptian security services have banned a film about the Jews of Egypt on the eve of its scheduled release, the film's director told AFP on Tuesday.
"The film was banned by National Security," Amr Ramses told the news agency by telephone from New York.
The film, which documents the lives of members of the Egyptian Jewish community in the first half of the 20th century, exploring themes of identity and tolerance, was meant to be screened in three cinemas on Wednesday, the report said.
CNN's Burnett To Laura Bush: Should America Accept Anti-Semitism?
ERIN BURNETT, HOST: An Egyptian woman, her name's Samir Ibraham, and she's done a lot of things, courageous things. She's also been criticized for sending tweets that are anti-Semitic, anti-American. Does the U.S. need to accept that when we want to make change. You have to support people that do those things - financially in term of awards, in terms of all these things - because it pays off in the end? Is that a trade-off we have to make?
UN Monitor Slams Iran Over Arrest of Journalists
The United Nations' monitor for human rights in Iran sounded the alarm Tuesday over a rise in arrests of journalists, saying this was part of a pattern of increasing violations as presidential elections loom.
Seventeen journalists were arrested in the space of one week in January, Ahmed Shaheed told reporters, according to AFP.
In addition, some 50 journalists were already behind bars, he said.
Iran and Hungarian party form anti-Semitic alliance
Isolated and anti-Western, a pair of pariahs find common ground in their outspoken opposition to Jewish interests
Jobbik's general antagonism toward Israel has blossomed in recent months into a fully fledged campaign. Gyongyosi has announced a national tour of lectures on the "Zionist threat to world peace." In parallel, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel articles now take up more than 30 percent of the content on the party's English-language website.
Iran mulls suing Hollywood over 'Argo'
Decision comes after a group of Tehran officials screen the film for a closed audience
Those at the meeting dismissed "Argo" as a "violation of international cultural norms." A statement issued after the gathering said that "awarding an anti-Iran movie is a propaganda attack against our nation and entire humanity."
Facebook bets on Israeli games
Five of the developers of Facebook's ten largest social games in the EMEA come from Israel, and the company is here looking for more.
Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) is building on the Israeli gaming market: five of the developers of Facebook's ten largest social games in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) come from Israel. Herzliya-based Plarium Ltd. is one of the ten fastest growing games companies on Facebook worldwide.
These achievements today brought Facebook to Israel for the second time in six months to find the next game hit, and to send a clear message to Israeli gaming developers: We want you.

Documentary about Egyptian Jews banned in Egypt

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 07:30 AM PDT

Last month I mentioned that an Egyptian had created what looked like a pretty good documentary about the Jews of Egypt, one that admitted that the Jews were expelled by the government. I predicted that it would stir up a lot of controversy in Egypt.

I was right.

From Egypt Independent:
The director of the film "On Egypt's Jews" film Amir Ramses has said that the National Security Agency banned the film in Egypt.

Ramses said that the NSA's ban violated the powers of the country's censorship authorities, and described the move as "ignorant and authoritarian."

"This is an encroachment on the powers of the censorship authority. The film had been displayed as it already gained the [censorship authority] approval without remarks. It was displayed in the [Panorama European Film] Festival, in addition to being displayed in more than one festival," Ramses wrote on his Facebook account.

Ramses also added that he and film producer Haitham Khamisy would take legal action against the Ministry of Culture and the minister of culture for postponing the renewal of their licenses, and lashed out at the National Security Agency, which he said was "as authoritarian" as the Interior Ministry and the equivalent of the former State Security Investigation Services under ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

"Banning the film after gaining the regulatory approval twice is a barefaced encroachment by the National Security Agency," Ramses said.
The Guardian adds:
The film, which had already screened at a private film festival in Egypt last year, as well as at festivals in the US, was due to open today in three local cinemas. Based on testimony from researchers, political figures and exiled Egyptian Jews, it presents a harmonious vision of early 20th century multicultural Egypt and asks – according to director Amir Ramses – "how did the Jews of Egypt turn in the eyes of Egyptians from partners in the same country to enemies?" The film was banned by local censors, according to El-Khamissy, after a security agency made a request to view it.
Notice that the apparent excuse for blatant censorship of a film that reveals anti-Jewish attitudes of Egyptians is - "security." Which is pretty much what one would expect from an authoritarian state.

Here's the trailer again:

Hamas starts a charm offensive in Europe

Posted: 13 Mar 2013 05:30 AM PDT

From AllVoices:
In a statement, considered the first of its kind, Dr Ahmed Yousef, Hamas's top political official and the adviser to Gaza's Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, said that the group's removal from the US and European countries' lists of terrorism sponsors is no longer difficult nor impossible, but has become a matter of time.

Yousef declared to the Palestinian news agency Maan on Monday, that Hamas had made contacts with the help of Arab and Islamic countries such as Qatar, Egypt and Turkey, to convince major and European countries to take Hamas's name out of the terrorism list.

He claimed that some Western countries have responded positively, without naming them.
Palestine Press Agency adds:
Leader of the Hamas Ahmed Yousef said that there are moves in a European framework for the lifting his movement from the terrorism list,saying that Hamas has completely stopped from the practice of martyrdom operations targeting civilians, in the interest of Europe opening up to Hamas.

Yousef told Radio "Raya FM" that Hamas is only using arms in the land of Palestine, and international law gives them the right to resist the occupier as a national liberation movement.

Yousef explained that if Europe wants to be a party in any future political process, it must engage with Hamas and that there is a significant European understanding of it, pointing out that the Palestinian reconciliation could speed up its completion.
Of course, Hamas itself bragged about targeting civilians during Pillar of Defense, the very definition of terrorism and noted in the UNHCR report on the fighting.

Meanwhile, Hamas honcho Mahmoud Zahar once again stated that Hamas' willingness to accept a state in the territories in no way mitigates its goal to utterly destroy Israel. It is just an interim step.

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