Muslim der blev kristen må løbe for livet - baby dødsdømt
Mere på CBN - DDR må gerne rapportere om dette. Babyen er dødsdømt, hvis hun ikke bliver muslim. Hvorfor bringer de ikke sådan en tåreperser?
Mere på CBN - DDR må gerne rapportere om dette. Babyen er dødsdømt, hvis hun ikke bliver muslim. Hvorfor bringer de ikke sådan en tåreperser?
A security source said a number of copies of a statement signed by Fatah al-Islam - a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda - were found by students on the campus of Balamand University.
The security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the statement ‘threatened to bomb the university.’
Samtidig kan man i dagens aviser læse:
Veluddannede danske muslimer skal i København kunne tage islamiske overbygningskurser inden for jura, økonomi og sikkerhedspolitik på universitetsniveau.
Og de skal i deres studier kunne trække på religiøs og videnskabelig ekspertise fra Al Azhar-universitetet i Kairo, en af de centrale religiøse og intellektuelle institutioner i den muslimske verden.
Det oplyser Bilal Assaad, formand for Islamisk Trossamfund, til Berlingske Tidende.
“I stedet for, at danske muslimer skal rejse til Egypten eller andre muslimske lande, mener vi, at det vil være en fordel, hvis de kan tage islamiske overbygningskurser i København,” siger Bilal Assaad, der oplyser, at Islamisk Trossamfund igennem længere tid har været i dialog med Al Azhar-universitetet i Kairo om projektet.
Vi reagerer ikke når de truer kristne (universiteter) i de muslimske land - og lader dem ovenikøbet oprette en filial af verdens mest islamiske universitet i Danmark.
Hodjas blog har mange gange nævnt Al-Azhar universitetet i Kairo, og ikke for det gode. Du kan se posterne her.
Ideen støttes helhjertet af Rasmus Alenius Boserup fra Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet
We have been pedicting that, for the last year, warning that the islamic radicalization would lead the country to a total bankruptcy and turmoil.
Islam is ruining the country, Besides the billions (disguised Jeziah) the US is giving Egypt, Al Azhar islamic institutions is in command of an open budget that exceeds $10 billion for building mosques, paying sheiks’salaries, sending Da’wah (missionaries) that are experts in bomb making all over the world. While the infrastructure, school, universities, medical services, hospitals, transportation, water supply, sewer systems, roads, are falling into disarray, with the highest unemployment rate in the world, 60% of a population below the age of 30.
Now, and for the last three months Egyptians have to stand in line and fight to buy bread, which caused the death of seventeen people up to now. The funny thing in that misery, Al Azhar issued a fatwa, stating that whoever gets killed in the bread line would be considered a martyr (Shahid).
La Repubblica meddeler, at muslimske ‘lærde’ selv anslår antallet til 15.000 - 20.000.
“Der er ingen tvivl om, at fænomenet eksisterer, og at det er stigende,” meddeler avisen.
Katolske Caritas vurderer, at der er 1,2 millioner muslimer i Italien ud af ialt 3,6 millioner immigranter.
Den italienske stat udbetaler ikke børnepenge til mere end en kone pr ægteskab, i modsætning til Storbritannien, hvor man siden februar i år har udbetalt bistandshjælp til alle polygamistiske ægtefæller. Det sidste er også tilfældet i Tyskland og Belgien oplyser La Repubblica.
Men manglen på børnepenge afholder ikke muslimske mænd fra at medbringe flere koner.
“Mange af mine venner har flere koner. Det er ikke bare senegalesere, men også marokkanere og ægyptere,” udtaler Baba Kar.
Kar kom alene til Italien, men blev familiesammenført med sin første kone og barn. Så snart han havde arbejdstilladelse, hentede han sin anden kone. Selvom ægteskabet ikke er registreret, tillod en domstol Kar at blive familiesammenført med mødrene til sine børn. Argumentet var, at ægteskaberne var indgået i et land, hvor polygami er tilladt.
Dommen er kontroversiel, idet polygami bekæmpes af kvindesagsforkæmpere i mange muslimske lande, og er forbudt eller strengt reguleret mange steder i den islamiske verden.
Så kommer der en udtalelse fra en italiensk sociolog der selvfølgelig udtaler:
“Det er et statistisk insignifikant problem, der afficerer meget få familier. Og det skaber ingen problemer i familierne, fordi det er en del af deres kultur.”
Italiens Marokkanske Muslimske Kvindeorganisation udtaler sig imod polygami, idet kvinderne i tilfælde af ’skilsmisse’ er rettighedsløse, da de aldrig i statens øjne har været legalt gift.
Kan I se de demografiske og økonomiske perspektiver i, at muslimske mænd henter sig 4 koner i hjemlandet? Eller hvis flere muslimske lande forbyder polygami - skal det da være kulturel asylårsag at være ‘forfulgt’ i hjemlandet på grund af polygami?
Eller kan jeg komme hjem med 4 koner, hvis jeg har giftet mig med dem i et land, hvor det er tilladt?
Angående sociologen: Skal vi tillade kannibaler at videreføre deres levevis i Europa?
“Fordi det er en del af deres kultur.”
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Though he is little known in the West, Coptic priest Zakaria Botros — named Islam’s “Public Enemy #1” by the Arabic newspaper, al-Insan al-Jadid — has been making waves in the Islamic world. Along with fellow missionaries — mostly Muslim converts — he appears frequently on the Arabic channel al-Hayat (i.e., “Life TV”). There, he addresses controversial topics of theological significance — free from the censorship imposed by Islamic authorities or self-imposed through fear of the zealous mobs who fulminated against the infamous cartoons of Mohammed. Botros’s excurses on little-known but embarrassing aspects of Islamic law and tradition have become a thorn in the side of Islamic leaders throughout the Middle East.
Botros is an unusual figure onscreen: robed, with a huge cross around his neck, he sits with both the Koran and the Bible in easy reach. Egypt’s Copts — members of one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East — have in many respects come to personify the demeaning Islamic institution of “dhimmitude” (which demands submissiveness from non-Muslims, in accordance with Koran 9:29). But the fiery Botros does not submit, and minces no words. He has famously made of Islam “ten demands,” whose radical nature he uses to highlight Islam’s own radical demands on non-Muslims.
The result? Mass conversions to Christianity — if clandestine ones. The very public conversion of high-profile Italian journalist Magdi Allam — who was baptized by Pope Benedict in Rome on Saturday — is only the tip of the iceberg. Indeed, Islamic cleric Ahmad al-Qatani stated on al-Jazeera TV a while back that some six million Muslims convert to Christianity annually, many of them persuaded by Botros’s public ministry. More recently, al-Jazeera noted Life TV’s “unprecedented evangelical raid” on the Muslim world. Several factors account for the Botros phenomenon.
Læs mere på NationalReviewOnline, han kan sit kram - vi er rene amatører ved siden af ham!!
Herrelandsholdet i håndbold kommer efter alt at dømme ikke til at spille de planlagte venskabskampe mod Egypten i juni på grund af Muhammed-krisen
And so what?
Villy Vendekåbe fra Waffen-SF er pludselig havnet på forsiden af Ægyptens statsejede avis. Tante Berlinger har været vaks ved havelågen og fået oversat :
Gad vide, om deres boycot også omfatter denne del af Danmarks eksport ?
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Skonummeret er ukendt men det er i de helt små størrelser!
Var der nogen, der sagde moskeer i Danmark?
Hvad skal man med fjender med sådanne venner?
Er det med eller uden bedøvelse?
Men som Esther skriver efter at have læst Berlingske:
“Hundredtusinder af palæstinensere, der lider under Israels blokade mod dem i Gaza, kunne i sidste måned krydse frit ind i Egypten, efter at islamiske militsgrupper sprængte hul i grænsebarriererne i Rafah.”
det er åbenbart kun israelernes blokade, palæstinenserne lider under?
Føj Berlingske!
Hvor civiliseret. De kunne jo prøve at ofre en gris hos Brøndby IF og se om det virker?
Efter et skænderi over telefonen skrev han to sms’er til hende med beskeden “Jeg vil skilles.”
Det er for grineren. Kvinder (=kvæg) kan naturligvis ikke blive skilt ved at triple; ”Jeg vil skilles”.
By Jonathan Wright
Cairo - An Egyptian man has asked the Egyptian courts to recognise his conversion from Islam to Christianity and instruct the government to change the details on his identity documents, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Mon ikke de ægyptiske forfattere skulle besøge den danske forfatterforening? De må have en del at tale om - i al gemytlighed.
Flere hundrede indbyggere fra Gaza er trængt ind over grænsen.
Juhu DR - Hegnet mellem Israel og Palæstina er en mur. Hegnet mellem Gaza og Ægypten er et hegn
Men nu stiger forvirringen: De palæstinenserglade nordmænd kalder hegnet for ‘en mur’, ‘et jerngjerde’, ‘en kraftig jernkonstruktion’. Det er nok kun, når man omtaler det israelske hegn, at det er en mur.
Tænk - er der en grænse mellem Gaza og Ægypten? Det fortæller medierne ikke meget om ellers.
Men ægypterne er smarte - de skal ikke risikere at få et palæstinensisk problem på nakken.
Og så skriver VG helt grotesk videre:
Blokaden er blitt møtt med internasjonal kritikk, og både EU og Egypt kaller tiltaket for en kollektiv avstraffelse. Mange av Gazastripens 1,5 millioner innbyggere er avhengige av bistand utenfra.
Hvordan kan der være en blokade med en grænseovergang mod Ægypten? Hvorfor sender ‘palæstinensernes’ venner ikke forsyninger via Ægypten?
Building on the tribal system of “balanced opposition” Muhammad was able to frame an inclusive structure within which the tribes had a common, God-given identity as Muslims. But unification was only possible by creating a tribalized enemy against which Muslims could make common cause. This Muhammad did by opposing Muslims against infidels; and the dar al-Islam, the land of Islam and peace, against the dar al-harb, the land of infidels and conflict. Through the precepts of Islam, traditional Bedouin raiding was sanctified as an act of religious duty.
With every successful battle against local unbelievers, especially after the critical early battle against the Meccans, more Bedouin joined the umma. Once united, the Bedouin warriors of the umma turned outward, teaching the world the meaning of jihad, holy war. The rest, as they say, is history.
Hvis du skal bruge en hurtig oversigt - så er det rigtig godt: National Post
Nogle taler om korstog. Her ser man, hvorfor man i virkeligheden kunne tale om ‘halvmånetog’.
Via LindaSoG
Cairo-based Wael Abbas regularly writes and posts video about police brutality, torture and sexual harassment in Egypt. He told FOXNews.com that he’s fighting an “electronic war” now that the providers have pulled the plug on his video and e-mail accounts.
“This is part of a campaign or a war — an electronic war — against me,” Abbas said from Cairo.
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Shadia Nagui Ibrahim, 47, was charged with fraud for stating Christianity as her religion on her marriage certificate, unaware that her father’s conversion to Islam in 1962 had made her officially a Muslim, Michael Maurice said.
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Human rights groups are urging the Egyptian government to lift restrictions on religious freedom that discriminate against those who do not belong to one of three recognized religions.
“It’s rather incredible, officers of the ministry telling individuals, not only refusing to register their actual religious belief, but actually trying to convert them to Islam, or to retaining a Muslim identity using bribery, using pressure tactics, using intimidation: ‘OK, you won’t convert? You won’t stay a Muslim? We’ll just have to bring forgery charges against you,’” said Stork.
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Og her er det ikke det rene pjat, som når Danmark angribes.
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Her brugte han sin tid på at ophidse og rekruttere muslimer til hellig krig sammen med al-Qaedas senere nummer 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, der sandelig også havde slået sig ned i København.
Under en tale i Milano i 1994 understregede Abu Talal, at det er enhver muslims pligt at terrorisere Allahs fjender, så han har været guld værd for integrationen i Danmark.
Under et ophold i Kroatien i september 1995 blev Abu Talal imidlertid kidnappet af CIA og sendt til Egypten, hvor han formentlig blev slået ihjel.
Politiken, fjernsynet og Lars Norman Jørgensen fra Amnesty International er stærkt opbragte og vil nu have undersøgt, om dansk PET havde noget med Abu Talals forsvinden at gøre.
Det synes Groft sagt er en rigtig god idé. Så kan vi nemlig få at vide, hvem der skal have medaljen for at have skaffet os af med ham.
Samtidig vil vi gerne have undersøgt, hvilke danske myndigheder der dengang i 1990erne gav ophold til folk som Abu Talal og al-Zawahiri.
Ikke så meget for at få dem straffet for deres landsskadelige virksomhed, men tænk hvis nogle af disse personer stadig har noget med den danske asylpolitik at gøre.
Lars Hedegaard i Berlingske, Groft Sagt. 23. oktober 2007.
Egypten havde forsøgt at få ham udleveret, men det nægtede Danmark, fordi de egyptiske myndigheder havde dømt ham til døden.
While they, and so many other well-intentioned leftists vent their indignation against Israel and embrace the poor Palestinian victims, other indignities are taking place without their notice.
Christian Arabs [including Christian Palestinians] are vanishing. Although all Palestinians [and their friends] believe that their enemy is Israel, they are like victims of Stockholm Syndrome, who identify with heir actual tormentors.
The Christian population in Muslim lands has plunged from 12 million to 2 million in the past decade alone. Lebanon, once a majority Christian country, has become two-thirds Muslim. Jerusalem, where only 12,000 Christians remain, is facing the possibility that there will be no Christians “in the homeland of Jesus Christ himself” according to the Greek Orthodox archbishop in Jerusalem. In Bethlehem, Christians were once 85 percent, down now to 20 percent. In Egypt, Christians were once 10 percent of the population; now they are 6 percent. “The flight of Christians out of these areas is similar to the hunt for Jews,” according to Magdi Allam, an Egyptian author.
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Den næste sætning er morsom:
“There is a lack of data regarding the phenomena.”
De skal holde konference om et ikke-eksisterende fænomen, de ikke kender udbredelsen af, og samtidig udråbes utallige mennesker i Europa som islamofobe. Mon ikke de samtidig skulle konferere lidt om muslimers holdninger til europæere og kristne? Var der nogen der sagde hesperofobi, kristofobi eller judofobi? Deltager i konferencen er lederen af Den Arabiske Liga Amr Mousa. Kunne de ikke lige spørge ham ved samme lejlighed om blandt andre kristnes forhold i den muslimske verden, og evt sige til Den Arabiske Liga, at så længe der ikke sker forandringer i for eksempel Ægypten og Saudi, så kan de godt pakke sammen og rejse hjem!
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A recent report entitled “Discrimination at Work in the Middle East and North Africa” by the International Labor Organization (ILO), said that “One of the most resilient forms of discrimination is the targeting of Copts in Egypt, who are denied equal access to education and equal opportunities in recruitment and promotion. Very few are appointed to key positions in the Government or are candidates for parliament. Enrolment of Copts in police academies and military schools is restricted, and very few are teachers and professors.”(1)
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Havde Fogh bøjet sig og givet den undskyldning, som egypterne havde krævet, var konflikten mellem Danmark og den arabiske verden nemlig med stor sandsynlighed ikke eksploderet i boykot, vold og kaos.
The school initially refused to promote the boys to the next class, after they handed in answer sheets which included only the sentence “I am Christian.”
Amid international and domestic pressure however Egypt’s Education Minister Yusri al-Gamal intervened on August 25, saying the two boys would be able to move to the next grade.
However Lutfi said she is still concerned her children will be forced to become Muslims and be moved to their father.
“Andrew’s and Mario’s predicament does not merely concern their exams. Rather, it concerns the Court’s ruling that they must live with their father and his wife who both follow a different religion,” she said remarks published by Watani, a weekly linked to Coptic Christians.
“I was made to understand that Egyptian law grants a mother custody of her children until they are 15, but I lately discovered that this applies only to Muslim mothers,” Lutfi added. She said she hoped “the court would take into consideration all the international human rights treaties to which Egypt is signatory.”
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Ambassadörerna har en lång lista på krav, inklusive att Sverige ändrar lagar och utbildning.
Egyptens ambassadör, Samah Mohamed Sotouhi, säger till TT att ambassadörerna från de muslimska länderna i Sverige enats om att överlämna en lista med åtgärder till den svenska regeringen, som krävs för en långsiktig lösning av kontroversen kring Muhammedteckningen.
Enligt Sotouhi är problemen väldigt komplexa och rör kultur, ekonomi och politik. Det krävs en “övergripande insats” om inte någon “amatörkonstnär” ska återskapa situationen varannan månad.
- Vi vill se handling, inte bara snälla ord.
- Vi måste söka en förändring av lagen. Muslimerna behöver lagligt skydd mot att profeten Muhammed skändas, ungefär som det judar och homosexuella har. Långsiktigt måste det in i skolundervisningen att eleverna övertygas om att om de vill uttrycka sin åsikt så ska det ske så att de inte sårar eller skadar någon annan. Det borde också in i journalistutbildningen. Det behövs också ett permanent utskott i riksdagen som arbetar mot islamofobi, säger Sotouhi till TT.
Så er det Sveriges tur til at være prøvesten for islams aggression. Skal det, som ikke lykkedes dem mod Danmark, lykkes med Sverige?
Week-End Avisen bringer en artikel af Frederik Stjernfelt om bogen:
Klaus-Michael Mallmann og Martin Cüppers: »Halbmond und Hakenkreuz. Das Dritte Reich, die Araber und Palästina«. 288 sider. Veröffentlichungen der Forschungsstelle Ludwigsburg der Universität Stuttgart, bd. 8.
Jeg skal gøre opmærksom på, at jeg bragte en postering om bogen for over et år siden.
Police detained Adel Fawzy Faltas and Peter Ezzat after their organization was involved in several controversial human rights cases, including that of Mohammed Hegazy, who made an unprecedented bid to have his conversion to Christianity legally recognized.
Top Egyptian religious scholars called for the convert’s death yesterday in London-based, Arabic-language daily Al-Quds al-Arabi.
Faltas, 61, had conducted a high profile Internet interview with Hegazy only days before his arrest, sparking claims in Egyptian media that he had led the Muslim to Christianity.
Var der nogen, der hørte DR-P1 idag til morgen? Jeg hørte en muslim ivrigt akkompagneret af P1-journalisten omtale islam i Ægypten. Ikke et ord om forfølgelsen af de kristne inklusive kopterne. Der blev direkte sagt, at muslimerne i Ægypten er mere tolerante end Ægyptens kristne. Udsendelsen skulle følges op af en udsendelse i eftermiddags, som jeg desværre ikke har hørt.
“They have been subjected to all kinds of hate crimes including, the abduction of young Coptic girls, the killing of Coptic women and children and the destruction of their places of worship,” the report concluded.
Two young boys ordered to take a school test that would result in their conversion to Islam wrote, “I am Christian,” on the exam papers, knowing in advance that could very well spell the end of their educations. Now a U.S.-based organization is lobbying for international pressure on Egypt to quit forcing Christians into such no-win situations.
“What brought the case to the public attention is the categorical refusal of the two kids to pass the Islamic exams and convert to Islam, stating, ‘they will not deny their Christianity and convert to Islam no matter what it would cost them,’” Sam Grace, a spokesman for Coptic News said.
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One of the men, a neighbour to the victim named Alaa Omar lured her to a neighboring house, where the other men were waiting. They proceeded to forcibly remove her clothing and photograph her naked. The intended husband, Ahmad Fathey Elrayes then removed his own clothes and posed naked with the terrified victim.
Throughout the ordeal, the victim was ordered to stay quiet and threatened with murder if she tried to call out for help. The attackers also threatened their victim that if she didn’t comply with their demands, she would meet the same fate as a girl from a neighboring town, who was gang raped, killed and dumped in a graveyard. The attackers in that crime were 8 members of a fundamentalist Islamic group, who were released without bail and their victim’s death had gone unpunished.
The kidnappers are:
Alaa Omar AbdelGaber: The victim’s neighbor who also recorded the attack
Amro Nassar
A brother of Amro Nassar
Ahmed Fathy Elrayes: The intended husband for the victim, who was promised the sum of 30,000 pounds if successful in converting the victim to Islam and marrying her
A member of Algameya Alshareya in El Menya, who would pay the said 30,000 LE. Egyptian pounds(About US $5260) to Alrayes
The 4 kidnappers all have prior convictions, and are known for terrorising the community and extorting money from local Christian businesses. Alaa Omar is currently detained pending an investigation of an unrelated crime.
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Cairo, Egypt: “There is no conflict between Islam and science,” Zaghloul El-Naggar declares as we sit in the parlor of his villa in Maadi, an affluent suburb of Cairo. “Science is inquisition. It’s running after the unknown. Islam encourages seeking knowledge. It’s considered an act of worship.”
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In recent times, though, knowledge in Egypt has waned. And who is accountable for the decline?
El-Naggar has no doubts. “We are not behind because of Islam,” he says. “We are behind because of what the Americans and the British have done to us.”
He hands me three short volumes he has written about the relationship of science and Islam. These include The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Holy Koran, and Treasures in the Sunnah, A Scientific Approach, parts one and two, along with a translation of the Koran, whose title page he has signed, although his name does not appear as a translator.
In Treasures in the Sunnah, El-Naggar interprets holy verses: the hadiths, sayings of the Prophet, and the sunnah, or customs. There are scientific signs in more than one thousand verses of the Koran, according to El-Naggar, and in many sayings of the Prophet, although these signs often do not speak in a direct scientific way. Instead, the verses give man’s mind the room to work until it arrives at certain conclusions. A common device of Islamic science is to cite examples of how the Koran anticipated modern science, intuiting hard facts without modern equipment or technology. In Treasures of the Sunnah, El-Naggar quotes scripture:
“and each of them (i.e., the moon and the sun) floats along in (its own) orbit.” “The Messenger of Allah,” El-Naggar writes, “talked about all these cosmic facts in such accurate scientific style at a period of time when people thought that Earth was flat and stationary. This is definitely one of the signs, which testifies to the truthfulness of the message of Muhammad.”
Elsewhere, he notes the Prophet’s references to “the seven earths”; El-Naggar claims that geologists say that Earth’s crust consists of seven zones. In another passage, the Prophet said that there were 360 joints in the body, and other Islamic researchers claim that medical science backs up the figure. Such knowledge, the thinking goes, could only have been given by God.
Critics are quick to point out that Islamic scientists tend to use each other as sources, creating an illusion that the work has been validated by research. The existence of 360 joints, in fact, is not accepted in medical communities; rather, the number varies from person to person, with an average of 307. These days most geologists divide Earth’s crust into 15 major zones, or tectonic plates.
El-Naggar even sees moral meaning in the earthquake that triggered the 2005 tsunami and washed away nearly a quarter of a million lives. Plate tectonics and global warming be damned: God had expressed his wrath over the sins of the West. Why, then, had God punished Southeast Asia rather than Los Angeles or the coast of Florida? His answer: Because the lands that were hit had tolerated the immoral behavior of tourists.
The influence and popularity of El-Naggar—as a frequent guest on Arab satellite television, he reaches an audience of millions—does not sit well with Gamal Soltan, a political scientist at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, a Cairo-based think tank.
“This tendency to use their knowledge of science to ‘prove’ that the religious interpretations of life are correct is really corrupting,”
he tells me. Soltan, who got his doctorate at the University of Northern Illinois, works in a small office that’s pungent with tobacco smoke; journals and newspapers lie stacked on his desk and floor.
“Their methodology is bad,” he says. Soltan explains that Islamic scientists start with a conclusion (the Koran says the body has 360 joints) and then work toward proving that conclusion. To reach the necessary answer they will, in this instance, count things that some orthopedists might not call a joint. “They’re sure about everything, about how the universe was created, who created it, and they just need to control nature rather than interpret it,” Soltan adds. “But the driving force behind any scientific pursuit is that the truth is still out there.”
Researchers who don’t agree with Islamic thinking “avoid questions or research agendas” that could put them in opposition to authorities—thus steering clear of intellectual debate. In other words, if you are a scientist who is not an Islamic extremist, you simply direct your work toward what is useful. Scientists who contradict the Koran “would have to keep a low profile.” When pressed for examples, Soltan does not elaborate.
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As Soltan points out,
“Cairo University has not received Western professors since the 1950s, and because of the turmoil in the country, many professors who didn’t like the regime were excluded from the university.”
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What about, say, evolutionary biology or Darwinism? I ask. (Evolution is taught in Egyptian schools, although it is banned in Saudi Arabia and Sudan.)
“If you are asking if Adam came from a monkey, no,” Badawy responds. “Man did not come from a monkey. If I am religious, if I agree with Islam, then I have to respect all of the ideas of Islam. And one of these ideas is the creation of the human from Adam and Eve. If I am a scientist, I have to believe that.”
But from the point of view of a scientist, is it not just a story? I ask. He tells me that if I were writing an article saying that Adam and Eve is a big lie, it will not be accepted until I can prove it.
“Nobody can just write what he thinks without proof. But we have real proof that the story of Adam as the first man is true.”
“What proof?”
He looks at me with disbelief: “It’s written in the Koran.”
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“It’s a custom here, and in the rest of the Arab world, to marry cousins, even first cousins,” she tells me, though the practice is becoming less common. “Of course, that means they share a lot of genes from common sets of grandparents.”
In other fields, pure research does not get support; in medical genetics, even practically applicable knowledge can spark conflicts with Islamic culture.
“Taking a blood sample to study abnormalities is not a problem,” Chaabouni says. “That’s just investigation. The problem is when you take the results of research into the clinic and try to give genetic counseling to patients. Then you have people who won’t accept the idea that they have to stop having children or that they shouldn’t marry their cousin.”
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“Science needs stability, democracy, freedom of expression,” says Senator Adnan Badran, who has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Michigan State University, as we drink Turkish coffee at his office. “You must have an environment that’s conducive to free thinking, to inquiry. If you don’t, you’ll never be able to release the mind’s potential. It’s a very bleak story, a very disappointing story, about the state of science and technology in the Arab region.”
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Samtidig beskylder de Hodja for at løbe med en halv vind. Det er lidt trættende i længden at skulle skyde alt vrøvlet ned, men for Martins skyld gentager vi lige:
A new tool by Google reveals how Africans use the Internet. Not being a surprise, “sex” is one of the most searched words in the Internet, but it may come as an embarrassment to many Muslim countries that their citizens are the world’s most frequent digital sex searchers; in particular North Africans. But also in sub-Saharan Africa, “sex” is among the most popular searches. The Google Trends tool also reveals Africa’s most popular celebrities and potential markets for African products.
When it comes to using the Internet to look for sex, North Africans in particular seem to have found a new outlet for societal taboos. The sex search on Google is topped by Pakistan, but closely followed by Egypt. Moroccans even reach the top-ten list both in English (6th on “sex”) and in French (2nd on “sexe”). Algerians top the search for “sexe”, showing twice as much interest as the French and Tunisians. A quick look inside the booming cybercafés in North Africa confirms this obsession.
On a regional outlook, Mauritanians, Malians and Nigerians are the most sex-searching West Africans, followed by the Senegalese, while Ivorians and Gabonese already have found other uses for the Internet. In Southern Africa, Zambians and Malawians are searching twice as much for sex as Angolans and Mozambicans. Tanzanians however are even more interested in finding sex on the Internet, while Ethiopi