An Australian film about Lebanese gangs has been pulled from Greater Union cinemas in Sydney after violent outbursts at early screenings.

The Combination is the first Australian film release of the year and has been receiving rave reviews for its gritty portrayal of life in Sydney’s west.

via Local film pulled from cinemas after brawls – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation. via Bivouac.

Here, here and here what I read back then.

The reviews show the film was very good:

Set in Sydney’s western suburbs, The Combination follows the story of a Lebanese Australian who gets out of jail, only to find his little brother is following in his footsteps – he’s becoming caught up in the murky world of crime. With a lot of hand-held digital camera work, first-time film director David Field explores the world of the Lebanese-Australian communities of Guildford and Parramatta in a no-frills way; he advertised in local Parramatta papers for some of the young actors. Scriptwriter George Basha, who’s from the area, has also crafted a love story that works well as a central part of the film. Overall, critics are lapping up this local film, saying it’s deep and challenging.

This is a tough film but a good one, reflecting a facet of Australian life not often seen on screen – Margaret Pomeranz, ABC’s At the Movies

The most courageous and affecting ending from an Australian film in a long time – Jason Di Rosso, ABC Radio National’s Movietime

There’s a strong whiff of spaghetti about the lurid climax – obviously conceived with Sergio Leone in mind. So strong is the momentum generated by the rest of the film, however, that you can almost swallow it – Sandra Hall, Sydney Morning Herald

But the film won’t be seen in Australia because of the riots from Muslim gangs:

A fictional account of a brother trying to dissuade his sibling from joining a Muslim gang has been pulled because of Muslim gang violence.

“Islam is not a violent religion. I’ll kill you to prove it“.

A Pakistani man went on trial in France on Tuesday for setting his ex-girlfriend alight after she refused to marry him, in a case that rights groups are using as as a symbol of violence against women in poor neighbourhoods. Amer Mushtaq Butt, 28, doused Chahrazade Belayni in petrol and set fire to her on the street as she was leaving her home in the under-privileged Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Marne in 2005. She suffered third-degree burns on 60 percent of her body, fell into a coma and underwent many operations. Belayni, now 21, works for the police. “I want him to pay for what he did, not for my sake but to show other girls who have problems with their partners that it’s possible to fight back and the justice system won’t abandon them,” she told reporters just before the trial opened.

via France: Pakistani going to trial for torching his girlfriend who refused to marry him | Infidels Are Cool.

This was one of the first things I blogged about, back when I was blueslord (how far does that seems now!!). This is the translation of what happened then:

A witness’ account: I live in Neuilly-sur-Marne and I want to speak about something dramatic that has happened near here. On Sunday morning, at 9a.m. Moroccan 18-years-old Sherazade, has been burned alive by two Pakistani youths. The only error she has made has been to reject his constant wedding proposals. Today Shérazade is in hospital in the great burned unit, with her face and her body burned in a 60% and in an induced comma to prevent her from having unneeded sufferings. No journalist was here to report about this tragedy, being as they are now very worried about the violence in the banlieues.

My note back then: The surprising fact here is that only a brief note has been published on Nov 14th [] and another in France 3 région (on Sunday afternoon), pointing out that the cause was a “love disappointment”. It was never qualified as a “sexist crime”, according to the link.

So you see we get on pretty the same: this was not a case of “torching someone because he was poor“. This was a case of “torching someone because she is a woman and has no right to say no to a man who asks her in marriage, she must give birth to a lot of children to be educated in Allah’s teachings“. MSM are repeating once and again the same errors. And that is truly dismaying…

Islam in Europe:

Human rights groups such as the prominent “Ni Putes Ni Soumises” (”Neither whores nor submissive women”) say violence against women is rife in certain poor communities with high Muslim populations on the outskirts of French cities.

The activists say some young Muslim men take out their frustrations about poverty and discrimination on women, demanding that they cover up according to Islamic tradition. If they refuse, they are considered “whores”.

yeah, that’s right… absolute whores… and so they can be raped… gang-raped. But no, Islam and Sharia are not related to this phenomenon. That is a neocon’s tale.

From Spanish Pundit

The woman in the photo is Belayni now, after being burnt alive and having underwent plastic surgery several times.

Related: Wikipedia on l’affair Belayni (French).

UPDATED: The attacker has been condemned to 20 years in prison.

At that time, a witness heard Amer’s mother hope that “with all those cars burnt in the banlieues”, his gesture would “not get any attention from the media”. In front of the cout, this family’s friend told he didn’t remember hearing that (how appropriate!).

Just what seemed to happen at first. And what would have happened if the blogs hadn’t pointed out to Shérazade’s case.

Poland has joined the ranks of countries accusing Pakistan of inaction, if not outright complicity in terrorist activity, following the beheading last week of a Polish national by the Pakistani Taliban.

In a furious response that has stunned the international diplomatic community, Polish justice minister Andrzej Czuma on Monday blamed Pakistan’s ”apathy” in tackling terrorism for the killing of a Polish geologist who was kidnapped by the Pakistani Taliban from Attock town in Punjab.

“The structure of the Pakistani government is behind this apathy. The Pakistani authorities encourage these bandits,” Czuma told a Polish news agency, even as the horrific killing recalled the similar beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

via Jihad Watch: Polish justice minister on Pakistani inaction against jihadists: “The structure of the Pakistani government is behind this apathy. The Pakistani authorities encourage these bandits”.

You can see the video here. It’s not the complete video, though, as the ending (terrible ending) has only been posted in several jihadist websites. Piotr Stanczak was a geologian, kidnapped some time ago in Punjab and before beheading him, he was made to chant the “marvellous things” Islam has.

Piotr Stanczak

Related link: The normalization of Evil by Judea Pearl. h/t  A Origem das Especies.

Neither he, nor the millions who were shocked by his murder, could have possibly predicted that seven years later his abductor, Omar Saeed Sheikh, according to several South Asian reports, would be planning terror acts from the safety of a Pakistani jail. Or that his murderer, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now in Guantanamo, would proudly boast of his murder in a military tribunal in March 2007 to the cheers of sympathetic jihadi supporters. Or that this ideology of barbarism would be celebrated in European and American universities, fueling rally after rally for Hamas, Hezbollah and other heroes of “the resistance.” Or that another kidnapped young man, Israeli Gilad Shalit, would spend his 950th day of captivity with no Red Cross visitation while world leaders seriously debate whether his kidnappers deserve international recognition.

Clear and to the point. Nothing more to add…

On his hospital bed last week, 16-year-old Abid Tanoli sat listless and alone, half of his body covered by burns that all but destroyed both his eyes and left his face horribly disfigured. (Photo: here. Attention: it’s really dismaying, I nearly got sick).

The teenager talked, with difficulty, of how his life had been destroyed since the fateful day in June 2002 when he refused to have sex with his teacher at a religious school in Pakistan.

The boy was horrifically injured in an acid attack after he rebuffed the Muslim cleric’s sexual advances. Now, he has alarmed Pakistan’s powerful religious establishment by pressing charges against his alleged assailants.

A teacher at the school, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and two of his friends are in prison awaiting trial for attempted murder and rape. All three deny the charges. A fourth alleged attacker is still at large.

via Sexual abuse of young boys by clerics rampant in Pakistan. | Vlad Tepes.

Normally these happens to girls, not boys (consider the photos I posted here, here and here). But well, it is not surprising… It is dismaying that this happens with virtually no international consequences.

From the link above where the photo is:

Young Abid’s ordeal began when he refused to have sex with his religious teacher in a Karachi madrassa, where he had been enrolled by his parents. Abid was doused in acid as punishment for refusing to oblige him. “He threatened to ruin me for life,” Abid says, “but I didn’t take him seriously. I stopped going to the madrassa instead. I didn’t tell anyone about what had happened because I was ashamed.”

A few days later, Abid was playing with his younger siblings at home, when his school teacher, who was accompanied by three associates, broke into his house, bolted the main door and threw acid over his body. “This should be a lesson for life,” said Qari Amin, his teacher.

“I was unable to see anything,” recalls Abid. “My whole face was burning – I felt as if I was on fire.” Abid was rushed to a public hospital, where doctors told him he had been disfigured for life.

“It would have been better if they had just killed my son,” says 40-year-old Resham Jan, Abid’s mother. “We are dying every day. My son was such a good-looking person. I cannot believe he has been reduced to such a sorry state.”

Absolutely sickening.

In its exquisite concern for “visible minorities”, the agency ignores the fate of an invisible minority – intellectuals reduced to silence because they dared to criticise Islam. The freedom to say what one thinks about any religion – its clerics, practices, precepts and sartorial rules – is as much a part of the European heritage as giving voice to the oppressed. At the dawn of the 21st century, in a once enlightened Europe, Theo van Gogh was savagely murdered. Authors and politicians need police protection, have been forced into hiding, reduced to silence and deprived of their fundamental rights. For Robert Redeker, a former philosophy teacher at a lycée in Toulouse, the consequences of this thought control have been devastating.

Redeker has been in hiding ever since his op-ed article “Face aux intimidations islamistes, que doit faire le monde libre?” (How should the free world confront Islamist intimidation?), appeared in Le Figaro on 19 September 2006, two days after Pope Benedict XVI’s speech at Regensburg. The outrage provoked by the Pope’s observation on the relation between Islam and violence, wrote Redeker, was an attempt by this same Islam to stifle freedom of thought and expression, the most precious Western value, which did not exist in any Muslim country. Islam was trying to impose its rules on Europe, he added, citing, among others, prohibition of caricatures, pressure to allow girls to wear the hijab to school and accusations of Islamophobia.

(…)

Immediately after publication of this op-ed (ironically, such articles are called “libre opinion” in French), Redeker received credible death threats from Muslims and was forced into hiding. The support of a handful of courageous minds was outweighed by criticism from academic and journalist colleagues, teachers’ unions and public officials, who accused him of reckless insensitivity. Today, Redeker is still in hiding, under government protection.

Redeker explained to Standpoint his current situation: “I am a sort of political refugee within my country.” He has given up teaching, moved away from his home region and must be protected by two bodyguards when he goes to any city. His life has become a crippling exercise of perpetual precautions, but Redeker is not a cause célèbre in France.

(…) Who stands up for Robert Redeker today? Intellectuals such as Roger-Pol Droit, Claude Lanzmann and Pierre-André Taguieff. Certainly not his former colleagues. “Leftists and teachers’ unions would rather defend a terrorist convicted of murder like Cesare Battisti than defend me, a man in danger of being murdered by terrorists,” he says. (France agreed to extradite Battisti to Italy. He had lived in France for 20 years under the protection of a refuge policy established by President François Mitterrand and repealed by the Sarkozy government. But after a campaign led by Carla Bruni, he has since been granted asylum in Brazil.

Is it possible to speak freely about Islam today in France? No, replies Redeker, freedom of expression is under constant pressure from the fallacious notion of “Islamophobia”. The term, invented by Ayatollah Khomeini to stifle critics, equates the legitimate criticism of a religion and its ideology with racism. Reasonable people are frightened, he says, by Islamist ideology and barbaric practices. “It’s not a question of Islam as religious belief but as a coercive ideology that crushes millions of human beings under its implacable yoke.” Europeans justifiably fear the loss of freedoms won in bitter struggles over centuries; they fear the intrusion of religion in politics, jeopardising the separation of church and state.

via Refugee in his Own Country | Standpoint.Online. Thanks to O Insurgente.

Considering the circumstances leading to the present situation, it is something to examine carefully. I mean: he is not a guy from the MSM, nor a politician. He was just a school teacher and the establishment rejected him because his ideas didn’t fit in the tolerant rants a good teacher should give from time to time. He was not glamourous, just as Sarkozy marrying Carla Bruni, and he was saying inconvenient truths. Comparing Muhammad with Jesus to lately say that the first was a prohet of hate while the latter was a prophet of love, is something very dangerous, specially because it attacks the foundations of the multicultural ideology.

But just as in another cases of hunting down anti-Islamist types, the attacks are not directed towards the jihadists (whatever they are legal jihadists or killing jihadists), but towards the people who are denouncing those jihadists and their supporters. It’s killing the messenger or, more likely, understanding why the messenger is killed. In case he is killed.

Other interesting links:

1. Wikipedia page on Robert Redeker.
2. Teacher in hiding after attack on Islam stirs death threats.

Another aspect of this to mention is that role played by Carla Bruni: she had time to defend a convicted terrorist, but the Secular God forgive her if she had to defend Redeker. Hmm, speaking about European leftists (don’t forget she supported Royal in the past Presidential Elections…).