A Saudi Arabian court sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to four months imprisonment, 40 lashes, and deportation from the country for having two men not related to her in her home.

This incident occurred last year, but the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, was sentenced only recently. She was dining with two unrelated men, “Fahd” and “Hadian.” She nursed Fahd when he was young, while Hadian accompanied Fahd and brought her bread.

Because she was with two men not related to her, the country’s religious police arrested both men (and sentenced both of them to several lashes and prison terms).

According to Islamic law, if a woman nurses a boy then he is considered to be a son. However, this interpretation didn’t sway the “Mutaween” or “The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” religious police.

via Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling with men – Digital Journal: Your News Network.

Unbelievable… except for the fact that we are speaking about Saudi Arabia… What a bunch of idiots!! What do they think this 75-year-old woman (in fact, an OLDIE) was doing with this two guys? Having sex? They were bringing her bread, you frigging idiots.

What dirty minds these guys have! 

The bullnecked president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at the mosque and with chilling composure explained why seven young women who had been shot in the head deserved to die.

Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had “loose morals” and were rightfully shot by male relatives in honor killings.

“If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them are killed,” Kadyrov told journalists in the capital of this Russian republic.

via Ironic Surrealism v3.0 » Chechnya: Honor Killings Have President Ramzan Kadyrov’s Stamp of Approval.

More in the Iconoclast:

Many people suspect Kadyrov is branding the seven late November slayings honor killings to advance his political agenda. He said the women were planning to go abroad to work as prostitutes, but their relatives found out about it and killed them.

(…) Rights activists fear that Kadyrov’s approval of honor killings may encourage men to carry them out. Honor killings are considered part of Chechen tradition. No records are kept, but human rights activists estimate dozens of women are killed every year.

What the president says is law,” said Gistam Sakaeva, a Chechen activist who works to defend women’s rights. “Because the president said this, many will try to gain his favor by killing someone, even if there is no reason.”

Back in March 2006 I wrote that Kadyrov had already started “demanding women to wear headscarves”.

But we don’t need to go sooo far for finding this kind of ideas: Finnish Islamic party wants to introduce Shariah Law in Finland. And Shariah Law demands stoning of adulterers. Men are condemned (normally) to some lashes. Of course, lashes are not funny and more than 80 can kill you, but stoning specially in women, who are covered till the chest, is mortal in near all the cases.

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.

(…) The killing apparently occurred some time late Thursday afternoon. Detectives still are looking for the murder weapon.

“Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible,” Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today.

Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.

“She had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday the 6th [of February],” Benz said.

via Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife : Don’t Miss : The Buffalo News.

Islam in Action via GP:

He was the founder of Bridges TV. A show started to help combat the negative perceptions of Islam and also to build bridges to the non-Muslim world.

Well, I guess beheading his wife is not the best way to “build bridges to the non-Muslim world”…

Winds of Jihad:

HASSAN and Bridges TV of Buffalo has been a focus of investigation by the Northeast Intelligence Network in the past. The Northeast Intelligence Network made several inquiries to HASSAN and Bridges TV about their relationship with al Manar television (Hizbullah’s TV) – inquiries that HASSAN and his station refused to answer. (Photo: Aasiya Zubair) (HASSAN)

Looks like as if this moderate wasn’t so moderate: Daniel Pipes writes if investors from Bridges TV were mislead about this man (h/t Michelle Malkin):

Every night, Bridges TV shows a news program, “Talking Points.” Its guest on October 4 was Imam Mohammad Alo Elahi, whom it described as a leading “interfaith figure.” According to his Web site, Imam Elahi was a spiritual leader in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iranian navy and also is the leader of “one of the largest mosques in the U.S.,” in Dearborn, Mich. The Web site describes his meetings with world leaders and shows photographs of him with the spiritual adviser of Hezbollah, Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah; Ayatollah Khomeini; Presidents Khatemi and Rafsanjani of Iran; Secretary-General Annan of the United Nations; and Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Throughout the day, Bridges TV airs segments of Koranic verses, quite a few of which denounce “unbelievers.” One notable verse that aired October 9 praised martyrdom.

Since the Islamic holy month of Ramadan began, the channel has been showing official, Saudi government-controlled Wahhabi sermons from Mecca’s holiest mosque, Al-Haram. The sermons stream live via Saudi TV Channel one every day at 4 p.m., and Bridges TV adds its own English subtitles. An anti-Jewish, anti-Christian sermon from October 5 included the call, “May God destroy them!”

Hmm, yes, how moderate…

In Haarlem a man has been arrested on suspicion of having genitally mutilated his five-year-old daughter. The man of Moroccan origin was taken into custody at the end of October after the girl’s foster parents had made a report to the police (and we know about it now…). The case has only now been made public. Doctors have confirmed that the girl’s genitals have been mutilated, but the father denies responsibility. He has been charged with grievous bodily harm. The case is expected to come to trial in May.

via Dutch News: Moroccan Man Arrested For Sexually Mutilating His Daughter » Winds Of Jihad.

I would like to know why she is taken care by foster parents, instead of being with her father… It was his daughter, for God’s sake!!

Related: Female genital mutilation: “Required by Islam and our elders”, Egypt: 97% of married woman undergo genital mutilation, Clitoral Relativism Female Genital Mutilation in “Tolerant” Islamic Indonesia por Andrew Boston, Bedouin Girl suffers Life Threatening Haemorrhaging, Gambian Muslim Leader: FGM, an honor, Yemen: FGM and Underage Marriage Continues, States do Little to Prevent FGM, FGM in Italy (back in 2004), American feminists finally take a position on the Plight of Islamic Women (Feminists are THE VICTIMS, of course), Islam and FGM.