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Sunday,
October 8, 2006
News and
commentary:
"Global Cabifate" (Tim Blair, timblair.net, 2006/10/08)
"Minneapolis, Minnesota:Cab drivers said they’d rather wait for another fare than risk punishment in the afterlife.
"It is forbidden in Islam to carry alcohol,” Mursal said. “Therefore, I don’t carry alcohol.”
Melbourne, Australia:
Muslim taxi drivers are refusing to carry blind passengers with their guide dogs or anyone carrying alcohol.
At least 20 dog-aided blind people have lodged discrimination complaints with the Victorian Taxi Directorate. Dozens more have voiced their anger.
And there have been several complaints that drivers refuse to allow passengers to carry sealed bottles of alcohol.
London, England:
A Muslim minicab driver refused to take a blind passenger because her guide dog was “unclean”.
Abdul Rasheed Majekodumni told Jane Vernon she could not get into his car with the dog because of his religion. Islamic tradition warns Muslims against contact with dogs because they are seen as impure."
"Iran Embassy protests to Danish Gov't for repetition of anti-Islam sacrilege" (IRNA, 2006/10/08)
Video III: "Frankfurt, Oct 8, IRNA - Iran-Denmark-Protest
Iranian Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sunday strongly protested to the Danish government for screening blasphemous video clips against Islam and Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
"It is regrettable that on the anniversary of publishing anti-Islam blasphemous cartoons by Jyllands-Posten daily of Denmark in September last year and subsequent worldwide protests in which several innocent people died in clash with national police forces, certain political parties in Denmark repeated the same stupid practice of sacrilege," the Embassy said in a statement." (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)"Danish Video Sparks Fresh Outrage" (Saeed Al-Abyad, Arab News, 2006/10/08)
Video II: "JEDDAH, 8 October 2006 — The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) yesterday said it will demand an explanation from the Danish government for the state TV’s broadcasting of a video mocking the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
Danish state TV on Friday aired amateur video footage showing a number of members of the anti-immigrant Danish Peoples’ Party (DPP) at a summer camp in August drinking, singing and engaging in a competition to draw humiliating images of the Prophet.
A source at the 57-member OIC said the group will try to “find out the reasons behind the repeated ridiculing of the Prophet in Denmark” and warned that the incident would have dangerous repercussions.""Indonesian Muslims angered by Danish broadcast" (AFP/Khaleej Times, 2006/10/08)
Video I: "JAKARTA - A video lampooning the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) broadcast in Denmark has angered groups in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
Denmark’s national TV2 channel on Friday broadcast excerpts from the video showing Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as a beer-drinking camel and as a drunken terrorist attacking Copenhagen.
The video, filmed in August, was made by members of the far-right Danish People’s Party.
It shows the Prophet being mocked during a summer party, with some portraying Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as dressed in a turban and wearing a belt with explosives, as others look on and laugh.
‘In Islam, death is the penalty for insulting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), visually through a caricature or verbally, except if the doer regrets his deed and promises not to repeat it,’ said Fausan Al Ansori, a spokesman for the hardline Indonesian Muhajehdin Council.
He added: ‘Danish authorities should think seriously, are they going to defend, in the name of human rights, one or two of its citizens who clearly insulted the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and sacrifice its relations with the Islamic world?’" (Hat tip: Jihad Watch. See also: "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denounces what it calls 'new Danish insults' to Islam" (AP/IHT, 2006/10/07))"Jack Straw should be praised for lifting the veil on a taboo" (Henry Porter, The Observer, 2006/10/08)
"We have a problem with radicalised Muslims in Europe. Do we ignore what is going on and hope things just get better or confront the minority and risk antagonising a much larger section of Muslim opinion?
Maybe there isn't a choice because liberal democracies are already under attack from sections of their Muslim populations. Maybe one unacknowledged truth in this debate is that radical elements have been empowered by al-Qaeda's terrorist campaign and feel able to insist on the watering down of liberal democratic values in Europe with the hope that Sharia law will eventually be established.
Since the Danish cartoons controversy last year, there have been many examples of Muslims asserting their right to censor or criticise on grounds of religious offence. ...
Should we perhaps follow Voltaire's injunction: 'Écrasez l'Infâme!' ('Crush the infamous!') and expose the fanaticism, superstition and intolerance of all extremist religion regardless? After all, the Muslim population of Europe is a small percentage of the total. Why should the majority of Europeans have their culture judged and trimmed by this tiny, clamorous minority?" (See also: "A man of straw no more?" (Melanie Phillips, melaniephillips.com, 2006/10/06) and "Take off your veils, says Straw" (Nigel Bunyan and Graeme Wilson, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/10/06))"Drive for multi-faith Britain deepens rifts, says Church" (Jonathan Wynne-Jones, The Sunday Telegraph, 2006/10/08)
"The Church of England has launched an astonishing attack on the Government's drive to turn Britain into a multi-faith society.
In a wide-ranging condemnation of policy, it says that the attempt to make minority "faith" communities more integrated has backfired, leaving society "more separated than ever before". The criticisms are made in a confidential Church document, leaked to The Sunday Telegraph, that challenges the "widespread description" of Britain as a multi-faith society and even calls for the term "multi-faith" to be reconsidered.
It claims that divisions between communities have been deepened by the Government's "schizophrenic" approach to tackling multiculturalism. While trying to encourage interfaith relations, it has actually given "privileged attention" to the Islamic faith and Muslim communities.""Fury as St Andrews honours Hezbollah backer" (The Sunday Times, 2006/10/08)
"STUDENT leaders are organising a mass protest over St Andrews University’s decision to award an honorary degree to a former Iranian president who praised Hezbollah.
Muhammad Khatami is to be made an honorary doctor of laws by Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader who is also the university’s chancellor.
Khatami will open the university’s Institute for Iranian Studies, which will house 12,000 books donated by Sadegh Kharazi, Iran’s former ambassador to France. The collection of Iranian texts, the largest of its kind in Europe, is estimated to be worth more than £100,000.
The decision to confer the honour on Khatami has provoked criticism from human rights groups who claim thousands of Iranian citizens were jailed and tortured for their political beliefs during his eight-year term that ended last year with the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.""Britain says Pakistan is hiding Taliban chief" (Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times, 2006/10/08)
"THE British general commanding Nato troops in Afghanistan is to confront Pakistan’s president over his country’s support for the Taliban.
Among the evidence amassed is the address of the Taliban’s leader in a Pakistani city.
Lieutenant-General David Richards will fly to Islamabad tomorrow to try to persuade Pervez Musharraf to rein in his military intelligence service, which Richards believes is training Taliban fighters to attack British troops. He will request that key Taliban leaders living in Pakistan be arrested.
The evidence compiled by American, Nato and Afghan intelligence includes satellite pictures and videos of training camps for Taliban soldiers and suicide bombers inside Pakistan.
Captured Taliban fighters and failed suicide bombers have confirmed that they were trained by the Pakistani intelligence service, known as the ISI. The information includes an address in Quetta where Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, is said to live." (See also: "Pakistan Surrenders" (Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Bill Roggio, The Weekly Standard, 2006/10/02))
Saturday,
October 7, 2006
News and
commentary:
"Last Sunday night..." (Bruce Bawer, brucebawer.com, 2006/10/07)
"Last Sunday night, in Oslo, three sisters of Pakistani origin were murdered. Shortly thereafter their brother, Shahzad Khan, was arrested for the crime. Sources close to the family said it was an honor killing. According to these sources, the sisters’ father and brothers thought they had become too independent. ...
The website of Human Rights Service provides information that does not appear in the mainstream media’s reports. “Our contacts in [Oslo’s Pakistani] community say that the brother accused of murder exploited the opportunity for sick leave for reasons of ‘psychological suffering’ to avoid work. He is described as a work-shy type. A great responsibility for the girls in the family was imposed on him while the father spent long periods in Pakistan. This task was surely anything but simple, since both Saabia (24) and Sobia (27) developed increasing independence and got by on their own in most respects, including financially. In addition they themselves wanted to take part in choosing their own spouses, especially after Sobia’s forced marriage to a cousin from Pakistan, who knifed both Saabia and Sobia while their little sister Nafisa looked on. ...
HRS also writes: 'We are told that the men of the family have tried to get the girls to travel to Pakistan recently, but that they refused. They feared forced marriage. They are also said to have feared being deprived of their freedom of movement in the village where the family has established itself with an impressive residence....HRS possesses more information that we cannot share with the public, though we are of course sharing it with the Oslo police.'" (See also: "Three sisters shot and killed" (Nina Berglund, Aftenposten, 2006/10/02))"Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denounces what it calls 'new Danish insults' to Islam" (AP/IHT, 2006/10/07)
"CAIRO, Egypt Egypt's largest Islamic group, the Muslim Brotherhood, on Saturday denounced what it called "new Danish insults" to Islam and urged the world to boycott countries that allow offenses to all religions.
The Brotherhood's condemnation came a day after word spread about a Web video showing young members of a populist Danish political party mocking Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
The video showed people in their 20s and 30s participating in a drawing contest at a summer camp for the Danish People's Party Youth last August. They appeared to have been drinking alcohol.
The footage shows a woman presenting a drawing of a camel and saying it has "the head of Muhammad" and beer bottles as humps. The group laughs as the woman, who was not identified, explained the drawing.
"Muslims are shocked by this new Danish insult," the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement issued Saturday. It described the drawing as 'the ugliest for God's most honorable human being, peace be upon him.'" (Hat tip: Jihad Watch. See also the video: "Video: Young "Danish People's Party" Members Draw Muhammed" (sugiero, 2006/10/07))"Brave heroes hounded out" (Julie Moult et al., The Sun, 2006/10/07)
"MUSLIM yobs who wrecked a house to stop four brave soldiers moving in after returning from Afghanistan sparked outrage last night.
The house in a village near riot-torn Windsor had BRICKS thrown through windows and was DAUBED with messages of hate.
Four young Household Cavalry officers who had planned to rent it were also the target of phone THREATS.
They were yesterday forced to look elsewhere to live — after top brass warned them against inflaming racial violence near the Queen’s Windsor Castle home." (Hat tip: Jihad Watch. See also: "Race clashes hit Windsor" (The Evening Standard, 2006/10/05))
Friday,
October 6, 2006
News and
commentary:
"La Poupée"
(Hans Bellmer, 1933-45)
"La Poupée, by Hans Bellmer, currently located at the Centre Georges Pompidou, museum of modern art in Paris, France.""UK gallery scraps art, fearing Muslim rage: curator" (Reuters, 2006/10/06)
"PARIS (Reuters) - A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday, a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason.
The director of Britain's Whitechapel Art Gallery decided to remove works by surrealist artist Hans Bellmer from an exhibition the day before it was due to open, one of the museum's curators, Agnes de la Beaumelle, told Reuters.
"The motive was simply to not shock the population of the Whitechapel neighborhood, which is partly Muslim," she said.
The Whitechapel area in east London is home to many ethnic minorities including a large Bangladeshi community.
The gallery issued a statement saying that some works were not included in the exhibition because of space constraints but declined to comment specifically on what Beaumelle said.""A man of straw no more?" (Melanie Phillips, melaniephillips.com, 2006/10/06)
"Pinch me, I must be dreaming. Jack Straw of all people has broken the great taboo by daring to challenge the wearing of the Islamic full-face veil in Britain and ignited a hitherto suppressed public debate?":
"A number of Muslims have voiced strong support for Straw’s comments. Others, however, responded in the predictable way, sometimes without realising the hole they were digging for themselves. Sheik Ibrahim Nogra of the Muslim Council of Britain, for example, said:Does Mr Straw mean that people should give up certain cultural and religious customs and practices simply because a vast majority of the country do not share them? That is calling for assimilation. That is saying that one culture or one way of life is superior to another.
Well, actually the point about being British is that, if your minority values conflict with those of the majority, the latter do take precedence. That’s what citizenship is all about. So in his outrage, Mr Nogra gives the game away.
Dr Reefat Drabu, the chairman of the social and family affairs committee of the Muslim Council of Britain, extolled British society — and then promptly extolled something quite different:
This country is supposed to celebrate diversity. That is the wonderful thing about this country: that it accepts, that it is tolerant. Women who wear the veil are making the statement that they are separate from society [my emphasis] and that is why they wear it.
Whoops!" (See also: "Take off your veils, says Straw" (Nigel Bunyan and Graeme Wilson, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/10/06))
"'Muslim extremists planning attacks on Israelis and Jews'" (The Jerusalem Post, 2006/10/06)
"According to the report in Czech newspaper Mlad Fronta Dnes, Muslim extremists affiliated with an unnamed group planned to abduct Jewish residents of Prague and hold them hostage in one of the city's synagogues and stage negotiations with local authorities.
However, the group never intended to release the hostages. Rather, the kidnappers planned to make unrealistic demands, and then, when their demands went unmet, blow up the building and its occupants.
The report did not mention whether any suspects in the plot had been arrested.
Two weeks ago, the Czech government raised the level of alert and increased security at a number of locations, but did not specify why.""Angels and Intelligence Estimates" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2006/10/06)
"Moreover, does anyone imagine that had the jihadists in Iraq remained home they would now be tending petunias rather than plotting terror attacks? Omar al-Farouq, leader of al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia, escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan a year ago and was apparently drawn to the "cause celebre" in Iraq. Last month he was killed by British troops in a firefight in Basra. In an audiotape released Sept. 28, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq said that more than 4,000 of its recruits have been killed there since the American invasion. Like Omar al-Farouq and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, they went to Iraq to die in Iraq.
It is clear that one of the reasons we have gone an astonishing five years without a second attack on the American homeland is that the most dedicated and virulent jihadists have gone to Iraq to fight us, as was said during World War I, "over there."
Does the war in Iraq make us more or less safe today? And what about tomorrow? The fact is that no definitive answer is possible. Except for the following truism: During all wars we are by definition less safe -- and the surest way back to safety is victory.""Europe Is Growing Skeptical Of Dialogue With Muslims" (Youssef Ibrahim, New York Sun, 2006/10/06)
"After years of dithering over political correctness with Muslims and Islam, Europe is waking up to a different morning.
A three-week tour of Italy, France, and Britain last month was enough for me to conclude that Western Europeans have moved way beyond dialogue. Confrontation, indeed even provocation, is their preferred approach to the Muslims in their midst.
Long before Pope Benedict XVI's scathing comments in mid-September on the fallacy of phony Muslim-Christian dialogue, signs of hardening European views toward current Islamic values were plentiful on the Continent.
It was telling, for example, to see how Europeans greeted the naïve commentary that surfaced in America's National Intelligence Estimate, titled "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States." The NIE told bemused Europeans, among other things, that "greater pluralism and more responsive political systems in Muslim majority nations would alleviate some of the grievances jihadists exploit."
Situated closer than America to that rough neighborhood called the Middle East, Europeans reacted by noting that the chances for "greater pluralism" in any Muslim country are about as plausible as hell freezing over." (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)"Take off your veils, says Straw" (Nigel Bunyan and Graeme Wilson, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/10/06)
"Jack Straw provoked anger yesterday by suggesting that community relations would be helped if Muslim women did not wear full veils.
The Leader of the Commons disclosed that for the past year he had been asking women who visited his constituency office to remove their veils so that he could see them face-to-face. He always made sure that he was accompanied by a female member of staff and so far no constituent had refused to lift her veil.
Mr Straw said that wearing the full veil was bound to make "better, positive relations" between communities more difficult, as it could be seen "as a visible statement of separation and difference". He had felt "uncomfortable" whenever a woman had worn one in his Blackburn constituency office."
Thursday,
October 5, 2006
News and
commentary:
"Race clashes hit Windsor" (The Evening Standard, 2006/10/05)
"Extra police are being drafted into the Windsor area today after three nights of violent clashes between white and Asian youths.
Gangs have fought battles in the streets using baseball bats and pitchforks. A Muslim-run dairy which wants to build a mosque was petrol bombed.
Dozens of officers have been deployed to stop and search youths and mounted police are being brought in. ...
Despite a lack of planning permission to use Technor House as a place of worship, workers and visitors have been praying there.
Violence flared for the first time on Monday outside the building in Vale Road in the Dedworth area of Windsor.
There was an altercation between a teenage boy and dairy staff during prayers. It escalated and the windows of several vehicles were smashed.
Amid claims that the boy, his mother and teenage sister were assaulted, up to 50 young people clashed on Tuesday night.
Windows of the makeshift mosque and dairy vehicles were smashed. Residents said gangs of Asian youths travelled from Slough to fight the white gang. One youth was reportedly arrested for carrying a 12-inch knife." (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.)"Met chief orders inquiry into Muslim PC embassy row" (The Evening Standard, 2006/10/05)
"Sir Ian Blair has ordered an 'urgent inquiry' after a Muslim police officer was excused from guarding London's Israeli Embassy after he objected to the duty on 'moral grounds'.
Sir Ian said: "Having learned of this issue I have asked for an urgent review of the situation and a full report into the circumstances."
PC Alexander Omar Basha - a member of the Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group - refused to be posted there because he objected to Israeli bombings in Lebanon and the resulting civilian casualties of fellow Muslims.
In a move which has caused widespread astonishment at Scotland Yard, senior officers in the DPG agreed that that PC Basha should be given an alternative posting. ...
Ex-Met Flying Squad commander John O'Connor, said: 'This is the beginning of the end for British policing.
If they can allow this, surely they'll have to accept a Jewish officer not wanting to work at an Islamic national embassy? Will Catholic cops be let off working at Protestant churches? Where will it end? This decision is going to allow officers to act in a discriminating and racist way.'" (Hat tip: USS Neverdock.)"Berlin opera house reinstates controversial opera" (DPA/Expatica, 2006/10/05)
"The Berlin opera house which last week cancelled a production for fear of protests by Muslims announced Wednesday it was reinstating Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but set no date.
Media and German politicians have accused Deutsche Oper Berlin of practising "self-censorship" and kowtowing to violent radicals. ...
Opera house spokesman Alexander Busche said, "The earliest slot for the production is in December, but first we need an okay about security from the police." City police are expected to mount a strong guard at the theatre if there are any demonstrations outside.""Anger in Holland over 'apartheid' Islamic hospital" (David Rennie, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/10/05)
"Plans for a Muslim-only hospital in Holland have sparked a heated debate over its separate all-male and all-female wings, halal food and roster of duty imams.
A populist Right-wing party described the plan for the clinic in south Rotterdam as "a step backwards to the Middle Ages".
There will be segregation between the sexes, with male patients treated by an exclusively male nursing and medical staff and similar arrangements for females.""Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union" (David Rennie, The Daily Telegraph, 2006/10/05)
"Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.
As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were "in a state of civil war" with Muslims in the most depressed "banlieue" estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin.
It said the situation was so grave that it had asked the government to provide police with armoured cars to protect officers in the estates, which are becoming no-go zones. ...
Michel Thoomis, the secretary general of the hardline Action Police trade union, has written to Mr Sarkozy warning of an "intifada" on the estates and demanding that officers be given armoured cars in the most dangerous areas.
He said yesterday: 'We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists. This is not a question of urban violence any more, it is an intifada, with stones and Molotov cocktails. You no longer see two or three youths confronting police, you see whole tower blocks emptying into the streets to set their 'comrades' free when they are arrested.'"
Wednesday,
October 4, 2006
News and
commentary:
"Publisher Pulls Book On Muslim Violence" (Shlomo Greenwald, The Jewish Press, 2006/10/04)
"The latest example of radical Muslim interference with free speech took place without even a hint of a fatwah.
Last week a book publisher told Nancy Kobrin, a psychoanalyst and lecturer on counter-terrorism, that they were withdrawing the publication of her book, "The Sheikh's New Clothes," because they were afraid of fundamentalist repercussions, according to Kobrin.
The book, subtitled "The Naked Truth about Islamic Suicide Terrorism," tackles the psychology of fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and tries to understand the roots of their radical behavior.
Kobrin had been working on the book for about a year, and signed a contract with Looseleaf Law Publications in September 2005. The book was scheduled for publication in about a month. ...
According to Kobrin, Mary Loughrey, a vice president with the book publisher, called to tell her that 'because of security reasons they feared for the safety of the staff and themselves.'" (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.)
Tuesday,
October 3, 2006
News and
commentary:
"An Opera In the Key Of Denial" (Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post, 2006/10/03)
"In fact, the fuss over the Deutsche Oper and its bloody heads demonstrates that Germany, like much of Europe, remains totally unprepared for the reality of modern terrorism. ...
In truth, the fact that Germany still hasn't experienced a Madrid- or London-style bombing is thanks to good luck, not good planning. As recently as July, German police discovered two unexploded -- because of poor design -- suitcase bombs on a train.
That Germany contains the kinds of radicals who could and would carry out such a threat is beyond doubt: Mohamed Atta, leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, studied in Hamburg. That Germans don't want to think about this is beyond dispute, too: More than 80 percent have told pollsters that they don't feel personally threatened by terrorism at all. ...
By contrast, it's not unusual in Germany, or elsewhere in Europe, to hear that the "war on terrorism" is phony, a jumped-up invention of the Bush administration and the American media, a pretend reason for the invasion of Iraq, a laughably stupid way of conning voters -- and a pathetic excuse for limiting artistic freedom.
Neither the events of Sept. 11 nor any of the bombings that followed seems to have convinced Europeans that anything important has changed in the world. I only wish they were right."
Monday,
October 2, 2006
News and
commentary:
"'Europeans Have Stopped Defending Their Values'" (Der Spiegel, 2006/10/02)
"For years, political scientist Bassam Tibi has been urging Muslims to integrate into European societies and Europe to stand up to Islamists. He spoke with SPIEGEL about the weakness of Europe, the orthodoxy of Islam and what Germany needs to do to open up.":"Tibi: ... When it comes to Islam, there is no freedom of the press nor freedom of opinion in Germany. Organized groups in Islamic communities want to decide what is said and done here. I myself have been dropped from numerous events because of threats.
SPIEGEL: You are trying to say that critics of Islam are systematically silenced in Germany?
Tibi: Yes. Even the comparatively moderate Turkish organization DITIB says there are no Islamists, only Islam and Muslims -- anything else is racism. That means that you can no longer criticize the religion. ...
Tibi: ... Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism. ...
Tibi: Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system. This is incompatible with the German constitution. There are also two things they need to redefine.
SPIEGEL: Which are?
Tibi: Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance. In Islam tolerance means that Christians and Jews are allowed to live under the protection of Muslims but never as citizens with the same rights. What Muslims call tolerance is nothing other than discrimination.
SPIEGEL: How many of the 3 million Muslims living in Germany would agree to these demands?
Tibi: A few thousand perhaps."
"Three sisters shot and killed" (Nina Berglund, Aftenposten, 2006/10/02)
No article I've read so far on this horrible triple murder mentions honor killing as a possible motive, although it seems quite likely given the information so far. If it turns out to be the case, this massacre will hopefully be a wake up call:
"A 30-year-old man was in police custody and under observation at Ullevål University Hospital Monday after he's believed to have shot and killed all three of his sisters at the family's home in Oslo Sunday night.
The three sisters, aged 13, 24 and 27, lived in the flat in Oslo's Kalbakken district with their three brothers, their wives and children. The 30-year-old brother was the oldest, and police said he functioned as head of the household when the retired patriarch of the family was on one of his trips to Pakistan, as he was this week.
Police said they received a call Sunday night from one of the younger brothers in the home, and he reported "the shooting of a woman." When police arrived they found all three sisters dead.
The eldest brother had fled but was captured within a half-hour and and reportedly told police "it's probably me you're looking for," before he passed out.
He was rushed to the Oslo emergency clinic (Legevakt) and later to Ullevål hospital. Police said they still hadn't been able to question him, because his condition was too unstable.
Police said they therefore had no motive for the murders. Neighbours also described the shootings as baffling, describing the family as "very nice" and "completely normal," noting that they often invited neighbours in for Pakistani food.
Some friends of the sisters, however, told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that there had been "a lot of quarrelling" within the family."Added in archive:
"Afraid of the Fear of Terror" (Henryk M. Broder, Der Spiegel, 2006/09/27)
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