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Muslim NHS dentist 'tried to force patients to wear traditional Islamic dress'[i]
A Muslim NHS dentist faces being struck off after a tribunal ruled he tried to force patients to wear traditional Islamic dress before treating them.
Published: 9:26AM BST 02 Jul 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...mic-dress.html


Omer Butt kept a box full of hijabs at his practice so he could lend them to women before checking their teeth.

Omer Butt, 32, whose brother Hassan used to be spokesman for the banned radical Muslim group Al Muhajiroun, ordered female patients to wear headscarves and forced men to take off gold jewellery before allowing them into the dentists' chair.

He even kept a box full of hijabs at his practice so he could lend them to women before checking their teeth.

NHS staff told not to hold meetings where alcohol served in order not to offend Muslims

Butt enforced his religious dress code despite previously being warned by the General Dental Council for the same offence. The GDC has ruled Butt imposed a general dress code at his practice, the Unsworth Smile Clinic in Bury, Lancashire, for more than two years from April 2005.

Butt was also found to have confrontations with two patients known as Ms B and Mr C and their families during that period.

The panel will now decide what action to take.

"Your evidence was that you regard yourself as a Muslim first and a dentist second and it is clear you were using your position as a dentist to seek to influence patients as to non-clinical issues," committee chairwoman Gill Brown told the dentist.

"You have explained you had a moral and religious obligation to persuade other Muslims to comply with Islamic requirements.

"The committee is satisfied from all the evidence that your attitude went beyond merely seeking to persuade, request or advise Muslim patients and that you sought to impose the dress code upon them."

Butt posted a sign on his waiting room wall telling Muslim patients to adhere to his strict code.

NHS managers visited the surgery in April 2005 following complaints from patients and ordered him to abandon the policy or face a formal misconduct hearing.

He removed the sign but persisted with the dress code – getting staff to take Muslim patients into a consultation room and tell them they had to wear the right clothes.

Butg phoned the police when Ms B refused to leave his clinic without a complaint form following a treatment session.

The dentist, from Manchester, told her he did not want to see her again after she brought in her son for emergency work.

During treatment Butt asked the mother if her son prayed and when she said "yes" he gave the boy composite fillings rather than silver ones. Using the precious metal for fillings is frowned upon in Islam.

Mr C made a complaint about Butt after bringing his family to register for NHS treatment at the clinic in June 2007.

The dentist asked the man to tell his wife to wear a headscarf or he would not offer the family any treatment.

Mr C then asked for a copy of the surgery admissions policy to be sent to him – which never happened – then made an official complaint.

The case continues.

Iran says no final decision on woman's stoning
[i] Siavosh Ghazi Siavosh Ghazi – Sat Aug 28, 11:52 am ET
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran said on Saturday that it has yet to take a final decision on the stoning of a woman convicted of adultery and complicity in her husband's murder in a case that has sparked an international outcry.

As human rights groups demonstrated in Paris and France called on the European Union to threaten new sanctions, the foreign ministry said that the carrying out of the sentence has been stayed pending a judicial review.

"In this case, implementation of the sentence has been stayed and is under review by the judiciary," ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told AFP.

Human rights officials in the judiciary, quoted by ISNA news agency, said 43-year-old mother of two Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in a case which also got her a 10-year jail term for participating in her husband's murder.

Mohammadi-Ashtiani and her lover Issa Taheri escaped the death sentence for their role in the murder as they were pardoned by the victims' relatives, a statement by the rights officials said.

Mehmanparast said that such severe sentences are never carried out without exhaustive judicial consideration.

"For heavy sentences, we have meticulous and lengthy procedures," he said.

"This verdict is currently being reviewed, and when the judiciary arrives at a final conclusion, it will be announced."

Mehmanparast said that Mohammadi-Ashtiani faced two separate sets of charges.

"One concerns her betrayal of her husband and having illicit relations with strangers. On this count, implementation of sentence has been stayed and is under review by the judiciary," he said.

"On the second count, she is accused of being an accomplice in the murder of her husband. That case is in its final proceedings.

"These crimes (adultery and murder) have been proved, but there is no definitive judgment."

On Friday, France stepped up the diplomatic pressure on Iran over the case by urging the European Union to adopt new sanctions if Mohammadi-Ashtiani is stoned to death.

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner wrote to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton calling for a joint warning to Iran by all 27 member states not to carry out the sentence.

"A joint letter from all EU member states to the Iranian authorities has become necessary, in my view, if we want to save this young woman," Kouchner wrote in a letter to Ashton.

"We must engage the Union in new initiatives to remind Iranian authorities that, just as in the nuclear matter, their isolationist and closed stance will have a cost for them."

Like the United States, the European Union has imposed its own additional sanctions against Iran's controversial nuclear programme over and above the four sets of punitive measures already approved by the United Nations.

In her reply to Kouchner, Ashton said: "The moment has come for the European Union to collectively express its rejection of practices of another age."

On Saturday, rallies took place in several French cities in support of Mohammadi-Ashtiani, with around 300 people gathering in central Paris. Smaller demonstrations took place in Toulouse, Lyon, Poitiers and Montpellier.

Mohammadi-Ashtiani's lawyer Javid Houtan Kian welcomed the international spotlight on his client, but expressed concern about the chances of overturning the sentence.

"The people who are going to review the case know they are under international scrutiny... They know their decision will have international ramifications," Houtan Kian told Britain's The Times newspaper.

"If the Iranian judiciary follows the written code I would be very, very optimistic because there are so many flaws in the case. Anyone would realise that," he said.

"The problem is that they don?t follow their own rules any more so it?s completely unpredictable.

"If they can get away with stoning Sakineh, they can get away with anything."

The Iranian judiciary's human rights officials dismissed international criticism of the case, insisting the charges against Mohammadi-Ashtiani were "proven."

Their statement said comments made about the case by foreign officials were "unfair and biased... and against the UN charter and international treaties."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/iranexec...Fuc2F5c25vZmk-

When a stoning takes place it is required by law that the stones must be of a certain size. Further, to stone someone with stones that aren't the correct size.......is against the law. These laws are written within the Holy Q'uran.

It states that the stones must not be so small that they do not inflict a certain level of pain.

And, stones must not be so big as to cause death with one blow.

Believe it or not.......stones of just the right sizes.......are gathered just for the purpose of stoning a person to death. Often the stones are transported to the site where the stoning will be carried out.

Men are buried up to their waist, and women are buried up to their neck.

The Q'uran also states that if a person does manage to get free and run then their stoning sentence should be either dismissed, or commuted to a life sentence. The last young woman who I read about being stoned did break free and she was chased down, captured and put back into the hole and reburied so that stoning her to death could continue.

It appears as though the laws are applied by the judges in any form they see fit.

The Q'uran states that adultery is a crime punishable by death.

But.......usually the woman.......is the only party involved.......who is sentenced to death for the adultery.

In this particular case this woman was sentenced to death for committing the adultery. She was then sentenced to 10 years in prison after they said she helped in her husband's killing.

There the male population places no value on women or females of any age. If a man marries a woman.......treats her like a dog.......then she cheats on him,.......he only needs to take it before the court and she is removed from the face of the earth. And, then his life goes on uninterrupted.

The major problems with this type of law is that it is barbaric, totally biased, and unjust. Women are the ones who are forced to suffer horrific deaths, in the public eye. Many times their women relatives and children are forced to attend the woman's execution.

These types of executions serve no purpose.......only to show the people within it's population ..exactly what persons rule.......and the fate any person will suffer if they fail to keep the rulers happy.

These deaths must stop... Adultery shouldn't be punishable by death especially when the laws state that helping with a murder will only get a person a few years behind bars.


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Ahhh... but Islam is the "Religion of Peace", right ??

Lawyer: Iran woman could be stoned to death soon
Nasser Karimi, Associated Press Writer – Mon Sep 6, 5:30 pm ET

TEHRAN, Iran – The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

In an unusual turn in the case, the lawyer also confirmed that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was lashed 99 times last week in a separate punishment meted out because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her. Under Iran's clerical rule, women must cover their hair in public. The newspaper later apologized for the error.

With the end of Ramadan this week, the mother of two could be executed "any moment," said her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian.

The sentence was put on hold in July after an international outcry over the brutality of the punishment, and it is now being reviewed by Iran's supreme court.

Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men after the murder of her husband the year before and was sentenced at that time to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession that she says was made under duress.

"The possibility of stoning still exists, any moment," Kian told The Associated Press. "Her stoning sentence was only delayed; it has not been lifted yet."

Italy is among several countries pressing for Iran to show flexibility in the case. The country's foreign minister, Franco Frattini, said the Italian ambassador in Iran met with authorities in Tehran who "confirmed to us that no decision has been made" about the stoning sentence.

"I interpret that in the sense that the stoning, for now, won't take place," Frattini said in an interview on Italian state TV.

After putting the stoning sentence on hold, Iran suddenly announced that the woman had also been brought to trial and convicted of playing a role in her husband's 2005 murder. Her lawyer disputes that, saying no charges against her in the killing have ever been part of her case file.

In early August, Iranian authorities broadcast a purported confession from Ashtiani on state-run television. In it, a woman identified as Ashtiani admits to being an unwitting accomplice in her husband's killing.

Kian says he believes she was tortured into confessing.

In the latest twist, authorities are said to have flogged her for the publication of a photo of a woman without her hair covered in the Times of London newspaper. The woman in the photo was misidentified as Ashtiani.

She was lashed on Thursday, Kian said, citing information from a fellow prisoner who was released last week. Kian has been allowed no direct contact with his client since last month.

"We have no access to Ashtiani, but there is no reason for the released prisoner to lie" about the flogging, he said.

There was no official Iranian confirmation of the new punishment.

The woman's son, 22-year-old Sajjad Qaderzadeh, said he did not know whether the new lashing sentence had been carried out yet, but that he also heard about the sentence from a prisoner who recently left the Tabriz prison where his mother is being held.

"Publishing the photo provided a judge an excuse to sentence my poor mother to 99 lashes on the charge of taking a picture unveiled," Qaderzadeh told the AP.

The Times apologized in its Monday edition but added that the lashing "is simply a pretext."

"The regime's purpose is to make Ms. Ashtiani suffer for an international campaign to save her that has exposed so much iniquity," the newspaper said.

Another lawyer who once represented Ashtiani, Mohammad Mostafaei, said in a news conference in Paris that it was not certain if there really had been a new conviction and sentence over the photograph. "I have contacted my former colleagues at the court who told me nothing was clear on this situation," he said at the news conference with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. "There isn't any punishment for this act in our law."

Kouchner called the stoning sentence "the height of barbarism" and said her case has become a "personal cause" and he was "ready to do anything to save her. If I must go to Tehran to save her, I'll go to Tehran."

Ashtiani's two children remain in Iran and her son is a ticket seller for a bus company in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz. He said he and his younger sister, Farideh, 18, have not seen their mother since early August. "We have really missed her," he said. "We expect all influential bodies to help to save her."

The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save her life as well.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100906/...d5ZXJpcmFud28-

June 7, 2011
Slave masters, real and imagined
Thomas Lifson

One of the fantasies we see in public statements by certain prominent blacks is that their opponents constitute a new version of slave masters. Black NFL player Adrian Peterson, a man earning millions of dollars a year, compared the situation of his colleagues to "modern-day slavery." http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...?urn=nfl-wp206

Just yesterday, prominent NAACP leader Hazel Dukes blasted a pro-charter-school parent from The Bronx as "doing the business of slave masters" in a shocking e-mail defending the civil-rights organization's lawsuit against city plans to expand charters. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/n...gjH1iyZ94ZUitK

While pathetic and absurd, the misuse of such language tragically trivializes the very real phenomenon of slavery in today's world, something left wing American blacks are loath to acknowledge.

Not only is slavery being practiced in Muslim nations today, there are those who openly seek its expansion. The following post by Raymond Ibrahim at Front Page Magazine is simply stunning: http://www.meforum.org/2930/muslim-w...itution-of-sex

Last week witnessed popular Muslim preacher Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini boast about how Islam allows Muslims to buy and sell conquered infidel women, so that "When I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her."

This week's depraved anachronism comes from a Muslim woman-Salwa al-Mutairi, a political activist and former parliamentary candidate for Kuwait's government, no less: She, too, seeks to "revive the institution of sex-slavery."

A brief English report appeared over the weekend in the Kuwait Times (nothing, of course, in the MSM): http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news...d=NzQ3NzY0MzE=

Mutairi: "In the Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives. So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait; better that than have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations."

Muslim men who fear being seduced or tempted into immoral behavior by the beauty of their female servants, or even of those servants "casting spells" on them, would be better to purchase women from an "enslaved maid" agency for sexual purposes. She [Mutairi] suggested that special offices could be set up to provide concubines in the same way as domestic staff recruitment agencies currently provide housemaids. "We want our youth to be protected from adultery," said al-Mutairi, suggesting that these maids could be brought as prisoners of war in war-stricken nations like Chechnya to be sold on later to devout merchants.

There is more. Read the whole thing. Remember that Kuwait is our ally, on whose behalf we fought a war.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/..._imagined.html

Afghan woman killed, apparently for bearing girl
By AMIR SHAH and HEIDI VOGT | Associated Press – 7 mins ago

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan woman has been strangled to death, apparently by her husband, who was upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he wanted, police said Monday.

It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in the past few months — including a 15-year-old tortured and forced into prostitution by in-laws and a female rape victim who was imprisoned for adultery.

The episodes have raised the question of what will happen to the push for women's rights in Afghanistan as the international presence here shrinks along with the military drawdown. NATO forces are scheduled to pull out by the end of 2014.

In the 10 years since the ouster of the Taliban, great strides have been made for women in Afghanistan, with many attending school, working in offices and even sometimes marching in protests. But abuse and repression of women are still common, particularly in rural areas where women are still unlikely to set foot outside of the house without a burqa robe that covers them from head to toe.

The man in the latest case, Sher Mohammad, fled the Khanabad district in Kunduz province last week, about the time a neighbor found his 22-year-old wife dead in their house, said District Police Chief Sufi Habibullah. Medical examiners whom police brought to check the body said she had been strangled, Habibullah said.

The woman, named Estorai, had warned family members that her husband had repeatedly reproached her for giving birth to a daughter rather than a son and had threatened to kill her if it happened again, said Provincial women's affairs chief Nadira Ghya, who traveled to Khanabad to deal with the case. Estorai gave birth to her second daughter between two and three months ago, Ghya said. Officials did not have a family name for either Sher Mohammad or Estorai.

Police took the man's mother into custody because she appears to have collaborated in a plot to kill her daughter-in-law, Habibullah said. Ghya, who visited the man's mother in jail, said that she swears that Estorai committed suicide by hanging. Police said they found no rope and no evidence of hanging from the woman's wounds.

Boy babies are traditionally prized much more highly than girls in Afghanistan, where a son means a breadwinner and a daughter is seen as a drain on the family until she is married off. Even so, a murder over the gender of a baby would be rare and shocking if proved true.

The U.S. Embassy issued a statement Monday praising the Afghan government for recent declarations supporting women's rights in the wake of the latest abuse cases that have garnered media attention. "The rights of women cannot be relegated to the margins of international affairs, as this issue is at the core of our national security and the security of people everywhere," the statement said. It did not address the killing of the young woman in Kunduz.

http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-woman-k...133133288.html

I wonder what became of the baby ?