EGYPT - Scholars of Al Azhar presents a bill against those who use religion to justify violence and hate campaigns.

EGYPT - Scholars of Al Azhar presents a bill against those who use religion to justify violence and hate campaigns. (FIDES).

Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The scholars of the University of al Azhar, the main theological-academic center of Sunni Islam, submitted the text of a bill to the offices of the Presidency of the Egyptian Republic to counter violence and sectarian hate propaganda justified in the name of religion.

This is what Sheikh Ahmed al Tayyib, the Great Imam of Azhar reported, specifying that the bill aims to reaffirm the total incompatibility between the violence justified by religious arguments and Islamic law.

The bill, endorsed by al Azhar scholars, and then presented last week to the collaborators of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi, aims to reduce hate speech and intolerance promoted by extremist groups and to re-propose the principle of citizenship as the basis of peaceful and fruitful coexistence among fellow countrymen belonging to different religious components.

The Committee that worked on the draft bill, led by Mohamed Abdel Salam - legal adviser of the Great Imam of al Azhar - had been composed on May 13, and was made up of five scholars, specialized in various legal sectors.

In the drafting of the bill, members of the Committee took into account universal reference texts such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights*, as well as the Egyptian Constitution and the provisions of criminal law in force in Egypt.

The bill avoids entering in the details of the individual penalties to be imposed on those responsible for instigating religious hatred and crimes related to it, which will be specified by the judicial authority.

The initiative has the obvious goal of expressing a clear distance from al Azhar over theories and propaganda that in the Islamic community justify hate and violence by citing the Koran and using religious topics. (GV) (Agenzia Fides, 26/6/2017)

MFS: * Hmmm....did they use the Islamic human rights? (Cairo declaration). 

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TWELVE! Twelve year old girl forced to withdraw from chess tournament because her dress was too 'seductive'.

TWELVE! Twelve year old girl forced to withdraw from chess tournament because her dress was too 'seductive'.(ET).

A 12-year-old girl in Malaysia was forced to withdraw from a chess tournament because officials thought her dress was too ‘seductive’.

“In the middle of Round 2, without stopping the clocks, the chief arbiter informed my student that the dress she wore was improper,” Kaushal wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday night.

The event’s chief arbiter told the girl and her mother that the dress was a “temptation from a certain angle far, far away.”

The director informed them that they needed to go to the mall to buy a pair of trousers for the next round. The shops in the area were closed and would not be open in time for the next round which resumed at 9 am.

The 12-year-old’s mother tried calling the tournament director who told her that he would call her back after discussing the incident with the arbiter. This did not happen, however.

“He wouldn’t answer or return any calls from my student’s mother. This situation led to the inevitable decision to withdraw her from the tournament altogether,” said Kaushal.

“This incident has resulted in loss of time and money which was invested before, during and after the tournament on coaching, registration fees, travelling, accommodation and other incurred costs,” he added.

Kaushal described the girl as a “bright young girl” who shows “tremendous potential in chess”.

“My daughter was shocked after her game was interrupted by the chief arbiter,” Chin Wai Lings, the girl’s mother. told The Star Online. “From that point onwards, all she [her daughter] could think of was whether anyone was peeping [at her] throughout the game,” she added.

 Many people also took to Twitter to express outrage over how a 12-year-old’s dress could be considered ‘seductive’. Read the full story here.

The girl’s coach Kaushal Khandhar detailed on Facebook the “disturbing incident”, stating that his student felt “harassed and humiliated by the actions of the Tournament Director and Chief Arbiter”.

DEAR MALAYSIAN CHESS COMMUNITY,

I heard the most disturbing incident from one of my student’s mother.

At the National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017, in Putrajaya, one of my student, who is a 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL felt harassed and humiliated by the actions of Tournament Director and Chief Arbiter.

In the middle of Round 2, (without stopping the clocks) Chief Arbiter informs my student that the dress she wore was improper and have violated the dress code of the tournament.

It was later informed (by Chief Arbiter) to my student and her mother, that the Tournament Director deemed my student’s dress to be “seductive” and a “temptation from a certain angle far, far away”.
We found this statement completely out of line!

Please see attached photo of what she was wearing! (Picture above)Completely ridiculous!

After some discussion, Chief Arbiter had conceded and apologised to my student, personally assuring her that there was nothing wrong with her attire, but due to Tournament Director’s decision, he could not allow this dress to be worn by my student in the tournament. This discussion happened at around 10pm and Chief Arbiter gave them a choice to go to the mall nearby to buy a long slack for the next day 9.00am round.

Due to the timing of this incident, it was impossible to get another attire in time for the 9.00am round next day, as all shops were already closed and wouldn’t be open in time.

Before the morning round next day, my student’s mother called Tournament Director regarding this matter, initially he had replied that he was not aware of the situation but after a brief discussion, it was realized that he knew all the details on this incident prior to this phone call. He promised to return the call upon discussion with Chief Arbiter, but this did not happen. He would further not answer or return any calls of my student’s mother.

This situation had led to the inevitable decision of withdrawal from the tournament all together.
We are absolutely DIGUSTED by the treatment of Tournament Director to a 12-year-old girl and her mother. This incident has resulted in loss of time and money which was invested before, during and after the tournament on coaching, registration fees, travelling, accommodation and other incurred cost.

This bright young girl was recently the champion of her district in MSS Kuala Lumpur and has shown tremendous potential in Chess. This incident has left her extremely disturbed, and embarrassed.

I have been playing chess in Malaysia for almost 2 decades and I have never heard this type of issue ever in any tournaments in Malaysia. This should be the first and last time this kind of issue ever appears, I or anyone of us should never accept this in our Chess Community.

We demand a public apology from Tournament Director of National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017. In the event, we do not receive a public apology in the next 5 days, we shall have no choice but to resort to legal proceedings.

Regards,
Kaushal Khandhar
A Malaysian Chess Player & Coach.

Hmmmm....Bunch of peeping Toms, A disgrace to humanity.

Tehran says not to authorize the European Union to open an office in Iran.

Tehran says not to authorize the European Union to open an office in Iran. (Taz).

Iran will not authorize the European Union to open an office in Tehran, said Human Rights Staff Chief Mohammad Javad Larijani in reference to a recent EU strategy resolution on Iran.

Such an office will be a “house of corruption, and the Judiciary will not allow such a thing,” he said, ISNA news agency reported October 26.

“The report has many problems,” Larijani said, adding, “The EU is not entitled to tell us we have to mend ourselves.”

The statements come a day after the Iranian Foreign Ministry hailed the EU’s resolution on “normalization of ties with Iran.”


“This issue [passing the resolution] demonstrates the positive will of the EU towards expansion and deepening of bilateral ties with Iran in all spheres,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said.

Turkey: Emergency Decrees Facilitate Torture! Human rights watch reports.

Turkey: Emergency Decrees Facilitate Torture! Human rights watch reports.  (HRW).

Istanbul – Turkish police have tortured and otherwise ill-treated individuals in their custody after emergency decrees removed crucial safeguards in the wake of a failed coup attempt in July, 2016, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

The 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” documents how the weakening of safeguards through decrees adopted under the state of emergency has negatively affected police detention conditions and the rights of detainees.

It details 13 cases of alleged abuse, including stress positions, sleep deprivation, severe beatings, sexual abuse, and rape threats, since the coup attempt.


“By removing safeguards against torture, the Turkish government effectively wrote a blank check to law enforcement agencies to torture and mistreat detainees as they like,” said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia. Read the full report here. Download report PDF here.

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Video - Saudi Arabian Islamic Researcher Muhammad Al-Tawbah: Jews, West behind Islamophobia, Gay Rights

Video - Saudi Arabian Islamic Researcher Muhammad Al-Tawbah: Jews, West behind Islamophobia, Gay Rights. Memri.

Islamic researcher Muhammad Al-Tawbah said, in a recent TV interview, that the Jews, whose "interests are threatened" by the presence of the Muslim immigrants in Europe, "have a great interest in causing aversion of Muslims and in banning a Muslim from owning a newspaper, for example.

" Speaking on the Saudi Al-Majd TV channel on August 21, Al-Tawbah said: "[The Jews] are now peddling their suffering. Six million were burnt... Fine, what are you doing in Palestine?"

He also complained that the West supports homosexual and women's rights in the Arab world. "They give women rights that were not prescribed by Allah – a Muslim woman rules in her home more than Obama rules America," Al-Tawbah said.

Iran Principally Opposed to Appointment of UN Human Rights Rapporteurs.

Iran Principally Opposed to Appointment of UN Human Rights Rapporteurs. (IFN).

“We have been principally opposed to the appointment of (UN) rapporteur on Iran,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said at his weekly press conference on Monday, in response to reports that Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir will succeed Maldivian diplomat Ahmed Shaheed as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.

He explained that certain institutions decided to appoint such a rapporteur for Iran after victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, stressing that Tehran rejects the move that “pursues certain objectives.”

“The historical irony is that the human rights rapporteur on Iran is appointed with the endorsement of Saudi Arabia, which is a child-murderer regime,” Qassemi deplored.

The spokesman also bemoaned the fact that those UN officials receive information from “inauthentic sources” that are hostile to the Islamic Republic.

In June 2011, the UN Human Rights Council, under pressure from the US and its allies, named former Maldivian foreign minister Shaheed as its human rights investigator on Iran. On March 24, 2016, he was appointed to the position for the sixth year.


Tehran insists that the appointment of a UN special rapporteur on Iran’s human rights situation is a selective, politically-motivated and unacceptable move.

Hmmm.........What many seem unaware of is the fact that Islamic Human rights are subject to Sharia law, this was settled in what is called the 'Cairo Declaration', these 'Human rights' can't be compared to Western Human rights. PERIOD !