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Oscar Pistorius ‘Will Be Gang Raped’ In Prison

OSCAR Pistorius shot his lover dead. But he can’t got to prison because:

Oscar Pistorius would be stripped of his legs and at risk of gang rape in one of South Africa’s squalid, overcrowded prisons, a probation officer told his sentencing hearing today.
Annette Vergeer, who was called by the athlete’s defence team, said prison would “break him as a person”. She said the Paralympian sprinter, who was convicted of culpable homicide for shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, would be “unable to defend himself within a prison environment”.

But, presumably, for every other person who goes into prison in South Africa – black men, mainly – the threat of gang rape is fine…

Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)


Manchester United Balls: A Killer In The Hotel And The Newspaper Offices

THE Sun leads with news of Manchester United and the killer in the hotel.

 

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Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: manchester united, Reviews | Comment


Ched Evans Turns Judy Finnigan Into A Monster

IS there anything that makes you think the Daily Mirror is not siding with Judy Finnigan in the matter of footballer and convicted rapist Ched Evans.

 

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Judy appears to have put her face on upside down.

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Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: Celebrities, Reviews, Sports | Comment


The Detroit Watch Mystery: Sgt. Alex Vinson Does Time

WHEN a man’s body was found in Detroit, police noted the smart German-made watch on his wrist.  The Detroit News  says the watch along with the man’s other belongings was placed in an evidence locker. Sgt. Alex Vinson investigated. He found n othing, not even the name of the cdead man.

And then it happened:

This week, while Vinson was in Idaho for advanced police training, fellow homicide detectives decided to reopen the case.

The detectives wanted to take another look at the watch — but when they removed the victim’s belongings from the property room, the watch wasn’t the same one that was photographed at the start of the case. Instead, it was a cheaper model, [Police Chief James] Craig confirmed.

Craig added the FBI helped police recover the watch, which Vinson was wearing during the training session. Vinson returned to Michigan Wednesday, and was read his Miranda rights by Internal Affairs officers.

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Posted: 14th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Why There Are No Zebras In Porton Down

Malcolm Broster of MOD Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down, alongside one of the warning signs on the Gruinard Island, which has been sealed-off from the public for almost 45 years.Work has now commenced for the decontamination of the island, which was used for 13 anthrax trials in 1942 and 1943 Ref #: PA.7356756  Date: 09/07/1986

NO Zebras: Malcolm Broster of MOD Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down, alongside one of the warning signs on the Gruinard Island, which has been sealed-off from the public for almost 45 years.Work has now commenced for the decontamination of the island, which was used for 13 anthrax trials in 1942 and 1943 Date: 09/07/1986

ANTHRAX makes your greass greener:

A zebra in Africa might run from predators, such as lions, but it will happily run toward the deadly anthrax bacterium.

According to a study published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, zebras are actually more attracted to grass covered with the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, which causes anthrax poisoning. If inhaled, these bacterial spores kill 75 percent of the infected — and the bacteria can live in the dirt for years.

Researchers working at Etosha National Park in Namibia noticed that the zebras killed by anthrax left lush, vibrant grass in their wake. It’s simple: The corpses decomposed on site, turning the short, dry grass of the area into a springy oasis with the nutrients they deposited.

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Posted: 13th, October 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


Oil Wars: Saudi Arabian Terror And Obama’s Subservience Are At The Heart Of The IS Crisis

The President of the USA Barack Obama bows to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, before the official G20 photocall with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Picture date: Wednesday April 1, 2009.

The President of the USA Barack Obama bows to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, before the official G20 photocall with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Picture date: Wednesday April 1, 2009.

IS Saudi Arabia at the heart of the IS crisis?

Last year, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was the enemy. He had crossed Barack Obama’s “red line”, the President of America reasoning that shooting people in the face was not as bad as poisoining them.

The Saudis want Assad gone.

The WSJ noted a deal:

When Mr. Kerry [US Secretary of State JohnKerry]  touched down in Jeddah to meet with King Abdullah on Sept. 11, he didn’t know for sure what else the Saudis were prepared to do. The Saudis had informed their American counterparts before the visit that they would be ready to commit air power—but only if they were convinced the Americans were serious about a sustained effort in Syria. The Saudis, for their part, weren’t sure how far Mr. Obama would be willing to go, according to diplomats.

The US needed a big Arab ally to get ISIS. So:

The Americans knew a lot was riding on a Sept. 11 meeting with the king of Saudi Arabia at his summer palace on the Red Sea. A year earlier, King Abdullah had fumed when President Barack Obama called off strikes against the regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. This time, the U.S. needed the king’s commitment to support a different Syrian mission—against the extremist group Islamic State—knowing there was little hope of assembling an Arab front without it.

At the palace, Secretary of State John Kerry requested assistance up to and including air strikes, according to U.S. and Gulf officials. “We will provide any support you need,” the king said.

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Posted: 13th, October 2014 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)


Bad Names: Manchester’s Yewtree Grooming Dog Parlour

Posted: 12th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)


Faces of 1971: GIs Ed Norris And Bob Dickey Smnoke Marijuana In Saigon

WHAT did you do in the war, daddy? Well, son, I got very, very stoned:

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Ed Norris, rear, and Bob Dickey, GIs who freely admit they smoke marijuana and thus are known as “heads” in the Army subculture, show peace signs in Saigon, April 22, 1971. The two soldier circulated a petition in their unit supporting President Nixon’s invasions of Cambodia and Laos and his Vietnamization program. Their petition was in reply to an advertisement in the New York Times carrying the names of 49 GIs who urged participation in an anti-war rally in Washington. (AP Photo/Jim Bourdier)

Posted: 12th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Ebola: Sign Tells Liberians To ‘Stop Washing Dead Bodies’

THE first stop in the fight agasint Ebola: Prevention:

 

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A man walks past a billboard warning people of the deadly Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The number of people killed in the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000, the World Health Organization has said. The latest figures show there have been 8,376 cases and 4,024 deaths in the worst-affected West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The news comes as Liberian MPs refused to grant the president additional powers to deal with the Ebola crisis. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh)

 

Posted: 12th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Captagon Pills Keep The IS Jihadis Cool As Kobane Bleeds

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A Cambodian Army officer, left, exhales marijuana smoke after using a homemade pipe as a soldier plays guitar in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1973. (AP Photo/Chhor Yuthi) Date: 00/00/1973

 

THE People brings readers:

Inside Kobane: Drug-crazed ISIS savages rape, slaughter and behead children

We hear testimony from  Ekram Ahmet, 40, “who fled Kobane with his wife and five children six days ago”.

He says:

“Many have nowhere to go and many more are trapped between the town and the Turkish border – out in the open ­waiting for rescue or certain death.”

 The US is frustrated that Turkey withholds military help from besieged Kobane.

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Posted: 12th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Ebola: Lessons From The SARS Epidemic And Panic

A medical practitioner wearing protective clothing stands next to an isolated patient on the sixth floor of the the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. A Spanish hospital official says Teresa Romero, the nursing assistant infected with Ebola is "stable," hours after authorities described her condition as critical. She is the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. Romero contracted the virus while helping treat a Spanish missionary who became infected in West Africa, and later died. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) Ref #: PA.21164465  Date: 11/10/2014

A medical practitioner wearing protective clothing stands next to an isolated patient on the sixth floor of the the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. A Spanish hospital official says Teresa Romero, the nursing assistant infected with Ebola is “stable,” hours after authorities described her condition as critical. She is the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa. Romero contracted the virus while helping treat a Spanish missionary who became infected in West Africa, and later died. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

 

CAMILLA Cavendish on Ebola:

You can’t take a corkscrew with you on an aeroplane, but you can take a deadly virus. However much we want to believe the soothing words from the authorities about how difficult it is to catch ebola — and they are right — we may still feel a primordial shudder…

Airport thermometers won’t detect many victims, since it can take three weeks for ebola symptoms to appear. And people who are desperate to fly may not be honest with questionnaires asking if they have been in contact with a sufferer. So far the screening of passengers leaving Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone has led to fewer than 100 people being prevented from flying. Most of them turned out to be suffering from malaria…

The cases of Teresa Romero, the nurse who is critically ill in Spain, and Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian who died in America last week, suggest a level of complacency in those countries..

New Scientist:

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Posted: 12th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Daily Mail Readers Lay Into Malala

Pakistani girls display a poster while sitting at their desk, as their teacher, not shown, talks to them about 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot on Tuesday by a Taliban gunman for her role in promoting girls' education in the Swat Valley where she lives, in a school in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. A Pakistani military spokesman says Yousufzai is in "satisfactory" condition but cautions that the next few days will be critical. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Pakistani girls display a poster while sitting at their desk, as their teacher, not shown, talks to them about 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot on Tuesday by a Taliban gunman for her role in promoting girls’ education in the Swat Valley where she lives, in a school in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. A Pakistani military spokesman says Yousufzai is in “satisfactory” condition but cautions that the next few days will be critical. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

 

TOM Pride looks at some comments left by Daily Mail in reaction to news that Malala Yousafzai had won the Nobel Peace Prize:

“Send her back home.”

“How come she’s still here?”

“The UK taxpayer has been stumping up the bill for her to fly around the world.”

“Sick of hearing about her.”

“A joke. She has been awarded a Noble Prize for stopping a bullet?”

“I just find her annoying.”

“Why is she still here?”

“Living off the taxpayer.”

“Praise some British kids for a change.”

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Posted: 11th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)


Madeleine McCann: Ines Sequeira, Belief And Unnamed Sources

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MADELEINE McCann: Anorak’s regular looks at the missing child in the media.

The Mirror: “New Madeleine McCann prosecutor has vowed to solve case – bringing fresh hope to her parents”

High-flying investigator Ines Sequeira has taken on the case and British detectives believe her appointment will shake up the investigation

 

Taken over the Met’s Operation Grange?

 

A new prosecutor has been put in charge of the Madeleine McCann case – and has vowed to solve it. High-flying investigator Ines Sequeira said she was “utterly determined” to crack the case, bringing fresh hope to Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry.

 

Encouraging news. Who is she? And why now?

British detectives believe the appointment will shake up the probe and Scotland Yard officers will fly out next week to discuss a shortlist of seven prime suspects with their Portuguese counterparts.

 

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Posted: 11th, October 2014 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment


A Free Press Does Not Mean Police Approving Only The Voices The State Likes To Hear

MICK Hume is right. He writes in the Times about press freedom, linking the police raids on tabloid journalists to the police spying on the Daily Mail’s phones:

The Labour MP Keith Vaz protests that the police phone hackers have “struck a serious blow against press freedom”. Noble words. He is no relation, presumably, to the chairman of the home affairs select committee who, in 2011, lambasted the Met for “not doing enough” to crack down on the excesses of tabloid journalism?

The Liberal Democrat conference has pledged to reform RIPA to “protect responsible journalism”, a policy proposed by the former MP Evan Harris, now a lobbyist for Hugh Grant’s Hacked Off. Nobody has been more “responsible” than Hacked Off for encouraging a contemptuous official view of tabloid hacks, whom the campaign’s executive director branded a “different breed” at the Leveson inquiry.

Nick Davies, of The Guardian, who led the crusade to expose hacking at the News of the World, says that the police have cheated by using RIPA to hunt down sources. Yet to judge by his new book, Hack Attack, Davies’s role in the hacking scandal was to act as the provisional wing of the Metropolitan Police, insisting that a stricter interpretation of RIPA would empower them to arrest more members of the tabloid press.

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Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Funny Names: It’s Not Nominative Determinism It’s Just Parental Choice

THE Manchester Evening News has a few words on funny names and nominative determinism:

 

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Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Never Shout ‘I Have EBOLA’ On A Crowded Plane Because This Is What Happens

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SO. You’re sat on a busy passenger plane flying from The US of A to the Dominican Republic. You cough. You shout “I have Ebola, you are all screwed”.

At no point does anyone ask him if he’s joking.

Do they check his passport for signs of travel to West Africa, Madrid or Dallas?

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Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


The Truth About Jihadi Brides In Islamic State

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HOW did you become a jihadi’s bride? The Sun gives its readers an insight:

AN undercover reporter for The Sun was recruited to become a bride for a British fighter waging war in Syria for terror group Islamic State. The journalist, posing as an unhappy London schoolgirl keen to join IS, was allocated a “husband” during online chats with matchmaker Zahra Halane — one of the Terror Twins who left their Manchester home for the war-torn country three months ago.

We hear from Coverntry’s own Rashed Amani, 19, who told the Sun’s blagger:

“I’d love to pick you up as soon as u come.”

It’s Finbarr Saunders.

He’s further quoted:

“I have fought and in fighting u won’t always tell if it’s you who shot them or someone else but more usually we shoot and its Allah the great kills you see.”

Eh? English is his first language.

Not eveyone is seduced by the chance to shag a priapic jihadi to death:

“I just can’t understand why she’d want to go to Syria,” explains Aisha, also 20, and from Slough. The youngest daughter of parents originally from Kashmir, she’s reading Applied Social Sciences at Goldsmith’s. “The UK has given us so much in terms of education, human rights, equality. Why go from that to Syria where, as a woman, she will face so many restrictions? She won’t even be able to go out on her own to the corner shop.”

On Crikey (Aus), we read:

American writer and psychologist Phyllis Chesler speculates that these women have chosen “unfreedom” in response to a surfeit of choices offered to them in the West. Over on the Quadrant blog, economist Peter Smith writes that Amira Kharroum’s story illustrates that the “moderate Muslims” extolled by multiculturalists are a myth.

Unfreedom? It’s either positive freedom (freedom to do) or negative freedom (freedom from). Unfreedom sounds lot like bondage.

Are women really travelling in droves to meet a dreamy jihadi?

The BBC:

When Tunisia’s authorities announced that a stream of young women had been leaving their homes to provide sexual services to Islamist militants in Tunisia and Syria, the statement was greeted with both shock and scepticism. The BBC’s Ahmed Maher went to Tunisia to investigate the reports…

The story is rooted in the Jebel ech Chaambi (Chaambi mountains) area of western central Tunisia, on the border with Algeria… The authorities say they have arrested a number of girls and women in cities around Chaambi, whom they accuse of having sex with battle-weary militants as part of a campaign to improve morale.

We meet the mothr of one women who allegedly services jihadis:

“She has never been to the Chaambi mountains. These are false accusations. She was religious and went to mosque,” the mother told me. She requested anonymity because “this is a sensitive issue in our conservative city.” She wore the full-body veil – we say it’s a sign of chastity, not extremism.”

What’s beneath the veil?

Interior Minister Lotfi bin Jido told the Beeb:

“Tunisian girls are swapped between 20, 30, and 100 rebels and they come back bearing the fruit of sexual contacts in the name of sexual jihad and we are silent doing nothing and standing idle.” 

True?

Radio broadcaster Zuhir Eljiis believes the aim is to suggest that the ruling Islamist Enhada party is turning a blind eye to extremism. “The interior minister has not come up with hard evidence. He gave no statistics,” he said. “He’s caused controversy, giving the impression this is a big issue. He is known for his political independence, but I think he might have been caught in a political game between rival parties.”

Is it just a good story?

Another prominent Muslim scholar in Tunisia, Sheikh Fareed Elbaji, told the BBC he personally knew families who had discovered that their daughters had gone to Chaambi and Syria to offer sex in support of the militants, apparently in obedience to fatwas or religious edicts issued on the battlefields of Syria.

And the conclusion?

In largely secular and liberal Tunisia, the idea of sexual jihad comes as a shock. Many dismiss it as a politically motivated hoax. But others, already alarmed by growing extremism in the country, say it cannot be so easily ruled out.

He isn’t sure.

The Daily Mail is sure:

An ever-growing band of young women have left their families in Britain to join the jihadi cause in Syria. Researchers have identified six more such women through their online accounts – and warn this could be the tip of the iceberg.

But we meet only a few:

Academics at King’s College in London said they have seen ‘a big uptake’ in the number of UK women going to Syria. Among them are Salma and Zahra Halane, 16, twins from Chorlton, Manchester, and mother-of-one Khadijah Dare, 22, who is married to a Swedish jihadist. Privately educated radiography student Aqsa Mahmood, 20, from Glasgow, made headline news this week after her sobbing middle-class parents begged her to return.

Can it be that many more young women have left these shores for IS and no-one’s noticed?

The Telegraph looks:

Refugees, women still living under its rule and men who have escaped from its prisons have told Telegraph of the life under the shadow of the extremist group’s black flag. One woman, whose name the Telegraph knows but is withholding, described how she went to the recruiting office of an all-women jihad unit, formed from the women who have flocked to Syria from Europe and elsewhere to serve the cause, some with their children…

“I went inside their headquarters, which used to be the Christian church,” she said. “I asked what the conditions were to join. They said you have to be 18-25, unmarried, and you would earn 25,000 Syrian pounds. But if you joined you had the opportunity to marry one of the foreign fighters. However, they make sure you are a real jihadist.”

What’s the widow’s pension look like?

She said that outside she met four new recruits, three from Tunisia, and one Frenchwoman, who told her she was divorced and had brought her 12-year-old daughter and four younger sons to Syria to join the militants… But the Raqqa woman and other activists from the town say that the imbalance of the sexes means ISIS has begun to “recruit” brides from local schools and colleges.

Among those who resisted, they say, was a 21-year-old student called Fatima Abdullah from a tribal area outside the city, whose brother had joined ISIS and persuaded their father to hand her over for marriage to a Tunisian. She refused, and when her family insisted, killed herself with rat poison. The story was confirmed by other activists from the town.

Are the women simply servants?

Eight months ago, Umm Haritha, a 20-year-old woman from Canada, made her way to Turkey against her parents’ wishes with a half-empty suitcase and $1,500.

Within a week she was in Syria, and a few weeks later she was married to Abu Ibrahim al-Suedi, a 26-year-old Palestinian from Sweden fighting for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Sunni jihadist group battling the Syrian regime.

It is not clear whether Umm Haritha’s marriage to Abu Ibrahim was arranged before her travel to Syria. Regardless, it only lasted five months.

On May 5, Abu Ibrahim, whose real name is Taha Shade, was in a car en route to a meeting in Deir ez-Zor with members of rival faction Jabhat al-Nusra. What was meant to be a gathering to finalize a peace treaty between ISIS and al-Nusra turned deadly when an al-Nusra fighter on a motorbike sped up to Shade’s car and detonated his explosive belt.

At the time, Shade was wearing his own explosive belt, which also went off and blew him to pieces.

Two days later, Umm Haritha tweeted about her husband’s death, calling on “Allah” to “destroy those who backstabbed the brothers and resurrect Abu Ibrahim with noor [light] from every piece of his body.”

It’s a bloody puzzle – literally:

The Sunday Times says not:

A 15-YEAR-OLD girl from Bristol who is feared to have travelled overseas to become a jihadist bride may have been recruited by a group of British women who act as religious police for Isis terrorists in Syria. Detectives are investigating postings on social media which suggest that Yusra Hussien was communicating with the women just weeks before she and a 17-year-old friend from London fled the UK.

One message stated: “I yearn to be the wife of a mujahid [holy warrior] and support him and khilafa [Islamic caliphate] all the way.”

Yusra is thought to be the youngest Briton to have joined Isis, also known as Islamic State. Friends have claimed she was radicalised online and recently managed to fly to Turkey, which borders Syria, while her Somalia-born parents thought she was at school.

As many as 70 women and girls are among the 500-plus British Muslims who have travelled to the Middle East for jihad. They include a group which has joined a feared all-female religious police force called the al-Khanssaa brigade in Raqqa, the de facto capital of the self-declared Isis caliphate.

Breitbart, however, is having none of it.

The most barbaric bunch of blood-thirsty misogynists this side of Genghis Khan are yearning for western “brides”—and the “brides,” who will be no more than sex and reproductive slaves, are coming, via an internet campaign, to service ISIS’s male Jihadis in the Caliphate in formation in Syria and Iraq. There is a “marriage bureau” in the northern Syrian town of Al Bab for Western women in a marrying state of mind.

She adds, rather oddly:

The would-be “brides” are given point-by-point guidance on what to expect.” What is coming their way is far darker than Fifty Shades of Grey.

Excited much? A little bit turned on?

Some Jihad Janes are mentally ill and, like Maryam Jameelah (aka Margaret Marcus of Larchmont), may find that becoming ardent spokeswomen for Maulana Abul Ala Mawdudi’s Islamist ideology helps them solve the profound limitations of mental illness.

Some Jihad Janes may have been sexually and physically traumatized by their Western families and seek to escape the country or the culture that allowed this to happen. They may not know that they are jumping from the proverbial fire pan into the fire itself.

The writer seems litle short on face and long on fantasy:

Young, impressionable, naïve, and dreamy girls and women may yearn for a Grand “Arabian Nights” kind of Adventure. I doubt they have ever read the Arabian Nights, which is filled with the most bestial acts imaginable, including that of be-heading virgin brides at dawn, after the marriage has been consummated.

Can you be a virgin after you’ve had sex?

Dr Phyllis Chesler goes on:

She may be expected to undergo female genital mutilation so that she will never be able to experience sexual pleasure; every sexual interaction will be agonizing as will each and every experience of giving birth (Or of urinating, etc.).

Yeah. Maybe. Or maybe not.

The BBC:

The notion of “jihadi brides” travelling to Syria to marry IS fighters has gained currency in recent reports in the western media.

Families in France whose daughters have gone to Syria have received phone calls from Syrian men asking for their daughters’ hands in marriage, and the online accounts of male fighters seem bombarded by requests from women wanting to be their wives.

Mia Bloom from the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell provocatively argued that women are seen as little more than “baby factories” in the desire to populate the new “purist” Islamic state.

However this does not mean the young women simply want to find a husband. The “jihadi bride” concept is only part of the story.

There is another side to their decision to travel. Women are joining IS because it provides a new utopian politics – participating in jihad and being part of the creation of a new Islamic state…

There are images of women carrying AK47’s, wearing a suicide belt and holding a severed head. But they are also cooking, making Nutella pancakes, doing housework, meeting each other for coffee, and being mothers and carers.

It is this combination of violence and domesticity that many find jarring. A female Malaysian medic, now known as Umm al-Baraa, tweeted in January: “Stethoscope around my neck and kalash on my shoulder. Martyrdom is my highest dream”.

This is a video of life in IS:

 

It might be that – and this is terrifying – many women are make a free and informed choice to live in IS.

Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment


The Sun Scores A Hit With Its Muslim Woman In A Union Flag Headscarf Cover

THE Sun has been leading with IS, the group the media labels “so-called Islamic State”.

Yesterday the Sun’s cover featured a staged photograph:

 

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In the Guardian Nesrine Malik (no headscarf) opined:

Yes, you there, Muslim – bleary eyed, sipping your coffee, who thought the activities of a militant group thousands of miles away had nothing to do with you – are you standing up to extremism right now? Is your Islam “British”? If not, then you are Part of the Problem.

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Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)


British Passengers Screened For Ebola, UKIP And AIDS As Panic Spreads In The Media

EBOLA is in the UK. Well, maybe:

The Telegraph says Ebola “may” be in Britain.

 

 

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Posted: 10th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Gordon Ramsay’s Porn Dwarf Impregnates Hen Night Bride

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THE Mirror has news of the bride-to-be who was impregnanted by a dwarf stripper on her hen night. She had a baby with drawfism, forcing her to reveal all to the loving groom.

The Mirror says the story featured on a ” Spanish news website”. It then adds:

Neither the hospital nor the woman have been named.

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Posted: 9th, October 2014 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment


11 Who Should be Cast in Ghostbusters 3?

 

Shown in this scene from the 1984 movie "Ghostbusters" are Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, center, and Harold Ramis. (AP Photo)

Shown in this scene from the 1984 movie “Ghostbusters” are Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, center, and Harold Ramis. (AP Photo)

 

AS you may have heard, Ghostbusters 3 is definitely happening.

However, there’s a twist – writer and director Paul Feig says the new film will be an all-female Ghostbusters cast and he will be writing it alongside Kate Dippold (from Parks and Recreation).

Of course, some fanboiz are spitting feathers over this, as an all-female Ghostbusters isn’t what they had in mind at all. However, if the casting is right, this could be a brilliant addition to the franchise.

Feig said on Twitter: “It’s official. I’m making a new Ghostbusters & writing it with @katiedippold & yes, it will star hilarious women. That’s who I’m gonna call.”

So who could Feig cast? There’s a wealth of brilliant and funny actresses out there and everyone will have a shortlist of their own. Here are some of our favourites.

 

Tina Fey

Tina Fey is one of the funniest humans on the planet. Whether she’d take the Ghostbusters role is another matter, but producers should be throwing money at her.

 

Mayim Bialik

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Posted: 9th, October 2014 | In: Celebrities, Film, Reviews | Comment


Teenager Murdered His Mother And Lost His Virginity To Her Corpse

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KEVIN Davis murdered his mother, Kimberly Hill, 50, in her Texas apartment on 27 March. He then had sex with ehr corpse. It was his first time.

Davis, 18, says he tried to murder his mother by wrspping the cord from a video game console around her throat.

That failed.

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Posted: 9th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


Watch The Gun That Makes And Fires Paper Airplanes

A GUN THAT Makes And Fires Paper Airplanes.

The A6 V1.0 Paper Airplane Gun Papierfliegerei wins the playground arms race:

Posted: 9th, October 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment