Saturday - January 09, 2010

weekend crap

Oy vey.  Not only does “It Never Ends”, it only gets worse. It doesn’t ever even slow down.

• Next time, just shoot them:
  

  Judge tosses out most evidence on Gitmo detainee

  WASHINGTON – A federal judge has tossed out most of the government’s evidence against a terrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay.

  In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier coerced statements made while he was held under harsh conditions in Afghanistan.

  However, the judge said statements he made during two military administrative hearings at the U.S. detention center in Cuba, where he was assisted by a personal representative, were reliable and sufficient to justify holding the detainee.

  Or just call them POWs and put them in a camp somewhere.



• God has 100 names, but if you use one we will burn you!
  

  Fourth Church Hit by Firebombs Over ‘Allah’ Ban

  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A fourth church in Malaysia was hit by firebombs Saturday, stoking concern among Christians as a dispute rages over the use of the word “Allah” by non-Muslims.

  The latest incident occurred after three other churches were firebombed Friday, just days after a Kuala Lumpur court ruled non-Muslims to use the word “Allah” to refer to God in their literature.
  ...
  The Dec. 31 court decision incensed many Muslims, who see it as a threat to their religion. Hateful comments and threats against Christians have been posted widely on the Internet, but this is the first time the controversy has turned destructive.
  ...
  the government contends that making Allah synonymous with God may confuse Muslims and ultimately mislead to them into converting to Christianity, a punishable offense in Malaysia despite a constitution that guarantees freedom of religion.

  Ok, this is a bit of piss-poor writing, because they left out the all important verb. “court ruled non-Muslims to use the word “ means what? They can, or they can’t? 17 paragraphs into the article, we finally read “The Allah ban is unusual in the Muslim world.” which lets us know that the ruling says that sane people (non-moose_slimes) can’t use the name. I think? So it’s a really stupid decision. And it’s even more stupid that the moosies are so wound up that they’re fire bombing Christian churches. Dudes, if the Catholics are calling God “Allah” in their own churches, you’ve pretty much won already.

  But I’m wrong! I had it backwards! Looking elsewhere, I find out that the real court decision actually allowed a Catholic newspaper, The Herald, to use “Allah” in one of their articles. The Malaysian government had argued against that. So the courts decided that it was Ok ... but a couple days later, after the mob violence, they chickened out and rescinded their ruling. So I guess it’s no longer Ok, and the label “Allah” is back to being a special sacrosanct word that only the insiders can legally use. What a pile of crap, eh?

  KUALA LUMPUR — A Malaysian court suspended a ruling on Wednesday that allowed a Catholic newspaper to use the word “Allah”, after the government argued the decision could cause racial conflict.

  Malaysia’s high court ruled last week that the Herald weekly had the right to use the word “Allah” after a long-running dispute with the government in the Muslim-majority nation. The paper has been using the word as a translation for “God” in its Malay-language section, but the government argued it should be used only by Muslims. Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail welcomed the high court’s decision to issue a stay order pending an appeal on the ruling in favour of the church, which triggered a series of protests from Muslim groups.

  “I made the request for a stay as it is a matter of national interest,” Abdul Gani said at the court. “We do not want the matter delayed and cause all kinds of tensions in the country” he told reporters. “I believe the Court of Appeal will hear the case very soon.”

  The Herald’s editor Father Lawrence Andrew warned of a campaign of intimidation including hacker attacks against the weekly’s website, protest threats and widespread criticism in the media over last week’s ruling.

  All the more reason to move the hell out of any country with anything close to a muslim majority. These people are nuts.



• Projection much? You knew this was going to happen!
  Anti-Whaling Group Files Piracy Complaint Against Japanese Whalers

  SYDNEY — A conservationist group that lost one of its ships in a clash with Japanese whalers off Antarctica has filed a piracy complaint in the Netherlands against the captain and crew of the whaling vessel, one of the group’s leaders said Saturday.

  The filing comes after the bow of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s Ady Gil was sheared off in a collision Wednesday with the far larger Japanese ship — the most serious clash in what has become an annual confrontation off the frozen continent. A Sea Shepherd volunteer suffered cracked ribs.

  The whaler, Shonan Maru No. 2, suffered no apparent damage. Both sides blame the other for the crash, which occurred as the Ady Gil harassed the Japanese fleet.

Man oh man, where is that damn Reset Button?

Posted by Drew458     on 01/09/2010 at 11:26 AM   
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