Calgary mom Aset Magomadova doesn't have to go to jail for strangling her promiscuous, 14-year-old daughter, a judge ruled Thursday.
Justice Sal LoVecchio said a non-custodial punishment would be sufficient for Magomadova's killing of daughter Aminat. LoVecchio sentenced the city woman to a three-year term of probation.
Crown prosecutor Mac Vomberg sought a 12-year prison term, while defence lawyer Alain Hepner argued a combination of house arrest and probation would be sufficient punishment.
Magomadova was convicted by LoVecchio of manslaughter last October, after the judge ruled she wasn't acting in self-defence when she wrapped a scarf around the neck of daughter Aminat and strangled her.
Magomadova was originally charged with second-degree murder in the teen's Feb. 26, 2007, death, but LoVecchio ruled Vomberg did not prove the intent for such a charge. The Crown has already appealed that ruling.
Magomadova had claimed her daughter, who was a rebellious teen who had been in trouble with the law and had run away from home, attacked her while they argued over whether Aminat would make a court appearance that day.
But LoVecchio said the evidence didn't support the accused's contention she had to use her scarf to defend herself from a deadly attack.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Chinese-imported Islamic bathing suits invaded the Egyptian market since the beginning of the summer amidst protests by clerics who argued it is in violation of the teachings of Islam.
*sigh* It's nice that more women will feel comfortable on the beach, and this is so much safer than going in the water in those black sacks, but this style will not help with the severe vitamin D deficiency that they suffer due to lack of exposure to the sun.
Veiled women in Egypt have been flocking to stores that sell Islamic, also called 'legitimate,' bathing suits imported from China and which started competing with their Lebanese counterparts that have been fashionable in previous summers.
" Bikinis and one-piece bathing suits are unacceptable in several places and girls wearing them are sometimes molested "
Islamic bathing suits are made up of a long-sleeved top, stretch pants covered with a short skirt, and a headscarf. Its fabric is the same as regular bathing suits.
As the numbers of buyers remarkably increased, Islamic bathing suits went from dark to bright colors and included vibrant patterns similar to ones printed on their regular counterparts.
Contrary to what happened in the past few years, unveiled women are starting to buy Islamic bathing suits due to increased harassment incidents in several beaches, said store owner Sabry Mourad.
"Bikinis and one-piece bathing suits are unacceptable in several places and girls wearing them are sometimes molested, so they find it much safer to wear bathing suits that cover the whole body," he told Al Arabiya.
Because Islamic men choose to allow themselves to act like rabid dogs.
The prices of Islamic bathing suits made in China are also affordable as they range from 75 to 500 Egyptian Pounds, said store owner Mohamed Gamal.
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That's an old pic from the R-burg archives. I found that in an old on-line catalog a few years back when, as it turns out, the subject was islamic bathing suits. Seafarious snickered at the time, which was (of course) good enough for me. I honestly thought Fred had culled the pic from our current list but I was happy to see that it's still there.
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Wasn't she in that last scene from Woody Allen's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know ..."
What the hell is the point? You're not preventing the Vitamin D deficiency so many of them have, you can't go swimming (ever go in the water fully clothed? It weighs you down and feels like crap), and you're hot as hell.
Besides, the slut is showing her ankles. And her face. She's cruisin' for a bruisin'.
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Slut! Filthy ankle baiting slut!
Beaches are un-islamic!
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"they'll never have to worry about skin cancer"
Not necessarily, Ebbang.
My maternal grandmother had skin cancer on her back (luckily not serious) in the 1960's. I guaran-damn-tee you she never had the sun on her back, even as a child. (She grew up in the mountains, and was married in 1905, back when a lady didn't do stuff like sunbathing. And she never went to the beach, hundreds of miles away.)
I wouldn't have been surprised if it were on her face or arms, which had gotten plenty of sun through the years. (She grew up on a farm, and had a large garden and hung the wash outside most of my life.)
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I had a (female) friend who preferred to shovel out the chicken coop topless. Never say never.
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See also ISRAEL NN > EGYPTIAN WOMEN LOSING GROUND, TAKE REFUGE IN TRADITION.
RURAL EGYPTIAN WOMEN aged 15-29 suffer times worse from high unemployment + illiteracy rates than their URBAN = CITY SISTERS, + ALL SUFFER RELATIVE TO EGYPTIAN MALES IN GENERAL.
[Seattle PI] President Hugo Chavez announced Wednesday that Venezuela would rethink its relations with the Vatican as tensions rise between his government and Catholic Church representatives who accuse the socialist leader of becoming increasingly authoritarian.
During a televised speech, Chavez instructed his foreign minister to "examine" relations with the Vatican. Without elaborating, he questioned the validity of an agreement giving the Catholic Church privileges that are not extended to other religious organizations in Venezuela.
Chavez also challenged the authority of Pope Benedict XVI, saying the pope "isn't God's emissary on Earth."
There was no immediately reaction from the papal nuncio in Caracas.
Chavez and Venezuela's Catholic Church are clashing like never before. In recent weeks, Chavez has said that Christ would whip church leaders for suggesting that he's steering Venezuela toward a Cuban-style Marxist dictatorship. He also accused Cardinal Jorge Urosa of misleading the Vatican with warnings that Venezuela is drifting toward dictatorship.
Urosa has defended his decision to tell the Vatican that Chavez is curbing freedoms.
Chavez said Urosa represents the interests of "fascist, extreme right-wing" elites and accused the clergy of siding with opposition parties ahead of September legislative elections.
Priests critical of his government "are trying to manipulate the people," Chavez said.
The Venezuelan Bishops' Conference issued a statement this week warning that political polarization is creating a hostile environment ahead of the Sept. 26 vote.
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Be careful with this, Hugo. You might need to hide out in their embassy somewhere down the road while the 82nd Airborne surrounds the place and blasts Van Halen and AC/DC at about 11 twenty four hours a day.
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Chavez also challenged the authority of Pope Benedict XVI, saying the pope "isn't God's emissary on Earth."
Stalin famously asked, "The Pope? How many divisions has he got." Where's Stalin's USSR today? That little behind the scene play in Poland got the dominoes falling that ended at the doorsteps of the Kremlin. Why not dare the Pope to excommunicate you and see how many of your peons prols will die to defend you?
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Money and power come first with this guy. Faith if it's convenient, I guess.
Right On!
Oh, you were talking about Chavez.
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I don't know about Venezuela, but if you came off with that statement in Mexico you'd end up wandering the coutryside, a dirty old beggar, endlessly searching for your long lost nuts.
Catholics are essentially the only religion in all of latin america I have seen, spare a few Jehovah's Witnesses. I would guess that its the same there. They're not used to people discussing religion in an anti catholic way, much like muslims are not used to critique about mo-ham-head. You could get a surprising reaction from them.
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Bigjim, read the history of the Cristero War. The relationship between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church has not always been a happy one.
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My point was that Catholicism is pretty much IT in much of Latin America. I wonder how hardcore catholics will respond to criticism, they've likely never had to deal with it. They may react irrationally like 'you know who' when you ask too many questions about their religion. Not because they're violent, but because they've never had to deal with critique before.
WASHINGTON The 73-year-old great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole for quietly spying for Cuba for nearly a third of a century from inside the State Department. His wife was sentenced to 5 1/2 years. Geez, I'll bet Al is soooo proud...
Retired intelligence analyst Kendall Myers said he meant his country no harm and stole secrets only to help Cuba's people who "have good reason to feel threatened" by U.S. intentions of ousting the communist Castro government. Remember when we used to electrocute people like this?
Justice Department prosecutor Michael Harvey said the couple received medals from Cuban intelligence and were flown to the island nation for a visit with Fidel Castro in 1995. They pleaded guilty last November. Yeah, who would notice that?
The couple's overriding objective was to help the Cuban people defend their revolution, Myers told Walton. He said that he and his wife tried to accurately report what U.S. policy was toward Cuba, to warn Cuba and to try to assess the nature of any threat. Hope you and the missus die inside, asshole...
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In a prepared statement, Myers said he and his wife never wanted to harm Americans.
"We wish to add at this time that we acted as we did for 30 years because of our ideals and beliefs," he said. "We did not seek nor receive payment for our work. We did not act out of anger at the United States or from a feeling of anti-Americanism. Nor did we ever intend to hurt any individual Americans. Our overriding objective was to help the Cuban people defend their revolution. We also hoped to forestall conflict between the two countries."
"We share the dreams and ideals of the Cuban revolution," he added. "We are equally committed to helping the struggling people of the world, whether they are here at home or abroad."
"Defense News" reports that India is in talks to buy Israel's ground-based rocket and missile interceptor systems Iron Dome and David's Sling.
David's Sling, designed to intercept medium-range missiles (70-240 kilometers range), is being developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). The system is also n the Ministry of Defense.
Indian Ministry of Defence sources told "Defense News" negotiations between the Israeli and Indian governments on a deal for David's Sling had been going on for more than six months. The sources added that Israel was open to sales of David's Sling, but that it would not transfer the system's technology as part of a deal.
The sources said that India was developing its own missile interception system for short and medium range missiles (50-80 kilometer range), known as the PAD. However, this system cannot intercept low-flying cruise missiles. This may be the reason why India is interested in the Israeli system.
An Indian Ministry of Defence official said that neither its aging Russian-built air defense systems nor the PAD system can serve as the country' sole line of defense against potential missile threats from Pakistan or China. He said that the procurement of David's Sling or the Iron Dome would be a "pleasure".
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One wonders what excuse will DC use to justify its opposition to this sale.
A Saudi civil airliner touched down in the main southern Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday on the first such flight between the neighbouring countries since Iraqs 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The Alwafeer Boeing 747 flew into Basra at 8:15 am (0515 GMT) from the western Saudi city of Jeddah, gateway to the Muslim holy places, but there were no passengers on the incoming flight.
On its return trip, the plane was to carry 450 Iraqis intending to make the lesser pilgrimage, or Omra, to Mecca and Medina.
For years Iraqi pilgrims have had to make the long overland bus journey to the Muslim holy places or pick up a flight to Jeddah in a neighbouring country.
I am very happy to have landed in Basra airport and to have piloted the first Saudi flight to touch down in Iraq for such a long time, said the planes captain, Ghassan Hakim. The airport is up to Arab and Ukrainian European standards and is fully equipped and serviced."
Arab standards. Don't cancel the life insurance, Fatima ...
Basra airport director Abdul Amir Ghanem Abdullah said: We are very happy with the arrival of this aircraft after a 20-year break.
Even since Saddam was removed from power in 2003, the Saudi government has remained cautious about relations with Iraq, and still refuses to reopen its diplomatic mission in Baghdad, citing security issues.
When it launched last September, privately owned Alwafeer focused on charter flights carrying Muslim pilgrims to Jeddah from Niger, Chad, Libya and India before getting government permission to begin flying to and from Iraq.
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As per THE HISTORY CHANNEL'S Show "THE LAST MISSION", whom knows how history may had truly been CHANGED = NOT CHANGED iff the anti-Surrender Coup Plot agz Hirohito by Japanese Mil Officers + aligned had succeeded, + War + US-planned Invasion of Japan went on???
* ION WMF > NEW BOOK: THE 1945 US ATOMIC DEFEAT + MIL OCCUPATION OF JAPAN LED SOVIET LEADER STALIN TO PLAN TO HOLD ON TO SOVIET-OCCUPIED MONGOLIA FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS.
* SAME > JOZEF STALIN ARMED BOTH SIDES AND DID NOT CARE IFF CHINA LIVED OR DIED UNDER MAO OR TRAITOR KAI-SHEK: STALIN'S FEAR OF A STRONG, NON-SOVIET-DOMINATED OR CONTROLLED CHINA UNDER MAO CAUSED HIM TO PROVIDE MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF SOVIET MILITARY + ECON ASSISTANCE TO CHIANG KAI-SHEK + KMT BEFORE AND DURING WW2. CHINESE MIL INTERVENTION IN 1950 KOREAN WAR TO KEEP MAO WEAK.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > ACCORDING TO TAIWANESE MEDIA [China Post], CHINA GEARS UP FOR NEW KOREAN WAR.
and
RELATED > WMF = PLA GENERALS FREQUENT VISITS/TRIPS TO SHENYANG MILITARY REGION AGZ THE KOREAN PENINSULA. Top PLA Generals whom are also CMC Members-Officials repor observed making seemingly above-average or abnormal number of formal Inspections-Trips to SHENYANG + OTHER CHIN MRS DEEMED VITAL TO ANY CHINESE MIL EFFORT ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA.
Also, SHENYANG, etc. "MILITARY REGION/MR" noted as now being referred to as SHENYANG, etc. "MILITARY/WAR THEATER(S)"???
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > NORTHEAST INDIA REBELS SEKING CHINESE SUPPORT, for sovereignty agz India.
ARTIC > SIX NE SEPARATIST/REBEL GROUPS to form a NEW "UNITED FRONT" UMBRELLA ORG + desire BEIJING's support. BEIJING may provide said support once the Separatists are able to prove their unity + espec "United Front" Cadre Membership of 30,000 Persons-or-Higher.
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OOOPSIES, forgot HAMSANIYEH.NET > US RISKS NAVAL CLASH WID CHINA IN THE YELLOW SEA. Beijing may order PLAN Units, Task Forces to Yellow Sea to CONFRONT = "CLOSELY OBSERVE/MONITOR" THE US-ROK DRILL.
D *** NG IT, COLD WAR SOVIET-STYLE INTENTIONAL "BUMPING" OF SHIPS + PLANES IS MERELY AN ABSOLUTELY UNDENIABLY CATEGORICALLY.... WEIRD-N-MYSTERIOUS
"BILATERAL" "COINCIDENCE" = "ACCIDENT"!
An Indonesian court on Thursday jailed two Islamic policemen for gang-raping a young woman in custody, a case that has sparked outrage in the deeply religious province of Aceh. Mohammed Nazir, 29, and Feri Agus, 28, were found guilty of raping a 20-year-old student in a police station in January after she was arrested with her boyfriend under local laws designed to enforce Islamic morals. The eight-year jail sentence for the two men was lighter that the maximum penalty of 12 years demanded by prosecutors. But the judge defended the punishment. "The defendants have never committed any crime before, they were always polite during the trial and they are the breadwinners in their family", chief judge Lukman Bachmit said. "An eight-year jail term is considered quite heavy compared to other similar crime in Indonesia," he said. Indonesia's Muslims are mostly moderate, but Aceh has special autonomy, and one of the ways it differentiates itself is through implementation of sharia law, enforced by special Islamic police.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Chinese-imported Islamic bathing suits invaded the Egyptian market since the beginning of the summer amidst protests by clerics who argued it is in violation of the teachings of Islam. 
[Seattle PI] President Hugo Chavez announced Wednesday that Venezuela would rethink its relations with the Vatican as tensions rise between his government and Catholic Church representatives who accuse the socialist leader of becoming increasingly authoritarian.
