Saudi Cleric Wants Burqas For Female Babies To Prevent Rape

A cleric in Saudi Arabia believes that the solution for the rape of female babies (which is apparently a problem in the Kingdom) is to force the parents of those babies to clothe them in burqas.

In a TV interview on the Islamic Al-Majd TV, which seems to date back to mid-last year, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, stressed that wearing the veil will protect baby girls. The Sheikh tried to back his assertion with claims of sexual molestation against babies in the kingdom, quoting unnamed medical and security sources.

So is he suggesting that Muslim men lust after babies too, so they must also cover up so as not to tempt men to rape them?

Thankfully his is not a popular notion.

Recently picked up on social media, sheikh Dauod’s statement prompted wide condemnation from his fellow Saudis on Twitter. Some tweeps called for the Sheikh to be held accountable because his ruling denigrates Islam and breaches individual privacy.

Sheikh Mohammad Al-Jzlana, former judge at the Saudi Board of Grievances, told Al Arabiya that Dauod’s ruling was denigrating to Islam and Shariah and made Islam look bad.

Jjzlana urged people to ignore unregulated fatwas and explained that there are special regulations set by the Saudi authorities to administer religious edicts and appoint those who are entitled to issue them.

He said that he feels sad whenever he sees a family walking around with a veiled baby, describing that as injustice to children.

It's more than injustice, it's perverse.

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan- where pederasty is cool- documentary film

Pedophilia is a popular past-time in Afghanistan amongst the mostly Pashtun culture. Homosexuality in Islam carries the death penalty, pederasty obviously does not.  In Afghanistan it takes the form of bacha bazi (boy play), where poor, prepubescent and teen boys are recruited for dancing (mostly in drag) in front of groups of men for their entertainment pleasure, culminating in sex for one lucky pervert. In some cases it turns into gang rape.

It's apparently a vile ancient tradition that regained popularity during the mujahideen war against the Russians in Afghanistan. During the war, the Northern Alliance commanders all had their boy partners, and those same former commanders, now married, continue to maintain what in essence is sexual slavery. Many owners of young boys and participants are powerful, wealthy and married men. They're wives have no say.

Afghan documentary filmmaker Najibullah Quraishi went back to Afghanistan several years ago to document the practice. Filming undercover, he brings to light the seamy, underbelly of bacha bazi practice where the boys are let go when they age out, and some boys wind up dead. The average age of the boys is 12 to 14.

Although illegal, no-one seems to be doing anything about it since, in many cases, the police are also involved. These are devout Muslims who dress their wives in burqas while dressing young boys in women's clothing for a little dance and sex. There's something terribly wrong with this picture.  I blame a religion that segregates men and women.

Quraishi's film "The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan" aired in the U.K. and on PBS's Frontline in 2010.

Saudi Sergeant Rapes 13 Year-Old Boy In Vegas

Mazen Alotaibi, a Saudi Air Force sergeant stationed in the US (although no-one seems to know definitively why), took a little trip to sin city for New Year's eve. I guess the 23-year-old, after living in the repressive Kingdom where most everything is forbidden, decided to indulge in some massive alcohol consumption. Hennessy, apparently. Staying at the Circus Circus hotel in Las Vegas, Alotaibi admittedly got stinking drunk. That's when the Saudi spied a young 13-year-old boy that took his fancy. So he grabbed the kid, dragged him into his room and sexually assaulted him.

The police arrived on the scene sometime before 9:30 a.m. on New Year's eve day after the young kid reported the rape. Denying it at first, Alotaibi eventually confessed telling the police he was drunk and forced himself on the boy after the kid refused to service him for money.

The report stated that the 23-year-old Saudi national told investigators that he had the boy perform oral sex on him 'for just a couple of seconds,' and then 'accidentally' raped him.

‘There was a kidnapping and sexual assault with force,’ Las Vegas police Lt. Dan McGrath said. ‘The victim said he was forced into the room and sexually assaulted. We have a strong case based on the evidence.'

The boy, who lives out of state, was staying at the hotel with his family, McGrath said. He was taken to a hospital for medical treatment and evidence collection and released later to family members.

How do you "accidentally" rape someone?

Oh, and there were three other males in the room smoking pot.

According to McGrath, Alotaibi claims he was stationed at Joint Base San Antonio/Lackland, but spokesman Brent Boller says he's stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi at Keesler Air Force Base. Boller wasn't sure if Alotaibi had ever been at Lackland, though foreign military often are assigned to Lackland to improve their English at the Defense Language Institute.

And it seems Alotaibi might be a rich kid- or the Saudi Arabian government takes good care of its citizens, even the perverts- because he quickly hired a California lawyer. Attorney Don Chairez said Alotaibi will plead not guilty.

And besides the kidnapping, raping a minor, and "felony coercion" charges, he's also facing a charge of:

... burglary, which in Nevada can stem from a person entering a building with intent to commit a felony.

He could face a nice long jail term, if he doesn't get shipped home. If he was home he'd face a flogging or death for being a homosexual. And though pederasty is commonplace in places like Afghanistan, these men don't consider themselves gay. So he'd probably get off scott free.

No bail for the miscreant here.

Source: Daily Mail

Pedophiles In Turkey To Face Chemical Castration

If you have an eye for the young ones in Turkey, watch out, they're contemplating chemical castration for pedophiles along with longer jail terms. And your run of the mill sex offenders also face longer stays in the slammer along with those that abuse people with disabilities .  That should keep the Turkish government busy.

The draft proposal, titled “Draft Law on Reproductive Health and Child Abuse,” is in the process to be made into a law. However, it doesn’t contain details on how to implement chemical castration on pedophiles, the Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman reported.

The daily said that the Ministry of Heath will decide on the implementation.

The draft, approved by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, proposes “medical intervention for child abusers and convicts clinically diagnosed as pedophiles,” without going into detail.

Other expected changes to be made in the new law is to take off the requirement to have an expert report from the Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) in rape cases to prove that the victim’s psychology has been negatively affected. 

[snip]

The draft will keep the 10-week legal period for abortions and 20-week in case of rape victims the same. But in the new proposal, doctors are urged to convince the victims to back off from having abortions. Doctors who perform illegal abortions will also face up to eight years in prison.

[snip]

Unlike surgical castration, where the testicles are removed, chemical castration does not castrate or sterilize the person, but works only to reduce the offender’s libido and sexual activity.

It's about time they institute tougher laws for sex offenders, particularly the repeat offenders.

Source: Al Arabiya

Update- True. Kevin Clash-Voice of Elmo Denies Having Sex With 16-Year-Old

UPDATE: 11/14/12- Accuser recants.  It was an adult, consensual relationship. Sounds like your typical attempt at blackmail that goes nowhere, so you revert to the truth. Sad.

Sesame Street is back in the news. First it was Big Bird that took focus during the campaign after Mitt Romney mentioned him during the first presidential debate when discussing what non-essential programmes he would cut, PBS being one of them.

Now we have Elmo in the spotlight, at least the voice behind tickle me Elmo. Voice actor Kevin Clash has been accused by a now 23-year-old man of having sexual relations with him when he was a 16-year-old kid while Clash was 45.  Clash isn't denying that he had a relationship with the man, he admits he did, just not when the kid was 16.

So who to believe?  And why did he come forward 7 years after the fact? It's not like he was a scared pre-teen.  According to TMZ:

Sesame Workshop honchos tell TMZ ... "In June of this year, Sesame Workshop received a communication from a young man who alleged that he had a relationship with Kevin Clash beginning when he was 16-years-old. This was a personal relationship, unrelated to the workplace. We took the allegation very seriously and took immediate action."

Sesame Workshop officials acknowledge to TMZ they met with the accuser twice and had a number of other communications with him.

Sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell TMZ ... after the accuser's initial meeting with Sesame Street, the accuser felt Sesame Workshop's lawyers were trying to muzzle him ... so he lawyered up with Andreozzi and Associates -- the firm that represented one of the victims in the Jerry Sandusky child rape case.

On August 15, 2012 ... Andreozzi fired off a letter to Sesame, accusing the company of trying to "discredit the victim in order to protect its employee and the image of one of its most valuable characters," adding, "This approach places a greater value on a puppet than the well being of a young man."

Sesame Workshop officials tell TMZ ... they conducted a thorough investigation and determined the allegation of underage sex was unsubstantiated. They say they never tried to silence the accuser -- rather they asked for evidence supporting his claim, but he never produced it.

Officials also tell us they're suspicious because the accuser has an email which TMZ obtained -- purportedly sent to him by Clash, acknowledging they had the affair when he was 16. The officials say the accuser never mentioned such an email existed and they believe it's fraudulent.

But there were other emails between Clash and the accuser, and although they don't suggest there was underage sex, officials tell us they disciplined him for inappropriate use of company email.

As a result of the ongoing investigation, Clash has taken a leave of absence, but insists that the relationship "was between two consenting adults."

I don't care what happens in someone's bedroom, if it is indeed between consenting adults, that's their business. But if he was sexually involved with an underage boy, then something needs to be done.

3 Jordanians With The Paralympic Team Charged With Sexual Assault in Northern Ireland

Well, isn't this interesting. Three men from Jordan- associated in some way with the Jordanian Paralympic team- have been arrested and charged by Northern Irish authorities "in relation to allegations of indecent assault." In some cases with a child. Teams are in training for the Paralympics which are scheduled to take place in London from August 29 through September 9. The Jordanian team happens to be training in Antrim, Northern Ireland.

No details yet whether they were athletes or just part of the delegation, but a man in his 20s and two men in their 30s have been charged.

"...a 23-year-old, was charged with two counts of sexual activity with a child, one count of sexual assault on a woman and voyeurism.

A second man, aged 35, was charged with two counts of sexual activity with a child, and the third, aged 36, was charged with one count of sexual assault on a woman.

Not much else is known.

 Do they really think they can get away with in the West what might be acceptable in their own country? If the allegations are true, throw the book at them.

UPDATE 8/23/12:

The three have been identified as powerlifters and their trainer.

In Northern Ireland, police said a 14-year-old girl claimed that she posed for photographs with Omar Sami Qaradhi, 31, before he groped her between the legs in the town center of Antrim on Aug. 18.

That same day, a 16-year-old girl said she and a friend were walking along the river near the sports center where the men were training when they blocked their path. Police allege that one of the men pushed the girl towards Qaradhi, who wrapped his arm around her waist and tightened his grip before she ran away.

Qaradhi is facing three charges of sexual assault, two of which are against a child. He also is charged with one count of voyeurism after allegedly entering a women’s changing room at the local sports center.

The two other men were identified as Motaz Al Junaidi, 45, and trainer Faisal Hammash, 35, who also appeared at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

They are heading home, but have promised to return for the October 18 hearing. Good luck getting them back to Ireland once they're safely home in Jordan.

In Denial- Jerry Sandusky's Wife Claims He's Innocent of Sex Abuse Allegations

I know that in our justice system a person is innocent until proven guilty, but every once in a while you witness a case where that person is quite obviously not.  Jerry Sandusky, a married father of 6 adopted children, is one of those cases.  A retired Penn State assistant football coach, he was also founder of The Second Mile, a nonprofit organization for underprivileged and at-risk youth established in 1977. It was a bunch of these boys, over 15 years, that he allegedly sexually abused.  Arrested back in November of this year, he was charged with molesting 8 young boys, although 2 more have come forward since the initial Grand Jury indictment.

According to the victims, he showered them with gifts and overnight stays at the Sandusky residence where they usually stayed in a finished room in the basement, and where much of the sexual abuse took place. But it wasn't just there that Sandusky molested the boys, the assaults took place elsewhere including on the Penn State campus, in gyms, in locker rooms, at a golf resort and a conference center.  And there were witnesses as far back as 1998, when a mother confronted Sandusky about inappropriate behaviour with her son.  In 2000, a janitor claims he saw the assault on victim 8. Then in 2002, Mike McQueary (a grad student) discovered a naked Sandusky and what looked to be a 10-year-old boy having an inappropriate sexual encounter in the Lasch Building locker room at 9:30 p.m.  The next day he reported it to the head coach, Joe Paterno, who called his boss Tim Curley (athletic director). A meeting was called between the grad student, Curley and Gary Schultz, Senior VP of Finance and Business.  A few weeks later McQueary was told Sandusky's locker room keys were taken away, and that he had been reported to The second Mile.  But Curley and Schultz did nothing further, and the abuse continued. 

 Over 15 years, that we know of, he took advantage of troubled boys, and you have to wonder what  took so long?!

First of all you  have Curley and Schultz who essentially sheltered a pedophile for 7 to 8 years after they were alerted to his sexual deviancy. Why? Probably because Sandusky was a great coach, and the young boys didn't matter to them as much as maintaining a stellar football programme. They have since paid the price, and were also arrested early November for failing to notify authorities and lying about the way in which they handled the allegations.  Paterno was not arrested, but he was fired by Penn State for failing to do enough to prevent Sandusky from continuing to abuse.  It's unconscionable that all those Penn State officials knew what had occurred and did absolutely nothing about it. They are as guilty as Sandusky for allowing it to continue.

Then we have Sandusky's wife 'Dottie', who is in total denial.   How could she have not known what was going on, down in the basement?  One of the latest victims claims he screamed for help, to no avail.
But she says all 10 boys are lying. In a statement released by her husband's lawyer she had this to say:

"I want to thank our children, our family, our extended family of former Second Mile participants, and all our friends for standing by us through these difficult times. Jerry and I want to express our sorrow for all the hurt that has come to those who have supported us and our beloved Penn State and State College Communities.

"I have been shocked and dismayed by the allegations made against Jerry, particularly the most recent one that a now young man has said he was kept in our basement during visits and screamed for help as Jerry assaulted him while I was in our home and didn’t respond to his cries for help.

"As the mother of six children, I have been devastated by these accusations. I am also angry about these false accusations that such a terrible incident ever occurred in my home. No child who ever visited our home was ever forced to stay in our basement and fed there. All the kids who visited us ate with us and our kids and other guests when they were at our home. Our children, our extended family and friends know how much Jerry and I love kids and have always tried to help and care for them. We would never do anything to hurt them. I am so sad anyone would make such a terrible accusation which is absolutely untrue. We don’t know why these young men have made these false accusations, but we want everyone to know they are untrue.

"I continue to believe in Jerry’s innocence and all the good things he has done. Jerry’s many success stories with his Second Mile kids and positive memories of those kids keep me going. I am asking everyone to please be reasonable and open-minded until both sides of this case are heard, and Jerry has the opportunity to prove his innocence.

"I would like to thank all those individuals who continue to support Jerry and hope they will continue to support us through the conclusion of this very sad time in our lives."

In denial, or too mortified to admit she enabled a pedophile to abuse young boys for all those years. And what about the 6 adopted kids? Did they have any inkling of what was going on, but were too afraid or embarrassed to say anything?

But the one most in denial is Sandusky himself. He is totally convinced of his innocence, but this Bob Costas interview is pretty damning.Take note, that when asked if he's a pedophile, he says no, when asked if he's sexually attracted to young, underage boys. He hesitates. Repeats the question, "Am I sexually attracted to boys? Sexually attracted? No,I, I enjoy young people. I love to be around them, but no, I'm not attracted."



There is something terribly wrong with a man who admits he has showered naked with young boys, 'horsed around" with them and touched their legs. And that hesitation, when asked by Bob Costas, if he is sexually attracted to young boys, says it all.

timeline of Sandusky's conduct.