Thirteen Year Old Girl Raped to Death

Ilham Mahdi al-Assi, a 13 year old girl, died in al-Thawra hospital in the Hajja province of Yemen.

Young Ilham had been forced into a marriage with an older man. The older man put his penis in the little girl and raped her until her vagina ruptured. She died of hemorrhaging. She had survived five days in the marriage.

Ilham was married at 13 in order to arrange a marriage for her brother. She was married in a trade for the mans sister.

Yemen came into the international press earlier year due to the story of a 12 year old child bride who died while giving birth. Child marriage is technically illegal in Yemen, but the government does not have the ability to enforce the law on Yemen’s predominately Muslim populace.

Child marriage was introduced into Islam by Muhammad, who took a young girl from her parents and “married” her at the age of six. He molested the girl, Aisha, for three years before raping her at the age of nine.

Islamic scholars such as the Ayatollah Khomeini have written in support of such activities:

A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomizing the child is acceptable. If a man does penetrate and damage the child then, he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl will not count as one of his four permanent wives and the man will not be eligible to marry the girl’s sister… It is better for a girl to marry at such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband’s house, rather than her father’s home. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven. ["Tahrirolvasyleh", fourth edition, Qom, Iran, 1990]

Those last words remain haunting.  “Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”  If there is a hell, I would think that any father who trades his perpubescent daughter into sexual slavery would be a prime candidate for eternal torment.

Islam and Science

Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Professor of Nuclear Physics at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad Pakistan, has written an intensely insightful analysis of the problems of science in the Islamic world titled Science and the Islamic world — The Quest for Rapprochement.

The entire article is well worth reading. I will excerpt a few paragraphs which highlight the scope of the problem.

A useful, if imperfect, indicator of scientific output is the number of published scientific research papers, together with the citations to them.

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A comparison with Brazil, India, China, and the US reveals significantly smaller numbers. A study by academics at the International Islamic University Malaysia showed that OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) countries have 8.5 scientists, engineers, and technicians per 1000 population, compared with a world average of 40.7, and 139.3 for countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Forty-six Muslim countries contributed 1.17% of the world’s science literature, whereas 1.66% came from India alone and 1.48% from Spain. Twenty Arab countries contributed 0.55%, compared with 0.89% by Israel alone. The US NSF records that of the 28 lowest producers of scientific articles in 2003, half belong to the OIC.

According to a recent survey, among the 57 member states of the OIC, there are approximately 1800 universities. Of those, only 312 publish journal articles. A ranking of the 50 most published among them yields these numbers: 26 are in Turkey, 9 in Iran, 3 each in Malaysia and Egypt, 2 in Pakistan, and 1 in each of Uganda, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, and Azerbaijan. For the top 20 universities, the average yearly production of journal articles was about 1500, a small but reasonable number. However, the average citation per article is less than 1.0 (the survey report does not state whether self-citations were excluded). There are fewer data available for comparing against universities worldwide. Two Malaysian undergraduate institutions were in the top-200 list of the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2006. No OIC university made the top-500 “Academic Ranking of World Universities” compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Global Cooling — Revisionist History

A few years ago, I casually mentioned that I remembered back in elementary school in the 70′s how our textbooks had pictures of woolly mammoths and terrifying descriptions of the coming ice age — which was caused by man-made pollution.  The lesson was clear, unless humans stopped living so well, we were going to make the planet uninhabitable due to global cooling.

This set off some sort of hot button with one of the more left-wing people at the party.  He’s normally a fine fellow, but he flew into a rant about how I was making this up, how it never happened, and how Rush Limbaugh implanted this memory into my head.  His accusations seemed more  than a bit strange, but I’ve become accustomed to just letting people wear themselves out talking. I have no access to 1970′s elementary school textbooks, so I let the issue drop — but I never quite forgot the surreal quality of the experience.

A few days ago, I was very pleasantly surprised to read The Fiction of Climate Science on Forbes.com.  In this article, Gary Sutton documents some wonderful details from leftist climate “science” of the 70′s.

Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed “the coming ice age.”

Random House dutifully printed “THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age.” This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue warning us of global cooling on April 28, 1975. And The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, reported “many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age.”

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In 1974, the National Science Board announced: “During the last 20 to 30 years, world temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade. Judging from the record of the past interglacial ages, the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end…leading into the next ice age.”

The article goes into a lot more detail, and I recommend that you read it in it’s entirety.  I’d like to thank Gary for helping to set the record straight.

I believe that it’s important for us to be able to look back at the last set of lies these people were attempting to force feed us, as that helps to inoculate us against their current set of lies.

Gun Ownership

The Small Arms Survey estimates that there are 270 million privately owned firearms in the United States, which equals approximately .9 firearms for every American.  To my mind, that’s a good start.

That number represents a large percentage of the approximately 650 million firearms in private hands across the globe.  This is why Americans enjoy much more freedom, peace, and prosperity than so many of our brothers in other lands.

Americans lead in private firearms ownership is increasing;  Americans purchase more than half of the eight million new small arms which are manufactured every year.  Our close competitors include Finland (.56 firearms per person) and Switzerland (.46 firearms per person).

According to Keith Krause, the director of the Geneva-based study, “The figures dispel the idea that gun ownership and high levels of violence necessarily go hand in hand.  There’s no clear relationship between more guns and higher levels of violence.”

If you know someone who does not own a firearm — take them shooting.  Help them to learn about firearms and guide them through their first firearm purchase.  Do you part as an American to help keep America free.

Don’t Tread on Me

Don’t Tread On Me is a phrase that appeared on several flags used in the early United States, including the First Navy Jack, the Flag of the Culpeper Minutemen, and the Gadsden flag (pictured).

The Gadsden flag was designed by Colonel Christopher Gadsden and presented to the Second Continental Congress in 1775. From the South Carolina congressional journals:

Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, “Don’t Tread on Me!”

The rattlesnake symbolism on the flag was most likely invented by Benjamin Franklin, who was using it as early as 1751 and published a famous woodcut featuring it in 1754.  The rattlesnake is the perfect embodiment of the early American view of independence from government.

Franklin wrote this passage concerning the rattlesnake as a symbol for Americans in the Pennsylvania Journal in 1775:

I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shewn and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of treading on her.—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?

The Gadsden Flag expresses almost perfectly my feelings towards the United States government.  I just want to be left alone — and yet they continue to pass thousands of pages of laws and tens of thousands of pages of “regulations” with which I must comply or face the force of their wrath.  The U.S. Congress passes laws that few or none of their members have taken the time to read, and yet I am expected to know and follow these laws.

When the Supreme Court finally, after decades, declares some of the laws they have passed to be unconstitutional, they do nothing but pass new laws with the same intent — totalitarian dictatorship.

Enough!  I am done with them.  I will do as I see fit.  I will follow my conscience.  They can sit in Washington and pass all the laws they want, but they would be best advised not to try to enforce them upon me.

The Obama Administration’s Recommended Reading for Your Children

Kevin Jennings is Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar”.  That description seems pretty clear, but apparently it means something a lot different to Obama than it does to me and probably you.

Kevin is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).  One of the main tasks of GSLEN was to publish a recommended reading list for children. Gateway Pundit has published a few excerpts from the recommended reading and frankly, it is almost unbelievable.

This isn’t about sexuality or homosexuality.  This isn’t about innocent sexual exploration between young people of the same sex.  This material clearly encourages young boys to become involved in violently abusive sexual relationships with adults who are obviously disturbed sexual predators.

I don’t expect you to believe me.  I would not have believed it if I had not read it with my own eyes.  Here is one excerpt:

One day, on the bus to shop class, this ugly fuck of a man sat behind me and put his foot in the crack of my seat. He was skinny, with a patchy, pencil-thin mustache that besotted his oily face. I ignored him for most of the trip. I did notice that he changed buses when I did, but this time he sat beside me. He tried a little small talk, but then he suddenly and very nervously put his hand on my crotch. It never occurred to me to tell him not to. I’m not sure if I agreed to it or not, but he managed to get me to follow him to a nearby rest room at another secondary school “to play.” In the bathroom stall, lit by two scant rows of fluorescent lights, half of them burnt-out or flickering, he tried to kiss me, but I was too nauseated to do that. He sucked my nipples and played with my cock. I had no idea what to do. He then tried to get me to suck his. Somehow I knew this was expected of me, but I just could not put his ugly, foul-smelling penis into my mouth. When he forced it in I gagged so hard I started vomiting. Undaunted, he tried to put his cock in my ass. Thankfully, he came prematurely. He pulled up his trousers and left me in the toilet stall confused, frightened, crying, and praying to God for forgiveness of my horrible sin. I spent a good deal of time locked in the stall, trying to clean up, trying to wipe the smell of that act off with wet toilet paper, but I was doused in the stench of that man and what he had done.

This incident should have soured me on men, but it only made me more confused and needful. One day later, something accidental happened that would change my life. I discovered that at a urinal I could actually see someone else’s penis. I was ecstatic and fearful, but I wanted more. One day, at a local shopping mall, as I was trying to sneak a peek at penises in the rest rooms, a man at the urinal actually turned to me and started playing with himself. He flashed me a gold-toothed smirk and motioned for me to come over. Shocked, I zippered up and ran out, but the seeds had been laid. The whole world of rest-room sex had opened itself up to me.

Soon I was spending a great deal of time hanging out in shopping malls and cruising the rest rooms for sexual encounters. My rest-room exploits started to be a great burden on my mind. The better part of the year was spent making deals with God, asking for a sign, then ignoring and rationalizing everything I perceived to be a sign, praying for forgiveness, and being obsessed with raging hormones and a seemingly endless supply of dicks. I believed that it was all part of a test by God to see if I was a sinner. I was.

I had known before that something was up, and that I was attracted to men, but this toilet thing was a whole new realm of sin and Satan, a new level that I had never before imagined. The following years were spent praying for forgiveness and trying to purge my homosexuality through prayer and Bible study. While my classmates wondered what sex was like, content to masturbate over pinups, I was out there having my cock sucked and my ass fucked. These were grown men I was tricking with. Some were nice, grateful for a young boy to have their way with. Some were harsh and mean. There were a few nasty encounters, brutal and painful experiences, near-rapes, but through it all, I never thought that I had the ability to say no.

I was scared about what I was doing, scared of God’s judgment and of being caught in all those rest rooms and parks, but I really did enjoy those sexual encounters. That feeling of doing it to them and them doing the same for me was just too damn good.

Those last lines really do deserve a replay “I really did enjoy those sexual encounters. That feeling of doing it to them and them doing the same for me was just too damn good.”

This isn’t warning children about sexual predators, this is encouraging children to seek out and submit to sexual predators.  This is Barack Obama’s idea of a safe schools czar.

I don’t just want this guy fired — that’s far too good for him.  My blood is boiling at the thought that this man has been put in power over every school in our nations public school system.  Somehow, we need to keep our children safe from the safe schools czar.

Obama continues to ignore repeated calls to remove Kevin Jennings from office.  To my mind, that clearly shows that Barack Obama supports this sort of behavior.  This is not an area where one can “sit on the fence” and avoid hard decisions.  This is an area where any competent and moral leader would find it necessary to make an important moral judgment.  Unfortunately, Barack Obama appears more interested in keeping the sexual predator vote than in protecting America’s schoolchildren.