Despite Still Being a Virgin, Jordanian Woman is Murdered in 'Honor Killing'

I'd remind everyone Islam is a form of mental illness, but I'd be repeating myself.

Here's the latest example.

A 26-YEAR-old Jordanian man was charged with murder today after his 23-year-old sister was shot dead in an apparent "honour" killing.

The unnamed suspect allegedly shot his sister six times last night in the Nqeira area south of the capital Amman, a security official said.

"He turned himself in and confessed to murdering his sister to cleanse his family's honour because she disappeared from home for four months with a man," the official said.

"He killed her the moment she returned home last night. But forensic tests showed that the girl was a virgin."

It was the eighth reported so-called honour killing this year, according to Jordanian authorities which in 2007 recorded 17 such murders - a slight rise on previous years.

How Do You Say 'Shut the F-ck Up' in Dutch?

You have to laugh at these medieval Islamic clowns, deeply annoyed that they are.

A Jordanian prosecutor on Tuesday charged Dutch politician Geert Wilders with blasphemy and contempt of Muslims for making an anti-Koran film and ordered him to stand trial in the kingdom, judicial sources said.

In Riyadh, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a league of 56 Muslim nations, said it was "deeply annoyed" after Dutch prosecutors said on Monday they would not take action against Wilders as he was protected by the right to free speech.

"The decision ... encourages and supports the irresponsible defamatory style followed by some media outlets and instigates feelings of hatred, animosity and antipathy towards Muslims," the Saudi Arabia-based OIC, said in a statement.

Are they the biggest babies on the planet, or what?

I guess Wilders to have to cancel his trip to the hellhole of Jordan.

What a loss.

Would-be Bush Assassins Jailed

This will no doubt be met with great sorrow in the fever swamps at the HuffPost and Daily Kos.

Three Jordanian militants were today found guilty of plotting to assassinate US President George Bush and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by a Jordanian military court.

The verdict came ahead of the American president's arrival in neighbouring Israel on the first stop of a regional tour.

The court heard how Nidhal Musleh al-Momani, Sattam al-Zawahrah and Tharwat Daraj were arrested the day before Bush landed in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on a visit to the Kingdom in November 2006.

According to the prosecution, the three were found with machine guns and large plastic bottles filled with gasoline meant to be used for bombs, and had planned to attack the American and Danish embassies in Amman.

Meanwhile, since Bush is now over in the Middle East, let's hope all security services are on high alert, especially after this warning that has flown very much under the radar.

Arabs Suffering from Americanophobia

Clearly this is a mental disorder of some kind for which they should seek treatment. Though considering most of the media and Democrat Party also hate this country, I can't say I'm too surprised by these numbers.

Eight out of 10 Arabs have an unfavorable view of the United States and only six percent believe the U.S. troop build-up in Iraq in the last year has worked, said a poll of six Arab countries released on Monday.

The poll by the University of Maryland and Zogby International, also found most Arabs did not see U.S. foe Iran as a threat and they sympathized more with Hamas in the Palestinian Territories than U.S.-backed Fatah.

"There is a growing mistrust and lack of confidence in the United States," said Shibley Telhami, a University of Maryland professor in charge of the annual poll.

The survey canvassed the opinions of about 4,000 people over the past month in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. It has a margin of error of about 1.6 percent.

Of those polled, 83 percent had an unfavorable view of the United States and 70 percent had no confidence in the superpower.

I wonder how long it will take for some idiot Democrat to cite this poll as evidence the world hates us?

Meanwhile, in a related development, a new poll released today by JWF Associates reveals 98% of the American public hate pollsters, wish they would go live in some Arab country and just STFU.

Jordanian Murders Virgin Sister in 'Honor Killing'

More tolerance and diversity on display from the religion of peace.

POLICE said they had charged a Jordanian with premeditated murder after his 23-year-old sister and her boyfriend were shot dead in an apparent "honour killing".

"The suspect shot his sister four times and her Syrian shepherd boyfriend six times when he caught them (together) red-handed early on Sunday'' in the eastern Shumari natural reserve near the desert city of Azraq, a spokesman said.

"He turned himself in shortly after the crime, and forensic tests proved that his sister was still a virgin when she was murdered.''

The spokesman said two of the suspect's cousins had been charged as accessories to the crime, the third such killing this year.

Of course, he'll probbaly walk free with a sentence slightly less than community service.

The killers often receive light sentences if convicted, as parliament has twice refused to reform the penal code despite pressure from human rights groups to end the near impunity of the perpetrators.

More here.

As in other countries across the Muslim world, some Jordanians consider sex out of wedlock a stain on a family's reputation. An average of 20 women are killed by male relatives in Jordan each year.

Related: Should Islam be blamed for 'barbaric' acts?

Uh, yes, it should be.

'Mainstream' Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan Calls for Suicide Attacks Against Israel

Reuters isn't even trying to hide the agitprop anymore.

Get a whiff of this non-bylined item.

Crying for revenge with suicide attacks, thousands of Jordanians marched in the capital of the pro-U.S. kingdom on Sunday to protest against Israel's Gaza offensive that had killed more than 100 Palestinians.

About 10,000 protesters, mainly from Jordan's mainstream Muslim Brotherhood and smaller opposition groups, took to the streets in one of the country's most vocal and largest anti-Israeli demonstrations in recent years.

"O Hamas, O Hamas, bring the suicide bombers ... Victory to Hamas and defeat to the Jews and Americans," chanted the crowds, who called on the Islamist militant group to resume suicide attacks and intensify rocket strikes against Israel.

Yup, they really sound pro-U.S. there.

And since when is the Muslim Brotherhood considered mainstream? Maybe in the caves where Osama bin Laden is hanging out, but not in the real world.

Speaking of this mainstream group, I see the lowlife grandson of the founder of the group has been invited to speak at a university in Australia.

THE Swiss Islamic activist Tariq Ramadan has been invited by Griffith University to be the keynote speaker at its conference opening in Brisbane today.

The fact that Australia is allowing Ramadan to enter the country at all will raise eyebrows in security circles elsewhere. Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood: the spiritual backers of al-Qa'ida and Hamas and whose goal is to Islamise the world.

While it is, of course, unfair to tar someone with his grandfather's views, there is ample reason to think that in the case of Tariq Ramadan the apple has not fallen far from the tree.

Ramadan has been banned from entering the US because of his alleged association with extremists. The Geneva Islamic Centre, with which he is closely associated, has been linked to terrorists of the Algerian FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) and the GIA (Armed Islamic Group). A Spanish police report claimed that Ahmed Brahim, an al-Qa'ida leader jailed in Spain, was "in frequent contact" with Ramadan, a claim he has denied.

So Reuters considers a groups that are"the spiritual backers of al-Qa'ida and Hamas" to be mainstream?

Jordanians Arrest Islamist Activists

Don't worry, though. They're mainstream Islamists.

AMMAN, May 22 (Reuters) - Jordanian security forces have arrested three members of the country's mainstream Islamist party for engaging in acts threatening national security, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The activists from the Islamic Action Front (IAF), which is the country's strongest opposition group, were from the impoverished city of Zarqa, east of the capital, government spokesman Nasser Joudeh told reporters.

"The Islamists were engaged in activities that targeted the security of Jordan and investigations are ongoing," he said.

Zaki Bani Rusheid, head of the IAF, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, said the activists were promoting the party's candidates ahead of next July's municipal elections, in which the Islamists were fielding candidates.

Big Iranian Fish

Amir Taheri has a good roundup of events regarding Ali-Reza Askari.

A VERY big fish" - so Tehran sources de scribe former Deputy Defense Minister Ali-Reza Askari (sometimes called "Asghari" in the West), who disappeared in Istanbul on Sunday.

Askari's disappearance fits an emerging pattern. Since December, the United States and its allies appear to have moved onto the offensive against the Islamic Republic's networks of influence in the Middle East:

* Jordan has seized 17 Iranian agents, accused of trying to smuggle arms to Hamas, and deported them quietly after routine debriefing.

* A number of Islamic Republic agents have been identified and deported in Pakistan and Tunisia.

* At least six other Iranian agents have been picked up in Gaza, where they were helping Hamas set up armament factories.

* In the past three months, some 30 senior Iranian officials, including at least two generals of Revolutionary Guards, have been captured in Iraq.

Read the remainder.

Allahpundit has some other interesting details.