Rich coming from someone who dedicates her life to slandering Israel.

For the record, not all of the commenters to this Facebook post are giving Booth the benefit of the doubt.

Remember: The root cause of Islamic violence is the Islamic fundamentalists’ ideology. Not Israel.

Israel is part of the solution, not the problem.

Now the man’s (still) wife is claiming Booth is a home-wrecker who stole him from her!

Faiza Ahmed has fled her home in Stockport, Greater Manchester, and taken her three children to her brother’s house in Texas to recover from the collapse of her 16-year marriage.

The 37-year-old childminder and bilingual teaching assistant claims that Ms Booth – the half-sister of Cherie Blair – has betrayed her newly acquired Muslim faith.

She accuses her of openly flirting with Sohale in front of her, spending the family celebrations of Ramadan and Eid with him, and marrying him in secret.

Speaking from the house in a gated community where she has taken refuge, Mrs Ahmed said:

‘Lauren destroyed my home. You can’t just put on a hijab and say you are a good Muslim woman – it’s about having boundaries with men, and love and respect for women.

‘She came into my house as my and my husband’s guest and did this under my nose. Her behaviour appals me, and other Muslim women – the very people she professes to support – must now judge her.’

Her words are a major rebuke to Ms Booth, 45, whose Facebook announcement of her marriage was revealed by The Mail on Sunday last week.

It followed a jokey advert placed on the social networking site last year saying she was hunting for a husband, and that ‘Mossad agents, secret drinkers, CIA stooges, men who don’t pray and men who don’t pay’ need not apply.

Last night Mrs Ahmed told how her marriage to Sohale, 49, faltered as he devoted increasing amounts of time to promoting Muslim charity and fundraising events involving Ms Booth.

She knew they were business associates and Sohale described Ms Booth as his ‘sister’ – a Muslim term of respect.

Mrs Ahmed first met Ms Booth, who is now recognised across the United States, Asia and the Middle East as a public speaker, when she came to stay at the Ahmed family home in March 2012.

Mrs Ahmed said: ‘I cooked for her and then I stayed at home with the children while my husband and Lauren went out together. They came home late and I saw how open she was with him

‘She was joking around doing silly accents, Scottish and Asian. It was funny, but in the presence of a supposedly strange man, it was wrong.

‘This is not the way Islam tells a woman to be. Usually reverts [as Muslim converts are called] are even more strict and zealous. They see Islam in black and white, unlike those of us who are born to it.’

Later that evening, after demanding that her husband come upstairs to bed, Mrs Ahmed claims she was shocked to see him emerging from Ms Booth’s room.

‘He said he’d just popped in to collect something and brushed aside my suspicions but I was shocked and furious with him,’ she said.

‘They looked like more than friends or business associates. I was devastated. It was killing me. I told Sohale that even though I knew he was not going to stop seeing her, she was not allowed back into my house.

‘He started going away on business for three and four days at a time, and sometimes being in London at weekends.’

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Ms Booth later wed Sohale in a secret nikah, or religious ceremony. Such a ceremony is significant in faith terms but is not recognised as legal in Britain unless it takes place in another country where it is considered a legal way to marry.

Technically, Sohale’s faith permits him to take up to four wives but it is becoming more culturally acceptable to have just one.

Islamic law states a first wife should be informed about subsequent unions and while she cannot object, she should be given the opportunity to ask for a divorce.

But Ms Booth and Sohale kept their nuptials secret from Mrs Ahmed until February this year when she says he asked her for a divorce in a telephone call.

He also sent a text to say he was married.

Read the whole thing.

If this is true, it would just reinforce what we already know about Booth’s character.

Meanwhile, it looks like Booth has removed her Facebook pages.

16:59 – Booth talks of coming to Tel Aviv airport wondering what she was doing there. But there’s no mention of getting cold feet upon landing, as she described here. There’s also now a mention of meeting Jamal the taxi driver, also strangely missing from previous versions.

In 2005, I went to Ramallah in the West Bank to interview of Mahmoud Abbas. I got cold feet on my flight to Tel Aviv. I was scared of Arabs. When the plane landed, I secretly hoped that the Israelis would send me back so I wouldn’t have to do the interview.”

22:24 – Booth talks of falling in love with the people of Palestine, giving an example of an old lady giving her a coat as a generosity she never experienced before in her life.  But if this made such an impression on her, how come she did not mention it in previous versions? For instance, compare to this one.

I spent five days in the West Bank. I never experienced such hospitality! This instant and unquestioning generosity toward a stranger was something new to me. Old ladies greeted me with open arms as if they had known me all my life. “Welcome!” they said, hugging me. “We will protect you if there is any attack here.”

23:54 – Booth talks of going back to “Palestine,” including a story with an old lady and Jamal the taxi driver. Again, a story strangely missing from previous versions.

0:00 – Booth talks of getting her first Quran, as well as drinking wine in front of a devout Muslim, both events that left indelible impressions on her. Again, you’d think these stories would have merited mentions in previous versions. Think again.

16:27 – Booth says 44 people got on the boats to Gaza, as opposed to the 46 from a previous version.

As EoZ explains:

Select results from a new Pew survey of Muslims worldwide show that Palestinian Muslims are among the most religiously conservative and intolerant of all Muslim-majority countries.

Many of the questions showed that Palestinian Muslims rated behind only Afghanistan, Iraq and sometimes a handful of others in their levels of fanaticism.

Here are some of the survey questions with how Palestinian Muslims answered:

Please tell me if you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree, or completely disagree with this statement: Members of your religion have a duty to try and convert others to your religious faith.
“Completely” or “mostly” agree 82%

Some people think that if a man engages in premarital sex or adultery it is justified for family members to end his life in order to protect the family honor. Do you personally feel that this practice is:
Often or sometimes justified: 33%

Some people think that if a woman engages in premarital sex or adultery it is justified for family members to end her life in order to protect the family honor. Do you personally feel that this practice is:
Often or sometimes justified: 37%

Which comes closer to your views? “Islam is the one true faith leading to eternal life in heaven” or “Many religions can lead to eternal life in heaven”?
Statement #1 89%

“Women should have the right to decide if they wear a veil” 53%
“Women should not have the right to decide whether to wear a veil” 35%

“Sharia law is the revealed word of God” 75%
“Sharia law is developed by men, based on the word of God” 16%

“Sharia law should be open to multiple interpretations” 42%
“There is only one, true understanding of sharia law?” 51%

Do you ever participate in inter-faith religious groups, classes, or meetings with Christians or not?
Yes 8% No 91%

“A wife should have the right to divorce her husband” 33%
“A wife should not have the right to divorce her husband” 57%

Agree or disagree? “A wife must always obey her husband”
87% ”completely” or “mostly” agree (46%, 41%)

“Do you favor or oppose making sharia law, or Islamic law, the official law of the land in our country?”
89% favor 8% oppose

For those who answered “favor” – should Sharia apply to non-Muslims?
39% yes 43% Muslims only

“Who should have a greater right to parents’ inheritance – sons or daughters, or should both have equal rights?”
Sons 51% Daughter 1% Equal 43%

Is polygamy morally acceptable?
Yes - 48% No – 20% Not a moral issue – 17%

Is drinking alcohol morally acceptable?
Yes – 1% No - 92%

Is homosexual behavior morally acceptable?
Yes – 1% No - 89% Not a moral issue – 5%

Some people think that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are justified in order to defend Islam from its enemies… Do you personally feel that this kind of violence is:
Often or somewhat justified 40% Rarely or never justified 49% (highest percentages justifying suicide attacks of all countries surveyed)

Do you favor or oppose the following: the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion?
Favor - 62% Oppose – 29%

Do you favor or oppose the following: punishments like whippings and cutting off of hands for crimes like theft and robbery?
Favor - 72% Oppose – 23% (behind only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Niger)

Do you favor or oppose the following: stoning people who commit adultery?
Favor - 81% Oppose – 14% (behind only Pakistan and Afghanistan)

 

EoZ has also created this handy, dandy infographic to illustrate the point.

As for me, I’ve decided to unleash my own brand of creativity to make a point.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicts that an earthquake will hit the country’s capital, Tehran, and displace its 12 million residents. The cause of the catastrophic quake? Promiscuous women, reports The Guardian.

“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, a senior Iranian cleric, was quoted as saying by Iranian media.

Which is interesting. Because I’d have thought the earthquakes were a result of Iran straddling several fault lines. Not the kind of straddling contemplated by the cleric.

It sure brings new meaning to the expression “making the earth move.”

Update: Apparently this is an old story, so I am not sure why it is being reported again this week. I guess the dangers of promiscuous women are always relevant.

The blog post in question is located here: http://www.chrisspivey.co.uk/?p=11184

Excerpt:

If you lose both your legs from explosive trauma half your blood is gone in one minute via the femoral arteries, you’re dead after two. Bleeding out is worse with blunt force trauma (like shrapnel) because flesh is torn rather than cut, exposing more arterial and vascular tissue. The human body holds 5 to 6 LITERS of blood. If that really happened you would see blood EVERYWHERE, the guy would be drenched in it. You would also see whats called arterial spurting from the injury. Most likely he would vomit after turning ghost white from shock, then turning delirious or passing out. As for the “tourniquet”…

Its not even tied off, its suspended via gravity, which would literally do nothing to anarterial sever. There’s no pressure applied. There’s no knot with a turn stick for leverage. You can clearly see a gap in the nonexistent wrap job on his left inner thigh (left anterior proximal for you experts) His hands have no blood on them. There’s noblood on the ground. The color in his hands and lips shows good circulation.

This is an actor. This is staged. How did they pull it off though? I can show you.

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These are actors. This is staged. It was flash powder. There was no crock pot nail bomb. There are no bombers, only patsy. If your looking for a gunman look at the Army in the streets of Boston. Share this knowledge with everyone.

Meanwhile, here she claims Islam has brought her to caring about other people.

Version 1: She decided to become a Muslim after visiting the shrine of Fatima al-Masumeh in the city of Qom. She sat down, felt a shot of “spiritual morphine, just absolute bliss and joy” and decided to convert to Islam immediately after returning to Britain.

Version 2: Her key moment in deciding to convert was “the strong feeling of the beauty of the creation of trees by Allah” after “she took a walk in the woods near her house after suffering many tragedies in her families especially when her husband was in a coma after a road accident.”

Version 3: At the mosque in Qom, she suddenly found herself crying. She used to think she was so smart and clever, yet realized in a moment of blinding clarity that narcissism led to nowhere. All negative feelings drained away from her, and she proclaimed “O Allah, Thank you!” as a “shot of pure emotional joy coursed through her veins.” She then slept on the floor of the mosque, and wondered where she was heading.

Now we can add version 4: At a masjid/mosque as a tourist she asked “Allah” to bless Palestine. She then sat down and felt such peace and tranquility and “knew the universe and the creator of the universe is peace”. She then slept on the floor of the Mosque and converted to Islam 7 days later in London.

Is she capable of telling the truth?

Rocks thrown from the temple mount by the Romans. We’re not leaving Jerusalem again, look at the mess!

Their hatred of Jews is holding Arab and Muslim societies back: so says Ahmed Hashemi. He has a piece in the Times of Israel “Anti-Semitism is why the Arab Spring failed” that’s pretty brave considering who he is. From his biography:

Ahmad Hashemi is a former Iranian foreign ministry employee who worked as an interpreter. He is currently seeking political asylum in Turkey and works as a freelance journalist.

About the Arab Spring he begins:

I was not as optimistic. I argued that, unlike Iran’s opposition Green Movement – which was an uprising backed by predominantly secular, middle class and pro-western layers of society – the major opposition forces in the Arab streets were made up of Islamists and even salafists from poor neighborhoods, not real forces for change for the good. I contended that circumstances were not ripe for a positive transformation and that quick and bloody change would only exacerbate the situation by bringing anti-West extremist elements to power.

My skepticism gained further momentum by hearing and reading news headlines such as: “With more than 2000 years of Jewish heritage, Egypt shuts down its last synagogue,” or “Attacks on Coptic places of worship continue,” and “Egyptian high profile officials call Jews `apes,`” and “David Gerbi, the Libyan-Italian Jew who returned to his homeland, receives death threats,” and “The last synagogue in Iraq is closed, signaling the end of a 2,700-year Jewish presence there.”

These and other similar examples were indications that not only were the remaining small Christian and particularly Jewish communities becoming extinct in the Muslim world, but the already low tolerance towards the “other,” was shrinking. This is the main reason I continue to believe that Arab uprisings are unlikely to bring any change for the better.

It’s a great piece and I encourage you to read it all. It would be tremendous if more than a handful of Muslims ever saw material like this. But there’s just one step missing. What is the common element that spans all these Arab uprisings and even non-Arab Iran? There’s only one inescapable conclusion: Jew hatred is baked into parts of Islam we have no chance of changing.

If we accept the structural problem within Islam, we can face it with honesty. Perhaps we can’t change it, but denying repeatedly that it’s there isn’t going to help anyone, especially those Muslims who want out from under the control of the fanatics who are gaining the upper hand today.

Well, he’s back, and this time he’s set to piss off Muslims!

Today marks the release of the fourth issue of Foreskin Man, the controversial comic book series from MGMbill.org that follows the adventures of an intactivist superhero. In this chapter, Miles Hastwick ventures to Turkey to acquire an ancient artifact for the Museum of Genital Integrity.

When a fateful encounter with a shopkeeper’s estranged son-in-law turns violent, Foreskin Man swiftly becomes entangled in a bloody sultanic ritual. Caught in the middle is Murat Aydin, a young schoolboy who is only just beginning to understand the danger he faces on the road to manhood.

The twisted comic book tale is the newest creation from Matthew Hess, who commissioned three different artists to bring his story to life. Hess is president of MGMbill.org, a San Diego based group working to enact legislation that would protect boys in the USA from being forcefully circumcised.

“The brutal tradition of sünnet is deeply ingrained in Muslim culture, much the same way that infant circumcision in still prevalent in many parts of America,” said Hess. “But that doesn’t mean it can’t be replaced with a peaceful alternative. Rites of passage do not have to be cruel, and I hope Foreskin Man #4 will encourage child advocates in Turkey and other Muslim countries to begin questioning the legitimacy of male circumcision.”

Although lawmakers in a handful of western nations are pushing to ban male circumcision within their own borders, the painful ritual is still considered to beroutine in the Islamic world. Nearly the entire Middle East, Northern Africa, and most of Indonesia subject their boys to genital mutilation.

Hess believes that, in time, male circumcision can be phased out in all of those regions.

“Many people once believed that female circumcision could never be eliminated, but steady advances are being made to root out that harmful tradition,” said Hess. “If the momentum continues, one day female genital cutting may become virtually extinct. There is no reason why male circumcision cannot follow that same path.”

Nevertheless, if Matthew Hess lived in a Muslim country, he’d now be more preoccupied with the lopping off of his own head, rather than foreskins.