Not so fast, Rafale!

World’s media has just boarded the next flight to Brasília from Paris in a brand new Rafale. Let’s read the official communiqué of Sarkozy-Lula meeting:

Por seu lado, levando em conta a amplitude das transferências de tecnologia propostas e das garantias oferecidas pela parte francesa, o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva anunciou a decisão da parte brasileira de entrar em negociais com o GIE Rafale para a aquisição de 36 aviões de combate

On his turn, given the amplitude of transfer of technology proposals, assurances offered by the French counterpart, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced the decision of the Brazilian counterpart to begin negotiation with GIE Rafale for purchase of 36 fighter aircrafts.

As Folha’s report explains, that statement only says Brazil is exclusively talking to France to buy some airplanes, both Sweden and the U.S. are in a temporary freeze. It’s crucial to highlight Brazilian Air Force (FAB) hasn’t yet delivered its own analysis on the three contenders: France’s Dassault Rafale, Sweden’s Saab Gripen NG, and U.S.’ Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.

Folha, in another reports, says Super Hornet is the dream aircraft for Brazilian Air Force pilots, but they are skeptical of American willingness to transfer technology. A O Estado de S. Paulo editorial says Super Hornet is the fighter chosen by FAB, criticizes Rafale price tag, failure on international bids.

O Estado de S. Paulo reports FAB High Command convened an extraordinary meeting, issued a press release saying bidding process isn’t over and both Gripen and Boeing will have a chance to submit their bids to FAB. Moreover, Folha is now saying the only way Dassault can win this bid is to substantially reduce Rafale unit price, which is 40% higher than Super Hornet. Lula’s Monday announcement also pissed off FAB top brass, while putting Brazil’s Defense Minister Nelson Jobim in hot water.

U.S. State Dept. says it’s fully committed to the technology transfer, and the White House quietly cheered expiration of the 30-day window in which the U.S. Congress can object to a Foreign Military Sale (more info about Boeing proposoal).

F-X2 isn’t dead yet!

Palestinian kids brainwashed into martyrdom

How lovely is that! A TV show with 3 Palestinian kids talking about blowing up themselves  in name of Allah. And it was a broadcast from Fatah’s own TV… For those who don’t know, Fatah is the “moderate” Palestinian government.

PLUS: Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Abu Alaa salutes a terrorist with loud applauses from audience in a Fatah conference.

That’s what I call technology

Hey, you, infidel! Drop your pseudoscience called “chemotherapy” and start using Muhammad-approved real science:

Nano-particles in Camels’ urine may help treat cancer

By Farah Mustafa Wadi

Dr. Faten Abdel-Rahman Khorshid is responsible for one of the Kingdom’s greatest national achievements in the field of science for her work which began with the urine of camels and concluded in a potential cure for cancer. After spending more than five years in lab research, this Saudi scientist and faculty member from King Abdul Aziz University (KAAU) and President of the Tissues Culture Unit at King Fahd Center for Medical Research, has discovered that nano-particles in the urine of camels can attack cancer cells with success. Her work began with experiments involving camel urine, cancer cells found in patients’ lungs and culminated in injecting mice with leukemic cancel cells and camel urine to test the results.

Speaking to the Saudi Gazette, Dr. Khorshid claimed that she was inspired by Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) medical advice and that camel urine consists of natural substances that work to eradicate malignant cells and maintain the number of healthy cells in a cancer patient.
“This treatment is not an invention, but rather, taken from our Prophet’s legacy,” she remarked. A Hadith narrated by Al-Bukhari (2855) and Muslim (1671) claims that some people came to Madina and fell ill with bloated abdomens. The Prophet (pbuh) told them to combine the milk and urine of a camel and drink that, after which they recovered. A swollen abdomen may indicate edema, liver disease or cancer. Dr. Khorshid added that she is not a medial doctor but a scientist and her job involves the preparation and testing of a drug in the lab and supervising the manufacture, testing and application of the drug.

Hat tip: Little Green Footballs

Brazilian Federal Police confirms K’s ties to Al Qaeda

Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil’s most influential newspaper, reports K, a Lebanese citizen whose arrest was reported in May by a Folha de S. Paulo columnist, has ties to Al Qaeda. According to Daniel Lorenz, an officer within the Brazilian Federal Police, K used Internet to recruit, train militants abroad, also giving them logistical support and engaging in reconnaissance missions on possible targets for terrorist attacks. Lorenz gave these informations before a hearing of the Chamber of Deputies’ Committee on Public Safety and Fight against Organized Crime (CSPCCO). Lorenz said:

Temos a percepção de que há estrangeiros, a exemplo de K., que estão a executar ações de recrutamento, treinamento, apoio logístico e reconhecimento para ações terroristas ainda fora do país. Utilizavam o Brasil, como um lugar tranquilo, para ajudar organizações terroristas

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Inicialmente o que era proselitismo da causa defendida pela Al Qaeda, se transformou num espaço para recrutamento, apoio, segurança operacional e também o local de onde emanavam o que eles chamam de ordens de batalha para ações fora do país

We have this feeling that there are foreigners, just like K, who are executing recruiting, training, logistical support, and reconnaissance actions for terrorist attacks outside of the country. They’ve been using Brazil, a quiet place, to support terrorist entities

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Initially, what was just proselytism to the cause defended by Al Qaeda, became a space for recruiting, support, operational security, and, also, a place where so-called battle orders for actions outside Brazil were emitted.

Inside a sharia court in UK

London’s Daily Mail has access to a sharia court in United Kingdom. That sort of court is operating in UK since 1982 and deals mostly with family law issues. But we’re talking about sharia, then women has to pay more than twice to file a divorce petition as a woman’s word is not as good as a man’s one. And I could go on and on…

Sharia law UK: Mail on Sunday gets exclusive access to a British Muslim court

In a shabby converted sweetshop in Leyton, East London, a group of burka-clad Muslim women sit in a waiting room. They have an appointment with Dr Suhaib Hasan at his twice-weekly surgery.

The women look worried. There is no talking in the airless reception area - the only sound is a fan purring quietly in the corner as temperatures outside exceed 80F

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The Islamic Sharia Council is listed as a charity but people seeking a divorce, or talaq, must fill in a form and pay a fee. For a man it is £100; for women, it is £250 because the imams say it takes more work to process a woman's application as her word has to be corroborated.

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In Britain, sharia courts are permitted to rule only in civil cases, such as divorce and financial disputes. Until last year, these rulings depended on voluntary compliance among Muslims. But now, due to a clause in the Arbitration Act 1996, they are enforceable by county and high courts.

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Under Muslim law, a man can divorce his wife simply by uttering the word 'talaq', yet a woman cannot be granted a divorce without the consent of her husband or winning a dissolution of the marriage from the imam. Even if the couple are divorced under British law, they remain married under Islam until divorced under the religious law, too.

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It becomes clear that Ameena's story of violence, abandonment and difficulty in securing an Islamic divorce is not isolated. Several other cases during the meeting detail claims of 'terrifying abuse', including one where a gun was placed against a woman's head, and another husband who tried to strangle his wife and children.

If the husband has disputed his wife's word, the court demands her account is corroborated by other witnesses - preferably male. If the wife refuses to agree to give the husband access to their children, even in cases of possible child abuse, the divorce is stalled until that issue is resolved.

In another case, the imams agree a husband has treated the wife badly, beating her and their children and leaving them without support once he had been granted legal status to remain in Britain.

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Confident, Dr Hasan tells them that in every part of the world, there can be only one authority.

'In Britain, the ultimate authority is the Prime Minister. In an army, it is the commander-in-chief. On the bus, it is the bus driver. And in the house, the smallest unit of society, sharia says authority must be with the man to maintain the house.

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The mood turns black as Dr Hasan continues that under Islam, the woman is seen as someone who needs the protection of a man. In matters of divorce, the right of ending a marriage lies with the man because 'women have emotions, whereas a man thinks first before he speaks'.

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An hour later, Dr Hasan emerges from the meeting - he has been attacked verbally but physically he is unscathed. As we walk together, he tells me that virtually all the imams in the UK are trained either in madrassas or religious schools in India and Pakistan, or are graduates of Islamic universities, such as Al-Azhar in Egypt.

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'The problem with the feminist movement is they don't listen to the other side,' he observes gravely, stroking his beard. (emphases added)

Dr. Hasan raises an interesting point here. Does the Islamic world listen to the other side? I made a list of “other side” that I think would be nice to Islamosphere to listen to:

• Israel
• Jews in general
• Christians in Middle East (Fun Fact: There are more Lebanese Christians in Brazil than in Lebanon itself. What the heck, there are more Lebanese Christians in Brazil than Lebanese in Lebanon)
• Women
• LGBT people
• Pro-democracy activists
• Religious minorities like Baha’i

Nutjob Swedish parents act as their child has no sex

A Swedish couple, both 24 years old, decided to not tell anyone, including the child, the sex of their son. They want their child to grow up free from a “specific gender mould.” Read it for yourself:

Swedish parents keep 2-year-old's gender secret

A couple of Swedish parents have stirred up debate in the country by refusing to reveal whether their two-and-a-half-year-old child is a boy or a girl.

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“We want Pop to grow up more freely and avoid being forced into a specific gender mould from the outset,” Pop’s mother said. “It's cruel to bring a child into the world with a blue or pink stamp on their forehead.”

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Although Pop knows that there are physical differences between a boy and a girl, Pop's parents never use personal pronouns when referring to the child – they just say Pop.

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“Ignoring children's natures simply doesn’t work,” says Susan Pinker, a psychologist and newspaper columnist from Toronto, Canada, who wrote the book The Sexual Paradox, which focuses on sex differences in the workplace.

“Child-rearing should not be about providing an opportunity to prove an ideological point, but about responding to each child’s needs as an individual,” Pinker tells The Local.

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“We don’t know exactly what determines sexual identity, but it’s not only sexual upbringing,” says Nordenström. “Gender-typical behaviour, sexual preferences and sexual identity usually go together. There are hormonal and other influences that we don’t know that will determine the gender of the child.”

Both Nordenström and Pinker refer to a controversial case from 1967 when a circumcision left one of two twin brothers without a penis. Dr. John Money, who asserted that gender was learned rather than innate, convinced the parents to raise 'David' as 'Brenda' and the child had cosmetic genitalia reconstruction surgery.

She was raised as a female, with girls’ clothes, games and codes of behaviour. The parents never told Brenda the secret until she was a teenager and rebelled against femininity. She then started receiving testosterone injections and underwent another genetic reconstruction process to become David again. David Reimer denounced the experiment as a crushing failure before committing suicide at the age of 38.

That’s not the first bad idea on the parenting field coming all the way from Sweden. One cannot forget Sweden’s forced sterilization program, which, not a surprise to me, was enacted into law by a leftist government. Just like another leftist government further south…

Parents banned from school event in UK due to paedophilia paranoia

Sandy Upper School in Biggleswade banned the presence of parents in a sports event held in June 24 due to the fact school “could not ‘guarantee the children’s safety’” in such an event.

Schools bar parents from sports day... to keep out paedophiles

Parents have been banned from attending their children's sports day in an extraordinary measure to protect pupils from child abductors and paedophiles.

More than 270 pupils from four primary schools took part in the event - but there were no spectators because the organisers said they could not prevent 'unsavoury' characters from sneaking onto school grounds for it.

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Paul Blunt of the East Bedfordshire School Sports Partnership, which ran the event, said the 'ultimate fear' was that a child could be abducted.

He said: 'If we let parents into the school they would have been free to roam the grounds. All unsupervised adults must be kept away from children.

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However, Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said it was 'totally unreasonable' to ban parents from a sports day.

'It's clearly a serious misjudgement. One of the great pleasures of sports day is that their parents can watch them take part,' he said.

'If you followed the thinking of this ban you wouldn't be able to let you child out of the front door.' 

By “unsupervised adults,” you should read “men” or anything Feminazis don’t like. What’s next? Banning parents from school premises? Well, I would’t be surprise if the later is actually enforcerd, as it’s the dream of every Leftist on Earth.