Her
Majesty the Queen's Christmas Message: 26
December For the first time this year Her Majesty's
Christmas message to her realms and territories and the Commonwealth
was posted as a video on the Internet. It was half a century
ago that Her Majesty's message was televised for the first
time. In keeping with the boycott of Christianity, this message
was not shown in the Maldives, which is also in the Commonwealth.
Every year Commonwealth taxpayers subsidise the Maldives out
of their revenue and the Maldives has no issues over accepting
it but Her Majesty is subject to Maldive censorship on
Christmas Day. The Maldive media is also forbidden to portray
any images of the Pope or Mother Teresa out of fear that they
may encourage Christian conversion.
>>video
British
teacher escapes lashing:
1 December
A 54-year old British teacher and mother of two escaped being
whipped for allowing her class to name a teddy bear Mohamed,
the most common name among Muslims which is also the name
of Islam’s founder. The bear was, in fact, named after
a popular boy in class. Under intense international pressure,
Gillian Gibbons was let off with a gaol sentence. Her ordeal
is reminiscent of Mohamed ordering the killing of Asma bint
Marwan, a mother of five, for composing poetry that allegedly
mocked him. Asma was murdered in the middle of the night as
she lay breastfeeding her youngest [see Ibn Ishaq:
Sirat
Rasul Allah (Guillaume's translation
The Life of
Muhammad) page 675-6]. This web site condemns Sudan for
its barbaric treatment of one of Her Majesty's subjects. We
also call upon the Maldive political factions that seek British
support either to gain power or retain it, to become civilised
and condemn their savage brethren in Sudan. So far these factions
are silent over this latest attack on a British national by
their faith community. Do these barbarians realise that teddy
bears are named after US President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
There
is someone online selling genuine, certified Mohamed bears
for US$19.95. A dollar for every bear sold is donated to the
Civilised World's troops engaged against terrorists in the
Middle East.
Islam
orders rape victim to be whipped:
19 November
In a barbaric judgment, a Saudi court has ordered a gang rape
victim to be lashed 90 times. When the victim's lawyer protested,
the sentence was increased to 200 lashes. (
read
Reuters report). Islam makes it lawful for Muslim men
to have sex with non-Muslim women captured in conflicts, even
if they are married, but does not call it rape.
Maldive
women politicians angry over gender imbalance:
16 November
In a Third World Islamic dictatorship stricken with discrimination,
the last thing one needs is more discrimination, albeit allegedly
“positive”. That, however, was what Maldive women
members of parliament wanted to incorporate into their new
constitution, when they proposed an amendment to create ten
seats for women.
>>more
Passing away of a legend:
13 November
We mourn the death of Tuttudon Sitti, celebrated veteran
icon of the Maldive freedom movement and daughter of the 20th
century Maldive political poet Budufenvalhugey Seedi. A formidable
critic of the Gayoom dictatorship, she was a political street
activist well into her mid eighties. Tuttudon Sitti was the
maternal aunt of the editor of this web site. We extend our
condolences to her children and their families. May God bless
her soul !
Maldivians
call the pot black:
13 November
Recently a video link of a speech made by the Maldive finance
minister Gasim Ibrahim was sent to us by a site visitor who
wanted us to denigrate Mr Ibrahim. Going through the comments
in the YouTube page, all we could see was how insecure some
Maldivians are about themselves. Mr Ibrahim did an excellent
job. Obviously he was not speaking in his first language but
then English is not the first language of any of his cabinet
colleagues or the overwhelming majority of Maldivians. It
is not an embarrassment to make a speech in a language that
is not one's first language. This writer has heard Maldivians
who have studied at post graduate level in English-speaking
countries, who hold masters and doctoral degrees do worse
jobs than Mr Ibrahim at speaking in English. So Maldivians
grow up and stop calling the pot black!
>>video
clip
Freedom
of religion in the Maldives:
11 November
This web site is the only media organ with a Maldive theme
that openly and unreservedly advocates the path of embracing
all the freedoms guaranteed by the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights.
>>more
Maldive
Taliban improves on "holy" tradition:
27 October According to a Divehi language article in
Haveeru
(
click
and read the penultimate paragraph) "Some fanatics [on
the Maldive Taliban island of Himandhoo] believe that when
a man's wife is pregnant it becomes the responsibility of
his wife to procure him a sex-slave". This seems to be a most
ingenious, mess-free and thoroughly Maldive solution to one's
carnal needs. "Holy" traditions are replete with other means
of acquiring concubines.
Sahih
Bukhari Volume 3, Book 46, Hadith Number 717: "Narrated
Ibn Aun: … the Prophet had suddenly attacked Bani Mustaliq
without warning while they were heedless and their cattle
were being watered at the places of water. Their fighting
men were killed and their women and children were taken as
captives; the Prophet got Juwairiya [a female captive] on
that day." The Koran 4:24 makes it lawful for Muslim men to
have sex with infidel female captives.
Inception of Islamic fanaticism
1980 |
Islamic fanaticism
blamed on head mullah:
18 October
The former Maldive attorney general Hassan Saeed has
made public parts of a letter he wrote the Maldive head mullah
and chief "justice", Mohamed Rasheed Ibrahim. Mr Saeed suggests
that the current wave of Islamic fanaticism sweeping the Maldives
is the result of Mullah Ibrahim's reckless negligence of his
responsibilities. The former attorney general accused Mullah
Ibrahim of permitting Islamic fanatics working out of the
mullah's main mosque in Male of wreaking social strife. Mullah
Ibrahim was indoctrinated at Cairo's al-Azher
medrassa
along with the Maldive president of the republic. Later he
served in Saudi Arabia as a teacher before being appointed
Maldive head mullah and chief "justice". Mullah Ibrahim inspired
the establishment of the first Saudi-funded
medrassa
in the Maldives and other such centres of Islamic fanaticism.
The most visible outcome of fanatical Islamisation has been
the gradual imposition of the obnoxious buruga veil on Maldive
women that has transformed many of them into walking tents.
Traditionally Maldive women's dress was more sensible, given
the temperature and humidity of the islands. Mr Saeed accuses
Mullah Ibrahim of recklessly overlooking Islamic fanatics
who allegedly engage in crimes ranging from paedophile marriages
to other serious offences such as assault and murder. Under
Maldive civil law, paedophile marriage constitutes a crime.
Islamic
Shariah permits paedophile marriage because
Mohamed married a six year old girl and commenced vaginal
sex with her when she turned nine.
>>Divehi
language media report
Battle
of the Dots and Dashes:
11 October
The Maldive security forces recently concluded the
most pathetic of battles with the motliest band of unwashed,
jihadi rat bags that Amr bin al-Ass would have envied.
The battle of Himandhoo was just the beginning of the Islamic
terror storm about to unleash over the ancient isles. We bring
to our readers the first in a series of light-hearted opinions
in the Divehi language by a Maldive contributor who wishes
to use the pseudonym HJ. He was a regular contributor to the
British-based Dhivehi Observer (DO), part of the Maldive "democracy"
movement. DO and other organs of the movement regularly censor
material even vaguely critical of Islamic terrorism. We do
not have such inhibitions and strongly believe that terrorism,
Fascism and Bronze Age barbarism have no place in the modern
world.
>>click
to open the portable document format file
Shooting the human rights messenger:
7 October Recently the
Maldives was admitted as an Associate Member of the Asia Pacific
Forum (APF) - this is yet to be published in the APF web site.
Associate Members are institutions which currently do not
comply with the Paris Principles and are unlikely to do so
within a reasonable period. According to a report carried
in the Divehi language media, the ruling party in the Maldives
(DRP) has censured the president of the Maldives Human Rights
Commission Mr Ahmed Saleem as a result of a comment he made
in relation to this. His apparent misdemeanour was saying
that Associate Membership, as opposed to Full Membership was
granted because the president of the Commission is required
to be a Muslim. This is a classic case of shooting the messenger.
Freedom of religion is a fundamental right guaranteed in international
law, and gagging Mr Saleem will not change a thing. What the
Maldive lawmakers who enacted this clause did not realise
is that the clause presents a classic example of egging their
own faces. The provision makes a farce of the hackneyed cliché
about the Maldives having a 100% Muslim population. Requiring
a Muslim Maldivian to be the president of the commission is
an admission that there are Maldivians who are not Muslims.
>>Divehi
language report
Finger-pointing
at the USA:
4 October
These people will believe anything; that the 9/11 Islamic
attacks on America were carried out by the US Government;
that the Boxing Day tsunami was caused by the Israelis and
that the Battle of Badr Anniversary terrorist bombing in Male
was carried out by the CIA. To the relief of the kuffarophobes,
the Maldive police have dutifully released that vital piece
of forensic evidence and few Maldivians or Muslims will ever
believe otherwise from now on. Evidently one of the bombers,
complete with his fundamentalist beard and all, was wearing
a CIA t-shirt when he carried out the Badr-day bombing. That
proves beyond reasonable doubt, in these people's minds that
the American Central Intelligence Agency carried out the bombing.
That these t-shirts are not connected with the CIA or that
they are widely available everywhere is of no consequence.
It would be as if the bomber was garbed by President Bush
himself. The Maldive media are already gleefully giving the
news prominent coverage.
Click
here to access one of many online stores selling those t-shirts.
Associated
Press hits Maldive woes on the head:
3 October
Ravi Nessman reported that "Some young [Maldive] people
have turned to drug use, while others have embraced a conservative
strain of Islam that had been virtually unheard of
on the islands just a few years ago." The word "strain" defines
it all. The root causes of Maldive woes lie in an ulcer caused
by narcotics and a malignant cancer that has set in on the
rest of the body that is the Maldive society of today. Unless
the current generation deals with these two issues smartly
once and for all, the Maldives will time-travel back to antiquity
to become a seventh-century tribe that consumes
camel
urine as a dietary supplement. Decades of progress in
the tourism sector and the status as the wealthiest country
in South Asia will be lost for ever. It is not possible to
have one foot in civilisation and the other in barbarism.
The Maldives must unveil itself out of barbarism and join
civilised humanity. If the Maldive authorities know the identities
and motives of those who carried out the Battle of
Badr
Anniversary bombing, why are they sitting on it? Is the truth
too hard to swallow?
>>more
Second
terrorist bomb in two decades set off near Malé mosque:
29 September A powerful,
remote-controlled nail bomb has been detonated near a park
adjacent to the main mosque and headquarters of the supreme
council for Islam in Malé, the capital of the Maldives.
It was activated by a mobile telephone. The bomb was clearly
intended for foreign tourists, several of whom were badly
injured. The bombing coincides with the anniversary of Mohamed's
first war against his tribe in Mecca. Many Maldive Islamists
want an end to the bourgeoning tourist industry, which they
see as a hindrance to full-Islamisation of the Maldives. This
was the
second bomb detonated in the same
location near the mosque. In the early 1990s an Egyptian indoctrinated
mullah who was the mosque librarian was implicated in a crude
terrorist bomb attack there.
Jihad has been dormant in the Maldives for many centuries.
Jihad first reared its ugly head in the Maldives
in the twelfth century when several Maldive Buddhist monks
were beheaded and Islam was imposed on the population by force.
Surviving copper plate chronicles document these jihadist
murders. In August an Indian television channel reported that
there was evidence that the Maldives was fast becoming the
new
terror hub. In 2005 we cautioned our
readers of the seven danger signs of Islamic militancy.
>>danger
signs
Maldives Name Nazis- Part 2:
22 September Maldive parents are forced to fill
in a form and spell their child's name in Arabic. The form
is then submitted to the Supreme Council for Islam to be whetted
for the name's Islamic authenticity before civil authorities
are permitted to register it. There are absolutely no public
guidelines on what constitutes a name that is permissible
in Islam. It is left up to the whims and fancies of some bearded
freak who probably spent the previous night beating up one
of his four wives, according to "holy" law.
>>more
The
Maldives fails to honour treaty:
19 September Today is the first anniversary of
the Maldives' accession to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Reservation made by the
Maldives on its accession states that "The application of
the principles set out in Article 18 of the Covenant shall
be without prejudice to the Constitution of the Republic of
Maldives." Article 18 guarantees freedom of religion. The
Maldives is invoking its internal law to justify its failure
to perform its international treaty obligations. This is contrary
to the principles of international law and contravenes Article
27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which
the Maldives ratified on 14 September 2005. The Maldives cannot
have it both ways. It must either adhere to its international
treaty obligations or withdraw from the community of civilised
states altogether.
We
condemn terrorism:
11 September
This web site unequivocally and without reservation,
condemns all acts of terror aimed at Civilisation by the world’s
foremost barbaric force. We express solidarity with the people
of the United States on this anniversary of the 9/11 attack
on that great country. We also empathise with the State of
Israel, which is another prime target of the terrorists. There
is absolutely no place for co-operation with terrorists and
terrorist-sympathisers in order to find a solution to the
problem of terrorism. Terror does not have a “peaceful
meaning”.
The
Maldivian Democratic Party made a highly ambiguous condemnation
of terrorism today. While criticising terrorism
in general, their statement stops short of explicitly condemning
the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks on the United States. This
is a popular ploy of those who imply that, somehow, the United
States and its allies (particularly the State of Israel) are
responsible for provoking Islamic terrorists to target the
Civilised World. An ambiguous statement such as this on the
anniversary of the attacks on the United States is a calculated
insult to the people of that great nation.
God Bless America!
Militant
Wahabism beats other Islamic fundamentalists in Sri Lanka:
1 September Not so long
ago a man was found murdered on a Maldive island divided by
sectarian conflict. The island is split between those following
the local brand of Islam mellowed by indigenous, Divehi-Buddhist,
peaceful values and those following al-Qaeda style Islam,
funded by the Saudi riyal. The Maldives is not alone in this
regard. Across in Sri Lanka, the previously peaceful
community of ethnic Tamil Muslims, known as Moors, are also
enduring the same situation, again fuelled by Saudi riyals.
>> Read
article in Asian Tribune
Canine conundrum:
31 August A Maldive court has been asked to rule in
a litigation that classifies a dog as a wild animal. The case
involves an allegation that a government member of parliament
called an opposition member a dog (emphatically the variety
of the species, known locally as
nagoo-balhu ނަގޫބަޅު
which translates "tail dog"). Dogs are not permitted on the
islands as per the dictates of the established
Shafii
school of
Sunni Islam. According to
Hadith
(Sahih
Bukhari 1:9:490), dogs, like donkeys and women, are creatures
that annul a man's prayer. The counsel for the plaintiff is
of the opinion that dogs are wild animals. In parts of the
world where the canine creatures are permitted to live, it
is more likely that they (even the ones that have their tails
missing) are either domestic or farm animals. It has to be
a tough assignment for the island judge who has been asked
to make a ruling based on a creature that is not permitted
on shore on the islands. He has to determine if the dog is
both homeless and had not endured the additional misfortune
of losing its tail. The aggrieved opposition politician is
seeking the princely sum equivalent to about $500 in compensation.
>>Divehi
language media report
Saudi Arabia: the Islamist
Cage:
28 August Divehi
is the southern-most language of the Indo-European family
of languages. The Maldives has an ancient culture, language,
unique customs and manners. It survived the age of European
empires without being occupied. And yet Maldivians now are
keen as mustard to sell their ancient souls for riyals and
become the mirror image of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This
is mind-boggling when many Maldive visitors to the kingdom
have their passports thrown on the floor, spat at and abused
on arrival at the point of entry.
Read
Youssef Ibrahim's excellent expose of the world-wide phenomenon
of selling souls for riyals.
Indian TV channel says the Maldives
is the new terror hub:
26
August "The route that starts from Pakistan to
Male in Maldives and to the southern [Indian] cities which
have direct flights to Male. The Maldives is an Islamic state
and recent evidence points to its traditional tolerant views
being undermined."
>>text
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In
support of the Virtual March against Maldives tourism boycott:
20 August The
Virtual March against punishing the innocent (workers in the
Maldive tourism industry and their families) by the UK-based
NGO; Friends of Maldives (FOM) has begun officially as scheduled.
>>more
Child molestation
in the Maldives:
13 August
Child molestation, particularly those of pre-adolescent
girls, stems from an ideology that is imposed on the Maldives.
Most Maldivians seem to be unwilling to acknowledge this and
until they do, the problem will not go away.
>>more
Maldive media insults Christ: :
29 July In a photo album depicting the new Seven Wonders
of the World, the semi-official Maldive newspaper
Haveeru
identifies all but one by their correct names. The statue
of
Christ Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro is identified
as the "
Big Buddha of Rio de Janeiro". Maldive authorities
and the opposition deplore the West and Christianity (which
are terms they used interchangeably) when publishing in the
local language. This is yet another example of that. The Maldive
mullahs frown upon any art depicting the human body. Most
statues of any kind are regarded as
najis or excrement
and so are referred to as
Budhu (Buddha), in an effort
to insult Buddhism, the ancestral religion of the Maldives,
which is now banned. While insulting Christianity and Buddhism,
the mullahs demand that the West respects Islam.
>>Haveeru
album- slide down the scroll bar and select item depicting
a Mayan Pyramid at Chichén Itzá
Lest
we forget:
26 July From
New Zealand to Singapore we send our warmest greetings to
Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan, K.C.M.G. Your Excellency,
you are the author and architect of Maldive independence.
The current, ungrateful generation of Maldivians have vilified
you for no reason for the past 29 years. At this web site
we have not forgotten your contribution to our ancient islands.
We shall always remember you.
This
Maldive media report (click here) refers to some Maldive
diplomat based in Colombo sending his good wishes on the Maldives
independence day to the Maldive president of the republic,
Maldive students in Sri Lanka and the Maldive people. For
goodness sake, we are fortunate to be able to live as contemporaries
of the hero of that independence! He is still alive and well
but no mention was made of him. Why do these dim-witted, ungrateful
sods fail to give credit where credit is due?
Historic photographs :
8
July New additions to a collection of rare historical
Maldive photographs of the last two centuries. There are two
pages of photos
>>click
to view the first new page
Islamic law sentences an under-aged Sri Lanka girl
to be beheaded: Islamic law has sentenced an under-aged
Sri Lanka Muslim girl to death by decapitation. She was over-worked
from 3 am till late in the night like a slave. Slavery is
legal under the Islamic
Sharia law. When she complained
she was accused of strangling a baby and convicted of murder.
She is due to be frog-marched outside a Friday mosque after
the weekly worship to
Allah, where a sword wielding
executioner will yell out
Allah Akbar (
Allah
is great) before chopping off her head. Under Islamic law,
girls as young as 9 are treated as full adults. Old men are
permitted to marry girls aged 6 and start having sex with
them when they turn 9.
>>Read
a report by R.G. Dharmadasa of the BBC's Singhala service
Women
judges in the Maldives 28
May We welcome the Maldive president of the republic
Mr Maumoon Gayoom's decision to appoint women judges. Maldive
statutes at no time barred women from the office of judge
other than that of chief justice. Until the twentieth century
when mullahs began wielding increasing levels of power over
civil governance, women enjoyed an influential role in society.
Women were able to become head of state until 1953. The appointment
of female judges would go a long way towards addressing the
issue of the Maldives as a state that consistently violates
international treaties to which it is party. There are still
a few significant international treaty obligations that the
Maldives and all its political parties flagrantly violate.
3 May Amin Faizal was
released a few minutes ago, just before mid-night
New Zealand Standard Time on 3 May. Click
here to read his press release
High
profile detainee:
1 May The
Maldive authorities are holding a member of a very high profile
family in extra-judicial remand, accused of unlawful assembly.
An American-trained former military officer, Amin Faizal is
a maternal grandson of Athireegey Mohamed Amin Dorhimeyna
Kilegefan, president of the first Maldive republic. Mr Faizal
is also a paternal first cousin of Velaanaagey Ibrahim Nasir
Rannabandeyri Kilegafan, K.C.M.G., first president of the
second Maldive republic who now lives in Singapore. Through
his maternal grandfather, Mr Faizal is also a descendant of
the Kakaage family and the dynsaty that we represent. To the
current rulers of the Maldives, this constitutes a lethal
cocktail of genes. To add insult to injury, while the detention
continued, the Maldive Defence Force ordered Mr Faizal's mother
Amina Mohamed Amin to appear at a ceremony to mark the force's
anniversary, in order to receive posthumous medals for her
father and her father's great uncle Athireegey Abdulla Didi
who was the first commanding officer of the Defence Force.
The Maldive Defence Force is currently commanded by president
of the republic Mr Gayoom. Mr Faizal's detention beyond May
6th will be illegal. We call for Mr Faizal's unconditional
release with immediate effect.
(Note: the Maldive authorities spell Mr Faizal's name
as Ameen Faisal)
The Maldives Mr & Miss Beauty Contest in Seoul:
15 April
The Maldive chapter of the Taliban is bound to be rattled
by all that flesh displayed on April 12 in Korea on behalf
of the Maldive government. The Maldives Mr & Miss Beauty
Contest is an annual event to choose non-governmental ambassadors
who will promote the breath-taking tourist attractions of
the Maldives
>>click
to see the flesh
Maldivians show heart of stone:
14
April On Boxing Day 2004, the people of Madifurhi Island
had their homes, livelihoods and island completely destroyed
by the Andaman Tsunami, the most devastating natural disaster
to hit Asia in living memory. The Madifurhi islanders who
survived the disaster were relocated to Maamigili, an inhabited
island that was unaffected by the tsunami. Now the relocated
islanders are facing a plight worse than the tsunami itself,
as resentment of the host community turns very ugly.
>>more
Malaysian demographics:
12 April A Hindu woman's new-born
baby was
seized
by the Malaysian Islamic authorities before she was sent
to an Islamic rehabilitation centre where she is being forced
to wear a
burqa and perform Islamic rituals. The
woman's identity card shows a Muslim-sounding name. Although
her husband is also a Hindu, she was accused of kidnapping
a Muslim baby (her baby) while being an infidel. In another
case, the dead body of an 81 year-old, ethnic-Chinese woman
was seized from her family by the Malaysian authorities and
given a Muslim funeral. She too had a Muslim-sounding name.
In a third case, Lina Joy (previously known as Azlina Jailani),
an ex-Muslim Christian-convert and her
Muslim
lawyer are in hiding after threats to their lives. Malaysian
courts refuse to recognise Lina Joy's conversion out of fear
of a massive, open exodus from Islam. In February last year
the chief mullah of the State of Perak,
Harussani
Zakaria announced that there were close to 250,000 ex-Muslims
in the country, out of whom 30,000 were Christian converts.
The mullah made it clear that these numbers did not include
Muslims who were simply non-observant. In 1998 several Christian
converts were
imprisoned
in the Maldives, and tortured before being released due to
international pressure. All political parties in the Maldives,
including the main opposition MDP and the ruling Maldivian
People's Party (DRP) have written undertakings to deny freedom
of religion in breach of the Maldives' international treaty
obligations.
Maldive mullahs rebuke Mariya Didi:
24
March The Maldive mullahs are extremely upset about
the International Women of Courage Award. An article calls
Mariya Didi and several other Maldive opposition women activists
"lumps of excrement" for their alleged anti-Islamic sentiments.
It is interesting that in spite of its Islamic stance, the
web site that published the article uses the Gregorian calendar
in the Christian era. That is likely to be an inadvertent
admission of the well-known shortcomings of the Islamic lunar
calendar.
>>more
This typically
ad hominem outburst from the mullahs
came in the wake of a Divehi language article by an MDP official
in
Minvan Daily on 20 March. Under the title
Are
women germs that spread social disease?
the article questions Islam's requirement for women to wear
the obnoxious
hijab also known as
burqa.
British
tycoon restores Maldive ancestral heritage? 18
March If allegations were to be believed, it has probably
taken a British billionaire knight to restore the ancient
ancestral heritage of the Maldives. After a lapse of many
centuries, once again, a giant image of the Buddha adorns
in full public glory in a tiny Maldive island.
>>more
Mariya
Didi honoured by the United States:
10
March
On 7 March 2007, the United States Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice awarded Mariya Didi of the Maldives the International
Women of Courage Award. We congratulate Miss Didi for this
outstanding honour.
>>read
our editorial
Minivan News is selective
in its reporting:
7
March In an
article
on the US State Department's
Country
Report on Human Rights Practices in the Maldives (2006)
the Maldive opposition's
Minivan News completely
ignores on-going US concerns over the lack of freedom of religion
in the Maldives. The Maldives has a ban on religions other
than Islam and routinely jams Divehi language Christian broadcasts.
It also confiscates and defiles Divehi language Bibles, crucifixes
and Buddhist and Hindu sacred imagery. The Maldive opposition
MDP and the ruling Maldivian People's Party (DRP) are committed
in writing to deny freedom of religion in the Maldives. This
is in contravention of the Maldives' international treaty
obligations.
Minivan News and MDP ought to sort out
their own act before engaging foreign political consultants
to patronise and pontificate at Maldivians to "
lower
the tone".
Maldive report calls for new understanding of Islam:
18 February A
Maldive government report declares: "The position of
the woman in a husband/wife relationship is considered subordinate
by most people. This is believed by many to be defined as
such by Islam…A number of people, particularly men,
use Islam to justify keeping women inside the house, restricting
their rights and being violent. This understanding of Islam
must be addressed." What other understanding of Islam
is there? Does the Maldive Ministry of Gender propose to write
a "new Koran" (
au guraan)? Read
Islam:
Sex and Violence by Anwar Shaikh. Dr. Shaikh
was an Indian-born ex-Muslim who later converted to Hinduism
and lived in Wales. [
caution: those who detest
freedom of thought must not open the link given here]
World leader in divorce statistics talks politics
in style:
17 February
The Maldives leads the world per capita in divorce. It is,
therefore, apt that the delegations at the first formal talks
between the ruling Maldivian People's Party (DRP) and the
main opposition MDP include a woman (right) and her former
polygamous husband (left, with hand in trouser-pocket). She
is the head of the government delegation. Although not the
head of the opposition contingent, he is the opposition's
acting president and current husband of two other women. His
ex-wife pictured with him here is also an ex-wife of the current
Maldive High Commissioner to India and former military chief
of staff. Polygamy is legal in the Maldives, where Islamic
theocratic law prevails. The telltale sign that the government
does not take democracy seriously is that its head delegate
is a woman. Women are barred from becoming head of state since
1953 in this Islamic state. The word of a woman is legally
worth half that of a man as per Islam.
Brave Maldive soul declares that people come before
religion (Islam):
15 February
In a well-written Divehi language article Ahmed Naseer has
bravely gone where few Maldivians have ventured before in
public. He has fired a salvo at the depraved Maldive mullahs
within and outside government for using Islam to gain political
capital. He also touches on the controversial issue of the
mullahs’ lack of respect for women. We congratulate
Mr Naseer’s courage and integrity for calling a spade
a spade. In a world where Islamofascists carry out, to the
letter, the Koranic commandment (47:4) “when you meet
the unbelievers, smite at their necks...” the article
is exceedingly bold. Most people regard Mr Naseer, who lives
in England, to be affiliated with the Maldive opposition Maldivian
Democratic Party (MDP)
>>read article
UK-based Maldive web site vilifies the UK and the
US:
updated on 3 February
The heading of a Divehi language article in the UK-based web
site
Dhivehi Observer reads “Is K-Maafurhi
prison turning into an Abu Ghraib?” The reference to
Abu Ghraib sounded rather gratuitous and a deliberate swipe
at the United States and Great Britain, the leading states
involved in the war on Islamic terror in the Middle East and
elsewhere.
>>more
Saudis
to ban the use of X: The Saudi Commission for the
Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has condemned the
letter X because of its similarity to a cross
>>more.
Saudi Arabia is a couple of decades behind the Maldives in
this regard. In 1983, the Maldives banned a brush-stroke in
a Gothic-style calligraphic letter M in a school crest saying
it was part of a grand design to Christianise the Maldives
>>more.
Mullahs in both countries routinely condemn Christians as
pigs and infidel crusaders. Thanks to
Allah, the
world will be a safer place without the letters X and crossed
M. In 1974 the Commission declared that the earth is flat.
There is no confirmation yet that the Supreme Council for
Islam in the Maldives has followed this fetwah. Do banks in
the Maldives still accept crossed cheques?
Muslim exodus may explain Maldive
behaviour: An interview given in 2000 by a Libyan
mullah may help explain why the Maldives is willing to violate
international law and treaty obligations
>>more
Ahmed
Mujuthaba speaks:"The print media was, till
very recently, like the Soviet era
Pravda or the
Peking Review of Chairman Mao days except for a brief
period in 1989 and 1990. Long bold headlines such as “President
Gayoom Sends Sympathy to the President and Prime Minister
of India after Gujarat Earthquake” or “President Gayoom Congratulates
Mr Tony Blair on his Election Victory” adorned the front pages.
It was not the earthquake or Tony Blair’s election victory.
No mention of the plight of the victims or Blair’s promised
agenda. You were lucky if more news on the events was given
in tiny print in the inside pages..."
>>more
Minivan News shies away from using the term
“Islamic extremism”: “It was reported
this week that the religious faction is now ruling the island,
which has a population of under six hundred and a history
or religious extremism. [sic]” It looks like one of
the Maldive islands, close to tourist facilities, is now run
by a fanatical, Sunni-Islamic, Taliban-like organisation.
Nevertheless, in line with the inviolability of the trademark
“Islamic” the Maldive opposition's
Minivan
News substitutes the term “religious” for
“Islamic”. All religions except Islam are banned
in the Maldives in violation of the Maldives’ international
treaty obligations.
>>more
Aparthied is alive and well: If one thought
Apartheid died in South Africa in the early 1990s, one is
wrong. It is still practised in a more lethal form in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Jojo Joseph of India was sentenced
to be beheaded for entering the city of Medina which is out
of bounds to non-Muslims. Hours before the time scheduled
for the execution, Saudi Arabia released him when India protested.
>>more
The Máldive Islands by C.W. Rosset
(1886):"They are very ingenious and expert in their manufactures,
and display great aptitude in the imitation of any European
articles they may come across, such as knife handles, scales,
and other small articles of daily use amongst us."
>>more
Egyptian minister condemns the
hijab : Farouk Hosni, Egypt's Minister of
Culture recently said: "There was an age when our mothers
went to university and worked without the veil. It is in that
spirit that we grew up. So why this regression?" Egypt,
like Iran and the Maldives, is an ancient country with a proud
indigenous heritage. All three countries have succumbed to
cultural colonialism of a backward foreign ideology that forces
women into the barbaric system known as
hijab. This
web site concurs with Mr Hosni's sentiment. We also congratulate
him for his courage in challenging the mullahs who are the
guardians of colonialism that still keeps Egypt in the Dark
Ages.
Australian medrassa expels pupils: Muslim
pupils who urinated on a Bible have been expelled from their
Melbourne medrassa. While the principal of the medrassa has
profusely apologised for the incident, he dismissed it as
the work of "illiterate and ignorant" pupils. He did not explain
why indoctrination at his medrassa leaves pupils illiterate,
when it accepts the equivalent of $4.3 million in state and
Commonwealth funding. He said that the Bible is "an important
book both for non-Muslims and Muslims and should be treated
as a holy book by all religions." Muslims regard the Christian
Bible as a corrupted, reprehensible lie and believe that in
its "unadulterated form" the Bible was the word of
Allah
as transmitted by an angel to Jesus, Moses and David and a
holy book such as the Koran. The principal did not say if
what he referred to was this "Islamic Bible" or the Christian
Bible that his pupils urinated on, that Muslims would regard
as a loathsome lie.
>>more
Anonymous writer in Dhivehi Observer writes
to us in his own name: Recently we pointed out that
a "reader's review" in the Maldive opposition website
Dhivehi Observer lists the articles of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that it alleges the Maldive
government of failing to uphold. We also pointed out that
conspicuously the review does not list Article 18 that relates
to freedom of religion. Now the author of the "reader's
review" has given us feedback in his own name. We commend
his integrity in being up front.
>>more
Fua Mulaku genealogy: A solitary island in
the Equatorial Channel, Fua Mulaku was where important royal
and political prisoners were exiled. The last head of government
to be transported there was the Prime Minister Ahmed Zaki
in 1975, after he was dismissed and the office of prime minister
was abolished. Before that the Sultan Mohamed Shamsuddine
III Siri Kula Sundura Katthiri Bavana and his son the Prince
Henveyru Ganduvaru Manippulu were exiled there in 1933. In
the early 19th century the Prince Ibrahim Faamuladeyri Kilege,
son of the last monarch of the Diyamigily Dynasty was sent
there. A large majority of Fua Mulaku islanders of today are
descended from him.
Click
here to view a comprehensive and rare genealogy of that line
on the island today.
Historical photographs:
Click
to view new additions to a collection of rare historical
Maldive photographs of the last century. Velaanaage family
photograph and coronation proclamation.
Other recent
additions were
Kakaage
and
Ibrahim
Habeeb Manippulu etc.
Kakaage family photographs. The Kakaage were
among the most powerful political families in the Maldives
in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The
Kakaage have a reputation of being totally honest and loyal
with a pathological aversion to corruption. Most recently
the trademark Kakaage integrity was displayed by Arif Hilmy
who served the current Maldive regime as its minister of finance
until resigning in order to choose integrity over position.
>>album
Fish of Minicoy: Some decorative fish found
in Minicoy island and northern Maldives, with their English,
Divehi and scientific names
>>more
Australian-based mullah encourages rape:
One of the most senior mullahs based in Australasia, Taj Aldin
al Hilali, was reported as saying about women not dressed
according to Islamic dictates: "If you take out uncovered
meat and place it outside ... without cover, and the cats
come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered
meat's? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her
room, in her home, in her
hijab, no problem would
have occurred," Australian Prime Minister John Howard
has called the remarks "appalling and reprehensible."
We totally agree with Mr Howard and condemn Mullah Hilali's
remarks in the strongest possible terms. Bigots like Mullah
Hilali and their followers have no place in our society. The
mullah's remark was effectively an attack on Australian law
by a revolting foreign ideology. Federal Sex Discrimination
Commissioner Pru Goward said that the mullah should be deported
for inciting rape. We agree with Mrs Goward.
Hilali's pronouncement is totally in line with Islamic law.
Islamic courts regularly find rape victims guilty of fornication
or adultery and sentence them to be flogged or stoned to death.
That is unless they had been raped while wearing the obnoxious
hijab veil and in the presence of a close male "
mahram"
relative and at least three other devout Muslim male witnesses.
Rapists usually do not do their dirty deed in front of witnesses.
The Islamic definition of rape falls well short of the Western
definition. For example it is lawful for Muslims to have unconsenting
sex with infidel women prisoners of war or slaves even in
front of their husbands (refer
Sunan Abu Dawud, book
5, chapter 711, Hadith 2150 and
Koran 4:24).
Colonialism is alive and well: His only crime
was having the insubordinate audacity to enter Saudi Arabia
as a pilgrim using his own name. He was accused of being an
infidel attempting to defile holy sites that are strictly
out of bounds to
najis (unclean) sub-humans.....Following
this incident Maldive authorities have strictly prohibited
the few remaining Maldivians who have native Divehi names
from using their real names in their passports. These people
are assigned colonialist "Islamic" names that they
had never used in their lives.
>>more
Maldive hostility to the Pope: On 26 September
2006, the Maldive opposition newspaper
Minivan News
reported that the Maldives president of the republic Mr Gayoom
"directly confronted" Pope Benedict XVI for repeating
an assertion made by the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus
that Islam was spread by the sword.
>>more
Creed of the sword: "Islam has to accept
that its militants find support for violence in their faith's
teachings and should pursue reform", writes Mark Durie
in an article in
The Australian. Mark Durie
is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
>>read
Clash for civilisation: "Fear of offending
Islam spurs hot debate in Europe", write Mark Trevelyan and
Mike Collett-White. Is art in Europe going to be stifled as
it did in 7th century Arabia following the killings of artists
such as
Asma
bint Marwan, Kaab bin el-Ashraf and Abu Afak?
>>read
more
Islamisation of Britain : “All religions
are equal”, says a correspondent and adds that, “some
are more equal than others”. The British Labour government
recently made it compulsory for meat slaughtered in the name
of
Allah to be used in all school dinners. The objections
of non-Muslims who do not wish their children to eat meat
slaughtered in the name of a heathen god are simply ignored
by the politically correct Left. Now Nottingham is breaking
with local Christian tradition of burying the dead facing
East to build a cemetery aligned with Mecca. The proud British
heritage is again ignored in order to placate to a minority
that is inclined to enforce its wishes by bombing skyscrapers
and commuter networks and killing unarmed academics in cold
blood.
>>read
more
Treatment of women in countries under Arab colonialism:
According to a Friday sermon aired live on Qatar television
on 27 August 2004: "The third type is a twisted woman
who will not obey her husband unless he oppresses her, beats
her, uses force against her, and overpowers her with his voice."
>>read more
The Maldives accedes to the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights: The Maldives has acceded
to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
We await with interest to see if the Maldives would give the
world a one finger salute by applying its own interpretation
of the Covenant so as to make the accession a mockery. Will
the Maldivian "Democratic" Party revise its provisional
constitution to bring it in line with the Covenant? The Maldive
ruling mullahs have a fetwa on issue against the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights on which the Covenant is based.
Will they rescind the fetwa?
>>feedback
Maldives democracy watch: From its inception,
the catch-phrase of the Maldives “democracy” movement has
been “separation of powers”. The movement seems to believe
that the easiest way to topple the government of the incumbent
president of the republic is to establish strict demarcation
between the legislature, the executive and the judiciary.
It looks like this self-righteous objective has limits when
it suits the purposes of the “democracy” movement.
>>more
Islam and prostitution: It was the abstention
of New Zealand's first, and so far only, Muslim Member
of Parliament
Ashraf
Choudhary that saw prostitution legalised in this country.
The Prostitution Reform Bill was enacted in 2003 by a majority
of one vote. What really is Islam's stand on prostitution?
Sunni Islam allows an arrangement called
al-Misyar
("marriage of pleasure") while Shii Islam allows
al-Mut'a
("temporary marriage"). To varying degrees, both the arrangements
bear hallmarks of prostitution.
Kettle calls the pot black: Reading a report
in
Minivan News about the visit of the UN Special
Rapporteur for religious freedom Asma Jehangir to the Maldives,
one could be led to assume that while the Maldive president
of the republic may be opposed to freedom of religion, his
main opposition MDP may not be.
Minivan News, which
is strongly affiliated to the MDP, fails to note that the
MDP itself is fully committed in writing to deny freedom of
religion in the Maldives, as defined in the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Minivan News
must cease calling the pot black. British-based
Dhivehi Observer,
another staunch MDP ally is more blunt. In a Maldive language
article, it calls Asma Jehangir a "satan" and wishes
her everlasting torments in hell.
>>Minivan
>>Dhivehi
Observer
Insulting a British charity: Attempts by
Western charitable organisations to donate aid to help needy
people in the Maldives have, time and again, been met with
obstacles, mistrust and insults.
>>more
Do these people make sense to themselves?
For years the Maldive opposition has been telling the world,
ad nauseam, the virtues of "separation of powers".
Now the leading Maldive opposition organ on the Internet,
the
Dhivehi Observer has published what it calls
a "snap shot of the interim cabinet" that the Maldive president
of the republic will form shortly, that incorporates a cross
section of the civil political spectrum and the mullahs. And
what do we find? The cabinet includes the positions of speaker
of parliament and chief justice. Exactly what powers are these
people talking of separating? Having said that, this web site
wishes to go on record and state that we applaud the peaceful
course of action that these people are proposing to take.
Civilised societies must not resort to violent street revolutions.
They must find a peaceful solution to their woes that incorporates
internationally recognised norms of human rights, both in
the spirit and the letter of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights.
>>read
article
Maldive opposition media undress a woman to pull wool
over Western eyes: Recently the Maldive opposition
web site
Minivan News ran an article about a woman
who is being accused by the Maldive authorities of recruiting
suicide bombers for al-Qaeda. The photo of the woman in the
article shows her wearing secular clothing. Another opposition
web site the
Dhivehi Observer (DO), referring to
the same article, published another photo of her in secular
clothing. The fact is that this woman has long abandoned the
traditional veil-free attire of the Maldives in favour of
the obnoxiously offensive Islamic dress. The idea of a woman
in
burqa running a terrorist recruitment racket is
plausible. Naturally the Maldive opposition hides that from
the world.
In
solidarity with Israel: This web site acknowledges
Israel's inalienable right to defend itself and exist within
its legitimate ancestral borders, with all of Jerusalem as
its eternal capital. In an article titled
Lebanon Is Not
Innocent, David Horowitz writes of the current escalation
in the Arab-Islamic war to annihilate Israel thus: "Until
the arrival of Arafat and the Palestinian terrorists, Lebanon
was a Christian democracy. But Islamic radicalism could not
tolerate either Christianity or democracy.... Lebanon is a
tragedy of the 58-year Arab war against Israel, against democracy,
and against Christianity in the Middle East. But it is not
innocent."
>>more
Islamic honour killings rise in Great Britain:
In one case, a young woman was kidnapped and murdered by her
family after a love song was dedicated to her on a radio station.
"Infidel" men seeking to marry Maldive women are forced by
the Maldive government to renounce their faith; embrace Islam
and change their names to Arabic. The ruling mullahs in the
Maldives do not allow Maldive language names.
Read
story in Telegrah.co.uk
India faces up to the terror within: The
Bombay bombings are linked to an organisation which aims to
convert all of India to Islam by force. The bombings look
like an attempt at completing the unfinished business of Islamic
rulers of the past such as Timur the Lame and Aurangzeb. Timur's
official chronicle
Tuzk-i-Timuri, boasts of one of
Timur's massacres thus: In a short space of time all the people
in the fort were put to sword, and in the course of one hour
the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut off. The sword of Islam
was washed in the blood of the infidels.'
Read a New Zealand Herald report on the situation in
Bombay
Jihadi catwalk: An Afghan model displays
a jihadi fashion outfit designed by Gabriella Ghidoni and
Zolaykha Sherzad. Bearded men who have difficulty viewing
this type of displays are advised to be ready to rush into
the cold shower.
Click
here to view photo. Click here to
read
related Hadith (Sahih Muslim 008:3240).
Indian mullahs issue fetwa against patriotic song:
Mullah Aljeelani reportedly said that the song
Vande Mataram
"emphasises that Indians treat their land as God. Ours
is a secular country. Asking Muslims to do something like
this cannot be advocated”. Will mullahs in New Zealand
and the United Kingdom order local Muslims to remove their
children from schools that have their pupils sing appeals
to an "infidel" God asking Him to save the Defender
of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England?
>>more
In breach of the Golden Rule: Maldivians
are quite happy to accept aid, receive international tourism
revenue and ask the West for assistance in preserving the
elite's positions of privilege. When it comes to acceding
to international norms of human rights, that is another story
altogether.
>>more
Feedback
to this editorial from Malaysia
Integrity of International writers' organisations:
Unless international organisations want a generous dose of
egg on their faces, it is important that they obtain independent,
professional translations of documents published in the local
Maldive language before commenting on Maldive issues. That
is unless they want to be taken for a ride by a bunch of line-and-rod-fishermen
in the Indian Ocean.
>>read
more
"Christian" mall and "Hindu" warship:
A thought just crossed the mind! All this fuss is not about
Christian missionaries at all. David Hardingham's name ends
with the three letters "HAM". Mr Hardingham must
be a butcher who deals in hams. He must be conspiring to feed
the good people of Kuluduffiri the dreaded pig flesh.
>>more
PEN versus the sword: It does not seem right
when PEN draws attention to violations of Article 19 of an
International Covenant by the Maldive authorities while remaining
silent on a written commitment by the MDP to violate Article
18 of the same Covenant, particularly when PEN is actively
campaigning for the rights of prominent members of the MDP.
>>more
MDP-
affiliate bans this site: The Maldive government
has a reputation for blocking and/ or banning web sites. While
that government does not appear to do either to this web site,
their main opposition the MDP's affiliates, notably the
Dhivehi
Observer seems to have blocked this web site. Mr
Gayoom resorted to censorship only after gaining power. Are
the champions of democracy doing that before? A member of
our Dynasty, Sabra Nooreddine sums up the phenomenon brilliantly:
" Person A finds fault with Person B. Person B cannot handle
criticism, has no morally justifiable reasons for his wrongful
actions and also no wish to 'reform' his ways in response
to Person A. In the mind of Person B the only way to solve
a difficult problem - such as Person A - is to remove it out
of sight. The rationalization being - out of sight, out of
mind." We will continue to call upon the MDP to revise its
Rules of Procedure (provisional constitution) to embody universal
norms of human rights particularly that described in Article
18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Women at war with the mullahs:
Maldive women politicians advocating women's rights must
consider the words of Wafa Sultan. “The clash we are
witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions,
or a clash of civilisations,” the impassioned 47-year-old
medical doctor told
Al-Jazeera’s stunned
audience across the Arab world. “It is a clash between
civilisation and backwardness, between the civilised and
the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is
a clash between human rights on the one hand and the violation
of these rights on the other, between those who treat women
like beasts and those who treat them like human beings.”
>>Read
Christopher Goodwin's report Read also Dr. Sultan's
web site
الناقد
Malaysian
Muslim women make backward strides: As non-Muslim
Malaysian women catch up with women in the rest of the world,
Muslim women in Malaysia are only going backwards. It should
also be noted that only in Malaysia are Muslim women regressing;
in every other Muslim country in the world, women have been
gaining rights, not losing them. So says Datin Paduka Marina
Mahathir putri, daughter of the former Malaysian Prime Minister
Datuk Sri Mahathir Mohamed putra. Miss Mahathir putri probably
has not heard of Maldive women. In 1953 Islamic mullahs finally
deprived Maldive women of their traditional right to become
head of state. This constitutional ban still remains in force.
>>read
Should Islam apologise to India? Quoting
the authority of
Koran
47:4, Hajjaj bin Yusuf el-Saqafi, Islam's governor in
occupied Iraq ordered Mohamed bin Qasim to strike off the
heads of up to 16,000 Indians in one foul swoop. Bin Qasim
was the commander of the invading Islamic colonialist vanguard.
At that time India was among the most civilised and scientifically
advanced countries the world had ever seen. Beginning with
that order to this very day, millions have been massacred,
enslaved or forcibly converted on the Indian subcontinent
in the name of Islam. Germany was required to apologise for
its genocide of the Nazi era. Should not the same apply to
Islam?
Read
Serge Trifkovic's article on the subject.
Islamic portrayals of Mohamed: Mullahs want
us to believe that Mohamedanism forbids the drawing of images
of Mohamed. The West is being told that the current outrage
over the Mohamed cartoons is the result of this taboo. That
argument falls flat on its face. At various periods in history,
Mohamedan rulers commissioned murals and painting of their
ideological master. Click
here
to view a comprehensive archive of historical images of Mohamed,
some of them drawn by devout Mohamedans.
Historical photographs:
Click
to view new additions to a collection of rare historical
Maldive photographs of the last century
Cowardly letter to the editor: "You
have lost your right to criticise MDP by leaving your motherland.
We Maldivians may criticize MDP, because it is one of our
Political parties but we will not tolerate any outsiders critisising
them.....So I would politely ask you to remove the article
you ahve regarding MDP"
>>more
Treatment of infidels in Saudi Arabia: Discrimination
against non-Muslims is absolutely rampant, very clear and
open. It starts with
aqama (red cards for non-Muslims
and green cards for Muslims). The rule on taxation is different
for the Muslims and the non-Muslims. Infidels have no right
to build any places of worship for their religious rituals
and practices. They are not allowed to observe their rites,
celebrate their religious festivals or even extend greetings
to one another in front of Muslims. This is open, clear and
meticulously planned Islamic apartheid which might even surpass
the enormity of the apartheid policies of White-ruled South
Africa. The infidel world held South Africa to account. Is
Islam about to hold Saudi Arabia and other "100% Islamic"
countries to account?
>>Read
an article by Khaled Waleed, a Saudi.
Koenraad Elst encourages the reading and understanding
of the Koran: Elst contends that disrespect for any
religion should be treated the same as disrespect for Islam.
So, if insults to Islam or the Muslim community must be prohibited,
then so must insults to other religions and their adherents.
"How would the Koran fare in such a system?", he
asks. Demands to place restrictions on publications that cast
Islam and Mohamed in a negative light are equivalent to demanding
restrictions which would logically affect the basic Islamic
texts such as the Koran and the
Hadith. "Be careful
what you wish for", Elst cautions those who demand such restrictions,
"you might get it."
>>read
From the "Main
Manifesto" of the Maldive de
facto ruling party the Maldivian People's Party (DRP):
"It is imperative to strengthen Islamic unity and Maldive
nationalism. The esteemed religion of Islam is instrumental
in undertaking one of the foremost roles in preserving our
Maldive unity and independence since the time of our ancestors.
Foreign entities will always be hard at work trying to spread
religions other than Islam in the Maldives. Preserving the
religious unity is one of the fundamental principles of this
party. This beloved homeland must for ever be in the perfect
light of Islamic illumination. Whilst there is pulse in our
bodies, we shall not permit a place to any religion other
than Islam on this soil. To this end, it is our foremost duty
to strengthen the religious conviction of Maldivians. It is
a fundamental [mission] of this party to do the utmost to
preserve the opportunity to educate our Maldive sons and daughters
in the beautiful principles of Islam."
From our archives:
A structure built
on loose sand: In September 2001 we predicted that
the then much-heralded constitution of the Maldives was doomed
to fail. All sides now acknowledge that it has failed
>>more
Beginning of the Fall: In July 2004 we stated
the obvious by saying that "Established institutions,
political maturity, and strong leadership would prevent structural
disintegration." Has it happened, or did we really herald
the beginning of the Fall? We concluded the article by saying
that "Those who advocate democracy ought to conduct themselves
in accordance with the democratic traditions that they seek
others to embrace."
>>more
New Zealand stops citizenship abuse: From
January 1
st, children born in New Zealand
to foreign nationals are no longer New Zealand citizens by
virtue of birth. Maldivians visiting New Zealand for education
and other purposes have long misused their entry permits by
willfully abusing this country's citizenship laws. While taking
such dubious advantage of this country’s taxpayers,
many parents of New Zealand-born Maldive children have invariably
failed to disclose their significant incomes in the Maldives
to the New Zealand Department of Inland Revenue (IRD), as
required by the Income Tax Act 2004.
>>more
Muslim by law- right or violation of rights?
In a 59-page dissertation, Shirley Jory (email:
jory2616@hotmail.com)
examines this question. Chapter one introduces the discussion
about the universality of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR) and relates this to the Maldive context. Chapter
two portrays the Maldive government’s concerns and position
on human rights issues. Chapter three presents the research
findings into potential human rights violations mainly of
Article 18 but also of Article 19 of the UDHR in the Maldives.
Chapter four is a critique of the Maldive government’s
position by using evidence from recent cultural research and
contemporary Islamic literature. Chapter five identifies the
implications of the findings of this research for the Maldive
context, discusses the validity of cultural relativism in
relation to the UDHR and gives personal recommendations for
people involved in the reform process in the Maldives and
the wider community.
>>read
summary page or
>>go
straight to pdf file
“
When
a religion is good, I conceive
it will support
itself;
and when it does not support
itself, and God does not take care to support it so that
its
professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power,
'tis a sign, I apprehend,
of its being a
bad one" - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US statesman,
scientist and diplomat
"The religion of the State of the Maldives shall be Islam."
"-Article 7 of the Constitution of the Republic of the Maldives
"Section 3.3 (a) of the Rules of Procedure of the Maldivian
Democratic Party (MDP) states that the party shall endeavour
to protect and preserve the "esteemed religion of Islam"
and that the Party shall not permit any religion other than
Islam. The MDP is the biggest opposition party in the Maldives.
Arabian
moon-god with the crescent moon carved on his chest.
The moon-god symbol was imposed on the Maldive flag
early last century
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Saudi convicted for defending Jews and the Bible
and for "ridiculing Islam and witchcraft":
A Saudi Arabian high-school chemistry teacher accused of discussing
religion with his students has been sentenced to the barbaric,
inhuman, cruel and degrading punishment of 750 lashes for
blasphemy. Countries such as Saudi Arabia and the Maldives
hold that "freedom of thinking requires permitting the
denial of faith and attacking what is sacred, glorifying falsehood
and defending the heretics, finding fault in religion and
letting loose the ideas and pens to write of disbelief as
one likes, and to put ornaments on sin as one likes."
Those who seek to introduce democracy to such countries are
undertaking an exercise akin to spraying air freshener to
rid a room of the stench of a rotting carcass. Removing the
carcass is the solution.
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Two million Muslims in Russia convert to Christianity:
According to Interfax, the number of ethnic Muslims in Russia
who adopted Christianity is 2 million, while the number of
the ethnic Christians who have been converted to Islam is
only 2500. Russian Islamic sources confirmed that, after each
terrorist action such as that in Beslan, thousands and may
be even dozens of thousands of ethnic Muslims convert to Christianity.
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Some practical steps to preserve peace and harmony
in the Maldives: Recently Islamic terrorists struck
again in Bali. They killed innocent tourists and bystanders
just when the people in Bali thought that tourism had finally
recovered. Now all those whose livelihoods depend on the tourist
industry face an uncertain future there. Let no one think
that this does not affect the Maldives. At any time Islamic
terror could strike. The militants are already there and tourists
are visiting its many beautiful resorts, unaware of the extreme
level of Islamic militancy in the Maldives. On 31 October
2005, the Maldive authorities bowed down to militant demands
and, for the fist time, allowed a woman clad in the barbaric
burqa to appear as the anchor on state TV. Find out
the seven danger signs of Islamic militancy
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Mass Deception in the Maldives- Some Questions:
"Words have lost their original meaning in the Maldives.
The main opposition party is called MDP, Maldivian Democratic
Party. But it is very hard to understand how a party dares
to call itself ‘democratic’ when its main goal
is to promote Islam." So says the Society for the Promotion
of Human Rights in Maldives, in an exclusive opinion
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Maldives
Culture publishes translation of the the state approved and
sanitised version of Maldive history: "In 1902,
during the reign of King Mohamed Imaaduddine VI, the monarch
wanted a 'History of Maldives' written in Divehi tana script,
so he assigned a committee to the task. The chronicles started
by judge Hassan Tajuddine and afterwards compiled by various
Islamic judges writing in Arabic, along with other records
written in Divehi at different times, were given to that committee.
This book is the result."
It is worth having a look
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Maldive mullahs say there was no ban on the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights:Under intense
international
pressure, the Maldive ruling mullahs are attempting
to appear as though they are back-tracking on their recent
ban on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
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Slavery in the Maldives: Slavery was never
abolished in the Maldives and is still legally enforceable
by Maldive courts. This web site calls upon the Maldive ruling
mullahs to abolish slavery formally by Act of Parliament.
We also call upon the Maldive President of the Republic, his
fellow mullahs, the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party
(MDP) and any other political party to be registered soon
to condemn the practice of slavery and the ideology that legitimizes
it.
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Insulting
Europe: Maldive hostility to Pope John Paul II: One
day in the mid 1980s, the disturbing noise of police sirens
was heard in Oakidu Magu street in Malé, coming towards
a well-known bookshop situated halfway along the southern
side of the street. A convoy of the dreaded National Security
Service (NSS) military vehicles screeched to a halt in front
the bookshop and jack-booted soldiers poured out. Some sneakily
positioned themselves outside like extras in a James Bond
movie, scanning the distance in order to fend off any approaching
Swiss guards.
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Pakistani Islamic schools are hotbeds of paedophilia
and homosexual rape by mullahs:
Mariana Baabar reveals in
Outlook
India (24 January 2005) that, "Indeed, the maulana's
penchant to sodomise the male child, or molest girls, has
been Pakistan's darkest, best-kept secret." Pakistani
government minister Amir Liaquat Husain was reported to have
said "During a raid on a madrassa in Karachi, I caught
a cleric red-handed, abusing a student sexually". The
report quotes several examples of abuse: "In June 2004,
when five-year-old Talha did not return from the Lajna mosque
in Lahore, where he had gone to take Quranic lessons from
Maulvi Mohammad Altaf, his mother went to fetch him. She found
the boy in the corridor of the mosque, bleeding and unconscious;
the maulvi was missing from the mosque. An fir was duly lodged.
Altaf was subsequently arrested and Tahla identified him as
the person who had sodomised him"
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Koran Surah el-Insan verse 19: "And
round about them will serve young boys of perpetual freshness:
when you see them you will think of them as scattered pearls."
Maldive Name Nazis: By insisting that a child's
name registered at birth be changed, the Republic of Maldives
may be contravening Paragraph 1 of Article 7 and Paragraph
1 of Article 8 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
which it ratified on 13 March 1991.
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Freedom
of Religion- a timeline: "I announce that I
will respect the traditions, customs and religions of the
nations of my empire and never let any of my governors and
subordinates look down on or insult them as long as I shall
live. From now on, while Ahura-Mazda lets me rule, I will
impose my monarchy on no nation. Each is free to accept it
, and if any one of them rejects it, I shall never resolve
on war to reign.......Today, I announce that everyone is free
to choose areligion."
-Cyrus the Great, King of Persia (580-529 BC)
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Taslima Nasrin winner of the 2004 UNESCO-Madanjeet
Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence.
Taslima has been living in exile in Europe. She has written
twenty-four books of poetry, essays, novels, and short stories
in her native language of Bengali. Some have been translated
into twenty different languages. Her applications to the Bangladesh
government to be allowed to return have been denied repeatedly.
One Bangladesh court sentenced her in absentia to a one-year
prison term. The Bangladesh government has recently banned
two other of her books,
Amar Meyebela and
Utal
Hawa.
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"....machchah mi lavva
hutti boaga imaaraaiy kulha konme mu u min mus limaku
saalihu shaheedu naai eh hen suvaruga vadhuna hu....."
An extract
from a royal grant to build a mosque dated AD 1696
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Divehi (Divess) script: was in use until
early in the 20
th century. The phasing out of the
script began in the 17-18
th century, to be gradually
replaced by the modern Gabuli Thaana script. Unlike Divehi,
Thaana is written from right to left, and was a compromise
with the Islamic mullahs who wanted to abandon the Maldive
heritage and adopt the Arabic script. For a long time the
agenda of the mullahs have been to make the Maldives a cultural,
ideological and spiritual appendage of their Arab heartland-
to be reduced to an "Arab Republic" like the once-proud
civilisations of Egypt and Syria.
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The Bank Notes of the Maldives:
On
12 August 1947 the People’s Majlis passed Bill No. 2/66
......concerning the Maldivian monetary system. The committee
consisted of Government Ministers and Members of the People’s
Majlis.
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by Peter Symes and Murray Hanewich
Maldive flags: Before the beginning of the
1900's a real national flag of the Maldives didn't exist.
The colour of the royal house was red since very old times,
a colour that was selected as the ensign because of its visibility
when contrasted with the blue backdrop of the sea. Thus the
royal flags were plain red.
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Maldives- Ethnography: A new web site strongly
recommended to our visitors:
"The language spoken in the Maldives is Divehi, belonging
to the group of Indo-Aryan languages, but having many affinities
with the Dravidian languages of the geographical area in which
the country lies. Present-day Divehi has borrowed many words
from Arabic. Besides the main form of Divehi, known as Malé
Bas, this language has three markedly different variants which
are located in the second group, in the South. The people
of the third group live in great isolation, for Minicoy is
totally off-limits for Maldivians since 1957. Only Indians
are allowed to travel to Minicoy. Thus, Minicoians are steadily
undergoing a process of acculturation owing to lack of contact
with the remaining Divehi people and pressure to use other
languages (Malayalam, English and Hindi)."
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Maldive national anthem: Until the late 1940s
the state anthem of the Maldives was a melody with no lyrics.
It was called the Salaamathi.....and then came Auld Lang Syne.
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Veiled women: The old Maldive word for the
women's veil is
dholhi, the same word used for the
piece of cloth tied around the head of a human corpse to prevent
the mouth from opening. This probably indicates the oppressive
view of the garment held by early Maldivians.
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