This Burmese Woman Sold For $23 in China As A Bride

(Monica Tan’s article direct from The DAILY LIFE on 26 June 2013.)

A Burmese trafficking victim.

Khin had been dumped by her first alcoholic husband, and was desperate to leave her alcoholic and abusive second husband, when a neighbour approached her with a job offer. Khin, then 33 years old, had never even completed primary school so her prospects were slim. The allure of decent work as a domestic helper in the Burmese town of Muse seemed to outweigh the inherent risks.

Leaving behind her husband - and hometown of Mandalay - Khin and her young daughter travelled with her neighbour to the eastern city of Muse. The next morning she saw him arrange for a temporary passport - which struck her as strange.

They then drove to the border of China where Khin says a Chinese man paid her neighbour 20,000 MMK. (AUD 23.50). I ask Khin if she believes her neighbour intentionally sold her as a bride. "Yes, but I had no idea at the time," she tells me via a translator over the phone.

According to the International Labour Office, victims of trafficking are often approached with false offers of a job and are then redirected into situations of sexual or labour exploitation.

Muslims Will Rape One In Every 4 Swedish Women?

(News article direct from the Clarion Project’s site on 24 June 2013.)

A young Swedish rape-victim.

Statistics show that due to immigration, a Swedish woman now has a one in four chance of being raped in her lifetime. But the Swedish Courts still hands out light sentence to Muslim teen rapists.

A light sentence, just recently, has been handed out to six teenage boys, aged 15 to 17, from the diverse Muslim community in Sweden for raping a 15-year-old (white Swedish) girl in a north-western suburb of Stockholm in March. Five of the teens were found guilty of aggravated rape by the Solna District Court, with the sixth guilty of attempted aggravated rape.

Five of the boys were sentenced to over one hundred hours of community service each, and have been ordered to pay 55,000 kronor ($8,500) each, in damages to the victim. The punishment given to the sixth, if any, was not reported.

The reason given for the light punishment was the fact that the boys are minors. The Swedish court also concluded that the boys had already been already punished to some extent by having their pictures and their personal details exposed on the internet.

EDL Leaders Arrested For Walking Past A London Mosque

(News article direct from the Sky News on 29 June 2013.)

Two English Defence League leaders have been released on police bail after they were arrested by police in Central London. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan police said: "Two men aged 30 and 44 have been released on bail to a date in mid- August pending further enquiries."

Tommy Robinson had shouted, "You are enforcing Sharia law", at officers who held him on suspicion of obstructing police as he tried to enter the London borough of Tower Hamlets.

The EDL had previously announced plans to walk through part of the capital before gathering outside Woolwich Barracks, near where Drummer Rigby was hacked to death in broad daylight .

But the Metropolitan Police put conditions on the march which demanded that it ended at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords.

As well as planning to lay flowers in memory of Drummer Rigby, Mr Robinson and EDL co-leader Kevin Carroll, who was also arrested, were walking to raise money for a young girl fighting cancer.

Anti-Islamists Protests In Egypt As Army Ready For Coup

(News piece direct from the Muslim media Aljazeera on 29 June 2013.)

Cairo - Thousands of supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi have gathered here as political violence continued to worsen across the country, with at least two people killed in the northern city of Alexandria.

Clashes broke out on Friday between pro- and anti-government protesters in Alexandria's Sidi Gaber neighbourhood, outside the local headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).

Local health officials said that two people were killed, one of them an American citizen who was stabbed, the other an Egyptian who died from gunshot wounds. Police said the American was taking photographs of the fighting, but was not believed to be a journalist. Protesters also set fire to the party's offices.

Sydney Terrorised By Lebanese-Muslim Crime Gangs

(Miranda Devine’s article from the Sydney Morning Herald on 22 December 2005.)

Members of Lebanese-Muslim crime
families from SouthWest Sydney.

For too long our politicians (Australian Labour Party) and police have turned their backs on a festering problem writes Miranda Devine.

FORGET Clover Moore (Pro Gay/Lesbian Mayor of Sydney who did cancel the Christmas celebrations that year in the Sydney City) as the Grinch of Sydney's Christmas.

The "Lions of Lebanon" with their Glock pistols and Molotov cocktails have put her to shame this holy season. While the NSW police lock down entire beachfront suburbs, instruct stores to stop selling baseball bats, and apply the full force of the law to pasty-faced nerds with a taste for Nazi literature, they continue to cower from the real hardmen, the Lebanese-Australian (Muslim) criminal gangs of Sydney's south-west who have ruled the roost in this city for at least a decade and now number in their thousands.

Let ASSK Be President in 2015 Or Else: Janelle Saffin

(Compilation of translated-posts from various Burmese blogs this week.)

Australian Labor MP Janelle Saffin, the Chairman of Australia-Myanmar Parliamentary Committee, told the Voice Journal in her interview that the Australian Government will withdraw all Australian aids to Burma if Burma does not amend the Section-59(F) of Burma’s 2008 Constitution well before the coming 2015 General Elections in Burma.

Apparently that Constitutional Act’s Section-59(F) is basically blocking Aung San Suu Kyi from ever becoming the president of Myanmar, and thus the chief-meddler-in-Burmese-politics and Australian Socialist politician Janelle Saffin is issuing her ultimatum to Burma. Let ASSK be the Socialist president of Burma or we’ll stop giving Burma money, period.

So my question is what exactly is Section-59(F) of Burma’s 2008 Constitution?

Shin Wirathu’s Open Letter To Time’s Hannah Beech

(Shin Wirathu’s open letter direct from Myanmar Defense League’s face book page.)

Hannah Beech interviewing Shin Wirathu
at Ma-soe-yein Monastery in Mandalay.

Dear Sister Ms. Hannah Beech,

I nationalist Buddhist Monk U Wira Thu is writing this letter to you. When you came to us, we had treated you and your photographer with hospitability. You know we had done our best to help you and your photographer to get what you want.

We had helped you only with the good volition that we want the media and correspondents get the true facts. We helped you because we respect western liberal media like Times and we expected you wouldn’t make lies to the people of the world.

And we did not think you would break ethic and responsibility of media. Now I know that you are the worst visitors we have ever had.

I could not see the hatred behind your smiles. I could not see your ruthlessness under your tender actions. I could not see your deceit under your sweet words it is like blade covered by honey.

Ex-PM Kevin Rudd Defeats Australian PM Julia Gillard

(This post is news article direct from YAHOO!7 NEWS on 26 June 2013.)

Kevin Rudd has won a party-room ballot by a margin of 57-45, Returning Officer Chris Hayes has announced. Kevin Rudd is set to once again be Australia's Prime Minister after he defeated Julia Gillard for the leadership of the federal parliamentary Labor Party.

Mr Rudd won a party-room ballot by a margin of 57-45. Anthony Albanese has been elected deputy leader after facing off with Labor elder and Rudd backer Simon Crean. The ballot was the culmination of a three-year internal war within the Labor party, after Ms Gillard toppled Mr Rudd for the leadership in June 2010.

It was Mr Rudd's third attempt to re-take the top job, after an unsuccessful coup in February 2012 and an aborted leadership tilt in March this year.

Burma Bans Time Magazine With Shin Wirathu Cover

(This post is news article direct from Associated Press site on 25 June 2013.)

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's government has banned this week's issue of Time magazine because of a cover story about a Buddhist monk accused of fueling recent religious violence in the country.

State television announced Tuesday that the decision was made "in order to prevent the recurrence of racial and religious riots."

The magazine's cover carries a photo of a Buddhist monk, Wirathu, with the words "The Face of Buddhist Terror." Wirathu is a leader of a radical movement of monks that preaches that the country's small Muslim minority threatens racial purity and national security. He has called for restrictions on marriages between Buddhists and Muslims, and for boycotts of Muslim-owned businesses.

Nearly 250 people have died and tens of thousands, mostly Muslims, have fled their homes in religious violence in the past year. Buddhist mobs have marched through villages burning houses and mosques and brandishing machetes and clubs.