Breastfeeding adult men sparks holy war 'Fatwa-issuing thugs give orders, pass judgment, make decisions'

By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

The Islamic population in the Middle East has been caught up in a new war – but they are their own enemies in the fight over a "fatwa" that authorizes the breastfeeding of adult men.

"The fatwa-issuing thugs give orders, pass judgment, and make decisions: love is forbidden; looking [at a man] is a sin; expressions of love are contemptible – [but] as for breastfeeding, that is permissible, permissible, permissible," wrote Nadine Al-Budair, a presenter for the U.S. Arabic-language television station Al-Hurra.

The dispute has been monitored by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which has compiled a history of the situation, and added to it some comments from contemporary Muslims interests.

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The issue first arose in Egypt in May 2007 when a "fatwa" – an Islamic religious decree – was issued from "Izzat" Atiyya, who used to be chief of the Hadith Department at Al-Azhar University. He permitted a woman to breastfeed a man with whom she must work in private, a result that MEMRI reported led to Atiyya's dismissal from his school position.


The dispute returned to headlines just a few weeks ago when Sheikh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Obikan, in the Saudi Justice Ministry, issued a "fatwa" allowing the breastfeeding of adults.

MEMRI documents how the rules are aimed at "enabling an unrelated man and woman to be seclude in the same room, a situation which Islam considers forbidden gender mixing."

The report explained that the fatwas regarding breastfeeding suggest it creates "a bond of kinship between the man and woman … thus making it acceptable for them to be together in seclusion."

The latest edict "created a stir in Saudi Arabia and in the Arab media at large, arousing a wave of criticism from clerics and columnists alike," MEMRI reported.

For example, articles in the daily Al-Riyadh argued "only moral education could address the issue of male and female seclusion" and there should even be a body of authorities in Islam "that would prevent the issuing of strange fatwas such as these."

The MEMRI report said Saudi Sheikh Abd Al-Aziz Bin Abdallah Aal Al-Sheikh condemned the idea as contradicting Islamic law and ruled that breastfeeding is for children under the age of 2.

Reported MEMRI, "Similarly, Dr. Muhammad Al-Nujeimi, a civics professor and member of the Islamic law faculty at King Fahd University, called on Al-Obikan to rescind his ruling, as 'adult breastfeeding is not [a way to turn a man into the woman's mahram] and whoever permits it is wide of the truth...'"

Further, a recent sermon from Sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, imam of the Al-Harram Mosque in Mecca, denounced the fatwa, MEMRI reported.

Amidst the arguments over the ideas, Al-Obikan renewed his statements, explaining his ruling is based on Islamic religious law, Shariah.

And MEMRI reported Sheikh Dr. Saleh Al-Sadlan, professor at the Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University, was supportive of Al-Obikan's position.

"He said the fatwa should not be regarded with disdain, as it is in line with the Sunna and the opinions of numerous clerics. Al-Sadlan also said that since the fatwa seems strange to the public, it behooves the mufti or the Senior Clerics Council – the Saudi Arabia's supreme religious authority – to examine the fatwa and issue their endorsement of it."

Another argument was raised by Sheikh Ahmad Al-Hashem, of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Endowments, who said the mother's milk belongs not to her, but her husband.

It all was too much for Al-Watan columnist Halima Muzaffar.

"We must do away with this phobia of gender mixing," wrote the columnist, who was joined in sentiment by Layla Ahmad Al-Ahdab. Also writing in the Al-Watan, Al-Ahdab said, "How long with the 'gender mixing phobia' serve as a source for fatwas that cause the world to laugh at us?"

Iran denied reports that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's convoy sustained a grenade attack on Wednesday, according to state-run Press TV.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran denied reports that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's convoy sustained a grenade attack on Wednesday, according to state-run Press TV.

Citing a source within the president's office, the broadcaster said "no such attack took place."

"It was a firecracker," an official in the Ahmadinejad's media office told the Agence France-Presse news agency.

The BBC reported that state-run Arabic-language TV channel Al Alam reported that someone in the crowd set off the firecracker to cheer the president.

Earlier reports suggested that several people were wounded and that authorities had arrested one person.

Al Arabiya television reported that an attacker had thrown an explosive at Ahmadinejad's convoy before being detained. The bomb hit a car transporting journalists and presidential staff, the network said.

Conservative website khabaronline.ir said the device exploded about 100 yards away from the president's vehicle. "The explosion caused a lot of smoke," it said. The BBC noted that the report is no longer available on the site.
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"It wouldn't be surprising if the president's office tries to play this down. It's very difficult to say who could be behind it," IHS Global insight Middle East analyst Gala Riani told Reuters. Riani added that the president often travels outside Tehran, but that at most, "There have been occasions when people have thrown things at him or heckled him but that has been it."

Local Iranian TV and radio did not immediately report on the incident, NBC News said.

Images of Ahmadinejad traveling through the city of Hamedan showed him smiling and waving to crowds gathered along the route through the roof of a car.

Ahmadinejad was en route to make a speech at a sports stadium in the western city at the time of the reported incident. During his appearance on live Iranian television, he made no mention of any assault.

During a speech to a conference of expatriate Iranians in Tehran on Monday, Ahmadinejad said he believed he was the target of an assassination plot by Israel. "The stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me," he said.

The populist, hard-line Ahmadinejad has accumulated enemies in conservative and reformist circles in the Islamic Republic as well as abroad.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Americans to feds: Follow the rules- Demand for bedrock principles of Constitution hits another peak

Americans are demanding to see the U.S. Constitution – the playbook for the republic that is the United States – in ever increasing numbers as they see evidence that it simply has been relegated to a dusty shelf by those who are supposed to know it best – the elected representatives.

Copies of "The Constitution of the United States," a pamphlet that reminds Americans what the Founders designed when they created the nation more than two centuries ago, has been at record levels ever since members of Congress voted for Obamacare, a nationalization of health-care decision-making that demands for the first time that America consumers purchase a product specified by the government.

"The Constitution of the United States" hit another peak this week, ending as the No. 1 best-seller at the WND Superstore, after one member of Congress told an audience that lawmakers can, pretty much, do exactly as they please to control constituents' lives.

It was California Democrat Pete Stark who was responding to questions about Obamacare, and how it can be constitutional when it makes such extraordinary demands on voters.

In response, he said, "I think that there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life," he said.

He added a minute later, "The federal government yes can do most anything in this country."

Audience members pointed out that the statements fly in the face of the actual Constitution, which pointedly limits the powers of the federal government to those enumerated in the document itself, reserving to the states and the people all other rights.

The Constitution in demand among WND readers was printed by the National Center for Constitutional Studies. It has been proofed word for word against the original Constitution housed in the Archives in Washington, D.C.





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The fruit of the Founders' efforts was an economic powerhouse that offered wealth to the average citizens along with protection of their rights. Skousen shows how 28 principles – unlike those anywhere else – were used to create freedom and prosperity.

He shows that the federal government was designed to protect citizens' rights, and that decision literally propelled the nation into a 5,000-year leap of progress.

Skousen covers in detail what went into the design of the U.S. Constitution and studies the original sources for the principles that provided the inspiration.

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The author asserts it was because of the free-enterprise system that America doubled life expectancy and led the world in inventions.


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He continued, "Our journey will give a basic grasp of God's sovereign hand behind the history of our nation, which our founding fathers so clearly understood. The result of this journey will give us a better understanding of where America is today, how she arrived here, and where she must turn at this critical hour."

"'A Nation Adrift' is an excellent history lesson concerning the religious roots of America," said U.S. Congressman Bill Dannemeyer, "Every person in this country, young and old, should enjoy viewing it."

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Oops- Obama mama passport 'destroyed' State Dept. claims records gone for Stanley Ann Dunham prior to 1968

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily


Photo from Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro's 1972 passport records

Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, the State Department has released passport records of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama's mother – but records for the years surrounding Obama's 1961 birth are missing.

The State Department claims a 1980s General Services Administration directive resulted in the destruction of many passport applications and other "nonvital" passport records, including Dunham's 1965 passport application and any other passports she may have applied for or held prior to 1965.

Destroyed, then, would also be any records shedding light on whether Dunham did or did not travel out of the country around the time of Barack Obama's birth.

The claim made in the Freedom of Information response letter that many passport records were destroyed during the 1980s comes despite a statement on the State Department website that Passport Services maintains U.S. passport records for passports issued from 1925 to the present.

The records released, however, contain interesting tidbits of new information about Obama's mother, including the odd listing of two different dates and locations for her marriage to Obama's Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.



In the released documents Dunham listed both March 15, 1965, in Molokai, Hawaii, and March 5, 1964, in Maui, Hawaii, as the dates and places of her marriage.

Dunham later divorced Lolo Soetoro in Hawaii. The divorce decree took effect Nov. 5, 1980, but the divorce papers do not list the date of the marriage.

No marriage certificate between Dunham and Soetoro has yet publicly surfaced, but a released application to amend Dunham's 1965 passport to her married name Stanley Ann Soetoro includes a checked box indicating a passport officer had seen the marriage certificate.

The released records also document that on Aug. 13, 1968, Dunham applied to have her 1965-issued passport renewed for two years, until July 18, 1970.

Under 22 USC Sec. 217a, from 1959 through 1968, passports were initially issued for three years, but they could be renewed for an additional two years.

Obama, by any other name

Also revealed by the released records is a heretofore unknown, alternative name for Barack Obama.

In the 1968 application to renew her 1965 passport, Dunham listed as her son Barack Hussein Obama, including in parenthesis below the name, "Saebarkah," in what appears to be a variation of an Indonesian surname not previously associated in the public record with the president.

For some unexplained reason, the designation of "Barack Hussein Obama (Saebarkah)" is crossed off the 1968 application by five handwritten, diagonal hash marks.


S. Ann Dunham in Indonesia

Dunham also appears to have used two different variations of her name in obtaining and amending passports while married to Lolo Soetoro: Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro and, without her maiden name, Stanley Ann Soetoro.

On April 27, 1981, Dunham applied from Jakarta, Indonesia, for a U.S. passport, indicating that she was in Indonesia working on a two-year contract from the Ford Foundation, from January 1981 through December 1982.

At that time, Dunham was working on a microfinance program for the Ford Foundation, which was overseen by Peter Geithner, the father of Timothy Geithner, the current U.S. secretary of the treasury.

Ann Dunham's occupation in the 1981 passport application was listed as "Program Officer, Ford Foundation."

No passport records subsequent to 1986 for Ann Dunham were released, though presumably a passport was issued following her 1986 application, such that the 10-year period prior to expiration would have extended one year past her death.

Dunham died Nov. 7, 1995, and was known to have been in Indonesia in 1994 when an Indonesian doctor first misdiagnosed as indigestion the first signs of the ovarian cancer that was the cause of her death the following year.

The released documents shed no light on proving or disproving whether Dunham might have held a passport prior to Barack Obama's birth that she could have used to travel to Kenya for his birth, as has been speculated in the absence of the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate from Hawaii.

The State Department released the Dunham passport documents July 29, responding to a Freedom of Information request submitted by Christopher Strunk, a New York resident who has actively pursued obtaining documents regarding Obama's birth and his eligibility to be president under the "natural born citizen" requirement of Section 1, Article 2 of the United States Constitution.

The Dunham documents have been archived on the Internet.

The controversy continues

A prominent array of commentators, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Lou Dobbs, Peter Boyles and WND's Chuck Norris and Pat Boone have all said unequivocally and publicly that the Obama eligibility issue continues to be legitimate and worthy.

Longtime New York radio talker Lynn Samuels did the same.

"We don't even know where he was born," she said. "I absolutely believe he was not born in this country."

WND has reported on multiple legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."

Some of the lawsuits question whether Obama was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.

Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.

Further, others question his citizenship by virtue of his attendance in Indonesian schools during his childhood and question on what passport did he travel to Pakistan three decades ago.

Adding fuel to the fire is Obama's persistent refusal to release documents that could provide answers and his appointment of lawyers to defend against all requests for his documentation.

While his supporters cite an online version of a "Certification of Live Birth" from Hawaii as his birth verification, critics point out such documents actually were issued for children not born in the state.

Palin: Obama Doesn't Have 'Cojones

By: John Rossomando

Sarah Palin assesses President Barack Obama’s approach to immigration bluntly: declaring that he doesn’t have the “cojones” to enforce the nation’s laws.

The former Alaska governor used the term — the Spanish word for “testicles” that often is used to mean courage — during a Fox News interview Sunday as she praised Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer for standing up against the Obama administration’s lawsuit to block enforcement of the state’s immigration law.

Brewer “has the cojones that our president does not have,” Palin told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. “If our own president will not enforce a federal law, more power to Jan Brewer and 44 other states who are in line to support Jan Brewer in state laws, state efforts to do what our president won’t do.”

A federal district court judge on Wednesday blocked enforcement of key provisions of Arizona’s immigration law, including the section instructing law enforcement officers to check a person’s immigration status where “reasonable suspicion” exists a person they have detained is illegal.

Palin, who described the court injunction as “temporary,” praised Brewer for continuing the fight with the Obama administration to enforce the law. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected hear Arizona’s appeal in early November.

The former Republican vice-presidential candidate also pointed to the administration’s failure to act against so-called “sanctuary cities” around the country that refuse to turn illegal immigrants over to federal authorities to show the hypocrisy of its argument against the Arizona law.

The administration contends that Arizona has circumvented federal law by ordering local authorities to enforce federal immigration law but has not applied the same reasoning to cities that refuse to enforce the same laws.

“The Obama administration did not put up a fight at all against this idea . . . of having sanctuary cities,” Palin said. “We’ve seen state laws where they are allowing for sanctuary cities, and that trumps a federal law, yet nobody’s saying ‘boo’ about that.

“Jan Brewer and other governors were protecting their citizens — protecting the nation as a whole — were very, very faithful that they are willing to go toe to toe and go all the way to the Supreme Court if need be and get this thing resolved.”

Meanwhile, Obama, appearing on CBS’ “Early Show” with Harry Smith Sunday, Obama said he understands people’s frustration with illegal immigration but warned against states taking action on their own.

“I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. But what we can’t do is demagogue the issue,” Obama said on the program, which was taped Friday and also aired Monday. “And what we can’t do is allow a patchwork of 50 different states, or cities or localities, where anybody who wants to make a name for themselves suddenly says, ‘I’m gonna be anti-immigrant, and I’m gonna try to see if I can solve the problem ourself.”

Mcconnell Family Killed by drunk drive

Family Killed driving a ford focus, hit by a large Chevy. The drunk driver and his friend live.

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Drunk Driver Kills 4 family members

Elroy McConnell II wanted his family to meet his 4-month-old grandson. So he and his wife rented a beach house here for the week and invited their three sons and their families.

But the family gathering ended tragically early Sunday morning after a drunk driver ran a red light and killed McConnell and his three sons, according to St. Petersburg police.

McConnell and his sons -- Elroy McConnell III, 28, Kelly McConnell, 19, and Nathan McConnell, 24 ¬ were coming from a late-night movie about 12:45 a.m. when their 2010 Ford Fusion was hit at the corner of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street North and 22nd Avenue North. The women weren't in the car because they'd gone to see the movie during the day.

The news rocked family members.

"Not many of (the McConnells) left," said Bill English, Roy McConnell III's father-in-law.

"It's a lot to think about. As far as holding up, it isn't too easy."

The McConnells were driving south on 22nd Avenue when Demetrius Jordan, 20, of St. Petersburg, blew through the red light at the intersection, heading south on Martin Luther King in a 2001 Chevy Impala, a police report states. The impact sent the Fusion crashing into the sign at the corner 7-11.
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Police arrested Jordan, 2220 14th Ave. S., on four charges of DUI manslaughter and one count of DUI with serious bodily injury. He and a passenger, Mario Robinson, 20, of St. Petersburg were taken to Bayfront Medical Center with injuries police described as serious. Jordan has no prior arrests in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

McConnell, 51, and his wife, Amy Voelker, were from Orlando, as were Nathan and Kelly McConnell, who turned 19 Friday. Elroy McConnell III and his wife came from New Orleans with their son, Elroy McConnell IV.

The elder McConnell was an accountant who founded a startup venture known as iCFO, which provides chief financial officers, accounting and audit services for companies.

His eldest son, Elroy McConnell III, was training to become a manager at JCPenny's, English said. He and his wife, Sandie English McConnell, met at Louisiana College in Pineville, La., and married about two years ago. English described his son-in-law as quiet and a loving husband and father.

Kelly McConnell was studying at the University of Miami and was scheduled to graduate in 2013, according to his Facebook page. He played rugby, loved football and his girlfriend and cherished his family.

"They're all really great and unconditionally supportive," McConnell wrote on his Facebook page.

Hours before the wreck that claimed his life, McConnell's father seemed excited about spending the week with his family.

"This is the best idea we have had in years," McConnell wrote on his Facebook page. "I think Amy and I at least will be doing this again in the future."

English said they were a wonderful family.

"They were great people," he said. "They were close together as a family, very close."

Illegal immigrant who killed nun in accident was released by feds

The man suspected of drunken driving and killing a Catholic nun in Prince William County this weekend is an illegal immigrant who was awaiting deportation and who federal immigration authorities had released pending further proceedings, police said Monday.

The man, Carlos Montano, a county resident, had been arrested by police twice before on drunk-driving charges, and on at least one of those occasions county police reported him to federal authorities.

"We have determined that he is in the country illegally. He has been arrested by Prince William County Police in the past," said Officer Jonathan Perok, a police spokesman, who said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was notified at the time of one of those arrests.

Officer Perock said Montano was in deportation proceedings at the time of this weekend's killing, but was out on his own recognizance.

A call to ICE was not immediately returned, but the incident raises questions about the agency's policy of only detaining some illegal immigrants awaiting deportation, while releasing others.

The latest ICE statistics show the agency is actually detaining fewer people now on an average daily basis than they did in 2009.

The Sunday morning crash killed Sister Denise Mosier and injured two other nuns as they were driving to a retreat at the Benedictine Monastery in Bristow, Va. The two injured nuns were in critical but stable condition, according to St. Gertrude High School in Richmond, run by the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia.

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