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Jeni Harvey, Muslim killed Catholic girl in love with flatmate: A teenager was brutally murdered by her boyfriend’s Muslim flatmate because he did not approve of him going out with a Catholic. Lidia Motylska, 19, was strangled in an alleyway in Leeds by Iraqi immigrant Abobakir Jabari who objected to his Kurdish flatmate’s relationship with her. [...] The court heard he garrotted her from behind, using the cord from his tracksuit bottoms, before inflicting “gratuitous” wounds on her lifeless body. He stabbed her repeatedly in the chest and stomach and slit her throat. [...] Through his work, he met both Miss Motylska and Ajeen Jabaridia, a fellow Kurdish Iraqi who moved in with him at a flat in Oatland Heights in the Little London area of the city. But he was to become increasingly hostile when the pair became romantically involved. Prosecuting, Simon Myerson QC said: “He disliked the fact that his Kurdish friend was going out with a Polish Catholic. “He did not like Lidia to sleep at their flat. He disapproved of Lidia’s behaviour in public and thought it seemed sexually provocative.” He went on: “He told her that Ajeen should not be seeing her because she was a Polish and Catholic girl.”

Salah Nasrawi, Egyptians decry doctor’s sentence of 1,500 lashes: His wife said she feared the punishment would kill him. Raouf Amin el-Arabi, a doctor who has been serving the Saudi royal family for about 20 years, was convicted last year of giving a patient the wrong medication. Egyptian newspapers reported that he was accused of driving a Saudi princess “to addiction.” He initially was sentenced to seven years in prison and 700 lashes, but when he appealed two months ago, the judge not only upheld the conviction, but more than doubled the penalty to 15 years in prison and 1,500 lashes.

Noah Shachtman, Army Social Scientist Set Afire in Afghanistan: A social scientist in the Army’s controversial Human Terrain program was en route to Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas after being set on fire in and apparent Taliban attack in Afghanistan. It’s the third time in five months that a Human Terrain Team member has been killed or seriously wounded. [...] The Taliban took credit for the attack on their website. The Taliban has a long history of setting women on fire as a way of punishing them for perceived immodesty.

[Articles continue at link. Praise be to Allah, Muslims around the world are rallying together to protest these atrocities. Just kidding! You know that Muslims around the world are ignoring these examples of cultural diversity and instead protesting to the full extent of the law being asked to cook bacon, having to take off the Magic Muslim Hat, defend the right to have sex with children, and that most important of human rights - the right to skip swimming lessons. As unkind as I am to the superstitious I've never killed anybody, never whipped anybody, never set anybody on fire... so before anyone gets too upset about my mean, mean words, make sure that your priorities aren't as misplaced as the Muslim world's priorities are. The Muslim world deserves your criticism much worse than I do. I don't mind that their beliefs are foolish, I'm sure some of my beliefs are foolish as well. What I do mind is the way they butcher each other and anyone who happens to be standing too close, all in the service of an invisible monster that lives in the sky. - Trevor Blake]