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Abused husbands fill up Tunisian shelter

Tunisia's first shelter for abused men has already proved to be a big success, with some 120 men currently seeking refuge from their abusive wives within its walls.The founder of the shelter, Al-Arabi Ben Ali Al-Faytouri, said he decided to open the centre after he found himself roaming the streets at 2:00 a.m. on a freezing winter night after a heated argument with his wife back in 1977.

The shelter, which is located in the north of the capital overlooking the sea, opened its doors in July 2002.

Its first inhabitant was a 53 year old man who, after a fight with his wife, tried to stay with a friend at first, but the friend's wife wouldn't allow it.

Al-Faytouri, a rights activist, said he found the man sleeping in a train station, according to a report in the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat.The man stayed in the shelter for a week until he made peace with his wife. "A man is not totally safe in the shelter though…some wives chase their husbands here," Al-Faytouri said. "I try to deal with these situations wisely and I have managed to solve many problems.

Al-Faytouri says it's easy for a woman to go to her family or to the police when her husband abuses her, but men – especially those in Eastern societies – do not like to show their weakness. Most of the shelter's inmates are over 50. Al-Faytouri says the physical frailty that starts around this age makes it harder for men to deal with stress."The shelter is the place to keep his secrets and get the help he needs," the rights activist said, adding that most of 120 abused husbands are now his friends.

THANKING .. FOR THE SUADI KING

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has approved a new system for the judiciary in the Kingdom, within a comprehensive project called “King Abdullah’s Project for developing the judiciary”, and a budget of SR7 billion.

The King issued the royal decree approving the Two Judicial and Grievances systems following the cabinet meeting late Monday, according to the official SPA news agency.

The first Article of the judicial system includes the independence and safeguards of the system that stated the independence of judges and their adherence to Islamic rules and they will not be dismissed except in the cases stipulated in this system and they will not be transferred to other jobs without their consent or because of their promotion,” SPA quoted the royal decree as stating.

The article also stated that judges should not be disputed because of their jobs except for conditions and basis pertaining to their irregular deeds, it added.The new judicial system stipulates the establishment of a Supreme Court that handles the duties of the current Supreme Commission for the Judiciary.

The Royal decree states also that first degree courts will be established in areas, regions and centers, according to the needs of the system.The general courts will be set up in the regions for specialized circles that include circles for implementation and approval.The royal decree stated that commercial and labor courts will be set up to handle specialized cases, with one judge or more for each court, according to decisions by the Supreme Commission of Justice

Six million Egyptians addicted to drugs: Survey

At least 8.5 percent of Egypt's population, amounting to six million people, are addicted to drugs, an official survey published on Wednesday showed.

A recent study published by Egypt's National Council for Fighting and Treating Addiction (NCFTA) reported the majority of drug users are aged between 15 and 25, NCFTA member Suheir Lutfi told the English-language Al-Ahram Weekly.

Bango, a type of marijuana found in the Middle East, is the drug of choice, but cocaine, heroin and chemical drugs like ecstasy and methamphetamine are also widely available on the local market, the study found.

About 439,000 children are regular drug users in Egypt, a major producer, supplier and consumer of narcotics. Of the 12.2 percent of Egypt's students dependent on drugs, nine percent smoke Bango, three percent prefer hashish and 0.21 percent take heroin or chemical drugs, NCFTA said.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Egypt's location makes it a transit point for drug trafficking from major production areas in South East Asia and Europe.Bango is widely used in the Sinai Peninsula and has also been reported in southern Egypt, according to UNODC

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The Danish Caricatures Of Prophet Mohammad

The trend of European Islam

(From the book "The Danish Caricatures Of Prophet Mohammad" By Mohey Eldin Gharib June 2007 )

Daniel Pipes, the supporter of “clash of civilizations” idea says: “we must support moderate Moslems to reach finally a clash "between two ideologies, Armed Islam and European Islam so that Moslems can have a suitable position in the world

Lately during the drawings’ crisis in Denmark, opinions mixed and media had quitted a number of descriptions of Islam. Beside extreme Islam there was armed Islam and cultural Islam and critical Islam scientific, democratic and moderate Islam. And lately there was European Islam.
Maybe in future there will be accepted Islam. And yet, politicians reduced it all to either of two things either Moslems in Denmark agree to the publishing of the drawings or they are against free expression (the American way).

Some Moslem politicians, headed by Naser Khader (Danish parliament member from the Radical Party) rushed to establish a Moslem moderates’ gathering. It had about a thousand members of Moslem moderates.
The name was later changed to “gathering of democratic Moslems”.

This time they became democratic Moslems. That was to them the ideal practical answer to face the drawings’ crisis and to escape it at the same time. Naser Khader had this answer and donated it to the Danish government as a political act or maybe for other reasons.

The government and rightist parties welcomed it and asked Moslems to join it – so if a Moslem immigrant to Denmark wants to be moderate democratic, he can just join this gathering. But polls and studies made by specialized bodies showed that the followers of Imams and Moslem preachers in Denmark are no more than 15%, and the followers of democratic Moslems are just 5%. So the overwhelming majority of 70-80% of Moslems is those who want to be Moslems without titles. They do not want to be different from the rest of society except by their descent.

They want to breath security and practice their democratic right and their right to free expression without putting on their backs a sign saying that they are moderate or democratic. Of course they do not dream of applying Moslem sharïa in Denmark or elsewhere.

And of course they get offended when religions are insulted, prophets molested, innocent people die and embassies burned.

They believe in peaceful demonstrations, boycott and resistance of injustice to regain rights. Most Danes share their views.

This great majority of Danish Moslems does not want to mix religion with politics- the question of religion should remain a private matter between man and God, whoever that God is.

Belief is a man’s need to reach internal equilibrium, each in his own way.

The trend of European Islam or democratic Moslems which they want to generalize in the West is a contradicting one by all measures.

It will first of all, lead to split between European Moslems and remaining Moslems in the world, which might lead to ideological clash that helps great powers to dominate the world, this time under the pretext of defending the democratic Moslems of Europe.

Secondly, it will lead to more split of elites in the same society.

For instance a Moslem can be denied certain jobs under the pretext that he is not a member of the democratic gathering. Of course employers will prefer this freedom of choice.

In fact it was announced by a Danish employer, Asger Aamund, that he will give jobs especially to members of this gathering.

Thirdly, the biggest contradiction will be mixing religion with politics, which violates the basic democratic rules and reduces Denmark’s and European’s credibility about democratic reform in Moslem countries.

The trend of European Islam, and the attempt to generalize it in the West seems to some a pragmatic way that may facilitate relations of the West and Islam and increase understanding.

But, beside the contradictions mentioned above the existence of middle men in the relation between the Danish society and the Moslem community- which in this case the gathering of democratic Moslems who do not represent the ordinary Moslem, will end up in a new form of monopoly of Islam as an alternative to Imams and preachers. Of course they will be politically exploited.

The leader of European Islam idea in Switzerland, Tareq Ramadan, criticized the escalation of the drawings’ crisis in Denmark saying that it was letter to solve it internally.

He ignored that the offence was not directed only to Danish Moslems but Moslems worldwide, who have the right to answer.

He ignored that such crises cannot be hidden from media and T.V. channels. The leader of democratic Moslems idea in Denmark, Naser Khader, known for his position among opposition parties wanted, as a politician to reduce the crisis to a political project.

Naser Khader says in a book about “Islam in Denmark”: “one of the biggest problems for Moslems in Denmark is their lack of a democratic tolerant leadership which accepts bargain, and broad minded enough to gather Moslems under one umbrella”.

This is exactly what Naser Khader misses. Such a leadership will push Moslems into the web of politics, and into a political party to defend their requirements and to have a Moslem candidate, i.e. a state within the state, the thing that most ordinary Moslems reject. It is rejected even in Moslem countries.

The big majority of ordinary Moslems does not want to be pushed in such political web. It wants fulfill its aims within the Danish constitution where every person chooses the party that satisfies his needs. This majority does not want to be represented by Imams and preachers or to turn to them as alternative to government bodies.

Their role should not exceed religious teachings. The danger of European Islam is pushing religion to be a political movement liable to criticism. A religion liable to deviation and control to suit political aims, in contrast to the civil modernization project which relies on making religion neutral of politics.

With due respect to the efforts of heightened persons like Naser Khader in Denmark and Tareq Ramadan in Switzerland and Basem Tiby in Sweden, whose good intentions and sincere desire to uplift the image of Islam I do not doubt, I hope that they reconsider their opinion and assemble their efforts to help

the great majority of Moslem immigrants and their descendants to assimilate into the societies in which they live, away from extremism either religious or rightist.