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Washington Times: The European Court of Human Rights just ruled that a woman who was convicted in a Vienna court and fined for disparaging a religion — Islam — after she called out Mohammed as a pedophile did not, as she argued, have her free speech rights infringed. She lost her last appeal and now must pay a fine of 480 euros, which is about $547. Americans, take note. Lessons can be learned here. Warnings should be heeded. There are many in the United States who want to mold this country into the shape of Europe — who want America to shed its sovereign system of capitalistic and constitutional principles and step full-steam-ahead into a more globalist type of governance. But America is special — exceptional, really. Here, unlike in Europe, freedom is a God-given, not government granted. Moving toward the latter, shifting toward an EU-like system that squishes the individual for the good of the collective, means giving up cherished freedoms — freedoms like the right to speak...

CNN: Can you take non-Muslim women and children captive? Yes, says ISIS. Can you have sex with them, even prepubescent girls? Yes, according to the Islamist extremist group. Can you sell them or give them as gifts to others? The answer is yes, once again. People in Mosul -- the Iraqi city now under control of the group calling itself the Islamic State -- got these and other messages loud and clear after sunset prayers Friday, when armed men handed out a color-printed pamphlet "Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves," three residents told CNN. ... And that's the thing about ISIS: Its militants have justified their actions -- like the beheadings of journalists and aid workers -- in God's name. Even then, it is rare to see its rationale laid out as plainly as "Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves." In the Middle East Media Research Institute's English translation of that Q&A, for instance, it is explained that capturing ...

Telegraph: Iraq ready to legalise childhood marriage This is the sign of a sick culture.  

Daily Mail: Iran passes a law allowing men to marry their 13-year-old adopted daughters just as the country's new president touts himself as a moderate This is an example of the depravity of the Iranian culture under the Islamic religious bigots.

Daily Mail: Yemeni child bride, eight, dies of internal injuries on first night of forced marriage to groom five times her age An eight-year-old child bride has died in Yemen of internal bleeding sustained during her wedding night after being forced to marry a man five times her age, activists have claimed. The girl, identified only as Rawan, died in the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia. Activists are now calling for the groom, who is believed to be around 40 years old, and her family to be arrested so they can face justice in the courts. ... All who were involved in this travesty should be arrested on rape and murder charges.  This is child abuse that is so blatant it shocks the conscience.

Daniel Greenfield: Good news for pedophiles, if you’re looking to marry that eligible twelve-year-old at your local elementary school, you will need to convert to Islam first . But another retired Imam, Abdul Haque, who worships at the Shoreditch Mosque in east London, agreed to carry out the ceremony on the condition the parents kept it a secret from the authorities. The Imam urged the undercover reporter to lie about the marriage and keep it a secret. Haque said: ‘Tell people it is an engagement but it will be a marriage.  ‘In Islam, once the girl reaches puberty the father has the right, the parents have the right, but under the laws of this country if the girl complains and says her marriage has been arranged and she wasn’t of marriageable age, then the person who performed the marriage will be jailed as well as the mother and father.’  He then warned: ‘Nobody should know about this and the girl must not complain… If she talks in school they will take the girl, ...