Crime

Enslaving Citizens – Part 3: How torture continues in Maldives prisons">Enslaving Citizens – Part 3: How torture continues in Maldives prisons

… Maldives is synonymous with Paradise, friendliness and hospitality but these seem to be lost on our politicians whose aim seem to be only scoring political points overnight while the rest of the country has descended into anarchy and lawlessness… Read… »

Enslaving Citizens – Part 2: The plight of the average Maldives teenager

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Not proud to be Maldivian at all

What is there to be proud of when the whole Maldives’ society failed to reach out to 25-year-old Ismail Mohamed Didi who felt he had no friend and therefore no choice but only to seek a “way out” of this cruel, hypocritical world?
This is no time for ifs and buts, but I do regret that… »

Letter to Amnesty International

12 July 2010
The Director
Amnesty International
Dear Sir/Madam:
On 24 June 2010 I was arrested by Raa atoll Ungoofaaru Police Station where I was charged with “attempted suicide by overdozing on less than a gram of hash oil, atheism and homosexuality.” However, quite strangely, only a vague reference to “drug abuse” appeared on the Court Order for my… »

Feminist group launches letter writing campaign against sponsors of Dr Bilal Philips event

Would Seyku Shaheem recognize child abuse if he stumbled upon one?
… State Minister for Islamic Affairs Sheikh Mohamed Shaheem Ali Saeed said the Ministry had received no information that Dr Bilal Philips’ preaching including the abuse of children’s rights, and “guaranteed” that the Islamic Ministry “would not let such acts happen in the Maldives.”
”We… »

Profits from resorts that serve alcohol are haram, Naik explains to Majeed

Visiting Islamic speaker Dr Zakir Naik clarified during a question and answer session this morning that profits generated from the sale of alcohol are haram (prohibited), and urged the Maldives to encourage investment in halal (permitted) tourism.
Read the deranged scholar’s Vision of a Islamic Resort and Halal Tourism from the Minivan News… »

If people start taking “VIOLENCE” as a meaning to the word “PEACE”

An SMS I received last night from a Maldivian woman working closely with local NGOs:
This idiot is calling muslims to be extremists and terrorists! And Maldivian people are clapping. God!

More photos of “Dr” Zakir Naik’s “lecture” held in Male’ last night here.
Another Maldivian woman left this comment to my blogpost, Check this video, Mr. Vice… »

Why Dr. Musthafa Luthfee should stand up to these bullies

Ayya on Wed, 26th May 2010 7:31 PM:
Dr. Musthafa Luthfee should stand up to these bullies. After all he is not suggesting that they do not teach Islam and Dhivehi at A-Level but just give the students a choice.
But I can go one further than Mr. Know-it-all Shaheem and suggest a better compromise.
Cambridge Board teaches… »

Why the double standards?

When an Islam-hating and violence-mongering preacher comes to our shores our government (which supposedly is the First Democratic Government Run by the People according to President Nasheed) wastes no time rushing and gushing over him.
When a lot of Maldivian people oppose bringing down two Gitmos to live amongst us, because the Maldivian people do not… »

West Bank rabbi bans women from local election

The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement has prohibited women from standing in a local community election.
Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of the Elon Moreh settlement, near Nablus, said women lacked the authority to stand for the post of local secretary.
He wrote in a community newspaper that women must only be heard through their husbands. Read… »