Female comedian outrages Muslim cleric

AP ^ | 4.30.04

[ambrose]

Female comedian outrages Muslim cleric

By Associated Press

Friday, April 30, 2004

OSLO, Norway - The founder of suspected terror group Ansar al-Islam, normally cool under pressure, lost his temper when a female Muslim comedian jokingly lifted him off the ground before an audience.

Mullah Krekar, the former leader of a fundamentalist Islamic group of Kurds in northern Iraq, was participating in a debate over his new biography Tuesday evening. Krekar, a refugee in Norway since 1991, has become the country's highest profile Muslim after his repeated arrests, court cases, television appearances and now his book "My Own Words."

Comedian and women's rights activist Shabana Rehman - a well-known Muslim here as well - was in the audience for the debate and talked Krekar into allowing her to perform what she called a little test to see if he was a fundamentalist.

Pakistan-born Rehman walked onto the stage, grabbed the Mullah around the hips, and lifted him up.

"A man who can be carried by a woman can't be a fundamentalist," Rehman said to howls of laughter.

Krekar, who comes across as calm and tolerant in public appearances, exploded with rage and grabbed the microphone.

"She does not have the right to touch me. She is showing contempt for me. I can't accept this," the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten quoted Krekar as saying.

The mullah threatened a lawsuit, and demanded that all the photographers in the hall erase any pictures of him being lifted. But the images were broadcast on television and published in newspapers.

Rehman said the point was to see his reaction.

"If he is as tolerant and relaxed as he presents himself, he didn't need to react so strongly," she told the newspaper. "One who is not a fanatic would have gone along with such a joke."

Ansar al-Islam is suspected by the United States of links to the al-Qaida network and for involvement in suicide bombings targeting U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq.

[cyborg]

Ummmmmmm...okay. What a weird story.

[cyborg]

BTW, he failed her test and she didn't need a blue ribbon panel to figure him out *LOL*

[Mr. Mojo]

All Islamists are in essence lightweights.

[EGPWS]

The founder of suspected terror group Ansar al-Islam, normally cool under pressure,...

Is there something not connecting with this statement?

[Enduring Freedom]

The reality is these lunatics are pathetic little boys filled with petty hate and envy who ambush innocent civilians.

These scumbags are not to be feared.

They are to be exterminated.

Only the Left (U.N., media, Democrats) stand in the way.

The question must be asked - DOES AMERICA START WITH THE LEFT?

[Robert_Paulson2]

so... if we send all our lesbians over there to "Lift" the male islamakazis who want to kill us americans.. they will go into apopleptic shock?

intolerant bastardes.

rofl...

[Robert_Paulson2]

Ambrose, you absolutely cannot make this shxx up! right?

"the woman lifted me... I am humiliated."

[smonk]

"outraged Muslim cleric" is needlessly repetitive.

[RichInOC]

"The name's Francis Sawyer, but everybody calls me Psycho. Any of you guys call me Francis, and I'll kill you...."
"Ooooooh..."
"You just made the list, buddy. Also, I don't like no one touching my stuff. So just keep your meathooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. And I don't like nobody touching me. Any of you homos touch me, and I'll kill you...."
"Lighten up, Francis."

[ambrose]

And Sgt. Halka, with this big toe, is going to see how far he can stick it up your ass!

[ambrose]

If a female comedian was able to lift him up off the ground, imagine what she could do to his pride:

[RichInOC]

I hope you were directing that to the good mullah.

[EGPWS]

Only the Left (U.N., media, Democrats) stand in the way.

Is THAT all? /sarcasm

[The_Media_never_lie]

Funny guys, these Islamists.

[ambrose]

[laredo44]

"She does not have the right to touch me. She is showing contempt for me. I can't accept this,

There are those who simply cannot distinguish between what is important and what is not.

[tob2]

Islam allows female comics? Muslims showing a sense of humor? That's very weird. I though all they wanted to do was kill the infidels.

[snooker]

So let me see if I get this. Lift a cleric up, preferably by a lesbian woman, and they self destruct. All respect is shot with their brain dead minions.

If you ask me, it would be simple enough to photoshop this and put it on website. Sort of like a building roach motel one photoshop at a time. We need to start collecting cleric photos. Might I suggest we start with the Iranian Mullahs.

Sounds good to me, do some good for humanity, don't need to fire a shot.

[Kozak]

Brave woman. Now no doubt under threat of an "honor killing" by some "brave" Islamonazi.

[M Kehoe]

Here comes another fatwa. A fatwa here, a fatwa there, here a fatwa, there a fatwa, Old Mc Donald had a farm...

5.56mm

[Rebelbase]

This revises the idea that Rush Limbaugh's proposed 1st Amazon Brigade concept should be implemented in Iraq.

[Rebelbase]

Those pic's need to be posted on Islamic message boards.

[DoctorMichael]

Metaphorically, this was spot on.

Islam SHOULD be 'held-up' to ridicule.

[DefCon]

"...a female Muslim comedian ..."
- - -
I never knew there was any such thing.
I would like to hear her routine.

[DefCon]

"There are guffaws from the audience when Shabana Rehman appears on the stage in a burqa. The garment is “useful for scaring away children”, she says, “but not very practical when you are assembling a bit of furniture from Ikea”.

The collision of Nordic social democracy with Muslim mores has seldom been a subject for debate, let alone jokes, in politically correct
Norway, whose politicians fear accusations of stirring racial hatred when broaching immigration.

But now Rehman, a 26-year-old of Pakistani origin, has sprung up. Her show has catapulted her to fame as a champion of liberal Muslim women aspiring to a Scandinavian lifestyle.

Female circumcision and the stoning of adulterous women are as much a target of her vitriolic wit as the willingness of “multiculturalists” to overlook abuse of women among Norway’s immigrant population. Rehman also jokes about suicide bombers and the amputation of thieves’ limbs.

The act has provoked the fury of conservative Muslims. Moderates, for their part, are not amused by her attacks on them for failing to speak out against “backward” practices. “I’ve received loads of hate mail,” she said last week. “They tried to frighten me. They wanted to kill me. They said I had been corrupted by western culture. They called me a whore.”

Unperturbed, Rehman posed naked in a political magazine, her body painted in the colours of the Norwegian flag. The picture has become a symbol of the integrationist fervour for which she is renowned in an increasingly heated debate about the extent to which immigrants should be obliged to tailor their customs to those of Norway.

“I wanted to make it clear that even as a Muslim woman I am free to dispose of my body as I wish,” she said. “I also wanted to demonstrate to Norwegians that you can be Scandinavian even if you were born in the Punjab.”

Rehman’s mockery of the mullahs involves stripping off the burqa to parade in a revealing red cocktail dress. The routine includes
fantasising about what the land of the Vikings would be like if subjected to the sharia code of punishment.

“There would be a lot of stone-throwing in the northern part of Norway,” she exclaims, referring to the stoning prescribed by sharia
for women who have illegitimate children. “On the other hand, girls, Crown Prince Haakon Magnus would still have been single” — a reference to the fact that the prince’s wife had an illegitimate child from a previous relationship.

Some of her most pointed barbs are reserved for “halal hippies”, Norwegian “do-gooders” whose embrace of foreign cultures extends to
ignoring their worst excesses. “If an Asian country dropped a nuclear bomb on Norway, these people would run to the nearest book store to buy a book about oriental culture,” she quips.

To her critics she is simply whipping up prejudice against an immigrant community that has grown to 7% of the population. Yet Rehman has prompted a debate about how traditional immigrants’ customs can be merged with progressive laws. “She is an important voice,” says Erna Solberg, the minister responsible for immigration. “Her humour allows her to go further than others and incite real reflection.”

Beyond her stage performances, Rehman rants in newspapers and on television about the oppression of forced Pakistani marriages. A year ago, when a young Kurdish woman was killed by her father for choosing to live with a Swedish man, Rehman led a protest. A
counter-demonstration was staged by a traditional Muslim women’s group that symbolically “excommunicated” her.

Her four brothers and three sisters are supportive, even if they are occasionally the butt of her jokes. “In our culture brothers are
supposed to be on guard so their sisters are not dishonoured,” she says on the stage. “When my sisters and I were in our teens, our brothers were two, four and six years old and you feel sort of stupid when you are walking down the street, holding hands with your boyfriend and this six-year-old comes along biting your boyfriend’s leg, saying, ‘Stay off my sister, you pig.’ ”

Last year Rehman was awarded a “freedom of expression” prize by a Norwegian foundation and, trophy in hand, parodied the conventional words of thanks offered by Oscar winners. “I would like to thank the mullahs,” she said, “without whom I would not have had a career.”

[Jonx6]

ping

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

"She does not have the right to touch me. She is showing contempt for me. I can't accept this,">>

Oh. Go fly a kite.

But not an airplane. Particularly not a Boeing.

[Poohbah]

Unperturbed, Rehman posed naked in a political magazine, her body painted in the colours of the Norwegian flag. The picture has become a symbol of the integrationist fervour for which she is renowned in an increasingly heated debate about the extent to which immigrants should be obliged to tailor their customs to those of Norway.

Ahem. I think we need to view the evidence...

[Cultural Jihad]

Shabana Rehman

[Cultural Jihad]

[mountaineer]

Rehman’s mockery of the mullahs involves stripping off the burqa to parade in a revealing red cocktail dress.

Sounds like Shabana's got more cojones than all those mullahs and goat-loving terrorists put together.

[pepsionice]

In the Muslim world...my vast experiences in Turkey and Saudi-land...a woman warrior is simply not acceptable. For a true Muslim to be out-fought by a woman is a total disgrace. The same goes for business dealings too. You can't allow Muslim women to advance too far in business. The same is true for the medical profession. If you need a operation...it has to be a male surgeon. Its a society that cannot confront or handle women being part of the decision-making process.

[aculeus]

This just in ...

CAUGHT ON FILM:
Mullah attacked journalist
Av Carin Pettersson , Kjetil Mæland og Morten Ø. Karlsen 30.04.04 13:13, ny 30.04.04 13:51


POLICE DEPARTMENT, OSLO (TV 2 Nettavisen): Mullah Krekar attacked TV 2 Nettavisen’s Journalist Jørgen Berge Friday, took his camera and walked off with it.

Mullah Krekar grabbed the journalist’s arm and snatched the digital camera from him after Berge had taken a picture of the Mullah.

«I experienced the entire episode as very uncomfortable,» Berge said.

Mullah Krekar took the camera, which was hanging in a strap around the journalist’s wrist, and walked into the police department’s office with TV 2 Nettavisen’s camera.

Demands an apology

The entire episode was filmed by TV 2.

Gunnar Stavrum, editor of TV 2 Nettavisen, has seen the tape from TV 2.

«What I have seen shows that Mullah Krekar physically attacks our reporter and acts in a threatening manner,» said Stavrum. «We can not accept this, and we will without further ado demand a direct apology from the Mullah.»

When asked if TV 2 Nettavisen will file a formal complaint, Staverum answered:

«We will evaluate the case during the day.»

Gave camera to the police

After Krekar took the camera from Berge, he walked into the police building, where he handed over the camera to a police officer who sat at the front desk.

At the front desk, a discussion between Mullah Krekar, Krekar’s brother Khalid Faraj Ahmad, Berge and the police erupted. Finally, Mullah Krekar and Khalid were asked to leave because the noise level at the police house reached an unacceptable level.

Berge got his camera returned by the police officer.


Delivering a formal complaint

The incident took place at about 10:30 a.m. Friday when Mullah Krekar arrived at the police department at Grønland in Oslo. Mullah Krekar was there to deliver a formal complaint against the comedian Shabana Rehman after she lifted him off the ground at Smuget after a debate Tuesday evening.

http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article220204.ece

[Wombat101]

Did he file a sexual harrassment fatwa?

[RightOnline]

She should've pants 'im.

[dennisw]

Good post!!! and funny!

[Lady Heron]

They will kill her at some point.

[dennisw]

Retarded smelly autocratic Mullah squatting in Norway.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Owhhhhh.....he really is a wussy.

[Liberty Valance]

Shabana would be perfect for Dennis Miller's show.
Those 7th century mullahs just have no sense of humor. The Ikea joke was pretty funny.

[cyborg]

She's pretty.

[dighton]

I think we need to view the evidence...

Site rule, oldest one in the book.

[dennisw]

 

NEWS IN ENGLISH

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CAUGHT ON FILM:

Mullah attacked journalist

Av Carin Pettersson , Kjetil Mæland og Morten Ø. Karlsen 30.04.04 13:13, ny 30.04.04 13:51

Ex public official ill because of Mullah

POLICE DEPARTMENT, OSLO (TV 2 Nettavisen): Mullah Krekar attacked TV 2 Nettavisen’s Journalist Jørgen Berge Friday, took his camera and walked off with it.

Mullah Krekar grabbed the journalist’s arm and snatched the digital camera from him after Berge had taken a picture of the Mullah.

 

 

 

«I experienced the entire episode as very uncomfortable,» Berge said.

Mullah Krekar took the camera, which was hanging in a strap around the journalist’s wrist, and walked into the police department’s office with TV 2 Nettavisen’s camera.

 

Demands an apology
The entire episode was filmed by TV 2.

Gunnar Stavrum, editor of TV 2 Nettavisen, has seen the tape from TV 2.

«What I have seen shows that Mullah Krekar physically attacks our reporter and acts in a threatening manner,» said Stavrum. «We can not accept this, and we will without further ado demand a direct apology from the Mullah.»

 

 

 

When asked if TV 2 Nettavisen will file a formal complaint, Staverum answered:

«We will evaluate the case during the day.»

Gave the camera to the police
After Krekar took the camera from Berge, he walked into the police building, where he handed over the camera to a police officer who sat at the front desk.

 

 

 

At the front desk, a discussion between Mullah Krekar, Krekar’s brother Khalid Faraj Ahmad, Berge and the police erupted. Finally, Mullah Krekar and Khalid were asked to leave because the noise level at the police house reached an unacceptable level.

Berge got his camera returned by the police officer.

 

 

Delivering a formal complaint
The incident took place at about 10:30 a.m. Friday when Mullah Krekar arrived at the police department at Grønland in Oslo. Mullah Krekar was there to deliver a formal complaint against the comedian Shabana Rehman after she lifted him off the ground at Smuget after a debate Tuesday evening.

 

 

Check out the incident on web-tv. (registration required)

 

 

 

After he had been inside the police department, Mullah Krekar attacked the journalist.

«You are not allowed to take pictures of me,» said Mullah Krekar to TV 2 Nettavisen’s journalist. Then he asked to have the camera.

 

When Berge refused to hand it over, Mullah Krekar grabbed the journalist’s wrist and pulled the camera from his hand.

[VOA]

"A man who can be carried by a woman can't be a fundamentalist," Rehman said
to howls of laughter.

Krekar, who comes across as calm and tolerant in public appearances, exploded with
rage and grabbed the microphone.

"She does not have the right to touch me. She is showing contempt for me. I can't
accept this," the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten quoted Krekar as saying.

Just like every "reasonable" or "moderate" Muslim I hear in a REAL interview.
Scratch or squeeze 'em just a bit...and the nut-burger Islamofacist comes out.
I'm suprised he didn't find some way to blame this incident (by a Muslima)
on "The Jews", Israel or the USA.

This case bums me out, as it looks like even the otherwise reasonable Kurds
have their wing-nuts too.

[dennisw]

This case bums me out, as it looks like even the otherwise reasonable Kurds
have their wing-nuts too.

I know it's a while back, but the Kurds helped the Turks when they slaughtered Armenians and Greeks in the early 1900s

[Darksheare]

Is that a pic of her?
Dag!
I'd let her lift me off the ground ANY day.

[Skywalk]

I wholeheartedly agree. Like many Indo-Aryans she has a sizeable proboscis but knockout eyes and facial structure.

Now that's a Muslim I can get with!

[Darksheare]

That's what makes her so interesting.
Weird, right?

*chuckle*
I had a job in the local mall once, and there was an arabian woman there who'd come to the store I worked in to smoke in our "smoker's lounge" in back.
She was quite attractive, and knew it, with a wicked sense of humor.
Like calling the phone extension I was by from the back room and then making twsited prank calls.
*chuckle*
She went on vacation and had soem really odd stories ot tell.
Her family were extremely permissive.
Her mom wore the head scarf, but did so because she liked how it looked.
(Her mom came into the store and looked at me for a few minutes, turned to her daughter and said with the statement, "Why didn't you marry him?" To which she laughed and said, "Mom, YOU marry him. He's my friend. The one I told you about." Truly a weird conversation to be in the middle of.)

As mentioned, she got married, not sure where she is now.
The guy she married was a complete moronic jerk.

But she had green eyes.

[ambrose]

Interesting. Source?