An Islamist conference in the city of Pointoise near Paris discussing the merits and demerits of wife-beating was dramatically interrupted by topless feminists from the group Femen on Sunday.

According to a report in the Independent, two women ran onto the stage while some imams were addressing a conference on whether beating your wife is permitted in Islam. The women then took off their clothes, showing off messages on their chests saying ‘Nobody makes me submit’ and ‘I am my own Prophet’.

The two imams hurried off the stage, only stopping to cast sideways glances at the women.

Immediately thereafter, security personnel and members of the audience violently dragged the women off stage, kicking and beating them in the process while they were pinned to the ground.

You can watch the whole video here

The unnamed women are believed to be aged 25 and 31, says the Independent.

The group alleged on Twitter that the “activists were brutally removed from the wings”.

Inna Shevchenko, a spokesperson for the Ukranian-born feminist group, the imams were discussing the beating of women. She added that the women were arrested but released after questioning.

Meanwhile, the organisers of the conference rallied for continuation of the conference, and expressed pity for the women, labeling them “victims of anti-Muslim onslaught from the media”.

Begging is a Massive Rs 1.8 billion industry…Yea even i am shocked.

Do you know how many beggars are there in India and what their collective annual income is?

How much a beggar spends on his food and where does the remaining money go?

Despite India’s rapid economic growth in recent years, poverty and begging are still among st the biggest issues in India.

A study by sociologist Mohammed Rafiuddin reveals fascinating details about beggars and the problem of begging in India, especially in Hyderabad.

After a two year long survey, which has been published under the title Beggars in Rafiuddin says there were 73,00,000 beggars across India who earn as much as Rs 180 crore (Rs 1.8 billion).

The study further revealed that a beggar normally spends 20 per cent of his earnings on food as much as 30 per cent on bad habits (smoking, drinking etc). “As much as 50 per cent goes towards savings,” said Rafiuddin.

While the poverty is real, begging is quite often carried out in organized gangs. For the privilege of begging in a certain territory, each beggar must had over their takings to the gang’s ring leader, who keeps a significant share of it.

The most common problem is that beggars are so used to begging that they actually prefer not to work. Many of them also make more money from begging that what they would if they did work.

In many places , visitors ,travelers and motorists are often approached by A CHILD or A WOMEN or A WOMEN HOLDING CHILD .Kindly remember the the Child does not belong to them and is rented drugged and dozed with chloroform or alcohol to keep quiet Many at times the children are kidnapped and trafficked to other cities

BEWARE. by helping the beggars you in helping to Fund a Huge organised CRIME called as the begging Mafia.this wont end the poverty but will only encourage more and more beggars on the streets.

On August 15, Saudi Arabian security engineer Mohammed Qahtani won the title of Toastmasters International World Champion of Public Speaking. He survived seven rounds of a competition that lasted six months and included 33,000 competitors from around the world.

He and nine other finalists competed at the Toastmasters annual convention in Las Vegas, and he took home first place for his speech “The Power of Words,”

He immediately gets the audience on his side.

Qahtani starts his speech with a sight gag, pretending to consider lighting up a cigarette before the audience’s reaction convinces him not to. He transitions from this into a sober defense of the tobacco industry before saying, straight faced, that all of the facts and figures he cited were made up. The audience then roars with laughter.

“When you get an audience laughing, you’ve got them on your side,” Qahtani says.

However you choose to engage an audience, by getting them to laugh, cheer, gasp, or any other emotional reaction, it’s important to get them on your side from the beginning. Qahtani says it can be easy for a speaker to forget that an audience wants a performer to do well, and is waiting to be entertained.
He doesn’t lose sight of his message.

The punchline of his fake defense of Big Tobacco is that you can convince people of a lie, even an absurd one, if you deliver it in the proper way.

Every presentation needs to have a thesis, a message that the audience is convinced of and will take with them. Qahtani’s message is straightforward: We must be conscious of the power our words can have over other people, for better or worse.

His speech is a series of stories: why a pseudo-defense of smoking can be convincing, how he taught his young son a lesson, why academics have a difficult time imparting the dangers of global warming, and how a single phone call ruined a friend’s life. Each of these stories are variations on a theme, leading to a satisfying conclusion that ties them all together.
He makes it personal.

A friend once told Qahtani, “When you’re on the stage, the most important thing is the audience. Don’t care about how you look, where you are on the stage, how you sound – just care about the audience.” Qahtani has used this advice to stay focused on how his audience reacts, and rather than going through the motions, he adjusts his delivery depending on how his audience engages with his material.

In “The Power of Words,” he cheats a little bit with the story about a friend dying from an overdose. The story, about a promising young man’s tragic path to self-destruction partially due to an estranged relationship with his father, is real, but it’s a story Qahtani borrowed. He says that if he presented it as a secondhand story it would lose some of its immediacy.

If you’re giving a corporate presentation or TED Talk, you shouldn’t play with poetic license, but you definitely should use anecdotes that add life to your topic.
He uses his strengths to overcome his weaknesses.

Qahtani grew up with a stutter and deals with it occasionally. He says that even though the stage empowers him and rids him of the impediment, his vocal delivery will never be his strong point, and neither will his stage presence. But that’s fine.

A fellow Toastmasters member once told Qahtani, “Some people are strong with their words, some people are strong with their voice, some people are strong with their stage presence. Your strength is humor. Use it.”

There were competitors who had better delivery and more refined movements on stage, but Qahtani got the audience to focus their attention on what he did well.
He ends on a hopeful note.

Qahtani opened his speech with humor to get the audience laughing and relaxed, but he would have fallen into a stand-up act if he didn’t transition into moving personal anecdotes. Similarly, if he kept his entire speech heavy, his audience would have felt depressed or even bored rather than satisfied.

However you determine your speech will flow, Qahtani said, it’s important that you always leave your audience with a feeling of hope. They need to feel empowered by what you just told them.

Seven coaches of a Virar-Churchgate fast train derailed between Andheri and Vile Parle stations on the fast line moving towards Churchgate, on Tuesday morning.

Services on the fast corridor on Western Railway line have been affected,

Officials said it will take several hours to restore normalcy. Western Railway divisional railway manager Shailendra Kumar told dna that at the moment there was no report of any injury to any passenger.

Thousands of commuters have been stranded.

Swami Omji makes headlines again this time by slapping back a woman astrologer live a televised program.
These two were both panelist on a T.V program. During Delhi elections Swami Omji had created a storm by saying that he would kill Kejriwal. Real News of India was he first to upload the video on you tube.

This time however, things really got out of hand on a recent show that was discussing the controversy surrounding Radhe Maa. When the Hindu Mahasabha’s Om Ji Maharaj decided to cast aspersions on another astrologer’s character, she absolutely lost it and slapped him on live TV. Not one for taking things lying down, the religious leader hit back.

The YouTube description of the video says: “Deepa Sharma, a self proclaimed astrologer today slapped another self proclaimed Dhram Guru Om Ji Maharaj on IBN7’s evening debate show ‘Aaj Ka Mudda. Most deplorable incident on LIVE TV. The honourable guests are not expected to do this.”

New Delhi: With more than a week to Saudi diplomat rape case, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval has stepped in to resolve the issue in the interest of bilateral relations between India and Saudi Arabia.

“There is expectation that both sides may come to an understanding on the fate of the diplomat early this week,” a Times of India report said.

The report also said that the Saudis have denied any rape, which was stressed in the only public statement made by the embassy and also denied charges that the Nepalese women were confined to the house.

In addition, Nepal Embassy officials are demanding justice to the victims. Officials are also expected to meet their Saudi embassy counterparts today to discuss the matter.

The Saudis have already expressed their unhappiness over the way Gurgaon police conducted the whole matter. According to them, police officials violated the diplomat’s privacy by entering his home without permission.

Meanwhile, the Government of India has asserted that the police did not seek the Foreign Ministry’s nod before conducting the raid to rescue the victims, and the raid was halted after the ministry reached out to Gurgaon police.

India had earlier asked Saudi Arabia to waive the official’s diplomatic immunity and cooperate in the investigation,

The two Nepalese women have alleged that they were confined and raped by the diplomat and his “guests” repeatedly at a flat in Gurgaon on the outskirts of the national capital after which the local police filed an FIR in the matter.

An 18-year-old rape victim was on Sunday shot dead allegedly by bike-borne youths in Baijapur village in Dakshintola area, two days before she had to appear in a court as witness in the case, police said.

The incident occurred when the girl along with her brother was going to visit a doctor, and died of bullet injuries on the spot, they said.

The girl was allegedly raped on June 6, 2011 by one BK Singh, Manager of a college, police said, adding the case was going on in the local court, where she had to appear as witness after two days, they said.

The victim’s family members have alleged that she was killed upon the directions of the rape accused, they said.

Police is trying to workout the case and the guilty will not be spared, Additional Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar Singh said.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has vowed to find the cause of a massive crane collapse that killed 107 people at Mecca’s Grand Mosque.
The construction crane crashed during a vicious thunderstorm as worshippers gathered for weekly Friday prayers just days before the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage.

“We will investigate all the reasons and afterwards declare the results to the citizens,” King Salman said after visiting the site, one of Islam’s holiest.

The official Saudi Press Agency said King Salman “discussed the causes of the accident and its effects on the holy mosque” after he saw where the massive crane came down
It was one of several cranes working on an expansion of the sprawling mosque.

King Salman also expressed his condolences to the families of the dead, and visited a local hospital “to check on the health of the injured who are from several nationalities including Iranian, Turkish, Afghan, Egyptian and Pakistani”, the SPA said.

Pictures of the incident on Twitter showed bloodied bodies strewn across a courtyard where the top part of the crane, which appeared to have bent or snapped, had crashed into the building that was several storeys high.

A video on YouTube showed people screaming and rushing around right after a massive crash was heard and as fog engulfed the city.

Earlier, an official from the Saudi Civil Defence Authority said stormy weather was responsible for toppling the crane.
For years, work has been underway on a 400,000-square-metre expansion of the Grand Mosque to allow it to accommodate up to 2.2 million people at once.

Abdel Aziz Naqoor, who said he works at the mosque, said the casualty toll would have been higher had a covered walkway which surrounds the holy Kaaba not broken the crane’s fall.

The Kaaba is the huge cube-shaped structure at the centre of the mosque towards which Muslims worldwide pray.

Om Salma, a Moroccan pilgrim, said “our phones have not stopped ringing since yesterday with relatives calling to check on us”.

“I wish I had died in the accident, as it happened at a holy hour and in a holy place,” Egyptian pilgrim Mohammed Ibrahim said.

Indonesians and Indians were among those killed when the crane collapsed.

“Suddenly, I heard thunder and then we heard a very loud noise. That was the sound of the crane falling,” Mohammed, a Moroccan pilgrim, said.

Another visitor, Ahmed from Egypt, said he and those around him were “very scared, hysterical even”.

A Saudi official said the Hajj, expected to start on September 21, would go ahead despite the tragedy.

The pilgrimage is a must for all able-bodied Muslims who can afford it.

An engineer for the Saudi Binladin Group, the developer, said the crane had been installed in “an extremely professional way” and that there had been no technical problem.

Saudi Binladin Group belongs to the family of the late Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

The father of drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi was working with smugglers and driving the flimsy boat that capsized trying to reach Greece, other passengers on board said, in an account that disputes the version he gave last week.

Ahmed Hadi Jawwad and his wife, Iraqis who lost their 11-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son in the crossing, said that Abdullah Kurdi panicked and accelerated when a wave hit the boat, raising questions about his claim that somebody else was driving the boat. A third passenger confirmed their version of events, which could not independently verify. “The story that (Aylan’s father) told is untrue. I don’t know what made him lie, maybe fear,” Jawwad said in Baghdad at his in-laws’ house on Friday. “He was the driver from the very beginning until the boat sank.”

He said Kurdi swam to them and begged them to cover up his true role in the incident. His wife confirmed the details. Jawwad said his point of contact with the smugglers was called Abu Hussein. “Abu Hussein told me that he (Kurdi) was the one who organised this trip,” he said. Reuters tried several times to speak to Kurdi by telephone from the Syrian city of Kobane but was unable to reach him. Abu Hussein also could not be reached. However, Kurdi told Britain’s MailOnline that the accusations were untrue. “I thought about driving the boat but I didn’t do it. That is all lies,” he said. “This is not true. If I was a people smuggler, why would I put my family in the same boat as the other people? I paid the same amount to the people smugglers,” he told the newspaper.

In comments to Kurdish news outlet Rudaw this week, Kurdi blamed a Turkish smuggler but did not name him. Amir Haider, 22, another Iraqi who said he was on the same boat, confirmed Jawwad’s account and identified Kurdi as the driver. He said by telephone from Istanbul that he initially thought Kurdi was Turkish because he was not speaking, but later heard him talking to his wife in Syrian Arabic.

A photo of Aylan Kurdi’s body in the surf off a popular Turkish holiday resort prompted sympathy and outrage at the perceived inaction of developed nations in helping thousands of refugees using dangerous sea-routes to reach Europe, many of whom have fled Syria’s four-year civil war.