Islam reaches a new level of laughingstock!

WTF is wrong with Islam? Why do the imam’s want everyone else to be as miserable, and insecure, and narrow minded, as they are! Why do they want to stop people being happy? WTF is wrong with this religion?

I issue a fatwa against all Muslim clerics who want everyone else to be as miserable, and insecure, narrow minded, and impotent, as they are, to be banned from claiming to speak in the name of Islam!  :)
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Kashmir girl band splits after fatwa

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February 5, 2013 – 9:21PM

Srinagar

An all-girl teenage rock band from split after top Muslim cleric declares their music to be ‘un-slamic’.

The group calls its quits after the Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir brands them as ‘indecent’.

An all-girl teenage rock band from Indian-administered Kashmir has split after the region’s top Muslim cleric declared their music to be “un-Islamic”.

Pragaash, a three-piece group whose members are still in high school, had been the target of an online hate campaign ever since winning a battle of the bands contest in December.

But they have called its quits after the Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir, Bashiruddin Ahmad, branded them as “indecent” and issued a fatwa calling for them to disband.

“After the fatwa the girls decided to quit and disband,” Adnan Mattoo, the band’s manager, said on Tuesday.

The mother of one of the girls confirmed her daughter had decided to leave the band, saying she was staying with relatives outside Kashmir until the fuss died down.

“My daughter had been depressed and irritable so we decided to send her away to another city for some time,” said the mother, who did not want to give her name.

The comments by the grand mufti have been widely criticised, with the state’s Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, among those calling on the band not to be intimidated into giving up.

Kashmir is India’s only Muslim-majority state and hardline Islamists have a reputation for trying to impose Islamic law.

AFP

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/kashmir-girl-band-splits-after-fatwa-20130205-2dwa2.html#ixzz2K29Wjo76

This is no surprise!!!

Teddles Ballyhoo’s government has been all about massive funding cuts to;
Hospitals
Police Forces
Education
Lollipop People
CFA (Country Fire Authority)
Emergency Systems’ development
SES (State Emergency Services)
Nurses
Mental Health Services
and many more!!!

Make no mistake! Cuts to all of the above services have been HUGE, while the inept, incompetent, and uncaring government of Teddles Ballyhoo, has been busy applying these cuts to feather the nests of his cronies! Ted Bailleu should be charged for criminal activity!!!
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‘Jobs for mates’ crosses Parliament

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February 3, 2013    Farrah Tomazin

Illustration: Matt Golding.

THE state government has appointed dozens of Coalition backers and former MPs – including one of Ted Baillieu’s relatives – to plum positions on boards and agencies around the state.

Despite Mr Baillieu slamming the former Labor government every time a so-called ”jobs for mates” scandal emerged, little appears to have changed since the Coalition came to office two years ago.

An analysis of appointments in health – where Victoria and Canberra continue to trade blows over hospital funding – shows many positions have been given to former ministers, MPs, political staffers and party officials.

For instance, Kennett government minister Mark Birrell was made the deputy chairman of VicHealth, former health minister Robert Knowles was appointed to the Royal Children’s Hospital board, former Caulfield MP Helen Shardey was made chairwoman of The Alfred hospital, and former Nationals MP Noel Maughan was appointed chairman of Goulburn Valley Health.

The water industry is similar. Former Kennett government treasurer Alan Stockdale is chairman of City West Water, former minister Geoff Coleman is on the board of Westernport Water, and former upper house MP John Vogels is on the Wannon Water board.

Mr Baillieu’s brother-in-law Graeme Stoney – a former MP – was granted a role on the board of VicForests, while some of the Premier’s former top aides have also received government roles.

They include Michael Kapel, Mr Baillieu’s friend and former chief of staff, who is now based in San Francisco as the Commissioner for the Americas, and Di Rule, who was a key adviser to Mr Baillieu in his early years as opposition leader, and is now on the board of the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority.

The appointments are among dozens in the past two years given to government associates. Mr Baillieu’s spokeswoman Kate Walshe insisted that all were made after an ”extensive selection process to identify qualified, skilled and experienced individuals for the position, unlike the previous Labor government who unashamedly made partisan appointments without regard to their ability or experience to perform the duties of the role”.

Opposition scrutiny of government spokesman Martin Pakula rejected this claim, accusing the government of blatant hypocrisy. ”Having once been horrified by jobs for the boys, Mr Baillieu has now made an art form of it,” he said. ”If you have ever been a Liberal MP, candidate or staffer, you’re pretty much home and hosed for a cushy government gig.”

Appointing party ”mates” has long been an issue at Spring Street. Former Labor premier Steve Bracks came under fire early in his first term for appointing an old friend, Jim Reeves, to head the Urban and Regional Land Authority.

Mr Baillieu was then opposition planning spokesman and a vociferous critic of the decision, citing it as an example of ”special access” for government mates. A decade later, his government picked Liberal Party stalwart Peter Clarke – Mr Baillieu’s close friend – to lead planning authority Places Victoria.

■ftomazin@fairfaxmedia.com.au

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/jobs-for-mates-crosses-parliament-20130202-2drfb.html#ixzz2Jkgz419o