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Muslim relatives of a woman conspired to kill her by placing gasoline in one of her kitchen bottles, causing her to catch fire while cooking and burn to death. The reason? Earlier she had converted to Christianity and refused to return to Islam. Now her husband (also an apostate to Christianity) and children are homeless and on the run; nor will police and other family members help them. The full story follows:
On the morning of June 9 in southern Yemen, Saeed woke to the sound of screaming. He shot out of bed, pushed panicked family members aside and saw his wife stumbling out of their kitchen, engulfed in flames.
His wife, Nazeera, had been preparing breakfast at about 9 a.m. when she poured liquid from a cooking oil bottle into a hot pan. The liquid flashed, and the bottle exploded. While her four children watched, screaming, Nazeera was being burned alive.
“I rushed out of the room,” Saeed (full name undisclosed for security reasons) told Morning Star News, weeping. “I couldn’t even speak to ask her what happened. All I could think about was putting the fire out and then getting her to the hospital. But my 16-year-old son, he couldn’t stop himself and held on to her, hugging her while she was burning. He got hurt, and I had to pull him away from her.”
About two weeks later, Nazeera, 33, died as a result of her burns. When Saeed returned to his home in a village (undisclosed for security reasons) after her death, a relative told him the unthinkable – members of both his family and hers had taken the vegetable oil out of the bottle and replaced it with gasoline. Saeed knew the reason – many years ago, the two had become Christians and refused to return to Islam…
Before the attack, Saeed and his wife had already decided to flee their families and the 99 percent Muslim country on the Arabian Peninsula. They got their travel papers two days before the sabotaged bottle exploded.
After doctors said there was nothing more they could do for Nazeera, friends of the couple were able to secure a room in a hospital in Egypt for further treatment. Nazeera died that day, before they could go.
Saeed was with her when she died. Among her last words to him was not to worry and to take care of their children. Saeed left the hospital and took the two-hour trip back home. There a relative told him that one of his brothers and one of her brothers had conspired against them to punish them.
“I was told by one of our relatives that it was a set-up, and they replaced the cooking oil with petrol, which caught flames as soon as she poured it out,” he said.
When Saeed went to police for help, officers told him to bring witnesses who could testify about the alleged conspiracy to sabotage the cooking oil bottle. His children only saw the explosion and could not testify regarding sabotage, and Saeed’s relatives refused to incriminate the alleged conspirators, their own family members.
Nazeera receiving hospital treatment after the fire attack. (Photo: Sun News via Saeed)
“No one will be a witness for us,” Saeed said. “And my family told me that if I was killed and cut into pieces, they wouldn’t do anything to help or be a witness on my side.”
Saeed buried his wife and tried to sell everything left in his home, but family members blocked his efforts. Initially his four children lived at his mother’s house after the attack, but he secretly took them to another country before relatives could take them from him.
His last image of home was his relatives descending on his house, he said.
“I lost the way to support myself and everything we had,” he said. “And when we were leaving, I was trying to sell things we had, but some of my family members stopped it so I wouldn’t get anything. Even the day I took the children to leave [the country], they attacked our house and divided our things among themselves. They destroyed the rest.”…
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/20951/yemen-muslims-burn-alive-female-relative-converting-christianity/#fB4pCBdrpzrRk7IF.99
The testing preceding the OK of this drug is 18 months. No one knows what the longer term effect of the drug is. Caviat Emptor (buyer Beware). On the other hand, if someone has melanoma that has spread, any drug that might arrest the disease is a viable option regardless of the ill effects.
FDA OKs Merck drug for cancer
The Associated Press 4:41 p.m. EDT September 4, 2014
(Photo: Matt Rourke, AP)
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. (AP) — Merck on Thursday won the first U.S. approval for a new kind of cancer drug with big advantages over chemotherapy and other older cancer treatments.
The Food and Drug Administration said it has granted accelerated approval to Merck's Keytruda, for treating melanoma that's spread or can't be surgically removed, in patients previously treated with another cancer drug.
The genetically engineered drug, known chemically as pembrolizumab, is part of a hot, promising new class of antibody-based drugs. They work by taking a brake off the immune system so it can better recognize and attack cancer cells.
"Ninety percent of patients have basically no side effects," Dr. Antoni Ribas, a UCLA researcher who was the lead investigator of a crucial study of Keytruda, told The Associated Press in an interview.
By comparison, most patients getting chemotherapy suffer with nausea, vomiting and hair loss.
In addition, Ribas said, Keytruda and other "immune-therapy" drugs appear likely to work against many more types of cancer than older drugs, and in a much higher percentage of patients. In a study of 600 patients, one-third of them benefited from the drug, with 62% of those alive after 18 months.
Chemotherapy drugs have an average survival of about nine months, while some newer cancer drugs on average keep patients alive for 11 to 15 months, he noted.
"This is just the start," Ribas said, adding that earlier tries at immune therapy for cancer typically helped only 5% to 10% of patients.
Merck's drug is the first in the class of what's called anti-PD-1 drugs approved in the U.S.
Important information about Keytruda
Keytruda is a medicine that may treat your melanoma by working with your immune system. It can cause your immune system to attack normal organs and tissues in many areas of your body and can affect the way they work. These problems can sometimes become serious or life-threatening. Call or see your doctor right away if you develop any symptoms of the following problems or these symptoms get worse:
Lung problems (pneumonitis). Symptoms of pneumonitis may include:
shortness of breath
chest pain
new or worse cough
Intestinal problems (colitis) that can lead to tears or holes in your intestine. Signs and symptoms of colitis may include:
diarrhea or more bowel movements than usual
stools that are black, tarry, sticky, or have blood or mucus
severe stomach-area (abdomen) pain or tenderness
Liver problems (hepatitis). Signs and symptoms of hepatitis may include:
yellowing of your skin or the whites of your eyes
dark urine
nausea or vomiting
feeling less hungry than usual
pain on the right side of your stomach area (abdomen)
bleeding or bruising more easily than normal
Hormone gland problems (especially the thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands). Signs and symptoms that your hormone glands are not working properly may include:
rapid heart beat
weight loss
increased sweating
weight gain
hair loss
feeling cold
constipation
your voice gets deeper
muscle aches
dizziness or fainting
headaches that will not go away or unusual headache
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change in the amount or color of your urine.
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rash
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Getting medical treatment right away may help keep these problems from becoming more serious.
Your doctor will check you for these problems during treatment. Your doctor may treat you with corticosteroid medicines and delay or completely stop treatment with Keytruda, if you have severe side effects.
The German government says it is going to crack down on volunteer patrols known as “Shariah police” recently seen walking outside nightclubs and a city train station asking passersby not to drink alcohol and gamble.
“Sharia law is not tolerated on German soil,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told the German newspaper Bild on Saturday. “Nobody can take it upon themselves to abuse the good name of the German police.”
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said that the initiative to promote Islamic law would not be tolerated and that “the state alone” has the authority to mete out justice, Deutsche Welle reported.
The founder of the “Shariah police” said the patrols aimed only to raise awareness in Wuppertal for strict Islamic traditions.
Wuppertal police have now begun pressing charges against those wearing the makeshift uniform which consisted of an orange safety vest emblazoned with the words “Shariah police.”
Sven Lau, 33, a leader of the hardline Salafist movement who used to head the Islamist group named “Invitation to Paradise” was identified by Deutsche Welle as spearheading the patrol initiative. Lau said in a video posted Saturday that the patrol doesn’t officially exist, but rather aimed simply to draw attention.
“We knew that this would raise attention,” Lau said.
That attempt at reassurance didn’t stop the criticism.
“These people are perverting the name of our religion,” Central Council of Muslims in Germany (ZMD) chairman Ayman A. Mazyek told Tagesspiegel am Sonntag, according to Deutsche Welle. “With this shrill and foolish action, they are really hurting Muslims.”
Deutsche Welle reported Friday that the Muslim activists declared the nightclub area of Wuppertal as a “Sharia Controlled Zone” as they handed out leaflets “urging people to refrain from alcohol, drugs, gambling, attending concerts, watching pornography or visiting prostitutes.”
The German paper reported that following a slew of complaints by the public, 11 men between the ages of 19 and 33 seen patrolling the streets Wednesday were stopped by police.
“Intimidation or provocation won’t be tolerated,” Wuppertal Police Chief Birgitta Rademacher said on Friday.
Wuppertal Mayor Peter Jung said, “These people’s intention is to provoke and intimidate and force their ideology.”
Israel’s i24 News reported Sunday that German officials are concerned the Shariah police members might also reach out to German Muslim youths to encourage them to join the growing number of European Muslims traveling to Syria to volunteer for the Islamic State or other terrorist groups.
