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Près de Chicago, une fusillade lors d’une parade du 4-Juillet fait au moins six morts

LE MONDE : Vingt-quatre personnes ont par ailleurs été blessées, selon la police d’Highland Park. Les autorités sont toujours à la recherche du suspect, « considéré comme armé et dangereux ».

La police recherche le tireur qui a tué au moins six personnes et blessé vingt-quatre autres personnes lors d’une parade à l’occasion de la fête nationale américaine du 4-Juillet, à Highland Park, au nord de Chicago, le 4 juillet 2022. TYLER PASCIAK LARIVIERE / AP
Au moins six personnes ont été tuées et vingt-quatre autres blessées dans une fusillade, lundi 4 juillet, lors d’une parade à l’occasion du 4-Juillet, la fête nationale américaine, à Highland Park, ville cossue au nord de Chicago (Illinois). Précédemment, la municipalité avait déclaré que seize personnes avaient été transportées à l’hôpital.

Le suspect, décrit par la police comme un homme blanc âgé entre 18 et 20 ans, est en fuite et « considéré comme armé et dangereux ». Selon le bureau du shérif, l’homme a tiré au fusil du toit d’un bâtiment. Les autorités sont toujours à sa recherche.

D’après le quotidien Chicago Sun-Times, la parade a commencé autour de 10 heures (17 heures, heure de Paris), mais n’a duré qu’une dizaine de minutes avant que des coups de feu ne se fassent entendre. Un témoin a affirmé à la chaîne américaine CNN avoir entendu entre vingt et vingt-cinq coups de feu. Des vidéos, filmées par des témoins, ont enregistré les coups de feu et le mouvement de panique qui s’est ensuivi. » | Le Monde | lundi 4 juillet 2022

Mehrere Tote nach Schüssen während Feiertags-Parade: In einem Vorort von Chicago sind mehrere Menschen erschossen worden. Der Tatverdächtige befindet sich auf der Flucht. Laut den Behörden soll die Region Highland Park gemieden werden. »

‘This isn’t freedom’: Fourth of July shooting rocks Chicago and shocks US: Shooting strikes symbolic note as shooter targets Highland Park parade celebrating Independence Day »

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Teen Held in 'Jihad' Terrorist Bomb Plot at Chicago Bar

Read the article here | Ryan Haggerty, Dawn Rhodes and Annie Sweeney | Chicago Tribune | Sunday, September 16, 2012

Rahm Emanuel Prevented from Running for Chicago Mayor
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff, has been prevented from running for election as mayor of Chicago because he didn’t live in the city in the year before the election.

Rahm Emanuel speaks at a news conference in Chicago on Monday. Photo: The Daily Telegraph
An Illinois Appeals Court has ruled that Mr Emanuel’s name cannot appear on the Feb 22 ballot.

Those challenging Mr Emanuel’s candidacy have argued that the Democrat doesn’t meet the one-year residency requirement because he rented out his Chicago home and moved his family to Washington to work for President Barack Obama for nearly two years.

Mr Emanuel has said he always intended to return to Chicago and was only living in Washington at the request of the president. >>> | Monday, January 24, 2011

Al-Haram during Hajj. Photograph: Google Images
Muslim Woman Teacher Sues U.S. School After Being Denied Three Weeks Unpaid Leave to Make Pilgrimage to Mecca
MAIL ONLINE: A school district is being sued for not allowing a Muslim teacher to take unpaid leave to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

The Federal Government has brought the case on behalf of Safoorah Khan, claiming that it is a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

It is the duty of every Muslim to join the million of pilgrims at the Hajj in Mecca at least once in their lifetime - and the middle school teacher had hoped to go in 2008.

Khan had started at Berkeley School, in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, in 2007 and asked for unpaid leave of three weeks to visit Saudi Arabia.

After the education district twice denied her request, Khan wrote to the board that 'based on her religious beliefs, she could not justify delaying performing Hajj'. Read on and comment >>> Mail Foreign Service | Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Rahm Emanuel's Tenant Mulling Racing Against Him For Mayor
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: 'This was not my idea,' says Rob Halpin

There's a new twist in the effort to stop Rahm Emanuel from becoming mayor of Chicago: Rob Halpin, businessman, cigar smoker, man of destiny and potential mayoral candidate.

"This has nothing to do with Rahm Emanuel," Halpin told me Tuesday.

Really?

"This was not my idea," Halpin said. "I'm outside the mainstream. I'm not a professional politician. … I was approached by some businessmen who asked if I would be interested in running for mayor. And they explained to me why they thought I'd be a good candidate and a good mayor."

I figure that the guys thinking about Halpin as a candidate aren't interested in his taste in cigars.

They're interested because he's Rahm Emanuel's stubborn tenant.

Halpin's the guy who's been renting Rahm's North Side home. When Rahm was about to leave the White House, he asked Halpin to move out. Amazingly, Halpin refused the Rahmfather.

Now Emanuel's campaign is expected to be challenged in the courts, a legal maneuver backed by guys on the South Side who are part of the stop-Rahm movement. And Halpin's talk of candidacy highlights the argument that Rahm is not a resident.

In a city famous for political shenanigans, this one is downright shenaniganlicious (just try pronouncing it). >>> John Kass | Wednesday, November 10, 2010

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Rahm Emanuel's awkward tenant may run against him in Chicago: Rahm Emanuel's tenant has announced he is considering running for mayor of Chicago. >>> Alex Spillius in Washington | Friday, November 12, 2010

Christian's Outreach to Gays: I'm Sorry


CBN.COM: Christian's Outreach to Gays: I'm Sorry: CHICAGO, Ill.-- Andrew Marin is trying to bridge a gap that has widened remarkably in recent years. >>> Heather Sells, CBN News Reporter | Friday, August 20, 2010

Barack Obama's Analogy Between the Gulf Oil Spill and 9/11: Dirty Politics from the Chicago School
Obama: He knows how to craft a cheap jibe. Photo: The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH – BLOGS: Barack Obama is easily clever enough to understand the effect of his comparison between the environmental challenge facing America after the Gulf oil spill and the terrorist challenge it faced after 9/11: a subliminal equation of heartless British oil executives with homicidal Islamists. But he’s also unscrupulous enough not to care.

This is how he put it: “In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come.” Nice.

I wondered recently how an expensively educated kid from Hawaii plunged into the filthy pool of Chicago machine politics and emerged smelling so sweet that America elected him president. David Remnick doesn’t address the question in his hagiography, and I’m not sure anyone knows the answer. But if there were any doubt about where Obama served his apprenticeship, then today’s little elision between a terrible accident and meticulously plotted mass murder clears it up. Read on and comment >>> Damian Thompson | Monday, June 14, 2010

Under False Colours
THE SPECTATOR: ‘With time,’ writes David Remnick, ‘political campaigns tend to be viewed through the triumphalist prism of the winner.’ Never more so, perhaps, than in Remnick’s idolatrous new biography of Barack Obama, which presents the First Black President’s ascension to the White House as nothing less than a glorious saga. >>> John R. MacArthur | Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Snub for Barack Obama as Rio Hosts 2016 Olympic Games
Rio's Copacabana beach erupted upon hearing the result. Photo: Times Online
TIMES ONLINE: The International Olympic Committee handed President Obama a humiliating defeat today after his home town of Chicago made a shock early exit in the race to become host of the 2016 Olympics, with Rio de Janeiro declared the winner.

A massive beachside crowd erupted in Rio as Brazil’s victory was announced - ushering in a new world order in sport - but there was stunned silence among the throng gathered in Chicago’s Daley plaza.

They had expected their city to win after Mr Obama had flown in Air Force One to Copenhagen, where the vote took place, to make a personal, last-minute appeal to the IOC delegates, along with his wife Michelle and the television star Oprah Winfrey.

The disbelief in Chicago after the city was knocked out first with the least number of votes symbolized the shock felt across America at such a crushing defeat and the fact that the IOC had delivered such a public humiliation to Mr Obama.

A White House spokesman said that Mr Obama was “disappointed” at the decision, but insisted that he was not sorry to have gone to Copenhagen. >>> Ashling O’Connor in Copenhagen, Tim Reid in Washington and James Bone in Chicago | Friday, October 02, 2009

Rio de Janeiro Wins Right to Stage 2016 Olympic Games
THE TELEGRAPH: The International Olympic Committee struck a blow for the developing world and delivered a stunning rebuke to the United States and President Barack Obama on Friday, selecting Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 summer Games after a dramatic election that saw Chicago dumped out in the first round. >>> Paul Kelso in Copenhagen | Friday, October 02, 2009



Obama’s Olympic Failure Will Only Add to Doubts about His Presidency

TIMES ONLINE: There has been a growing narrative taking hold about Barack Obama’s presidency in recent weeks: that he is loved by many, but feared by none; that he is full of lofty vision, but is actually achieving nothing with his grandiloquence.

Chicago’s dismal showing today, after Mr Obama’s personal, impassioned last-minute pitch, is a stunning humiliation for this President. It cannot be emphasised enough how this will feed the perception that on the world stage he looks good — but carries no heft.

It was only the Olympic Games, the White House will argue — not a high-stakes diplomatic gamble with North Korea. It is always worthwhile when Mr Obama sells America to the rest of the world, David Axelrod, his chief political adviser, said today. But that argument will fall on deaf ears in the US. Americans want their presidents to be winners.

Mr Obama was greeted — as usual — like a rock star by the IOC delegates in Copenhagen — then humiliated by them. Perception is reality. A narrow defeat for Chicago would have been acceptable — but the sheer scale of the defeat was a bombshell, and is a major blow for Mr Obama at a time when questions are being asked about his style of governance. >>> Tim Reid in Washington | Friday, October 02, 2009

Obama Joker Artist Unmasked: A Fellow Chicagoan
Firas Alkhateeb. Photo: Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES TIMES: When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from "Batman" began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?

Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?

Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.

Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe's Photoshop software.

Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he'd found online about how to "Jokerize" portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it.

Four or five hours later, he happily had his product.

On Jan. 18, Alkhateeb uploaded the image to photo-sharing site Flickr (shown at right). Over the next two months, he amassed just a couple thousand hits, he said.

Then the counter exploded after a still-anonymous rogue famously found his image, digitally removed the references to Time Magazine, captioned the picture with the word "socialism" and hung printed copies around L.A., making headlines.

Alkhateeb's original Flickr page surpassed 20,000 views. The Times found his Flickr site last week thanks to a tip left by a loyal reader of The Ticket. By Friday, the page had been taken down.

On Alkhateeb's page, a manipulated image condemning fellow Chicagoan and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (captioned "epic fail") was mixed in with parodies of the "Guitar Hero" game franchises -- dubbed Quran Hero -- and of Napoleon riding a motorcycle (pictured after the jump).

Flickr had removed the Joker image due to copyright-infringement concerns, Alkhateeb says the company told him in an e-mail. A Flickr spokeswoman declined to comment due to a company policy that bars discussing inquiries about individual users.

Alkhateeb says he wasn't actively trying to cover his tracks, but he did want to lay low. He initially had concerns about ... ... connecting his name with anything critical of the president -- especially living in Chicago, where people are "very, very liberal," he said.

"After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ," Alkhateeb said. "From my perspective, there wasn't much substance to him."

"I abstained from voting in November," he wrote in an e-mail. "Living in Illinois, my vote means close to nothing as there was no chance Obama would not win the state." If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich. >>> Mark Milian | Monday, August 17, 2009

Obama the Joker. Photo: Los Angeles Times

Muslims Seeking Greater Influence
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Effort puts resumes of top candidates in White House hands

In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation's most qualified—Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted—has been submitted to the White House.



The effort, driven by community leaders and others, including Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), was bumped up two weeks ahead of schedule because White House officials heard about the venture, said J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association who sifted through more than 300 names.



"It was mostly under the radar," Williams said. "We thought it would put [the president] in a precarious position. We didn't know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community."



The effort aims to get the administration focused on Muslim Americans, a group that has at times felt like a pariah. During the campaign, Obama's staff prevented Muslim women wearing head scarves from being photographed behind him, in one of many incidents that left Muslim Americans feeling slighted by the candidate.

Now, Muslim Americans—who according to a recent study overwhelmingly backed Obama in the November election—have been carefully watching the administration's every step.



Most expressed disappointment with Obama's initial silence during Israel's offensive in Gaza. They've been encouraged by the video message the president issued recently to the Iranian people on the eve of the Persian holiday of Nowruz, and they want more diplomacy with Syria and Iran. They've been troubled by FBI admissions of sending what activists call "agents provocateurs" into mosques, and the bureau's break in ties with Muslim American organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations. >>> Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Tribune reporter | Sunday, March 29, 2009

Sharia-intent Extremists Convene in Chicago
ONENEWSNOW: A national defense analyst and former Reagan Defense Department official says Americans need to be deeply concerned that a radical Islamic organization calling for the overthrow of Democratic America was recently able to hold a meeting just outside Chicago.

The conference called "Fall of Capitalism and Rise of Islam," which took place at a Hilton Hotel in the Windy City, was sponsored by a group known as Hizb Ut-Tahrir. The group openly declared that it seeks to bring about an Islamic America.
 


Frank Gaffney served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security during the Reagan administration and now serves as president of the Center for Security Policy. "They're talking explicitly about replacing the Constitution of the United States with a theocratic form of government under this barbaric, totalitarian program they call Sharia," he says. According to Gaffney, "sharia" requires its adherents to engage in jihad -- of either the violent kind or the "stealthy" kind, as he told Fox News recently. >>> Chad Groening | Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Isolation als letzter Ausweg
ZEIT ONLINE: In den USA steigt die Gewalt gegen homosexuelle Schüler. In Chicago soll ihnen eine eigene Schule nun Schutz bieten. Das Konzept ist umstritten

Lawrence King starb an einem Freitag im vergangenen Februar. King war 15 Jahre alt und schwul. Letzteres wurde ihm zum Verhängnis. Sein 14-jähriger Mörder, Brandon McInerney, verabscheute "Larry“ für dessen sexuelle Orientierung. Er schoss ihm während des Unterrichts zweimal in den Kopf. King hatte zwei Tage zuvor gewagt, McInerney zum Valentinstag einzuladen.

In Chicago soll nun eine Schule nur für schwule und lesbische Schüler eröffnet werden, um sie zu schützen. Der Fall Lawrence King mag zwar ein Extrembeispiel sein, doch immer mehr homosexuelle Jugendliche fühlen sich wegen ihrer sexuellen Orientierung unterdrückt.

Laut einer kürzlich veröffentlichten Studie des Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) versäumen homosexuelle Schüler in den Vereinigten Staaten drei Mal häufiger als andere Schüler den Unterricht, weil sie sich verfolgt fühlen. 86 Prozent gaben an, beschimpft worden zu sein, 22 Prozent wurden bereits körperlich verletzt. Mehr als die Hälfte der befragten Schüler (60,8 Prozent) fühlt sich in der eigenen Schule nicht mehr sicher. Und die Unterdrückung schlägt sich auch auf die Benotung nieder: Homosexuelle Schüler sind in den Vereinigten Staaten im Schnitt um eine halbe Notenstufe schlechter als ihre heterosexuellen Klassenkameraden.

Doch der Plan für den Pride Campus an der School of Social Justice ist in den USA umstritten. Gegner führen an, dass eine eigene Schule nicht dazu führen würde, Schwule und Lesben in die Gesellschaft zu integrieren, sondern im Gegenteil die Trennung noch vorantreiben würde. Sie fordern stattdessen Gesetze, die Schüler vor homophoben Übergriffen schützen sollen. >>> Von Martin Gantner | 24. Oktober 2008

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