Saturday, September 10, 2011
HAARETZ: Turkish premier reiterates Ankara's intent to refer legality of Israel's blockade on Gaza to The Hague, saying the world will see 'who is standing alongside the victims'.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated on Saturday his country's intent to refer the legality of Israel's Gaza blockade to The Hague, adding a criticism of U.S. President Barack Obama's position regarding Israel's 2010 of a Turkish Gaza-bound flotilla.
Speaking a convention of businessmen in the central Turkish city of Kayseri broadcast live on Turkey's state news channel TRT Erdogan vowed to continue the legal struggle for justice for the nine people killed in the raid.
"We will carry this struggle to The Hague and Erdogan criticizes Obama," the Turkish premier said, criticizing Turkish opposition leaders for what he described as "acting as advocates for Israel."
Erdogan was also deeply critical of the United States position on the Mavi Marmara incident, pointing out that he had to point out to Obama how the attack had left nine Turks dead from wounds inflicted by 35 bullets mostly fired from close range, one of them an American passport holder. » | DPA and Haaretz | Saturday, September 10, 2011
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Michael Jackson's brother Jermaine has revealed a plan had been drawn up to secretly fly the King of Pop to Bahrain if he was found guilty of child molestation charges.
The 56-year-old said a private jet financed by a friend was on standby to whisk the pop star to the Persian Gulf state, which does not have an extradition treaty with the US, if Michael had been convicted at the end of his 2005 court case. » | Saturday, September 10, 2011
NZZ ONLINE: Nicht eine Islamdebatte, sondern weiteres Gezänk in der Regierungskoalition hat die Festnahme zweier islamistischer Terrorverdächtiger in Berlin ausgelöst.
Die deutsche Regierungschefin Merkel hat am Freitag den internationalen Terrorismus als die neue grosse Bedrohung für die gesamte Weltgemeinschaft bezeichnet. Um zu lernen, wie man dieser Bedrohung «abschliessend» begegnen könne, werde die Weltgemeinschaft noch viel zusammenarbeiten müssen. Die neu eingeführten Sicherheitsgesetze seien notwendig, auch wenn sie Einschnitte in die persönliche Freiheit mit sich brächten. Nur so könne ein freiheitliches Leben für die grosse Mehrheit gesichert werden. » | Ulrich Schmid, Berlin | Samstag 10. September 2011
REUTERS: Israeli envoy leaves after Cairo embassy attack: Israel flew its ambassador home on Saturday after Egyptians stormed the building housing the Israeli mission in Cairo, plunging Egypt's ruling army deeper into its toughest diplomatic crisis since taking over from Hosni Mubarak. » | Yasmine Saleh and Mohamed Abdellah | CAIRO | Saturday, September 10, 2011
YNET NEWS: Embassy riots: Israeli envoy leaves Egypt » | Attila Somfalvi | Friday, September 09, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Egypt on high alert after deadly attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo: Egypt is on high alert after an attack by hundreds of protesters on the Israeli embassy in Cairo left three people dead and hundreds injured. » | Saturday, September 10, 2011
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TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Tensions avec Israël: l'Egypte adopte l'état d'urgence: LE CAIRE | Après les violentes attaques de l'ambassade d'Israël au Caire, l'Egypte a adopté l'état d'urgence pour assurer la sécurité du pays. » | AFP | Samedi 10 Septembre 2011
Friday, September 09, 2011
Another richly textured week in the crazy, crazy life of Mr Tony Blair draws to its close... and as so often when that ineradicable fungal infection in the national armpit flares up, the head is sent spinning by the man, his works and his genius for self-delusion.
It isn’t so much that you don’t know where to start with him, though I confess that on this occasion, beset by so much choice, it’s a struggle; more that you could go mad – droolingly, screechingly doolally – trying to fathom what goes on in his head.
Start somehow we must, and a brief chronological recap of recent Blairworld highlights seems as useful a launch pad as any. On Tuesday, we belatedly learnt of his attendance last year, on the banks of the Jordan, at the christening of god-daughter Grace, now nine-year-old girl child of Rupert and Wendi Murdoch. On Thursday, though only a Blair super-nerd will have noticed, it emerged that he has received a “peace award” – another one! – in Tel Aviv for his splendid if mysterious work sprinkling harmony across the Middle East. Yesterday, that cherished role as peacebringer firmly in mind, he informed us in an interview in The Times that war with Iran is the way ahead. » | Matthew Norman | Friday, September 09, 2011
Ce mandat "va restreindre significativement les possibilités pour ces trois hommes de franchir les frontières et sera un outil important pour aider à leur localisation et à leur capture", a estimé dans un communiqué Ronald K. Noble, le secrétaire général de l'organisation policière internationale, basée à Lyon. » | LEMONDE.FR avec AFP | Vendredi 09 Septembre 2011
Pakistani-born British citizen Munir Farooqi, 54, was at the centre of a plot to radicalise and persuade vulnerable young men to "fight, kill and die" in a jihad in Afghanistan, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Farooqi, of Victoria Terrace, Longsight, Manchester, and two others were captured in a police sting when two undercover anti-terrorism police officers infiltrated his group.
Farooqi bragged to the officers how he had fought with the Taliban and told them they could become "martyrs" for the jihad cause.
He also found "amusement" in the sight of the flag draped coffins of fallen allied troops returning from Afghanistan, the court heard.
Today Farooqi was given four life sentences and told he must serve a minimum of nine years before he can be considered for parole. » | Friday, September 09, 2011
The killer insists on wearing a red Lacoste sweater with the distinctive crocodile logo on trips out of prison.
The 32-year-old gunman who killed 77 people on July 22 even wrote in his online manifesto that "refined people like him should wear brands like Lacoste".
But his choice of clothes has been described as a "nightmare" for the French company's exclusive image.
Norwegian daily Dagbladet said bosses had now written to Oslo police demanding 32-year-old Breivik be stopped from wearing their garments. Read on and comment » | Telegraph Foreign Staff | Thursday, September 08, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: US intelligence officials said they had detected a potential terrorist plot timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Security is to be heightened in New York City and Washington, DC, after a "specific, credible but unconfirmed" threat was discovered, according to a statement issued by the Department of Homeland Security.
ABC News reported that officials believe the alleged plot was initiated by the new al-Qaeda chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who pledged to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden earlier this year.
Janice Fedarcyk, FBI Assistant Special Agent, said: "al Qaeda has shown an interest in important dates and anniversaries. In this instance it is accurate that there is credible, specific but unconfirmed information."
President Barack Obama was briefed on the information earlier on Thursday and requested that counterterrorism officials step up their response to the suspected threat, according to White House spokesmen.
It is understood that three people who recently entered the country, one of them a US citizen, are urgently being investigated by security officials over a potential plot to detonate vehicle bombs, possibly on bridges or tunnels. » | Jon Swaine, New York | Friday, September 09, 2011
Thursday, September 08, 2011
The policies put in place to address these two events – first the dramatic accumulation of foreign exchange reserves by Asian economies to bolster themselves against future crises, and then the monetary easing applied by the Federal Reserve to deal with the aftermath of the dotcom boom – were to lead directly to today's banking meltdown and accompanying, rolling series of debt crises.
Yet these events were only the beginning. What really set the future in stone was the policy response to 9/11, the shocking series of terrorist attacks which have their 10th anniversary this weekend. Not in his wildest dreams could Osama bin Laden have imagined the long-term damage his atrocities would unleash on Western economies.
Before the horrendous events of 10 years ago, the Independent's Robert Fisk, one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Bin Laden, had managed to elicit the following extraordinary claim from the world's most notorious terrorist – that he would turn America into "a shadow of itself" in much the same way as the insurgency he had helped ferment in Afghanistan had helped destroy the Soviet Union.
At the time, these claims seemed ludicrous – no more than the puffed-up, delusional conceit of the hunted and, frankly at that time, largely insignificant fugitive. Yet there is a sense in which Bin Laden did indeed manage to deliver on his promises.
With all major catastrophes, the long-term damage tends to be inflicted not by the event itself but by the response to it. America's reaction to 9/11 was to rush headlong into two, essentially unaffordable wars. What is more, to keep the economy going during the turbulence of these years, the US and its European counterparts unleashed what was to become perhaps the biggest credit bubble of all time. » | Jeremy Warner | Thursday, September 08, 2011
I have been saying for a very long time that Bin Laden couldn't have wished, dreamed of a better outcome for 9/11 than the one he has brought about. He wanted to bankrupt the USA, and he has done so, with just two planes flying into the Twin Towers.
The money that the USA has spent on security and fighting wars ever since has depleted their resources. Nobody will ever tell me that the 9/11 event and the financial crisis we now find ourselves in are unrelated. Anyone who thinks they are should take a closer look at the events that have unfolded since that fateful day.
Thank you, Mr. Warner, for bringing this to people's attention. – Mark
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In his first speech as the new President of the Worldwide Wildlife Fund (WWF) UK, Prince Charles suggested 'surviving ourselves' should be a priority.
Referring to himself as “an endangered species”, he warned that the world is already in the “sixth extinction event”, with species dying out at a much faster rate than at any time since the death of most of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Despite campaigning for years on global warming, he said climate change was not the only problem but merely speeding up the “rapacious” destruction of natural resources like water, land and food that humans need to survive.
The Prince said if the world carries on “business as usual” then the human race itself could be in danger.
“We are, of course, witnessing what some people call the sixth great extinction event – the continued erosion of much of the Earth’s vital biodiversity caused by a whole host of pressures, from the rising demand for land to the corrosive effects of all kinds of pollution," he said. » | Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent | Thursday, September 08, 2011
What a joke! This man does himself no favours by uttering such nonsense. He just makes himself sound like a crackpot.
In any case, if he wants to save the planet – I'm not at all sure it ought to be saved! – then might I suggest that he, his family, and their entourages start saving and stop their conspicuous consumption? – Mark
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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Living and Loving Underground in Iran » | Larry Rohter | Friday, August 19, 2011
METRO: Islamic extremists are planning to disrupt the minute’s silence for the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks outside the US Embassy in London.
Demonstrators from Muslims Against Crusades, whose website shows a graphic of a plane heading towards New York’s Twin Towers, say they will make as much noise as possible during the planned mark of respect for the dead.
The demonstration is an attempt to show that the US has lost the war on terror, said fundamentalist cleric Anjem Choudary.
He said Muslims Against Crusades would be joined by Shariah 4 America outside the embassy in Grosvenor Square on the tenth anniversary of the attacks. » | Fred Attewill | Sunday, September 04, 2011
MONTREAL GAZETTE: PARIS - A French court handed out a 6,000 euro ($8,421 [Can]) suspended fine to John Galliano on Thursday after finding him guilty of anti-Semitic behaviour, marking the end in a fall from grace for the former head designer of fashion house Dior.
For Galliano, whose worth is estimated in the millions of dollars, the penalty — suspended for several years — avoids any financial burden and is unlikely to constrain his liberty.
The fine, in line with what a prosecutor had recommended in June, falls short of the maximum sentence in such cases of a 22,000 euro fine and 6-month prison sentence.
"Despite the triple addiction from which he was suffering, he was lucid enough to be conscious of his acts," said the tribunal president, Anne-Marie Sauteraud, reading out the court's decision.
The court explained its relatively lenient decision by referring to Galliano's lack of criminal convictions, his previous regard for respect and tolerance and the treatment for drug and alcohol addiction he has sought since his arrest. » | Nick Vinocur and Thierry Leveque, Reuters | Thursday, September 08, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi sold more than 20 per cent of Libya's gold reserves, worth more than $1 billion, in the final days of his regime, the country's central bank governor said on Thursday.
Qassem Azzoz said 1.7 billion dinars worth of gold, or around 29 tonnes, were sold to local merchants as the regime ran short of cash.
"The gold was liquidated in order to pay salaries and to have liquidity, in Tripoli in particular," Azzoz said.
According to central bank officials the gold likely made its way out of the country to neighbouring Tunisia and beyond.
Azzoz added that the bank's total assets now stand at around $115 billion, of which $90 billion is abroad.
Meanwhile, Gaddafi's loyalists fired at least 10 rockets from inside one of his last strongholds on Thursday, hours after a TV station aired an audio message believed to be from the ousted Libyan leader urging his fighters on. Read on and comment » | Thursday, September 08, 2011
The most sacred of all Christian holidays, Barack Obama failed to send an Easter message to the American people.
Nor did they receive a message on Good Friday, a day that many Christians look upon as the most bittersweet of all the days on the Christian calendar.
But rest assured, Dear Leader found time during 2010 to release statements during the major Muslim holidays of Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.
There was also an eight-paragraph press release celebrating Earth Day.
But in all fairness, Obama did release an Easter message last year. A message that figuratively scrubbed Jesus out of the historical moment he cited.
According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 78.5% of Americans identify themselves as Christians, whereas only 0.6% identify themselves as Muslims.
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We find it particularly interesting that President Awesome stated at the National Prayer Breakfast this past February; "My Christian faith has been sustaining for me over the last couple of years and even more so when Michelle and I hear our faith questioned from time to time."
Yeah... right.
We don't expect our president to be some kind of American Pope, but we do expect a modicum of fairness.
Oh... and it would be nice to knock off the blatant and purposeful insults and cold-shoulders to Christ and His Church.
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Der gestürzte libysche Machthaber hat in einer weiteren Audiobotschaft Gerüchte dementiert, er sei nach Niger geflüchtet. Seinen Gegnern bleibe „nichts mehr als psychologischer Krieg und Lügen“, sagte Gaddafi.
Der langjährige libysche Machthaber Muammar el Gaddafi hat in einer neuen Audiobotschaft Gerüchte über seine Flucht nach Niger dementiert. Seinen Gegnern bleibe „nichts mehr als psychologischer Krieg und Lügen“, sagte Gaddafi am Donnerstag in der vom syrischen Fernsehsender Arrai übertragenen Botschaft.
Gaddafi sagte in der Audiobotschaft, die nach mehreren Tagen Schweigen kam, er sei überzeugt, dass die Nato besiegt werde. Er versicherte, dass die Angriffe gegen die „Ratten und Söldner“ verstärkt würden. Gerüchte über seine Flucht nach Niger dementierte er. Am Dienstag hatte der libysche Nationale Übergangsrat gemeldet, dass ein Konvoi die Grenze zum Niger überquert habe. Es habe sich um einen Konvoi gehandelt, wie ihn Gaddafi und seine Söhne benutzten, hieß es. Sowohl der Niger als auch die Vereinigten Staaten dementierten aber, dass sich Gaddafi oder einer seiner Söhne in dem Konvoi befunden habe. » | FAZ.NET mit AFP/dpa | Donnerstag 08. September 2011
THE GUARDIAN: Gaddafi issues defiant message from hiding: Deposed former Libyan leader vows never to leave the country and denies claims he is in neighbouring Niger » | Shiv Malik and Lizzy Davies | Thursday, September 08, 2011
MAIL ONLINE: Downing Street’s e-petition plan to give the public the right to force Parliamentary debates on burning issues of the day was fast descending into a shambles last night.
When the scheme was launched earlier this year, people were given the impression that any petition gathering 100,000 signatures or more would automatically be discussed by MPs.
Two petitions – including one demanding the removal of benefits from thugs involved in last month’s riots – have already crossed the threshold.
But it has now emerged that a debate will take place only if, having gained 100,000 signatures, the subject is also suggested by an MP on the obscure Backbench Business Committee. » | James Slack | Wednesday, September 07, 2011
So much for British democracy! MPs, once elected into office, do just as they damn well like. They don’t care about the people, or what the people think. They are not in politics to help the people; they’re in politics to help themselves. – Mark
Mr Panetta said the Iranian reform movement was learning from revolts which have erupted across the Arab world this year.
Mr Panetta, who left the top job in the CIA to become defence secretary in July, said there was "absolutely" the chance that protests and demands for reform would reach Iran.
He said: "I think we saw in evidence of that in the last election in Iran that there was a movement within Iran that raised those very same concerns that we're seeing elsewhere," "And I think in many ways, it's a matter of time before that kind of change and reform and revolution occurs in Iran as well." Tehran crushed mass street protests in the wake of Iran's disputed June 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. » | Ben Farmer | Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Authorities in the left-leaning Berlin district of Kreuzberg had ordered the removal of the posters, one of which has as a slogan "Gas geben" (Step on It) or literally "give gas" in what some see as a reference to Nazi gas chambers.
Another provocative poster has a dark-skinned man, a woman with a headscarf and a man with what appears to be a turban sitting on a flying carpet with the slogan: "Have a good flight home."
But the administrative court in Berlin ruled the posters did not break German laws relating to the incitement to racial hatred or the publication of anti-constitutional material.
It could not be proven that the "gas" posters deliberately meant to raise associations with Nazi atrocities, the court added. » | Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Wednesday, September 07, 2011
THE GUARDIAN: Convicts were sentenced to death 'for acts against the Sharia law and bad deeds'
Three Iranian men have been executed after being found guilty of charges related to homosexuality, according to a semi-official news agency.
The men, only identified by their initials, were hanged on Sunday in the south-western city of Ahvaz, the capital of Iran's Khuzestan province.
"The three convicts were sentenced to death based on the articles 108 and 110 of Iran's Islamic penal code, for acts against the sharia law and bad deeds," the Isna agency quoted a judiciary official in Khuzestan as saying.
Iran Human Rights, an independent NGO based in Norway, said the men were charged with "lavat" – sexual intercourse between two men. It is not clear whether the three men were homosexuals or merely smeared with homosexuality accused of being gay. » | Saeed Kamali Dehghan | Wednesday, September 07, 2011
ON ISLAM: A Young Canadian Hindu Reverts to Islam » | Reading Islam Staff | Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Despite appearances, the Arancibia’s are not your typical California Latino family. They’re Chilean, not Mexican, having fled Chile shortly after the fall of Allende. And they’re Christian, but not Catholic.
What sets them apart even more is one son - 38 year old Diego, a project coordinator with After School Assistance Provider (ASAP) - who converted to Islam 13 years ago.
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the U.S., with domestic conversion fueling that growth. California Latinos make up the bulk of the domestic conversions.
For Diego Arancibia, the move toward Islam was an evolving process. Read on (+ audio) » | Rebecca Romani | Wednesday, September 07, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The parents of murdered teenager Shafilea Ahmed have been charged with killing her, Cheshire Police said on Wednesday.
The 17-year-old's decomposed remains were discovered in Cumbria in February 2004 after she disappeared from her home in Warrington, Cheshire, in September 2003. She was the victim of a suspected honour killing.
South Cumbria coroner Ian Smith later recorded a verdict of unlawful killing, saying he believed the teenager was probably murdered.
Cheshire Police said today the teenager's father, Iftikhar, 51, and mother Farzana, 48, have been charged with murder and will appear at Halton Magistrates' Court, in Runcorn, later today.
The couple have always denied any involvement in their daughter's death. » | Wednesday, September 07, 2011
MAIL ONLINE: Muslim parents of 'honour killing victim' schoolgirl, 17, charged with her murder EIGHT years after she vanished » | Emily Allen | Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Der große Tag beginnt konspirativ, mit einer SMS am frühen Morgen: Geert Wilders, so heißt es dort, spreche an diesem Tag im Maritim-Hotel in Berlin. Wilders, die niederländische Ikone derRechtspopulisten, soll den Islam und Europa erklären – schließlich herrscht Wahlkampf in Berlin und die dümpelnde Partei "Die Freiheit" braucht, wie schon bei ihrer Gründung vor einem Jahr, dringend Schützenhilfe vom großen Bruder aus den Niederlanden.
Diese allerdings gestaltet sich nicht so leicht. Erst läuft der Ticketverkauf für die Wilders-Veranstaltung schleppend. Selbst die glühendsten Anhänger wollen kaum 100 Euro zahlen, zum Schluss werden die Eintrittskarten für 5 Euro verscherbelt und doch bleiben noch Stühle leer. Und auch mit der Geheimhaltung klappt es nicht ganz. Gegen Mittag drängen sich vor den Absperrungen der Polizei am Hotel nahe der ägyptischen Botschaft Dutzende Gegendemonstranten. Revolutionsfahnen schwenkend, skandieren sie: "Willkommen in Berlin, der Hauptstadt der Angst". » | von Gudula Hörr | Sonntag 04. September 2011
LE FIGARO: REPORTAGE - Le nouveau paysage politique libyen, à peine émergent, est fortement imprégné par les mouvements à orientation religieuse.
Ismaïl Salabi est un bon prêcheur. Le sourire facile, les yeux dorés qui pétillent, ce jeune costaud barbu de 34 ans en chemisette rayée assure avoir les larmes aux yeux quand il évoque en chaire les beautés de la religion. Mais en ce moment, il se consacre à la guerre. Posant un instant sa kalachnikov, Ismaïl Salabi se présente comme chef des opérations du Groupe des martyrs du 17 février, fort de 3000 hommes, l'une des principales unités du front de l'Est. Le supérieur direct d'Ismaïl Salabi, Fawzi Boukatif, commande également le Bataillon de la révolution, une unité plus importante dont le Groupe des martyrs est l'une des branches. » | Par Pierre Prier | Mardi 06 Septembre 2011
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: LORRAINE | A Forbach, près de Metz, au nord-est de la France la "Nouvelle droite populaire" organise une manifestation "anti-islam" en dépit d’une interdiction réclamée par plusieurs organisations de gauche.
Une manifestation "anti-islam" de la "Nouvelle droite populaire" (NDP) pourra se dérouler dimanche à 20 heures à Forbach (Moselle) en dépit d’une interdiction réclamée par plusieurs organisations de gauche, a-t-on indiqué mercredi de source préfectorale à Metz.
Prenant prétexte de la victoire d’une coalition européenne - à laquelle participait le duc de Lorraine - contre les Turcs le 11 septembre 1683 à Vienne, la NDP a appelé à manifester contre "l’islamisation de la Lorraine et de l’Europe", le jour du 10è anniversaire des attentats du 11 septembre 2001 aux Etats-Unis. » | ATS | Mercredi 07 Septembre 2011
SCHWEIZER FERNSEHEN: Calmy-Rey tritt nicht zur Wiederwahl an » | sf/sda/godc/buet | Mittwoch 07. September 2011
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Thursday’s joint address to Congress will bring what could be perhaps a pivotal moment in his presidency, with the nation looking for his best proposals to help move the country out of the economic stall in which it has remained for months.
At the same time, Congress reconvenes to begin to shape a bipartisan plan for slashing the federal deficit. The so-called “supercommittee” meets for the first time Thursday as well. Whether lawmakers can deliver a meaningful, achievable solution could also have an effect on how voters view the president’s capacity to match words with results.
And if the nation needed any more of a reminder that we live in perilous times, the week will also feature incessant replays of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in advance of Sunday’s anniversary. » | James Oliphant | Tuesday, September 06, 2011
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: APRÈS LA RÉVOLUTION | Les mouvements islamistes ont deux options après les soulèvements du printemps arabe: jouer sur le vide sécuritaire ou se muer en parti politique. La seconde option est la plus probable, selon les experts.
Les groupes islamistes pourraient tirer profit du vide sécuritaire créé par les soulèvements populaires dans des pays arabes. Mais il est plus probable qu’ils se lancent dans la conquête du pouvoir politique, a estimé l’institut de recherche IISS dans son rapport stratégique annuel, mardi à Londres.
«Je ne dis pas qu’il y aura nécessairement des activités terroristes, mais la chute d’Etats sécuritaires est certainement quelque chose qui crée pour ces groupes des occasions de passer à l’action», a estimé Emile Hokayem, expert à l’Institut international d’études stratégiques (IISS), au cours d’une conférence de presse.
Les révolutions, qui ont éclaté ces derniers mois dans plusieurs pays arabes, ont apporté la preuve que le changement était possible sans le jihad, a-t-il cependant ajouté.
Jusqu’à récemment, «le jihadisme international bénéficiait du fait que ces groupes pensaient qu’ils ne pourraient rien faire chez eux, donc ils (les jihadistes) ont combattu ailleurs (...). Maintenant, ils ont une occasion (de se faire entendre) plus près de chez eux», a estimé le chercheur installé à Bahreïn. » | ATS | Mardi 06 Septembre 2011
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: 'Pavarotti's heir' dies after scooter crash aged 43: Italian opera star Salvatore Licitra has died from head injuries following a scooter accident last month. » | Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Dr Muhammed Daud Bakar (international scholar), a member of shariah Advisory council of Dow Jones Islamic Market INDEX, AAOIFI, of many financial institutions around the world including the Central Bank of Malaysia.
In my interview with him we will talk briefly about Islamic finance in Australia and some of the opportunities and challenges that are facing the industry.
In this interview:
a. What is Islamic finance?
b. Australia and Islamic finance
c. The Regulatory challenge
d. Risk management...
Interview by Almir Colan, Lecturer (Islamic Finance, Islamic Capital Markets), La Trobe University (School of Economics and Finance)
Monday, September 05, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife £8,500 in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their marriage.
The 51-year-old man was fined under article 215 of France’s civil code, which states married couples must agree to a “shared communal life”.
A judge has now ruled that this law implies that “sexual relations must form part of a marriage”.
The rare legal decision came after the wife filed for divorce two years ago, blaming the break-up on her husband’s lack of activity in the bedroom. » | Telegraph Foreign Staff | Monday, September 05, 2011
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Historian Niall Ferguson on why broken Britain, celebrity culture and being called a pin-up make him angry.
I have not yet asked Niall Ferguson about him leaving his wife and three children, or his relationship with the Somalian feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, so when he launches in to a lengthy and verbose attack against the press during what I thought was a pretty innocuous chat about political correctness (he loathes it, naturally), it seems a little out of the blue.
“I really hate it,” he scowls.
"I can’t stand it. I find the prurience, the prying, the sneering… I find it utterly odious. But the problem isn’t just the amorality of editors and their minions, it is that the British public also has a nauseating prurience. And what I find disgusting is that people want to judge footballers – and professors for that matter – by an entirely anachronistic yardstick. It’s as if by reading this stuff we become Victorians, and we are scandalised, I mean scandalised, to discover that a professor of history is getting divorced, which is clearly outrageous in this day and age.
“I mean, how can this be news? How can this be ------- news? To me, it’s just a collective hypocrisy that attracts people to these stories. This desire to look into the BEDROOMS” – he is practically shouting now – “and pick up the sheets and have a gander. It disgusts me.”
I understand Ferguson’s anger. His new girlfriend, who was circumcised as a young girl in Somalia and is now pregnant with their first child, lived under a fatwa even before Theo Van Gogh – her friend and collaborator on a film about Muslim women – was murdered by extremists, a message affixed to his chest with a knife saying that she was next.
Both Ferguson and Ali are on an al-Qaeda list now and have security. “It’s not just that I can’t understand why the British press should want to write stories about the private life of an academic who has done a bit of telly [his series for Channel 4, Civilization, based on his book of the same name, about the fall of the West, proved incredibly popular]. More than anything else what makes me tremendously angry is that one consequence of the intrusion was to place Ayaan in danger. That is just contemptible.” Continue reading and comment » | Bryony Gordon | Monday, September 05, 2011
MAIL ON SUNDAY: TV historian is having a child with his Somali-born feminist partner » | Mail On Sunday Reporter | Sunday, June 05, 2011
Sunday, September 04, 2011
REUTERS.COM: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his presidential hopes shattered by a sex assault scandal that rocked his homeland, returned on Sunday to Francefacing a frosty public reception and unease among his political allies. » | Pauline Mevel and Chine Labbe | PARIS | Sunday, September 04, 2011
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Dramatic plans to disband the Tories north of the border were unveiled by the front-runner for its leadership in a move one senior party figure warned could encourage the break-up of the United Kingdom.
The Prime Minister – who is spending the weekend in Scotland – faces the prospect of being the first British Prime Minister whose party has no Scottish MPs.
Murdo Fraser, who is favourite to become leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, will announce that he plans to wind up the party if he wins a ballot of members next month.
He would follow disbanding the party by launching a new Right-of-centre party that would contest all Scottish elections — council, Scottish Parliament and Westminster.
Mr Fraser, a member of the Scottish Parliament, believes the Conservatives have become a “toxic brand” in Scotland since losing all 11 of their Commons seats in the 1997 Labour landslide.
Mr Cameron, who is staying with the Queen at Balmoral this weekend, has been told of Mr Fraser’s plans, but has decided to remain neutral for fear of being accused of interfering in the Scottish Tories’ leadership election. Read on and comment » | Alan Cochrane, Scottish Editor | Saturday, September 03, 2011
Friday, September 02, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A worldwide travel alert ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has been issued by the US State Department, calling on Americans living and travelling abroad to remain vigilant.
The department said it had not identified any "specific threats" about possible attacks but that al-Qaeda and its affiliates had "demonstrated the intent and capability to carry out attacks" against the US and US interests.
"In the past, terrorist organisations have on occasion planned their attacks to coincide with significant dates on the calendar," the State Department said.
The alert expires on January 2, 2012, it said.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said there was "no specific or credible intelligence that al-Qaeda or its affiliates are plotting attacks" linked to the anniversary of the worst terror strikes on US soil.
But she added: "We remain at a heightened state of vigilance, and security measures are in place to detect and prevent plots against the United States should they emerge." » | Friday, September 02, 2011
When the President of the United States says he wants to address Congress, it is not normally up for discussion but then again, these are far from normal times in Washington DC.
Barack Obama is taking heat for agreeing to reschedule a major economic speech, because Republicans effectively told him they had other plans.
Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane reports.
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