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Wednesday, September 02, 2015
‘Oldest' Koran Discovery: Predates Prophet Mohammed?
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Op-Ed: Senators Who Took Money from Iran
Senator Markey has announced his support for the Iran deal that will let the terrorist regime inspect its own Parchin nuclear weapons research site, conduct uranium enrichment, build advanced centrifuges, buy ballistic missiles, fund terrorism and have a near zero breakout time to a nuclear bomb.
There was no surprise there.
Markey had topped the list of candidates supported by the Iran Lobby. And the Iranian American Political Action Committee (IAPAC) had maxed out its contributions to his campaign.
After more fake suspense, Al Franken, another IAPAC backed politician who also benefited from Iran Lobby money, came out for the nuke sellout.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the Iran Lobby’s third Dem senator, didn’t bother playing coy like her colleagues. She came out for the deal a while back even though she only got half the IAPAC cash that Franken and Markey received.
As did Senator Gillibrand, who had benefited from IAPAC money back when she first ran for senator and whose position on the deal should have come as no surprise. » | Daniel Greenfield | Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Saudi Arabia Furious over Iran 'Mohammed' Movie
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| Saudi Arabia's King Salman |
Saudi Arabia's top cleric hit out at Iranian film "Mohammad" on Wednesday describing its portrayal of the founder of Islam's childhood as a "hostile act" and a "distortion" of Islam.
Iran's most expensive movie, which opened nationwide in the Shiite Islamic republic last week, depicts the Muslim prophet on screen, an act that is prohibited in Sunni Islam.
"This is an obscene work... It is a distortion of Islam," Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh told Al-Hayat newspaper. "It is a hostile act against Islam.
"This is a mockery of the prophet and a degradation of his status," he said. » | Arutz Sheva Staff | AFP contributed to this report | Wednesday, September 2, 2015
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Obama Secures Iran Victory as 34th Senator Endorses Nuclear Deal
The Obama administration has secured enough support in the Senate to ensure that the Iran nuclear deal will survive a congressional vote, but John Kerry warned remaining waverers that rejection of the agreement would be a “self-destructive blow” to US credibility.
Kerry was speaking in Philadelphia less than an hour after Democrat Barbara Mikulski became the 34th senator to support the deal, ensuring a landmark victory for the Obama administration’s efforts to prevent it being derailed.
Mikulski’s support for the agreement means that Obama has enough votes in the Senate to uphold his veto if Congress rejects the July deal as expected. But the adminstration is still hoping to amass 41 votes, which would spare Obama from having to use his veto and spend political capital. (+ video) » | Julian Borger in New York | Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Morocco Terror Warning: Officials Raise Threat Level to HIGH for British Holidaymakers
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| The level of terror threats at popular tourist hotspots |
And Morocco became the latest no-go holiday destination for Brits as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) took the decision to bring the nation in line with nearby states such as Algeria, Libya and Tunisia.
The stark warning to British holidaymakers heading to the north African country comes a week after Spanish and Moroccan police smashed a terror cell plotting an attack in the popular tourist hotspot.
A FCO spokesman said: "This change is due to the increased terrorist threat linked to the growing number of Moroccans sympathetic or belonging to international terrorist organisations operating in Syria, Iraq and Libya."
The evil Islamic State (ISIS) group has a high presence in all of those countries. Read on and comment » | Rob Virtue | Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Tuesday, September 01, 2015
Dick and Liz Cheney on Restoring American Exceptionalism
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Hungary Closes Main Budapest Station to Refugees
Hungarian authorities have closed Budapest’s main station to refugees and migrants following chaotic scenes on Monday, when people who had been camped outside for weeks were suddenly allowed to leave for Austria and Germany without visa checks.
The move followed the station’s complete closure earlier, when all trains to the west had been stopped from leaving. Police in helmets and wielding batons surrounded Keleti station’s grand, crumbling facade and dozens of refugees and migrants who were inside were forced out.
A government spokesman said Hungary was trying to enforce EU law, which requires anyone who wishes to travel in the borderless Schengen zone to hold a valid passport and visa. (+ video) » | Daniel Nolan in Budapest and Kate Connolly in Berlin | Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Islamic State Fights Syrian Rebels and 'Moves Closer to Central Damascus'
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) battled Syrian rebel forces in a Damascus neighbourhood on Monday, bringing the extremists closer than ever to the centre of the capital, a monitoring group said.
Isil militants fought street battles against Islamist rebels in Asali, part of the capital's southern Qadam district, after seizing two streets there over the weekend, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"This is the closest Isil has ever been to the heart of Damascus," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. » | AFP | Monday, August 31, 2015
Will It EVER Stop? Now ISIS String Up Hostages and Burn Them ALIVE in Sick Revenge Killing
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| The four prisoners were burnt alive at a location in the west of Iraq |
The group’s sick propaganda machine released perhaps its most disturbing video yet today showing the men enduring a slow and painful death.
In the footage, which is too harrowing to show, the victims are strung up by their hands and feet before a fire is lit beneath each of them.
ISIS claim the men were spies from a rival Shia sect but terror experts believe the atrocity could be a revenge killing following the burning to death of an ISIS fighter this weekend.
In that incident, an Iraqi soldier known as the 'Angel of Death' was filmed carving the flesh from the body of a burnt ISIS fighter who had been strung up over a fire.
Issuing a warning to ISIS militants that “we will cut you like shawarma”, Ayyub al-Rubaie, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Azrael, reportedly burned the man alive and hung his body from an electricity pylon in Baiji. Read on and comment » | Tom Batchelor | Monday, August 31, 2015
Shocking Koran Discovery: Fragments of Religious Text 'May Be OLDER Than Prophet Muhammad'
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| Fragments of what is believed to be the oldest Koran in the world were found last month |
Pages of what is believed to be the oldest Koran in the world were discovered in Birmingham last month, sparking intense interest among academics and believers across the globe.
They were then carbon-dated by experts at the University of Oxford, who predicted that it was more than 1,350 years old.
But now several historians have suggested that the parchment appears to be so old, that it could have even existed BEFORE the Prophet Muhammad.
If the timings are correct, the Koran found in Birmingham was made between 568AD and 645AD, while the dates usually given for the life of Muhammad are between 570AD and 632AD.
Historian Tom Holland, told the Times: "It destabilises, to put it mildly, the idea that we can know anything with certainty about how the Koran emerged - and that in turn has implications for the history of Muhammad and the Companions."
Keith Small, from the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, added: "This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Muhammad and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Muhammad receiving a revelation from heaven."
He went to suggest that if the dates are correct, "then the Koran, or at least portions of it, predates Muhammad". » | Levi Winchester | Monday, August 31, 2015
Monday, August 31, 2015
Can Iranian Movie 'Muhammad' Alter Islam's Violent Image?
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| Filmmaker Majidi: 'I decided to make this film to fight against the new wave of Islamophobia in the West' |
"The more movies that are made about the prophet's life, the better," said Majid Majidi, the director of the high-budget biopic "Muhammad: Messenger of God" at Montreal's world film festival on Friday, August 28. The first part of the planned trilogy, which opened to packed cinema houses in Iran on August 27, captures the time before the birth of the prophet more than 1,400 years ago, and his childhood.
The acclaimed Iranian director, famous for his film "Children of Heaven," has taken pains to show the "rightful image of Islam." The 171-minute movie, which premiered both in Iran and internationally last week, cost the Oscar-nominated director $40 million (36 million euros) and seven years of hard work. But will he be able to alter the tainted image of Islam and its prophet through his movie? » | Shamil Shams | Monday, August 31, 2015
Isil 'Blows Up Temple of Bel' in Ancient Syrian City of Palmyra
Violent jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) have partially destroyed the the most famous landmark in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.
The Temple of Bel was damaged on Sunday, according to messages posted on the Twitter account of a local activist group, the Palmyra Co-ordination Council.
Although the extent of the destruction was unclear, a Palmyra resident, Nasser al Thaer, said that a huge blast had echoed through the area on Sunday afternoon.
"The bricks and the columns are on the ground," he told the Associated Press. » | Louisa Loveluck | Sunday, August 30, 2015
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Palin on Trump: You've Got Guts for 'Necessary Confrontation'
Germany: 'We Are Importing Religious Conflict,' Says Prominent Sociologist
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| Hans-Georg Soeffner is a German sociologist |
Hans Georg Soeffner: Yes, on one hand, it does worry me because we did actually have a chance of handling the number. But the German states and the German federal government are lagging far behind when it comes to addressing this matter. We've known that the large influx of refugees would come and that the numbers would increase. I am exasperated over the slow pace of the German government's activities.
People should be aware of the fact that the Federal Republic of Germany was the country that had the greatest number of immigrants in 1945 - more than former colonial states, like France and Great Britain. Germany was the most diverse country at the time and it had to deal with a large influx of refugees, mass exodus, masses of immigrants and to add to it all, the first wave of so-called guest workers. Until 2000, 23 million people came to Germany from other countries. At the same time, 17 million emigrated. We're constantly reshuffling and things had been going relatively well until now. But at the moment, I am under the impression that no one really knows how much planning is involved. » | Kersten Knip / gro | Sunday, 30. August 2015
Saturday, August 29, 2015
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Al-Jazeera Journalists Sentenced to Three Years in Prison by Egyptian Court
An Egyptian judge sentenced three journalists to three years in prison on Saturday in connection with their work for al-Jazeera English.
At the end of their retrial, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were taken into custody from a metal and glass cage inside the courtroom at Cairo’s Tora prison. Peter Greste was deported to his home country of Australia in early February and was convicted in absentia.
The case has been an illustration of the erosion of press freedom in Egypt in the two years since the military removed the country’s elected Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, from power. » | Jared Malsin in Cairo | Saturday, August 29, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
Ouverture d'une agence spécialisée en finance islamique
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| Ce type de finance interdit la spéculation, le recours aux taux d'intérêts, les produits ayant une incertitude excessive ou les investissements considérés comme «nuisibles à la societé » (tabac, alcool, armement, pornographie ou jeux d'argent). |
NoorAssur, start-up spécialisée dans la finance islamique, indique vendredi avoir ouvert sa première agence en région parisienne et vise l'ouverture d'une vingtaine d'agences en France courant 2016.
Selon la jeune pousse, c'est la première agence dédiée à la finance islamique ouverte en France.
Ce type de finance, qui respecte la loi islamique (charia), interdit la spéculation, le recours aux taux d'intérêts, qui sont assimilés à l'usure, les produits ayant une incertitude excessive ou les investissements considérés comme nuisibles à la société (tabac, alcool, armement, pornographie ou jeux d'argent).
Créée en 2012, Noorassur qui proposait jusqu'ici ses services uniquement sur internet, revendique 7 millions d'euros d'épargne collectée. » | afp/Newsnet | vendredi 28 août 2015
Two French Journalists Arrested in Blackmail of Moroccan King
Two French journalists have been arrested in France for allegedly trying to blackmail Morocco's King Mohammed VI, the Paris prosecutor's office and a lawyer for the monarch have said.
The prosecutor's office said the two, Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, remained in detention on Friday. » | AP | Friday, August 28, 2015
Push to Make Australia a Republic Is 'Doomed,' Says Prime Minister Tony Abbott
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| Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott |
Australia's Prime Minister has dismissed calls for the country to become a republic, in spite of his own treasurer leading the cross-party campaign.
Conservative leader Tony Abbott insisted that efforts to resurrect a push for Australia to become a republic were "doomed" and said he doubted the Australian people would support the campaign.
Its torchbearer, Treasurer Joe Hockey, is leading a bipartisan lobbying group which has called for a plebiscite to be held by 2020 on having an Australian head of state. » | James Rothwell | Thursday, August 27, 2015
North Korea's Shiny New Airport Falls Short of Expectations
Pyongyang’s shiny new airport building has all the features international travellers have come to expect.
On arrival passengers see coffee and well-stocked souvenir shops, a DVD stand, information desk and a slickly produced billboard showing a crew of the nation’s flag-carrier, Air Koryo, looking sharp in their blue and red uniforms. There are even two chocolate fountains. One for white chocolate and the other one for dark.
But some of the amenities lose their luster upon closer examination. Case in point: the internet room appears to be missing the internet. » | Eric Talmadge in Pyongyang, Associated Press | Thursday, August 27, 2015
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Op-Ed: Only Israel, Not the West, Grants Civilization Hope of Survival
St. Elian was a young doctor originally from Homs, in Syria, who was killed in 284 C.E. by his father, a Roman legionnaire, for refusing to renounce his Christian faith. His bones were preserved in a monastery in Qaryatayn. The Islamist bulldozers of IS razed it to the ground and scattered the bones of the Christian saint.
The image is reminiscent of another digger who in 1931, under the orders of Stalin, razed the Church of the Saviour. On the ruins of this beautiful church the largest pool of the Soviet Union was then built.
"All forms of collective violence have a religious dimension" Roger Scruton, the most influential English philosopher, professor at St. Andrews University, a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature tells me in our conversation. "Christians are vulnerable and ISIS will go on with their decimation and will not stop until the West militarily attacks the Islamic State. The West is in retreat from the world, has lost all the spiritual and cultural values on which Europe was founded. Otherwise, facing these reports of Christians killed and churches destroyed, the West would immediately intervene against ISIS. But it will be punished, even by its own European multiculturalism". Read on and comment » | Giulio Meotti | Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Israeli Doctor Fired for 'Anti-Gay' Remarks: No Regrets
Inside Story: Why Is ISIL Targeting Cultural Heritage?
Captured, Sold, Raped: ISIS Turns Thousands of Christian Women and Children into Sex Slaves
An organisation to help save those victims has been founded recently by Steve Maman. It uses crowd funded donations to pay for the captives' release, but does not have any contact with - and does not pay ransoms to - ISIS fighters.
Millionen junge Europäer ohne Job bedrohen den sozialen Frieden
Europas hohe Jugendarbeitslosigkeit ist eines der grossen Übel unserer Zeit. Vor allem im Süden des Kontinents droht es einer ganzen Generation das Leben zu vermiesen. Seine toxische Wirkung wird noch jahrzehntelang anhalten, selbst wenn sich die Lage irgendwann wieder bessern sollte. Aber das ist keineswegs sicher. 7,5 Millionen Europäer unter 25 Jahren haben keine Arbeit und keinen Ausbildungsplatz; europaweit beträgt die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit mehr als 21 Prozent, in Griechenland überschreitet sie die Marke von 50 Prozent, in Spanien liegt sie knapp darunter. Aber auch in einigen mitteleuropäischen und nördlichen Ländern, etwa in Belgien, Polen, Irland oder Schweden, ist mindestens jeder fünfte junge Erwachsene betroffen. Und in Wirklichkeit ist die Situation noch schlimmer, als es die Statistiken ausweisen. Denn es genügt, dass ein Jugendlicher eine einzige Stunde pro Woche arbeitet, ob bezahlt oder umsonst, um nicht mehr als erwerbslos zu gelten. » | Von Sandro Benini, Co-Leiter International | Mittwoch, 26. August 2015
Merkel Booed by Nationalists for Pro-refugee Policies, Trolled on Internet for Previous Silence
Angela Merkel Warns against Intolerance towards Refugees
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| The German chancellor's visit to the Heidenau refugee centre, greeted above, by a placard reading "traitor of the people" came a day after Berlin said it had eased some asylum rules. |
Angela Merkel was met by a barrage of whistles, boos and calls of traitor when she visited an emergency asylum seeker and refugee centre near Dresden. She insisted that hatred towards refugees would not be tolerated.
About 50 protesters had gathered outside the disused DIY store turned reception centre in Heidenau, Saxony, as the German chancellor, on Wednesday, made her first visit to a refugee shelter. Her visit reportedly followed criticism that she had failed to openly condemn recent violence against the large numbers of refugees arriving in Germany.
In a protest organised on social media by far-right groups car horns were blown to try to block out her words. Merkel insisted on the importance of “human and dignified treatment” of asylum seekers. “There will be no tolerance towards those who are not prepared to help,” she said. “The more people that make that clear, the stronger we will be.” » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Sick Islamic State Video Shows Toddler Beheading TEDDY BEAR in Front of Terror Flag
The shocking 30-second clip shows a child brandishing a large blade and sawing the head off the white cuddly toy.
The child, who appears to be no older than two years old, is encouraged to hack the toy's head off as the man filming is heard to shout "takbir", which means "Allah is great" in Arabic.
ISIS supporters have allegedly been sharing the video on social media accounts.
The child is described as the son of an ISIS fighter, according to the video which has not yet been verified. » | Scott Campbell | Wednesday, August 28, 2015
Beirut Turmoil: 'Lebanon On Brink of New Arab Spring'
Unveiling France's Burqa Ban
The Abandoned Front Line Of Europe's Refugee Crisis
'Migration of Peoples Underway: Rising Africa, Declining Europe'
Reporter and Cameraman Shot Dead in Virginia during Live Broadcast
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| Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward. |
A gunman killed two members of a news crew and injured one more in Moneta, Virginia, in a shooting that was partially captured on video on Wednesday morning.
Police are investigating the shooting at the Bridgewater Plaza near Smith Mountain Lake that took place at about 6.45am ET. A news crew from WDBJ7 local news was on the scene to film a segment for the morning news when several shots rang out. Screams followed and the camera recording the feature fell, as producers cut to the shocked studio news team.
The station later announced that two of their team, Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, had been shot dead.
Police are searching for a suspect at the scene. » | Alan Yuhas in New York | Wednesday, August 25, 2015
Tea Party Speaker Says America, Christians "Losing The War" To Islam
Dr. Warner, who is also billed as a national and international expert on the subject of Islam, spoke to a crowd of over 400 people at Stuart Heights Baptist Church.
It was billed as a discouse "on the recent Chattanooga terror attack.
Why did it happen and what can we do about it?" However, the speaker did not mention the July 16 slaying of five military personnel in his talk except to say the billing was apparently what prompted so many to attend.
His lecture explained the need for Americans to be educated about what is happening around them related to Islam and to talk about it.
He began by defining two words: Islam, which is an ideology and Muslim, which is people. He told the audience that he would not discuss Muslims except for how they follow the doctrine of Islam.
He said in Islam, there is no god but Allah, and Mohammed who is his prophet. There are two parts of the Koran, Mecca, the earliest portion and Medina that was written later, and they are very different he said, and contradictory in nature. The Medina version is 24 percent about jihad, he said and the Mecca portion has no mention of jihad or no anti-Jew text. In this religion, Mohammed is the perfect human being and provides a pattern of life. Whoever follows him will go to paradise and those that do not will go to hell.
Is the Koran about peace?, he asked. Yes was the answer. Is it opposed to peace? he asked next. Yes was the answer. Both praising or hating Jews and exercising tolerance or opposing it is addressed in the Koran, and it advocates for all of these things. He defined this as dualism—it always has two versions.
Dr. Warner said he is only concerned with “political Islam,” not the religion associated with it, because that is what has an effect on him directly. Examples of his statement that Islam is winning the conflict include the fact that he has been forbidden by Governor Bill Haslam to speak to law enforcement about Islam. He also described new textbooks being used in Tennessee that teach about Islam with nothing in the book to teach about Christianity. » | Gail Perry | Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Univision's Jorge Ramos: 'I've Never Been Kicked Out Of A Press Conference'
"This is the first time," the news anchor told his network. "It's never happened anywhere in the world. I've never been forcibly removed from a press conference or an interview." » | Eyder Peralta | Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Assad 'Confident' of Russian Support for Syria Regime
The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has expressed “strong confidence” that Russia will continue supporting his embattled regime.
“We have strong confidence in the Russians, as they have proven throughout this crisis, for four years, that they are sincere and transparent in their relationship with us,” Assad said in an interview with Hezbollah’s al-Manar television network.
He also described as “legitimate” the presence in Syria of fighters from Hezbollah backing his forces. The powerful Lebanese Shia movement, along with Russia and Iran, has backed Assad since Syria’s revolt broke out in 2011.
The rare television interview came as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, discussed the Syrian crisis with Jordan’s King Abdullah on the sidelines of the Maks-2015 aerospace show in Moscow.
Assad described Russia as “principled”, while “the United States abandons its allies, abandons its friends”. » | Agence France-Presse in Beirut | Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
État islamique : Rabat et Madrid démantèlent un réseau de recruteurs
Quatorze personnes ont été interpellées au Maroc et en Espagne lors d'une "opération antiterroriste conjointe" des deux pays, visant à démanteler un réseau de recrutement pour le groupe État islamique (EI, Daesh en arabe), ont annoncé les ministères de l'Intérieur des deux pays. Des agents des services de renseignement - du Commissariat général d'information de la police espagnole et de la Direction générale de la surveillance du territoire marocaine - "ont démantelé une cellule terroriste composée de 14 personnes", a expliqué mardi le ministère espagnol de l'Intérieur. » | Source AFP | mardi 25 août 2015
UK Newspaper Claims US Blocking Crucial Data about Iraq Invasion
‘I'd Rather Sacrifice My Life’: Yazidi Women Taking Revenge on ISIS
Heavy Flooding, Landslide after Torrential Rains Pound North-eastern Turkey
Comrade Corbyn on HAMAS, the Middle East and the Super-rich
Merkel und Gabriel verurteilen rechte Gewalt in Heidenau
Model of Moroccan Origin Hopes to Become First Muslim Miss Italy
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| Miss El Brinis is an admirer of Sofia Loren and said she loved cooking Italian food |
A model of Moroccan origin who hopes to become the first Muslim Miss Italy has vowed to defy critics who accuse her of insulting Islam by taking part in the beauty pageant.
Ahlam El Brinis, 20, who was born in the northern Veneto region to Moroccan parents, has received threats and insults on social media for her decision to participate in the contest next month.
She has been criticised for posing in bikinis, lacy underwear and revealing clothes, with some Muslims accusing her of bringing Islam into disrepute.
But she has labelled her critics “ridiculous people with too much time on their hands” and said she has drawn strength from the support of her grandmother back in Morocco, who told her “religion is in the heart, not in the choice of clothes you wear”.
“There have been insults but there have been far more messages of encouragement, both from friends and people I have never met,” the model told La Repubblica newspaper. “Religion should have nothing to do with a beauty contest.” » | Nick Squires, Rome | Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Isis in Palmyra: Militants Release First Images Showing Destruction of Baalshamin Temple
The Isis militant group has released a series of images purporting to show the destruction of the ancient Baalshamin Temple in Palmyra.
Images posted online and shared by Isis-affiliated social media accounts showed fighters, whose faces were cropped out of the photographs, lining the 2,000-year-old monument with explosives.
Explosives can be seen wired together both inside and outside the structure of the building, which experts said was one of the best-preserved and most completely intact examples of Greco-Roman architecture at the ancient site. » | Adam Withnall | Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Die Öl-Party ist vorbei
Die psychologisch wichtige Marke ist geknackt. Weniger als 40 Dollar kostete am Montagmorgen ein Fass der US-Sorte West Texas Intermediate. Die Nordsee-Sorte Brent lag deutlich unter 45 Dollar. Was im letzten Sommer seinen Anfang nahm – als der Ölpreis noch bei deutlich über 100 Dollar lag – , hat sich inzwischen zu einem Preissturz historischen Ausmasses entwickelt. Und die Analysten rechnen nicht mit einer schnellen Erholung. Im Gegenteil: Auch Preise um 30 Dollar pro Fass werden als realistisch angesehen.
Fareed Zakaria, Kommentator für Aussenpolitik der «Washington Post», vergleicht die aktuelle Situation mit den 80er-Jahren. Als der Ölpreis letztmals in einem vergleichbaren Ausmass fiel, sei die Sowjetunion kollabiert. » | Von Luca De Carli, Redaktor, Ausland | Von Marc Fehr, Multimedia Storyteller | Dienstag, 25. August 2015
North Wales Fire Service Employee Quits amid Investigation into Alleged Posts on Far-right Website
A North Wales fire service employee has quit amid an investigation into alleged anti-Islamic posts made on a far-right website during work time.
The clerical worker, who was based in Colwyn Bay, was being probed over allegations they uploaded material onto a Norway-based website which is described by its critics as “one of the main forums for Islamaphobic debate”.
Articles understood to have been written by the fire service worker included one which suggested that “jihadists” were being recruited by councils in Northern Europe, and the website was allegedly used by them to publicise demonstrations by the far-right English Defence League (EDL).
A raft of other articles apparently written by the worker highlight mainstream UK media stories about offences committed by Muslims.
Other articles focused on crimes committed by immigrants. » | Jez Hemming | Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Saudi Arabia Executes 175 People in A YEAR - So Why Does Britain Still Call Them an ALLY?
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| Prince Charles greets King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud |
In the last 12 months 175 people were beheaded or shot for crimes including drugs confessions claimed to have been extracted through torture, said the report released by human rights charity Amnesty International.
The 43-page report titled "Killing In the Name of Justice: The Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia" revealed that between January 1985 and June 2015, at least 2,208 people were executed in the oil-rich kingdom.
The oppressive state have killed 109 people since January, compared to 83 in all of 2014.
The Saudi kingdom follows an ultra-strict interpretation of Sharia law and applies the death penalty to a number of crimes including murder, rape and drug smuggling.
Although not as common, Saudi courts also allow for people to be executed for adultery, apostasy and witchcraft.
People can also be executed for crimes committed when they were below 18 years of age. » | Rebecca Perring | Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Boko Haram Sends Terrorists to Help ISIS Take Libya as Map Shows Horrifying Plan for World
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| One ISIS supporter posted this map on Twitter, boasting the group will conquer Rome |
The Nigerian-based fanatics have dispatched up to 200 heavily armed troops to bolster ISIS forces in north Africa in a terrifying sign of the growing alliance between the two feared groups.
ISIS is fighting to take control of Libya - which has been engulfed by a chaotic civil war since the fall of Colonel Gadaffi - because it believes that it is a launchpad to Europe.
Boosted by the deployment, gleeful ISIS fighters boasted online of how they will use their stronghold in the north African nation to invade Italy and other parts of southern Europe.
The terrorists have described Libya as the "gateway to Rome" and it is thought they are planning to stow away fighters on smugglers' boats full of migrants destined for Italy.
ISIS supporters posted a series of mocked up messages online showing the eternal city in flames and the black flag of their hate group flying above the Vatican.
One even posted a map showing the area the terror group was targeting, writing in French that its fighters will conquer Iran, Burma, Rome and even America. » | Nick Gutteridge | Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Islamic State Has Killed At Least 30 People for Sodomy, UN Told
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for killing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an international gay rights organisation has told the first UN security council meeting in New York to focus on violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
“It’s about time, 70 years after the creation of the UN, that the fate of LGBT persons who fear for their lives around the world is taking centre stage,” said the US ambassador, Samantha Power, who organised the meeting with Chile’s UN envoy. “This represents a small but historic step.”
Diplomats said two of the 15 council members, Chad and Angola, had not attended the informal closed meeting. » | Associated Press in New York | Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Monday, August 24, 2015
Trash Crisis in Beirut, Clashes with Police, Calls for Government to Go
Opinion: America And Europe Desperately Need History Lesson On Radical Islam
The heroes, including two U.S. servicemen on leave, contrast sharply with the unarmed crew who barricaded themselves inside locked cabins. And even more so with politically correct leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who continually fail to show leadership in confronting radical Islam.
Even though the gunman, Moroccan 25-year old Ayoub el-Khazzani, was known to Spanish, German and French authorities for ties to “radical Islamist movements” and was armed with an AK-47, 300 rounds of ammo, a pistol and box cutter, the French government’s reaction was typical: “It is too early to speak of a terrorist link.”
Really?
America and Europe desperately need a history lesson about radical Islam. And our leaders must be held accountable if they will not face the facts.
President Obama claims that jihadists like the self-labeled “Islamic State” are not really Islamic. If so, why are Guantanamo detainees served 4 halal meals a day, issued Korans and prayer rugs, and have arrows pointing to Mecca painted throughout the camps? Either somebody is lying or the Gitmo guards have a truly bizarre sense of humor. » | J. D. Gordon | Executive Director. Protect America Today | Monday, August 24, 2015
Les 4 «héros du Thalys» ont été décorés de la Légion d'honneur
Lass mich dich küssen, Held!
Mit ihrem Mut hätten die drei US-Amerikaner und der Brite es ermöglicht, Leben zu retten, sagte Frankreichs Präsident François Hollande heute Morgen zu den «Thalys-Helden». Den höchsten französischen Orden überreichte er den US-Soldaten Alek Skarlatos und Spencer Stone, dem amerikanischen Studenten Anthony Sadler sowie dem Briten Chris Norman im Elysée-Palast in Paris. Die Männer hatten am Freitagabend einen schwer bewaffneten Marokkaner in dem Hochgeschwindigkeitszug Amsterdam–Paris niedergerungen. Stone und ein Passagier wurden schwer verletzt.
Der verletzte Passagier soll zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt in die französische Ehrenlegion aufgenommen werden, ebenso wie ein 28-jähriger Franzose, der sich als Erster dem Angreifer entgegenstellte und der anonym bleiben will.
«Die Franzosen bewundern Ihren Mut, die Kaltblütigkeit, die Sie unter Beweis gestellt haben, die Solidarität, die Ihnen erlaubt hat, mit blossen Händen – ich betone: mit blossen Händen – einen Schwerbewaffneten zu überwältigen, der zu allem bereit war», sagte Hollande. «Ihr Heldenmut sollte ein Vorbild für viele sein.» » | Montag, 24. August 2015
Carly Fiorina Talks Terrorism, Hillary and Creating Jobs
(Keine) Reaktionen auf rechte Gewalt: Frau Merkel, was sagen Sie zu Heidenau? - "..."
Die gewalttätigen Ausschreitungen in der Nähe einer Asylunterkunft im sächsischen Heidenau sorgen für jede Menge Aufregung. Zwar blieb es rund um Heidenau in der vergangenen Nacht ruhig - doch, und das ist das Aufregerthema, so ruhig wie zur Stunde in Heidenau bleibt es auch rund um Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel: Von ihr gibt es kein Statement zu den Vorkommnissen, sie zeigt keine klare Kante gegen rechte Randalierer.
Stattdessen reagieren von Berlin bis Heidenau hohle Phrasen mit peinlicher politischer Korrektheit - ob von sich windenden Provinzpolitikern oder vom Regierungssprecher: Die halbherzige Haltung sorgt zunehmend für Unmut in den Medien. Hier eine Auswahl an Reaktionen und Kommentaren in den Sozialen Netzwerken. » | Tim Sohr | Montag, 24. August 2015
Fremdenhass in Heidenau: Polizei errichtet Sicherheitszone um Asylunterkunft
Krawallnächte in Heidenau
Isis 'Blows Up Temple Dating Back to 17AD' in Syrian City of Palmyra
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| Temple of Baal Shamin, which has been apparently blown up by Isis. |
Islamic State blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in the Unesco-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, the country’s antiquities chief has said.
“Daesh placed a large quantity of explosives in the temple of Baal Shamin ... and then blew it up causing much damage to the temple,” said Maamoun Abdulkarim, using another name for Isis.
Isis, which controls swaths of Syria and neighbouring Iraq, captured Palmyra on 21 May, sparking international concern about the fate of the heritage site described by Unesco as of outstanding universal value. “The [inner area of the temple] was destroyed and the columns around collapsed,” said Abdulkarim.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that monitors the country’s civil war, confirmed the destruction of the temple. » | Agence France Presse in Damascus | Sunday, August 23, 2015
'EU Should Settle Refugees in Countries Like Germany and Britain'
Sunday, August 23, 2015
‘Foreigners Out!’ Anti-refugee Protest Turns Violent in Heidanau, Germany
Radical: My Journey Out Of Islamist Extremism (Full Session)
Maajid Nawaz on ISIL & Islamism (Sunday Politics, June 28, 2015)
Muslim Critics of British Islam (2014)
Inside Kacanik, Kosovo's Jihadist Capital
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| Infamous son: Lavdrim Muhaxheri, from Kacanik, in Syria |
Nestling in a wooded valley that its citizens laid their lives down to defend, the town of Kacanik in southern Kosovo is fiercely proud of its war dead.
Well-kept cemeteries include nearly 100 victims of Serb-led ethnic cleansing in 1999, while in the town centre, a statue clutching an RPG honours fallen members of Brigade 162 of the Kosovan Liberation Army.
But a decade and a half on from the war that brought about Kosovo's independence, there is rather less pride in Kacanik's new crop of warriors.
In the last three years, some 24 local menfolk have gone to fight for jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, giving the town of just 30,000 people an unwanted reputation as the jihadist capital of the Balkans.
To add to the sense of shame, one of them, a 25-year-old recruiter named Lavdrim Muhaxheri, has committed atrocities as gruesome as any of those carried out in Kacanik in 1999, when British troops unearthed a mass grave containing 81 bodies.
Last summer, in an act that sent shockwaves across Kosovo, Muhaxheri posted Facebook pictures of himself apparently beheading another man suspected of spying against the Islamic State. Another shows him executing a Syrian man using an RPG. Read on and comment » | Colin Freeman, Chief Foreign Correspondent | Sunday, August 23, 2015
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Lord Kitchener Hate Sign Found in Wetherspoons Tells Muslims ‘Get the F*** Out’ of Britain
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| The poster at The Moon on the Square Witherspoon's tells Muslims to leave Britain |
The racist sign, in the style of a First World War recruitment poster with Lord Kitchener, was pinned on the noticeboard of the family chain pub.
It tells Muslims who are insulted by British culture to ‘get the f*** out’ of Britain and ‘go back to the monstrous sh**holes you came from’.
A shocked regular to The Moon on the Square pub in Feltham, Middlesex, spotted the offensive sign as he went for lunch with a Muslim colleague.
The 28-year-old said: "Just as we sat down inside the pub, I noticed the sign a few tables away from us.
"My friend, who is a Muslim, didn't say anything but I could see he was highly uncomfortable. » | Helen Barnett | Saturday, August 22, 2015
UK Muslim Society Wants Forced Sex Segregation in UK Universities (December 10, 2013)
In 21st Century Britain, such seperation in schools and universities should NOT be allowed.
David Starkey Schools Muslim about Why Islam is Primitive and Backward
Libya's Struggle To Cope With Surge In Migrant Smuggling
French Exodus: 'When Jews Flee, a Nation is Sick' (2014)
Muslims in Canada: Anti-Islamic Sentiment a Growing Concern
Muslim Gangs Take Control of 55 Zones in Sweden | November 2014
Resentment Grows between Christians and Muslims in France
Donald Trump Widens Lead Over US Republican Presidential Field: Poll
Republican voters show no signs they are growing weary of the brash real estate mogul, who has dominated political headlines and the 17-strong Republican presidential field with his tough talk about immigration and insults directed at his political rivals. The candidates are vying to be nominated to represent their party in the November 2016 general election. » | Reuters | Saturday, August 22, 2015
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