Monday, November 02, 2015
US Analyzing New Tape from Al Qaeda Leader Zawahiri
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al-Qaeda,
Ayman al-Zawahiri,
USA
Will Syria Be President Obama's Vietnam?
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Barack Obama,
Syria
Is Hillary Clinton 'Too Big to Jail'?
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Hillary Clinton
Independent: Teach More Islam in UK Schools, Muhammad Had British Values
BREITBART.COM: The Independent newspaper has published an article claiming that more Islam should be taught in schools because the Islamic prophet, Muhammed, had “British values”. The article is written by a PhD student who claims she has “a lot” of “respect” for a leading UK Muslim Brotherhood activist.
The author, Sajda Khan, used to write for the Huffington Post, though many of her articles – all propaganda pieces about Islam – have now been “removed at the request of the author”. Ms. Khan – who once slammed UK think tank Civitas for attacking the idea of “jihad” – also has a different name to the one listed on her Huffington Post profile from 2012.
Her name was “Sahar” on the HuffPo, whereas she now goes by “Sajda”. She has denied changing her name, though admitted: “I began to write under a pseudonym but then resorted to my own name – because I didn’t see a need.”
Ms. Khan wrote for the Independent:
The author, Sajda Khan, used to write for the Huffington Post, though many of her articles – all propaganda pieces about Islam – have now been “removed at the request of the author”. Ms. Khan – who once slammed UK think tank Civitas for attacking the idea of “jihad” – also has a different name to the one listed on her Huffington Post profile from 2012.
Her name was “Sahar” on the HuffPo, whereas she now goes by “Sajda”. She has denied changing her name, though admitted: “I began to write under a pseudonym but then resorted to my own name – because I didn’t see a need.”
Ms. Khan wrote for the Independent:
Simply put, the way to combat Islamic extremism is to invest in real Islamic teaching in British schools: teaching that proves the Prophet Mohammed would never have condoned their actions.But her article directly contradicts one she wrote for the Telegraph just 5 months ago, entitled: “British values won’t stop violent extremism”. She wrote: » | Breitbart London | Monday, November 2, 2015
Many reading this will find it difficult to stomach, but the Prophet Mohammed had British values. Those values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect, and tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs that schools are now required to promote are inherently Islamic.
London Nightclub Shuttered after Anti-Semitic Brawl
A swanky London nightclub had its license suspended Thursday after several fights culminated last Sunday in a brawl involving anti-Semitic slurs aimed at group of Jewish patrons.
Kensington and Chelsea Council's Licensing Committee voted to temporarily revoke Boujis' license in response to the violence, the International Business Times reported Friday.
Seven people, aged 18 to 21, were arrested in the brawl on October 25, which CCTV footage shows involved between 15 to 20 people.
During the fight, one man is heard shouting "f---ing Jews." According to the Evening Standard, anti-Semitic remarks aimed at a group of Jewish patrons who had booked a table in the club provoked the brawl. » | Cynthia Blank | Sunday, November 1, 2015
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anti-Semitism,
London
Deutschland - Feuer im Dach bei den Unionsparteien
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Angela Merkel,
CDU,
CSU,
Deutschland
Germany’s Muslim Population to Quadruple in the Next Five Years: 20 Million Muslims by 2020
Kontaktversuch: "Lügenpresse" trifft Pegida | Panorama | NDR
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Lügenpresse,
PEGIDA
PEGIDA Dresden – Abendspaziergang (November 2, 2015)
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Dresden,
Lutz Bachmann,
PEGIDA
Germany: Far-right Thuringia Demo Countered by Dozens of Pro-refugee Activists
Germany: Merkel and Seehofer Reach Refugee Deal, Gabriel Walks Out - Reports
Germany: Father Accused of Strangling Daughter to Death over Forbidden Affair
Germany: Ex-airport Tempelhof Berlin Becomes Temporary Refugee Shelter
Bavaria Promises to Bus Refugees to Merkel's Office in Berlin
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Angela Merkel,
Bavaria,
Berlin,
migrant crisis
PM Orbán: Immigration Is Left-wing Conspiracy against Europe
Videoanalyse zur Wahl in der Türkei: "Manche fürchten eine Diktatur"
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
Türkei,
Wahl
Islamic State Releases Gruesome New Revenge Video
The Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) has released a slick execution video in revenge for the raid by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and U.S. special forces that freed 70 Iraqi hostages who were in imminent danger of being killed. Twenty Islamic State terrorists were killed in the raid.
The video (WATCH BELOW) features an Islamic State jihadi, his face swathed in a black balaclava, threatening U.S. President Barack Obama and speaking in fluent, American-accented English.
The American stands over a kneeling orange-clad Kurdish fighter. Three other Islamic State jihadis also pose over kneeling Kurds.
Waving his knife menacingly, he says, “Obama, you have learned a new lesson. Six of the soldiers of the caliphate faced 400 of your children. They killed and injured them, by Allah’s grace.”
The American narrator appears to be referring to a recent alleged failed rescue attempt to free the Kurdish soldiers in the Kirkuk (Karkuk, in Arabic) province near the city of Al-Hawija, Iraq. The video is shot at the site where the Islamic State says Kurdish and U.S. forces landed. Read on, comment, and watch the extremely graphic video » | Sunday, November 1, 2015
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ISIS,
Islamic state
German Muslim: Islam Is Coming and Your Daughters Will Wear the Hijab
WND: Europe: ‘Islam Is Coming to Take Over’ » | Pamela Geller | Sunday, November 1, 2015
Wer kommt nach Merkel?
Malcolm Turnbull: Knights and Dames Are Not Appropriate in 2015
Merkel's Muslim Madness
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS: German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that refusing to take in Muslim migrants is a "danger for Europe." Merkel as usual had it backward. It's her program of taking in Muslim migrants that represents the gravest threat to the freedom and future of Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Merkel may have already doomed Germany. The Bild newspaper published a leaked secret government document estimating that the number of migrants invading Europe this year might reach 1.5 million.
And that bad news gets much worse because the document estimates that each migrant will bring in as many as eight family members once they're settled in, bringing the year's true total to 7.36 million.
That's almost 10 percent of the population of Germany. In just one invasion.
And the migrants are mostly young men entering a rapidly aging country whose young male population is under 5 million. Germany's Muslim population already approaches 5 million. The median age of Germany's Muslim population is 34, while the median age for the overall population is 46.
Merkel has rapidly sped up the rate at which Germany's young male population becomes Muslim.
The document predicts up to 10,000 invaders entering every day. It foresees no end to the arrivals even when it gets cold. These words add up to the end of Germany and the end of Europe. » | Daniel Greenfield | Friday, October 23, 2015
Merkel may have already doomed Germany. The Bild newspaper published a leaked secret government document estimating that the number of migrants invading Europe this year might reach 1.5 million.
And that bad news gets much worse because the document estimates that each migrant will bring in as many as eight family members once they're settled in, bringing the year's true total to 7.36 million.
That's almost 10 percent of the population of Germany. In just one invasion.
And the migrants are mostly young men entering a rapidly aging country whose young male population is under 5 million. Germany's Muslim population already approaches 5 million. The median age of Germany's Muslim population is 34, while the median age for the overall population is 46.
Merkel has rapidly sped up the rate at which Germany's young male population becomes Muslim.
The document predicts up to 10,000 invaders entering every day. It foresees no end to the arrivals even when it gets cold. These words add up to the end of Germany and the end of Europe. » | Daniel Greenfield | Friday, October 23, 2015
Sunday, November 01, 2015
Turkish Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters Dissatisfied with Election Results
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Turkey,
Turkish election
Die neue Völkerwanderung: Rede von Thilo Sarrazin
Turkish Election: AKP Returns to Power with Outright Majority
Turkey’s strongman president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, tightened his grip on power decisively on Sunday as his ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) swept back to single-party government with a convincing win in national elections.
The high-stakes vote, Turkey’s second in five months, took place in a climate of mounting tension and violence following an inconclusive June poll in which the conservative, Islamic-leaning AKP failed to secure an outright majority for the first time since coming to power in 2002.
With almost 90% of the votes counted, the party was on 50.3%, according to state broadcaster TRT. That would give it about 325 seats in the 550-seat parliament, comfortably ahead of its three main rival parties and easily enough to form a government on its own.
The prime minister and AKP leader, Ahmet Davutoğlu tweeted simply: “Elhamdulillah”, or “Thanks be to God”. » | Jon Henley, Kareem Shaheen in Ankara and Constanze Letsch in Diyarbakir | Sunday, November 1, 2015
KRONEN ZEITUNG: Türkei: Absolute für "Sultan" Erdogan: Recep Tayyip Erdogan hat bei den Parlamentswahlen in der Türkei mit seiner islamisch-konservativen Regierungspartei AKP die absolute Mandatsmehrheit erreicht. Die Konfliktstrategie des "Sultans" ist damit voll aufgegangen - er hatte sich als einziger Garant von Stabilität dargestellt. Nun will Erdogan eine Verfassungsänderung für ein Präsidialsystem, in der alle Macht in seiner Hand gebündelt ist. Oppositionskreise sprechen von Wahlschwindel. » | Kronen Zeitung/AG/kal | Sonntag, 1. November 2015
The Invasion of Europe
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invasion of Europe,
Pat Condell
Ein Begriff macht Karriere: Die Völkerwanderung
Ein Wort macht Karriere, das die Fachleute schon fast vergessen hatten. Es bezieht sich auf ein Ereignis vor rund 1500 Jahren, und doch klingt es höchst aktuell: Völkerwanderung. Wenn sich Hunderttausende von Flüchtlingen zu Fuß auf den Weg machen, dann scheint diese Parallele nahezuliegen. Das gilt umso mehr, als die Landkarten mit den Balkan- und anderen Routen an jene Grafiken mit den großen Pfeilen erinnern, die in den Schulbüchern einst die Züge der Germanen symbolisierten.
Das Wort macht auch Angst. Oft soll es genau diese Panik bewusst transportieren. Denn die historische Völkerwanderung des 4. und 5. nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts war nicht irgendeine Migrationsbewegung. Es geht um einen Zivilisationsbruch, vielleicht den am längsten nachwirkenden der Geschichte. Es geht um vermeintliche „Barbaren“, die nach dem verbreiteten Geschichtsbild das Römische Weltreich überrannten und der antiken Hochkultur den Garaus machten. Erst ein Jahrtausend später, in der Renaissance, erholte sich das Abendland wieder von dem Rückschlag. So haben es jedenfalls viele aus dem Geschichtsunterricht in Erinnerung. » | Ralph Bollmann | Sonntag, 1. November 2015
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Völkerwanderung
Trump: «Avec Saddam et Kadhafi, le monde serait meilleur»
«Sans nul doute!», a répondu le milliardaire américain à la question posée par un journaliste de CNN.
Saddam Hussein et Mouammar Kadhafi ont été renversés en 2003 et 2011 respectivement, lors d'interventions militaires menées ou soutenues par les Etats-Unis.
«Regardez la Libye. Regardez l'Irak. Avant il n'y avait pas de terroristes en Irak. Il (Saddam Hussein) les tuait immédiatement. (L'Irak) est maintenant devenu l'université d'excellence du terrorisme», a justifié M. Trump.
«Franchement, désormais il n'y a plus d'Irak ni de Libye. Ils ont volé en éclats. Il n'y a plus aucun contrôle. Personne ne sait ce qui se passe», a-t-il poursuivi.
Le candidat républicain à la prochaine présidentielle a jugé que l'Amérique était confrontée à un retour à «l'époque médiévale», avec des violences au Moyen-Orient d'une brutalité inédite «depuis des milliers d'années». » | afp/nxp | dimanche 25 octobre 2015
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Donald Trump,
États-Unis,
Irak,
Libye,
Mouammar Kadhafi,
Saddam Hussein
De l'alcool frelaté a tué 23 personnes à Istanbul
Le bilan des victimes ayant consommé récemment de l'alcool frelaté à Istanbul a encore grimpé dimanche, passant à 23 morts. Onze ont succombé durant le week-end.
Une quinzaine d'autres personnes se trouvent toujours dans les services de soins intensifs de plusieurs hôpitaux stambouliotes, ont indiqué les autorités sanitaires locales aux chaînes d'information NTV et CNN-Türk. Au total, 89 personnes ont été hospitalisées depuis le 18 octobre à Istanbul. » | ats/nxp | dimanche 1 novembre 2015
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Turquie
Saudi Ambassador: We Won't Take Lectures from UK
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| Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdelaziz has complained of 'lack of respect' for his country's law and traditions |
Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz singled out the cancellation of a deal to train prison staff in the Gulf state as he railed against an "alarming change in the way Saudi Arabia is discussed in Britain".
In an unusual public intervention, he wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph in which he warned the wealthy kingdom would not be "lectured to" and urged respect for its strict system of Sharia law.
He said: "One recent example of this mutual respect being breached was when Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Opposition, claimed that he had convinced Prime Minister David Cameron to cancel a prison consultancy contract with Saudi Arabia worth £5.9 million."
"This coincided with speculation linking the contract's cancellation to a number of domestic events in the Kingdom. "If the extensive trade links between the two countries are going to be subordinate to certain political ideologies, then this vital commercial exchange is going to be at risk.
"We want this relationship to continue but we will not be lectured to by anyone. Hasty decisions prompted by short-term gains often do more harm than good in the longer term." » | Press Association 2014 | Monday, October 26, 2015
Geert Wilders Visit Down Under: A Success and a Warning to Australia
BREITBART.COM: I was wholeheartedly honoured to attend and speak at the launch of the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA) in Perth last week. What a fantastic week for a fantastic party. The launch included a keynote speech from Dutch MP Geert Wilders, which ensured the nationwide and international media coverage that the party deserves.
Australia desperately needs the ALA. These are decent people who want to pass on the Australia they know and love to their children.
I had thought prior to my arrival that the Aussies are not quite in the fix we Europeans find ourselves, and while this still remains true, Australia is heading, very rapidly, down the same road as the rest of us – political correctness, left-wing bullying and lies, leaders who refuse to listen to those with concerns about Islamic immigration, and a mainstream media entirely complicit and approving of all of the above.
Some of the coverage of the ALA launch is worth surveying. As is the case here in Europe, mainstream journalism in Australia has decided that the new party is the problem, and not what it wants to oppose. The usual labels of “far-right” are thrown around, and most of the Australian press seems to believe that their country is a shining example of multicultural harmony; despite the overwhelming evidence to suggest otherwise. » | Anne Marie Waters | Thursday, October 29, 2015
Australia desperately needs the ALA. These are decent people who want to pass on the Australia they know and love to their children.
I had thought prior to my arrival that the Aussies are not quite in the fix we Europeans find ourselves, and while this still remains true, Australia is heading, very rapidly, down the same road as the rest of us – political correctness, left-wing bullying and lies, leaders who refuse to listen to those with concerns about Islamic immigration, and a mainstream media entirely complicit and approving of all of the above.
Some of the coverage of the ALA launch is worth surveying. As is the case here in Europe, mainstream journalism in Australia has decided that the new party is the problem, and not what it wants to oppose. The usual labels of “far-right” are thrown around, and most of the Australian press seems to believe that their country is a shining example of multicultural harmony; despite the overwhelming evidence to suggest otherwise. » | Anne Marie Waters | Thursday, October 29, 2015
'Muslims Are Just Sick of Islam': More Refugees in Iraq Embracing Jesus Christ
"They're just sick of Islam," a Christian ministry leader in the Kurdish Region of Iraq recently told the Christian Aid Mission.
"People are very hungry to know about Christ, especially when they hear about miracles, healing, mercy and love," he said, as reported in the Gospel Herald.
The ministry director, who declined to be identified for security reason, said the Muslims in their camp have witnessed the brutality of Islamic State (ISIS) militants carrying out beheadings and other horrific acts in the name of Allah.
The director said his ministry has been swamped with Iraqi Muslims seeking to know more about Christ and the Bible.
"As terrifying and horrifying as ISIS is, they did us a great favour because they came and have shown them all the killing, saying that it's all in the Quran verses. So now we don't have to say much, we just say the truth," the director. » | Hazel Torres | Sunday, November 1, 2015
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converts to Christianity,
Iraq,
refugees
'Islam Is Not Up for Negotiation or Reform. Islam Is What It Is'
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Less than 24 hours after Australians across the country kicked off their shoes to enter the nation's mosques for a National Day of Unity, Muslims in Sydney were calling for a different kind of solidarity – against a demonising state and its agents.
Under the tinkling glass of chandeliers swaying in path of the air conditioning at The Bellevue function centre in Bankstown, hundreds came to hear how their community was being unfairly targeted by police and spies.
"There needs to be unity on issues that affect us as a whole, particularly when the target is Islam itself," prominent Hizb ut-Tahrir member, Wassim Doureihi, said.
Children in prams, toddlers, and teens accompanied their parents and many sat, mesmerised, to speeches suggesting Australia's escalating counter-terrorism laws were an attack on Islam itself; that Muslims were being forced to surrender to Australian values. (+ video) » | Saffron Howden, Reporter | Sunday, November 1, 2015
Under the tinkling glass of chandeliers swaying in path of the air conditioning at The Bellevue function centre in Bankstown, hundreds came to hear how their community was being unfairly targeted by police and spies.
"There needs to be unity on issues that affect us as a whole, particularly when the target is Islam itself," prominent Hizb ut-Tahrir member, Wassim Doureihi, said.
Children in prams, toddlers, and teens accompanied their parents and many sat, mesmerised, to speeches suggesting Australia's escalating counter-terrorism laws were an attack on Islam itself; that Muslims were being forced to surrender to Australian values. (+ video) » | Saffron Howden, Reporter | Sunday, November 1, 2015
Halloween Ravers Clash with London Riot Police after Illegal Party Shut Down
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Hallowe'en,
London
Secular Publisher Hacked to Death in Latest Bangladesh Attacks
A publisher of secular books has been hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, police have said. In a separate attack in Dhaka, police said two other writers and a publisher were stabbed and shot at a publishing house.
Fears of Islamist violence have been growing in Bangladesh after at least four atheist bloggers were murdered in the country this year. The attacks have been linked by police to domestic Islamist extremists, while Islamic State has claimed responsibility for three other attacks. » | Associated Press | Saturday, October 31, 2015
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Bangladesh
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Germany Investigates Suspected Terrorists Posing as Migrants
Germany is examining 10 cases of refugees accused of being a member of a terror organisation or taking part in war crimes abroad in an admission by the country’s police chief that will raise fears of terrorists among migrants.
Holger Muench, head of the BKA federal police, said that the influx of refugees posed a domestic security threat as migrants continued to cross into the country.
More than 8,000 streamed over the Austrian border to Bavaria on Wednesday and officials believe up to 800,000 migrants could enter the country by the end of year. Some predict it could be as high as one million.
Many of the migrants coming to Europe via the western Balkans route through central and eastern Europe are from war zones in the Middle East. Those fleeing to Germany were encouraged by Angela Merkel’s welcoming comments earlier this year, saying that Syrians would be given refugee status. » | Raziye Akkoc, and Melanie Hall, Berlin | Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Germany,
Islamic terrorists,
migrants
PM Orbán: Europe’s Peoples Are Beginning to Awake[n]
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Europeans,
immigration,
Viktor Orbán
Germany: Hundreds Join Anti-refugee Protest in Dresden
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AfD,
Dresden,
migrant crisis
Flüchtlinge strömen weiter ungebremst gen Europa
Das Flüchtlingsdrama in der Ägäis hat kein Ende: Ein Boot mit etwa 150 Flüchtlingen an Bord soll nach griechischen Medienberichten vor Lesbos gekentert sein. Starker Wind hatte in der Region für hohe Wellen gesorgt, berichtete das Staatsradio.
Rettungsmannschaften der Küstenwache und Fischer mit ihren Booten suchen im Meer nach den Verunglückten, hiess es. Schon am Morgen hatte die Küstenwache nach dem Kentern eines anderen Bootes vor Lesbos 35 Migranten aus den Fluten gerettet. » | SRF 4 News, 12:30 Uhr; sda/dpa/maiu; weis | Samstag, 31. Oktober 2015
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Europa,
Flüchtlingskrise
If Turkey Chooses Erdogan at the Polls This Weekend, Isis Will Gain Strength and the Refugee Crisis Will Worsen
This weekend Turkey will once again head to the polls after its last election in June produced a hung parliament and the country's parties failed to form a government. There is much more at stake in these elections than simply deciding who rules and who does not: it will decide whether Turkey’s future is war and bloodshed, or peace and stability. For the latter, Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan simply must go before he leads Turkey further into destruction. » | Ranj Alaaldin | Friday, October 30, 2015
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
Turkey
'Islam Worse Than Nazism, Poses Clear and Present Danger to America's Existence'
This assertion was made by an Egyptian woman who used the pen name Magda Borham in an open letter addressed to the United States and other Western countries, Charisma News reported.
Borham warned in her letter that America faces an Islamic invasion through "immigration."
She said having lived in Egypt for more than 30 years, she has come to know the true meaning of Islam and the mentality of Muslims.
"If you listen to the cries of the Copts of Egypt, the Christians of Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan and all the other Muslim countries, you will hear the descriptions of the horrors of Islam," she wrote.
Borham said it is very important for Americans to know that "Islam is a supremacist, racist political and social ideology wrapped in a thin peel of religious rituals."
She branded Islam as "worse than Nazism and fascism systems combined without any doubt" since it seeks domination and supremacy over all other systems and religions.
She warned Americans that Muslims will "use your own democratic laws and values against you." » | Hazel Torres | Friday, October 30, 2015
CHARISMA NEWS: Brutal Warning to America From Egyptian Woman: Wake Up or Be Wiped Out » | Bethany Blankley Thursday, October 29, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
‘We Are In Deep Trouble’
POLITICO: Orbán stares down Merkel on migration, calls Europe ‘rich and weak.’
MADRID — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faced down German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of a key migration conference this weekend, using his most explosive arguments yet to rally his center-right political allies behind a tougher response to Europe’s refugee crisis.
“We are in deep trouble,” Orbán said in remarks to the European People’s Party annual congress here, building on comments he had made Wednesday night on Hungarian television. “This is an uncontrolled and unregulated process,” one that threatens democracy because governments did not “get authorization from (citizens) for millions to walk into our continent.” » | Ryan Heath | Friday, October 23, 2015
MADRID — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faced down German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of a key migration conference this weekend, using his most explosive arguments yet to rally his center-right political allies behind a tougher response to Europe’s refugee crisis.
“We are in deep trouble,” Orbán said in remarks to the European People’s Party annual congress here, building on comments he had made Wednesday night on Hungarian television. “This is an uncontrolled and unregulated process,” one that threatens democracy because governments did not “get authorization from (citizens) for millions to walk into our continent.” » | Ryan Heath | Friday, October 23, 2015
Tensions at Slovenian-Austrian border (30.10.2015)
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Austria,
migrant crisis,
Slovenia,
Spielfeld
‘All Relevant Actors’ Gather in Vienna for Decisive Syria Talks
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Austria,
Iran,
Russia,
Saudi Arabia,
Syria,
Syrian crisis,
Turkey,
USA,
Vienna
China Warns US of Potential War Sparked by Minor Incidents in South China Sea
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China,
South China Sea,
USA
Saudi Arabia: Fawning Cameron Starts Charm Offensive as Relations Falter
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| British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) and Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf (2nd L). |
Cameron is said to have personally sent a message to King Salman bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud in a bid to reassure the Saudi government over its concerns the British public was turning against them.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond visited the Gulf state on Wednesday. The PM is also planning to visit later this year, according to the Telegraph.
The diplomatic offensive comes after the British government canceled a prison consultancy contract with Saudi Arabia following public outrage at the oil-rich kingdom’s arrest of a British grandfather. » | Friday, October 30, 2015
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David Cameron,
Saudi Arabia
Masseneinwanderung schadet allen, außer kleiner Elite - Prof. Dr. Michael Vogt
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Masseneinwanderung
Europe's Mounting Refugee Problem
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Europe,
Germany,
refugee crisis
So könnte Merkel über die Flüchtlingskrise stürzen
Berlin. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel wollte endlich Pause machen von der Flüchtlingskrise. Beim Besuch in Peking unterzeichnete sie am Donnerstag erst Wirtschaftsabkommen in Milliardenhöhe, dann ließ sie sich die Zusage machen, dass der Berliner Zoo ein Panda-Pärchen aus Peking erhält.
Doch die Krise reist mit – daheim nehmen die Spannungen in der Koalition dramatisch zu. CSU-Chef Horst Seehofer hat Merkel ein Ultimatum für einen Kurswechsel bis Sonntag gestellt, droht mit dem Abzug der CSU-Minister. Am Wochenende sind Krisengespräche der Koalitionsspitzen geplant, im Vorfeld wird sogar ein Ende der Koalition nicht mehr völlig ausgeschlossen.
Stürzt die Kanzlerin über die Flüchtlingskrise? Fünf Szenarien, wie Merkels Kanzlerschaft enden könnte: » | Christian Kerl / TA | Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015
Austria: Scuffles Break Out as Refugees Push through Border Crossing at Spielfeld
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Austria,
migrant crisis,
Spielfeld
Germany: Thousands of AfD Supporters Demand Merkel’s Resignation in Erfurt
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AfD,
Angela Merkel,
Deutschland,
Erfurt
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Hundreds of Germans Are Trying to Bring Treason Charges agaist Angela Merkel over Migration Policy
The Federal Prosecutors office in Karlsruhe, Germany, has received over 400 letters calling for it to open an investigation into Chancellor Merkel, the elected leader of the German government for high treason. The complaints cite the chancellor’s decision to open the borders of the nation to all comers in September, since when they claim “an unhindered flow of refugees have poured into Germany”.
Under German law, anyone who attempts to affect change to the German republic or damage the constitutional order by force or threat of force is guilty of high treason. The letter, of which dozens more are received by the state prosecutor every day and is reproduced by Compact magazine, insists the migrant flood satisfies the conditions, as demographic change is altering the existence of the republic. » | Oliver Lane | Thursday, October 29, 2015
The Renaissance: A Beginner's Guide
THE TELEGRAPH: The Renaissance is a name given to a period in European history between the 14th and 17th centuries. It literally translates as “rebirth”, and is generally regarded as one of the most important periods in the history of humanity.
If the Renaissance was a rebirth in the sense of artists, poets, mathematicians, scientists and philosophers rediscovering the wisdom and ideals of the Ancient Romans and Greeks, it is also represents a rebirth for mankind.
It is when we, as a species, emerged from the Dark Ages into a more enlightened modern era. It represents a dramatic flowering of culture and civilisation – and its effects continue to resonate today.
The Renaissance began in the Italian city of Florence. The patronage of the ruling Medici family, a sudden influx of Greek scholars after the fall of Constantinople (now Istanbul) and a rise in wealth and social mobility after the ravages of the Black Death all contributed to a desire to rediscover the knowledge and attitudes of Classical civilisations.
The movement quickly spread across Europe – notably to England, where Henry VIII was an enthusiastic proponent of the new cultural ideas – and produced Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest ever poet and dramatist. . » | Tuesday, October 6, 2015
If the Renaissance was a rebirth in the sense of artists, poets, mathematicians, scientists and philosophers rediscovering the wisdom and ideals of the Ancient Romans and Greeks, it is also represents a rebirth for mankind.
It is when we, as a species, emerged from the Dark Ages into a more enlightened modern era. It represents a dramatic flowering of culture and civilisation – and its effects continue to resonate today.
The Renaissance began in the Italian city of Florence. The patronage of the ruling Medici family, a sudden influx of Greek scholars after the fall of Constantinople (now Istanbul) and a rise in wealth and social mobility after the ravages of the Black Death all contributed to a desire to rediscover the knowledge and attitudes of Classical civilisations.
The movement quickly spread across Europe – notably to England, where Henry VIII was an enthusiastic proponent of the new cultural ideas – and produced Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest ever poet and dramatist. . » | Tuesday, October 6, 2015
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The Renaissance
Vorhersage - Merkel Rücktritt in den nächsten 3 Monaten - Muttikulti ist gescheitert
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Angela Merkel,
Deutschland
Road to Palmyra: RT Follows Assad Army Assault on ISIS Positions
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ISIS,
Islamic state,
Palmyra,
Syria
Brits Buying Books on Socialism due to Rise of Corbyn
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Jeremy Corbyn,
socialism,
United Kingdom
Worlds Apart: 'US Soft-power Diminished as a Result of Failed Régime Change Efforts'
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Armed to Teeth: Austrians Stocking Up with Guns to Protect Themselves from Refugees
Isis Shuts Down Women's Clinics in Raqqa to Prevent Male Gynaecologists Treating Female Patients
Isis is believed to have ordered the closure of all women’s clinics supervised by male doctors in its Syrian heartlands, in the latest assault on the health and rights of women in the territories controlled by the militant group.
A culture of rape, forced marriages for child brides, the persecution of doctors and the exclusive use of medicines for militants have resulted in a crisis for women’s health under Isis’s brutal regime.
According to activists, Isis has drastically restricted the work of male gynaecologists in accordance with its leaders’ belief that men and women should be kept apart at all costs. Read on and comment » | Adam Withnall | Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Wähler laufen Union wegen Flüchtlingskrise in Scharen davon
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| In Sorge: Kanzlerin Angela Merkel gerät wegen ihrer Flüchtlingspolitik immer stärker unter Druck. In der Wählergunst sackt ihre Union rapide ab. |
Die Beunruhigung angesichts der anhaltenden Flüchtlingskrise lässt die Union im Vergleich zur Vorwoche gleich um zwei Prozentpunkte abrutschen. Im stern-RTL- Wahltrend kommen CDU/CSU jetzt nur noch auf 36 Prozent - 5,5 Prozentpunkte weniger als bei der Bundestagswahl 2013. Das ist ihr schlechtester Wert seit drei Jahren. » | Werner Mathes | Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015
AfD mobilisiert: Tausende Asylgegner demonstrieren in Erfurt
Die Thüringer AfD hat am Mittwochabend in Erfurt abermals mehrere Tausend Teilnehmer zu einer asylkritischen Kundgebung auf dem Domplatz mobilisiert. Die Polizei sprach bei der nunmehr sechsten Demonstration von 4.200 Menschen und damit von einer ähnlich großen Beteiligung wie vor einer Woche mit 4.000 Teilnehmern. Die Zahl der Gegendemonstranten wurde mit etwa 2.000 angegeben und war damit etwas geringer als in der Vorwoche. » | Quelle: epd-bas | Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Gaddafi Son Speaks from Jail: Solitary Confinement, Windowless Cell, Abuses & Violations
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Österreichs Zaun könnte Dominoffekt auslösen
Wien/Berlin. Am Montag, dem Nationalfeiertag, versuchte Heinz Fischer noch zu besänftigen: Österreichs Bevölkerung solle sich in die Lage der Flüchtlinge versetzen. Es sei keine anonyme Masse, die durch das Land ziehe. „Sondern einzelne Menschen mit individuellen Schicksalen.“ Zwei Tage später wählte der Bundespräsident allerdings ungewohnt deutliche Worte: Österreich sei „an die Grenzen der Kapazitäten gestoßen“, sagte Fischer während seines Besuchs im Kosovo. Allein die tausenden Menschen, die durch Österreich nach Deutschland marschierten, „schaffen große organisatorische und logistische Probleme“. Was nun besonders wichtig sei, sei, die „Außengrenzen besser zu kontrollieren“ und eine gerechte Verteilung auf die europäischen Länder zu erreichen. » | Von Iris Bonavida, Julia Raabe, Christian Ultsch und Rainer Nowak (Die Presse) | Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015
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Nach Grenzzaun- Bau: Schutz für Orban verstärkt
Diese Kräfte betrachten den ungarischen Ministerpräsidenten und sein Umfeld seitdem als Feinde", zitierte das Blatt den früheren Vizechef der ungarischen Militärabwehr, Jozsef Horvath. Das ungarische Militär hatte auf Weisung Orbans die Zäune an der Grenze zu Serbien und - einen Monat später - zu Kroatien errichtet, um den Flüchtlingsstrom vom Land abzuhalten. » | red/AG | Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015
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'Like a Poison': How Anti-immigrant Pegida Is Dividing Dresden
THE GUARDIAN: A year since its launch, German protest group has evolved into slick operation whose polarising rhetoric is increasingly blamed for attacks on refugees
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The wrath at Pegida rallies is reserved almost exclusively for Angela Merkel, who is repeatedly referred to as a “traitor of the people”. The German chancellor – whom many hold responsible for the crisis, namely for her “open door” policy towards asylum claims – is depicted as everything from a euro dictator, dressed in a Nazi-style uniform with red arm bands showing euro signs instead of swastikas, to a state security informant called Erica.
In between speeches the crowds chant “Merkel raus!” (Merkel out), “Widerstand” (resistance) and “Wir sind das Volk” (We are the people) – a rallying cry stolen from the 1989 dissident protests that were crucial in bringing down the Berlin Wall. Alongside German flags, scores are waving what under the bright lights initially looks like the Norwegian flag but is the black, red and gold cross emblem of the Nazi resistance movement led by Claus von Stauffenberg – who was executed after his failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944.
“We are resistance fighters like him,” an elderly woman trying to push a bike through the crowds says. “We have hardly ever been so vulnerable in our history as we are now, with the borders open and everyone and anyone, including suicide bombers and economic freeloaders, pouring in.” Like many here, she declines to give her name or any other details that might identify her.
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Read the whole article and comment » | Kate Connolly in Dresden | Tuesday, October 27, 2015
THE GUARDIAN: Bavaria threatens legal challenge to Merkel's open door refugee policy: State’s leader Horst Seehofer has been at loggerheads with the chancellor for weeks and blames her for the scale of the refugee crisis in Germany » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Friday, October 9, 2015
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The wrath at Pegida rallies is reserved almost exclusively for Angela Merkel, who is repeatedly referred to as a “traitor of the people”. The German chancellor – whom many hold responsible for the crisis, namely for her “open door” policy towards asylum claims – is depicted as everything from a euro dictator, dressed in a Nazi-style uniform with red arm bands showing euro signs instead of swastikas, to a state security informant called Erica.
In between speeches the crowds chant “Merkel raus!” (Merkel out), “Widerstand” (resistance) and “Wir sind das Volk” (We are the people) – a rallying cry stolen from the 1989 dissident protests that were crucial in bringing down the Berlin Wall. Alongside German flags, scores are waving what under the bright lights initially looks like the Norwegian flag but is the black, red and gold cross emblem of the Nazi resistance movement led by Claus von Stauffenberg – who was executed after his failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944.
“We are resistance fighters like him,” an elderly woman trying to push a bike through the crowds says. “We have hardly ever been so vulnerable in our history as we are now, with the borders open and everyone and anyone, including suicide bombers and economic freeloaders, pouring in.” Like many here, she declines to give her name or any other details that might identify her.
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Read the whole article and comment » | Kate Connolly in Dresden | Tuesday, October 27, 2015
THE GUARDIAN: Bavaria threatens legal challenge to Merkel's open door refugee policy: State’s leader Horst Seehofer has been at loggerheads with the chancellor for weeks and blames her for the scale of the refugee crisis in Germany » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Friday, October 9, 2015
Bavarian PM Gives Merkel Deadline to Close 'Open Door' for Refugees
Germany Says Austrian Handling of Refugees 'Out of Order
The German government accused Austria on Wednesday of driving refugees to the border after dark so they could cross into Germany and said it expected Vienna to return to an orderly processing of migrants immediately.
"The behaviour of Austria in recent days was out of order," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told a news conference in Berlin, in the strongest public criticism of its neighbour since the refugee crisis deepened two months ago. » | Agencies | Wednesday, October 28, 2015
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Stephen Harper As You’ve Never Seen Him Before: Singing Sweet Caroline at a 2015 Stampede Barbecue, Acting in Murdoch Mysteries
Five exciting new career opportunities for outgoing Canada PM Stephen Harper: Harper has resigned as Conservative party head, and everyone is wondering what he’ll do next. The Guardian has handpicked possible jobs to keep him occupied based on his musical talents, hockey knowledge and love of cats »
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Muslim Leaders in UK Warn of 'Worrying' Levels of Islamophobia
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| Tell MAMA, an organisation that monitors anti-Muslim attacks, said women wearing headscarves were more likely to be the target of Islamophobia. |
The Muslim Council of Britain has warned of increasing levels of Islamophobia in the UK after recent videos showing anti-Muslim abuse on public transport were posted online and police forces in England and Wales were ordered to treat such attacks in the same vein as antisemitism.
Miqdaad Versi of the Muslim Council of Britain said: “As a whole, we have to understand that the UK is a very tolerant society, with London one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, and thankfully these kinds of attacks are relatively rare. But they are on the rise.
“The growth in Islamophobia has reached levels which are very worrying. Most Muslims know someone who’s suffered some form of abuse, whether online, physical or verbal. We’re now in a very serious situation and have been for the past year.” » | Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent and Alberto Nardelli Data editor | Monday, October 26, 2015
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Bundesgericht gibt dem Islamischen Zentralrat recht
Boots on Ground? US Considering ‘Direct Action’ against ISIS
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Syria,
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Ex-Vatican Official Krzysztof Charamsa: 'I'm a Gay Man. I'm Not a Monster'
THE GUARDIAN: Former Polish priest, who was sacked after revealing he was gay, on his decision to publicly announce his sexuality and his hopes for the Catholic church
Krzysztof Charamsa, the former Vatican official who was sacked and defrocked after publicly announcing he was gay, breaks out into a wide grin when he is asked whether he has plans to marry his boyfriend. His answer is coy, but his smile and giddy laughter seem to reveal his intentions.
“I understand many people who say ‘we don’t need the institution of marriage. Our love is free’. I am not in this part of society. For me, [marriage] is part of the dynamic of love and I thank God that I live in a century where it’s possible, thanks to the homosexual movement and thanks to many homosexual martyrs.”
It has been less than a month since the Polish 43-year-old, a former senior Vatican aide and monsignor, announced at a press conference that he was gay and in love as his Catalan boyfriend, Eduard, stood by his side. The admission, a day before the start of a contentious meeting of bishops in Rome to debate the church’s approach to modern “family issues”, including homosexuality, resulted in him getting immediately sacked.
The Vatican called the timing of the announcement “very serious and irresponsible” and said it was clear he could no longer work as a senior aide for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office within the Vatican tasked with defending Catholic doctrine. Read on and comment » | Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome | Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Krzysztof Charamsa, the former Vatican official who was sacked and defrocked after publicly announcing he was gay, breaks out into a wide grin when he is asked whether he has plans to marry his boyfriend. His answer is coy, but his smile and giddy laughter seem to reveal his intentions.
“I understand many people who say ‘we don’t need the institution of marriage. Our love is free’. I am not in this part of society. For me, [marriage] is part of the dynamic of love and I thank God that I live in a century where it’s possible, thanks to the homosexual movement and thanks to many homosexual martyrs.”
It has been less than a month since the Polish 43-year-old, a former senior Vatican aide and monsignor, announced at a press conference that he was gay and in love as his Catalan boyfriend, Eduard, stood by his side. The admission, a day before the start of a contentious meeting of bishops in Rome to debate the church’s approach to modern “family issues”, including homosexuality, resulted in him getting immediately sacked.
The Vatican called the timing of the announcement “very serious and irresponsible” and said it was clear he could no longer work as a senior aide for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office within the Vatican tasked with defending Catholic doctrine. Read on and comment » | Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome | Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Tony Abbott: 'Love Your Neighbour Leading Europe to Catastrophic Error' (Tony Abbott Delivers 2015 Margaret Thatcher Lecture)
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Harper Moving Back to Calgary after Election Defeat
THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Stephen Harper is moving back to Calgary following the Conservative Party’s defeat in the 2015 federal election, returning to his hometown with his wife Laureen and daughter Rachel.
A Conservative Party source says Ben Harper, the prime minister’s son, will remain in Ontario where he is attending Queen’s University in Kingston.
The Harpers have a family home in Calgary. » | Steven Chase | Ottawa | Tuesday, October 27, 2015
A Conservative Party source says Ben Harper, the prime minister’s son, will remain in Ontario where he is attending Queen’s University in Kingston.
The Harpers have a family home in Calgary. » | Steven Chase | Ottawa | Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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How Australia's Young Muslim Men Are Getting Radicalised (2014)
Three US Women Claim Sexual Assault by Saudi Prince in Beverly Hills Mansion
Three US women claim a Saudi prince assaulted them and held them captive during three days of sex- and drug-fueled partying at a Beverly Hills mansion.
The unidentified women, who have filed a civil suit in Los Angeles against Majed Abdulaziz Al Saud, 29, say they were hired by the prince as housekeepers in late September.
The suit, filed last Thursday, alleges that the prince terrorized the women and made sexual advances that included rubbing himself against one of them and asking another “to lick my entire body”.
At one point, he also ordered the staff, including security guards, to strip by the pool because he wanted to see everyone’s “naked pussy”. » | Agence France-Presse in Los Angeles | Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Germany: Thousands of PEGIDA Supporters Rally in Dresden
Austria: Fights Break Out as Thousands of Refugees Left Stranded in 'No Man's Land'
Monday, October 26, 2015
LIVE: Counter-protest Meets PEGIDA Demo in Dresden
Anti-immigrant and anti-Islam protests have dogged Germany for the last year, with a spike in hate crimes against refugees over the last few months as the impact of Europe's refugee crisis continues to grow.
Migrants : nouvel afflux en Allemagne
"Aujourd'hui, on se noie." C'est l'aveu du porte-parole de l'antenne bavaroise de la police fédérale, Frank Koller, à l'agence allemande de presse DPA. Selon lui, rien que samedi, 4 000 personnes sont arrivées dans le secteur de Passau, à la frontière avec l'Autriche, l'un des principaux points d'arrivée des migrants en Allemagne. En 2015, ce pays s'attend à accueillir jusqu'à un million de migrants, contre 200 000 l'an passé. "À Passau, on attend encore ce soir dix cars en provenance d'Autriche. On part du principe qu'on va avoir un problème aujourd'hui. (...) On ne va pas pouvoir traiter comme ça ce flux", a-t-il ajouté. » | Source AFP | Publié : dimanche 25 octobre 2015 | Modifié : lundi 26 octobre 2015
Geert Wilders Tells Australia to Abandon Multiculturalism or End Up Like the EU
Speaking in the calm, flat voice of one who is used to protesters with megaphones crashing his media appearances, the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders stood behind a bank of microphones and recommended Australia close its borders and abandon its long-held policy of multiculturalism, lest “Australian society” be irrevocably lost.
“You will have millions of people coming to Australia, like we do in Europe, and you will not be able to handle it,” Wilders said. “You should be a sovereign country that closes your borders to those kinds of immigrants.”
“Those kind of immigrants” are Muslims. Opposing Islam is the central tenet of Wilders’ Party for Freedom, which has been leading the polls in the Netherlands since August. It is also the key policy of the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), the new party that Wilders flew to Australia to launch. » | Calla Wahlquist | Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Islam and 9/11 Not Connected, 12-Year-Olds Taught in America
Parents in Illinois are outraged that a public school there is painting a positive picture of Islam and teaching impressionable young students that Islam bears no responsibility for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
This is just the latest incident demonstrating a growing trend in American education to portray the intolerant, slavery-sanctioning, woman-oppressing, genocidal, and relentlessly expansionist Religion of Peace as a misunderstood force for good or as just another world religion, no better or worse than the others. The relativist, multiculturalist, pro-Sharia compliance perspective is that a few bad, weird people who just happened to be Muslims flew airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001, and that these jihadist extremists in no way represent the core teachings of the Koran and the whole Islamic community, even though Muslims have been slaughtering, enslaving, and otherwise subjugating unbelievers for 1,400 years.
One of the education sector's gatekeepers Mark Halwachs, superintendent of High Mount School in Swansea, Ill., is proud to be serving humanity by presenting Islam as a positive thing that had absolutely nothing to do with the horrors of 9/11. The Kindergarten-to-8th Grade school he oversees has no plans to abandon its Islamic misinformation efforts and the teaching of revisionist history. » | Matthew Vadum | Monday, October 26, 2015
Österreicher decken sich mit Waffen ein
STERN: Täglich strömen Tausende über die Westbalkanroute in Richtung Österreich und Deutschland. Eine Entwicklung, die unseren Nachbarn offensichtlich große Angst einjagt. Denn die rüsten auf.
Die Angst vor Flüchtlingen ist in Österreich offenbar groß. Wie das Onlineportal "oe24" berichtet, wurden gut 70.000 Waffen mehr als im Vergleichszeitraum des Vorjahres verkauft. Als häufigsten Grund für die Aufrüstung nennt "oe24" ohne Angaben von Quellen Angst vor Flüchtlingen und vor Dämmerungseinbrechern. Mittlerweilen lagerten fast 900.000 Waffen in den Haushalten. » | jek/DPA | Montag, 26. Oktober 2015
Die Angst vor Flüchtlingen ist in Österreich offenbar groß. Wie das Onlineportal "oe24" berichtet, wurden gut 70.000 Waffen mehr als im Vergleichszeitraum des Vorjahres verkauft. Als häufigsten Grund für die Aufrüstung nennt "oe24" ohne Angaben von Quellen Angst vor Flüchtlingen und vor Dämmerungseinbrechern. Mittlerweilen lagerten fast 900.000 Waffen in den Haushalten. » | jek/DPA | Montag, 26. Oktober 2015
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Zusammenschnitt der Zusammenstöße zwischen Polizei und Anti-HoGeSa-Demonstranten in Köln
Clashes in Cologne over anti-Islam rally »
Saudis Want Britain's Respect, But It Must Be Earned – Not Bought
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| Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdelaziz used an article in the Daily Telegraph to warn the UK of 'serious repurcussions' if it fails to treat Saudi Arabia with respect. |
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UK, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, has complained in an article for the Daily Telegraph that his country is being unfairly picked on in Britain. It is, he claims, “an alarming change” in tone. His words reflect a puncturing of the mystique that has traditionally protected the wealthy, secretive Gulf kingdom from rigorous scrutiny.
But the ambassador’s discomfort may also stem from the Saudi regime’s raised profile in regional affairs, which makes it more of a target for attack, and from a sense that the kingdom’s unelected, uninspiring rulers are increasingly vulnerable.
Successive British governments have treated the Saudi royals with exaggerated respect bordering on obsequiousness. This was primarily down to the Saudis’ unmatched oil wealth, rather than any natural affinity. The motive was self-interest, not affection. » | Simon Tisdall | Monday, October 26, 2015
Saudi royal calls for regime change in Riyadh »
Refugees Will Freeze to Death, Warn EU Heads
THE TELEGRAPH: Leaders warn the continent was "falling apart" trying to deal with the migrant crisis
Migrants crossing the Balkans will begin freezing to death as winter approaches, the head of European Union has said, as leaders warned the continent was "falling apart" trying to deal with the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War.
As leaders of eastern European countries turned on each other at a foul-tempered emergency summit in Brussels, they said the Schengen visa-free zone and even the European Union itself could be pulled apart as states threw up borders to halt the influx.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said a solution was urgently needed or thousands of refugee families facing winter temperature on the hillsides and freezing river-banks of Eastern Europe, would die.
"Every day counts," he said. "Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish miserably." Miro Cerar, the Slovenian prime minister, said the EU was days from collapse as his country buckled under an “unbearable” influx of migrants.
"If we do not deliver some immediate and concrete actions on the ground in the next few days and weeks I believe the EU and Europe as a whole will start falling apart," he said.
Werner Faymann, the Austrian chancellor, said Sunday's meeting would "either consolidate the unity of Europe or watch the slow decomposition of the EU." » | Matthew Holehouse, in Brussels and Melanie Hall in Berlin | Sunday, October 25, 2015
Migrants crossing the Balkans will begin freezing to death as winter approaches, the head of European Union has said, as leaders warned the continent was "falling apart" trying to deal with the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War.
As leaders of eastern European countries turned on each other at a foul-tempered emergency summit in Brussels, they said the Schengen visa-free zone and even the European Union itself could be pulled apart as states threw up borders to halt the influx.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said a solution was urgently needed or thousands of refugee families facing winter temperature on the hillsides and freezing river-banks of Eastern Europe, would die.
"Every day counts," he said. "Otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish miserably." Miro Cerar, the Slovenian prime minister, said the EU was days from collapse as his country buckled under an “unbearable” influx of migrants.
"If we do not deliver some immediate and concrete actions on the ground in the next few days and weeks I believe the EU and Europe as a whole will start falling apart," he said.
Werner Faymann, the Austrian chancellor, said Sunday's meeting would "either consolidate the unity of Europe or watch the slow decomposition of the EU." » | Matthew Holehouse, in Brussels and Melanie Hall in Berlin | Sunday, October 25, 2015
Sunday, October 25, 2015
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