Monday, November 23, 2015
Archbishop of Canterbury: The Way Islamic State Distorts Islam “One of the Most Desperate Aspects of Our World Today”
Drought Led to Rise in Terror: Prince Charles Blames Climate Change for War in Syria
The drought that ravaged the country for more than five years has led to conflict and terrorism, he said.
The Prince claimed that unless urgent action was taken over environmental issues, the world faced catastrophe. In an interview with Sky News, recorded before the Paris atrocities, he said: “We’re seeing a classic case of not dealing with the problem.
“It sounds awful to say, but some of us were saying 20 something years ago that if we didn’t tackle these issues you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought.
“There’s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.” » | Helene Perkins | Monday, November 23, 2015
Decade in Power: Angela Merkel Marks 10 Years as Chancellor of Germany
Terrorangst in Brüssel: Eine gelähmte Stadt
Sonntag ist in Brüssel Markttag - normalerweise. Doch an diesem kühlen Novembertag ist in der belgischen Hauptstadt nichts normal. Am Südbahnhof, wo sich Sonntag für Sonntag Hunderte Händler und Zehntausende von Kunden aus aller Herren Länder tummeln, herrscht gespenstische Ruhe. Gepanzerte Armeefahrzeuge, bis auf die Zähne bewaffnete Polizisten und Fallschirmjäger bestimmen nicht nur dort das Straßenbild. Auch der Markt auf dem 15 Gehminuten vom Südbahnhof entfernten Hauptplatz des Stadtteils Molenbeek-Saint-Jean fällt aus. » | Michael Stabenow, Brüssel | Sonntag, 22. November 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Spain: Far-right Activists Mark 40th Anniversary of General Franco's Death
Tollwütige Hunde und Klapperschlangen
Nach den Terroranschlägen in Paris wird die Kontroverse über die Aufnahme syrischer Flüchtlinge in den USA von einer zusehends radikaleren Sprache sowie Forderungen nach einer amerikanischen Abschottung gegenüber Muslimen geprägt. In der vergangenen Woche wurden syrische Flüchtlinge von amerikanischen Politikern unter anderem mit «Klapperschlangen» und «tollwütigen Hunden» verglichen. Derzeit halten sich rund 2000 Flüchtlinge aus Syrien im Land auf, doch plant Präsident Obama 2016 die Einreise von weiteren 10'000 Flüchtlingen. » | Martin Kilian, Korrespondent | Sonntag, 22. November 2015
France: Police Clash with Protesters at Banned Pro-refugee Rally in Paris
Brussels 'Very Dangerous' as Several Terror Suspects Remain At Large
Several terrorists remain at large in Brussels and threaten to commit a “very dangerous act”, a senior official has said, as the Belgian capital enters its second day with soldiers and armoured vehicles continuing to keep the city in lockdown.
The mayor of one of Brussels’ municipalities said the area was still facing a grave threat, adding that suspects linked to the Paris terror attack that killed more than 130 last week remain on the run.
Schaerbeek’s mayor, Bernard Clerfayt, said on Sunday: “There are two terrorists in the Brussels region that could commit very dangerous acts.” The Belgian interior minister, Jan Jambon, added “several suspects” tied to the Paris attacks could be at large in the country.
Belgium’s national crisis centre on Saturday raised the threat alert in the Brussels region to level four, which indicates a “serious and immediate threat”. Clerfayt said it was necessary to try to anticipate and prevent any such acts and their consequences. He said: “As long as this threat is present, we must be very attentive.” » | Jason Burke and Ian Traynor in Brussels | Sunday, November 22, 2015
Brussels Faces Week On Lockdown as Hunt for Terror Cell Intensifies
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| A police officer and soldiers on security duty inside the Galerie de la Reine in Brussels on Sunday. |
Europe’s unofficial capital faces an unprecedented security lockdown this week after Belgian authorities imposed a slew of safety-first measures to prevent a “serious and imminent” terrorist attack.
Charles Michel, the Belgian prime minister, said schools and universities would be shut on Monday while the Metro in the city, which had been expected to partially open after being suspended over the weekend, will not run.
Belgian counter-terrorist agencies are continuing their search for a network of Islamic militants as soldiers patrol the streets with armoured vehicles outside main stations and in public spaces.
“We still fear attacks here like those that occurred in Paris, involving several individuals striking simultaneously in several places,” Michel told a tense press conference, adding that there were “indications” that transport systems, commercial centres, shopping streets and busy places were targets.
Local media described the measures, particularly the closure of schools, as unprecedented and historic, and predicted mass disruption. It remained unclear how the lockdown would affect Europe’s political executive, the European commission. » | Jason Burke in Brussels | Sunday, November 22, 2015
On the Murder March with ISIS: Terror Expert Tells of the Slave Markets, Summary Executions and 'Morality' Police of the Jihadi Group - Who Have $2trillion in the Bank
It is a force the like of which the world has never seen before: a medieval death cult with a territory roughly the size of England.
Its tentacles of power stretch out across Iraq and Syria, whose border it has erased. Syrian Raqqa is the de facto capital, Iraqi Mosul its most populous centre. Within its brutal control lies a huge population of eight million – and it has assets estimated at $2 trillion.
This is the Islamic State, sometimes called ISIS, a terrorist movement with the destructive power of an army possessed by a terrifying vision of the world to come. Read on and comment » | Michael Burleigh for the Mail On Sunday | Sunday, November 21, 2015
Austria: Anti-refugee Protesters Rally against Government in Vienna
Germany: 'Merkel Must Go' - Anti-refugee AfD Rally Hits Mainz
Germany: More Than 100 Arrested as Clashes Erupt over NPD Conference in Weinheim
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Germany: Far-right Activists Commemorate Nazi Soldiers Killed in WWII
Ban Bathtubs, Says Sweden's 'Green King'
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| King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden |
The king of Sweden wants to ban all bath-tubs in an effort to save water.
King Carl XVI Gustaf, who in recent years has put past scandals relating to his reputation as a lothario behind him to become better known as a dedicated environmentalist, has given a frank interview to describe his determination to turn the royal palace in Stockholm green.
He also suggested that having given up taking baths himself his people should follow where he has led.
“We should ban all baths, imagine that,” he said when asked about his suggestions for everyday energy saving.
The question arose when he confessed he had recently been forced to run himself a bath when staying somewhere that lacked showers. “That’s when it hit me how much water and energy it used," he said. "I thought ‘I can’t believe I’m having to do this’. I felt quite ashamed.”
The comment about a bath ban appeared to be in jest, but he added: “There’s truth in it though. It’s the small details that have an enormous effect.” » | Lisa Kjellsson | Saturday, November 21, 2015
My comment:
Doesn't this king have more important things to worry about? I would have thought that the Islamisation of his country would be uppermost in his mind. – © Mark
Saudi Arabia and ISIS; Islam and Islamism
This one sentence encapsulates the West’s problem! The West has fabricated a term––Islamism––to get around a problem which it has introduced into our Judaeo-Christian civilization. The problem, of course, is Islam.
There is no such thing as ‘Islamism’. Islamism is a figment of the Westerner’s imagination. No self-respecting Muslim would recognize the term. What liberal Westerners perceive as Islamism is merely the practice of Islam as it should be practised. An Islamist is a devout Muslim!
Of course, there are many peace-loving Muslims: the people that Western politicians refer to as ‘moderate’. But these people are people who do not practice their faith to the letter of Sharia law, to the letter of the Koran, to the letter of the Hadiths. They are not properly living in accordance with the Sunnah, or way of, the Prophet.
The ‘Islamic State’ is carrying out the practices of their Prophet, as does indeed Saudi Arabia. What goes on in the so-called Islamic State is not much different from what goes on in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace and home of Islam.
Saudi Arabia puts people to death for apostasy. Saudi Arabia stones women to death for adultery. Saudi Arabia beheads people in the public square. Saudi Arabia amputates people’s hands (and feet!) for theft. Etc. All these atrocities we turn a blind eye to for commercial reasons. In Saudi Arabia these punishments are state-sponsored, whereas in the Islamic State, because as yet it is only a quasi state, they are not.
We are never going to be able to defeat the “enemy within”, or without, for that matter, until intelligent people come to the realization that our enemy is not Islamism, but Islam itself. Our forefathers understood the dangers of Islam. Why can’t we?
The fact is simple: Islam is out to defeat its long-time enemy. This is a Holy War, otherwise known as the Jihad. For as long as we refuse to come to terms with this reality, the West will be in danger; and its survival will also be in danger. – © Mark Alexander
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Op-Ed: Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It
Wahhabism, a messianic radicalism that arose in the 18th century, hopes to restore a fantasized caliphate centered on a desert, a sacred book, and two holy sites, Mecca and Medina. Born in massacre and blood, it manifests itself in a surreal relationship with women, a prohibition against non-Muslims treading on sacred territory, and ferocious religious laws. That translates into an obsessive hatred of imagery and representation and therefore art, but also of the body, nakedness and freedom. Saudi Arabia is a Daesh that has made it.
The West’s denial regarding Saudi Arabia is striking: It salutes the theocracy as its ally but pretends not to notice that it is the world’s chief ideological sponsor of Islamist culture. The younger generations of radicals in the so-called Arab world were not born jihadists. They were suckled in the bosom of Fatwa Valley, a kind of Islamist Vatican with a vast industry that produces theologians, religious laws, books, and aggressive editorial policies and media campaigns.
One might counter: Isn’t Saudi Arabia itself a possible target of Daesh? Yes, but to focus on that would be to overlook the strength of the ties between the reigning family and the clergy that accounts for its stability — and also, increasingly, for its precariousness. The Saudi royals are caught in a perfect trap: Weakened by succession laws that encourage turnover, they cling to ancestral ties between king and preacher. The Saudi clergy produces Islamism, which both threatens the country and gives legitimacy to the regime. » | Kamel Daoud * | Friday, November 20, 2015
* Kamel Daoud, a columnist for Quotidien d’Oran, is the author of “The Meursault Investigation.” This essay was translated by John Cullen from the French.
Dans Bruxelles en alerte
Army Chaplains to Lose Christian Motto Because It Might Offend Muslims
The cap badge and motto of the Australian army chaplains is presently identical to those held by the British army, a legacy and tradition dating back to the founding days of the Australian nation as it established itself as a Dominion independent of Great Britain. Emblazoned on a Maltese cross and wreath in purple and gold, the motto ‘In This Sign Conquer’ is thought to be a reference to the crusades.
Now just five months after a Muslim Imam joined the Australian forces religious advisory committee, that history is to be swept away, reports Australia’s Daily Telegraph. Despite the sudden push for change, there is not thought to presently be a single Australian Muslim chaplain in the army. » | Oliver Lane | Saturday, November 21, 2015
Medical Issues Causing Hillary Clinton’s Confusion, Dizziness?
Un-Welcome? Europeans Change Stance on Refugees after Paris Attacks
Belgium: Brussels on Lockdown Over Terror Alert, Soldiers Deployed
Brussels in Lockdown after Terror Threat Level Is Raised to Maximum
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| Military vehicles commonly sighted in Brussels on Saturday as city moves to maximum terror alert level. |
Brussels has been blanketed with security after the Belgian government raised alert levels on terrorist threats to the maximum, warning of the “serious and imminent” possibility of a Paris-style attack involving firearms and explosives.
The city’s metro system was closed down on Saturday until Sunday afternoon at the earliest as shops shut, shopping malls were partly shuttered, professional football was cancelled, concerts were called off and music venues, museums, and galleries closed their doors for the weekend.
The heightened alert level followed meetings of the national security and counter-terror services late on Friday, which concluded, on the basis of undisclosed evidence, that a major attack was being planned in Brussels. The rest of the country was put on a level three alert, one level short of the maximum. » | Ian Traynor in Brussels | Saturday, November 21, 2015
Brussels on Highest Alert as Belgian Officials Warn of ‘Serious and Imminent’ Threat
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Saturday morning that officials had identified shopping centers, public transportation and major events as targets of a possible attack, involving multiple assailants at multiple locations, similar to the deadly assault that struck Paris on Nov. 13.
Searches of homes overnight by police in the immigrant quarter of Molenbeek and other neighborhoods in Brussels uncovered explosives and weapons, the prime minister said. Belgian security officials said it appeared that suspects were planning simultaneous attacks and that this was the reason for raising the threat to its highest level early Saturday. The U.S. Embassy in Brussels also issued a security alert warning U.S. citizens here “to shelter in place and remain at home.” Late Friday, an additional Belgian citizen was charged as an accomplice in connection with the Paris attacks and participation in a terrorist organization. Authorities declined to release his name.
Armed troops stood guard in front of hotels and at major intersections. Movie theaters, pools and department stores were shuttered. A concert by well-known Belgian singer Johnny Hallyday planned for Saturday night at a major concert venue was canceled, as well. » | William Booth, Anthony Faiola and Emily Badger | Saturday, November 21, 2015
Turkey Threatens Russia Over Bid to Obliterate Sick Islamic State Terrorists
Officials in the capital Ankara warned Russia to “immediately end its operation” after war planes hit Syrian ground “very close” to the Turkish border.
Turkey sees the Turkmen population that inhabits villages near the border as natural allies in the struggle against President Assad’s brutal regime.
Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish prime minister, said that "if civilians fleeing massacre and cluster bombs head to Turkey, and a new refugee influx emerges, everyone concerned will be held accountable."
The Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov was called in for crisis talks as tensions between the two sides escalate over their different of opinion on the Syrian conflict. » | Jack Fenwick | Saturday, November 21, 2015
'Five Bombings Planned' in Germany According to French Intelligence Dossier
A plot to carry out a series of five bombings was behind Germany’s dramatic decision to cancel a high-profile football match at the last minute earlier this week, according to new claims.
A newspaper claims to have seen a copy of a detailed dossier on the planned attacks in Hannover that was passed to the German authorities by French intelligence just two hours before kick-off.
It was the contents of this dossier that prompted the Germans to order the immediate evacuation of the stadium half an hour later, Hannoverische Allgemeine Zeitung claims.
The dossier gives details of a plan by a five-member terror cell led by a German citizen to target the football match in a series of coordinated bomb attacks.
There have been no arrests in connection with the threat to the match, suggesting members of the cell may still be at large. » | Justin Huggler, Berlin | Friday, November 20, 2015
Ben Carson: Screen Syrian Refugees Like They're Rabid Dogs
THE GUARDIAN: Ben Carson: screen Syrian refugees like they might be rabid dogs: Republican presidential hopeful condemned after suggesting US needs to ‘determine who the mad dogs are’ so they can’t ‘run around the neighborhood’ » | Associated Press in Mobile | Friday, November 20, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Nach Anschlägen in Paris: Houellebecq pöbelt gegen Frankreichs Politiker
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| Bestsellerautor Michel Houellebecq ist aufgrund seiner provokanten Äußerungen und Romane nicht unumstritten |
Nach den Anschlägen von Paris wurden schnell auch Stimmen laut, die Frankreichs Regierung und Geheimdiensten vorwarfen, im Vorfeld der terroristischen Attentate versagt zu haben. Der aufgrund provokanter Äußerungen umstrittene Bestsellerautor Michel Houellebecq übt in einem Gastkommentar, der am Donnerstag zunächst in der italienischen Zeitung "Corriere della Sera" und einen Tag später auch in der "New York Times" erschienen ist, ebenfalls harsche Kritik an Frankreichs Regierung. » | mod | Freitag, 20. November 2015
«In der Banlieue grüsst man sich nicht»
Europa muss mit Senfgas-Angriffen durch IS rechnen
Experten vermuten schon seit geraumer Zeit, dass die Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat (IS) an der Produktion von Chemiewaffen arbeitet. Nun bestätigte eine Untersuchungskommission des irakischen Parlaments diesen Verdacht. Die Terroristen sollen dazu Wissenschaftler des gestürzten Saddam-Hussein-Regimes, aber auch aus Syrien und Jordanien verpflichtet haben. "Der IS arbeitet sehr ernsthaft daran, chemische Kampfstoffe produzieren zu können", sagte Hakim al-Zamili, der Vorsitzende der Kommission für Sicherheit und Verteidigung des irakischen Parlaments. "Das würde nicht nur den Irak, sondern die ganze Welt gefährden." » | Von Alfred Hackensberger, Korrespondent | Freitag, 20. November 2015
France Is Trying to Create a Coalition to Destroy Isil, But President Obama Isn't Interested
Tell me: What’s a suicide bomber doing with a passport? He’s not going anywhere. And, though I’m not a religious scholar, I doubt that a passport is required in paradise for a martyr to access his 72 black-eyed virgins.
A Syrian passport was found near the body of one of the terrorists. Why was it there? Undoubtedly, to back up the Islamic State boast that it is infiltrating operatives amid the refugees flooding Europe. The passport may have been fake, but the terrorist’s fingerprints were not. They match those of a man who just a month earlier had come through Greece on his way to kill Frenchmen in Paris.
If the other goal of the Paris massacre was to frighten France out of the air campaign in Syria -- the way Spain withdrew from the Iraq War after the terror attack on its trains in 2004 -- they picked the wrong country. France is a serious post-colonial power, as demonstrated in Ivory Coast, the Central African Republic and Mali, which France saved from an Islamist takeover in 2013.
Indeed, socialist President Francois Hollande has responded furiously to his country’s 9/11 with an intensified air campaign, hundreds of raids on suspected domestic terrorists, a state of emergency and proposed changes in the constitution to make France less hospitable to jihad.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama, titular head of the free world, has responded to Paris with weariness and annoyance. His news conference in Turkey was marked by a stunning tone of passivity, detachment and lassitude, compounded by impatience and irritability at the very suggestion that his Syria strategy might be failing.
The only time he showed any passion was in denouncing Republicans for hardheartedness toward Muslim refugees. One hundred and twenty-nine innocents lie dead but it takes the GOP to kindle Obama’s ire. » | Charles Krauthammer | Friday, November 20, 2015
Sophie & Co: ‘This Is the Apocalypse’ - Bataclan Concert Hall Survivor
Österreich: HC Strache: Kampf dem islamistischen Terror gegen Europa!
Österreich: HC Strache fordert ein Umdenken im Kampf gegen radikalen Islamismus
In fünf Punkten verlangt HC Strache ein allgemeines Umdenken im Kampf gegen den islamistischen Terror.
Österreich: Strache will Dschihadisten auf Insel verbannen
Attentats de Paris : Bruxelles propose une agence européenne du renseignement
Le commissaire européen chargé des Affaires intérieures, Dimitris Avramopoulos, a proposé vendredi la création d'une agence européenne du renseignement après les attentats de Paris, mais il a reconnu, devant les réticences de certains États membres, qu'il s'agissait d'un « idéal ». Après les attentats de Charlie Hebdo, en janvier à Paris, Dimitris Avramopoulos avait proposé de créer un centre antiterroriste au sein d'Europol, qui doit commencer à fonctionner au 1er janvier 2016. « Mais je crois qu'il est temps de faire un pas supplémentaire en avant et de créer la base d'une agence européenne du renseignement », a plaidé Dimitris Avramopoulos, alors que les attentats ont mis en lumière des failles dans la coopération entre services secrets. » | Source AFP | vendredi 20 novembre 2015
Krieg in Syrien: Obama besteht auf Entmachtung Assads
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| Der amerikanische Präsident Obama sieht keine Lösung für Syrien, die Diktator Assad beinhaltet. |
Der amerikanische Präsident Barack Obama besteht auf einer Ablösung des syrischen Diktators Baschar al Assad. „Es reicht nicht, wenn wir einen politischen Prozess haben, der dazu führt, dass Assad an der Macht bleibt“, sagte Obama am Donnerstag in Manila. „Es ist undenkbar, dass man den Bürgerkrieg dort stoppt, wenn die überwältigende Mehrheit der Bevölkerung in ihm einen brutalen, mörderischen Diktator sieht.“ » | Christoph Ehrhardt, Beirut | Donnerstag, 19. November 2015
Saudi Court Sentences Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam
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| Ashraf Fayadh on YouTube. |
A Palestinian poet and leading member of Saudi Arabia’s nascent contemporary art scene has been sentenced to death for renouncing Islam.
A Saudi court on Tuesday ordered the execution of Ashraf Fayadh, who has curated art shows in Jeddah and at the Venice Biennale. The poet, who said he did not have legal representation, was given 30 days to appeal against the ruling.
Fayadh, 35, a key member of the British-Saudi art organization Edge of Arabia, was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
But after his appeal was dismissed he was retried last month and a new panel of judges ruled that his repentance did not prevent his execution.
“I was really shocked but it was expected, though I didn’t do anything that deserves death,” Fayadh told the Guardian. » | David Batty | Friday, November 20, 2015
Germany Could Send Troops into Streets for First Time Since War
Germany could deploy armed soldiers on its streets for the first time since the Second World War, as Europe went into lockdown in the wake of the Paris attacks.
The German proposals would be highly controversial in a country that remains deeply reluctant to use its armed forces because of its Nazi past.
Ministers raised the idea after Tuesday night’s friendly football match between Germany and Holland in Hanover was cancelled minutes before kick-off following a tip-off from intelligence in another EU state.
According to German media, a group of attackers had planned to set off multiple explosives at the stadium, where Angela Merkel was due to attend the match, and to detonate a bomb in the city centre.
Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister, has publicly called for the military to be used in the event of coordinated terror attacks on a German city.
“If we had a situation like Paris, perhaps with attacks in three of four places, we’d have to think about whether our police capabilities are enough,” Mr Schäuble told the Rheinische Post newspaper. “What can we do to support security forces that are already overwhelmed on some normal weekends in the face of great challenges?” » | Justin Huggler in Berlin and Henry Samuel in Paris | Thursday, November 19, 2015
RHEINISCHE POST: Schäuble will Diskussion über Bundeswehr-Einsatz im Inneren » | Quelle: RP | Mittwoch, 18. November 2015
A Message for the Paris Attackers from Andrew Neil for BBC's This Week
Thursday, November 19, 2015
France: There Is a Risk of Chemical or Biological Attack, Says Valls
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Spinnt diese alte Frau eigentlich? Ursula Haverbeck: The Panorama Interview, with English Subtitles
FOX NEWS: German 87-year-old 'Nazi grandma' jailed for denying the Holocaust » | FoxNews.com | Friday, November 13, 2015
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL: German ‘Nazi grandma’ jailed for Holocaust denial: Ursula Haverbeck is a lost cause, says magistrate, sending her to prison for 10 months » | JTA and Times of Israel Staff | Monday, November 16, 2015
HAMBURGER MORGENPOST: Wegen TV-Interview: Holocaust-Leugnerin wieder vor Gericht: Gaskammern gab es nicht, in Auschwitz ist kein Mensch gestorben, die KZ-Leichenberge waren in Wahrheit Opfer der Bombenangriffe – mit kriminellen Verschwörungstheorien tingelt Holocaust-Leugnerin Ursula Haverbeck (87) seit dem Ende des Dritten Reiches durch den braunen Sumpf, gefeiert von Neonazis. » | Von Stephanie Lamprecht | Sonntag, 8. November 2015
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Paris Attacks: The Chief Suspect
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Top Suspect in Paris Attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Confirmed Dead »
Al Jazeera World: Libya’s Forgotten King
My Nazi Legacy – Clip from New Documentary
My Nazi Legacy premieres at the UK Jewish Film Festival on 19 November. It is released in select cinemas and on VOD from 20 November
Our fathers the Nazis: film explores the legacy of atrocities: Documentary takes sons of Nazis and professor whose relatives were killed back to the horror of occupied eastern Europe » | Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent | Thursday, November 19, 2015
Paris Attacks: Isis 'Chemical Weapons' Warning Issued by French PM Manuel Valls
The Isis militant group could arm itself with biological and chemical weapons in future terror attacks on Europe, the French prime minister has warned.
Manuel Valls said France faced a serious threat from associates linked to the gunmen and bombers who launched attacks across Paris last Friday, killing 129.
"We must not rule anything out," he said. "I say it with all the precautions needed. But we know and bear in mind that there is also a risk of chemical or bacteriological weapons."
Mr Valls presented a bill to the French parliament that would extend the country's state of emergency for another three months. It will then go to the upper house on Friday. » | Adam Withnall | Thursday, November 19, 2015
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Terroralarm: Frankreich wappnet sich gegen Chemie-Anschläge
Die französische Regierung trifft Vorkehrungen zur Abwehr eines Terrorangriffs mit chemischen Kampfmitteln. Das geht aus einem Erlass des Gesundheitsministeriums hervor, der im offiziellen Gesetzblatt veröffentlicht wurde. Darin werde der Ankauf, die Lagerung, Verteilung und Verschreibung von Atropin-Sulfat in großem Umfang gefordert. Das berichtet die Zeitung "Le Figaro". Das eigentlich toxische Mittel wird nur vom Zentrallabor der Streitkräfte hergestellt. Es kann bei Kampfstoffangriffen - wie etwa mit Sarin-Gas - Betroffenen in hohen Dosen als Gegengift verabreicht werden. » | Von Stefan Simons, Paris | Donnerstag, 19. November 2015
How Stupid and Dangerous Is This? Paris Attacks: EU Chiefs Defy French Demands for Border Controls on Jihadist Fighters
The European Commission has indicated it will resist attempts by France to tighten EU border security, after it emerged that foreign fighters have as little as a one per cent chance of being caught when returning from overseas.
Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU Commissioner for migration, insisted that no change is necessary to the current border code that says EU passport holders should be subject to the “minimum checks” when they enter Europe from the Middle East or elsewhere.
The Paris attacks and the apparent ease with which terrorists moved to and from Syria and then from Belgium into France with weapons in their cars, has raised serious questions about the viability of the Schengen system – questions dismissed by Mr Avramopoulos. » | Matthew Holehouse, in Brussels, and Peter Foster, Europe Editor | Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Donald Trump: I Used To Be A Fan Of Angela Merkel
Donald Trump focused on national security in a speech to a raucous crowd of nearly 10,000 people, days after the Paris Attacks sent shock waves around the world and rippled through the 2016 presidential race.
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President Obama Dividing the Country over Terrorism
Police Raid in Saint-Denis Related to Paris Attacks, Deaths Reported
Angst vor dem IS-Terror: Jetzt werden die Weihnachtsmärkte gesichert
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| Am Wochenende beginnt auch in Düsseldorf wieder der jährliche Weihnachtsmarkt. |
„Die Sicherheitsbehörden haben eine verantwortliche Entscheidung getroffen", sagte Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel gerade eben dazu, warum das Fußball-Länderspiel zwischen Deutschland schließlich doch nicht ausgetragen worden ist. Viele Deutsche dürften diese Entscheidung teilen. Denn überall dort, wo sich viele Menschen dicht an einem Ort versammeln, steigt in diesen Tagen - bewusst oder unbewusst - das Bedürfnis an Schutz und Sicherheit. » | Brigitte Koch, Düsseldorf | Mittwoch, 18. November 2015
War on Terror: ISIS Threatens the Whole WORLD and Needs to Be ANNIHILATED, Says Hollande
In a televised address today Francois Hollande said military operations in the Middle East would be intensified just days after it launched attacks on ISIS, also known as Daesh, destroying a number of targets.
He announced plans to form a coalition with USA and Russia “to carry out strikes on Dash because Daesh is guilty”.
The president added: “What’s at stake is annihilating an army that threatens the whole world and not just some countries.”
He told the nation “we are at war” and promised there would be increases recruitment for the both the judiciary and police forces. » | Rob Virtue | Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Vladimir Putin: From Pariah to Powerbroker in One Year
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| Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian combat operations against Isis would be intensified. |
What a difference a war makes. Twelve months ago, Vladimir Putin was on the menu at the G20 summit in Brisbane. Western leaders queued up hungrily for a piece of Russia’s president following his armed intervention in Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea.
Barack Obama warned Putin he was isolated internationally; David Cameron said he did not trust the Russian leader; Stephen Harper, Canada’s then prime minister, told Putin bluntly: “Get out of Ukraine.”
Reacting angrily to the imposition of sanctions, Putin said western leaders had switched off their brains and were making matters worse by punishing Moscow. But the criticism continued unabated and he left the meeting early in a huff.
Fast-forward to this week’s G20 summit in Turkey and everything, it seems, has changed. Putin was pictured in a friendly huddle, chatting animatedly to Obama and the US national security adviser Susan Rice. He also held reportedly productive talks with Cameron and other leaders. No longer ostracised and browbeaten, Putin was the man everybody wanted to meet.
The reason is not a mystery. Under merciless attack from Islamic State, flailing on the refugee crisis, and consequently desperate to end the war in Syria, European leaders, backed by Obama, have come to an uncomfortable but, in historical terms, not wholly novel conclusion: they need Russia. » | Simon Tisdall | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Barack Obama Criticises Republicans Over Syrian Refugees
Anonymous 'Takes Down Thousands of Islamic State Twitter Accounts'
Marine Le Pen’s Anti-Islam Message Gains Influence in France
“France and the French are no longer safe,” Ms. Le Pen said in a speech the day after the attacks, demanding a crackdown on Islamists in the country.
Analysts said Ms. Le Pen’s already favorable prospects in regional elections in three weeks have most likely been given a lift, strengthening her position as a possible presidential candidate in 2017. She has also succeeded in pulling the political center of gravity in France to the right, forcing the main center-right party to adopt a stronger anti-immigration stance and taking positions in the wake of Friday’s attacks that were subsequently adopted by President François Hollande, a Socialist. » | Adam Nossiter | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
'We Are Monitoring Every Muslim' After Paris Attacks, Claims Slovakian PM
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| Mr Fico has said there are no mosques in Slovakia so Muslims 'would not fit in' |
The Slovakian Prime Minister has claimed his country is “monitoring every Muslim” in the wake of the attacks in the French capital on Friday.
Roberto Fico, 51, who is running for re-election in March, said recent events in France served to underline fears about accepting refugees and Muslim communities’ integration into European communities. » | Rose Troup Buchanan | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Nach den Anschlägen in Paris: Frankreich rüstet gegen den Terror auf
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| Ein französischer Soldat überwacht die Warteschlange vor Notre-Dame in Paris. |
Das Staatstheater im Schloss von Versailles ging feierlich zu Ende. Stramm wie ein Soldat stand François Hollande hinter dem Rednerpult, als sich die mehr als 1000 Abgeordneten und Senatoren des französischen Kongresses zur Hymne erhoben: "Zu den Waffen, Brüder, formt eure Truppen", sangen Sozialisten wie Liberale und Republikaner, "Marchons, marchons!"
Der Präsident hatte am Montagabend eine staatstragende Rede gehalten, mit einem Schlusswort voller Pathos: "Der Terrorismus wird nicht die Republik vernichten - sondern es wird die Republik sein, die ihn vernichtet!" Aber Hollande bewies auch, dass er geblieben ist, was er immer war: ein flinker, clever abwägender Taktiker. Er präsentierte vor Frankreichs verfassungsgebender Versammlung Vorschläge, mit denen er seine Nation aufrüsten will. "Le tournant securitaire" nennen Élysée-Berater die politische Wende nach rechts, hin zu mehr Sicherheit und Härte. Der Sozialist griff sogar Vorschläge auf, die vor dem Horror des 13. November nur Republikaner oder Vertreter des rechtsextremen Front National (FN) äußerten. » | Von Christian Wernicke, Paris | Dienstag, 17. November 2015
Islamismus: Die salafistische Gefahr
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| Pierre Vogel, einer der bekanntesten salafistischen Prediger in Deutschland, im Sommer des vergangenen Jahres bei einer Kundgebung in Hamburg. |
Eine Botschaft war in Berlin unüberhörbar: Ein Molenbeek wie in der belgischen Hauptstadt Brüssel gibt es in Deutschland nicht. Einen Stadtteil also, in dem viele der in Frankreich oder Belgien aktiv gewordenen islamistischen Terroristen gelebt oder zu dem sie vor ihren Taten enge Verbindung hatten. Als dem Sprecher des Bundesinnenministeriums am Montag eine entsprechende Frage gestellt wurde, wollte er sich nicht einmal auf regionale Schwerpunkte oder eine „Prioritätenliste“ festlegen hinsichtlich der Brennpunkte islamistischer Aktivität in Deutschland. Man dürfe den Fokus nicht verengen, heißt es in Berlin. Die Sorge steckt dahinter, dass sonst später, wenn doch einmal etwas passiert sein sollte, der Vorwurf auftauchte, man habe sich auf die falsche Region oder das falsche Stadtviertel konzentriert.
Zwar gibt es auch in Deutschland Orte, die in der öffentlichen Diskussion häufig als „Problemviertel“ bezeichnet werden, weil dort Parallelgesellschaften einen Nährboden für Gewalt und Kriminalität schafften. Berlin-Neukölln wird gerne genannt oder Duisburg-Marxloh. Doch das sind nicht die Brennpunkte, die Polizei und Verfassungsschützer im Auge haben, wenn sie von den wichtigsten Gefahrenherden des Islamismus in Deutschland sprechen. Die Karte mit den islamistischen Problemvierteln ist groß und reicht von Berlin über Niedersachsen und Bremen bis tief in den Westen ins einstige Bonner Diplomatenviertel Bad-Godesberg. Der Föderalismus scheint auch für die Islamisten zu gelten. » | Von Reinhard Bingener, Hannover, Reiner Burger, Düsseldorf, Mechthild Küpper und Eckart Lohse, Berlin | Dienstag, 17. November 2015
Is President Obama Delusional?
Huckabee on War on Terror: 'It's Put Up or Shut Up Time'
Op-Ed: Paris Pays the Price of Europe's Inability to Recognize the Real Enemy
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What happened in Paris on the horrifying night of Friday November 13, 2015, is Europe's chickens coming home to roost. For decades Europe turned a blind eye to the virulent humans rights violations of despotic, radical Islamic regimes across the Middle East. Within Europe, and across Western intelligentsia, a politically correct ideology took hold. Backed by an omnipotent politically correct mainstream media-- violent, misogynist, anti-Semitic, and anti-democratic rhetoric and behavior by radical muslims [sic] at home and abroad was either given a free pass, or got little to no media coverage. Meanwhile, Israel was singled out for biased, hypocritical and immoral condemnation. And by ignoring what is the real threat to Western civilization and democracy, Leonardo Da Vinci's immortal words turned into a devastating reality: "he who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.”
France, Europe, and the West will be making yet another terrible miscalculation, in the aftermath of this horrendous attack, if they interpret these attacks as only emanating from the Islamic State. The issue is much broader than that, and is a clash of civilizations (as the term was coined by Prof. Samuel Huntington), between democratic modernism and theocratic medieval barbarism. The West needs to recognize and acknowledge the enemy, namely radical Islamism. Sadly this is not a fringe movement, as PC ideologues would like to believe, and enjoys widespread and popular support.
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Read the whole article here » | Noam Rotem | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Finland: Anti-migrant Rally Fumes against Mosque Construction Plan
Europe's 'Porous Borders' Increase Terror Risk, Head of Metropolitan Police Says
Europe's "porous" borders mean that terrorists could be able to "hide" among migrants coming from Syria, the head of the Metropolitan Police has warned as he criticised the Schengen agreement.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said that in the wake of the Paris terror attacks Europe has a significant "problem" because it has "millions of people wandering through" but only "limited control over the borders".
Asked if he is a fan of the Schengen agreement on open borders, he wants "good strong borders" to ensure that the police and security services can properly assess the risk people pose.
He told LBC Radio: "If you've got porous borders and you've got migrants coming through there's a risk that terrorists are hidden amongst them or people who become terrorists get hidden amongst them. (+ video) » | Steven Swinford, Deputy Political Editor, video source LBC | Tuesday, November 17, 2015
PEGIDA Dresden: Rede von Tatjana Festerling (16.11.2015)
Germany: PEGIDA Holds First Rally Since Paris Attacks
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