Thursday, January 14, 2016
Germany & Sweden: Two Countries on the Verge of Islam [Top Hats and Brain Drain]
A Stricter Islam Displaces Old Ways in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR—Kelana Indra Sakti is one of Malaysia’s most successful shamans. Framed testimonials from his customers hang from his office walls. In the driveway of his house he keeps a stretch Mercedes-Benz limousine given to him by a grateful client. His name, meaning “Adventurer, Heavenly Magic,” was bestowed on him by one of Malaysia’s wealthy sultans.
Lately, though, Mr. Kelana has supplemented his consultations with readings from the Quran.
“People just expect it these days, so I do it,” said the 70-year-old shaman.
Islam in Malaysia, and Southeast Asia, is taking a more conservative turn. The Muslim faith, brought here by Arab traders hundreds of years ago, has coexisted for generations with Malay customs such as shamanism, other forms of traditional medicine and the country’s sizable Buddhist, Christian and Hindu communities.
But more recently, conservative Wahhabi doctrines, often spread by Saudi-financed imams, are redefining the way Islam is practiced and, for some, eroding the tolerance for which the country has been known. » | James Hookway | Thursday, January 14, 2016
Al Jazeera America to Shut Down
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Opinion: State of Disunion
“I stand here confident that the State of our Union is strong,” President Obama summed things up last night. To which one might have puckishly responded: Strong maybe, but what union?
The invited audience at the annual address included many human symbols of national division: culture-war conscientious objectors Kim Davis and the Little Sisters of the Poor; Jim Obergefell, victor in the Supreme Court battle that occasioned Davis’s objection; representatives from Black Lives Matter and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. There were even empty seats to show disrespect for the Second Amendment and opposition to abortion.
The president acknowledged the country’s divided state in the most interesting line of his address:
It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency—that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.Likewise, there’s no doubt our column would improve if we wrote as well as Shakespeare: We thank God for our humility.
It would have been more interesting—and shown real self-awareness—if the president had acknowledged his political talents are in some respects wanting when compared not with the universally acknowledged great presidents but with the successful presidents of his own lifetime. We’re thinking here of Reagan and Clinton, who like Obama held office during fractious (if not quite as fractious) periods under divided government. In terms of both compromising with the opposition and emerging victorious from confrontations with it, Reagan and Clinton each enjoyed considerably more success than Obama. » | James Taranto | Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Merkel spricht Unsinn! Angela Merkel über die Angst vor einer Islamisierung Europas 03.09.2015
Taharrush: Muslim Gang Rape Custom SWEEPING Europe
UK Government Accused of Selling Weapons to Saudis, Admits Helping Choose Targets in Yemen
Angela Merkel Faces New Rebellion Over Refugees
Angela Merkel is facing a fresh rebellion over her refugee policy, with more than 40 politicians from her Christian Democrat party reportedly signing a petition to close Germany's borders to asylum seekers.
The rebels plan to call for a vote on the proposal at the next party meeting on January 26.
Mrs Merkel has come under intense pressure to change her “open-door” refugee policy since it emerged that asylum seekers were among the suspects in the New Year’s Eve sex attacks in Cologne.
More than 650 women have now come forward to file criminal complaints over the attacks, around 45 per cent of them for sexual assault. » | Justin Huggler in Berlin | Wednesday, January 13, 2016
DrB spricht über die Lage in Deutschland: Wie geht's weiter?
Ezra Levant Show: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to Introduce New Hijab Uniform
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Rhetoric Shift: Germany Imposes Stricter Rules on Refugees after Cologne Sex Assaults
USA: Germans Are Going to Riot, Overthrow Merkel – Trump Talks Cologne in Iowa
The West's Terminal Radical Islam Denial Syndrome
In response, Hillary Clinton declared, "Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people and have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam." She agreed this week that "white terrorism and extremism" are just as much a threat to Americans as ISIS and radical Islam, and then proceeded to blame "gun violence." The mayor of Cologne, Germany, told young women not to walk within "arm's length" of young Muslim men, and leftist commentators explained that the wave of sexual harassment resulted from some generalized, nonspecific religious patriarchal attitudes. The mayor of Philadelphia said that the attack on the police officer had nothing to do with "being a Muslim or the Islamic faith," and that instead, we ought to focus our attention on the pressing issue of gun violence: "There are just too many guns on the streets, and I think our national government needs to do something about that."
If the West keeps this up, there won't be any West of which to speak. » | Ben Shapiro | Wednesday, January 13, 2016
State of the Union: Obama Regrets Era of 'Rancor' and Ponders Divided America
Read the Guardian article here | David Smith and Dan Roberts in Washington | Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Denmark to Force Refugees to Give Up Valuables under Proposed Asylum Law
Denmark is set to force refugees to hand over their valuables in order to pay for their accommodation while applying for asylum, in a move the UN has warned may fuel fear and xenophobia. The Danish government has secured a parliamentary majority in favour of legislation that will severely curb the rights of refugees, and is expected to pass the legislation in parliament on Wednesday.
The bill states that asylum seekers who arrive with more than 10,000 kroner in cash “will have to [use] the surplus above 10,000 kroner to pay for their stay”, Danish government spokesman Marcus Knuth told the Guardian.
After criticism of an earlier draft of the law, refugees will no longer have to give up items of sentimental value, such as wedding rings, or items deemed as essential, such as watches. Gold bullion could still be seized, but Knuth said that in the case of any dispute of sentimental value, the asylum seeker would have the final say.
Responding to comparisons between the new law and the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, Knuth said the claim was “ludicrous” because similar laws apply to Danish citizens on welfare benefits. “We’re simply applying the same rules we apply to Danish citizens who wish to take money from the Danish government,” he said. » | Patrick Kingsley Migration correspondent | Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Sister of Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Arrested and Jailed in Same Prison
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| Samar Badawi received the 2012 International Women of Courage award for her efforts to promote women's equality in Saudi Arabia. |
Samar Badawi, a prominent Saudi human rights advocate – and the sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi – has been arrested and is being held in the same prison as her brother, according to activists and family members.
In a series of tweets Raif Badawi’s wife, Ensaf Haidar, said Samar had been arrested and transferred to Dharhan central prison after four hours of questioning.
According to Haidar, Amnesty International and the Raif Badawi Foundation – a Canadian advocacy group – Samar is believed to have been arrested Tuesday for posting to a Twitter account used to campaign for the release of her former husband, Waleed Abu al-Khair, and for publishing of photo of him in jail.
Abu al-Khair is a Saudi human rights lawyer currently serving a 15-year sentence, in part for defending Raif Badawi.
In a statement, Amnesty called Samar’s arrest “the latest example of Saudi Arabia’s utter contempt for its human rights obligations and provides further damning proof of the authorities’ intent to suppress all signs of peaceful dissent”. Read on and comment » | Jessica Murphy in Ottawa | Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Germany: Sexual Assaults 'Not a Totally New Phenomenon in Germany' - Interior Minister
Germany: PEGIDA and AntiFa Supporters Clash in Munich
Syrian Mothers Urge UK Women Not to Take Their Families to War Zone
Opinion: Cologne Attacks on Muslims Show Incompatibility of Cultures
As a Pakistani journalist working in Germany, I have been very skeptical about the German government's decision to allow thousands of refugees into the country without much scrutiny of their backgrounds.
Of course, I am empathetic towards the plight of the people who are fleeing war-torn countries like Syria, who are facing immense oppression and violence at the hands of Islamic militants as well as President Bashar Assad. I understand their woes, the pain of losing their loved ones, their homes and livelihoods in a civil war that continues to ravage the once peaceful country.
But at the same time, I was sure that the migrants' influx would ultimately disturb the harmony and balance of German society. I feel that Islamic culture and European norms are not compatible.
Most Germans have responded to the refugee crisis with exemplary humanism. My European friends got angry when I warned them against Chancellor Merkel's migrant-friendly policy. I found it very naïve that many Germans believed that all Middle Eastern and South Asian refugees would conform to their way of life and values. I told my friends that their understanding of the Muslim world was limited and flawed. They didn't pay much attention to my arguments. » | Shamil Shams | Monday, January 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton Slowly Inching to Deep Legal Trouble?
Rep. Mike McCaul Addresses Latest Threats to the US
Germany 'Out of Control' Syrian Teens Arrested for Rape of Girl in Pool amid More Attacks
Police said they have detained migrants in three more cases - one of which was traced to an asylum centre.
Tensions in the country are at breaking point as protests and counter-protests over the New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne spark riots.
Yesterday, a masked group of 200 barricaded buildings and smashed shop windows as they demanded action from authorities in the city of Leipzig.
And vigilante groups have attacked foreign migrants as 'revenge' for the sex assaults.
Three teenagers aged 15 from Syria have been arrested for rape after a 17-year-old girl was attacked in a public swimming pool in Munich on Saturday. » | Zoie O’Brien | Tuesday, January 12, 2016
EXPRESS: Now even Merkel says ENOUGH: Germany sends hundreds of migrants 'back to Austria' EACH DAY: ANGELA Merkel has made a huge U-turn in her immigration policies after it emerged Germany has sent 300 migrants back to Austria each day in the last month. » | Katie Mansfield | Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Polish Press Invokes Nazi Imagery as War of Words with EU Heats Up
Relations between Brussels and Poland’s hardline Eurosceptic government have deteriorated further after a Polish magazine published a cover portraying five leading EU politicians – including the German chancellor, Angela Merkel – in Nazi uniforms beneath the headline These people want to control Poland again.
The photoshopped image on the front of popular weekly Wprost showed Merkel, the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, European parliament president Martin Schulz, EU commissioner Günther Oettinger, and Guy Verhofstadt, the former Belgian prime minister, leaning over a map, echoing wartime photographs of Adolf Hitler and his generals.
In a post on his Facebook page, Verhofstadt, who heads the liberal Alde group in the European parliament, described the image as “outrageous”, adding that the EU was a “community of values” and that it was “the duty of all of us – commissioners, chancellors or not, to raise our voice when a government is endangering these principles and attacking democratic institutions”. » | Jon Henley | Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Rechte Ausschreitungen in Leipzig: Oberbürgermeister spricht von "Straßenterror"
Leipzigs Oberbürgermeister Burkhard Jung (SPD) hat die Ausschreitungen von rechtsextremen Hooligans als "Straßenterror" verurteilt. "Es ging um nackte Gewalt, sonst nichts", erklärte Jung. Das müsse nun klare und deutliche Konsequenzen haben.
Zeitgleich zur Versammlung der fremdenfeindlichen Legida-Bewegung in Leipzig hatten am Montagabend rund 250 vermummte Hooligans im linksalternativen Stadtteil Connewitz randaliert. Sie zündeten Feuerwerkskörper, warfen Scheiben von zahlreichen Geschäften ein und versuchten, Barrikaden zu errichten. Die Polizei nahm 211 Rechte vorübergehend in Gewahrsam. Fünf Polizeibeamte wurden verletzt. » | cht/AFP | Dienstag, 12. Januar 2016
Leipzig Unrest: Hundreds Rally at LEGIDA Anniversary, Football Fans Get Wild
German Police Arrest 211 after Far-right Riot in Leipzig
More than 200 far-right extremists have been arrested after they went on a rampage during a xenophobic rally in the German city of Leipzig, setting cars on fire and smashing windows.
Many of the extremists were already known to police as football hooligans and wrought chaos on Monday in an area known to be left-leaning, while thousands of supporters of the anti-migrant Pegida movement held an anti-refugee demonstration elsewhere in the city, authorities said.
A total of 211 arrests were made after the Connewitz district of the eastern city was attacked, police confirmed. » | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
CSU-Rebell gegen Merkel-Politik
‘Chaos’: Far-right Thrives in Cologne Attack Fallout
LIVE: LEGIDA Holds One-year Anniversary March in Leipzig
The Biggest Political Story in America
Robert Spencer on Fox News on Philadelphia Jihad Shooting and Cologne Muslim Sex Assaults
Germany Just Can't Get It Right
The late Robert Conquest once laid out a set of three political rules, the last of which read, "The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies." This rule comes in handy when trying to understand the otherwise clearly insane and suicidal policies of Chancellor Merkel's government in Germany. These policies only make sense if the German government has in fact been taken over by a cabal of people intent not on holding Germany together but on pulling it entirely apart. Consider the evidence.
There can be few other explanations for why Chancellor Merkel's government last year let in more than one million people (about 1.5% of the current German population) without having any idea of who they were, where they came from or what they think. No democratic leader could possibly push through such a startling measure. How else can you explain why a country that in the 20th century had such a gigantic anti-Semitism problem, would import so many people from those areas of the world which, in the 21st century, now have the same gigantic anti-Semitism problem? » | Douglas Murray | Monday, January 11, 2016
Prince Mohammed bin Salman: Naïve, Arrogant Saudi Prince Is Playing with Fire
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| Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the powerful 29-year-old favourite son of the ageing King Salman |
At the end of last year the BND, the German intelligence agency, published a remarkable one-and-a-half-page memo saying that Saudi Arabia had adopted “an impulsive policy of intervention”. It portrayed Saudi defence minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – the powerful 29-year-old favourite son of the ageing King Salman, who is suffering from dementia – as a political gambler who is destabilising the Arab world through proxy wars in Yemen and Syria. » | Patrick Cockburn | Sunday, January 10, 2016
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Gutfeld: The Latest Incarnation of Islamophobia-phobia
Scheinbar ist Frau Merkel nicht mehr so geliebt in Deutschland ! Stephanie Schulz - "politisches Irrenhaus Deutschland" ! Teil: 12
Germany: Cologne Counter-demo Meets PEGIDA Protest against NYE Assaults
Gunman Shoots Philadelphia Police Officer 'In the Name of Islam'
Edward Archer of Philadelphia approached Officer Jesse Hartnett, 33, shortly before midnight and fired 11 rounds, three of which hit the officer in his arm, authorities said.
Police released still images from surveillance video that showed the gunman dressed in a long white robe walking toward the car and firing, eventually getting close enough to shoot at point-blank range through the window. » | Reuters, with CNBC.com | Saturday, January 9, 2016
Paris Police Station Attacker Lived in German Refugee Shelter
A man who attacked a Paris police station last week had lived in a centre for asylum-seekers in Germany, German investigators say, a finding likely to fuel criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal stance towards war refugees.
The individual was shot dead by French police on Thursday after he tried to storm a police station in northern Paris, brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a fake suicide vest.
The assault took place exactly one year since the start of a series of jihadist attacks in France, marked by the killing of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on January 7 2015.
On Saturday, German investigators assisting the probe into the police-station attack raided an apartment at a shelter for asylum-seekers in Recklinghausen, in the west of the country.
Their statement gave no other details except to say no indications were found that other attacks had been planned.
A source close to the matter told AFP that the suspect had been registered as an asylum-seeker. » | AFP | Sunday, January 10, 2016
Iran : la soeur jumelle du dernier Shah est morte
C'était une pionnière controversée des droits des femmes dans son pays. Mais c'était surtout la soeur jumelle du dernier Shah d'Iran. La princesse Ashraf Pahlavin est décédée jeudi 7 janvier à l'âge de 96 ans, a annoncé son conseiller. Selon les médias officiels iraniens, la princesse est décédée chez elle à Monte-Carlo. Considérée comme une diplomate de talent, la princesse Ashraf a conduit la délégation iranienne de l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU pendant plus de dix ans, a précisé le conseiller de la princesse, Robert Armao. Elle était aussi une porte-parole importante de son frère, dont elle a conduit plusieurs missions diplomatiques, comme en Chine. Considérée comme une pionnière en matière de droits des femmes en Iran, elle fut la première à y apparaître en public sans voile, ce qui lui a valu d'être la cible des extrémistes religieux iraniens. En exil, elle a beaucoup participé à la promotion de l'héritage culturel, artistique et littéraire de l'Iran. » | Source AFP | samedi 9 janvier 2016
Germany after the Sex Attacks: Fences Are Going Up and the Mood Is Ugly
Women are sniggered at, insulted, and find men’s hands down their tops and between their legs. Dark corners are dangerous; girls who are drunk and alone are chased and raped. Security and police are nowhere to be seen. Welcome to Oktoberfest, Munich’s annual beer saturnalia. The worst, say barmaids, are Brits and Italians.
Cut to New Year’s Eve in Cologne. Crowds of people, mostly young men in various stages of inebriation, gather on the square between the cathedral and the station to let off fireworks and let themselves go. The crowd, about 1,000 strong, is watched by around 200 police, worried about youths throwing fireworks at each other.
But something more sinister is going on. Women and girls are surrounded, poked and jeered at as “whores” and “cunts”; their blouses are ripped and their underwear torn off. “I had mens’ hands on every body opening,” a distraught girl told the police. More than 100 women file sexual molestation charges against men “of north African or Arab origin”. Yet the station is not cleared, few arrests are made and, the next morning, the police report a “quiet night”. It takes almost four days for Germany to wake up to what happened. » | Alan Posener | Saturday, January 9, 2016
Saturday, January 09, 2016
Dr. Berg: Maßstab ist nicht das Wohlbefinden von Merkel sondern das des deutschen Volkes
PEGIDA Rally & Counter-protest in Cologne Following New Years Eve Assaults
Too Little, Too Late! Germany: Merkel Backs Stronger Deportation Laws After Cologne Sexual Assaults
LIVE: PEGIDA Rally to Meet Counter-protest in Cologne Following Sexual Assault Allegations
Both actions come in the wake of alleged mass sexual assaults against women in the same area during New Year's Eve celebrations. Cologne’s police have said the culprits are believed to be men between 18 and 30 years old with ""origins in the North-African and Arabic region.""
The allegations are expected to heighten tensions around the question of migration and cultural integration, as Germany accepts nearly one million refugees and migrants, mostly fleeing conflict in the Middle East.
Europe In Crisis over Sex Attacks by Migrants amid Calls for Emergency EU Meeting
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| (Left), Police arrest men around the main station in Cologne. (Right), A note found by police on two suspects. |
Europe was in crisis on Friday night as mounting fury over sex attacks by Middle Eastern and North African migrants threatened to divide the continent east from west.
Political tensions caused by allowing more than one million migrants to enter Europe in 2015 boiled over on Friday, as leaders from central and eastern countries announced the death of liberal Europe and called for the continent to seal its borders.
“The idea of multicultural Europe has failed,” proclaimed Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, calling for an extraordinary summit of EU leaders next week to discuss fresh reports of migrant-led sex attacks emerging from Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and Finland. Bohuslav Sobotka, his Czech counterpart, immediately echoed the call.
“The migrants cannot be integrated, it's simply impossible,” Mr Fico added, citing a “clear link” between the sex attacks and the influx of refugees that has swept through Europe from the failed states of Syria and North Africa.
As Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, promised to step up deportation of immigrants who broke the law, Belgium’s immigration minister tried to calm popular fears over the sex attacks by ordering new migrants to face mandatory “respect for women” courses.
But Hungary’s hardline conservative leader, Viktor Orban, dismissed such measures, calling for a complete halt to migration into Europe and the establishment of a new “European defence line” on Greece's northern borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria. » | Peter Foster, Europe Editor, Justin Huggler in Cologne and Richard Orange in Malmö | Friday, January 8, 2016
Cologne Police Chief Fired But What About Others In German Rape Cover Up?
Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ On Sale in Germany for First Time Since WWII
Cologne NYE Assaults: Women Buying Pepper Spays, Fearing Refugees
And the Mayor of Cologne has accused the police of withholding information from her.
Hungary Says Migrant Influx to Europe Must Be Stopped Altogether
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| Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán |
Hungary’s prime minister on Friday said that the flow of refugees and migrants pouring into Europe must be halted altogether, not just reduced, and called for new border fences to be built in northern Greece.
Viktor Orban, who has maintained one of the hardest lines of any European leader against the unprecedented influx, called for the building of what he called a “European defence line” on Greece’s borders with Bulgaria and Macedonia.
He told Hungarian state radio that stopping the flow of migrants - the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War - would be “the decisive issue of 2016”. » | Nick Squires, Rome | Friday, Janury 8, 2016
Friday, January 08, 2016
The Crusades: Episode 1: Holy War
Is Angela Merkel Stupid?: Germany: Cologne Assaults: 31 Suspects Identified, 18 of Them Refugees
Pat Condell: Goodbye to the First Amendment
Heiko Maas hat kein Problem mit Vollverschleierung
Bundesjustizminister Heiko Maas (SPD) hat den Parteitagsbeschluss der CDU gegen eine Vollverschleierung muslimischer Frauen kritisiert. „Ich bin dagegen, einzelne Themen zu dramatisieren“, sagte der Minister. Sicherlich müsse man in den muslimischen Gemeinden deutlich sagen, dass jede Einzelne selbst eine Entscheidung treffen kann, wie sie sich der Öffentlichkeit zeigt. „Solange das der Fall ist, habe ich kein Problem damit, wenn jemand ein Kopftuch trägt oder sich verschleiert“, betonte Maas. » | epd | Samstag, 26. Dezember 2015
Reports Across Germany Of Organized Sexual Assault Attacks
Recordings Reveal Qaddafi Foretold Rise of Radical Islam, Euro Invasion
Speaking to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Qaddafi said "[jihadists] want to control the Mediterranean and then they will attack Europe," British media reported.
A British foreign affairs committee investigating the Qaddafi ouster released the transcripts of two phone calls to Blair, both of which reportedly took place on February 25, 2011. Qaddafi fled the Libyan capital city of Tripoli that summer, and rebels killed him in October. » | FoxNews.com | Thursday, January 7, 2016
Tommy Robinson on Cologne – New Years Eve Attacks
Deutschland als Recht-s-Freier Staat
Die sexuellen Übergriffe von Köln und Hamburg haben das Vertrauen der Deutschen in den Staat untergraben. Sicherheit, Recht und Ordnung. sind durch die gesetzwidrige Grenzöffnung ebenso weggefallen. Die langfristigen Folgen dieser Politik zeigen jetzt zum ersten Mal ihre hässlichen Auswirkingen.
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
German Women Report String of Sexual Assaults by 'Arab and North African Men'
Police in Germany are investigating an alarming series of sexual assaults on women trying to celebrate the New Year by large groups of single men “of Arab or North African appearance”.
Authorities in the city of Cologne are to hold a crisis meeting on Tuesday after police described a group of some 1,000 men who took over the area around the main station on New Year’s Eve.
Women were robbed, groped, and had their underwear torn from their bodies, while couples had fireworks thrown at them.
Police have received 90 criminal complaints, around a quarter of them for sexual assault, including one case of rape.
Police in Hamburg say there was a series of similar incidents in the city’s Reeperbahn red-light area. Witnesses described groups of five to 15 men of who “hunted” women in the streets.
In Cologne, the attacks took place around the main station, opposite the cathedral, a traditional gathering spot to see in the New Year. » | Justin Huggler, Berlin | Tuesday, January 5, 2015
Fatwa in der Türkei: Flirten verboten
Eine Fatwa, ein islamisches Rechtsgutachten, sorgt in der Türkei für Diskussionsstoff: Das Amt für religiöse Angelegenheiten, bekannt unter dem Namen Diyanet, will Verlobten vorschreiben, wie sie sich zu verhalten haben. Zum Beispiel sollten sie nicht in der Öffentlichkeit Händchen halten oder als Paar alleine sein.
"In dieser Phase ist es nicht ungewöhnlich, dass Paare sich treffen und miteinander reden, um sich kennenzulernen", heißt es in dem Gutachten. "Gleichwohl könnte es unerwünschte Ereignisse geben, ob mit oder ohne Wissen der Familien." Dazu zählten "flirten, das Zusammenleben, ohne verheiratet zu sein, oder als Paar unbeobachtet zu sein". Dies fördere Tratsch und Gerüchte. Auch das Händchenhalten in der Öffentlichkeit gehöre zu den Dingen, die sich demnach nicht mit dem Islam vereinbaren ließen. » | Momtag, 4. Januar 2016
Obama to Close Background Checks Loophole on Gun Show Sales
Thousands of unlicensed gun shows and online dealers will be forced to conduct customer background checks for the first time in a fresh effort by Barack Obama to tackle America’s epidemic of deadly shootings.
In measures aimed at circumventing political deadlock in Congress that will inevitably set off a fierce battle in the courts, the president is due to close a loophole in the current system as well as call for greater spending on enforcement and new technology that could prevent unauthorised gun use.
“The gun lobby may be holding Congress hostage, but they can’t hold America hostage,” Obama said in a tweet that accompanied an official preview of the announcement due on Tuesday. “We can’t accept this carnage in our communities.” Read on and comment » | Dan Roberts in Washington | Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Monday, January 04, 2016
Is This Ex-bouncy Castle Salesman the New Jihadi John? Sister of Anjem Choudary Follower Who Skipped Bail to Join ISIS in Syria Admits British Executioner 'Sounds Just Like Her Brother'
Speculation was mounting today that the ISIS executioner dubbed the 'new Jihadi John' is a British fanatic who skipped police bail to join the terror group in Syria.
British security agents are racing to identify the masked militant who spoke with a clear English accent in a sickening new execution video in which he is seen shooting an alleged British spy.
Reports have been circulating that he could be Siddhartha Dhar, a British militant who went on the run with his pregnant wife and family while under investigation by Scotland Yard in 2014.
Dhar's sister also fuelled speculation after saying she believed the ISIS gunman sounded very much like her brother.
The father-of-four from Walthamstow was one of nine men detained on suspicion of encouraging terrorism and supporting radical cleric Anjem Choudary and the banned group Al-Muhajiroun.
The former bouncy castle salesman later posted a picture of himself cradling his baby while brandishing an assault rifle to taunt security services whose blunders allowed him to escape. » | Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline | Monday, January 4, 2016
Sweden and Denmark Crack Down on Refugees at Borders
Sweden and Denmark have moved to drastically reduce inward refugee flows, as Scandinavian countries compete with each other to shed their reputations as havens for asylum seekers.
For the first time since the 1950s, from midnight on Sunday travellers by train, bus or boat have needed to present a valid photo ID, such as a passport, to enter Sweden from its southern neighbour Denmark, with penalties for travel operators who fail to impose checks. Passengers who fail to present a satisfactory document will be turned back.
“The government now considers that the current situation, with a large number of people entering the country in a relatively short time, poses a serious threat to public order and national security,” the government said in a statement accompanying legislation enabling the border controls.
Hours after the Swedish checks were introduced, Denmark announced it had stepped up border controls on its southern boundary with Germany.
Sweden’s move marked a turning point for the ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Greens, which earlier presented itself as a beacon to people fleeing conflict and terror in Asia and the Middle East.
“My Europe takes in people fleeing from war, my Europe does not build walls,” the Swedish prime minister, Stefan Löfven, told crowds in Stockholm on 6 September. But three months and about 80,000 asylum seekers later, the migration minister told parliament: “The system cannot cope.” » | David Crouch in Copenhagen | Monday, January 4, 2016
Sunday, January 03, 2016
Iran's Leader Warns Saudis of 'Divine Vengeance' over Execution of Shia Cleric
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has renewed his attack on Saudi Arabia over its execution of a leading Shia cleric, saying that politicians in the Sunni kingdom would face divine retribution for his death.
“The unjustly spilled blood of this oppressed martyr will no doubt soon show its effect and divine vengeance will befall Saudi politicians,” state TV reported Khamenei as saying on Sunday. It said he described the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr as a “political error”.
“God will not forgive... it will haunt the politicians of this regime,” he said. » | Reuters and Agence-France Presse | Sunday, January 3, 2016
Saturday, January 02, 2016
Saudi Execution of Shia Cleric Sparks Outrage in Middle East
The Iranian government and religious leaders across the Middle East have condemned Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric and warned of repercussions that could bring down the country’s royal family.
In a serious escalation of religious and diplomatic tensions in the region, councils and clerics in Iran, Yemen and Lebanon said the killing of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr would prompt widespread anger.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Hossein Jaber Ansari, accused Riyadh of hypocrisy. “The Saudi government supports terrorists and takfiri [radical Sunni] extremists, while executing and suppressing critics inside the country,” he told the Iranian state news agency. » | Nicola Slawson | Saturday, January 2, 2016
Middle East condemns Saudi execution of Shia cleric - live »
Friday, January 01, 2016
The German Chancellor’s New Year’s Address: Neujahrsansprache Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel
Thursday, December 31, 2015
High Alert: Belgium to Cancel Festivities, EU Tightens Security
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Why Have Anti-Semitic Attacks on French Jews Nearly Doubled in One Year?
A New Anti-Semitism? Why Thousands of Jewish Citizens Are Leaving France
Anti-Semitism Today in Europe
Monday, December 28, 2015
Why Thomas Aquinas Distrusted Islam
According to Aquinas, Islam appealed to ignorant, brutish, carnal men and spread not by the power of its arguments or divine grace but by the power of the sword.
Aquinas, a keen observer of the human condition, was familiar with the chief works of the Muslim philosophers of his day–including Avicenna, Algazel, and Averroes–and engaged them in his writings. Since Islam was founded and spread in the seventh century, Aquinas—considered by Catholics as a saint and doctor of the Church—lived in a period closer to that of Mohammed than to our own day.
In one of his most significant works, the voluminous Summa contra gentiles, which Aquinas wrote between 1258 and 1264 AD, the scholar argued for the truth of Christianity against other belief systems, including Islam.
Aquinas contrasts the spread of Christianity with that of Islam, arguing that much of Christianity’s early success stemmed from widespread belief in the miracles of Jesus, whereas the spread of Islam was worked through the promise of sensual pleasures and the violence of the sword.
Mohammad, Aquinas wrote, “seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh goads us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure.”
Such an offer, Aquinas contended, appealed to a certain type of person of limited virtue and wisdom. » | Thomas D. Williams, PH.D | Sunday, December 227, 2015
Sunday, December 27, 2015
ISIS' Leader Resurfaces in New Audio Message
France: Anti-Arab Protesters Rally in Ajaccio Following Ban on Demonstrations
Czech President: Migrants Should Be Fighting Isis, Not 'Invading' Europe
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| Milos Zeman's Christmas message was criticised by the Czech prime minister |
The Czech president, Milos Zeman, has called the movement of refugees into Europe “an organised invasion” and declared that young men from Syria and Iraq should stay in their countries to “take up arms” against Isis.
“I am profoundly convinced that we are facing an organised invasion and not a spontaneous movement of refugees,” said Zeman in his Christmas message to the Czech Republic.
Compassion was “possible” for refugees who were old or sick, and for children, he said but not for young men who should be back home fighting against jihadists.
“A large majority of the illegal migrants are young men in good health and single. I wonder why these men are not taking up arms to go fight for the freedom of their countries against the Islamic State,” said Zeman, who was elected Czech president in early 2013.
Fleeing their war-torn countries only served to strengthen Isis, he said. » | Agence France-Presse in Prague | Sunday, December 27, 2015
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Pegida On Rise As Germany Divided Over Refugees
Losing Faith: Americans Becoming Less Religious Especially Youngsters
Perhaps, this could be a troubling signal for a nation built on and controlled by Christian values.
Rise of ISIS Islamic State Documentary
The lightning advances the Islamic State made across Syria and Iraq in June shocked the world. But it's not just the group's military victories that have garnered attention — it's also the pace with which its members have begun to carve out a viable state.
MAPPED: Shocking March of the Far-right across Europe as Migration Fears Reach Fever Pitch
This shocking map shows how anti-immigration campaigners have enjoyed huge gains in this year's elections, whilst thousands have taken to the streets to protest against the overwhelming influx of migrants and refugees.
From Greece to Germany and Switzerland to Sweden, far-right protestors and parties have stormed the mainstream of European politics as voters rebel against years of predominantly socialist rule.
In France Marine Le Pen's controversial Front National came within a whisker of winning control over swathes of the country, whilst the traditionally liberal societies of Scandinavia turned their backs on moderates amid unprecedented migratory pressure.
As 2015 draws to a close, Express.co.uk has taken a look at the worrying shift towards the far-right and the inept responses of mainstream politicians which could see the continent once more gripped by fear and intolerance. (+ videos) » | Nick Gutteridge | Saturday, December 26, 2015
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