Mark Alexander
Thursday, November 16, 2006
"America has lost a true visionary and advocate for human freedom. And I have lost a great friend" - Gordon St Angelo, president of the Friedman FoundationMark Alexander
BBC: Nobel prize-winning US economist Milton Friedman has died at the age of 94. Economist Friedman dies aged 94
Milton Friedman: Free market thinker
An enduring legacy
WATCH VIDEO: Economist Milton Friedman dies
Le prix Nobel d'économie Milton Friedman est mort
Nobelpreisträger Milton Friedman gestorben
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
THE CONSERVATIVE VOICE: By Sher Zieve – Appearing on Wednesday’s Laura Ingraham’s radio program, the author of “Now They Call Me Infidel” Nonie Darwish said the ultimate goal of radical Islam is to take over the US. Ms. Darwish, a Muslim, said that hundreds of Islamic mosques are being quickly built throughout the US, which currently have no attendees. Radical Islam Plans to Take Over AmericaMark Alexander
YNET NEWS: Iranian newspapers Kehyan and and Resalat have urged Muslims around the world to prepare for a 'great war' to destroy the State of Israel. Iranian paper: Great war to wipe out Israel coming by Yaakov LappinMark Alexander
Jeddah (AsiaNews) – “Call Me to Islam” is an initiative launched in Saudi Arabia by dawah activists to convert non Muslims to Islam via short message service (SMS) or receive information about Islam, Saudi daily Arab News reported. SMS from Saudi Arabia promoting conversion to IslamMark Alexander
YAHOO NEWS: LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is facing a "very great threat" from a wave of plots among Muslim extremists and a terrorist attack on the UK is highly likely, Home Secretary John Reid said on Wednesday.Mark Alexander
Echoing a warning last week by the head of domestic spy agency MI5, Reid said authorities were aware of 30 active terrorist plots.
"There are a lot of conspiracies out there," Reid told BBC radio.
"These 30 are the ones we think are the most serious of them. They are ongoing, they are working, and they have the potential... some will be nearer preparation than others."
Asked how serious the situation was, Reid said: "It is a very great threat". Reid says terrorist threat "very great"
President Bush has done enough damage in Iraq. Iraq has ended up on the verge of civil war. We read reports of carnage and mayhem daily now. He has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has neither any understanding of Islam, nor of the the intentions of Muslims worldwide, nor of jihad, nor of the history of the conflict between the Christian and Islamic worlds. As if he hasn't done enough damage already, he now finds it necessary to create havoc with the future of Europe, too!
GWB wanted to bring democracy to the Middle East by imposing it in Iraq. He thought it would spread like a cancer throughout the Middle East. How wrong he was! How naïve! Had he known anything about Islam, he would have known that such an exercise would be futile. Alas, he was not so well-informed.
He is also not well-informed on Europe or Turkey, either. Yet he finds it necessary to meddle in the internal affairs of the European Union, and all in the "interests" of the United States.
I thought Dubya was committed to the concept of democracy? Were he really to be committed, then he would know that democracy functions according to the will of the people. The vast majority of the people of Europe do not want to admit Turkey to their Union, for they know, and understand, that it will be disastrous for the Judeo-Christian culture that Europe has as its underpinning. They know that Islam will spread throughout Europe like wildfire if the Turks ever get the chance to accede. But Bush doesn't give a damn: he soldiers on with his ridiculous and damaging policies, regardless.
Bush should know one thing now: If he is dismayed by the anti-Americanism in Europe today, he needs just to wait to see how anti-American sentiment will grow once Turkey becomes dominant in Europe. And with the population of Turkey set to increase substantially, it will become the dominant power in Europe. Further, if Bush thinks the Turks will thank him in years to come for his support of their application to join, he is deluding himself. Nor need he think that the Europeans will thank him. They won't. George W Bush will have messed up the continent.
It is common knowledge that President Bush is not popular in Europe. Is there any wonder? If Bush continues with this policy, then Europe is destined to become a hotbed of anti-Americanism for many years to come!
President Bush has done enough damage already. For God's sake, don't let him do anymore!
©Mark Alexander
EU OBSERVER: The United States has waded into the debate on the fate of Turkey's EU accession talks, questioning an EU deadline for Ankara to lift a blockade on Cypriot trade while proposing to continue the talks in any case.Mark Alexander
UK daily The Guardian quoted a senior US diplomat as saying that the EU never put a clear-cut deadline on Turkey to open its ports and airports to trade from Cyprus, when the bloc opened formal membership talks with Ankara on 3 October last year. US makes fresh intervention in EU-Turkey row
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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BBC: A senior Vatican cardinal has expressed concern over the use of some Muslim veils by Islamic immigrants in Europe.Mark Alexander
This is the first time that the Vatican has joined in the Europe-wide debate on how women who insist on wearing the veil affect the integration of Muslims.
Cardinal Renato Martino said immigrants must respect the traditions, culture and religion of the nations they go to.
They ought to abide by local laws banning the wearing of certain types of Muslim veils, he added.
"It seems elementary to me and it is quite right that the authorities demand it," said Cardinal Martino, who heads the Vatican department dealing with migration issues. Vatican enters Muslim veil debate
"There are tensions, there are even hostilities but they are not caused by religion, by culture or by civilisations " - Archbishop Desmond TutuMark Alexander
Myth and reality feed West-Muslim gulf
BBC: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has said Tehran is ready to talk to the US - once it changes its attitude.Mark Alexander
His remarks follow suggestions that the US should start direct talks with the country to reduce the violence in Iraq.
US President George W Bush has said Iran must halt nuclear activities before any talks could begin, but Mr Ahmedinejad rejected this. Iran will talk to 'corrected' US
WATCH VIDEO: Bush maintains hard Iran line
Blair addressing the Lord Mayor's banquest last night
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THE TELEGRAPH: Iran is trying to form an unholy alliance with al-Qa'eda by grooming a new generation of leaders to take over from Osama bin Laden, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.Mark Alexander
Western intelligence officials say the Iranians are determined to take advantage of bin Laden's declining health to promote senior officials who are known to be friendly to Teheran.
The revelation will deal a major blow to Tony Blair's hopes of establishing a "new partnership" with Teheran.
Addressing the Lord Mayor's banquet in London last night — an occasion traditionally used by the Prime Minister to set out the Government's foreign policy — Mr Blair said he wanted to launch a diplomatic initiative to secure peace in Iraq by establishing dialogue with Iran and ending threats of military force against the regime. Iran plotting to groom bin Laden's successor
Leader: Blair's desperate new plan for the Middle East
Monday, November 13, 2006
The mid-term elections have swept the Democrats to power in both houses of Congress. But the vote is a protest against the Republicans.Mark Alexander
They're calling it a Blue Wave, a sweeping rejection for President Bush. A re-alignment of the political makeup of the United States. In handing power over from one party to the other, just what did American voters really say on Tuesday?
The War in Iraq - change course. The people who run the country in Washington - throw the bums out. The direction of the country - terrible. Protest vote turns the tide 'A point of view' by Tim Egan
The US and UK can't do it alone, so now they call on Syria nd Iran! If this isn't appeasement, what is? What hope have they got now of stopping Iran get the nuclear bomb?
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BBC: Britain's policy towards Iran and Syria has not softened, Downing Street says, despite the prime minister's call for them to help bring stability to Iraq.Mark Alexander
In a major foreign policy speech in London, Tony Blair said a "whole Middle East" policy includes co-operation with the two states.
But his spokesman insisted that did not mean offering new concessions to the governments in Tehran and Damascus. 'No softening' on Iran and Syria
Blair für Gespräche mit Syrien und Iran
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DAILY MAIL: Behind the handsome façade of Bishopthorpe Palace there is a maze of cold and shabby offices. It is here that the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, is wrestling with the spiritual decay in Britain.Mark Alexander
It is his job, he believes, to defend the 72 per cent of Britons who described themselves as Christians in the last census against the prevailing secularism of the 'chattering classes.'
It has fallen to a Ugandan, educated by Christian missionaries to take up the sword. In a speech he attacked the 'illiberal atheists, who, under the cloak of secularism, insist that Religion must be a private matter.' Archbishop blames 'chattering classes' for collapse of Britain's spiritual life by SARAH SANDS
Muslims in Britain, fearing the growth of far-right extremism, have helped their Christian counterparts to launch a broadside on politicians and town halls that play down Christmas.Photo courtesy of The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH: Muslim leaders joined their Christian counterparts yesterday to launch a powerful attack on politicians and town halls that play down Christmas.Mark Alexander
They warned that attempts to remove religion from the festival were fuelling Right-wing extremism. Leave Christmas alone, say Muslims by Jonathan Petre
Photo courtesy of the Daily Mail
DAILY MAIL: She has been dubbed Iran's Paris Hilton after appearing in a sex video on the internet.Mark Alexander
But while Paris's exploits propelled her to worldwide stardom, Zahra Amir Ebrahimi faces ruin, a public lashing and even a jail term.
Ebrahimi is one of the best-known actresses in the strict Islamic country and made the 20-minute sex tape privately with her boyfriend on a camcorder at the flat they shared two years ago.
Unbeknown to her, it was posted on the internet and widely released as a DVD - angering millions in Iran. Outrage in Iran as actress does a "Paris" and her sex video ends up on the net by Richard Creasy
THE TELEGRAPH: Besides his penchant for champagne and singing outmoded French songs, far-Right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen is known to like a practical joke.Mark Alexander
So when he strode purposefully out of his private office at the National Front's presidential convention outside Paris this weekend towards the press tent, camera crews in tow, nobody seemed overly surprised when he veered off at the last minute into the lavatory.
The cameras were still rolling when he reappeared with a grin, chin jutting forth, to carry on with the presidential show.
At 78, Mr Le Pen can afford such low farce: his popularity ratings have never been better.
An IFOP poll in this weekend's Le Monde showed that 18 per cent of the French say they will "definitely" vote for the National Front chief.
That is nine points more than at the same period before the 2002 election, in which he horrified Europe by coming second to Jacques Chirac. No longer a joke – France is having to take Le Pen's threat seriously by Henry Samuel
Le Pen pledges
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"Skin heads and uniform-wearers are already a minority. The convention participants were well-kept, well-dressed people from all levels of German society." - Eldad Beck
YNET: BERLIN - Decades after World War II, Germany isn't the same Germany, but whoever came across the neo-Nazi convention Saturday in Berlin couldn't help but sense a slight chill crawl up his back.Mark Alexander
And yet, just as the hall in Munich in the 20s of the previous century was too small to contain the ambitions of a former corporal, the venue in the worker's quarter of Berlin is seen as just a starting point for the former paratrooper and current chairman of the neo-Nazi party.
"One day we will control this country, and not from some remote town, but from Berlin," declared National Democratic Party (NPD) Chairman Udo Voigt at the convention. The declaration received roaring applause from those in attendance. NeoNazis: One day we'll control Germany by Eldad Back
YNET: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's daughter Dana told Army Radio on Sunday that the struggle of the homosexual community in Israel has just began, charging that the community's rights remain violated.Mark Alexander
"There is a continuing history of violence and hatred, there is homophobia. Coming out of the closet is not a one-time struggle," Dana, a lesbian, said. PM's daughter slams lack of support for gay parade
BBC: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned that hanging former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will lead to even more bloodshed in Iraq.Mark Alexander
A Baghdad court condemned Saddam Hussein to death on Sunday for the killing of 148 Shia Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt against him.
Mr Mubarak said hanging the former president would only exacerbate ethnic and sectarian divisions between Iraqis. Mubarak warns on Saddam execution
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