Heinz’ Customers Have Hearty Appetites, But Not for Jollity!
This light-hearted advert for Heinz mayonnaise, a spoof on family life, showed that there’s little gaiety in Heinz’ straight customers
THE INDEPENDENT: Gay rights supporters have been urged to boycott Heinz products, after the company dropped a mayonnaise advertisement that showed two men kissing.

Campaigners insisted that Heinz had capitulated to a concerted homophobic campaign and that they would be urging supporters to boycott the company's products.

The corporation decided to withdraw the light-hearted Deli Mayo commercial within days of its launch because it was "listening to its consumers". Kiss Goodbye to Your Sales, Stonewall Tells 'Homophobic' Heinz after Advert is Pulled >>> By Terri Judd | June 25, 2008

Banned Heinz Gay Kiss Advert

BBC:
It Started with a Kiss >>> By Tom Geoghegan | June 26, 2008

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Hallelujah! From the Man Who Should Be the Archbishop of Canterbury: Convert Those of Other Faiths to Christianity!
It is heartening indeed to hear this message coming from Dr Nazir-Ali. It is what I have been saying for so many years. This website is testimony to that; and so is my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age. And people who know me know very well that my message has been the same for about twenty-five years now. But people have been slow to wake up. Now it looks as if there’s at least some hope, though, that the West will wake up before it is too late. It is already five to midnight. But then, it has to grow a backbone too. And that’s going to be difficult with the politicians we have leading us today.

Dr Nazir-Ali has also called on the Church to start spreading the Gospel again. This is also something that I have stated many, many times before. No Church can survive for long without calling people to it, and underscoring the importance and superiority of the message is vital. No more than a car corporation can stay in business if its CEO doesn’t sing the praises of the company’s models. Who’d want to buy them? Similarly, who wants to attend a Church whose leadership isn’t clear of what the Church stands for; and believes in the pc dogma that all religions are equally valid, to boot? - ©Mark

"Let us pray that we are able to recover our Christian nerve in the west and make sure the Gospel is not lost, and that all that is valuable in western culture – much of which comes from its Judeo-Christian background – will survive as a way to enhance cultures in the west and renew them once again." - Dr Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester

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THE TELEGRAPH: The western world is losing its Christian values at a time when it needs them most, a leading bishop in the Church of England has warned.

The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, claimed the declining importance of the church was creating a "double jeopardy" situation where faith was being challenged at a time when society would most benefit.

He said believers needed to "recover their nerve" and spread the Gospel again.

The outspoken bishop, who earlier this week told those who tolerate homosexuality in the clergy to repent, also said he was "frustrated" that decisions which had been made in the church had not been stuck to.

Dr Nazir-Ali was greeted with a standing ovation as he gave a speech to a breakaway summit in Jerusalem of more than 1,000 traditionalists from across the Anglican Communion who oppose gay priests and the blessing of same-sex unions.

He did not say that divisions over sexuality would lead to a schism in Anglicanism, and referred to unity being a "very precious thing".

Instead he called on those in the church to concentrate on mission – trying to convert those of other faiths and with no faith to Christianity. Western World Is Losing Christian Values, Says Leading Bishop >>> By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent in Jerusalem | June 25, 2008

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US Elections: US Evangelical Leader Attacks Obama
THE GUARDIAN: Barack Obama today came under fire from James Dobson, founder of the conservative Focus on the Family organisation, who accused the likely Democratic nominee of twisting the Bible to confuse people.

The attack from Dobson, a leading figure of the Christian Right, was framed as a wholesale rejection of Obama's views on faith, and appeared intended to thwart his efforts to reach out to evangelical Christians.

It was delivered in Dobson's regular radio programme as a line-by-line dissection of a speech that Obama gave to a liberal Christian organisation two years ago on the role of religion in public life.

Dobson's organisation also emailed links to the programme out to news organisations.

"I think he is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter," said Dobson. "I just don't know whether he is doing it deliberately or accidentally." US Elections: US Evangelical Leader Attacks Obama >>> By Suzanne Goldenberg | June 24, 2008

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Scare as Sarkozy Departs Israel
Photo of M. Sarkozy and his wife, Carla, with Mahmoud Abbas before leaving Israel
Watch BBC video: The moment the French president and his wife were rushed to safety >>>
BBC: Confusion has marred French President Nicolas Sarkozy's farewell to Israel, after a soldier shot himself dead during an airport departure ceremony

Mr Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, were rushed into their plane after the shot. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was also hurried to safety.

The incident at Ben-Gurion airport came at the end of Mr Sarkozy's three-day visit to Israel and the West Bank.

A police spokesman said the security officer had committed suicide.

Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the incident, which happened just as Mr Sarkozy and Ms Bruni were about to board their plane, had posed no threat to the visitors.

He denied reports that it might have been an assassination attempt on the French president. Other reports suggested the soldier may have shot himself accidentally.

Witnesses said the incident was over within minutes and that Mr Olmert had then boarded the Sarkozys' plane to say farewell and explain what had happened. Scare as Sarkozy Departs Israel >>> | June 24, 2008

THE TELEGRAPH:
Israeli Soldier Commits Suicide in front of Nicolas Sarkozy: An Israeli guard shot himself dead at the farewell of Nicolas Sarkozy, sending the French president's wife running for safety amid fears of a terrorist attack >>> By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem | June 25, 2008


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Is This the Bill Clinton You Remember? Is This the Bill Clinton Monika Lewinsky Fell for?
Photo of Bill Clinton courtesy of the BBC. Has he got something stuck in his craw, I wonder? Click on the photo to take you to the story at the BBC.
WELT ONLINE:
Barack Obama verliert an Strahlkraft: Barack Obama tut sich im Rennen gegen John McCain schwerer als gedacht. Beim demokratischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten ebben die Spenden ab, und Diskussionen über seinen Patriotismus und seine Kompetenzen hören nicht auf. Jetzt sucht er neues Profil – mit weniger "Change" und mehr Konservatismus >>> | 24. Juni 2008

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Bravo! One Muslimah Says the Truth
INTERNATION MUSING: "Muslims, Show Some Respect": Open Letter in Dutch Newspaper by a Dutch Muslima: "Why do we behave without respect in the Netherlands while we expect others to take account of us?" - Samira al-Onal is the pseudonym name of a highly-educated Dutch Muslim woman. >>> | June 24, 2008

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Anyone Care about Free Speech?
EDMONTON SUN: The tragedy of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal's case against Mark Steyn and Maclean's magazine over alleged "hate" mongering because of Steyn's views on Islam is that most people don't give a damn.

Oh, many sympathize with Steyn because the issue seems so silly, but most don't see the destructive effect of hate legislation, or how it threatens our freedom.

Of all the benefits embodied in our county, free speech is -- or should be -- among the most precious. Without the freedom to express opinions on any matter, we cease being a free society. The implications are as simple as that. Anyone Care about Free Speech? >>> By Peter Worthington | June 23, 2008

TORONTO STAR:
Free to Speak, Free Not to Listen >>> By Mike Milner (Letters to the Editor) | June 24, 2008

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Thousands of Dutch Believe in an "Impending Apocalypse"!
EXPATICA: Thousands of people in the Netherlands believe in an impending apocalypse in 2012 and are buying survival rations and boats.

THE NETHERLANDS - Some people believe that a major worldwide catastrophe will destroy civilisation in 2012. This weekend’s de Volkskrant wrote about the thousands of people in the Netherlands who believe in an impending apocalypse in 2012. The number of believers is many times larger in the United States and Poland. 

Many are buying survival rations and even boats - which will come in handy during flooding - or are preparing bunkers in foreign countries. 

De Volkskrant writes that while those who believe in the coming disaster have different theories as to what will happen, most are based on the Mayan calendar, which ends in 2012. The World Will Come to an End in 2012 >>> | June 23, 2008

THE TELEGRAPH:
Dutch Prepare for Maya Apocalypse >>> By Bruno Waterfield | June 25, 2008

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Les Coptes égyptiens victimes de nouvelles agressions
LE FIGARO: L'attaque d'un monastère copte en Moyenne-Égypte illustre les tensions intercommunautaires dans cette région pauvre durement frappée par le terrorisme islamiste dans les années 1990.

Le calme est revenu à Abou Fana. Le 31 mai, ce monastère copte isolé a été attaqué par des Bédouins musulmans qui revendiquent la propriété de ces terres désertiques, situées à 300 km au sud du Caire. Pendant plusieurs heures, le staccato des armes automatiques a déchiré le silence. Une église a été brûlée, une ferme détruite et plusieurs moines blessés par balles. Trois autres disent avoir été enlevés et torturés pendant toute une nuit. «Les Arabes (nom donné aux Bédouins par les habitants de la vallée du Nil, NDLR) nous ont dit qu'ils allaient détruire le monastère, qu'ils ne veulent pas de chrétiens sur leurs terres», raconte d'une voix faible le frère Yoanas, toujours alité dans un hôpital copte d'Heliopolis, au Caire. Le calme est revenu à Abou Fana. Mais pas la paix. Les Coptes égyptiens victimes de nouvelles agressions >>> Par Tangi Salaün, au Caire | 23. 06. 2008

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC:
Coptic and the Copts >>>

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The Devil’s in the Lipstick!
Muslim women in Kota Baru, Malaysia, are forbidden to wear bright lipstick
CNN/Asia: Authorities in a northern Malaysian city have forbidden Muslim women from wearing bright lipstick and noisy high-heeled shoes, saying the directive is intended to prevent sexual assaults and "illicit sex."

The national news agency, Bernama, said the directive was issued by the municipal council of Kota Baru and is aimed toward Muslim women working in restaurants and other businesses in the city. It said the ban will safeguard the morals and dignity of the women as well as thwart rape.

"It states that Muslim women are forbidden to wear thick make-up, like bright colored lipstick and high-heeled shoes that gave a tapping sound," the news agency said.

"For those who insist on wearing high heel shoes, they can do so but with rubber heels." Malaysian City Bans Lipstick for Muslim Women >>> | June 24, 2008

THE GUARDIAN:
Malaysian City Tells Women to Drop Lipstick and High Heels >>> By Ian MacKinnon, south east Asia correspondent | June 24, 2008

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Russia Cocks a Snook at Multiculturalism
REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT WATCH: Wow! I would never have guessed this: The Russian government is allowing Christian education in public schools as a way to assimilate immigrants, especially Muslims, to Russian society.

Here is how the Los Angeles Times begins:

KOSTROVO, RUSSIA — Today they would learn about drawing, Russian Orthodox saints and God. The 7-year-olds sat straight at their desks, sun pouring through lace curtains and cherry trees blooming in the fields beyond. The teacher set a birch branch before the children and told them it was fragile and unique, just like their souls.

“If you think you can’t draw properly, who will help you?” she asked.

“God will help us,” a boy called out.

“Yes, God will guide your hand, so be confident, have faith.”

This is Tuesday, one of the two days a week dedicated to Orthodox education at this sleepy public school in the lush forests outside Moscow. All the girls and women have forgone pants in favor of skirts, and every student is learning Christian catechism along with reading, writing and arithmetic.

Russia: Christian Education in Public Schools Will Help Immigrants Assimilate >>> By Acorcoran | June 24, 2008

Hat tip: Always On Watch

SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL:
EU Countries Move to Stop Flood of Iraqi Refugees: The ongoing terror in Iraq is driving an increasing number of refugees to Europe. Now the EU is forced to make some tough decisions: Who will be allowed to stay in Europe, and will Iraqi Christians have greater chances here than Muslims? >>> By Spiegel Staff | June 24, 2008

DIE PRESSE:
Integration [in Österreich]: Platter will zentrale Koordinations-Stelle: Der Innenminister hat seine Strategie-Papier zur Integration vorgelegt: Zuwanderer sollen vor der Einreise Sprachkenntnisse nachweisen, eine Koordinations-Stelle soll Integrations-Projekte vorschlagen. >>> | 24. Juni 2008

HARDNEWS:
End of the Liberal Dream: The ultra-liberal "assimilative" ideology behind Europe's welcoming of immigrants is taking a walloping from the rise of émigré intolerance and senseless violence >>> By Sourav Dutta, Delhi

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Ian McEwan: I Despise Militant Islam
THE TELEGRAPH: The award-winning novelist Ian McEwan has launched an outspoken attack on militant Islam, accusing it of "wanting to create a society that I detest".

The author said he "despises Islamism" because of its views on women and homosexuality.

But predicting a backlash against his comments, which were made in an Italian newspaper, he insisted he was not a racist.

The writer of Atonement and Enduring Love condemned religious hardliners as he defended his friend, the writer Martin Amis, against charges of racism.

Amis was accused last year of being Islamaphobic after he said that "the Muslim community will have to suffer until it gets its house in order".

In an essay written the day before the fifth anniversary of the bombing of New York's Twin Towers, the novelist suggested "strip-searching people who look like they're from the Middle East or from Pakistan", preventing Muslims from travelling, and further down the road, deportation.

In The Age of Horrorism, Amis argued that fundamentalists had won the battle between Islam and Islamism.

McEwan, 60, said it was "logically absurd and morally unacceptable" that writers who speak out against militant Islam are immediately branded racist.

"As soon as a writer expresses an opinion against Islamism, immediately someone on the left leaps to his feet and claims that because the majority of Muslims are dark-skinned, he who criticises it is racist," he said in an interview in Corriere della Sera.

"This is logically absurd and morally unacceptable. Martin is not a racist. And I myself despise Islamism, because it wants to create a society that I detest, based on religious belief, on a text, on lack of freedom for women, intolerance towards homosexuality and so on - we know it well." Ian McEwan: I Despise Militant Islam >>> By Nicole Martin, Digital and Media Correspondent | June 22, 2008

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Israel ‘Will Attack Iran’
THE TELEGRAPH: John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush's successor is sworn in.

The Arab world would be "pleased" by Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, he said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

"It [the reaction] will be positive privately. I think there'll be public denunciations but no action," he said.

Mr Bolton, an unflinching hawk who proposes military action to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons, bemoaned what he sees as a lack of will by the Bush administration to itself contemplate military strikes. Israel 'Will Attack Iran' Before New US President Sworn In, John Bolton Predicts >>> By Toby Harnden in Washington | June 23, 2008

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Political Correctness and Censorship
THE NATIONAL POLICY INSTITUTE: Today, the true believers in Islam and the true believers in diversity uber alles are making common cause against those who believe in freedom of speech and the press

Freedom of the press is on trial in Canada.

The trial is before a court with the Orwellian title of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. The accused are Maclean’s magazine and author Mark Steyn. The crime: In mocking and biting tones, they wrote that Islam threatens Western values.

Had Steyn written that, given the Crusades, colonial atrocities in Africa and the slave trade, Christianity had been on balance a curse, he would not be in the dock. In the United States, these charges would have been tossed out by any federal judge, who would have admonished the plaintiffs that, here in America, we have a First Amendment.

The United States, however, is an isolated exception, as western nations seek to impose wider restrictions on what has come to be called “hate speech.” Political Correctness and Censorship >>> By Patrick J Buchanan | June 23, 2008

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On Islamophobia
INTERNATIONAL ANALYST NETWORK: The primary goal of Islamic terrorists is to instill fear in people. People can be defined as a single individual, groups of people, or entire nations. On 11 Sept. 2001, Islamic terrorists attacked America. The terrorists achieved their number one and two goals. First they instilled fear in the lives of innocent people. Second they caused major economic losses and continue to do so to our country.

Until 11 Sept. 2001, most non-Muslims had little opinion as to what religion people chose to be, nor did it concern most Americans that Islam in America and throughout the world is spreading. The murder of almost 3000 innocent lives by Al Qaeda and their supporters changed everything. The cheering by thousands of Muslims throughout the world after the attack left most Americans bewildered.

The word 'Islamophobia' came into being after 11 Sept. 2001. CAIR and other puppet organizations of Saudi Arabia want non-Muslims to believe the actions by a few 'radical' Muslims does not represent Islam. Most non-Muslims understand there are peaceful Muslims, but slowly non-Muslims are beginning to understand the vast majority of Islamic scholars and organizations such as CAIR are not the peaceful Muslims they try to make people believe they are. Islamophobia and CAIR >>> By Dave Gaubatz | June 22, 2008

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The Enemy Has a Name
INTERNATIONAL ANALYST NETWORK: If you cannot name your enemy, how can you defeat it? Just as a physician must identify a disease before curing a patient, so a strategist must identify the foe before winning a war. Yet Westerners have proven reluctant to identify the opponent in the conflict the U.S. government variously (and euphemistically) calls the "global war on terror," the "long war," the "global struggle against violent extremism," or even the "global struggle for security and progress."

This timidity translates into an inability to define war goals. Two high-level U.S. statements from late 2001 typify the vague and ineffective declarations issued by Western governments. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld defined victory as establishing "an environment where we can in fact fulfill and live [our] freedoms." In contrast, George W. Bush announced a narrower goal, "the defeat of the global terror network" – whatever that undefined network might be.

"Defeating terrorism" has, indeed, remained the basic war goal. By implication, terrorists are the enemy and counterterrorism is the main response. The Enemy Has a Name >>> By Daniel Pipes | June 19, 2008

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Danish Cartoon Ruling May Prompt "Islamophobia"-OIC
REUTERS: RIYADH - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a league of 57 Muslim nations, said on Monday a Danish court's rejection of a suit against a paper for printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad could provoke "Islamophobia."

The High Court for western Denmark on Thursday rejected a suit against Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that first published cartoons of Islam's prophet, leading to deadly protests in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

The court said the editors had not meant to depict Muslims as criminals or terrorists, the cartoons had not broken the law, and there was a relationship between acts of violence and Islam -- comments that provoked outcry among Muslim groups in Denmark.

"It is a known fact that acts of terror have been carried out in the name of Islam and it is not illegal to make satire out of this relationship," the court said.

The Saudi-based OIC, the largest grouping of Muslim countries, said the ruling could encourage "Islamophobia", a fear or dislike of Islam, which the group has identified as existing in the West. Danish Cartoon Ruling May Prompt "Islamophobia"-OIC >>> | June 23, 2008

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Dutch Companies Fear Jordanian Boycott
RADIO NETHERLANDS WORLDWIDE: Fearful of a Jordanian boycott of their products, two Dutch companies have distanced themselves from the film Fitna, produced and released earlier this year by Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders. On Sunday, Friesland Foods and the Zwanenberg Food Group placed adverts in Jordanian newspapers to announce that they have nothing to do with the film. They're hoping to prevent their products ending up on a Middle East blacklist.



They took this step after 'The Messenger of Allah Unites Us', a broad coalition of Jordanian political parties, professional organisations and media, printed one million posters showing Dutch and Danish products that - they argue - consumers in Jordan and other Middle East countries ought to boycott. In addition to a number of Danish brand names, the list includes such Dutch companies as KLM, Philips and baby food manufacturer Friso.



There's considerable anger in Jordan regarding Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The chairman of the coalition, Zakaria Sheik, says that both men have offended Muslims throughout the world and shouldn't escape their punishment. Dutch Companies Fear Jordanian Boycott >>> By Sebastiaan Gottlieb | June 23, 2008

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Imprudent Brown Goes to King to Ask Him to Buy Up Britain
Photo of Gordon Brown with King Abdullah courtesy of Arab News
ARAB NEWS: JEDDAH: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday offered to open his country’s energy markets to oil-producing states and urged them to reinvest some of the $3 trillion additional revenue realized from the current oil boom. “They can invest in UK energy production, including wind, solar and a new wave of nuclear power stations,” the prime minister said in an address to the Jeddah Energy Meeting.

Brown, who followed the inaugural address by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdulah, said his government plans, to be published in the coming week, would put a price tag of 100 billion pounds for the UK to meet its share of an EU target to generate 20 percent of energy from renewables by 2020. “Much of this could come from the sovereign wealth funds of Gulf states,” he said. Brown Wants Oil Profits Plowed Back into Energy Investments >>> By Samir Al-Saadi | June 23, 2008

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The European Union, A Prison of Nations
CHRONICLES MAGAZINE: Various multiethnic states (imperial Russia, the Habsburg Monarchy, pre-World War II Kingdom of Yugoslavia) have been labeled—often unfairly—as “prisons of nations.” That designation will apply more aptly to the European Union when the Lisbon Treaty, signed by all 27 EU heads of states or governments last December, takes effect next year. Under the “European Arrest Warrant,” which is to be implemented under the terms of the Treaty, every citizen or visitor of a member country the European Union will be liable to arrest and extradition at the behest of a judge in any other EU member-country, under one of 32 vaguely defined categories of “crime.”

This is a momentous development, and not one in a hundred EU citizens, let alone non-EU visitors to Europe, are fully aware of its implications. The European Union, A Prison of Nations >>> By Srdja Trifkovic

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