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CBNNEWS.COM: Sharia, or Islamic law, is gradually working its way into public life in Islamic and non-Islamic nations around the world.
What is it and what does sharia mean for Christians and others forced to abide by it?
"Sharia law is a legal system on the teachings of the Qur'an, the Sunna and the Hadith of Mohammed applied into the community as the legal basis for life," Jeff Hammond, with Bless Indonesia, said.
Hammond is a Christian who has lived and worked in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, for 35 years. He says Indonesian Christians are concerned about creeping sharia law, now in place in half of the country's 32 provinces.
"It's going from one province to another, it's not something that's happening all at once, but step by step," Hammond said.
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For example: even Christian school girls are forced to cover their heads in Padang province. Elsewhere in Indonesia, children attending public schools are required to learn the Qur'an.
In Indonesia's Bandeh Aceh province, shariah police make nightly patrols to ensure that unmarried or non-related couples are not seen together in public.
"Christians are very concerned, not only because of what is happening here in Indonesia, they also see reports that are coming from other countries," Hammond explained.
In Islamic nations like Somalia, devotion to Sharia law caused vigilantes to behead a 25-year old aid worker for converting from Islam to Christianity.
In Iran, women are legally stoned to death for committing adultery.
In Afghanistan, prostitutes are executed for their behavior.
In Pakistan, the government apparently has accepted the imposition of sharia law in the Taliban controlled Swatt Valley of the northwest frontier province. It's a place where violators of sharia are often subjected to lashes.
Enforcement of Pakistan's blasphemy laws have led to the imprisonment of Christians, like 20-year old Sandal Bibi and her father Gul Sheer on charges of blasphemy against the Qur'an. Ripping the West in Two >>> By Gary Lane, CBN News Reporter | Thursday, February 19, 2009
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CBS5.COM: San Francisco – The Bay Area Chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America will launch a bus ad campaign in San Francisco on today to encourage people to break stereotypes about Muslims.
People can expect to see the hot line (877) WHY-ISLAM and the Web site www.whyislam.org on the sides of more than 140 buses because the ICNA wants to make a point.
"This is our complaint: We want to give the right picture of Islam. It is not about terrorism. It is about peace,'' ICNA representative Mariam Chan said.
Between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. eastern time, anyone can call the hot line with questions about Islam. The Web site also offers free brochures. Chan said a common misconception is that Muslims are terrorists.
"If one Muslim person is not right, don't blame Islam from the few number of presentations,'' Chan said. "So many Christians have problems. You would not say it's allowed in Christianity.''
The campaign is a national educational outreach program. The ICNA has also paid for billboards and other bus ads throughout the country to encourage a more authentic point of view on the faith.
The kick-off will take place near Justin Herman Plaza at 77 Steuart Street in San Francisco at 11 a.m. [Source: CBS5.com] Thursday, February 19, 2009
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THE DC EXAMINER: Halfway through “Fitna,” the short film about radical Islam made by Dutch MP Geert Wilders, we see an angry imam, speaking Arabic and telling how it will be.
“We have ruled the world before, and by Allah the day will come when we rule the entire world again!” the translation scrolls, “The day will come when we will rule America! The day will come when we rule Britain and the entire world!”
Score one for the Islamists, where Britain is concerned. The cringing bureaucrats of Gordon Brown’s Labour government barred Wilders from entering the country last week to attend a screening of “Fitna” at, of all places, Britain’s Houses of Parliament.
The 17-minute movie, which has been out for a year and is easily viewed online, seeks to make the case that Islam is dangerously in the ascendant in the Netherlands.
The film is composed almost entirely of scenes where Muslims are doing the talking, but it includes images of terrorist attacks and violent passages from the Quran.
It features clips of radical Islamist preachers calling for the murder of Jews and the defenestration of gays. It shows dead female victims of honor killings, a kneeling woman in a burqa being executed, and a captured Westerner being beheaded by masked Islamic militants.
Now, Wilders didn’t write the Quran, he didn’t bomb the Twin Towers, and where his narrative voice comes in, it’s not even saying anything very extraordinary – not in a world where a lot of people say a lot of things.
With the same material, one suspects that a practiced polemicist like Michael Moore could have made something even more shocking.
But Britain’s first Muslim peer, Lord Ahmed, warned that 10,000 Muslims would march on Parliament if Wilders appeared at the screening.
So the government caved. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith banned the Dutchman for fear his presence “would threaten community security and therefore public security.”
See how easily old freedoms are revoked? You would think that there’s no point in freedom of speech if you can’t use it to say unpopular things.
Yet in Britain – and in the Netherlands, where Wilders faces trial and a jail term for making “Fitna” – that freedom is gone. >>> By Meghan Cox Gurdon, Examiner Columnist | Thursday, February 19, 2009
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FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS: Further details are available on connections between the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, the U.S. government, and an Islamic cable TV station whose founder has been charged in the beheading of his wife. As reported yesterday by the New York Times:
A man who founded a Muslim-American television station to help fight Muslim stereotypes is to appear on Wednesday in a suburban Buffalo court on charges that he decapitated his wife last week. The man, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, went to a police station in Orchard Park, N.Y., on Thursday to report that his wife, Aasiya Zubair Hassan, was dead, Chief Andrew Benz said on Tuesday. Mr. Hassan told the police that her body could be found in the nearby office of the television station, Bridges TV. The police later arrested him on charges of second-degree murder, Chief Benz said.According to investigative research posted on GMBDR, in April 2004 national media reported on the start-up of Bridges TV, described as "the first English-language cable television channel aimed at U.S. and Canadian Muslims." The report indicated that the programming was available on satellite and internet and had plans to expand to cable. Chairman of Bridges TV was identified as Muzzammil Hassan, said to be a Pakistani-born ex-banker with no television industry experience who got the idea from his wife after she listened to a radio program with "a sharp, derogatory tone against Muslims." The report described Bridges programming as ranging from "Koranic and Islamic religious content to news, documentaries, soap operas and shows geared toward women and children, in a bid to reflect many facets of life." In April 2006, a press release stated that Bridges TV had "transitioned from a premium pay channel to basic cable on several cable and satellite systems." >>> The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report | Thursday, February 19, 2009
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TIMES ONLINE: The Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu was in pole position to become Israel's next Prime Minister despite narrowly failing to win the country's general election, after an ultra-nationalist political leader pledged to back his coalition today.
Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beitenu party, which finished third, said he would only support a government led by Mr Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, but which also included the centrist Kadima party led by the election-winner, Tzipi Livni.
Whether Ms Livni, whose party narrowly won the February 10 poll by 28 seats to 27 for Likud, would agree to serve in a government with Mr Netanyahu as Prime Minister remains to be seen.
However, she has previously said that she would be prepared to lead a government which included Likud as a junior partner, with Mr Netanyahu presumably in a senior Cabinet role.
A right-leaning Netanyahu-led government would be regarded with gloom by President Obama and the so-called Quartet of international mediators, who had hoped to accelerate the Middle East peace process. >>> David Byers | Thursday, February 19, 2009
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MAIL Online: An Islamic extremist group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a group of tourists in west Africa, including a Briton. According to SITE Intelligence, a US group which monitors extremist websites, the claim comes from al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The tourists - a Briton who was working in Austria, two Swiss citizens and a German woman - were seized near the border between Niger and Mali on January 22.
The group released images of some of the captives and also said it was holding two Canadian diplomats seized two months ago.
AQIM spokesman Salah Abu Muhammad made the claim in an an audio message, SITE said.
He reportedly said: "We announce to the general public that the mujahideen reserve the right to deal with the six kidnapped according to Islamic Shariah (law).
"On the other hand, the mujahideen will announce later, Allah willing, their conditions in exchange for the release of the kidnapped." >>> By Mail Foreign Service | Thursday, February 19, 2009
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WELT ONLINE: Der Frage, wo sich Osama bin Laden aufhält, haben US-Forscher eine Studie gewidmet. Die Geografen werteten unter anderem Satellitenbilder aus. Das Ergebnis: Sollte der Terrorführer noch am Leben sein, versteckt er sich vermutlich in Pakistan – anders als oft vermutet aber nicht in einer Höhle.
Wissenschaftler der Universität von Kalifornien in Los Angeles wollen geschafft haben, was den US-Geheimdiensten bisher nicht gelungen ist: Sie glauben, dass sie mit Hilfe von Satellitenbildern, geografischen Prinzipien und gesundem Menschenverstand das Versteck von Terroristenführer Osama bin Laden gefunden haben. Demnach hielte sich der Al-Qaida-Chef in einem von drei Gebäuden im pakistanischen Ort Parachinar nahe der afghanischen Grenze auf. >>> dpa/cn | Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009
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THE SUN: TWO American hate preachers were banned tonight from entering Britain by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
Extremist Christian leaders Fred Phelps and daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper had planned to jet into the UK to protest against a play being put on by a gay youth group on Friday.
The fanatics are both members of the US Westboro Baptist Church - a sick sect which calls for homosexuals to be killed and CELEBRATES soldiers' deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Phelps, 79, and his daughter Shirley, 51, had targeted a performance of The Laramie Project, about the death of an American man killed for being gay.
They had boasted they would picket the play, due to be held at a school arts centre in Basingstoke, Hants.
But the pair will now be stopped by immigration officials on arrival and placed straight on a flight back to the US.
Home Office sources said other church members could also be flagged and stopped if they tried to enter Britain. >>> By Tom Wells | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
PINK NEWS: Labour's Gay Group Asks for Ban on God Hates Fags Church Members
LGBT Labour has written to the Home Office asking that members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church be refused entry into the UK.
The church, a tiny sect with around 60 members, often picket funerals in the US.
They claim God is punishing the world because homosexuality is tolerated.
The group said on their website GodHatesFags.com that they would be protesting at a performance of a gay-themed play in Basingstoke on Friday.
In a letter to Immigration Minister Phil Woolas, LGBT Labour co-chair Simon Wright referred to the Home Office decision to ban a Dutch MP who is critical of Islam from entering the UK because he would harm community relations.
"As the government refused entry to the UK to Geert Wilders last week, it is hoped that the same laws can also be used to prevent this family from entering the UK to spread their hated of homosexuality," said Mr Wright.
At least one Labour and one Tory MP have written to the Home Secretary about the issue. It is highly unlikely that WBC members will try to picket in the UK.
The publicity-hungry group have previously threatened protests in Canada, Australia and Sweden but never turned up. [Source: Pink News] Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk | Thursday, February 19, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Gold has surged to an all-time high against the euro, sterling, and a string of Asian currencies on mounting concerns that global authorities are embarking on a "Zimbabwe-style" debasement of the international monetary system.
"This gold rally is driven by safe-haven fears and has a very different feel from the bull market we've had for the last eight years," said John Reade, chief metals strategist at UBS. "Investors are seeing articles in the press saying governments should deliberately stoke inflation, and they are reacting to it."
Gold jumped to multiple records on Tuesday, triggered by fears that East Europe's banking crisis could set off debt defaults and lead to contagion within the eurozone. It touched €762 an ounce against the euro, £675 against sterling, and 47,783 against India's rupee.
Jewellery demand – usually the mainstay of the industry – has almost entirely dried up and the price is now being driven by investors. They range from the billionaires stashing boxes of krugerrands under the floors of their Swiss chalets (as an emergency fund for total disorder) to the small savers buying the exchange traded funds (ETFs). SPDR Gold Trust has added 200 metric tonnes in the last six weeks. ETF Securities added 62,000 ounces last week alone.
In dollar terms, gold is at a seven-month high of $964. This is below last spring's peak of $1,030 but the circumstances today are radically different. The dollar itself has become a safe haven as the crisis goes from bad to worse – if only because it is the currency of a unified and powerful nation with institutions that have been tested over time. It is not yet clear how well the eurozone's 16-strong bloc of disparate states will respond to extreme stress. The euro dived two cents to $1.26 against the dollar, threatening to break below a 24-year upward trend line.
Crucially, gold has decoupled from oil and base metals, finding once again its ancient role as a store of wealth in dangerous times. >>> By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
SKY NEWS: Bank To 'Print Money' To Tackle Recession
The Bank of England could begin 'printing money' next month in a bid to tackle the recession.
Minutes of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) showed members were in agreement that more radical measures were needed to ward off deflation.
The committee voted 8-1 in favour of the half point rate reduction of the interest rate to an historic low of 1%.
The Bank of England does not actually print money when it moves to increase the amount of cash in the economy.
Instead it engages in a process known as quantitative easing, whereby it creates money to buy up Government securities - gilts - and private sector assets. >>> | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Fed Offers Bleak Economic Outlook
The Federal Reserve cut its economic outlook for 2009 on Wednesday and warned that the United States economy would face an “unusually gradual and prolonged” period of recovery as the country struggles to climb out of a deep global downturn.
In gloomy economic projections released by the central bank, the Fed’s Open Market Committee said it expected that the economy would contract by 0.5 percent to 1.3 percent this year, that unemployment would rise to 8.5 to 8.8 percent and that inflation would remain under greater pressure.
Bleak economic data reflecting a sharpening slide in housing, trade, industrial production, spending and employment rates “more than offset” any potential impact from an economic stimulus plan, the Fed said, forcing it to cut its economic outlook. >>> By Jack Healy | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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BBC: At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics met senior Hamas officials to plot a new jihad centred on Gaza.
The BBC's Bill Law was the only Western journalist at the meeting.
In a hall crowded with conservative Sunni Muslim sheikhs and scholars, in a hotel close to Istanbul's Ataturk Airport speaker after speaker called for jihad against Israel in support of Hamas.
The choice of Turkey was significant. Arab hardliners were keen to put aside historic differences with the Turks.
As one organiser put it: "During the past 100 years relations have been strained but Palestine has brought us together."
Many delegates spoke appreciatively of the protest by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who stormed out of a Davos debate on Gaza two weeks ago.
The conference, dubbed the Global Anti-Aggression Campaign, also gave impetus to Sunni clerics concerned about the growing power of Hezbollah, the Shia movement backed by Iran, which rose to international prominence in its own war with Israel in 2006.
"Gaza is a gift," the Saudi religious scholar Mohsen al-Awajy told me. He and other delegates repeatedly referred to the Gaza war as "a victory".
"Gaza," he continued, "gives us power, it solves our differences. We are all now in a unified front against Zionism." >>> Bill Law | Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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NZZ Online: In der griechischen Hauptstadt Athen haben Unbekannte den viertgrössten privaten Fernsehsender Griechenlands angegriffen. Mindestens vier Täter fuhren mit Motorrädern vor das Gebäude des Senders und feuerten danach mehrere Schüsse ab, eine Brandbombe explodierte nicht.
In Griechenland dauert die Serie von Anschlägen an: Unbekannte feuerten am Dienstagabend mehrere Schüsse auf das Gebäude des viertgrössten Fernsehsenders Griechenlands, «Alter», in Athen ab. Verletzt wurde nach übereinstimmenden Berichten griechischer Medien niemand. >>> sda/dpa | Dienstag, Februar 17, 2009
LE FIGARO: Nouvelle vague de violences à Athènes
Après une attaque contre une chaîne de télévision et la découverte d'une bombe devant une banque, la police est sur la piste d'un nouveau groupe terroriste.
En à peine vingt-quatre heures, la capitale grecque a semblé retomber dans une série noire. Mardi soir, quatre hommes cagoulés ont tiré à une dizaine de reprises contre les locaux de la chaîne de télévision privée Alter, sans faire de victime.
Mercredi matin, la police a localisé et désamorcé un engin explosif placé dans une voiture garée devant une succursale de la banque américaine Citibank, à Kifissia, banlieue chic d'Athènes. Quelques heures plus tard, un professeur de criminologie, Giannis Panousis, célèbre pour ses analyses dans les médias, a été agressé par quinze inconnus en cagoules, venus interrompre une conférence dans le centre-ville.
Aucune de ces trois actions n'a été revendiquée, mais la police enquête sur la piste de la Secte des révolutionnaires. Ce nouveau groupe terroriste, apparu il y a dix jours lors d'un mini-attentat perpétré contre un commissariat d'Athènes, menace d'exécuter aveuglément des policiers et dénonce la ligne suivie par les médias dans le pays. Dans leur dernier communiqué, envoyé au quotidien Ta Nea, ses membres annonçaient ne pas vouloir «faire de la politique, mais mener une guérilla». Les armes utilisées, un pistolet de 9 mm et un pistolet-mitrailleur de type Skorpion, seraient, selon les premiers éléments de l'enquête, les mêmes que lors d'un précédent attentat contre le commissariat. >>> Alexia Kefalas, Athènes | Mercredi 18 Février 2009
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WELT ONLINE: US-Außenministerin Hillary Clinton ist im Rahmen ihrer einwöchigen Asienreise in Indonesien eingetroffen und besucht damit das Land, in dem Barack Obama vier Jahre seiner Kindheit verbracht hat. Der Besuch soll dazu dienen, die angeschlagenen Beziehungen der USA mit der muslimischen Welt zu verbessern.
US-Außenministerin Hillary Clinton ist im Rahmen ihrer ersten Auslandsreise in Indonesien eingetroffen. Am Flughafen von Jakarta wurde sie mit amerikanischen und indonesischen Flaggen von knapp 50 Kindern aus der Grundschule empfangen, die einst der junge Barack Obama besucht hatte. Der US-Präsident lebte als Kind vier Jahre in Indonesien. Clinton will sich bei ihrem zweitägigen Besuch darum bemühen, die Beziehungen zur muslimischen Welt sowie zu den Staaten Südostasiens zu verbessern.
Indonesien ist mit rund 235 Millionen Einwohnern das bevölkerungsreichste muslimische Land der Erde. Die meisten der 190 Millionen Muslime gelten als gemäßigt, die Politik von Expräsident George W. Bush hatte jedoch viele verärgert und mehrfach zu Protesten geführt. Clinton kann bei ihrem Werben für eine Verbesserung der Beziehungen zur Regierung in Jakarta nach Meinung von Beobachtern auf einen Vertrauensvorschuss bauen, den die Indonesier der Regierung Obamas entgegenbringen. >>> AP/dpa/lk | Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Hillary Clinton Reaches Out to Muslims in Indonesia
THE TELEGRAPH: Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, has pledged a new willingness to work with the Muslim world during a visit to Indonesia.
Small and scattered protests were held in several cities, with some Islamic hardliners setting tyres on fire and others throwing shoes at caricatures of Mrs Clinton, but her message was warmly received by the country's officials.
She said her choice of Asia for her first overseas trip as President Barack Obama's top diplomat was "no accident" and a sign of the new administration's desire for broader and deeper relations with the continent on regional and global issues. Indonesia and southeast Asia often felt overlooked by the George W Bush administration.
With President Barack Obama wishing to "reach out to the entire world", Mrs Clinton said Indonesia would be an important partner in that effort.
"Certainly Indonesia, being the largest Muslim nation in the world, the third-largest democracy, will play a leading role in the promotion of that shared future," she said. >>> By Alex Spillius, Washington Correspondent | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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LE MONDE: Le contenu d'une thèse doctorale sur l'enseignement de la religion islamique ébranle l'Autriche. Sur les quelque 400 enseignants de l'islam, 22 % rejetteraient la démocratie. Ce n'est certes que le travail d'un étudiant, mais la presse s'enflamme, le personnel politique monte au créneau, on demande la tête du président de la communauté islamique. Après cinq jours de tempête, la ministre de l'enseignement, Claudia Schmied, calme le jeu en passant un pacte avec la communauté : l'enseignement de la religion islamique sera désormais contrôlé par l'Etat autrichien.
L'islam est une des treize religions reconnues depuis l'annexion de la Bosnie par l'Empire austro-hongrois en 1912. A ce titre, elle est enseignée depuis 1982 à environ 40 000 élèves de secondaire de confession musulmane. Les enseignants rétribués par l'Etat sont nommés par la Communauté islamique autrichienne, responsable du programme et de l'élaboration du matériel pédagogique.
L'Etat autrichien a-t-il fait preuve d'un trop grand laxisme en accordant à cette religion les mêmes prérogatives qu'à d'autres ? La thèse de cet étudiant à l'institut de pédagogie de l'université de Vienne, Mouhanad Khorchide, lui-même de confession musulmane et enseignant de religion, a mis le feu aux poudres.
Sur les 210 enseignants ayant répondu à son questionnaire, 22 % rejetteraient la démocratie, jugée incompatible avec l'islam, 29 % tiendraient pour impossible de s'intégrer dans la société autrichienne sans perdre son identité religieuse, 28 % considéreraient qu'être européen et musulman est une contradiction. >>> Vienne correspondance | Mardi 17 Février 2009
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Librarians are being told to move the Bible to the top shelf to avoid giving offence to followers of Islam.
Muslims have complained of finding the Koran on lower shelves, saying it should be put above commonplace things.
So officials have responded with guidance, backed by ministers, that all holy books should be treated equally and go on the top shelf together.
This means that Christian works, which also have immense historical and literary value, will be kept out of the reach and sight of many readers.
The guidance was published by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, a quango answering to Culture Secretary Andy Burnham.
It said Muslims in Leicester had moved copies of the Koran to the top shelves of libraries, in keeping with the belief that the Koran is the all-important word of God.
The report said the city’s librarians consulted the Federation of Muslim Organisations and were advised that all religious texts should be kept on the top shelf.
‘This meant that no offence is caused, as the scriptures of all the major faiths are given respect in this way, but none is higher than any other,’ the guidance added.
Critics said such a move implied religious works should be treated as objects of veneration rather than as books to be read. Robert Whelan of the Civitas think-tank said:
‘Libraries and museums are not places of worship. They should not be run in accordance with particular religious beliefs.
‘This is violating the principles of librarianship and it is part of an insidious trend.’
He said the principle that books should be available to everyone was established in Europe in the Middle Ages.
‘One of the central planks of the Protestant Reformation was that everybody should have access to the Bible,’ he added.
Simon Calvert of the Christian Institute said: ‘It is disappointing if the policy of libraries is dictated by the practices of one group.
‘It is particularly disappointing if this is done to put the scriptures beyond reach.
‘I hope there will be a rethink. I understand that Muslims revere their own text, but in public libraries there should not be a policy of putting religious texts out of reach.’ Libraries Put Bible on Top Shelf in a Sop to Muslims >>> By Steve Doughty | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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The Fuhrer's [sic] behaviour shocked those who dined with him, an intelligence report marked “Destroy in 48 Hours” said
Adolf Hitler's uncouth behaviour and shocking table manners appalled his wartime dining companions, according to a secret intelligence report discovered during a house clearance.
The papers, marked “Must be destroyed within 48 hours of reading”, include a psychological profile of the Nazi dictator based on the interrogation of one of his closest aides.
The aide, an officer who kept the appointments diary at Wolf's Lair, Hitler's military headquarters at Rastenburg in East Prussia, described how the Führer bit his nails during meals, gorged on cakes and was often lost in his own thoughts, paying little attention to the conversation around him. He also spoke about the rages that kept Hitler's senior officers in a state of constant terror.
The papers are part of an intelligence summary prepared as the war neared its end and are believed to have been saved by a British officer. They were found at a house in the South West and are to be sold at auction next month.
The unnamed German officer, a lieutenant colonel referred to as PW — prisoner of war — was based at Wolf's Lair for several months in 1943. He dined with Hitler at least 30 times and observed his daily routine. He told the Allies that Hitler would eat only vegetables and stewed fruit and banned smoking in his presence. His meals would be accompanied by one or two glasses of beer.
“Hitler eats rapidly, mechanically, for him food is merely an indispensable means of subsistence,” PW said. Conversation at the dinner table relaxed Hitler and stimulated his thoughts. When he spoke it was “in mellow baritone, without that raucous, unpleasant stridency of his public speeches”.
But the informant added: “At the table and in his speech he shows many facets of rather uncouth behaviour. He abstractedly bites his fingernails, he runs his index finger back and forth under his nose, and his table manners are little short of shocking.” >>> Simon de Bruxelles | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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Radical cleric Abu Qatada will stay in Britian for months despite a House of Lords ruling that he should be deported to Jordan where he faces terror charges.
THE TELEGRAPH: The Law Lords said Qatada, dubbed "Osama Bin Laden's right hand man in Europe", could be sent back to Jordan where he faces terror charges after overturning a Court of Appeal decision.
But the extremist could still remain in the country for many months if he takes his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
The judgment is a victory for the Home Office in its long-running campaign to remove Qatada from Britain, which has cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds already.
The Law Lords also ruled in favour of the Government over its attempts to deport two other men to Algeria.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said a deportation order will be served on Qatada immediately.
However any attempts to remove him would be put on hold if the case goes to Europe. >>> By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor | Wednesday, February 18, 2009
THE INDEPENDENT: Abu Qatada Awarded £2,500 for Detention
Radical preacher Abu Qatada was awarded £2,500 cash compensation today by European judges who ruled that his detention without trial breached his human rights.
Yesterday Qatada lost the latest round of his UK legal battle to stay in Britain.
But 24 hours later he won a separate case in the European Court of Human Rights that his detention under anti-terror laws introduced by the Government after the 2001 attacks on America violated the Human Rights Convention. >>> By Geoff Meade, Press Association | Thursday, February 19, 2009
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