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FOX NEWS: NEW YORK — An education expert is warning that some American textbooks present a biased view of Islam and offer a sugarcoated picture of Islamic extremism, a trend that has parents worried about what's being taught in public schools.
In numerous history textbooks, "key subjects like jihad, Islamic law, the status of women are whitewashed," said Gilbert T. Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, an independent group that reviews history books and other education materials.
Cindy Ross, the mother of a junior high school student in Marin County, Calif., said she couldn't believe her eyes when she read her son's textbook last school year.
"I was very shocked by what I saw, looking through the book," she said — shocked at how Islam was portrayed in her son's seventh grade history text.
"What did strike me was that all the other religions seemed to be lumped together, where there is an inordinate emphasis on Islam specifically," Ross said.
Sewall claims that publishers have been pressured by Islamic activists to portray the religion in the most favorable light, while Islamic terrorism is downplayed or glossed over.
"The picture is incomplete ... and the reason for this is that publishers are afraid of the Islamist activists. They don't want trouble," he told FOX News. >>> FOX News' Eric Shawn and Shira Bush contributed to this report | Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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ASIAONE NEWS: KUALA LUMPUR - An ethnic Chinese Malaysian has gone to court to fight the secret conversion of his 15-month-old daughter by his estranged Muslim convert wife, his lawyer said Thursday.
Carpenter Hoo Ying Soon, 28, is also challenging the temporary custody granted to his wife by a sharia court in this Muslim-majority nation.
Lawyer Tang Jay Son told AFP Hoo only learned of his wife and child's secret conversion two days ago through a sharia court notice, which said the woman had become a Muslim on January 28 and his infant daughter on February 3.
"They also served him an interim court order... that grants the wife a temporary custody over the child and the reason for that is because the child is already a Muslim," Tang said.
"But we have to bear in mind that the child was converted to Islam without Hoo's knowledge and consent as a father."
The couple - originally both Buddhists who married in 2007 and live in central Negri Sembilan state- separated in September last year, the lawyer said.
He said the parents took turns to look after their daughter, who has now been given the Muslim name Nurul Syuhada Chew Abdullah. >>> AFP | Thursday, March 5, 2009
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NZZ Online: Die europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat ihren Leitzins um 50 Basispunkte auf den historischen Tiefststand von 1,5% gesenkt. Nach einer Pause im Februar geht damit die Serie der Zinssenkungen im Kampf gegen die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise im Euroraum weiter.
Die europäische Zentralbank (EZB) hat ihren Leitzins um 50 Basispunkte auf den historischen Tiefststand von 1,5% gesenkt. Der Schritt war von den Märkten erwartet worden. Nach einer Pause im Februar geht damit die Serie der Zinssenkungen im Kampf gegen die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise im Euroraum weiter. Im Kampf gegen die Wirtschaftskrise hat die EZB damit die Zinsen um insgesamt 275 Basispunkte auf 1,5% gesenkt. >>> mtz | Donnerstag, 5. März 2009
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THE TELEGRAPH: The big question is whether the extra cash will actually be spent, says Edmund Conway.
As far as markets are concerned, this is World War Three. Share prices have fallen so far and fast in the United States that they are back where they were when Bill Clinton was finishing his first term and John Major was still clinging on to power. Despite a small pick-up yesterday, the sense of misery and resignation remains so pervasive that US markets are now priced for either world war or full-scale depression.
Stocks are better value than they have been for all 1,680 months since 1870 save for brief periods in 1920 (post-WWI adaptation), 1932 (Great Depression), 1942 (WWII) and 1982 (stagflation hangover), according to calculations on the US markets from Lombard Street Research.
Observing this recession is rather like watching slow-motion footage of a car crash. And at the front bumper of the vehicle are share prices and money growth. Shares started really sliding last autumn, just before the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers coincided with a sudden and unprecedented collapse in world trade. But the impact of the collision is still travelling through the frame of the car, shattering individuals' fortunes with inexorable inevitability as it passes on. Investors have abandoned the markets because of their fright about the slide in profits and the rise in redundancies that lie ahead in the coming months.
Yet for all the sound and fury, the full scale of the impact has yet to be felt. It will only be at the end of this year, when unemployment is closer to three million than two million, that we will truly know how it feels to be in the thick of a recession. Sir Fred Goodwin may consider himself a victim of unreasonable public recrimination now, but I dread to think how the revelation of his pension would have gone down six or eight months hence with 10 per cent out of work for the first time since the 1980s. >>> By Edmund Conway | Thursday, March 5, 2009
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NRC HANDELSBLAD INTERNATIONAL: Banks have to go back to the basics of their business of saving and lending, says Dutch princess Máxima. The former banker spoke at a symposium on social banking on Tuesday.
Princess Máxima had nothing good to say about her former colleagues, bankers who have plunged the world into a deep financial crisis. At a meeting organised by Triodos Bank in the Dutch town of Zeist, Máxima said on Tuesday that bankers had lost sight of the core values of their profession. With "overzealous marketing" practices they sold inappropriate loans to vulnerable consumers who did not know what they were getting into. The financial crisis was due in part to these kinds of practices. "Only now we are starting to have some insight in the real extent of the consequences of the last months," the princess said.
Before Máxima met crown prince Willem Alexander ten years ago, she worked as a commercial banker in New York for banks such as Deutsche Bank and HSBC. Máxima gave her talk on Tuesday to mark the founding of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, an alliance of twelve financial institutions focused on social banking and microfinance, including Triodos Bank.
Microfinance
Over the past three years Máxima has served on a UN advisory group for microfinance: the issuing of loans to poor people or starting entrepreneurs in developing countries. The essence of banking, says Máxima, consists of trust, building long-term relationships and offering financial products that have added value. "Neglecting these values seems to be at the heart of the causes of the crisis."
She appealed to governments to set up a "'light touch' but adequate system of market regulation" and to offer consumers financial education, so that they can better understand the financial products they are offered. "It is the role of banks and microfinance institutions to have consumer protection and transparency written into the DNA of their organisation," Máxima said. >>> By Roel Janssen | Thursday, March 5, 2009
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THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero inadvertently used the F-word while expounding on a tourism agreement with Moscow in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday.
The slip-up, which is being circulated in clips on the Internet, occurred at a joint press conference.
"There is a big increase in the number of Spanish tourists heading to Russia, the number is at 500,000, we have therefore decided to sign an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to f---," he said, pausing briefly before ending the sentence with "to support this tourism".
In Spanish the expression "para follar," meaning "to f---," is pronounced very similarly to the expression "para apoyar," or "to support".
It's the second gaffe for Spanish tourism this week, after tourism officials were caught out promoting a Costa Brava resort using a photo taken on a beach halfway around the world … in Perth. >>> AFP/AP | Thursday, March 5, 2009
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TAGES ANZEIGER: Der Nationalrat stellt sich klar gegen die Volksinitiative «gegen den Bau von Minaretten». Das Begehren sei zwar gültig, verstosse aber gegen die Menschenrechte und gefährde den religiösen Frieden. Der Nationalrat will das Volk über die Initiative entscheiden lassen.
Die Volksinitiative «Gegen den Bau von Minaretten» war im Frühling 2007 von SVP- und EDU-Politikern auf Grund verschiedener Baugesuche für Minarette lanciert worden. Nach Einreichen der Unterschriften im vergangenen Sommer hatte der Bundesrat umgehend seine ablehnende Haltung kundgetan und schliesslich ungewöhnlich schnell eine entsprechende Botschaft ausgearbeitet. Bundesrätin Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf wies darauf hin, dass mit der Initiative zentrale Werte der Bundesverfassung in Frage gestellt würden. «Bei einer Annahme könnte die Schweiz ihre völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen nicht einhalten», sagte die Justizministerin, die ausserdem den religiösen Frieden gefährdet sieht. >>> vin/ap/sda | Mittwoch, 4. März 2009
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
ARAB NEWS: JEDDAH: Saudi women who make and sell homemade products are now able to legitimize their work. The Jeddah municipality will issue a special license for any woman who wants to operate a business from her home, according to a municipal official.
“Women who sell homemade cooking and handicrafts or intend to do any other business from their homes can obtain the license to make her work legal and flourishing,” said Mahmoud Kinsarah, head of the municipality’s Licensing and Commercial Monitoring Department. He was speaking at a press conference held yesterday to announce the launch of the 20th Environmental Health Forum, which will be held in Abruq Al-Righama next Saturday. >>> Hasa Hatrash | Wednesday, March 4, 2009
ARAB NEWS: We’ll Work to Protect Arab Women and Children: Adela
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will mobilize its efforts to protect the rights of women and children in the Kingdom as well as in the Arab world, said Princess Adela bint Abdullah, vice president of the National Family Safety Program (NFSP).
“This is an important issue to address as most countries in the Arab world are affected,” said Princess Adela yesterday. >>> Mohammed Rasooldeen | Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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REUTERS: BUENOS AIRES - In an effort to reduce the church's political influence, Argentine atheists and feminists are spearheading a drive to get people who were baptized Roman Catholic but disagree with the church's politics to formally renounce their faith.
The "Not in my Name" Internet campaign, also called Collective Apostasy, encourages people who are Catholic in name only to write to the bishops where they were baptized to officially register that they have left the church.
Latin America is home to about half of the world's Roman Catholics but many people who were baptized Catholic do not practice the religion.
"The church counts all those who've been baptized as Catholic and lobbies for legislation based on that number, so we're trying to convey the importance of people expressing that they no longer belong to the church," said campaigner Ariel Bellino, a member of an atheist group and a former Catholic.
Some 200 people signed onto the campaign on Monday, when it was first launched, and another 500 people signed up on Tuesday at www.apostasiacolectiva.org, Bellino said.
He said a similar drive was waged in Spain, where leftist movements have a historical anti-clerical streak, and in Chile.
Apostasy in the Roman Catholic Church is defined as the total and obstinate repudiation of the faith.
More than three-quarters of Argentina's 40 million residents define themselves as Catholic, according to a survey done by state researchers last year. But of that group, only about 20 percent say they regularly attend mass.
The country's relatively liberal social mores clash with Catholic doctrine on birth control, abstinence before marriage and homosexuality. The capital, Buenos Aires, was the first Latin American city to allow gay civil unions, back in 2003. >>> By Claudia Gaillard (Additional reporting by Hilary Burke; Editing by Cynthia Osterman) | Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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PRESS TV: Far-right Belgian politician Filip Dewinter has written an anti-Islam book, describing the region [sic?] as modern Europe's main problem.
Head of the Flemish Vlaams Belang party Dewinter - who is known for his support of Islamophobia and alleged sympathy for Israel in the opposition - argues in the book that the influence of Islam in Europe should be stemmed and describes Islamophobia as "an obligation."
He says this could materialize by barring immigrants from Muslim nations from entering Europe and imposing strict controls on the residing Muslims.
The book titled Insha'Allah? The Islamization of Europe is to go on sale Monday, EuropeNews reported.
"The moderate Muslims are many but they are not relevant. The radical Muslims who have the mosques in their power are," the author was reported as saying earlier. >>> HN/MMN | Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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THE STAR ONLINE: GENEVA - European countries signalled on Wednesday that they feared the universal right of free speech would be at risk if a United Nations conference on racism next month issues a call for a ban on "defamation of religion".
They also warned in speeches to the U.N.'s Human Rights Council that they could not accept any pillorying of Israel as "racist" nor any promotion of anti-Semitism at the Geneva gathering from April 20-24.
"The freedom of expression must be the cornerstone of our fight against racism," Sweden's delegate Frank Belfrage said. Britain's Human Rights Minister Mark Malloch Brown said limiting free speech would undermine tolerance.
Similar views have been expressed in the Council this week by Australia, France, Switzerland, Poland, Netherlands, Germany, and the Czech Republic speaking for the 27-nation European Union, among others.
The issues of freedom of speech and anti-Semitism have been set by Western countries, including the United States, as among their "red lines" for participation in the gathering, dubbed Durban II.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who will preside over the conference, has sought to reassure doubters, arguing fears of anti-Semitic outbursts are unfounded.
But diplomats say memories of street marches targeting Jews in general at the first U.N. racism conference in Durban in 2001 remain strong and fears of a repeat have grown after protests in Europe over Israel's war against Palestinian militants in Gaza. >>> Copyright © 2008 Reuters | By Robert Evans | Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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LE FIGARO: Nicolas Sarkozy a réaffirmé lundi, lors du dîner annuel du Crif, sa détermination à «assurer la sécurité de tous» face à la recrudescence des actes antisémites. Cette hausse, observée en janvier, serait notamment liée à l'importation du conflit dans la bande de Gaza.
«L'antisémitisme est de retour». Lundi soir, lors du dîner annuel du Crif (Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France), son président Richard Prasquier a ainsi commenté les chiffres donnés quelques heures plus tôt par le ministère de l'Intérieur. Si 459 actes antisémites ont été recensés en 2008, un chiffre stable par rapport à 2007, 352 actes antisémites ont été observés rien que pour le mois de janvier 2009. Une hausse vertigineuse que le ministère lie à «l'importation du conflit» dans la bande de Gaza «sur le territoire national».
Indépendamment des événements au Proche-Orient, la crise économique est, elle aussi, «un prétexte fertile pour l'antisémitisme», a estimé Richard Prasquier. Un antisémitisme qui, selon lui, se développe beaucoup sur le Web. Pour tenter d'endiguer le phénomène, Richard Praquier a ainsi demandé «de créer un observatoire du racisme sur Internet, de renforcer les moyens de l'Office central de lutte contre la criminalité liée aux technologies de l'information et de poursuivre systématiquement les hébergeurs de contenus antisémites». «Parfois, l'actualité provoque des tensions» >>> Flore Galaud (lefigaro.fr) avec AFP | Lundi 02 Mars 2009
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TAGES ANZEIGER: Deutschland streitet weiter über ein Verbot der NPD. Die Rechtsextremen werden derweil immer militanter.
Eigentlich sind sich alle einig: Die Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) ist eine gefährliche rechtsextremistische Organisation, in der gewaltbereite Neonazis eine Heimat finden. Seit Montag befasst sich der Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags mit einer Eingabe von 175 000 Bürgern, die ein Verbot der Partei fordern – aber noch ohne Ergebnis. Dennoch erklärte der Vorsitzende des Bundestagsinnenausschusses, Sebastian Edathy (SPD), am Montag resigniert, er rechne nicht damit, dass die Grosse Koalition einen Anlauf für ein Verbot nehme. Es fehle den Parteien an der nötigen Einigkeit.
Der Grund dafür: Das Verfassungsgericht hatte 2003 gefordert, dass die Geheimdienste vor dem Prozess ihre Verbindungsleute in der Parteiführung abschalten müssten. Die Innenminister von CDU und CSU befürchten, dass der Staatsschutz dadurch blind würde, und lehnen den Schritt ab. Dagegen erklärte der Berliner Innensenator Ehrhart Körting (SPD), dass die SPD in den von ihr regierten Ländern die V-Leute bereits aus dem innersten Führungszirkel abgezogen habe. >>> Von Sascha Buchbinder, Berlin | Montag, 2. März 2009
NZZ Online: Gross-Razzia gegen rechtsextreme Szene in Deutschland
Die Polizei hat eine bundesweite Gross-Razzia gegen die rechtsextreme Szene in Deutschland gestartet. Mehr als 200 Wohnungen und Geschäftsräume mutmasslicher Angehöriger der rechten Szene in allen Bundesländern wurden durchsucht. >>> sda/afp/dpa | Mittwoch, 4. März 2009
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THE JERUSALEM POST: The Alliance for Austria's Future, an extremist anti-immigrant party founded by Jörg Haider, won 45.6 percent of the vote on Sunday in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia.
The Austrian media termed the outcome a "posthumous triumph" for Haider, who died over four months ago in a high-speed car crash in Carinthia that occurred when he was driving intoxicated.
Haider founded the Alliance party in 2005 and had served as governor of the southern Alpine state for 10 years and was active in the state's politics since 1979.
Haider's widow, Claudia Haider, presented a photo of her husband to the Alliance's re-elected candidate for governor, Gerhard Dörfler, at the party celebration on Sunday. She attributed the Alliance victory as recognition for her late husband's political achievements. >>> By Benjamin Weithal, JPost Correspondent, Berlin | Tuesday, March 3, 2009
L’EXPRESS: La liaison gay de Jörg Haider
Jörg Haider, "était l'homme de ma vie", a révélé Stefan Petzner qui n'aura pas tenu bien longtemps à la tête du parti populiste BZÖ...
Le successeur de Jörg Haider n'aura pas tenu bien longtemps à la tête du parti populiste BZÖ... Ayant révélé dans une interview les liens intimes qui l'unissait avec l'homme fort de l'extrême-droite autrichienne, Stefan Petzner a été démis de ses fonctions. Agé de 27 ans et inconnu du grand public, il avait quelque peu étonné en fondant en larmes lors d'une conférence de presse donnée quelques heures après l'annonce de la mort de Haider.
A présent, on comprend mieux pourquoi: "Nous avions une relation qui allait au-delà de l'amitié", a-t-il expliqué sur la principale radio nationale, Ö3, le 19 octobre, "Jörg et moi, on était soudés par quelque chose de très spécial. C'était l'homme de ma vie." L'épouse de Haider était, semble-t-il, au courant de la relation. >>> Par Marc Epstein | Friday, October 24, 2008
TAGES ANZEIGER: Haiders Lebensmensch ist der stille Wahlsieger
In Kärnten erreichte das von Jörg Haider gegründete Bündnis Zukunft Österreich (BZÖ) einen grandiosen Wahlsieg. Hinter dem Erfolg steckt Lebensmensch Stefan Petzner.
Stefan Petzner ist der stille Sieger dieser Wahl, schreibt die Tageszeitung «Österreich». Denn der BZÖ-Politiker, der seinen Wegbegleiter Jörg Haider nach dessen Tod als Lebensmensch bezeichnete, war für den Wahlkampf verantwortlich. Und er hat ihn hervorragend geleitet, wie er übrigens auch selber findet: «Das war für mich der schwierigste Wahlkampf aller Zeiten – aber ich habe noch jeden gewonnen, den ich geführt habe.»
«Wir passen auf dein Kärnten auf»
Seine beste Idee: Am Ende des Wahlkampfes setzte Petzner und sein Team auf ein schlichtes Plakat mit einem an Jörg Haider adressiert Slogan: «Wir passen auf dein Kärnten auf.» Das erwies sich als Geniestreich, wie «Österreich» schreibt.
Mit diesem furiosen Erfolg dürfte Petzner bei seinen Parteifreunden wieder rehabilitiert sein. Nach dem Tod Jörg Haiders wurde er wegen seinen emotionalen Medienauftritten kritisiert. >>> bru | Montag, 2. Marz 2009
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