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TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: MÉTÉO | D’importantes quantités de pluie sont tombées depuis dimanche sur la Suisse centrale et orientale. La neige est descendue jusqu’à 1500 mètres. >>> ATS | Mardi 31 Août 2010
NZZ ONLINE: Schnee in den Alpen bis auf 1500 Meter >>> sda | Dienstag, 31. August 2010
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: MISE AU POINT | Le gouvernement iranien «n'approuve pas» les insultes de certains medias iraniens contre l'épouse du président français Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a déclaré mardi le porte-parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères.
Le quotidien ultra-conservateur Kayhan avait assimilé samedi Carla Bruni-Sarkozy à une "prostituée" en raison de sa vie privée jugée "immorale", après que l'épouse de Nicolas Sarkozy a pris la défense d'une Iranienne condamnée à mort par lapidation dans une affaire d'adultères et de meurtre.
Le journal, coutumier de propos insultants à l'égard de responsables iraniens ou étrangers, est revenu à la charge mardi dans un article évoquant "l'indignation de cette prostituée italienne" après l'article du journal samedi.
"La République islamique n'approuve pas l'insulte contre les responsables des autres pays", a déclaré M. Mehmanparast interrogé sur ces commentaires lors de son briefing hebdomadaire. >>> AFP | Mardi 31 Août 2010
NZZ ONLINE: Der libysche Revolutionsführer Ghadhafi stellt Rechnung für die Unterbindung des Migrantenstroms von Afrika nach Europa. Ohne seine Hilfe könne Europa «schon morgen zu einem zweiten Afrika werden», sagte er in Rom.
Der libysche Staatschef Muammar Gaddafi hat von der Europäischen Union «jährlich mindestens fünf Milliarden Euro» für den Kampf gegen illegale Einwanderer aus Afrika gefordert.
Libyen sei das Eingangstor der «unerwünschten Immigration»; diese könne nur an den Grenzen seines Landes gestoppt werden, sagte Ghadhafi am Montagabend in Rom, an einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz mit Italiens Regierungschef Silvio Berlusconi. Es liege deshalb ganz im Interesse Europas, auf seine Forderungen einzugehen. «Sonst kann Europa schon morgen zu einem zweiten Afrika werden», sagte Ghadhafi. Er versicherte, seine Forderung werde auch von Italien unterstützt. Berlusconi ging auf die Äusserungen seines Gastes nicht ein. Lesen Sie weiter und schreiben Sie einen Kommentar >>> sda/afp | Dienstag, 31. August 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Italians have reacted with indignation after Muammar Gaddafi lectured 200 young actresses and models on the superiority of Islam, a day after saying that Europeans should all become Muslim.
Silvio Berlusconi’s increasingly close relationship with Col Gaddafi is becoming a source of embarrassment for the Italian prime minister, according to opposition MPs and even members of the government.
On Monday, the Libyan leader recruited the women through a modelling agency to join him and Mr Berlusconi, in viewing a photography exhibition at a Rome cultural institute which traced historical links between the two countries.
Telling them that Islam was the “ultimate religion”, Gaddafi insisted that “if you want to believe in a single faith then it must be that of Mohammed,” according to one of the women who sat through the lecture. >>> Nick Squires in Rome | Monday, August 30, 2010
LE FIGARO: Colère en Italie après un nouveau show de Kadhafi: En visite officielle à Rome, le dirigeant libyen a plaidé pour que l'Islam devienne «la religion de toute l'Europe». >>> Par Olfa Khamira | Lundi 30 Août 2010
About Gaddafi’s conversion party >>>
“Italy has become the Disneyland of Gaddafi and his senile vanities.” – Gianfranco Fini [Source: Mail Online]
I guess that the Italians have finally woken up, as the rest of the West needs to do, and have told Gaddafi to stick his benighted religion – Islam – where the sun don’t shine. We sane Westerners are getting sick to death of listening to the crap espoused about that bloody awful faith by its adherents. It’s a faith for mentally challenged people. Witness the possible stoning to death of that poor woman in Iran, Sakineh. Who, in his right mind, could worship a god who calls for such an innocent woman to be stoned to death? Even if she had committed adultery, which is very questionable, so bloody what? She wouldn’t be the only woman in the world to have done so. Let her Maker be her judge! Who gave these bloody idiots the right to judge others?
And by the way, if Obama really is a Muslim, as I suspect he is, then he is mentally challenged too. – © Mark
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Geht es nach einigen iranischen Berichterstattern, ist die Gattin des französischen Präsidenten Nicolas Sarkozy nichts als eine Hure, ein unmoralisches Wesen. Carla Brunis Vergehen: Sie will eine zum Tode verurteilte Iranerin vor der Steinigung bewahren.
Teheran - Weil sie eine angeblich untreue Frau vor der Todesstrafe retten will, sieht sich die französische Präsidentengattin Carla Bruni-Sarkozy derzeit ebenso heftiger wie unsachlicher Kritik aus den Reihen konservativer iranischer Meinungsmacher ausgesetzt.
Erst nannte die staatliche Zeitung "Kajhan" das ehemalige Model in einem Artikel vom Samstag eine Prostituierte. Am Montag dann legte die regierungsnahe iranische Website www.inn.ir nach und bezeichnete die Première Dame als "unmoralisch". "Die Vorgeschichte zeigt klar, warum diese unmoralische Frau eine wegen Ehebruchs verurteilte Frau unterstützt", hieß es auf der Website. Bruni hatte sich wie Hunderte ihrer Landsleute gegen die Steinigung von Sakineh Mohammadi Aschtiani ausgesprochen. In einem offenen Brief forderte sie in der vergangenen Woche eine Aussetzung des Todesurteils. "Frankreich wird Sie nicht aufgeben", schrieb das ehemalige Model. >>> ala/AP/AFP | Montag, 30. August 2010
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lePARISIEN.fr: Le soutien de Carla Bruni-Sarkozy à Sakineh, cette Iranienne condamnée à mort par lapidation, vaut à la Première dame de France des attaques virulentes de la presse iranienne. Le site internet du groupe de presse gouvernemental Iran, dénonce ce lundi «l'immoralité» de l'épouse du président de la République.
Le site www.inn.ir estime que «les médias occidentaux, en détaillant ses nombreux antécédents d'immoralité, ont implicitement confirmé qu'elle méritait ce titre».
Mais c'est le journal Kayhan, proche du pouvoir, qui est allé le plus loin. Dans le quotidien ultra-conservateur, cité par le Telegraph et le Dailymail, on peut lire : «Les prostituées françaises se joignent aux protestations pour les droits de l'Homme.» Carla Bruni-Sarkozy y est qualifiée d'«épouse infâme», «d'actrice et chanteuse dépravée, qui a réussi a briser la famille de Sarkozy et à épouser le président français». Kayhan s'en prend également à Isabelle Adjani, taxée d'actrice «à la morale corrompue». >>> Leparisien.fr avec l’AFP | Lundi 30 Août 2010
BILD.de: Iraner beschimpfen Carla Bruni als „Hure“: Böse Beschimpfung für Carla Bruni (41), eine iranische Zeitung nennt die Frau des französischen Präsidenten eine „Hure“! >>> | Montag, 30. August 2010
THE GUARDIAN: German chancellor calls on Bundesbank to sack board member Thilo Sarrazin
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, today called on Germany's central bank to dismiss one of its board members over comments he made on Jews and immigrants.
Thilo Sarrazin said that "all Jews share the same gene" and Muslim immigrants in Europe were unwilling to integrate or incapable of integrating into western societies.
Jewish and Muslim communities have condemned the 65-year-old's remarks, which were made before the launch of his book, Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab – or Germany Abolishes Itself – today.
Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, reiterated the chancellor's call for the Bundesbank to consider Sarrazin's future.
"These are comments that only damage and don't help integration in this country, which is a national duty," Seibert said at a government news conference.
Last year, Sarrazin – who previously served as the regional finance minister for Berlin – told a magazine: "I do not need to accept anyone who lives on handouts from a state that it rejects, is not adequately concerned about the education of their children and constantly produces new little headscarf-clad girls." >>> Mark Tran and agencies | Monday, August 30, 2010
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Angela Merkel and others can kid themselves as much as they like, but the fact is that Muslims will not integrate into Western societies. It is expressly demanded of them NOT TO DO SO by their 'religion'. That means to say that their prophet told them to keep themselves apart from the infidels by not taking them as friends or helpers, and by dressing differently from them. That way they can tell themselves apart, and that way they won't become "corrupted". So Angela Merkel had better go and do her homework. Islam is a hard nut to crack. Silencing its critics only makes our task that much harder. – © Mark
BILD.de: Die Sarrazin-Debatte >>> | Donnerstag, 26. August 2010
BILD.de: Über seine harten Aussagen streitet Deutschland: Thilo Sarrazin (65, SPD) beschreibt in seinem neuen Buch „Deutschland schafft sich ab“, weshalb er glaubt, dass unser Land seine Zukunft aufs Spiel setzt. BILD veröffentlicht exklusive Auszüge. HEUTE: Warum die Integration vieler muslimischer Migranten am Islam scheitert.
Es reicht aus, dass Muslime unsere Gesetze beachten, ihre Frauen nicht unterdrücken, Zwangsheiraten abschaffen, ihre Jugendlichen an Gewalttätigkeiten hindern und für ihren Lebensunterhalt selbst aufkommen. Darum geht es.
Wer diese Forderungen als Zwang zur Assimilation kritisiert, hat in der Tat ein Integrationsproblem. Vielleicht sollte er einmal einen Gedanken daran verschwenden, weshalb es in ganz Europa Vorbehalte gegen Muslime gibt – mit guten Gründen:
• Keine andere Religion in Europa tritt so fordernd auf.
• Keine andere Immigration ist so stark wie die muslimische mit Inanspruchnahme des Sozialstaats und Kriminalität verbunden.
• Keine Gruppe betont in der Öffentlichkeit so sehr ihre Andersartigkeit, insbesondere durch die Kleidung der Frauen.
• Bei keiner anderen Religion ist der Übergang zu Gewalt, Diktatur und Terrorismus so fließend. >>> Von Thilo Sarrazin | Donnerstag, 26. August 2010
ISRAEL TODAY: Israeli officials say it's not Iran that is Israel's greatest threat
Although Israeli officials publicly play down the crisis in relations between Jerusalem and Washington, privately the language is much different. Sources close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describe Obama as a "strategic catastrophe" for Israel.
Officials in the Prime Minister's Office, speaking on condition of anonymity to the nation's top newspapers, see the Obama administration as a serious threat to the future of the State of Israel. On the record, Israel and the US have a "strategic partnership that is unbreakable"; off the record, the terminology is blunt to say the least.
"President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have drawn a clear line, supporting the Palestinian position at the expense of Israel," said one Netanyahu confidant. "It is insane, it is sick. Relations between Jerusalem and Washington are simply disastrous; the situation has never been so dangerous. This US President wants to establish a Palestinian state at any price and hand them Jerusalem on a silver platter."
Netanyahu has repeatedly distanced himself from such statements, but commentators say the government speaks with a forked tongue. "Israel's relations with the US are at a low point, and Obama poses a danger to Israel," wrote Nahum Barnea in the nation's biggest newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
The feeling among the Israeli public is that Obama is appeasing the Muslim world at the expense of Israel.
"The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV. That could explain why Obama has instructed that the term "Islamic extremism" no longer be used in official government documents and statements.
Furthermore, the US is now accusing Israel of harming American interests in the Middle East. General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, said Israel's intransigence on resolving the conflict with the Palestinians is endangering US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even the US Congress considers Obama's behavior toward Netanyahu humiliating. Three-quarters of the House of Representatives, 337 of 435 members, signed a bipartisan letter to Clinton expressing "deep concern over recent tension" between the two countries, and demanding that it be smoothed over quickly and in private.
"Obama is a real problem for Israel," a senior official told told Yediot. "He is Israel's biggest strategic catastrophe." >>> Aviel Schneider | Thursday, April 29, 2010
NZZ ONLINE: Der amerikanische Präsident Obama nimmt die falsch verbreiteten Angaben über seine Religionszugehörigkeit gelassen hin. Im Zeitalter neuer Medien würden solche Meldungen rasch verbreitet und hielten sich dann hartnäckig, sagte er in einem Interview.
Fast ein Fünftel der Amerikaner halten ihren Präsidenten für einen Muslim – doch Barack Obama bereitet das kein Kopfzerbrechen. «Fakten sind Fakten», sagte Obama am Sonntag in einem Interview des Fernsehsenders NBC. >>> sda/afp/ddp | Montag, 30. August 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: President Barack Obama hits back at birthers and rumour mongers: Barack Obama has publicly displayed his personal frustration for the first time with conservative opponents who have persistently questioned both his Christianity and his eligibility to be president. >>> Alex Spillius in Washington | Monday, August 30, 2010
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: VISITE À ROME | Le dirigeant libyen Mouammar Kadhafi a plaidé pour que l’Islam devienne «la religion de toute l’Europe». Il s’exprimait devant un parterre de 500 jeunes femmes rassemblées à Rome où il effectue une visite officielle.
A l’issue d’une conférence du dirigeant libyen pour laquelle elles avaient été rémunérées autour de 80 euros, les jeunes femmes ont reçu chacune un exemplaire du Coran.
Mouammar Kadhafi leur a expliqué que «l’Islam devrait devenir la religion de toute l’Europe et que Mohammed était le dernier prophète», a indiqué l’une des participantes, citée par la Stampa. «Ennuyeux[.]»
«Pour nous c’était vraiment ennuyeux. Kadhafi ne savait pas que nous étions payées, sinon il n’aurait pas accepté de nous rencontrer», a ajouté, sous couvert de l’anonymat, une participante de 25 ans à la Repubblica.
L’agence qui a recruté ces hôtesses et leur avait demandé de s’habiller de façon sobre a indiqué que les jeunes femmes qui parleraient à la presse ne seraient pas rémunérées. Traité d’amitié[.] >>> ATS / AFP | Lundi 30 Août 2010
MAIL ONLINE: And he's the only man allowed in the room with them
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi hosted another Islam conversion party attended by 500 glamorous women during the first day of an official visit to Italy.
Gaddafi was the only man at the event - apart from security officers who were kept outside - while the women who were invited to take part were all asked to 'dress demurely'.
Three women were said to have undergone 'spontaneous conversions', while others walked out in disgust saying they could 'not stand to hear such rubbish'.
The event, at the Libyan Academy in Rome, comes nine months after Gaddafi hosted two similar evenings at the official residence of the Libyan ambassador in Rome Abdulhafad Gaddur.
At those events the women were paid 50 euros, but for last night's party and another planned for later this evening the women were given 70 euros - on condition that they did not speak to the media.
A fleet of coaches with the curtains drawn had pulled up outside the Academy just hours after Gaddafi had flown in from Tripoli.
Student Sara Perugini, 19, who was at the event, said: 'Colonel Gaddafi was very pleasant and charming. He spoke to us about Islam and the Koran and he gave all of us a copy.
'He told us that we should convert to Islam and that Mohammad was the last of the prophets. Three women did go through what he described as a spontaneous conversion.
'They left wearing the traditional chador. We were paid 70 euros although I haven't actually seen the money yet, but we were told not to talk to the media so I probably won't see anything.
'I know some women did walk out saying they were not prepared to hear such rubbish but as far as I know there were only a couple.
'They said they didn't agree with Gaddafi coming to Italy and telling them to convert and marry Muslims. Colonel Gaddafi scores a three in 500 success rate after holding another Islam conversion party in Rome for glamorous models >>> Nick Pisa | Monday, August 30, 2010
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TIMES ONLINE: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi Invites 500 Italian Women to Villa and Lectures Them on Islam >>> Richard Owen in Rome | Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, August 29, 2010
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: A former deputy prime minister of New Zealand has reignited the country's republican movement by demanding an end to the monarchy on the death of The Queen and castigating The Prince of Wales as "strange".
In addition to mocking the Prince of Wales views, Michael Cullen, who was deputy Prime Minister in Helen Clark's Labour government, accused the Duke of Edinburgh of being "insensitive and prejudiced".
The comments are contained in a speech that Mr Cullen, who stepped down from parliament when Labour lost power in 2008, is expected to deliver to an influential conference reviewing the country's constitution in Wellington, the capital, later this week.
The London-born politician will tell the Institute of Policy Studies think-thank conference that New Zealand should set in place legislation enabling it to abandon the monarchy when the Queen dies.
The Herald on Sunday newspaper reported that Dr Cullen's speech notes, in which he says The Prince of Wales and his father the Duke of Edinburgh "evince some strange characteristics".
He goes on: "But talking to plants and extremely conservative views on architecture are scarcely confined to Prince Charles.
"As for the old Duke, his insensitivity and prejudices would in our nation make him highly suitable material for a breakfast television or talkback radio host."
The reference is to a breakfast presenter on New Zealand television who is notorious for making controversial comments.
Although the issue of a republic has been raised in the past, with both Ms Clark and John Key, the current Prime Minister, describing it as "inevitable", Dr Cullen's speech will be the first to contain such personal remarks about members of the royal family.
Dr Cullen said criteria for appointing a head of state which include preferment of male heirs and Anglicans are inconsistent with modern New Zealand values. >>> Paul Chapman in Wellington | Sunday, August 29, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS: NEW YORK — Adnan Zulfiqar, a graduate student, former U.S. Senate aide and American-born son of Pakistani immigrants, will soon give the first khutbah, or sermon, of the fall semester at the University of Pennsylvania. His topic has presented itself in the daily headlines and blog posts over the disputed mosque near ground zero.
What else could he choose, he says, after a summer remembered not for its reasoned debate, but for epithets, smears, even violence? >>> Rachel Zoll | Sunday, August 29, 2010
LE POINT: Aucune décision finale n'a été prise sur la lapidation de Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani pour adultère et meurtre, a réaffirmé samedi le ministère iranien des Affaires étrangères, notant que l'application de la peine avait été "suspendue" et que le verdict était "en cours d'examen". "Pour les peines très lourdes, il y a une procédure particulière et longue. Ce verdict est en cours d'examen et, lorsque la justice arrivera à une conclusion finale, elle l'annoncera", a indiqué à l'AFP ce porte-parole, Ramin Mahmanparast. >>> Source AFP | Samedi 28 Août 2010
BBC: An Aboriginal man has won a seat in Australia's House of Representatives, becoming the first indigenous person to do so in the country's history.
Ken Wyatt, 57, took the seat of Hasluck in Western Australia for the centre-right Liberal Party.
Neither the Liberals nor the governing Labor Party gained enough seats at last week's election for a majority.
Mr Wyatt has dismissed racist hate mail he has received, saying it was time for Australia to move forward. >>> | Sunday, August 29, 2010
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: INDIGENOUS Australians must take matters into their own hands if they want to see more Aborigines in Parliament, according to the first Aborigine to win a seat in the House of Representatives.
Ken Wyatt claimed victory in the marginal West Australian seat of Hasluck yesterday, amid revelations he was subjected to racist taunts during the election campaign.
Mr Wyatt said the taunts had come in the form of phone calls to his campaign office, as verbal taunts on the streets and as messages on news websites.
He said they had come from both white and Aboriginal people, some accusing him of selling out his cultural heritage by joining the Liberal Party.
Mr Wyatt, who has Aboriginal, Indian and English blood, said he was disappointed by the taunts but not deterred. >>> Peter Ker | Monday, August 30, 2010
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