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Friday, November 05, 2010
Europe has been established on Judeo-Christian principles. Islam has played almost no part in it. This is an undeniable fact. Further, today, Islam is the antithesis of all Europe stands for: Europe is synonymous with liberal democracy; Islam, by contrast, is synonymous with backwardness and totalitarianism.
In the Twenties and Thirties in Germany, the Jews became the scapegoats of the Germans. Hitler rose to power in the Thirties and demonized them. He managed to convince his fellow Germans that they, the Jews, were the root of all evil in Germany. When in power, he set about his plan to exterminate them. The so-called ‘Final Solution’, die Endlösung, was put in place.
Concentration camps (Konzentrationslager) were set up in Germany, and in occupied countries such as Poland. Such concentration camps as Chelmno (Kulmhof), Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, Stutthof and Dachau were set up with one sole purpose: to exterminate the Jews.
This was racism in the raw!
Many today find it unbelievable that the Holocaust happened. Many Muslims, in particular, deny that these atrocities happened at all! But they did! That they did is well documented. This is historical fact. No sane person need spare a moment to deny any of it. If you are in any doubt, ask one of the survivors of those death camps! His testimony will be heart-rending indeed! It will show the depths to which man can sink.
This all happened in Europe little more than sixty years ago. Do you think this could not happen again? You would be mistaken if you do! History has a nasty habit of repeating itself. Human nature doesn’t change, as much as we would like to believe that it does. Circumstances change; human nature does not.
If it were to happen again, would the Jews be the ones to be persecuted? Probably not!
In those days, Jews were perceived as the bogeymen of Europe. These days, if any group of people is perceived as the bogeymen, if any group is perceived to threaten Europeans and their way of life, it is Muslims, not Jews. At the moment, there are far too few Jews in Europe to worry about their existence there. Muslims, on the other hand, live in Europe in millions; further, their numbers are growing apace. Today, these are the people Europeans worry about, not Jews.
Islam calls its adherents to live a very different way of life – a way of life quite alien to the way of life of Europeans. Many Europeans therefore feel quite naturally threatened by their growing existence in their midst, especially so because their politicians are too timid to stem Islam’s growth on European soil.
There is no doubt that Osama bin Laden has pushed the cause of Islam in the West. In fact, he has been hell-bent on making Europeans cower to the wishes of Muslims worldwide. European politicians, so far, have shown little will to resist his calls. Indeed, many would say that European politicians have been spineless and have shown little resolve to tackle the very urgent issues that face Europe today vis-à-vis Islam.
This spinelessness is very troubling. This lack of resolve is very troubling, too. Our politicians are appeasing Muslims. They are showing their weakness in the face of Muslims’ apparent strength. This weakness will not lead to any good place! When governments are perceived to be weak, politics is headed for a turn to extremism. We saw this recently in the United Kingdom, when the far right made substantial gains at the polls because of the perceived weakness of the Blair government.
With the present political climate, one might be forgiven for concluding that Europeans are weak, and are therefore ripe for take-over. This would be a wrong conclusion to make, even though it appears that way. What has happened in Europe once, can happen again. Might it, perhaps, merely be a matter of time?
No sane person, no kind person, no sensible person would wish to see a repeat of the Holocaust in Europe. Those were extremely sad times indeed; they should never be repeated. But, to avoid them, we need to learn the lessons of history. Learn why they happened in the first place. Learn why they happened at all. Osama bin Laden and his cronies need to learn these lessons, too.
The root of harmony is tolerance. Today it is believed – erroneously in my opinion - that tolerance can be legislated for. It cannot be. When a people perceives that its way of life is under threat, these people become capable of any act of evil. Our politicians would be wise to realize that people have not become more tolerant, have not become more understanding, and nor have they grown weaker. Deep down, people are the same today as they have always been. They can be pushed so far; but they will be pushed no further!
As abhorrent as the names Treblinka, Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau sound to the modern ear, the atrocities committed in those camps could happen again. Make no mistake about it! Circumstances might have changed; but man has not changed his nature. Nor has he lost his appetite for evil deeds!
If something isn’t done about the Muslim problem in Europe in the near future, the names Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Dachau will not be far from the minds of many Europeans. What happened once can happen again. Osama bin Laden would be wise to take heed!
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AFP: JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Growing Islamophobia echoes the rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930s with US leaders resisting it but Europeans abetting the trend for political gain, the head of the world's largest Islamic group said.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), said xenophobia directed at Muslim immigrants was taking hold, especially in Europe.
Vote-seeking politicians were advancing extremist groups behind the anti-Muslim sentiment.
"This issue has become a political agenda item," the Turkish head of the 58-member OIC told AFP in an interview, while stressing that Islam was also a European religion.
"What worries me is that political authorities or political parties, instead of stopping this, or fighting this, some of them are using this for their political ends, to gain more popular support in elections," he said.
"I'm afraid that we are going through a process like the beginning of the '30s of the last century, when an anti-Semitic agenda became politically a big issue (together with) the rise of fascism and Naziism .... I think now we are in the first stages of such a thing."
A "pandemic of Islam vilification" is rising steadily, he warned, as documented by the OIC's newly-established office to monitor Islamophobia around the globe. >>> Paul Handley (AFP) | Friday, November 05, 2010
DIE PRESSE: Nachdem das Kopftuchverbot an Universitäten de facto gefallen ist, nimmt die Regierung nun den Schulunterricht ins Visier. Die Schule solle Werte vermitteln, die auf dem „Glauben an Gott“ basieren.
[Istanbul] Bei Verfechtern einer laizistischen Türkei schrillten diese Woche wieder einmal die Alarmglocken: Diesmal ging es nicht um das Kopftuch an Universitäten, sondern um die Bedeutung des Islam an Schulen. Die soll steigen, wie Vorschlägen zu entnehmen ist, die der nationale Unterrichtsrat laut der Zeitung „Hürriyet“ diskutierte. Sie würden den Charakter des Unterrichts verändern.
So wurde vorgeschlagen, die Schule solle Werte vermitteln, die auf dem „Glauben an Gott“ basieren und dies in islamischer Terminologie. Angeblich wurde auch über die Möglichkeit getrennter Klassen für Buben und Mädchen diskutiert. Der Rat stimmte schließlich für eine Empfehlung, die sich nicht direkt auf die Religion bezieht, die Zahl der Schüler an religiösen Schulen aber erheblich erhöhen könnte. Im türkischen Schulsystem ist zwar Religionsunterricht als Pflichtfach per Verfassung vorgeschrieben. Alle Schüler außer Christen werden in sunnitischer Religion unterwiesen, ob ihre Eltern wollen oder nicht. >>> Jan Keetman | Donnerstag, 04. November 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, has been named the most powerful person on Earth knocking Barack Obama off the top spot.
The annual list, compiled by Forbes, the business magazine, places David Cameron, the British prime minister, at seven, behind Angela Merkel, the German chancellor in the list of 68.
Forbes explained that those on the list had been chosen “because, in various ways, they bend the world to their will”.
King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia came in third behind Mr Jintao and Mr Obama, while Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister was fourth, ahead of Dmitry Medvedev, who only came in at 12.
Pope Benedict XVI was in fifth place, while the rest of the top 10 was rounded off by Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, Sonia Gandhi, the Indian president, and Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Mr Gates finished ahead of Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, who was in 17th place.
The list, another blow to the US president, cited his party’s poor performance in the midterm elections. Read on and comment >>> | Friday, November 05, 2010
MAIL ONLINE: Hate preacher Abu Hamza has won his appeal against the Government's attempts to strip him of his British passport, a special tribunal ruled today.The radical cleric argued that such a move would render him 'stateless' as he had already been stripped of his Egyptian citizenship.
Delivering its 12-page ruling today, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) allowed his appeal.
The hook-handed cleric, who acquired a British passport through marriage, is serving seven years in maximum security Belmarsh Prison after being convicted for inciting murder and racial hatred in 2006.
The Home Office sort to remove the British citizenship he received in 1986 so he could be deported.
In his ruling, Mr Justice Mitting said: 'We are satisfied on balance of probabilities that if a deprivation order were to be made, the appellant (Hamza) would be made stateless.
'The conclusions which we have reached in the closed judgment supplement, but do not contradict, that conclusion.
'Accordingly, this appeal is allowed.'
But the 52-year-old used a high-powered team of legal eagles - funded by the taxpayer - to successfully argue his case.
A leading QC and team of lawyers all acted for Hamza, along with a special advocate appointed by the court.
Hamza's QC Ed Fitzgerald has represented clients including Moors Murderer Myra Hindley and the killer of James Bulger, Jon Venables.
Hamza claimed that he is no longer considered a citizen by Egypt, so taking away his UK nationality would leave him 'stateless' in contravention of Human Rights law. >>> Daily Mail Reporter | Friday, November 05, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Currency competition is the only way to fix the world economy, says Jeremy Warner.
Right from the start of the financial crisis, it was apparent that one of its biggest long-term casualties would be the mighty dollar, and with it, very possibly, American economic hegemony. The process would take time – possibly a decade or more – but the starting gun had been fired.
At next week's meeting in Seoul of the G20's leaders, there will be no last rites – this hopelessly unwieldy exercise in global government wouldn't recognise a corpse if stood before it in a coffin – but it seems clear that this tragedy is already approaching its denouement.
To understand why, you have to go back to the origins of the credit crunch, which lay in the giant trade and capital imbalances that have long ruled the world economy. Over the past 20 years, the globe has become divided in highly dangerous ways into surplus and deficit nations: those that produced a surplus of goods and savings, and those that borrowed the savings to buy the goods.
It's a strange, Alice in Wonderland world that sees one of the planet's richest economies borrowing from one of the poorest to pay for goods way beyond the reach of the people actually producing them. But that process, in effect, came to define the relationship between America and China. The resulting credit-fuelled glut in productive capacity was almost bound to end in a corrective global recession, even without the unsustainable real-estate bubble that the excess of savings also produced. And sure enough, that's exactly what happened.
When politicians see a problem, especially one on this scale, they feel obliged to regulate it. But so far, they've been unable to make headway. This is mainly because the surplus nations are jealous defenders of their essentially mercantilist economic models. Exporting to the deficit nations has served them well, and they are reluctant to change. >>> Jeremy Warner | Friday, November 05, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Doubts grow over wisdom of Ben Bernanke 'super-put': The early verdict is in on the US Federal Reserve's $600bn of fresh money through quantitative easing. Yields on 30-year Treasury bonds jumped 20 basis points to 4.07pc. >>> Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor | Thursday, November 04, 2010
SCHWEIZER FERNSEHEN: Thilo Sarrazin, Autor des Bestsellers «Deutschland schafft sich ab», kommt mit seinen provokanten Analysen zur Migration nicht aus den Schlagzeilen. Sein Buch findet reissenden Absatz - auch in der Schweiz. Begeisterter Zuspruch breiter Bevölkerungskreise, aber auch harsche Kritik bestimmen die öffentliche Debatte. Wo hat Sarrazin Recht und: Treffen seine Aussagen auch auf die Schweiz zu?
HÜRRIYET DAILY NEWS: BERLIN – The former member of the German Central Bank’s executive board who sparked a fierce debate on immigration and integration issues with his controversial book has proposed “new conditions” for immigrants who want to live in the country. Those who force their daughters to wear headscarves or to marry their relatives have no place in Germany, Thilo Sarrazin said over the weekend.
Speaking to Germany’s Bild am Sonntag late last week, Sarrazin proposed severely limiting family reunification laws for immigrants, excluding the incorporation of immigrants’ children into the social welfare system.
“In my opinion, the option for relatives to follow an immigrant and be integrated into our social welfare system attracts the wrong kind of migrants,” he said, calling for the termination of social services for immigrants on a long-term basis or even permanently.
He also proposed removing Turkish or Arabic signs at public offices to “implement a whole new level of pressure on people to learn German.”
“The head of a household who speaks the German language but hinders his family from learning it has no business living in Germany. Those who prefer Turkish television programs to German, because they are on the war path with our language, have no business being in Germany,” he said. >>> Daily News with wires | Monday, November 01, 2010
WELT ONLINE: Julian Assange sorgt sich um seine Sicherheit und fühlt sich vom Pentagon bedroht. In der Schweiz kündigte er nun neue Enthüllungen an.Der Gründer der Internet-Enthüllungsplattform Wikileaks, Julian Assange, erwägt nach eigenen Angaben eine Niederlassung in der Schweiz. In einem Interview mit dem Schweizer Fernsehsender TSR antwortete er am Donnerstag auf die Frage, ob er samt seiner Website in die Schweiz ziehen wolle, dies sei eine „reale Möglichkeit“. Auf die Frage, ob er dort einen Antrag auf Asyl stellen könnte, sagte der Australier: „Das ist richtig. Wir überlegen, ob ich Asyl beantragen sollte.“ Wikileaks prüfe derzeit zudem die Möglichkeit der Gründung einer Stiftung, mit der die Website von der Schweiz aus agieren könne. Die Schweiz und Island seien die einzigen westlichen Länder, in denen sich Wikileaks sicher fühle.
Wikileaks hatte Ende Oktober weltweit Aufsehen erregt, als es fast 400.000 Geheimdokumente zum Irak-Krieg veröffentlichte. Aus ihnen geht unter anderem hervor, dass die US-Armee trotz ihres Wissens von Folterungen von Gefangenen durch irakische Sicherheitskräfte nicht einschritt. Die USA protestierten heftig gegen die „unverantwortliche“ Veröffentlichung der Geheimdokumente. Assange berichtete nach der Veröffentlichung, er sorge sich um seine Sicherheit. Auch in Genf sagte er, Wikileaks-Mitarbeiter und Menschen aus dem Umfeld der Plattform fühlten sich vom Pentagon „bedroht“. >>> AFP/tma | Friday, November 05, 2010
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WELT ONLINE: Die US-Notenbank will die Wirtschaft mit der Notenpresse ankurbeln. Finanzminister Schäuble übt daran nun ungewöhnlich scharfe Kritik.
Bundesfinanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) hat die jüngste Maßnahme der US-Notenbank zur Ankurbelung der Wirtschaft als Bruch internationaler Abmachungen kritisiert. Die großen Wirtschaftsprobleme der USA seien mit noch mehr Schulden nicht zu lösen, sagte Schäuble am Donnerstagabend den ARD-„Tagesthemen“. „Das war übrigens gemeinsame Politik, der sich noch alle Industrieländer, auch die USA, beim G-20-Gipfel in Toronto (...) ausdrücklich verpflichtet haben.“
US-Notenbankchef Ben Bernanke verteidigte dagegen den geldpolitischen Kurs der Federal Reserve. Die US-Notenbank hatte verkündet, Staatsanleihen für 600 Milliarden Dollar zu kaufen. Nach den Worten Schäubles bereiten die USA der internationalen Finanzwelt damit zusätzliche Probleme. Experten fürchten eine ausufernde Inflation sowie eine Verschärfung der weltweiten Währungsungleichgewichte.
„Wir werden das auch in bilateralen Gesprächen, aber natürlich auch beim G-20-Gipfel in der kommenden Woche in Südkorea mit unseren amerikanischen Freunden kritisch ansprechen“, kündigte der Minister an. Die USA wollen mit dem umstrittenen Manöver die Kreditzinsen senken, um auf diese Weise die schleppende Nachfrage anzukurbeln. Die neue Milliardenstütze der US-Notenbank lässt Europas Währungshüter kalt. EZB-Präsident Jean-Claude Trichet stellte am Donnerstag klar, dass die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) an ihrem Kurs festhält und den Geldhahn allmählich zudrehen wird. >>> dpa/tma | Freitag, 05. November 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Silvio Berlusconi faces an investigation by Italian MPs after officials expressed fears that the Italian prime minister’s alleged patronage of prostitutes had put national security at risk.Mr Belusconi, 74, has been summoned to appear before a parliamentary security committee to “clarify” his security arrangements following the latest allegations about his private life. The secret services were reported to have told members of the committee that Mr Berlusconi’s lifestyle and his relations with escorts and starlets could endanger national security.
Massimo D’Alema, the president of the committee and a former Left-wing prime minister, said: “The secret services are entrusted with the security of the prime minister and we intend to return to this theme and consider it correct to hear what the prime minister has to say on the matter.”
Mr D’Alema said he felt sympathy for police who were “weary” of escorting young women in and out of Mr Berlusconi’s residences in Rome, Milan and Sardinia. The Italian leader was accused last week of instructing police in Milan to drop theft charges against a teenage Moroccan belly dancer who had attended one of his parties and of paying a prostitute, Nadia Macri’, €10,000 for intercourse at his villas in Sardinia and Milan. He has not denied either accusation. >>> Nick Squires, Rome | Thursday, November 04, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: France’s prime minister, François Fillon, has thrown a spanner into President Nicolas Sarkozy’s reshuffle plans with a revolt against his likely dismissal.
The French President’s aides let it be known last month that cabinet changes would likely see Mr Fillon’s replaced by Jean-Louis Borloo, the ecology minister whose dishevelled appearance has earned him the nickname of the “Serge Gainsbourg” of French politics - a nod to the often drunk and unshaven late French singer.
But the plan appears to have stirred Mr Fillon into open revolt against the appointment of his putative successor.
The two men have been engaged in an increasingly vitriolic duel with Mr Borloo accusing the prime minister of getting supporters to lob rhetorical “stink bombs” in his general direction.
Relations have turned so sour that when Mr Fillon offered to give his rival a lift in his prime ministerial jet back from a meeting in Biarritz in September, he received a text message saying: “Go screw yourself”.
Mired in the lowest approval ratings of any post-War French President, Mr Sarkozy is expected to announce a major reshuffle this month to breath new life into his mandate as he limbers up for re-election in 2012.
Among those on the way out is Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister.
The co-architect of Mr Sarkozy’s electoral programme, Mr Fillon has seen his role sidelined in favour of a “hyper-President” who wields all the levers of power and micromanages policy. >>> Henry Samuel, Paris | Thursday, November 04, 2010
Thursday, November 04, 2010
BBC: Wearing white bulletproof vests, the two young bearded men manhandled into Athens' main court spat and snarled at reporters and photographers in a calculated pique of defiance.
When quizzed by prosecutors, they refused to give their names or answer questions, claiming they were political prisoners.
But as they emerged from the court in the grip of masked, muscular, machine gun-carrying anti-terrorist police, the two suspects, Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24, and Panagiotis Argyros, 22, looked small and not particularly terrifying.
Perhaps bravado was better than quivering at the prospect of 25 years in jail for their alleged part in sending booby-trapped parcel bombs to President Nicholas Sarkozy of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy as well as assorted embassies and EU institutions.
Terrorism experts are convinced that the two belong to a left-wing organisation called the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire.
The group has been active since the Greek riots of December 2008, ignited by the fatal shooting of schoolboy Alexis Grigoropoulos by a policeman.
So just how dangerous are they?
Brady Kiesling, a former US diplomat in Athens and author of a book about November 17, Greece's most deadly guerrillas, could not be more contemptuous.
"They are politically irrelevant," he said. "Their message is smash the system. Basically, they are soft-hearted suburban kids who aren't really going to hurt anyone in the process, if they can help it."
Mr Kiesling dismissed their cluster of booby traps as "firecrackers".
But while the group may have caused little more than inconvenience and raised blood pressure across Europe, they have highlighted serious flaws in the air freight system by demonstrating how easy it is to smuggle explosive materials into the cargo holds of aircraft. >>> Malcolm Brabant, BBC News, Athens | Wednesday, November 03, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A website which influenced a young Muslim to stab an MP has posted dozens more MPs’ names on a 'death list’ with an exhortation to Muslims to follow her example.
Revolutionmuslim.com was named by Roshonara Choudhry in her police interviews as one of the sites which radicalised her. Choudhry was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for attempting to murder the former Labour minister Stephen Timms.
The site praises her as a “mujaahidah,” or holy warrior, saying: “We ask Allah to keep her safe and secure, to hasten her release and to reward this heroine immensely.”
It published a list of all the MPs who voted for the Iraq war together with an instruction to Muslims to try to kill them, saying: “We ask Allaah for her action to inspire Muslims to raise the knife of Jihaad against those who voted for the countless rapes, murders, pillages, and torture of Muslim civilians as a direct consequence of their vote.”
It also appears to incite further attacks on Mr Timms, publishing details of his constituency surgery times and venues, and even a link which shows readers where they can buy a £15 kitchen knife, similar to the one used by Choudhry, from Tesco Direct.
The website adds: “If you want to track an MP, you can find out their personal website after typing their name in this website. In their personal website, you can usually find the time and location of their surgeries where you can encounter them in person.” >>> Andrew Gilligan | Thursday, November 04, 2010
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