Sunday, January 02, 2011
Saturday, January 01, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A car bomb has killed at least 21 people outside a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
The blast hit worshippers as they emerged from a New Year's mass at the Mass at the Saints Church in the Mediterranean port city in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Nearly 1,000 Christians were attending the service and were just leaving the church when the car exploded at 12.30am on New Year's Day.
Sectarian tensions have been on the rise in Egypt and after the blast, enraged Christians clashed with police and stormed a nearby mosque.
Fights and stone throwing broke out between groups of Christians, Muslims and the police.
Although no one claimed immediate responsibility for the attack, authorities in Egypt blamed al-Qaeda for the attack.
Al-Qaeda's Iraq affiliate threatened Egypt's Copts late last year after claiming an attack on a Baghdad church on October 31 that left 44 worshippers, two priests and seven security forces dead. >>> | Saturday, January 1, 2011
LE FIGARO: Les chrétiens d'Égypte visés par un attentat sanglant : Une explosion à la sortie d'une messe, vendredi soir à Alexandrie, a fait 21 morts et 79 blessés. Samedi, les heurts se sont intensifiés entre chrétiens et policiers. >>> Par lefigaro.fr | Samedi 1 Janvier 2011
NZZ ONLINE: Über 20 Tote bei Selbstmordanschlag auf Christen in Ägypten: Bombe explodiert nach Neujahrsmesse in Alexandria >>> sda/afp/dpa/Reuters | Samstag, 1. Januar 2011
WELT ONLINE: Ausschreitungen nach Anschlag auf christliche Kirche: Nach dem Selbstmordattentat mit 21 Toten greifen junge Kopten Sicherheitskräfte an. Beim Begräbnis entlädt sich die Wut auf die Regierung erneut. >>> AFP/dapd/ks/jw | Samstag 1 Januar 2011
LE POINT: Une explosion devant une église copte d'Alexandrie a fait plusieurs dizaines de victimes pendant la nuit du nouvel an.
La nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre a été endeuillée, en Égypte, par un attentat qui a frappé la communauté chrétienne égyptienne, la plus importante du Moyen-Orient. L'explosion, non revendiquée, s'est produite vers minuit et demi alors que des fidèles sortaient de l'église des Saints (al-Qiddissine), située dans le quartier de Sidi Bechr d'Alexandrie. L'attaque a fait au moins 21 morts et 79 blessés.
L'hypothèse d'une voiture piégée initialement mentionnée par les autorités a été écartée en milieu de journée par le ministère de l'Intérieur, qui a déclaré que le massacre avait "probablement" été perpétré par un kamikaze. La bombe, de fabrication locale, contenait des bouts de métal "pour atteindre le plus grand nombre" de personnes, selon un communiqué du ministère. Le président Hosni Moubarak a condamné dans une allocution télévisée un "acte criminel odieux qui a visé la nation, Coptes et musulmans", et dénoncé, sans plus de précisions, "l'implication de mains étrangères" dans ce massacre. Continuez à lire et vous pouvez écrire un commentaire
>>> Source AFP | Samedi 1 Janvier 2011
Friday, December 31, 2010
THE LAST CRUSADE: Proof that history repeats itself comes with the news that Muslims have initiated their re-conquest of Spain.
The number of Muslims in Spain has climbed from 100,000 in 1990 to over 1.5 million in 2010.
Mosques are being constructed on a grand scale throughout the country.
The city of Barcelona, widely known as a European Mecca of anti-clerical postmodernism, has agreed to shell out nearly $30 million in public funds for the construction of an official mega-mosque with a capacity for thousands of Muslim worshipers.
The new structure in Barcelona will rival the massive Islamic Cultural Center in Madrid, currently the biggest mosque in Spain. An official in the office of the Mayor of Barcelona says the objective is to increase the visibility of Muslims in Spain, as well as to promote the “common values between Islam and Europe.”
In the past decade, more than 1,000 mosques and Islamic prayer centers have sprouted up throughout the once devoutly Catholic country.
Twelve new masjids are scheduled to open in northeastern Spain within the next three months.
The construction of new mosques comes at a time when municipalities linked to the Socialist Party have closed dozens of Christian churches across Spain by the enactment of new zoning laws.
The Barcelona mosque project was announced during a weeklong seminar titled “Muslims and European Values,” sponsored by the European Council of Moroccan Ulemas and the Union of Islamic Cultural Centers in Catalonia.
A representative of the Barcelona mayor’s office who attended the conference told the Madrid-based El País newspaper that the municipality would get involved in the mosque project because “although religion pertains to the private realm, this does not mean it does not have a public role.”
The idea to build a mega-mosque funded by Spanish taxpayers comes after Noureddine Ziani, a Barcelona-based Moroccan imam, said the construction of big mosques would be the best way to fight Islamic fundamentalism in Spain. “It is easier to disseminate fundamentalist ideas in small mosques set up in garages where only the members of the congregation attend, than in large mosques that are open to everyone, with prayer rooms, cafes and meeting areas,” Ziani told the Spanish news agency EFE. Read on and comment >>> TheLastCrusade.org
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LE FIGARO: «La fin de l'euro serait la fin de l'Europe», a expliqué le président lors de ses vœux aux Français. Il souhaite que l'année 2011 soit «utile», la France ne pouvant pas «se payer le luxe d'une année d'immobilisme pré-électoral».
Il avait préparé son texte plusieurs jours à l'avance. Nicolas Sarkozy a apporté un soin particulier au rituel des vœux de la Saint-Sylvestre, après une année 2010 difficile, marquée par la défaite de la droite aux régionales, l'affaire Woerth-Bettencourt, ou encore la delicate réforme des retraites, sur fond de morosité économique.
Se posant en président «protecteur», comme son entourage l'avait pressenti, il a mis l'accent sur l'importance de l'Europe pendant la crise. Le président a mis en garde contre ceux qui proposent de sortir de l'euro. «L'isolement de la France serait une folie. La fin de l'euro serait la fin de l'Europe», a déclaré le chef de l'Etat. Or «dans la tempête, (elle) a su faire face, certes pas assez complètement et souvent pas assez rapidement, mais l'Europe a tenu et l'Europe nous a protégés», a-t-il affirmé.«Je m'opposerai de toutes mes forces à un retour en arrière qui ferait fi de 60 ans de construction européenne», a-t-il appuyé dans cette déclaration radio-télédiffusée qui était également retransmise par Dailymotion. >>> Par lefigaro.fr | Vendredi 31 Décembre 2010
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LE MONDE: Au moins deux chrétiens ont péri et 16 personnes ont été blessées jeudi 30 décembre dans dix attentats commis en moins de deux heures contre des maisons appartenant à des chrétiens de Bagdad, a annoncé un responsable du ministère de l'intérieur. "Au total, 14 bombes avaient été posées près de maisons appartenant à des chrétiens. Dix engins ont explosé", a-t-il indiqué.
Ces attaques ont été perpétrées à partir de 19 h 30, heure locale, dans plusieurs quartiers de la capitale irakienne contre une communauté visée à de nombreuses reprises ces deux derniers mois. L'attaque la plus sanglante a eu lieu dans le quartier d'Al-Ghadir, dans le centre de Bagdad, où une bombe artisanale a explosé vers 20 heures, tuant deux chrétiens et faisant trois blessés. Les autres explosions, toutes dues à des engins artisanaux, n'ont fait aucun mort, mais blessé treize autres chrétiens. >>> LEMONDE.FR avec AFP | Jeudi 30 Décembre 2010
WELT ONLINE: Der niederländische Rechtspopulist Geert Wilders plant ein islamkritisches Buch: inspiriert von Thilo Sarrazins "Deutschland schafft sich ab".Der niederländische Rechtspopulist Geert Wilders will 2011 mit einem islamkritischen Buch international und insbesondere in den USA für Furore sorgen. „Das Buch ist vor allem für den amerikanischen Markt bestimmt, und es geht darum, wie wir die Islamisierung weltweit besser bekämpfen können“, sagte Wilders in einem Interview mit der Zeitung „De Telegraaf“.
Der Chef der Partei für die Freiheit (PVV) will mit der Veröffentlichung die weltweite Ausbreitung der von ihm gegründeten „International Freedom Alliance“ zur Zurückdrängung des Islam fördern. „Wir können in den Niederlanden eine ganze Menge tun, aber wir wollen auch international ein Signal an die arabische Welt senden, dass hart zurückgeschlagen wird durch eine Partei, die hier viel zu sagen hat.“ >>> dpa/lha | Freitag, 31. Dezember 2010
NZZ ONLINE: Im Pazifik ist das neue Jahr bereits einige Stunden alt. Die Bewohner von Kiribati haben traditionellerweise als erste auf dem Globus den Jahreswechsel gefeiert. In Sydney gab es wiederum ein grosses Feuerwerk.
Millionen von Menschen haben in Australien und Asien mit zum Teil prachtvollen Feiern das neue Jahr begrüsst. Die Menschen in Ozeanien haben als erste das neue Jahr begrüsst. Für die 6000 Bewohner des Inselstaates Kiribati im Pazifik begann das Jahr 2011 um 11 Uhr MEZ. Sieben Tonnen Feuerwerk >>> afp/ddp | Freitag, 31. Dezember 2010
THE INDEPENDENT: Roger Carr, the tycoon who saw through the sale of the 200-year-old British company Cadbury to the US multinational Kraft in February, has been knighted for services to industry in today's New Year Honours list.Sir Roger was praised by the City for getting a good deal for shareholders when the Cadbury sale went through in February. Since then Kraft has announced that it is moving the firm's headquarters to Switzerland to avoid UK tax, at a probable cost of thousands of UK jobs.
The award is doubly controversial because Sir Roger also chairs Centrica, the parent company of British Gas, which recently announced a 7 per cent price hike. Soon after that announcement, Centrica raised its full year profit forecast to more than £2.2bn. The regulator, Ofgem, is holding an inquiry into whether major energy companies are "lining their pockets". >>> Andy McSmith | Friday, December 31, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A majority of Estonians are embracing the joining of their economy to the eurozone on Saturday in spite of the deepening crisis of confidence in the single currency.
The Baltic country becomes the 17th member of the euro and the first from the former Soviet Union. Some 85m euro coins featuring a map of Estonia and 12m banknotes have gone into circulation, starting a two-week phase out of the national currency, the kroon.
Joakim Helenius, chief executive of Trigon Capital, an asset management company, said that 20 years after breaking away from the Soviet Union the euro was a "symbol of hope" for many Estonians, adding, "It symbolises that Estonia has emerged as a full member of the European family."
After a year of convulsions and ever-direr predictions that the euro cannot survive, the majority of Estonians still support joining. A recent, admittedly small, poll showed that 52 per cent backed the move although that was slightly down from November. The Finance Ministry blamed the slippage on an early case of nostalgia for the kroon. >>> Martin Banks in Brussels | Friday, December 31, 2010
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The terrorist threat to Britain is "as serious as it has ever been", David Cameron warns today.
In his new year message, the Prime Minister says that the security services are facing a daily struggle to stop plots that would "do terrible harm to our people and our economy".
The risk of terrorism has been demonstrated by the arrest this month of nine men accused of plotting a Christmas bombing campaign with targets including the London Stock Exchange and Big Ben, Mr Cameron declares.
He also suggests that Britain faces fundamental questions about why young Muslims continue to be drawn into violent extremism. The Islamic community must help address how their minds are "poisoned", he says.
Mr Cameron's stark message comes amid a prolonged row between Coalition ministers over anti-terrorism laws, with the Liberal Democrats pressing for some of Labour's contentious security measures to be watered down.
Mr Cameron says: "For many years now, we have been aware of the threat we face from international terrorism. Recent arrests show that that threat is still very much with us. And it is as serious today as it ever has been." >>> James Kirkup, Political Correspondent | Friday, December 31, 2010
Politically correct goggledygook from the fresh-faced Mr. Cameron. “International terrorism” indeed! Surely you must mean Islamic terrorism, Mr. Cameron. This is the threat we face. Another name for it is the Jihad. If we are to have a brighter, more secure future in Britain, nay in the West, we shall have to start calling things by their real names. Euphemisms just won’t do.
The facts are as plain as the nose on your face, Mr. Cameron. We have one almighty, herculean task ahead of us if we wish to get the better of all the Muslims in our midst who so clearly wish to destroy our free way of life. So get real, Mr. Cameron! Get real!
By the way, Mr. Cameron, you say that the “overwhelming majority of British Muslims detest this extremism”. What evidence do you have to say this? Isn’t this just spin and platitude? – © Mark
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A friend of Kate Middleton was interviewed under caution for claiming on Facebook that she planned to shoot illegal immigrants.
Emma Sayle, 32, posted a message that read: "Just had a two-hour shooting lesson. She will now be using this skill on the top of East London high rises to help with the UK's illegal immigrant problem."
One person who read the comment reported Miss Sayle to police. A file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service but Scotland Yard said yesterday that the investigation has been dropped and no further action will be taken.
Miss Sayle is the leader of The Sisterhood, an all-female rowing crew which counted Miss Middleton among its members.
She dismissed the complaint as "pathetic", saying it was "created by someone who's obviously got a grudge".
In a second posting on Facebook, she wrote: "Just had a call from the old bill demanding I go in as someone has reported me for apparently making racist comments... hahaha... using my new found gun skills to control the UK's illegal immigrant population is not what I call racist."
Her Twitter page features a link to an article on a Right-wing website headed "Australia says no to Muslims". >>> Anita Singh | Friday, December 31, 2010
FOX NEWS: Sharia (Islamic Law) Not O.K. in Oklahoma: Oklahoma State Representative Rex Duncan wants to make sure no judge ever uses Sharia (Islamic law) to decide a case in Oklahoma. >>> Douglas Kennedy | Friday, June 25, 2010
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