Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: RACISME | Le parti néo-nazi allemand NPD a placardé en face du Musée juif de Berlin une affiche en vue des élections dans la capitale allemande sur laquelle s’inscrit ce slogan: "Plein gaz!".
Le parti néo-nazi allemand NPD, formation ouvertement raciste, antisémite et révisionniste présente son dirigeant Udo Voigt grimpé sur une moto avec ces mots: "Plein gaz!" ("Gas geben!" en allemand). L'affiche, accrochée à un lampadaire face à l’entrée principale du Musée juif, était également visible dans d’autres endroits de la ville.
Selon le quotidien berlinois Tagesspiegel, elle aurait également été placardée en face de la villa où fut décidée, le 20 janvier 1942, la solution finale et l’organisation administrative et technique de l’extermination des Juifs lors de la conférence de Wannsee. » | AFP | Jeudi 18 Août 2011
The Site Monitoring Service, a private intelligence organisation that watches online activity, said Wednesday that the threat was posted a day earlier on the Shumuka al-Islam forum, a popular internet destination for radical Muslims.
The contributor, who identified himself as Umar al-Basrawi, was reacting to what he said Letterman did after the US military announced on June 5 that a drone strike in Pakistan had killed al-Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri.
Al-Basrawi wrote that Letterman had made reference to both Osama bin Laden and Kashmiri and said that Letterman had "put his hand on his neck and demonstrated the way of slaughter."
"Is there not among you a Sayyid Nosair al-Mairi ... to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever?" Al-Basrawi wrote, referring to El Sayyid Nosair, who was convicted of the 1990 killing of Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane. Letterman is not Jewish. » | Thursday, August 18, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
THE GUARDIAN: Businessman who paid women's fines to launch legal challenge against France and Belgium for 'violating individual liberties'
A businessman has said he will take France and Belgium to court after paying the fines of the first two women in Belgium prosecuted for wearing full-face veils in public.
French property dealer Rachid Nekkaz set up a €1m (£870,000) fund to cover fines given to women wearing niqabs and burqas, after the veils were banned in the two countries. The two women had been fined €50 for wearing the niqab in Brussels. » | Reuters in Brussels | Wednesday, August 17, 2011
TELEGRAPH BLOGS – Richard Landes: Politeness is not saying certain things lest there be violence; civility is being able to say those certain things and there won’t be violence.
A recent series of polls indicate that European public opinion is substantially concerned by the increasingly aggressive Islam that their substantial immigrant populations have taken to expressing. To quote Soeren Kern, Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based Strategic Studies Group:
The findings – which come as Europeans are waking up to the consequences of decades of mass immigration from Muslim countries – point to a growing disconnect between European voters and their political masters regarding multicultural policies that encourage Muslim immigrants to remain segregated rather than become integrated into their host nations.The disconnect referred to in the article constitutes one of the most worrying developments in Western culture over the last decade: between a elite that controls much of the discussion in the public sphere (journalists, academics, talking heads, mainstream politicians) and who fear being called Islamophobes and racists more than they fear Islamist racists, and a population of people who, whenever they voice concern about the behavior of the Muslim neighbors, are told not to be Islamophobic racists. The problems are knotty and painful to disentangle. Here’s my outline of an approach. (For a longer version of the following essay, see my blog, The Augean Stables.) Read on and comment » | Richard Landes | Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The survey results mirror the findings of dozens of other recent polls. Taken together, they provide ample empirical evidence that scepticism about Muslim immigration is not limited to a “right-wing” political fringe, as proponents of multiculturalism often assert. Mainstream voters across the entire political spectrum are now expressing concerns about the role of Islam in Europe.
Richard Landes is an American writer and medieval historian specialising in millennialism. He is associate professor of history at Boston University and the author of several books including Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience (Oxford University Press).
LE FIGARO: Nicolas Sarkozy et Angela Merkel ont proposé trois mesures pour renforcer l'intégration économique européenne.
Montrer qu'en pleine tempête estivale, il y a un capitaine à la barre de la zone euro. Et même deux ! À l'issue d'une réunion de travail, mardi à l'Élysée avec la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy - qui a interrompu ses vacances pour l'occasion - a remis en avant le rôle moteur du couple franco-allemand pour sortir la monnaie unique de l'ornière. Les deux dirigeants ont réaffirmé leur «volonté absolue de défendre l'euro ». Avec, à la clef, une proposition choc: «Nous allons proposer que les 17 pays membres de la zone euro adoptent, avant la mi-2012, une règle d'or budgétaire.» Concrètement, Paris et Berlin veulent que chaque pays membre s'engage sur une trajectoire de réduction de ses déficits et la fasse graver dans le marbre de sa Constitution. Une ¬telle mesure permettrait de rassurer les marchés financiers en leur démontrant la volonté absolue des pays de la zone de réduire leurs déficits et leur endettement. Pour assurer la croissance à moyen terme de la zone euro, il est essentiel, selon Nicolas Sarkozy, « de ramener la confiance avec des programmes de soutenabilité de la dette». » | Par Cyrille Lachèvre | Mardi 16 Août 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Bitter laughter is my main response to the events of the past week. You are surprised by what has happened? Why? I have been saying for years that it was coming, and why it was coming, and what could be done to stop it.
I have said it in books, in articles, over lunch and dinner tables with politicians whose lips curled with lofty contempt.
So yes, I am deeply sorry for the innocent and gentle people who have lost lives, homes, businesses and security. Heaven knows I have argued for years for the measures that might have saved them.
But I am not really very sorry for the elite liberal Londoners who have suddenly discovered what millions of others have lived with for decades.
The mass criminality in the big cities is merely a speeded-up and concentrated version of life on most large estates – fear, intimidation, cruelty, injustice, savagery towards the vulnerable and the different, a cold sneer turned towards any plea for pity, the awful realisation that when you call for help from the authorities, none will come.
Just look and see how many shops are protected with steel shutters, how many homes have bars on their windows. This is not new.
As the polluted flood (it is not a tide; it will not go back down again) of spite, greed and violence washes on to their very doorsteps, well-off and influential Left-wingers at last meet the filthy thing they have created, and which they ignored when it did not affect them personally. » | Peter Hitchens | Sunday, August 14, 2011
THE MAIL ON SUNDAY: 'White chavs have become black': David Starkey TV outburst provokes race row as he claims Enoch Powell was right » | Chris Hastings | Sunday, August 14, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
ON ISLAM: CAIRO – Hosting an iftar to mark the holy fasting month of Ramadan, US President Barack Obama has used the occasion to honor American Muslims and their contributions to their country.
“Like so many faiths, Islam has always been part of our American family, and Muslim Americans have long contributed to the strength and character of our country, in all walks of life,” Obama told members of the diplomatic corps and prominent Muslim figures at a Ramadan iftar the White House on Wednesday, August 10, The Time reported.
“This has been especially true over the past 10 years.”
Obama said many Muslims lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qaeda movement.
"They were taken from us much too soon,” Obama said.
“And today, they live on in the love of their families and a nation that will never forget.”
Obama said many Muslims raced to offer help to those injured in the attacks.
“Muslim Americans were first responders…the EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians) who evacuated so many to safety; the nurse who tended to so many victims; the naval officer at the Pentagon who rushed into the flames and pulled the injured to safety.
“On this 10th anniversary, we honor these men and women for what they are — American heroes.”
Obama has hosted an Iftar each year since he assumed office in 2009. » | Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: La Libye et l'Iran dénoncent mercredi l'attitude des forces de l'ordre à l'égard des émeutiers en Grande-Bretagne. Mouammar Kadhafi affirme même que David Cameron doit quitter le gouvernement.
Considérés comme des parias par Londres et la communauté internationale, la Libye et l’Iran n’ont pas raté l’occasion pour dénoncer la "répression" des émeutiers en Grande-Bretagne, Tripoli allant jusqu’à affirmer que le Premier ministre britannique a "perdu sa légitimité".
"Cameron et son gouvernement doivent partir après les manifestations populaires contre eux et la violente répression exercée par sa police contre ceux qui ont participé à ces manifestations pacifiques", a déclaré le vice-ministre libyen aux Affaires étrangères, Khaled Kaaim, cité mercredi par l’agence officielle Jana.
"Cameron et son gouvernement ont perdu toute légitimité", a-t-il ajouté, au moment où Londres et ses alliés au sein de l’Otan s’efforcent de déloger le régime du colonel Mouammar Kadhafi accusé de réprimer dans le sang une insurrection qui s’est déclenchée en février.
Selon lui, "ces manifestations montrent que le peuple britannique rejette ce gouvernement, qui tente de s’imposer par la force". » | AFP | Mercredi 10 Août 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Bahrain's government stamped down anti-government protests in February, and since then hardly any news has filtered out of the island nation due to strict control over the media.
Bahraini expatriates have set up a TV channel in London, with the aim of giving viewers around the world an unbiased account of what is currently happening in Bahrain.
Despite having been plagued with obstacles since their launch last month, the small team behind the channel is determined to continue, but for now it can be watched only on the internet.
Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from London.
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