Friday, February 08, 2013
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A father claims he was told by a hospital nurse to "be a good Muslim" and leave control to Allah when his baby girl turned blue and started frothing at the mouth.
Murad Ali, 39, accused the nurse, who was also Muslim, of being unprofessional after the incident at the £261m Queen's Hospital in Romford, Essex.
Mr Ali said his two-year-old daughter began frothing at the mouth the day after being taken by ambulance to hospital with breathing problems.
But he said that he and his frantic wife Tamseel Fatimah, 38, were ignored by busy staff at the 939-bed hospital's A&E department and ward.
Both parents have trained to be doctors although they do not practice. » | Teleegraph reporters | Friday, February 08, 2013
Thursday, February 07, 2013
BBC: A German job centre has apologised after offering work as a hostess in a brothel to a teenage girl, according to a local newspaper in Augsburg, Bavaria.
The 19-year-old's mother screamed when she saw the letter offering her daughter the work placement, the Augsburger Allgemeine reports.
The head of the job centre was quoted as saying it should have asked the young woman before sending the letter.
Roland Fuerst stressed that the work being offered was not prostitution. » | Thursday, February 07, 2013
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THENEWS.pl: Rev. Guy Liagre, Secretary-General of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences, said in Warsaw on Wednesday that Islam in Europe is becoming more fundamentalist and radical.
“So far, Islam has been tolerant [in Europe]. But now it is changing into being much more conservative. [...] You can see the fundamentalist tendencies,” Rev. Dr Guy Liagre said at the end of the three-day Conference of European Churches.
A press release issued at the end of the meeting, chaired by Poland's Archbishop Jozef Michalik, said that there was particular concern at the conference about “the situation of those migrants coming to Europe who do not feel at home in the mainline European Churches and take refuge in new religious movements of one kind or another. » | Source: IAR | Thursday, February 07, 2013
London. Was sich Dienstagabend im britischen Unterhaus abspielte, war einer mächtige Blamage für Premier David Cameron: Ein großer Teil der Abgeordneten seiner eigenen Partei, der konservativen Tories, stimmte gegen Camerons Gesetzesvorlage zur Einführung der Homosexuellenehe. Die Novelle wurde nur deshalb abgenommen, weil Camerons liberaler Koalitionspartner und die oppositionelle Labour Party dafür stimmten.
Der Premier sieht sich mit einer veritablen Revolte konfrontiert. Dabei hatten Kabinettsmitglieder bis zuletzt für Zustimmung zum Gesetz zur Gleichstellung hetero- und homosexueller Lebenspartnerschaften geworben: „Wir stimmen für die Homosexuellenehe nicht obwohl, sondern, weil wir konservativ sind", schrieben Schatzkanzler George Osborne, Außenminister William Hague und Innenministerin Theresa May in einem offenen Brief.
Mit der Freigabe der Abstimmung verhinderte die Klubführung unmittelbare politische Konsequenzen für die Regierung. Cameron wird aber kaum zur Tagesordnung übergehen können. Wie ein Katalysator brachte die Debatte über die Homosexuellenehe das tiefe Unbehagen in der Partei über den Premier und seine engste Umgebung zum Ausdruck: „Wir fühlen uns betrogen", schrieben 25 regionale Parteivertreter am Wochenende an die Tory-Spitze. » | Gabriel Rath, Korrespondent der Presse | Dienstag, 05. Februar 2013
Face au silence des autorités, il dénonce la faiblesse de l'Etat.
L'ancien directeur général de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA) a fait part de son inquiétude au lendemain de l'assassinat du dirigeant de l'opposition laïque tunisienne Chokri Belaïd.
Dans un extrait de la chaîne religieuse Al-Hafez diffusé sur Internet, le prédicateur salafiste radical Mahmoud Chaabane estime que les chefs du Front de salut national (FSN), la principale coalition d'opposition, seraient condamnés à mort si la «charia» était appliquée. » | ats/Newsnet | jeudi 07 février 2013
A local councillor has been suspended for posting a comment on Facebook comparing Muslim children wearing burkas to bin bags.
Chris Joannides also messaged friends during meetings with his constituents asking for updates on football scores and complaining about missing his favourite television programmes.
The Conservative councillor for Enfield, in north London, has denied being Islamophobic and defended his comments as 'blokeish banter'.
Mr Joannides posted a photo showing a woman and child dressed in burkas standing next to two bin bags.
He wrote underneath: 'I saw her standing there and I told her she had three beautiful children. She didn't have to get all p***ed off and threaten me. It was an honest mistake!' » | Hugo Gye | Thursday, February 07, 2013
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
SAPHIR NEWS: L’Union des organisations islamiques de France (UOIF) veut faire parler d'elle. Pari réussi. Près de 300 personnes se sont rendues à son colloque, organisé au Palais des congrès à Paris samedi 2 février, autour du thème sur la perception de l’islam en France. Un colloque avec pour maître de cérémonie Ahmed Jaballah, qui a pu réunir en une journée, autour d’une série d’ateliers, des personnalités du monde intellectuel et associatif ainsi que des responsables de fédérations musulmanes.
Un leitmotiv sur lequel tous sont tombés d’accord : les musulmans sont aussi responsables de leur état. Il est temps pour eux de passer à l’offensive pour avoir voix au chapitre en France. Encore faut-il sortir du discours victimaire pour passer à une autre étape, celle qui promeut les participations intellectuelle et politique des musulmans dans l’espace public. » | Rédigé par Hanan Ben Rhouma | mercredi 6 février 2013
The Falklands Islands will be under Argentinian control within 20 years, the South American country's foreign minister, Héctor Timerman, has said in an interview with the Guardian.
Visiting London for the first time, he ruled out a military solution to the 130-year-old sovereignty dispute but claimed the world increasingly recognised that the islands were a product of colonialism. He accused the British government of being motivated by a fanatical desire to hold on to the islands and claimed "the United Kingdom has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity to find a solution for the Malvinas".
He said: "I don't think it will take another 20 years. I think that the world is going through a process of understanding more and more that this is a colonial issue, an issue of colonialism, and that the people living there were transferred to the islands."
He vowed that the interests of the existing islanders would be protected under Argentinian rule, including "their way of life, their language and right to remain British citizens". But he drew a distinction between the islanders' interests, which could be met, and their wishes, which could not. » | Patrick Wintour, political editor | Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Thousands of people flocked to protest outside the interior ministry in Tunis, in the aftermath of the execution-style assassination. The offices of Ennahda, the government, have also been attacked, according to attacks.
The demonstrators accused the governing Ennah[a]da party of failing to prevent the proliferation of violent fundamentalist factions inspired by al-Qaeda.
Shokri Belaid was shot in the head and chest as he left his home in Tunis.
Belaid was part of the secular opposition Popular Front movement that opposes the Islamist-led government that emerged in the wake of the Arab Spring revoluton.
“My brother was assassinated. I am desperate and depressed,” Abdelmajid Belaid, brother of the dead leader said. “I accuse [Ennahda leader] Rached Ghannouchi of assassinating my brother,” he said. » | Damien McElroy | Wednesday, February 06, 2013
DIE WELT: Das barbarische Ritual der Genitalverstümmelung bei Frauen wird in der muslimischen Welt viel öfter praktiziert als bekannt. Im Nordirak gehen Aktivisten von Dorf zu Dorf, um die Praxis zu bekämpfen.
Zwölf Frauen haben sich in der Lehmhütte des Dorfvorstehers in dem kleinen kurdischen Ort Jalamord in Irakisch-Kurdistan versammelt. Die Sozialarbeiterin Rozan Kader ist aus der Stadt Sulaimaniya angereist, um in der Hütte einen Film über weibliche Genitalverstümmelung zu zeigen. Einige Frauen murren, dass man sie von der Arbeit weggeholt habe.
Der Dorfvorsteher schaut kurz herein und fragt, ob alles in Ordnung sei. Dann sieht man auf der Leinwand eine Ärztin über medizinische Folgen dieses Eingriffs reden; anhand einer Zeichnung wird die weibliche Anatomie erläutert. Einige kichern, andere drehen sich beschämt weg.
Als ein islamischer Geistlicher auftritt, muss Kader den Film unterbrechen, weil wütendes Gemurmel seine Erläuterungen übertönt. "Warum wurde uns nicht gesagt, dass es nicht Sunna ist?", will eine ältere Frau wissen. Sunna bedeutet dem islamischen Recht folgend.
Kader erläutert: "Erst jetzt wissen die Theologen, dass weibliche Beschneidung schädlich ist. Deshalb haben sie im Koran und den Erzählungen über den Propheten gesucht und dabei nichts gefunden, was sie fordert." » | Von Hannah Wettig | Mittwoch, 06. Februar 2013
But nearly 1,000 years later, the Knights of Malta, once known as the Hospitallers, are opening soup kitchens and shelters across Britain and the rest of Europe in response to rising poverty and homelessness caused by the economic crisis.
The Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and Malta – as the chivalric order is officially known – is this week celebrating 900 years since it was given official recognition by the Vatican, with a 'bull' or decree issued by Pope Paschal II in 1113, in the midst of the crusades.
The order's 98,000 members and volunteers, who long ago swapped their chain mail and tunics for doctor's coats and emergency worker overalls.
They have traditionally provided humanitarian help in war zones, earthquakes and floods around the world, from Congo and Rwanda to Haiti and Afghanistan.
But they are now concentrating more and more on Europe, as austerity cuts and a deep recession swell the ranks of the jobless, the homeless and the drug-dependant. » | Nick Squires, Rome | Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Annette Schavan, 57, is the second minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet to lose a doctorate after being accused of plagiarism. Former defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned from his post in 2011 after it emerged he copied large parts of his doctoral thesis.
Ms Schavan, who denied the allegations, plans to appeal the decision by Duesseldorf's Heinrich Heine University, German news agency DPA reported.
The head of the academic committee that voted 12 to two, with one abstention, to remove Schavan's doctorate said the decision followed a thorough review of her thesis. The plagiarism allegations were first raised last year by an anonymous blogger. » | Wednesday, February 06, 2013
DIE WELT: "Die Entscheidung der Uni werde ich nicht akzeptieren": In Südafrika hat Annette Schavan erstmals öffentlich auf den Entzug ihres Doktortitels reagiert. Die Bildungsministerin kündigt eine juristische Auseinandersetzung mit der Uni Düsseldorf an. » | pu/fas | Mittwoch, 06. Februar 2013
The military is poised to extend some benefits to the same-sex partners of service members, US officials said Tuesday, about 16 months after the Pentagon repealed its ban on openly gay service.
Defense secretary Leon Panetta has not made a final decision on which benefits will be included, the officials said, but the Pentagon is likely to allow same-sex partners to have access to the on-base commissary and other military subsidized stores, as well as some health and welfare programs.
Panetta must walk a fine, legal line. While there has been increased pressure on the Pentagon to extend some benefits to same-sex partners, defense officials must be careful not to violate the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. The federal law forbids the federal government from recognizing any marriage other than those between a man and a woman. » | Associated Press in Washington | Tuesday, February 05, 2013
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