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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Istanbul - Seit fast zwei Wochen wird gegen ihn demonstriert, jetzt droht der türkische Ministerpräsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan den Protestierenden mit einer härteren Gangart. Er fordert die Demonstranten in Istanbul ultimativ auf, das Camp im Gezi-Park zu verlassen. Der Regierungschef hatte die Demonstranten zuvor mehrfach als "Gesindel" bezeichnet. » | als/dpa/AFP | Donnerstag, Donnertag, 13. Juni 2013
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Muslims will dominate the West and impose a return to the harsh moral code of the 13th century Arabian caliphate, Choudary told the US network CBN News. The interview has just emerged on a rightwing website, which has published the interview for the first time in the UK.
The interview was recorded shortly after Choudary's Sharia4UK group was banned by Whitehall.
"Innevitably, I'm convinced, I'm 100% certain that the sharia will be implemented in America and in Britain one day," said the preacher, who had been linked to Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebolawe, the two suspects in the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich.
"If we have enough authority and power, we are obliged as Muslims to take the power away from the people who have it, and implement sharia law."
Choudary, who trained as a solicitor, founded the al-Muhajiroun extremist group with the militant leader Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad. That group was banned in 2004, but has re-emerged under different names and in various guises.
Choudhary continued: "If people are afraid of having their hands cut, don't steal. If you don't want to be stoned to death, don't commit adultery. » | Timur Moon | Thursday, June 13, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
BBC: It began just after dawn on Tuesday: the thud of tear gas fired across Taksim Square in the biggest police operation here for over a week.
Arcs of water cannon were spewed towards protesters, some of whom responded with petrol bombs and bricks.
For 12 days, the central square in Turkey's biggest city had been under the authority of a growing protest movement. This was the moment that the government decided to retake it.
All through the day, the game of cat and mouse continued.
Once the police retreated, the protesters regrouped. They took refuge in the adjoining Gezi Park, where the unrest was first sparked in response to government plans to redevelop it.
I watched as telecoms trucks were set ablaze, black smoke fusing with the white plumes of tear gas into an acrid mix.
Not listening
What began as a demonstration by environmentalists has mushroomed into something far bigger: a fight by disparate groups for greater freedom in Turkey and a preservation of the country's secular order.
They see a government with an authoritarian, neo-Islamist agenda: the highest number of journalists in the world in prison, restrictions on alcohol sales, massive construction projects prioritised over human rights.
"This is not an Arab spring", one protester, Melis Behlil, told me.
"We have free elections here. But the problem is that the person elected doesn't listen to us." » | Mark Lowen | BBC News, Istanbul | Tuesday, June 11, 2013
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Das Vorgehen der Regierung Erdogan gegen die Demonstranten in Istanbul bringt die EU in eine Zwangslage. Einerseits wollen die Europäer die Gewalt nicht tolerieren, andererseits aber die Türkei als Partner halten. Die nächste Runde der Beitrittsgespräche ist in Gefahr.
London/Berlin - Wieder waren es Bilder der Gewalt, die aus Istanbul die Wohnzimmer Europas erreichten. Mit Bulldozern und Wasserwerfern rückte die Polizei in der Nacht zu Mittwoch auf den Taksim-Platz vor. Gasbomben wurden abgefeuert, Wasserwerfer jagten Demonstranten, Tränengasschwaden verhüllten die Straßen. Am Morgen waren die Reste der Schlacht auf dem geräumten Platz zu besichtigen.
Das harte Durchgreifen der Regierung von Ministerpräsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan stellt die EU-Partner vor ein Dilemma. Seit der Eskalation der Bürgerproteste am Gezi-Park Ende Mai schauen die Europäer dem Geschehen hilflos zu. Ein Appell hier, eine Ermahnung da, mehr kam bisher nicht aus Brüssel, Berlin, Paris und London.
Die Partner sorgen sich, dass die Gewaltexzesse alle Fortschritte der vergangenen Monate zunichte machen könnten. Mühsam hatte man sich nach Jahren der Eiszeit wieder aufeinander zu bewegt. Am 26. Juni wollten die EU-Außenminister zum ersten Mal seit drei Jahren ein neues Kapitel in den EU-Beitrittsverhandlungen mit der Türkei öffnen. Es wäre das 19. von 35 Kapiteln. Nur eines wurde bislang vorläufig abgeschlossen. Zweifel in Westerwelles Ministerium » | Von Carsten Volkery und Severin Weiland | Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2013
THE AUSTRALIAN: THERE is only one view of the murder of the British soldier Lee Rigby on a south London street three weeks ago: horrific.
But there are two views of its significance. One is that it was an act by crazy people, motivated in this case by a perverted notion of Islam, but of no broader significance. Crazy people do crazy things, so don't overreact. The other view is that the ideology that inspired the murder of Rigby is profoundly dangerous.
I am of the latter view. Of course, we shouldn't overreact. But we are deluding ourselves if we believe that we can protect ourselves simply by what we do at home. The ideology is out there. It is not diminishing.
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But there is a problem within Islam, and we have to put it on the table and be honest about it. There are, of course, Christian extremists and Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu ones. But I am afraid that the problematic strain within Islam is not the province of a few extremists. It has at its heart a view of religion - and of the relationship between religion and politics - that is not compatible with pluralistic, liberal, open-minded societies. At the extreme end of the spectrum are terrorists, but the world view goes deeper and wider than it is comfortable for us to admit. So, by and large, we don't admit it.
This has two effects. First, those who hold extreme views believe that we are weak, and that gives them strength. Second, those Muslims - and the good news is that there are many - who know the problem exists and want to do something about it, lose heart.
Throughout the Middle East and beyond, a struggle is playing out. On one side, there are Islamists and their exclusivist and reactionary world view. They comprise a significant minority, loud and well organised. On the other side are the modern-minded, those who hated the old oppression by corrupt dictators and despise the new oppression by religious fanatics. They are potentially the majority; unfortunately, they are badly organised.
The seeds of future fanaticism and terror - possibly even major conflict - are being sown. Our task is to help sow the seeds of reconciliation and peace. But clearing the ground for peace is not always peaceful.
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Read the whole article here » | Tony Blair | The Australian | Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
THE INDEPENDENT: Gay activists attacked and arrested for protesting against bill that will ban ‘homosexual propaganda’ aimed at young people
Gay activists were attacked and then arrested outside Russia’s parliament as lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill that will ban “gay propaganda” aimed at under-18s. The Duma passed the bill, which outlaws the “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations”, by 436 votes to zero, with one abstention.
The bill will now become law if it is approved by Russia’s upper house of parliament and then signed by President Vladimir Putin, who has already expressed his support for it. The bill is the most criticised element of a series of measures that activists say makes a difficult situation for gay people in Russia even worse. Individuals who violate the law can be fined up to £100, while the penalty for organisations can be up to £20,000. Foreigners found to be promoting gay equality in violation of the law will be arrested and immediately deported. » | Shaun Walker | Moscow | Tuesday, June 11, 2013
THE INDEPENDENT: Russia set to pass strict anti-gay law that could see foreigners deported for 'sexual propaganda': Russia’s parliament will debate a controversial law on Tuesday that could see people arrested for behaviour that is deemed to promote homosexuality. ¶ The bill provides for Russian citizens engaged in the “propaganda of non-traditional sexual orientation” to be fined, while foreigners could be arrested and immediately deported. » | Shaun Walker | Moscow | Monday, June 10, 2013
THE NEW YORK TIMES: WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program — whose existence was exposed by a former National Security Agency contractor last week — is illegal and asking a judge to both stop it and order the records purged.
The lawsuit, filed in New York, could set up an eventual Supreme Court test. It could also focus attention on this disclosure amid the larger heap of top secret surveillance matters that were disclosed by Edward J. Snowden, a former N.S.A. contractor who came forward on Sunday to say he was the source of a series of disclosures by The Guardian and The Washington Post.
The program “gives the government a comprehensive record of our associations and public movements, revealing a wealth of detail about our familial, political, professional, religious and intimate associations,” the complaint says, adding that it “is likely to have a chilling effect on whistle-blowers and others who would otherwise contact” the A.C.L.U. for legal assistance.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. » | Charlie Savage | Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Pope Francis has acknowledged the existence of a 'gay lobby' inside the Vatican's secretive administration for the first time.
Speaking during an audience with Latin American Catholics, the Argentine Pontiff said that there was a 'current of corruption' in the Roman Curia - the central governing body of the Catholic Church.
He also admitted the existence of a long-rumoured 'gay lobby' in the Curia, and hinted that he might take action over the issue.
Speaking in his native Spanish last Thursday, the 76-year-old told the CLAR (the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious Men and Women): 'In the Curia, there are truly some saints, but there is also a current of corruption.
'There is talk of a 'gay lobby' and it's true, it exists,' he said, in a report on Chilean website Reflexion y Liberacion [sic]. 'We will have to see what we can do.’ Read on and comment » | Daily Mail Reporter | Tuesday, June 11, 2013
“Salafism is a particularly rapidly growing and extremely worrying group within the extremist movement,” Hans-Georg Maassen, head of domestic intelligence, told a news conference as he presented his agency's 2012 annual report.
Radical Islamists in Germany numbered 42,550 in 2012, according to surveillance services, and the number of Salafists, who espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam, within the movement grew to 4,500 from 3,800 in a year, he said.
Maassen added that while not all Salafists are jihadists, it was clear that those who departed Germany for Syria or Egypt were there for that purpose.
“One can say that Salafism is an essential step towards jihadism or for people ready to conduct terrorist attacks,” Maassen said.
He also stressed that the number of extremist Islamists in Germany did not signify there were “42,500 potential terrorists” in the country.
Still, some 1,000 people including some Salafists are considered dangerous and 130 are seen as a particular threat and are monitored around-the-clock.
The intelligence report also showed that Egypt had replaced the Waziristan region of Pakistan as the main centre for the training of jihadists.
Syria is also a favoured destination. “We counted more than 60 people who left Germany to fight in Syria,” Maassen said. » | AFP | Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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