Monday, November 03, 2014
Campaigning for ISIS in the West
Face-to-Face with an Extremist
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Großbritannien: „Cameron würde sich eine blutige Nase holen“
Wien/Berlin/London. „Das geht auf gar keinen Fall.“ Deutlicher als der Vorsitzende des Europa-Ausschusses im deutschen Bundestag, Gunther Krichbaum (CDU), kann man es nicht sagen: David Cameron hat mit seinen jüngsten Plänen zur Einwanderungspolitik eine Reizschwelle überschritten, die auch in Berliner Regierungskreisen als No-go für die Mitgliedschaft eines Landes in der Europäischen Union gilt. In den kommenden Tagen will der Premier neue Regeln für EU-Bürger vorstellen, die dauerhaft nach Großbritannien einwandern wollen – darunter dem Vernehmen nach das Vorhaben, gering Qualifizierte mit einem klar definierten Quotensystem zu belegen. Die Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit aber ist für Deutschland nicht verhandelbar; „sie gehört zur DNA der EU“, sagt Krichbaum im Gespräch mit der „Presse“. „Sollte Cameron einseitig ein Quotensystem einführen, würde er sich eine blutige Nase holen. Großbritannien würde vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof verklagt werden und verlieren“, warnt der CDU-Politiker. Zuvor haben Regierungspolitiker im „Spiegel“ dargelegt, dass eine Beschränkung der Freizügigkeit ein Ende der deutschen Bestrebungen um Großbritanniens Verbleib in der EU bedeuten könnte und ein Point of no Return erreicht sei. » | Von Anna Gabriel Rath (Die Presse) | Montag, 03. November 2014
Italy: Teacher Tells Students Homosexuality Is An ‘Illness’ Which Can Be ‘Cured’
The headmaster at the Itis Pininfarina school, Stefano Fava, opened the investigation after the religion teacher told a class of 16-year-olds that homosexuality is a “psychological problem”, according to local reports. » | Joseph Patrick McCormick | Monday, November 03, 2014
Russian Memorial to Steve Jobs Dismantled after Apple CEO Comes Out as Gay
„Aus Sorge um Europa“ : Kohls Appell für Frieden
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| Aufmunterung: Helmut Kohl und Maile Kohl-Richter bei der Buchvorstellung am Montag in Frankfurt |
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE SONNTAGSZEITUNG: Kohl kritisiert Isolation Russlands: Der Westen hätte sich in der Ukraine-Krise klüger verhalten können, schreibt der Altkanzler laut einem Bericht der F.A.S. in seinem neuen Buch. Er warnt davor, „alles zu verspielen, was wir schon einmal erreicht hatten“. » | Sonntag, 02. November 2014
Hollande : "Face au terrorisme, il n'y a pas de place pour le renoncement"
En visite d'État au Canada, le président François Hollande a estimé lundi devant le Parlement canadien, théâtre d'une fusillade il y a moins de deux semaines, que "face au terrorisme, il n'y a pas de place pour le renoncement, pour la concession ou pour la faiblesse". "Le terrorisme menace les valeurs pour lesquelles nos nations se sont bâties", a ajouté François Hollande devant les députés et sénateurs canadiens réunis en session extraordinaire, salué par des applaudissements. » | Le Point.fr (Source AFP) | lundi 03 novembre 2014
L'Afghanistan ne veut pas de femmes dans la publicité
Selon le gouvernement afghan, certaines annonces publicitaires «dégradantes» répandent l'immoralité parmi les jeunes dans ce pays musulman traditionnel.
Affiches et spots publicitaires télévisés faisant la promotion de téléphones mobiles ou encore d'assurances ont prospéré depuis la chute des talibans en 2001. Depuis, le pays s'est davantage ouvert à l'économie de marché.
Beaucoup de publicités montrent des jeunes femmes en vue d'attirer des consommateurs, mais le gouvernement afghan a fait savoir que les modèles féminins ne devraient pas être utilisés à des fins commerciales. » | ats/Newsnet | lundi 03 novembre 2014
Le Canada connaît sa première tempête de neige de la saison
Une tempête de neige, la première de la saison, accompagnée de forts vents, a frappé ce lundi 3 novembre plusieurs régions de l'est du Canada. Elle a provoqué de multiples pannes d'électricité et des fermetures d'écoles. » | ats/Newsnet | lundi 03 novembre 2014
Barack Obama Blamed as Democrats Fall Behind in Midterm Polls
America enters a final, feverish day of campaigning for the midterm elections today, with the majority of polls showing Republicans are now increasingly likely to take control of the US Senate, rendering Barack Obama a lame duck president. » | Peter Foster, Louisville, Kentucky | Monday, November 03, 2014
Islamic State Advances on Homs in Serious Threat to Assad
Jihadists from the Islamic State have seized two gas fields and attacked a major air force base close to the central city of Homs in Syria – threatening the dominance of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in the critical region.
While US-led air strikes have focused on routing a few hundred fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) from the tiny border town of Kobane in northern Syria, the extremist group has pushed south, expanding its grip on terrain that is strategically vital in the battle for control of the country.
On Monday, Isil posted photographs on social media purporting to show the group's distinctive black flag flying high over Jahar gas field, alongside images of the seized vehicles, weaponry and corpses of Syrian regime soldiers that had controlled the field.
The development follows the group's capture of Sha'ar gas plant last week.
In victorious tones the jihadists declared the conquests part of the "Islamic State", the name the group ascribes to land it controls, which now includes more than a third of Syria and swathes of Iraq. » | Ruth Sherlock, Gaziantep and Magdy Samaan | Monday, November 03, 2014
Sunday, November 02, 2014
Army Cadet Suffers Burns in Blowtorch Attack after Selling Poppies
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| Commemorative poppy wreaths to mark the First World War are made at The Poppy Factory in Richmond |
An Army Cadet was blasted in the face with a makeshift blowtorch in an unprovoked attack after selling poppies for Remembrance Sunday.
The 15-year-old boy was waiting at a bus stop at 6pm on Saturday evening in Manchester city centre when a man approached him with an aerosol can and lighter and sprayed him with lit fumes.
The cadet, who was wearing his camouflaged uniform, suffered minor burns to his face and singed hairs in his face and right forearm, Greater Manchester Police said. He and his family are in "total shock".
He had spent the day selling poppies in the city centre to commemorate Armistice Day.
The offender, described as black or Asian, 5ft 8in tall and wearing a dark hooded top, walked off from the bus stop by the Manchester Gallery opposite George Street without saying a word. » | Victoria Ward and agencies | Sunday, November 02, 2014
Saudi’s Secret Uprising
FARS NEWS AGENCY: Saudi King Suspends Death Sentence for Sheikh Al-Nimr after Rafsanjani's Letter » | Sunday, November 02, 2014
Kaspi : "Obama a manqué d'esprit de compromis"
British-Iranian Woman Jailed for a Year for Trying to Watch Volleyball Game
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| Ghoncheh Ghavami has already been detained for four months after being arrested at Azadi stadium in Tehran. |
A British-Iranian woman detained in Iran for trying to watch a volleyball game has been sentenced to one year in a notorious prison, according to her family and lawyer.
Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, a law graduate from London, was found guilty of spreading “propaganda against the regime” following a secret hearing at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court.
Ghavami has been detained for 127 days in prison since being arrested on 20 June at Azadi (“Freedom” in Farsi) stadium in Tehran where Iran’s national volleyball team was to play Italy. Although she had been released within a few hours after the initial arrest she was re-arrested days later.
Speaking to the Guardian, Ghavami’s brother Iman, 28, said the family was “shattered” by the court verdict.
“We are really disappointed because we felt she would get out on bail immediately. She’s been through a lot and now it’s a full year sentence and she’s already served four months,” he said.
No reason was given for the conviction though Ghavami had been accused of spreading propaganda against the regime, a broad charge often used by Iran’s judiciary. » | Josh Halliday | Sunday, November 02, 2014
Sign the petition: #FreeGoncheh » | Petition by Imam Ghavami, Ghoncheh’s brother, London
Blair's Mistaken View of Islam Could Start New Religious War, Says His Former Aide
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| Former diplomat Mr Powell was at Mr Blair's side throughout his time in Downing Street and played a key tole in the Northern Ireland peace process |
Tony Blair's view that religious extremism lies at the heart of the Middle East crisis was dismissed last night by his former chief of staff.
Jonathan Powell said Mr Blair was wrong to blame the region’s problems on tensions within Islam. He even suggested that his old boss’s mistaken analysis could lead to a ‘21st Century version’ of a religious war.
Mr Blair has highlighted the dangers of religious extremism provoking conflicts in regions such as the Middle East and has urged people to realise there is a ‘problem within Islam’.
But Mr Powell, one of the former premier’s most loyal lieutenants during his time in No 10, said: ‘I see it from a different angle. He [Blair] argues that this is a new phenomenon we are facing. I don’t accept that.’
In an interview with Total Politics magazine, Mr Powell said: ‘What Tony Blair is trying to do is to look at it from the inter-faith point of view, which is something beyond me.
‘The danger is that you can end up framing these conflicts in ideological terms and return to the religious wars of the 16th Century in Europe. You don’t want to let this Sunni / Shia divide turn into a 21st Century version of the Thirty Years’ War. Read on and comment » Brendan Carlin for the Mail On Sunday | Saturday, November 01, 2014
The West Is Silent as Libya Falls into the Abyss
Remember the time when Libya was being held up by the American, British, French and Qatari governments as a striking example of benign and successful foreign intervention? It is worth looking again at film of David Cameron grandstanding as liberator in Benghazi in September 2011 as he applauds the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and tells the crowd that "your city was an example to the world as you threw off a dictator and chose freedom".
Mr Cameron has not been back to Benghazi, nor is he likely to do so as warring militias reduce Libya to primal anarchy in which nobody is safe. The majority of Libyans are demonstrably worse off today than they were under Gaddafi, notwithstanding his personality cult and authoritarian rule. The slaughter is getting worse by the month and is engulfing the entire country.
"Your friends in Britain and France will stand with you as you build your democracy," pledged Mr Cameron to the people of Benghazi. Three years later, they are words he evidently wants to forget, since there was almost no reference to Libya, the one military intervention he had previously ordered, when he spoke in the House of Commons justifying British airstrikes against Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq. Read on and comment » | Patrick Cockburn | Sunday, November 02, 2014
Far Right Groups Clash with Anti-fascists in Rochester ahead of By-election
Far-right extremists clashed with anti-fascists on the streets of Rochester, bringing a bitter note to the by-election campaign.
Members of Britain First, the BNP splinter group, marched in uniform to the town’s war memorial shouting incendiary anti-Muslim slogans.
They were blocked by a crowd of more than 100 people, including Labour supporters, teenage Tory activists and anti-fascist groups, hurling chants of “scum” back at them as a wall of police officers kept the two groups apart.
Former Tory MP Mark Reckless, who defected to Ukip last month, will be standing in the by-election for Ukip later this month.
Britain First’s deputy leader Jayda Fransen, also a candidate in the by-election, praised Mr Reckless's defection saying her party and Ukip had “almost everything” in common and were “almost identical in policies”. » | Laurence Dodds, video by Alice Wagstaffe | Saturday, November 01, 2014
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