Erdogan Attacks Netanyahu for 'Daring' to Attend Paris March

ARUTZ SHEVA: Turkish President accuses Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu of conducting 'state terrorism,' in latest verbal barrage against Israel.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday attacked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for "daring" to attend the weekend's anti-terror solidarity march in Paris, accusing him of leading "state terrorism" against the Palestinians.

The comments were the latest verbal assault against Netanyahu and Israel in general by Erdogan, under whose rule Turkey's relations with Israel have steadily deteriorated.

"I also hardly understand how he (Netanyahu) dared to go there. For once, you give an account for the children, women you massacred," Erdogan told a joint press conference in Ankara alongside Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.

Abbas and Netanyahu, as well as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, all joined the solidarity march in Paris in the memory of 17 people killed in Islamist terror attacks last week.

But Erdogan said Netanyahu had no right to be there following Israel's 50-day conflict with Islamist terrorists in Gaza.

"How can you see this individual who carries out state terrorism by massacring 2,500 people in Gaza waving his hand?" said Erdogan. » | Arutz Sheva Staff | Monday, January 12, 2015

Super-rich Sultan of Brunei Bans Christmas

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: Oil-rich Brunei has officially banned all public celebrations of Christmas, announced its Ministry of Religious Affairs.

The ban was implemented after a number of people were reportedly spotted wearing clothes resembling Santa Claus at Christmas time.

Businesses that publicly displayed Christmas decorations were also asked to take them down and the ministry confirmed receiving their "full cooperation" on it.

The move follows Brunei's wealthy Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah's announcement last April on the introduction of a new Islamic penal code making it the first East Asian country to ever introduce Islamic criminal law.

Under the new law, Brunei's Muslim residents will face prosecution by Islamic courts for offences, including pregnancy outside marriage, failure to perform Friday prayers, and propagating other religions, reported Reuters. » | Maria Khan | Thursday, January 08, 2015

Pegida wird konkret

FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU: Ein Trauermarsch für „Charlie Hebdo“, sechs Forderungen an die „Etablierten“ und so viele Teilnehmer wie nie zuvor. Es wird weniger gerufen, gebrüllt und geschrien bei Pegida, es ist nicht so hitzig und aggressiv wie beim letzten Mal.

Es wäre interessant, irgendwann einmal zu erfahren, ob Lutz Bachmann auch wirklich meint, was er so sagt, wenn er Reden hält. Bachmann, 41, ist einer der Organisatoren und Köpfe der Dresdner Pegida-Bewegung. Es ist Montagabend, ein kalter Südost weht über den Platz hinter dem Hygienemuseum, russische, niederländische, deutsche und viele französische Flaggen knattern im Wind. Es ist die zwölfte Kundgebung seit Oktober, Tausende sind auf dem Platz, so viele wie nie zuvor. „Ha, endlich wieder Sturm und Drang“, freut sich ein junger Mann und reibt sich die kalten Hände. Ein anderer neben ihm zielt mit seinem grünen Laserpointer auf die Leute, die aus dem Hochhaus gegenüber die Menschenmenge betrachten.

Heute Abend ist alles ein wenig anders als bei früheren Demos. Es gibt nur wenige Gegenkundgebungen mit weniger Teilnehmern. Es wird weniger gerufen, gebrüllt und geschrien bei Pegida, es ist nicht so hitzig und aggressiv wie beim letzten Mal. Es beginnt mit einer Schweigeminute für die ermordeten Karikaturisten des französischen Magazins „Charlie Hebdo“ und die in Nigeria von islamistischen Mörderbanden umgebrachten Männer, Frauen und Kinder. Tatsächlich tragen einige Trauerflor, einige sogar Transparente: „Je suis Charlie.“ Ein Mann hält ein Bild von Angela Merkel hoch: Verschleiert und Mundwinkel ganz nach unten. » | Von Bernhard Honnigfort | MOntag, 12. Januar 2015

Angela Merkel: “Der Islam gehört zu Deutschland”

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Merkel Says Islam 'Belongs to Germany' ahead of Dresden Rally

REUTERS.COM: (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday Islam "belongs to Germany", in a clear repudiation of anti-immigration protesters gathering in Dresden and other cities.

A day after walking arm-in-arm with French President Francois Hollande at the front of a massive march in Paris to honor the victims of killings by Islamic militants, Merkel received the Turkish prime minister and urged dialogue among religions.

The conservative chancellor pointed to comments made by former German president Christian Wulff, who said in 2010 that Islam was part of Germany, triggering a fierce debate.

"Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion," Merkel said at a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who also took part with other world leaders in the Paris march on Sunday.

She was speaking hours before marches by a movement dubbed PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, were due to begin in several German cities. » | Andreas Rinke | Monday, January 12, 2015

Pegida: Erneut Tausende bei Pegida-Kundgebung in Dresden

FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU: Die Pegida-Bewegung in Dresden zieht erneut eine große Menschenmenge an. Tausende Anhänger der asyl- und islamkritischen Bewegung gehen am Montagabend auf die Straße.

Die Anhänger der islamfeindlichen Pegida-Bewegung sind in Dresden zu ihrer ersten Kundgebung seit den islamistischen Anschlägen in Frankreich zusammengekommen. In der sächsischen Landeshauptstadt versammelten sich am Montagabend mehrere tausend Demonstranten, wie eine AFP-Reporterin berichtete. Offizielle Schätzungen der Polizei zu der Teilnehmerzahl wurden erst im Verlauf des Abends erwartet. Am Montag vor den Anschlägen in der vergangenen Woche waren in Dresden rund 18.000 Pegida-Anhänger auf die Straße gegangen.

In Dresden hatten die Pegida-Organisatoren die Teilnehmer aufgefordert, mit Trauerflor für die Toten von Paris zu erscheinen. Einige der Demonstranten hielten den Spruch "Je suis Charlie" (Ich bin Charlie) in die Höhe, mit dem sich nach den Anschlägen weltweit hunderttausende Menschen sowie Zeitungen und andere Medienunternehmen mit den Opfern des Angriffs auf die französische Satirezeitung "Charlie Hebdo" solidarisch erklärt und für die Meinungsfreiheit demonstriert hatten.

Auch auf weiteren Plakaten und Transparenten bezogen sich die Demonstranten in Dresden mit Sprüchen wie "Meinungsfreiheit statt Salafistenterror" und "Feige Presse, ihr seid nicht Charlie" auf die Anschläge von Paris. Ein anderes Bild zeigte Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) mit einem Schleier. » | afp | Montag, 12. Januar 2015

US Centcom Twitter Account 'Hacked by Islamic State'

BBC AMERICA: US Central Command's Twitter and YouTube accounts have been hacked by a group claiming to back Islamic State.

One message said: "American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back."

It was signed by Isis, another name for the Islamic State. Some internal military documents also appeared on the Centcom Twitter feed. » | Monday, January 12, 2015

US Media Questions Why Neither Barack Obama Nor Top US Officials Attended Paris Charlie Hebdo Rally

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama did not attend the Paris Charlie Hebdo rally, nor were any of his top US administration officials among the 44 foreign dignitaries

The absence of President Barack Obama or any top members of his administration from a huge march in Paris on Sunday to honour victims of Islamist militant attacks raised eyebrows among some in the US media.

French President Francois Hollande and some 44 foreign dignitaries, including leaders from Germany, Italy, Britain, Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian territories, led up to two million people in what commentators said was the largest crowd in Paris since its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944. » | Reuters | Monday, January 12, 2015

Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday Edition to Include Prophet Mohammed Cartoons

The previous issue of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Wednesday's edition of Charlie Hebdo will 'naturally' contain cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, the magazine's lawyer has announced

The next edition of Charlie Hebdo, out on Wednesday with a million-copy print run, will "naturally" contain cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, along with jibes against politicians and religions across the board, said the stricken weekly's lawyer.

Richard Malka was among the first to call for the magazine to continue functioning after nine of its contributors, including famed cartoonists Cabu and Wolinski and its publishing director, Charb, were gunned down last Wednesday by Chérif and Saïd Kouachi.

When asked whether that meant more cartoons of Mohammed, which have been a regular feature in the magazine until last Wednesday's attack, he replied: "Naturally."

"We will not give in otherwise all this won't have meant anything," he told France Info radio on Monday, which broadcast from the magazine's heavily guarded temporary offices at Libération newspaper. » | Henry Samuel, Paris | Monday, January 12, 2015

Merkel empfängt Davutoglu: "Der Islam gehört zu Deutschland"

TAGESCHAU.DE: Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel räumt dem Islam einen festen Platz in der deutschen Gesellschaft ein. Bei einem Besuch des türkischen Ministerpräsidenten Ahmet Davutoglu sagte sie: "Von meiner Seite möchte ich sagen, dass unser früherer Bundespräsident Christian Wulff gesagt hat, der Islam gehört zu Deutschland. Und das ist so, dieser Meinung bin ich auch." » | Montag, 12. Januar 2015

These Crimes Have Everything to Do with Islam

THE AGE: When French president Francois Hollande addressed the nation on Friday in the wake of terrorist attacks that left 20 dead, he uttered the predictable mantra: "These fanatics have nothing to do with the Muslim religion".

His comment is understandable given that France has more than five million Muslims, a stagnant economy, 24 per cent youth unemployment and endemic social alienation among young Muslims.

His comment is also nonsense. A de facto world war is under way and it has everything to do with Islam. It is not thousands of lone wolfs [sic]. It is not un-Islamic conduct. It involves thousands of Muslims acting on what they believe is their religious duty to subjugate non-believers, as outlined in the Koran.

And the problem is growing, not contracting. There was once a tradition among young Australians to travel overland from Singapore to London. That route has become a hell-hole:

Pakistan is dangerous. Afghanistan is a no-go area. Iran is an oppressive theocracy. Iraq is disintegrating. Syria is a disaster area. Lebanon is dangerous. In Turkey, for the first time, Australians travelling to Gallipoli will be going under a security alert.

All these Muslim countries used to be safe for transit. The intimidation being practised in the name of Islam by a small minority is a by-product of something much larger – the state-mandated conservatism that is systemic in the majority of Muslim societies. Most of them are dictatorships, monarchies, theocracies or failed states. » | Paul Sheehan | Sydney Morning Herald columnist | Monday, January 12, 2015

Barack Obama’s French Kiss-off

POLITICO: Obama’s public reactions to the attacks in Paris have been muted.

Barack Obama n’est pas Charlie — or at least, he wasn’t this weekend.

Don’t look for the president or vice president among the photos of 44 heads of state who locked arms and marched down Boulevard Voltaire in Paris. Nor did they join a companion march the French Embassy organized in Washington on Sunday afternoon.

Indeed, Obama’s public reactions to the attacks in Paris last week have been muted. His initial response Wednesday to the killing of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices was delivered as he sat calmly in an armchair in the Oval Office speaking about the “cowardly” acts and defending freedom of the press. Two days later, as a gunman took hostages and went on to kill four people in a kosher grocery, Obama took a few seconds away from a community college proposal roll-out in Tennessee because he said with events unfolding, “I wanted to make sure to comment on them” — but never then or afterward specifically condemned that attack.

Obama wasn’t far from the march in D.C. on Sunday that wended silently along six blocks from the Newseum to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Instead, he spent the chilly afternoon a few blocks away at the White House, with no public schedule, no outings.

Joe Biden was back home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Neither they nor any high-level administration official attended either event.

France’s top American diplomat, diplomatically, tried to make the best of it. » | Edward-Isaac Dovere | Sunday, January 11, 2015

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German Anti-Islam Rally Monday to Raise New Tensions

USA TODAY: BERLIN — A massive march by anti-Islam nationalists planned for Monday threatens to raise new religious tensions — and potential violence — in Europe in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in Paris by radical Muslims.

Germany's justice minister on Sunday urged the group called Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) to cancel its demonstration, but the group vowed to go ahead with a rally that will commemorate the 17 people killed in the Paris attacks.

The group has held weekly rallies to protest Germany's growing immigrant population, mainly Muslims fleeing the war in Syria in recent years.

"It's outrageous they want to commemorate victims that until last week they insulted as liars," Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the popular tabloid Bild, calling for the group to cancel Monday's rally.

Many fear another march by the group could stoke violence and anti-immigration sentiment after Wednesday's attack at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

"The people at the heart of PEGIDA must be delighted," said Mohammed Majoka, a spokesman for the Muslim group Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany. "This is what they have been trying to show people all along, that Islam is dangerous and Muslims should be kicked out." » | Angela Waters | Special for USA TODAY | Sunday, January 11, 2015

Attack on German Newspaper Raises Tension before Anti-Islam Rally

REUTERS.COM – EXTRACT: …BERLIN, Jan 11 (Reuters) - A Hamburg daily that reprinted satirical cartoons from French newspaper Charlie Hebdo was hit by arsonists at the weekend, raising security concerns in Germany on the eve of a planned mass rally against Islam in the city of Dresden.

Islamist militant attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher deli in Paris this week that killed 17 people have fuelled fears of similar assaults in other European countries and prompted a warning from German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. ... Read the whole article here » | Sunday, January 11, 2015

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Lord Monckton: Why Won’t the Left Tell the Truth about Islam?

WND: Exclusive: Lord Monckton reveals dangers of remaining 'culpably silent' in face of terror

President Hollande of France, a hard-left socialist of the sort who began bankrupting that once-great nation in 1789, said this about the Muslim terrorists who committed the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the Jewish grocery siege:

“Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.”

Now, why did President Hollande say that? Is he not aware of the vicious anti-Semitism of the Islamic extremists in his country? Is he not aware that the terrorist murders in France were carried out by thugs screeching “Allahu Akbar“?

Of course, the effete and ineffectual occupant of the Elysée Palace is aware of these things. But he does not care. What matters to him is that 93 percent of the Muslims who voted in the presidential election voted for him. What matters to him is that the more Muslim immigrants he lets into France, the more socialist votes he will get.

Hence his cynical pretense that the slaughterers of his fellow countrymen “have nothing to do with the Muslim religion,” when the truth is that they have everything to do with it.

Here, as in so many other fields, the left will simply lie because the lie is politically advantageous to it. President Hollande knows that there are at least 9 million Muslims in France. They are arriving at such a rapid rate that no one knows for sure just how many there are. But there are a lot. And very, very nearly all of them vote socialist. Totalitarians will always stand by other totalitarians. » | Lord Monckton | Sunday, January 11, 2015

Paris Shootings: Marseille Muslims Condemn Violence

BBC AMERICA: More than two million people have taken to the streets of cities across France, in a show of unity after three days of terror attacks.

Seventeen people were killed during the violence, and police are still hunting one of the people believe to be responsible.

One million people of all faiths and origins marched in Paris, while hundreds of thousands of others staged demonstrations elsewhere.

Fergal Keane reports on one march in Marseille, the French city with the largest population of Muslims. (+ BBC video) » | Sunday, January 11, 2015

Shocking!

The American president’s henchman, Eric Holder, was in Paris today. But it seems that he did not take part in the million-man march. What does this tell us about the Obama administration? The more one observes Obama and reads his remarks about Islam, one cannot help but ask oneself one simple question: Is Obama America’s first Muslim president?

"The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander The Prophet Of Islam" – President Barack Obama addressing the UN General Assembly [Source: Real Clear Politics]

Paris Attacks Boost Support for Dutch Anti-Islam Populist Wilders

YAHOO! NEWS: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Support for the anti-Islamic Freedom Party of Dutch populist Geert Wilders has jumped to its highest level in more than a year after the Islamist militant attacks in Paris.

Wilders, known for his inflammatory rhetoric, said after the Paris bloodshed that the West was "at war" with Islam, drawing a rebuke from Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday.

If elections were held now, his party would be the single largest in the Netherlands, with 31 seats in the 150-member parliament, more than twice as many as it won in the last elections, according to a Sunday poll.

The governing Liberal and Labour parties, damaged by persistent sluggish growth, would have just 28 seats between them, compared to the 79 they held after the 2012 elections. » | Reuters | Sunday, January 11, 2015

„Wer die MOPO [Hamburger Morgenpost] angreift, greift ganz Hamburg an“

HAMBURGER MORGENPOST: Es geschah im Schutz der Dunkelheit: In der Nacht zu Sonntag ist auf das Verlagsgebäude der Hamburger Morgenpost in Bahrenfeld ein Brandanschlag verübt worden. Die MOPO-Mitarbeiter sind geschockt – verletzt wurde aber zum Glück niemand. Der Hintergrund der Tat ist noch unklar. Die Polizei hat zwei verdächtige Männer festgenommen.

Laut Behörden „liegt die Vermutung nahe“, dass die Tat in Zusammenhang mit der MOPO-Titelseite vom 8. Januar steht. Neben der Schlagzeile „So viel Freiheit muss sein“ standen Karikaturen des Satiremagazins „Charlie Hebdo“, auf das zuvor ein tödlicher Terroranschlag verübt worden war. Beweise für eine Verbindung gab es laut Polizeisprecherin Karina Sadowsky zunächst aber nicht. mehr » | Sonntag, 11. Januar 2015

YAHOO! NEWS: Firebombing at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons » | Deborah Cole | Sunday, January 11, 2015

'We are Charlie': Across France, Nearly 4 Million March to Honor Victims of [Islamic] Terrorist Attacks

FOX NEWS: At least 3.7 million people including more than 40 world leaders are marching throughout France on Sunday in a rally of national unity to honor the 17 victims of a three-day terror spree that took place around the French capital.

The French Interior Ministry said the rally for unity against terrorism is the largest demonstration in France's history, more than the numbers who took to Paris streets when the Allies liberated the city from the Nazis in World War II.

The ministry said between 1.2 million and 1.6 million marched the Paris streets. But it said a precise account is impossible given the enormity of the turnout in the capital.

The aftermath of the attacks remained raw, with video emerging of one of the gunmen killed during police raids pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and detailing how the attacks were going to unfold. Also, a new shooting was linked to that gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed Friday along with the brothers behind a massacre at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.

"Today, Paris is the capital of the world," said French President Francois Hollande. "Our entire country will rise up toward something better." (+ FoxNews video) » | FoxNews.com | Sunday, January 11, 2015