Richard Dawkins: Islam Is Not a Religion of Peace, It Was Founded On War & Spread by War

Richard Dawkins discusses the Paris attacks & radical Islam on BBC Daily Politics.

'US & UK Try to Sabotage Any Ukraine Peace Agreement'

Talks between Russia’s President Putin, France’s President Hollande, and German Chancellor Merkel have been constructive, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday. However, RT spoke with political analyst Dan Glazebrook, who thinks that while Germany seems enthusiastic about the peace talks, the other sides involved in the conflict – the US and UK – are creating obstacles which may stand in the way of the conflict’s resolution.

Putin, Hollande, Merkel Talks on Ukraine ‘Constructive’, Possible Document 'In Progress'

German, French and Russian leaders conclude their talks over the Ukrainian crisis, with preliminary results to be announced on Sunday. Work is underway on a possible joint document aimed at implementing the Minsk agreements, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Das deutsch-amerikanische Zerwürfnis auf offener Bühne

DIE WELT: Die Amerikaner verstehen nicht, warum Deutschland einem Volk, das seine Freiheit gegen einen undemokratischen Aggressor verteidigt, keine Waffen an die Hand gibt. Merkel bleibt hart.

Es war ein Konflikt auf offener Bühne zwischen Amerika und Deutschland, der sich auf der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz abgespielt hat. Die Bundeskanzlerin hatte sich noch einmal vehement gegen Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine gewandt. Und sie wiederholte ihr Mantra, es könne keine militärische Lösung dieses Konfliktes geben. "Ich kann mir keine Situation vorstellen, in der eine verbesserte Ausrüstung der ukrainischen Armee dazu führt, dass Putin annimmt, diesen Konflikt militärisch zu verlieren", begründete sie ihre Haltung. » | Von Clemens Wergin | Korrespondent in Washington | Samstag, 07. Februar 2015

Après la mort de son pilote, la Jordanie promet d'"éradiquer" l'EI

LE POINT: Le chef de la diplomatie jordanienne a assuré que les frappes menées contre l'organisation jeudi n'étaient que le début de la "vengeance" de son pays.

La Jordanie a affirmé vendredi que les frappes contre le groupe État islamique (EI) n'étaient que le début de sa "vengeance" pour l'exécution de son pilote, promettant d'"éradiquer" l'organisation djihadiste. "La Jordanie pourchassera avec toutes ses forces l'organisation (EI) n'importe où", a déclaré le chef de la diplomatie Nasser Joudeh à la chaîne de télévision américaine CNN. "Tout membre de Daesh (acronyme en arabe de l'EI) est une cible pour nous. Nous les pourchasserons et nous les éradiquerons; (...) Nous sommes en première ligne, c'est notre bataille", a ajouté le ministre dont le pays participe aux frappes en Syrie contre l'EI dans le cadre de la coalition internationale dirigée par les États-Unis. Il a affirmé que son pays avait tenté de sauver le pilote Maaz al-Kassasbeh, capturé en décembre par l'EI en Syrie après le crash de son avion, mais sans fournir d'autres détails. » | Source AFP | vendredi 06 février 2015

Obama Administration Issues 5.5M Work Permits to Non-citizens; Jeff Sessions Wants Investigation

New documents reveal that the Obama administration has issued roughly 5.5 million work permits to non-citizens without Congressional authorization. The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative-leaning Center for Immigration Studies demonstrate what critics call a "shadow" or "parallel" immigration system that infringes on employment opportunities for Americans, Fox News reported…

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Barack Obama: What the Heck Is Wrong with You?

On Tuesday, the radical Islamist group ISIS released a video of the horrifying execution of a Jordanian pilot. Horrifying does not even begin to describe what happened to the 26-year-old pilot. He was soaked in gasoline and then marched into a cage. A trail of gas was poured that led to the cage and then lit.…

White House Gives Names of Muslim Leaders Who Met with Obama

The White House has finally divulged the names of American Muslim leaders who met with President Obama this week, including Imam Mohamed Magid, who has advised the administration on formulating responses to incidents that Islamists consider offensive. After stonewalling journalists for two days about the names of the participants at the meeting on Wednesday, the White…

Ukraine Crisis Will Not Be Solved By Military Means, Says Angela Merkel

German chancellor admits, however, that she is unsure whether the current diplomatic push to end the conflict in the east of the country will succeed

Read the Guardian article here | Chris Johnston and agencies | Saturday, February 07, 2015

Obama's 'High Horse': IS, the Crusades and Moral Equivalency

BBC AMERICA: Behold the perils of invoking moral equivalency - even, or perhaps especially, when some of the events in question are separated by 800 years.

During a speech Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama leavened his condemnation of the Islamic State's recent atrocities with a word of warning to his fellow Christians who wish to conflate the militant group's actions with Islam as a whole.

"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," the president said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."

Murderous extremism, he continued, "is not unique to one group or one religion. There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith."

The comments prompted an angry reaction - bordering on apoplexy - from many on the right.

Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer called the president's comments "banal and offensive" and "adolescent stuff".

"Christianity no longer goes on Crusades," he said on Fox News "The story of today, of our generation, is the fact that the overwhelming volume of the violence and the barbarism that we are seeing in the world from Nigeria to Paris all the way to Pakistan and even to the Philippines, the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, is coming from one source, and that's from inside Islam."

Others, such as conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, took issue with the president's contention that IS is not reflective of Islam as a whole. "Sharia law is the present day threat to individual and civil liberties all over the world," he said. "Sharia is not a narrow cult. Sharia law is Islam." » | Anthony Zurcher | Editor | Echo Chambers | Friday, February 06, 2015

Front National's Le Pen on Charlie Hebdo Shootings

BBC AMERICA: Britain "should break with the model of communitarianism" and the rights of individuals, said the leader of France's Front National after the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

Marine Le Pen said the Schengen agreement, which allows open borders across most of Europe outside the UK and Ireland, should be suspended.

And she claimed that terrorism was "only a means of Islamic fundamentalism" which France had not faced up to, due to "political correctness and fear".

She was not invited to the display of international political leaders in Paris following the shootings which led to 17 deaths last week.

In a Daily Politics film from Strasbourg, Adam Fleming spoke to the leader of the Front National who explained France did not have a crime of blasphemy, and it had the "freedom to talk about religion and this won't change". (+ BBC video) » | Thursday, January 15, 2015

Marine Le Pen: Fundamentalism Is 'Internal Threat'

BBC AMERICA: The leader of the French far-right Front National party has claimed that controlling immigration is essential in the fight against Islamist extremism.

Marine Le Pen rejected accusations of racism from protesters outside the Oxford Union where she spoke on Thursday night, and in turn accused the demonstrators of being the enemies of liberty and free speech.

She has enjoyed strong support among French voters over the past year and her current poll ratings suggest she might be a serious candidate for the presidency in 2017.

She spoke to the BBC's Huw Edwards. (+ BBC) » | Friday, February 06, 2015

Free Speech Oxford University-Style: Chants Against Le Pen In Oxford

Anjem Choudary, Radical Muslim Cleric: Quran Justifies Jordanian Pilot Burning

THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Controversial Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary suggested Thursday that the filmed burning of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by Islamic State militants was justified under the Quran.

Speaking with NewsmaxTV host Steve Malzberg, Mr. Choudary said the video showing the pilot burning to death “has several intended affects.”

“One of them, of course, is to terrorize the enemy, and I think it’s had that effect,” he said, the Daily Caller reported. “It’s had a huge propaganda effect all around the world. Now, if you want to look at this from a Islamic perspective, what they are arguing is that it is reciprocation. » | Jessica Chasmar | The Washington Times | Thursday, February 05, 2015

French Far-right Leader Marine Le Pen Mobbed by Oxford Union Protesters

Leader of the French party National Front (FN) Marine Le Pen (C)
arrives to give a speech at the Oxford Union's prestigious
debating society in Oxford

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Controversial nationalist politician gives a speech at the prestigious Oxford Union, blaming Western society's ills on Islamic ideology

French far-right political leader Marine Le Pen has received a hostile reception at the Oxford Union where she was was [sic] invited to discuss western values.

Crowds of protesters gathered outside the building to denounce the controversial leader of France's far-right Front National.

Her speech to gathered union members was delayed by over one hour as the angry crowd attempted to block entrances.

Union officials have faced criticism for inviting Ms Le Pen to speak uninterrupted for five minutes, rather than insisting on a more traditional debate format where an opponent would have also been heard.

The disruption meant that many of those with tickets for her speech were unable to attend. Similarly the scrum outside the union meant that reporters were unable to get inside.

She is believed to have used her speech to blame Islamic ideology for the issues facing western society. » | Gregory Walton | Thursday, February 05, 2015

President Obama Speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast

On February 5, 2015, President Obama delivered remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.

Saudi King's Ex-Wife Speaks Out

Exclusive: in her first television interview, the former wife of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia claims her four daughters have suffered years trapped in the royal compound in Jeddah.

The Wonderful Conversion Story Of A Saudi Christian Lady

Interview about why a Saudi woman converted to Christianity and what she found in Jesus that she didn't find in Islam

Obama FINALLY Acknowledges ISIS Is Linked to 'Islam' – Then Compares It to the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and American Slavery as He Says: 'No God Condones Terror'

MAIL ONLINE: President appeared at annual prayer event attended by 3,600 people from all 50 states and 130 countries / First head-on presidential attack on ISIS in terms of religion in recent memory / Obama has been criticized for failing to condemn Middle Eastern terrorists as religious radicals while other world leaders decry 'radical Islam' / He followed up aggressive language by comparing ISIS to the medieval Crusades, the Spanich Inquisition and American slavery

The burning alive of a Muslim man by the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has jolted the president of the United States into acknowledging publicly that the world's chief terror threat comes from people who 'profess to stand up for Islam but instead betray it.'

But that stark conclusion, long missing in the White House, was followed by a litany of other wrongs done in the name of religion.

'Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place,' Obama told the National Prayer breakfast on Thursday morning, 'remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.'

'In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.'

But 'no God condones terror,' he insisted. Read on and comment » | David Martosko, US Political Editor for Daily Mail | Thursday, February 05, 2015

Haarkippa: Schützt vor Nässe, Kälte und Antisemitismus

Ein israelischer Coiffeur will den ansteigenden Antisemitismus in Europa bekämpfen. Mit einer unsichtbaren Kopfbedeckung – die erst noch wie eine lässige Hipsterfrisur ausschaut.

Den SRF Artikel hier lesen | fren; meym | Donnerstag, 05. Februar 2015