Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Course au pouvoir suprême à Téhéran
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La bataille de succession au sommet du pouvoir iranien pourrait survenir plus tôt que prévu. Selon des informations obtenues par Le Figaro auprès de plusieurs sources dans les milieux occidentaux du renseignement, le Guide de la révolution serait atteint d’un cancer de la prostate de stade 4, autrement dit métastasique, ce qui signifie que le mal s’est disséminé ailleurs dans le corps. Compte tenu de son âge, 76 ans, son espérance de vie serait évaluée par les médecins à environ deux ans. » | De Philippe Gélie | mercredi 11 mars 2015
Erschiessungskommandos statt Giftspritzen
Zum Tode verurteilte Straftäter könnten im US-Staat Utah bei einem Mangel an Giftspritzen möglicherweise bald von Exekutionskommandos erschossen worden. Einen entsprechenden Gesetzesentwurf verabschiedete der Senat des Bundesstaates am Dienstag mit einer Mehrheit von 18 zu 10. Wenn der republikanische Gouverneur Gary Herbert das Gesetz nun unterzeichnet, wäre Utah der erste amerikanische Staat, in dem solche Kommandos erlaubt wären. » | chk/AP | Mittwoch, 11. März 2015
America Just Got Its First Accredited Muslim College
On Sunday, Zaytuna College, a liberal-arts school based in Berkeley, California, announced that it was formally accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), one of the six official academic bodies responsible for the authorizing public and private colleges and universities in the United States.
“Today, Zaytuna’s accreditation roots this vision in a reality recognized within American higher education,” Hamza Yusuf, president of the college, said in a statement celebrating the announcement.
The statement also added, “[Accreditation] helps ensure that Zaytuna successfully fulfills the objectives outlined in its curriculum, which grounds its students in both the Islamic and Western scholarly traditions.”
According to the school’s website, Zaytuna was founded in 1996 as an institute and briefly operated as an Islamic seminary before dedicating itself to becoming a Muslim liberal arts college in 2009. It welcomed its first freshman class in 2010, and conferred its first undergraduate degrees in 2014. It has a student body of around 30 students, and offers a B.A. in Islamic Law and Theology and courses in politics, astronomy, and American history, among others. In a video chronicling the school’s pursuit of accreditation, Colleen Keyes, vice president of academic affairs, explained that the school’s goal is “to prepare and educate students, who are morally committed spiritual, intellectual, and professional leaders who are grounded in the Islamic tradition and conversant with … modern society.” » | Jack Jenkins | Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Op-Ed: Islam Wants to Convert Rome
First the black flag of the Caliphate waving over the Vatican. Then the Colosseum in flames and a sea of blood that submerges it. Finally, the announcement of the Libyan caliphate that “we are south of Rome”.
In the propaganda videos of the Islamic State there are many prophecies about the fall and the conquest of Rome. There is a long Islamic tradition aiming at Rome, “Romiyyah”, aiming to make it the fourth holiest city of Islam (after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem) and the base from which Islam will conquer the Western world. Rome is the greatest magnet of the mystical Islamic universe.
Roger Garaudy, the French intellectual who converted to Islam, in 1986 launched his challenge, boasting: “I’ll bring Islam to Rome”. The foundation of this prophecy is the thirtieth Sura of the Koran, called ar Rum, “Romans”. The fall of Rome is based on the myth of the Emperor Heraclius and a letter that he would have written to Muhammad, recognizing him as “the messenger of God”.
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of the Islamic Hanbali school (now in power in Saudi Arabia) reported among the “hadith”, the sayings of Muhammad, that the Prophet of Islam predicted that “the city of Heraclius (Constantinople) would fall first, then Rome”.
In 2003, Osama Bin Laden made a speech on “The new Rome” and three years later, in the footsteps of Pope Benedict’s Islamic speech at Regensburg University, Al Qaeda proclaimed: “Servants of the Cross, expect defeat, the Muslims will conquer Rome as they conquered Constantinople”. » | Giulio Meotti | Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
L'EI exécute un Arabe israélien accusé d'espionnage
Le groupe Etat islamique (EI) a diffusé mardi 10 mars une vidéo affirmant montrer l'exécution par un jeune garçon d'un Arabe israélien accusé d'espionner pour le compte des services secrets israéliens.
Sur la vidéo de plus de 10 minutes, on voit un homme présenté comme Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam vêtu d'une combinaison orange, ainsi que son passeport israélien. Il est ensuite abattu d'une balle dans la tête par le jeune garçon, habillé en treillis. » | afp/Newsnet | mardi 10 mars 2015
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How Gaddafi's Home City in Libya Fell under the Rule of Islamic State Jihadists
The facade of the building that was once Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s pride and joy is now painted with the distinctive black and white jihadist flag.
In streets nearby, mannequins in women’s clothes shops are covered in demure, shapeless black. Ladies’ hairdressers have been closed down.
The Libyan dictator’s home city and pet project, later the scene of his capture and death, Sirte is now the first major foothold for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) on the Mediterranean coast.
A visit by The Telegraph revealed how a small group of foreign fighters has developed into a force to be reckoned with, 300 miles from Italy’s shores.
“When they arrived they were just a small number,” said Milad, a resident, who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisals. “But then many locals joined them. They see them as the only way to have power in post-Gaddafi Libya.” » | Ruth Sherlock, Sirte, video by Sam Tarling | Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Britain May Broadcast Putin's Financial Secrets to Russian People
Britain may broadcast the financial secrets of Russia’s ruling elite as part of the information war against the Putin regime, the Foreign Secretary has indicated.
Philip Hammond said he was interested by the idea of publicising the wealth of the Russian president’s inner circle in order to embarrass them in front of their people, as part of the response to the ongoing incursion into eastern Ukraine.
The Foreign Secretary warned that Putin is rapidly modernising his armed forces, and warned Russia’s bid to destabilise eastern Europe poses “the greatest single threat” to British national security.
Mr Hammond said that Britain must now “accept” that efforts to offer Russia its “rightful place” in the post-Cold War order had been “rebuffed”.
It marks a change in tone from the British government: David Cameron has repeated[ly] said that the door is open to Russia to normalise relations if it ended the assault on Ukraine. » | Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent | Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Franklin Graham: Muslims Kill Christians to Emulate Muhammad
"Muhammad was a man of war and he killed many people," Graham told Tucker Carlson on "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday. "Jesus Christ came as a man of peace, and as a follower of Christ I follow him and I want to emulate Him. But the followers of Islam are emulating the prophet Muhammad, and that’s what you’re seeing carried out."
"We have to be very careful and understand that Islam — the teachings of Islam — are militant," the president of the Samaritan's Purse charity said. " I’m talking about, when you read the Quran, when you read the Surra, it’s very militant."
According to Graham, one of the reasons for the rise of Christian persecution in the Middle East was the fall of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
"When Iraq was invaded by our country — and I’m not saying this was right or wrong, I’m just saying it’s a fact — there was a large Christian minority. Saddam Hussein gave them quite a lot of freedom," he explained.
"But when that government fell and the new government came to power, the Islamists in the country, al-Qaida and others, began to attack and burn churches," Graham said.
"We’ve seen that happen throughout Iraq, and now it’s happening in Syria," he explained.
And now as a result, "the Christian community is being slaughtered by the Muslims, and they’re being forced to leave," he said. » | Courtney Coren | Monday, March 09, 2015
Junckers Armee ist eine Utopie
Eine EU-Armee wird es auf absehbare Zeit nicht geben. Das weiss auch Jean-Claude Juncker. Der Kommissionspräsident aus dem kleinen Luxemburg ist ein Mann der grossen Träume. Die braucht es manchmal, um einem alten Projekt neuen Schub zu verpassen. Die Idee einer europäischen Streitmacht taucht nicht zum ersten Mal auf, ist aber bisher immer wieder schnell in der Versenkung verschwunden.
Juncker sieht angesichts der neuen Bedrohung durch ein aggressives Russland neue Chancen für das Fernziel und frische Dringlichkeit, darauf hinzuarbeiten. Die Frage im Hintergrund lautet vereinfacht: Wie hält es Europa mit seiner Verteidigung?
Fast alle Regierungen sind sich einig, dass der Status quo höchst unbefriedigend ist. Die Europäer haben in den letzten Jahren ihre Verteidigungshaushalte zum Teil rigoros zusammengestrichen und sind deshalb für ihre Sicherheit mehr denn je auf ihre amerikanischen Verbündeten angewiesen. » | Stephan Israel, EU-Korrespondent | Brüssel | Montag, 09. März 2015
Netanyahu bremst amerikanisch-iranische Annäherung ab
Der israelische Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanyahu hat mit seiner Rede im US-Kongress die Widerstände gegen eine amerikanisch-iranische Annäherung offenbar verstärkt. Nach dreitägigen Gesprächen zwischen US-Aussenminister John Kerry und seinem iranischen Kollegen Mohammed Dschawad Sarif dämpften US-Diplomaten die Erwartungen, dass es bis Ende März das geplante Rahmenabkommen zum Teheraner Atomprogramm geben werde.
Ein ranghoher US-Diplomat sagte zum Stand der Gespräche, angestrebt werde nun nur noch eine «Verständigung, die mit einer Vielzahl von Details gefüllt sein muss». Es sei nun an Präsident Barack Obama, darüber zu befinden, ob die erzielten Fortschritte eine ausreichende Grundlage böten, ein endgültiges Abkommen bis Ende Juni zu erreichen, sagte der Diplomat. Die nächste amerikanisch-iranische Gesprächsrunde sei für den 15. März an einem noch nicht festgelegten Ort vereinbart worden. » | Mittwoch, 04. März 2015
Republikaner torpedieren Obamas Iran-Politik
Die Republikaner im US-Kongress torpedieren weiter Präsident Barack Obamas Atomdiplomatie mit dem Iran. In einem offenen Brief an die iranische Führung warnten 47 republikanische Senatoren, dass es ohne die Zustimmung des Parlaments kein langfristiges Abkommen geben werde. Das Weisse Haus reagierte empört und warf den Abgeordneten vor, sich unzulässig in die Aussenpolitik einzumischen. » | Dienstag, 10. März 2015
Inside Libya: How Battle for Oil Has Left Country Close to Collapse
Libya will "run out of money" in 18 months despite once being one of Africa's richest countries, officials have told The Telegraph as internecine fighting grinds its oil and gas industry to a halt.
Mashala Zwai, the oil minister for one of Libya's two rival governments, warned that the country was becoming "a second Somalia".
"This is a critical time in a critical situation," said Mr Zwai, speaking from the Tripoli offices of the National Oil Corporation, which manages Libya's energy sector. "By next year the state will not be able to pay Libyans' salaries."
Oil battlefields
With the government split into two rival authorities, Libya's oil installations are becoming battlefields where affiliated militias vie for power.
They are also the focus of attacks by Islamist extremists, including a local branch of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), who are thriving in the country's state of lawlessness. » | Ruth Sherlock, near Sidra, Libya, video by Sam Tarling | Monday, March 09, 2015
Obama Mocks Republican Letter to Iran over Nuclear Talks
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| Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, was the lead author of the letter to Iranian leaders |
He said the 47 senators made an "unusual coalition" with Iran's hard-line religious leaders.
The letter reminds Iran that any deal is just an executive agreement unless it gets congressional approval.
Talks on Iran's nuclear programme are at a critical stage, with an outline agreement due on 31 March. (+ BBC video) » | Monday, March 09, 2015
Monday, March 09, 2015
Japan Must Face Up to Its Shameful Second World War Past like Germany Did, Says Angela Merkel
Japan must face up to its actions during the Second World War if it is serious about building better relations with its neighbours, Angela Merkel warned on Monday.
The German chancellor is on a two-day official to Japan, but her comments are unlikely to be welcomed by Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, whose conservative views on Tokyo’s war crimes are under scrutiny.
“Germany was lucky to be accepted in the community of nations after the horrible experience that the world had to meet with Germany during the period of National Socialism (Nazism) and the Holocaust,” Mrs Merkel said in a public lecture hosted by the left-leaning Asahi newspaper.
“This was possible first because Germany did face its past squarely, but also because the Allied Powers who controlled Germany after the Second World War would attach great importance to Germany coming to grips with its past.”
“One of the great achievements of the time certainly was reconciliation between Germany and France ... The French have given just as valuable a contribution as the Germans have.” » | Julian Ryall in Tokyo | Monday, March 09, 2015
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