Netherlands Imam Slams Democracy: Europeans Have Yet to Get a Taste of Its Woes

Tunisian Scholar Mohamed Talbi: The Quran Does Not Prohibit Alcohol, Prostitution, or Homosexuality

Jupe "trop longue": Najat Vallaud-Belkacem soutient la décision du collège

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem le 4 mars 2015 à l'Assemblée nationale
à Paris

L’EXPRESS: Invitée de RTL, la ministre de l'Education appuye la décision du collège de Charleville-Mézières où est scolarisée Sarah. La jeune fille de 15 ans s'était vu refuser l'accès à son établissement, coupable de porter une jupe "trop longue".

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem reste ferme. Pour la ministre de l'Education, il ne fait aucun doute que la direction du collège de Charleville-Mézières, dans les Ardennes, a fait preuve de "discernement" pour juger du caractère "prosélyte" de l'attitude d'une élève, Sarah, alors qu'elle portait une longue jupe noire. A deux reprises, l'établissement a refusé à la jeune fille de 15 ans de se rendre en cours, considérant la jupe comme un signe religieux ostentatoire. » | Par LEXPRESS.fr avec AFP | jeudi 30 avril 2015

Gauck zeigt sich offen für Entschädigung Griechenlands

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Bundespräsident Gauck hat sich zu den Forderungen der griechischen Regierung geäußert, die von Deutschland hohe Entschädigungen für NS-Kriegsverbrechen verlangt. Er hält es für angebracht, dass „ein geschichtsbewusstes Land wie unseres auslotet, welche Möglichkeiten von Wiedergutmachung es geben könnte“.

Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck zeigt sich offen für eine Wiedergutmachung deutscher Kriegsverbrechen in Griechenland. In einem vorab veröffentlichen Interview mit der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“ sagt Gauck: „Wir sind ja nicht nur die, die wir heute sind, sondern auch die Nachfahren derer, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg eine Spur der Verwüstung in Europa gelegt haben - unter anderem in Griechenland, worüber wir beschämend lange wenig wussten“.

Gauck fügt hinzu: „Es ist richtig, wenn ein geschichtsbewusstes Land wie unseres auslotet, welche Möglichkeiten von Wiedergutmachung es geben könnte.“ » | Quelle: Reuters | Freitag, 01. Mai 2015

Pegida-Mitgründerin bittet Muslime um Entschuldigung

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Die Pegida-Mitgründerin Kathrin Oertel zeigt späte Reue. Sie fühle sich „ein Stück weit mitverantwortlich für die ganze Hetzkampagne, die hier losgetreten worden ist“, sagt sie in einem Video auf Facebook.

„Pegida“-Mitgründerin Kathrin Oertel empfindet offenbar inzwischen Reue über das Schüren von Ressentiments gegenüber Andersgläubigen. In einem neu auf ihrer Facebook-Seite eingestellten Video bat Oertel dafür um Verzeihung. Wörtlich sagte sie: „Ich möchte die Gelegenheit nutzen und mich bei allen Migranten und vor allen bei den Muslimen unter ihnen entschuldigen.“ » | Quelle: epd | Freitag, 01. Mai 2015

Muslim Congressmen Try to Boot Islam Critic Geert Wilders

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn.

WND: Crashed D.C. news conference after urging John Kerry to deny visa

As one of the world’s most prominent critics of Islam, Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders doesn’t go anywhere without his security detail of as many as six plainclothes police officers, and he rarely crosses international borders without causing political uproar, having already been banned in Britain at one time.

So it was of little surprise that three U.S. congressmen urged Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to deny him a visa ahead of his planned visit to the U.S. this week, due to his alleged ongoing “participation in inciting anti-Muslim aggression and violence.”

Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and André Carson, D-Ind., who both are Muslim, along with Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., wrote a letter April 23 citing “the International Religious Freedom Act which allows the Department of State to deny entry to a foreign leader who is responsible for severe violations of religious freedom.”

Nevertheless, Wilders – who insists he doesn’t hate Muslims but believes Western civilization is threatened by adherents of the Islamic supremacy taught in the Quran – showed up on Capitol Hill Wednesday and spoke at two events at the invitation of Reps. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Steve King, R-Iowa[.] » | Art Moore | Thursday, April 30, 2015

Cameron and the Election's Career-defining Moment

With one massive Freudian slip, Cameron confirms out loud the very reason why so many voters find him hard to trust

Read the Guardian article here | John Crace | Friday, May 01, 2015

Isis Leader Incapacitated with Suspected Spinal Injuries after Air Strike

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is being treated in hideout two months after attack while deputy leader Abu Alaa al-Afri runs terror group intent on revenge

Read the Guardian article here | Martin Chulov in Irbil | Friday, May 01, 2015

Jeb Bush Thinks Islam Has Been 'Hijacked' by 'Barbarians'

THE GUARDIAN: Republican presidential candidate says peaceful practitioners should not take offense at his opinion on those ‘who want to destroy western civilization’

Jeb Bush, the potential Republican presidential candidate, said in an appearance in Washington on Thursday afternoon that the religion of Islam had been “hijacked” by “barbarians” – and that peaceful practitioners of the religion should not be offended by his saying so.

Bush made the comments at a conservative conference during a one-on-one interview with the National Review Institute’s Rich Lowry.

Lowry asked: “Is Islam a religion of peace?”

Bush’s reply, in full, ran:

“I’m sure for some of the practitioners, but it’s been hijacked by people who have a [sic] ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they’re barbarians. And so that part, which is the part that we need to confront head-on, is clearly not a religion of peace.

“And I think it’s – you’re not offending the sensibilities of people that are peaceful in the adherence to their faith when you say what I just said.” » | Tom McCarthy in New York | Thursday, April 30, 2015

Islam is Nazism with a God

Islam is Nazism with a God. Islamic scripture teaches the hatred and killing of Jews. These teachings are right out in the open in Islamic countries and occur quietly in Islamic Centers and mosques in America and Europe. The solution is to educate the civilized world about the threat of Islam. The enemy of Islamic brutality is information. Spread it far and spread it wide. Spread it like Napalm. The Information Age with be the death of Islam.

Bernie Sanders: I'm Running for President

Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril?

Welcome to Liberland, the Tiny Patch of Woodland Claiming to Be the World's Newest Country

Liberland, a tiny patch of woodland and fields on the sandy
banks of the River Danube

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state whose founder admires Nigel Farage welcomes its first citizens on Friday, with the first 100 arrivals to be granted honorary citizenship

The first citizens will arrive on Friday to populate the world's newest self-declared country – Liberland, a tiny patch of woodland and fields on the sandy banks of the River Danube.

The establishment of the pocket-sized nation was declared earlier this month on land wedged between Croatia and Serbia which, its founders argue, was never properly claimed by either country.

Liberland has its own flag, which features an eagle and a sun, a constitution, and a motto – "To live and let live".

Its self-appointed ruler is Vit Jedlicka, a conservative, anti-EU Czech politician and admirer of Britain's Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP.

Known officially as the Free Republic of Liberland, the country's independence was formally declared on April 13. » | Nick Squires, Rome | Thursday, April 30, 2015

Free Republic of Liberland webpage

Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist 'Fed Up' of Caricaturing Prophet Mohammed

Rénald Luzier has rejected claims that the terrorists had won

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The cartoonist who caricatured the prophet on the cover of the magazine's "survivors' issue" says he has had enough of drawing Prophet Mohammed

The Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who drew a controversial front-page picture of Prophet Mohammed after the satirical magazine's staff were massacred says he will stop caricaturing the prophet.

Rénald Luzier, known as Luz, claims his decision is unrelated to the attack on January 7 and rejected claims that the terrorists had won.

"I will no longer draw the figure of Mohammed. He no longer interests me," he told Les Inrockuptibles magazine. "I'm fed up with him, just as I'm fed up with Sarkozy. I'm not going to spend my life drawing them."

However, commentators were sceptical that Charlie Hebdo's leading cartoonist, who has contributed to the magazine for two decades, would never draw Nicolas Sarkozy again as the former president is expected to be a candidate in the next election in 2017. » | David Chazan, Paris | Thursday, April 30, 2015

'Islamist Attack' Thwarted in Germany, Official Says; 2 Arrested

CNN: (CNN) – German authorities think they "have thwarted an Islamist attack," and a married couple has been arrested in a town near Frankfurt in connection with the case, the interior minister for the German state of Hesse told reporters Thursday.

The official didn't provide details about the alleged plot, but German media are reporting that a man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of planning a bomb attack on a bicycle road race that is scheduled to run near Frankfurt on Friday. » | Paul Cruickshank and Jason Hanna, CNN | Thursday, April 30, 2015

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Dismissed

Prince Moqren bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has been removed as
heir to the Saudi throne and the country's deputy prime minister.

THE GUARDIAN: King Salman removes Moqren bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud as heir and deputy prime minister and installs Mohammed bin Nayef, grandson of kingdom’s founder

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has dismissed the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Moqren bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud, and replaced him with the interior minister, Mohammed bin Nayef.

A statement from the royal court, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, added that Moqren was also relieved of his position as deputy prime minister.

The decree named Prince Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince, as well as deputy prime minister, and said he would continue to hold his position of interior minister and head of the political and security council, a co-ordinating body. » | Agence France-Presse in Riyadh | Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Foreign Funds Promoting ‘Extreme Islamic Jihadist’ Views in Canada, National Security Advisor Says

NATIONAL POST: Money is coming into Canada to promote extremist ideology and much of it is going to religious institutions, the prime minister’s national security adviser testified at a hearing Monday on the government’s counter-terrorism bill.

Asked by Senate national security committee chairman Daniel Lang about millions of dollars allegedly coming from Gulf states “in respect to the extreme Islamic jihadist interpretation of the Qur’an,” Richard Fadden said it was a problem.

“I think it’s fair to say, without commenting on the particular country of origin, there are monies coming into this country which are advocating this kind of approach to life,” responded Fadden, who works in the Privy Council Office. » | Stewart Bell | Monday, April 27, 2015

HT: Robert Spencer @ Jihad Watch »

Muslim Congressmen Want To Block ‘Islamophobic’ Dutch Lawmaker Geert Wilders From Entering US

THE DAILY CALLER: The two Muslim members of Congress have called on two U.S. Cabinet members to block Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders from entering the U.S. because they believe he is “Islamophobic.”

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison and Indiana Democratic Rep. Andre Carson penned a joint letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson last Thursday. Foreign Policy reported it on Tuesday.

“We write to raise our deep concern regarding the visit of Mr. Geert Wilders, a Dutch lawmaker known for perpetuating Islamophobia,” the Democratic lawmakers wrote, citing a 1998 law, the International Religious Freedom Act. The law allows the State Department to deny foreign leaders guilty of “severe violations of religious freedom” from entering the U.S. » | Chuck Ross | Tuesday, April 28, 2015

HT: Robert Spencer @ Jihad Watch »

Transsexuals in Iran

Our World: Iran's Sex Change Solution BBC Documentary 2014

Ali Hamedani visits Turkey to meet LGBT exiles who have fled Iran in fear of being forced to change gender.