Saturday, May 02, 2015
Massive Crowd in Sanaa Protests Saudi Strikes in Yemen
Islamic State Terrorists Brutally Execute Men by Smashing Concrete Blocks onto Their Heads
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| An Islamic State militant is shown about to throw a large concrete block onto a man |
Horrific images have emerged showing the Islamists lifting the large blocks above their heads as they shadow over the men cowering on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs.
The next photos show horrendous images of blood spattered across the road and dripping down the side of a pavement as a shouting crowd cheers the executors on.
Both men were bludgeoned to death in Nineveh province in northern Iraq after the Islamic police arrested them for allegedly robbing and killing three women.
The execution is known as a 'qisas' punishment, or an 'eye for an eye' retribution.
The pictures come in the same week as two other men were shown on social media being beheaded by Islamic State militants with a huge machete in the Syrian village of Jarnyah, west of Raqqa.
It is thought they were executed after being accused of practicing sorcery.
Last week militants stoned two gay men to death seconds after they were photographed embracing and 'forgiving' them. » | Alix Culbertson | Friday, May 01, 2015
Transgender Jews: Beyond the Rainbow
Deborah attends services at Temple Aliyah nearly every week, but on a Friday night two years ago, she was nervous. Her daughter, Rebecca, then 18 and known all of her life as Jeremy, had chosen the Kabbalat Shabbat service to come out in public dressed as a woman for the first time. Deborah worried Rebecca’s newfound confidence and courage might be shot down by disapproving stares.
Tall and thin, with a head of brown curls that were still short on that day so early in her transition, Rebecca wore a straight, white skirt and a top with large purple paisleys. She doesn’t like to be showy, so she wore flats and no makeup.
When Deborah and Rebecca walked into the family service at the Woodland Hills Conservative synagogue, along with Rebecca’s younger brother, they were greeted with friendly smiles, with Temple Aliyah’s Rabbi Stewart Vogel in the lead. » | Julie Gruenbaum Fax | Thursday, April 30, 2015
Friday, May 01, 2015
Jupe "trop longue": Najat Vallaud-Belkacem soutient la décision du collège
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| Najat Vallaud-Belkacem le 4 mars 2015 à l'Assemblée nationale à Paris |
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
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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
„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
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| Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. |
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
Isis Leader Incapacitated with Suspected Spinal Injuries after Air Strike
Jeb Bush Thinks Islam Has Been 'Hijacked' by 'Barbarians'
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
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Welcome to Liberland, the Tiny Patch of Woodland Claiming to Be the World's Newest Country
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| Liberland, a tiny patch of woodland and fields on the sandy banks of the River Danube |
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
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