Poutine : "N'ayez pas peur de la Russie"

LE POINT: Le chef d'État a déclaré qu'il était en faveur de l'application des accords de paix en Ukraine alors que les affrontements ont repris dans l'est du pays.

La Russie ne constitue pas une menace pour l'Occident. C'est ce qu'a déclaré le président Vladimir Poutine dans une interview donnée samedi à un quotidien italien. Il a aussi affirmé qu'il était en faveur de l'application des accords de paix en Ukraine, après le récent regain de violences meurtrières dans l'est de ce pays. « Je voudrais dire qu'il n'y a pas besoin d'avoir peur de la Russie », a déclaré le président russe au Corriere della Sera, excluant un conflit d'ampleur entre la Russie et les pays membres de l'Otan. « Le monde a tellement changé que les gens de bon sens ne peuvent pas imaginer un conflit militaire d'ampleur aujourd'hui », a dit M. Poutine. « Nous avons d'autres choses à faire, je peux vous l'assurer », a ajouté le président russe, selon la transcription de l'entretien publiée par le Kremlin. » | Source AFP | samedi 06 juin 2015

KREMLIN: Interview to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera » | Saturday, June 06, 2015

Papst Franziskus: "Eine Art dritter Weltkrieg ist im Gang"

DIE WELT: In Bosnien spricht Papst Franziskus über Krieg und Frieden. "Es ist eine Art dritter Weltkrieg, der geführt wird", sagt er mit Blick auf aktuelle Konflikte. Und glaubt, dass diese geschürt werden.

Papst Franziskus sieht angesichts vieler bewaffneter Konflikte eine Art neuen Weltkrieg heraufziehen. Bei einem Besuch in Sarajevo, der Hauptstadt von Bosnien-Herzegowina, rief das Oberhaupt der katholischen Kirche am Samstag zugleich zur Versöhnung der Religionen auf. Sarajevo war vor 20 Jahren Schauplatz eines Krieges zwischen hauptsächlich muslimischen Bosniern, orthodoxen Serben und katholischen Kroaten.

Mit Blick auf die aktuellen Konflikte sagte der Papst: "Es ist eine Art dritter Weltkrieg, der stückweise geführt wird, und im Bereich der globalen Kommunikation nimmt man ein Klima des Krieges wahr." Einige Menschen wollten dieses Klima absichtlich schüren und suchten den Zusammenstoß verschiedener Kulturen, fügte der 78-Jährige bei einer Messe vor etwa 65.000 Menschen im Olympiastadion von Sarajevo hinzu. Andere würden mit Kriegen spekulieren, um Waffen zu verkaufen. Den Begriff "dritter Weltkrieg" hat der Papst schon mehrmals benutzt. » | dpa/ds | Samstag, 06. Juni 2015

Barack Obama Delivers Tearful Eulogy at Beau Biden Funeral in Delaware

THE GUARDIAN: Obama tells family: ‘We are always here for you. My word as a Biden’ / General Ray Odierno confers legion of merit on vice-president’s son

President Barack Obama on Saturday addressed a full Catholic Mass honoring Beau Biden in Wilmington, Delaware.

Vice-president Joe Biden’s two surviving children – Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden – also spoke to remember their brother, who died of brain cancer last week at the age of 46.

After delivering the eulogy, Obama embraced Joe Biden warmly at the front of the church, and kissed him on the cheek.

Beau Biden “did not have a mean bone in his body” and was the consummate public servant and family man, Obama said.

With tears in his eyes and an occasional slight tremor in his voice, Obama said Biden had “shoulders broad enough not only to bear your own burdens but the burdens of others”. » | Joanna Walters in New York | Saturday, June 06, 2015

Muslims Ask Moscow Authorities for Separate Beaches for Men and Women

RT: The suggestion of the Muslim community to organize separate beaches for men and women has been supported by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, Jewish and Buddhist religions.

The request to the Moscow City Hall has been prepared and filed by Albir Krganov who is a deputy chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Russia and also a member of the Public Chamber’s Commission for Harmonization of Relations between Ethnic and Religious Groups.

The activist claimed that “hundreds of thousands” of religious residents of Moscow were deprived of ability to visit city beaches that are currently shared by men and women. “As not everyone can afford a trip abroad, and we consider it necessary to open additional recreation zones for the residents of the capital city who cannot stay on common beaches for religious or moral reasons,” Krganov wrote in his letter. » | Friday, June 05, 2015

Pamela Geller: Target of Beheading Plot Talks to CNN

THE BLAZE: Muhammad Cartoon Organizer Pamela Geller Was Asked, ‘Is This Worth Dying For?’ This Was Her Response » | Billy Hallowell | Friday, June 05, 2015

American Muslims: Latino Converts to Islam

We visit the Islamic Center of Greater Miami to look at the rising number of Latino Muslims in the US—as many as 250,000, according to estimates. Some of the converts say that in Islam they have found theological simplicity and “no intermediaries with God.” The Islamic Circle of North America reports that more than half of US Latino converts are women. “I just felt that the minute I put my head down to the ground, “ says Nadia Echevrria, “I was really talking to God.” – Friday, June 05, 2015 (Originally published on July 25, 2014)

Former Guantanamo Bay Detainee Weds Muslim Convert in Uruguay

Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi with his wife Samira
(formerly Roma), a Uruguayan who converted to Islam
four months ago.

THE GUARDIAN: Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi, a 50-year-old Tunisian, married Roma Blanco, a 24-year-old Uruguayan

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi looked out his apartment window Friday and smiled as he showed off his wedding ring to a handful of cheering onlookers below.

The 50-year-old Tunisian married Roma Blanco, a 24-year-old Uruguayan who converted to Islam. The union was the first of two weddings being organized by men resettled in the South American country.

“Adel is humble, respectful, nice and very gentlemanly,” Blanco said. “He is everything that a woman can expect from a man.”

Blanco added she liked her husband’s sincerity, and how he treated her 5-year-old son from a previous relationship.

She said she converted to Islam four months ago and planned to take the name Samira. She and El Ouerghi met a month ago at a mosque. Blanco wore a light purple scarf and a violet jacket with gold-colored lacing. She also had henna designs on her hands, customary for Muslim women for the marriage ceremony. » | Associated Press | Friday, June 05, 2015

Cheese-loving Kim Jong-un Gains MORE Weight 'On Purpose' as Rest of North Korea Starve

DAILY EXPRESS: CHEESE-LOVING dictator Kim Jong-un's ballooning waistline has been revealed in new photos to emerge from secretive North Korea – as the portly leader's people continue to starve.

Images show the brutal leader proudly displaying his ever-expanding gut in an open pinstripe suit, surrounded by military officials who are half the size of the 'Supreme Leader'.

Jong-un's enormous weight gain has been a topic of discussion in recent months, with the reason believed to be down to an obsession with Swiss cheese.

The dictator is said to be so addicted to the dairy product, which he developed a taste for during his student years in Switzerland, that he has it imported in bulk for his personal consumption.

The 32-year-old's bulging belly has also sparked concerns for his health after he disappeared for three weeks in September last year.

There were suggestions Jong-un was suffering gout and had even broken his ankle - due to his size and love of wearing Cuban heel shoes – with the reason for his absence unconfirmed by North Korea officials. » | Levi Winchester | Wednesday, June 03, 2015

La France est en guerre

Les phénomènes ont des causes. Ce qui frappe la France aujourd’hui porte un nom et est le résultat de causes identifiables.

EURACTIV: National Front MEP under investigation for Islam comments: Relieved of his duties as leader of the National Front delegation in the European Parliament after calling for the "de-Islamification of France", sources told AFP that Aymeric Chauprade is now the subject of a legal inquiry. EurActiv France and AFP report. » | EurActiv France avec l'AFP | vendredi 05 juin 2015

Pamela Geller on the Plot to Behead Her

WND: Geller Calls on ‘Bigots’ to Expect Muslims to ‘Behave’ » | Bob Unruh | Friday, June 05, 2015

Isis: Threat on Balkans to 'Avenge Muslims'

ANSAMED: 'In Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania we will arrive with explosives'

TIRANA - The Balkans are being threatened by Isis, which has announced it wants ''revenge for the humiliation suffered by Muslims in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia''. ''We will arrive with explosives'', said the Albanian national Abu Muqatil (Al Kosovi), a Kosovan Islamic militant[s] who claims to represent the jihadist group in the region.

In a long video released by Al Hayat media center, the main 'production house' of the terror organization born in Syria and Iraq, the announcement of future attacks in the Balkan region is entrusted to Albanian-language militants. » | Friday, June 05, 2015

Robert Spencer Slams CNN For ‘Targeting’ Pamela Geller Instead of Radical Islam

Greater Manchester Police Officer Sacked over 'Offensive and Racist' Comments about Muslims on Facebook

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS: GMP panel hears how colleague was 'disgusted' by rant, on Daily Mail story, which is ruled to have breached force's professional standards

A police officer who posted ‘offensive and racist’ comments about Muslims on Facebook has been dismissed from Greater Manchester Police force.

During only the second hearing of its kind ever to be heard in public, the officer admitted gross misconduct by breaching professional standards for equality and diversity and discreditable conduct.

A panel chaired by Assistant Chief Constable Ian Wiggett heard how an officer, who remained anonymous throughout the hearing, had posted Facebook comments which had ‘disgusted’ a colleague.

Officer A made a comment below a Daily Mail article about the number of Muslim and Christian children in Birmingham.

He said: “That’s because we have allowed them to settle into their own communities and they have no desire to mix, they would rather take over areas and breed like rabbits.

"If you look at the way they take over certain areas it’s not unlike what the Germans did in Europe, they get a stronghold and then go for broke. We have already had 2 Muslim-related beheadings in this country in a year.”

The comment has since been deleted. » | Beth Abbit | Friday, June 05, 2015

Tariq Aziz, Ex-Saddam Hussein Aide, Dies in Iraqi Prison

BBC AMERICA: Tariq Aziz, known as the face of Saddam Hussein's regime on the world stage for many years, has died in an Iraqi prison, officials say.

Aziz, 79, served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and was a close adviser to the former leader.

He was sentenced to death by the Iraqi Supreme Court in 2010 for the persecution of religious parties under Saddam's rule but was never executed.

He surrendered to US troops in 2003 shortly after the fall of Baghdad.

Aziz, who was known for his black-rimmed glasses and love of cigars, first came to prominence while serving as foreign minister during the first Gulf War in 1991.

As a Christian in a mainly Sunni Muslim government, he was not considered a member of Saddam Hussein's innermost circle.

A fluent English speaker, he played a vocal role before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, meeting Pope John Paul II in the Vatican to call for peace. » | Friday, June 05, 2015

DANIEL PIPES: Turkey's unimportant election

Almost every assessment of the national parliamentary election to take place in Turkey on June 7 rates it among the most important in the republic's nearly century-old history. The New York Times deems it "crucial" and the London Daily Telegraph "pivotal." The Huffington Post calls it "the biggest election" in the republic's history. The Financial Times…

US Report Claiming Saudi Arabia Financed 9/11 Attack 'Redacted by Bush'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A redacted Senate report accuses Saudi Arabia of financing the September 2001 terrorist attacks, an American senator says

An American senator has claimed that a secret official report blaming Saudi Arabia for financing the 9/11 attacks was redacted by George W Bush.

Bob Graham, former chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the report shows Saudi Arabia was the "principle financier" of the attacks. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, but previous investigations failed to find a link between the country and the terrorist attack, which killed 2,996 people.

Mr Graham told The Times that a 28-page chapter of the 2002 Senate report, entitled Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001, had been withheld to protect the country. Now retired, he is campaigning for its release. » | Harriet Alexander | Friday, June 05, 2015

How IS Seeks Sectarian War in Saudi Arabia

BBC AMERICA: Saudi Arabia has now suffered three deliberate attacks by supporters of Islamic State (IS) on the restive Shia Muslim minority living in the country's oil-rich Eastern Province.

The first, in November 2014, was a gun attack. And, in May 2015, there have been two devastating suicide bomb blasts targeting worshippers at Friday prayers.

The last two attacks used RDX, a powerful military explosive, and have been claimed by IS's self-styled Najd Province, named after Saudi Arabia's staunchly conservative Sunni heartland, the desert plateau in the middle of the country.

So what is IS trying to achieve and will it succeed?

These attacks are a watershed for Saudi Arabia.

How it reacts now and in the coming months will determine whether the largest and most important Arab state can stave off a wider sectarian conflict between the country's majority Sunni and minority Shia Muslim populations, something that would be disastrous for both communities.

The attacks follow decades of state and religious discrimination against the Shia minority, who constitute about 10% of the population. » | Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent | Thursday, June 04, 2015

Why I left Islam!

This is a brief account of my journey out of Islam.

Mark Levin Responds to Bill O’Reilly on Garland Terrorist Attack

Mark Levin has heard enough when it comes to the constant drumbeat of pundits and guests making the terrorist attack against Pamela Geller’s private Drawing Muhammad event about provocation. Last night Levin defended Geller, responding to comments made by Bill O’Reilly and others, saying this isn’t about provocation or emotions or even about freedom of speech, but rather it’s about Sharia Law.

Pamela Geller Says Terror Plot That Targeted Her Is ‘Chilling’

ABC News’ Tom Llamas spoke to conservative activist and Muhammad cartoon contest sponsor Pamela Geller about terror suspect Usaama Rahim’s plot to behead her.