Islam Can't Fool the Free World Any More – Geert Wilders

The free world is waking up to Islamic horrors, the Islamic apologists and the so called moderate Muslims can't fool us any more.

Freedom of Speech in Islam? There is NONE! No Freedom of Speech or Expression in Islam

Mullah Krekar in Norway Gives Chilling and Honest Interview about Islam and the West

More Norwegians Convert to Islam

NEWSinENGLISH.no: Youthful rebellion and, paradoxically, a perceived need for stronger rules in Norway’s liberal society are believed to be behind a recent rise in the number of Norwegians converting to Islam. “I think we need stronger rules,” one young Norwegian convert told newspaper Aftenposten on Monday.

No one knows for certain how many “ethnic Norwegians” have converted to Islam, according to Aftenposten, but researchers believe their numbers have increased from around 500 at the end of the 1990s to around 3,000 today. That’s still a tiny percentage of the Norwegian population, but the growth rate is significant, as is the perceived reason behind it: “Converting to Islam is perhaps the most extreme form of youthful rebellion today,” Anne Sofie Roald, a professor in religion, told Aftenposten, which launched a series of reports over the weekend about Islam in Norway. Islam, Roald noted, is a religion that can require a lifestyle for converts that’s “extremely different from the life they’ve lived earlier.” » | Nina Berglund | Monday, June 08, 2015

Vets Urge Shops to Label Halal Meat after Mass Public Outcry – But Will Cameron Act?

Some 72 per cent of people back the labelling of halal meat,
according to a new survey

DAILY EXPRESS: VETS have called for supermarkets and butchers to label meat from halal abattoirs after a mass public outcry.

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) said that shoppers had a right to know whether their meat came from animals which were not stunned before being slaughtered.

Their calls came after a European Commission survey revealed that 72 per cent of people back the labelling of halal meat.

An EU directive requires animals to be stunned, but Britain was granted exemption for religious communities.

The religious slaughter of goats and sheep rose by 60 per cent between 2011 and 2013 – and some is sold into the general market.

But John Blackwell of the BVA said that not labelling halal meat "takes away the individual's right to make an informed decision".

The government has repeatedly ducked the issue, with the Conservative manifesto even promising to "protect methods of religious slaughter".

Last year David Cameron said that he was "very happy to eat halal meat", adding: "While I am prime minister of this country, halal is safe in Britain." Read on and comment » | Tom Parfitt | Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Nazi Sympathiser and Former King the Duke of Windsor 'Wanted England to Be Bombed', International Archives Reveal

The Duke of Windsor was forced to abdicate in 1936

THE INDEPENDENT: The Duke of Windsor, who is widely regarded as a Nazi sympathiser, once argued that bombing England could bring peace by ending WWII, it has emerged.

Correspondence kept in the Royal Archives between the British royal family and their German relatives in the run up to WWII remains confidential.

However, information pieced together from open archives across 30 countries, including Germany, Spain and Russia, has revealed the close relationship some members of the European aristocracy had with the Nazis.

Dr Karina Urbach, senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advance Study at the University of London, has uncovered how the Duke of Windsor told Don Javier Bermejillo, his old friend and Spanish diplomat, that the British royal blamed “the Jews, the Reds and the Foreign Office for the war”. » | Kashmira Gander | Monday, June 08, 2015

Modern Duchy: Luxembourg Prime Minister Turns Tradition on Its Head

SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel is trying to reshape the Grand Duchy into a country as liberal as he is himself. He has introduced gay marriage and curbed the Catholic Church's once powerful influence over the country.

Xavier Bettel wears a golden wedding ring on the ring finger of his left hand. In his case, that's something that is certainly worth mentioning. Just three weeks ago, the 42-year-old prime minister of Luxembourg married his long-term partner, Gauthier Destanay of Belgium. "It was an obvious step for me -- we've been together for years," says Bettel. "I am happy to live in a country in which a large majority in parliament voted for same-sex marriage."

Prime Minister Bettel was able to marry thanks to a law that his government passed as one of its first acts. Prior to his election, as a member of the opposition, Bettel himself had experienced firsthand how deeply rooted anti-gay sentiment remains, including in Luxembourg. A state secretary from former Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker's government called him "miss" during a debate in parliament.

Today, he's the prime minister of the Grand Duchy and the first and only male leader of a European Union government to have married a man. A year and a half ago, he replaced Juncker, who had lost power because of a secret service scandal. Juncker has since become president of the European Commission, but he left behind a difficult legacy for the unusual government coalition that replaced him, comprised of the business-friendly liberals, Social Democrats and Greens. » | Christoph Schult | Monday, June 08, 2015

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The Hidden Brutality Of Qatar's FIFA World Cup Preparations

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Erdogans Machthunger ist gebremst

TAGES ANZEIGER: Die Parlamentswahlen in der Türkei bedeuten eine Zäsur. So wie bisher kann Präsident Erdogan nicht weitermachen.

Die Wahl in der Türkei verändert das Land. Die Spannungen, die Staatspräsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan innerhalb von wenigen Monaten aufgebaut hat, drohten es zu zerreissen. Nun bremst die kleine Kurdenpartei HDP Erdogans Machthunger. Statt einer Beförderung zum Superpräsidenten kann er erstmal einen Koalitionspartner für seine AKP suchen.

Erdogan führte die Klinge gegen Armenier und Schwule, gegen Kurden und kritische Presse. Gegen den Westen. Überhaupt: Wer nicht für Erdogan ist, ist ein Feind. Als Erdogan sich vor einem Jahr zum Präsidenten wählen liess, wollte er Staatsoberhaupt für alle Türken sein. Ein Bluff. Seither hat er einen tiefen Keil in die türkische Gesellschaft getrieben. Wie polarisiert das Land ist, zeigte der Bombenanschlag auf das Treffen der prokurdischen HDP in Diyarbakir zwei Tage vor der Abstimmung. Drei Menschen starben, weit über hundert wurden verletzt. Das werden die Kurden nicht vergessen. Wieder bleibt eine Narbe. » | Von Mike Szymanski | Istanbul | Sonntag, 07. Juni 2015

Is the Pope a Communist?

BBC AMERICA: Pope Francis's critique of free-market economics has made him an icon for the Left and prompted claims that he is a communist. The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics has called capitalism a source of inequality at best - and at worst a killer. Is the Pope, as his critics claim, a red radical?

On his way back from the Victory Day Parade in Moscow last month, the Cuban leader Raul Castro stopped off in Rome to thank Pope Francis for his role in Cuba's rapprochement with the United States. "If the Pope continues this way," Castro said afterwards, "I will go back to praying and go back to the church - I am not joking."

In September Francis will return the compliment with a stop-over in Cuba when he travels to the United States. And the American visit could turn out to be the most difficult overseas trip of his pontificate.

Raul Castro's endorsement is unlikely to recommend Francis to the American right, many of whom responded with visceral rage to President Obama's Cuban initiative.

"There is a lot of scepticism among (US) Catholics," says Stephen Moore, the chief economist at the conservative Washington think tank the Heritage Foundation, and himself a Catholic.

"I think this is a Pope who clearly has some Marxist leanings. It's unquestionable that he has a very vocal scepticism (about) capitalism and free enterprise and… I find that to be very troubling." » | Ed Stourton, BBC News | Sunday, June 07, 2015

Turkey Ruling AKP Loses Majority in Surprise Result

BBC AMERICA: Turkey's governing AK party has lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 13 years, near-complete election results show.

The surprise outcome also sees the pro-Kurdish HDP crossing the 10% threshold, securing seats for the first time.

With 99% of the vote counted, the AKP has 41% of the vote, state-run TRT television reports.

The result is a blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's plans to boost his office's powers.

President Erdogan, who first came to power as prime minister in 2003, had been seeking a two-thirds majority to turn Turkey into a presidential republic. (+ BBC video) » | Sunday, June 07, 2015

Merkel und Obama besuchen bayerisches Dorf

Vor dem Beginn des G7-Gipfels in Elmau haben die Bundeskanzlerin und der US-Präsident bayerische Gemütlichkeit genossen.

Wahlen in der Türkei: Die Oppositon jubelt über Erdogans Verluste

STERN: Erdogans Pläne für die Einführung eines Präsidialsystems stehen auf der Kippe: Bei den Parlamentswahlen in der Türkei verfehlte seine Partei AKP die absolute Mehrheit. Die Opposition jubelt.

Bei der Parlamentswahl in der Türkei droht der islamisch-konservativen AKP erstmals seit mehr als zwölf Jahren der Verlust der absoluten Mehrheit. Nach Auszählung von rund 80 Prozent der Stimmen gewann die AKP 42,4 Prozent, wie der Sender CNN Türk am Sonntag berichtete. Die pro-kurdische HDP kommt demnach mit 11,5 Prozent erstmals knapp über die Zehn-Prozent-Hürde. Damit dürfte sie die Pläne der AKP vereiteln, alleine ein Präsidialsystem mit Präsident Recep Präsident Tayyip Erdogan an der Spitze einzuführen.

Das Ergebnis ist eine Niederlage für Erdogan, der die HDP im Wahlkampf scharf angegriffen hatte, obwohl der Präsident nach der Verfassung zur Neutralität verpflichtet ist. Die HDP war mit dem Ziel in den Wahlkampf gezogen, Erdogans Präsidialsystem zu verhindern, und hatte vor einer "Diktatur" gewarnt. » | mai/DPA | Sonntag, 07. Juni 2015

ISIS Burn[s] Assyrian Woman, 80, in North Iraq

AINA: (AINA) -- According to a report by the BasNews agency, ISIS burned an 80 year-old Assyrian woman to death in a village southeast of Mosul. Citing Sa'ed Mamuzini, a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) office in Mosul, BasNews stated in its report that the woman, who was from Karamlis, was burned for failing to comply with Islamic Sharia law. » | Tuesday, May 26, 2015

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Saudi Court Upholds Badawi’s Sentence

GULF NEWS: Saudi blogger will serve 10 years in prison and pay SR 1 million in fines

Manama: Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has upheld all the sentences pronounced by a lower court against Raif Badawi, the founder of Saudi Liberal Network.

The court reached its decision after five “highly-qualified with vast experiences judges” studied the 70-page verdicts for three months, local daily Okaz reported on Sunday.

The ruling by the Supreme Court, the highest in the kingdom, is final and cannot be appealed or challenged.

The lower court had sentenced Badawi to five years in jail and a SR 1 million (Dh9,79,414) fine for launching the Saudi Liberal Network. The court also issued another five — year jail term and 1,000 lashes to be given out 50 at a time over 20 weeks.

The lashing is to take place on Fridays at most once a week in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, his hometown, the court said.

The two jail sentences are separate and will have to be served consecutively. » | Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief | Sunday, June 07, 2015

Islamic State Magazine Dabiq Withdrawn from Sale by Amazon

BBC AMERICA: Copies of Islamic State's English-language propaganda magazine, Dabiq, have been pulled from the website of online retailer Amazon.

Four different volumes were available for sale on the site, but in a statement to the BBC, Amazon said the product had now been removed.

The author of the publications was listed as al-Hayat Media Centre, which is IS's Western-focused media arm.

Islamic State is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK. » | Saturday, June 06, 2015

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Terrormiliz IS nimmt weitere Stadt in Libyen ein

DIE WELT: Nach der Eroberung großer Teile des Irak und Syriens rückt der IS nun auch in Libyen weiter vor. Australien warnt davor, dass die Dschihadisten in ihrem Kampf auch Chemiewaffen einsetzen könnten.

Die Extremistenmiliz Islamischer Staat (IS) hat eine weitere Stadt in Libyen eingenommen. Eine entsprechende Mitteilung der Islamisten deckte sich mit Angaben aus Militärkreisen. Demnach rückte der IS in Harwa ein. Die Stadt liegt östlich des Ortes Sirte, den die Gruppe in den vergangenen Wochen schrittweise erobert hatte.

Der IS nutzt die chaotischen Zustände in Libyen aus, wo zwei konkurrierende Regierungen die Macht beanspruchen. Die Islamisten haben große Teile des Irak und Syriens erobert und dort ein Kalifat ausgerufen, eine besondere Form eines islamischen Gottesstaates. » | Reuters/AFP/dol | Samstag, 06. Juni 2015

Kakerlaken sind Schuld am teuren Präsidentenpalast

DIE WELT: Zur großen Überraschung seiner Kritiker rechtfertigt der türkische Präsident seinen Palastneubau mit Ungeziefer. Statt einen Kammerjäger zu rufen, ließ Erdogan einen 1150-Zimmer-Palast errichten.

Andere würden bei Kakerlaken wohl den Kammerjäger holen, der türkische Präsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan zieht lieber gleich um. Der Staatschef verteidigte nun erneut den Bau des prunkvollen Präsidentenpalasts mit 1150 Zimmern, der ihm schon viel Kritik eingebracht hat – diesmal nannte er die Krabbeltiere als Grund für den Umzug.

In einem Fernsehinterview am Freitagabend sagte Erdogan, die alte Ministerpräsidentenresidenz sei so herunter gekommen gewesen, dass Kakerlaken in den Toiletten gewesen seien. Er zog im August in den repräsentativen Präsidentenpalast ein, dem Ministerpräsidenten wurde die alte Präsidentenresidenz überlassen. Zu seinem alten Amtssitz sagte er: "Ist eine solche Residenz angemessen für den Ministerpräsidenten der Türkei? Wenn es um Repräsentation geht, kann es keine Verschwendung geben." » | AFP/AP/ott | Samstag, 06. Juni 2015

Islamic State Magazine Sold on Amazon

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Dabiq is an English language publication focusing on jihad and tawhid (unity), according to its publisher, the Al Hayat Media Centre

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) is apparently using online retailer Amazon to sell propaganda magazines aimed at recruiting Western jihadists.

Issues of Dabiq, an English-language e-zine, have been available to purchase on the website since May 24. The seller is listed as the Al Hayat Media Centre, the same name as the extremist group’s most famous media arm.

The magazine, which retails at between five and seventeen pounds, can be delivered to a buyer in one working day, and can even be gift-wrapped. The Telegraph did not purchase a copy of the magazine to verify its contents.

The Al Hayat Media Centre describes it as “a periodical magazine focusing on the issues of tawhid (unity), manhaj (truth-seeking), hijrah (migration), jihad (holy war) and jama'ah (community), including photo reports, current events, and informative articles on matters relating to the Islamic State.” » | Louisa Loveluck | Saturday, June 06, 2015

Danish Muslims Urged Not to Vote

THE LOCAL – DENMARK: Two radical Islamic groups in Denmark argue that democracy is incompatible with their religion and have told Muslims to boycott the June 18 election.

The controversial Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir has urged Danish Muslims to stay away from the voting booths on the upcoming June 18th election as a form of protest against the democratic system.

“We are committed to being active participants in our society, but it has to be on Islam’s terms, without compromising our own principles and values. Democracy is fundamentally incompatible with Islam, and it is a sinking ship,” the organisation wrote in a press release, adding that the way forward for Muslims in Denmark is to oppose the country’s "Islamophobic" integration policies. » | Friday, June 05, 2015