Saturday, December 05, 2015
Marine Le Pen Interview: 'The New Anti-Semitism Is Linked to Islamic Fundamentalism' (2012)
Obama: "Entirely Possible" San Bernardino Attackers Were Radicalised
Swedish Foreign Minister: Israel Is 'Executing' Palestinians
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| Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom |
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom once again lashed out at Israel on Friday, accusing the Jewish state of “executing” without trial Palestinian Arabs who carried out stabbing attacks in Israel.
Wallstrom’s comments were made during a 45-minute debate in the Swedish parliament, in which she replied to questions from parliamentarians on Sweden’s foreign policy.
One of the issues that came up for discussion was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and three MPs asked Wallstrom why the Swedish government had adopted an unbalanced position which prefers the Palestinian position over the Israeli position.
Wallstrom was asked why she did not condemn terrorist attacks against Israelis, to which she replied that she does indeed condemn attacks against Israelis, but then went on to level harsh accusations at Israel. » | Elad Benari, Canada | Friday, December 4, 2015
Gingrich: Obama Represents Greatest National Security Threat
Is It Fair to Call Terrorism a 'Muslim Problem'?
Anti-Muslim Prejudice ‘Is Moving to the Mainstream’
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| Members of Britain First, the far-right counter-Jihad street protest group, march in Rochester, Kent. |
The “counter-jihad” movement in the UK is expanding rapidly, according to new analysis showing that 24 different far-right groups are currently attempting to whip up hatred towards Muslims and provoke a cultural civil war.
The most comprehensive report yet into the alliance of international counter-jihad organisations warns that Islamophobic groups in Britain are capitalising on public concerns following the Paris attacks and ongoing refugee crisis.
Next month, the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, often known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, will make his political comeback by fronting the relaunch of the UK arm of Pegida, the German anti-Islam organisation whose provocative rhetoric has prompted attacks on refugees.
The report, by the anti-racist group Hope Not Hate, chronicles 920 anti-Muslim organisations and key Islamophobes in 22 countries, noting that such groups are becoming increasingly well-resourced, particularly in the US, where eight foundations have donated more than £38m since the 9/11 attacks. » | Mark Townsend | Saturday, December 5, 2015
Wimpering Students Need to Grow Up Or Get Out of University
A university should be a “safe space” – for free speech, for challenging dogmas and assumptions, for putting forward innovative ideas, for robust debate, for discovery, for intellectual courage. It should not be a safe space for preserving the timidities and assurances of pre-university childhood and adolescence.
Yet that is what university students on many American campuses now demand. They want to be warned in advance if course material contains references to subjects that could distress them. They want to be exempted from reading texts that touch on such matters as sexual abuse, divorce and suicide – which immediately puts Thomas Hardy, F Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf off the syllabus. It has even happened that professors have been driven from their jobs by students accusing them of being insufficiently “politically correct”.
On some campuses, students have set aside “safe spaces” with cuddly toys and puppy videos where those stressed by uncomfortable topics can avoid them. The atmosphere of hypersensitive inability to handle challenging ideas invites caricature: today’s American students, it seems, want mollycoddling and reassurance, not education; they want security, not intellectual and personal growth. And what happens in America is too soon copied elsewhere – including in Britain. Read on and comment » | AC Grayling, Master of New College of the Humanities in London | Friday, December 4, 2015
Anti-Muslim Dutch Leader Wilders Opposes Turkey Joining EU, Says Doesn't Want More But Less Islam
Wilders, who is fiercely Islamophobic, has surged in public opinion polls with his call for the closing of national borders in the face of a refugee crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Muslims, fleeing to Europe this year to escape conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and beyond. » | Reuters | Amsterdam | Friday, 4. December 2015
Expertin: "Sind in einer brenzligen Situation"
"Vor Kurzem war ich in Israel und im Libanon. Die Leute dort schütteln über unsere Politik der offenen Grenzen nur noch die Köpfe. Sie fragen: 'Wie könnt ihr all diese Menschen ohne Kontrolle in euer Europa reinlassen? Ihr wisst nicht, auf was ihr euch da eingelassen habt'", kritisiert Kneissl, dass es "offenbar kein Gewaltmonopol des Staates mehr gibt". » | Richard Schmitt, Kronen Zeitung | Freitag, 4. Dezember 2015
Robert Spencer on Hannity: The San Bernardino Jihad Attack and Jihad Denial
ISIS Claim Responsibility for California Shootings as FBI Investigate It As Act of Terror
The revelation comes after US officials said the female shooter who carried out the mass shooting with her husband pledged allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS).
If a link to the terror group is confirmed, the mass shooting would be the first attack in America that has been led or inspired by ISIS.
Tashfeen Malik, who burst into a staff Christmas party with Syed Rizwan Farook, wielding assault rifles, pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook, according to officials investigating the attack in San Bernardino, California. » | Selina Sykes | Saturday, December 5, 2015
Les musulmans américains craignent des hostilités
Les musulmans des Etats-Unis craignent d'être victimes d'une vague d'hostilités après la pire fusillade du pays en trois ans, commise mercredi à San Bernardino par un couple d'origine pakistanaise.
«Il y a de toute évidence la crainte d'un contrecoup» contre les musulmans, a admis à l'AFP Abed Ayoub, directeur juridique du Comité anti-discriminations américano-arabe.
Selon lui, une importante population arabo-musulmane vit dans la région de San Bernardino, ville de 200'000 habitants à une heure de Los Angeles.
Depuis la fusillade qui a fait 14 morts et 21 blessés mercredi, aucun incident affectant cette communauté n'a été signalé. Pourtant, «nous devons rester prudents, étant donné l'atmosphère (tendue) et ce qui s'est passé à Paris il y a quelques semaines», a poursuivi Abed Ayoub. » | afp/nxp | vendredi 4. décembre 2015
Le Canada va légaliser le cannabis
Le candidat Justin Trudeau l'avait promis. Désormais élu, il le confirme ce 4 décembre 2015 dans son discours de politique générale pour 2016, lu au Parlement par le Gouverneur général du Canada. Le cannabis sera légalisé.
Le Canada devient ainsi le premier pays du G7 à légaliser cette drogue douce.
Le nouveau gouvernement libéral, élu le 19 octobre, souhaite ainsi adopter au cours de la prochaine année des «mesures législatives (...) qui légaliseront et réglementeront la consommation de marijuana et limiteront l'accès à cette substance», a dit le Gouverneur général, David Johnston, en lisant le discours préparé par M. Trudeau, assis à ses côtés dans la Chambre des communes. » | afp/nxp | vendredi 4. Décembre 2015
Le Monde dénonce l'«imposture» du Front national
Le quotidien Le Monde a pris position vendredi contre le Front national, son directeur Jérôme Fenoglio dénonçant dans un éditorial une «imposture» qui «constitue une grave menace pour le pays».
Les hebdomadaires L'Express et L'Obs ont également publié cette semaine des éditos contre le FN. Lundi, c'était le grand quotidien régional La Voix du Nord qui avait pris position contre une éventuelle élection de Marine Le Pen à la tête de la région Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie.
A deux jours du premier tour des régionales, le Front national est en tête des intentions de vote dans les derniers sondages, avec 29,5% des voix, devant Les Républicains (28,5%) et le PS (23%).
Soulignant la montée du Front national d'élection en élection, «avec la présidentielle de 2017 en ligne de mire», Le Monde affirme que «son idéologie, ses propositions sont contraires aux valeurs républicaines, à l'intérêt national, à l'image de la France dans le monde». » | afp/nxp | vendredi 4. Décembre 2015
Germany 'Draws Up Plans to Prevent Sharing Intelligence' with NATO Ally Turkey
Germany has reportedly drawn up plans to prevent sharing intelligence with its Nato ally Turkey as it prepares to support international air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
German Tornado aircraft are to commence reconnaissance flights over Syria and Iraq after the country’s parliament on Friday voted to deploy up to 1,200 military personnel.
Highly un[u]sual measures have been ordered to prevent Turkey getting access to intelligence from the flights, according to Spiegel magazine.
The aircaft are expected to operate from Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey, and as Nato allies, the two countries would normally expect to share intelligence.
But German commanders are concerned Turkey may use surveillance information from the flights to direct attacks against Kurdish forces allied to the West. » | Justin Huggler, Berlin | Friday, December 4, 2015
Friday, December 04, 2015
San Bernardino Shooting: Female Suspect 'Pledged Loyalty to Isil Leader during Attack'
Ist das, was Angela Merkel treibt, gegen das Deutsche Volk gerichtet?
Russia Accuses Erdogan of Trading Oil with IS - BBC News
Mr Erdogan said Russia had no right to "slander" Turkey with such claims.
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