Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Zum Trotz der Europäer wird mit der Türkei weiter verhandelt

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NZZ: Weitere Kapitel sollen eröffnet werden

Die EU-Beitrittsverhandlungen mit der Türkei sollen fortgesetzt werden. Dies erklärte der Erweiterungskommissar der Europäischen Union, Rehn, am Dienstag nach einem Treffen mit dem türkischen Chefunterhändler Babacan. Ungeachtet der politischen Krise in der Türkei sollen weitere Verhandlungskapitel eröffnet werden. Die EU will Verhandlungen mit der Türkei fortsetzen (mehr)

Mark Alexander

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Leading Governments of Europe Want Wolfowitz Out

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SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Leading governments of Europe signaled that they were willing to let the United States choose the bank's next chief if Paul D. Wolfowitz stepped down soon, officials said.

Leading governments of Europe, mounting a new campaign to push Paul D. Wolfowitz from his job as World Bank president, signaled Monday that they were willing to let the United States choose the bank's next chief, but only if Mr. Wolfowitz stepped down soon, European officials said. Deal Is Offered for Chief’s Exit at World Bank (Read on)

Mark Alexander
BAE closely examined by US in the alleged bribery of Saudi officials case

FINANCIAL TIMES: Congress is stepping up its scrutiny of the UK government’s move to halt a bribery investigation into BAE as the British company increases its US profile with the $4.1bn purchase of Armor Holdings.

The deal – for the biggest maker of armour for Humvee transport vehicles – cements BAE’s status as the Pentagon’s largest foreign contractor.

Washington issued a formal protest in January after the UK Serious Fraud Office prematurely terminated an investigation into allegations that BAE might have bribed officials in Saudi Arabia to secure defence contracts. US steps up scrutiny of BAE case (Read on)

Mark Alexander
Sarkozy Has His Work Cut Out For Him: It’s Going To Be A Rough Road Ahead

FINANCIAL TIMES: The election of Nicolas Sarkozy as the next president of France was greeted with a light smattering of riots across the country. Mr Sarkozy knows that could be just the aperitif. There is a real risk of social unrest, as France’s new president tries to deliver on his promise of “rupture” with the past.

Mr Sarkozy knows that three prime ministers of the Chirac era – Alain Juppé, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Dominique de Villepin – were forced to abandon economic reforms in the face of popular demonstrations. But he is determined that things will be different this time. One member of the Sarkozy inner circle argues that previous rounds of reform failed because President Jacques Chirac lost his nerve. With “Nicolas” in the Élysée palace, things will be different.

The new president will certainly need nerves of steel because the reforms he hopes to push through in his first 100 days in office could almost be designed to antagonise every strike-happy interest group in the country. France braced for stiff dose of Thatcherism (Read on) By Gideon Rachman

FT: Sarkozy picks moderate as premier

NZZ: Sarkozy will von Reformen überzeugen: Keine Konfrontation mit Gewerkschaften

Mark Alexander
Little Time for Relaxation in Malta for Sarkozy

SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: France experienced another night of riots and demonstrations on Monday night in reaction to Sarkozy's victory. But the president elect was already far away with his family on the island of Malta. It is unlikely that he will find much time to relax: he has to form his cabinet, prepare for parliamentary elections and brace himself for battle with the trade unions. Riots Plague Paris as Sarkozy Turns to Tasks Ahead (Read on)

Mark Alexander
Die Deutschen essen sich krank

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SPIEGELONLINE: Zu viel, zu fett, zu süß: Die Bundesbürger futtern sich krank, und das kostet. Die Bundesregierung will mit einem Aktionsplan die Bürger gesünder machen und so einige Milliarden einsparen - in der Mittagspause soll es losgehen.

Berlin - Das Kantinenessen in Deutschland soll besser werden, und überhaupt sollen die Deutschen sich gesünder ernähren. "Bereits 26 Prozent der Bevölkerung essen einmal täglich auswärts, das sind acht Prozent mehr als vor zehn Jahren", heißt es in einem Eckpunkte-Papier zum Aktionsplan Ernährung der Bundesregierung, das der Deutschen Presseagentur (dpa) vorab vorliegt. Ungesunde Ernährung soll 70 Milliarden Euro im Jahr kosten (mehr)

Mark Alexander
Nuit “chaud” à Paris et dans plusieurs grandes villes en France dans la nuit de lundi à mardi

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LE FIGARO: Pour la deuxième nuit consécutive, des incidents qui ont éclaté dans la nuit de lundi à mardi dans plusieurs grandes villes. Le bilan de la nuit de dimanche à lundi a, lui, été revu à la hausse. Nouvelle nuit "chaude" en France (encore)

Mark Alexander
Neue Krawalle in Frankreich gegen Sarkozy

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NZZ: Gewaltsame Ausschreitungen

Wie in der Wahlnacht haben am Montagabend Jugendliche in mehreren französische Städten gegen die Wahl des Konservativen Nicolas Sarkozy zum Präsidenten demonstriert. Dabei kam es erneut zu Ausschreitungen. Wieder Proteste gegen Sarkozy (mehr)

Mark Alexander
Mass Rally by Far-Left to Give Amnesty to 500,000 Illegal Migrants

THE TELEGRAPH: A mass rally yesterday called for a one-off amnesty to allow hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in the UK to become full citizens.

The Strangers Into Citizens campaign, which attracted thousands of supporters to Trafalgar Square, proposes that migrants who have been in Britain for more than four years should be given a two year work permit without access to benefits.

Then, at the end of the two years, they would be given indefinite leave to remain, subject to criteria such as an English test, criminal checks and employer references.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, who held a multilingual mass at Westminster Cathedral beforehand, told the rally that immigrants deserved to be treated with "fairness, with justice and with dignity". Amnesty demanded for 500,000 immigrants

Mark Alexander
”United We Must Always Remain”, says Queen

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"Administrations in your country and governments in mine may come and go, but talk we will, listen we have to, disagree from time to time we may, but united we must always remain” – The Queen

BBC: The Queen has delivered a strong defence of the special relationship between Britain and the US.

At a White House banquet, she said "the lesson of my lifetime" had been that the partnership "was always to be reckoned with" in defending freedom.

WATCH BBC VIDEO: Bush welcomes Queen in US

Queen praises UK-US partnership

Mark Alexander

Monday, May 07, 2007

Sarkozy est arrivé à Malte avec son épouse, Cécilia

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LE FIGARO: Le futur hôte de l’Elysée est arrivé en début d’après-midi sur l’ile méditerranéenne a annoncé la télévision maltaise.

Fin du suspense! On connaît désormais le lieu où le nouveau chef de l’Etat passera quelques jours avant la passation des pouvoirs avec Jacques Chirac prévue vers le 17 mai. Nicolas Sarkozy est arrivé lundi en début d'après-midi à Malte à bord d'un avion privé, a annoncé la télévision maltaise. L'information a été confirmé un peu plus tard par une source policière française. Le président Sarkozy est à Malte (encore)

LE FIGARO: Pourquoi Sarkozy a choisi Malte

Mark Alexander
The Excesses of Lord John Browne and Why Your Petrol Costs So Much!

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THE MAIL ON SUNDAY: At the time it all seemed too much - too plainly far-fetched - for Jeff Chevalier to take in. But here he was, a 25-year-old once-penniless Canadian male prostitute, sitting down to dinner with the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

And the two men were liberally helping themselves from a £3,000 bottle of claret.

The wine was the personal choice of Lord Browne of Madingley - the boss of British Petroleum, Britain's most senior businessman and host of the dinner party in question.

"Mr Blair didn't know what it was but he absolutely loved it," Mr Chevalier recalls. "It was a 1983 French claret."

Lord Browne had originally met Mr Chevalier through a male escort agency; now the pair were partners.

The tycoon had installed the young Canadian in his £5million Chelsea apartment and was showing him off to the cream of London society.

The cosy dinner for Tony Blair in the summer of 2005 came amid a seemingly endless merry-go-round of dinners, lunches, soirees and parties that Mr Chevalier was summoned to by his tycoon lover, 34 years his senior.

He was flaunted before business and political contacts, diplomats and artists; there were holidays in private compounds in Barbados and opera in Salzburg and Venice (enjoyed alongside Prince and Princess Michael of Kent in their private box).

In Venice, Mr Chevalier would find himself chinking glasses with Elton John and Jude Law.

Travel would routinely be by private jet - which the businessman appeared to regard as a private plaything.

Today [May 6, 2007], in an exclusive interview in The Mail on Sunday, Jeff Chevalier gives a stunning account of the extravagance of life at the top of BP. The true story about Lord Browne – by ex-rent boy lover (Read on) By Dennis Rice

Mark Alexander
Bush Honours Queen

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BBC: The Queen was honoured with a 21-gun salute as she met President George W Bush in Washington DC on the final leg of her US visit.

Standing outside the White House, the Queen said Britain and America had a "close and enduring" friendship.

The president said the Queen was "a good person, a strong leader and a great ally".

Later the Queen will be guest of honour at a state banquet and will visit the Children's National Medical Centre.

The state visit has included trips to the site of the first permanent English settlement in the US and the famous Kentucky Derby horse race. Bush honours Queen at White House (Read on)

WATCH BBC VIDEO: Washington welcomes Queen

Mark Alexander
The Queen and Her Rôle

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NEWSWEEK: Though much of Elizabeth's role is symbolic, she also subtly wields a personal, but very real, power.

May 7, 2007 issue - On Feb. 6, 1952, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was distraught when he heard King George VI had died. His secretary, John Colville, tried to console him by assuring him he would get on well with the new queen, Elizabeth II: "But all he could say was that he didn't know her, and that she was only a child." She was 25 at the time. A year later, a royal aide confided that Churchill was so fond of her he could "scarcely speak of her without tears coming into his eyes." The Royal Consigliere (Read on) By Julia Baird (Newsweek)

Mark Alexander
Wolfowitz’s Aide Steps Down

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BBC: A senior aide to embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz has announced his resignation.

Kevin Kellems said an ongoing scandal surrounding his boss made it difficult for him to remain effective in his role at the Washington-based institution. Senior Wolfowitz aide steps down (Read on)

Mark Alexander
Merkel renews criticism of EU constitution's draft text for ignoring the importance of Christianity in Europe

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TURKISH DAILY NEWS: Germany's conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, who launched plans last week to revive the European Union constitution as the now 27-nation bloc's term presidency, has renewed her criticism of the draft text for not referring to the importance of Christianity in Europe.

“I would have preferred a clearer acknowledgement of [Europe's] Christian roots,” Merkel was quoted on Saturday as saying in a preview of an interview with German Focus magazine. Merkel: EU charter should have more on Christianity

Mark Alexander
Lauter Negatives in der türkischen Presse über den Sieg Sarkozys

SPIEGELONLINE: Überwiegend negatives Echo über den Sieg Sarkozys in der türkischen Presse: Sie wertet das Wahlergebnis in Frankreich als weiteren Rückschlag für die EU-Ambitionen des Landes. Türkische Presse wertet Sarkozy-Sieg als Rückschlag (mehr)

Mark Alexander
Sarkozy wird Präsident Frankreichs

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: 07. Mai 2007 Es war der Traum der bunten Blätter: in Deutschland eine Kanzlerin, in Frankreich eine Präsidentin und, wer weiß, im kommenden Jahr auch eine Herrin im Weißen Haus! Aber dieses Triumvirat der Phantasie gibt es nicht.

Die französischen Wähler haben so gewählt, wie es in den Umfragen der vergangenen Tage vorausgesagt worden ist: Nicolas Sarkozy wird neuer Staatspräsident Frankreichs und der Nachfolger Chiracs. Der Neogaullist vollzieht den Generationswechsel an der Spitze des Staates und nicht die Sozialistin Royal, die am Ende eines Wahlkampfes, das Scheitern vor Augen, die Nerven verlor und sich zu düsteren Drohungen hinreißen ließ. Ihr half auch die Mobilisierung neuer Wähler nicht. Sprunghaft, opportunistisch und ruppig(mehr) Von Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger

FRANFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG VIDEO (REUTERS): Sarkozy wird Präsident Frankreichs

Mark Alexander
Nicolas Sarkozy

SPIEGELONLINE: Hohe Abgaben, hohe Kriminalitätsrate, Skepsis gegenüber Europa, Probleme mit der Integration - Frankreich braucht Reformen. Von Staatschef Nicolas Sarkozy erwarten sich die Franzosen einen neuen Schub. Was Sarkozy alles ändern will (mehr)

SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: France lurches to the right

Mark Alexander

Sunday, May 06, 2007

A Stunning Victory for Nicolas Sarkozy

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Congratulations to Nicolas Sarkozy on becoming the next President of France. He has worked hard and tirelessly for this victory; and he deserves it. This win will take France in a new direction; and it will take Europe in a new direction, too. French voters have done their country a service; they have done Europe a service, too. This is cause for celebration. Vive Nicolas Sarkozy! Vive la belle France!

THE TIMES: French give Sarkozy mandate for reform

NZZ: Sarkozy will Präsident aller Franzosen sein

LE MONDE: Nicolas Sarkozy élu à la présidence de la République à une large majorité

LE FIGARO: Sarkozy : "Je serai le président de tous les Français"

WATCH BBC VIDEO: Sarkozy’s Victory Speech: “J’aime la France”

SARKOZY'S WEBSITE: Sarkozy

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Nicolas Sarkozy: “Ein kategorisches Nein zu einem EU-Beitritt der Türkei”

NZZ: Weniger Staat, tiefere Steuern, mehr Härte bei der Einwanderung und ein kategorisches Nein zu einem EU-Beitritt der Türkei - das Programm des Rechtsbürgerlichen Nicolas Sarkozy. - Von Axel Veiel

Präsident Nicolas Sarkozy (mehr)

Sieg Sarkozys zeichnet sich ab

Polizei rüstet für Sarkozy-Sieg

Eine Republik, zwei Visionen

Mark Alexander

Friday, May 04, 2007

The Queen in the States

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BBC: The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are visiting the site of the US's first permanent English settlement on its 400th anniversary.

The royal couple will see a museum and archaeological dig at Jamestown, Virginia, accompanied by Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne.

The engagement comes during the monarch's first US tour in 16 years. Queen sees historic US settlement (Read on)

WATCH BBC VIDEO: Red carpet delays royal visit

Mark Alexander
Al hamdu lillah, Sarkozy poised to win presidential election. Vive la belle France!

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BBC: France's presidential candidates are staging their final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's vote.

The latest opinion polls suggest that conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has a firm lead over Socialist Segolene Royal after Wednesday's TV debate. French poll rivals in final push (Read on)

WATCH BBC VIDEO: Final push for French rivals

WATCH BBC VIDEO: French rivals take final shots

Mark Alexander
Frisky at 90!

The Arabic language daily Al-Madina reported on Thursday that a 90-year-old Saudi man was blessed with a baby boy from his 30-year-old second wife in Al-Khurmah! [Source: Saudi Gazette]

Beat that!

Mark Alexander
No Music to Bush or Blair’s Ears

THE GUARDIAN: A retired British army general says Iraq's insurgents are justified in opposing the occupation, arguing that the US and its allies should "admit defeat" and leave Iraq before more soldiers are killed.

General Sir Michael Rose told the BBC's Newsnight programme: "It is the soldiers who have been telling me from the frontline that the war they have been fighting is a hopeless war, that they cannot possibly win it and the sooner we start talking politics and not military solutions, the sooner they will come home and their lives will be preserved." UK and US must admit defeat and leave Iraq, says British general (Read on)

Mark Alexander
That violinist is revealing too much!

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YNET NEWS: Islamic republic's foreign minister walks out of dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from US secretary of state, saying female violinist entertaining gathering is dressed too revealingly. Rice, Mottaki eventually meet at lunch Friday but exchange only pleasantries

Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, ostensibly because a female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly. Iran: US occupation to blame for bloodshed in Iraq (Read on)

BBC: Iran FM attacks US policy in Iraq

Mark Alexander
Virgin not so virginal as far as Kuwaiti authorities are concerned

KUWAIT TIMES: KUWAIT: The Virgin Megastore at Marina Mall reopened yesterday evening after being shut down last Thursday night by inspectors from the Ministry of Information. One of the inspectors involved in the closure had said the store was found breaching regulations of the Ministry of Information and was not cooperating with them. "They keep selling restricted items like indecent magazines and CDs, and were issued several warnings and reminders in the past, but they repeatedly ignored them," he had said. Virgin reopens after weeklong shutdown (Read on)

Mark Alexander

Thursday, May 03, 2007

What a Wonderless World It Will Be

In the past years, especially in the last ten years, Islam has been furiously putting down roots here in the West. Unfortunately, our leaders and politicians have been too ignorant and craven to stem the tide. As a result, we now learn that Islam has grown so strong here in the United Kingdom so that Shari’ah law is being established in the country in centres of dense Muslim population.

Our leaders’ ignorance of Islam, their greed to attract petrodollars, and the prevailing Zeitgeist, caused namely by the indoctrination of the population at large by the politically-correct and multicultural fanatics, have all made for an inured and rudderless electorate. The people are powerless to do anything about the trend, and the powerful lack the will and determination to do anything about it anyway.

For many, in an increasingly globalized world, the ‘mighty buck’ trumps all principles. In an increasingly secular, Western world, it is greed that trumps all. It’s a case of live for today, become as rich as possible, and damn the consequences.

If this trend continues, and as things stand it is difficult to see any reason why it won’t, then we have a lot of changes to look forward to, and our children and grandchildren are not going to thank us for not reclaiming our own heritage: Our Judeo-Christian heritage.

In view of all this, it is worthwhile taking a peek into the future, in order to see what kind of world we are going to inhabit if Islam really is going to supplant Judeo-Christianity in the West.

One thing is certain: It’s going to be a joyless world. It’s also going to be a benighted world, too. It is for this main reason that I entitled my first book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age.

Most of us are, by now, familiar with many features of Islamic societies. We are all familiar with the barbarous beheadings that take place, officially, in such countries as Saudi Arabia. We are all familiar with the cutting off of limbs for theft, and the stoning of women to death for adultery (though interestingly, rarely, if ever, men).

But there is far more to a life under Islamic, or Shari’ah law, much more to life under Islam. There is no doubt at all that the growth of Islam here in the West will impact on us all, and in many unsuspecting ways.

For a start, Islam breeds benighted thinking; Muslims, in general, are a pretty unenlightened lot: superstitious, and believing of all manner of conspiracies and rumour, and very accepting of the unscientific and unproven.

It is not without reason that Muslims today are in a state of backwardness. They have embraced technology, it’s true; but what contributions have Muslims made to the advancement of the modern world? Where Muslims have indeed made significant contributions, then they have generally made those contributions in a Western environment, having enjoyed a Western education. Many of those that have contributed have left Islam anyway.

It is no co-incidence, either, that few contributions have been made. Scientific advancement requires an open, enquiring mind, not a mind flooded with superstition and flooded in beliefs that are outdated and downright wrong.

So what kind of life will it be? Many things will change. Women will become the objects of men. They will probably be driven back into the home, too. Society will become patriarchal. It will be very much a man’s world.

Women, of course, will be forced to cover up their “charms”. The hijab will be de rigueur for all women after the age of puberty since it will be mandatory. This will lead to prurience in society. Moreover, it will be frowned upon for men to wear bright colours, or solid gold rings and jewellery, or pure silk. There will be pressure on men to keep their hair short, and the wearing of the Islamic beard in the style of the Prophet Muhammad will be encouraged, if not forced upon men. In any case, because the thinking of the day will change significantly, facial hair will become almost a must for men. (Remember: In the Muslim world, a clean-shaven man is considered to be effeminate.)

The drinking of alcoholic beverages will, of course, be outlawed. By drinking it, one will incur the wrath of the morality police or, as they are called in Saudi Arabia, The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. You will almost certainly be subjected to a good lashing for partaking of the Devil's brew. And if you think that such things will never come to pass in a Western country such as the UK or Germany, then think again. How many Christians in pre-Islamic Egypt thought that Islam would oust the then prevailing Christian culture in that country, I wonder? It is worth remembering that each and every country in which Islam has been allowed to gain a foothold, it has eventually supplanted that country’s culture with Islamic culture! There is only one exception to this rule and that was in Moorish Spain. But for the Spaniards to reclaim their country, it took centuries of hostility.

Criminals will suffer the fate of a beheading in the public square. Muslims always like to show the man being decapitated for they feel that this in itself will act as a deterrent for other would be criminals.

Churches in this new world order will be either destroyed or left to go to wrack and ruin. Even to this day in Turkey, the small, minority Christian population there are not allowed to renew and refurbish their churches and nor are they allowed to offer seminary education for their priests. All men wishing to go into the priesthood must be educated abroad. In any case, a Christian in an Islamic country is very much a second-class citizen, and if Islam should ever take over the West, the Christian will be forced to live in dhimmitude.

The eating of pork, of course will be a thing of the past, as will cooking with wines or spirits. So many of our favourite gourmet recipes will simply disappear.

Architecture will change too. The influence of Islam will certainly make its influence felt in this area. But there is something else: The styles of our houses will change greatly. Open plan buildings and houses without high garden walls will not be desired. High walls allow Muslim men to hide their women from public view. They also allow Muslims to do all the things they are disallowed from doing in public, things such as drinking alcohol.

Homophobia will be the order of the day. All Muslims have to be homophobic, because Islam frowns upon homosexuality, and as Islam is so pervasive, it is difficult, if not well-nigh impossible, to express one’s opinions in favour of equality for homosexuals openly. But in reality, there is much homosexual activity in the Islamic world. Certainly no less than there is in the Western world. This double standard is brought about because Islam fosters such a closed, closetted society. Furthermore, it should be noted that because of the strict separation of the sexes, people living in such a world tend become very prurient. Only today in the Saudi Gazette, it has been reported that Saudi men are addicted to pornography on the Web. This is hardly surprising when co-mingling with members of the opposite sex is so difficult in the real world. Western society will also become so inclined when Islam grows ever stronger here.

As I have stated so many times before, Islam and the West are diametrically-opposed to each other in all kinds of ways; indeed, they are two distinct, immiscible, cultures. There is no half way house to be: either Islam wins through, or the free West does. Like any lover of freedom and democracy, I’m hoping for the victory of the latter, but I’m not holding my breath. Given current demographic trends, and given the lack of will and determination to preserve the way of life of the free, anything can happen. We haven’t seen the worst yet. One thing is certain: There will be little joy for the ordinary citizen living under Islam and Shari’ah law; indeed, it will be a ‘wonderless’ world for us all.

©Mark Alexander

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Naughty Ahmadinejad accused of acting “contrary to Sharia law”

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BBC: Iran's president has come under fire from a conservative newspaper after he publicly kissed the hand of a woman who used to be his school teacher. Ahmadinejad accused of indecency (Read on)

Mark Alexander
Sarkozy: The Man for Our Times

Sarkozy is not only a very likeable fellow, but he is one politician in Europe who speaks sense about the question of whether to allow Turkey to accede to the EU. M. Sarkozy is against Turkey’s accession, and he is not afraid of saying so, either. Not only does France need this politician to be elected into the office of the presidency, but the rest of Europe does, too.

Whether or not to allow Turkey into Europe is one of the burning issues of our time. Very few politicians have the insight or the courage tospeak up about it. Nicolas Sarkozy does have that courage, and he is a man of insight, too. Sarkozy has all the right instincts; furthermore, Sarkozy has the right ideas on how to re-invogorate la belle France.

It is to be hoped that this very likeable man will become France’s next president. The French electorate will be doing all Europeans a big favour to vote for Sarkozy.

You might like to watch the following videos, presented to us by Le Figaro. They are snippets of the lengthy televised dual:

VIDEOS: Délinquance, Turquie... Tout les oppose

VIDEOS: A 22 h 55, l'incident sur les handicaps

VIDEOS: L'économie au coeur des passes d'armes

NZZ: Sarkozy geht als Favorit in die Stichwahl in die Stichwahl

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Muslime sind “nur zu Gast in einem christlichen und zutiefst demokratischen Land”

"Der Islam sei keine Religion, sondern eine Kriegserklärung an die christliche und andersgläubige Welt" - EDU-Nationalrat Waber

NZZ: SVP und EDU wollen den Bau mittels einer Volksinitiative verhindern

Ein Komitee aus SVP- und EDU-Politikern will in der Schweiz keine Minarette sehen. Deren Bau soll mittels einer Volksinitiative verhindert werden. Die rechtsbürgerlichen Politiker nutzten die Lancierung der Initiative zu einem Rundumschlag gegen den Islam.

Der Bau von Minaretten in der Schweiz soll verboten werden. Mit einer Volksinitiative wollen SVP- und EDU-Politiker den «religiös-politischen Machtanspruch» des Islams zurückweisen. Sie haben am Donnerstag in Bern die Kampagne lanciert. Moscheen ohne Minarette (mehr)

ARAB NEWS: Swiss Challenge Minarets as ‘Islamist’ Threat

Mark Alexander

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Royal greift Sarkozy in TV-Duell an

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NZZ: Präsidentschaftskandidaten in Frankreich streiten vor Millionenpublikum

Beim Fernseh-Duell zur französischen Präsidentschaftswahl hat Ségolène Royal den Konservativen Nicolas Sarkozy wegen dessen Bilanz als langjähriges Mitglied der bürgerlichen Regierung angegriffen.

Royal selbst wolle als Staatschefin ein Frankreich schaffen, «in dem die Aggressivität und die Gewalttaten zurückgehen», sagte die Sozialistin zum Auftakt der mit Spannung erwarteten Live-Diskussion im französischen Fernsehen. Royal greift Sarkozy in TV-Duell an (mehr)

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