Lionheart: Homeless, and to Be Arrested for Blogging?
Hat tip to Always On Watch for alerting me to this short article:

SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: Paul Ray is homeless. (No, not that Paul Rea.)

He’s got a home country, Britian [sic], but if he goes back there he’s facing arrest on suspicion of an offense dubbed “Stir up Racial Hatred by displaying written material” on his blog lionheartuk.blogspot.com. He could get seven years in prison just for stating his views.

They’ve got no First Amendment in Britian [sic]. So the 31-year-old is in the United States contemplating a bid for asylum after being run out of his home of Luton. He was here when he first found out about the charge.

For more than a year he’s been documenting what he alleges is drug dealing by Muslim immigrants in Luton. He’s dropped dimes on these dealers and they’ve in turn threatened his life.

I met him at last week’s blogging unconference. To me he straddles that line dividing legitimate criticism of a minority group and unreasonable vilification. He’s in that gray area where we find many in the United States who decry illegal immigrants.

At one point he said there is good and bad in everything. But later he says about the Koran: “It’s a hate book against non-believers.” He said the Muslims in Luton sell heroin as part of a jihad. Arresting a blogger (with audio) >>>

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Heath Ledger ‘Refused Help for Heroin Abuse’
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THE TELEGRAPH: Heath Ledger's former girlfriend drove him to a drug rehabilitation centre last year to get treatment for abuse of heroin, cocaine and "a variety of pills" but he refused to go in and promised to clean up on his own, it has been claimed.

According to US Weekly magazine, Michelle Williams was so upset by the Australian actor's drug problems during their three-year relationship that she took him to the Promises Treatment Centre in Malibu, California, in March last year.

He refused to get out of the car but subsequently broke his promise to sort himself out, said the magazine, citing "multiple sources" for its claims. Heath Ledger 'refused help for heroin abuse' >>> By Tom Leonard in New York

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L'interdiction du foulard
 à l'université bientôt levee
LE FIGARO: Le dépôt au Parlement d'un projet de loi, qui a toutes les chances d'être voté, relance les craintes d'une islamisation rampante de la société.

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La querelle autour du foulard en Turquie rebondit une nouvelle fois. Hier, un projet de loi prévoyant la levée de l'interdiction du voile dans les universités a été déposé au Parlement par le Parti de la justice et du développement (AKP) au pouvoir et le Parti d'action nationaliste (MHP), dans l'opposition. L'adoption de ce texte, qui pourrait être voté dès la semaine prochaine, ne fait guère de doute car l'alliance des députés islamo-conservateurs et ultranationalistes permet de dépasser les deux tiers des voix requis pour modifier la Constitution. La réforme concerne deux articles de la Constitution et le texte régissant le YÖK, le Conseil de l'enseignement supérieur, qui décrira la tenue vestimentaire auto­risée : une étudiante devra avoir «le visage découvert de façon à ce qu'elle soit reconnaissable et son foulard doit être noué sous le menton», selon l'agence officielle Anatolie. Le türban, entourant strictement le visage et dissimulant le cou, perçu par ses détracteurs comme un symbole de l'islam politique, resterait interdit. Tout comme le çarsaf, ce long voile noir qui couvre le corps de la tête au pied.

Dans un souci de dissiper la controverse sur une islamisation rampante de la société, l'AKP et le MHP ont cherché à désamorcer les polémiques naissantes. «Notre unique but est de mettre fin aux traitements injustes rencontrés par les filles aux portes des universités, rien d'autre», a assuré le premier ministre, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Pourtant, Ergut Ezbudun, un constitutionnaliste de renom à qui l'AKP a confié la rédaction d'un projet de Constitution civile s'est vivement opposé à la réforme : «Demain, cette liberté sera étendue à l'enseignement primaire et secondaire, et ensuite aux fonctionnaires, et pour finir, la Turquie aura un mode de vie islamique.» «Pragmatisme» et «idéologie» >>> De Laure Marchand

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L'érosion de la popularité
 de Sarkozy se poursuit
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LE FIGARO: Selon un sondage TNS-Sofres pour Le Figaro Magazine, la cote de confiance du chef de l'Etat chute de huit points à 41%, contre 43% pour François Fillon.

Ce n'est pas encore l'alerte rouge, mais la tendance se confirme. Au sommet de sa popularité au cœur de l'été dernier, Nicolas Sarkozy voit sa cote dans les sondages s'effriter constamment. Pour le mois de février, la chute se révèle même brutale : moins 8 points. 41% des Français font confiance au chef de l'Etat contre 55%, selon le baromètre TNS-Sofres pour Le Figaro Magazine (*).

Le président décroche dans toutes les classes d'âge, surtout chez les jeunes (31% de confiance, - 13 points en un mois) et les plus de 65 ans (50%, - 8). Même constat selon les catégories socio-professionnelles, que ce soit chez les ouvriers (34%, - 11) ou les professions intermédiaires (32%, - 14). Sur un plan politique, seuls 35% des électeurs centristes lui font confiance (- 13 points), un chiffre qui tombe à 16% à gauche (- 10). A l'UMP, il conserve toutefois un socle solide avec 89% de satisfaits. L'érosion de la popularité
de Sarkozy se poursuit >>> De Samuel Potier

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Der 30. Januar 1933: Hitlers Machtergreifung

DIE PRESSE: Foto Gallerie - Adolf Hitler: 75 Jahre Machtergreifung in Deutschland

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Deutschlands Schritt in den Abgrund
NZZ Online: Am 30. Januar wurde Adolf Hitler vom greisen Staatspräsident Hindenburg zum Reichskanzler bestimmt. In Hitlers Kabinett sassen mit Göring und Frick lediglich zwei weitere Nationalsozialisten. Hoffnungen, dass sich Hitler politisch einbinden lasse, entpuppten sich bald als Illusion.

uhg. Am 30. Januar 1933, einem trüben nasskalten Tag, stand der ehemalige Arbeitslose, Frontsoldat und Festungshäftling Adolf Hitler zusammen mit dem greisen Reichspräsidenten Hindenburg in der Reichskanzlei am Fenster. Durch das Brandenburger Tor wälzte sich ein unübersehbarer Zug von Fackelträgern, Fahnen mit dem Hakenkreuz wurden geschwenkt. Der Rundfunk berichtete direkt aus der Reichskanzlei.

Der frisch vereidigte Reichskanzler und selbsternannte «Führer» konnte sich um so mehr seines Triumphes erfreuen, als er auf ein gar nicht erfolgreiches Jahr 1932 zurückblicken musste. Im Herbst hatten sich die Wahlergebnisse verschlechtert, die NSDAP war beinahe pleite, und Hitlers Anspruch auf das Amt des Reichspräsidenten scheiterte an der Popularität des ehemaligen Feldmarschalls und Amtsinhabers Hindenburg. Deutschlands Schritt in den Abgrund: Zeitgenössische Stimmen zu Hitlers Machtergreifung >>>

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The Führer Myth: How Hitler Won Over the German People
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SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: There were still many Germans who were skeptical of Hitler when he became chancellor in 1933. But Führer propaganda and military success soon turned him into an idol. The adulation helped make the Third Reich catastrophe possible.

"Today Hitler Is All of Germany." The newspaper headline on Aug. 4, 1934 reflected the vital shift in power that had just taken place. Two days earlier, on the death of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, Hitler had lost no time in abolishing the Reich Presidency and having the army swear a personal oath of unconditional obedience to him as "the Führer of the German Reich and People." He was now head of state and supreme commander of the armed forces, as well as head of government and of the monopoly party, the NSDAP. Hitler had total power in Germany, unrestricted by any constitutional constraints. The headline implied even more, however, than the major change in the constellation of power. It suggested an identity of Hitler and the country he ruled, signifying a complete bond between the German people and Hitler.

The referendum that followed on 19 August 1934, to legitimize the power-political change that had occurred, aimed at demonstrating this identity. "Hitler for Germany -- all of Germany of Hitler" ran the slogan. As the result showed, however, reality lagged behind propaganda. According to the official figures, over a sixth of voters defied the intense pressure to conform and did not vote "yes." In some big working-class areas of Germany, up to a third had not given Hitler their vote. Even so, there were one or two tantalizing hints that Hitler's personal appeal outstripped that of the Nazi regime itself, and even more so of the Party. "For Adolf Hitler yes, but a thousand times no to the brown big-wigs" was scribbled on one ballot-paper in Potsdam. The same sentiment could be heard elsewhere.

Beneath the veneer of Führer adulation constantly trumpeted by the uniform propaganda of the mass media, there are numerous indicators that Hitler's appeal remained far less than total, even in what later memory often recalled as the "good years" of the mid-1930s. One example of strong criticism leveled at Hitler can be seen in a report from the Gestapo in Berlin in March 1936. Hitler's toleration of the corruption and luxury life-style of the Party big-wigs at a time when poor living standards still afflicted most ordinary Germans was, the report noted, heavily criticized. "Why does the Führer put up with that?" was a question on many people's lips, noted the report, and it was evident "the trust of the people in the personality of the Führer is currently undergoing a crisis." Forgotten in Euphoria >>> By Ian Kershaw

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ALERT! The Organisation of the Islamic Conference to Move to Block Geert Wilders’ Anti-Islam Film
PRESS TV – IRAN: Islamic states' envoys to the Netherlands are planning to meet the country's officials to warn them against producing an anti-Islam film.

The ambassadors from Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states have held a meeting to discuss ways to prevent the production of a controversial film by a far-right Dutch lawmaker that would be insulting to Islam, informed sources told Press TV.

Dutch MP Geert Wilders had earlier said that he planned to make the film to attack the Holy Qur'an.

The sources said the diplomats proposed that they hold a meeting with the Dutch Foreign Minister and other senior officials to warn them against the move and set up mechanisms to prevent insulting religious beliefs.

The controversial film is expected to spark worldwide protests similar to those staged after the publishing of a series of blasphemous cartoons by a Danish daily. [Source: OIC plans move against Dutch MP's film]

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Blair, the ‘Socialist’ Money Machine
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The Coarsening of Western Society!
Photo of a typical British, middle-class dining room of yesteryear courtesy of The Telegraph
The trend of doing away with the dining-room is to be lamented. It shows that British society is coarsening; it also shows that family life is becoming more and more casual – far too casual, in fact.

The dining-room was at one time an essential room in the house. No self-respecting housewife would have wanted to be without one. It really wouldn’t have been the ‘done thing’. These days, however, anything goes. Pop- and entertainment-culture has taken over. Mothers don’t wish to cook anymore; and their children don’t want to sit down to eat, let alone dine; rather, so many of our young prefer to eat ‘on the hoof’, watching the box, or listening to their favourite ‘cool’ music. Many, I’m sure, eat whilst they surf the Web.

To so many people these days, because they don’t think for themselves, following the likes of Posh and Becks or Jamie Oliver or Kathie Lette has become de rigueur, and far more important than convention.

Let Posh and Becks and their ilk do their thing. The experience of dining is something which really shouldn’t be lost to our children. Heaven knows our children have become coarse enough already!

If we apply the logic that it is wasteful of one’s money and resources to buy dining-room furniture or silverware, and too much trouble to use the dining-room, then we might as well use the same logic and throw out the dinner plates too. The family can eat out of the carton, standing in front of the refrigerator, using their fingers. How civilized and uplifting that will be! I dare say, many already do eat this way. Need we wonder why so many people have no manners anymore, let alone any dining etiquette?

Ultimately, if we want to be super-efficient, we can do as the Bedouins do: We can use one huge round plate, placed on the floor, sit cross-legged in a circle around it, and eat with our fingers – right hand, of course! (The left hand is used for unclean things.)

Perhaps this is all part and parcel of the next stage in the Islamization of our culture!

It is so sad that Britain, once a nation which led the world in matters of etiquette, is in the process of losing all that we have held so dear for so long. A few days ago, we got news that Gordon Brown was doing away with Britannia on the back of our 50p pieces; now we hear of the demise of our dining-rooms.

I promise you, one day, we shall come to rue the day that we dispensed with all that was considered refined. - ©Mark

THE TELEGRAPH: Britons can't be bothered with separate eating areas, says Alice Thomson. We want home cinemas instead

First it was fish knives and finger bowls, next went napkin rings and decanters, then mustard pots and marmalade spoons, now the British are throwing out the entire dining room. We have had enough of them.

They were usually dingy affairs anyway, the place where mothers laid out sewing patterns and fathers filled out tax returns, where children were told to keep their elbows off the table and great aunts served prune juice. With their swag curtains and brown furniture, they were a sign that you had finally made it to the middle classes.

In days gone by, they also facilitated the dating game, as Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire, explains: "Dining rooms were vital in the 18th century. It was one of the few ways that a man could meet a single woman." Times have changed; the internet takes care of social introductions now.

No one shows off about their dining rooms anymore. Dining rooms were for hostess trolleys and hot plates, vol-au-vents and souffles. They required a huge amount of effort. If you have a dining room you can't serve the carrots out of the saucepan.

You have to put them in a serving dish. Even the ice-cream has to be decanted and, along with the rest of the food, either has to be trundled along a corridor or dispatched through a hatch in the wall.

The washing-up involved in having a dining room is horrendous. Most are also filled with silver which means several hours a week polishing the candelabra. And the cutlery. You must have serious cutlery, as well as a proper dinner service. Then there are curtains to think about and formal chairs. You have to dress the part too. Pyjamas look as out of place as a milk carton at a dining room table.

It's easy to see why the dining room has gone the way of trifles and Christmas pudding. It requires too much perspiration. Far easier to knock the kitchen and the dining room into one huge space and let the children use it as a football pitch and grazing ground.

Everyone has open kitchens now, from David Cameron to Posh and Becks and Jamie Oliver. Guests on Location, Location are more likely to ask for wet rooms than dining rooms. Kathy Lette, the comedienne, changed hers into a television room because she "loathes entertaining". Even the Queen prefers having her breakfast out of tupperware in an informal atmosphere. Dining rooms are not cut out for modern life >>>

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Germany Still Wrestles with Adolf Hitler’s Legacy
THE TELEGRAPH: Germany is going through an unprecedented wave of self-recrimination as it marks the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

Despite the rapidly decreasing number of people who were alive during the Nazi era, this week, Bernd Neumann, the German minister of culture, announced that building would start on two new memorials.

One will honour the gipsies deported to their deaths. The other, costing £400,000, will feature a video of gay men and lesbians kissing, in a commemoration of the thousands of homosexuals eliminated by a regime that considered them an aberration.

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in central Berlin, consisting of 2,711 grey pillars, is in need of repair which will cost several hundred thousands pounds.

As Germany marks the anniversary today of Hitler and the Nazi party taking power in Germany, some have questioned whether so many memorials cloud personal remembrance. Germany still wrestles with Adolf Hitler's legacy >>> By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin

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Hillary Wins Florida’s Democratic Primary by a Landslide
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TIMESONLINE: Hillary Clinton has won Florida's Democratic primary by a landslide, triggering an immediate war of spin with Barack Obama over the significance of her victory.

After a race where no campaigning took place and no delegates were on offer Mrs Clinton flew to Florida tonight to talk up her success.

The move was an attempt to snatch the media spotlight away from Mr Obama, and some momentum, after his prize endorsement from Senator Edward Kennedy in Washington on Monday.

With two fifths of precincts reporting, Mrs Clinton had won 51 per cent of the vote, Mr Obama 30 per cent and John Edwards 16 per cent. Hillary Clinton hails victory as Barack Obama cries spin >>> By Tim Reid in Miami and Tom Baldwin in Washington

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’Anti-Mosque Initiatives Tap into a Fear of Islam’
SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Across Europe, right-wing populist parties are gaining support by focusing on issues such as the construction of mosques. SPIEGEL ONLINE talks to right-wing populism expert Oliver Geden about the strategies used by the right and the pressure they put on the mainstream.

t seems like mosques have never been more controversial in Europe. A right-wing populist party has just announced an attempt to get the construction of mosques banned (more...) in an Austrian state. Meanwhile a right-wing group in Cologne is trying to stop a mosque from being built there (more...).

But why have right-wing populist parties suddenly seized on the issue of mosques? SPIEGEL ONLINE talked to Oliver Geden, an expert on right-wing populism at the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), about why mosques provide the perfect topic for right-wing parties and how they are forcing mainstream parties to shift to the right. 'Anti-Mosque Initiatives Tap into a Fear of Islam' >>>

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Turkish MPs Plan Headscarf Reform
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BBC: Two major parties in Turkey say they will submit a joint plan to parliament to ease a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities.

The Islamist-rooted governing AK Party and the nationalist MHP say it is an issue of human rights and freedoms.

The two parties have enough votes in parliament to overturn the constitutional ban on headscarves.

A strict headscarf ban has been in force in universities since 1997. It was ordered by the secularist military.

The issue is highly controversial in a mainly Muslim country whose secular elite - including the military - sees the headscarf as a symbol of political Islam, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul says.

The move to ease the ban has been criticised by judges and university officials.

MHP leader Devlet Bahceli said the joint plan would be submitted to parliament later on Tuesday. Turkish MPs plan headscarf reform >>>

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Do You Want to Beat the Smoking Ban? Do You Want to Enjoy a Cigarette on Board? Then, in Future, Fly SMINTair (Smoker’s International Airways)
SMINTAIR: SMINTair is set to be the World's Most Luxurious Airline.
Since April 2005, the SMINTair DEVELOPMENT TEAM has been working on every aspect to set base for launching a successful airline on a long-term perspective. Ideas, some completely new to the airline industry, have been developed and pursued until working perfection. SMINTair >>>

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Kill Him “Like a Pig”!
DAILY MAIL: An Islamist fanatic plotted to snatch a British Muslim soldier from the streets and film him being beheaded "like a pig" in a lock-up garage, a court heard.

Parviz Khan, 37, built up a terrorist cell in Birmingham and planned to kidnap the soldier before filming his "ghastly" death for release to the media.

The attack was designed to cause "panic and fear" amongst the Army and the wider British public.

Leicester Crown Court was told that the terror cell had sent money and equipment to Pakistan for the use of terrorists trying to kill British soldiers on the Afghan border.

Prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt QC said Khan wanted to get "physically involved" in the bloodshed but was prevented by "his bosses overseas" because his supply operation was so valued.

Instead, the court heard, he hatched the plot to kill a soldier in the UK.

He decided to target a Muslim fighting in the British Army and asked another member of the cell to identify a potential victim.
Mr Rumfitt said: "The prosecution say that Parviz Khan is a fanatic.

"He is a man who has the most violent and extreme views. Khan was enraged by the idea that there were Muslim soldiers in the British Army, some of them from the Gambia in West Africa.

"He decided to kidnap such a soldier with the help of drug dealers in Birmingham.

"The soldier would be approached in the Broad Street nightlife area, lured into a car and taken to a lock-up garage and murdered with his head cut off - "like a pig". Islamic extremist gang 'plotted to kidnap British Muslim soldier and behead him like a pig' >>> By Andy Dolan

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Four-Year-Olds Must Learn about Same-Sex Families!
DAILY MAIL: Teachers should not assume that their pupils have a "mum and dad" under guidance aimed at tackling antigay bullying in schools.

It says primary pupils as young as four should be familiarised with the idea of same-sex couples to help combat homophobic attitudes.

Teachers should attempt to avoid assumptions that pupils will have a conventional family background, it urges.

It goes on to suggest the word "parents" may be more appropriate than "mum and dad", particularly in letters and emails to the child's home.

When discussing marriage with secondary pupils, teachers should also educate pupils about civil partnerships and gay adoption rights.

The guidance - produced for the Government by gay rights group Stonewall - will be formally launched today by Schools Secretary Ed Balls.

It states that children who call classmates "gay" should be treated the same as racists as part of a "zero tolerance" crackdown on the use of the word as an insult.

Teachers should avoid telling boys to 'be a man' or accuse them of behaving like a "bunch of women".

This sort of rebuke "leads to bullying of those who do not conform to fixed ideas about gender", the guidance states.

At the same time, schools should encourage gay role models among staff, parents and governors. Homosexual staff should be able to discuss their private lives after the consultation with the head teacher. Better not say mum and dad! Four-year-olds must learn about same-sex families, says guidance >>> By Laura Clark

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Totale Ablehnung für Türkei-Beitritt (Total Rejection of Turkey’s Accession to the EU)
DIE PRESSE: Eine neue Studie hat ergeben, in Österreich werden positive Aspekte des Beitritts kaum erörtert. „Die Presse“ stellt sechs Pro-und Kontra-Argumente zur Diskussion.

Wien/Istanbul. Eine neue Studie wagt einen Blick ins Jahr 2015. Das Szenario: Die Türkei hat die Beitrittskriterien erfüllt. Wie schon 2008 angekündigt, findet in Österreich, als einzigem Land in der EU, eine Volksabstimmung über den Beitritt statt. Boulevardzeitungen machen Stimmung für ein Nein. Die FPÖ erregt wieder einmal Aufsehen mit islamfeindlichen Äußerungen. 95 Prozent stimmen mit „Nein“. Nach zehn Jahren Beitrittsverhandlungen schlittert die EU in eine neue politische Krise. Wien ist voll mit tausenden Korrespondenten, darunter 900 aus islamischen Ländern. CNN und al-Jazeera befragen Bergbauern in Tirol und Taxifahrer in Klagenfurt: Was habt ihr gegen die Türken?

Ein unrealistisches Szenario? Nicht für die „European Stability Initiative“ (ESI), einen angesehenen Think Tank mit Stützpunkten in Berlin, Brüssel und Istanbul. In der neuen Studie „Der unbekannte Türke und eine künftige Volksabstimmung – Anatomie einer österreichischen Debatte“ beschäftigt sich das angesehene Institut mit genau diesem Szenario – und seinen möglichen Gründen.

Es geht um Kultur, nicht Religion

Die unterschiedliche Religion steht nicht im Vordergrund, zeigen die von der Studie zitierten EU-Umfragewerte. Für 60 Prozent ist diese Frage für einen EU-Beitritt irrelevant. Nur 28 Prozent sehen Europa als „christliche Festung“. Sehr wohl geht es aber um Kultur und Identität: Für 74 Prozent ist die Türkei einfach „kein europäisches Land“. Ebenso viele halten die kulturellen Unterschiede für zu hoch. Im EU-Schnitt sind es nur 54 Prozent. Durch diesen „Generalverdacht“ geraten mögliche positive Aspekte eines Beitritts, die in anderen EU-Ländern stark diskutiert werden, aus dem Blickfeld der Debatte: vor allem wirtschaftliche Vorteile und der Sicherheitsaspekt – die Türkei als „soft power“ im Nahen Osten.

Den Hauptgrund für die stark empfundene Fremdheit sieht Studienautor Gerald Knaus in fehlender Information über die moderne Türkei an den Schulen: „Österreichs Schüler lernen nichts über die Türkische Republik. In den Geschichtsbüchern kommt das Land nur im Zusammenhang mit den Türkenkriegen vor. Totale Ablehnung für Türkei-Beitritt >>> Von Karl Gaulhofer

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Cameron Seeks 'Hate Preachers’ Ban
DAILY EXPRESS: Conservative leader David Cameron has called for a ban on "preachers of hate" entering the United Kingdom.

Mr Cameron accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of dithering over the case of Islamist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, following press reports that he is to be granted permission to come to London for medical treatment.



The Tory leader branded Mr al-Qaradawi - and the head of Hezbollah's TV station Ibrahim Moussawi, who recently spoke in Manchester - "dangerous and divisive" and said they should not be allowed in the country. And he called for a complete ban on Islamist political movements Hizb-ut-Tahrir and Hezbollah.



Speaking at the first meeting in London of a working group between the Conservatives and the main German centre-right party the CDU, Mr Cameron is due to say: "It's clear for reasons of our security that we must expel or refuse entry to those who preach hate, pit one faith against another and divide our society. 



"So I call on the Government to confirm that it will not be giving al-Qaradawi permission to enter this country and that it will not repeat the mistake of last December and make clear that Moussawi is not welcome in the UK."



Mr Cameron will also say that Britain's national security and international credibility were harmed by a "failed" multiculturalist policy which allowed Muslim preachers to advocate values that run counter to the British way of life. Cameron Seeks Hate Preachers’ Ban >>>

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Muslim Extremists Call for Death Threats Against Geert Wilders’ Girlfriend and His Associates
MEMRI: On January 29, 2008, participants in the Islamist forum Al-Ikhlas, hosted by CrystalTech Web Hosting Inc., Phoenix, AZ, USA, posted an announcement calling, in the event that Geert Wilders releases his film, for death threats against his girlfriend and against anyone else associated with him.

The announcement also proposed sending letters to the media explaining that the threats are motivated by Wilders' attacks on the Koran, and urges forum members to recruit Muslim youth in Europe and to train them to make bombs to attack the Netherlands, which they called "an apostate country occupying Afghanistan." [Source: Islamists Call for Death Threats Against Geert Wilders' Girlfriend, Associates]

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The Pentagon Takes to Dhimmitude!
HT: Always On Watch for drawing my attention to this most disturbing story:

Photo of Navy chaplain, Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam, being promoted courtesy of World Net Daily
WORLD NET DAILY: In a special ceremony, the Pentagon recently promoted a Wahhabi-trained Muslim chaplain who catered to al-Qaida detainees at Guantanamo and fought to establish the first mosque in Marine Corps history.

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England personally promoted Navy chaplain Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam from lieutenant to lieutenant commander. Saifulislam also received a Joint Service Commendation Medal at the Pentagon ceremony held on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Pentagon officials say the ceremony was unprecedented.

"It's unusual for a deputy secretary to personally promote an officer of that rank," said one official who wished to go unnamed.

"No one has known of such a high-level dignitary doing that."

England also earlier this year personally dedicated a new Islamic center at Marine headquarters in Quantico, Va., on the advice of Saifulislam, a Bangladesh immigrant who became a U.S. citizen in 1995.

The Muslim chaplain, who is stationed at Quantico, recited verses from the Quran in Arabic and English at the summer dedication ceremony, which included representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, several leaders of which have been convicted on terrorism-related charges. Quantico mosque leader promoted: Pentagon honors Wahhabi-trained Muslim chaplain

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