The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
Monday, March 09, 2009
Hat tip: Jihad Watch >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
UPI: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A 75-year-old Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to receive 40 lashes for hosting two unrelated men in her house, local media reported.
The Saudi daily newspaper al-Watan said the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, has appealed her sentence after being charged with offenses against Islam by the religious police, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, CNN reported Monday.
Sawadi says the two men in her house were a man she considers her son because she breast-fed him as a baby and a friend who was escorting him as he delivered bread to the elderly woman.
"It's made everybody angry because this is like a grandmother," Saudi women's rights activist Wajeha Huwaider told CNN. "Forty lashes -- how can she handle that pain? You cannot justify it."
The U.S. broadcaster reported that Saudi religious police last week also detained two male novelists for questioning after they approached a female writer, Halima Muzfar, for an autograph at a book fair in Riyadh. [Source: UPI] Monday, March 9, 2009
CNN: Saudis Order 40 Lashes for Elderly Woman for Mingling
A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.
According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, troubles for the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, began last year when a member of the religious police entered her house in the city of Al-Chamli and found her with two unrelated men, "Fahd" and "Hadian."
Fahd told the policeman that he had the right to be there, because Sawadi had breast-fed him as a baby and was therefore considered to be a son to her in Islam, according to Al-Watan. Fahd, 24, added that his friend Hadian was escorting him as he delivered bread for the elderly woman. The policeman then arrested both men.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism and punishes unrelated men and women who are caught mingling.
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, feared by many Saudis, is made up of several thousand religious policemen charged with duties such as enforcing dress codes, prayer times and segregation of the sexes. Under Saudi law, women face many restrictions, including a strict dress code and a ban on driving. Women also need to have a man's permission to travel.
Al Watan obtained the court's verdict and reported that it was partly based on the testimony of the religious police. In his ruling, the judge said it had been proved that Fahd is not the Sawadi's son through breastfeeding.
The court also doled out punishment to the two men. Fahd was sentenced to four months in prison and 40 lashes; Hadian was sentenced to six months in prison and 60 lashes. In a phone call with Al Watan, the judge declined to comment and suggested the newspaper review the case with the Ministry of Justice.
Sawadi told the newspaper that she will appeal, adding that Fahd is indeed her son through breastfeeding.
The case has sparked anger in Saudi Arabia. >>> By Mohammed Jamjoom and Saad Abedine | Monday, March 9, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Saudi Court Sentences Widow, 75, to Lashes for 'Mingling with Men'
A 75-year-old widow has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in prison in Saudi Arabia for mingling with two young men who were reportedly bringing her bread.
The sentence has sparked new criticism of Saudi Arabia's ultraconservative religious police and judiciary.
Khamisa Sawadi, a Syrian-born woman who was married to a Saudi, was convicted and sentenced last week for meeting with men who were not her immediate relatives. Saudi law prohibits men and women who are not immediate relatives from mingling.
The two men, including one who was Mrs Sawadi's late husband's nephew, were also found guilty and sentenced to prison terms and lashes.
The elderly woman met the two 24-year-old men last April after she asked them to bring her five loaves of bread, the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported.
The men - identified by Al-Watan as the nephew, Fahd al-Anzi, and his friend and business partner Hadiyan bin Zein - went to Mrs Sawadi's home in the city of al-Chamil, north of the Saudi capital, Riyadh. After delivering the bread, the two men were arrested by a one of the religious police, Al-Watan reported.
The court said it based its March 3 ruling on "citizen information" and testimony from Mr Anzi's father, who accused Mrs Sawadi of corruption.
"Because she said she doesn't have a husband and because she is not a Saudi, conviction of the defendants of illegal mingling has been confirmed," the court verdict read. >>> Telegraph’s Foreign Staff and Agencies, Riyadh | Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
DAILYWILDCAT.COM: The United States observes Black History Month in February, followed by Women's History Month in March. Both celebrate the stories and triumphs of historically oppressed demographics. Though neither group has entirely achieved equality in this country, this election cycle alone has seen huge strides for both African-African and women citizens.[.] Both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin were serious contenders for roles in the White House, and on Jan. 20, Barack Obama became the nation's first black president.
It's easy, especially in the midst of these celebratory months, to pat one's back and congratulate ourselves for the great strides we've made toward equality for all. Meanwhile, a new civil rights fight is brewing right under our national nose, and revealing that we haven't come nearly as far as we'd like to believe.
Last November, three states, including Arizona, voted to constitutionally ban gay marriage. The most notable of these states was California, which passed Proposition 8 with 52 percent of the vote. Prop 8 changed the California State Constitution to include a clause which reads, unequivocally, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
This amendment could nullify the nearly 18,000 same-sex marriages currently recognized in California, since the Supreme Court began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in mid-2008. That act seemed a major moment in the struggle for gay rights. Sadly, those opposed to marriage equality set out immediately to undo that paramount stride. The pro-Prop 8 campaign raised a whopping $43.3 million, making it the highest-funded campaign of the November 2008 election, apart from those of some presidential candidates.
When Prop 8 and the similar propositions in Florida and Arizona passed, the United States took a major step backwards; constitutions were never meant to enshrine prejudice or take rights away from people. Constitutional amendments were fundamentally designed, from the Bill of Rights onward, to protect the freedom of the American people - never to challenge it.
The last major battle in this country over marriage rights was the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, in which the court overturned an 1883 decision to allow bans on miscegenation. The case ended restrictions on marriage based on race, restrictions that had sprung up out of ignorance, hatred, and fear for the future of the American family. >>> By Heather Price-Wright | Monday, March 9, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
WA TODAY: BRITISH officials are helping to establish informal sharia courts in southern Afghanistan to discourage Afghans from turning to the Taliban for justice.
State-sanctioned Islamic and tribal justice in remote regions of Helmand province has led to councils of village and tribal elders adjudicating disputes over land and water rights.
Verdicts based on Islamic law and Pashtun tribal code allow Afghans to bypass the notoriously slow and corrupt Government courts and are aimed at preventing the Taliban from exploiting festering disputes.
"Informal justice is almost what the Taliban started by offering - it is what they continue to focus on," the Foreign Office official leading the effort to rebuild Helmand, Hugh Powell, said.
The Taliban gained power in the mid-1990s by promising order after years of civil war and rule by predatory warlords.
Its courts mete out swift justice and are a popular alternative to the official system.
British officials helping the Afghan Government set up the justice councils acknowledge the new bodies compromise international plans to deliver a modern, largely secular, legal system. >>> Ben Farmer Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan | Monday, 9, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – Australia) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback – Australia) >>>
THE GUARDIAN: Co-opting fighters unlikely to succeed, say critics / Fighters view US overture as sign of weakness
Barack Obama's call for "moderate" Taliban members to be brought in from the cold met with scepticism yesterday from leading Afghan opposition figures, who warned that co-opting fighters would fail as long as Hamid Karzai's government appeared weak and corrupt.
Repeating a successful strategy in Iraq, Obama floated the idea of appealing to Taliban adherents who are alienated by the extremism of al-Qaida fighters and might be prepared to switch sides.
"Part of the success in Iraq involved reaching out to people that we would consider to be Islamic fundamentalists but who were willing to work with us because they had been completely alienated by the tactics of al-Qaida in Iraq," Obama said in an interview published yesterday. "There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and the Pakistani region."
But opposition figures warned that insurgents groups rarely ceded ground when they thought they were winning.
Ashraf Ghani, a former Afghanistan finance minister, who is to stand as presidential candiate in the elections in August, said: "I don't know of a single peace process that has been successfully negotiated from a position of weakness or stalemate."
A Taliban spokesman, who said that the US president's overture was a sign of weakness, poured cold water on the notion that "moderate" fighters could be easily turned. >>> Jon Boone in Kabul | Monday, March 9, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
leJDD.fr: L'Eglise est de nouveau au centre d'une polémique. Le Vatican a justifié lundi l'excommunication prononcée jeudi par l'Eglise brésilienne à l'encontre d'une femme qui avait fait avorter sa fillette de 9 ans, enceinte de jumeaux après avoir été violée par son beau-père. Ce dernier n'a pas été touché par la sanction, car "le viol est moins grave que l'avortement" explique le Vatican.
Après l'affaire Williamson, l'Eglise catholique se paye le luxe d'une nouvelle polémique, qui renforce son image rétrograde sur les questions de société. Le Vatican a officiellement pris parti lundi en faveur de l'Eglise brésilienne, ayant excommunié jeudi dernier une mère qui a fait avorter sa fillette de neuf ans. Violée par son beau-père, l'enfant était enceinte de jumeaux. L'équipe médicale qui a pratiqué l'opération a également été mise au ban de l'Eglise. Le beau-père en revanche, coupable de viol aux yeux de la loi, n'a pas eu à subir les foudres de l'Eglise. "le viol est moins grave que l'avortement", a justifié lundi le cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, préfet de la congrégation pour les évêques au Vatican. "C'est un triste cas, mais le vrai problème est que les jumeaux conçus étaient deux personnes innocentes, qui avaient le droit de vivre et qui ne pouvaient pas être supprimées", a déclaré Mgr Re, qui est également président de la Commission pontificale pour l'Amérique latine. >>> Par M.P., leJDD.fr | Lundi 09 Mars 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Broché) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Relié) >>>
MAIL Online: A Muslim police officer claims he was forced out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a 'f***ing Paki'.
PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly discussed in front of him how they were ' better' than their ethnic-minority colleagues.
The married father of two also claims officers pulled faces at each other if told they had to go out on patrol with him and forced him to walk home from a job instead of picking him up.
Mr Iqbal says he was sacked after fellow-officers in Luton launched a 'smear and witch-hunt campaign' during which they lodged a string of complaints about his performance.
He is taking the Bedfordshire force to an employment tribunal claiming he is the victim of racial and religious discrimination and unfair dismissal.
The claims will add to concern about institutional racism in police forces.
An employment tribunal in London recently heard evidence that an 'apartheid culture' was operated at Belgravia police station, with separate vans for white and black staff.
Mr Iqbal, who was born and raised in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, told the Daily Mail: 'My beard is an important part of my identity which helps other Muslims relate to me. >>> By Andrew Levy | Monday, March 9, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
THE TELEGRAPH: There are nearly three quarters of a million illegal immigrants in Britain, research has suggested.
A study by the London School of Economics suggests that the number of people living in the UK without permission is much higher than previously thought.
The last official estimate of illegal immigration, a Home Office report in 2001, put the figure at 430,000.
Because of the nature of illegal immigration, accurately charting numbers is difficult. The LSE team said the figure lies somewhere between 524,000 and 947,000, with a "midpoint" figure of 725,000.
The LSE study was commissioned by Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, who is advocating a form of amnesty for illegal immigrants, something both the Government and the Conservative Party leadership oppose.
Many illegal immigrants work without paying taxes. Mr Johnson said that it is not realistic to try to find and expel all illegal immigrants, so it is better to try to bring them into the system and make them pay taxes.
"What I am trying to get people to recognise is that there are limits to what the policy to expulsions is able to achieve at the moment. Failing that, and it is failing, we need to think of a better alternative," Mr Johnson told the BBC. >>> | Monday, March 9, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
THE TELEGRAPH: North Korea says it will wage war on America, Japan and South Korea if any attempt is made to intercept the launch of a rocket it claims is intended to put a satellite into space.
It has also cut off its border and telephone links with the South in protest at military exercises by American and South Korean troops which began on Monday.
Plans for a launch were first picked up by satellite imagery, with foreign intelligence agencies saying it was a test of a long-range Taepodong-2 missile with the capacity to hit parts of the United States.
The United States said it would shoot down the missile if it headed towards its territory. Japan has suggested it might try to intercept any launch, even if the payload is a communications satellite as claimed by Pyongyang.
"If the enemies recklessly opt for intercepting our satellite, our revolutionary armed forces will launch without hesitation a just retaliatory strike operation," the general staff of the North Korean army said in a statement on state media. It singled out the United States, Japan and South Korea as targets.
"Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war," it said. >>> By Richard Spencer in Beijing | Monday, March 9, 2009
BERLINER ZEITUNG: Nordkoreas Truppen in voller Kampfbereitschaft
Seoul - Wegen eines Großmanövers der US-Streitkräfte mit Südkorea hat Nordkorea seine Truppen in volle Kampfbereitschaft versetzt und auch die letzte Kommunikationsleitung zum Nachbarland gekappt.
Zugleich warnte die nordkoreanische Volksarmee am Montag vor Versuchen, einen «Satelliten» abzuschießen, den Nordkorea ins All befördern wolle. Ein Abschuss käme einer Kriegserklärung gleich und würde mit Vergeltungsschlägen gegen die USA, Südkorea und Japan beantwortet. Wann der Satellit starten soll, blieb unklar. Für die Dauer des Manövers soll den Angaben zufolge der «heiße Draht» zu Südkorea abgeschnitten werden, der bei Bedarf die Kommunikation zur Lösung akuter Konflikte sicherstellen soll. >>> ©dpa | Montag, 9. März 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
Sunday, March 08, 2009
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: EGLISE | Près de 1500 personnes se sont rassemblées dimanche pour protester contre la politique conservatrice du pape et pour appeler les fidèles à rester dans l'Eglise.
Près de 1500 catholiques se sont rassemblés dimanche à Lucerne pour protester contre la politique conservatrice du pape. Cette manifestation se voulait aussi un appel à ne pas sortir de l'Eglise. >>> ATS | Dimanche 08 Mars 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Broché et Relié) - Livraison gratuite dans toute la Suisse >>>
BOS NEWS LIFE: CAIRO, EGYPT -- A former Muslim who converted to Christianity in Egypt was in hiding Sunday, March 8, after Islamic lawyers demanded that he be executed on charges of "apostasy," Egyptian Christians and rights investigators monitoring the trial said.
Middle East Concern (MEC), an advocacy group with closely follows the case, told BosNewsLife that Maher Ahmad El-Mo’otahssem Bellah El-Gohary has been trying to obtain identification papers with Christianity designated as his religion, despite death threats.
"Maher is involved in a legal battle to officially change his religious registration from Islam to Christianity so that both he and his daughter may be identified as Christians," MEC said.
However at a trial on February 22 some 20 Islamic lawyers strongly opposed that move, MEC and other sources said.
Egyptian law allows Muslim lawyers to become involved in a court case if they believe the outcome will run counter to Islamic law "harmful" to society. "These lawyers described Maher as an apostate from Islam and asked that he be sentenced to death," MEC said. >>> BosNewsLife Middle East Service | Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
BBC: Lord Levy has told the BBC he thinks Tony Blair should consider whether to continue his job as an envoy for the Middle East Quartet.
The former prime minister's ally said he should examine if he had "the time and tools" to help the peace process.
Lord Levy, the former prime minister's representative to the region, was speaking on BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster programme.
He said he should think about what his role was "precisely" going to be.
Asked if he thought Mr Blair should step down, Lord Levy said: "As a friend I would say to him, do you feel you have the time, do you feel you have the tools, to really make a difference in this arena?
"And if you do, then what are you going to do and how are you going to go about it?"
Lord Levy said if there were not enough "ticks in all those boxes" he would advise someone else should take over.
Mr Blair has been criticised for trying to combine business roles, speechmaking and work with his faith foundation with trying to resolve the dispute. >>> | Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
SAUDI GAZETTE: RIYADH – Dialogue among religions and cultures has become a clear and inevitable way to serve humanity, King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, said in an address to the Saudi-French Symposium on dialogue among civilizations which opened here Saturday.
“Based on the eternal principles of Islam which urge justice, equality and peace and call for building, friendship and fraternity among people, I welcome you in this blessed symposium which deals with an important issue of establishing contacts among peoples and transforming feelings of hatred among them into affection and understanding,” the King said in a speech delivered by Dr. Khalid Al-Anqari, Minister of Higher Education.
Saudi and French academics and researchers are participating in the symposium which the King hoped would come out with positive recommendations.
“The issue is civilization dialogue among Saudi and French academics and researchers,” the King said, praying that the dialogue would help replace conflicts and wars with understanding and peace.
The symposium is an outcome of the Madrid Interfaith Conference last July and the subsequent United Nations forum on dialogue among religions and cultures in New York in November. >>> SPA | Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
STERN: Absage aus Moskau: Russlands Präsident Dmitri Medwedew will sich im Streit um den geplanten US-Raketenschild nicht auf politische Tauschgeschäfte mit Washington einlassen. Der Kremlchef lässt damit US-Präsident Barack Obama ins Leere laufen, der Moskau offenbar einen Deal in Sachen Iran vorschlagen wollte.
Der russische Präsident Dmitri Medwedew hat in einer neuen Runde des Streits um die US-Raketenabwehrpläne in Mitteleuropa "Tauschgeschäfte" mit Washington abgelehnt. US-Präsident Barack Obama hatte Medwedew nach einem Bericht der "New York Times" (NYT) angeboten, auf die Aufstellung des Raktenschilds [sic] zu verzichten. Im Gegenzug solle Moskau dabei helfen, die Entwicklung von iranischen Langstreckenraketen zu verhindern.
Russland werde sich nur mit konkreten Vorschlägen zur Raketenabwehr befassen, die den amerikanischen, europäischen und russischen Sicherheitsinteressen genügten, sagte Medwedew am Dienstag nach Angaben der russischen Agentur Interfax bei einem Besuch in Madrid. Politische "Tauschgeschäfte" werde es nicht geben. >>> DPA/AP/Reuters | Dienstag, 3. März 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Taschenbuch) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Gebundene Ausgabe) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
24 HEURES: VATICAN | Le pape Benoît XVI a annoncé dimanche lors de la prière de l'angélus, un "pélerinage" du 8 au 15 mai au cours duquel il priera pour "l'unité et la paix du Moyen-Orient".
La préparation de ce voyage – qui sera le premier du pape dans cette région – avait été évoquée par Benoît XVI lui-même le 12 février lors d'une audience avec une délégation d'organisations juives américaines, mais la confirmation du déplacement et des dates n'avaient pas encore été annoncées. >>> AFP | Dimanche 08 Mars 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Broché et Relié) - Livraison gratuite dans toute la Suisse >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
THE OBSERVER: Rahman Baba, "the Nightingale of Peshawar," was an 18th-century poet and mystic, a sort of North West Frontier version of Julian of Norwich.
He withdrew from the world and promised his followers that if they also loosened their ties with the world, they could purge their souls of worries and move towards direct experience of God. Rituals and fasting were for the pious, said the saint. What was important was to understand that divinity can best be reached through the gateway of the human heart - that we all have paradise within us, if we know where to look.
For centuries, Rahman Baba's shrine at the foot of the Khyber Pass has been a place where musicians and poets have gathered, and his Sufi verses in the Pukhtun language made him the national poet of the Pathans. As a young journalist covering the Soviet-mujahideen conflict I used to visit the shrine to watch Afghan refugee musicians sing their songs to their saint by the light of the moon.
Then, about 10 years ago, a Saudi-funded Wahhabi madrasa was built at the end of the track leading to the shrine. Soon its students took it on themselves to halt what they saw as unIslamic practices. On my last visit, I talked about the situation with the shrine keeper, Tila Mohammed. He described how young Islamists now came and complained that his shrine was a centre of idolatry and superstition: "My family have been singing here for generations," said Tila. "But now these Arab madrasa students come here and create trouble.
"They tell us that what we do is wrong. They ask people who are singing to stop. Sometimes arguments break out - even fist fights. This used to be a place where people came to get peace of mind. Now when they come here they just encounter more problems, so gradually have stopped coming."
"Before the Afghan war, there was nothing like this. But then the Saudis came, with their propaganda, to stop us visiting the saints, and to stop us preaching 'ishq [love]. Now this trouble happens more and more frequently."
Behind the violence lies a long theological conflict that has divided the Islamic world for centuries. Rahman Baba believed passionately in the importance of music, poetry and dancing as a path for reaching God, as a way of opening the gates of Paradise. But this use of poetry and music in ritual is one of the many aspects of Sufi practice that has attracted the wrath of modern Islamists. For although there is nothing in the Qur'an that bans music, Islamic tradition has always associated music with dancing girls and immorality, and there is a long tradition of clerical opposition. >>> William Dalrymple* | Sunday, March 8, 2009
*William Dalrymple 's Last Mughal won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Crossword Indian Book of the Year prize.
William Dalrymple’s website >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
THE BOSTON GLOBE: Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and head of the Freedom Party. In 2008 he released "Fitna," a controversial film about the Koran and jihadist violence. Wilders was condemned as an anti-Muslim agitator but also hailed as a defender of Western values and free speech. In January, a Dutch court ordered Wilders prosecuted for allegedly inciting hatred against Islam. Last month he was invited to screen "Fitna" at Westminster, but the British government barred him from entering the country. He was recently interviewed by Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, who prepared the following edited excerpts:
Q: You've said that England today is more Chamberlain than Churchill. Explain what you mean.
A: Well, Chamberlain was the biggest appeaser to a totalitarian ideology called fascism. Now we face the threat of another totalitarian ideology called Islam, at least according to me. And instead of defending our freedom, defending our values, when I was invited a few weeks ago to show "Fitna" in the House of Lords, they denied me entry to the United Kingdom.
Q: The letter from the British home secretary said: "Your statements about Muslims and their beliefs . . . would threaten community harmony, and therefore public security, in the UK."
A: What really happened is that she was pressured. In the English press, there was a lot of news that Lord Ahmed [Nazir Ahmed, a British peer] threatened to have 10,000 Muslims demonstrating in front of Westminster.
Q: If you were allowed into the country.
A: Yes. And this is what I meant by Chamberlain. The UK government is giving in, appeasing the enemy. They should stand up and say: We might not like the political view of this guy, but he should be allowed to come here and say it. >>> By Geert Wilders | Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – Australia) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback – Australia) >>>
YNET NEWS: For increasingly helpless European Jews Israel is the solution, not the problem
It's hard to believe that this question is being asked [a]gain, but sadly, after 70 years it has emerged nonetheless: Is there room for Jewish existence in Europe? Can Jews continue living as a proud community, in 2009, in that same continent with the terrible memories? The answer, in light of what has been materializing in the past few weeks – yet not only because of this – is negative.
A Jew can no longer walk the streets while displaying Jewish trademarks, or visit Jewish institutions that are not surrounded by police officers and guards; they must remain behind locks and bars, scared for their lives.
Meanwhile, those who hide any Jewish attributes and assimilate into society will continue to live – until they face an unpleasant situation with their colleagues, at school, or anywhere else in life.
In recent months I visited and spoke before several Jewish communities in European countries, including Turkey, France, and Britain – even before the Gaza operation. During the trip I saw with my own eyes the miserable Jewish existence. Yes, if they hide the Star of David and the unique dress, and if they agree that their synagogues will look like locked fortresses, like ghettos in fact, and if they are forced to experience threats on the street and hear about the growing number of anti-Semitic incidents – well, we can say that there is Jewish existence; scared, embarrassed, and submissive.
But what about feeling secure in their countries? There is none of that.
Anti-Semitism is a European phenomenon*, with millions of Muslims sweeping the continent and turning the conflict with Israel and the Jews into a cause that enables them to reinforce their hold on Europe. The global economic crisis is being exploited in order to incite against the Jews and against the investment banks which the world enjoyed for half a century. Yet now, when we see losses, "Jewish money still rules the world," as the South African deputy foreign minister startlingly asserted.
The trend is growing across the world and it has nothing to do with Israel: Israel is the tool used in order to secure achievements. Israel is what the Jews used to be in the past.
When we see, in Turkey or Italy, Jewish-owned stores being marked so the locals refrain from buying there, what kind of future do the children of the 750,000 Jews in Western Europe have? You worked for a country that will always view you as foreigners. Following World War II, you made some countries rich, but now we see a quiet Jewish rally in the Swedish capital being banned because of fears of Muslims violence there. What kind of future do you have in this continent, which is becoming increasingly Muslim? >>> | Friday, March 6, 2009
*Really? What about the anti-Semitism in the Muslim world?
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
WELT ONLINE: In Österreich genießt der Islam bereits seit 1912 staatliche Anerkennung. Umso erschreckender, was die Studie des Islamwissenschaftlers Mouhanad Khorchide jetzt zu Tage bringt: Mehr als 20 Prozent der islamischen Religionslehrer lehnen die Demokratie ab. Auch einige Schulbücher verbreiten Intoleranz.
Es war in der guten alten Zeit der Monarchie: Jeden Freitag betete der Imam in Sarajewo für die katholische Majestät im fernen Wien. Die Bosniaken, eine Elitetruppe der k.u.k. Armee, hatten sogar eigene Militärmuftis. Österreichs Verwaltung errichtete eine Schariatsrichter-Schule in Sarajewo und kreierte ein religiöses Oberhaupt, höchste geistliche Instanz der bosnischen und herzegowinischen Moslems: Die Würde des "Reis-ul-Ulema", des "Führers der Gelehrten", existiert bis heute. 1912 wurde der Islam sunnitischer Prägung für alle habsburgischen Länder als Religionsgemeinschaft offiziell anerkannt. >>> Von Ulrich Weinzierl | Freitag, 6. März 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Taschenbuch) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Gebundene Ausgabe) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: ÉCHEC | Six mois à peine après sa nomination, Nawal al-Samarraï a démissionné. Elle évoque aujourd’hui les raisons de sa colère.
En juillet 2008, Nawal al-Samarraï prenait avec enthousiasme ses fonctions de secrétaire d’Etat aux Affaires féminines à Bagdad. Six mois après, cette gynécologue de 47 ans et mère de cinq enfants jette l’éponge. «Ma démission est un avertissement au gouvernement face à son incapacité à évaluer les besoins des femmes», a-t-elle lancé avant de claquer la porte de son bureau. Que s’est-il passé? A la veille de la Journée internationale des femmes, l’ancienne secrétaire d’Etat fait part de sa colère et de ses frustrations. «Je suis quelqu’un de volontaire, de tenace. J’étais convaincue de pouvoir faire progresser la condition des femmes, mais je me suis heurtée à des montagnes», explique-t-elle à l’AFP. Ecœurée, elle évoque tour à tour le manque de moyens financiers, de ressources humaines et l’autorité limitée dont elle disposait. «La société s’effondre, et moi, j’étais ministre dans un ministère sans budget, sans pouvoir, sans antenne en province. Comment travailler? J’ai protesté, j’ai insisté. Aucune de mes demandes n’a été satisfaite, ou alors très partiellement.» >>> Yannick Van der Schueren, ATS | Samedi 07 Mars 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Broché et Relié) - Livraison gratuite dans toute la Suisse >>>
Saturday, March 07, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Consistency demands that Hizbollah's spokesman be banned from entering Britain.
As The Sunday Telegraph reports today, the Government has yet to decide whether it will allow Dr Ibrahim Moussawi into Britain to give a talk at the University of London next month. Dr Moussawi is a spokesman for Hizbollah, the Islamist group responsible for a string of kidnappings, murders and bombings in Lebanon, and for violent jihad against Israel. He has yet to apply to the Home Office for permission to enter Britain for next month's lecture, but he has applied for, and been granted, a visa to visit this country twice before.
Not surprisingly, there have been some profound objections raised to allowing him into Britain again. Baroness Neville-Jones, the Conservatives' security spokesman, has noted in a letter to the Home Secretary that there should be "no double standards" on extremists, a view echoed by Douglas Murray, the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion. The Government, having banned Geert Wilders, the Right-wing Dutch MP who compares the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf, from entering Britain, should not allow Dr Moussawi to come here.
As defenders of the right to free speech, we take the view that it would be better that both individuals should be allowed to speak in Britain, rather than that neither should. However, the objectors to Dr Moussawi are correct when they say that consistency in the application of the law is essential to its credibility and its justification. There can be no consistent justification for the Home Office allowing Dr Moussawi into Britain after it has prohibited Mr Wilders. >>> Telegraph view | Saturday, March 7, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Campaigners Will Seek Arrest of Islamic Radical
Campaigners from the Centre for Social Cohesion have pledged to seek an arrest warrant for Dr Ibrahim Moussawi, an Islamic extremist, who is due to visit Britain this March.
The think-tank said the Home Office would be "beyond hypocrisy" if it allowed Dr Ibrahim Moussawi into Britain just weeks after barring Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician, because of his alleged anti-Muslim views.
Dr Moussawi is a spokesman for the Lebanese-based militant group Hizbollah, the military arm of which is banned in Britain as a terrorist organisation.
He has allegedly called Jews "a lesion on the forehead of history" and said of Israel: "Pain is the only language that the enemy understands."
Douglas Murray, director of the CSC, has written to Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, warning her that he will instruct lawyers to seek an arrest warrant for Dr Moussawi if he is allowed into the country. >>> By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent | Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
THE TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama's offhand approach to Gordon Brown's Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America's economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.
Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been "overwhelmed" by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.
British officials, meanwhile, admit that the White House and US State Department staff were utterly bemused by complaints that the Prime Minister should have been granted full-blown press conference and a formal dinner, as has been customary. They concede that Obama aides seemed unfamiliar with the expectations that surround a major visit by a British prime minister.
But Washington figures with access to Mr Obama's inner circle explained the slight by saying that those high up in the administration have had little time to deal with international matters, let alone the diplomatic niceties of the special relationship.
Allies of Mr Obama say his weary appearance in the Oval Office with Mr Brown illustrates the strain he is now under, and the president's surprise at the sheer volume of business that crosses his desk.
A well-connected Washington figure, who is close to members of Mr Obama's inner circle, expressed concern that Mr Obama had failed so far to "even fake an interest in foreign policy".
A British official conceded that the furore surrounding the apparent snub to Mr Brown had come as a shock to the White House. "I think it's right to say that their focus is elsewhere, on domestic affairs. A number of our US interlocutors said they couldn't quite understand the British concerns and didn't get what that was all about."
The American source said: "Obama is overwhelmed. There is a zero sum tension between his ability to attend to the economic issues and his ability to be a proactive sculptor of the national security agenda.
"That was the gamble these guys made at the front end of this presidency and I think they're finding it a hard thing to do everything." >>> By Tim Shipman in Washington | Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Taschenbuch) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Gebundene Ausgabe) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
YAHOO! ITALIA: Il segretario di Stato Usa Hillary Clinton ha indicato la Turchia oggi come prova del fatto che democrazia e Islam possono coesistere, annunciando che Barack Obama visiterà l'alleato Nato nella sua prima visita come presidente in una nazione musulmana.
La scelta della Turchia -- secolare democrazia musulmana che aspira ad entrare nell'Unione europea -- riflette il valore che Washington attribuisce al legame con Ankara nel suo tentativo di migliorare i rapporti con il mondo islamico.
"Democrazia e modernità e Islam possono coesistere", ha detto Clinton ad Ankara nel corso del popolare show tv Hadi Gel Bizimle (Unisciti a noi). >>> ©Reuters | Sabato 07 Marzo 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – Italy) >>>
TAGES ANZEIGER: In Griechenland geht die Serie von Anschlägen autonomer Gruppen weiter.
Vermummte Täter schleuderten in der Nacht zum Samstag mehrere Brandflaschen auf die Büros und den Parkplatz einer Filiale der Elektrizitätsgesellschaft DEI in der Hafenstadt Thessaloniki. >>> mbr/sda | Samstag, 7. März 2009
NZZ Online: Autonome setzen Anschlagsserie in Griechenland fort
Vermummte attackieren Polizisten
In Griechenland geht die Serie von Anschlägen autonomer Gruppen weiter. In der Nacht zum Sonntag entzündeten Unbekannte in Athen mehrere Haushalts-Gasflaschen vor zwei Filialen des Arbeitsamtes und eines Sportartikelgeschäftes. Dabei entstanden erhebliche Schäden. >>> sda/dpa | Sonntag, 8. März 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Taschenbuch und Gebundene Ausgabe) – Versandkostenfrei innerhalb der Schweiz >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback/Broché – Canada) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback/Relié – Canada) >>>
WORLD NET DAILY: If President Reagan's foreign policy with communist nations, Muslim dictatorships and other various evil empires like North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Libya, China and the old Soviet Union was characterized by the philosophy "Peace through strength," then surely it can be argued that Obama's foreign policy philosophy is "Peace through begging." >>> Ellis Washington | Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
ASSYRIAN INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCY (AINA): KARTMIN, TURKEY -- Christians have lived in these parts since the dawn of their faith. But they have had a rough couple of millennia, preyed on by Persian, Arab, Mongol, Kurdish and Turkish armies.
Each group tramped through the rocky highlands that now comprise Turkey's southeastern border with Iraq and Syria.
The current menace is less bellicose but is deemed a threat nonetheless. A group of state land surveyors and Muslim villagers are intent on shrinking the boundaries of an ancient monastery by more than half. The monastery, called Mor Gabriel, is revered by the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Battling to hang on to the monastic lands, Bishop Timotheus Samuel Aktas is fortifying his defenses. He's hired two Turkish lawyers -- one Muslim, one Christian -- and mobilized support from foreign diplomats, clergy and politicians.
Also giving a helping hand, says the bishop, is Saint Gabriel, a predecessor as abbot who died in the seventh century: "We still have four of his fingers." Locked away for safekeeping, the sacred digits are treasured as relics from the past -- and a hex on enemies in the present.
The outcome of the land dispute is now in the hands of a Turkish court. Seated below a bust of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's secular founding father, a robed judge on Wednesday told the feuding parties that he would issue a ruling after he visits the disputed territory himself next month. >>> By Andrew Higgins, WSJ | Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
RIGHT SIDE NEWS: UNITED NATIONS -- For the last nine years, the U.N.'s annual ban on defaming Islam has been non-binding. In March, the United Nations may try to impose its view on Islamic blasphemy on all of its member nations -- including the United States -- thus making criticism of Islam a crime.
In December, the U.N. General Assembly, as it has every year since 1999, passed a resolution titled "Combating Defamation of Religions." The vote was 86-53, with 42 nations abstaining. The United States opposed the measure.
Originally titled "Defamation of Islam," the name of the resolution has changed over the years but not the intent. The only religion mentioned in the seven-page document is Islam.
The resolution's main sponsor is the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference. Critics charge the OIC's membership, which includes Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia, reads like a Who's Who of religious intolerance.
Saudi Arabia has its own religious police force that cracks down on those who violate the Kingdom's hyper-strict Islamic dress and behavior codes. >>> By Chuck Hustmyre | Friday, March 6, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
THE TELEGRAPH: Barack Obama will visit Turkey next month, fulfilling a campaign pledge to travel to a Muslim country during his first 100 days in power.
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, made the announcement on Saturday as she met with the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking to enlist Turkish help in moving forward the Middle East peace process.
Mr Obama's visit to Turkey will be an opening step in his long-standing promise to improve relations with the Muslim world. The visit, which will follow the G20 summit in London on April 2, is expected to coincide with the Second Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations, due to be held in Istanbul on April 6 and 7. The forum seeks to "address some of the ongoing tensions and divides across cultures and religions".
Making a major speech there on US-Muslim relations will enable Mr Obama to tick off another campaign promise. Although by choosing Turkey, which is generally regarded a bastion of moderate Islam, he will opting for a less challenging political environment than if he were to travel to the heart of the Arab world. >>> By Tim Shipman in Washington | Saturday, March 7, 2009
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Obama Visit to Turkey Will Not Include Major Speech
WASHINGTON — President Obama will visit Turkey next month as part of a broader international trip, but an administration official said on Saturday that it would not be the site of the major address that he pledged to deliver in a Muslim capital during the opening months of his administration. >>> | By The New York Times | Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback – USA)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardcover – USA)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Taschenbuch) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Gebundene Ausgabe) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback/Broché – Canada) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback/Relié – Canada) >>>
THE GUARDIAN: When the Iraqi journalist, Muntazar al-Zaidi, hurled his shoes at the then-US president, George Bush, in December, Iranian officials declared him a hero and hailed his gesture as a mark of Islamic courage.
They were presumably less impressed this week when Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was similarly targeted during a visit to the north-western city of Urumiye.
Ahmadinejad found the shoe on the other foot as he waved to the crowd from an open-top car on his way to give a speech at a local stadium.
An Iranian website, Urumiye News, reported that a shoe was hurled at the president as his convoy drove through a central square. Security guards waded into the crowds but failed to find the culprit. >>> Robert Tait | Friday, March 6, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
LE FIGARO: La main tendue par Barack Obama suscite un débat entre durs et modérés à l'approche de la présidentielle de juin.
Ses premiers pas sont suivis à la loupe. Certains, à Téhéran, ont même trouvé une explication à son nom. «En persan, O-ba-ma signifie Lui (qui est) avec nous», sourit Ahmad, un jeune chauffeur de taxi. Mais si la main tendue à l'Iran par le nouveau président américain anime les conversations, elle est loin de faire consensus au sein de la classe politique iranienne. «À Téhéran, comme à Washington, personne ne semble vouloir se précipiter. Il y a différents points de vue qui circulent. Les dirigeants iraniens avancent à tâtons», constate le politologue iranien Ahmad Bakhshayesh.
Les deux pays n'ont plus de relations diplomatiques depuis trente ans. D'un côté comme de l'autre, les plaies du passé restent vives. À Washington, personne ne veut oublier le traumatisme de la prise d'otage, en 1979, à l'ambassade américaine. À Téhéran, le souvenir du coup d'État américano-britannique contre l'ancien premier ministre Mohammad Mossadegh, en 1953, alimente le doute sur les «réelles intentions» des États-Unis.
À l'approche de la présidentielle du 12 juin prochain, la question du dialogue avec Washington alimente le débat dans la campagne électorale. Mohammad Khatami, candidat officiellement déclaré, n'hésite pas à épingler son rival, l'ultraconservateur Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, en lui reprochant sa politique belliqueuse envers l'Occident. Les durs, eux, accusent, à l'inverse, l'entourage de l'ex-président réformateur de vouloir «vendre son âme» à l'Amérique. Un journal de droite est même allé jusqu'à promettre à Khatami «un destin à la Benazir Bhutto», en référence à l'ex-premier ministre pakistanaise, soutenue par les États-Unis et assassinée en 2007. >>> Delphine Minoui | Vendredi 06 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Broché) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Relié) >>>
WELT ONLINE: Der nächste Generalsekretär der Nato könnte Anders Fogh Rasmussen heißen. Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien wollen den dänischen Premier auf diesen Posten befördern. Noch müssen die USA zustimmen, was aber als sicher gilt. Ein anderes Nato-Mitglied hat allerdings große Bedenken gegen Rasmussen.
Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien haben sich laut einem Zeitungsbericht auf den dänischen Ministerpräsidenten Anders Fogh Rasmussen als neuen Nato-Generalsekretär geeinigt. >>> dpa/AFP/cn | Samstag, 7. März 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Taschenbuch) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Gebundene Ausgabe) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
DIE PRESSE: Grund für den Abbruch waren Aussagen einer Politikers, der Iran hätte Souveränität über Bahrain. Marokko hat sich schon in der Vergangenheit solidarisch mit Bahrain gezeigt.
Marokko hat im Zusammenhang mit Äußerungen eines iranischen Politikers zur Souveränität Bahrains die diplomatischen Beziehungen zu Teheran abgebrochen. Dies berichtete die marokkanische Nachrichtenagentur MAP am Freitag in Rabat. Aus dem Iran lag zunächst keine Reaktion vor.
Anfang Februar hatte ein konservativer iranischer Politiker laut Medienberichten erklärt, der Iran habe Souveränität über das Scheichtum und damit eine diplomatische Krise ausgelöst. Verschiedene arabische Länder hatten sich seitdem mit Bahrain solidarisiert. >>> Ag | Freitag, 6. März 2009
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Morocco Cuts Off Diplomatic Relations with Iran, Accusing Tehran of Spreading Shia Islam
RABAT, Morocco — Morocco cut off diplomatic relations with Iran on Friday, accusing Tehran in a rare public spat of trying to spread Shia Islam in this Sunni Arab kingdom. The tensions were compounded by recent Iranian comments toward Sunni-led Bahrain that have raised hackles in the Arab world, Morocco's Foreign Ministry said. The ministry accused largely Shiite Iran's Embassy in Rabat of trying to "alter the religious fundamentals of the kingdom" and threaten Morocco's religious unity. The ministry, in a statement, called Iran's actions "intolerable interference in the internal affairs of the kingdom." >>> By Alfred de Montesquiou | Associated Press Writer | Friday, March 6, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Taschenbuch) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Gebundene Ausgabe) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
DIE PRESSE: Die US-Außenministerin wird sich am Samstag Staatspräsident Gül, Regierungschef Erdogan and Außenminister Babacan treffen. Am Abend wird Clinton in einer türkischen Talkshow zu sehen sein.
US-Außenministerin Hillary Clinton ist am Samstag zu Gesprächen mit der türkischen Regierung in Ankara eingetroffen. Es sind Begegnungen mit Staatspräsident Gül, Regierungschef Erdogan and Außenminister Babacan geplant. Im Mittelpunkt der Unterredungen mit dem NATO-Partner Türkei dürften unter anderem die Abzugspläne der USA aus dem Irak und der Nahost-Konflikt stehen. >>> APA | Samstag, 7. März 2009
LE PARISIEN.fr: Hillary Clinton en Turquie sous le signe d'un partenariat renouvelé
La secrétaire d'Etat américaine Hillary Clinton a entamé samedi ses entretiens à Ankara visant à améliorer les relations stratégiques des Etats-Unis avec son allié turc, mises à mal par la question irakienne sous l'administration Bush.
"C'est un honneur de visiter de nouveau" la Turquie, cette fois "pour mettre l'accent sur les efforts que doivent faire les Etats-Unis et la Turquie" en matière de "paix" et de "prospérité", a-t-elle déclaré à la presse après avoir visité le mausolée d'Atatürk, fondateur de la Turquie moderne (1881-1938).
Mme Clinton était déjà venue en Turquie en 1999 pour y accompagner son époux Bill, alors président des Etats-Unis. >>> AFP | Samedi 07 Mars 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Taschenbuch) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Gebundene Ausgabe) – Deutschland & Österreich >>>
LE PARISIEN.fr: Deux mois et demi après la fin de l'opération israélienne à Gaza, le Premier ministre palestinien Salam Fayyad a présenté la démission de son gouvernement au président Mahmoud Abbas. Une façon d'ouvrir la voie à un cabinet de «consensus national» dans le cadre d'une réconciliation avec le Hamas. Ce nouveau gouvernement pourrait permettre d'apaiser la haine réciproque qui oppose le Fatah de Mahmoud Abbas au mouvement islamiste du Hamas qui contrôle de fait la bande de Gaza.
Ancien haut fonctionnaire de la Banque mondiale et du Fonds monétaire international, Salam Fayyad a été nommé en juin 2007 après le limogeage du gouvernement formé par le Hamas. Le mouvement islamiste, qui a remporté les élections parlementaires palestiniennes en janvier 2006, a toujours considéré illégitime le gouvernement de M. Fayyad et estimé que le seul cabinet légal était celui d'Ismaïl Haniyeh.
«Le Hamas ne regrette pas la démission de Fayyad et de son gouvernement, a déclaré le porte-parole du parti islamiste à Gaza. Ceci est la fin que nous attendions car ce gouvernement est illégitime et illégal et construit sur des politiques erronées liées à la politique américaine». >>> Leparisien.fr avec AFP | Samedi 07 Mars 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Broché) >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Relié) >>>
Friday, March 06, 2009
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE: A British campaigning group has hit out at plans that would allow current financial arrangements to be altered to allow Sharia-compliant bonds to be issued.
The warning comes from two bodies, the Christian Legal Centre and Christian Concern for Our Nation (CCFON). They spoke out after changes were recommended to the Legislative Framework for the Regulation of Alternative Finance Investment Bonds (Sukuk). They say that if the changes are accommodated, the British Government would be ‘capitulating’ to Islamic religious law.
The subject of Sharia law has been hotly debated in the UK following comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury when he said that it "seems inevitable" that some parts of sharia would be enshrined in this country's legal code. Earlier this week the former Prime Minister Tony Blair backed the Archbishop. He commented in The Church of England Newspaper: "I thought at the time all this was a lot of fuss over nothing."
But in a written submission to the Treasury, the Christian Legal Centre and CCFON said that any change could radically change the fundamental basis of British society through its financial regulation. >>> By Judy West | Friday, March 6, 2009
NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY: Raise Your Voice against Sharia Law
The demonstration and meeting to protest at the introduction of sharia law into Britain will take place Saturday 7 March in Central London. We urge you to be there.
The One Law for All Campaign is calling on members and supporters of the NSS to come along to the demo and raise their voice against the rising clamour for official recognition of the pernicious sharia system of injustice. We will also be objecting to all religious-based tribunals that operate here of any religion. >>> | Friday, March 6, 2009
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
GloomBoomDoom >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Paperback (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
The Dawning of a New Dark Age – Hardcover (US) Barnes & Noble >>>
Beware! Allah will be be enraged if you don't grow your beards in the style of the prophet of Islam! Don't say you haven't been warned!
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback & Hardback) – Free delivery >>>
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)