Saturday, January 10, 2015
Paris Shooting: Hero Police Officer Who Begged For His Life Was Married Muslim
Chilling footage of the attack on the satirical magazine offices shows Ahmed Merabet on the ground and begging for mercy as he is killed by a gunshot to the head.
After being shot the first time, the gunmen wearing balaclavas and wielding Kalashnikov rifles are seeing running past the police officer - who had his hands up in surrender - before they shoot him again point-blank as he lies on the pavement outside the offices in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Mr Merabet, 42, is reportedly said to have asked his killers "Do you want to kill me?" before they allegedly replied: "Okay chief." He is survived by his wife. » | Rebecca Perring | Friday, January 09, 2015
«Sie haben den Propheten Gottes beleidigt»
Zahlreiche Zeitungen kritisierten am Samstag die von Islamisten verursachte Gewalt. Beispielsweise schrieb die überregionale arabische Tageszeitung «Al-Sharq al-Awsat» von einem «Tag des Horrors», die ägyptische «Al-Masri al-Joum» titelte: «Frankreich nimmt Rache für die Opfer». Die ägyptische Zeitung «Al-Masri al-Joum» zeigte einen mit einem Stift bewaffneter Zeichner, der ein gehörntes Ungeheuer jagt, auf dem «Intoleranz» geschrieben steht.
Mit einem Doppelschlag hatte die französische Polizei am Freitag zwei Geiselnahmen beendet und dabei drei Islamisten getötet, darunter auch die beiden Brüder, die den Anschlag auf das Satiremagazin verübt haben sollen. Handyaufnahmen belegten, dass die Attentäter nach ihrem Massaker in der Redaktion des Satiremagazins «Charlie Hebdo» «Allahu Akbar» – «Gott ist gross» – gerufen hatten. Insgesamt gab es innerhalb von drei Tagen 20 Tote. » | Samstag, 10. Januar 2015
US Use of Shannon Airport Makes Ireland a Target - Anjem Choudary
Ireland is a legitimate target for attack because of its decision to allow American planes refuel at Shannon Airport on their way to bombing Muslim countries, a radical Muslim preacher based in the UK has warned today.
Anjem Choudary, who has described those behind the 9/11 attacks in the US as ‘magnificent martyrs’, warned that Muslims fighting American foreign policy do not see Ireland as a neutral country because of its willingness to allow American planes refuel at Shannon.
“You allow the Americans, who are the biggest butchers in the world, to stop at Shannon Airport to refuel and go on to kill people in Muslim countries... if you believe the Americans are terrorists, the Irish government is colluding with them and aiding and abetting terrorism,” he said. » | Barry Roche | Friday, January 09, 2015
As Search Goes On, French Premier Declares War on Radical Islam
“It is a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything that is aimed at breaking fraternity, freedom, solidarity,” Mr. Valls said during a speech in Evry, south of Paris. » | Dan Bilefsky and Maïa de la Baume | Saturday, January 10, 2015
Stop Pretending Terrorism Has Nothing To Do With Islam
Guess what? An idea isn’t a human being. Neither is a sacred cow. And those who confront, dismiss, debunk, sneer at and fear them aren’t necessarily bigots.
Not long ago, Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes for blasphemy. His first 50 lashes will be publicly administered this week. Taking them all at once would kill the guy. But, then again, Badawi might be fortunate to be alive at all. The theocratic monarchs of Saudi Arabia don’t need the terrorists to punish their satirists, they can get the job done in-house.
I don’t know about you, but I’m lash-phobic. I tend, as a matter of principle, to have a low opinion of people who dispense lashes. Religion, of course, is merely incidental to Badawi’s fate–as it is in the massacre of journalists in Paris or the bloodbath in Nigeria, where Boko Haram may have killed 2000 people this week. Or so I’m told. All of these instances of violence are perpetrated by random people, who by some happenstance share the same religious affiliation.
And to bring this up–according to Vox and other some outlets–may be Islamophobic. Islamophobia is defined, at least by Wikipedia (and it’s fair to say it’s a pretty decent reflection of how we use the word), as a term for prejudice against, hatred towards, or fear of the religion of Islam, Muslims, or of ethnic groups perceived to be Muslim.
Only half of this definition should be true. Most often, only half of it is. The late Christopher Hitchens never actually said “Islamophobic is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons,” but he did call it a “stupid neologism” that “aims to promote criticism of Islam to the gallery of special offenses associated with racism.” » | David Harsanyi | Friday, January 09, 2015
Paris Attack Highlights Europe's Struggle with Islamism
In rational, post-Enlightenment Europe, religion has long since been relegated to a safe space, with Judaism and Christianity the safe targets of satire in secular western societies.
Not so Islam. The battle within Islam itself between Sunni and Shia, so evident in the wars of the Middle East, and the fight between extremist interpretations of Islam such as those of Islamic State and Muslims who wish to practice their religion in peace, is now being played out on the streets of Europe with potentially devastating consequences for social cohesion.
These latest shootings may be the work of "lone wolves" but their consequences will ripple across Europe and provoke much soul-searching about the failure of integration over the past decades.
Immigrant communities are already being viewed with increasing suspicion in both France and Germany, with their significant Muslim populations, and even in the UK. » | Caroline Wyatt, Religious affairs correspondent, BBC News | Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Friday, January 09, 2015
Pegida und AfD kultivieren die gefühlte Gefahr durch den Islam
Seit Spätherbst demonstrieren in Dresden regelmässig Tausende gegen eine angebliche islamische Gefahr. Jetzt, nach dem Anschlag von Paris, fühlen sich die selbsternannten «Patriotischen Europäer gegen eine Islamisierung des Abendlandes» (Pegida) in ihrer Furcht bestätigt. «Die Islamisten, vor denen Pegida seit nunmehr 12 Wochen warnt, haben in Frankreich gezeigt, dass sie eben nicht demokratiefähig sind, sondern auf Gewalt und Tod als Lösung setzen», heisst es auf der Facebook-Seite der Bewegung. Die nächste Pegida-Demo vom Montag soll deswegen in «Demut und Trauer und in Solidarität mit den Familien der französischen Redaktoren» stattfinden. Teilnehmer sind dazu aufgerufen, schwarzen Trauerflor zu tragen. » | Tages-Anzeiger | Donnerstag, 08. Januar 2015
The Muslim Occupation of Europe
France will hesitate on the day after the attack against satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and its leaders will say a few words of grief and threaten the Muslim world. The French police will continue searching for the three terrorists who murdered a dozen people in the heart of Paris on Wednesday.
But France will not say out loud what millions in Europe are thinking in their hearts: It's either them, the Muslims, or us, the Europeans (most of whom are Christian Catholic).
The Muslim empire struck again on Wednesday, and it will strike the European community, which it envies, again and again. Millions of Muslims have already occupied a significant part of Europe's countries a long time ago.
The Muslim invasion of the continent requires every European politician to consider the many voices of the Muslim population. Even a European politician who despises the Muslims, their religion and their lifestyle would be unwilling to risk making harsh comments, although he is expected to make them, at least today. » | Eitan Haber | Thursday, January 08, 2015
Islam vs. West: An Ongoing Clash of Civilizations
It would be a big mistake to see the terror attack in Paris as an attack on the freedom of the press. Such a statement puts the massacre in the French capital in line with attacks against journalists by members of a Colombian drug cartel or the Chechen mafia.
That's not the case. The goal of the attack on the office of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was not to frighten newspaper editors so that they would not publish one cartoon or another. The goal was to show and prove who controls the streets and consciousness of the French Republic: The Western liberalism or the fanatical Islam.
This is a clash of civilizations, not a gang's intimidation campaign.
Many in Europe are finding it difficult to accept this perspective, let alone agree with it. As far as they are concerned, the Muslim terror in the continent has no supreme goal apart from just sowing terror. » | Sever Plocker | Friday, January 09, 2015
Radical Cleric Abu Hamza Jailed for Life by US Court
He was convicted in May of multiple charges, including hostage-taking and plotting to set up a terrorism training camp in the US.
His trial followed a lengthy extradition process from the UK.
During the sentencing, his lawyers asked the judge to take into account his missing hands and eye.
They also argued a plan to imprison Abu Hamza in Colorado's Supermax federal prison would violate assurances the US made to judges in London to secure his 2012 extradition.
Prosecutors argued on Friday that the US government had never made such a promise to the UK and life in prison was the only appropriate sentence. » | Friday, January 09, 2015
"Charlie Hebdo": Marine Le Pen regrette d'être la seule à parler de "fondamentalisme islamiste"
La présidente du FN Marine Le Pen a regretté vendredi être la seule responsable politique, selon elle, à parler de guerre contre le "fondamentalisme islamiste" après l'attentat contre Charlie Hebdo. À l'issue d'une rencontre à l'Élysée avec François Hollande, elle a également affirmé à la presse avoir demandé au chef de l'État diverses mesures en réponse à cette attaque sanglante de mercredi, dont la suspension de l'appartenance de la France à l'espace Schengen. D'après elle, "il faut se mettre en situation de répondre à la guerre déclarée par le fondamentalisme islamiste". "J'ai regretté d'ailleurs que ce mot n'ait pas été prononcé ni par lui ni par d'autres responsables politiques. La première des choses quand on veut mener la guerre, c'est d'être capable de savoir contre qui on se bat. On se bat contre une idéologie, celle du fondamentalisme islamiste. Ne pas le dire, c'est déjà une preuve de faiblesse", a accusé la fille de Jean-Marie Le Pen. » | Source AFP | vendredi 09 janvier 2015
Our Politicians Like Talking About Free Speech. Now Will They Let Us Have It?
As a victim of terrorism myself, when the terrorists strike as they have done in Paris, my first thoughts are for the victims, their families and friends.
After that of course we begin to think more deeply about the factors behind the outrages.
We should not discount the existence in all societies of a tiny minority of mentally ill, psychopathic individuals seeking notoriety by committing particularly foul crimes.
When such people live in minority communities harbouring resentment and grudges against the mainstream society, there is a natural seed bed for the cultivation of the grapes of wrath.
Mr Farage put that more bluntly with his comments about fifth columns within multicultural societies. That is, groups within minority cultural groups who work for the overthrow of the broader society in which they live. Or once again as Mr Farage put it: "people living in these countries (Britain and France) holding our passports who hates us." » | Norman Tebbit | Friday, January 09, 2015
Antisemitism in France: The Exodus Has Begun
The least surprising thing about today’s turn of events in Paris is that Jews are the target. Because when it comes to home grown anti-Semitism, France leads the world.
A survey last year from the European Jewish Congress and Tel Aviv University found that France had more violent anti-semitic incidents in 2013 than any other country in the world. Jews were the target of 40 per cent of all racist crimes in France in 2013 – even though they comprise less than 1 per cent of the population. Attacks on Jews have risen sevenfold since the 1990s.
No wonder Jewish emigration from France is accelerating. From being the largest Jewish community in the EU at the start of this decade, with a population of around 500,000, it is expected by Jewish community leaders to have fallen to 400,000 within a few years. That figure is thought by some to be too optimistic. Anecdotally, every French Jew I know has either already left or is working out how to leave. » | Stephen Pollard | Friday, January 09, 2015
'Hacktivist' Group Anonymous Says It Will Avenge Charlie Hebdo Attacks by Shutting Down Jihadist Websites
Hacker group Anonymous have released a video and a statement via Twitter condemning the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people, including eight journalists, were murdered.
The video description says that it is "a message for al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists", and was uploaded to the group's Belgian account.
In the clip, a figure wearing the group's symbolic Guy Fawkes mask is seated in front of a desk with the hashtag #OpCharlieHebdo - which stands for Operation Charlie Hebdo - featured on screen.
The figure, whose voice is obscured says: "We are declaring war against you, the terrorists." » | Keely Lockhart, Video source YouTube / anonymous belgique | Friday, January 09, 2015
Islamists Slam Kuwaiti Lawmaker for Call to Allow Dancing, Alcohol
Nabil Fadhl provoked angry objections from fellow members of parliament when he proposed repeal of a 2004 law that prohibited dancing at concerts and festivals as contrary to the mores of Islam that dictate separation of unrelated men and women in public.
Asked by Islamist lawmakers -- apparently with sarcasm -- whether he also would support the legalization of alcohol, Fadhl reportedly replied, "Why not?" He said that drinking was tolerated in earlier times and that banning alcohol had led to the emergence of a black market where a bottle of spirits can be sold for more than $400. » | Carol J. Williams | Monday, January 05, 2015
Saudi Rights Advocate Flogged On Charge Of Insulting Islam
Rights activists citing eyewitness reports said Raif Badawi, who had previously run a reformist website, was lashed outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, following Friday prayers. The flogging was the first of 20 such sessions mandated by Badawi’s sentence -- a total of 1,000 lashes, 50 lashes at a time.
Badawi was also sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined more than $250,000. » | Laura King | LA Times | Reporting from Cairo | Friday, January 09, 2015
Obama’s Remarks on Paris Shooting ‘Shariah-compliant’
UNITED NATIONS – By refusing to associate the Paris terrorist attacks with Islam, President Obama is engaging in “Shariah compliant” speech, charges Joy Brighton, author of the 2014 book “Sharia-ism is Here: The Battle to Control Women; and Everyone Else.”
“President Obama defends free speech vehemently, and the press lauds him for this; however, he refuses to use the words “Islam,” “radical Islam,” “Muslim,” “jihad” or “Shariah” when condemning the Shariah-driven shootings in Paris,” she said.
Shariah is Islamic law, the moral code of Islam that encompasses all realms of life, from the personal to the criminal, economic and political. In addition to Obama’s comments Wednesday in the immediate aftermath of the Paris shooting, Brighton referenced his speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York Sept. 25, 2012, in which he said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” » | Jerome R. Corsi | Thursday, January 08, 2015
Salafism Spreads as Europe Fiddles
The jihadist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine known for lampooning Islam, has cast a glaring light on the growing problem of Muslim radicalization in Europe.
While there are millions of European Muslims who worship in peace and pose no threat whatsoever to others, increasing numbers of Muslims on the continent are embracing a radical form of Islam and its call to wage violent jihad against all nonbelievers for the sake of Allah.
The trend can be seen in the increasing appeal of Salafism, the fastest-growing Islamic movement in Europe.
Salafism takes its name from the Arabic term salaf, which means predecessors or ancestors. Salafists trace their roots to Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad, and glorify an idealized vision of what they claim is the true, original Islam practiced by the earliest generations of Muslims, including Muhammad and his companions and followers, in the 7th and 8th centuries.
The aim of Salafism is to re-create a pure form of Islam in the modern era. » | Soren Kern | New York Daily News | Friday, January 09, 2015
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Al-Qaeda Plotting Attack on Britain
Al-Qaeda is planning a Paris-style terrorist atrocity against Britain, according to the head of MI5.
Andrew Parker, the Director General of the Security Service, warned that the threat of a “mass casualty attack” was growing and that intelligence pointed to the existence of specific plots.
Security was stepped up yesterday at British ports, and armed police were put on patrol at the Eurostar terminal at London’s St Pancras station.
Mr Parker warned that although three terrorist plots had been foiled in recent months, it was almost inevitable that one would eventually succeed. » | Tom Whitehead, Security Editor | Thursday, January 08, 2015
Pegida: Kundgebung in Wien geplant
Die deutsche Pegida-Bewegung dürfte nun offenbar auch auf Österreich überschwappen. Der Wiener Ableger der Bewegung gegen die "Islamisierung des Abendlandes" plant für 2. Februar eine erste Kundgebung, wie die "Wiener Zeitung" berichtete. Laut einem Eintrag auf der Facebook-Seite von Pegida Wien stehen die Organisatoren derzeit noch in der Planungsphase. » | Von apa/red | Donnerstag, 08. Januar 2015
Attacke in Paris - Reaktionen
"Demokratische Gesellschaften wie unsere dürfen sich dadurch nicht einschüchtern lassen. Wir müssen weiterhin unsere Grundwerte wie die Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit mit Nachdruck verteidigen.", sagte Kurz laut einer Aussendung am Mittwoch.
Strache verurteilt Terrorakt
Über die Attacke auf das Satiremagazin "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris herrscht in Österreich Entsetzen. Nach Außenminister Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) brachte auch FPÖ-Chef Heinz-Christian Strache sein Mitgefühl zum Ausdruck und verurteilte den Terrorakt. Er wünsche "den französischen Behörden viel Erfolg für eine rasche Ergreifung der feigen Mörder und ihrer Hintermänner." » | APA | Mittwoch, 07. Januar 2015
Europe’s Islam Debate Erupts as Paris Killers at Large
The rhetoric varied in intensity across the European Union’s 28 countries, each with its own religious and social phobias, many gripped by an economic recession that makes convenient scapegoats out of immigrants -- especially those with veils, turbans and non-white skin.
“I wish my daughter will be free tomorrow to go around without a veil and without any fears,” Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League, said on Twitter. Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, spoke on LBC radio of a “Fifth Column” gnawing away at Britain and “a really rather gross policy of multi-culturalism.” Geert Wilders, head of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, said it is time to “de-Islamize our country.” » | James G. Neuger | Thursday, January 08, 2015
Charlie Hebdo Attack: Magazine to Publish Next Week
Ten journalists and two police were killed when masked attackers opened fire at its Paris headquarters.
Columnist Patrick Pelloux said the decision to continue to publish will show that "stupidity will not win".
It will have a print run of one million copies, compared with its usual 60,000 a week.
It will be half its usual length at eight pages long. » | Thursday, January 08, 2015
Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have 'Sex Disorders'
Fetishism, exhibitionism and voyeurism are also included as "mental disorders" now barring people from driving.
The government says it is tightening medical controls for drivers because Russia has too many road accidents.
"Pathological" gambling and compulsive stealing are also on the list. Russian psychiatrists and human rights lawyers have condemned the move.
The announcement follows international complaints about Russian harassment of gay-rights activists.
In 2013 Russia made "promoting non-traditional lifestyles" illegal. » | Thursday, January 08, 2015
The West Is Paying the Price for Its Own Policy of Appeasement
Yesterday's atrocity in the Parisian offices of satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo', and the footage of the prone French policeman pleading for his life before being shot in the head by the Islamic gunman is undeniably shocking. But it is not surprising.
Europe, and the West in general, has been agonising for years over the best way to accommodate its Muslim populations. And these efforts have failed. Whether it's the burka, ignoring the cruelty of halal meat production, Islamic faith schools, self-censorship or zealous prosecutions of the new secular sin of 'Islamophobia', the depressing truth is that these various policies of appeasement and accommodation have created a climate where the only surprise about the attack on this magazine is that it took until now for it to happen.
Unlike most publications in Europe, 'Charlie Hebdo' has a long history of offending delicate Muslim sensibilities. In fact, it has a long history of offending everybody's sensibilities which, after all, is what a satirical magazine is meant to do.
The publication first came to attention when its offices were fire-bombed in 2011 after it published a special edition proclaiming Mohammed as its 'guest editor', while it was also one of the few organs which reprinted the infamous 'Danish cartoons' in 2008, which led to riots and murders by Muslims who were outraged that their so-called 'religion of peace' had been linked to violence.
There is an argument that the editor, Stephane Charbonnier, who was murdered yesterday, and the cartoonists who were also among the 12 deaths, somehow brought this act of savagery on themselves.
Only in the debate about Muslim 'offence' is the victim seen as responsible for their attack, as if Islam is so protected and precious that anyone who mocks it deserves to be killed and can't complain when they're murdered. » | Thursday, January 08, 2015
German PEGIDA Group Says Paris Shooting Shows Islamist Threat
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government have condemned the grassroots movement PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, which drew a record crowd of 18,000 to its latest rally on Monday in Dresden.
Gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a French satirical magazine known for lampooning radical Islam on Wednesday. At least 12 people were killed in the attack, the worst by militants on French soil in decades. One gunman was seen on video shouting "Allah!" as shots rang out.
"The Islamists, against whom PEGIDA has been warning over the last 12 weeks, showed in France today that they are not capable of (practicing) democracy but instead see violence and death as the solution," PEGIDA wrote on its Facebook page.
"Our political leaders want us to believe the opposite is true," the group added.
"Does a tragedy like this first have to happen in Germany?" » | Reuters | Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Anti-Islam Parties Are Now On The March Across Europe
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had no qualms about lampooning Islam. Why should it? In a free and liberally-inclined country like France it routinely took the mickey out of politicians and creeds whatever their source. But the editors knew they were running a risk by sending up Islam because militants will simply not accept that their religion be traduced in any way – and are prepared to kill or threaten to make their point.
Salman Rushdie discovered this more than 20 years ago after the publication of Satanic Verses brought a fatwa upon his head from Iran and forced him into hiding for years. Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard found out in 2005 when he was asked by his newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, to draw the prophet Muhammad "as you see him". The resulting cartoon was deemed blasphemous by hard-line Muslims around the world and provoked death threats. Ten Years ago, Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who made a controversial film about Islamic culture, was stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam for insulting the Prophet.
Staff at Charlie Hebdo had already tasted this murderous backlash three years ago when their offices were firebombed when the magazine reprinted the Danish cartoons and named Mohammed editor-in-chief for a week’s edition. It also published a “halal” comic book on the life of the Prophet. To most Western sensibilities all of these publications were the warp and weft of what it means to live in a free country. Even if Christians or Jews object to their religions being satirised, they put up with it. But militant Islamists were not prepared to do so. Two gunmen in Paris have now exacted bloody vengeance in an act of violence that will send shock waves around Europe.
Anti-Islamist attitudes are beginning to move away from the far-Right extreme and more into the mainstream of popular discontent. In Germany since last October weekly marches have been held in a number of towns and cities staged by an organisation called Pegida which campaigns against what it sees as the "Islamisation" of Europe. Nearly 20,000 turned out to one rally in Dresden. The marches have been denounced by political parties and religious leaders across Germany but its supporters do not appear to be drawn from the usual neo-Nazi quarters. » | Philip Johnston | Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Charlie Hebdo Massacre: 'Attack Will Heighten Anti-Islamic Tensions Across Europe'
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Charlie Hebdo Attack: Thousands Join Vigils in Paris, London and around the World
Thousands of people have flooded Paris’ Place de la Republique in a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Journalists held up their press cards as members of the public silently raised pens in the air in a poignant symbol against what is being seen as an attack on freedom of speech.
The phrase “je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) has become a rallying call for people expressing solidarity with the victims around the world, with many Paris protesters wearing the slogan on stickers and painting it on giant placards.
The mood was said to be sombre but defiant, with groups of friends quietly talking and comforting each other, trying to come to terms with the day's horrifying events.
A vigil has also started in London’s Trafalgar Square. » | Lizzie Dearden | Wednesday, January 07, 2015
'Islamophobic' Michel Houellebecq Book Featured by Charlie Hebdo Published Today
Monday, January 05, 2015
German Anti-Muslim Protesters Rally Despite Merkel Plea
The rallies, organized by a new grassroots movement known as PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, have become an almost weekly event in the east German city of Dresden in recent months.
Some 18,000 people, the biggest number so far, turned out in Dresden on Monday but similar rallies in Berlin and the western city of Cologne were heavily outnumbered by counter-protesters who accuse PEGIDA of fanning racism and intolerance.
The PEGIDA protesters waved Germany's black, red and gold flag and brandished posters bearing slogans such as "Against religious fanaticism and every kind of radicalism".
One poster in Cologne called for "potatoes rather than doner kebabs", a swipe at ethnic Turks who at around three million represent Germany's largest immigrant community. » | Oliver Barth | Dresden, Germany | Monday, January 05, 2015
Egypt’s al-Sisi Makes Extraordinary Speech on Islam
Accusing the umma (world Islamic population) of encouraging the hostility of the entire world, al-Sisi’s speech is so dramatic and essentially revolutionary it brings to mind Khrushchev’s famous speech exposing Stalin. Many have called for a reformation of Islam, but for the leader of the largest Arab nation to do so has world-changing implications. » | Roger L Simon | Saturday, January 03, 2015
Sunday, January 04, 2015
Religionsfreiheit: Türkei genehmigt erstmals Neubau christlicher Kirche
Ankara/Istanbul - Vor 92 Jahren wurde die Türkische Republik gegründet. Bislang hat es im laut Verfassung laizistischen Staat keinen einzigen Neubau einer christlichen Kirche gegeben. Das wird sich nun offenbar bald ändern. Die Regierung hat laut übereinstimmenden Zeitungsberichten den Bau einer Kirche genehmigt. Das Gotteshaus für die Minderheit der aramäisch-assyrischen Christen soll im Istanbuler Stadtteil Yesilköy am Marmarameer auf städtischem Grund und Boden entstehen. » | fdi/AFP | Samstag, 03. Januar 2015
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