Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Anti-Islam Rally Continues in Germany: Pegida Marchers in Dresden Defy Germany Politicians
Angela Merkel to Join Muslim Community Rally in Berlin
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| An image of Angela Merkel manipulated to make it look like she's wearing a hijab, at a Pegida rally in Dresden |
Angela Merkel is joining a Muslim community rally in Berlin to promote tolerance, condemn the attacks in Paris and send a rebuke to Germany’s growing anti-Islamic movement.
“Hatred, racism and extremism have no place in this country,” she said in a speech earlier in the day. “We are a country based on democracy, tolerance and openness to the world.”
The vigil at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Tuesday evening is organised by the Central Council of Muslims in Germany under the banner “Let’s be there for each other. Terror: not in our name!”
The ceremony is starting with a wreath laying outside the French embassy, where the ground is covered with flowers, candles and condolence cards.
The wreath is made of coloured pens, a symbol of freedom of expression in honour of the 17 victims of the attack on satirical paper Charlie Hebdo and subsequent bloodshed that shook France last week. » | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Dutch Mayor Tells Fellow Muslims Who Do Not Like the Western World to 'F*** Off'
Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, made the comments on live TV hours after jihadists had massacred 12 people at the offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
The 53-year-old said it was "stupid" and "incomprehensible" to be against freedom of speech and those who feel that way should "vanish" from the West.
The Moroccan born politician said: "It is incomprehensible that you can turn against freedom.
"If you do not like it here because some humorists you don't like are making a newspaper, may I then say you can f*** off.
"This is stupid, this so incomprehensible. Vanish from the Netherlands if you cannot find your place here.
"All those well-meaning Muslims here will now be stared at". » | Dion Dassanayake | Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Marine Le Pen Discusses France and Islam with Al Jazeera
Swiss Activists Plan PEGIDA Anti-Muslim March amid Rising Tensions across Europe
The Swiss branch of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) was launched two days after the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.
The PEGIDA group’s Facebook page calls on potential supporters to come to a demonstration planned for February 16 at an as yet undisclosed location.
The spokesman for Swiss PEGIDA is Ignaz Bearth, current head of the Swiss Direct Democracy Party, a small party with links to France's Front National party, according to AFP. He is also a former member of the far-right Swiss Nationalist Party.
"Many people have been awakened since the Islamist terrorist attack in France and realize how big the risk is and that Islamism is not just limited to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Nigeria, but has arrived to Europe," Bearth said, as cited by 20 minuten news website. » | Tuesday, January 13, 2015
UK Shops to Receive Charlie Hebdo Magazine Despite Radical Cleric Calling It an "Act of War"
Hundreds of copies of the 'survivors' edition of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine are expected to go on sale in the UK when the magazine is published on Wednesday.
Radical preacher Anjem Choudray has criticised the magazine's controversial cartoon front cover of the Prophet Mohammed as "an act of war" and warned there will be "repercussions".
The latest edition is published a week after many of the Charlie Hebdo editorial team were massacred in an attack at their Paris office which saw terrorist brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi kill 12 people.
Five of Charlie Hebdo's cartoonists - including the editor - were killed in the attack.
Smiths News, the distribution arm of WH Smiths, and Menzies are expected to be purchasing up to a 2,000 copies to supply to stores in the Uk [sic].
Radical cleric Mr Choudary said "ridiculing" Mohammed is attacking his personality, and said these actions are "extremely serious", adding that if the "act of war" was to be tried in a Shariah Court it would carry capital punishment. » | Nicola Harley | Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Pope Francis Condemns 'Fundamentalist Terrorism'
Pope Francis condemned "fundamentalist terrorism" and "deviant forms of religion" for last week's terrorist attacks in Paris, amid fresh claims that he himself may be at risk of attack from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
The Pope said religion was being perverted by extremists and used to justify evil, including "the tragic slayings" of 17 people that took place in Paris last week after Islamist extremists attacked the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and took people hostage in a kosher supermarket.
"Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext," the 78-year-old pontiff said in an annual address to foreign diplomats accredited to the Vatican.
"Losing their freedom, people become enslaved, whether to the latest fads, or to power, money, or even deviant forms of religion," he said in his State of the World speech.
He spoke out against the menace posed by Islamic fundamentalism after an Israeli television channel reported that the Vatican could be Isil's next target. » | Nick Squiress, Rome | Monday, January 12, 2015
Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Editor's Lover to Miss Funeral after His Family Denies Relationship
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| The partner of slain Charlie Hebdo editor Charb, Jeanette Bougrab, outside the Paris City Hall after the city made the weekly satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' an honorary citizen of Paris |
Jeannette Bougrab, who moved France with her tearful tribute to her lover Stéphane Charbonnier, the murdered editor of Charlie Hebdo known as Charb, is to stay away from his funeral after a row with his family.
Her decision follows remarks by Charb's brother, who denied the couple were in a relationship and demanded she stop speaking about him in the media.
Although Miss Bougrab, 41, a former junior minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's government, insisted she and Charb had been lovers for three years, Laurent Charbonnier made a statement on behalf of his brother's relatives.
The family, he said, "formally denies any committed relationship between Charb and Jeanette Bougrab". » | Henry Samuel, Paris | Monday, January 12, 2015
25.000 marschieren für Pegida in Dresden
Leipzig und Dresden trennen am Montag Welten. Während das islamkritische Legida-Bündnis bei seinem ersten Protest in Leipzig mit 2000 bis 3000 Teilnehmern rund 30.000 Gegendemonstranten auf die Straße bringt, kommen in Dresden nach Polizeiangaben mehr als 25.000 Anhänger zu Pegida, den selbsternannten „Patriotischen Europäern gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes“. Die Organisatoren sprechen von 40.000 Teilnehmern. Vor einer Woche waren es laut Polizei noch 18.000 gewesen.
Die Elbestadt gibt damit bei den inzwischen bundesweit organisierten Protesten gegen eine angebliche Überfremdung in Deutschland weiter den Ton an. Die Bewegung entstand dort im Oktober und wächst seitdem. Der Zulauf scheint ungebrochen, viele Sympathisanten reisen aus anderen Landesteilen an, wie Fahnen und Schilder zeigen. » | Quelle: dpa/FAZ.NET | Montag, 12. Januar 2015
Mahomet à la une de "Charlie Hebdo" ce mercredi
La une du prochain numéro de Charlie Hebdo représentera Mahomet, une larme à l'oeil, tenant une pancarte "Je suis Charlie", sous le titre "Tout est pardonné", un dessin signé Luz. Le journal satirique a ainsi de nouveau dessiné le prophète de l'islam sur sa couverture, pour un numéro qui sera tiré à trois millions d'exemplaires contre 60 000 habituellement, malgré l'attentat qui a décimé sa rédaction mercredi.
Ce numéro comportera "évidemment", comme le journal l'a déjà fait, des dessins sur Mahomet, avait prévenu lundi l'avocat de l'hebdomadaire, Richard Malka. "On ne cédera rien, sinon tout ça n'aura pas eu de sens. L'état d'esprit 'Je suis Charlie', cela veut dire aussi le 'droit au blasphème', a martelé l'avocat. » | Source AFP | mardi 13 janvier 2015
Netanyahu March Rôle Exposes Europe's Anti-Semitic Failure
Radical Islamists vs.The World, ‘West Running Away Like Little Kid Hiding In Dark Room’
Anti-Islam Protesters March in Dresden, Germany
Monday, January 12, 2015
UKIP's Nigel Farage Urges 'Judeo-Christian' Defence After Paris Attacks
He was speaking in a European Parliament debate on last week's terror attacks in Paris by Islamist gunmen.
Many MEPs displayed signs saying "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie), in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo magazine, where 12 people were murdered.
A minute's silence was held in memory of those who died in the attacks.
Mr Farage, leader of the anti-EU UK Independence Party, said mass immigration had "made it frankly impossible for many new communities to integrate".
"We do have, I'm afraid, I'm sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries, that is utterly opposed to our values," he said.
"We're going to have to be a lot braver and a lot more courageous in standing up for our Judeo-Christian culture." » | Monday, January 12, 2015
Erdogan Attacks Netanyahu for 'Daring' to Attend Paris March
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday attacked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for "daring" to attend the weekend's anti-terror solidarity march in Paris, accusing him of leading "state terrorism" against the Palestinians.
The comments were the latest verbal assault against Netanyahu and Israel in general by Erdogan, under whose rule Turkey's relations with Israel have steadily deteriorated.
"I also hardly understand how he (Netanyahu) dared to go there. For once, you give an account for the children, women you massacred," Erdogan told a joint press conference in Ankara alongside Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Abbas and Netanyahu, as well as Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, all joined the solidarity march in Paris in the memory of 17 people killed in Islamist terror attacks last week.
But Erdogan said Netanyahu had no right to be there following Israel's 50-day conflict with Islamist terrorists in Gaza.
"How can you see this individual who carries out state terrorism by massacring 2,500 people in Gaza waving his hand?" said Erdogan. » | Arutz Sheva Staff | Monday, January 12, 2015
Super-rich Sultan of Brunei Bans Christmas
The ban was implemented after a number of people were reportedly spotted wearing clothes resembling Santa Claus at Christmas time.
Businesses that publicly displayed Christmas decorations were also asked to take them down and the ministry confirmed receiving their "full cooperation" on it.
The move follows Brunei's wealthy Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah's announcement last April on the introduction of a new Islamic penal code making it the first East Asian country to ever introduce Islamic criminal law.
Under the new law, Brunei's Muslim residents will face prosecution by Islamic courts for offences, including pregnancy outside marriage, failure to perform Friday prayers, and propagating other religions, reported Reuters. » | Maria Khan | Thursday, January 08, 2015
Pegida wird konkret
Es wäre interessant, irgendwann einmal zu erfahren, ob Lutz Bachmann auch wirklich meint, was er so sagt, wenn er Reden hält. Bachmann, 41, ist einer der Organisatoren und Köpfe der Dresdner Pegida-Bewegung. Es ist Montagabend, ein kalter Südost weht über den Platz hinter dem Hygienemuseum, russische, niederländische, deutsche und viele französische Flaggen knattern im Wind. Es ist die zwölfte Kundgebung seit Oktober, Tausende sind auf dem Platz, so viele wie nie zuvor. „Ha, endlich wieder Sturm und Drang“, freut sich ein junger Mann und reibt sich die kalten Hände. Ein anderer neben ihm zielt mit seinem grünen Laserpointer auf die Leute, die aus dem Hochhaus gegenüber die Menschenmenge betrachten.
Heute Abend ist alles ein wenig anders als bei früheren Demos. Es gibt nur wenige Gegenkundgebungen mit weniger Teilnehmern. Es wird weniger gerufen, gebrüllt und geschrien bei Pegida, es ist nicht so hitzig und aggressiv wie beim letzten Mal. Es beginnt mit einer Schweigeminute für die ermordeten Karikaturisten des französischen Magazins „Charlie Hebdo“ und die in Nigeria von islamistischen Mörderbanden umgebrachten Männer, Frauen und Kinder. Tatsächlich tragen einige Trauerflor, einige sogar Transparente: „Je suis Charlie.“ Ein Mann hält ein Bild von Angela Merkel hoch: Verschleiert und Mundwinkel ganz nach unten. » | Von Bernhard Honnigfort | MOntag, 12. Januar 2015
Angela Merkel: “Der Islam gehört zu Deutschland”
Merkel Says Islam 'Belongs to Germany' ahead of Dresden Rally
A day after walking arm-in-arm with French President Francois Hollande at the front of a massive march in Paris to honor the victims of killings by Islamic militants, Merkel received the Turkish prime minister and urged dialogue among religions.
The conservative chancellor pointed to comments made by former German president Christian Wulff, who said in 2010 that Islam was part of Germany, triggering a fierce debate.
"Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion," Merkel said at a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who also took part with other world leaders in the Paris march on Sunday.
She was speaking hours before marches by a movement dubbed PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, were due to begin in several German cities. » | Andreas Rinke | Monday, January 12, 2015
Pegida: Erneut Tausende bei Pegida-Kundgebung in Dresden
Die Anhänger der islamfeindlichen Pegida-Bewegung sind in Dresden zu ihrer ersten Kundgebung seit den islamistischen Anschlägen in Frankreich zusammengekommen. In der sächsischen Landeshauptstadt versammelten sich am Montagabend mehrere tausend Demonstranten, wie eine AFP-Reporterin berichtete. Offizielle Schätzungen der Polizei zu der Teilnehmerzahl wurden erst im Verlauf des Abends erwartet. Am Montag vor den Anschlägen in der vergangenen Woche waren in Dresden rund 18.000 Pegida-Anhänger auf die Straße gegangen.
In Dresden hatten die Pegida-Organisatoren die Teilnehmer aufgefordert, mit Trauerflor für die Toten von Paris zu erscheinen. Einige der Demonstranten hielten den Spruch "Je suis Charlie" (Ich bin Charlie) in die Höhe, mit dem sich nach den Anschlägen weltweit hunderttausende Menschen sowie Zeitungen und andere Medienunternehmen mit den Opfern des Angriffs auf die französische Satirezeitung "Charlie Hebdo" solidarisch erklärt und für die Meinungsfreiheit demonstriert hatten.
Auch auf weiteren Plakaten und Transparenten bezogen sich die Demonstranten in Dresden mit Sprüchen wie "Meinungsfreiheit statt Salafistenterror" und "Feige Presse, ihr seid nicht Charlie" auf die Anschläge von Paris. Ein anderes Bild zeigte Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) mit einem Schleier. » | afp | Montag, 12. Januar 2015
US Centcom Twitter Account 'Hacked by Islamic State'
One message said: "American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back."
It was signed by Isis, another name for the Islamic State. Some internal military documents also appeared on the Centcom Twitter feed. » | Monday, January 12, 2015
US Media Questions Why Neither Barack Obama Nor Top US Officials Attended Paris Charlie Hebdo Rally
The absence of President Barack Obama or any top members of his administration from a huge march in Paris on Sunday to honour victims of Islamist militant attacks raised eyebrows among some in the US media.
French President Francois Hollande and some 44 foreign dignitaries, including leaders from Germany, Italy, Britain, Turkey, Israel and the Palestinian territories, led up to two million people in what commentators said was the largest crowd in Paris since its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944. » | Reuters | Monday, January 12, 2015
Charlie Hebdo's Wednesday Edition to Include Prophet Mohammed Cartoons
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| The previous issue of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo |
The next edition of Charlie Hebdo, out on Wednesday with a million-copy print run, will "naturally" contain cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, along with jibes against politicians and religions across the board, said the stricken weekly's lawyer.
Richard Malka was among the first to call for the magazine to continue functioning after nine of its contributors, including famed cartoonists Cabu and Wolinski and its publishing director, Charb, were gunned down last Wednesday by Chérif and Saïd Kouachi.
When asked whether that meant more cartoons of Mohammed, which have been a regular feature in the magazine until last Wednesday's attack, he replied: "Naturally."
"We will not give in otherwise all this won't have meant anything," he told France Info radio on Monday, which broadcast from the magazine's heavily guarded temporary offices at Libération newspaper. » | Henry Samuel, Paris | Monday, January 12, 2015
Merkel empfängt Davutoglu: "Der Islam gehört zu Deutschland"
These Crimes Have Everything to Do with Islam
His comment is understandable given that France has more than five million Muslims, a stagnant economy, 24 per cent youth unemployment and endemic social alienation among young Muslims.
His comment is also nonsense. A de facto world war is under way and it has everything to do with Islam. It is not thousands of lone wolfs [sic]. It is not un-Islamic conduct. It involves thousands of Muslims acting on what they believe is their religious duty to subjugate non-believers, as outlined in the Koran.
And the problem is growing, not contracting. There was once a tradition among young Australians to travel overland from Singapore to London. That route has become a hell-hole:
Pakistan is dangerous. Afghanistan is a no-go area. Iran is an oppressive theocracy. Iraq is disintegrating. Syria is a disaster area. Lebanon is dangerous. In Turkey, for the first time, Australians travelling to Gallipoli will be going under a security alert.
All these Muslim countries used to be safe for transit. The intimidation being practised in the name of Islam by a small minority is a by-product of something much larger – the state-mandated conservatism that is systemic in the majority of Muslim societies. Most of them are dictatorships, monarchies, theocracies or failed states. » | Paul Sheehan | Sydney Morning Herald columnist | Monday, January 12, 2015
Barack Obama’s French Kiss-off
Barack Obama n’est pas Charlie — or at least, he wasn’t this weekend.
Don’t look for the president or vice president among the photos of 44 heads of state who locked arms and marched down Boulevard Voltaire in Paris. Nor did they join a companion march the French Embassy organized in Washington on Sunday afternoon.
Indeed, Obama’s public reactions to the attacks in Paris last week have been muted. His initial response Wednesday to the killing of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices was delivered as he sat calmly in an armchair in the Oval Office speaking about the “cowardly” acts and defending freedom of the press. Two days later, as a gunman took hostages and went on to kill four people in a kosher grocery, Obama took a few seconds away from a community college proposal roll-out in Tennessee because he said with events unfolding, “I wanted to make sure to comment on them” — but never then or afterward specifically condemned that attack.
Obama wasn’t far from the march in D.C. on Sunday that wended silently along six blocks from the Newseum to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Instead, he spent the chilly afternoon a few blocks away at the White House, with no public schedule, no outings.
Joe Biden was back home in Wilmington, Delaware.
Neither they nor any high-level administration official attended either event.
France’s top American diplomat, diplomatically, tried to make the best of it. » | Edward-Isaac Dovere | Sunday, January 11, 2015
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German Anti-Islam Rally Monday to Raise New Tensions
Germany's justice minister on Sunday urged the group called Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) to cancel its demonstration, but the group vowed to go ahead with a rally that will commemorate the 17 people killed in the Paris attacks.
The group has held weekly rallies to protest Germany's growing immigrant population, mainly Muslims fleeing the war in Syria in recent years.
"It's outrageous they want to commemorate victims that until last week they insulted as liars," Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the popular tabloid Bild, calling for the group to cancel Monday's rally.
Many fear another march by the group could stoke violence and anti-immigration sentiment after Wednesday's attack at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
"The people at the heart of PEGIDA must be delighted," said Mohammed Majoka, a spokesman for the Muslim group Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany. "This is what they have been trying to show people all along, that Islam is dangerous and Muslims should be kicked out." » | Angela Waters | Special for USA TODAY | Sunday, January 11, 2015
Attack on German Newspaper Raises Tension before Anti-Islam Rally
Islamist militant attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher deli in Paris this week that killed 17 people have fuelled fears of similar assaults in other European countries and prompted a warning from German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. ... Read the whole article here » | Sunday, January 11, 2015
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Sunday, January 11, 2015
Lord Monckton: Why Won’t the Left Tell the Truth about Islam?
President Hollande of France, a hard-left socialist of the sort who began bankrupting that once-great nation in 1789, said this about the Muslim terrorists who committed the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the Jewish grocery siege:
“Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.”
Now, why did President Hollande say that? Is he not aware of the vicious anti-Semitism of the Islamic extremists in his country? Is he not aware that the terrorist murders in France were carried out by thugs screeching “Allahu Akbar“?
Of course, the effete and ineffectual occupant of the Elysée Palace is aware of these things. But he does not care. What matters to him is that 93 percent of the Muslims who voted in the presidential election voted for him. What matters to him is that the more Muslim immigrants he lets into France, the more socialist votes he will get.
Hence his cynical pretense that the slaughterers of his fellow countrymen “have nothing to do with the Muslim religion,” when the truth is that they have everything to do with it.
Here, as in so many other fields, the left will simply lie because the lie is politically advantageous to it. President Hollande knows that there are at least 9 million Muslims in France. They are arriving at such a rapid rate that no one knows for sure just how many there are. But there are a lot. And very, very nearly all of them vote socialist. Totalitarians will always stand by other totalitarians. » | Lord Monckton | Sunday, January 11, 2015
Paris Shootings: Marseille Muslims Condemn Violence
Seventeen people were killed during the violence, and police are still hunting one of the people believe to be responsible.
One million people of all faiths and origins marched in Paris, while hundreds of thousands of others staged demonstrations elsewhere.
Fergal Keane reports on one march in Marseille, the French city with the largest population of Muslims. (+ BBC video) » | Sunday, January 11, 2015
Shocking!
Paris Attacks Boost Support for Dutch Anti-Islam Populist Wilders
Wilders, known for his inflammatory rhetoric, said after the Paris bloodshed that the West was "at war" with Islam, drawing a rebuke from Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday.
If elections were held now, his party would be the single largest in the Netherlands, with 31 seats in the 150-member parliament, more than twice as many as it won in the last elections, according to a Sunday poll.
The governing Liberal and Labour parties, damaged by persistent sluggish growth, would have just 28 seats between them, compared to the 79 they held after the 2012 elections. » | Reuters | Sunday, January 11, 2015
„Wer die MOPO [Hamburger Morgenpost] angreift, greift ganz Hamburg an“
Laut Behörden „liegt die Vermutung nahe“, dass die Tat in Zusammenhang mit der MOPO-Titelseite vom 8. Januar steht. Neben der Schlagzeile „So viel Freiheit muss sein“ standen Karikaturen des Satiremagazins „Charlie Hebdo“, auf das zuvor ein tödlicher Terroranschlag verübt worden war. Beweise für eine Verbindung gab es laut Polizeisprecherin Karina Sadowsky zunächst aber nicht. mehr » | Sonntag, 11. Januar 2015
YAHOO! NEWS: Firebombing at German paper that ran Charlie Hebdo cartoons » | Deborah Cole | Sunday, January 11, 2015
'We are Charlie': Across France, Nearly 4 Million March to Honor Victims of [Islamic] Terrorist Attacks
The French Interior Ministry said the rally for unity against terrorism is the largest demonstration in France's history, more than the numbers who took to Paris streets when the Allies liberated the city from the Nazis in World War II.
The ministry said between 1.2 million and 1.6 million marched the Paris streets. But it said a precise account is impossible given the enormity of the turnout in the capital.
The aftermath of the attacks remained raw, with video emerging of one of the gunmen killed during police raids pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and detailing how the attacks were going to unfold. Also, a new shooting was linked to that gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed Friday along with the brothers behind a massacre at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.
"Today, Paris is the capital of the world," said French President Francois Hollande. "Our entire country will rise up toward something better." (+ FoxNews video) » | FoxNews.com | Sunday, January 11, 2015
Netanyahu Holds Out Israeli Haven for French Jews
Netanyahu and two far-right members of his cabinet flew to Paris on Sunday to join dozens of foreign leaders and hundreds of thousands of French citizens in a march honoring the victims of Islamist militant attacks this week.
The timing of his message that "Israel is also your home" could clash with attempts by French leaders to reassure Europe's largest Jewish community after the shock assaults that included hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket.
In a statement late on Saturday, Netanyahu said an Israeli governmental committee would convene in the coming week to find ways to boost Jewish immigration from France and other European countries "which are being hit by terrible anti-Semitism".
"To all the Jews of France and to all the Jews of Europe, I wish to say: the State of Israel is not only the place to which you pray, the State of Israel is also your home," he said. » | Jeffrey Heller | Jerusalem | Sunday, January 11, 2015
Crisis in Ukraine Could Trigger Nuclear War, Warns Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader, has warned that the world is at risk of a “nuclear war” because of the tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine.
In an interview with the German magazine Spiegel, Mr Gorbachev said that if either side lost its nerve in the current stand-off, it could lead to nuclear war, and spoke of his fears that the world “will not survive the next few years”.
“I actually see all the signs of a new Cold War,” Mr Gorbachev said. “It could all blow up at any moment if we don’t take action. The loss of confidence is catastrophic. Moscow does not believe the West, and the West does not believe Moscow.” » | Justin Huggler, Berlin | Sunday, January 11, 2015
Germany Protests: Dresden Marches Against Anti-Islamists Pegida
The turnout is nearly double that of the largest demonstration by anti-Islamists Pegida, held last Monday.
Saturday's counter-demonstration observed a minute's silence for the 17 victims of this week's terrorist attacks in France.
The next Pegida protest in Dresden will be held on Monday.
Some analysts say that numbers may grow as a result of the violence in France. » | Saturday, January 10, 2015
Boko Haram Is Now a Mini-Islamic State, with Its Own Territory
After days of razing villages and pitiless massacre, Boko Haram finished the week with its most chilling atrocity.
As people bustled through the Saturday market in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, a device borne by a ten year-old girl exploded near the entrance.
A witness said the girl probably had no idea that a bomb had been strapped to her body.
The explosion just before lunch killed 20, including the girl, and injured 18, according to the police.
Boko Haram did not immediately claim the attack, but the Islamic insurgents have increasingly used young girls as human bombs as they carve an African “Caliphate” from the plains of northern Nigeria.
Today, Boko Haram controls about 20,000 square miles of territory - an area the size of Belgium.
Within this domain, the black flag of jihad flies over scores of towns and villages scattered across the neighbouring states of Borno and Yobe.
The latest conquest was the fishing town of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad, which fell to the Islamists last Wednesday. » | David Blair | Saturday, January 10, 2015
German Anti-Islamic Rallies May Grow on Terror Fears after Paris Attacks
Germany's new anti-Islamic Pegida movement plans to rally again on Monday, when analysts expect its ranks to swell by thousands following the attacks in Paris.
Leaders of the so-called "Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident" have asked marchers to wear black armbands and observe a minute's silence for "the victims of terrorism in Paris".
About 35,000 people, organisers said, took to the streets on Saturday in Dresden against the anti-Islam group's marches. The crowd estimate is a record and nearly double the 18,000 who attended a previous counter-protest.
Many observers of the rise of the far-right populist movement in the eastern city of Dresden now expect it to seek to make political capital from the massacre at the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and its bloody aftermath. » | AFP | Saturday, January 10, 2015
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Paris Shootings: Jews 'Don't Feel Safe in France'
Many came to the scene of the attack on Saturday to lay flowers and pay tribute to the victims.
The attack has left some French Jews considering moving to Israel and other countries because they do not feel safe in France. (+BBC video) » | Video Journalist: Bruno Boelpaep | Saturday, January 10, 2015
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