Monday, September 14, 2015
Marine Le Pen dénonce les migrants «arrogants et exigeants»
Réfugiés : pour Marine Le Pen, «l'Allemagne s'écrase sur le mur de la réalité»
Elle a réagi au quart de tour. À peine l'Allemagne avait-elle annoncé le rétablissement des contrôles aux frontières avec l'Autriche que Marine Le Pen dégainait son communiqué. «Après avoir totalement ouvert ses portes aux migrants pour de basses raisons économiques, voyant dans cette masse humaine un réservoir de travailleurs à bas coût, l'Allemagne est soudainement rattrapée par la réalité de sa folie migratoire», assure la présidente du FN. «Par suivisme et idéologie, le gouvernement français s'est mis, lui, dans la pire des situations, acceptant de faire peser sur les Français la charge des migrants que l'Allemagne a fait venir en Europe, et que finalement elle ne souhaite plus aussi largement recevoir» ajoute-t-elle. Marine Le Pen réclame la suspension dans l'urgence des accords de Schengen en France «pour éviter que le trop-plein de clandestins dont elle ne veut plus ne vienne chez nous». » | Par Le Scan politique | lundi 14 septembre 2015
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Ousted by Staunch Republican Malco[l]m Turnbull
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| Tony Abbott speaks during a press conference in the Blue Room, at Parliament House in Canberra |
Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has been ousted in a stunning coup by self-made millionaire Malcom Turnbull continuing the nation’s five-year run of leadership swaps.
Winning a 54 to 44 Liberal party-room vote in Canberra on Monday, Mr Turnbull, 60, promised to unite the party and the nation with a new style of leadership that “respects the people’s intelligence”. The deputy Liberal leader, Julie Bishop, backed Mr Turnbull and easily won back her position in a 70 to 30 vote against cabinet minister Kevin Andrews.
The former Rhodes Scholar and investment banker holds more progressive political views than Mr Abbott, an ardent conservative and monarchist, but immediately signalled he will restrain his own personal support for same[-]sex marriage and strong action on climate change.
“This will be a thoroughly Liberal government committed to freedom, the individual and the market,” he said. » | Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney | Monday, September 14, 2015
Isil Terrorists Could Infiltrate Europe by Hiding among Refugees, Warns Pope Francis
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| Pope Francis has warned that Isil terrorists could be hiding among the tens of thousands of refugees who are entering from war-torn countries such as Syria and Libya |
Pope Francis has warned that Isil terrorists could try to “infiltrate” Europe, hiding among the tens of thousands of refugees and migrants streaming to the continent from war-torn countries such as Syria and Libya.
He said Italy in particular found itself in a vulnerable position, with Isil having established a presence just a few hundred miles south on the desert coastline of Libya.
"It's true, nowadays, territorial security conditions are not the same as they were in other periods (of mass migration)," the Jesuit Pope told a Portuguese radio station in a wide-ranging interview, days before he embarks on a gruelling tour of Cuba and the United States.
"The truth is that just 400 kilometres (250 miles) from Sicily there is an incredibly cruel terrorist group. So there is a danger of infiltration, this is true." » | Nick Squires, Rome | Monday, September 14, 2015
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'One Million Refugees' May Arrive in Germany This Year
One million people may arrive in Germany seeking refugee status this year, up from the record 800,000 arrivals its government had earlier predicted, vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said.
"There are many signs that Germany this year will take in not 800,000 refugees, as forecast by the interior ministry, but one million," he wrote to members of his centre-left Social Democratic party on Monday.
Germany on Sunday reintroduced identity checks on people travelling within the passport-free Schengen zone, essentially reversing its open-door policy for Syrians. » | Al Jazeera and agencies | Monday, September 14, 2015
German Riot Police Smash Innocent Bystander Unconscious During Hamburg Clashes
Clashes Continue Near Al-Aqsa Mosque as Benjamin Netanyahu Calls for Emergency Meeting
Clashes between protesters and Israeli police near the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City have continued for a second consecutive day on Monday.
Israeli police arrested over a dozen Palestinians after a policeman and a Jewish youth were injured in violent confrontations on and near the Haram Al Sharif/Temple Mount compound, holy to both Jews and Muslims.
Masked Palestinian protesters attacked the Israeli police with stones and metal rods as they entered the site, Israel’s Channel 2 reported.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said he will hold emergency consultations over the clashes that began on Sunday when a violent confrontation erupted between the police and rioters near the mosque.
The police were pelted with rocks and stones near the mosque and unleashed stun grenades and tear gas on the rioters, who barricaded themselves inside the mosque. Several home made pipe bombs were discovered in the vicinity of the al-Aqsa mosque and are being examined by the police. » | Inna Lazareva, Tel Aviv | Monday, September 14, 2015
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Topless Protesters Disrupt Muslim Conference on Women
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| The protesters, aged 25 and 31, grabbed microphones and shouted feminist slogans in French and Arabic |
Two Femen protesters were arrested after baring their breasts at a controversial conference near Paris on the role of Muslim women.
According to Inna Shevchenko, a spokeswoman for the feminist protest group, two fundamentalist preachers were discussing the question of “whether wives should be beaten or not” when the activists, aged 25 and 31, ripped off their Arab-style cloaks and jumped on to the stage on Saturday evening. One had the slogan “No one subjugates me” inked across her torso. The other bore the words “I am my own prophet.”
The protesters, aged 25 and 31, grabbed microphones and shouted feminist slogans in French and Arabic before being roughly bundled off the stage by about 15 men and handed over to police. Video footage of the incident shows a man apparently kicking one of the women. » | David Chazan | Sunday, September 13, 2015
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Sunday, September 13, 2015
Viktor Orbán: Muslim Majority in Europe Coming Soon
“If Europe allows for competition between cultures, Christians will lose,” added Hungary’s prime minister. According to Mr. Orbán, “the only way out” of what he perceives to be Europe’s predicament is to “preserve” Europe for those who wish to live within a Christian cultural environment, by stopping the immigration of a growing number of Muslims.
“None of them want to return to their homes. I fear that they will all stay here,” added Mr. Orbán, when asked specifically about the Syrian refugees. » | Author: Christopher Adam | Saturday, September 12, 2015
Bill Maher and Salman Rushdie Debate the Future of Muslims in Europe
German Border Controls Mark Sudden Shift in Refugee Policy
Germany’s announcement on Sunday that it was instituting emergency border protections marks a sudden shift in its response to the refugee crisis.
Chancellor Angela Merkel was hailed as a saviour after her government said last month it expected to take in 800,000 refugees and asylum seekers this year alone.
Germany also became the EU first country to suspend the so-called Dublin protocol, which mandates that refugees seek asylum in the first European country they enter, by declaring last month that all Syrian refugees could remain in Germany regardless of the country through which they entered.
That decision was taken in light of the harsh treatment of asylum seekers in Hungary, which plans to complete a four-metre-high fence along its border with Serbia this week. » | David Lawler | Sunday, September 13, 2015
Refugee Crisis: Germany Reinstates Controls at Austrian Border
Germany introduced border controls on Sunday, and dramatically halted all train traffic with Austria, after the country’s regions said they could no longer cope with the overwhelming number of refugees entering the country.
Interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, announced the measures after German officials said record numbers of refugees, most of them from Syria, had stretched the system to breaking point. “This step has become necessary,” he told a press conference in Berlin, adding it would cause disruption.
Asylum seekers must understand “they cannot chose the states where they are seeking protection,” he told reporters.
All trains between Austria and Bavaria, the principal conduit through which 450,000 refugees have arrived in Germany this year, ceased at 5pm Berlin time. Only EU citizens and others with valid documents would be allowed to pass through Germany’s borders, de Maizière said.
The decision means that Germany has effectively exited temporarily from the Schengen system. It is likely to lead to chaotic scenes on the Austrian-German border, as tens of thousands of refugees try to enter Germany by any means possible and set up camp next to it. (+ video) » | Luke Harding in Berlin | Sunday, September 13, 2015
The Abrahamic Fallacy: Why Abraham Is Not a Point of Unity for Islam, Judaism, and Christianity
Over the past fifty years the expression 'Abrahamic' has become widely used to refer collectively to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The key idea is that the three religions 'share' Abraham and find in him a point of unity.
The phrase 'Abrahamic religion' or 'faith of Abraham' was first promoted in ecumenical circles during the 1950's and 1960's by Lebanese Maronite priest, Youakim Moubarak, whose theological vision was political, of an 'egalitarian Palestine in which Jews, Christians and Muslims demonstrate together its abrahamic and ecumenical vocation'.
In reality, however, Abraham is a divisive figure: in Judaism he is the Torah-observant father of the Jewish nation; for Christians he is the apostle of salvation by faith alone; for Muslims he is the proto-typical Muslim, a forerunner and validator of Muhammad.
Moubarak took the phrase 'religion of Abraham' from the Koran and his promotion of it is a manifestation of dhimmi theology, a worldview constrained by existential fear, psychological accommodation and denial. In fact the 'Abrahamic vocation' inspired by the Koran leads to Islamization and sharia implementation. The current state of the Middle East offers eloquent testimony to the hollowness of this vision.
Dr. Mark Durie is a theologian, human rights activist, Anglican pastor, a Shillman-Ginsburg Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Adjunct Research Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Islam and Other Faiths at Melbourne School of Theology. He has published many articles and books on the language and culture of the Acehnese, Christian-Muslim relations and religious freedom. A graduate of the Australian National University and the Australian College of Theology, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Leiden, MIT, UCLA and Stanford, and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992.
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Is Islam an “Abrahamic” Faith along with Judaism and Christianity?
"Islam has no family resemblance with Christianity and Judaism. The similarities are appropriated, not inherited," the Anglican priest and theologian Mark Durie starkly stated in his book "Which God? Jesus, Holy Spirit, God in Christianity & Islam." This volume is essential reading for Christians who wish to counter the "Abrahamic fallacy" of Islamic kinship with Judeo-Christian faith.
In his book, Durie noted the oft-touted idea of Western Abrahamic civilization in a world that once esteemed its Judeo-Christian civilization. Many assume that Islam joins Judaism and Christianity in possessing a theological lineage from the Old Testament's Father Abraham. "This is new thinking which reflects the growing influence of Islam," Durie said, adding that "one expression of the Islamicization of Christian thought serves the supersessionist program of Islam."
Durie stressed that wording in the Quran recognizes Islam not as a faith that is subservient to Judaism and Christianity, but "as the primordial religion." Those of the Islamic faith believe that other religions can be called "Abrahamic" only as concessions, because those faiths "derive their history in a confused and corrupted way from Islamic roots." As noted in Quran 3:67, Islam proclaims that Abraham and other biblical figures were actually Muslims whose revelations Jews and Christians through the ages perverted into a "debased derivative of Islam." » | Andrew Harrod | Thursday, September 10, 2015
PHILOS PROJECT: Children of Abraham’s Islamic Pretender » | Andrew Harros | Wednesday, September 9, 2015
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Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahri Urges Young Muslim Men to Launch Lone-wolf Attacks on American Homes
The Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on young Muslim men in Western countries to carry out lone-wolf attacks – and urged greater unity between militants.
"I call on all Muslims who can harm the countries of the crusader coalition not to hesitate. We must now focus on moving the war to the heart of the homes and cities of the crusader West and specifically America," he said in an audio recording posted online on Sunday, referring to nations making up the Western-led coalition in Iraq and Syria.
He suggested Muslim youth in the West take the Tsarnaev and Kouachi brothers, who carried out the Boston marathon bombings and Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris respectively, and others as examples to follow.
In a recording released on Wednesday, Zawahiri denounced Isis as "illegitimate", indicating the extent of the schism between the twogroups. » | Alice Harrold, Agency | Sunday, September 13, 2015
Syria Conflict Will Displace Another Million People, Says UN Official
Another million Syrians will flee their homes before the end of the year if the war continues unabated, a senior UN official has said.
Yacoub el-Hillo, the humanitarian coordinator in Syria, said that unless urgent action was taken to resolve the escalating conflict, refugees would also continue to flow out of the region.
He said that more than a million people had already been displaced from their homes already in 2015, and called for greater international aid efforts to help Syrians survive the winter in their own country.
“Unless something big is done to resolve this conflict through political means, the human train that has started moving out of Syria and the neighbourhood will continue to be running for many months to come,” he said. » | Ruth McKee | Saturday, September 12, 2015
Munich at Limit of Capacity amid Refugee Surge, Say Police
Munich is at the limit of its capacity to welcome refugees arriving in Germany, police have said, a day after 12,200 asylum-seekers reached the city.
“We had a total of 12,200 refugees on Saturday ... today we’re expecting several hundreds. Given the numbers from yesterday, it is very clear that we have reached the upper limit of our capacity,” said a police spokesman.
“Our aim today would be to transport as many as possible out of here, to make place for new arrivals,” he added. » | Agence France-Presse | Sunday, September 13, 2015
BILD AM SONNTAG: „München ist voll“: Die Stadt München kann nicht mehr. Alle zwei Stunden steigen am Hauptbahnhof bis zu 500 Flüchtlinge aus einem Zug. Die meist jungen Männer werden im Gänsemarsch durch einen abgesperrten Korridor bis zur ersten Sammelstelle geführt. Helfer mit Mundschutz und Handschuhen drücken ihnen Wasser und Kekse in die Hand. » | Von T. Gautier, A. Hellemann, N. Mertens und B. Uhlenbroich | Sonntag, 13. September 2015
In Tourist Idyll of Maldives, Radical Islam Lures Some towards Very Different Paradise
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| Mohamed Nasheed, former President of the Maldives |
For the million tourists who fly in each year to the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives, the holiday “paradise” of idyllic white sand beaches quickly embraces them.
Speedboats or seaplanes ferry them to luxury resorts on otherwise uninhabited coral atolls, by-passing the rest of the country where local people live in an increasingly conservative Islamic society.
In this tourist-free Maldives, amid the narrow teeming streets of the capital Male and on islands dotted with fishing villages, the siren call of radical Islamist clerics is luring some locals towards a very different paradise.
More than 200 island jihadists are now believed to fighting in Iraq and Syria, and at least seven have died for the cause, their “martyrdoms” hailed on social media aimed specifically at Maldivians.
For a nation that only has a population of about 350,000, the numbers are strikingly high.They also reflect a reality at jarring odds with the country's picture postcard reputation as a honeymoon and holiday idyll.
“It’s quite probable that in per capita terms, the Maldives has more jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq than any other country outside the region,” said a Western security analyst. » | Philip Sherwell, Male, the Maldives | Sunday, September 13, 2015
Merkel 'Expects Cameron to Back EU Army' in Exchange for Renegotiation
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Angela Merkel will expect David Cameron to drop his opposition to an EU army in exchange for supporting Britain’s renegotiation, the Telegraph has been told.
The German chancellor will ask Britain to stand aside as she promotes an ambitious blueprint to integrate continental Europe’s armed forces.
It comes as Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, said Britain will get a deal if it gives the green light to a raft of powerful new EU institutions.
A Berlin source said agreeing not to “block” Mrs Merkel's defence plans is a “favour” that she would seek from Mr Cameron as he looks for her support in the renegotiation.
“If you want favours, you have to give favours,” the source said.
"If Cameron wants a 'flexible Europe', he must let other members integrate further. Yes - opt out, opt out, opt out - and then shut up.” » | Peter Foster and Matthew Holehouse | Saturday, September 12, 2015
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Imams Will Have to Register and Face Security Vetting under Home Office Plans
Imams, priests, rabbis and other religious figures will have to enrol in a “national register of faith leaders” and be subject to government-specified training and security checks in the Home Office’s latest action on extremism.
The highly controversial proposal appears in a leaked draft of the Government’s new counter-extremism strategy, seen by The Telegraph, which goes substantially further than previous versions of the document.
The strategy, due to be published this autumn, says that Whitehall will “require all faiths to maintain a national register of faith leaders” and the Government will “set out the minimum level of training and checks” faith leaders must have to join the new register.
Registration will be compulsory for all faith leaders who wish to work with the public sector, including universities, the document says. In practice, most faith leaders have some dealings with the public sector and the requirement will cover the great majority. » | Andrew Gilligan | Saturday, September 12, 2015
Saturday, September 12, 2015
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Deutschland: Ex-Innenminister: "Wir haben die Kontrolle verloren"
Laut Friedrich ist es "völlig unverantwortlich, dass jetzt Zig-tausende unkontrolliert und unregistriert ins Land strömen, und man nur unzuverlässig genau abschätzen kann, wie viele davon IS-Kämpfer oder islamistische Schläfer sind". Er hoffe, so der CSU-Politiker weiter, "dass dieses nicht noch zu einem bösen Erwachen führen wird. Ich bin jedenfalls überzeugt, dass kein anderes Land der Welt sich so naiv und blauäugig einer solchen Gefahr aussetzen würde." » | Von Alexander Kain | Freitag, 11. September 2015
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Nothing Has Changed in 25 years to Ease My Concerns about Islam
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| A police officer guards the entrance of Paris Great Mosque |
Viktor Orbán is the prime minister of Hungary. It is through his country that very large numbers of migrants from the Middle East and the Balkans now pass. At the beginning of this month, Mr Orbán said: “I think we have a right to decide that we don’t want to have a large number of Muslim people in our country.”
Mr Orbán was fiercely attacked for the motives behind his remark. I do not know enough about Hungarian politics to say whether such attacks are justified. But, regardless of the precise facts about Mr Orbán, I would guess most people in western – let alone eastern – Europe would quietly agree with his general proposition. One of the biggest anxieties about the current immigration is its high Muslim element. Is it wrong to have such an anxiety, let alone to express it publicly, let alone to want to have a system of immigration based on it?
I don’t find these easy questions to answer. Nearly 25 years ago, I wrote an article for which many people, including some I respected, criticised me. In it, I argued that difference of religion often made immigration more difficult, and that this was particularly so in the case of Islam. The piece was written not long after the first Gulf war. I mentioned our Muslim next-door neighbours (we then lived in London). I wrote that they seemed nice people, but that when, during the war, I could hear them praying through the wall, I felt uneasy. Read on and comment » | Charles Moore | Saturday, September 12, 2015
My comment:
This article is rather refreshing to read. Mr. Moore has been willing to say what probably the majority of us have been thinking for a long time. However, there are a few flaws in his line of thinking. One such flaw is this: Mr. Moore asserts that Muslims worship the same god as Christians and Jews. No they don't. This canard keeps rearing its ugly head here in the West. It is true that Muslims have the same name for God as Christian Arabs do, namely Allah. But if you look a little deeper, you will find that a Muslim's understanding of Allah is quite, quite different from an Arab Christian's.
If Allah were to be the same god as God, God would have to be schizophrenic! Nobody in his right mind could truly believe that Allah and God are one and the same. I suspect that Mr. Moore doesn't believe this either. It has been added to an otherwise excellent article in order to placate.
It should be all too clear to our political élite by now that ordinary folk feel very unsettled by the ever-increasing numbers of Muslims here in the UK and Europe. I believe it would be true to say that most people do not want them here. And for one simple reason: Not only do they not want to integrate, they wish––ultimately––to impose their way of life on us, including Sharia law.
There is but one European leader who speaks any sense, and that is Viktor Orbán. I am sure that he is many people's hero now, for having the courage to make a stand against Merkel's insanity. He is certainly mine. In actual fact, Viktor Orbán is the true leader of the West. – ©Mark
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With Jeremy Corbyn Elected as New Leader, Britain’s Labour Party Takes a Hard Left Turn
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| Jeremy Corbyn after being elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party on Saturday. |
The result of the contest, announced on Saturday morning in London, gave stewardship of the Labour party to the hard left for the first time in more than three decades, a development seen here as one of the most surprising upsets in modern British politics.
As Europe continues to feel the aftershocks of the financial crisis of 2008, voters have been increasingly attracted to the political extremes, with support growing both for socialist parties on the left and nationalist ones on the right. The Labour leadership result could now shift the main opposition party in Britain closer to the types of positions taken by other leftist parties that have become prominent across Europe, including Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain.
Mr. Corbyn, 66, has been a lawmaker for more than three decades but never served in government, preferring to campaign, often for unfashionable causes, and frequently rebelling against the party line. » | Saturday, September 12, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
At Least 65 Killed as Crane Crashes into Mecca's Grand Mosque
At least 65 people were killed and 80 injured when a construction crane crashed into the Grand Mosque of Saudi Arabia's holy Muslim city of Mecca Friday, the civil defence said on Twitter. Pictures circulating on social media showed bloodied bodies strewn across a courtyard where the top part of the crane, which appeared to have collapse or snapped, had crashed into it. It was raining heavily at the time. The incident occurred as hundreds of thousands of Muslims gather from all over the world for the annual hajj pilgrimage set to begin later this month. » | AFP | Friday, September 11, 2015
THE GUARDIAN: Mecca crane crash: 65 dead at Grand Mosque – live: Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defence authority says 154 people also injured in preparations for annual hajj pilgrimage » | Jessica Elgot | Friday, September 11, 2015
Aylan Kurdi's Father Is a People Smuggler, Woman Claims
Channel Ten reported Zainab Abbas, who lost two children in the tragedy, claims Abdullah Kurdi was at the helm of the boat when it sunk off the Turkish coast.
"He was a smuggler, yes. He was the one that was driving the boat," the woman told Ten over Skype from Iraq through a translator.
Ms Abbas claims Mr Kurdi was speeding before the boat capsized and pleaded with her while they were still both in the water, "please don't dob me in [Aus. E: betray me, inform on me]". » | Chloe Booker with Kate Aubusson | Friday, September 11, 2015
Obama the Super-salesman Pours Fuel on a Middle East In Flames
At the front of the queue, writing cheques worth billions of dollars, will be the Sunni Arab regimes of the Gulf monarchies, making the latest payments in an arms-buying splurge set to surge through the coming decade – in a region already coming apart at the seams.
Touring the Middle East to tamp down anxiety about Iranian expansionism after the signing of the long-awaited nuclear deal, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Washington "had agreed to expedite certain arms sales that are needed and that have taken too long in the past". » | Paul McGeough | Chief foreign correspondent | Friday, September 11, 2015
So leben die Iraner im Reich der Mullahs
Illegale Einwanderer werden "sofort verhaftet"
Am kommenden Dienstag will Ungarns Kabinett entscheiden, ob der Krisenfall ausgerufen wird. Das würde unter anderem bedeuten, dass das Militär die Grenzschützer unterstützen darf. Separat soll das Parlament am 21. September entscheiden, ob die Armee auch dann zum Grenzschutz herangezogen werden darf, wenn kein Krisenfall oder Notstand ausgerufen wurde. » | AG/red | Freitag, 11. September 2015
"Menscheninvasion überfordert Nickelsdorf restlos"
Viktor Orban dénonce la «rébellion» des migrants
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| Le premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orban. |
Les migrants qui franchiront illégalement la frontière entre la Serbie et la Hongrie à compter du 15 septembre seront arrêtés, a déclaré vendredi le premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orban. Il a dénoncé la «rébellion» des immigrés arrivés par milliers dans son pays.
«Etant donné que nous devons faire face à une rébellion de ces migrants illégaux, la police fait son travail de façon remarquable, sans faire usage de la force», a-t-il soutenu après une rencontre avec Manfred Weber, qui préside le groupe PPE (Parti populaire européen, droite) au Parlement de Strasbourg.
Les migrants, a ajouté Viktor Orban, «ont occupé des gares, refusé de se laisser prendre leurs empreintes digitales, n'ont pas voulu coopérer et refusent d'aller là où ils pourraient recevoir de la nourriture, de l'eau et des soins médicaux (...) Ils se sont rebellés contre l'ordre juridique hongrois.» » | ats/nxp) | vendredi 11 septembre 2015
Die Angst beherrscht Osteuropa
Noch während Jean-Claude Juncker am Mittwoch in Strassburg seine Rede zur Lage der Europäischen Union hielt, machten zwischen Prag und Warschau osteuropäische Regierungspolitiker erneut Front gegen feste EU-Flüchtlingsquoten, wie der Kommissionschef sie vorschlug. Tschechiens Ministerpräsident Bohuslav Sobotka beharrte darauf, dass «Quoten keinen Sinn haben, weil sie von den Ursachen der Migrationswelle ablenken». Seinem Innenminister erteilte er demonstrativ das Mandat, beim Europäischen Rat am kommenden Montag jede Quotenregelung zu blockieren.
Auch Polens Regierungschefin Ewa Kopacz wird nicht müde, «unsere europäischen Partner daran zu erinnern, dass sie von uns keine unmöglichen Dinge fordern sollten», wie Kopacz es gestern formulierte. Flüchtlingsquoten, wie Juncker sie verlangt, seien «nicht realistisch». Ungarn hat seine ablehnende Haltung wiederholt mehr als deutlich gemacht, nicht zuletzt durch den Bau eines Nato-Draht-Zauns an der Grenze zu Serbien. Und der slowakische Premier Robert Fico sagt: «Ich will nicht eines Morgens in einem Land aufwachen, in dem Hunderttausend Araber leben.» » | Von Ulrich Krökel | Freitag, 11. September 2015
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Saudi Arabia Offers Germany 200 Mosques – One For Every 100 Refugees Who Arrived Last Weekend
Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in Germany.
Syria’s richer Gulf neighbours have been accused of not doing their fair share in the humanitarian crisis, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE also keeping their doors firmly shut to asylum-seekers. » | Adam Withnall | Friday, September 11, 2015
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE: Die arabische Halbinsel schottet sich ab: Die Golfstaaten und Saudi-Arabien stellen sich taub gegenüber ihren muslimischen Glaubensbrüdern aus den Bürgerkriegsstaaten. Riad möchte lieber für die syrischen Flüchtlinge in Deutschland 200 Moscheen bauen. » | Rainer Hermann | Dienstag, 8. September 2015
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Video Shows Refugees Fed 'Like Animals in Pen' in Hungary Camp
Disturbing footage emerged on Friday of the way migrants are being treated inside Hungary's main refugee camp on the border with Serbia, with images showing families fed "like animals in a pen".
The video, shot secretly by an Austrian volunteer who visited the flashpoint Roszke camp on Wednesday, shows some 150 people wildly scrambling for bags of sandwiches thrown at them by Hungarian police wearing helmets and hygiene masks in a fenced-in enclosure inside a big hall.
Hungarian police said on Friday they had launched an investigation into the video.
In an e-mailed response, police said they had launched an "emergency enquiry" into the matter, describing it as a fact-finding investigation, without elaborating. (+ video) » | Telegraph Video, and AFP, video source Michaela Spritzendorfer-Ehrenhauser | Friday, September 11, 2015
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Saudi Arabia Won’t Take Any Syrian Refugees, But Offers to Build 200 Mosques for Them in Germany
TAGES ANZEIGER: Saudischer König will für Flüchtlinge in Deutschland 200 Moscheen bauen » | Dienstag, 8. September 2015
Netanyahu in Britain: Mideast Crumbling in Face of Radical Islam
The Middle East is disintegrating in the face of extreme Shi'a radicalism embodied by Iran, and extreme Sunni extremism incarnated by Islamic State, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the outset of a meeting Thursday in London with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Netanyahu said that this – and how to “roll back the tide of militant Islam both in the Middle East and North Africa” – was one of three main issues he wanted to discuss with Cameron.
The second “no less important” issue, he said, was peace. (+ video) » | Herb Keinon | Thursday, September 10, 2015
Is This the ‘Religion of Peace’ Our Politicians Keep Harping On about? Islamic School Teachers Beat Boy, 10, So Badly He Loses Hair from Stress
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| Mohammed Waqar and his father Mohammed Siddique |
Islamic school teachers who brutally beat a 10-year-old pupil until he lost his hair from worry have each been jailed for a year.
Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his 24-year-old son Mohammed Waqar were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court after admitting wilful cruelty to the boy in lessons.
Judge Mark Wall QC told the pair "it would not be right" to suspend the jail terms, because a message had to be sent that such "brutality" had no place in classrooms. He said: "Acts of brutality of this sort which you each indulged in, with a stick, will not be tolerated."
Their victim was beaten with a plastic stick and given back-handed slaps by tutors for "talking in the classroom" or failing to properly recite the Koran at Sparkbrook Islamic centre, attached to the Jamia Mosque, in Birmingham.
The assaults happened on four separate occasions, with photographs of the boy's injuries showing "extensive" bruising to the backs of his legs. » | Agency | Thursday, September 10, 2015
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Poland Launches Probe into Calls to Send Refugees to Auschwitz Camp
Islamic Extremists 'Trying to Recruit Syrian Refugees in Germany'
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| German Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel |
Islamic extremists in Germany are trying to recruit Syrian refugees to their cause, the country’s domestic security service has said.
The warning came as one of Germany’s best known Islamist preachers published a list of suggestions for his followers on how best to approach refugees.
Pierre Vogel, a former boxer and convert to Islam who has been described as “Germany’s most influential Salafist preacher”, a puritan branch of Sunni Islam, called on his followers to seek out new recruits at government refugee shelters.
The preacher told his followers to take gifts and donations with them, and to volunteer to help staff with the influx. If the offer was refused, they should seek out newly arrived refugees at nearby mosques where they would go to pray, he said. » | Justin Huggler in Berlin | Thursday, September 10, 2015
Yazidi Girl: I Was Enslaved by ISIS Leader
Bruxelles veut que la Suisse accueille des réfugiés
La Commission européenne souhaite que la Suisse participe à l'avenir à la clé de répartition permanente des réfugiés, en tant qu'Etat associé aux accords de Dublin. Mais un flou subsiste sur cette «obligation».
Dans sa proposition, adoptée jeudi par le Parlement européen, la Commission européenne prévoit de créer un mécanisme de répartition permanent et contraignant. Le texte fait référence à l'accord de Dublin passé avec quatre pays non-membres de l'UE, soit la Suisse, l'Islande, la Norvège et le Liechtenstein. » | jeudi 9 septembre 2015
Dutch MP Geert Wilders Speaks to the Invasion of Europe Underway
V DARE: Geert Wilders Demands Netherlands Reject Bogus Refugees » | Brenda Walker | Sunday, September 6, 2015
Isis Shows Hostages 'For Sale': Militants Claim to Have Captured Norwegian and Chinese Nationals
The Isis militant group claims it has taken a Norwegian and a Chinese man as hostages, and has posted notices describing the two men as “for sale” in the latest edition of its propaganda magazine.
Pictures of the men dressed in yellow jumpsuits appeared in the final pages of the 11th edition of “Dabiq”, an online English-language magazine released by the group’s media arm.
In what it describes as a “limited time offer”, Isis names the men along with details of their ages and occupations and provides a telegram number. It says: “Whoever would like to pay the ransom for his release and transfer can contact the following.” » | Adam Withnall | Thursday, September 10, 2015
Germany: Nazi Salutes and Scuffles as BÄRGIDA Protest Islamism in Berlin
Denmark Suspends Ferries as Migrants Demand Route to Sweden
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| Danish police clash with one of around 300 migrants who were walking north on a highway in southern Denmark |
A major ferry crossing from Germany to Denmark has been partly closed after hundreds of migrants refused to disembark on arrival, demanding to be taken onward to Sweden, as Europe's migrant crisis spreads northward.
The crossing from Puttgarden to Rodby, Scandinavia's busiest ferry route to Germany, is usually open to car and train passengers.
But operators suspended the latter route after two trains carrying around 350 refugees spent Wednesday stuck in Rodby, demanding to continue on to Sweden.
The refugees refused to register with Danish authorities, which would mean having to apply for asylum in Denmark or returning to Germany, preferring instead to seek asylum in Sweden, where asylum conditions are more generous. » | Telegraph’s Foreign Staff | Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Al Qaeda Mag Urges Attack on Koch Brothers, Buffett, Bloomberg
The list in Inspire magazine also included industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch, internet entrepreneur Larry Ellison, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, economist Robert Shiller, and former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. Not mentioned is Janet Yellen, who succeeded Bernanke as Fed chairman.
Also pictured was Jim Walton, one of the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, although he was misidentified in the caption as his late father, Sam Walton. Several other names on the list were misspelled.
The slickly produced magazine article begins with a photo illustration showing blood-spattered pictures of several of the leaders next to a dripping gun. Its stated goal is to derail the "revival of the America Economy."
The article says the "economic personalities" and "wealthy entrepreneurs" can get off the list by withdrawing their money from U.S. banks, investing their wealth outside American soil, and denouncing support for Israel.
Shiller, a Nobel Prize winner, said he was shocked to learn his name was on the list.
"Why me? I am non-plussed. Why I am included?" he said. "I was just in Istanbul for an Islamic finance forum, part of the G20. I quoted Mohammed. I'm sympathetic to the Islamic community." » | Robert Windrem and Tracy Connor | Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Salafisten auf Rekrutierungstour unter Flüchtlingen
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| Koran-Verteilung durch Salafisten in Wuppertal (Archivbild) |
Jeden Tag kommen sie mit Zügen aus Südeuropa an: Flüchtlinge aus Syrien. Sie sind dem Krieg entkommen, den Fassbomben des Assad-Regimes und dem Terror des Islamischen Staates. Doch in Deutschland werden sie nicht nur von Hilfsorganisationen und ehrenamtlich engagierten Bürgern erwartet. Sondern auch von Salafisten, die in ihnen potenzielle Rekruten für ihren fanatischen Glauben sehen.
Der in Bergheim (Nordrhein-Westfalen) lebende salafistische Prediger Pierre Vogel hat bereits eine Liste von Ratschlägen veröffentlicht, wie sich Salafisten am besten den Flüchtlingen nähern sollen. Vogel rät seinen Anhängern, Teams zu bilden und alle Flüchtlingsunterkünfte in ihrer Umgebung ausfindig zu machen und zu besuchen.
Auch, wie man die Herzen der meist mittellosen Flüchtlinge erreicht, glaubt Vogel zu wissen: "Bringt Geschenke mit!" Dem Personal der Unterkunft sollen die Salafisten ihre Hilfe anbieten; und wenn diese abgelehnt wird, solle man in nahe gelegenen Moscheen das Gespräch mit den Flüchtlingen suchen. (+ Video) » | Von Stefan Laurin | Mittwoch, 9. September 2015
Wednesday, September 09, 2015
Europe Faces Political War On Two Fronts As Backlash Builds
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| A migrant group walks between the railroad tracks near Roszke village on the Hungarian-Serbian border |
The European Union is fracturing along multiple lines of cleavage, torn by an emerging Kulturkampf over migrant flows before it has overcome the bitter conflict at the heart of monetary union.
“The bell tolls, the time has come,” said Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European Commission, in his State of the Union speech.
"We have to look at the huge issues with which the European Union is now confronted. Our Union is not in a good situation,” he said.
Perhaps it would be churlish to point out that the cause of this near existential breakdown is a series of moves that have his fingerprints all over them: » | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard | Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Rede der Bundeskanzlerin im Bundestag zu Haushalt und Flüchtlingskrise
Britain Can Stay ‘In’, Says Juncker, But Then It Should Butt Out
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| David Cameron and Jean[-]Claude Juncker deep in discussion |
Even when times are tough American presidents always declare the state of their union to be “strong”, or something similarly optimistic, but after a year of near perpetual crisis in Europe Jean-Claude Juncker was past pretending: the European Union, he said, is not in “a good state”.
But if this occasion was a showcase for the European Commission president to lay down a vision for how to fix the continent’s ills, from the recent migrant crisis to the still-wobbly euro, it did not inspire confidence.
Mr Juncker spoke for 90 minutes – an absurdly long time – prescribing “more Europe” as the panacea for everything while being heckled from the upper slopes of the chamber by an assortment of anti-Federalist MEPs, including some from our own Ukip.
As a spectacle, it was risible – but that cannot distract from the fact that Mr Juncker is right about one thing: Europe’s challenges have now taken on an existential quality. » | Peter Foster | Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Wegen Papst-Cover: Saudi-Arabien verbietet „National Geographic“
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| Verboten: Das katholischer Kirchenoberhaupt in der Sixtinischen Kapelle. |
Die aktuelle Ausgabe des Magazins „National Geographic“ darf in Saudi-Arabien nicht verkauft werden. Auf dem Cover ist der Papst mit der Schlagzeile „Die Kirchenreform – so führt Franziskus die stille Revolution an“ zu sehen. Das reichte offenbar aus, um das Heft in Saudi-Arabien verbieten zu lassen.
Alsaa Omar al-Menhaly, der Chefredakteur des Magazins, entschuldigte sich auf Twitter bei seinen Lesern, die bereits seit einer Woche auf die neue Ausgabe warteten: Das Magazin dürfe „aus kulturellen Gründen“ nicht veröffentlicht werden. In Saudi-Arabien ist es nicht nur verboten, christliche oder jüdische Gottesdienste zu feiern, auch der Import und das öffentliche Tragen von religiösen Symbolen wie Kreuzen, Bibeln oder Rosenkränzen steht unter Strafe. » | Von Kornelius Friz | Mittwoch, 9. September 2015
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Europe Divided Over Growing Refugee Crisis
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