Islamisme: De moderate kræfter svinder i Tyrkiet

På internettet dukker der flere og flere oplysninger op om radikaliseringen i Tyrkiet, men intet af det når frem til de etablerede medier:

Turkey’s Risky Transition

By Ali Uyanik – September 2, 2010

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Prime Minister and leader of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), has called for revision of the Turkish constitution through a referendum making it impossible for the secular judiciary to close down Islamist parties. His chief political adversary, Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), says “No” to constitutional amendments that would reinforce the position of the AKP.

Kilicdaroglu comes from the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli. If you travel to Tunceli, you will see inscribed on a hillside a uniquely malevolent warning from the state: “We are strong and brave; we are ready.” The message is unmistakable. Tunceli is also the name of the provincial capital, a city 99 percent populated by Alevis, who practise a stream of spirituality combining Sufi mysticism, Shia Islam, and traditional Turkish practices.

Local people call this province “Dersim,” its older name. The Turkish state considers it a hotbed of separatism. As the Ottoman empire came to an end, many military operations were carried out here. The region is mountainous and inaccessible, with considerable natural beauty. Under the Ottomans, many Alevis took refuge in this wild area. Dersim was virtually independent of the Ottoman state; the people paid no taxes and did not fulfil the demands made on them to serve in the military.

Mere hos Hudson New York HER.

Video: Islamisering af Paris

CBN har lavet et tv-indslag med tilhørende artikel om situationen i Paris. Fra 1. september 2010:

‘Islamization’ of Paris a Warning to the West

PARIS – Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.

This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.

It shows that even though some in the French government want to get tough with Muslims and ban the burqa, other parts of the French government continue to give Islam a privileged status.

Læs mere HER på CBNs hjemmeside.

‘Islamization’ of Paris a Warning to the West

The French have become increasingly fed up with what they see as the growing Islamization of France. The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN.

Man kan finde flere videoer af Maxime Lepante HER. En YouTube-kanal fuld af dokumentation af muslimers uacceptable opførsel i Paris.

Video: Kristne pakistanere får ingen katastrofehjælp

Patrick Sookhdeo, Barnabas Fund, Open Doors med flere appellerer om hjælp til kristne pakistanere. Situationen er alvorlig, fordi vantro diskrimineres af regeringens nødhjælpsarbejdere og muslimske hjælpeorganisationer, skriver CNS News:  

“Barnabas Fund channels money exclusively from Christians through Christians to Christians who desperately need our help,” the organization’s international director, Patrick Sookhdeo, said in an earlier statement.
 
“They urgently need our assistance now and, looking to the future, will require long-term help to rebuild their homes and shattered lives.”

Nederst på denne side hos Barnabas Fund kan man læse, hvordan man bedst hjælper. 

Og en videoappel fra Open Doors - den er ret amerikansk, desværre:

Dette engelske program er en længere gennemgang af katastrofen og de kristnes situation i Pakistan. Det er også en kristen udsendelse, men mere tålelig. I slutningen af programmet begynder diverse bønner bla. på urdu. Der vil jeg foreslå at man står af, for der sker ikke mere seriøst i den video:

TV interview with Barnabas Aid Pakistan flood experts

Two senior members of Barnabas Aid’s projects team were interviewed about the flood crisis in Pakistan on live television on Tuesday 17th August 2010.

Wilson Saraj, Barnabas Aid’s Co-ordinator for South Asia, and Projects Manager Andrew Fleet appeared on the Revelation TV programme “Live@nine”. They were interviewed by Doug Harris on the programme which lasted for just under an hour and included viewers questions.

The programme focused on how Pakistani Christians are being affected by what has been rated the worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory, as well as what Barnabas Aid is doing to help them.

RevelationTV can be viewed on Sky Channel 581 and Freesat Channel 692 as well as online at www.revelationtv.com.

Mr Saraj said:

“We really would urge Christians to take the time to watch this important programme if they can. As the mainstream news focuses on the overall situation in Pakistan, this is a unique opportunity to see and hear what our brothers and sisters in particular are going through.”

Andre kilder: Percecution.org, Kristeligt Dagblad, Christian Today, Crosswalk,

Video: Sverigedemokraterne i DR2

Svensk TV4 har afvist at bringe Sverigedemokraternes valgvideo. En video, som på ingen måde fejler noget:

DR2 Debatten besluttede at give Jimmie Åkesson en fair chance. Fra 2. september 2010:

Jimmie Åkesson i danskt debattprogram (DR2 Debatten)

Se Sverigedemokraternes forbudte valgreklame og partileder Jimmie Åkesson i debat. Vi tager debatten, som svenskerne ikke tør tage og spørger: Skal Sverige kopiere Danmarks udlændingepolitik?

Sverige er 15 år bag efter Danmark på udlændingepolitiken: først nu tager de den debat, som vi tog i 1990′erne med Dansk Folkeparti i spidsen. Er Sverige på vej til – og skal de – føre en dansk udlændingepolitik eller er det os, der kan lære af svenskerne?

Sverigedemokraternes udskældte formand Jimmie Åkesson fik i Debatten torsdag mulighed for at præsentere sin censurerede valgvideo og – i tradition med de danske partilederrunder – at præsentere sin politik i to minutter uafbrudt.

Dansk Folkeparti – Sverigedemokraternes forbillede- Søren Espersen bakkede op om Sverigedemokraternes omdiskuterede valgreklame; “Ja, det kunne lige så godt have været os, der havde lavet den video”, svarede han Clement Kjersgaard på opfordring.

I Debatten torsdag var det også den danske venstrefløjs tur til at stå for skud på udlændingepolitikken: integrationsordfører i SF Astrid Krag og retsordfører Karen Hækkerup forsvarede deres fælles integrationsudspil, som bevarer 24-års regelen, overfor en kritisk næstformand for Det Radikale Venstre, Zenia Stampe og professor Drude Dahlerup, der siden 1970′erne har været aktiv på venstrefløjen. Og overfor den unge lagerarbejder Davut Cakmak, som for nylig er flyttet fra Danmark til Sverige for at blive gift med sin 22-årige kæreste, måtte de tilstå, at han ikke kan få lov at flytte hjem med sin unge kone, hvis de to partier kommer til magten.

Medvirkende: Jimmie Åkesson, formand Sverigedemokraterne; Søren Espersen, udenrigsordfører, DF; Bent Falbert, tidl. chefred. Ekstrabladet; Zenia Stampe, næstformand, Det Radikale Venstre, Karen Hækkerup, retsordfører, S; Astrid Krag, integrationsordfører, SF; Torben Møller Hansen, Direktør i Foreningen Nydansker; Michael Jalvig, historiker og forfatter og Drude Dahlerup, professor, Lund Universitet.

Video: Australsk imam opfordrer til halshugning af Wilders

En af de kriminelle imamer, som alle vestlige lande har mindst en håndfuld af, har fremsat dødtrusler imod Geert Wilders:

I talen omtaler Feiz Muhammad Wilders som “denne satan, denne djævel, denne politiker fra Holland”.

Han siger videre, at alle, der omtaler islam på samme måde som Wilders, bør henrettes ved at blive halshugget.

Det skriver Jyllands-Posten. Samme imam har det med at gøre sig bemærket for sin islamiske korrekthed, fremgår det af en artikel på ABC Radio Autralia News hjemmeside:

The Sydney-born cleric has gained notoriety for calling on young children to be radicalised, and blaming rape victims for their own attacks.

Bebrejdelserne handler selvfølgelig om tørklæder. Zimbio kan tilføje:

This is the same Aussie Imam, who after some Afghanistan Muslim refugee immigrants got off the plane, in their new country, they literally went on a raping spree. But when they got 25 years each, in protest, the good Imam, said the women/girls deserved to be raped because they left their houses and who can blame the cat if the ‘meat’ is left outside.

Wilders er ikke tilfreds med at skulle læse om den slags i de hollandske aviser, skriver Yahoo! News:

Wilders demanded to know why he had learnt about the threat from the newspaper and not from Dutch authorities

Oprindeligt stammer oplysningerne en hollandsk avis, De Telegraaf, som er kommet i besidelse af en lydfil med imamens tale. Den menes at være optaget i Malaysia, hvor idioten holder til.

Kan det undre, at Geert Wilders vil have stoppet muslimsk indvandring? Muslimer bekræfter hele tiden, at Wilders har helt ret, når han sammenligner islam med nazismen. I hvert fald findes islam i udgaver, der berettiger den sammenligning.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Imamen holdt sin tale på engelsk. Og en stump af den kan høres i denne video:

Geert Wilders kan se frem til at få fin hjælp for fremtiden. Paul Belien fra The Brussels Journal er nemlig blevet ansat af Geert Wilders som dennes personlige assistent.  Det skriver Gates of Vienna.

Andre kilder: Berlingske Tidende, Berlingske Tidende, B.T. Reuters, Duch News, The Telegraph,

Video: Michael Nazir-Ali om jura og religion

Jeg fatter ikke, at jeg først har fundet den her video nu. Fra 14. april 2010 – om forholdet mellem lovgivning og religion, – kristendom og sharia. Interessant at høre om de kollisioner, England allerede har oplevet, når sharialoven ikke stemmer overens med engelsk lov:

The Challenges of Islamist Extremist Ideology to America’s Founding Principles

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali – Former Bishop of Rochester, Church of England, and President, OXTRAD

Western legal tradition rests on the idea that there is “one law for all.” This idea has emerged from the Judeo-Christian tradition as mediated by the Enlightenment, particularly from the tradition’s teaching about the equal dignity and liberty of all. What challenges does Islamist extremism pose domestically in the United States to the core principles of Western society? Western European and British experiences point to potential areas of friction in public life. How do Islamist tenets challenge specific central principles of Western legal and social foundations, including the rule of law, the role of women and equality before the law, religious liberty, freedom of speech, and free enterprise?

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England from 1994 to 2009. He currently serves as President of OXTRAD, the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue. Pakistani-born, he served as Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan and is a prominent spokesman for a meaningful engagement between Christianity and Islam and commentator on the rise of Islamism and of Sharia Law in the West.

Se også den nye artikel af Michael Nazir-Ali i posten lige nedenfor denne.

Michael Nazir-Ali: Afskriv ikke Pakistan

Michael Nazir-Ali: Afskriv ikke Pakistan

Det er vist for sent. Pakistan er gået tabt for de næste mange generationer. Men Nazir-Ali synes, vi bør forsøge:

We cannot afford to shun Pakistan

The world must not abandon Pakistan to the religious extremists

On a recent Pakistan International Airlines flight from Karachi to Lahore, a local – and somewhat revealing – fashion show played out on the TV screens. Among those having to watch were a large number of people returning from the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca. This scene is but a microcosm of contemporary Pakistan. On the one hand, there are signs everywhere not just of personal piety but of a narrow and intolerant ideology based on religion, and, on the other, of people, especially the young, straining to break through the barriers of convention. The clash is evident everywhere, with the same newspapers, magazines and television channels carrying Islamic revivalist messages and permissive films. How this clash is resolved will be a clue to the destiny of the country.

Det er en sejlivet myte, at flertallet af pakistanerne skulle være moderate. Eller også har nogle mennesker bare en meget generøs definition af, hvad moderat islam er. Michael Nazir-Ali plejer ikke at være naiv, men tangerer det ikke destomindre her.

Noget helt andet er, at Pakistan har a-våben. Noget, Vesten kan blive nødt til at reagere på, – eventuelt ved at bombe de militære anlæg, der huser disse masseødelæggelsesvåben. Man må håbe, at Vestens efterretningstjenester har styr på deres arbejde.

Vi skal også være klar til at oprette flygtningelejre i nærområdet. Vi skal ikke have flere indvandrere. Det siger Nazir-Ali ikke rigtig noget om.

Man finder hele  artiklen i The Guardian HER.

Amnesty International bør undersøges

Amnesty Internationals omdømme er helt i bund. Fra flere sider – også venstreorienterede – rejses der nu krav om at få undersøgt organisationens egentlige politiske dagsorden:

Dershowitz, NGO Monitor: Probe Amnesty’s Israel biases

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL  – September 2, 2010

International human rights’ groups denounces ‘scum state’ comments, but defends work. 
  
BERLIN – A group of prominent political, academic and Middle East commentators from the international board of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor called on Monday for an “independent evaluation of biases in Amnesty’s activities and publications, particularly related to Israel.”

The head of Amnesty International’s Finnish branch, Frank Johansson, sparked outrage last week when he termed Israel a “scum state” on his blog, a statement he has since removed following The Jerusalem Post’s disclosure of his anti-Israel remarks.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post. Christopher Hitchens var tidligere på året inde på det samme, hvilket man kan læse om her på Veritas Universalis: 

Amnesty International has lost sight of its original purpose

Artikel for Scruton fans

Neuro-science har ikke meget med denne blogs emneområde at gøre, men kristendom har i et mindre omfang. Alligevel nøjes jeg med et hurtigt citat og et link:

Against Neurotrash

Is human uniqueness really nothing more than a neurological phenomenon?

By Roger Scruton – Friday, September 3, 2010

[...] Since the Enlightenment, science has been capturing territory from religion, explaining the cosmos and our tiny corner of it in ways that make no mention of a supernatural plan. And for two centuries religion has been gradually giving way, accepting that now this feature of our world, now that one, could be accounted for without reference to God’s purpose. But our situation has begun to change. In recent years a new kind of science has arisen, one with a more aggressive face. It wishes to seize territory in advance of any negotiation, and which often lays waste to the place that it conquers.

Mere hos Big Questions Online HER.

Interview med Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtianis søn

Bernard-Henri Lévy kæmper en brav kamp for den dødsdømte iraner, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani:

Interview: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s Son, Sajjad, Speaks

By Bernard-Henri Lévy

For days and days — since, precisely, Aug. 15, the day we launched our petition — we, like all newspapers worldwide, have tried to contact Sajjad, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s son.

He is the only one who can provide exact news of his mother.

He alone can answer the question one always asks in such a situation, that of the actual effect of this kind of mobilization that we have embarked upon with Libération, Elle, La Règle du Jeu, the Huffington Post and other European newspapers.

Der er mere hos The Huffington Post HER. Interviewet, der er ret godt lavet, kan også læses HER hos International Committee Against Stoning.

Opdatering den 8. sepember 2010 fra Huffington Post der skriver, at den stakkels iranske kvinde tilsyneladende allerede er blevet pisket:

Sakineh seems to have been sentenced anew to 99 lashes. The whipping seems to have taken place at the beginning of last week, probably August 30th or 31st. Two of her fellow inmates, condemned to lighter sentences and released on Friday, September 3rd, testified to that effect before the act (the sentencing, and then the execution) was confirmed, respectively, by the judge at Tabriz prison and by a court employee. And why this new monstrosity? Because of a sordid story of a photo published in the British press of her, Sakineh, veil-less and bare-faced, which would be, in and of itself, an offense to Sharia law. I say a sordid story, for it is by no means certain that the photo is of her.

Desuden er den franske udenigsminister, Bernard Kouchner, gået ind i sagen. Bernard Kouchner og Bernard-Henri Lévy har afholdt en fælles pressekonference og her sagde ministeren:

This woman has been accused of adultery, of murdering her husband and sentenced to stoning. It’s an intolerable punishment and act, impossible even to imagine, it’s the height of barbarity and a return to the Middle Ages. I have to set this sentence in the context of the oppression, arrests, sentences and executions which followed the Iranian electoral process culminating in the election of President Ahmadinejad.

Og:

President Sarkozy has said that France was acting as guarantor, that she had to defend Sakineh; as far as I’m concerned, I’m making it a personal cause and am ready to do everything to try and save her. And if I have to go to Tehran, I’ll go to Tehran

Det skriver den franske ambassade i England på sin hjemmeside.

Interview med Edward Luttwak

Det er længe siden vi har haft Edward Luttwak omtalt her hos Veritas Universalis. Men det bliver der rådet lidt bod på nu. Om moderne krigsførelse i et historisk perspektiv:

Scholar says West should treat radical Islam the way Byzantine generals did the Huns

By Miriam Cosic – The Australian  – September 04, 2010

We should use intelligence, not 18-year-olds, to fight terror, argues Edward Luttwak

THE Byzantines brought three skills to their foreign policy: intelligence, diplomacy and military force. Their superiority in each kept the eastern half of the Roman Empire intact for a millennium after the famed legions of the West fell to invading barbarians.

Today, in the contemporary West, we don’t even begin to approach the sophistication in these skills of Byzantium, later known as Constantinople and now Istanbul, according to Edward Luttwak, author of The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire.

Mere HER i The Australian.