Video: Krigslignende tilstande på græsen mellem Serbien – Kosovo

Balkan er en krudttønde, sagde flere politikere i gamle dage. Men de sagde aldrig hvorfor. Men så kom krigen og fortalte os, hvad forklaringen var: islam. Nu blusser konflikten op igen og det ikke helt let at orientere sig i, hvad der er ret eller vrang. Her hører vi særdeles voldsom kritik af NATOs gøren og laden. EU går heller ikke ram forbi. Fra Russia Today 28. september 2011:

NATO swaps bread for bullets at Serbia-Kosovo border

Violence has erupted on the Serbia – Kosovo border, with seven local Serbs injured in an exchange of fire between protestors and NATO peacekeepers at a disputed frontier crossing. Clashes broke out after NATO forces tried to get rid of barricades set up by Serbs. NATO claims it acted only in response to attacks by Kosovo Serbs – and say troops just used rubber bullets and tear gas in self-defence. However reports have emerged in Serbia that NATO forces used real bullets. That’s according to the Tanyug news agency in the country, which has shown X-ray images of gunshot wounds. Nebojsa Malic, a Serbian Historian and author says that NATO actions only worsen the tense situation.

Border Backfire: ‘Civil war unfolding in Kosovo’

NATO peacekeeping force KFOR has sent more troops to the Serbian-Kosovo border following bloody clashes there. But as Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told RT the alliance is creating a new conflict in the region.

­”It’s another mistake that NATO is making by provoking another conflict in the Balkans,” Dmitry Rogozin said.

According to witnesses, KFOR has deployed armored vehicles, sandbags and barbed wire around the Jarinje border crossing, about 100 km (60 miles) from Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, on Wednesday.

“It seems my NATO colleagues don’t have a clue what the consequences of their involvement in the conflict could be,” Dmitry Rogozin said. “Instead of taking a neutral position in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution, they took the side of Kosovo-Albania. Basically, NATO is blocking the only road of life between the Kosovan Serbs and Serbia. It’s the international peacekeepers who are involved in the civil conflict in the north of the region.”

Serbia – Kosovo Conflict: The deployment of KFOR troops has reactivated a “frozen conflict” – John Laughland – September 28, 2011

John Laughland of the Paris-based Institute for Democracy and Cooperation agrees the deployment of KFOR troops has reactivated a ‘frozen conflict.’

“If they took away their newly sent force from the borders between the northern Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, then yes, I do think that the region would go back to being peaceful,” John Laughland told RT.

Full article at RTs site: http://tinyurl.com/3jvj8h6

Stadig fra Russia Today den 28. september 2011:

“NATO is there for its own interests” – Marko Gasic – September 28, 2011

From Russia Today – Marko Gasic: “They [international bodies and NATO] have decided who they want to sponsor. They want to sponsor the Greater Albanian project through which they see their own interests,” he went on. “They see Camp Bondsteel, the biggest military base in the world, having a permanent presence in the heart of Europe, strategically located, completing that encirclement of Russia which was always one of the serious aspects of their game plan.”

“That’s what they are about. They are about controlling the flow of oil, controlling the security of energy supplies through this part of the region. NATO is about control of territory and control of resources. That’s why they are going to stay on the side of those whose country it was not, they will reward the organ stealers and Greater Albanian terrorists with a country because then the Albanian mafia will owe them big time. That’s the NATO plan,” he concluded.

Full article at RTs site: tinyurl.com/​3r29wbj

“KFOR troops have exceeded their mandate in Kosovo” – Srdja Trifkovic – September 28, 2011

From Russia Today: The impartiality of KFOR troops in Kosovo is highly questionable, but the current clashes there won’t escalate into a full-scale conflict as Belgrade fails to follow Serbian national interests, believes foreign affairs author Srdja Trifkovic.

­The recent developments near Kosovo’s border with extra NATO peacekeepers moving in to help bring calm, but instead provoking armed clashes, lead Trifkovic, a foreign affairs editor in US ‘Chronicles’ magazine, to question their neutrality.

Opdatering – artikel:

Kosovo-Serbia talks off after renewed clashes

28 September 2011

EU-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo have been called off amid heightened tension in northern Kosovo.

The Serbian delegation was “not ready to proceed” with talks in Brussels, EU diplomat Robert Cooper said.

Mere HER hos BBC.

Multikulturen fungerer ikke i Tyskland

Venstrefløjsere må virkelig være glade for sig selv. Al ødelæggelse går lige efter planen:

Parallel Justice

Islamic ‘Arbitrators’ Shadow German Law

By Maximilian Popp – September 1, 2011

In mosques or tearooms, Muslim elders dispense verdicts that keep their communities in line. They mediate between aggrieved immigrants, sometimes at the expense of German justice. Some say the arbitrations ease caseloads in court, but others see the creeping advance of Sharia law.

The men ambushed Fuat S. on the street, then locked him in a basement and tortured him. Fuat was later admitted to the hospital in Berlin’s Neukölln district with gaping wounds, contusions and broken bones.

Mere HER i Der Spiegel.

Ratko Mladić: The verdict is already written…

Lidt artikler:

Christopher Hitchens: Don’t forget what a monster Ratko Mladic is

Christopher Hitchens – May 31, 2011

I suppose it is possible that the arrest of General Ratko Mladic is as undramatic and uncomplicated as it seems and that in recent years he had been off the active list and gradually became a mumbling old derelict with a rather nasty line in veterans’ reminiscences. His demands would probably have been modest and few: the odd glass of slivovitz in company with a sympathetic priest (it’s usually the Serbian Orthodox Church that operates the support and counseling network for burned-out or wanted war criminals) and an occasional hunting or skiing trip. Though there is something faintly satisfying about this clichéd outcome — the figure of energetic evil reduced to a husk of exhausted banality — there is also something repellent about it.

Mere HER i National Post. Kan også læses her hos Slate.

General Mladić: The Facts

by Srdja Trifkovic • June 1st, 2011

The circumstances surrounding the arrest of the wartime commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, General Ratko Mladić, seem puzzling. On May 26 he was captured in the house of a close relative with the same surname in a village north of Belgrade. Prima facie this means either that Mladić was entirely left to his own devices and had to seek shelter with people certain to be under police surveillance, or else that the Serbian authorities had been conniving in his hiding. The former is unlikely in view of the effectiveness of Mladić’s concealment after he finally went underground in 2002. The latter is even less likely in view of President Boris Tadić’s constant desire to please his mentors in Brussels and Washington and get Serbia a step closer to the ever-elusive EU membership.

According to our reliable sources in Belgrade, Mladić would not have been discovered had he not decided to give himself up in return for a substantial financial reward for his family. He is a very sick man and unlikely to live much longer. In addition to a chronic kidney ailment and high blood pressure, he has suffered several minor strokes over the past decade. Two years ago he was treated—under an assumed name—for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at a clinic in Belgrade. Aware that his wife Bosiljka and son Darko had been living in penury since the authorities stopped paying his pension in 2005, Mladić decided to offer the government a deal. The final settlement is well below the $10m previously offered for Mladić’s capture, but sufficient to enable his wife and son to live in comfort for many years to come.

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine. Kan også læses her hos Serbianna.

Ratko Mladić and Myths of the Bosnian War

by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – June 1, 2011

The recent arrest of the Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić should mark the end of a dark chapter in the Balkans’ history. The military leader is charged with fifteen counts of genocide and crimes against humanity, including accusations of involvement in the Srebrenica massacre that witnessed the slaughter of 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys.

The capture itself is the culmination of a long period of international pressure — particularly by NATO — on Serbia, rather than an attempt to press for the resolution of a manhunt for a suspected war criminals residing in Serbia. The international community feared that a manhunt might jeopardize the fragile, tottering post-war ceasefire. Instead, it was made clear to Serbia that the country could not hope to attain EU membership while wanted individuals were sheltered within its territory.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Kommentar: Serberne vidste hele tiden, hvor Mladic var

Af Ota Tiefenböck

Var arrestationen af general Ratko Mladic en tilfældighed? Nej. Den var timet og tilrettelagt. Det var derfor, den kom så belejligt, netop som: 1. De nationalistiske tendenser i Serbien er aftagende, 2. Der er snart parlamentsvalg, hvor fangsten af Mladic styrker præsident Boris Tadic, 3. Hovedparten af serberne ønsker EU-medlemskab og ved, at de ikke får det, hvis Mladic er på fri fod.

Mere HER i Ræson.

Note: Christopher Hitchens har endnu en artikel i National Post – om spredning af a-våben:

• Want to stop nuclear proliferation? Support democracy

Andre kilder: National Post, Serbianna,

Opdatering 3. juni 2011 – tip fra Magnus A:

Mladic’s Arrest and Corrosive Bosnian Myths

Ted Galen Carpenter | June 2, 2011

The arrest of accused war criminal Ratko Mladic, the commander of Serb forces during Bosnia’s civil war in the 1990s, creates an opportunity to correct the historical record and provide a more balanced treatment of that episode.

One hopes that the media coverage of Mladic’s arrest and forthcoming trial will not be a repetition of the simplistic mythology about the Bosnian conflict that was so pervasive when it occurred. U.S. and European officials, the Western news media, ethnic lobbies, and much of the foreign policy community spun a Manichean melodrama. In that melodrama, the Serbs were almost entirely responsible for the breakup of Yugoslavia and for the violence that followed, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Serbs became arch villains, while Croats and Bosnian Muslims became innocent victims.

Mere HER i The National Interest.

Opdatering 14. juni 2011:

Ratko Mladic, killing 3,500 Christians near Srebrenica and Islamic jihad.

By Lee Jay Walker

After all, from enslaving Orthodox Christians during their brotherly love with the Turkish slave masters of the Ottoman Empire to having Muslim SS units who supported Adolf Hitler; then “victimhood” is needed in order to justify their history and culture.

Of course the wishy-washy brigade will tell us that the Ottoman period was enlightened and that the system of taking the eldest Christian boy (devshirme system) in the Balkans and converting them to Islam was noble. Yes, slavery in the modern era being justified and not mere slavery because the system meant that they would kill their own people in the name of Islam after being indoctrinated by Islamists in the Ottoman Empire.

Mere HER i Pakistan Christian Post eller her hos The Orthodox Church.

Vold imod dansk præster

Dansk islamkritiker overfaldet fire gange

Tobias Stern Johansen | 1. juni 2011

En tidligere frikirkepræst og forfatter til blandt andet islamkritiske bøger er blevet tævet og truet på livet. Risikoen ved at kritisere islam er blevet skærpet de seneste 15 år, mener islamforsker

Præster lever ikke kun under politibeskyttelse og med livet som indsats i diktaturer og muslimske lande som Iran, Egypten og Tyrkiet.

Nej, de sker skam også i Danmark. Mere HER i Kristeligt Dagblad.

Finland går snart tabt i multikultur

Noget af det mest absurde, jeg har læst længe:

Muslim Immigration Transforms Finland

by Soeren Kern – April 28, 2011

As in other European countries (here and here), the politically correct guardians of Finnish multiculturalism have tried to silence public discussion about the escalating problem of Muslim immigration.

In March 2009, for example, Jussi Kristian Halla-aho, a politician and well-known political commentator, was taken to court on charges of “incitement against an ethnic group” and “breach of the sanctity of religion” for writing that Islam is a religion of paedophilia. He was referring to the Islamic prophet Mohammed, who is believed to have married a six year old girl and consummated the marriage when she was nine.

A Helsinki court later dropped the charges of blasphemy but ordered Halla-aho to pay a fine of €330 ($450) for disturbing religious worship. The Finnish public prosecutor, incensed at the lower court’s dismissal of the blasphemy charges, appealed the case to the Finnish Supreme Court, where it is now being reviewed.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Barnabas Fund har mere om den uforskammede behandling af den finske præst her.

Robert Spencer om terroraktionen i Tyskland

Jihad in Frankfurt

By Robert Spencer on Mar 3rd, 2011

Like so many jihad plots and actual jihad attacks and attempted attacks these days, the jihad murder of two U.S. airmen and the wounding of two others outside the Frankfurt Airport in Germany Wednesday was initially dismissed as having nothing to do with terrorism. According to the German news agency DAPD, Boris Rhein, the interior minister for the German state of Hesse hurried to the airport and almost immediately declared that there were no indications that the shootings had been a terror attack.

One wonders what actually would constitute a terrorist attack for such analysts. Would the murderer have to announce that he was about to carry out a terrorist attack before he started shooting? Would he have to be carrying an al-Qaeda membership card? In the case of the Frankfurt Airport shooting, there were, in fact, numerous indications that this was a jihad attack. The murderer was Arif Uka, a Kosovar Muslim. Despite widespread assumptions among American analysts that Kosovar Muslims are mostly moderate, secular, peaceful, Westernized, and grateful for U.S. intervention on their behalf, in reality al-Qaeda and other jihad terror groups have been active in that region for over a decade.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Mark Steyn om Libyen og terror i Tyskland

 To styks fine artikler:

No, not terrorism, but a ‘tragic event’

Mark Steyn – March 4, 2011

According to Bismarck’s best known maxim on Europe’s most troublesome region, the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Americans could be forgiven for harboring similar sentiments after the murder of two U.S. airmen in Germany by a Kosovar Muslim.

Remember Kosovo? Me neither. But it was big at the time, launched by Bill Clinton in the wake of his Monica difficulties: Make war, not love, as the boomers advise. So Clinton did – and without any pesky UN resolutions, or even the pretense of seeking them. Instead, he and Tony Blair and even Jacques Chirac just cried “Bombs away!” and got on with it. And the Left didn’t mind at all – because, for a modern Western nation, war is only legitimate if you have no conceivable national interest in whatever war you’re waging. Unlike Iraq and all its supposed “blood for oil,” in Kosovo no one remembers why we went in, what the hell the point of it was, or which side were the good guys. (Answer: Neither.) The principal rationale advanced by Clinton and Blair was that there was no rationale. This was what they called “liberal interventionism,” which boils down to: The fact that we have no reason to get into it justifies our getting into it.

Mere HER i The Orange County Register. Kan også læses her hos Investors eller her hos AINA.

Gaddafi: The Steyn connection

By Mark Steyn – March 1, 2011

Like most folks outside Colonel Gaddafi’s immediate family, I greatly enjoyed Sheikh Qaradawi’s recent fatwa calling on “whoever can fire a bullet” to kill the Libyan leader. But Point de Bascule, the excellent Quebec website, points out that until recently Qaradawi’s Muslim Brotherhood and Gaddafi’s World Islamic Call Society were all buddy-buddy.

Along the way, Point de Bascule also sheds some light on a fellow called Dr. Mahmoud Ayoub, who was an “expert witness” at my “Islamophobia” trial at the British Columbia “Human Rights” Tribunal. He was flown in from his university in Philadelphia, and treated with fawning deference by the Canadian Islamic Congress’ oleaginous counsel, and only marginally less so by the troika of hack “human rights” judges. Dr. Ayoub described himself as a loyal Canadian citizen who shared Trudeau’s vision of a harmonious multicultural society but had moved to America because Canadian taxes were too high. At this point I leapt to my feet and cried, “Objection, your honor! Every loyal Canadian knows that confiscatory taxation is an indispensable part of Trudeau’s vision of a harmonious multicultural society.”

Mere HER i National Review Online. Kan også læses her hos Free Republic.

Andre kilder: The Orange County Register, National Review Online,

Balkanisering af Europa

Interessant artikel her:

The United Caliphate States of Europe

By Samuel J. Mikolaski – February 25, 2011

Increasingly, the leaders of Western Europe are recognizing the failure of multiculturalism. Whether they will do anything about the problem remains to be seen.

How did Europe come to this pass? I speak as one born in the Balkans but raised in Canada, where I was, thankfully, assimilated to democratic, Anglophone culture. The issue in Europe has in part to do with the formation and expansion of the EU and whether, with the massive migration of worker Turks into Western Europe, Turkey should be admitted to the EU.

Admission of Turkey into the EU clearly would exacerbate an already critical illegal migrant situation. This particularly affects Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and the UK (which also has a large population of Islamic Pakistanis). The drain on welfare resources and medical services to support these unassimilated populations has reached crisis proportions, to say nothing about the undermining of civil law in parts of Paris and London, the Midlands of England, Germany, and Austria.

Mere HER hos AINA eller her hos The American Thinker. Desuden link HER til endnu en artikel af Samuel J. Mikolaski i Canada Free Press.

Igen: Pundits om Egypten

En tredjedel af alle arabere bor i Egypten. Bla. derfor er der voldsomt meget fokus på landet. Jeg har samlet nogle udvalgte artikler her, men anbefaler at man vælger sig noget ud. Der er mange om buddet:

Bernard Lewis, Ezra Levant, Andrew C. McCarthy, Adrian Morgan, Ralph Peters, Anne Bayefsky, Alan Dershowitz, Daniel Pipes, Michael Rubin, Barry Rubin, Melanie Phillips, Robert Spencer, Michael Ledeen, Daniel Greenfield, Victor Davis Hanson, Patrick Sookhdeo, Christopher Hitchens, Paul Wolfowitz, Khaled Abu Toameh:

Et lille interview med Bernard Lewis:

A Conversation with Bernard Lewis

February 1, 2011 – By Jay Nordlinger   

Professor Lewis, as you know, is the dean of Middle East historians. Many of us regard an acquaintance with his books, articles, and ideas as indispensable to an understanding of the Middle East. National Review is very fortunate to count him as a friend. He has been a star of our cruises — including last November.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

ElBaradei no saviour

By Ezra Levant – February 1, 2011

The dictatorship in Egypt is despicable. But the “democracy” protest there is fake.

Unconfirmed press reports put the number of protesters in Cairo’s Liberation Square at 50,000. Greater Cairo has a population of 19 million people.

But the press loved it. Google News lists 20,000 news stories about the protests. And those are just the ones written in English.

Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite TV channel known for its sympathy for Islamic terrorism, had non-stop coverage of the rally. That’s a clue.

Mere HER i The Toronto Sun. Den næste artikel kan høres som mp3 her:

Fear the Muslim Brotherhood

Andrew C. McCarthy – January 31, 2011

At the Daily Beast, Bruce Riedel has posted an essay called “Don’t fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” the classic, conventional-wisdom response to the crisis in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood is just fine, he’d have you believe, no need to worry. After all, the Brothers have even renounced violence!

One might wonder how an organization can be thought to have renounced violence when it has inspired more jihadists than any other, and when its Palestinian branch, the Islamic Resistance Movement, is probably more familiar to you by the name Hamas — a terrorist organization committed by charter to the violent destruction of Israel. Indeed, in recent years, the Brotherhood (a.k.a., the Ikhwan) has enthusiastically praised jihad and even applauded — albeit in more muted tones — Osama bin Laden. None of that, though, is an obstacle for Mr. Riedel, a former CIA officer who is now a Brookings scholar and Obama administration national-security adviser. Following the template the progressive (and bipartisan) foreign-policy establishment has been sculpting for years, his “no worries” conclusion is woven from a laughably incomplete history of the Ikhwan.

Mere HER hos National Review. To ret forskellige artikler fra Family Security Matters herunder:

Understanding the Middle East Crisis: Egypt

January 31, 2011 – Adrian Morgan

The Middle East is in crisis. Already Lebanon’s stable government has been overthrown by Hezbollah, who are funded by Iran and Syria. Currently, there have been some protests in Lebanon, but so far the nation has failed to fully bring back the “Cedars Revolution” that united the populace in revulsion after Hezbollah (allegedly) assassinated prime minister Rafiq Hariri on February 14, 2005. The map above can be viewed at a higher resolution here.

Two weeks ago, the Tunisian revolution was sparked by a street vendor setting fire to himself. In Algeria four people set fire to themselves, and Egypt other individuals set themselves on fire, hoping to achieve similar results. One such self-immolation in Cairo, Egypt, was caught on camera. A similar action took place in Saudi Arabia and another took place in Morocco, where a Mauritanian was apparently protesting against the situation in his own country in West Africa.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Denial On The Nile

We Can’t Dictate Egypt’s Future

Ralph Peters – February 1, 2011

In real life, you don’t always get the pony for Christmas. And we’re not going to get everything we’d like in post-Mubarak Egypt. If we continue behaving stupidly, though, we might get a lump of fundamentalist coal in our stocking some holiday season.

I’m sick of all the hot air I’ve heard in the media insisting that our choice in Egypt is either the dead-in-the-water dictator, Hosni Mubarak, or a Muslim Brotherhood takeover that will turn Egypt into another Iran.

Bull.

Here HER hos Family Security Matters.

Egypt Protests: Will the Real Mohammed ElBaradei Please Stand Up?

By Anne Bayefsky | February 01, 2011| FoxNews.com

In the name of democratic reform, Mohammed ElBaradei is doing his best to appear as the annointed one to succeed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, should the government fall. In reality, ElBaradei has more in common with Iranian demagogue Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than anything remotely resembling democracy. He is the former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where his primary legacy was running interference for Iran and ensuring that Iran is now on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.

Fox News HER. Kan også læses her hos NewsRealBlog.

The Egyptian Revolution May Produce a Lebanon-Type Islamic Regime

by Alan M. Dershowitz – January 31, 2011

No one can confidently predict the outcome, both short and long term, of the events now unfolding on the streets of Cairo and Alexandria. One is reminded of Zhou Enlai’s answer to the question whether the French Revolution succeeded: “It’s too soon to say.”

The short time outcome in Egypt may be the introduction of some structural democracy in the form of fairer elections. But the real test will be whether structural improvements will bring about real functional democracy—freedom of speech, assembly, press, religion and dissent. This will take more time to assess.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

OBS: Nu kan nedenstående artikel også læses på dansk på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside her:

Turmoil in Egypt

by Daniel Pipes – February 1, 2011

As Egypt’s much-anticipated moment of crisis arrived and popular rebellions shook governments across the Middle East, Iran stands as never before at the center of the region. Its Islamist rulers are within sight of dominating the region. But revolutions are hard to pull off and I predict that Islamists will not achieve a Middle East-wide breakthrough and Tehran will not emerge as the key powerbroker. Some thoughts behind this conclusion:

An echo of the Iranian revolution: On reaching power in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sought to spread Islamist insurrection to other countries but failed almost everywhere. Three decades had to go by, it appears, before the self-immolation of a vendor in an obscure Tunisia town could light the conflagration that Khomeini aspired to and Iranian authorities still seek.

Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes. Kan også læses her i The Washington Post og her i The Jerusalem Post. Michael Rubin kommer ind på både Egypten og Tunesien i den følgende artikel:

The US Should Not Fear Egypt Regime Change

Michael Rubin |  January 28, 2011

On Dec. 17, 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, set himself on fire to protest government corruption. Less than a month later, Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a man who won 89% of the vote in Tunisia’s rubber stamp elections, fled for his life.

American diplomats long considered Tunisia among its closest allies in the Middle East. Ben Ali oversaw a police state, but a secular one. Tunis has long hosted the State Department’s advanced Arabic language school, training generations of diplomats. But across the Middle East, Arabs knew Tunisia differently: In a region replete with dictatorships, it was among the worst. If Tunisians could defeat Ben Ali in less than a month, anything was possible.

Mere HER hos IEA.

Special Report: The Revolt in Egypt and U.S. Policy

By Barry Rubin * January 30, 2011

There is no good policy for the United States regarding the uprising in Egypt but the Obama Administration may be adopting something close to the worst option. This is its first real international crisis. And it seems to be adopting a policy that, while somewhat balanced, is pushing the Egyptian regime out of power. The situation could not be more dangerous and might be the biggest disaster for the region and Western interests since the Iranian revolution three decades ago.

Experts and news media seem to be overwhelmingly optimistic, just as they generally were in Iran’s case. Wishful thinking is to some extent replacing serious analysis. Indeed, the alternative outcome is barely presented: This could lead to an Islamist Egypt, if not now in several years.

Mere HER hos Gloria Center. Og link til Barry Rubins blog her og til bloggen i Pajamas Media her. Melanie Phillips fremæver en blogpost fra Rubins blog i The Spectator her.

Muslim Brotherhood Poised for Power in Egypt

by Robert Spencer January 31, 2011

A group dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” is poised to take power in Egypt.

After days of riots in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak’s regime, on Sunday the Muslim Brotherhood entered into talks with other opposition groups to form a national unity government after the presumably imminent fall of Mubarak. The Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 in order to restore, in Egypt and worldwide, the prerogatives of political Islam: a state in which Islamic law (Sharia) is the law of the land and the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and legal equality for women and non-Muslims consequently restricted.

Human Events HER.

Cancer, Carter and Obama

By Michael Ledeen – January 30th, 2011

There are some eery similarities between Egypt 2011 and Iran 1979, and some of them are unfortunately about American leadership.  There are some big differences, too, but for the moment let’s just look at some parallels and try to draw some necessarily tentative conclusions.  After all, everything is up for grabs right now and things will probably change a lot in the next few hours and days.

Mere HER i Pajamas Media.

Revolts which coincided with a new opposition congress almost suggest that they were scheduled for a time when Obama would be at his politically weakest

Obama Loses the Middle East

By Daniel Greenfield – January 31, 2011

It’s no coincidence that major revolutions against Western backed governments have occurred under weak American presidents. The Iranian revolution against the Shah happened on Jimmy Carter’s watch. The current violence in Tunisia and Egypt is taking place under Obama. And the timing is quite interesting. Revolts which coincided with a new opposition congress almost suggest that they were scheduled for a time when Obama would be at his politically weakest.

Canada Free Press HER kan også læses her hos Arutz Sheva. Og endnu en Greenfield:

All that is being accomplished by the calls for Mubarak to democratize and resign is to show how irrelevant America is and how worthless it is as an ally

Muslim Brotherhood as the only force capable of replacing Mubarak

By Daniel Greenfield  – January 28, 2011

After Tunisia, the disturbances have moved on to Egypt, Yemen and Jordan. Despite what is being predicted, I wouldn’t count on any of these countries undergoing the same kind of turnover.

Mere HER i Canada Free Press.

What’s the Matter with Egypt?

January 30, 2011 – by Victor Davis Hanson

In the Stars or in Them?

So what’s the matter with Egypt? The same thing that is the matter with most of the modern Middle East: in the post-industrial world, its hundreds of millions now are vicariously exposed to the affluence and freedom of the West via satellite television, cell phones, the Internet, DVDs, and social networks.

And they become angry that, in contrast to what they see and hear from abroad, their own lives are unusually miserable in the most elemental sense. Of course, there is no introspective Socrates on hand and walking about to remind the Cairo or Amman Street that their corrupt government is in some part a reification of themselves, who in their daily lives see the world in terms of gender apartheid, tribalism, religious intolerance, conspiracies, fundamentalism, and statism that are incompatible with a modern, successful, capitalist democracy.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Det var både forventeligt, at oprøret i Egypten ville gå ud over de kristne og at mediere herhjemme ville ignorere det. Patrick Sookhdeo er opmærksom på situationen:

Christians fall victim to chaos in Egypt: Who will help them?

January 31, 2011 by Michael Ireland

As Egypt descends into deeper unrest with a seventh day of protests (Monday, Jan.31), the country’s Christians are falling victim to the chaos as their shops are looted and essential supplies start to run out.

According to one Christian organization working in the region, Egypt’s beleaguered Christian minority is on red alert today.

Barnabas Aid (www.barnabasfund.org ) the majority of Egyptian Christians already live in extreme poverty, and as the demonstrations paralyze daily life, their struggle to make ends meet has become harder. While many shops are being attacked and looted, Christian shops have been particularly targeted.

Barnabas Aid says Christian gatherings and church meetings have been cancelled, while some church minsters are sleeping in their church buildings to protect them from attack. A Barnabas Aid contact said that believers were staying in their homes, where they are “praying hard” and “trusting God” amid the tumult.

Mere HER i Continental News. Wall Street Journal har også noget om emnet her.

The Shame Factor

When will dictators learn not to treat their people like fools?

By Christopher Hitchens – Jan. 31, 2011

Not long ago, a close comrade of mine was dining with a person who I can’t identify beyond telling you that his father is a long-term absolutist ruler of an Arab Muslim state. “Tell me,” said this scion to my friend, “is it true that there are now free elections in Albania?” My friend was able to confirm the (relative) truth of this, adding that he had once even acted as an international observer at the Albanian polls and could attest to a certain level of transparency and fairness. The effect of his remarks was galvanic. “In that case,” exclaimed the heir-presumptive, thumping the table, “what does that make us? Are we peasants? Children?” The gloom only deepened, apparently, as the image of the Arab as a laughing stock—lagging behind Albania!—took hold of the conversation.

Mere HER i Slate – kan også læses her i National Post. Khaled Abu Toameh er inde på noget lignende her hos Hudson New York. Og næste: Daniel Korski interviewer Paul Wolfowitz:

Coffee House Interview: Paul Wolfowitz Daniel Korski interviews Paul Wolfowitz on Coffee House, The Spectator Blog

By Paul Wolfowitz | Coffee House, The Spectator Blog | January 30, 2011

Nobody is as associated with George W Bush’s drive to promote freedom and democracy in the Middle East as former US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. His role in the Iraq War, and belief that the US should promote democracy in a part of the world better known for authoritarian rulers, remains controversial to this day.

But now that the Middle East is being rocked by pro – democracy protests – as people demand freedom, employment, and an end to tyranny – is this advocate of democracy finally being proven right? And what does he think about the dangers of democratic transitions? Dr Wolfowitz kindly agreed to answer a few questions about democracy and the Middle East:

Mere HER hos AEI. Der er flere pundits her:

• Pundits om Egypten

 

Andre kilder: Barnabas Fund, Barnabas Fund, ABC Australia, Ezra Levant, Hudson New York, Hudson New York, CNN, CBS News, National Review Online, The Spectator, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, Wired, FierceMarkets, U.S. News, The Patriot Post, The Washington Examiner, Tablet Magazine, Berlingske Tidende, Jyllands-Posten, Wikipedia,

Trifkovic om mord og organsmugleri i Kosovo

Kriminelle muslimer? Det var da noget helt nyt. Hvem skulle nu have troet det?

Kosovo’s Thaçi: Human Organs Trafficker

By Srdja Trifkovic – December 16th, 2010

The details of an elaborate KLA-run human organ harvesting ring, broadly known for years, have been confirmed by a Council of Europe report published on January 15. The report, “Inhuman treatment of people and illicit trafficking of human organs in Kosovo” identifies the province’s recently re-elected “prime minister” Hashim Thaçi as the boss of a “mafia-like” Albanian group specialized in smuggling weapons, drugs, people, and human organs all over Europe. The report reveals that Thaçi’s closest aides were taking Serbs across the border into Albania after the war, murdering them, and selling their organs on the black market. In addition, the report accuses Thaçi of having exerted “violent control” over the heroin trade for a decade.

Deliberate Destrution of Evidence – Long dismissed in the mainstream media as “Serbian propaganda,” the allegations of organ trafficking – familiar to our readers – were ignored in the West until early 2008, when Carla Del Ponte, former Prosecutor at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague, revealed in her memoirs that she had been prevented from initiating any serious investigation into its merits. She also revealed – shockingly – that some elements of proof taken by ICTY field investigators from the notorious “Yellow House” in the Albanian town of Rripe were destroyed at The Hague, thus enabling the KLA and their Western enablers to claim that “there was no evidence” for the organ trafficking allegations.

Det er stærke kræfter der er i gang for at fremme islamiseringen af Europa. Det er jurister, der står i spidsen, må man efterhånden konkludere. Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine. Kan også læses her hos Ruthfully Yours.

Daniel Greenfield kommer også ind på sagen i denne blogpost på Sultan Knish:

• Friday Afternoon Roundup – The Liberal Rape Connection

Klumme i Sappho: Multikulturalisme og doktrinær liberalisme er tvillinger

Borgerlighedens brudte fronter

16. December 2010 – Christian Skov

Der er brudt debatkrig ud mellem liberale og konservative. En uenighed, der viser borgerlighedens svaghed, ikke dens styrke, skriver Christian Skov, redaktør af det konservative tidsskrift Critique.

Mere HER i Sappho. Og lidt satire:

Hån, Spot & Latterliggørelse: Operation Organhøst

16. December 2010 – Pertinax

Kosovos statsminister har været involveret i organsalg, viser det sig. Vi har grund til at være stolte over den nation, vi har været med til at bygge op, konstaterer Pertinax.

Sappho HER.

Opdatering 17. december 2010:

Sløvsind

15. December 2010 – Katrine Winkel Holm

Apati. Hvorfor er den borgerlige presse så ligeglad med krænkelsesparagraffens indskrænkning af ytringsfriheden?

Mere HER i Sappho.

Mens vi venter på en forklaring

17. December 2010 – Lars Hedegaard

Hvis politiet i fremtiden ikke skelner mellem ballademagere og pressefolk, vil det være en alvorlig trussel mod pressefriheden. Det kræver til gengæld, at journalister ikke blander sig med ballademagere på en sådan måde, at de går i vejen for politiets arbejde, skriver Trykkefrihedsselskabets formand i en kommentar til sagen om anholdelserne under klimatopmødet sidste år.

Sappho HER.

Opdatering 1. januar 2011:

Verificerbart forkert. Svar til Katrine Winkel Holm

21. December 2010 – Jacob Mchangama

Katrine Winkel Holms kommentar om, at man ”intet har hørt fra Fri Debat”, og at jeg alene er kommet med en juridisk iagttagelse, ”men heller ikke mere”, er direkte og verificerbart forkert, skriver Fri Debats Jacob Mchangama i en reaktion på kommentaren “Sløvsind”.

Mere HER. Og et svar fra Katrine Winkel Holm:

Abstrakte falbelader og fordømmelser. Replik til Jacob Mchangama

21. December 2010 – Katrine Winkel Holm

Samtidig med at Fri Debat rent principielt har kritiseret §266b-retssagerne mod Langballe og Hedegaard, er de to anklagede blevet udnævnt til racister på Fri Debats hjemmeside.

Sappho HER.

Jyllands-Postens læserbreve 12. og 13. februar 2008

Kronik: I stævnen af ”Titanic”

Af Søren Krarup, folketingsmedlem for Dansk Folkeparti

Fornylig var L 52 til førstebehandling i Folketinget.

Og L 52 er den første indfødsretslov, der kommer til behandling efter valget, og der er ingen spænding knyttet til behandlingen, for i den aftale, der blev indgået mellem regeringen og Dansk Folkeparti, har aftaleparterne forpligtet sig til at stemme for fremtidige indfødsretslove, så flertallet er sikret.

Alligevel var der fra min side tale om en vis ærgrelse, som jeg ikke undlod at lufte. Forholdet er jo nemlig, at for mere end to år siden indgik vi denne nye og fortræffelige aftale om indfødsret, men endnu er den ikke slået igennem i lovgivningen. Det er det, L 52 dokumenterer. Aftalen blev indgået i december 2005.

Læs mere HER.

Stop ghettoromantikken

Af Eyvind Vesselbo

DEN AKTUELLE sag om mordplaner mod en af Jyllands-Postens tegnere understreger, at vi i langt højere grad må erkende virkeligheden i Danmark i dag.

Der findes boligområder i Danmark, hvor parallelsamfundene er så veludbyggede, at de rummer subkulturer, som reelt ikke er en del af det danske samfund. Subkulturerne er ikke nødvendigvis manifesteret ved, at de involverede ikke har arbejde eller er uden kontakt med det danske samfund. Subkulturerne er karakteriseret ved, at de, der er en del af disse subkulturer, ikke i deres bevidsthed er en del af den danske fællesskabsfølelse eller den danske identitet. De ønsker ikke at være en del af det danske samfund på grund af deres religiøse, ideologiske og kulturelle baggrund.

Læs resten HER.

Leder: Den evige trussel

DER SKAL efterhånden meget til at chokere Morgenavisen Jyllands-Postens medarbejdere og i særdeleshed de tegnere, der i efteråret 2005 påtog sig den opgave at tegne profeten Muhammed »som de så ham.«

Bladet, dets medarbejdere og de udenhus tegnere, der bidrog til Muhammed-projektet, har modtaget i hundredvis af mordtrusler, der har været bombetrusler mod bladhusene i Århus og København, flere af tegnerne har i perioder måttet gå under jorden, mellemøstlige galninge har udlovet dusører i millionklassen for at få en eller flere af tegnerne slået ihjel, og sideløbende med alt dette har nogle muslimske foreninger valgt trods alt at følge retssamfundets spilleregler og anklage bladet for både blasfemi og injurier.

Resten HER.

 

JP mener: Dystre perspektiver

Vi noterer med en vis lettelse, at det formentlig drejer sig om en isoleret gruppe forbrydere uden forankring i det almindelige muslimske miljø, og at det generelle trusselsniveau mod avisen, dens medarbejdere, de udenhus tegnere og samfundet som helhed ikke er ændret.

Ikke desto mindre understreger sagens seneste udvikling nogle dystre perspektiver.

Det ene er, at den såkaldte Muhammed-krise ud i en uvis fremtid vil blive brugt som afsæt for talrige mere eller mindre radikale initiativer og måske endda flere konkrete mord- og attentatplaner.

Mere HER.

Den misforståede tegning

KURT Westergaards fremragende tegning af Muhammed er blevet groft misforstået af muslimer.

Hvis de danske muslimer havde lært den danske kulturarv nærmere at kende i skolen, ville de have hørt om Adam Oehlenschlägers dramatiske eventyr ”Aladdin”.

Læs resten HER. Flere læserbrev om tegningen HER og HER.

EU med et Storalbanien

KOSOVO vs. Kosova. Normalt vil det være i alles interesse at give selvstændighed til folkeslag, men Rusland og Serbien siger nej.

Resten HER.

Hvem er bange?

Af Peter Norsk

EFTER AT have læst Carsten Damsgaards indlæg (9/2) under overskriften ”Peter Norsk og skrækken” tror jeg, det er på tide, at vi får styrket undervisningen i demokrati og frihedsrettigheder på alle niveauer fra folkeskole til aftenkursus, for magen til vrøvl skal man lede længe efter.

Hr. Damsgaard argumenterer på følgende måde: Fordi der er eksempler på, at nogle muslimske piger bliver tvunget til at gå med tørklæde, så skal ingen have lov til det. Altså, hvad ikke alle kan gøre frivilligt, skal ingen have lov til. Sikken logik.

Mere HER. Damsgaard HER.

Kronprinsen i IOC

DER HAR været rejst en del kritik af kronprins Frederiks kandidatur til IOC på det seneste.

Jeg synes, at kritikken er helt ude af proportioner og bygger på ukendskab til, hvem der faktisk allerede sidder i IOC.

Det gør prinsesse Nora af Liechtenstein, prins Albert af Monaco og kronpris Willem-Alexander fra Holland.

Mere HER.

Det hyggelige Bruxelles

Af Mogens Camre

KÆRE ANNE-GRETE Voss Bendixen (JP 5/2). Jeg er ked af, at du føler, at du ikke hører nok til, hvad Danmarks 14 medlemmer af Europa-Parlamentet laver. Det skyldes nok, at vi bl.a. ikke redigerer de danske aviser og fjernsyn. I stedet har vi travlt med at behandle og vedtage mellem 50 og 80 pct. – skiftende fra område til område – af den lovgivning, du og andre tror, at Folketinget vedtager.

Mere HER.

Er det ikke noget, vi har hørt før?

Mere fyldestgørende dokumentation for løse påstande i DR-”dokumentarudsendelser”, tak.

NU ER VI gennem flere dage blevet belemret med endnu en “dokumentarudsendelse” fra DR med en mængde løse påstande med mange antydninger og lige så mange ubesvarede spørgsmål. Og naturligvis vil flere politikere herhjemme have uvildige undersøgelser for at finde ud af, om der er noget om snakken.

Resten HER. Desuden link HER og HER til “Kort Sagt”.

Kulturberigelse: udvist for bestandig for heroinhandel

Der blev uddelt lange fængselsstraffe til tre mænd i en sag om 12 kilo heroin, en skarpladt pistol og narkopenge ved Københavns Byret mandag.

Sagen er blandt andet blevet opklaret ved hjælp af telefonaflytninger, skriver Jyllands-Posten. En af dem har forsøgt at føre narkopenge ud af landet.

 

Strengest var straffen til Hesat Amza, der blev idømt 11 års fængsel, mens albaneren Zenel Zharku blev idømt 10 års fængsel og udvisning af Danmark for bestandigt.

Den sidste mand i sagen er 23-årige Zeeshan Arshad, der blev idømt syv års fængsel.

Man undrer sig over, hvorfor blev de ikke udvist allesammen? Det havde været mere rimeligt. Den type kriminalitet er så planlagt, at der ikke er nogen formildende omstændigheder. Præcis narkohandel er en specielt alvorlig forbrydelse, fordi man ødelægger andres liv. Det er børn og unge, det går ud over.

De tre dømte har alle anket straffen til landsretten.

Video: valgte vi forkert i Kosovo?

Det spørger den norske blogger ketil_r om:

Siden NATO og FN valgte å støtte muslimene i konflikten, og hjalp dem til makten har Kosovo blitt et sentrum for menneskehandel, heroin smugling og organisert kriminalitet. Muslimene fordriver andre folkegrupper, brenner kirker og plyndrer eiendom. Kosovo har blitt den globale jihads brohode i europa.

Serberene har heller ikke rene hender, men de hadde nok en bedre forståelse av hva som ulmet enn de av oss som var litt lenger unna.

Video 6½ minut:

Nedenfor endnu en video fra 2004 med voldelige muslimer, der brænder en kirke af. Den ledsagende tekst kan ses nederst. Varighed 10½ minut.

Christian church set in flames by Albanian Muslim Fanatics 2004. Killing of non-muslims is legitimate. The crosses are still fallen – not in Iraq, in Europe. It was just one of nearly 200 destroyed or desacrated churches and monasteries. There is growing concern that Kosovo, a disputed region in the southern province of Serbia, is emerging as a bastion of radical Islam. 90 percent of Kosovo’s population is ethnic Albanian Muslims. Serb Christians, for who Kosovo is an ancestral homeland and the site of many important Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries, make up roughly 10 percent of the population. Kosovo is part of Serbia but majority of Albanian Muslims want independence.

Kosovo-Metohija is the cradle of the Serbian Orthodox church and of Serbian culture. The towns, cities, and villages all have Serbian names from the medieval period when it was part of Serbia. The oldest Serbian Orthodox churches are located in Kosovo. Albanian settlement and colonization during the Ottoman Turkish period could not erase its Serbian heritage. Moreover, Kosovo-Metohija was never a part of Albania. In fact, there had never been an Albanian state until 1912.

In Kosovo, the small Jewish population was ethnically cleansed out of Kosovo in 1999 along with Kosovo Serbs and other non-Albanians after NATO troops occupied the Serbian province. The Kosovo Jews fled to Belgrade. There are no more Jews living in Kosovo today, which is under NATO military occupation. So the islam is getting closer to europe step by step – but in this case the eyes of the UN are watching it.

The United States should not support a misguided course of detaching Kosovo from Serbia to create an independent Muslim Albanian state dominated by terrorist and criminal elements! Doing so would

• Lead to the elimination of the remaining Christian Serb population;
• Strengthen global jihad terrorism and organized crime; and
• Fatally undermine the rule of law in international affairs.

Say “NO” To Kosovo Independence!

Tip: Decca

Kulturberigelse: tre dræbt under retsdrama i Italien

Det skulle bare have været en triviel skilsmissesag, man skulle igennem i den italienske retsbygning, men en kulturberiger ville det anderledes:

En 40-årig mand af albansk oprindelse skød sin hustru og hendes onkel under retssagen i Reggio Emilia, som ligger i den centrale-nordlige del af Italien.

Politiet måtte derefter skyde manden, da han forsøgte at flygte fra bygningen. Det døde han af, fremgår det af Jyllands-Posten. Det lykkedes også at såre to advokater og en betjent under kamphandlingerne.

Jojo. Humanitærpopulisternes anstændige udlændingepolitik viser sin styrke over hele Europa. Det er Søren sjaskme da godt nok alletiders. Hvor er det godt, at vi har fået sådan noget. Eller?

Ander kilder: Berlingske Tidende, TV2, dr.dk/Nyheder, B.T.,

Topløse skandinaver ryster albanere

Albansk politi stod magtesløse over for en flok skandinaviske piger, der lå topløse på stranden. Bare bryster er ulovlige i Albanien, men betjentene talt ikke engelsk.

Det er ikke lovligt at være topløs på albanske strande, og det er bestemt heller ikke velset i det overvejende muslimske land. Ifølge øjenvidner trak mødre deres børn væk fra det gruopvækkende syn af gyngende brystvorter og dirrende kød. 8)

En lokal tolk blev tilkaldt, så man kunne få forklaret pigerne sagens alvor og omfanget af den forfærdelige forbrydelse. Politiet “fik dem til at tøjre de fritgående barme”, skriver EkstraBladet, som også fortæller, at lokalbefolkningen var meget forarget.