Video: Faith Under Fire

Det hed den konference, der fandt sted i Chicago den 10. marts 2012. Jeg har plukket lidt ud – først den meget sympatiske Cynthia Farahat:

Faith Under Fire: Cynthia Farahat

Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.

Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.

Cynthia Farahat is an Egyptian political activist, writer and researcher. She co-founded the Liberal Egyptian Party (2006-2008) and served as a member of its political committee. In 2008-2009, she was program coordinator and program officer at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty in Cairo, a multi-national free market think tank. She was a founder of the Masr El-Om (Mother Egypt) Party and was a member of its political committee (2004-2006). She has published in National Review, Middle East Quarterly, and in other publications in both English and Arabic. In December 2011, Ms. Farahat testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the US House of Representatives on the roots of the persecution of the Coptic Christian minority in her native Egypt. She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Center for Security Policy. (edit)

Næste tale med Ashraf Ramelah kan man evt. se på YouTube. Derefter Juliana Taimoorazy:

Faith Under Fire: Juliana Taimoorazy

Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.

Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.

Juliana Taimoorazy is the founder and President of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, an organization that raises awareness about the persecuted church in Iraq and helps Assyrian Christians resettle in Illinois, Michigan, Massachusetts and Arizona. Through her activism and media appearances, Taimoorazy has worked tirelessly to promote the cause of Assyrian Christians in the U.S. While volunteering for Catholic Charities, she has mentored young women arriving in the U.S. She has also volunteered with Operation Homefront in Illinois, an organization that provides emergency financial and other assistance to the families of our service members and wounded warriors.

Taimoorazy was smuggled into Switzerland in 1989 to avoid religious persecution in her native Iran. After spending seven days in a monastery in Zurich, she was smuggled into Germany where she sought asylum in the U.S embassy. In 1990 she immigrated to the U.S with the refugee status. As an Assyrian Christian living in Iran, Taimoorazy learned to be multi-lingual at a young age, and is fluent in English, Farsi, and Assyrian. She obtained her Masters degree in Instructional Design from Northeastern Illinois University. In addition to being an entrepreneur, she has also worked as a journalist for a local television station in Chicago. As a child, she would take her sister’s hairbrush and stand in front of the mirror and act as a news reporter — even before she learned how to read and write. She currently is a radio host for Nineveh Radio.

Faith Under Fire: Q+A Background Testimony on Indigenous Communities

Panel: Testimony from the Region and Background on Indigenous Communities

-Cynthia Farahat Egyptian political activist – Ashraf Ramelah founder and President of Voice of the Copts – Juliana Taimoorazy founder and President of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council

Moderator: Hon. Fred Grandy

Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.

Paul Marshall var udmærket:

Faith Under Fire: Paul Marshall – Blasphemy, Apostasy and Free Speech

Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.

Paul Marshall — Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide

Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.

Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.

Paul Marshall is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, Washington, D.C.

He has spoken on religious freedom, international relations, and radical Islam before Congressional committees, the U.S. State Department, the Helsinki Commission, INS and DHS Asylum Bureaus, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. He has also lectured in Canada, England, Israel, Cyprus, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Greece, India, Switzerland, Spain, Lebanon, Korea, Nigeria, Belarus, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

In November, 2011, Oxford University press published his Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide co-authored with Nina Shea

His co-edited work Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion, was published by Oxford in early 2009 and was awarded the Wilbur Prize by the Religious Communicators’ Council and given the “Book of the Year 2009″ Awardfrom the Religious Communication Association.

Marshall is the author of the best-selling survey of religious persecution Their Blood Cries Out (1997). In speeches introducing the International Religious Freedom Act in the U.S. Senate, Senator Nickles described the book as “a powerful and persuasive analysis” and an “exhaustive survey,” “which simply cannot be ignored” and Senator Lieberman described it as “the manifesto of the religious freedom movement.”

Keith Roderick kan ses på YouTube. Næste:

Faith Under Fire: Q+A Paul Marshall and Keith Roderick

Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom conference took place in metro Chicago on March 10, 2012.

Paul Marshall — Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide

Very Reverend Keith Roderick — Strategy for the Future

Please join us for this eye-opening Chicago-area conference on the worldwide crisis in religious freedom. We will examine the plight of persecuted religious minorities in Islamic countries as representatives of these communities offer riveting testimony. Key members of the U.S. Congress will discuss the latest legislation and actions intended to prevent genocide. Recognized international and national experts will offer insightful analysis of policy issues and the global threat to religious freedom.

Peter Roskam og Joe Walsh var næste talere og kan ses på YouTube, hvor man også finder de tilhørende Q&A.

Der mangler stadig 3 videoer fra konferencen, men de bliver vel uploadet på YouTube på et tidspunkt.

Perlerække af artikler fra Sappho

Det var den mest rimelige antagelse, at den norske massemorder måtte være psykisk syg. I hvert fald for de fleste af os. Men ikke for nutidens visualiserings-journalister:

Spildt blæk på Breivik

29. november 2011 – klumme af Katrine Winkel Holm

Breivik viser sig at være bimmelim. Diagnosen burde føre til selvransagelse hos visse medier.

Mere HER hos Sappho. Jyllands-Posten er ikke længere borgerlig avis:

Politiet hykler om Danish Defence Leagues selvtægt

01. december 2011 – klumme af Nicolai Sennels

“En Breivik-lignende gruppe” kaldte Jyllands-Posten den forening, der havde sat klistermærker op med teksten “sharia fri zone”. Både medier og politi hykler i denne sag, mener Nicolai Sennels.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Psykologiske forklaringer på politisk korrekthed

28. november 2011 – klumme af Nicolai Sennels

Det handler om socialpsykologi, når så mange enten ikke vil se eller ikke vil tale om problemerne med islamisering, mener psykolog Nicolai Sennels.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Nyt i Sappho: islameksperten Raymond Ibrahim

30. november 2011 – artikel af Katrine Winkel Holm

Sapphos læsere kan se frem til faste bidrag fra en en lærd, skarp og dybdeborende kommentator: Den egyptisk-amerikanske forsker, forfatter og blogger: Raymond Ibrahim.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

“Allah, lad deres blod fryse til is!”

30. november 2011 – artikel af Raymond Ibrahim

Raymond Ibrahim dokumenterede for nylig, hvordan muslimske hadprædikanter, herunder Det muslimske Broderskab, udfolder sig på en You Tube-video. Det førte til, at You Tub-videioen blev fjernet. Men så dukkede der en ny bandbulle op. Bandbullen er ikke tekstet, men Ibrahim oversætter til engelsk, så vi alle kan forstå budskabet.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Video: Journalisten Mona Eltahawy gennemtævet af egyptisk politi

Kvindekampen er forbi. Der blev ingen ligestilling. Hvor kan man bruge kvinder henne i en “globaliseret” verden? Nu kan de ikke længere arbejde som journalister i muslimske lande. Og de ligger jo også her, hvor vi bor. Reporters Without Borders eller Journalister uden Grænser advarer om, at kvindelige journalister ikke bør opholde sig på Tharir pladsen i Kairo, skriver Jyllands-Posten. De undlader at fortælle, at situationen stort set er den samme i resten af islams hus. Og i krigens hus. Og i Norge. Og i Sverige. Og her. Kvinder i det offenlige rum er fornærmeligt.

Det handler om voldtægt og seksuelle overgreb. Mona Eltahawy, der selv er muslim, er det senste offer. Eltahawy blev nærmst radbrækket:

Mona Eltahawy describes her assault in Egypt

(CNN) American-Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy describes her assault at the hands of uniformed Egyptian riot police

Samme emne:

Mona’s Nightmare

Journalist Mona Eltahawy explains her harrowing experience in captivity in Egypt.

Andre kilder: ABC News,

Egypten: Det blev en isvinter

“If Egypt fails, so does the Arab Spring”, skriver Foreign Policy i en artikel, der er svagt optimistisk. Den optimisme deles ikke af iagttagere, der har fingeren på pulsen:

Running for Their Lives

by Raymond Ibrahim – September 28, 2011

Historically, non-Muslims whose lands were seized by the jihad had three choices: conversion, dhimmitude, or death. Today, however, they have a fourth option largely unavailable to their forbears: quit their lands of origin—emigrate—the latest testimony to the nature of Islam.

A recent report indicates that unprecedented numbers of Copts, Egypt’s indigenous Christian population, are emigrating from their homeland in response to the so-called “Arab spring”:

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch. Mere om kristnes vilkår:

Caliphate made of garbage, to turn Europe, America, Canada and Australia into towering trash dumps consisting of Islamic radicals and Muslim immigrants

The Trash of Islam

Daniel Greenfield – September 28, 2011

Two years ago the Egyptian city of Cairo, the largest city in the Arab world and the “timeless city” of Obama’s Cairo speech, the heart of the Arab Spring, was suffering from a garbage crisis. The crisis had a very simple cause, the pigs that used to eat the garbage were killed to prevent the spread of Swine Flu.

The pigs living in “Garbage City” had served as both organic garbage disposals and food sources for the Zabaleen, families of marginalized Christian Copts who made a living by collecting the garbage, reselling the inorganic garbage and feeding the organic garbage to pigs. The system worked fine so long as there were pigs, but without the pigs, Cairo’s streets are filled with giant mounds of rotting garbage.

Mere HER hos Canada Free Press. The Free Republic her.

Saudization of Egypt

by Ali Alyami – October 3, 2011

The Saudization of Egypt has begun with the intent of derailing democratic transition or preventing it from taking roots for years to come. According to Al Arabiya,120 new Saudi companies have been established since the Egyptian Revolution on Jan. 25, 2011. Saudis are investing in every sector of the Egyptian economy where many poverty stricken Egyptians will be hired to make living , an investment that is understandable and that can be appreciated. The major problem with this is that wherever Saudi money goes, Wahhabism “follows and swallows.”

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

What Is Egypt’s Revolution Really All About?

Signs point to the creation of a government even more repressive than the previous one

September 25, 2011 – by Raymond Stock

The stirring, iconic scenes of courage and national unity, sacrifice and magnanimity, have long since faded, like a discarded bouquet of lotus and jasmine.

They have been replaced with endless strikes; attacks on churches; countless, sometimes bloody, demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square; growing radical Islamist (Salafi) control of Sinai; cross-border attacks on Israel (and Israel’s inevitable response); and, finally, the sacking of a sovereign embassy with the ruling military’s apparent complicity. For the first time in Egypt’s five thousand years of Pharaonic-style rule, the people have put the top man on trial, but the exercise somehow seems cheap and tawdry.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media. Daniel Pipes har lavet en analyse af angrebet på Israels ambassade i Egypten:

Angrebet på Israels ambassade i Cairo

af Daniel Pipes – 28. September 2011

Vestlige diplomater og journalister faldt for Stalins skueprocesser, men lærte efterhånden ikke at tage udviklinger i Sovjetunionen for pålydende. I Sovjetunionens senere år ville man være gået ud fra, at en menneskemængdes angreb på en udenlandsk ambassade var statsligt godkendt.

Andre autokrater benytter lignende tricks og illusioner. Faktisk er det ofte nyttigt at tænke på U.S.S.R., hvis man vil prøve at forstå tyrannier. Dette var især tilfældet ved begivenhederne den 9. sep., hvor en pøbel angreb den israelske ambassade i Cairo.

Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes. Den engelske version kan læses her på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside eller her hos National Review Online. Og så slutter vi af med et eksempel på den meget muslimske taqiyya:

Egypt declares Camp David accords with Israel ‘not a sacred thing’

Egypt’s prime minister triggered angry consternation in Israel on Thursday after declaring that the historic Camp David accords underpinning peace between the two countries were “not a sacred thing”.

By Adrian Blomfield – 15 Sep 2011

Dramatically heightening tensions during an increasingly volatile time in Israel’s relations with the Arab world, Essam Sharaf’s suggestions that the 32-year treaty could be revised prompted disbelief in the Jewish state.

“The Camp David agreement is not a sacred thing and is always open to discussion with what would benefit the region and the case of fair peace,” Mr Sharaf told Turkish television. “We could make a change if needed.”

Mere HER i The Telegraph. Forkortet version i Edmonton Journal her.

AP Interview: Egypt’s foreign minister says peace treaty with Israel stands

September 27

Egypt’s foreign minister said Monday his country will always respect its landmark peace treaty with Israel and is seeking ways to strengthen its “strategic relationship” with the United States.

Mere HER i The Washington Post. Kan også læses hos ABC News her - The Blaze her. Se også denne artikel i The New York Times:

• Blogger Jailed for Insulting Egypt’s Military

Andre kilder: The New York Post, Hudson New York, Hudson New York, Middle East Forum, Pajamas Media, Al-Masry Al-Youm, AINA, The National Post, Foreign Policy, Maikel Nabil,

Opdatering 6. oktober 2011:

Egypt’s Copts Start Sit-in in Cairo to Protest Attacks on Churches

By Sherif Tarek – October 4, 2011

Hundreds of Egyptian Copts and supporters organised an angry protest and started a sit-in Tuesday night to voice fury over their renewed feeling of persecution and injustice in the wake of last month’s sectarian tensions in Aswan, Upper Egypt.

Egypt’s minority Coptic population has been fuming since 30 September after a group of Muslims in Merinab village in Aswan attempted to block renovations underway at a christian church in the majority Muslim village, charging that the building was actually a ‘guesthouse’ that cannot be turned into a church.

Coptic protesters congregated in the main square in Cairo’s neighborhood of Shubra, which is home to a large concentration of Egyptian Christians.

Mere HER hos AINA. Kan også læses her hos Ahram Online.

Opdatering: Den egyptiske militærjunta satte hæren ind for at opløse demonstrationen. Der meldes om mange sårede koptere, skriver Ahram Online.

Opdatering 9. oktober 2011 – kopterne har standset deres aktion pga. af frygt for repressalier, skriver Al-Masry Al-Youm.

Egyptian military sets dates for elections, and the reaction is dismay

By Mohannad Sabry | September 27, 2011

Egypt’s ruling military council on Tuesday announced a long-awaited schedule for selecting a new civilian government that foresees parliament holding its first session on March 17, 2012, more than a year after the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak.

But while many in Egypt are eager to see an end to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ rule by decree, the immediate reaction to the announcement was dismay — a sign of how badly tarnished the military’s reputation has become in the seven months it has ruled the country.

Mere HER hos McClatchy. Se eventuelt også Barry Rubin i Pajamas Media:

• Here Come the Arab Elections!

Jerry Gordon interviewer Bat Ye’or

An Egyptian Jew in Exile: An Interview with Bat Ye’or

by Jerry Gordon – October 2011

I first encountered Gisèle Littman, better known as “Bat Ye’or,” through her book, The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam while browsing through a Judaica section of a Barnes & Noble book store in Westport, Connecticut in 1985.  Reading it opened my mind to the historical evidence of the subjugated treatment of Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims under shari’a in the wake of Islamic Jihad over conquered lands. Her book threw into considerable doubt the then fashionable medievalist commentary that Jews and Christians had been well treated in Al Andaluz, Muslim Spain and in the far reaches of the Caliphate of the Ottoman Empire. Bat Ye’or’s penetrating historical analysis in The Dhimmi was followed by further investigations into the plight of Christians under the system of Islamic shari’a  “dhimmitude.”  Dhimmitude as an historical concept, was coined by Bat Ye’or in 1983 to describe the legal and social conditions of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule. The word dhimmitude comes from dhimmi, an Arabic word meaning “protected.” Bat Ye’or, through her latter writings plumbed the depths of Islamization of Europe with her major work, Eurabia: The Euro Arab Axis and the recently published, Europe Globalization and the Coming Universal Caliphate. See our review in this edition.

Mere HER i The New English Review.

Andre kilder: Vlad Tepes,

Video: Tariq Ramadan vil kolonisere USA med muslimer

Det betaler sig at læse artiklen, før man ser video. Artiklen tager fat i de væsentlige punkter:

“It should be us, with our understanding of Islam, our principles, colonizing the United States of America.” – Tariq Ramadan, Dallas, July 27th 2011

August 3, 2010

On July 27, 2011, Tariq Ramadan gave a speech at a fundraiser organised by the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) in Dallas (TX).

GMBDR describes ICNA as “a less well-known part of the Muslim Brotherhood network in the U.S., generally thought to be closely tied to the Jamaat-e-Islami organization of Southeast Asia, itself known to be allied with the Muslim Brotherhood. ICNA is particularly close to the Muslim American Society and the two organizations have been holding joint annual conventions for many years.”

Mere HER hos Point de Bascule.

Lyden går fint igennem på disse videoer. Billedsiden halter lidt:

Denne video er en optagelse af fund raising. Fra samme arrangement:

Andre kilder: Atlas Shrugs,

Opdatering 10. august 2011 – jeg har fundet en artikel fra 2009, hvori Ayan Hirsi Ali skriver om Tariq Ramadan. Hirsi Ali lader sig ikke  narre:

It’s Time Lily-Livered Europe Stood Up to Muslim Bigots

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali | May 5, 2009

In 2006, I had a debate with Tariq Ramadan, the author of Western Muslims and the Future of Islam. In the hypothetical event of a war between Egypt and Switzerland, for which community would he be prepared to die, I asked him. Mr Ramadan has dual citizenship. He’s an Egyptian by birth and a Swiss by naturalisation. His response was one of rage on different levels. Above all I think he was outraged that one should ask such a question. He refused to answer.

Mr Ramadan, like many other Muslims, may have two or more citizenships. From all that he expresses both in person and on paper, it is clear that his loyalty, above all, is to Islam. I do not doubt that he would die for Islam, like most Muslims, and that’s his prerogative. But what European countries have done is give citizenship to individuals who feel no obligation to share in their societies for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer and in the event of a catastrophe, sacrifice themselves.

Mere HER hos AEI. Kan også læses her hos The First Post.

Video: Mark A. Gabriel om islam og koranen

Og om fejl i koranen og grusomhed i islam. Uploadet på YouTube af producenten den 22. maj 2011, men optaget for mindst 4 år siden:

Christ in Prophecy: Mark Gabriel on the Nature of Islam

What happens when a Muslim converts to Christianity? Hear Mark Gabriel’s testimony with Dr. David Reagan on the show Christ in Prophecy.

Det er et tilfælde, at de to videoer er nøjagtigt lige lange:

Christ in Prophecy: Mark Gabriel on the Nature of the Quran

What are the differences between the Bible and the Qu’ran? Dr. Mark Gabriel explains with Dr. David Reagan on the show Christ in Prophecy.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia,

Phyllis Chesler om salg af døtre

Forced Marriages in Our Own Backyard

by Phyllis Chesler on Mar 17th, 2011

On February 22, 2011, Jessie Bender, a 13-year-old southern California girl, ran away from home. No, Jessie was not into “sex, drugs, or rock n’ roll.” On the contrary. Jessie was terrified that her American-born mother, Melissa, a convert to Islam, and her mother’s Pakistani boyfriend and acting stepfather Mohammed “Mo” Khan, had decided to send her to Pakistan to be married against her will. Had Jessie gone, her mother and “Mo” would have received $3000.00.

Initially, her mother told police that Jessie had been abducted by a Facebook predator. Melissa, in full hijab, made a tearful plea for the television cameras. “If you are holding my daughter, please let her go…Please, I beg you to let my daughter go. She’s just 13 years old.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine  eller her hos AINA. 

Opdatering 20. marts 2011: En sag fra England

Teenager battered for refusing arranged marriage after father sold her as £10,000 bride

23rd February 2011

A brave teenager has spoken for the first time of the harrowing ordeal of being beaten up in an arranged marriage after her father tried to sell her for £10,000.

The 15-year-old girl was tricked into flying to Pakistan then forced to marry a 31-year-old man so he could get a British passport.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Andre kilder: SBS,

Video: Tariq Ramadan på Berkeley

Conversations with History – Tariq Ramadan

October 7, 2010 in UC Berkeley

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Oxford University Professor Tariq Ramadan for a discussion of his new book, “What I Believe.” Reflecting on the formative experiences of his life, Professor Ramadan traces the influence of his family, his education in Western philosophy and Islamic studies, and the impact of his different careers including high school principal, philosopher, and Islamic scholar. He explains what it means to be a religious reformer and characterizes his work as a bridge builder between the Islamic world and the West.  Articulating his commitment to universal principles and resistance to inequality, Ramadan analyzes the tensions facing Muslims in an era of globalization as they strive to be fully engaged as citizens committed to Western values. Professor Ramadan also discusses his perspective on women’s rights and the controversy over the building of a mosque near the World Trade Center.

Audio: Tariq Ramadan – hvis man ellers kan holde ham ud

Fra 13. oktober 2010 – intervieweren hedder Tom Ashbrook og programmet hedder On Point. Handler bla. om Ground Zero moskeen:

Tariq Ramadan: Islam & the West

Ramadan talks about Muslims, America, and the future. Plus, we hear from the scene of Chile’s dramatic mine rescue.

Tariq Ramadan makes people stand up and listen. The outspoken Islamic thinker, leader and lightning rod was banned from the U.S. by the Bush administration.  

But his voice kept on rising. Now he’s in the country, today with us, and he’s preaching a message of peace and pluralism.  

He’s telling American Muslims to have faith in America. And he’s telling all Americans that Islam and the West can get along.  

He has his doubters, his skeptics – some quite harsh – that call it sweet talk.  But Ramadan says his message is very real and urgently important.  

Plus, late in the hour, we go to Chile to check in on the mining rescue. 

Jeg får røde knopper af den mand. Interviewet varer 40 minutter, hvorefter programmet fortsætter med noget andet - startes HER og åbner Windows Media Player.

Video: Tariq Ramadan i USA

Paneldiskussion i Amerikansk PEN. Dalia Mogahed, George Packer, Tariq Ramadan, Joan Wallach Scott & Jacob Weisberg. Fra 8. april 2010 – Great Hall, Cooper Union. Man kan springe de første 10 minutter over:

In his first public appearance in the United States since he was barred from entering the country in 2004, Tariq Ramadan discusses the relationship between Islam and the West with Dalia Mogahed, George Packer, Joan Wallach Scott, and Jacob Weisberg at the 2010 event Secularism, Islam, and Democracy: Muslims in Europe and the West.

En strid omgang taqiyya at høre på. Jøsses…

Madrid: terror-tiltalt kræves 39.000 år i fængsel

Dommen over de 28 tiltalte ventes i oktober, og går det som anklagemyndigheden kræver, vil det føre til en samlet fængselsstraf på 311.865 år for attentaterne, der kostede 191 mennesker livet og kvæstede næsten 2.000.

Terrorangrebet fandt sted den 11. marts 2004.

Flertallet af bombemændene vil aldrig blive dømt. Få dage efter terrorbomberne valgte syv af gerningsmændene at sprænge sig selv i luften frem for at blive anholdt, da politiet omringede deres tilholdssted.

Det skriver Jyllands-Posten i en god artikel. Under hele retssagen har 18 af de anklagede siddet i et skudsikkert glasbur, fortæller International Herald Tribune. Bygningen er en specialsikret pavillon, der har været svært bevogtet under hele forløbet. Den er specielt opført til formålet. Ikke mindre end 309 vidner og 71 eksperter har været fremført under den fem måneder lange retssag, skriver Monsters and Critics.

På anklagebænken sidder dog fortrinsvis tidligere småkriminelle marokkanere, der ifølge anklagemyndigheden ønskede at straffe Spanien for sin deltagelse i krigen i Irak.

Desuden er der bla. en egypter og en fra Syrien. Egypteren er en af i alt tre hovedbagmænd og det er ham, der kræves 39.000 år i fængsel. I praksis betyder det maksimum 40 års afsoning efter spansk praksis. Hovedparten har nægtet sig skyldige og snakker om syndebukke og føler sig som ofre.

Video: CNN-indslag om retssagen. Link HER.

Andre kilder: Earth Times, USA Today, EkstraBladet,