Eksperterne her klarer sig glimrende. Klar besked om fætter-kusineægteskabet. The Doha Debates skriver på sin hjemmeside:
The Doha Debates threw themselves into one of the Arab world’s most sensitive social issues, arguing the rights and wrongs of inter- marriage between blood relatives and voting overwhelmingly to discourage the practice.
In a lively session that featured geneticists and cultural commentators, speakers grappled repeatedly with the scientific and religious aspects of consanguineous marriage – the union of two biologically-related people, including, most controversially, first cousins.
Mere HER. Hele 81 procent mente, at man skal fraråde denne type ægteskaber. Fra BBC 20. marts 2012 - Tim Sebastian er ordstyrer:
Family marriages – The debate
This House believes marriage between close family members should be discouraged
Medierne hævder, at islamkritik fører til Breivik-fænomener. Så: logisk set må Israel-kritik føre til Muhammed-fænomener som det i Frankrig? Ik? Hvem kan måske afvise, at mængden af Muhammed-episoder i Vesten er ligefrem proportional med mængden af Israel-kritik? Der har vi beviset! Det er magisk: her ser vi, at mediernes røde ord skaber virkelighed. Det har ellers hidtil knebet gevaldigt med at få ord til at skabe virkelighed. Det hævder røde journalister jo, at de gør. Vi er flere, der gerne ser, at halalmedierne følger op på succesen og skaber den højt besungne fredelige islam. Mon Marine Le Pen nu får en undskyldning af journalisterne, der gav hendes ord skylden? Og Nicolas Sarkozy? Den franske præsident har helt korrekt sagt, at der er for mange indvandrere i Frankrig, beretter The Telegraph og Sarkozy har desuden truet med at opsige Schengen-aftalen, hvis ikke EU får styr på den illegale indvandring, skriver Børsen.
Omkring midnat 22.- 23. marts gjorde fransk politi et halvhjertet forsøg på at storme den lejlighed, hvor den 24-årige morder og terrorist, Muhammed Merah (Mohamed eller Mohammed), i 20 timer havde forskanset sig med Kalashnikov, Uzi og andre af den slags relikvier, hellige krigere bruger. Man har hørt eksplosioner i natttens løb, skriver Russia Today. Området blev mørklagt, fordi politiet afbrød strømforsyningen, skriver Ynetnews. Der er lukket for lejlighedens gas og vand. I følge politiet blev sprængningerne udført for at lægge pres på terroristen, fortæller The Globe and Mail. Ejendommes beboere blev evakueret via taget eller brandstiger. Torsdag ved frokosttid trængte politiet ind i lejligheden og Muhammed tog flugten ud gennem vinduet. Der var ildkamp til det sidste – terroristen skødt under faldet fra 1. sal og to betjente blev såret. Muhammed var død, da politiet fandt ham, skriver Jyllands-Posten.
Tidligere forsøg på at trænge ind i lejligheden måtte opgives. Muhammed skød også her og sårede to betjente, den ene blev ramt i skulderen og den anden i knæet, oplyser The Washington Post
Den 20. marts skød jihadisten Muhammed den 30-årige rabbiner, Jonathan Sandler og 2 af hans børn, 4-årige Gabriel og 5-årige Arieh ved en jødiske skole, Ozar Hatorah, i Toulouse. Også skoleinspektørens 8-årige datter, Miriam Monsonego, blev myrdet. Desuden blev en 17-årig dreng hårdt såret. Begravelserne har fundet sted – i Jerusalem. Alle dræbte børn var fra samme slægt, fortæller Arutz Sheva
Fransk politi har været i kontakt med den nu afdøde terrorist, skriver The Financial Times:
Mr Merah, reportedly of Algerian origin, told police he wanted to “bring France to its knees” in retaliation for French involvement in the Afghan war, the decision to ban the burka and the plight of the Palestinians. He made “no expression of remorse”, Mr Molins said, except that he had not carried out more killings.
Muhammed ringede til tv-stationen France24 og tilstod, skriver B.T.
Massakren i Toulouse var ikke Muhammeds første. Den 15. marts myrdede terroristen 2 faldskærmssoldater i Montauban og sårede en tredje. I Toulouse blev en soldat myrdet den 11. marts, skriver Wall Street Journal. De dræbte fra Montauban var hhv. 25 og 23 år gamle, skriver The Washington Post. Den 23-åriges kæreste er gravid i 7. måned.
Flere af de dræbte er muslimer. Det ses som forræderi i visse muslimske kredse at arbejde i de vantros tjeneste
Alle terrorangreb er udført med håndvåben. Jihadisten kørte på en Yamaha scooter og skjulte sig bag en styrthjelm. En “drive-by shooter”
Muhammed har filmet sin heltedåd med et videokamera spændt fast på brystkassen
Muhammeds kæreste og bror er anholdt. Der er fundet sprængstoffer i sidstnævntes bil, oplyser The National Post
Muhammed var fra Algeriet og Al Qaeda-medlem. Terror-trænet i Pakistan, skriver Russia Today
Han blev anholdt i december 2007 i Kandahar-provinsen i Afghanistan og fængslet for at have udlagt bomber. Han undslap fra fængslet sammen med omkring 1000 andre fanger, hvoraf halvdelen menes at være talebanere, da fængslet blev stormet af oprørere i juni 2008.
Kulturberigeren Muhammed stod på USAs liste over formodede terrorister, – den såkaldte no-fly list over folk der ikke må flyve til eller inden for USA, læser man i Jyllands-Posten
Mohammed Merah, the man suspected of the Toulouse killings, had been on a French security service “watch list” since 2008.
Konklusion: Stanken af fransk inkompetence river fælt i næsen
Pundits kommenterer:
Laying the groundwork for the Toulouse massacre
By Melanie Phillips | 21 March 2012
When the Toulouse school massacre happened, the media rushed to say that the perpetrator was a white far-right racist. The lone gunman had mown down at close range a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school, wounding several others. He was thought to be the same killer who a few days earlier had murdered three black French paratroopers in two separate attacks. A killer who targeted Jews and blacks – must be a far-right white racist, right?
Wrong. The suspect who the French police have now cornered turns out to be a jihadi Islamic terrorist with self-declared links to al Qaeda, who has made trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the past. Well, there’s a surprise.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips blog her.
The new Nazis kill them right in the cities. And the killing will not stop until the Muslim occupation of Europe comes to an end.
The New Nazis
Daniel Greenfield – March 22, 2012
There was a time when Jewish children were hunted down and killed in France. Their killers believed themselves to be members of a superior group that was destined to rule the world and enslave or exterminate members of inferior groups. The cowardice and appeasement of the French authorities allowed them to operate freely, to kill Jews and launch attacks on other countries.
What was then is now again. The occupying army doesn’t wear uniforms, it wears keffiyahs. It doesn’t speak German, it speaks Arabic. It doesn’t believe that it is superior for reasons of race as much as for reasons of religion. It does not view all others as Untermenschen, but as infidels. It looks forward not to a thousand year Reich, but to a thousand year Caliphate.
Mohammed Merah did not chase down a French-Jewish seven-year-old girl, put a gun to her head and pull the trigger because he came from an economically depressed area or any of the other media spin. He was only doing what Muslims had been doing to non-Muslims for over a thousand years. He didn’t do what he did because he was “radicalized”, he did it because he became a fully committed Muslim.
Mere HER i Canada Free Press. Sultan Knish her. Family Security Matters her.
Lather, Rinse, and Repeat
By Mark Steyn – March 21, 2012
The killer of French schoolchildren and soldiers turns out to be a man called Mohammed Merah. The story can now proceed according to time-honored tradition:
Stage One: The strange compulsion to assure us that the killer is a “right wing conservative extremist,” in the words of NRO commenter ExpatAsia, echoed by Chrisman and Galt’s Bain. Up north, this view was shared by Canada’s most prominent establishment Jew and the Liberal Party attack poodle Warren Kinsella (whom NR readers may recall from my free-speech cover story, which mentioned the groveling apology he was forced to make to “the Chinese community” after an unfortunately sinophobic cat joke). The insistence that the killer was emblematic of an epidemic of right-wing hate sweeping the planet is, regrettably, no longer operative. Instead, the killer isn’t representative of anything at all.
The MSM and the Left screamed “Nazis!”, and he most certainly is, but it also turns out the mohammad coefficient on this one is 100%.
Time to have a close look t his manifesto – the Koran.
Michael Coren on islamic slaughterers
French muslims denounce Mohamed Merah . . . Not!!!
“And then, of course, Stage Four: The backlash that never happens. Because apparently the really bad thing about actual dead Jews is that it might lead to dead non-Jews: “French Muslims Fear Backlash After Shooting.” Likewise, after Major Hasan’s mountain of dead infidels, “Shooting Raises Fears For Muslims In US Army.” Likewise, after the London Tube slaughter, “British Muslims Fear Repercussions After Tomorrow’s Train Bombing.” Oh, no, wait, that’s a parody, though it’s hard to tell.”
- Mark Steyn
I love this clip: “French muslims denounce Merah!” “We just can’t find one to say so on TV” “Never mind those dead Jews, what about the imaginary threats to us muslims?”
Frankrigs udenrigsminister skriver i Foreign Policy:
Save the Middle East’s Christians
France will remain by the side of the Arab world’s embattled minority.
By Alain Juppé | February 28, 2012
Christians in the Middle East are worried. Worried about their survival in a region where they have lived for 2,000 years. Worried about their rights being respected at a time of major upheaval. Worried about heightened religious tensions. I want to tell them that I understand them, that I understand their fears.
For centuries, France has had a special mission with respect to Eastern Christians. It will not shy from it. That is why, in January 2011, President Nicolas Sarkozy established the framework of our policy, emphasizing that the fate of Eastern Christians symbolizes “the challenges of the globalized world we have irrevocably entered.”
Mere HER i Foreign Policy. Og lidt om hvordan islamiseringen af Frankrig ellers skrider frem:
France Goes Halal
by Soeren Kern – February 28, 2012
The halal issue is about more than just meat.
A French television documentary has revealed that all of the slaughterhouses in the greater Paris metropolitan area are now producing all of their meat in accordance with Islamic Sharia law.
The exposé broadcast by France 2 television also alleged that much of the religiously slaughtered meat known as halal is not labeled as such and is entering the general food chain, where it is being unwittingly consumed by the non-Muslim population.
The revelation has sparked political controversy in France, where Islam and the question of Muslim immigration has become a central issue in the presidential campaign.
“We have been too busy with the identity of those who arrived and not enough with the identity of the country that accepted them.” – Nicolas Sarkozy
With just ten weeks to go until the first round of presidential elections in France, Islam and the question of Muslim immigration has become a central issue in the campaign.
France, home to between five and six million Muslims, has the largest Muslim population in the European Union; polls show that millions of French voters are worried about the proliferation in France of “separate Islamic societies” that are ruled by Islamic Sharia law.
Qatar Financing Wahhabi Islam in France, Italy, Ireland and Spain
by Soeren Kern – February 9, 2012
Qatar, the most fraudulent “moderate,” is “sparing no effort” to spread Wahhabi Islam across “the whole world,” discouraging integration, encouraging jihad.
The Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar says it plans to invest €50 million ($65 million) in French suburbs that are home to hundreds of thousands of disgruntled Muslim immigrants.
Qatar says its investment is intended to support small businesses in disadvantaged Muslim neighborhoods. But Qatar, like Saudi Arabia, subscribes to the ultra-conservative Wahhabi sect of Islam, and critics say the emirate’s real objective is to peddle its religious ideology among Muslims in France and other parts of Europe.
France’s Tottery Effort to Reverse Creeping Islamization
by Soeren Kern – January 2, 2012
Muslim immigrants will find it more difficult to obtain French citizenship from now on.
New citizenship rules that entered into effect on January 1, 2012 will require all applicants to pass exams on French culture and history and also to prove that their French language skills are equivalent to those of a 15-year-old native speaker. Moreover, candidates seeking French citizenship will be required to pledge allegiance to “French values.”
The new measures — drawn up by Interior Minister Claude Guéant — are part of a concerted effort by the French government to push back against the Islamization of France.
“Den shiamuslimske halvmåne” bliver ikke til noget foreløbig:
Revenge of the Sunnis
What the Arab Spring is really about.
By Edward Luttwak | December 7, 2011
The last decade has been marked by the rise of the Shiites in the Middle East. Through the bullet and the ballot box, Shiite parties have risen to power from Baghdad to Beirut — thereby extending Iran’s reach into the heart of the Arab world. Sunni rulers have viewed with much anxiety the new “Shiite crescent” that extends from Iran all the way to Lebanon.
But as a popular — and now military — uprising in Syria becomes more powerful, the Shiite ascendancy is coming to an end. With every day that passes, President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power seems to weaken: The United Nations assessed on Nov. 1 that Syria had entered a state of civil war and the country’s economy is projected to contract by a disastrous 12 percent to 20 percent this year. And now, the regional Sunni powers are hoping to exploit the turmoil to launch a counteroffensive that could reverse their losses.
Den største svinestreg i nyere tid er denne: IHH-folkene bag den palæstinensiske flotilla har via bla. Facebook og Twitter lavet og offentliggjort en liste med navne på israelske soldater, der deltog i den operation, der stoppede aktivisterne - med billede og det hele:
Turkey: IHH draws up list of IDF soldiers linked to Gaza flotilla raid
Speaking to the Today’s Zaman daily, Turkish prosecutor denies list was result of an official investigation; directory includes 174 names identified using Facebook, Twitter accounts.
September 26, 2011
A Turkish public prosecutor said Monday that the Turkish IHH organization drew up a list – reportedly found through Facebook – of Israeli soldiers who were involved in the 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, the Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman reported on Monday.
Istanbul Deputy Public Prosecutor Ates Hasan Sozen denied reports that the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office asked the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) to identify the soldiers and prepare the list.
Mere HER hos Haaretz. Ynetnews skriver, at tyrkeres liste er fuld af fejl:
Turkish list of flotilla soldiers a sham?
September 27, 2011
Reports in Turkish media claimed IHH compiled list of 174 soldiers, security officials who took part in raid on Gaza-bound ship, but closer glance reveals that names were recycled from previous lists, belong to soldiers who already completed military service during 2010 naval operation
Mere HER hos Ynetnews. Dagen før skrev Ynetnews, at Tyrkiet havde brugt efterretningsagenter for at få fabrikeret listen.
Erdogan opfører sig som en elefant i en porcelænsbutik. Hvis manden ser sig selv som kommende kalif, må det have været lidt af en bet, at alle arabiske statsledere i sidste uge udeblev fra Erdogans tale i det ellers stærkt islamiserede FN. En journalist fra det tyrkiske dagblad, Hurriyet Daily News, var til stede under talen og skriver skuffet:
In the end I understood that I was looking for Abbas and other Arab leaders in vain.
Optakten til talen var præget af vold, skriver Jyllands-Posten. Erdogans sikkerhedsvager gav sig til at slås med FNs vagter på hele to etager. Manden benyttede sit besøg i New York til at træde yderligere i spinaten:
Israeli PM slams ‘outrageous’ Erdogan remarks
September 26, 2011
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday described as “outrageous” remarks by Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan in which he claimed Israel had killed “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians.
In an interview with the English-language Jerusalem Post, excerpts of which were published on Monday, the Israeli prime minister expressed anger over comments made by Erdogan in an weekend interview with US cable network CNN.
In the interview, footage of which is available on CNN’s website, Erdogan said there were no accurate statistics about the number of Israelis killed in the conflict, suggesting up to “200″ while he said “hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were killed.”
Mere HER hos AFP hos Google Hosted. Tyrkerne har efterfølgende hævdet, at CNN oversatte Erdogan forkert, fortæller The Jerusalem Post:
Erdgoan said hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed by the Israelis, not hundreds of thousands
Seriøse kritikere er bekymrede over Tyrkiets kurs. Først Daniel Pipes, hvis artikel delvis findes på dansk her. Den engelske version er komplet:
Is Turkey Going Rogue?
by Daniel Pipes – September 27, 2011
In a Middle East wracked by coups d’état and civil insurrections, the Republic of Turkey credibly offers itself as a model thanks to its impressive economic growth, democratic system, political control of the military, and secular order.
But, in reality, Turkey may be, along with Iran, the most dangerous state of the region. Count the reasons:
Islamists without brakes: When four out of five of the Turkish chiefs of staff abruptly resigned on July 29, 2011, they signaled the effective end of the republic founded in 1923 by Kemal Atatürk. A second republic headed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Islamist colleagues of the AK Party began that day. The military safely under their control, AKP ideologues can now pursue their ambitions to create an Islamic order.
Mere HER hos Daniel Pipes. Kan også læses her hos National Review Online. AINA her. The Washington Times her. National Post her.
Tyrkiet spiller åbenbart dobbeltspil hvad Syrien angår. AFP har en interessant artikel om Tyrkiet, Syrien, Det Muslimske Broderskab, Erdogan og taqiyya:
Turkey ‘offered Syria support’ if Islamists given posts
September 29, 2011
Ankara asked Damascus to offer the Muslim Brotherhood government posts in exchange for Turkey’s support in ending rallies in Syria, an offer rejected by Bashar al-Assad, officials and diplomats said.
The plan, which would have required that at least a quarter of ministerial positions went to the currently banned organisation, was initially mooted over the summer.
“In June, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered, if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ensured between a quarter and a third of ministers in his government were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, to make a commitment to use all his influence to end the rebellion,” a Western diplomat told AFP.
“The head of the Syrian state refused such a proposal,” said the diplomat, who did not want to be named.
Mere HER hos AFP via Yahoo News. Tyrkiet benægter alt, skriver Asharq Alawsat.
Dernæst Michael Rubin:
The Trouble With Turkey A nation that once aspired to be European now curries favor among Islamists
By Michael Rubin | October 3, 2011
“We stand together on the major issues that divide the world,” Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower declared in Ankara while preparing to depart Turkey, on a cold and windy day in December 1959. “And I can see no reason whatsoever that we shouldn’t be two of the sturdiest partners standing together always for freedom, security, and the pursuit of peace.”
It took almost a half century, but Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has succeeded in ending that partnership. Certainly Turkey no longer stands for freedom. Like his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Erdogan roughs up and imprisons those who challenge him. In 2002, the year before Erdogan became prime minister, Turkey ranked 99th in the world in press freedom out of 139 nations rated by Reporters Without Borders. By 2010, it ranked 138th out of 178, barely nosing out Russia and finishing below even Zimbabwe. Nor can American officials any longer say that America’s relationship with Turkey bolsters national security. Just one year ago, the Turkish air force held secret war games with its Chinese counterparts without first informing the Pentagon. Erdogan has also deferred final approval of a new NATO anti-missile warning system. Meanwhile, Hakan Fidan, Turkey’s new intelligence chief, makes little secret of his preference for Tehran over Washington.
Mere HER hos AEI. Der er mere kritik hos Hudson New York:
Turkey: Erdogan’s New “Secular” Islamism
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – September 28, 2011
During a recent meeting in Cairo, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that secularism does not mean giving up religion, and called on Egyptians to adopt a secular constitution. “Do not be wary of secularism. I hope there will be a secular state in Egypt,” Erdogan said. Immediately, from Cairo to Saudi Arabia, there was a shocked reaction.
Secular circles had long ago expressed their concern that the AKP-led government in Turkey wanted to change the secular nature of the Turkish Republic. With Erdogan’s new, “revised” definitions of language, they may well be right.
The Saudi-owned paper Asharq Al-Awsat wrote that the Muslim Brotherhood had portrayed Erdogan as a “Muslim Caliph mounted upon his horse, commanding Muslim armies all across the world,” and had thought to hear some support for their dream of having Islamic Sharia Law as the only source of legislation. Instead, Erdogan trashed their hopes. “Picture this” wrote Asharq Al-Awsat: “a moment of utter silence where the cheers died down and eyes were wide open, only to be broken by a well-known, ‘moderate’ Brotherhood voice, namely Essam el-Eryan, who said: ‘We thank Erdogan and love Turkey, but he should not interfere in Egypt’s affairs. Secularism is not a solution for us. Turkey is free to adopt its own choice. The power of the Islamic civilization lies in its diversity’…among other loaded phrases.”
Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Også Anders Fogh Rasmussen er urolig:
Turkey’s Rifts With 2 Nations Worry a Top NATO Official
By Steven Erlanger and Stephen Castle – September 30, 2011
NATO’s secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, expressed disquiet on Friday about tensions over natural gas exploration in the Mediterranean between a newly assertive Turkey and Cyprus, as well as Turkey’s strained relations with Israel, saying that they were both “a matter of concern.”
Mr. Rasmussen said he did not foresee the tension turning into conflict in the Mediterranean, and he praised Turkey as an indispensable member of NATO that could be “a bridge” between the West and the Arab countries now engaged in revolts.
Mere HER i The New York Times. Fogh Rasmussen har god grund til uro. Præsident Obama konkurrerer med Erdogan om titlen som årets torsk. Rubin igen:
Why is Obama Rewarding Turkey with Attack Helicopters?
Michael Rubin – Oktober 2, 2011
If Obama were a poker player holding a full house, he’d fold to let the guy across the table with a pair of twos feel like a winner. Not even Jimmy Carter was so adverse to squandering leverage when dealing with friends and foes.
Time Magazine bragte et interview med Erdogan i den forgangne uge. Her har man ikke fattet en islamisk bønne af, hvad der foregår:
Exclusive: TIME Meets Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
by Ishaan Tharoor – September 26, 2011
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the international statesman of the moment. Greeted as a rock star in Egypt and other countries transformed by the Arab Spring, the Turkish Premier looms like a colossus over the Middle East. In recent weeks, he has been one of the most vocal world leaders to back the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations. Popular at home, Erdogan has held his position since 2003, and was recently re-elected to a new term. All the while, both Turkey’s economy and geopolitical footprint have been growing noticeably. Erdogan sat down with TIME’s Jim Frederick, Bobby Ghosh, Tony Karon, Matt McAllester and Ishaan Tharoor on the sidelines of U.N. meetings in New York City. The following are excerpts from the conversation, touching upon Turkey’s deteriorating relationship with Israel, the failures of the Middle East peace process, Erdogan’s support for the Arab Spring and frustrations with the U.N., and whether anybody in Ankara still cares about joining the E.U.
Mere HER i Time Magazine. Michael Rubin har en fin kritik af interviewet i The American:
Iransk kulturimperialisme er velkendt for folk, der også frekventerer andet end den etablerede halalpresse. Men derefter begynder det vist også at knibe. I Københavns borgerrepræsentation læser de i hvert fald ikke Hudson New York. De røde lefler for islamisme:
Iran’s “Invasion” of Latin America
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – September 21, 2011
The Arab uprisings are changing the geopolitical map. When old allies might become new enemies, a country like Iran has a lot to lose. Teheran is now concerned about becoming even more isolated — and for good reasons.
Qatar, for one, which used to be aligned with Iran, has switched sides. The small Emirate that owns the powerful satellite television channel Al-Jazeera now prefers to side with the rebels, and is supporting the uprising in Syria — another move away from Iran. If the Syrian uprising topples the regime, Damascus will probably not continue good relations with Teheran, a choice that will also have political repercussions in Lebanon.
OIC states call for religious tolerance in Europe – yet persecute Christians
18 August 2011
In a press statement issued on 25 July 2011, the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, formerly known as the Organisation of the Islamic Conference), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, expressed disquiet at the reported reasons for the brutal massacre of over 90 young people in Norway by Anders Breivik two days earlier. He was especially concerned that the perpetrator was a person consumed by hatred and intolerance of religious diversity and multiculturalism. Professor Ihsanoglu stated that the OIC had always warned against intolerance, incitement to hatred on religious grounds, and the campaign against cultural diversity being carried on by right-wing politicians in Europe. The OIC, he said, had always been opposed to intolerance and discrimination based on religion. The massacre in Norway vindicated the OIC’s anxiety at the growth of hatred and intolerance in Europe, which threatened the multicultural fabric of society.
Muslim countries in the Persian Gulf and North Africa are funnelling large sums of money to radical Islamic groups in towns and cities across Spain in a competing effort to exert control over the estimated 1.5 million Muslims in the country.
A newly leaked secret report prepared by Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI), excerpts of which were published by the Madrid-based El País newspaper on July 31, says the Spanish government is struggling to stop the flow of tens of millions of dollars to Islamic groups in Spain from Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and above all Saudi Arabia.
How Bernard-Henri Levy fought his way into chronic interventionism
Summer 2011 – Christopher Caldwell
I. Last year, Karl Zéro, the madcap newsman/comedian who has been a fixture on French television for a decade, asked the sixty-one-year-old celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy why people hated him so. Perhaps, Zéro speculated, it had to do with dual identity. There was Bernard-Henri Lévy, who launched his career in the 1970s with La Barbarie à visage humain (Barbarism with a Human Face), an attack on Communism, and who in the decades since had written three dozen more books, most of them about current affairs, and many of them best sellers. Then there was BHL (“Bay-Arsh-Ell”), as he was called in the gossip magazines, the very wealthy heir to a lumber fortune, who owned John Paul Getty’s old palace in Marrakech, who had married a fashion model, and who had counted the country’s last three presidents among his personal friends. Zéro seemed to suggest that the glamour and privilege of BHL clashed with the roles that Lévy accorded himself in his writings—Tribune of Democracy and Conscience of France.
Lévy had another theory. He believed he provoked strong feelings among French people because he was right so often. “Because I was right about Bosnia,” he said. “Because I was right about Rwanda. Because I was right about Darfur. Because I was right about Communism.”
Mere HER hos Book Forum. Kan også læses her hos The University of Utah.
Opdatering 21. juli 2011 – en boganmeldelse:
Guilty Men
The political origins of the meltdown
Jul 25, 2011 • By Christopher Caldwell
How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner
Opdatering 11. august 2011 – fanklubben svinder ind:
Bernard-Henri Lévy Just Can’t Shut Up
Hugh Fitzgerald – 8 August 2011
I’m so glad I don’t have to see, or read, or hear about, BHL more than I already do, and feel sorry for those who, living in France, can’t escape him, can’t avoid seeing him on television.
Mange muslimske kvinder vil eller må ikke arbejde. Nogle kan ikke, fordi de passer deres egne enorme børneflokke. Men i Vesten har familierne to uddannede, udearbejdende voksne og kun få børn. Hverken børn eller voksne i Vesten mangler IQ-point pga. fætter-kusineægteskab, så selvfølgelig skal vi betale for fejlslagne muslimske samfund. Tænk på, hvormange mennesker, der skal leve for kun en indtægt, i uhyggeligt mange muslimske familier. Sådan er det jo uanset om de bor i Vesten eller andetsteds:
Where Is Promised Arab Funding for the Palestinians?
Where is Palestinian Accountability?
by Khaled Abu Toameh – July 8, 2011
The Palestinian Authority has announced that it is facing a severe financial crisis, largely due to the failure of Arab countries to fulfill their promises to help the Palestinians.
Because of the failure of the Arab countries to provide financial aid to the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority is almost entirely dependent on US and EU contributions.
The financial crisis in the Palestinian Authority raises doubts as to whether the Palestinians are indeed ready for statehood. If the Palestinian Authority has to ask Americans and Europeans to pay salaries to its civil servants, how can it demand an independent and sovereign state from the United Nations in September?
The Palestinian Authority is facing a budget crisis. It has reached its borrowing limit and has a 585 million dollar deficit. So naturally its leaders are asking the West for another handout.
Back in 2007, 7.4 billion dollars was pledged to keep the terrorist edifice of the Authority running. The PA claimed that it needed 3.9 billion for budgetary shortfalls alone. And after pissing away far more than that, the men who give the suicide bombers their marching orders are back passing around the plate.
Even as the Palestinian Authority pushes forward on a statehood bid at the UN, not only is it unable to pay its own bills, but its only real revenue stream is foreign aid. Few states can claim to have failed, before they are even declared– but the PA is on its way there.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Free Republic her. Og The New English Review her.
UN’s bad joke: North Korea runs talks about disarmament
By Anne Bayefsky | June 30, 2011
On Tuesday, the United Nations made a bad joke by appointing North Korea to chair of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. North Korea assumes the conference chairmanship by being the next state in the alphabetical rotation of the 65 members, which include five nuclear weapons states and 60 other countries such as Iran and Syria.
North Korea’s representative, So Se Pyong, was enthusiastic about his new job. He announced that he was “very much committed to the conference” and that during his presidency he “welcomes any sort of constructive proposals that strengthened the work and credibility of the Conference on Disarmament.” He also said that “he would do everything in his capacity to move the Conference on Disarmament forward.”
Mere HER i The Examiner. Kan også læses her i The Weekly Standard.
Unmasking the ‘international community’
By Caroline B. Glick . July 1, 2011
While emptily mouthing slogans of tolerance, adherents to the rule of the “international community” embrace the agenda of the most violent, intolerant, totalitarian forces in the world.
For many years, the Left in Israel and throughout the world has upheld the so-called “international community” as the arbiter of all things. From Israel’s right to exist to climate change, from American world leadership to genetically modified crops, the Left has maintained that the “international community” is the only body qualified to judge the truth, lawfulness, goodness and justice of all things.
Most of those who uphold this view see the United Nations as the embodiment of the “international community.”
Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post. Kan også læses her på Caroline Glicks blog.
The parliament of Iraqi Kurdistan registered an important victory against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on Wednesday, June 22, when it passed, by a large majority, legislation banning the practice. The brutal and un-Islamic custom of FGM has now been criminalized in the Iraqi Kurdish region, even as Western European countries have vacillated on its prohibition.
The success of Iraqi Kurdistan’s anti-FGM law has been partly credited to sustained investigative and lobbying work by a German/Iraqi non-governmental organization, WADI. The group has conducted surveys, beginning in 2007, revealing the wide incidence of infliction of FGM among Iraqi Kurds. WADI has disclosed that more than 60 percent of women and girls in Iraqi Kurdistan have been subjected to genital mutilation.
Indiens Picasso, kaldte man den nyligt afdøde maler, M. F. Hussain, der blev 96 år gammel. Men det er ikke så let at være modernist, maler og muslim. Især ikke, når man håner hinduerne. Maqbool Fida Husain endte sine dage i frivilligt exil i London. Indiens premierminister, Manmohan Singh, sagde, at det var et tab for nationen. Interviewet med Taslima Nasreen indledes med et spørgsmål om Hussain, men handler ellers om noget helt andet:
‘I supported Husain but you can’t disown your country’
Rakhi Chakrabarty | Jun 19, 2011
For nearly two decades, Bangladeshi doctor-turned-writer Taslima Nasrin, 49, has been living in exile, driven out by fundamentalist ire in her country and in Kolkata against her liberal views. Yet, the atheist author tells Rakhi Chakrabarty that she hopes to return to the familiar grounds in Kolkata again, if not Bangladesh. Excerpts:
After M F Husain died in exile in London, you tweeted “Cry beloved country, cry”. Did you identify with him?
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended. So I supported Husain. In India, I see a division: some support Husain, others support Rushdie. Why can’t they support everybody’s freedom of expression? If they can’t support Rushdie, (Danish cartoonist Kurt) Westergaard, M F Husain, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Asiya Bibi and me equally, then they don’t believe in the freedom of expression. But I don’t quite understand why Husain took Qatari citizenship? I wouldn’t have done that. Was it because he was angry with Hindu fundamentalists? But they don’t make the whole of India. When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used UN travel documents. You can’t disown your country.
Den geniale præst, Patrick Sookhdeo, driver som bekendt Barnabas Fund. På deres site kan man finde lidt af hvert:
Europe’s tallest building will be a “symbol of Islamic finance”
Barnabas Fund – 17 June 2011
Dwarfing all other tower blocks at 1,016ft (310 metres), the new landmark near London Bridge, will become the highest building anywhere in the European Union. The project has been financed by sharia-compliant investment with a consortium of Qatari investors who have paid £150m to secure an 80% stake in the project. The Financial Times states that the Shard “has typified the role played by Islamic finance in not only supporting, but defining a new era in the UK construction and property industry”. It also claims that there are certain conditions on the types of businesses that are allowed to occupy the completed building since it has been backed by Islamic finance.
The Shard is currently 280 metres high and is scheduled to be completed by May 2012 where it will form a stunning backdrop for the Olympic Games.
How Western Foreign Policy Experts Got The Middle East Wrong and Why They’re Getting It Wrong Again
Lecture by Dr. Barry Rubin – March 10, 2011 • Luxe Hotel Sunset – Los Angeles
Amid all the speculation and panic, opinion and punditry about the current ongoing turmoil in Egypt and the Middle East, one man’s perspective cuts through the fog like a lighthouse beam.
The protests cascading across the Middle East are shaking much more than the Arab autocracies that have dominated the region for decades. Things that we thought were stable in the Middle East have turned out to be fragile, while movements that were supposed to be weak have turned into powerful tsunamis of change. Long-held beliefs are falling by the wayside.
Despite these upheavals, the same old self-styled experts are trotting out the same tired and debunked conventional wisdom about the region.
They have had to change the players around, but the apologies and fantasies are all the same. Instead of secular Arab nationalists like Yasser Arafat moderating before signing Oslo, now it’s that fanatical Muslim leaders like Yusuf al-Qaradawi can be dealt with. Instead of Hamas professionalizing after seizing Gaza, now it’s that Hezbollah will integrate into Lebanon. The contexts are different but the excuses remain the same.
Meanwhile Barry Rubin has been working tirelessly to dispel exactly this fog of misinformation. Dr. Rubin has been a Middle East writer and analyst for more than 30 years, and is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center. He has written 23 books, edited an additional 32 books, and is the editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. There is literally not a topic in the Middle East that Dr. Rubin has not addressed, often in terms strikingly different than the conventional wisdom – and always with analysis that proves to be more incisive, and predictions that turn out to be more accurate, than the conventional wisdom.
There is perhaps no one able to speak about the instability rocking the Middle East, both in specific contexts and in the broadest of terms, than Barry Rubin.
Og om whistle-blowers. Det er ikke hele debatten, arrangørerne har uploadet på YouTube, men mere dukker muligvis op:
Douglas Murray speech, New Statesman/Frontline Club debate
Douglas Murray, author and political commentator, speaks at the New Statesman/Frontline Club debate on the motion: “This house believes whistle-blowers make the world a safer place.” With Julian Assange’s point-of-information interjection. Speakers for the proposition were Julian Assange, editor in chief of WikiLeaks; Mehdi Hasan, senior editor (politics) of the New Statesman; Clayton Swisher, head of al-Jazeera’s transparency unit. Speakers for the opposition were: David Richmond, former director for British defence and intelligence, member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office board; Bob Ayers, former director of the US department of defence, information systems and security programme; Douglas Murray. The event took place on 9 April 2011, Kensington Town Hall, London. This footage was filmed exclusively for the New Statesman. Video direction: Michael Taylor, Big Face Art.
Man kan læse mere om arrangementet her i The New Statesman. Desuden findes dele af arrangementet som audio hos PSmith, Journalist – link her.
Opdatering 6. oktober 2011 – hele debatten er dukket op på YouTube:
Frontline Club/New Statesman – Debate on Whistleblowing and WikiLeaks
Frontline Club and New Statesman debating the motion “This house believes whistleblowers make the world a safer place.”
Event was held at Kensington Town Hall, 9 April 2011.
Proposition:
Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks
Clayton Swisher, head of Al-Jazeera’s Transparency Unit
Mehdi Hasan, senior political editor, New Statesman
Opposition:
Sir David Richmond, former director, defence and intelligence, British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Bob Ayers, former director of the US Department of Defence Information Systems Security Programme
Douglas Murray, author and political commentator
Also participating: former MI5 whistleblower Annie Machon and HBOS whistleblower Paul Moore.
‘We Lost a Great Deal of Time in Libya Because of the Germans’
March 30, 2011
French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a fierce proponent of military intervention in Libya. SPIEGEL spoke with him about Germany’s “shameful” abstention from the UN Security Council resolution, the democratic leanings of rebel leaders in Libya and why some in the West might want the Arab spring to come to an end.
Spiegel: Monsieur Lévy, are you satisfied with your war?
Lévy: I don’t call this war. It’s Gadhafi who is waging a war.
Spiegel: What then do you call what allied bombers are doing in Libya?
Lévy: The bombers are preventing Gadhafi from waging his war. A war against his own people and against the international community.
In the absence of American leadership in Libya, Europeans are looking more and more like the Keystone Kops. It would be funny if it were not so serious.
March 26, 2011 – by Soeren Kern
After more than a week of shameless haggling by its squabbling members, the NATO alliance reluctantly agreed to take over the least risky part of the military operations in Libya: the enforcement of a no-fly zone to protect civilians from attacks by a Libyan Air Force that no longer exists.
But in classic transatlantic political fudge, European and American leaders say NATO will not assume command of riskier ground attacks in Libya. For the time being, such heavy hitting will continue to be done by a coalition of countries led by the United States, even though the American president insists that his country is not in charge of the military intervention in Libya.
The European Union has long claimed the moral high ground in the Middle East, but for many years it has misrepresented its post-modern “soft power” foreign policy as a morally superior alternative to the United States in the Arab world.
The popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East are exposing the hypocritical ambiguities that underpin European foreign policy. At the same time they are drawing attention to Europe’s own democratic deficit.
As Egyptians were rising up against their government in early February, for instance, the European Union’s “Foreign Minister,” Baroness Catherine Ashton, penned an article in the London-based Guardian newspaper saying she wanted to see “deep democracy” take root in Egypt. Ashton warned that Egypt should not become a “surface democracy” with votes and elections, but that it should be a “deep democracy,” which involves “respect for the rule of law, freedom of speech, an independent judiciary and impartial administration.” Ashton also said the Egyptian government “must respond to the wishes of their people.”
Jeg deler ikke Pipes’ optimisme, men følger selvfølgelig udviklingen:
Min optimisme i forbindelse med den nye arabiske opstand
af Daniel Pipes – 1. Marts 2011
Hidtil usete politiske krampetrækninger over hele Mellemøsten, fra Marokko til Iran, afstedkommer tre overvejelser:
For det første passer disse oprør ind i et regionalt skakspil, som jeg har kaldt for Mellemøstens kolde krig. På den ene side står “modstandsblokken” anført af Iran og omfattende Tyrkiet, Syrien, Libanon, Gaza og Qatar; den forsøger at skabe uro i den eksisterende samfundsorden ved hjælp af en ny, der er mere fromt islamisk og fjendtlig mod Vesten. På den anden side står status quo-blokken anført af Saudi-Arabien og omfattende det meste af resten af regionen (herunder også indirekte Israel); den foretrækker, at situationen forbliver mere eller mindre som den er.
Magt i Mellemøsten vil sige, at Mariah Carey kommer og synger fire sange ved ens private selskab.
De første (undtagen Syrien) har en dagsorden, de sidste (bortset fra Israel) ønsker først og fremmest at nyde magtens frugter. (Tigre i bur, var det noget? Eller en privat koncert ved Mariah Carey?) De første nyder tiltrækningen ved at kunne tilbyde en vision, de sidste kan udsprede skydevåben, masser af dem.
Mere HER på Daniel Pipes hjemmeside. Kan også læses på engelsk samme sted – her. Findes også i National Review Online her, hvor man desuden kan få artiklen læst højt som mp3.
Studieværten aner ikke, hvem han har i studiet og kan ikke engang udtale Shoebats navn. Underligt interview om Det Muslimske Broderskab. Walid Shoebat når dog at komme med flere gode oplysninger. Fra 1. marts 2011:
Shoebat on the Muslim Brotherhood
Today’s guest Walid Shoebat, Former Member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, talks about the Muslim Brotherhood, Gaddafi and unrest through the Middle East.
Startes HER. Åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed knap 10 minutter.
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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