Video & artikler: Srdja Trifkovic

Vi skal lige se lidt på, hvad Srđa Trifković egentlig render rundt og laver – blandt andet denne særdeles bemærkelsesværdige video. Trykkefrihedsselskabet bedes promte arrangere en event med denne meget kvalificerede tænker. Uploadet på YouTube den 26. april 2012 – værter Billy Baer og Dan Haggerty:

Dr. Srdja Trifkovic tells us how to defeat Jihad

The Baer/Haggerty Offensive of Repatriot Radio follows up on its recent discussion of Islam, and its deleterious effects on the world. Although Europe as we knew it is probably gone forever, it may still be possible for the USA to save itself from the culturally disastrous impact of Islam.

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Adolf Hitler, Our Contemporary

April 23, 2012 - Srdja Trifkovic

Hitler is 123, and he is alive and well. The Führer is going strong not because a vast neo-Nazi conspiracy is about to take over the Western world, kill the Jews, expel the Muslims and make April 20 the Day of Aryan Rebirth, but because he is an all-time favorite of the neoconservative-neoliberal duopoly at home and abroad.

When you advocate bombing a faraway nation of which we know little, call its leader a new Hitler (and, by extension, condemn the failure to bomb as a new “Munich”). When you want to discredit domestic opponents of migratory population replacement or abortion, compare them to Hitler. When you want to demonize the European civilization, Christian religion, national identity, or traditional culture, Hitler is ready. Six decades after the phenomenon was defined by Leo Strauss as reductio ad Hitlerum, the practice is more widely spread than ever. If you dislike a person/policy/idea, find a Hitlerian point of contact and thus prove that the PPI in question is a priori bad, mad and worthy of criminalization.

Mere HER i Veracity Voice. Kan også læses her i Chronicles Magazine.

Just a Regular French Youth

by Srdja Trifkovic • March 23, 2012

As soon as I heard the news I suspected the score. “Far-Right extremists!” screamed the media pack, but my hunch was right: the murderer of a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school near Toulouse, and of three French soldiers only days earlier, was not French. He was a French citizen of Algerian descent, as we now know, but his allegiance and his identity had nothing to do with passports and ID cards.

Mohammed Merah (23), who was killed at his apartment on Thursday after a 30-hour standoff, was a Muslim—one of at least twenty million who now inhabit the European Union. The “context” was duly provided by The New York Times: “Much of the concern about domestic terrorism in Britain, Belgium, Germany and France has focused on these young people, who may have had little formal religious education but are susceptible to calls for jihad, especially when their own lives have been marked by disappointment, crime, racism and joblessness.”

The suggested narrative about this “soft-spoken and alienated youth” is clear:

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine.

Sarkozy the Demagogue

by Srdja Trifkovic • March 30, 2012 • Printer-friendly

President Nicolas Sarkozy announced March 30 that French police have arrested 19 persons suspected of belonging to violent Muslim networks. “These arrests are linked to the world of a certain sort of radical Islamism,” Sarkozy told Europe 1 Radio, and added that automatic weapons were found in the homes of some of those arrested in the raids in and around Paris and several other French cities.

It is striking that Sarkozy added matter-of-factly that the arrests were not related to Mohamed Merah, the Muslim terrorist killed by police last week after he murdered seven people in the Toulouse area. This raises some troubling questions.

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine.

Russia And The Western Media

February 7, 2012 – Srdja Trifkovic

Most Western media professionals tend to subscribe, consciously or not, to a neo-liberal world outlook in general and to the tenets of multiculturalism in particular. The result is notable media favoritism of allegedly disadvantaged, non-Western, traditionally non-Christian societies.

Behind the veneer of all-embracing diversity, however, we find a carefully calibrated scale of acceptance or rejection of “the Other” depending on the cultural and political preferences of the media professionals themselves. The result is moral and intellectual relativism, which enables the media elite to pick and choose, which group or nation will be approved for the status of sympathy or victimhood, and which will be denied the benefit of the doubt.

Mere HER i Russia Insights.

Croatia and Nazi Germany: April 10, 1941: A Dark Day In History

by Srdja Trifkovic – May 1, 2012

Some important Westerners may prefer to look forward, to forget, minimize, or even deny, the fruits of the Croatian Holocaust of 1941-45 and its revived legacy of 1995. The endeavor is flawed. Sins unatoned for will continue coming back to haunt us.

The range of moral and political issues raised by the Ustaša movement and the regime it established in Croatia on April 10, 1941, is comparable to the Third Reich. In both cases, a political group, organized into a regime, devoted extraordinary resources to mass murder based on the victims’ race, creed or ethnicity. In both cases most ordinary Germans and ordinary Croats – those not directly affiliated with the regime, or overtly supportive of its goals and methods – opted for passive acquiescence. In both cases only a small minority was directly involved in the killing. In both cases the perpetrators understood why it had to be done; the mass murder made sense to them.

Mere HER hos Global Research.

Macedonia – the new Kosovo?

By Srdja Trifkovic – February 28, 2012

Both demographically and politically, the republic has a precarious present and an uncertain future.

An Orthodox church was set ablaze in the southwestern part of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on January 30. The incident reflects raising tensions between local Christian Slavs and Albanians, more than a decade after an Albanian rebellion brought FYROM to the verge of an ethnic war. It also evokes memories of the early stages of the conflict in Kosovo, in the late 1980s.

The Church of St. Nicholas, in the majority Albanian-Muslim village of Labuniste, was two centuries old and housed valuable icons. The arson at Labuniste followed the burning of a Macedonian flag and the raising of Albanian and Islamic banners in the neighboring town of Struga, allegedly in reaction to an incident of “mocking Islam” at a local carnival last month.

The town, on the shores of Lake Ohrid, lies at the southern edge of the line of ethnic separation between the two communities.

Mere HER hos The Jerusalem Post eller her hos The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies.

Og link til endnu en artikel af Trifkovic i The Jerusalem Post:

• US Kosovo policy – bad for Israel

Den artikel fik nogle knuppede ord med på vejen i The Jewish Chronicle:

• Dangerous lies that spread from Auschwitz to Srebrenica

Trifkovic svarede i Chronicles Magazine:

• “Srebrenica” as Holocaust: Trifkovic, the “Genocide Denier”

Andre kilder: Chronicles Magazine, Chronicles Magazine, Chronicles Magazine, Russia Insights, Russia Insights, MarketWatch, MarketWatch, PRNewswire, The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies, Gnom News, The Centre for Research on Globalization, The Rockford Institute, Veracity Voice, Veracity Voice,

Global cooling is the new warming

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Romania Villages Buried in 13-16 Feet of Snow – 2012

Professor Henrik Svensmark svarer på kritik – tril lidt ned inde hos Die Kalte Sonne for at finde den engelske version:

Some people, including your critic Florian Freistetter on ScienceBlog, seem to think that physics is a democratic process and what matters is to count how many papers favour or disfavour each hypothesis. That of course is nonsense. All that really signifies is the evidence from observations and experiments, and how a theory stands up to attempts to falsify it. Remember Einstein’s comment on the pamphlet Hundert Autoren gegen Einstein (1931) – “If I were wrong, one would be enough”.

Mere HER hos Die Kalte Sonne.

The Global Warming Hoax is Now Killing People

Alan Caruba – February 14, 2012

By Friday, February 10th, an estimated 500 Europeans had died from the freezing weather gripping the continent. This is the price they and British citizens are paying for embracing the global warming hoax, spending billions for wind power when they should have been building coal-fired and other sources of energy to heat their homes and businesses.

As the British daily, The Telegraph, reported on Friday, “Serbia has started implementing power cuts in a desperate bid to stave off the collapse of its national grid as the country suffers the effects of days of freezing temperatures.”

I and others have been warning for years that the Earth has been cooling since 1998 and that the planet is on the cusp of a new ice age because the average length of an interglacial period of warmth between such ages is now coming to an end after the passage of some 11,500 years.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Tragedy Unfolding in Europe – Is U.S. Media Trying to Ignore It?

Robert W. Felix – February 17, 2012

The cold snap in Europe, which began in late January, has killed hundreds and brought deep snow where it hasn’t been seen in decades,” says this article in the Seattle Times.

This should be front page news. Instead, the article doesn’t appear until page eight. And the title, “At least 3 killed in avalanche in Kosovo,” belies the seriousness of the situation. (The print version carries a different headline: “Cold snap, snow lock down Europe.”)

How about a headline that tells it like it is?

140,000 trapped by snow – Death toll rises past 550.

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

Big freeze tightens its grip on Europe

4th February 2012

The big freeze has tightened its grip on Europe. The death toll has risen as temperatures have dropped and snow has swept across the continent from the east.

In Ukraine, at least 101 people have lost their lives. Supermarkets are short of food as trucks struggle to make deliveries.

A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Serbia where the high winds and snow are set to continue. Emergency services are battling to reach remote areas with vital food supplies.

Europe Snow Freezes Global Warming Claims

Der følger en artikel med, som man kan læse her hos CBN. Dale Hurd orienterer – fra 7. februar 2012:

Opdatering 21. februar 2012:

The compelling case against Ed Davey

By Melanie Phillips on 7th February 2012

True to my warning yesterday in the Daily Mail, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has dashed the naive hope that he would end the Coalition’s suicidal green fanaticism and return Britain to Planet Reality over man-made global warming.  As the Times (£) reported today, he used his first few hours in his new job to tell the 100+ Tory MPs who are in revolt over wind farms effectively to take a running jump. Insisting he was a ‘lifelong supporter’ of wind power, he argued that the case for it was ‘compelling’ and that Britain’s energy production must be ‘clean and green’.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.

Cameron has the chance to end the scourge of wind turbines

By Melanie Phillips on 6th February 2012

With remarkably prescient timing, more than 100 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the onshore wind turbine industry should be ‘dramatically cut’.

The MPs warn that it is unwise to force consumers to pay such subsidies for a form of energy production that they claim is ‘inefficient and intermittent’.

They also worry that the Government’s new planning policy will diminish the chances of local people defeating unpopular onshore wind farm proposals through the planning system.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips her.

Andre kilder: The Seattle Times, Idaho Statesman, Orange County Register, NoTricksZone, Family Security Matters, Family Security Matters, CFACT, CFACT, Der Spiegel, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, TV2, BBC,

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Video: Patrick Sookhdeo om nazisme, islam og kristendom

Her handler det om historiske paralleller – en lidt speciel forelæsning med vægt på kirkens rolle. Fra The Family Research Council 26. januar 2012:

Responding to Islam: Lessons from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, and Bishop George Bell

Featuring Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director, The Barnabas Fund

Mere tekst under videoen:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Karl Barth. Bishop George Bell. Dismissed, derided, and in one case even martyred, each of these Christian leaders took a stand against the threat of Nazism.

Today, a similar threat faces Christians in the US, across Europe, and much more dramatically throughout the Muslim world. Radical Islam’s jihadist ideology does not peacefully coexist with Christianity. And Christian leaders-both political and pastoral-should know more about the threats they face.

Join us at noon on Thursday, January 26th as author, pastor, and human rights advocate Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo explains the threat of radical Islam and offers a clear and Christian response.

Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo is director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, a Christian research institute specializing in the status of Christian minorities in the Muslim world. He is also international director of the Barnabas Fund. Dr. Sookhdeo is a prolific lecturer and author who holds a Ph.D. from London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies and a D.D. from Western Seminary, Oregon, USA. In 2001, Dr. Sookhdeo was awarded the Coventry Cathedral International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation, and in 1990, he was given the Templeton Project Trust prize for progress in religion.

The main ministry of the Barnabas Fund is to send financial support to projects which help Christians where they suffer discrimination, oppression and persecution as a consequence of their faith. The projects aim to strengthen Christian individuals, churches and their communities by providing material and spiritual support in response to needs identified by local Christian leaders.

Andre kilder: The Counter Jihad Report, OneNewsNow,

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Perfide angreb på Patrick Sookhdeo og sjofel censur hos The Guardian

Jeg kan godt lide den meget velbegavede Patrick Sookhdeo. At tillægge ham nogen som helst andel i en gal massemorders myrderier i Norge, er helt ude i hampen – opdatering: Det sjofle foretagende The Guardian har på det groveste censureret i Sookhdeos artikel. Sammenlign de to versioner – det er jo ren voldtægt. Hvad i alverden er meningen? Den redaktør burde fyres på stedet:

Yes, I criticise certain aspects of Islam, but don’t call me a bigot

I abhor all anti-Muslim prejudice and hatred, and have spoken out against it

Patrick Sookhdeo – 26 October 2011

Mehdi Hasan names me as one of “a growing number of rightwing ideologues [who] … push the argument that Islam is at war with the west” (How fear of criminalisation forces Muslims into silence, 9 September). He refers to me as a “crude, anti-Islam propagandist”, and asks why western governments have “given such influence to preachers of hate and division”.

The only evidence cited to support these descriptions are brief references in the manifesto of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer, and a few short quotes from my books. But given the wide range of sources quoted by Breivik, his references to my writings hardly prove rightwing extremism on my part.

OBS Opdatering – The Guardian har redigeret i Sookdeos artikel - læs den oprindelige udgave HER hos Barnabas Fund.

Eller The Guardians version her.

Opdatering – denne artikel kommer også ind på sagen:

The Problem With Islam

by Kenneth R. Timmerman on Nov 4th, 2011

It is difficult for Americans to comprehend the challenge to Western civilization from Islam and Islamist ideology. While our political leaders tell us constantly that we are not at war with Islam, the Obama administration will not acknowledge the fact that we are at war with Islamist ideology.

In a slim new volume of four essays, “Islam in our Midst: the Challenge to our Christian Heritage,” Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo examines the roots of Islamist ideology and finds little difference between them and Islam itself as it is currently preached in the Muslim mainstream.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine eller AINA her.

Andre kilder: The Christian Post,

Video: Nigel Farage om Slovakiet og EUs krisefond

Først sagde de nej til EUs gældsplan. Men pludselig skiftede de mening – Jyllands-Posten skriver om det her. Farage kommenterer på situationen, som den så ud, da Slovakkerne havde afvist euro-krisefonden, EFSF. Slovakiet har i den forbindelse udskrevet parlamantsvalg i utide – videoer fra i dag:

Nigel Farage: United States of Europe insane politics

Slovakia’s opposition leader says the deal to approve expanding the EU bailout fund has been reached and it will be voted in later this week. Earlier, the country’s parliament voted against it, which caused the collapse of country’s ruling coalition. Slovakia was the only member to say ‘no’ to increasing the facility, which already got the green light from 16 of the 17 Eurozone members. RT talks to British Euro MP Nigel Farage.

Der følger en artikel med, som man kan læse her hos Russia Today.

Opdatering:

UKIP Nigel Farage and Lib Dem Sharon Bowles – Sky News Oct 2011

UK Independence Party Leader debates with Pro EU and Pro Euro Liberal Democrat Sharon Bowles MEP

Farage: Barroso in the bunker planning world domination

• European Parliament, Brussels – 12 October 2011
• Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD Group in the European Parliament (Europe of Freedom and Democracy)
• Debate: Preparation for the European Council meeting (23.10.2011) – With Mikołaj DOWGIELEWICZ (Council Member, Polish EU presidency) and José Manuel Barroso (Commission President)

Desuden et godt interview:

“A ‘United States of Europe’ will mean the end of democracy in Europe” – Nigel Farage

J. Luis Martin – October 6, 2011

A self-described Libertarian, Nigel Farage is a founder member of the UK Independence Party, which was established in September 1993. He is the Member of the European Parliament for the South East region and is the leader of the parliamentary party in the EU parliament. The following is Truman Factor’s exclusive interview with the most visible Eurosceptic voice in the European Union’s political establishment.

Over the past decade, you have evolved from being the UK’s foremost eurosceptic voice in Europe to becoming the continent’s most visible anti-EU integration watchdog. What has led you to expand your political mission? Do you feel that your group’s vision is finally gaining political momentum?

I must admit, as what the UK establishment likes to call a “small” party in the UK, we certainly didn’t set out with the intention to lead a coalition of nations or be a figure-head for millions of under represented Europeans across the continent. Although, probably I am over-stating our position, our mission was to extract the UK from the corrupt and undemocratic European Union as fast as possible. Of course, that remains our goal today – but we have seen a large base of support begin to grow from across the world to our cause. We have friends and members in Canada, Australia, the USA and all over Europe. It has not been by clever design on our part, but a natural evolution of using our position in the EU “parliament” effectively and speaking what we believe to be the truth with passion and conviction.

Mere HER hos Truman Factor.

Andre  kilder: The Daily Mail, EkstraBladet,

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.

Kritikken hagler ned over Tyrkiet

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Analysis: Israel, Egypt, Turkey – shifting sands

By Zvi Mazel – September 18, 2011

The many commentators who have lamented in the past few days about the isolation of Israel in the Middle East have apparently forgotten that this is nothing new. Arab armies tried to destroy the newborn state in 1948; successive attempts having failed as well, Arab states dealt with the existence of the Jewish state as with something which had to be endured, not accepted. Yes, peace was achieved between Israel and Egypt, then Jordan, but this was a peace between governments, not peoples. Incitement against the Jewish state never stopped, finding fertile soil in the minds of youngsters taught from the cradle that Jews are the enemies of Islam and will be destroyed on Judgment Day.

What was left were agreements fueled by transient political interests.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post.

Erdogan Has Good Reason To Be Crazy

September 18, 2011 – by David P. Goldman

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan brings to mind the story about the housewife who calls her husband during rush hour. “Be careful driving home on the Beltway, dear,” she advises. “The news says that there’s a maniac driving in the wrong direction.” “What do you mean, ‘a maniac’?,” he replies. “Everybody’s driving in the wrong direction!”

Now that Turkey has threatened Europe with a “freeze in relations” if Cyprus (as planned) assumes the presidency of the European Union in 2012, it must seem to Erdogan that everyone is driving in the wrong direction. Earlier this month Turkey declared “null and void” the United Nations’ Palmer Commission report, which supported Israel’s right to enforce a blockade against Gaza. That was a minor gaffe, because United Nations dicta have the authority of revelation to the liberal media, except, of course, when they support Israel. It’s one thing for Turkey to freeze relations with Israel — we take it for granted these days that everybody hates Israel — but the Europeans? Everybody likes the Europeans, who have replaced their defense ministries with an answering machine that says, “We surrender.” And over Cyprus? Even Russia, Turkey’s key trading partner and the host for millions of Turkish guest workers, is aghast at Erdogan’s tantrum. Russia has strong ties to Cyprus.

Mere HER hos Pajamas Media.

Turkey’s Moralpolitik: World Leader in Imprisoning Journalists

by Anna Mahjar-Barducci – September 23, 2011

Some analysts, under the impression that Turkey is severing relations with Israel because Turkey claims that it is its duty is to champion “human rights” in the Middle East, have written that Turkey is abandoning “realpolitik” for “moralpolitik.”

According to a large number of academics and journalists in the Western media, especially in Europe, Turkey has chosen to follow a new ethical policy based on moral attitudes. This simplistic and naïve interpretation of the Turkish agenda is becoming so that the international community fails to denounce human rights abuses in Turkey. In Italy, several media sources, such as the newspaper La Stampa, wrote that Turkey is an example of democracy to be followed in the Middle East, whereas the Washington-based Middle East Institute wrote in an article published by Dr. Gonul Tol that Turkey is balancing strategic interests with idealism.”Turkey views its conduct of foreign policy as a balance between diplomacy and hard power to pursue its interests, both moral and geopolitical,” Tol wrote..

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Erdogan Creates International Complications for Turkey

Dore Gold – September 23, 2011

While Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has been using his anti-Israeli rhetoric to build up Turkey as a new great power in the Arab world, his neo-Ottoman policy is sparking  a reaction among other countries that could pose for him serious problems in the period ahead. For Erdogan has not only been using aggressive rhetoric against Israel. In the last few weeks the Turkish government has also been threatening Cyprus for developing its undersea gas resources in the Mediterranean. As a result, Russia has been drawn in to neutralize Turkish behavior.

Cyprus just signed an agreement with the Texas-based Noble Energy, which is in a partner in developing Israeli maritime gas fields, as well. Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs, Egemen Bağış let it be known that the Turkish Navy could intervene if Greek Cyprus does not call off the project. He said “That’s what a navy is for.”  As a result, the Russian Foreign Ministry publicly backed the right of Cyprus to develop its Mediterranean gas. Cyprus, in turn, described Russia as “a shield against any threats by Turkey.”

Mere HER hos Dore Gold.

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Turkish Prime Minister Cuts All Ties with Syria

And more from the Turkish Press

by AK Group – September 23, 2011

Turkey has suspended talks with Syria and may impose sanctions on Damascus, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan said, the clearest sign yet that Ankara has parted ways with President Bashar al-Assad over his bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Andre kilder: The New York Times, Asia Times, Pajamas Media,

Paul Berman var øjenvidne til 11. september

Og Paul Berman skrev om det, han så. I dag ville Berman måske have formuleret sig lidt anderledes:

Do Ideas Matter?

From September 11 to the Arab Spring

August 24, 2011 | Paul Berman
I: My role on September 11 was to be a reporter for The New Republic. I was in downtown Brooklyn, and from my rooftop I watched the first tower crumble, and then I ran downstairs to the street with pen and notebook and plunged into the crowds fleeing over the bridges. I spoke with one person after another, asking what they had seen. They told me. I compiled my report. It ran a few days later in the issue dated September 24, 2001, with under the title “Under the Bridge: Brooklyn Dispatch.”

But what strikes me now, in glancing back at my little article, are a couple of non-reportorial ruminations that appear in the final paragraphs. These are comments on the philosopher Plotinus and his theory of evil, and on the poet Baudelaire and his theory of landscape. A lot of readers’ eyebrows must have arched. But I was trying to take in the event, and the ruminations pushed me to work up some thoughts. I went on scribbling notes, and a couple of weeks later I published the results in The American Prospect under the title “Terror and Liberalism,” illustrated with marvelous photographs of Italian fascists from Mussolini’s time, dressed in ridiculous uniforms, and other parading fantasists. Eventually I brought out a book under the same title, unfortunately without illustrations—my contribution, for better or for worse, to the literature of 9/11.

Mere HER i The New Republic.

Christopher Hitchens – endnu engang om Ratko Mladic

Religion Is the Problem in the Balkans

Christopher Hitchens – Aug 4, 2011

Reporting on the capture of the mass-murdering General Ratko Mladic by the Serbian government on Memorial Day, the New York Times summarized the newly created political situation like this: “Critical questions remain about precisely who protected Mr. Mladic. The pro-Western government of President Boris Tadic says it will investigate, a politically delicate examination that could lead to former government officials and perhaps even to religious authorities, since Mr. Mladic said after his arrest that he had been visited over the years by many priests.”

Pursuing the front-page story to an inside page, we see that the Times’ reporters, Doreen Carvajal and Steven Erlanger, stayed with that theme: “Government authorities, including President Tadic, have vowed to investigate the protective network, especially to determine if some of the loyalists included government operatives, high officials or perhaps even Serbian Orthodox priests.”

Mere HER hos Newsvine. Council for Secular Humanism har en hjemmeside, der har været nede i et par dage. Artiklen kan også læses der, når de engang får orden på tingene.

Video: Srđa Trifković om Goran Hadžić

Den eftersøgte Goran Hadžić blev arresteret den 20. juli 2011 mistænkt for krigsforbrydelser. Trifković interviewes i sagen, der mest af alt handler om EU:

Hadzic held, ‘Kosovo next on EU wishlist’

Serbia has fulfilled the final demands of the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Ex-Croatian Serb leader – Goran Hadjich – has been arrested after eight years on the run. He’s accused of atrocities during Croatia’s war for independence from Yugoslavia in the early 90′s, ranging from murder to religious persecution. It follows the arrest of Ratko Mladic, who was wanted for similar crimes. The detentions were key requirements of Serbia’s bid to join the EU. For more insight on the story RT talks to Dr Srdja Trifkovic – foreign affairs editor at Chronicles magazine.

Andre kilder: Wikipedia,

Audio: Robert Spencer & Peter Boyles

Fra 360KHOW Radio den 20. juli 2011 – intervieweren hedder Peter Boyles. Vi hører bla. om Herman Cain, islamisering af USA, jihad, kalifat, muslimsk voldskultur, muslimsk kolonialisme og mere:

Robert Spencer From Jihad Watch

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 42 minutter.

Reservelink her.

Tre artikler af Srdja Trifkovic

At løbet i Tunesien er kørt, har de store kristne organisationer sagt længe. Øget islamisering og en eller anden form for skindemokrati. Pessimismen breder sig:

The Green, Green Arab Summer: I

by Srdja Trifkovic • July 8th, 2011

In the U.S. mainstream media the developments that have followed the misnamed “Arab Spring” have been curiously under-reported. The reason seems clear: In recent weeks those developments have taken a clear turn away from Western-style democracy, pluralism, tolerance, respect for human rights, etc. (as we’ve warned,  repeatedly, that they would). The turmoil has undermined the region’s authoritarian secularists to the benefit of far more authoritarian Islamists.

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine. Og om Egypten – ligeledes et kørt løb:

The Green, Green Arab Summer: II

by Srdja Trifkovic • July 11th, 2011

The magnitude of Western self-deception and ignorance about the future of Egypt was exemplified by a feature article in The Washington Post last week (Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood could be unraveling, July 7). The influence and organizational abilities of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) have raised fears in the West and among Egypt’s secular and liberal groups that democracy may end with an Islamic state, the Post says, but the movement, “long considered the only viable opposition to Hosni Mubarak, has struggled to adapt to the new political landscape that has emerged since his ouster in February”:

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine. Og om Ratko Mladić:

Come back, Austra-Hungary, all is forgiven

Jul 11, 2011 | Srdja Trifkovic

Valentin Inzko’s Deeply Deplorable Outburst.

My attention has been belatedly drawn to a news item over a month old: Valentin Inzko, the International High Representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has decreed that it is “deeply deplorable” that the Republika Srpska (RS) – the Serb half of the Balkan non-country – plans to help fund the defense of General Ratko Mladiæ at The Hague Tribunal.

“This is taxpayers’ money and this is also the money of the mothers of Srebrenica,” a visibly indignant Herr Inzko fumed: “I cannot imagine that an Austrian war criminal, a Nazi war criminal, would get financial support from the Republic of Austria… This is what is going on now and is deeply deplorable… [RS President] Dodik is really stretching the nerves of international community and also the nerves of really peaceful Bosniak community.”

Mere HER i Serbianna.

Video: Morten Messerschmidt om EU

To interview - blandt andet om euroen og grænsekontrol. De er rigtig gode begge to:

Interview med MEP Morten Messerschmidt

Interview med Morten Messerschmidt i EU-Parlamentet, 31 maj 2011. Morten Messerschmidt fortæller blandt andet om Dansk Folkepartis holdning til grænsekontrollen, ligesom han berører problemerne omkring euro-krisen og tager stilling til udvidelsesplanerne i EU.

Og et fra starten af året:

Morten Messerschmidt – “The Euro Vision Has Failed!”

January 17, 2011

Tensions are high over boosting the EU bailout fund as European finance ministers gather in Brussels. The EU Executive Commission proposed the fund increase saying at present it won’t be able to provide a loan if the struggling Eurozone members like Spain and Portugal need help. There are concerns from Germany which is pushing for a more comprehensive approach. For more insight on the story RT talks to Danish MEP, Morten Messerschmidt.

Via 180 Grader.

Christopher Caldwell om Libyen

Lessons from Kosovo for Libya campaign

by Christopher Caldwell | Jun 10, 2011

This weekend marks a curious anniversary. Twelve years ago, Nato’s air war to wrest the province of Kosovo from Serbia’s control ended after almost three months. The allies achieved their professed war aims: Kosovar autonomy and an end to Serbian counter-insurgency measures, which Nato described as genocidal. But Serbian resistance was tougher than anticipated and western publics began to fear the war was going terribly wrong. The fears were well-grounded. There were two big consequences of Kosovo. First was a deepening Russian distrust of Nato’s aims. That led to Vladimir Putin. Second was an end to the principle that a sovereign ruler’s mistreatment of his own subjects is not grounds for war. That led to the invasion of Iraq.

What makes the Kosovo anniversary curious is that Nato’s mission in Libya is so similar. As in Kosovo, the west intervened to prevent a humanitarian tragedy and has wound up engaged in a civil war on the side of an insurgency.

Mere HER i iPolitics. Jeg fandt desuden dette fra marts 2011. Yderst interessant. Blandt andre disse herrer vil have krig: Pascal Bruckner, André Glucksmann, Bernard Kouchner, Bernard-Henri Lévy. Her er resten – åbent brev om Libyen fra:

Historian Nicole Bacharan, artist Jane Birkin, writer Pascal Bruckner, European Parliament member Daniel Cohn-Bendit, philosopher André Glucksmann, former cabinet minister, Nicole Guedj, publisher Gilles Hertzog, former Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, philosopher and member of the editorial board of Le Monde Group Bernard-Henri Lévy, publisher Oliver Rolin, publisher Olivier Rubinstein, writer Dominique Simmonet.

Dette er, hvad de skriver:

Remember Rwanda…And Guernica! An Urgent European Call For Immediate Western Intervention In Libya

A group of leading French intellectuals and politicians make the case for immediate Western intervention in Libya, including possible military strikes against Gaddafi’s forces.

March 17th, 2011

Time is pressing in Libya. Day after day, hour after hour, the dictator Muammar Gaddafi, with his murderous army of airplanes, helicopters, tanks, missiles and mercenaries, is retaking his country and crushing the efforts of the Libyan people to break free. The tyrant seems determined to drown his country in “rivers of blood” — machine-gunning civilian populations, “purging” the towns of his opponents and sowing terror. Everywhere, in Tripoli and the other regions retaken by Gaddafi’s forces, large numbers of men have been abducted, taken to torture cells and murdered.

Mere HER i Worldcrunch.

Rwanda og Guernica ?? Så kan det vist heller ikke blive mere hysterisk…

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.

Robert Spencer reparerer dialog

Der har været lidt støj på linjen, når det gælder Srdja Trifkovic. Men nu reparerer Robert Spencer dialogen og forklarer sig:

Discord among counter-jihadists: a call for unity

By Robert Spencer – 12 Apr 2011

Many times here at Jihad Watch I have stressed the need for those who are resisting the global jihad and Islamic supremacism to stick together — or at least not to let jihadists, their agents, and/or their useful idiots (or even their own narrow self-interest or what they perceive as such) set them against other people who should be allies in our common fight for survival. At the risk of redundancy or belaboring the obvious, I will repeat here what I pointed out then about such “friendly fire attacks”:

“There is a dispiriting number of self-described counter-jihad activists who spend more time sniping at other counter-jihadists instead of actually doing something constructive to fight the jihad. There are those who know all about how it can all be done better and more effectively, but never quite manage to get off their couch and prove it. There are those who sling around reckless and false charges against others, and those who style themselves as junior Machiavellis, maneuvering publicly and privately, in ways more or less transparent, to muscle out those they apparently regard as competition.

I find all this distasteful and wrongheaded, and do not participate, but am for whatever reason often the recipient of it.”

Mere HER hos The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies. Læs især sidste afsnit af artiklen  – her trækker Spencer sine ord tilbage og anerkender i stedet Trifkovic. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch. Tidligere blogget om sagen:

• Interview med Srdja Trifkovic
• Video & artikler: Censur i Canada og USA

Don Feder om USA og Libyen

Don Feder - lige på kornet:

Libya Shows How Goofy Intervention Has Become

By Don Feder - March 25, 2011

What’s even more absurd and futile than going to war to spread democracy and advance human rights? Intervention to stop regimes from “killing their own people.”

This is the sole rationale offered for Obama’s Libya excursion (Operation Odyssey Dawn even sounds like a Carnival Cruise ship) – to keep a tyrant from killing his own people.

British Prime Minister David Cameron declares: “Colonel Gaddafi has made this happen. We can not allow the slaughter of civilians to continue.”

Mere HER hos GrasstopsUSA.

Niall Ferguson: Intet demokrati i Mellemøsten

Artiklen er ikke meget værd. Jeg er skuffet over Ferguson:

Why democracy will not catch on in the Arab world

Niall Ferguson – 1 Mar 2011

Today the world watches enthralled as the Arab world – from Morocco to Yemen – gropes its way towards… what? Two tyrants have been toppled and a third is teetering on the brink. The post-colonial order of feudal monarchs and military dictators is crumbling. But only a Prozac-addicted optimist would put money on the emergence of anything resembling Western-style democracy from the current revolutionary upheaval.

Where democracy has been tried in the Arab world, the results have thus far been dismal. Even full-scale military intervention by the United States, backed up with billions of dollars over nearly eight years, has created only the most fragile elected government in Iraq. Elsewhere, elections have increased rather than reduced the power of Islamist organisations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Just why have North Africa and the Middle East lagged so far behind other parts of the world in making the transition to democracy? Much of Asia (China is the big exception) has done it. So have most Latin American countries.

Mere HER i London Evening Standard.

Interview med Srdja Trifkovic

Interview: Trifkovic fights for free speech in Canada

By Boba Borojevic | Feb 28, 2011

Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, a scholar, author, and foreign affairs editor at Chronicles Magazine, was invited to speak at the University of British Columbia on February 24. His visit was vocally opposed by various Bosnian-Muslim lobbying groups, including one that calls itself the Institute for Research of Genocide of Canada.

Dr. Trifkovic was detained on arrival at Vancouver and some hours later sent back to the U.S. on the basis of apparently bogus accusations. The only people who have reason to “ban” him are those who seek, through lies, deceit and intimidation, to make our Canadian society less free and less open.  CKCU 93.1 FM Monday’s Encounter has contacted Dr. Trifkovic upon his return to Chicago in order to find out the reason behind his deportation from Canada.

Mere HER i Serbianna. Kan også læses her hos Free Republic.

Andre kilder: Ubyssey, Canada Free Press, Edmonton Journal,

Opdatering af kilder: Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Journal, The American Thinker, Toronto Sun,

Opdatering 7. marts 2011 fra The American Thinker - Robert Spencer har skrevet en artikel, hvori han tager afstand fra antisemitiske bemærkninger fremsat af Trifkovic. Spencer anerkender også, at  Trifkovic er Israel-støtte:

As for Srdja Trifkovic, I am aware of his pro-Israel activity, as well as his paradoxically antisemitic statements

Link HER.

Opdatering 13. marts 2011 – se også denne fra Vdare:

Trifkovic vs. Spencer: Another Neocon Purge by Paul Gottfried

Link her.

Opdatering 18. marts 2011 fra Chronicles Magazine:

Barred From Canada: An Update

March 17th, 2011 • by Srdja Trifkovic

On March 3 Ambassador James Bissett had a letter published in Alberta’s premier daily, the Edmonton Journal, taking issue with an “assistant adjunct” professor [sic!] at the University of Alberta who had voiced support for the cancellation of my lectures at UBC and UofA because of my “denial of genocide” at Srebrenica:

Mere HER i Chronicles Magazine

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.