A man in the southern Swedish city of Malmö was chased by an angry mob and beaten with iron bars for displaying an Israeli flag in his apartment window. The mob smashed the window where the flag had been visible. The victim narrowly escaped his attackers, and is now in the hospital with serious injuries.
In other news, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said that aggressive nationalism caused World War One, and is the greatest threat facing Europe today.
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Central Banks Ending Era of Clear Promises, Return to ‘Artful’ Policy
The world’s major central banks are returning to a more opaque and artful approach to policymaking.
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Green Shoots Pushing Up But Not in South Says Bank of Italy
Recovery by end of year in most parts
(ANSA) — Rome, July 7 — The green shoots of recovery are pushing through the ground in most of Italy but not in the poorer south, the Bank of Italy said Monday.
Recovery from Italy’s longest postwar recession should be evident in most parts “by the end of the year,” the central bank said, but the south would once again be left behind.
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Florida Mosque to Open Doors to Non-Muslims During Ramadan
MIAMI — A Florida mosque is welcoming non-Muslims to join in festivities during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
The Miami Herald reports Masjid AnNoor held a fifth annual open house to coincide with Ramadan…
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Local Muslim Population Observes ‘Americanized Ramadan’
The delighted, high-pitched screams of about two dozen children racing around the parking lot at the Muslims Community Center of South Dakota were a counterpoint to the boom of distant fireworks showering the night sky with color Friday…
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Muslims in Southwest Oklahoma Fast for Ramadan
LAWTON, Okla._Muslims everywhere are fasting for Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. From dusk until dawn, those who participate go without food and drinks, but it’s all done for a purpose.
One spiritual leader in Lawton said Ramadan is his favorite time of year, because it’s all about remembering to be compassionate, spiritually connected and giving back to those who need help…
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Nigerians in U. S. Protest Against Boko Haram
(AGI) Lagos, July 7 — Hundreds of Nigerians have protested in the United States recently as a mark of solidarity with the families of the girls kidnapped in Nigeria, and have asked the terrorist group holding them hostage to release them. Nigerians also asked for the U.S. to provide more support to the government in Abuja in it war against the extremist group. The event called unitedagainstbokoHaram: bringbackourgirls was organised in a number of cities, including Chicago, Dallas, Greenville SC, Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, Windsor Canada and Belmopan Belize.
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U.S. Uses Religious Freedom Act to Deny Visa to Bbs Chief Monk — Links Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
Colombo’ American Embassy revoking the Multiple Entry Visa to the United States given to the controversial Buddhist prelate who heads the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Sinhala-Buddhist agitation movement Venerable Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thero has used a little-known U.S. law passed in 1998 that makes foreign officials responsible for “severe violations of religious freedom” ineligible for visas, the ‘Asian Tribune’ has been made to understand.
Rajapaksa had close links to the BBS agitation movement which has been critical of Muslims in Sri Lanka.
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Regina Muslims Reach Out While Fasting
A time to purify body and soul
While most Reginans are catching their extra Zs on Saturday morning, thousands are setting their alarms for 3 a.m. After a prayer, they try to fall back asleep, nabbing the extra shut-eye necessary for conserving enough energy to push through the 18-hour fast to follow…
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Dovedale Roman and Iron Age Coins Found After 2,000 Years
A precious hoard of Roman and Late Iron Age coins has been discovered in a cave where it has lain undisturbed for more than 2,000 years.
The treasure trove was unearthed after a member of the public stumbled across four coins in the cave in Dovedale in Derbyshire’s Peak District.
The discovery prompted a full-scale excavation of the site. Experts say it is the first time coins from these two separate civilisations have been found buried together.
Archaeologists discovered 26 coins, including three Roman coins which pre-date the invasion of Britain in AD43, and 20 other gold and silver pieces which are Late Iron Age and thought to belong to the Corieltavi tribe.
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Eradicate Aggressive Nationalism, Says Italian President
(AGI) Monfalcone (Gorizia), July 6 — Aggressive nationalism must be eradicated, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said while opening a World War 1 exhibition in northern Italy. “WW1 has taught us the need to do so, and to start the process of integrating and uniting Europe,” the president added.
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Europe Uses Outreach Programs to Prevent Radicalization of Homegrown Islamic Youths
BERLIN (AP) — Chris Boudreau’s son Damian told her over dinner on a November evening in 2012 that he was going to Egypt to study Arabic, the language of Islam.
She never saw him again.
“He flew to Seattle, then Amsterdam, then into Istanbul,” said Boudreau. “There was a training camp just outside the city where radicals train prior to crossing the border into Syria.”…
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France: Ex-Femen Member Amina Attacked and ‘Shaved in Paris’
Young Tunisian jailed for two months in 2013
(ANSAmed) — PARIS, JULY 7 — Former Femen militant, Tunisia’s Amina Sboui, said she was attacked Sunday at dawn in a Parisian square by five people who “shaved her eyebrows and hair”.
Amina denounced the aggression on her Facebook page where she posted a selfie a few hours after the alleged attack. The woman said five people attacked her at around 5 am Sunday in the Clichy station, in Pigalle: “they shaved my eyebrows and hair, telling me I don’t deserve the beauty Allah gave me, they called me a whore and told me they would raped me and would be thanked by Allah for it!”.
A former militant of Tunisian Femen, an international women’s movement famous for its topless protesters, was jailed for two months and a half in 2013 in Tunisia for writing the word Femen on the wall of the Kairouan cemetery in Tunisia. Once released, she left the movement calling it “Islamophobic”.
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Germany to Charge Foreign Motorists for Autobahn Use
Germany has announced plans to tax the millions of foreign motorists who use its roads, including the famous autobahn highway, from 2016 onwards.
Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said the levy should raise 2.5bn euros (£1.98bn) over four years.
Vehicles will be issued with badges, costing between 10 euros for 10 days and about 100 euros for a year-long permit.
Critics of the planned toll say it violates EU anti-discrimination laws.
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Hollande Champions EU Flexibility
(AGI) Paris, July 7 — The French president, Francois Hollande believes that the European Union should be flexible toward member states that are implementing reforms. “Each country, France included, must respect its commitments, but we must use all margins and show every flexibility to those who are implementing reforms”, said Hollande.
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Italy: Interior Minister Firmly Condemns ‘Ndrangheta Rituals
(AGI) Rome, July 6 — Interior Minister Angelino Alfano described as “disgraceful and disgusting” the episode that took place in Oppido Mamertina, where, during a procession, the statue of the Virgin Mary was stopped just outside an ‘Ndrangheta mob boss’ house. “The struggle against all organised crime must also be pursued through a certain behaviour, opposing the ancient servitude shown by those who pay homage to the mafia, and also by steering clear of the disgraceful and disgusting rituals of those who decide to accept such violence”.
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Merkel Describes Latest Allegations of US Spying on Germany as “Serious”
Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed concern about reports that a German intelligence officer worked as a double agent for the United States. Bilateral ties had already been strained by reports of snooping by the NSA.
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Netherlands: Mayors Meet to Discuss Returning Jihadists
The mayors of eight Dutch cities and three of their Belgian colleagues will meet the head of the Dutch counter-terrorism service on Tuesday to discuss how to deal with Jihadists returning to Europe.
According to the AD, among those present will be the mayors of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Delft, Leiden and Antwerp.
They will meet at a secret location with Dick Schoof, head of the counter-terrorism service to discuss how to deal with young nationals who have returned from fighting in Syria, the AD reports.
The Dutch security service AIVD estimates that 750 Jihadists have already returned to Europe. AIVD chief Rob Bertholee told the paper it is of vital importance that every EU country remains vigilant because of the open borders.
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Norway: Horatio Chapple Death: Polar Bear ‘Dragged Boy From Tent’
The leader of an Arctic expedition in which a polar bear ripped an Eton schoolboy from his tent and mauled him to death has admitted failings.
Horatio Chapple, 17, from Salisbury, died on an expedition to Svalbard, Norway, in August 2011, organised by the British Schools Exploring Society.
Richard Payne told an inquest into the death there were “deficiencies and failures” with their equipment.
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Portugal: Jihadist Suspect Arrested in Lisbon Airport
(ANSAmed) — LISBON, JULY 7 — A Dutch youth, suspected of being a member of a jihadist group, was arrested at Lisbon’s international airport after he had boarded a flight operated by Taag airline bound for Angola, police said Monday.
The 29-year-old of Angolan origin had a knife on him when detained. The arrest occurred last Thursday but security officials only spoke about the case to the media on Monday. The man told Portuguese authorities he had spent time in a jihadist training camp in Syria.
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Russians ‘Hid Arms Caches Around Britain’
An intelligence archive made public today contains records of weapons caches hidden around cities across Europe and new details of Melita Norwood, the British woman considered the KGB’s most important female spy
Booby-trapped caches of weapons are probably still hidden around Britain after being concealed during the Cold War by Soviet agents preparing for conflict, a leading historian has said.
Details of how clandestine stockpiles of small arms and communications gear were hidden across Europe are disclosed in a KGB intelligence archive made public for the first time on Monday…
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Scotland: Aberdeen Jihadist Insists He Wasn’t Radicalised at City Mosque
AN ABERDEEN man who appeared on an Islamic militant video today insisted he wasn’t radicalised at a city mosque.
Abdul Raqib Amin has spoken publicly for the first time since appearing in the Isis video, which sent shockwaves round the the UK.
Amin, who grew up in Froghall and attended St Machar Academy, said his fellow Muslims at the Aberdeen Mosque and Islamic Centre don’t share his views. He told ITV’s Good Morning Britain show: “In the Aberdeen mosque there is not one person with the same mentality as me. I did not learn my Jihad from the Aberdeen mosque, I learned that through my own on the internet or whatever.”…
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Sweden: Man Beaten, Chased in Malmö for Hanging Israeli Flag
A 38 year-old man was assaulted in Malmö, Sweden, on Sunday — for the sole crime of hanging an Israeli flag in his window. The assailants broke the man’s window first, prompting him to seek the perpetrators, police said.
“After that the man went out onto the street to see what was going on. Then he was attacked and it was on the basis of the flag. That is the information we have at present,” police told the TT news agency Monday.
They added that ten people chased the man from his building, wielding iron pipes. He managed to narrowly escape his attackers and was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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Sweden: Man Beaten With Iron for Flying Israeli Flag
A 38-year-old man in southern Sweden was assaulted on Sunday night after hanging an Israeli flag from his window, with police suspecting it is a hate crime.
The incident occurred in Seved, Malmö, shortly before midnight on Sunday when the man displayed an Israeli flag from his window, sources to newspaper Sydsvenskan said. The man reportedly exchanged words with men on the street after hanging the flag, and left his apartment.
Before the assault the man’s window had been smashed where the flag of Israel had been hung.
Police said he was then assaulted by around ten people with iron pipes and chased from the building. The man managed to escape his attackers and was found by police on a nearby street. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
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Swedish Woman Raped in Laundry Room
A woman in northern Stockholm was raped on Sunday evening by a masked and armed man hiding in the building’s laundry room.
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UK to Probe Alleged Paedophile Conspiracy by Politicians in 1980s
Britain pledged on Monday to investigate allegations that politicians may have sexually abused children in the 1970s and 1980s and then used their positions to scuttle attempts to expose their crimes.
Claims of a high-level conspiracy to abuse children in the care of the state have roiled the political establishment after the unmasking of once-feted celebrities such as late television presenter Jimmy Savile as prolific child abusers.
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UK: ‘Trojan Horse’ Plot School Pays Campaigner £5,000 in Public Money to Thwart Ofsted
Oldknow Academy made the payment to Pauline Geoghegan, spokesman for the supposedly independent Hands Off Birmingham Schools campaign
The key players behind the “Trojan Horse” plot in Birmingham schools will “still be here next year”, one of them has said, after the schools spent more than £100,000 of public money fighting their removal.
Staff at Oldknow Academy told The Sunday Telegraph that Jahangir Akbar, the acting head, told them the Government “is just blowing smoke” over the affair and “after a few months we’ll be OK, we can carry on as normal”…
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UK: 7/7 Anniversary Message to Young Leeds Muslims: ‘You Have No Place in Unholy Foreign Wars’
Exactly nine years after the 7/7 bombings, community leaders in Leeds today said everything possible is being done to discourage the city’s young Muslims from going to fight abroad.
Concern has grown that British Muslims are leaving the country in numbers to take part in conflicts in Syria and Iraq…
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Boris Johnson today vowed that London will “never give in” to terrorists who seek to divide its people — hours after vandals carried out a graffiti attack on the 7/7 memorial in Hyde Park.
It was defaced with red and black slogans before survivors and families of victims gathered to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the attacks. The stainless steel columns — one for each of the 52 people killed — were daubed with stencilled messages saying “4 Innocent Muslims”, “Blair Lied Thousands Died” and “J7 Truth”.
An 18ft bronze statue of Achilles, another memorial in the park, was also defaced with “MI5 did 7/7”…
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Air passengers are facing extra delays at departure gates across the UK as security staff carry out heightened checks amid fears that Islamist groups are working on an undetectable ‘stealth bomb’ which could bring down an airliner.
It is feared Islamist groups may be putting together a ‘non-metallic’ device, which could potentially be surgically-implanted inside a terrorist’s body and be almost invisible to current security checks.
Concerns are growing over the ‘new generation bombs’ — possibly being developed by Syrian and Yemeni terrorists — which could slip past conventional detectors and may already have been tested by militants in war-torn Syria.
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UK: Nine Years on From 7/7 and We’re Still in Thrall to Radical Islam
by Raheem Kassam
There are so many reasons cited for UKIP’s successes at the European Elections this month — none greater to my mind than that the British political establishment has continued with its “business as usual” attitude in the face of almost every major scandal or crisis since Profumo.
So it is therefore completely understandable that since the July 7th bombings in London in 2005, not a whole lot has changed about our approach to Islamism…
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UK: Soviets Thought Cambridge Spies Were Drunks: Archive
LONDON: Members of the “Cambridge Five” ring of spies were regarded by their Soviet minders as hopeless drunks who could not keep secrets, espionage files released Monday showed.
Details on the five men recruited while studying at the University of Cambridge during the 1930s, including Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess, have been released to the public for the first time.
The documents from the Mitrokhin Archive were unveiled by the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge, eastern England, after 20 years stored in a secret location…
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The 16-year-olds slipped out of their beds in the middle of the night as their parents slept and flew from Manchester Airport to Turkey
Twin teenage sisters who have gone missing from their Manchester home are feared to have travelled to Syria to join Islamist terror networks. The 16-year-olds slipped out of their beds in the middle of the night as their parents slept and flew from Manchester Airport to Istanbul in Turkey…
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Relatives of those killed in the July 7 bombings joined survivors for an emotional ceremony to remember the 52 people who died nine years ago today.
A minute’s silence was held at the 7/7 memorial in London’s Hyde Park this lunchtime before the name of each of those killed in the terror attacks was read out.
More than 150 people attended the service and sent a defiant message to the vandals who defaced the memorial in the early of hours of this morning.
The memorial’s stainless steel columns had been daubed with red and black slogans overnight with the messages ‘4Innocent Muslims’
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Westminster Paedophile Scandal Will Destroy the Credibility of the British Establishment
The worst thing, no, the second worst thing about the paedophile and sex abuse scandal that is currently engulfing Westminster is that it isn’t news to most people who have worked in and around Parliament for even a few years.
Most people not only know that it has been going on for decades in Britain, and continues to go on across the upper echelons of public life, but also many of the names regularly rumoured to be involved…
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Algeria: Racism Looming Over Mozabite Minority
Berber group protesting against Arab violence in south
(ANSAmed) — ROME, JULY 7- Mozabite people, a Berber ethnic group, were the absolute majority — politically, socially and economically strong — in a number of important southern Algerian provinces until independence from France.
That golden age is over for this proud population of Berbers, as proven by the language they talk. Now, with pride and outrage, they are taking to the streets to ask central authorities in Algiers to end a wave of violence over the past ten months, which the minority is convinced is racially-motivated.
In Algiers, in front of the press house, as well as in other Algerian provinces, dozens of community members have protested to recall to Premier Sellal his government’s many broken promises.
The situation has turned more violent at the end of last year, when clashes between Mozabite and Chamba Arab factions have become more frequent and more violent. Over the past five decades, the community has boosted its presence in provinces once inhabited almost exclusively by the Mozabite minority, which now feels in danger.
When night falls, the communities’ different neighbourhoods are guarded by groups of youths who are ready to signal the arrival of “enemies” who often vandalise and ransack homes and stores.
The last protest of the Mozabite community followed the murder last Friday of a 19-year-old who was reportedly killed because he rode his motorcycle through Ghardaia, a forbidden district for the minority. Yassa’s death, according to his community, brought the number of victims attacked by Arabs to nine.
Mozabite people also claim their traditional districts are increasingly surrounded as housing for the Champa population is being built around them.
They are demanding more protection for their community and their places of worship, including a number of mausoleums, which have been destroyed. And the tension between the two sides is also strong on web forums, where tones are harsh and racism looms.
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Egypt’s El-Sisi Asks Egyptians to ‘Work With Him’ As Energy Prices Increase
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi asked Egyptians to support a recent decision to raise petrol prices, saying it would have been politically wise not to roll back energy subsidies now but that the economic need is too urgent.
“It would have been easy not to raise the prices now to keep my popularity, but then I would have betrayed your trust in saving the country,” El-Sisi said in a recorded speech aired on state TV Monday evening.
He insisted that he has been honest from the beginning of his presidential campaign months ago, when he said that fixing Egypt’s economy would not be easy and that it would take at least two years of hard work.
On Friday, the Egyptian government raised the prices of fuel and electricity, a move that some economists say is a necessary step towards rolling back costly subsidies but that has sparked outrage from segments of the population, especially microbus and taxi drivers.
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As Arabs Riot Across Israel, Swastika Flag Seen Hoisted Above Palestinian Town
As dozens of Gaza rockets were launched into Israel on Sunday and Arabs rioted across the country, partially in response to the slaying of an Arab teen allegedly by Jewish extremists, a Nazi flag bearing a large black swastika was seen waving above the Palestinian village of Beit Ummar…
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s Future in Doubt as Coalition Partner Ends Arrangement
The Israeli prime minister’s close associates fear he could be brought down as Avigdor Lieberman, his foreign minister, prepares to end a formal pact
Benjamin Netanyahu faced an urgent threat to his political future on Monday after his most powerful ally announced he was ending their political partnership over a row on how to respond to rocket attacks from Gaza.
Avigdor Lieberman, the combative Israeli foreign minister, decided to dissolve the pact that had existed between his own Yisrael Beiteinu party and the prime minister’s Likud party for the past two years, local media reported…
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Gaza Rocket Fire Goes Further in Israel
JERUSALEM, July 7 (Xinhua) — Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Monday morning extended the range of rocket fire on southern Israel to the city of Beersheba.
For the second time in three days, a Grad rocket was fired at southern Israel’s largest city, located some 50 km from the Palestinian enclave, the military said. The projectile exploded in an open area on the outskirts of the city, causing no injuries or damage…
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Gaza Rocket Fire Continues, Hamas Claims Responsibility
Sirens sound in central Israel, more than 85 rockets fired since midnight; one person lightly wounded in Ashdod; IDF to call up 1,500 reserve soldiers; Hamas threatens to avenge deaths of its members.
Shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet decided Monday to escalate attacks against Hamas and the Gaza Strip, militants in the coastal territory fired a barrage of some 35 rockets at Israel.
Sirens rang across the south as well as in central Israel and the Jerusalem area, for the first time since the recent round of escalation began. More than 85 rockets have been launched over the course of Monday…
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
Hamas prevented local journalists from covering the ISIS rally in the Gaza Strip last month as part of its effort to deny the existence of ISIS in the Gaza Strip. But Hamas seems to be trying to cover the sun with one finger.
The Gaza Strip is no longer only a threat to Israel, but also to Egypt. The only way to confront this threat is through security cooperation between Israel and Egypt.
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Israel Under Fire: Gaza Rockets Target Ashkelon, Ashdod, Sirens Heard Across Country
Gaza-based terrorists escalated their rocket attacks on Israel late on Monday launching a salvo of rockets into Israeli cities and towns.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, more than 30 rockets were fired and struck major cities Ashdod and Ashkelon, four were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system and 16 landed in open areas near Beersheba. According to Israeli media reports, more that 70 projectiles were fired at Israel…
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Israeli Suspects Confess to Killing of Palestinian Teen
JERUSALEM, July 7 (Xinhua) — Three of the Jewish suspects accused of killing a Palestinian teen admitted their criminal actions, and was demanded to reenact the murder scene, Israeli police announced on Monday…
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Netanyahu Condemns ‘Abhorrent’ Killing of Palestinian Teen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued to face challenges on multiple fronts Monday as rocket fire from Gaza continued and tension between Jews and Arabs remained high the day after the arrest of six Jewish extremists suspected of killing a Palestinian teenager.
Netanyahu called Hussein Abu Khdeir on Monday to express condolences for the loss of his 16-year-old son, Mohammed, who was abducted, beaten and burned to death last Wednesday in an apparent act of vengeance for the recent slaying of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank.
“I would like to express my outrage and that of the citizens of Israel over the reprehensible murder of your son,” the prime minister reportedly told the father, vowing the killers would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. “The murder of your son is abhorrent and cannot be countenanced by any human being,” Netanyahu said.
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Waiting in Vain: Palestinian vs Israeli Responses to Violence
by Phyllis Chesler
One waits for an outpouring of condolences for the kidnapping-murders of the three Israeli teenagers, one of whom was also an American citizen. Especially, one waits for such statements from the most ardent supporters of a Palestinian state in the disputed territories.
One waits in vain.
However, as soon as the news of a kidnapping and murder of an Arab teenager, European, American, and Israeli Jews rushed to express outrage, grief, and to condemn, in advance, any Jew or Jews who might have committed this heinous act. The Guardian focused on the awful murder of Mohammed Abu Khedeir and on the police beating of his Palestinian-American cousin who participated in a riot against the police and/or the IDF. The kidnap-murder of the three Israeli teenagers was mentioned in passing as having incited “racist” outbreaks among the Israeli Jews.
The Guardian writes: “Tensions have risen after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped on 12 June and later found dead in the occupied West Bank. That has been followed by an outbreak of racist incitement on Israeli social media sites, street attacks and Khdeir’s murder, a suspected revenge attack.”…
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Aberdeen ISIS Man Abdul Rakib Amin ‘Willing to Die’
The Aberdeen man who appeared in a recruitment video for the Islamic militant group Isis has said he is prepared to die for what he believes. Abdul Rakib Amin, who is believed to be 26, was seen urging western Muslims to join the fighting in the jihadi film.
Amin said: “I left the UK to fight for the sake of Allah to give everything I have for the sake of Allah. “One of the happiest moments in my life was when the plane took off from Gatwick Airport, I was so happy, as a Muslim you cannot live in the country of Kuffars (disbelievers).
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Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Ridiculed for Flashy Wristwatch
The emergence of the highly-secretive Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from the shadow of Iraq’s sectarian crisis put a face to the threat of a global Islamic caliphate.
The Islamic State leader spoke publicly for the first time at Mosul’s Great Mosque of Friday, an intervention in which he called on the world’s Muslims to “obey” him as “the leader who presides over you”.
But the self-anointed ‘Caliph Ibrahim’ also brought a touch of branding into the bloody conflict, with many who have seen the 20-minute sermon commenting on his bulky and expensive wristwatch.
Appearing in black robes and a turban in an attempt to evoke memories of the last Caliphs to rule from Baghdad, the jihadist broke with the tradition to sport an ill-fitting chrome watch with a dark face.
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A series of images have emerged which show the destruction of almost a dozen ancient shrines and Shia mosques in Isis-controlled territory in western Iraq.
The photographs, which show the destruction in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and the town of Tal Afar, were posted on a website which frequently carries official statements from the Islamic State extremist group.
Some of the photos show bulldozers plowing through walls, while others show buildings being demolished by explosives in a cloud of smoke and rubble…
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by Robert Spencer
The New York Post quoted a Muslim calling the caliph a hypocrite: “Why does the ‘Caliph’ wear a fancy watch if the possessions of this life ultimately mean nothing?”
Religion was a means for Mohammed to rob people. It’s not that different from what Al-Bagdadi is doing.
Islam, as I have said before, is innately a gang religion. Its faith is in its ability to steal from others.
Now Islam is right back where it started. Where it always comes back to. Warlords looting cities and showing off their booty.
This is the real Islam.
Al-Bagdadi and his stolen Rolex are true heirs of Mohammed, the bandit prophet.
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Government Troops Advance in Syria’s Largest City
Syrian troops advanced in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Monday in what appears to be an attempt to lay siege to rebel-held parts of the country’s largest city, activist said Monday…
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ISIS is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq
Iraqi antiquities officials are calling on the Obama administration to save Nineveh and other sites around jihadist-occupied Mosul. But are drone strikes really the answer?
Indeed, museum curators and staff were no better prepared than any other part of the Iraqi government. They could have learned from al-Baghdadi’s operations in neighboring Syria that a major source of revenue for his insurgency has been the sale of looted antiquities on the black market. As reported in The Guardian, a windfall of intelligence just before Mosul fell revealed that al-Baghdadi had accumulated a $2 billion war chest, in part by selling off ancient artifacts from captured Syrian sites.
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Senior Army Officer Killed in Mortar Barrage in Iraq
BAGHDAD, July 7 (Xinhua) — A senior Iraqi army officer was killed in mortar barrage in west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a security spokesman said on Monday.
Major General Najim Abdullah, commander of the army’s 6th division, was fatally wounded by mortar barrage during a tour on the security forces in east of the town of Garma near the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan told a news conference in Baghdad…
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Shariah Threat Analysis: The Establishment of a ‘Caliphate’
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has announced a new caliphate and formally declared the creation of an Islamic state in the territory under its control. Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow Stephen Coughlin lays out the theological basis ISIS uses to justify the establishment of a Caliphate.
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Top 5 World Muslim Leaders Who Staunchly Reject ISIS Caliphate
Muslim leaders, preachers and scholars from across the Sunni regions and the rest of the world have rejected the caliphate state declared recently by Sunni militant group Islamic State, previously known as ISIS or ISIL.
The al-Quada breakaway group declared a vast area in the Northern part of Iraq as well as some part of Syria as their new caliphate and appointed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as their caliph or leader — an event that sought to restore the age-old caliphate system, which the historians thought had been forgotten after the fall of Ottoman Empire more than 100 years ago.
There were similar concerns raised by Qatar-based Egyptian Muslim leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has remarked that the so-called caliphate was “void”, according to religious laws.
“A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate,” al-Qaradawi said in an open letter published by the website for the International Union of Muslim Scholars, of which he is the head.
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Soviet Defector’s Trove of KGB Secrets Released
The papers spent years hidden in a milk churn beneath a Russian dacha and read like an encyclopedia of Cold War espionage.
Original documents from one of the biggest intelligence leaks in history — a who’s who of Soviet spying — were released Monday after being held in secret for two decades.
The files smuggled out of Russia in 1992 by senior KGB official Vasili Mitrokhin describe sabotage plots, booby-trapped weapons caches and armies of agents under cover in the West.
Intelligence historian Christopher Andrew said the vast dossier, released by the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge University, was considered “the most important single intelligence source ever” by British and American authorities.
Mitrokhin was a senior archivist at the KGB’s foreign intelligence headquarters — and a secret dissident.
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Steinmeier Asks Ukraine, Separatists to Hold Fire as Battle for Donetsk Continues
Germany’s foreign minister has called for a ceasefire in Ukraine. A goverment onslaught that began over the weekend continues to retake territory from separatists.
Government forces claim to now have control of Slovyansk and nearby Kramatorsk, both located in the Donetsk region. The two cities have populations of fewer than 200,000 people. The conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 500 people and displaced tens of thousands across the economically vital east.
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Ukraine Crisis: Bridges Destroyed Outside Donetsk
Three bridges have been destroyed on roads leading into the city of Donetsk on Monday ahead of an expected offensive from government forces.
It was unclear who was behind the explosions but Ukrainian media said the bridges were blown up by rebels as Ukraine’s military advanced.
Separatist fighters driven out of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk at the weekend have regrouped in Donetsk.
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Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze Dies, Aged 86
The former Soviet minister of foreign affairs and president of an independent Georgia, Eduard Shevardnaze, has died. He had a political career spanning some 60 years.
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Afghanistan Election: Ashraf Ghani Declared Winner of Preliminary Count
Rival presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah forces investigation into 7,000 polling stations after claims of ballot-box stuffing
Ashraf Ghani emerged as the likely winner of Afghanistan’s presidential election according to preliminary results on Monday, in a vote marred by allegations of mass fraud and rejected by his rival in the contest to replace Hamid Karzai…
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Court: Islamic Law Holds No Legal Sway in India
Islamic courts have no legal authority in India, the country’s Supreme Court ruled Monday, saying Muslims cannot be legally subject to a parallel religious authority.
Individuals may abide by Shariah court rulings if they wish, but cannot be legally forced to do so, Judge C. K. Prasad said.
“No religion is allowed to curb anyone’s fundamental rights,” he told the court, giving the decision of a two-judge bench. Indian law does not recognize Shariah court rulings, he said.
The court was responding to a petition filed in 2005 by a lawyer who said the Shariah courts should be disbanded for running a parallel judicial system in a country with 150 million Muslims among its 1.2 billion population.
Islamic courts wielded considerable influence in Muslim-dominated areas, and people often felt powerless to oppose their rulings, the petitioner Vishwa Lochan Madan argued.
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Indonesia: Christian Leaders: Religious Freedom at Risk if Subianto Wins Presidential Elections
Concerns over the political manifesto of the former general’s Gerindra Party, that would pave the way for state interference in religion. The government “obliged” to verify the application of religious freedom. Minorities at risk, particularly Ahmadis, Shias, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons. Subianto also supported by radical Islamist wing.
Jakarta (AsiaNews) — A few days before the vote in the presidential elections in Indonesia, scheduled on July 9, Christian leaders — Catholics and Protestants — are concerned by the possible “totalitarian” interference of the state should former general Subianto win. The main contenders are the couple formed by the governor of Jakarta Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Deputy Jusuf Kalla, former number two of the current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s first term, and the Gen. Prabowo Subianto and vice-Hatta Radjasa.
Polls put the first pair slightly ahead, but the game is open and could go down to the last vote. Concerns are being raised by the “Manifesto” of the former general’s Gerindra Party, published last April. It contains two “sensitive” and “controversial” elements linked to a “state power” to ban “illegal” religious teachings that conflict with “common sense” and the “official” language of religions recognized by the state.
The alarm is being raised by people such as the Jesuit professor and academic Fr. Franz Magnis-Suseno and the chairman of the Indonesian Christian Synod Rev. Andreas Yewangoe. The political manifesto of the Gerindra Party states in principle that “the state guarantees freedom of religion,” but the government is “politically and socially obligated to see how this freedom is put into practise”. And it is always the responsibility of the executive and of the state institutions “to ensure the purity of the recognized religions” in an official capacity — Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Kong Hu Cu / Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism — from any “aspect of heresy or blasphemy”.
Fr. Magnis-Suseno has strongly criticized the guidelines set out by the presidential candidate and his party. He also sounded the alarm about the intrusion of the state into a personal and delicate sphere like religion and the free practice of worship. The German-born Jesuit is also alarmed by extremist and pro-Islamic parties’ support for coalition led by Subianto, which makes a possible state intervention in matters of faith even more disturbing.
The hypothetical Subitanto administration would have the power to suppress all religious minorities who are not in line with the “official groups,” including the Ahmadi Muslim sect already the subject of persecution in Indonesia, the Shiites, and among Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons.
The Jesuit priest, who last year had criticized the awarding of a pro human rights prize to President Yudhoyono, says these proposed norms are in direct opposition to the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution, the founding principles of the State that guarantee and protect religious freedom.
Among the most controversial figures who support the Subianto candidacy is the current Minister for Religious Affairs and leader of the United Development Party Suryadharma Ali, who in recent years has repeatedly expressed opinions hostile to Ahmadis and other smaller communities. Then there are the Islamists of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) known to support an extreme view of Islam and with links to the Arab world, such as promoting the veil for women and beards for men.
His concern is shared by Reverend Andreas Yewangoe, president of the Christian Synod of Indonesia (PGI), who has roundly condemned Gerindra’s political manifesto because “it is not the duty of the State to control the ‘purity’ of a religion”. He does not even spare criticism for the outgoing administration of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who has done nothing to stop discrimination or persecution against Ahmadis, Shias and other minorities.
Indonesia is the most populous Muslim nation in the world. Catholics are a small minority of about seven million people, or 3 per cent of the population. In the Archdiocese of Jakarta, the faithful reach 3.6 per cent of the population. Although the constitution recognises religious freedom, Catholics have been the victims of violence and abuse, especially in areas where extremist visions of Islam are entrenched, like Aceh.
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A British self-proclaimed freedom fighter accused of illegally marrying up to 12 women in Europe and Asia is being investigated by Malaysian Special Branch officers, it was revealed today.
Police have named the traveller as Robert Andrew Scott, but say he also uses the Muslim name Jamaluddin Mustafa and is usually seen in Islamic robes.
Now understood to be living on the Malaysian island of Penang, 43-year-old Scott has been accused by women who have come forward to the police of duping his wives into caring for him, taking their money, then moving on to another woman…
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Pakistani Parents Forced to Send Children to Madrassas
Schools providing a modern education in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and tribal areas struggle to survive as Islamist trusts running madrassas force parents to send their children to religious schools.
Haji Nadir Khan surveys the ruins of a state school in Pakistan’s north-western Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
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Japan Gearing Up for First Military Export Deal in Decades — Report
Tokyo is likely to approve its first military export deal in decades, Nikkei business daily reported. Japanese-made sensors will be installed on American PAC-2 missile defense systems, to be further re-exported to Qatar.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries produces high-performance, infrared seeker-tracker sensors, the key component of missiles in the Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) air defense system, under license from US arms manufacturer Raytheon. Japan has been making the sensors for its own defense force.
Japan’s government in April relaxed its arms export rules, enabling exports of military technology for the first time since 1967. Now such deals are fully legal and only require government approval.
Raytheon’s problem is that its production capacities are already engaged in making updated sensors for the next-generation Pac-3 missile interceptor system. To satisfy the Qatari order, Raytheon opted to delegate the sensors production to Japan’s Mitsubishi, Nikkei reported.
Though international agreements prohibit the export of military technologies to countries engaged in military conflicts, Tokyo and Washington might have come to the conclusion that delivering PAC-2 complexes to Qatar would not affect any other country.
Yet there have been reports that Qatar, an American ally and home to the US Al-Udeid Air Base, has been actively participating in a number of conflicts in recent years, such as ousting Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi in 2011 and the ongoing civil war in Syria.
After decades of taking a pacifist stance, fixed in Japan’s post-WWII constitution, and an absolute ban on the trade of defense equipment and technologies, the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expanding the country’s defense industry, enabling its participation in international weapons development programs and easing rules of military exports products to ensure industrial growth.
The three new principles of military technology export from Japan are internationally recognized and will include the transparency of arms deals, securely screening to prevent possible transfer of Japanese equipment to third parties and no weapons exports to countries involved in conflicts and regimes under UN resolutions, PM Shinzo Abe’s government assured in April.
The arms trade will also be accompanied by annual reports and full disclosure of information on all deals.
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Ebola Outbreak: Ghana Tests US Man
A US citizen is being tested for the Ebola virus in Ghana, which has had no confirmed cases of the virus in the current West African outbreak.
The man has been quarantined at the private Nyaho Clinic in the capital, Accra, health officials say.
The virus has so far killed more than 460 people since it broke out in Guinea in February and spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Nigerian Women and Girls Escape Boko Haram Captors
Nigerian security officials have confirmed that 63 women and girls abducted by Islamist extremists two weeks ago have escaped. The group is still holding more than 200 schoolgirls seized in April.
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Brazil: Imperiled Amazon Indians Make 1st Contact With Outsiders
Indigenous people with no prior contact to the outside world have just emerged from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and made contact with a group of settled Indians, after being spotted migrating to evade illegal loggers, advocates say.
The news, which was released yesterday (July 2), comes after sightings of the uncontacted Indians in Brazil near the border with Peru, according to the group Survival International. Officials with the organization had warned last month that the isolated tribes face threats of disease and violence as they moved into new territory and possibly encountered other people.
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Australia Sends Asylum Seekers Back to Sri Lanka
The Australian government has confirmed it has returned a boatload of refugees to Sri Lanka, outraging human rights groups. The asylum seekers include Tamils, who fear reprisals at home.
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Boat Lands 100 Immigrants in Sicily
(AGI) Ragusa, July 7 — A boat landed 100 immigrants in Sicily on Sunday night. It dropped the refugees, including women and children, at Ispica, Ragusa, and escaped out to sea. Police began searches to round up all those who landed.
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Italian Ships Rescue 2,600 Immigrants Off Sicily
(AGI) Palermo, July 7 — More than 2,600 immigrants were rescued over the weekend in the Strait of Sicily, as part of Italy’s “Mare Nostrum” operation. Navy corvette the Fenice picked up 447 refugees, then another 161, including six children, before heading to the port of Trapani in Sicily. Coastal patrol boat CP 906 is also heading to the port with 122 people, while the tanker Etna has picked up 200.
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Italy’s Immigrant Population Triples Over a Decade
Needs ‘more local and state coordination’ for integration
(ANSA) — Rome, July 7 — Italy has the highest immigrant population growth among 57 North America, Europe and Asia states and it needs ‘more coordination’ for immigrant integration, a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced on Monday in Rome.
Italy registered nearly triple the number of immigrants from 2001 to 2011, at 9% of the overall population making the country the leader, along with Spain, in immigrant growth.
The OECD report cited Italy as needing “better defined and more efficient coordination for integration policies between local and sub-national levels”, calling the areas of anti-discrimination measures, language training and job market as “less developed” due to an increase in immigration numbers and “lack of coordination” at national, regional and local levels. According to the report, between 2011 and 2012, immigrants totaled 4.5 million people. More than half of immigrants to Italy came from Albania, Romania,and the Yugosphere, initially for employment and then family unification and humanitarian reasons.
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Malmstrom Denies Brussels ‘Abandoning’ Italy on Immigration
Internal Affairs Commissioner concedes EU could do more to help
(ANSA) Brussels, July 7 — EU Internal Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom denied Monday that Brussels has abandoned Italy to tackle illegal immigration alone but conceded that other member states can do more to help.
“It is unfair to say Europe has abandoned Italy … certainly not the European Commission,” she said, adding however that “member states could do more” to help Rome cope with the flow of tens of thousands of immgrants from north Africa to Sicily each year.
Malmstrom called for “discussion” on the immigration drama at the informal meeting of EU interior and justice ministers being held in Milan Tuesday and Wednesday.
Italy, she recalled, received from the EU in the past some 500 million euros for immigration relief while from this year until 2020 Italy “will be the largest recipient of funds” from Brussels for immigration policies.
In addition to a commitment to reinforce the Frontex European customs guard operation and efforts to support the Italian Navy’s Operation Nostrum “we are appealing to other member states to share” the burden of hosting refugees and “we are also involved with third countries” to cooperate in trying to manage immigration, she said.
The EU ministers’ meeting will help other countries to “have a clearer idea” of Italy’s needs and “what sort of assistance Italy expects,” she said.
“We know the enormous pressure Italy is subject to” and are aware of the “formidable work that Italy does every night to save lives,” she said while presenting the report for 2013 of the European office for supporting political asylum.
Malmstrom added that “we have had information from some member states that Italy and other countries are not meeting fully the obligations on finger prints” of immigrants who ask for political asylum.
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Morocco: 20 Injured as Migrants Fight Near Spain Border
Fighting between African migrants in Morocco near the Spanish enclave of Melilla left at least 20 people injured on Sunday, local authorities said.
Melilla is one of two Spanish-held cities on the northern coast of Africa, along with Ceuta to the east. The number of Africans trying to cross into them has surged over recent months.
On May 28th, about 500 African migrants climbed over the seven-metre (23-foot) triple-layer border fence into Melilla — one of the biggest breaches in nearly a decade.
In February, 15 migrants are believed to have drowned in Moroccan waters while trying to swim to Ceuta from a nearby beach.
Spain has asked for more money from the European Union to secure its borders. Officials say the immigrant reception centre in Melilla is highly overcrowded.
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Netherlands: Asylum Seekers May Have to Live on Boats or in Tents: Minister
Asylum seekers will soon have to be housed on boats or in tents, junior justice minister Fred Teeven told tv news programme Nieuwsuur on Sunday evening.
‘There is enormous pressure,’ Teeven told the programme. ‘We have asked local councils to work more quickly in supplying places to live for asylum seekers but it is not going quickly enough.’
Six weeks ago, the minister said the number of asylum seekers reaching the Netherlands had gone up from 1,000 a month to 1,000 a week. Refugee centres which had been closed are being reopened and former prisons brought into service to cope with the influx.
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UK: Multiculturalism in Reverse as Teenagers Buck the Trend Towards Integration
Decades of efforts to promote multiculturalism have gone into reverse, major new research showing teenagers are no more likely to mix with people from other racial backgrounds than those 40 years older suggests.
The study, which analyses the social lives of almost 4,300 people from 13 to 80, shows that a clear trend towards each successive generation becoming more integrated than the one before breaks down when it comes to under-18s.
Despite growing up in more diverse society than ever before at a time when mass migration has transformed the make-up of Britain, today’s teenagers have almost 30 per cent fewer friends from other ethnic backgrounds than people in their 20s and early 30s.
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UK: Assisted Dying Transforms Doctors Into Killers
by Melanie Phillips
Lord Falconer’s draft law, which would allow the terminally ill to die, ushers in a new dark age
The House of Lords will shortly give a second reading to Lord Falconer of Thoroton’s assisted dying bill, which would allow doctors to help terminally ill patients to commit suicide if their life-expectancy is less than six months.
Attempts over the years to legalise “mercy killings” have all failed. Now opposition is softening, in part because of the way campaigners have manipulated the language in order to reframe the debate.
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IOC Leaves Three Remaining Bidders for 2022 Winter Games on Short List
The IOC has announced that all three cities bidding to host the 2022 Winter Games have been retained on the short list. The decision on which city will get the nod is to be announced in a year’s time.
“The IOC Executive board has selected the cities of Oslo, Almaty and Beijing as candidate cities for the Olympic Winter Games 2022,” IOC President Thomas Bach (pictured above) told a news conference in the Swiss city of Lausanne.
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Ramadan Rage: How Crime Increases During the Muslim Holy Month
The Holy Month of Ramadan is upon us. Most people know the month-long fast is a time Muslims are expected to demonstrate self-control, humility and submission to the will to Allah. What you might not know is that throughout Ramadan emergency services are overwhelmed by a spike in crime—a phenomenon known as “Ramadan rage,” which affects not just Muslim countries, but cities with high concentrations of believers, from Dearborn to Deptford…
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Saturn Moon Titan’s Underground Ocean May be Super Salty
The subsurface ocean inside Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, could be as salty as any body of water here on Earth, a new study reports.
Gravity data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggest that Titan’s ocean must have an extremely high density. Salt water has a higher density than fresh water because the presence of salt adds more mass to a given amount of water.
Researchers think the ocean could be as salty as the Dead Sea of Israel and Jordan, with a high concentration of dissolved salts made of sulfur, sodium and potassium.
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Sufi Leader, Our Influence is Crucial Against Jihadism
The head of the Paris-based World Federation of Sufi Orders has stressed that his group is key to the struggle against jihadism, even in the West.
‘‘Our aim is to promote peace in the world, fight against Salafism and convince all Muslims to take the path of modern Islam,’’ Sheikh Alaa Abul Azayem said in his Cairo home, noting that ‘modern Islam’ consisted in ‘‘coexistence among all populations that live in peace’’ and ‘‘mutual understanding’’ without the use of force.
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The Islamic state of sweden: is still democratic and humanist. The great raw model for surrendering to Islam and be islam-humanistic. Take the easy way out: hate yourself to appease islam invaders.
Sweden: Man Beaten, Chased in Malmö for Hanging Israeli Flag.
Like by Russian terrorists in East Ukraine for flying Ukrainian flag.
Like my Carpato-Russian great uncle being beaten half to death by his UKRAINIAN NAZI guards at a NAZI concentration camp in 1942.
Dusk till dawn fasting, most people do that every day!