The Cameroonian government has ordered the closing of mosques and Islamic centers in the northern part of the country after a series of deadly suicide bombings blamed on Boko Haram. It has also ordered child beggars off the streets, since all of the recent suicide bombers were children.
Meanwhile, the latest surveys indicate that most Finns would rather live next door to a rehab facility than a mosque.
In other news, Swedish LGBTQ activists have called for special facilities to be set up for LGBTQ asylum seekers in Sweden.
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Greece: Most Blue Chips Rebound, While Bank Stocks Crumble
The prospect of a new bailout agreement (including a new recapitalization for banks — that will devalue existing shares in the sector) resulted in most blue chips and other stocks enjoying their first gains on Tuesday after the bourse reopened on Monday, and in banks recording another limit down.
The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed at 659.94 points, shedding 1.22 percent from Monday’s 668.06 points.
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Greek Bank Stocks Battered as Bailout Talks Grind on
(ATHENS) — The Athens stock exchange slipped further Tuesday as bank shares were battered for a second straight day, while Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos held a new round of talks with Greece’s creditors on the terms of a mammoth new bailout.
The ATHEX index finished the day down 1.22 percent after suffering its steepest ever fall of 16.32 percent on Monday when trading resumed after a five-week shutdown imposed by the country’s debt crisis.
Banking shares were again the worst hit, with Piraeus falling the maximum 30 percent allowed for the second day running. Eurobank shares fell 29.70 percent, those in Alpha Bank by 29.65 percent and National Bank by 28.45 percent.
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Baltimore Calls in Federal Agents to Help Homicide Cops Deal With Spike in Violence
Baltimore’s police and civic leaders launched a two-month partnership Monday that will see ten federal agents embed with the city’s homicide detectives in the latest bid to curb a surge in violent crime that has not been seen in decades.
Under the program, two special agents from each of the federal government’s five crime-fighting agencies (the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, U.S. Marshals Service and the ATF) will help investigate cases for the next 60 days. The city’s acting police commissioner, Kevin Davis, told reporters that the agents met with officers Monday to discuss cases where officers have identified suspects, but need additional evidence to file charges.
The homicide rate in Baltimore began to skyrocket in May, when the city saw 42 homicides in a single month. There was a brief dip in June, with 29 killings, however the number shot up to 45 in July, breaking a record set in 1972. The uptick comes after rioting in the spring over the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was critically injured while in police custody.
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DHS Chief: Don’t Call it “Islamic Extremism, “ It Has Nothing to Do With Islam
Department of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson says that the Islamic State wants to be viewed as Islamic, but they aren’t.
During an interview at the Aspen Security Forum, the interviewer asks if Johnson and DHS are missing the religious dimension of the terrorism we face by denying that it’s inspired by Islam. “I couldn’t disagree more,” Johnson says.
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Fox News Poll: New High for Trump, New Low for Clinton
Businessman Donald Trump continues to gain ground in the race for the Republican nomination. What’s more, the number of GOP primary voters saying they would at least consider backing Trump has more than doubled in the last two months. Meanwhile, support for Democratic frontrunner former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains high, despite sliding to its lowest yet.
These are some of the findings from the latest Fox News national poll on the 2016 presidential race.
Trump receives the backing of 26 percent of self-identified Republican primary voters — up from 18 percent in mid-July and 11 percent a month ago. That’s not only the highest level of support for Trump, but it’s also the highest any GOP candidate has received since the Fox poll began asking the question in December 2013.
Trump’s rise hasn’t hurt former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who garners 15 percent and is the only other Republican in double-digits.
Behind Trump and Bush, it’s Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at 9 percent, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 7 percent, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 6 percent each, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at 5 percent a piece, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich get 3 percent each.
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Louis Farrakhan Urges Black Community to “Rise Up and Kill Those Who Kill Us”
“I am looking for 10,000 in the midst of the millions, 10,000 fearless men who say death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny.
Death is sweeter than to continue to live and bury our children while the white folks give the killer hamburgers.
Death is sweeter than watching us slaughter each other to the joy of a 400-year old enemy.
The Koran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain.
Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breaths of those whose children have been slain. So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.”
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TCU Student Punished for Criticizing Islam, Baltimore Riots
All it took was 140 characters for Texas Christian University to suspend a conservative student who posted a series of social networking posts that insulted the Islamic State, the Baltimore rioters and Mexicans.
TCU banned Harry Vincent from most campus activities, ordered him to perform 60 hours of community service and attend a diversity training class.
The 19-year-old, who is a member of the College Republicans and the Young Americans for Freedom, said he was told by the university that his conservative views were “inappropriate.”
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British Police Investigate Ex-PM Child Abuse Claims
The late Sir Edward Heath, who was prime minister between 1970 and 74, is being investigated for alleged child molestation. A man claims he was raped by the politician, when he was aged 12.
London’s Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations of child sex abuse against former British Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath amid concerns that similar claims against him were covered by up another UK police force.
On Tuesday, the politician, who died in 2005 aged 89, was accused by a tabloid of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in 1961, nine years before he led the country.
The Daily Mirror claimed a 64-year-old man, who as a child had been hitchhiking to London, when he was picked up by Heath in his car. The politician is said to have invited the boy to spend the night at his apartment where the alleged assault took place.
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Europe and Free Speech: A Race to the Bottom?
Since European politicians post-Charlie Hebdo stood arm in arm in the streets of Paris and pledged undying allegiance to the principle of free speech, much has come to pass concerning that very freedom.
Starting with a (few) positives, parliament in both Norway and Iceland has decided, as a mostly symbolic measure, to scrap each country’s respective blasphemy laws.
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Finland: Sunny Morning Attracts Thousands to Annual Beer Float
The annual beer floating event took place on Saturday and the abnormally sunny weather for summer 2015 enticed thousands to grab an inflatable, something cool to drink, and join in the fun. Organised online since 1997, the route was changed this year to follow the Kerava River from the Vantaa districts of Tikkurila to Tammisto.
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Finns Would Rather Live Near a Rehab Centre Than a Mosque, Poll Claims
Attitude survey finds that a Muslim prayer room is second only to a drug users’ needle exchange in terms of unpopular neighbourhood services, while support centres for alcoholics or mental health patients would be more warmly received.
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Finns Party Cancels Event, Claims Fear of Harassment
The Finns Party will cancel an open air event connected with a party meeting scheduled for this weekend, according to party loyalist and unionist strongman Matti Putkonen. He says plans for a marketplace happening were shelved in an attempt to ensure that next weekend’s party conference is not disturbed.
According to the release, amid the furore caused by MP Olli Immonen’s Facebook post, hate speech against the Finns Party has “quickly reached incomprehensible proportions.”
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German Justice Minister Maas Terminates Federal Prosecuter Range
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has terminated Federal Prosecutor Harald Range. This came after Range complained of political interference in the treason investigation of two journalists.
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Germany: Merkel Considering Fourth Term in Office
German chancellor Angela Merkel is considering a fourth term in office, Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. The news magazine said Merkel had already held a meeting with senior party aides in her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to discuss an election campaign strategy for 2017.
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Germany: Hamburg Bunker Blast and Fire Injure 38
A fire and explosion in a World War II-era bunker injured at least 38 people in Hamburg on Tuesday morning.
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Norway Starts School for Vikings
A Norwegian further education college is starting a programme for want-to-be Vikings where students will learn essential Viking crafts, such as sword forging, jewellery making, and roof thatching.
During the course at Seljord Folkehøgskule 150km west of Oslo, students — many inspired by TV series such as ‘Game of Thrones’ — will celebrate even celebrate the Norse rituals of the year, going so far as to make animal sacrifices during the winter feast.
“We see a large number of applicants who have applied for different reasons,” the school’s principal, Arve Husby, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK. “Some have become interested through TV series and others want to learn handicraft. We give a high quality education, and if TV series get people interested, we are happy,”
Public interest in all things Viking has increased in recent years due to TV dramas such as ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Vikings’.
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Rosetta Shows How Comet Interacts With the Solar Wind
Rosetta is making good progress in one of its key investigations, which concerns the interaction between the comet and the solar wind.
The solar wind is the constant stream of electrically charged particles that flows from the Sun, carrying its magnetic field out into the Solar System. Like all comets, 67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko must navigate this flow in its orbit around the Sun.
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Sweden: State Funding Renewed for Project to Get More Women to Write Wikipedia Articles
Articles and facts on the Swedish version of Wikipedia are still written mainly by men, but Swedish Radio News reports that the non-profit organization Wikimedia Sverige has now received further state funds to get more women to share their knowledge on the free, digital encyclopedia.
Swedish Radio News reports that less than 2 in 10 of Wikipedia’s users who write and edit on the site are women.
“Clearly, humanity’s collective knowledge is not just men’s knowledge. So we want to have a wide range, in that people with different experience and different knowledge can share it,” says Sara Mörtsell, Education Manager for Wikimedia Sverige.
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Swiss Customs Seize $400,000 of Ivory en Route to China
Swiss customs officials seized ivory worth more than $400,000 on the black market as it traveled to China. The ivory, thought to have come from up to 50 elephants, was discovered with lion teeth and claws.
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Two Alleged ‘IS’ Returnees to Germany Go on Trial
Two German men have been put on trial on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. The two allegedly traveled last year to territory in Syria and Iraq controlled by “Islamic State” jihadists.
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Bosnia Mired in Ethnic Politics and Frustration
Business as usual is a concept which does not apply to Bosnia.
How can it in a country divided into two “ethnic entities”, governed by 14 prime ministers and with three presidents acting as head of state?
But even by Bosnia’s bizarre standards, it is going through challenging times — with the notion of its continued existence once again a live topic.
The president of the majority ethnic-Serb Republika Srpska (RS), Milorad Dodik, has called a September referendum challenging the authority of Bosnia’s National Court in the RS. Mr Dodik also has a policy of RS secession from Bosnia by 2018.
Meanwhile some Croat nationalists are upset that they share the other entity (the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) with Bosniaks (the majority-Muslim ethnic group).
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Kosovo Approves War Crimes Court Following EU, US Pressure
The EU has welcomed a decision by Kosovo on Monday (3 August) to set up a special war crimes court to prosecute former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
“While recognising that this step by MPs of the Kosovo Assembly was not easy, it is a sign of responsibility and determination to establish the truth and make decisions compatible with Kosovo’s European path,” EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement.
The court will be located in the Netherlands to allay concerns about witness intimidation and judicial corruption in Kosovo.
The court could see some top leaders and politicians from the former KLA stand trial over human organ harvesting allegations originating from an 2010 report adopted by the Council of Europe, the continent’s human rights watch dog.
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Egypt Killed 88 ‘Terrorists’ In Sinai in Late July
Spokesman Mohamed Samir said Monday that the Egyptian armed forces had killed ‘‘88 terrorists and takfiri’’, Islamic extremists, in the northern Sinai between July 20 and July 31. In a statement on his Facebook page, Samir added that ‘‘56 people suspected of terrorism were arrested as were two individuals wanted by the police, while 39 cars, 36 scooters lacking license plates and two weapons depots were destroyed’’.
The young migrants at Calais are the lucky ones — the question is whether they’ll remember that
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Israel Arrests Most-Wanted Jewish Extremist
The leader of a Jewish extremist group has been arrested in Israel after a Palestinian baby died in a West Bank arson attack. The arrest follows a recent pledge by Israel to take a tougher stance on Jewish extremism.
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Ben Stein: Iran Deal So Bad, It Can’t be an Accident
“There is no meaningful verification,” Stein elaborated, in an opinion piece in The American Spectator. “The sanctions are already basically gone. The President is paying Iran over $100 billion to go forward with making a nuclear bomb and having the rockets to deliver it.
“We have basically been swindled into allowing the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism to have nuclear weapons without any penalty — indeed, with cash and prizes. Iran has sworn to use these weapons to obliterate not only Israel but every Jew on earth.
“Again, this could not have been an accident. It has to have been the working out of some deep unconscious rage at Israel, Jews, and at America by the top players in this administration… many of them Jewish or, like Kerry, partly Jewish. Mr. Obama has — as I have said before — now signed Israel’s death warrant. Only Israel can figure out some way out of it. Perhaps a miraculous anti-missile defense. Perhaps a genuine Doomsday Device which will end all life on earth if Israel is nuked.
“We shall see,” Stein wound up. “In the meantime, Mr. Obama is in tears that he has been criticized so harshly for an agreement that basically cries out for ‘a Holocaust in an afternoon,’ as Iranians smilingly call it.”[…]
[Ghetto Israel — Jews to the ovens; courtesy of your race friendly White House. Do Jewish lives matter too?]
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Three Turkish Soldiers Killed in Attack Blamed on Kurds
Kurdish militants have been blamed for an attack that killed three Turkish soldiers when a roadside bomb exploded. The latest deaths continue a spiral of violence between the militants and the Turkish military.
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Yezidi Brothers Tell of Terror Schooling
Two Yazidi brothers, 11 and 13, were kidnapped by ISIS and taken for terrorist training. Now freed after seven months, they tell of their experiences, which include indoctrination and instruction on how to carry out decapitations.
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ASEAN Nations Question China’s Island Intentions
Southeast Asian foreign ministers have started regional security talks with an agenda full of conflicts. China’s neighbors are worried about the country’s controversial island-building in the South China Sea.
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Boko Haram: Cameroonian Authorities Shut Mosques, Islamic Centres
Cameroonian authorities have ordered all mosques and Islamic centres to be shut in northern parts of the country.
The decision was said to be part of a set of measures intended to increase security after several terror attacks in the region, triggered by the country’s war on Boko Haram.
In addition to the closures, young beggars were ordered to vacate the streets as all recent suicide bombers have been children.
According to the OnIslam website and fox news, the governor of the region Midjiyawa Bakari, said the new rules were a response to two incidents in the past week, referring to two suicide attacks by two girls which resulted in killing 31 and wounding tens of people.
Though no group claimed responsibility for the attacks, fingers were pointed as militant group Boko Haram.
Muslims constitute about 20 percent of Cameroon’s total population of 20.5 million.
Most of them live in northern Cameroon and hail from major tribes such as the Fulani and the Peuhl.
Last week, the Cameroonian authorities banned the use of veil among women after two women dressed in the religious garments blew themselves up on Sunday in Fotokol, killing 13 people.
The militant group says it is fighting enemies who have wronged its members through violence, arrests or economic neglect and corruption.
More than 13,000 people are thought to have died since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009.
Boko Haram has escalated its six-year-old campaign to impose Islamic law on Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and largest oil-producing nation.
The fighting has drawn in neighboring countries including Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon, as the militants broadened their border targets.
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Violence erupted in Calais overnight after a weekend where around 2,500 migrants stormed the Channel Tunnel, including an organised gang of 200 filmed chanting ‘open the borders’ and demanding to be allowed to walk to Britain.
A French riot officer is in hospital today after he was left with a lacerated face and head as police were pelted with stones as 1,000 people were stopped at the fences but a record 700 got through to the main train terminal, Eurotunnel said today.
Police said this morning that around 1,700 people in total had tried to breach the 15 mile ring of steel surrounding the Channel Tunnel to get to Britain last night — around one in four of all people living in the ‘Jungle’ camp on the edge of Calais.
Eurotunnel, the company which manages the Tunnel, today demanded more action from France and Britain to stop to ‘organised’ groups of migrants storming their terminal ‘at will’ every night.
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Calais Migrants: France Wants More Help From UK
The French and UK governments have steered clear of blaming each other over the ongoing Calais migrants crisis, but France’s interior minister upped the tone on Tuesday by demanding more action from London.
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Danish Refugee NGO Head: ‘Come to Denmark’
In an article published on The Guardian, the head of the Danish NGO Refugees Welcome attempted to counter the government’s anti-refugee message by making a case for why asylum seekers should choose Denmark.
The head of a small Danish NGO wrote an appeal in The Guardian on Tuesday aimed at attracting refugees to Denmark in response to the Danish government’s own plans to run anti-refugee advertisements in foreign newspapers.
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Death Toll for Migrants Crossing Mediterranean Passes 2,000
More than 2,000 migrants have lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe so far this year.
During the same period last year, 1,607 migrants died, according to statistics released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
“It is unacceptable that in the 21st century people fleeing from conflict, persecutions, misery and land degradation must endure such terrible experiences in their home countries, not to mention en route, and then die on Europe’s doorstep,” said William Lacy Swing, the director general of the IOM.
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EU Offers Aid to France for Migrants, Shows Little Sympathy for UK
The EU has said it can provide aid to France as it struggles to deal with the growing number of migrants around the northern port city of Calais but has shown little sympathy for UK complaints about the situation noting that it expects more solidarity from London.
“The commission is aware that the situation as regards migrants in Calais is deteriorating. This is another stark example of the need for a greater level of solidarity and responsibility in the way we deal with migratory pressures in Europe,” a commission spokesperson said Monday.
“We can provide technical assistance through the EU agencies and emergency funding” to France, she added.
However, in a pointed aside to London, she stressed that the commission expects all member states to take part in a scheme it proposed earlier this year to relocate 40,000 asylum seekers that have arrived in Greece and Italy via the Mediterranean.
At a meeting in July, EU states as a whole fell short of the target with the UK — along with Austria and Hungary — refusing to take part in the distribution system.
Britain has an opt-out on EU migration policy, however Ireland, which has the same set-up, agreed to take part in the relocation scheme.
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Four Migrants Drown Trying to Swim Into Spain
Four migrants died on Sunday after trying to swim to Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta from northern Morocco, the government in Rabat said.
“The interior ministry deplores the deaths on Sunday of four illegal sub-Saharan immigrants off the town of Belyounech,” said a statement carried by the official MAP news agency.
It said the migrants, whose names and nationalities were not given, had tried to swim around a maritime fence separating the Spanish territory from Morocco.
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German MP Patzelt Opens Home to Two Eritrean Migrants
A German conservative MP, Martin Patzelt, has taken two Eritrean refugees into his home and is helping the young men find jobs locally.
Mr Patzelt, of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), lives near Frankfurt/Oder, in eastern Germany. The Eritreans have been staying with him for a month.
Such initiatives help to “get rid of the polarisation and hostility” towards migrants, he told German ARD TV.
Many Eritreans have fled to Europe.
The country in the Horn of Africa has an authoritarian government which forces citizens into military service — often for many years and in deplorable conditions.
Generally Eritreans and Syrians are granted refugee status when they reach Germany, allowing them to stay there.
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Greece: New Plot Found for Athens Park Refugees
Some 500 Afghan and Syrian refugees, one-third of whom are estimated to be children, will be moved from a makeshift camp in Pedion tou Areos park in central Athens to a new location by the end of the week, Greek authorities said on Monday.
The new camp is being set up in Elaionas, an open allotment in western Athens that was donated for the purpose by the City of Athens. The municipal authority on Monday issued a statement confirming that it has made the space available to accommodate the refugees, who have been sleeping rough and surviving in unsanitary conditions for several weeks. However, it stressed that this should be treated only as a temporary solution and the relevant ministries and regional authorities should immediately address the long-term implications of the massive influx of refugees and migrants that has hit Greece since the start of the year.
According to reports, prefabricated houses have been donated by the military to form the main shelters in the allotment, which will be guarded by police.
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Man Hidden in Suitcase Dies En Route to Spain
A man from northern Africa who hid inside a suitcase on a ferry bound for mainland Spain died on Sunday while making the five hour crossing.
Police said that on Sunday evening, the man’s brother had driven his car onto the ferry travelling from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla to Almeria on the mainland, news agency EFE reported on Monday.
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Mediterranean Migrant Deaths in 2015 Pass 2,000
More than 2,000 people have died so far this year trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, according to the International Organization for Migration. The death toll is 20 percent higher than in the same period last year.
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Moroccan Migrant Dies After Hiding in Vehicle Trunk During Ferry Journey
Just minutes before docking at the port in Almería, the crew of the Sorolla passenger ferry from Melilla got the first warning. A 34-year-old Moroccan national, identified only by his initials A. M., rushed to the boat’s information desk on Sunday to report that his brother, who was hiding inside a suitcase stored in the trunk of his vehicle, had suffocated.
The 27-year-old man, N. M., was apparently trying to sneak into Europe but died sometime during the five-and-a-half-hour trip, the Civil Guard said.
Civil Guard officers arrested the victim’s brother, who holds a French passport and lives and works in France
“The young man also had signs of dehydration,” police sources said.
Witnesses on board said that he had suffocated from the heat. “The doctor couldn’t do anything for him,” one reported.
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Moroccan Man Suffocates to Death in a Suitcase Headed for Spain
A man from Morocco suffocated to death while he was being smuggled into Spain inside a suitcase. His brother, a French citizen, has been arrested on manslaughter charges.
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Over 550 Migrants Saved Off Italy, Five Found Dead
More than 550 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean arrived in Sicily on Monday aboard a ship operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which also carried the bodies of five people who died at sea.
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Slovakian Town Votes ‘No’ To Asylum Seekers
The Slovak town of Gabcikovo Sunday voted “No” to temporarily taking in 500 asylum seekers. Only 102 of 2,600 votes cast were in favour of accepting asylum seekers. The Slovak and Austrian interior ministers agreed in July that Vienna could send up to 500 asylum seekers to Slovakia.
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Swedish Justice Minister Criticizes British Asylum Policy
Sweden’s minister for justice and migration, Morgan Johansson of the ruling Social Democrats recently criticized the UK for not taking in more asylum seekers, reports Dagens Nyheter.
In the BBC radio program “The World This Weekend”, which aired Sunday, Johansson was interviewed about the refugee crisis in Calais, and believes the UK could do a lot more.
Johansson said that between 1,000 and 1,200 asylum seekers arrive in Sweden each week. The newspaper writes that the UK has six times the population Sweden, but takes in a third as many asylum seekers.
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Swedish Ship in New Migrant Rescue Mission
The Swedish rescue ship Poseidon has helped another hundreds of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, said the coast guard.
The ship has brought a total of 3,966 people safely to Italy since it launched.
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The Ad That Shows a Migrant’s Plight Through Instragram Posts
Abdou Diouf has used popular social networking site Instagram to chart his voyage from Senegal to Spain, with photos that show him crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, fleeing from the police and arriving on a Spanish beach, where he is covered with a thermal blanket. Or has he?
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Sweden: Calls for Specific Housing to Accommodate LGBTQ Asylum-Seekers
In order to protect LGBTQ asylum seekers from discrimination, the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (RFSL) believes there should be specific housing for these people while they wait for their applications to be processed.
Tijan, from Gambia, lived in a residence for asylum seekers outside of Östersund, in northern Sweden, in 2013, and describes how difficult it was, first to flee from being persecuted because of his sexual orientation, and then to wind up in an insolated residence, where he didn’t dare trust people.
“You can’t tell your roommates that you’re gay or lesbian,” says Tijan, adding, “You live with a bunch of other people from different parts of the world, and you don’t know who they are. You run the risk of being discriminated against. So a specific residence for LGBTQ people, I think it’s an extremely good idea.”
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Two Yazidi brothers, 11 and 13, were kidnapped by ISIS and taken for terrorist training. Now freed after seven months, they tell of their experiences, which include indoctrination and instruction on how to carry out decapitations.
Janissaries?
“The Cameroonian government has ordered the closing of mosques and Islamic centers in the northern part of the country…” Read this for the briefest of moment as – The Cameron government has ordered the closing of mosques and Islamic centers in the northern part of the country.
Today many educated Muslims want to leave Islam but are afraid that they will be killed by their fellow religionists. By adapting the Sanatana way of life they can overcome their dilemma as by adapting the Sanatana way of life they need not change their name, diet, customs or undergo purification ceremonies; or say prayer in an alien language or visit places of worship; all these which attract the attention of their neighbours. See http://sanatanaparishad.blogspot.in
During an interview at the Aspen Security Forum, the interviewer asks if Johnson and DHS are missing the religious dimension of the terrorism we face by denying that it’s inspired by Islam. “I couldn’t disagree more,” Johnson says.
“I couldn’t disagree more…” A perfect non-answer that perfectly illustrates the situation the West’s ruling fascist clique now finds itself in. They have so little belief in the position that their position dictates they can no longer bring themselves to articulate it. And who can blame them?
I’m amazed that they can keep their faces straight – I certainly couldn’t, but then I’m no actor.
The official position is what, that the terrorism we see worldwide has ‘nothing to do with Islam’? I know, it’s hard not to laugh isn’t it? It is so untrue that with every day that passes it becomes more difficult to say – let alone argue. Just like all those other official positions, the celebration of diversity, the benefits of immigration, and the wonders of multiculturalism, the nothing to do with Islam meme is wearing thin.
Why didn’t Johnson put up a stout defence of the Islam is peaceful, Islam is innocent thesis. Doesn’t he want to put all our minds at ease?
Instead he goes with the non-committal: “I couldn’t disagree more”.
He couldn’t disagree more with what? That he’s not missing the religious dimension of terrorism or that the terrorism is not Islam inspired?
Isn’t this perfectly ambiguous? Still, I suppose that’s a prerequisite of political life today. They’re floating on air and are just beginning to realise that that’s all that supports them.