Hundreds of cases of the MERS virus have been reported throughout the Middle East, but the greatest number have been in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis report more than 800 cases, with 286 deaths so far. The disease is now thought to have been brought in from the Horn of Africa with infected camels.
In other news, a zookeeper in France beat an ostrich to death and blamed it on the zoo’s pony. Meanwhile, a 15-year-old boy in Sweden was arrested and charged with a hate crime for painting a swastika on the wall of a church using chocolate milk.
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Dick Cheney: There Will be an Attack on America Within the Next Decade; Worse Than 9/11
Dick Cheney told Hugh Hewitt tonight that he believes there will be another terrorist attack on America within the next decade and it will be far deadlier than 9/11.
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How the Clintons Went From ‘Dead Broke’ To Rich: Bill Earned $104.9 Million for Speeches
Over seven frenetic days, Bill Clinton addressed corporate executives in Switzerland and Denmark, an investors’ group in Sweden and a cluster of business and political leaders in Austria. The former president wrapped up his European trip in the triumphant Spanish Hall at Prague Castle, where he shared his thoughts on energy to a Czech business summit.
His pay: $1.4 million.
That lucrative week in May 2012 offers a glimpse into the way Clinton has leveraged his global popularity into a personal fortune. Starting just two weeks after exiting the Oval Office, Clinton has delivered hundreds of paid speeches, lifting a family that was “dead broke,” as wife Hillary Rodham Clinton phrased it earlier this month, to a point of such extraordinary wealth that it is now seen as a potential political liability if she runs for president in 2016.
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Ramadan Inspires Charity, Kindness Among Muslims
DEARBORN >This weekend, Muslims around the world are celebrating the start of fasting for Ramadan, the holiest month of the Islamic calendar.
Charity and acts of kindness also are emphasized this month. Muslims believe good deeds are rewarded multiple times more in Ramadan than at any other time of the year and will spend the month feeding the needy, donating their money or volunteering…
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Calgary Muslims Prepare for Month-Long Ramadan
Period of prayer and fasting throughout the city
CALGARY — Ramadan, the Muslim community’s period of fasting and spiritual reflection, once again takes place during the Calgary Stampede this year. And the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada is working out special arrangements for that reality…
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Britain ‘Cannot Educate the World’, Says High Court Judge
Appeal court judges reject a bid by a Filipino family to stay in Britain so that their children can get a good education
Britain cannot “educate the world”, a senior judge said as he rejected a bid by a Filipino family living in Kent to stay in the country so their children could recieve a good education.
The family-of-five were challenging a ruling, denying them indefinite leave to remain in the UK, on the basis that it would be best for the three children. But Lord Justice Lewison and two senior colleagues said the best thing for them would be to stay with their parents, who have no right to stay in the country…
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British Jihadists and the UK Surveillance State
by Soeren Kern
“The whole area of intercept needs to be looked at. We have got a real debate, and it is a genuine debate in a democracy, between the libertarians who say the state must not get too powerful and pretty much the rest of us who say the state must protect itself.” — Liam Fox, Former British Secretary of Defense
In his testimony, Farr defends the practice because Britain has for “many years faced a serious threat from terrorism,” especially the threat derived from “militant Islamist terrorists.” He says the practice has prevented terrorist attacks and saved lives.
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British PM Wishes Muslims “Ramadan Mubarak”
LONDON, June 27 (KUNA) — British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday evening offered his “very best wishes to everyone observing the holy month of Ramadan” in the UK and around the globe.
In a video message on the advent of the Muslims’ month of fasting, he said:
“This is an incredibly special time of year for Muslims at home and abroad: a time for charity, for contemplation and community.
“Charity is one of the things that Islam is all about. Here in Britain, Muslims are our biggest donors — they give more to charity than any other faith group,” the prime minister remarked. “We see this spirit of giving all year round, from the mosques running sports clubs for local children to the Muslim groups selling poppies for Remembrance Day, to those people from around the country who put their wellies on, rolled their sleeves up, and went to help the families hit hardest by this winter’s storms.
Ramadan is a time when that spirit comes to the fore and I am so proud when I hear, every year, about the millions of pounds raised for good causes for those less fortunate than us here in Britain, and those who are suffering in wars and in famines overseas.
Ramadan is a time for contemplation to fast, and to pray, and to think deeply about others.
This Ramadan, I hope that we can reflect upon a key aspect of our shared history: the bravery of those who fought and died for our freedoms nearly 100 years ago. Just days after Eid, we will be marking 100 years since the First World War,” he noted.
More than a million men and boys from India fought with our troops during that conflict and many thousands of them were Muslims. They travelled across the world to fight to defend our freedom, guided and sustained by their bravery, comradeship and, above all, by their faith.
Their selflessness and their courage helped to secure the liberties we all enjoy today, so this Ramadan — and this centenary — we will remember them and reflect upon their sacrifice,” the prime minister recalled.
“Ramadan is a time for community. And there is nothing that exemplifies this more than those nightly iftars when the fast is broken, the dates are opened, and all that great food is served.
Last year I was delighted to see how many community iftars were taking place across the country in mosques and in community centres, in parks and even in tents,” Cameron went on.
“Again this year government is supporting the Big Iftar programme with hundreds more communities, from Leeds to Luton, Woking to Manchester, throwing open their doors so that people of all faiths and none can break bread and get to know their neighbours. So wherever you are this holy month, I wish you Ramadan Mubarak,” he concluded.
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Cameron Warns EU May ‘Live to Regret’ Way Juncker Nominated
British PM outvoted at summit
(ANSA) — Rome, June 27 — British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that the European Union leaders may regret the way they decided to nominate Jean-Claude Juncker to be the next European Commission President. “I’ve told EU leaders they could live to regret the new process for choosing the Commission President. I’ll always stand up for UK interests,” Cameron said via his Twitter account, @David_Cameron. Cameron was outvoted at the summit, with only Hungary joining Britain in opposing Juncker.
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Denmark: State Revenue From North Sea Oil Exceeded DKK 22 Billion in 2013
In 2013 the Danish state generated revenue of about DKK 22.1 billion from oil and gas production, equal to about 63 per cent of total profits from activities in the North Sea. This is a decline of about 12 per cent from 2012, when state revenue totalled DKK 25.2 billion.
Denmark is expected to remain a net exporter of oil through 2021, while gas production is estimated to exceed domestic gas consumption through 2025.
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Denmark: Cannabis Not as Harmless as Believed, Psychiatrist Says
An increasing number of international studies show that smoking cannabis can induce both schizophrenia, psychosis and depression in adolescents, according to psychiatrist Merete Toft, a consultant at Bispebjerg Hospital. Toft said that studies in Sweden, New Zealand and the Netherlands had concluded that the earlier young people start using cannabis and the more they smoke, the greater they risk becoming mentally-ill.
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A German princess tried to strip at a posh Oktoberfest party — before making racist comments, assaulting first aiders and lashing out at police when she was told to stop, a court heard today.
Her Serene Highness Princess Theodora Sayn-Wittgenstein was in the dock at Dundee Sheriff Court after admitting telling first aider Farah Jasmin Hussain: ‘I was doing my nails this morning — I wondered how many Muslims I could kill.’
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EU Leaders Give Thumbs Up to Juncker, Britain Isolated
After weeks of discussion and a bruising confrontation with Britain, EU leaders finally gave the thumbs up to Jean-Claude Juncker to lead the European Commission for the next five years.
The decision, which now has to be approved by the European Parliament at its July plenary session, took centre stage on the EU’s political scene since the European elections took place on 25 May, amid fierce resistance by UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
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Former Papal Nuncio Wesolowski Defrocked
Risks arrest for assaulting minors in Dominican Republic
(ANSA) — Vatican City, June 27 — The Vatican’s former nuncio to the Dominican Republic, Poland’s ex-Msgr Jozef Wesolowski, was defrocked this week for sexually abusing minors and risks arrest the Vatican said Friday. The ex-nuncio, the first Vatican ambassador to be found guilty of abusing minors, has two months to appeal the verdict.
“All measures suited to the gravity of the case will be taken,” the Vatican said, referring to custodial action, after “the relative liberty he enjoyed” while the probe ran its course.
Wesolowski, who will be 66 next month, was called back to Vatican City in late August after the archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez, informed Pope Francis of the allegations against him.
A probe was opened by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the former Holy Inquisition, which handles sex-abuse cases and issued its verdict “in the last few days”, the Vatican said Friday.
The Vatican worked with Dominican authorities on the case.
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France: Zookeeper Beats to Death Ostrich Then Blames Pony
A zookeeper has been convicted after using a shovel to beat an ostrich to death at a French zoo. As if that wasn’t bad enough he then tried to pin the blame for the bird’s killing on an aging pony.
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France: Jubilant Algeria Fans Take Over Champs-Elysées
Thousands of Algeria fans took to the streets of cities across France on Thursday night to celebrate their team’s historic qualification for the knock-out stages of the World Cup. While the mood remained mainly festive there were outbreaks of trouble with police making 74 arrests.
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Germany: Spy Row as Agency Steps Up Facebook Checks
Opposition politicians on Friday demanded government clarification of reports German secret services spied for the NSA. It came as intelligence chiefs confirmed closer surveillance of social network users.
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Guide to the EU Deals With Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
The European Union has signed far-reaching trade partnership deals with three former Soviet republics — Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.
The official title of each one is “Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area”. They commit the countries to EU standards, including new customs regulations, quality controls and free market competition…
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Hungary Refuses to Support Juncker as European President
(AGI) Budapest, June 27 — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban repeated his refusal to support Jean-Claude Juncker for President of the European Commission hours before the European Council meets in Brussels. The former prime minister of Luxembourg looks set to win on Friday with a large majority.
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Italians Avoiding Dental and Eye Exams, Survey Finds
Blood tests more routine in Italy
(ANSA) — Rome, June 25 — Italians tend to avoid medical checks of their eyes and teeth but are more likely to have their blood tested, according to a survey conducted by a health research institute.
The information was designed to understand how Italians view health check-ups and the value of preventative medicine, according to the Demoskopea research organization which gathered the data.
A sample of 37,000 people between 18 and 65 years in the survey conducted for Dottori.it found that more than four in 10 Italians claimed they had blood tests done in the previous six months before they survey.
Another 18% admitted they had not had any blood samples taken in at least two years with younger people proving the most inattentive — almost 29% of people between 18 and 24 had not had any blood tests in the previous two years.
The survey also found that almost 23% of Italians had not had a dental checkup in more than two years.
Routine eye exams were also a low priority, which almost 30% saying they had not had their vision tested in more than two years.
Considered another way, only about 23.4% said they had taken an eye exam in the previous six months.
Again, the figures were worse among 18- to 24-year-olds, with almost 46% in that age bracket saying they had not had a vision exam for more than two years.
Even worse, almost 70% of people between 55 and 65 years had not had a recent eye exam, as only 29.4% said they had a vision text in the previous six months.
The worst record for health tests had been found in the southern half of Italy as well as the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, said the survey.
Liguria also tended to have a poor record while the most conscientious in terms of preventative care were found in the Emilia Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Lazio regions. The survey findings released publicly did not give reasons why dental and vision exams were less frequent, but cost may be a factor.
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Italy: Another Coalition Senator Joins Opposition to Upper House Revamp
Number of ‘rebels’ within Renzi camp climbs to 19
(ANSA) — Rome, June 27 — The number of rebel Senators within Premier Matteo Renzi’s governing alliance who are opposed to the executive’s plan to overhaul the Upper House grew to 19 on Friday.
The government plans to turn the Senate into a leaner assembly of local-government representatives to save money and make passing legislation easier.
But Tito Di Maggio, a member of the small For Italy (PI) party that supports the government, told ANSA Friday he was subscribing to an amendment to the government’s bill that would see the Upper House remain an elected assembly.
In total 36 Senators have subscribed to the amendment, including 16 members of Renzi’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and two others who, like Di Maggio, belong to junior partners in the governing alliance.
Renzi, who unseated his PD colleague Enrico Letta in February to become Italy’s youngest premier at 39, has staked his credibility on revamping the Senate as part of a drive to overhaul Italy’s slow-moving, costly political machinery.
He has said he will quit politics completely if he fails.
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Italy: Former Parish Priest Gets 4 1/2 Years for Sex Abuse
Martin Varkey Parappillil arrested in 2012 on way to India
(ANSA) — Cuneo, June 27 — The supreme Court of Cassation on Friday upheld a sentence of four and a half years for a northern Italian ex-parish priest found guilty of sexually abusing minors in his care.
Indian-born Martin Varkey Parappillil, 47, who once headed two northern Italian parishes, was arrested on his way back to India in 2012.
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‘Juncker Drink Problem a Concern’ Say British Media
‘Has cognac at breakfast,’ they claim
(ANSA) — Rome, June 27 — EU leaders have discussed Jean-Claude Juncker’s rumoured drinking problem, British media said Friday.
The rumours about the purported alcohol struggles of the former Luxembourg prime minister and prime candidate for European Commission president are a source of concern, they said.
Among the rumours circulating this week was that, according to the Daily Mail, Juncker drinks cognac at breakfast.
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Juncker Chosen for EU Commission Job, Cameron Defeated
BRUSSELS — EU leaders on Friday (27 June) nominated Jean-Claude Juncker to be European Commission president, simultaneously doling out a major diplomatic defeat for London and handing a large chunk of power to the European Parliament.
“Decision made. The European Council proposes Jean-Claude Juncker as the next President of the European Commission,” EU council president Herman Van Rompuy tweeted during the meeting.
The decision was taken by vote — a first for an EU summit — after British PM David Cameron led a strong campaign against the Luxembourg, opposing both the way 59-year old came to be nominated as well as the man — who has called the “ultimate Brussels insider” — himself.
Only Hungary’s Viktor Orban joined Cameron in voting No.
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Muslim Man Murders Pregnant Prostitute Because She Was Working Near a Mosque
A Muslim who stabbed a pregnant Romanian prostitute to death after warning her not to work near a mosque was jailed for at least 29 years today.
Farooq Shah, 21, plunged a knife into Mariana Popa’s chest while riding his bicycle along a stretch of road notorious for sex workers.
Miss Popa, 24, had been in Britain for just three weeks and was trying to earn the money to support her family when she was stabbed in Ilford, Essex.
She staggered into Chicken & Pizza 4U in Ilford Lane and collapsed in a pool of blood as her killer rode away on his bike.
The mother-of-one was six weeks pregnant with her second child when she bled to death.
CCTV footage showed Shah waiting on the forecourt of a BP garage close to where prostitutes were working on Ilford Lane late on October 28.
Miss Popa could then be seen to walk towards him and speak to him before he stabbed her twice in the chest.
Prosecutors believe Shah was warning Miss Popa to leave the area — and she paid with her life when she refused.
Shah’s distinctive appearance exactly matched that of the killer — but he claimed he was the victim of mistaken identity.
He was found with another stolen mobile when he was arrested for the murder of Miss Popa.
Shah claimed he was at home watching an episode of Family Guy at the time of the killing after returning from a party in Plaistow drunk and high from smoking cannabis.
He said a mystery man approached him on the street while on his way home and sold him the phone.
Judge Christopher Kinch QC jailed Shah for life and ordered he serve at least 29 years behind bars.
The judge said: ‘It was an utterly terrible attack which inevitably led to her death. It was carried out with callous indifference on a defenceless woman. Mariana Popa did not stand a chance.’
During the trial Bobbie Cheema QC, prosecuting, asked Shah: ‘What was that conversation with Miss Popa about?
‘Did you ask her to go with you? Did you offer her money? Did she say no because you had a bike and didn’t even have a car?
‘Or were you on this night patrolling the area for prostitutes? Did you want to challenge Miss Popa and ask her to get out of that area, to get away from the mosques?’
In his account to the jury, Shah said having women sell their bodies near his mosque or home ‘means nothing’“
He insisted he was so handsome he would never need to hand over money for sex.
‘I would never, ever do that, I’d never pay money for sex. Look at me — I’m not an ugly man’..
An hour before Shah stabbed Miss Popa, he had robbed Ikran Chohan, a blind man of £400 and his mobile phone at knifepoint.
A bicycle matching the description of Miss Popa’s killer and Mr Chohan’s assailant was also found outside Shah’s flat on St Francis Way…
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New Logo for Authorised Online Pharmacies Launched
Symbol to protect patients from falsified medicines
(ANSA) — Brussels, June 24 — The European Commission on Tuesday introduced a special logo to help consumers identify authorized online pharmacies from sites that may offer false medications.
The logo featuring a white cross on a green striped background will appear on websites of authorised online pharmacies in the European Union (EU) and will link to the website of each country’s respective national authority where legally operating online pharmacies will be listed.
“When buying medicines online, consumers must be aware that unless they buy from legally-operating online medicine suppliers, they run a risk of buying medicines that are falsified,” said European Health Commissioner Tonio Borg. “The Commission has established a common logo for online pharmacies so consumers can stay safe,” he added.
The regulation establishing the new logo should be available by the end of next month, and EU member states have one year after to apply it.
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Norway: Researchers Took Organs From Accident Victims
Government researchers in Norway removed the organs of 1,000 accident victims, without asking their relatives, to build up a biobank of control tissues for their experiments, the country’s VG newspaper has reported.
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Renzi Says Letta Unlikely to Become Council President
Italy unlikely to have another job with Draghi at ECB
(ANSA) — Rome, June 27 — Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on Friday deflated speculation that his predecessor and colleague in the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) Enrico Letta could become the next president of the European Council.
He said his government had not proposed Letta to be Herman Van Rompuy’s replacement, adding that Italy was not likely to be given another top job, with Mario Draghi at the helm of the European Central Bank.
“Letta’s name was never mentioned for the presidency of the European Council, not at official venues nor in unofficial talks,” Letta told a news conference at the end of a two-day EU summit in Brussels.
“There are three top EU positions at the head of the Council, the Commission and the ECB. It’s difficult to see Italy getting two”.
EU leaders are set to gather for another summit on July 16 to decide on nominations after the European Parliament votes on approving the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president.
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Swedish Boy Charged for Chocolate Milk Swastikas
A 15-year-old boy was charged on Friday for drawing swastikas on a church wall — with chocolate milk.
On Friday a 15-year-old boy was charged for the incident. He is allegedly also responsible for drawing swastikas on a school in Hortlax in January, and faces charges for both vandalism and hate crimes.
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‘The Birthplace of Islam in Britain’: Toxteth’s Victorian Mosque Reopens
The first mosque founded in England, which has stood as a derelict shell for many years, has been refurbished and reopened to Merseyside’s 20,000 Muslims. But how did it come to be there in the first place?
The mid-terrace house in Liverpool, with its broken windows and peeling paint, had given no clue it was, as one of the men behind its renovation put it, the “birthplace of Islam in Britain”.
The building, in Brougham Terrace, was once owned by Abdullah Quilliam, who opened it as Liverpool Muslim Institute in 1889…
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UK Shoppers Find ‘Sweatshop Conditions’ On Labels
(AGI) London, June 27 — Fashion chain Primark has launched an investigation after a second shopper in a Swansea store found a label in clothing complaining of poor working conditions.
Rebecca Williams from Porthcawl said she found a label in a shirt she bought in London reading: “Degrading sweatshop conditions”. Earlier, another shopper spotted a label with the text: “Forced to work exhausting hours”.
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A Muslim leader has rejected a plea from radical preachers to speak to young members of the faith at a Canterbury mosque.
Raschid Sohawon revealed he was forced to turn down the request after quizzing the trio, from London, about the message they wanted to preach.
He was speaking in the wake of calls for America to carry out air strikes on terror organisation Isis, which is marauding through Iraq and making a call to arms to British Muslims to join them…
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UK: Muslim Man Murders Pregnant Prostitute Because She Was Working Near a Mosque
A Muslim who stabbed a pregnant Romanian prostitute to death after warning her not to work near a mosque was jailed for at least 29 years today.
Farooq Shah, 21, plunged a knife into Mariana Popa’s chest while riding his bicycle along a stretch of road notorious for sex workers. Miss Popa, 24, had been in Britain for just three weeks and was trying to earn the money to support her family when she was stabbed in Ilford, Essex…
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UK: Ramadan Rush: Mega-Rich Shoppers Descend on London
Before the fast, let there be a shopping feast. From Harrods in Knightsbridge to the glittering diamond stores in Mayfair, London has long attracted big spenders. But every year around the holy month of Ramadan, which starts Saturday, a wave of spectacularly rich Middle Eastern shoppers arrives and takes retail therapy to a whole new level — complete with an entourage of bodyguards, chauffeurs and Gulf-registered Rolls-Royces and Ferraris flown in just for the occasion.
Retailers call the boost in business the Ramadan Rush: A hugely lucrative and fast-growing market driven by wealthy Gulf Arabs who travel to Britain to escape the desert heat and indulge in buying luxury gifts before flying home for a month of fasting and increased religious observance. Another surge takes place during Eid.
The spike in shoppers during the summer months has been so regular and noticeable on London’s streets that some have jokingly dubbed the phenomenon the “Harrods Hajj.”
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UK: Tough Action on Syria Rebels Threatens UK, Warns Ex-MI6 Chief
A former senior MI6 officer has warned that Britain’s policy of prosecuting British fighters and treating them “harshly” after their return from Syria is not working and could worsen the terrorist threat to this country.
Richard Barrett, who served as MI6’s head of counter-terrorism, said the robust approach was failing to stop young Muslims travelling to join extremist rebels fighting in Syria and Iraq.
He said the threat of prosecution was likely to prolong the stay overseas of some Britons, increasing their exposure to Islamist influences, while harsh treatment handed out to those who returned was likely to have a “radicalising” impact in domestic communities.
Mr Barrett said a policy of “reintegration” should be adopted instead, in which there would be a greater focus on giving Britons returning from the fighting the chance to resume their previous normal civilian life…
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Two prisoners who climbed on to the roof of their jail in hot weather were offered sun cream by wardens, it has emerged.
The pair sneaked up to the sun spot at HMP Dartmoor in Devon for eight hours during last week’s heatwave when temperatures topped 24C in some places. But when they were spotted, officials merely offered them a tube of sun lotion ‘as a duty of care’…
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Wales: Does This Map Show the Very Real Problem Cardiff Has With Islamic Extremism?
The head of Wales’ counter-terrorism unit says the capital city has no greater problem with Muslim extremism than any other city in the UK
This is the map that shows the very real problem Cardiff has with the radicalisation of young Muslims. The map shows the significant number of recent arrests of people in or connected to Cardiff for extremist or terror-related offences.
Most recently, three young Muslim men from Cardiff travelled to Syria to fight for Isis (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria)…
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Wales: Mosque Hardliners Gave Extremist Lectures at School
Cardiff youths filmed in a jihadi propaganda video delivered lectures to pupils at Cathays High School, where they attended
A hardline mosque accused of helping to radicalise the Cardiff youths filmed in a jihadi propaganda video delivered regular extremist lectures to pupils at the state school they attended. Cathays High School allowed regular Wednesday lunchtime sessions in its main assembly hall with Ali Hammuda, a hardline preacher from Al-Manar mosque in Glynrhondda Street.
The sessions, entitled “Reminding Cathays High”, included teaching pupils that music and “free-mixing”, contact between boys and girls, were “not permitted in Islam”. In a separate lecture at the mosque, Mr Hammuda described music as a “sickness”.
Reyaad Khan and Nasser Muthana, who both went to fight in Syria and appeared in a terrorist propaganda video last week, reportedly met at Cathays High…
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Wales: Terror Police ‘Doing Best They Can’
An anti-terror chief has denied that police are failing to prevent the radicalisation of young Muslims willing to fight overseas.
South Wales Assistant Chief Constable Nikki Holland, who is the head of Wales’s counter-terrorism unit, said police could not “keep a hold” of all those willing to join insurgents in Syria and Iraq.
And she claimed they are doing the “best job they can” to stop young men from joining the ranks of around 500 British jihadis who have gone to the Middle East to fight…
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Bosnian Serbs Honor Assassin Who Triggered WWI
100 years ago, on June 28, 1914, an assassin in Sarajevo shot dead Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, lighting the fuse for World War I. To mark the anniversary, Bosnian Serbs today unveiled a statue of the gunman, Gavrilo Princip, who many Serbs regard as a hero fighting imperial impression. Ferdinand’s pregnant wife was also killed in the attack.
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5 Injured as Israeli Arabs Riot, Call to Kidnap Soldiers
Israeli Arabs wave PLO flags, call for the kidnapping of IDF soldiers, and throw rocks at officers. Liberman: Treat them like terrorists.
A demonstration by Israeli Arabs against the IDF operation to locate three kidnapped Israeli teenagers turned violent on Friday afternoon, as five people were injured.
The protesters, who gathered in the Wadi Ara region in north-central Israel, waved Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flags and blocked roads, while calling for the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers and for the release of all terrorists who are serving time in Israeli prisons…
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Caroline Glick: The Names of the Victims
Three families in Israel are in agony. On June 12, when their sons Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gil-Ad Shaer were kidnapped by Islamic savages, the Fraenkels, Yifrahs and Shaers entered a new world where every breath they take is filled with devastating guilt — that they breathe free while their sons suffer unknown miseries.
Every moment that passes is filled with crushed hope that they will get word that their sons are free, and then the word doesn’t come. And it doesn’t come the next moment, or the next.
And so they will live, in agony, until this ordeal has ended.
Our hearts go out to these families. Our prayers are continuously directed towards them. And in a profound sense that is uniquely Israeli, the people of Israel share their pain. With this pain comes a sincere and overpowering desire to do something to bring the captive teenagers home.
What can be done?
There are only two ways for Israel to free hostages.
The government can devote all necessary resources to gathering actionable intelligence that will lead IDF troops to the boys.
Or the government can surrender to the terrorists by freeing thousands of Palestinian terrorist murderers from Israeli prisons.
So far, the government is concentrating on Option 1.
But Option 2 is lurking around the corner. And we need to confront it now — head on — before it takes center stage…
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Cash for Killers: How U.S. Taypayers Help Fund Palestinian Terror
Obama administration officials have praised Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as someone with whom Israel can do business.
Yet Abbas recently chose to do business with Hamas, forming a unity government with a terror group committed to Israel’s destruction.
As my latest report shows, this is familiar territory for Abbas—his Palestinian Authority has long provided generous salaries to terrorists convicted of murdering Israelis.
And those PA terrorist salaries are paid for, in part, by U. S. taxpayers.
Click the link above to watch.
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Israeli Airstrike on Gaza Car Kills 2 Palestinians
JERUSALEM, June 27 (Xinhua) — Two Palestinian militants were killed on Friday as an Israeli war jet struck their vehicle in Shatti (Beach) refugee camp in western Gaza city, medics and witnesses said.
Ayman Sahabani, Gaza emergency chief told Xinhua that the bodies of the killed militants were brought to a local hospital, while witnesses claimed that at least one rocket was fired at a car running inside the refugee camp…
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Susan Rice Finally Weighs in on Kidnapped Israeli Boys While Obama Remains Silent
by Phyllis Chesler
Day #14 is ending and the three Israeli teenage students are still missing. One is also an American citizen.
Earlier today, Israel named the Hamas operatives whom they believe are behind this heinous act. They are two men who are currently missing from Hebron, where they normally reside. Their names are Marwan Kawasmeh and Amar Abu Eisha.
In addition, PM Netanyahu is demanding that PM Abbas break the unity deal with Hamas and Hamas denies that they—or these two men are behind this kidnapping.
Until now, there have been no statements issued by President Obama.
As of last night, Ambassador Susan Rice’s last tweet concerns the U.S. Soccer Team “advancing” at the World Cup games, followed by three tweets, below…
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20,000 Indians Volunteer Fight in Iraq
(IraqiNews.com) The conflict between Iraqs government and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has begun to spread concerns throughout the region, particularly in India. Last week, the country was concerned over the unknown whereabouts of 40 Indian construction workers. The workers were in a territory that had been captured by the terrorist group ISIS.
Now, new concerns have emerged as Indias largest Shia organization began to recruit volunteers to defend Shia holy shrines in Iraq that may soon fall into the hands of ISIS. It is estimated that nearly 30,000 Indian Shia Muslims have already signed up to fight and applied for visas to fly into Iraq.
Various Indian Shia Muslim organizations are hoping that recruitment can build a force strong enough to defend the holy shrines against ISIS, as there are more than 50 million Shia Muslims in India led by those closely tied to Iran and Iraq.
Indias Shias said they would not stand by while Karbala is attacked again. Their recruits include bankers, students, doctors and engineers and their leaders have written to the Indian government to stress Isis support for terrorist attacks in India too.
We have nearly 30,000 volunteers who have filled in the forms and given their passports and are ready to go any moment. Another hundred thousand have got in touch with us and have pledged their support. We are looking at a million volunteers to form a human chain around the holy shrines of Karbala and Najaf, in case the Isis attacks. We will do everything to stop the advance of the enemies, said Syed Bilal, spokesman of Anjuman-e-Haideri which protects Delhis own Karbala shrine.
The volunteers are educated young men from different backgrounds. We do not plan to train them in arms. We will go there to fight them bare handed, he added.
As reported by IraqiNews.com, Iran has previously vowed that Shia holy shrines in Iraq will be defended at almost any cost particularly in Karbala and Najaf, where ISIS leaders have claimed they will attempt to capture the holy sites. Millions of Shia Muslim pilgrims travel to the revered sites each year.
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Exclusive: In Virus Hunt, Saudi Arabia Suspects African Camel Imports
(Reuters) — Saudi Arabia suspects a virus that has killed hundreds of people there may have arrived in camels from the Horn of Africa, and could ban such imports until it knows more, the kingdom’s chief scientist told Reuters.
Any ban on the camel trade with the region would badly hurt the already fragile economy of Somalia, which is a major livestock exporter to Saudi Arabia.
Tariq Madani, who heads the scientific advisory board of the Saudi health ministry command and control center (CCC) — set up to handle the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS — said scientists are currently testing camels at sea ports before authorities allow them in.
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Iraq’s Top Shi’ite Cleric Calls for Prime Minister to be Chosen by Tuesday
The most influential Shi’ite cleric in Iraq called on the country’s leaders to choose a prime minister before parliament sits next week to begin forming a government, to blunt a Sunni insurgency that threatens to dismember the country.
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who commands unswerving loyalty from many Shi’ites in Iraq and beyond, said political blocs should agree on the next premier, parliament speaker and president before the newly elected legislature meets on Tuesday.
Sistani’s extraordinary intervention into politics forces the pace of a process that took nearly 10 months after Iraq’s last election in 2010, and means the fate of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki — serving as caretaker after an election in April and battling to keep his job — could be decided within days.
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Iraq: Saving Qaraqosh, A Christian Town Torn Between Kurds and ISIS
Boutros Mouchi, Syriac Catholic bishop of Nineveh, makes an appeal to ensure that Eastern Christians not be turned into “a wandering people.” The town, once a safe haven, is likely to become the next battleground.
Beirut (AsiaNews) — Qaraqosh, a predominantly Christian town in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, has been without water and power supply for a week. Now residents are preparing to flee a place they once considered safe as Islamist forces begin to clash with Kurdish peshmerga.
“No, we Eastern Christians are not a wandering people,” said Mgr Boutros Mouchi, Syriac Catholic bishop of Nineveh, in an attempt to raise awareness locally, regionally and internationally about the need to save the town from an invasion by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which some deemed “imminent”.
From Beirut, Melhem Khalaf, law professor at the University Saint-Joseph, joined the appeal just back from Iraq, where he also visited Qaraqosh.
His appeal is for all political and religious leaders and all those who care about the survival of the region’s rich social fabric, history and future.
Bishop Boutros Mouchi is still in Qaraqosh, which is located about thirty kilometres from Mosul and is close to Kurdish-controlled areas.
When ISIS took Mosul, Kurdish forces moved into Kirkuk, Iraq’s richest oil-rich region, extending their control over Qaraqosh as well.
Thus, the city found itself caught between rival forces fighting each other. When Qaraqosh residents asked ISIS leaders for the restauration of water and power supply, they were told: “Just ask the Kurds!”
In recent weeks, Qaraqosh, which had 38,000 residents, 35,000 of which Christian, saw its population swell with the influx of Christians fleeing Mosul, after it was seized by ISIS.
The same happened a few years ago, when Christians sought refuge in the city after fleeing the hell of Baghdad and thought they had found a place of peace.
At first, ISIS pledged not to attack the town. With the desire to reassure the people and give credit to the commitments made by Islamist forces, the Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako went there in person.
Now everything has changed. Islamic extremists have begun attacking Qaraqosh, clashing with Kurdish peshmerga.
Now, along with representatives of various Eastern Churches, Mgr Mouchi is appealing to the world to save the city and its most precious asset: religious, cultural and ethnic diversity.
The Free World has to face up to its responsibilities, and not close its eyes before the violence that is currently tearing Iraq apart and that is happening or could happen, Khalaf said, under the guise of a power struggle.
As part of this mobilisation, the Vatican has been reminded through Western ambassadors in Beirut.
Everyone is convinced that the issue goes beyond the fate of a few thousands Christians and involves the future of the region.
As Khalaf put it, “Qaraqosh is a bit of all of us. To let it die is to sign the death sentence for all of us.”
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Iraqi Security Forces Battle Sunni Militants Near Baghdad
BAGHDAD, June 27 (Xinhua) — Iraqi security forces on Friday fought fiercely with Sunni militant groups in several provinces north and east of the capital Baghdad, security sources said.
In Salahudin province, military aircraft carried out many air strikes in some neighborhoods in the provincial capital city of Tikrit, leaving an undetermined number of people killed and wounded, the source said…
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Lebanon Says Swede Helped Suicide Bombers
Lebanese security services are searching for a Swede who they say supplied explosives to a pair of suicide bombers who blew themselves up Wednesday in a Beirut hotel.
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Saudi Arabia: More Than 800 Cases of MERS, With 286 Deaths
There are more than 100 new cases of people infected with the virus, 34 of them have died. The origin of the infection is still uncertain. The researchers believe that the virus that causes the infection is transmitted by animals, but has not yet been demonstrated.
Riyad (AsiaNews/Agencies) — More than 100 more cases and 34 deaths from the new respiratory disease Mers have been reported by officials in Saudi Arabia.The cases date back to February and came to light after an analysis of hospital records.
The World Health Organization says there have now been 820 cases of Mers and 286 deaths.The exact source of the new infection is still uncertain, but camels are a prime suspect.The virus is from the same family as the common cold, but can lead to kidney failure and pneumonia.
The update from the Saudi authorities said there were 113 additional cases,76 of the patients recovered, three are still in hospital and 34 have died.Cases have also been confirmed in Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt, the UK and the US, usually after a travel to Saudi Arabia.
Researchers believe the coronavirus that causes the infection crossed over from animals. Earlier this month, a report in the New England Journal of Medicine found “identical” Mers virus in camels and their owner.
However, the link had not been conclusively proven and some researchers argue there may be another source.The figures do show that nearly half of the cases were spread between people. It seems to have spread after close contact with family member or medical staff.
The World Health Organization does not recommend restrictions on trade or travel, but does warn people to avoid raw camel milk, and to ensure meat is properly cooked.
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Syrian Rebels Can Play Role in Iraq: Kerry 2
Syrian rebels can help push back jihadists in Iraq, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday as Washington unveiled plans to boost Syria’s opposition with $500 million in arms and training.
The top US diplomat, who landed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah in the afternoon, also met Saudi King Abdullah a day after hosting urgent talks in Paris with the Saudi, Jordanian and UAE foreign ministers on the widening crisis in Iraq and Syria.
King Abdullah has consistently called for greater US military support for the Syrian rebels, whom the Sunni Gulf kingdom has long backed.
Following several signals in recent weeks by US President Barack Obama’s administration, the White House said Thursday it intends to “ramp up US support to the moderate Syrian opposition”.
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Syrian Rebels Can Play Role in Iraq: Kerry 1
JEDDAH: Syrian rebels can help push back jihadists in Iraq, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday as Washington unveiled plans to boost Syria’s opposition with $500 million in arms and training.
The top US diplomat, who landed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah in the afternoon, also met Saudi King Abdullah a day after hosting urgent talks in Paris with the Saudi, Jordanian and UAE foreign ministers on the widening crisis in Iraq and Syria…
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Syria Opposition Sacks Rebel Command Over Graft Allegations
As the White House asked lawmakers to funnel $500 million towards moderate insurgents, Syria’s opposition government sacked the military command of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) late Thursday over corruption allegations, Agence France-presse reported.
Chief of the opposition government Ahmad Tohme “decided to disband the Supreme Military Council and refer its members to the government’s financial and administration committee for investigation,” a statement said…
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MH370 Passengers and Crew ‘Died From Suffocation as Plane Crashed Into Ocean on Autopilot’
Passengers and crew of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight most likely died from suffocation as the plane coasted into the ocean on autopilot, Australian officials have said.
In a new 55-page report, the Australian Transport Safety Board said investigators arrived at the conclusion after comparing conditions on the flight with previous disasters.
The news comes as authorities announced the Australian-led search will now focus on a 60,000 square kilometre area further south in the Indian Ocean.
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Pakistani Army Kills 300 Militiamen in North Waziristan
(AGI) Karachi, June 27 — Around 300 militiamen were killed so far in the Pakistani army’s large-scale offensive against militant groups in North Waziristan. Ten soldiers have been killed in the conflict. The operation will take time because no armoured vehicles can be used in the mountainous region of northeast Pakistan, General Asim Bajwa told a press conference.
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China Builds Its Own Manhattan — Except it’s a Ghost Town
China’s project to build a replica Manhattan is taking shape against a backdrop of vacant office towers and unfinished hotels, underscoring the risks to a slowing economy from the nation’s unprecedented investment boom.
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Battle Over Bendigo: Fear and Bruised Feelings in City That Said Yes to a Mosque
How did a local planning decision catapult the Victorian town into the heart of the debate over Islamaphobia in Australia?
A tattered Australian flag flies over Rowena Street, the barren industrial road on the outskirts of Bendigo which was approved last week as the site of the town’s first mosque.
The flag belongs to the only house on the street: a corrugated-iron shack surrounded by barbed wire, a row of tyres, and a scrap-metal gate. Spray-paint across the front reads: “This property is guarded by shotgun three days a week. You guess what three.”…
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Meriam Ibrahim Seeking Refuge in US Embassy in Sudan
Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy in Sudan is being looked after by US representatives in the country
A Sudanese Christian woman detained when she tried to travel to the United States after her release from death row was freed Thursday and took refuge at the US embassy, her lawyer said. “She is in the US embassy now,” Mohanad Mustafa said of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26. “She and her husband think this is a safe place for them,” after receiving death threats, Mr Mustafa said…
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Finland: Report Claims Immigrants More Likely to Commit and be Victims of Crime
The study by a body overseen by the Justice Ministry found that some groups of immigrants have a higher risk of offending and victimisation than the native population. The authors said that family socio-economics and lack of routine activities such as hobbies are partly responsible for the differences, but stressed that the majority of people in both immigrant and native population groups have no involvement at all in crimes, as victims or offenders.
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Italy: Three Arrested for Trafficking 500 Migrants
Messina arrivals identify 2 Tunisians, 1 Egyptian
(ANSA) — Messina, June 27 — Police on Friday arrested three people for illegally transporting 500 Eritrean refugees from the Libyan coast to the Sicilian coastal city Messina, where the migrants arrived in dilapidated boats Thursday. The three men accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration are two Tunisians, Mohdi Almsri and Faras Lofti, ages 35 and 31, respectively, and an Egyptian, Asaid Ramodan, age 26.
The men were identified after dozens of migrants spoke of lighter-skinned men who spoke Arabic.
Passengers also said they had the option of either paying a lump sum of US $2,500 for the trip, or making two payments, one of $1,600 followed by $1,800. Authorities seized $300 from Lofti. The boats were intercepted on the open sea on Tuesday by the Italian navy and the Italian coast guard boats in Italy’s Mare Nostrum sea-patrol-and-rescue operation.
The administration of Italian ex-premier Enrico Letta set up Mare Nostrum to prevent further deaths at sea following two migrant ship disasters in October 2013 in which at least 400 people died.
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Reciprocity on Migrants Scratched From EU Draft
Italy pushed hard for it
(ANSA) — Brussels, June 27 — Reciprocity on asylum seekers and migrants, a point strongly pushed by Italy, was scratched from the latest version of the EU summit conclusions under strong pressure from northern European countries. Italy has repeatedly asked the EU for more help in dealing with a huge influx of migrants from North Africa across the Mediterranean.
Italy’s Mare Nostrum search-and-rescue operation has reportedly saved some 50,000 migrants since it was set up after a disaster off Lampedusa in October.
But it is straining to cope and migrant centres are overflowing.
Italy has also raised the possibility of migrants being processed in Africa.
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Sweden Leads UN Thrust to House Thousands of Syrian Refugees
Sweden, which is at the helm of an initiative by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to find places for Syrian refugees to live, has gotten 21 countries to agree to collectively take in almost 34,000 of the refugees this fall and next year.
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First Gay Marriage in a UK Consulate Won’t be Recognised in Australia
Wedding of Peter Fraser and Gordon Stevenson in British consulate in Sydney was the first in any consulate anywhere in the world, but Australian law will not validate the union
In front of a dozen or so loved ones and almost as many media, dual British-Australian citizens Peter Fraser and Gordon Stevenson sat at a desk in the British consulate overlooking Sydney’s famous harbour, and prepared to exchange marriage vows…
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Norway Islamist Launches Anti-Gay Pride Site
A Norwegian Islamic extremist has launched a Facebook campaign against the Europride festival, which is held in Oslo this week, describing homosexuality as “a nasty and cruel disease”.
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Sweden: Kiruna Hockey Club First to Get LGBT Certified
Hockey players in the northern city of Kiruna will be playing in rainbow colours next season in an outward show of support for the LGBT community in sport, and Kiruna IF Hockey club’s anti-homophobia stance has received the stamp of approval from the organisation representing gay rights.
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Professor: We Must Tackle Population Growth With Knowledge
World population will keep climbing until it reaches 15 billion — but then it stops, says professor Hans Rosling.
“It shouldn’t be okay to say that we should stop population growth at eight billion. If it’s not okay to deny that the Holocaust ever happened, it shouldn’t be okay to suggest it,” he said.
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Ramadan Poses Challenge for Muslim Players at World Cup
The World Cup is set to become a whole lot more complicated this weekend for many of the Muslim players still in competition, with Ramadan — a month-long period of fasting — beginning Saturday night.
Dozens of Muslim players on teams such as France, Germany and Algeria will be faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to observe the holy month as the tournament enters the knockout stage.
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Shoppers Tracked as They Go Wild in the Aisles
Cameras will soon be watching your every move at the supermarket.
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In April this year 2GB booked me to present Chris Smith’s afternoons program for the 3 weeks starting Monday 30 June.
At 7.15 last night 2GB’s Program Director David Kidd phoned me and said, “We won’t be needing you, you can’t call a Deity a paedophile.”
David told me he was referring to the interview Ben Fordham conducted with me on Thursday this past week. Just for the record, Muhammad was a man, a prophet – but not a Deity.
I’ve thought about what I said in answer to Ben’s question. I think it’s wrong for a man in his 50s to have sex with a 9 year old child. It is wrong, it’s a crime and it should be called out for what it is.
Cultural enricher, Farooq Shah, is a truly outstanding paragon of the roaring success of British immigration policy. His name and deeds should be invoked for years to come.
At 21 years old he robs at knifepoint a blind fellow Muslim of £400 and a mobile phone, then a hour later stabs a prostitute to death. Caught on CCTV his initial defence was that it was a case of mistaken identity: he claimed to have been drinking and smoking marijuana elsewhere (no doubt because he was blood-tested on arrest and tested positive for both) He belatedly changed his defence to killing the prostitute because she was plying her trade near his mosque – no doubt hoping that her offending his religious sensibilities would play well in mitigating the sentence he would receive.
The Prosecution’s case was that, cashed up from robbing the blind man, he approached the prostitute who declined him as a customer because he was on a bicycle, ie no car. Incensed that his male honour was impugned he stabbed her to death – a highly plausible scenario. He rejected this on the grounds he would never pay for sex because he didn’t have to due to as he put it: “I’m not an ugly man”. Do follow the link to article with his photograph. Ugly as a hatful of [sphincters].
To top it off he had another stolen mobile phone on him when arrested. Which he claimed was sold to him by a mystery … one couldn’t invent this stuff.
“During the old paradigm – around the beginning of the nineteenth century – women had around six children on average worldwide, of which an average of two wouldn’t live very long. Today women have an average of two children and very few die.
“According to Rosling, two children per woman is a magically natural number for women in all the countries that have established a certain standard of living. Two children will mean that world population will only just maintains its size.”
““In the future the old Western world – Europe and North America – will account for less than 10 percent of the world population. We’ll become a museum which people from the rest of the world will fly in to see,” Rosling joked.”
Egghead: The good professor omits one EXTREMELY IMPORTANT variable which is the AGE that women have their children – in other words, the speed of generational turnover.
When an indigenous Westerner has her first child at 30-40 years of age, she produces fewer generations than a non-Westerner who has her first child at 12 years old or 16 years old or even 20 years old. This age disparity is the reason that non-Westerners will outnumber indigenous Westerners – even if non-Western women magically only have two children (and I question his optimism in this regard when the West is paying welfare-dependent immigrants MORE welfare benefits for having MORE children).
Indigenous Westerners MUST insist that non-Westerners 1) stop marrying cousins and increasing birth defects, 2) stop having children that Westerners support via lavish welfare benefits, and 3) substantially raise the AGE of reproduction for their women – with substantial Western legal and financial penalties for cousin marriage and child marriage.
http://sciencenordic.com/professor-we-must-tackle-population-growth-knowledge
Egghead, I do not agree that it is best to encourage all women to delay childbirth until they are at least 30 years old. By then, a woman’s most fertile years are behind her, and certain health problems are more common (and no; NOT just “Downs Syndrome” a.k.a. “Trisomy 21”). Better to support earlier breeding by all women who want to become mothers; between ages 20 and 30.
The problem of having older fathers is also significant; modern research indicates that children of older fathers are less “bouncy”; there are significant health problems found at higher rates among such children. Some problems are not apparent at birth, but appear later. Aging men have problems in QUALITY of sperm, while older women have problems in QUANTITY of ova.
The modern custom of pairing up for “love” does give young women a chance of finding a compatible man of similar age, rather than the odious cusom of marrying young girls to old men. Not only is this cruel to the girls, but it will add to the genetic burden of the resulting children, due to the genetic effect of having an older father, as I mentioned. With cousin-marriage, the results of genetic mutations in a population are soon apparent, as the damaged DNA is likely to end up in children in “double dose”, which allows expression of “recessive” genetic characteristics. No wonder that these children are so likely to be disabled or at least developmentally delayed and unemployable.
Hi Julie from Adelaide,
I am simply describing the existing reality – which is that Western women have been deferring their first births to their late 20s-early 30s whereas immigrant girls appear to have their first births at a RADICALLY younger age leading to the fact that immigrants will outbreed indigenous – even if every women has only two children.
The fact that younger women may be ‘better’ breeders has been overcome by the economics of modern society – EXCEPT where modern educated Westerners literally PAY the expenses for less educated Westerners and barbaric immigrants to bear as many children as they WANT versus CAN AFFORD – at a very young age – thus EXPONENTIALLY increasing the number of immigrant generations – rinse and repeat.
The average ages of first births are skewed because educated women wait until later than the average – whereas uneducated women and immigrants lower the average age of first births.
The USA should absolutely INSIST that immigrant mothers MUST be 25 years old in order to collect any welfare. Immigrants can have all of the babies that they want, but – as in the past – and as in their OWN countries – they should have to pay for their own babies.
USA – Age of first-time moms – Over the last three decades, women have been waiting longer to start having children. In 1970 the average age of a first-time mother was about 21. In 2008 the average age was 25.1.
http://www.babycenter.com/0_surprising-facts-about-birth-in-the-united-states_1372273.bc
England – According to the Office for National Statistics a typical woman having a baby in England and Wales is now just weeks short of her 30th birthday while first-time mothers are also older than ever before, at just over 28 years old.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10380260/Average-age-of-women-giving-birth-now-nearly-30.html
Egghead,
Are you implying a compensation system to induce young indigenous women to have more children to avert demographic collapse?
Hi Jolie Rouge,
I truly think that every child should be borne of love to one mother and one father in a sacramental Christian marriage. The state paying for people to have children is contrary to God’s plan for healthy families where parents should support children – rather than children supplying primary or supplemental funds to support parents.
I would consider the following ideas:
1) Permanently rescind ALL dual citizenships which make it too easy for Muslims to ‘confuse’ which country is their home country.
2) Stop ALL non-indigenous-European immigration to the West – especially immigration based on a) chain family reunification and b) marriage arranged to non-citizens. Let extended immigrant families reunify in their countries of origin – to avoid the creation of a ‘tribal’ dynamic in the West.
3) Require ALL immigrant men and women to work at full-time jobs for at least five years (for the state if necessary) BEFORE receiving any Western welfare – including relocation assistance and housing. Offer to pay the way home (and then permanently rescind citizenship) for any immigrants who are unable to meet the work requirement.
4) Pay substantially LESS welfare to women who have children under 25 years of age. Thus, women who wait until 25 years of age receive twice as much welfare as women who bear children under 25 years of age.
5) Pay substantially LESS welfare to women who have children in cousin marriages – which can be verified via DNA tests upon application for welfare. Thus, women who marry non-cousins receive twice as much welfare as women who marry cousins.
6) Pay substantially LESS welfare to women who have clitorectomies – which can be verified via medical examination upon application for welfare. Thus, women who have in tact female parts receive twice as much welfare as women who have clitorectomies.
Egghead, the problem with your points 3 and 5 is that any cutback in child welfare payments is likely to impact the innocent victim, i.e. the child, whatever his/her origin; maybe especially so with a very young mother who has less experience of surviving in the world.
How, oh how, did indigenous Europeans ever survive without the Big Daddy Welfare State robbing indigenous people to pay non-European foreigners to colonize and conquer the West?!
The SAME way that immigrants will if denied immediate welfare benefits – by GETTING A JOB. The whole fiction presented is that immigrants are needed to work in the West, so let them work. If immigrants cannot – or will not – work, then immigrants can stay in their countries of origin. It is the responsibility of each country to help its OWN children.
How can YOU possibly rationalize that non-employed immigrants should receive as many – or really more – welfare benefits than indigenous people? Who do YOU think is PAYING for those welfare benefits? Who do YOU think is PAYING for the excessive health care benefits for children with severe genetic defects caused by enforced cousin marriage between (often minor) girls and old(er) men?
Either way, innocent children suffer.
If the current system continues, then many Muslim children will suffer – namely, 1) young girls forced into loveless possibly polygamous marriages against their will – merely seen as a piece of property used to secure chain immigration and increased welfare benefits, 2) young boys who are precluded from marrying young girls who are married too soon to old(er) men, 3) young babies with severe genetic defects borne from enforced cousin marriage, 4) young babies borne into loveless marriages to too young girls unready to be mothers and immigrant fathers unready to accept Western values.
With Muslims being paid to immigrate and reproduce, indigenous Western children suffer for readily apparent reasons.
Sorry, I can’t be that heartless. Also the evils mentioned in your penultimate para are even more likely to befall non-immigrants.
Oh Mark, but YOU are THAT heartless – against indigenous Western Christian people whose children face torture, rape, murder, and enslavement in OUR lifetime BECAUSE of the PURPOSEFUL Muslim baby-making machine….
Richard Barrett, former senior M16 officer, has suggested that home coming Jihadi’s be re-integrated back into society rather than be watched as possible ‘terrorists’.
In a nut shell, and from that man’s thinking, one can detect a fundamental cause for why Islam is winning so far within the West.