A Muslim shopkeeper in Glasgow was stabbed to death by a fellow Muslim after he wished his Christian neighbors a happy Easter. A man has been charged with the killing, and police say it was a religiously-motivated crime.
In other Glaswegian news, the imam of the largest mosque in Scotland is being investigated by police after he publicly praised the killer of a Pakistani judge who opposed the country’s strict blasphemy law.
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Anti-Trump Double Agents Undermining Election Process
(POLITICO) — Donald Trump triumphed in South Carolina’s primary last month. Now, the state could be ground zero for his undoing.
Ted Cruz and John Kasich are aggressively mobilizing allies to recruit and elect their own South Carolina loyalists to the national Republican convention — scheduled for late July in Cleveland.
All 50 of South Carolina’s delegates are duty-bound to support Trump on a first vote, but interviews with two dozen prospective delegates and party insiders — including several Trump backers — reveal a widespread belief that Cruz and Kasich will succeed in wresting the delegation away from Trump if the nomination fight heads to a second ballot. If Trump is unable to claim the nomination immediately, South Carolina could help tip the scales away from the New York billionaire.
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Blue State Blues: AIPAC Makes the Case for Donald Trump
The leadership of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) offered their abject apology Tuesday to Obama for allowing Trump to criticize him the day before — and, worse, for the spectacle of AIPAC’s members applauding him.
AIPAC’s apology was worthy of a Soviet show trial, or a scene from Mao’s Cultural Revolution — and appropriately so, for at that very moment, Obama was in Cuba, doing the wave with Raúl Castro.
Did Obama apologize to AIPAC for indulging that Israel-bashing, Hezbollah-supporting regime? And is it any wonder millions of Americans prefer the brashness of Trump, or the boldness of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), to such humiliation?
Notably, AIPAC did not apologize to Trump for Hillary Cilnton’s speech earlier on Monday. The former Secretary of State ripped The Donald as a bigot and a bully, charges stemming partly from his proposal to bar all Muslim immigration and visits to the U.S. temporarily. It is a policy embraced, albeit in error, by the vast majority of GOP primary voters, and is at least understood by the rest.
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CNN Host Abruptly Cuts Omarosa’s Mic in Segment About Trump [Video]
CNN host Don Lemon got testy with former “Apprentice” contestant and Donald Trump supporter Omarosa Manigault Friday night when she didn’t answer his question about the Twitter war between Trump and Ted Cruz about their wives.
“Well, I don’t think we should start there. We should start with the fact that a super PAC that supports Cruz, started to attack Donald Trump’s wife…” the former Apprentice star began to say on CNN.
Lemon quickly interrupted Manigault’s answer.
“I’m not going to let you do that. I’m going to answer that. Stop, Omarosa. Stop, Omarosa. Okay, cut the mic, everybody. We’re not doing that. I want everyone on this panel to answer the question directly. and I will let you -” Lemon told his panel of Omarosa Manigault and Cruz supporter Kellyanne Conway.
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GAO: F-35 Engine ‘Not Performing at Expected Levels’
(Connecticut Mirror) Federal investigators said Wednesday that Pratt & Whitney’ s engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter still is “not performing at expected levels” and is one of many glitches still plaguing the nation’ s next generation of fighters.
“While Pratt & Whitney has implemented a number of design changes that have resulted in significant reliability improvements, the F-35A and F-35B engines are still at about 55 percent and 63 percent, respectively, of where the program expected them to be at this point,” said the report by the Government Accountability Office.
The F-35A is the Air Force version of the plane, and the F-35B is the Marine Corps version, which is capable of short takeoffs and vertical landings. There is also an F-35C Navy version designed for carrier operations.
[Comment: It was stupid to build the fighter with VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing). Should have abolished Navy’s VTOL requirements. This plane will get spanked by the new MiG. ]
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In Defense of Donald Trump’s Heidi Cruz Tweet
by Milo Yiannopoulos
The first point to be made is that Trump didn’t start the wife-baiting. Make America Awesome, a Trump-opposing PAC founded by the mannish Liz Mair, started circulating a particularly raunchy image of Melania Trump, urging GOP primary voters to back Cruz. While Cruz didn’t authorise the ad himself, it was retweeted by many of his supporters. As always, the super PACs acted like a ninja assassins for its candidate. “It wasn’t me, your honour — it was those dastardly, nefarious PACs!”
If Republicans learn anything from the unbelievable failure of Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, it should be that “presidential” and “nice” don’t go together. Isn’t it strange that elections follow the same rules as dating? Nice guys finish last.
Republicans typically reject the “everybody gets a trophy” mentality that has invaded our culture, but if you insist, we can add up to the attractiveness quotient of Cruz’s wife and all of his alleged mistresses and compare the total with Melania. That ought to at least earn him a participation trophy.
To beat Hillary, Republicans must focus on getting more people under the tent, which means snagging Democrats. Would Trump gain the support blue collar working Democrats by tearfully apologizing to Cruz after the senator’s minions attacked his wife? He could actually alienate them with that behaviour. Outside of the D.C beltway, respect is gained by standing up for yourself, and punching back twice as hard.
Because Trump’s campaign is almost entirely self-funded, he has leeway to be a total asshole on the public stage. He doesn’t have to worry about what polite society thinks of him, because unlike the other candidates, he isn’t thinking about the next fundraising dinner in D.C.
This has given him the unique ability to smash our culture’s stifling language codes with a sledgehammer. In the process, he’s certainly lowering the tone — but it badly needs to be lowered. Only by totally ignoring people’s feelings can we end the left’s culture of grievance, offense, and victimhood. It’s what I’ve been doing for years, and it’s what Trump is now doing on the national stage.
Sure, the rudeness is uncomfortable to decent conservatives who appreciate good manners and a civil tongue. But if we really want to beat the left, we need Trump’s crassness. A few mean tweets about Heidi Cruz is a small price to pay to end a quarter-century of grievance culture.
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HBO host Bill Maher argued that “it’s not one small slice” of Muslims who hold extremist beliefs, and President Obama’s claims to the contrary are pulled “right out of his a**” on Friday’s “Real Time.”
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Muslim activists in America have set themselves the target of registering one million Muslim voters-mostly Arab immigrants-in key states to help defeat Donald Trump, a number of Islamic organizations have announced.
Efforts will be focused on swing states such as Ohio and Florida that have large Muslim populations, potentially giving the small but united voting bloc the power to tilt close election results.
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Milo: ‘Trump is a Direct Creation of the Progressive Left’
Although Yiannopoulos told Joe Rogan on the Joe Rogan Experience in September that he was merely “enjoying the spectacle” of the Trump candidacy, his views have since “evolved.”
“I care about all the things you care about. And I see the best way to accomplish what we collectively want is to throw our lot in with a politician that doesn’t look like the rest of them, that terrifies the rest of them,” Yiannopoulos told Rubin. “The prospect of a Trump candidacy, of a Trump presidency terrifies not just liberals but conservatives too. Because he threatens to blow apart the political consensus.”
When pressed by Rubin about blowing up consensus, Yiannopoulos responded: “When I see GOP politicians telling CNN reporters, ‘the public doesn’t pick the candidate, we pick the candidate’, I just think to myself, you deserve to burn. These people don’t like the public. They don’t like their own electorate. The Republican party has become as hostile to its own base as liberals have always been.”
In regards to political correctness, Yiannopoulos believes that Trump “represents the best hope we have of smashing political correctness apart — of breaking open all of the taboos, all of the stuff you’re not supposed to say. Allowing real debate to be had again. In America, it’s impossible to have an honest discussion about the wage gap.”
Perhaps most importantly, Yiannopoulos had a message for the Trump-loathing leftists, telling Rubin, “Trump is a direct creation of the progressive left. He exists because of the people that we both hate.”
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Obama: Stigmatizing Muslims ‘Plays Into Hands’ of Jihadists
President Barack Obama has urged Americans not to stigmatize Muslims following this week’s deadly attacks in Brussels, saying that doing so is “counterproductive” in the fight against radical Islam.
In his weekly media address, Obama said Muslim-Americans are “our most important partners in the nation’s fight against those who would wage violent jihad.
“That’s why we have to reject any attempt to stigmatize Muslim-Americans, and their enormous contributions to our country and our way of life,” Obama said…
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Proof: Ted Cruz Cheating Scandal Not Linked to Trump Campaign — Was Started by GOP Elites
The National Enquirer published a story this week accusing Texas Senator Ted Cruz of multiple extramarital affairs.
On Friday Ted Cruz blamed Donald Trump and his former consultant Roger Stone for the National Enquirer article on his alleged extramarital affairs…
But these rumors did not start with Donald Trump.
The rumors were started by the Rubio Campaign and GOP elites. Conservative Treehouse reported:…
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Ted Cruz May Get Free Pass on Sex Scandal
Establishment may overlook scandal to beat Donald Trump
It looks like the Ted Cruz campaign may be finished. It’s now more or less confirmed he cheated on his bankster wife and had sex with at least five different women.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Politico, and ABC News all knew about the allegations but refused to publish them. Breitbart also declined to run the story back in February.
On Friday, The Daily Beast reported Cruz rival Marco Rubio may be responsible. Rubio has his own problems. GOP insiders reportedly confirmed he was a “very extroverted homosexual” in the 1990s.
Then there is Hillary Clinton. So far she has escaped having to answer for the email scandal. The Justice Department has refused to act. Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said it’s no big deal. The FBI has enough evidence to move on a prosecution, but nothing is happening. “It will never get to an indictment,” former Inspector General Howard J. Krongard told the New York Post in February.
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Thousands Sign Petition to Allow Guns at RNC Convention
The petition—which can be found at Change.Org—calls on Quicken Loans Arena to suspend “their policy preventing the open carry of firearms on the premises of the arena from July 18-21, 2016 to coincide with the Republican National Convention.” The petition also asks the NRA to join the fray by issuing “an immediate condemnation of the egregious affront to the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution constituted by the ‘gun-free zone’ loophole to the state law.”
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USC Student Senator Has Stipend Revoked for Milo Yiannopoulos Invitation
A student senator at USC (University of Southern California) has avoided facing formal charges but had his stipend removed as a result of organising a talk by Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos at the university.
Jacob Ellenhorn, who sits on the student senate, faced an enquiry after the event took place, and while the senate allowed him to remain in office, they voted 9-2 to withhold the rest of his stipend.
It is understood the decision was taken as a punishment for Ellenhorn expressing his conservative political views in public.
“After hearing the truth about the false charges brought up against [me] by Diana Jimenez, my fellow senators decided to vote against my impeachment,” Jacob Ellenhorn told Campus Reform in a statement. “That said, while they have voted against removing me from office, they have decided to still punish me for my political views, and for exercising my First Amendment right to speak with members of the press. As part of this official punishment the last $250 installment of my $2 thousand stipend will be withheld.”
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Belgium Terror Incompetence Laid Bare
How all THREE Brussels suicide bombers were flagged up by Turkish authorities and left to commit mass murder in Europe
New reports have revealed astonishing lapses in security and intelligence after it emerged all three Brussels bombers had visited Turkey in the past two years, raising suspicion with local authorities looking to deport them.
Brussels airport suicide bomber Ibrahim El-Bakraoui, 29, was deported from Turkey not once, but twice, in the past year, and sent back to Europe.
However, because Belgian authorities told Turkey that the records of both Khalid El-Bakraoui and Najim Laachraoui were ‘clean’ neither were deported.
The Turkish government issued multiple warnings to Belgian and Dutch counterparts regarding the three Brussels bombers, according to a report citing two unnamed Turkish officials.
Ibrahim El-Bakraoui went to Turkey first in June of 2015. CNNTurk reports: ‘Ibrahim el Bakraoui came to Gaziantep in late June 2015 to join ISIS.
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Belgium Denies ‘Terror Link’ In Murder of Guard at Nuclear Centre
The murder this week of a security guard at a Belgian nuclear research centre is a purely criminal affair unrelated to any terrorist threat, prosecutors said Saturday.
The Charleroi prosecutor’s office in charge of the case “formally denied” any connection between the murder of Didier Prospero, who was shot dead on Thursday at his home in Froidchapelle and a planned terror attack, the Belga news agency reported, citing the prosecutor.
There was no immediate independent confirmation from the prosecutor’s office in Charleroi, about an hour’s drive south of Brussels.
Belga said the prosecutor had also denied media reports that Prospero’s access badge had gone missing…
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Brussels Attacks: Nuclear Alert After Security Officer ‘Found Dead With His Pass Missing’
A security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear facility was murdered two days after the Brussels bombings, but prosecutors have denied that the killing was related to terrorism.
The prosecutor’s office in the city of Charleroi, south of Brussels, also denied a report in the newspaper Derniere Heure that his work pass was stolen, according to the Belga news agency.
The report raised concerns that the Brussels bombers had wanted to build a radioactive dirty bomb — but apparently shelved the plan after security was stepped up at Belgium’s nuclear plants following intelligence warnings.
The guard, Didier Prospero, was shot dead at his home in Froidchapelle.
A police spokeswoman said she could not comment on the case because the investigation was ongoing.
Prospero, who worked for the G4S security company, was found dead in his bathroom by his three children when they returned from school, Belga reported. He was shot four times. An earlier report had said he was shot while walking his dog…
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Brussels Attacks: Nuclear Officer Found Dead, Security Pass Stolen
Belgium is on high alert after a security officer for a nuclear plant was found dead with his work pass stolen.
The concerning development, which occurred on Thursday but was only reported today by Dernière Heure, comes after concerns the Brussels bombers had been plotting to create a radioactive “dirty bomb” that would scatter nuclear material in a crowded public place.
The security officer was reportedly shot dead as he walked his dog in the city of Charleroi. Authorities quickly cancelled his pass.
While the motive for the murder remains unknown, police are looking into the theory he was killed to steal his pass and gain access to a nuclear facility.
Breitbart London reported yesterday that eleven nuclear workers have had their security passes revoked amid fears the Brussels attackers wanted to steal nuclear material to build a dirty bomb.
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Brussels Attacks: Raids Uncover Evidence of Europe-Wide Jihadist Cell
Police made at least four arrests in a series of raids in Belgium and four other countries across Europe
In the wake of the bombings in Belgium this week — and increasing criticism of officials for their inability to thwart those attacks — police in the last 24 hours have made at least four arrests in a series of raids in Belgium and four other countries across Europe.
New evidence shows disturbing evidence of just how big the terror network is across Europe.
CBS News’ Allen Pizzey reports from Brussels that, as the effort to break the terrorist cell that carried out the bombings goes on, Belgian officials are coming under increased scrutiny and criticism for what is being seen as a series of intelligence failures.
In an operation that played out in full view, Belgian police shot a man who was spotted with a suspicious bag at a tram stop Friday.
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Brussels Attackers Were Part of Plot Against Nuclear Facilities
Since liberals would rather do just about anything rather than take the threat of terrorism seriously, they like to tell us among other things that very few people actually die from terror attacks, and that more people die from falling in the bathtub and whatever else — and of course, from guns, since they hate law-abiding Americans carrying guns much more than they care about foreign terrorists doing the same.
At any rate, their argument is irrelevant. It is not the federal government’s job to keep you from slipping in the bathtub. It is the federal government’s job to stop terrorist attacks, so the comparison is about as meaningless as a thing can be. That may be the reason that Obama has recently shifted to a new argument — that ISIS (or “ISIL” as he and only he insists on calling them) is not an “existential threat” to the United States, meaning they are not going to bring an end to our country by coming here and cutting off all our heads. That is no doubt true, although it’s an awfully sad rationalization for not taking seriously the threat they do pose.
And about that: What makes Obama supporters think ISIS doesn’t aspire to do far more damage than what we’ve seen thus far on their videos? News reports out of Brussels suggest that the attackers there were also plotting to attack nuclear facilities:
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Finmeccanica to Supply Nine Planes to Italy Air Force
Order worth over 300 million
(ANSA) — Milan, March 22 — Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica has signed a contract worth over 300 million euros to supply a further nine Aermacchi M-346 advanced trainer aircraft to the Italian Air Force, a statement said on Tuesday. The new contract takes to 18 the number of Aermacchi M-346 ordered by Italy. Delivery is scheduled to start this year and be completed by the end of 2018.
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Former War Crimes Tribunal Spokeswoman Detained
She also worked for former prosecutor Carla Del Ponte
(ANSA-AP) — THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A former spokeswoman for the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has been detained by security guards at the court shortly before judges are due to deliver verdicts in the trial of Radovan Karadzic. It was not immediately clear why Florence Hartmann was detained Thursday. A court spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Hartmann, a French national, was convicted of contempt of court by the tribunal in 2009 for publishing confidential material from the trial of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. She was initially fined 7,000 euros, but the fine was later converted to a seven-day prison sentence, which she is not believed to have served. Hartmann was a spokeswoman for former prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.
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From Crime to Journalism, Belgian Terror Suspects a Mixed Bag
Two brothers who dabbled in crime, a freelance journalist, a university drop-out and a mystery man — the five suspects in Belgium’s airport and subway train attacks are a mixed lot.
Two of the men blew themselves up at the Brussels’ airport, a third inside a metro train, killing 31 people and injuring 300 on March 22.
A fourth suspect was charged Saturday with terrorist murder and identified by the federal prosecutor’s office only as Faycal C.
A fifth man remains on the run…
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Guard at ‘Terror Target’ Belgian Nuclear Site Killed, Access Badge Stolen
A security officer at a nuclear site was killed in the Belgian city of Charleroi two days after the terror attacks in Brussels, local newspaper Derniere Heure reported, citing police sources. The paper added that the man’s security pass was stolen.
Charleroi is located 50 km from the Belgian capital.
A security guard, who was walking his dog, was shot dead in the early evening on Thursday, the paper said.
His security pass was stolen, which alerted the investigators since the man was a member of a nuclear power plant staff.
Earlier Thursday, DH reported that Brussels suicide bombers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui were planning attacks on Belgian nuclear power stations and that the arrest of Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam had accelerated the plans of the terrorists.
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Imam of Scotland’s Mosque Praised Qadri for Killing Salman Taseer
The imam of Scotland’s biggest mosque glorified the actions of Mumtaz Qadri in messages sent out to the local Muslim community, according to a report by the BBC.
Imam Maulana Habib Ur Rehman wrote in messages, which were seen by BBC, that he is “disturbed” and “upset” at the news of Qadri’s execution. He also wrote “rahmatullahi alaih” (may Allah’s mercy be upon him), with the name of the convicted terrorist.
The cleric further said, “I cannot hide my pain today. A true Muslim was punished for doing which [sic] the collective will of the nation failed to carry out.”
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ISIS Sends 400 Trained Fighters to Europe to Attack From “Interlocking, Semiautonomous Cells”
The recent attacks in Paris and in Brussels were just the tip of the iceberg of a massive wave of Islamic terror that is soon coming to Europe. As you will see below, the Associated Press is reporting that ISIS has specially trained “at least 400 attackers” and has already sent them into Europe with specific instructions to conduct terror operations. So Barack Obama may not think that we have anything to be concerned about, but the facts on the ground tell us a completely different story. Thanks to Europe’s openness to “war refugees” from Syria, it is very easy for radical jihadists to get into countries such as France, Belgium and Germany. And once they are on European soil, there are plenty of other disgruntled Islamic refugees that they can recruit to their cause. Europe stands on the precipice of the greatest terror crisis that it has ever known, and the attacks that are coming next are likely to be far more deadly than anything we have seen so far.
As I mentioned above, the Associated Press is reporting that ISIS has already sent “at least 400” trained fighters into Europe for the purpose of conducting terror attacks…
[Comment: 100% of the blame lies on the globalists and their puppet politicians pushing the Kaligri planned destruction of the western nation states; as well as propping up ISIS in the first place in a failed plan to destabilize Assad.]
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Italy: Prof Fired for Peeing Into Bush Gets Job Back
Employed 14 years, fined 11 years ago and forgot to say so
(ANSA) — Bergamo, March 25 — A Bergamo judge on Friday reinstated a high school philosophy professor fired last month after 14 years on the job because he forgot to report he was fined 200 euros for urinating into a bush 11 years ago.
Crowds of friends and well-wishers, including many students of the school where he was one of the most popular teachers, cheered the verdict.
Stefano Rho’, 43, a father of three born in Uganda of humanitarian doctor parents, in the summer of 2005 attended a village feast in Averara, pop. 182, located in the northern Brembana Valley.
The village shut down early and there was no bathroom available, so Rho’ and his friend relieved themselves in a bush.
Police caught them in the act, cited them, and a justice of the peace eventually fined them 200 euros.
In 2013, Rho’ signed an education ministry form stating he had no criminal record. But the Bergamo school system discovered the discrepancy, and censured him.
However the Audit Court later ruled that lying about one’s record is grounds for firing, and he was.
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THE IMAM of Scotland ‘s biggest mosque is being investigated by police over allegations he praised an Islamist terrorist .
Habib ur Rehman — one of the most senior figures at Glasgow Central Mosque — posted messages online backing extremist murderer Mumtaz Qadri and claiming he was a “true Muslim”.
Qadri was put to death in Pakistan earlier this year for assassinating Punjab’s governor Salman Taseer over the politician’s opposition to draconian blasphemy laws.
The policeman was supposed to be protecting Taseer when he opened fire in a market in January 2011, before claiming it was his religious duty to kill the minister.
Rehman posted furious messages in support of Mumtaz on WhatsApp.
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The mysterious ‘Man in White’ who was pictured alongside the Brussels airport bombers just moments before they killed 14 people has reportedly been identified as Mohamed Abrini.
The 31-year-old, wanted for his role in last November’s attacks in Paris, is thought to be the man captured on CCTV alongside Belgian brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, according to the newspaper Sudpresse.
After the two bombers had successfully detonated their bombs, Abrini is thought to have been caught fleeing the scene, wearing beige summer clothes and a blue hat, having failed to set his own device off.
Abrini is believed to have played a major role in organising this week’s terror attacks in Brussels, which killed 31 people and injured hundreds more.
Belgian newspaper Sudpresse does not reveal exactly how it has revealed the identify of the wanted man shown on CCTV, who is currently being hunted by police forces in France and Belgium.
Abrini, a Belgian of Moroccan origin is known to have travelled to the UK last year, visiting Birmingham and took photographs of an unidentified football stadium while his Islamic State cell began planning the attacks in France.
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Scotland: Muslim Charged After Fellow Muslim Who Wished Christians ‘Happy Easter’ Brutally Murdered
A MUSLIM man has been charged after a fellow Muslim who posted a “happy Easter” message on Facebook was brutally murdered.
Popular shopkeeper Asad Shah was stabbed and then had his head stamped outside his shop in Minard Road, Glasgow around 9pm last night.
It came just hours after the 40-year-old posted a message on Facebook wishing “a very happy Easter to my beloved Christian nation”.
Paramedics fought to save Mr Shah’s life and the Pakistani-born man was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital where he later died.
A 32-year-old man has today been arrested and charged with murder after the death of shopkeeper Mr Shah.
Police Scotland said the death is being treated as “religiously prejudiced” and confirmed the accused is also Muslim.
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Scotland: Imam at Glasgow’s Central Mosque Uses Whatsapp to Praise an Extremist Killer
The spiritual leader of Scotland’s biggest mosque has praised an Islamist assassin amid fresh concerns about the threat of radicalism at the Muslim centre of worship.
Habib ur Rehman, the imam of Glasgow Central Mosque, said extremist Mumtaz Qadri was a “true Muslim” and equated his actions with the French resistance against the Nazis during World War Two.
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THE religious head of Scotland ‘s biggest mosque has apparently praised an extremist who was executed after murdering a politician.
Glasgow Central Mosque imam Habib ur Rehman is said to have made favourable comments about assassin Mumtaz Qadri.
Qadri is a polarising figure in Pakistan who was hanged in February for the murder of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who opposed Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws.
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HUNDREDS of people have attended a poignant vigil 24 hours after a shopkeeper was killed in a brutal attack outside his Glasgow newsagents.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was among more than 400 people who gathered to pay tribute to Asad Shah, 40, who was was attacked at his shop in Glasgow’s Shawlands at 9.00pm on Thursday night. Candles, flowers and daffodils were laid close to the spot, while supporters laid out a banner saying This is Not Who We Are.
Police have arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with his death, which they are treating as “religiously prejudiced”.
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MURDERED Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah posted a heartfelt Easter message on Facebook just hours before he brutally stabbed to death last night.
Mr Shah, 40, died in hospital after being knifed in a savage street attack in a Shawlands street shortly after 9pm.
Eyewitnesses told how they saw two men standing over the shopkeeper. One said: “One was stamping on his head. There was a pool of blood on the ground. It was horrific.”
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Scotland: Asad Shah Death: Man Arrested for ‘Religiously Prejudiced’ Killing
A well-respected Muslim shopkeeper who wished Christians a happy Easter and appeared to speak out against violence was killed in an attack police are treating as “religiously prejudiced”.
Asad Shah was found seriously injured outside his shop in Minard Road in the Shawlands area of Glasgow on Thursday night and pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
A Muslim man has been arrested.
[A Muslim killing another Muslim: The political elite keep telling us that whenever this happens, it means that Islam is a “religion of peace”.]
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Scotland: Muslim Shopkeeper Asad Shah’s Customers Pay Tribute After He Was Stabbed to Death
Mourners of killed Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah have flooded tributes onto Twitter and Facebook calling him a ‘King among men’ and someone who was ‘loved and praised by everyone’.
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Spain: Argentinean Judge Asks to Question 19 Suspects in Franco Crimes Case
Buenos Aires magistrate is using the concept of universal jurisdiction to justify her inquiry
A judge in Argentina who accepted a 2010 lawsuit against alleged crimes committed under the Franco regime in Spain wants to question 19 former officials in connection with the case.
María Servini de Cubría has asked Spain’s High Court for permission to take testimony from former Franco ministers José Utrera Molina and Rodolfo Martín Villa, and from former police officer and suspected torturer Antonio González Pacheco, known by his nickname of Billy the Kid, among others.
The Buenos Aires judge wants to travel to Spain to take depositions from them between April 4 and 22.
Servini de Cubría had already attempted to arrest all 19 individuals and have them extradited to Argentina in October 2014, but the Spanish government rejected the request on the grounds that Spain’s courts are the ones that should try their own citizens…
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Surprised? Belgium Knew Terror Attack Was Coming: “Advance and Precise Intelligence Warnings”
On the surface, there really isn’t anything mysterious about Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Brussels. Belgium carried out a small bombing campaign against ISIS last year, and roughly 100 of their military personnel remain in the Middle East in advisory roles. Couple that with the fact that Belgium has a sizeable migrant population from the Middle East, and many of their urban neighborhoods have become no go zones for the authorities, and it becomes shocking that an attack like this didn’t happen sooner.
The country is so out of control, that it has become a breeding ground for Islamic terror groups who use the country as a staging area for future attacks against Europe. In fact, the assailants who committed the brutal terrorist attack in Paris last November were originally based in Belgium.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a terrorist attack was attempted in this country, and it isn’t first time this has happened. The only thing that’s unique about it this time around, is the scale of the devastation. What is surprising however, is the fact that the Belgian government couldn’t prevent this attack. According to some sources like Haaretz, Belgian authorities should have known this was coming.
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UK: Boy Racers Jailed for Eight Years After Killing Army Major’s Son in Leeds Hit-and-Run
A PAIR of boy racers who killed an Army major’s son on a pedestrian crossing have both been jailed for eight years.
Majid Malik and Kaiz Mahmood were racing at 80mph — twice the legal limit — when Malik’s souped-up VW Golf ploughed into unsuspecting 25-year-old James Gilbey.
Gas worker Mr Gilbey was thrown 80 yards by the force of the impact and died instantly from catastrophic injuries.
Malik, 28, and co-defendant Mahmood, 28, briefly stopped their vehicles but sped away after seeing Mr Gilbey’s bloodied corpse shortly before midnight on July 13 last year in Leeds.
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UK: Man Arrested After ‘Islamophobic’ Tweet
Scotland Yard: ‘We have arrested a 46-year-old man on suspicion of inciting racial hatred on social media.’
A man who posted a Twitter message about confronting a Muslim woman over the Brussels terror attacks has been arrested by police.
Matthew Doyle is being questioned on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after the purported encounter in Croydon, south London.
A message posted on his Twitter page on Wednesday morning said: ‘I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon. I asked her to explain Brussels. She said ‘Nothing to do with me’. A mealy mouthed reply.’
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UK: Two Men Arrested After Severed Pig’s Head Found Outside Islamic School
TWO men have been arrested after a severed pig’s head was tied to the gates of an Islamic school.
The pig’s head had an offensive message about Allah smeared on it as well as a swastika, the symbol used by Nazis under Adolf Hitler’s reign.
Children and adults were left horrified when they made the shocking discovery on January 21 at the Madani Academy in Portsmouth, Hants.
Two men aged 27 and 24, both from Portsmouth, were today arrested on suspicion of racially and religiously aggravated intentional harassment or distress by words or writing.
[In light of the multiple murders recently committed by fanatical Mohammedans in Belgium and Scotland, this is obviously a serious matter. After all, some members of the ummah may possibly have experienced a transient emotion. Oh dearie me.]
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Karadzic Sentencing Designed to ‘Delegitimize’ Republika Srpska
The conviction of former leader of Republika Srpska Radovan Karadzic by UN judges clearly indicates that Western powers are using the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to justify their own flawed decisions made during the Bosnian War, Serbian-American writer Srdja Trifkovic told Radio Sputnik.
Karadzic, who was sentenced to 40 years in jail on Thursday, had been presumed guilty by the ICTY even before being arrested in 2008, Trifkovic claimed.
“The key points in the verdict had been prepared well in advance with previous sentences against General [Radislav] Krstic, when so-called Srebrenica genocide was quasi-legally verified. This is logical outcome of a politicized tribunal with politicized proceedings,” he said.
The decision on Karadzic’s case points to the attempts by the Western powers to downplay the Dayton Accords that ended the bloodshed conflict in 1995 and recognized Republika Srpska as an autonomous entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, the expert continued.
“This will be used with the previous verdicts as justification for sustained attempts by the enemies of Republika Srpska to delegitimize its existence,” Trifkovic pointed out.
“This is selective justice by tribunal which has a clear brief to provide the Serbian guilt as an attractive justification for political decisions made at the time.”
He added that the goal of such manipulations is to make up “Bosnia and Herzegovina as a more or less unified and more or less unitized state in which, by virtue of their members, the Muslims will have pre-dominance.”..
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Serbia: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Still Biggest Exporter
FCA exports from Serbia in February worth 206.9 million euros
(ANSAmed) — BELGRADE, March 25 — Total value of exports by the largest 15 exporters in Serbia was 576 million euros in the first two months this year with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles still the largest single exporter, selling cars outside Serbia made in its plant at Kragujevac for a total of 206.9 million euros, the Serbian Finance Ministry said Friday.
Exports by FCA from Serbia were worth 116.3 million euros in February alone.
In 2015 FCA exported cars together worth 1.18 billion euros while its total net exports were worth 367.5 million euros, the ministry said. (
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Algeria: Ancient Sports Star From Matreg to Palm Climbing
Arab festival on traditional sports kicks off through the 30th
(ANSAmed) — NAPLES, MARCH 25 -From Tachkount, a sort of hockey played on the sand with palm tree branches rather than bats, to Matreg, a sport that looks very much like fencing but uses sticks rather than stones, six historic sports will be part of the program of the fourth edition of the Arab Festival of traditional sports scheduled from Friday through March 30 in the Algerian cities of Oran and Constantine.
“These competitions in Algeria — explained Mamouni Bouterfes, president of the Algerian federation of traditional games and sports, to the Algerie Press service (Aps) — will be important to promote traditional sports. Our objective since the foundation of the federation in 1995 has been to safeguard the historic heritage and value of traditional sports in Arab countries, contributing together to the creation of an Arab center for traditional sports”.
Along with tachkount and matreg, the five days of matches in Algeria will include games of maabza, a traditional wrestling match, of palm tree climbing and strategy games like the sig, a table game for families traditionally played in the evenings of Ramadan, and kharbga. A reported 100 athletes will be competing from nine countries: Algeria, Palestine, Lebanon, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Sudan and the united Arab Emirates. The previous editions of the Arab festival of traditional sports took place in Oman, Lebanon and Morocco.
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Police Dog Akil Among Bardo Museum Mosaics
Next to portraits of 22 people killed in attack
TUNIS — A mosaic portrait of Tunisian police dog Akil is next to the mosaic portraits of the 22 people killed (four of them Italians) in the attack on the Bardo Museum a year ago.
Akil, the wolf dog with the dog brigade of the Tunisian Anti-terrorism Brigade, died at age 1 1\2 during the security forces operation at the museum and was hailed as a hero.
“The special forces left the museum at the end of the operation, taking away the dead dog to the applause of the crowd,” one reads in the chronicles of a year ago.
Four El Jem mosaic laboratories worked on the “Tous Bardo, tous pour la Tunisie” project under the artistic coordination of Nacer Bouslah. The mosaic of Akil measures 50 X 30 cm and will be placed next to a large block of mosaics, measuring 11 x 2.5 Metres, where the portraits of the 22 people killed (including four Italians) in the massacre.
The Bardo houses the richest collection of Roman mosaics in the world.
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Caroline Glick: The Consequences of Anti-Zionism
What do radical Israeli groups have in common with their European funders?
Last Thursday, Channel 2 broadcast candid camera footage of Breaking the Silence members gathering classified information on IDF operations. The footage was taken by Ad Kan activists.
Breaking the Silence claims to be an organization dedicated to collecting testimonies from IDF soldiers documenting ill-treatment of Palestinians. Posing as soldiers with information to share, Ad Kan activists were interrogated by Breaking the Silence investigators.
Yet rather than question them about how their units treated Palestinians, Breaking the Silence members asked them about troop movements, weapons platforms, IDF cooperation with foreign militaries. The investigators asked what sort of guns an unmanned combat vehicle carried, who controlled the vehicle and whether it was in operational use.
They wanted to know how the IDF discovers Hamas tunnels. They wanted to know when tanks were used in battles and how…
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IS, Turkey and Oil: Documents Show Ankara-Islamic State Link
Documents abandoned by IS fighters and statements from captured IS fighters indicate an ongoing oil trade link between Ankara and Daesh. Seized files include invoices, quantities, and lorry information. Civilians have been forced to work in refineries. Often unmanned Turkish border crossings facilitate IS recruits and fighters movement.
Istanbul (AsiaNews) — Documents abandoned by retreating Islamic State (IS) fighters in northern Syria found by Kurdish fighters, along with statements by captured fighters, provide evidence of a Turkey-IS oil trade link, this according to a documentary crew from the Russian RT television network.
Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) found the documents after they seized the city of Ash Shaddadi, and detained several foreign fighters from Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who confirmed ties between Turkey and IS (also known by its Arabic acronym of Daesh)
Since Syria’s civil war broke out, IS took over large swathes of Syria and Iraq. Beheadings, mass killings, and enslavement of entire ethnic groups, as well as apparent involvement in the Paris and Brussels attacks have given the group wide publicity, which it has skillfully exploited online.
For some analysts and experts, running a viable military and political organisation would be impossible without external logistical and financial support.
In addition to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Turkey is considered one of IS’s main supporters, something that Turkish authorities have vehemently denied. Facts on the ground tell another story.
Some of the files seized include detailed invoices used by IS to calculate daily revenues from their oil fields and refineries, as well as the amount of oil extracted there. All the documents have the IS logo at the top.
Each invoice had the driver’s name; the lorry’s type and weight, full and empty; as well as agreed price and invoice number.
One invoice dated 11 January 2016 says that IS had extracted some 1,925 barrels of oil from the Kabibah oil field and sold it for US$ 38,342.
RT spoke to local residents forced to work at IS-controlled oil field about what it was like working for the group’s refinery and where the oil was sold.
The latter “was delivered to an oil refinery, where it was converted into gasoline, gas and other petroleum products. Then the refined product was sold,” locals told the RT.
“Then intermediaries from Raqqa and Aleppo arrived to pick up the oil and often mentioned Turkey.”
A Turkish IS recruit captured by the Kurds provided important information about the IS-Turkish connection, claiming that IS sells oil to Turkey in such quantities that Turkish authorities had to know.
A Kurdish soldier also showed passports from the dead bodies of IS fighters, and documents of several jihadists who had come from all over the world, including countries such as Bahrain, Libya, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tunisia, and Turkey itself.
Captured foreign fighters said that they entered Syria and Iraq through unmanned Turkish crossing points.
Under Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ankara’s logistical support for foreign fighters trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, or at least its non-interference with their cross-border movements, has been widely reported.
A lot of IS propaganda material has also been printed in Turkey.
Turkey is IS’s direct neighbour. “If it was willing to close the ‘connection’ between Turkey and IS, the terrorist organisation could no longer survive,” the author of the RT documentary said.
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Cuban Agents Brutalize Democracy Protesters After Obama Visit
Well, that was fast.
The demonstration occurred three blocks from the Grand Theater of Havana, where Obama spoke live to the Cuban nation, and was swiftly broken up by plainclothes officers, who attacked demonstrators violently and then stuffed those they had captured into police cars and swept them away within moments. This reporter witnessed the brutal arrests of two demonstrators during the midafternoon eruption of public dissent in one of the most public forums in the city.
According to witnesses, a small group of demonstrators had entered a park on San Rafael Street, the most popular of Havana’s newly opened Wi-Fi hotspots, where hundreds of people were busily connecting to the Internet or placing international calls over VOIP services. It is unclear how many participated in the demonstration or were arrested; attracted by a loud, angry crowd that had formed on one of the city’s principal avenues and was filming the arrests, I arrived on the scene too late to see the original incident but witnessed part of the aggressive police response.
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The 2019 general elections in Belgium are its D-Day, because after this date, nonwhite mass immigration will overwhelm that nation, the leader of the Vlaams Belang (VB) party, Tom van Grieken, has warned.
He pointed out that the majority of the population of Brussels is already Arab, and that in the second largest city, Antwerp, 52 percent of the schoolchildren are Muslim.
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Calais Migrants Using Makeshift Rafts to Cross Channel as Britain Braces for Fresh Influx
CALAIS migrants are now using homemade rafts to try to sneak into Britain amid warnings many are making increasingly desperate attempts to cross the Channel following the dismantling of the Jungle camp
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EU Can’t Ignore Migrant Emergency — Renzi
Lampedusa shows how to combine identity and values
(ANSA) — Lampedusa, March 25 — Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said after a migrant management meeting on the island of Lampedusa Friday that the EU can’t ignore “great emergencies”. He said “a message goes out to Europe from Lampedusa: this is not periphery, far from the eyes of Europe but a place of beauty that has enabled thousands of lives to be saved.” He said “we must not think that you can pretend nothing is happening when faced with the great emergencies of our time, or be superficial. The people of Lampedusa have taught us to stay human. It is Europe’s task to hold together our identity with our values”. Renzi said that “I would like to thank today, March 25, the mayor and all the women and men of Lampedusa. March 25 is the birthday of Europe, the founding signatures of the treaties of the European Economic Community were penned on March 25, 1957 in Rome. “And today we are in the centre, the heart of Europe.
Perhaps it is not a geographical heart, but a more spiritual one. It is the point in which all European citizens have shown all the others what must be done with great humanitarian values”.
Renzi said that “we are here today when there is no emergency because Lampedusa is also and above all a very beautiful island. “Here are the protagonists of (the Golden Bear-winning film) Fuocammare. Lampedusa is an experience of values but also very beautiful for tourists.” He said “it is right to describe Lampedusa as a very beautiful place. From abroad it is difficult to get here and Lampedusa sounds like a place in difficulty but it is one of the places where the sea is most beautiful. It is our civic duty to recall that. Because tourism is also an economic opportunity for the island’s inhabitants”.
Renzi insisted that he did not regard Lampedusa as part of Italy’s periphery but such a “central” place that it simply had to be visited.
Lampedusa “must be a living and lived-in place. It is not the periphery of Italy. For us the island is so central that today we are here. Concrete responses are needed,” he said during a meeting with local Mayor Giusi Nicolini.
Lampedusa, a stepping-stone island closer to Africa than to Italy, has long struggled to cope with an influx of migrants and refugees who make the perilous sea crossing from Libya.
The EU should make Lampedusa a “free zone”, Renzi said. “There is a historic request for a free zone that would be very opportune on Europe’s part to grant. Because it is practically a restitution,” he said.
He also said that the Italian Serie B, soccer’s second division, has been working with sports authorities on the island to build a soccer pitch there.
“It’ll be a beautiful pitch and I’ll be the ref,” he quipped. Renzi added that Lampedusa was the “front line and the gateway to the EU, it makes us proud”.
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Germany: The Face of the Invader
This face is the personification of the nonwhite invasion of Europe: the Algerian “asylum seeker” who is the first to be charged with sex offences after the events on New Year’s Eve in Cologne.
Farouk B., a 26-year-old, and ten others-of whom only three have been identified-sexually harassed a white German woman and stole her cell phone on the evening of December 31, 2015, in Cologne city center.
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Police Predict Migrant Violence Over Border Closure
German police warn of migrant violence as borders are closed along the Balkan route and say Germany still receives a steady flow of migrants.
In a recent report by German paper Die Welt German Federal Police have given grave warnings about potential violent uprisings among migrants as borders to Germany have closed. Police say in an internal report that, “despite the restrictive border management there are hardly any attempts to swerve around the Greek-Macedonian border. Refugees still rely on the Balkan route. Violent riots are more likely in this context.”
They also say that the German Safety Authority would also be affected because in the new EU-Turkey summit agreement the European Commission is calling for all member states to mobilize around 2,400 police to help the Greek government deal with the ongoing situation. The internal report also noted that they expected far more migrants to come in the coming weeks citing, “more stable weather conditions in the Aegean Sea from the end of March will favour sea smuggling.”
Since the closure of the Balkan route, tens of thousands of migrants have been left stranded in Greece. Many have staged protests in the town of Idomeni where thousands presently live in a makeshift tent city. No Borders activists even gave the migrants bolt cutters to aid them in their quest to get through the fortified border.
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Decades of legal nonwhite immigration and “asylum” policies are proving to be just as deadly a terrorist threat to Europe as is the “refugee” invasion of 2015, latest events have shown.
The controlled media have already realized this, and that is why they now call the latest set of terrorists “Frenchmen,” Belgians,” and so on-and talk of “Europe’s most wanted terrorists.”
While it is certainly true that very large numbers of ISIS-aligned terrorists have entered Europe as part of the mass nonwhite fake refugee invasion of 2015, the reality is that many more terrorists have been recruited from the already existing-and legally resident-nonwhite populations in Europe.
A good example of this has come with the arrest of Reda Kriket, the ISIS terrorist arrested in Paris on March 24 while preparing for yet another attack in that city.
Kriket, widely described by the media as a “Frenchman,” is in fact an Algerian, legally resident in France.
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Top Judge on Migrant Crisis: ‘Authorities Are No Longer in Charge’
Appeals over failed asylum applications have increased over 100 percent in Germany over the past year, and the legal system is now so overloaded a top judge has remarked: “It is my impression the German authorities are no longer in charge”.
In 2015 the numbers of asylum seekers who are appealing failed asylum cases has doubled in Germany.
Two regions in particular have seen a massive increase in disputes over failed asylum applications. Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have seen the largest increase with the Rhine-Ruhr region seeing a quadrupling in the number of cases.
Asylum issues are said to have taken up a giant 41 percent of all court cases processed by local administrative courts in the region. In Bavaria the amount of cases has tripled, reports Die Welt.
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Italy: Town Forces Artist to Remove Nudes
Artist fights back
(ANSA) — La Spezia, March 23 — A Spanish painter covered the bodies in her nude paintings with paper underwear after residents in the small town of Levanto filed a police complaint for indecency against her art.
Rosanna Avery was forced to remove the paintings — one of Icarus falling from the sky and two female nudes — from the window of an art gallery following the complaint.
She then exhibited them again — this time with the paper undies and a sign calling on whoever filed the complaint to identify themselves and to get a lawyer.
The artist also lodged an appeal to the prefect of La Spezia, invoking the Constitution’s Article 21 on freedom of expression and of the press.
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Terrorists have the ‘means, knowledge and information’ to create a nuclear bomb, the head of the UN atomic watchdog has warned in the wake of the Brussels attacks.
The warnings of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano come just days before world leaders meet for an important summit against ‘nuclear terrorism’.
‘Terrorism is spreading and the possibility of using nuclear material cannot be excluded,’ Mr Amano told AFP.
‘Member states need to have sustained interest in strengthening nuclear security.
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The victim, it is reported, was an Ahmadi.
These incidents in Glasgow could be linked. Last week Imam Rehman of the main mosque in Glasgow (evidently the largest place of worship in that city) attracted unwanted attention by foolishly praising on social media the murderer of a Pakistani politician who had tried to repeal the country’s blasphemy laws. The murderer was executed but Imam Rehman praised the killer as a “true muslim” and a martyr.
Then a few days later a muslim shopkeeper, a Mr Shah in the same city of Glasgow wishes “Happy Easter” to customers on social media and is stabbed to death, apparently by another muslim man. Police say the crime was religiously motivated. So ask the question, is there a link between the Glasgow knifeman and Imam Rehman? Was he aware of what Rehman had said about the Pakistan killing? If so did he believe the killing of a muslim who befriended infidels was halal? If he did Imam Rehman may be in deep trouble.
Surely the Muslims see us as a bunch of clowns who are owned by Saudi cash and our very own vapid materialism. There is a solution.
I recall Salmond standing before the cameras not too long ago, prior to the vote on whether to leave the UK, saying that Islam was a “religion of peace” and he knew that because … one of the top Muslims in the country had told him so.
Who exactly was he referring to? Who had said this to him? I can’t remember … was it this head gadgie fae the mosque in Glasgow?
It’s a simple fact the more that the population of ‘followers of the teachings of the prophet’ increases, the more outspoken and brazen they will become.
Another decade of this and we will all be nervous wrecks or worse. The koranique freaks need to be taken DOWN several notches.
Ah, Glasgow, the city wherein I was born and educated… But now so different from the great city it once was…
As far as I can see, the followers of Islam have so little confidence in the viability of their so-called religion, that the slightest “wrong” word is enough to motivate them to kill with extreme anger, the source of that word.
Contrast this in general with other major religions where people are able to “turn the other cheek,” perhaps with a sigh, with respect to perceived insults whether deliberate or accidental.
One other religion also cites “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” too!
And do you think that comment was in any way helpful or enlightening? A man’s just lost his life, and you’re stuck playing your games.
That’s pretty sad, really.
I’m not sure how being murdered for sending out Easter greetings amounts to “an eye for an eye. And a tooth for a tooth”. Perhaps you can enlighten us…or not.
Excellent point!
This lad from the mosque was one of the featured speakers at the so-called “Peace and Unity Conference” held at Celtic Park in 2013.
Along with Alex Salmond.
Here’s a link.
Here’s a video: part 1.
Here’s another video: part 2.