It is late in the global game of confrontation with Islamic Jihad. The lines of conflict have been drawn and the ground-rules for Muslim victory are in place. Yet many among the targeted governments and peoples have yet been incapable or unwilling to identify the enemy, at the gates and within the walls. for more click here
Groups like the Congressional Black Caucus, Human Rights Watch and the U.S. African Chamber of Commerce say the United States could have made a difference on other issues at a U.N. anti-racism meeting that singled out Israel as a human rights violator. for more click here
The far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders is planning a follow-up of his provocative anti-Koran film, Fitna. The outspoken, peroxide-blond leader of the opposition Freedom Party, who has labelled the Koran “fascist”, says the new film will deal with the growing Islamisation of Western countries.
“Our doors are wide open to mass immigration from Muslim countries and I want to show the consequences of this,” Mr Wilders told the newspaper De Telegraaf. The film would tackle freedom of speech and Sharia. “And I will offer solutions,” he said. for more click here
The US State Department at the weekend issued a statement rejecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel’s status as “the Jewish state” as a condition for renewing peace talks. Netanyahu’s demand was a response to American and European pressure that he publicly commit to the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian Arab state as the outcome of the peace process. Netanyahu wants to ensure that if he bows to that pressure, the world understands and acknowledges that the other state west of the Jordan River is first and foremost the homeland of the Jews.for more click here
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights official hailed the global body’s second racism conference as a success Friday, despite what she called a disinformation campaign that almost derailed the meeting.
Navi Pillay, who spoke as the five-day conference wound down, said countries managed to go beyond issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to discuss broader problems of discrimination and intolerance in many parts of the world. for more click here
Many Muslim children are currently taken out of lessons to celebrate religious festivals such as Eid.
In an attempt to lower levels of classroom absences, Manchester City Council is considering allowing schools attended by large numbers of non-Christians to close on these holy days. for more click here
The young man asked us not to identify him. He had “made a mistake”, he said, when someone apparently overheard him criticising a Hamas leader in a street conversation with friends. “We call them ‘drones’ – people Hamas pays to listen for them.” This was during Israel’s recent three-week military offensive in Gaza. That evening more than a dozen armed men with black facemasks came to his home and took him to an isolated area, where they shot him three times in his legs and ankles. for more click here
Hocus pocus alert:: This Koran was hit by a bullet
Likely these people turned savage on this Yemeni family – because their Koran had a few dog-ears – who knows – but to burn the man’s house down and destroy his cars is going way overboard. for more click here
In 1948, the United Nations recognized the “inherent dignity” and “the equal and inalienable rights” of all human beings when it ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Though this week’s U.N. conference in Geneva claimed to stand for these noble values, the world’s dictators were the real winners. for more click here
London Time reports Israeli Air Force gearing for possibility of strike on Tehran ‘within days, maybe hours if given the green light.’ National Security Studies Institute member says that despite reports, attack unlikely without US support. for more click here