Fascinating prediction of Francois Hollande's electoral demise today by Patrick Buisson, Nicolas Sarkzoy's public opinion eminence grise.
Nicknamed "the guru", PBuisson, 62, is the man who advised Sarkozy to woo National Front voters in 2007 on a national identity ticket. His spectacular success in doing so led Sarkozy to declare "This is the man who won me the election" when he handed him the Légion d'Honneur for a job well done.
The former head of a far-Right journal also famously predicted the precise percentage of French who would vote "non" in the 2005 referendum on the European constitutional treaty. "If I am wrong, you will never hear of me again," he is said to have told Sarko, who, wowed by his prescience, took him on the next day.
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BRUSSELS - A man threw a petrol bomb through the window of a mosque west of Brussels on Monday, killing the imam and injuring a second person, Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure reported.
The newspaper quoted police as saying a suspect was detained after the attack in Anderlecht and a large crowd of people gathered in front of the mosque. Police were not immediately reachable for comment.
Belgium has a Muslim population of about 500,000 out of a population of nearly 11 million and there are occasional acts of violence between communities, particularly in areas such as Anderlecht.
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According to this article the mosque is largest Shiite mosque in Brussels.
Another very interesting information from the article:
The last time an imam was targetted in Brussels was in 1989 when Saudi-born Abdullah Muhammad al-Ahdal was shot dead.
He served as imam in the Grand Mosque of Brussels and was killed on March of that year by an armed man inside the mosque.
His killing was claimed by a small pro-Iranian group in Lebanon who accussed him of being too moderate and of having rejected the death fatwa slapped on writer Salman Rushdie.
In 1989 even Saudi Wahabis rejected and condemned Rushdie rules. In the 21st century acceptance of Rushdie rules is consensus among Western elites.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
