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French Cabinet OKs new anti-terrorism measures
The conservative French government on Wednesday unveiled new counterterrorism measures to punish those who visit hard boy websites or travel to weapons-training camps abroad, in the wake of deadly shootings by an suspected Islamic hard boy in southern La Belle France last month.
 
The measures now go to Parliament, where it may face resistance from the Socialists, who say La Belle France's legal arsenal against terrorism is already strong enough and that the proposal is a campaign ploy to boost President Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
's chances at a second term.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/12/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:


Dawa: 'A Koran in every home' project makes waves
Dawa first, jihad next. The targets must be given an opportunity to surrender before they are conquered.
A project by Salafist Mohammedans to give away 25 million German-language Korans across the country -- by post and in town centres, has been slammed by a conservative politician calling it a disturbance of the religious peace.

"Wherever possible, this aggressive action must be stopped," Günter Krings, a top member of Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
's Christian Democratic Union parliamentary party, told Die Welt daily newspaper on Wednesday.

"Although there is in principle nothing against the distribution of religious texts," he said, Die Welt reported he added that the radical Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
were disturbing the religious peace with their aggressive methods.

The newspaper said that German intelligence services rated the campaign's initiator Ibrahim Abou Nagie as a dangerous Salafist preacher.

His aim is to give away 25 million free German-language copies of the Koran to non-Mohammedans -- his campaign is called "Read! In the name of your Lord who created you." Additional copies are also being distributed in Austria and Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
The Cologne-based preacher says the aim is to try to save people from eternal hell.

The project is being funded by Mohammedans who buy one Koran, which then funds the production of a second one to be given away and also by donations from wealthy people in Bahrain.

Die Welt said the first copies have already been given out -- and that Abu Nagie claims to have given away more than 300,000 German-language Korans across the country already. People are also invited to order a free copy to be delivered by post.

The Easter weekend was the spark for a new phase, the paper said, with what it termed a "frontal offensive against the non- and other-believers". Others might describe it as setting up stands in 35 town centres across the country and handing out free copies of the Koran.

The paper does admit that the version of the Koran is a moderate one -- a translation by Mohammed Ibn Ahmad Rassoul with comments from the German convert Frank von Bubenheim and has been rated by intelligence agencies as not problematic.

Yet the Berlin state office for the protection of the constitution said, "Salafistism is strongly radicalising and is promoted by its followers as supposedly the only true Islam."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/12/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More kindling for the BBQ.

Posted by: dk70 the scantily clad || 04/12/2012 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm all in favor of people reading the Koran. Parts of it are rather extreme and would probably be considered a hate crime in some jurisdictions if published separately. Although this The paper does admit that the version of the Koran is a moderate one makes it sound like they have sanitized it a bit.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/12/2012 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  How can one version of the crayon be more 'moderate' than another.

the Crayon is the literal word of Allan and, as such, is not subject to change or moderation or 'reinterpretation'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/12/2012 11:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Free TP.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/12/2012 12:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Free TP

And a nice wrap for your Westphalian Ham.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/12/2012 12:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Informed rational freedom loving people have all the reasons in the world to fear islam. The twin fogs of political correctness & ignorance must be dispersed before western society better understands this menace. Even a brief review of islamic theology & history quickly exposes the deadly roots of this evil ideology.

Mohamhead was a 7th century murdering warlord who rose to power on a river of blood surrounded by thugs and gangsters using intimidation, violence, deception and trickery to expand their criminal empire while mercilessly suppressing and killing their opponents and enriching themselves on stolen booty.

The evil koran is a collection of sayings and speeches by this diabolical madman claiming divine guidance from some mythical sky-god which has inspired generations of crazed fanatics to abhorrent behavior resulting in historys worst ever crimes against humanity starting 1400 years ago and still continuing even today.

Islam is just another fascist totalitarian ideology used by power hungry fanatics on yet another quest for worldwide domination and includes all the usual human rights abuses & suppression of freedoms.

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Posted by: ecks why || 04/12/2012 12:57 Comments || Top||

#7  "Free TP."

I have more respect for my fanny than that.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/12/2012 17:10 Comments || Top||

#8  I got my free crayon through a similar CAIR project a few years ago. Big hardbound doorstop thing, expensive. I checked to be sure all the slaughter-the-infidels stuff is in there - it is - then parked it on a bottom shelf, and placed my cute stuffed pig Otto on top. I'd guess most of those 25 million copies will wind up similarly.
Posted by: RandomJD || 04/12/2012 19:39 Comments || Top||

#9  The funny thing is that they advertise with the word LIES! (Read! in German).

In English the truth wants out
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/12/2012 20:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Cute, European Conservative. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/12/2012 21:11 Comments || Top||


Conditions in U.S. Supermax Prison Better Than Most in Europe
The Supermax prison in Colorado where the most dangerous criminals in America are incarcerated provides prisoners with more generous services and activities than do most prisons in Europe, says the European Court of Human Rights.

The Strasbourg-based court's acknowledgement came in a ruling Tuesday, provisionally approving the extradition of five terror suspects to face trial in the United States.

Lawyers for radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza and five other men indicted in the U.S. on various terror charges between 1999 and 2006 argued that, should they be convicted in the U.S., they would face conditions of incarceration and length of prison terms that would amount to "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," in violation of article three of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The court rejected the argument, with the seven judges agreeing unanimously that article three would not be contravened "as a result of conditions of detention at ADX Florence" in Colorado, should the suspects be extradited to the U.S. (ADX stands for Administrative Maximum.)

It said that although inmates at the ADX Florence facility are confined to their cells most of the time, they are also "provided with services and activities (television, radio, newspapers, books, hobby and craft items, telephone calls, social visits, correspondence with families, group prayer) which went beyond what was provided in most prisons in Europe."

The judges also noted that, according to the Department of Justice, 89 of the prison's 252 inmates were in a "step-down program."

"This showed that the applicants, if convicted and transferred to ADX, would have a real possibility under such a program of moving through different levels of contact with others until being suitable for transfer to a normal prison," the court stated.

The step-down program runs on a three-year cycle. Inmates are kept in their cells 23 hours a day for the first year, then gradually allowed contact with other inmates and prison staff. In the third year they may be out of their cells for up to 16 hours a day and eat meals in a dining room.
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#1  We should be more like Europe in this regard. Is Syria part of Europe?
Posted by: gorb || 04/12/2012 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe but at least these swine will face their entire life in prison where they can do no further harm. Not like the UK where they're released in a couple of years and a few months for (ironically) good behaviour.
Posted by: Bill Schwarzeneggar1358 || 04/12/2012 3:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Not yet gorb LOL
Posted by: Bill Schwarzeneggar1358 || 04/12/2012 3:07 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2012-04-12
  Nork rocket launched, then 'breaks up'
Wed 2012-04-11
  Syria denounced for not adhereing to agreed peace plan
Tue 2012-04-10
  Syrian Rebel Army Ready to Respect Truce
Mon 2012-04-09
  84 Dead, 200 Arrested as Violence Rages across Syria
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  Azerbaijani intel service jugs 17 hard boys
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  Mali rebels declare cease-fire after seizing north
Thu 2012-04-05
  Pakistan rejects US bounty on Hafiz Saeed
Wed 2012-04-04
  Yemeni airstrikes kill 43 al-Qaida militants
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  Oil Pipeline Blown Up In Southeast Yemen, Flows Halted
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  Paris: Scientist accused of plotting to blow up 'city size of London'
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  Us Drone Strike Kills Four In Miranshah
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  France nabs at least 17 Islamists in raids across the country
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  Gunmen kidnap Saudi diplomat in Yemen


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