[Emirates 24/7] A German man has been charged with allegedly spreading Islamist propaganda on the Internet glorifying suicide kabooms and seeking support for gunnies abroad, the federal prosecutor's office said Monday.
The 19-year-old German convert to Islam is suspected of running an Internet site for several months which showed videos, pictures and text containing jihadi and radical Islamist content, it said.
"Among other things, the brutal execution of Iraqi police is shown on it and suicide attacks glorified," the prosecutor, based in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe, said in a written statement.
Some of the videos on the website, entitled "Islamic Hacker Union", also appealed for members and supporters of the bully boy Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Islamic State of Iraq, it added.
[An Nahar] Another Saab story... I'll be in my room.
Saab cars filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a Swedish district court told Agence La Belle France Presse, bringing to an end two years of efforts to rescue the iconic brand.
The final desperate efforts to organize help in China were obstructed by General Motors over licenses.
"They were here this morning and submitted the documents requesting bankruptcy," a clerk at the Vaenersborg district court told AFP, adding that the court was currently examining the request.
A statement on the court's website said three Saab companies had filed for bankruptcy: SAAB Automobile Aktiebolag, Saab Automobile Tools AB och Saab Automobile Powertrain.
"The court aims to handle the request and appoint a liquidator rapidly," the statement said.
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Maybe 2 car companies for the price of one minus the screwed up unions that bankrupted them.
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My '97 900S still turns heads and runs great. My only negativeissue is a cable not hydralic clutch - usefull only for mercilessly working out leg muscles.
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They had better be careful. The Hare Krishna are a fairly new religion (1966), and while they prefer non-violence, they are not particularly handicapped by it. Despite appearances, they have a strong undercurrent of cold realism.
In fact, under special circumstances, they are quite capable of going Manson family on violent criminals who threaten them, and this is doctrinally acceptable, again, if not preferred.
Some years ago, there was concern in the US, because the leader of a really enormous temple had assembled a respectable armory, by US standards. Eventually the feds convinced that temple that this was becoming anti-social, so they should tone it down. They did.
But for the most part, they have also wisely discontinued a lot of their earlier oddities. For example in the US, only their clergy now wear saffron robes, and many of their temples more resemble Christian churches. Recruitment is more of Hindu immigrants instead of disaffected white kids. They no longer fund raise in public.
And unlike Muslims, they behave like other Hindus, which is to say they make an effort to integrate into society.
But in Europe, who knows? I wouldn't mind seeing a group of Hare Krishna settling difference with a group of rowdy Muslims trying to oppress them. Though unfortunately, as seems to be the case, the authorities take the side of the Muslims.
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Can't say I didn't think about such things, back in the airport solicitation days....
That Muslims would attack Hare Krishna, or anybody, is a given. What is important, and what varies from place to place, and what is worrisome, is the response of the authorities.
Pretty lame in this case. Probaby not going to get any better absent some action so horrendous that the authorities and the chattering classes, can't tell the population that it didn't really happen, that it wasn't that important, that it wasn't about Islam, and that getting upset about it is racist.
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To diminish the risk of confrontations with the Muslim-dominated neighbourhood, the devotees of the temple are from now on requested to not wear their characteristic clothes outside the temple, in order to not provoke similar attacks in the future.
WTF??? This sounds like the old cat meat argument. Those poor Muslim youths just can't help themselves, right? So it's the Hare Krishna's fault? WTF??? C'mon, Vikings. We KNOW you can do better than that. Somebody draw a cartoon or something.
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Richard - regarding airport solicitation you reminded me that I once took out an esp. pesky one while racing between concourses in O'Hare. - late 70s - A suitcase to the crotch does clear a path...
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