Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Israeli PM Olmert says he'll step down in 2 months, by Marie-Êve Marineau
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is currently contending with a fifth major corruption case against him since he took office in 2006. (Ronen Zvulun/Associated Press)
Olmert, whose departure could stall already troubled peace negotiations with the Palestinians, insisted he has improved the situation in Israel and said he still believes that peace is the most important step for the country.
"By making a decision, I will be opening a window to a better future," he said. "Those who berate me will one day have to come out and face the truth."
Move could lead to election
U.S. billionaire Morris Talansky's allegations in May seriously damaged Olmert's credibility among Israelis, and the resulting outrage prompted the Kadima party to set new leadership elections for Sept. 17.
Foreign Affairs Minister Tzipi Lipni is viewed by many as the frontrunner to replace Olmert as the centrist party's new leader, but rival candidates should start to emerge in the wake of his announcement Wednesday, the CBC's Peter Armstrong reported from Jerusalem.
The Kadima leadership race could lead to an election if the winner fails to build a coalition after Olmert leaves office. The current government is supported by a fragile coalition with former prime minister and current Defence Minister Ehud Barak's Labour party.
Talansky testified in an Israeli court in Jerusalem that Olmert accepted roughly $150,000 US during his tenure as mayor of Jerusalem and as a cabinet minister before he was elected as prime minister in 2006.
PM once called himself 'indestructible'
Police suspect the money was meant as bribes — although Talansky insisted he never got anything in return — or illegal campaign financing. Olmert insisted the funds were legal contributions.
Talansky's testimony offered an unflattering portrait of Olmert, whom Talansky described as a bon vivant with a penchant for fancy hotels, fine cigars, expensive watches and first-class travel.
It is the fifth major corruption case against Olmert, who fled the right-wing Likud party in 2005 to form Kadima along with Ariel Sharon, who was prime minister until he suffered a massive stroke in 2006.
Olmert — who once called himself "indestructible" — had previously survived numerous calls to resign in the fallout from his much-criticized handling of the 2006 conflict with Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon.
Labels: Israel, Marie-Êve Marineau
Turkey - Secularism - The Constitutional Court has decided, by Francis Chartrand
After two days of deliberations, the Turkish Constitutional Court announced Wednesday it rejected a request to that effect filed by the Attorney General. Ce dernier alléguait que le parti portait atteinte au sacro-saint principe de laïcité de l'État. The latter alleged that the party violated the sacrosanct principle of secularism of the state.
In press conference, the president of the court, Hasim Kilic, said that 6 of 11 judges had travelled to the arguments of the Attorney General or one less than the number required to ensure that the request be approved. 
The President of the Constitutional Court, Hasim Kilic (2nd from right)
The judges, however, have concluded that the AKP was a hotbed for militants fighting against secularism and has consequently decided to deprive him of half of public funds to which he is entitled for the current year.
The accusations of undermining the principle of secularism of the state relied mainly on the attempt by the AKP to allow university students to wear the Islamic veil. The prosecutor also argued that municipalities controlled by the AKP tried to promote an Islamic way of life, including restricting alcohol sales.
Such cases are highly controversial in Turkey, a country whose citizens are predominantly Muslim, while remaining committed to the principle of secularism institutions established by the founder of the state, Kemal Ataturk.
Over the years, the Constitutional Court has banned more than two dozen parties from the Islamist movement, but none of them had popular support for the AKP. The party was re-elected with 47% of the votes in the summer of 2007, after a battle with the opposition and the army, which focused specifically on the secularism of the state.
The judgement was greeted with relief by the AKP, the European Union and financial markets.
Labels: Francis Chartrand, Secularism, Turkey
Secularism and the Arab world, by Anne Humphreys
Labels: Anne Humphreys, Arab World, Islam, Secularism
Monday, July 28, 2008
Ten questions (kill) to ask the Zionist, by Michael Dov Weissmandl
1 / Is it true that in 1941, and again in 1942, German Gestapo offered to all European Jews the opportunity to transit in Spain, if they renounce all their possessions in Germany and France occupied the two following conditions:
a) none of the deportees are expected from Spain for Palestine ;
b) all the deportees would be shipped from Spain to the USA or in British colonies, to remain there; entry visas would be granted to Jews living in these lands; ransom in the amount of $ 1 000 for each family would be provided by the Agency [Jewish], with the arrival of families to the Spanish border at a rate of one thousand families per day?
2 / Is it true that the Zionist leaders in Switzerland and Turkey have accepted this offer, fully aware that the exclusion of Palestine, as the destination of deportation was based on an agreement between Gestapo and the Mufti [of Jerusalem]?
3 / Is it true that the response made by the Zionist leaders was negative, accompanied by the following comments:
a) Only Palestine could be considered an acceptable destination for the deportees;
b) The European Jews must suffer more and die in greater numbers than other nations, so that the allies, once victorious, endorse a "Jewish state" at the end of the war;
c) No ransom will be paid?
4 / Is it true that the response to the offer to Gestapo was made in full knowledge that the alternative to this offer, it was the gas chambers?
5 / Is it true that in 1944, at the time of deportations in Hungary, a similar offer had been made, which would have saved all the Jews of this country?
6 / Is it true that the same Zionist hierarchy, again, refused this offer (after the gas chambers have already taken their terrible toll on millions of victims)?
7 / Is it true that earlier killings during the war, 270 members of British Parliament proposed to evacuate some 500 000 Jews of Europe, and resettle them in British colonies in negotiations diplomatic ties with Germany?
8 / And is it not true that this offer was rejected by the Zionist leaders, with this comment: "Towards la Palestine Palestine , or nothing! "?
9 / Is it true that the British government has granted visas to 300 rabbis and members of their families, enabling them to visit Mauritius, and a safe conduct for evacuees through Turkey. The leaders of the "Jewish Agency" had sabotaged the plan, noting that it was unfair vis-à-vis Palestine and the 300 rabbis and their families deserved to be gassed.
10 / Is it true that during the negotiations mentioned above, Chaim Weitzman, the first "man of Jewish state" declared: "The most valuable of the Jewish nation is already in Palestine, and these Jews then, who live outside Palestine , are not so important." The Deputy Weitzman, Greenbaum, worsening the statement, which noted: "A cow in Palestine is more precious than all the Jews of Europe"?
There would be many other similar questions to ask these degenerate atheists, known as "men of Jewish State", but for now, let them meet the ten questions.
These "men of state" Zionists, so great was their vision, wanted to put an end to two thousand years of Jewish obedience and political compromise Jews respecting the divine order. With their offensive militancy, they fanned the fires of anti-Semitism in Europe, and they have forged a chain of anti-Jewish hatred between Nazi Germany and neighbouring countries.
These are the "men of state" who had organized the boycott totally irresponsible against Germany in 1933. The boycott was, for Germany, is a bite of a bullet is an elephant, but he caused the disaster for the Jews of Europe. In a time when America and England were at peace with the mad dog Hitler, "men of state" Zionist have neglected the only plausible method of aménité policy, and by their boycott, they have aroused among the leader of Germany a frenzied anger. Then, after the worst episode of Jewish history, these "men of state" Zionist have misled broken refugees in camps for displaced persons, now in hunger and deprivation, and asking them to reject any proposal for resettlement elsewhere in Palestine, just to be able to install their state.
The "men of state" Zionists led, and continue to incite a bitter Jewish youth in unnecessary wars against world powers such as England, and against the Arab masses with hundreds of millions.
And these are the same "men of state" Zionists who are currently lead the world into another war - turning completely around Holy Earth.
What might happen to the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine , Fertile Crescent Arabic, Europe or the USA, the Zionist leaders do not care éperdument. The rise of anti-Semitism in the Western world is the product of their so-called "responsibility".
Under the travesty of "love of Israel", "Men of State" Zionists have prompted many Jews to replace their devotion to Torah and its Wise and his devotion to the ruffian founder of Zionism. It is highly significant qu'Herzl, originally, had sought the conversion of Jews, as a solution to problems the Diaspora. Having aware that this was not acceptable for the Jewish masses, he invented Zionism was, in his view, the right solution!
A review of history shows that this is exactly the same type of "a statesman" who had opposed the call of the prophet Jeremiah to obey the cute of Nebuchadnezzar at the destruction of the First Temple. Five centuries later, Rabbi Yochonon Ben Zakai called its people to visit the Roman emperor Titus in order to avoid a bloodbath. The "men of state" rejected this appeal, and the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans. And it is now fifty years that "men of state" Zionists reject the leadership of our Sages, and continue their policy of fomenting anti-Semitism. When they stop? Are all Jews must suffer, America too? Even the Nazi monsters they were more sensible: they gave up their war before all Germany is destroyed.
Our Torah, in his Treatise Ksubos, folio 111, specifies that the Creator, blessed be he, gave the Jews swear not to occupy Holy Earth by force, even when it seems that they have sufficient strength to do so, and not rebel against the Nations. And the Creator warned that if His jurement was violated, the Jewish flesh would be "lawful game for everyone," like wild animals in the forest! These are the very terms of our Torah, and these concepts have been cited in the Treaties "Igeres Teimon", "Be'er HaGola", "Ahavas Yehonosson" Maimonides, as well as in "Toras Moshe" Chasam Sofer.
Everyone knows that all wise and all the saints in Europe at the time of Hitler's ascension to power, said it was a message of divine wrath, sent to punish the Jews Because of the atrocious Zionist apostasy against belief in a messianic redemption eschatological.
Oh, Jews - son of merciful fathers merciful - how much longer the sacred blood of Jews will continue there to be paid?
The only solution, here:
The Jewish people must reject, totally and immediately, "Jewish state".
The Jewish people must accept the U.S. compromise.
We must remove the "men of state" Zionist atheists their role as leaders of the Jewish community, and return to the faithful leadership of our sages.
We beg the United all open their doors to immigration - and not just those of Palestine.
The clerics peaceful and non-Zionists in Palestine, (particularly in the indigenous population) and their counterparts in Diaspora , must enter into negotiations responsible, face-to-face, on behalf of the Jewish people, with the British and Arabs; in order to find an amicable solution to the question of Palestine.
Any Jew is obliged to request the Blessed creator, because in him that lies our strength. Let's conserv in mind that our prayers should be addressed directly. No one should ask the Creator to give a banquet on the day of Forgiveness, and no person shall carry out a ritual ablution with an insect death hand, likewise, we must absolutely avoid the untenable position which is the thief praying and asking for divine help to accomplish his crime. We must pray asking that Zionism and its consequences disappear from the surface of Holy Earth , and that we are rédimés by Messiah without delay.
It was only after he had completed his term that we can release the prisoner, or if it is pardoned, because of his good conduct by the President. If he attempts to escape and was caught, the duration of his imprisonment is extended, not to mention he is beaten when he made up.
Oh, you faithful Jews, since more than three thousand five hundred years in all parts of the world through all the hardships, our grandparents have crossed oceans of blood and tears to keep Faith of Torah , imperturbably. If we have compassion for ourselves, for our women and children, and for the Jewish people, we will maintain our golden legacy today. We were condemned to exile by the King of Kings because of our sins. The Lord blessed be He, has decreed that we must accept exile with humble gratitude until the time comes, or until we deserve forgiveness through our repentance, and that if we seek to put an end to exile by force, we decide, as we have warned our sages, and our penalty would become longer and more severe.
On many occasions in the past, parts of our people were deceived by false messiahs - but none of these false messiahs were also false and misleading that the lie of Zionism. With reference to our historical experience, we know that no punishment has never been, nor will never be more terrible than that we receive for providing authentic Zionism. If we want our conviction into exile or commuted, we have to appeal through repentance and a total observance, both physical and spiritual, of the Sabbath, laws of family purity and the study of the Torah.
That is well understood than ever, throughout Jewish history (and even the time of Jeroboam or Achav), they have seized the reins of the Jewish people as atheists hostile today.
How can we thank you ask the Almighty, when we tolerate these vile and twisted leaders as spokesmen! My dear brothers, clean our ranks, and clean up our environment; ask the Almighty, through our prayers, our repentance and the performance of good deeds [mitsvot] he rédime us all, as only He can done immediately!
Read this excerpt from the book of Rabbi Weissmandl: Min Hametzar Sefer.
"If people knew what we did, they pourchasseraient in the streets, and we wood hang them."
George HW "Poppy" Bush
Letter from Londonistan, by Richard Martineau
I don't want to make nobody jealous, but I spent last week in London.
I thought that if Sir Paul can sing I Saw Her Standing There on the Plains, I can sing La Bitte à Tibi in the middle of Hyde Park.
It's not for me brag, but my concert took a big effect. Of the five people who heard me, three told me they were going to spend their next vacation in Rouyn-Noranda.
This is crazy as the music brings peoples. It's like me, since I know that Sir Paul has sung in Kiev on June 14 last 000 to 350 people (not to mention the inhabitants of Harkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Sevastopol, Lviv, Donetsk and Odessa, who were able, lucky, watch the show on a giant screen), I do dream of one thing: spend two weeks in Ukraine.
After all, if Ukraine is quite good for Sir Paul, it is good enough for me, is not it?
NEW MODE
When you think of London, we see red phone booths, men who wear a bowler hat and double-decker bus. Well, if the trend continues, we will soon add another icon to this list: burkas.
Indeed, I saw more of burqas in five days in London that skinny T-shirts in a month in Quebec.
No veils or scarves, no: burkas. The beekeeper costume, with the small door at eye level that allows Ms. not darken in her husband when she read 15 feet behind.
This is the new fashion in London. Mr walks in the department of perfumes Harrod's in gougounes and shorts while the lady to sue big drops under his black shroud.
But, hey, this is the choice of these women, eh? As seems Francoise David, who am I to criticize?
After all, what woman does not cover with a thick veil from head to foot when it's 35 ° outside?
It's so beautiful, so perfectly fitting pair, so I had that tendency retain my blonde with two hands so that it does not buy them one on the spot ...
I SAW HER THERE HIDING
Want to see what excess leads Canadian multiculturalism? Spend a few days in London, it will défriser the nerve.
The most amusing is that while the English embrace the burqa (a burqa when signed Stella McCartney?), On the other side of the Channel, French refuse to grant citizenship to an immigrant because she bears the full veil (it is called there a "lack of assimilation").
If I were a subject of Her Majesty, I ask serious questions.
Soon, if it continues, you know who will sing in the middle of Hyde Park to celebrate the founding of London? Nobony. Neither Sir Paul, nor Raoul Duguay.
Because we will not want to offend the ayatollahs who do not like music.
THE LONDONIAN EXAMPLE
Meanwhile, Canada, the advocates of multiculturalism are now wondering if we should not allow polygamy, history of respecting the religious practices of some immigrants. As the Beatles sang: "Help!"
Labels: Islam, Richard Martineau, Secularism, United Kingdom
Barack Obama wants an independent vice-president
The Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidential Barack Obama has refused to deliver clues about the identity of his future candidate for the vice-presidency, but instead portrayed the qualities he expected his eventual collaborator, foremost among which figure independence.
"I want someone independent, ready to tell me where he or she thinks I'm wrong," said the senator from Illinois in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC radio.
Whatever his identity, or the future (e) Vice President (e) will not be confined to a representational role, "he assured. "We will have many problems and many things to do, and have a vice-president intended only to attend funerals, it does not interest me."
Among the last Democrat candidate for the vice-presidency, many were from the southern USA, the bastion of the Republican camp. Barack Obama has not indicated whether he would respect this strategy, which has sometimes proved embarrassing for his opponents but said he wanted a complementary partner to "provide knowledge (...), expertise that can be useful. "
The only nomination that the senator recognizes considered for the post is that of his former rival in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"I have constantly said that qu'Hillary I thought Clinton would be on the list of anyone. It is one of the most effective leaders, intelligent, courageous that we have in the Democratic Party, "he concluded.
Labels: Obama, United States
Saturday, July 26, 2008
When a secular education, Noémie Cournoyer
Note the quality of uniforms, shoes and hats included, and accessories (weapons), the profusion of flags absolutely new, the size and length of the staging. Record also the fact that all children welcome the Koran by leaving scene. These children are indoctrinated cream of their society, their parents are wealthy. No doubt thanks to their allegiance to the movement. And this film is circulating in the Palestinian territories for over two years, where he undoubtedly served as an example and model for countless similar performances.
Worthy of note also the fact that the television channel CNN American left has presented this film without showing the area in which Palestinian children killed by surprise Israeli soldiers then dragged the bodies on the scene.
Labels: Arab World, Noémie Cournoyer, Palestine, Secularism, Youth
Omar Khadr dream of revenge, his brother dream of 72 virgins (English), by Iba Bouramine
Somewhat similar in effect even in the turban of mujahideen. And I think it would be a hand and a foot amputated that this young man exibe as booty of war. Nice trophy that child, the radiant smile of development, thanks to good education model jihadist mahométan we balance at your fingertips. Yes, his path seems all mapped out and passed on from father to son Junior Khadr Khadr .... AH ! Sharia ... How charming religious culture and a high sense of ethics. It should not be that this picture is circulating at school during the course on ethics and religious culture in full Islam 101 on the benefits of Shariah: Sura 5 verset42: v. 42 of the Koran:
"As for the thief and the thief, cut their hands both as a reward for what they have acquired [flying] is the punishment of Allah…." You also have another recipe Koranic equally ethical for repeat offenders: the amputation of the leg opposite hand cut off.
This verse has the merit of clarity. More explicit than that, you die!
Our politicians talk of Omar Khadr as a child soldier. They shall refrain from saying it was high and endoctrinné not to be a soldier but to declare the violent jihad against everything that is not Muslim. The endoctrinnement is such that his younger brother, even in a wheelchair dream to explode to reach 72 virgins which he is already receiving the heady perfume.
And our dear politicians want to repatriate such a bomb at us. They do not tell us whether they intend to monitor Omar Khadr after his eventual repatriation and how many millions of dollars this will cost monitoring the Canadian taxpayer.
And what will happen to Bob Rae and Gilles Duceppe if Omar Khadr s'avisait to put into practice the jihadism he absorbed with breast milk, being detonated somewhere in Canada or elsewhere, resulting in the death of innocent victims? Bob Rae will stop there to sleep and Gilles Duceppe would be pretty crazy to resign? Probably NOT, well-righteous are never wrong, even when they are responsible for disasters.
It does not slow to realize that the safety of innocent people is not the priority of our dear politicians, what concern is to be politically correct, their gestures to the media do to bring grist to the mill Islamists and alleged human rights defenders.
Besides all this beautiful world, including politicians, were strangely silent when they learn in the news that this or that ex-Guantanamo detainee, returned to his country and supposed to be monitored closely, blew himself up in Iraq causing the death of dozens of people, or has been killed in Afghanistan fighting against soldiers of the international force.
Whether here or elsewhere, I do not want revenge for revenge. After all, Omar Khadr is doubly victim: his father and his destructive religion. I do not think it represents a serious threat to Canada, since it will be closely monitored by the RCMP, which could even benefit to unmask future terrorists.
But at what cost? A country that has balls (certainly not Canada) would have even tried for high treason, since he fought against allies in a war endorsed by the UN which involved his own country (but without taking this into account that his own country is Islam - Canada does that when seed).
What is amusing in his case it is rather hard with which the politicians of the opposition are fighting for the repatriation, especially that this video "sensational" with the RCMP officers were shot while the Liberals were in power ! What a great heart that Stéphane Dion! As for Layton and Duceppe, it makes for a long time we know their monopoly "humanist" as a very progressive convinced candy pink.
What they would not to embarrass these evil of the U.S. administration, these "fundamentalist-extreme-right" even at great expense to repatriate a member of a family who openly spits on democracy Western and who do dream of slavery - with its Islamic model - the very people who defend. The most ridiculous is that I read somewhere that an Imam of a mosque would be ready to take charge in order to show him the "true Islam of peace" (he begins by showing it to his brother here )!
And in case seed with a vengeful Khadr, no problem: These same politicians then hasten to blame Harper, Afghanistan, politics and conservative offense that marginalizes Muslims, and so on.
The case Khadr soldier raises the following questions to our dear leftists premises:
Is it legitimate to shoot a child packed with explosives as it prepares to blow in a Shopping Centre as Israel? (It will be entitled to one pound of blah blah, but never the right answer).
How interested the fate of Khadr, if the latter was an extremist Christian accused of plotting to blow for an abortion clinic in the U.S.? (They would have the opposite advantage of its presence there to request a copy punishment in his case, given the sentences candy here)!
I want to see that Afghans are overwhelmed, I want to believe they want to defend themselves, but I am of the opinion that this young is sunk. At 15 years he knew what he was doing, he had the age of reason, it must therefore be held responsible for his actions, especially when he and his brother want to become martyrs.
What can I say more ... we bury our living with "tolerance shit" with all tits friends of the "rainbow" mu-mu-mu-multicultural, dancing O Canada in 420 languages to reassure all Canadians and the - Canadian ladies, that everyone loves, with their beautiful smile on their fucking hypocritical face.
We have seen, winter 2007, it was stand up standing in Quebec and vlan is broken legs in Hérouxville. There is even a species of "special squads to patrol or pro-diversity being the great multicultural propaganda coup of the Koran and Sharia" by "mullahs ass kissers' which are gogauches Plateau Mont-Royal, and This is the deepest trough of Témiscamingue, câlisse, just to fuck the people of Ville-Marie and Quyon, to be sure that another Hérouxville never happens and to understand the Quebecers' that multiculturalism is here to stay and that our folklore, we must fuck it in our own ass because it is contrary to the values of Jews and Boibriand Outremont and Islamists Park-Extension, Ville Saint-Laurent and Ville LaSalle."
Yes, now it is best seen, for the Council of the Status of Women in Quebec, wear the hijab or birka, that wearing a g-string or a straitjacket.
Let us be vigilant and continue to be blinded by stupid Rights of the Human and Faith of Bullshit. Our country deserves better and more: the preservation of our civilization and our civil protection.
Iba Bouramine,
21 years old
Born in Algiers, I have grown in Ahunstic
Labels: Afghanistan, Arab World, Iba Bouramine, Islam, Secularism, Youth
Beijing 2008, by Francis Chartrand
The American Florence Griffith Joyner, celebrates his victory after establishing a new Olympic record of 10.54 sec. the 100m for women and wins at the same time the gold medal in the Olympic Games in Seoul. On 25 September 1988. (credit: Photo RON KUNTZ / AFP / Getty Images) 
Morocco's Said Aouita begins to greet the crowd before crossing the finish line and won the 5000 metres final at the 1984 Olympics at the Coliseum Stadium in Los Angeles, California, USA. Aouita won the gold medal and sets a new Olympic record of 13:26.44 minutes. (credit: Photo David Cannon / Allsport) 
The Romanian Gabriela Szabo celebrates after winning gold in the 5000m final at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 at Olympic Stadium. Szabo sets new Olympic record of 14'40 "79. (Credit: Photo Darren England / REUTERS) 
During the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, American Bob Beamon won the gold medal in long jump by effecting a break 8m90 and is part of the Olympic record books. (credit: Photo Tony Duffy / Allsport) 
The Russian Yelena Isinbayeva celebrates his victory after performing a pole vault at 4.91 meters and establishes a new Olympic record on August 24, 2004 at Olympic Stadium in Athens. (credit: Photo AXEL SCHMIDT / AFP / Getty Images)
Labels: Francis Chartrand, Reporters without borders, Sports
Friday, July 25, 2008
By elections, it's a rendezvous, by Marie-Êve Marineau
Two of these elections will be held in the Montreal area, either in Westmount-Ville-Marie and Saint-Lambert. The third one will be held in Guelph, Ontario.
In Westmount-Ville-Marie, the Liberal Party will enjoy a candidate for the notoriety significant, because it's the former astronaut Marc Garneau. He wants to take over from Lucienne Robillard, who retired. His main opponent, former host of CBC radio Lagacé-Anne Dowson, is a rookie of the New Democratic Party, which wants to repeat the feat has been the election of Thomas Mulcair in Outremont in 2007.
On the side of Saint-Lambert, the Bloc candidate Josée Beaudin attempt to retain in the bosom of the party headquarters occupied since 2004 by Maka Kotto. His adversaries: the liberal Roxanne Stanners, the curator Patrick Clune and New Democrat Richard Marois.
At Guelph, the Liberal Party reigned supreme for years and the other parties will have a difficult task. In 2006, however, the Conservatives had managed to narrow the gap with the Liberals to a few thousand votes.
These elections are a first electoral test for the Turn green Liberal leader Stéphane Dion.
Labels: Conservative Party, Elections, Marie-Êve Marineau, New Democratic Party
Karzai harshly criticized, by Anne Humphreys
The paper is signed by Thomas Schweich, who was charged with the embassy of USA in Kabul to fight against drug trafficking in Afghanistan from March 2006 to June 2008.
According to Mr. Schweich, narcocorruption have reached the summit of the Afghan government. It also alleges that members of the Karzai government would be involved in drug trafficking, but that the president closes his eyes.
The drug traffickers would buy the silence of police chiefs, judges and other officials. Moreover, when the traffickers are arrested and convicted, they corromperaient prison officers, so that their imprisonment is of short duration.
Afghanistan produces 90% of global heroin. In 2007, 880 tonnes of poppy, the source of manufacture of heroin, have been produced in the country. The regions of Helmand and Kandahar, where Canadian troops, are the two provinces most affected by opium production. According to figures put forward by the United Nations, the sale of heroin on the black market would have won $ 4 billion (U.S.) in 2007.
Thomas Schweich believes that the fight against drug trafficking in Afghanistan is a failure. He said poppy cultivation had increased by 17% in 2007 compared to 2006. Moreover, this year, eradication of poppy cultivation n'équivaudrait than one third of the 20 000 hectares destroyed in 2007, or about 6600 hectares.
The former diplomat does not blame only the Karzai government failure in the fight against drug trafficking. According to him, the Pentagon made a mistake until the end of the war in Afghanistan to stop the trafficking of drugs, because the money pocketed by the production of heroin maintains the Taliban insurgency.
Mr. Schweich also believes that NATO should become more involved in this fight.
A strange cabal of Europeans shy, media blind Afghans corrupt officers Pentagon simply, the Democrats political motivations and the Taliban has prevented the implementation of an effective anti-drug program.
- Thomas Schweich
Pled Karzai
The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, Thursday refuted allegations by Thomas Schweich. Mr. Karzai believes that the explosion of drug trafficking in his country was not solely attributable to Afghanistan. "Without doubt some Afghans are drug traffickers, but the majority [traffickers] are part of the international mafia who does not live in Afghanistan," he said.
Radio-Canada.ca with Agence France Presse, Canadian Press and Site New York Times Magazine
Labels: Afghanistan, Anne Humphreys, Arab World, Islam, Karzai, United States
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Back on Morgentaler, by Richard Martineau
Journal de Montréal
16/07/2008 05h44
The column I wrote on Henry Morgentaler, Monday, has earned a tsunami of reactions - some fairly virulent, thank you.
Several readers have told me that, contrary to what I said, the theory of Dr. Morgentaler (namely that the legalization of abortion reduces crime rates) is nothing ridiculous.
A WAR OF FIGURES
I do not want to enter a war of figures rising 25 feet over the head of everyone, but if the question you want, do searches, you will see: several renowned economists and statisticians RÉFUTENT these studies. For every study saying that there is a link between abortion and crime rates, there is a study that proves the contrary.
Some statisticians even claim that, contrary to what was written Levitt, the crime rate has increased since the legalization of abortion!
Should we conclude that abortion INCREASES the crime rate? "Of course not" meet the pro-choice. "It does absolutely nothing to say ..." It's bizarre, is not it?
When the figures support our position, the figures are right. But when the numbers run counter to our position, the figures are wrong and studies are worth nothing.
AN PRETENTIUS AFFIRMATION
You know Malcolm Gladwell? He wrote the bestseller The Tipping Point and Blink.
In his blog, Gladwell refutes the theory of Levitt saying that the drop in crime observable across West can be explained by several factors: an increase in the number of police in the streets, increasing the overall standard of living of citizens , The change of values, adopting a more severe sentence, and so on.
Confirming, as did Henry Morgentaler, that abortion reduces crime rates does not stand two seconds.
Besides, everyone knows we can say anything to the figures. Do you know that there are studies saying that the legalization of abortion has reduced the number of smokers?
I am sure we could establish a link between the legalization of abortion and the increase in cases of death by cholesterol.
LET'S STERILYSE THE POOR!
Despite what some readers wrote me, I persist and sign: I think the statement of Dr. Morgentaler extremely doubtful.
In the USA, a study by the National Center for Health Statistics says that these are mostly the poor who are aborted. Is this because there is LESS than poor that crime decline?
In this case, stérilisons the poor, there will be more problem!
When a study establishing a link between the increase in the number of homosexuals in a city and the increase of cases of STDs? Or between the increase in the number of blacks and the growing crime rate?
Commentators on the American far right have délectés the study of Steven Levitt. For them, this is proof by A + B that there are fewer blacks and poor in a society, the more crime declines.
For me, these studies are also doubtful and as dangerous as those establishing a link between race and intelligence quotient.
Labels: Abortion, Richard Martineau
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The author of a book on slavery in the land of Islam receives death threats, by Francis Chartrand
In 2004, the french universitarian Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau explained in a scholarly book that is found in the history of Africa or the Arab world of slave trades worse than Western trafficking. A few days after the release of the book, he received death threats - taken seriously by the police - and preferred not to appear in public. But Malek Chebel, an anthropologist Franco-Algerian Muslim and author of the book "Slavery in the land of Islam", is not disturbed.
"If we ever launched a fatwa against me, I hasten to go on TV and say: you sentenced me to death, but you are only thugs, criminals subject to the tribunal in The Hague . You are not Muslims but murderers, you can send me 10 commandos killers if you want, but I do not hide!"
These words were picked up by the correspondent of La Presse in Paris who Chebel gave an interview last October Slavery in the land of Islam: a Muslim Liberal shakes the taboo, by Louis Robitaille, link.
"A delicate matter," admits Chebel speaking to the topic of his latest book. That is why I am waiting a bit before giving lectures in Paris. But unlike Pétré-Grenouilleau or other is inside that I criticize the excesses of Islam, extremism and sectarianism."
Author of some twenty books, including Manifesto for an Islamic Enlightenment published in 2004, Chebel is both a Muslim impeccable, connoisseur of the Koran, and a liberal without concession, a supporter of secularism and hostile to the door sailing. A determined opponent of "political Islam" and its claims to "regulate society." With this caveat: "Unlike others, I have the desire to be heard and thus avoid unnecessary provocations: I therefore take care of not insulting anybody." In the case of caricatures of Muhammad, Above all tried to "calm down the game."
But this time it is the subject of his book, which is taboo. Chebel stands a severe finding. Slavery in the Muslim world, three times more spread out over time that the West has also hit twice as many people, or 20 million people over 10 centuries.
"A slavery discreet and barely mitigated continues today. There are areas of non-absolute right to Saudi Arabia and some Gulf countries, for example. In Niger and Mali, you can buy - the unit - a child of 10-years-old and you do what you want. While the religious authorities in the West eventually switch in the abolitionist camp of the nineteenth century and still fly their coulpe for past crimes, I hear no preacher of Al-Jazeera condemn these practices."
Chebel also criticises Islam for their disturbing silence. Maybe they preferred, he wrote, "the arrivals mystique of the great thinkers, philosophers and theosophists of Islam to the realities scabreuses merchants of human flesh." They knew, but their empathy for Islam the inclinait to find that religion and men who demanded an apology which are not justified.
What makes Malek Chebel revolt "is that, more or less explicitly, it invokes Islam to justify the enslavement. But on only 25 verses of the Koran that refer to the subject, almost all lean on the side of the postage. Strictly nothing in the texts to justify the slave system. But it is this: in various forms, a coterie religious venal, the orders of dictatorships, keep a total grip on Islam and its interpretation. It was 30 or 40 years ago, Islam Enlightenment which I refer was in full progress, including Egypt, and democracy was in sight. Today is a full regression: if there was now free elections in the Arab-Muslim world, Islamists would win almost everywhere. However, I do not think this is irreversible: Egypt could become a land of the Enlightenment. And there are democratic shivering in the Maghreb or elsewhere. "
Mohammed Ennaji - slavery, power and religion in the Arab World
For the academic Moroccan Mohammed Ennaji, the worst is perhaps in the impact that slavery had on the political mores of the Arab world. In a recent book, it explains how slavery founded the report in power and therefore absolutism that is still often the norm in this part of the world.
Labels: Arab World, Francis Chartrand, Islam, Secularism
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The rising of the Sharia in United Kingdom, a real nightmare, by Iba Bouramine
For example, Muslims could choose to submit their disputes marital or financial contributions to Shariah courts.
He said that Muslims should not have to choose between "dark alternative loyalty to their culture or the state."
(...) Dr Williams argued the need for Shariah is better understood.
He said that currently, "sensationalist reports on opinion polls mask the problem.
He stressed that "no sane person would want to see in this country the kind of inhumanity sometimes associated with the application of Sharia in some Islamic States; punishment extreme attitudes towards women also".
The Reverend John Packer said during a debate on the rule of law in the House of Lords that it is important not to deny the religious communities, including Islam, "the right to apply its ethical standards and moral where they do not infringe human rights. "
He regretted the recent decision to require Catholic adoption agencies to place children with gay couples, "in violation of freedom of conscience of Roman Catholics in question."
"Our human rights must not make us forget the benefits of cultural laws."
He added: "In our legitimate concern for women's rights under the law, and our criticism of certain provisions of the Shariah, we must also be careful not to condemn everything that comes from this tradition."
"In Leeds, as elsewhere, we welcomed the offer of loans and mortgages conform to the Shariah as an example of multicultural integration that has allowed businessmen Muslims to take part in the financial economy of our country. "
"The discussions surrounding these loans and mortgages have allowed to challenge our own secular culture where the interest and debts are simply taken for granted."
He added: "The protection under the law is essential to our society and must remain so".
"At the same time, we must defend the right of cultural and religious groups to assert their moral and ethical standards, including the right of Christian communities to do so. Indeed, we can draw lessons for improving the common good of our entire culture. "
Great Britain - A Muslim leader calls for public floggings in downtown
This is only a matter of time before that corporal punishment prescribed by the Sharia - Public floggings, stonings, amputations - are charged in Britain. The Islamists are étapistes, and leaders of the English naïvistes and cowards ...
A Muslim leader believes that those who commit assault with a knife should be imprisoned for 42 days as suspected terrorists.
Sarfraz Sarwar, 60, said he saw no difference between the epidemic of knife attacks and those who are accused of plotting and executing terrorist attacks.
Mr Sarwar, Gordons, Pitsea, also supported applications for the Shariah is enforced in Britain and said that we should carry out public floggings in inner cities.
Mr Sarwar said: "What is the difference between assault with a knife and suicide bombings?"
Great Britain - Another preacher calls floggings, amputations and executions
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He launched his appeal for such Islamic punishments while still raging controversy around the support for Sharia recently expressed by the President of the High Court of Justice.
Zahra belongs to the Islamic trend lasts Hizb Ut-Tahrir, which has previously suffered a ban. In his sermon at the mosque in Regent's Park in London, he denounced the British democracy as criminal.
The Conservative MP Philip Davies said: "It is unacceptable"
Source : Yahoo News, The Sun
Labels: Iba Bouramine, Islam, Secularism, Sharia, United Kingdom
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