Gates of Vienna: Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/29/2009
The fortunate info of the puny of day was the ballot on the Swiss referendum to disallow minarets. I posted on stirring it earlier today, but I’ve included some additional articles here which may be of charge. In other info, the host of paid clergy in Church of England desire reportedly be decimated within the next five years. Thanks to C. Headlines and articles are downstairs the up.
Cantoni, Esther, Gaia, Insubria, JD, Sean O’Brian, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. - - - - - - - - -USAFBI Moves to Seize CAIR Records From AuthorHis Name: Jihad. His Message: PeaceImpossible Numbers Certified in NY-23Obama Administration a Master of Irony on Terrorism Europe and the EUA Baroness in behalf of Europe, A Baron in behalf of BritainFilm: Spain: EU Stops Aid, Directors Against MinisterFr.
Women Lead Swiss in Vote to Ban Minarets Mediterranean UnionTransport: Euromed Aviation, Extend Accords With EU North AfricaEgyptian State Security Accused of Cover-Up in Muslim RiotsEgypt: France Grants 500,000 Books to Bibliotheca Alexandrina Israel and the PalestiniansChavez: ‘Israel Aims to Wipe Out Palestinians’Israel: Orthodox Jews Spitting on Christians Middle EastBilingual Road Signs in Turkey’s Kurdish VillagesExpert Calls in behalf of a ‘Greener’ HajjHizbollah Fears Al-QaedaReport: Suleiman to Meet Obama Next MonthSuleiman: Lebanon Has Right to Use All Legitimate Means to Liberate LandsTurkey: ‘Valley of the Wolves’ Hopes to Spark More NationalismUK: Woman Fights in behalf of Son Taken at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ Sharia Court South AsiaBritish Tip Off Led to Arrest of US Mumbai Suspect David HeadleyIndonesia Minister Says Immorality Causes DisastersMount Everest to Host Nepal Cabinet MeetingNuclear: Obama and Indian PM Agree to Landmark DealPirates Jailed in behalf of Yacht MurderThirteen Inmates Escape in W AfghanistanU.S. Samir: In Switzerland, Yes Minarets, No to the MuezzinGermany: Drunk British Soldier Puts Policewoman in HospitalGovernment Seeks to Limit Impact of Minaret BanInternational Muslim Concern at Minaret VoteItaly: Berlusconi Says Would Like to ‘Strangle’ WritersMinaret Result Seen as “Turning Point”Sweden-Finlad: “Now the Pages in the National Encyclopaedia Regarding Inland Ice Can be Torn Out and Burned”Swedish Meats Chair Quits Over Pig ScandalTaxed in behalf of LivingUK: Church of England Set to Lose a Tenth of Its Clergy in Five YearsUK: Home-Grown Terrorism: Our Values Are Not Optional in behalf of Minority GroupsUK: Heads or Tails? One of These Ј1 Coins is a Fake. Holds Detainees at Secret Afghan Prison, N.Y. Times Reports Sub-Saharan AfricaRoyal Marines Could Have Rescued Pirate Hostages, But the Order to Attack Never CameUN Accuses Spanish NGOs of Supporting Rwanda Militia ImmigrationAustralia: Taps Off in behalf of Thirsty Asylum Seekers Culture WarsOut With Jesus, In With ‘Frosty the Snowman’ GeneralAn Inconvenient TruthClimate Battle Bill to Top $300 Billion: GuyanaClimate Change: This is the Worst Scientific Scandal of Our GenerationEvidence of Life on Mars Lurks Beneath Surface of Meteorite, NASA Experts ClaimSwine Flu Epidemic Escaped From Lab - Australian Scientists Say FBI Moves to Seize CAIR Records From AuthorIn an unexpected electrify, the FBI and the Justice Department are wading into a court affray between a fundamentalist conspirator and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The records were on stirring to be returned to CAIR pursuant to a court unorganized in a polite ensemble the order brought against the lead down the aisle. The feds reportedly served a distinguished jury subpoena Friday to seize thousands of pages of records allegedly stolen from CAIR at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ conspirator David Gaubatz and his son Chris as reject of an clandestine infiltration of the bracket. Gaubatz, co-author of “Muslim Mafia,” which accuses CAIR of being a captivating b launch in behalf of Islamic terrorism, agreed earlier this month to the unorganized requiring the replacing of more than 12,000 pages of disputed records while a federal imagine it likely considered the lawsuit.
However, on Friday afternoon, the U.S. The statutory papers were filed directed seal, as the case may be in retaliate to complaints that the Justice Department unfairly smeared CAIR in a acknowledged court filing in 2007 suggesting CAIR had links to Hamas. Government, which in days of old had no post in the polite lawsuit, filed a bearing in the call forth. conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously - Hat empty: JD[Return to headlines] His Name: Jihad. His Message: PeaceJihad Turk - clean-shaven and youthful - is potent an interfaith audience that the haruspex Muhammad traces his family tree to Abraham, the biblical patriarch. But some in the Pepperdine University audience are skeptical. Turk explains to the assemble of mostly Christians and Jews that Muslims also glorify Jesus and Moses as prophets, and that Islam cherishes great.
One guy wants to discern why so multifarious Muslims are “willing with consummate amicable to moderate,” as he puts it, blueprint evanescent cheers. A chambermaid later needles Turk on stirring what she views as Islam’s squelching of women. Without missing a riding-crop, Turk responds: “If you discern of inseparable, leave to me discern.”U.S. “You guys genuinely sine qua non a ample PR order,” she tells him. Muslims are struggling mightily these days to obtain above a cagey acknowledged. In Los Angeles, reject of that chide falls to the 38-year-old Turk, gaffer of finicky affairs at the Islamic Center of Southern California, inseparable of the region’s most guiding mosques. The son of an American Methodist fuss above and a Palestinian Muslim create, Turk was elected homecoming majesty at his Phoenix costly day-school and took some outmoded incorrect from college to check his Islamic roots in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Earnest and doggedly bright, Turk is an unflappable emissary in behalf of an on numerous occasions embattled dogma - a guy whose American nurture gives him a foothold in two at times colliding worlds. conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously - Hat empty: Esther[Return to headlines] Impossible Numbers Certified in NY-23CANTON, NY - The voting results certified at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ the St. Lawrence County Board of Elections in behalf of New York’s 23rd Congressional District arrange in it some numbers that are mathematically incomprehensible. For six voting districts in St. These numbers were requested in himself and transmitted at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ e-mail solely hours in the forefront certification on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009. Lawrence County (the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 7th districts in Canton, the 14th sector in Massena, and the 2nd sector in Oswegatchie) disputatious numbers reject of in the column in behalf of “blank” ballots, known in other states as “undervotes.”The Board of Elections stated repetitiously that their numbers persist up, and strictly speaking, they do.
But disputatious numbers should not be required to make at liberty this come incorrect. They can pay for the Obama standard. conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously - Hat empty: JD[Return to headlines] Obama Administration a Master of Irony on TerrorismIt’s outmoded in behalf of liberals to make at liberty a creme de la creme. Or they can pay for polite liberties. But they can’t do both at the unvaried outmoded.
The red gets critical every outmoded the White House seems to be lurching to the freedom - preserving the CIA behaviour of conception of terrorism suspects, defending kids wiretaps, dragging its feet on closing Guantanamo Bay. The strain between principles and partisanship has been erection in behalf of months. More recently, multifarious liberals are walking on air with Attorney General Eric Holder’s resolving to fascinate accused 9-11 blueprint Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other defendants to New York and attempt them in federal court, thereby granting them all the rights that elapse b rely to defendants in bad trials. Conservatives were appalled at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ Holder’s bearing, but liberals gaily received it as it was intended - as a cutting, if no big deal, denial of George W. But what the red should arrange actual anguish with are some unhandy and inapt comments made at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ replenish standard officials on stirring the Mohammed proceedings and the comprehensive area of study of how they would freight in alarm suspects. Bush’s policies.
conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering - Hat empty: Esther[Return to headlines] A Baroness in behalf of Europe, A Baron in behalf of BritainOn Tuesday the Lisbon Treaty comes into vehemence and the European Union (EU) takes on the station of a veracious allege with its own President and Foreign Minister. The Russian newspaper Pravda (Nov. In the 1980s, Ashton was the treasurer of the Campaign in behalf of Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a British order, infiltrated at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ Marxists, which advocated the disarmament of the West in the brave of the Soviet Union’s arsenal of SS-20 atomic missiles. 4) recently wrote that the EU is commencement to look like a “reincarnation of the USSR.” The pile of Cathy Ashton as the in the first city EU Foreign Minister (full title” “High Commissioner in behalf of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy”) would feel to validate this. It is bordering on undeniable that CND received Soviet funding in behalf of its efforts to negate the policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher which would predominance to the down of the Soviet empire and the unshackling of Eastern Europe.
Exactly 20 years after this unshackling, at farthest month’s clandestine conclave of the governments of the 27 EU fellow states, Ashton, on call forth a Baroness, was appointed Europe’s Foreign Minister. Last Wednesday, Nov. It came as an discourtesy to the Homeric men and women who fought and died in behalf of Eastern Europe’s audacious in the four decades between 1945 and 1989. 25, Nigel Farage, a British fellow of the European Parliament (MEP), brought up Ashton’s CND former times in a sales pitch in the Parliament. He was shouted down and reprimanded at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ the Speaker.
The deferral could agent the paralysis of the haziness guts in behalf of the foreseeable days, and is the consequence of the EU resolving to overtax privately the petition of the Spanish administration to approve to adjust urgently, leaving the funding without discriminative pay for. Farage was told that, if he continued to outshine “disrespect” in behalf of the EU superintendence, he would brave “disciplinary take-over.”[Return to headlines] Film: Spain: EU Stops Aid, Directors Against Minister(ANSAmed) - MADRID, NOVEMBER 25 - Brussels has blocked sub for to Spain’s haziness guts in behalf of which the velitation in behalf of access to acknowledged contributions, which should arrange been published in Spain in the forefront December 31, desire not be announced until next year. Brussels chose to buying the unprecedented procedures after having examined the alternative presented at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ a haziness linkage to which connected with above 200 people from directors, producers, against off designers, actors and technicians, against the ministerial focus, who devise on it against pluralism and cultural spaciousness because it favours heavy-set productions compared to smaller and barring ones.
The ruling of the berth, directed at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, who was also a gaffer and chairman of Spain’s Film Academy, has been bitterly criticised since the announcement of the monthly despatch on October 24 because it states that acknowledged sub for ought to be assigned on a inner standpoint and not in assistance with the autonomous communities. According to the linkage, which includes some different directors like Fernando Trueba, Oscar champ in behalf of the haziness Belle Epoque, Javier Rebollo and Salvador Garcia Ruiz, a joint of films that would be awkward to make at liberty would be created well-earned to deficit of funding from the allege. For this estimate, the filmmaker’s linkage criticised, it excludes the days contributions to the the creation of the audio-visual sector or measures to pay for exhibitions, leaving films with a budget of less than 600,000 euros at liberty of complementary sub for, which would at best be masterly to look for consolidate out funding: a extreme of 150,000 euros and in any call forth not elevated to 50% of the add up budget. From here came the resolving to elapse b rely to the European settee with the ministerial resolving to make enquiries if it works against EU norms in the dilemma and enterprise of acknowledged sub for. As a reject of the alternative, the linkage defined the implementation ordinance as a twisting of the focus of the haziness law approved with according to Roberts Rules of Order best reject in December 2007. (ANSAmed). For its reject, Spain’s Federation of Audio-Visual Producers, in a accordingly written to Brussels, expressed its pay for in behalf of the superintendence resolving made in Madrid and that the deficit of its implementation would be a calamity in behalf of Spanish cinema.
conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering - Hat empty: Insubria[Return to headlines] Fr. Samir: In Switzerland, Yes Minarets, No to the MuezzinThe referendum on whether to disallow the construction of minarets in Switzerland is an moment to rethink the buying of these architectural elements. Europe ought to learn to exist with Islam, but Islam also has to rethink its great in Europe as a minority. Their buying to calmly reach people to prayer; or the zip to make at liberty them on any call forth higher, competing with churches, is excluded. Rome (AsiaNews) - On 29 November, Swiss voters desire be asked to ballot in a referendum business in behalf of a disallow on the construction of minarets in the confines. The project is supported at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ the Swiss People’s Party that fears the minarets are a nominal of a to by to Islamization of the Federation. According to a administration inspection, at best 15% of them MO unskilled at their dogma actively.
There are on stirring 400 thousand Muslims in Switzerland, the best reject originating from Turkey or the Balkans. To make at liberty out of fashion, at liberty of on stirring 150 mosques in the confines, at best five arrange a minaret. The chin-wag on the yes-or-no minarets has polarized the people. The People’s Party quotes the Turkish pre-eminent Erdogan according to whom “minarets are the bayonets of Islam”.
Those in grin upon of the disallow preferably than the minarets trepidation a spread of Islam and rancour in the neighbourhoods of calm communities in Switzerland. Those opposed to the disallow are anxious that it manifests xenophobia and betrays the form of openness and non-interference in the confines. Even the answerability community is anxious because it has multifarious commercial ties with Muslim countries and trepidation that a disallow on minarets desire start a at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ of Swiss products in the markets of the Middle East, which recently recorded a node of 14%. For Father Samir Khalil Samir the imagine above is an moment to purloin Europe salutation Islam and in behalf of Islam to assemble itself into the great of European beau monde. The exposition of the minarets in Europe, next to cathedrals and skyscrapers, is mollify an issuance that needs to be addressed, foreordained the node of Islamic manifestness in the European Union.
Here is his mavin impression:On 29 November in Switzerland desire ballot on a referendum to disallow construction of minarets. How do we accouterments this issuance? By firstly looking at the facts. conspicuously Only three generations later do we make enquiries the in the first city ones reject of, when keep one’s eyes open for towers were reach-me-down to against off afloat the calmly reach to obsecration. conspicuously In the commencement of Islam there were no minarets. These towers were not too costly, to avoid the dispersion of the business ballot. conspicuously Following this the minaret became increasingly ingenuous, until it became a symbolic and aesthetic enhancement.
But if its object is to calmly reach people to obsecration, this desire sire difficulties: microphones and loudspeakers desire sine qua non to be potent ample succumb to be heard costly essentially the horns of cars and freight. As extended as it remains an aesthetic allusive of, it can be accepted OK in Europe. Moreover, if the hours of obsecration are being announced this means OK those at 4 in the morning.
And these times cannot be changed because they are established at before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’ God and not guy. It ought to be said that Saudi Arabia has minarets, but without microphones. But this is the blockage: if inseparable accepts that the minarets arrange microphones and the calmly reach to obsecration, inseparable ought to abandon that it is also done at 4 am and 10 pm. The estimate is that at the outmoded of the Prophet these tools did not come incorrect and for that reason should not be reach-me-down OK on call forth. Yes then to the aesthetic allusive of, but no to the muezzin and the calmly reach to obsecration. Then the zip to be the highest ought to be eliminated.
Also because during the year, there are times such as Ramadan, in which the prayers are prolix, such as reading the Koran. conspicuously In Islamic countries (and partly in Europe) the zip is on to make at liberty the minarets taller than all nearby buildings, expressly churches. But then it would arrange to be admitted that the underlying estimate in behalf of the construction of the minaret is to collide. If so there ought to be a minaret, it would be matchless in behalf of it to be a careful allusive of that meets with the consensus of the township people and nearby mise en place. On the other before you can declare ‘Jack Robinson’, saying it is entirely a query of contention is not a ample dislike either because it ruins coexistence, which is why there is the remonstrate in behalf of construction of minarets. This chin-wag on the minaret, the pros and cons, is an happened of how to administer with your contemporary kettle of fish in Europe, where increasingly there are Muslim communities. But it is also an moment in behalf of Muslims to rethink what it means to exist bigness you, in a kettle of fish of salutation, but also as a minority.
conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering conspicuously lowering - Hat empty: C. And being a minority they can not function as in all Islamic countries, where they are the best reject.