Wednesday, 25 March 2009


French “Human Rights Advocates” Summon Wilders to Court

A French “human rights organization” is summoning the Dutch politician Geert Wilders to court. “Wilders made statements about French Muslims which incite to racial hatred,” says lawyer Yassine Bouzrou. The French complaint is based on a speech Wilders made in New York last September. The French courts will probably throw the case out because the event in question took place in New York, not in France.

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France in NATO: Why It Matters

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has responded to critics of his decision to return France fully to NATO bydownplaying the significance of the plan. Sarkozy has argued that France’s full “reintegration” into the military command structure of the 26-member alliance, after an absence of more than 40 years, is little more than a formality, especially considering that France already works closely with NATO on many levels. But there is probably far more to Sarkozy’s decision than he is letting on.

 

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Brussels, Capital of Eurabia?

A quote from Fox News, 24 March 2009:

"Belgian police assigned three plainclothes officers to watch over a FOX News team shooting street scenes one morning in Molenbeek. When FOX News returned in the afternoon as more people were out and about, the police said it would be safer not to get out of the car. It wasn't even dark yet."

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Sharia Banking Conquers Europe

All over Europe Islamic banks are establishing branches, Western banks are offering Sharia-compliant financial services, and European governments are trying to outcompete each other in welcoming them. Proponents of banking along the lines of Sharia (Islamic law) claim that the Islamic banking system is “more ethical” than the West’s capitalist system. This is not true. Unfortunately, however, in our age of crashing financial markets, many Westerners – not just the traditional anti-capitalist European left – seem very eager to buy that argument.

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