Call It What It Is: Islamic Terrorism
by Christine Williams, GATESTONE INSTITUTE
Despite these recent attacks on innocent civilians, excuses were made that blamed the victims and exonerated the perpetrators.
A growing problem, the radicalization of Muslim youth, all too often gets brushed off as a Western problem: specifically, being racist toward Muslims, and making them feel alienated and angry .
Canada’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police have thwarted a terrorism plot – one that enlisted the help of Al Qaeda in Iran — to derail a VIA Rail passenger train. A combined effort between the RCMP, Toronto and Montreal Police and the FBI lead to the arrest of two men on terrorism charges: 35 year old Raed Jaser of Toronto and 30 year old Chiheb Esseghaier of Montreal. This news comes on the heels of the double bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 170. Among the dead was an 8 year old boy. (Read more…)
European Union Spending Millions to Silence Critics
Auditors have refused to sign off on EU accounts for 18 years in a row, and EU officials have been sacked for exposing corruption and fraud within the vast bureaucracy.
The European Union (EU) is pouring millions of pounds into organizations that advocate state control of the press. For many, the funding — uncovered recently by Telegraph journalist Andrew Gilligan — is yet further evidence of the EU’s increasingly Orwellian, authoritarian nature. The Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky has for years referred to the organization as the EUSSR.
One recipient of European taxpayers’ money, Mediadem, for example, has been given 2.3 million pounds. Mediadem describes its mission as working to “reclaim a free and independent media.” Addressing the topical issue of how to restructure the system of redress for those wrongfully accused or defamed by newspapers, Mediadem recommends the “imposition of sanctions beyond an apology or correction” and the “co-ordination of the journalistic profession at the European level.”
Court of Appeal in France: the “occupation” is not illegal
*Here is a study that friends of Israel must be preserved carefully in
their archives.* France is not neutral in the conflict, and the judgment
of the Court is of particular importance.Veolia and Alstom built, following a call for tenders, the Jerusalem
tramway through the city to the east, into the territories claimed by the
PLO and the Palestinian Authority. (Read more…)
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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