France: The Looming Battle over Muslim Integration

by Soeren Kern December 31, 2013 at 5:00 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4113/france-muslim-integration Among the long list of recommendations…the panel says that public schools in France should be taught in Arabic and African languages rather than in French. “It would no longer be up to French immigrants to adopt French culture, but for France to abandon its own […]

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Tom Holland on the Extermination of Middle East Christians

Persecution of Christians in the Middle East is a crime against humanity Prince Charles’s warning was not scaremongering. Calamity, accelerated by the Iraq war, has been brewing a long time Tom Holland theguardian.com, Sunday 22 December 2013 15.00 GMT Egyptian Copts are the largest community of Christians left in the Middle East. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty […]

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The anti-Semitic stench of Pink Floyd

December 12, 2013,   Rabbi Shmuley Boteach http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-anti-semitic-stench-of-pink-floyd/   I’ve read some heavy-duty attacks on Israel and Jews in my time, but they pale beside the anti-Semitic diatribe recently offered by Roger Waters, Pink Floyd’s co-founder and former front man. In an interview with CounterPunch online magazine, Waters experienced a Jew-hating colonic where he purged […]

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Genius of the Spiritual Mind: From Zero to Mars

The recent outburst by India’s leading rationalists over K Radhakrishnan’s visit to the famous Lord Venkateswara temple in southern India needs to be examined. Radhakrishnan is chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisationand the head of India’s space agency, in fact the man responsible for launching that nation’s mission to the planet Mars. It is […]

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Starving children on the streets ignored by a Mercedes-driving elite

Undercover in North Korea: Starving children on the streets ignored by a Mercedes-driving elite… but will Kim Jong-Un’s iron rule be brought down by smuggled soap operas and Skyfall? Documentary reveals undercover footage of stark realities in pariah state Homeless boy, 8, tells how his mother found it too hard to look after him Escaped […]

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US Human Rights group pressures Kerry on religious freedom in Islamic Malaysia

Rap M’sia for religious freedom curb, Kerry urged K Pragalath | October 9, 2013 Various groups want US state secretary to stand-up for non-Muslims and those of other sects during his visit to Malaysia. PETALING JAYA: Thirteen organisations representing various faiths in the United States have lobbied for US State Secretary John Kerry to rap the […]

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How the Middle East Map could be Redrawn

How 5 Countries Could Become 14 Analysis by ROBIN WRIGHT Slowly, the map of the Middle East could be redrawn. SYRIA: THE TRIGGER? Sectarian and ethnic rivalries could break it into at least three pieces 1. Alawites, a minority that has controlled Syria for decades, dominate a coastal corridor. 2. A Syrian Kurdistan could break […]

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