After the show trial was over, I was taken to the police jail at Petrovka 38 in Moscow, and here the procedural violations continued. Not with regard to my treatment, which was respectful and as hospitable as a small box with metal furnishings and a hole in the floor for a toilet can be. I wasn’t allowed a phone call and all visitors were refused access. Even my lawyer Olga Mikhailova and Duma member Vladimir Ryzhkov were forbidden to visit me, despite having the legal right to do so. My world chess champion predecessor, Anatoly Karpov, for years my great rival, generously attempted to pay me a visit but was also turned away. http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010936

Als im Frühjahr 2006 der iranische Präsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad drohte, Israel von der Landkarte zu tilgen, und gleichzeitig sein Programm fortsetzte, das auf die Herstellung von Atomwaffen zielte, erwuchs aus dem Anspruch der Vergangenheitsbewältigung für das politische Establishment Deutschlands eine sehr spezifische außenpolitische Frage: Was würde es tun, um den Iran daran zu hindern, sich Atomwaffen zu beschaffen, mit denen Ahmadinedschad seine Drohung in die Tat umsetzen könnte, einen zweiten Holocaust zu begehen? http://www.welt.de/wams_print/article1421000/Wo_sind_die_Antifaschisten.html

GREEN scientists have been accused of overstating the dangers of climate change by researchers who found that the number of people killed each year by weather-related disasters is falling.

Their report suggests that a central plank in the global warming argument – that it will result in a big increase in deaths from weather-related disasters – is undermined by the facts. It shows deaths in such disasters peaked in the 1920s and have been declining ever since.

Average annual deaths from weather-related events in the period 1990-2006 – considered by scientists to be when global warming has been most intense – were down by 87% on the 1900-89 average. The mortality rate from catastrophes, measured in deaths per million people, dropped by 93%.

The report by the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change, a grouping of 41 mainly...

“Shariah is not only about the cutting off of wrists,” said Muzammil Sani Hanga, a member of Kano State’s Shariah Commission and a legal expert who helped draft the state’s Islamic code. “It is a complete way of life.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/world/africa/01shariah.html?ex=1354165200&en=b01422ddf290cfe9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Der weltberühmte Leipziger Philosoph analysiert die Weltlage:
http://germ.irib.ir/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5131&Itemid=35
http://german.irib.ir/media/interviews/meggle2.mp3

Noch besser: Shraga Elam über Annapolis:
http://germ.irib.ir/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5129&Itemid=35

We have seen videos on TV of Muslim Jihadis beheading infidel hostages. Less attention has been paid to the fact that Muslims are beheading entire nation states. Although this is happening in slow motion, it is no less dramatic. Historically, the major cities have constituted a country’s “head,” the seat of most of its political institutions and the largest concentration of its cultural brainpower. What happens when this “head” is cut off from the rest of the body?
In many countries across Western Europe, Muslim immigrants tend to settle in major cities, with the native population retreating to minor cities or into the countryside. Previously, Europeans or non-Europeans could travel between countries and visit new cities, each with its own, distinctive character and peculiarities. Soon, you will travel from London to Paris,...

Lord Ahmed, Britain’s first Muslim peer, is due to meet President el-Bashir of Sudan today in an effort to secure the release of a primary school teacher jailed for blasphemy.
A source close to the Sudanese Government said that it would consider offering Gillian Gibbons a pardon so she could fly home within days.
Ms Gibbons was being held at a secret location last night after hundreds of protesters, some of them wielding knives and ceremonial swords, called for her execution.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2980644.ece
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/01/sudan.teacher/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/12/01/2007-12-01_teddy_bear_barbarism-3.html
http://www.20min.ch/news/ausland/story/16360060

A Dutch conservative lawmaker said Wednesday he is making a film to highlight what he describes as “fascist” passages in the Quran, his latest high profile criticism of Islam.
The interior and justice ministers said they were concerned, but believed they had no authority to prevent the lawmaker, Geert Wilders, from screening his film.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/28/europe/EU-GEN-Netherlands-Anti-Quran-Film.php