Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe’s Identity Crisis

Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe’s Identity Crisis

SOURCE: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/

December 26, 2009
by Ramzy Baroud

It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn’t get a grip on reality. The world, including France, is a complex, multifaceted and fascinatingly diverse place; it cannot be co-opted to fit national specificities determined by a group of irritable far right racists with a distorted interpretation of themselves and others.

String of Zionist-sponsored anti-Iran conferences

String of Zionist-sponsored anti-Iran conferences

SOURCE: http://www.crescent-online.net/

At a time when the world’s attention is focused on the horrible crimes the Zionists perpetrated in Gaza exactly a year ago and continue to do so against hapless Palestinians today, the Zionists are busy demonizing Iran. There has been a spate of Zionist-sponsored anti-Iran conferences in the US, Canada, and Europe in recent weeks. The scale and scope of these conferences clearly indicate an officially sanctioned campaign launched by the Zionist State and its apologists to target Islamic Iran.

The US cannot do a damn thing

The US cannot do a damn thing

SOURCE: Crescent Magazine

Let us get something straight after knocking out all the middlemen: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netan-yahu is US president Barack Obama’s boss. A person incapable of seeing this basic point will never be able to understand the off-again, on-again Zionist-imperialist-Islamic triangular relations, tensions, and skirmishes. The Israeli thugs-in-chief, from Ben Gurion to Netanyahu, come to Washington to give marching orders to American presidents, from Truman to Obama. The most recent order coming down from the Israeli big-banana to the American banal Obama concerns, of course, Islamic Iran. And the order concerns “military action” against Iran.

Chechnya war: 15 years on

Chechnya war: 15 years on

SOURCE: Crescent Magazine

By Maksud Djavadov

This month marks exactly 15 years since the beginning of the war in Chechnya. During this time, the concept of Chechen identity and of Chechnya itself became embodied in war and conflict. How and why the current situation evolved and whether there is a potential exit strategy must be studied and analyzed. Reflections on past events and ideas that triggered those events must, therefore, take place.

Amien Rais: Gus Dur Otomatis Pahlawan

Amien Rais: Gus Dur Otomatis Pahlawan

SUMBER: Republika Online

By Republika Newsroom
Sabtu, 02 Januari 2010 pukul 13:21:00

MALANG–Mantan Ketua MPR RI Prof Dr Amien Rais menyatakan, secara otomatis KH Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) harus mendapatkan gelar pahlawan nasional dari Pemerintah. “Sudah sepantasnya dan selayaknya kalau Gus Dur mendapatkan gelar pahlawan nasional. Siapa pun atau pihak mana pun tidak perlu lagi mempersoalkannya,” tegas Amien usai memberikan kuliah tamu di hadapan ribuan mahasiswa Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM), Sabtu.

Gus Dur Dimakamkan di Jombang, Presiden Akan Pimpin Upacara

Gus Dur Dimakamkan di Jombang, Presiden Akan Pimpin Upacara

SUMBER: KOMPAS

Rabu, 30 Desember 2009 | 20:59 WIB

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com — Pemakaman jenazah mantan Presiden Abdurrahman Wahid sesuai rencana akan dilaksanakan di tanah kelahirannya di Jombang, Jawa Timur, Kamis (31/12/2009). Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono dipastikan bakal memimpin upacara pemakaman Gus Dur.

Sejumlah Tokoh Nasional dan Menteri Melayat ke RSCM

Sejumlah Tokoh Nasional dan Menteri Melayat ke RSCM

SUMBER: Antara News

Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Sejumlah tokoh dan Menteri Kabinet Indonesia Bersatu mendatangi RS Ciptomangunkusumo Jakarta untuk melayat Presiden RI-4 Abdurrahman Wahid yang meninggal dunia pada Rabu, pukul 18.40 WIB.

Tampak terlihat ulama KH Zainuddin MZ,mantan Menteri Pembangunan Daerah Tertinggal Lukman Eddy, Menteri Keuangan Sri Mulyani, Meneg Pemberdayaan Perempuan Linda Agum Gumelar dan suaminya Agum Gumelar, Gubernur DKI Jakarta Fauzi Bowo dan Ketua PB NU Hasyim Muzadi mendatangi RSCM menuju ruang VVIP nomor 116 tempat Gus Dur dirawat selama di RSCM.

Selamat Tinggal Gus Dur (Gus Dur Wafat)

Gus Dur Meninggal Dunia

SUMBER: NU Online

Rabu, 30 Desember 2009 20:06

Jakarta, NU Online
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raajiuun, mantan presiden RI KH Abdurrahman Wahid atau biasa dikenal Gus Dur telah meninggal dunia pada pukul 18.45 WIB.

Kepala tim dokter yang menangani Gus Dur dr Yusuf Misbah, mengatakan kondisi Gus Dur sebenarnya sempat membaik namun pada Rabu siang tadi, pukul 11 kembali memburuk karena penyakit komplikasi antara diabetes, ginjal, stroke dan jantung.

CIA di Balik Teror Mumbai?

CIA di Balik Teror Mumbai?

SUMBER: Blog Berita Alternatif

Harian asal London, The Times melaporkan pihak berwenang India percaya bahwa seorang tersangka kunci yang diduga merencanakan serangan di Mumbai akhir tahun lalu, atau yang dikenal dengan sebutan serangan 26/11, adalah seorang agen rahasia AS.

Keyakinan itu muncul ketika David Headley (49), yang lahir di Washington dari seorang ayah Pakistan dan ibu Amerika, ditahan pihak keamanan AS di Chicago dengan tuduhan awal merencanakan pembunuhan atas kartunis Denmark. Namun, pihak berwenang India mengetahui bahwa Headley juga terlibat perencanaan serangan atas Mumbai. Pihak India tidak diberi akses untuk memeriksa pria yang bernama asli Daood Gilani itu.

Bahkan Sang Bonekapun Mengutuk Tuannya: Karzai Mengutuk Serangan Militer Amerika Yang Menewaskan Murid Sekolah

Karzai condemns US for killing school children

SOURCE: PressTV

Afghan President Hamid Karzai protests the US military’s targeting of civilians after a US raid killed at least eight school children in the east of the war-torn country.

Karzai’s office on Monday issued a statement in which it condemned the killings that reportedly took place on Saturday in Kunar province near the border with Pakistan.

Houthis seize full control of Saudi border post

Houthis seize full control of Saudi border post

SOURCE: Islami Davet

Houthi fighters in northern Yemen say they have seized control of a Saudi military post along the border between the two countries where Saudi and Yemeni forces are waging a campaign to uproot them.

According to a report released by Hezbollah’s al-Manar television network, Houthis have seized “full control of the Al-Jamrah Saudi military post” as well as weapons, communication material, military vehicles and surveillance equipment.

The report added that the northern Yemen’s Shia fighters overran the Saudi post on Monday and forced soldiers to flee. The post is said to be located in close proximity to al-Khoba in Saudi Arabia’s southern province of Jizan.

Anggota Parlemen Yaman: Jika Saudi Mempunyai Nuklir Maka Akan Digunakan Membom Houthi

Saudi would have nuked Houthis: Yemeni MP

SOURCE: Islami Davet

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Yemeni lawmaker Yahya al-Houthi says Saudi Arabian warplanes are engaged in the relentless bombardment of civilian positions in Yemen’s war-torn north.

In an interview with Press TV on Friday, the Yemeni lawmaker accused the Saudi army of using internationally banned weapons in its attacks on villages in the northern province of Sa’ada, regretting the high civilian toll from the raids.

If Riyadh had nuclear weapons, it would have used them against the Houthi fighters, the lawmaker charged.

Diputus Bebas, Prita Menangis

Diputus Bebas, Prita Menangis

SUMBER: VIVANEWS

Hakim membebaskan Prita dari seluruh dakwaan.

Selasa, 29 Desember 2009, 11:33 WIB

Umi Kalsum

VIVAnews – Prita Mulyasari tidak mampu menyembunyikan rasa harunya. Ia langsung memanjatkan doa sambil menangis begitu majelis hakim Pengadilan Negeri Tangerang memvonis bebas.

Ketua majelis hakim Artur Hangewa, Selasa 29 Desember 2009, menyatakan Prita tidak bersalah dalam kasus perseteruannya dengan RS Omni Internasional.

Yemeni HR groups condemn Sa’ada bombings

Yemeni HR groups condemn Sa’ada bombings

SOURCE: PressTV

Yemeni human rights groups have condemned orchestrated air raids by Yemeni, Saudi and the US forces against civilians in the northern province of Sa’ada.

The groups said the attacks, which have killed scores of civilians including women and children, amounted to “war crimes.”

The Yemeni National NGO Coalition for Child Rights Care and the Yemeni Center for Human Rights also called on the Yemeni and Saudi governments to stop the attacks.

U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged

U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged

SOURCE: Ipsnews.Net

By Gareth Porter*

*Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, “Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam”, was published in 2006.

WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (IPS) – U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.

Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.