It is now taken for granted that Christmas markets across Europe have to be held behind the ugly throttling barriers of “security” – which as we saw yesterday are, ultimately, never secure.
Les mer»Gérard Collomb, France’s Interior Minister until last month and currently Mayor of Lyon, is apparently pessimistic about the situation in his country. People do not want to live together,” Collomb lamented. Collomb also warned that there is only a “little time” to improve the situation. “It’s difficult to estimate but I would say that in five years the situation could become irreversible. Yes, we have five, six years to avoid the worst,” he added.
Les mer»The European Court of Human Rights ruled on October 25 that to state that the Islamic prophet Muhammad “liked to do it with children” and “… A 56-year-old and a six-year-old?… What do we call it, if it is not paedophilia?” goes “beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate,” and could be classified as “an abusive attack on the Prophet of Islam which could stir up prejudice and threaten religious peace.”
Les mer»Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstol har afgjort, at kritik af islams grundlægger Muhammed udgør en tilskyndelse til had og derfor ikke er beskyttet ytringsfrihed.
Les mer»At the end of last month, the European Court of Human Rights issued its ruling in a long-running case involving an Austrian woman named Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff.
Les mer»De kinesiske myndigheder planlægger opsætningen af omkring 626 millioner overvågningskameraer i Kina inden år 2020. Kameraerne kommer blandt andet til at sende oplysninger til et nationalt “socialt kreditsystem”.
Les mer»Hvad sker der med et land, hvor kun den lydige må gå ombord på fly eller belønnes for sine statstjenester med rabatter? Ingen ved det, for intet styre har hidtil haft mulighed for at vurdere alle konstant og kunne gennemtvinge sin vilje.
Les mer»Efter Irans opfattelse er Islamisk Jihad dets egentlige allierede i den palæstinensiske arena. Og af Iran vil PIJ altid blive opfattet som den naturlige erstatning for Hamas i Gazastriben, såfremt Hamas nogensinde skulle smede en aftale sammen med Fatah eller Israel.
Les mer»“The possibility that Europe will become a museum or a cultural amusement park for the nouveau riche of globalization is not completely out of the question.” This thought of Europe as a vast cultural theme park was presented by the late historian Walter Laqueur.
Les mer»It looked like a first-class spy thriller: A prominent writer enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul but never leaves the building. Saudi officials said he left the building but could not offer footage from security cameras. When they did, the image was of a dark-haired body-doubledressed in the writer’s clothes.
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