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[Spartacus] The UK Sunday Times' Matthew Campbell has a horrifying account of the details emerging from the recent kidnap, torture and murder of a young jewish cell phone salesman in Paris:
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Penraker: The article describes the slow spread of barbarian practices, carried by Muslims from their home countries. Besides the cruel torture and murder of a young french Jew Ilan Halimi, an action that shocked France, there are others: (via Cosmos)
Drunken Blogging: a victim because he was Jewish was a particularly distressing component of the crime for a nation whose anti-semitic past included wartime collaboration in the transfer of Jews to the death camps. Read the rest of the article from The Sunday Timeshere. (via Cosmos)
QandO - Free Markets, Free People: The trial of a young "femme fatal" used to lure a Jewish man to his torture death hasshocked France:Thanks to Yaldas charms, Halimi was imprisoned and tortured with acid and cigarette burns for more than three weeks in the heart of a council estate. More than 30 neighbours in the building knew what was happening but said nothing about the crime, (via Cosmos)
[TurcoPundit] Foreign Press Review - April 01 2006: 0401-2006f FOREIGN PRESS REVIEW (FPR) - ”Relevant news, views, comments and analysis from all around the world Compiled by Åanlı Bahadır Koç Subscribe to FPR Ext. links Britain/ Turkey/ Magazines/ US / Think-tanks / Blogs / Misc /Books / Quickread / Numbers / Reports H1 Los Angeles Times The tall tale of Tall Afar By Lawrence F.
[Normblog.typepad.com] normblog: having before my eyes and touching with my hands the Holy Gospels, swear that I have always believed, do believe, and with God's help will in the future believe all that is held, preached and taught by the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church... I must altogether abandon the false opinion that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre of the world and moves and that I must not hold, defend or teach in any way whatsoever, verbally and in writing the said false doctrine..."Read the rest.
[Editorsweblog.org] Recent Posts: A group of UK MPs have called on newspapers to invest in quality journalism, while expressing 'grave concern' at the number of newspaper job losses across the country recently. Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell, a former journalist, has lead a campaign that launched a petition asserting that news coverage will most likely suffer because of job cuts and mergers in the newspaper industry.
[Americablog.blogspot.com] AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: Hes appeared on over 150 programs on CNN, CNBC, NPR, FoxNews and other stations, and has written for Knight Ridder, The American Prospect, Salon.com, The Miami Herald and The Fordham Urban Law Journal, among other outlets. Cliff blogs at www.gadflyer.com
[Eurabiantimes.com] Eurabian Times: The other was a rabbi called Gluck who was involved in Jewish-Muslim dialogue and -- surprise surprise -- saw no evidence of anti-Jewish feeling whatsoever. These two individuals are utterly unrepresentative of the mainstream Jewish community.
[Jubileeiraq.org] Jubilee Iraq News: The Christian Science Monitor's editorial "Iraq and Global Debt Relief" argues that cancelling Saddam's debt and that of other dictators is good for security since "poverty helps drive terrorism" and therefore "many other nations saddled with unpayable debts are deserving of financial forgiveness." The editor hopes that "By the time the IMF meets again this fall, the Bush administration will, it is hoped, have broadened its horizons in the global war on terrorism to see debt relief as a prime weapon of mass enrichment, and protection." World Bank President James Wolfensohn noted at the spring meetings that the world spends $900 billion a year on defense but only $50-60 billion on development. "I suggested humorously the other day that if we spent $900 billion on development, we probably wouldn't need to spend more than $50 billion on defense."
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