Steyn on Turkey

One of the most lucid and to-the-point writers is Mark Steyn. He has a web page called Steyn-on-Line where all of his articles can be read. This is what he writes about Turkey:
For a year or more now, there’s been a steady drip of “Who lost Turkey?” stories. The modern secular Muslim state – a [...]

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China: not progressing on Human Rights

[Traducido al final]According to the new report from Amnesty International, China has not fulfilled its promise to protect Human Rights for the Olympics Game of 2008:
The report catalogs a wide range of persistent abuses, from extensive use of detention without trial to the persecution of civil rights activists and new methods to rein in the [...]

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Turkey’s fight against Islamism

Some days ago 3 Christians were killed after being tortured in the central city of Malatya:
The three victims — a German and two Turkish citizens — were found with their hands and legs bound and their throats slit at the Zirve publishing house in the central city of Malatya.Police detained four youths, aged 19-20, and [...]

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Egyptian Sandmonkey quits blogging

My preferred Egyptian blogger, Sandmonkey, quits fearing for his security after he blogged about a demonstration some weeks ago. A lot of bloggers have already expressed their regrets, although I believe all of us understand why he has done it.Others who have commented about this sad event: Blue Star Chronicles, Gateway Pundit and Seven Inches [...]

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Jihad in Pakistan: now also women and children

I have written about the Pakistani President Musharraf and how he is capitulating to the Talibans. But there are more related news from The New Stateman:

You must understand,” says Maulana Sami ul-Haq, “that Pakistan and Islam are synonymous.” The principal of Darul Uloom Haqqania, a seminary in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), [...]

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Al-Qaeda operative believed to be mastermind of 7/7, captured

The Pentagon has announced the capture of Adb al Hadi al Iraqi, considerd as a “top level member of A-Qaeda”,who has been transferred to Guantanamo (Cuba).
The detained, says Berlusconi’s Spanish leftist TV Telecinco, is “Iraqi, born in the north of Mosul and was commander of the armed army (¡!) of Saddam Hussein”. Normally armies are [...]

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Obscure communist association supported by public money wants to try Aznar over Iraqi war

As I have blogged several times in the past, communist and socialist supporters want to judge Aznar because of his support to Iraqi war. I am translating the alert Monclovitas.com (from antizp.org movement) has posted on their website.
On April 25th, Spanish newspaper La Razón reported: “A foundation linked to Spanish Communist Party and which has received a lot [...]

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The situation in Ecuador is deterioriating day by day

 After a relevant number of MPs from opposition (50 of 57) were expelled from their seats some days ago by the Supreme Elections’ Tribunal, the Constitutional Tribunal of Ecuador considered that they were illegally expelled and that they should be reinstalled in their seats. The Magistrates based their resolution in the fact that the expelled MPs were [...]

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Musharraf wants to forbid the insult to Islam in order to prevent terrorism

[Translation below] 
Los Gobiernos de España y Pakistán suscribieron ayer una declaración conjunta en la que anuncian su intención de adoptar nuevos acuerdos bilaterales para luchar contra el terrorismo. La firma de esa declaración tuvo lugar en el Palacio de la Moncloa, tras una entrevista mantenida por el jefe del Ejecutivo, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, con [...]

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And again the SGAE’s phantom appears

 I blogged some days ago about the possible introduction of an article, 17.bis, in the new Internet law -not yet enacted- by which SGAE (the General society of the authors and editors) could shut web pages if it considers they are illegal.
David Bravo explains it this way:
si una página web aloja obras intelectuales que pudieran vulnerar derechos [...]

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UN accuses Sudan over weapons

Sudan has used disguised aircraft to fly weapons into Darfur in violation of UN resolutions, the UN alleges.
The Sudanese government has been accused of violating a UN arms embargo by flying weapons into Darfur in breach of UN Security Council resolutions.
A UN report says Sudan painted aircraft white to make them look like UN [...]

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Iran, women’s rights and the Spanish Public TV

Well, these last days I have not blogged but this can show the level of idiocy that Public Spanish TV has.
We have known today that Iran is going to punish even further the women that do not use the veil:
Las mujeres iraníes que vistan al estilo occidental irán a la cárcel. Esta medida acrecienta la [...]

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Another Cuban journalist imprisoned

 [In English, below]
Otro periodista cubano encarcelado, cosa que supongo le parecerá estupenda a Moratinos. Pero fíjense la excusa: “peligrosidad predelictiva“. Ya ni siquiera se molestan en inventar un delito; lo encarcelan porque podría llegar a cometerlo.
Source: liberalismo.org: 1812: Minority Report
El mismo día además hemos conocido también que Martha Beatriz Roque ha sido amenazada de [...]

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Talibans update: beheadings, killings and other Jihadi behaviour

Allegations Iran is arming Afghan rebels are aired publicly by US officials for the first time.

Source: US accuses Iran of supplying arms to Taliban

More about this in Freedom’s Zone. According to the latter Richard Boucher, US Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asian Affairs, in a meeting [...]

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Al Qaeda-linked militants behead 7 – CNN.com

 
The heads of seven men believed to have been kidnapped by the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group on a volatile southern island were delivered to a Philippine army detachment Thursday, the military said.
The men — six road project workers and a dried-fish factory worker (as you can see very dangerous tipes…) – were kidnapped at [...]

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