Shut during holidays

I’m just shutting the blog because of holidays. I don’t know if I could blog when I get back. But comments will be opened to anyone who wants to comment.
If someone wants to contact me, just leave a comment here.
I hope that the 8-year-old boy about whom Crispal asked for a prayer will get better and if [...]

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Taliban: One South Korean dead; more to follow if demands not met – CNN.com

 
One of 23 South Koreans held hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been killed, and militants have threatened to execute 14 others, a local official and a Taliban spokesman told CNN on Wednesday.
The covered body of a South Korean hostage is transported in a police truck in Afghanistan.
There had been conflicting reports on [...]

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Poll suggests Muslims reject violence greatly than before (+)

From AP:

The 95-page survey found that surging economic growth in many developing countries has encouraged people in these countries to express satisfaction with their personal lives, family income and national conditions, said Andrew Kohut, the center’s director.
“It’s a pro-globalization set of findings,” Kohut said.
Most notably, the survey finds large and growing number of Muslims in [...]

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Student Activist Executed as Gang-Member

 I don’t have time for a long post, but I have to repost this one from Kamagir. Just another proof of brutality, unjustice and cowardice in Iran
Meisam Lotfi  was reportedly executed for being a gang- member. He is in fact a student activist. Shahrzad News, a reputable independent website, talked to his mother, before he [...]

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Christian persecution: the silent MSM

The other day my friend Chaim pointed me to one of his posts -that I don’t find now – which linked to this one from Pamela @ Atlas Shrugs:
Believers in Jesus said to be nailed to crosses, tied with ropes, set ablaze
Christians in Iraq, including converts from Islam and people involved in mixed-faith [...]

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Turkey’s ruling AKP wins vote

 And the result of Turkish elections is:
Turkey’s ruling AK Party won a resounding election victory on Sunday, giving the pro-business, Islamist-rooted party a mandate for reform but risking fresh tensions with the secular elite.
The result is a moral triumph for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan who called early parliamentary polls after losing a battle with [...]

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Banaz Mahmoud was raped before honour killing

I wrote about her brutal honor killing here. Now it looks like she was also brutally raped before being killed, while her uncle was supervising everything. Her two murderers laughed about her killing.
A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an “honor killing” [...]

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Elections in Turkey

Today there are elections in Turkey, after some months of a very difficult situation, including the conflict between the Islamists and the secularists.
The role of religion here will be a key issue at the ballot box, and so will Turkey’s relations with the outside world, our correspondent adds.
Nationalist sentiment is running high, fed by [...]

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Today just for fun, exclusive from Saudi Arabia: the tile that makes you sin

As it is Saturday afternoon, I’m going to post something, I ought to have posted sometime ago.
As you know there are some Spanish expatriates in Saudi Arabia who are blogging. One of them, Equisese, wrote about an incident which happened in his office. I’m going to translate his post about the “tile that makes you [...]

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Pakistan: Al-Qaeda’s priority

I haev read a very interesting post by excellent Italian blogger Paolo di Lautreamont which summarizes very well the situation lived today in Muslim countries:
The new Jihadi Islam’s limit is in Pakistan. The spring campaign in Afganistan was unsuccesful. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a Taliban’s ally War-lord and opium trafficker, has announced his decision of funding exclusively a new political party, Hezb-i-islami, similar [...]

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UN probes ‘abuse’ in Ivory Coast

 
The United Nations is investigating allegations of widespread sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers serving in Ivory Coast. The UN said a unit of its contingent in Bouake, a northern rebel stronghold, had been confined to base. It would not give the nationalities of those troops under investigation. [Why so much secrets about this?]
Claims of [...]

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Jacques Chirac, before the Judges

We knew for some time that this moment was coming, although perhaps he is going to be luckier that it seemed before.
THE judicial trail is closing in on France’s former president, Jacques Chirac. On Thursday July 19th a judge investigating a fake jobs scheme that allegedly benefited members of the ruling party (during Mr Chirac’s [...]

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Hamas, Gaza and the Muslim Brotherhood’s project

 A month ago I linked to the Project of the Muslim Brotherhood, in which among other things, there is a:
flexible, multi-phased, long-term approach to the “cultural invasion” of the West. Calling for the utilization of various tactics, ranging from immigration, infiltration, surveillance, propaganda, protest, deception, political legitimacy and terrorism, The Project has served for more [...]

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Iranian man fighting for women’s equality sent to Evin prison

I am copying partially this post by my friend Plateau, post which is really frightening about the degree of contempt these men are treated with, only by collecting signatures for a petition intended to ensure women’s equality. 13 activists have already been imprisoned by that crime.
Today at last Amir Yaghoubali (right) went to the judge and [...]

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Some Spanish news

This is also a roundup, but a very important one -this is not funny at all-:

About the Guadalajara’s fire (in which there were killed 11 firefighters): “The report, 110 sheets, made by an expert engineer, considers that the tragedy was a a very grave chain of negligences. In 13 points, it summs up the errors and [...]

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