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Violent Islam, cowardly Europe http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=34&idsub=127&id=5773&t=Violent+Islam%2C+cowardly+Europe Violent Islam, cowardly Europe A cultural attack by Islam against the West is under way, to which Europe is responding with fear and backtracking. In Regensburg, the pope showed the way ahead: no to the violence of Islam; renew European culture...

Brussels - After two weeks of violent urban unrest in France, Muslim communities in the country will face long-term retaliation, a Euro MP said Thursday, urging the French government to take action and condemn revenge attacks against Moslems. French politicians had failed to give immediate assurance that they would support the country's unity, leaving citizens in a state of disarray and shock, British socialist MEP Claude Moraes said. With no ethnic monitoring, France could not know the level of discrimination in the country, Moraes said, comparing the situation in France with Britain. French police also had no guidelines for dealing...

MS: I'm actually thinking of going to Paris. I went to one of these suburbs that's currently ablaze three years ago. And what was interesting to me is I had to bribe a taxi driver a considerable amount of money just to take me out there. They're miserable places. But what was interesting to me is that after that, I then flew on to the Middle East, and I was in Yemen, and a couple of other places. And what was interesting to me was that I found more menace in the suburbs of Paris than I did in some...

War in France, War in Denmark Rosenhøj Mall has several nights in a row been the scene of the worst riots in Århus for years. "This area belongs to us", the youths proclaim. Sunday evening saw a new arson attack. Their words sound like a clear declaration of war on the Danish society. Police must stay out. The area belongs to immigrants. Four youths sit on the wall in Rosenhøj Mall sunday afternoon, calling themselves spokesmen for the groups, that three nights in a row have ravaged and tried to burn down the restaurant and other stores. Around the parking...

LONDON - Britain began reaching out to Muslim communities Tuesday, launching what is likely to be a yearslong effort to confront the resentment and anger that helped breed suicide bombers who attacked London's transit system. A top law enforcement official also sought to ease fears that anti-terror police will target Muslims for searches. Britons were stunned to learn that three of the suicide attackers suspected of killing 52 victims in the July 7 attacks were young Pakistani Britons; the fourth moved from Jamaica as a child. Most of the suspects in failed bombings on July 21 are immigrants from East...

We are still here. We still live, work and play. We can vote. We can travel where we want, meet whom we choose, say what we like. We still enjoy due process of law. The only absurdity is that in the eighth year of the government of Tony Blair we need to remark on these facts. I do so not because some fanatics have bombed London. We have, most of us, been there before. I do so because in the three weeks since the attacks began a howling mob has clambered aboard the terrorists’ bandwagon and claimed right of passage....

Back to Story - Help Vatican Denounces Some Israeli Retaliation 1 hour, 31 minutes ago The Vatican on Thursday denounced some Israeli retaliation against past terrorism as violations of international law in an ongoing spat over Pope Benedict XVI's failure to specifically condemn attacks against Israel in recent remarks.On Monday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem summoned the Vatican envoy to express outrage over what it called Benedict's deliberate failure to mention a July 12 suicide bombing in the city of Netanya when he condemned recent terror strikes in Egypt, Britain, Turkey and Iraq."It's not always possible to immediately...

After the London bombings, the first instinct of Italian police was to round up over 100 people in an anti-terrorism sweep. The first instinct of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, meanwhile, was to warn against human-rights violations. The responses illustrate the European weakness on terrorism: The suspects are plentiful, but the political and legal obstacles to thwarting them are more plentiful, still. More than ever, this weakness has become a global problem. That's because the worldwide center of gravity of Islamic terrorism isn't the Mideast -- it's Europe.

Tory urges talks with extremists Ms Warsi says Mr Blair needs to consider the Iraq factor Tony Blair needs to consider holding talks with Islamic extremists in the wake of the London bombings, the Conservative's Muslim vice-chair says. Sayeeda Warsi says Mr Blair should follow the example of ministers' engagement with IRA representatives. Ms Warsi joined Tory leader Michael Howard at a meeting with Mr Blair and Muslim leaders in Downing Street. Speaking outside No 10 she said the government was "in denial" about the causes of the bombings on 7 July. Worried Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy and other...

When a monstrous crime occurs, attention should focus on the perpetrators. The London bombers appear to have been British Muslims, but this does not explain their reasons for carrying out the attacks. The response of Britain and its allies requires better intelligence and increased ruthlessness, but also greatly improved focus on their enemies – something that the Bush administration has not only failed to provide, but has gone out of its way to obstruct. A network of Islamist extremists represents by far the greatest security threat to the west. Fighting it will require a very considerable redeployment of resources and...

In a victory for British Muslim campaigners, the House of Commons Monday passed a bill aimed at curbing religious hatred, despite critics' warnings that it could worsen relations between religious communities. The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill passed its third reading by a 301-229 vote, just hours after Prime Minister Tony Blair's press secretary declined to rule out using the measure, if it becomes law, against Muslim figures who may incite violence against Christians and Jews. Spokesman Tom Kelly told a Downing Street press conference he would not get into hypothetical speculation about individuals, but the law would be there...

Greeks condemn terrorist attacks such as those that occurred in London last Thursday as criminal acts but would rather stay neutral in the fight against terror, which they see as a war of the poor on the rich, a survey by Kapa Research shows. The results of the survey, conducted on Thursday for Antenna radio station, were published by newspaper To Vima on Saturday. Of the 1,220 respondents to the telephone survey, 84.6 percent condemned the attacks on London “unequivocally” as a criminal act, while 8.2 percent applauded “an act of resistance against the great powers” and 5.9 percent said...

Key points • Worst case scenario would see much of the UK submerged • Research is based on 3 major ice sheets melting • There still remains a 1 in 20 chance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting Key quote "In terms of the science, the values are approximately right if the ice sheets do melt, with the exception of the last prediction. The question is whether these things are likely to happen or not." - DR TIM OSBORN THE UK's major coastal cities could be submerged as a result of massive sea-level rises over the next two centuries,...

Jun 23, 2005Poll: U.S. Image So Tattered Overseas That China Is More PopularBy Will LesterAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States' popularity in many countries - including longtime allies in Europe - is lagging behind even communist China. The image of the U.S. slipped sharply in 2003, after its invasion of Iraq, and two years later has shown few signs of rebounding either in Western Europe or the Muslim world, an international poll found. "The U.S. image has improved slightly, but is still broadly negative," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People &...

THE warped-cross “Berlaymonster” headquarters of the European Commission was still standing yesterday. The announcements poured out — on the welfare of broiler chickens, carbon dioxide trading schemes, telephone regulation and approval for the takeover of a Finnish copper company.Workmen continued constructing vast new offices for the Council of Ministers. The subsidised canteens echoed with the polylingual chatter of well-heeled functionaries. The EU has been plunged into its deepest crisis for fifty years after two of its founding members overwhelmingly rejected its proposed constitution. But in Europe’s capital there was little sign that anything had changed. Berlaymont was a place in...