“country that prizes multiculturalism.”

or so the article says.

The article mentions some interesting facts about the accused. The father/husband was called a ‘polygamist.’ That he is accused of murdering his first wife and three daughters. The son who is 20 years old and the father’s second wife, who is the mother of the three girls that were killed, are also up on these four counts of murder.

Also interesting, is that the article continues on about honor killings elsewhere, as well as other crimes committed by members of The Religion of Peace™.

This among others should be another eye-opener for those on the western rim of the Atlantic Ocean.

Posted by Anders Denken

Posted by kewil on PI / Translation: Anders Denken

Posted by PI / Translation: Anders Denken

Stone Throwing at Synagogue:
Police Apprehend Suspects

Lübeck – Two men broke four window panes by throwing rocks and were arrested while fleeing. A little later they returned unhindered to the crime scene. They wanted to apologize.

In the early afternoon of New Year’s Day there was rock throwing at the synagogue. There were four window panes broken in the first and and in second story where there are apartments. The perpetrators could be arrested on Mühlenstraße only a few minutes afterward through tips from the police officer on duty responsible for the permanent surveillance of the Jewish house of worship on St.-Annen-Straße. “I just happened to look out the window,” a resident said, “over a longer period of time there were two men standing there in front of the wall at the synagogue. All at once they took rocks out of their jacket pockets and threw them at the building. Then they ran quickly away.” Later, it came out that the rocks were anywhere from three to five centimeters in size.

The police secured the personal data of the 20-year-old and the 28-year-old and produced a charge of property damage. What happened after called the protectors of order back to duty: the two men – free on foot in the meantime – returned only one and a half hours later. They were able to get to the site unhindered through the unsecured and unlocked entryway and get within a few meters of the building. Two officers of the so-called 24-hour criminal readiness service were directly at the site in order to gather clues and to question the residents after the incident.

Both perpetrators went directly to the two plainclothes officers and a resident of the complex and admitted to being the “rock throwers.” They wanted to apologize according to their own profession and therefore ring the doorbell. Their request was immediately and brusquely rejected by the resident present. Nonetheless, a minutes-long discussion burned at the synagogue premisses; the two men were expelled from the property and, after the arrival of two patrol cars, brought to the authorities’ highrise. It is important to Carola Aßmann, of police public relations, the evidence that at the time of the conversation there was no danger for the residents.

The 20-year-old suspect came from Lübeck according to Stefan Muhtz of the Lübeck police administration. He was considerably intoxicated; a voluntary text yielded a tentative blood alcohol count of 2.23 ppm. In addition, the press speaker stated: “The second suspect is 28 year old. He comes from Tunisia and has German citizenship. He has a court-appointed counsellor. The man was only lightly intoxicated. A voluntary test yielded 0.5 ppm as a tentative value.” Both men were released again in an arrangement with the Lübeck district attorney.

The speaker for the Lübeck district attorney, Klaus-Dieter Schultz, indicates regarding the further action: “Investigational procedures were initiated in view of general property damage. But we must now wait for the results of the investivative services.” Grounds for a “commission of an act in connection with national property rights” don’t exist at the current time, said another reference. The Jewish Community didn’t wish to make a statement regarding the incident.

October 2005 was the last time the synagogue was the target of a similar attack. An unidentified individual threw a bottle at the house of worship; it broke out a window over the main entrance. The constant surveillance of the building by the police has been going on since the arson attacks of 1994 and 1995.

Michael Hollinde

Posted by kewil on PI / Translation: Anders Denken

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes:

On May 19, 2011, the United States intends to promote democratic development in Egypt and Tunisia with massive financial aid. President Barack Obama will announce in the long awaited keynote speech about the so-called Arab Spring the release of Egypt of nearly a billion dollars in debts, an advisor to the president said Wednesday in Washington. The New York Times and Washington Post gave coinciding reports that Obama is planning an aid package valued at 2 billion dollar (1.4 billion Euro) that not only comprises the release of debt but also credit guarantees as well. Obama will also advocate for comprehensive international aid for Tunisia, according to reports from Washington.

Citizen revolts have led to the fall of autocratic governments in both countries and to even longer lasting rebellions in all of the Arab world.

The United States intends to see that the resources saved by the debt release be employed for the creation of jobs for youth, Obama’s advisor said. Unemployment among young people is one of the greatest problems in Egypt’s quickly growing society. According to the words of government staff, America intends to offer loans or guarantee loans of up to a sum of one billion dollars. In addition, the American government intends to engage in the allocation of several billion dollars through means of international developmental aid banks.

The objective is to promote trade and economy in the region and to create incentives for commercial investments. “We believe these initiatives will help Egypt and Tunisia to survive the double challenge of economic and democratic development,” the government staffer said. The American government is concerned because of the negative economic outlook in both countries. In Egypt, this year’s forecast for economic growth fell to one percent; in Tunisia zero growth is counted on.

New Beginning in Relations with the Arab World

In a keynote speech early Thursday evening, a few weeks after the killing of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, Osama expressed the desire of creating a new start in relations with the countries in the Arab world. He also reacted to criticism that he reacted too slowly to the revolts against undemocratic governments in Arab countries. Experts, however, did not expect Obama to distance himself too greatly from his course of action up till now.

For the president, it was a matter of opening “a more hopeful and positive chapter,” a government officer said who wished prior to speaking not to be quoted by name. The Near East is currently experiencing a phase of historic change. This opportunity needs to be taken advantage of. “The success of democracy also depends on economic development,” another official said.

Netanyahu in Washington on Friday

Obama’s statements are being tensely anticipated above all in the region and in Israel. He will likely attempt to get the peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis under way again. It is unclear whether Obama will state his position regarding Libya and Syria. In Libya, dictator Muammar al Kaddafy has been able to stay in power in spite of NATO aid for the rebels.

Prior to this, Obama had been counting more on a short engagement. Furthermore, in Syria, the Army is proceeding with great brutality against the protests in spite of warnings and sanctions by the international community. On Wednesday, the United States imposed sanctions against dictator Bashar al Assad and other leading members of his regime because of the continuing violence against demonstrators.

America and the rest of the western world will have a very great price to pay for Obama’s policies…

Videos of the event that we would like to show our readers have been published on the ProZion NRW website:

(By Team Quotenqueen / Translation: Anders Denken)

Malik Taha, whose name sounds Arabic, is allowed here to propagate his form of “objective” discussion. I would prefer the verbal discussion. As it is, both forms of communication in this case are “word-of-mouth” because reference is made to the mouth – one of physical violence, the other purely linguistic.

Malik, I’ll give you a suggestion: Tell me where you live, and we will meet each other – at a police station. There you can rehearse your wishes of knocking out my teeth in the presence of the officers, got it?

With cordial thanks, Eckhardt

Zum Autor:Regarding the author: Eckhardt Kiwitt is employed by a publisher, member of the citizen movement Pax-Europa and author of the essay “The Islam Principle” as well as the designer of the 2011 PI calendar. According to LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University) Professor Jakob Wimmer, he is part of the team of “prominent Islam critics”.

(Note: Guest articles do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial. If you would like to contribute an article yourself, please write us at info@pi-news.net)

(From Schalk Golodkowski / Translation: Anders Denken)

The process was worth a three-column report on the first page of the SWP; Patrick Guyton put it together (photo above left):

A few clicks in internet forums give the impression of how much incitement, hate and malice Abu Adam must have endured in the last two and a half months. 80 days long sat the 40-year-old imam who preaches at the Munich mosque in jail.

[…]

Above all because of the sensational reporting by the tabloid press that gave the imam the title of “beating preacher,” the case became the talk of the town in Munich. The “Bild” newspaper protrayed him as an “evil bone breaker” and wrote that he “looks like the mass murderer Osama bin Laden.” Abu Adam has outward resemblances to the terrorist.

For starters it can be assumed that the imam had other things to do other than read internet forums while in jail. It appears more likely, therefore, that Patrick Guyton and the SWP were the ones that suffered from the fact that media and readers put the dignitary of the “untouchable” religion under fire. The SWP would most certainly have liked to have mounted a witch hunt against a Catholic bishop instead.

It isn’t hard to paint the idea for oneself that the SWP would have stood up for the fact that the case leaves other questions open, were the one released not Imam Abu Adam but Bishop Mixa. A peak at their own archives would already have given sufficient reason. Like many other media, the SWP also reported of the arrest of the imam on December 8, 2010:

The 40-year-old imam allegedly locked his wife in the apartment. The 31-year-old coming from Syria spoke no German and therefore turned to an Arabic-speaking attorney by telephone, Bayerische Rundfunk reported. The attorney communicated with the police. Abu Adam wouldn’t allow the officers entry. He had intended that the matter was a private affair that had nothing to do with the authorities. The offers kicked the door in. The woman was brought to the hospital with considerable injuries; the imam was arrested. To make sure that he couldn’t manipulate possible witnesses, an order for his arrest was issued. The imam disputes the action. He supposedly explained to his attorney that his wife received her injuries in an epileptic attack.

In the new article is reported:

His third wife said that a “love hate” relationship had developed between them. On the evening in question it came to punches that were thrown by her, she reported to the district attorney. She had gotten the broken bones in the past because she constantly fell because of an illness. Abu Adam sees himself meanwhile as a victim of “character assassination.”

One would think that a critical journalist would ask why the imam wouldn’t allow the officers to enter and how come the woman was so injured that she had to be brought to the hospital. Furthermore, he would ask what the district attorney ascertained in light of the woman’s broken bones. The thoughtful husband, however, apparently always took her to the doctor with such serious injuries, which would then be on record and would have strongly served as the immediate exoneration of the imam. Or was there hope in the self-healing powers of the body? And if so, under what kind of circumstances did the woman actually live?

Also, the question of whether the woman didn’t possibly make a retraction under pressure is one that a journalist should at least pose. Patrick Guyton prudently prevents another question right away:

His third wife according to Islamic tradition had made serious accusations against him with the police.

Yes, right, Mr. Guyton, when it has to do with the “Islamic tradition,” polygamy is perfectly fine! What about all the nonsense with women’s rights and women’s quotas for which the SWP otherwise has no more breath? Also, in the German legal system, things that are to insignificant shouldn’t be insisted upon. Ultimately, the issue here is Islam, and there other customs and practices are simply the rule. May Allah give you the opportunity sometime to get to know them even better!

» patrickguyton@kabelmail.de

The radical “Islamic Central Council of Switzerland” triumphantly reports:

During the referendum campaign for the anti-minaret initiative, an Israeli hate preacher toured throughout Switzerland and stirred up the atmosphere against Islam, Muslims and their minarets in the worst conceivable way at events by the PRO-ISRAEL Group in collaboration with the EDU. As it read today in the Sunday press, a Bern investigative judge back in the summer gave him a conditional fine of 50 Swiss Francs per day for 20 days as well as a fine of 300 Swiss Francs. The sentence apparently couldn’t be conveyed to Israel by way of the Federal Bureau of Justice. …

In a little less than an hour, he was able to execute a somewhat chaotic whirlwind attack against Islam and those of its persuasion in the problem of a much too naive attitude of many Jewish and Christian citizens of Switzerland. The minaret question wasn’t that of tolerance or a few towers. The question was an essential one. Will the Swiss still carry the cross on the flag in the future, or will they have to take on the “Turkish flag”? In any case, he was proud to be able to carry out God’s war even in Switzerland. …

Various loosely translated quotes fromthe Qur’an and the Hadiths rounded out the image of an annihilation of Jews, Christians and most definitely all people from targeted religions. No, not religions, he corrected himself, Islam is at best a “psychosis” and is thereby on an equal footing with “National Socialism” and “Communism.” …

Having been made aware of the controversial Israeli’s presence, a group of Muslims attended the publicly accessible meeting at the Thalgut Christian Center in Wichtrach bei Bern. Shocked at the degree of hate being disseminated, they registered a complaint in Bern the next day. Also among the complainants were Naim Cherni, the current general secretary of the Islamic Central Council, and Qaasim Illi, their press secretary.

So, two of the extremist Islamic hate preachers in Switzerland stroll over to the Bern police, file a complaint of racism against a guest speaker from Israel and have their claim legally sanctioned. So, this is how far our justice system has come.

Nobody seemed to notice the charade as long as it worked so nicely as the “defense against all evil” in the Battle Against the Right™. However, now the respectable Antisemite stands before a serious conundrum: His whole game of hide and seek threatens to fly away because, of all people, the “rightwing populists” subscribed to scapegoats team up with the Zionist settlers in Judea and Samaria. To stand with credibility against this alliance hardly succeeds without revealing one’s own anti-Jewish resentments.

20 Minuten reports:

Genuine backing looks different. Israel has newly received such backing from an unexpected corner: European legal politicians are vociferously defending Israel’s claim to the occupied territories. …

Geert Wilders, whose rightwing populist and Islam hostile party the Dutch minority government tolerates said on the occasion of his visit in Tel Aviv the beginning of December, “A land that is only 15 kilometers wide cannot be defended. That is the strategic reason why the Jews must settle in West Jordan Land.” That matches the official Israeli position. …

“Our culture is based on Christianity, Judaism and humanism, and the Israelis are fighting our battle. If Jerusalem falls, Amsterdam and New York are next.” In other words: Israel’s battle against the Palestinians is Europe’s battle against Islam. …

The episode didn’t remain an isolated incident. One day after Wilders’ appearance in Tel Aviv, European legal politicians completed a sightseeing tour in West Jordan Land, among whom were Heinz-Christian Strache, the head of the rightwing populist FPÖ (Austrian Free Party) from Austria, as well as Filip Dewinter of the rightwing-nationalist Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party. They also affirmed the Israeli claim on the occupied West Jordan Land.

The constantly forced spin of the left and the mainstream media in this situation is to accuse the Right by saying they have exchanged the demonization of the Jews with that of the Muslims, an assertion that most obviously consistent in foregoing any basis, since the most open Antisemites these days are themselves Muslims, and the leftwing tolerance in the face of their Jew-hating activity reveals their own resentments in this direction.

(Hat Tip: westsouthpark / Translation: Anders Denken)

The Basler Zeitung reports:

A Taliban leader is accusing the Netherlands of working on an anti-Islam policy with Geert Wilders. If his policies are advanced, it could lead to an attack.

A commander of the Afghan Taliban has, according to a newspaper report, warned the Netherlands of an attack, if the new government implements the demands of Islam opponent Geert Wilders. “If the Netherlands remain by their anti-Islamic policies or increase their intensity, then they will most certainly be the target of a Jihadist group,” the daily newspaper “Volkskrant” on Monday quoted Zabiullah Mujahid, the official speaker of the Taliban for eastern and northern Afghanistan.

If Wilders successfully “manipulates” the Dutch Parliament “so that it passes more anti-Islam laws, then there is no doubt that Muslims from other countries will become active in order to help their Muslim brothers and sisters,” Mujahid said further. (…)

» Beware, Civil War!

(Many thanks to all contributors / Translation: Anders Denken)

(From Zwiebelsuppe / Translation: Anders Denken)

And so, now the expression “Without compromise against direct incitement” appears, of course, in a totally different light – for here “definite incitement” is made equivalent with criticism against the wearing of headclothes by Islamic women. The juxtaposition of “direct incitement” with criticism of unequal treatment of man and woman – which is what the headcloth stands for in Islamic culture – is, of course, pure insolence. What a nasty method for catching votes from uninformed citizens at the cost of disadvantaged women.

Or to put it in the words of the interim party head or the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens) party, Ekin Deligöz:

“The headcloth is a symbol of oppression of women. Those who require of women that they wear headclothes turn them into a sexual object that needs to be covered up.”

P.S.: The Austrian Greens suffered a loss of two percentage points in the October 10 Vienna election for the regional parliament…

» maria.vassilakou@gruene.at

>Arye Shalicar (photo), the 33-year-old living today in Israel says of himself, “I am a Berlin boy.” For in Berlin-Wedding is where he grew up and went to school. As a young person with dark hair and eyes, he was not accepted for a long time. For a long time, he didn’t even know that he was an Iranian Jew because his family wasn’t necessarily religious. Every once in a while, a vacation simply was taken in Israel. But then, an aunt gave him a golden Star of David, and, from that time on,

His schoolmates would suddenly call out “filthy Jew” behind him. whne he would walk down the Koloniestrasse, which was ruled by Arab-Kurdish clans, or down the Soldiner Strasse, kids would make the sound of passing gas. Others wanted to beat him up. “Jew, I don’t want to se you here again. When I see you the next time, it will be bad for you,” a young Turk threatened, with whom Arye had played soccer up until then.

There was one experience that was especially scary for him. In Autumn 1991, he was fourteen years old, sitting at the subway station on Pankstrasse and following Turkish girls in his view, when a group of young Arabs came up. The young people set themselves together against him. “Here we have our Jew. Simply sitting here at our subway station, and not one bit ashamed,” said Fadi, a Palestinian. Fadi was carrying fresh strawberries. “Do you like my strawberries, Jew? Open your mouth!” Arye refused at first, then he obeyed. “More, more! Open your mouth as far as it will go!” Arye opened his mouth wider until Fadi stuffed the berries in and commanded, “Gobble it up, Jew, gobble!” Ashamed, Arye chewed around on the fruit, spat it out and asked what the boy had against him. He truly was a Jew, but not religious. Then Jim, an Arab, slapped him in the face. “Don’t tell us any stupid stories about not being religious. You are a Jew and belong to the stinkingest people that exist on this Earth. There will be no peace until you all drown in the sea!”

Arye Shalicar has written his experiences in a book: There, a threatened Jew in Wedding speaks – decades after Hitler. He was threatened and later nearly beaten to death as well, not by rightwing extremists or National Socialism, but by Arabs and Turks. He recounts how he would pass by a wall on the Prinzenallee on which was written in English, “Don’t be sad, kill Israelis!” In order to save himself, Shalicar attempted to fit in:

At the Diensterweg Prep School on the Prinzenallee, almost half of the pupils at the beginning of the 1990s came from Muslim countries. Arye would sit there between all the chairs. The German kids kept among themselves; the Muslims mobbed and beat on him, since he was know as a “Jew.” Arye Shalicar, however, managed to solve the problem in true Wedding fashion. He began to spray graffiti on wals. With this, he made a name for himself among the Muslim sprayers. He began to steal like they did and deal in hashish. In order to become accepted, he acted more aggressively than the others, he became even more of a daredevil in his spraying: on wals, trucks and street trolleys. He was eventually taken in by the Black Panther Gang, one of the most notorious gangs in Berlin. “Those were Turks,” he says, “they didn’t have such a great problem with me being a Jew. The brutality, for the most part, truly came from the Arabs.” Arye became a proud gang member. “perhaps the proudest of all,” he says. “I had become a true Wedding resident.”

Later on, Shalicar again succeeded in breaking out of the world of youth violence. He went to the association and made contact for the first time with genuine biological Germans from whom he sensed no antisemitism, much to his amazement.

After he changed schools, Shalicar finally passed his college entrance exam and did his service in the German army. There, where he was almost exclusively among Germans for the first time, he didn’t hear a single bad thing about Jews, he says. However, he still had the feeling of not really being able to become like a native. After staying at a kibbutz, in 2001 he bought his ticket to Israel, “to freedom,” as he puts it. Arye Shalicar speaks of the “wonderful feeling of becoming part of the whole” – of finally belonging to the majority.

The memories of his youth in Wedding will follow Shalicar for the rest of his life:

Arye Sharuf Shalicar bows his head and runs his index finger carefully over the scars on his shaven scalp. “Here is where an Arab came over me with a metal rod,” “And up here is where they stapled my skin back together after someone clobbered me over the head with a street sign. The blood ran like water.” The skin on this part of the head looks likes it’s notched.

The title of his autobiographical book reads, “A wet dog is better than a dry Jew“.

(Hat Tip: Jens S. / Translation: Anders Denken)

Der Kurier reports:

A caricaturist in Seattle disappeared upon advisement by the police as the result of drawing satirical pictures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The head editor of the Seattle Weekly, Mark Fefer, wrote in the Wednesday edition that the comic by Molly Norris will no longer appear. The US state police FBI recommended to Norris that she change her residence, alter her name and erase her old identity. The reason for this was a religious opinion that was published in the summer.

“For all intents and purposes, she has been taken into a witness protection program, however, as she stresses without the government paying for it,” Fefer wrote. The Yemeni-American scholar Anwar al-Awlaki declared that Norris was a prime target and deserves to go to Hell. At the end of April, Norris declared May 20, 2010, in her cartoon as “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” the day everbody should draw Muhammad.

She later wrote that she had reacted to the dispute over the cartoon series “South Park” in her appeal. In the series, Muhammad was portrayed in a bear costume for which the producers received threats right away.

Such large headlines, as were produced in earlier cases such as Salman Rushdie or Kurt Westergaard, should obviously be avoided. However, the question this raises is, how many people are there in the West that already live in hiding because of Islamic threats of murder without us knowing about it?

(Hat Tip: Bernd von S. / Translation: Anders Denken)

FOCUS reports:

As the tabloid “Ekstra Bladet” reported Sunday in connection to police circles, a card was found on one of the individuals in custody on which the headquarters of the newspaper had been Xed. On Friday, the man had apparently unintentionally detonated a relatively small amount of explosive in a toilet of the “Hotel Jørgensen.” He was apprehended in flight.

In 2005, “Jyllands Posten” published twelve caricatures of the prophet Muhammad. A few months later, massive protests broke out in Islamic countries in which more than 150 people died. The head of the Danish Secret Service PET, Jakob Scharf, said Saturday that, according to early investigations, there were indications of “certain things from a failed terror attack” that was to be prepared here. He didn’t intend to name any particulars. The authorities increased alertness for the danger of terrorism.

The alleged perpetrator gave no statement to the police. He was found bleeding in a park in downtown Copenhagen. The man, aged around 40 was of “European or North African appearance” and spoke English, the police communicated. His identity was not disclosed.

The arrest of the injured perpetrator in a park took place with difficulty since there was the fear that he might have more explosives a his belt pouch he was wearing. As a result of the incident, the editorial board of the Jyllands Posten will now receive even more careful surveillance than before — in the meantime with helicopters in the sky as well.

Die WELT writes:

A prominent hate preacher has, according to newspaper reports, appealed to radical Muslims in Holland to behead the Dutch Islam opponent Geert Wilders. The right-wing populist has insulted Muslims and their prophet and for this he must die, the Lebanese-Australian Islam fanatic Feiz Muhammed (40) stated according to a report form the newspaper “De Telegraaf.” You can reach the Internet site of “De Telegraaf.”

Six years ago, a Muslim fanatic shot the film producer Theo van Gogh in public and then slit his throat open.

The newspaper posted the recording on the Internet that had allegedly been recorded during a shielded Internet conference with Dutch followers. On the recording, an Englisch-speaking man is heard whom the newspaper identified as the hate preacher:

“Those who mock our teaching, laugh at Islam and humiliate it must be killed; behead him, chop his head off!” Wilders said he was shocked and to the call for murder seriously. He is in contact with the Dutch anti-terrorism authority NCTB.

So, now we’re finally on the way to the public stoning of dissident thinkers.

Wilders angered Muslims all over the world in 2008 when he presented Islam as an ideology of terrorism with his Internet video “Fitna. In speeches and interviews, he placed the Quran on an even par with Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” called Islam a “fascist ideology” and maligned their prophet as a “barbarian, mass murderer and pedophile.”

No, dear WELT, “malign” is the presentation of untrue things, not the expression of true facts. In any case, it has been this way until now, but we’ll gladly allow ourselves to be taught by someone better. But, perhaps a murder is not really a murder, and a child abuser is really no child abuser, if his name is Muhammad.

(Hat Tip: Thomas D. / Video processing: Antivirus / Translation: Anders Denken)

Comment by the Editrix:

See what a REAL “hate preacher” is: Esther, from the terrifically informative Islam In Europe blog, makes me aware of Australian hate preacher Feiz Muhammad: “Anybody who mocks Islam… the punishment, whether Muslim or not Muslim, of mocking Islam is death… Behead him! Chop his head off!” The Dutch news site De Telegraaf posted the clip. There are Dutch subtitles, but Feiz Muhammad speaks English. Of course, this has nothing to do with real Islam.

Instead of mourning the dead and judging the murderers, the media are once again already diligent about making the victims into criminals and the attackers into innocent victims. The following was In the AFP report:

The “terror attack” occurred not far from the Jewish settlement Kiryat Arba, the speaker for the Israeli police, Micky Rosenfeld, said.

So how is the terror attack being apostrophized? Is terrorism against Jewish settlers not genuine terrorism because they are alleged “occupants”? Or haven’t the Jews for millennia been much more the original inhabitants of the mountains of Judah? Coincidentally, even King David came from Hebron, and he was certainly not a Palestinian.

Even Focus-Bericht who names Hamas as the attackers stresses the violence-readiness of Israel most of all:

The Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has announced a harsh reaction. The target of the attack was to sabotage the direct peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians that were taken up once again Thursday after an almost two-year pause. “Israel will not allow the terrorists to raise their heads and will exact the price from the murderers and those whom they have sent,” Barak said.

By the way, among the four death victims under consideration were two men and two women between the middle 20s and the middle 40s. One of the two women was pregnant. They were all shot together in their automobile. The attackers checked the car after the shots were fired to make sure all were dead, they wanted to get away cleanly.

The NZZ reports:

In the catastrophic situation in the Pakistani flood areas, international aid organizations are now meeting with threats of violence. A speaker for the Pakistani Taliban, Azam Tariq, told the news agency AP via satellite telephone that, for the USA and other countries that have promised aid, the issue is not about the victims of the flood.

Tariq indicated very clearly on Thursday that the militant extremists could grasp at violence against foreign aid workers. He didn’t explain what other intentions behind the international efforts for provisions for the flood victims the Taliban expect as aid for the flood victims in Pakistan.

(Hat Tip: Sandra B. / Translation: Anders Denken)

Die WELT reports:

Five years after the printing of twelve world-wide controversial Muhammad caricatures in Denmark’s largest newspaper, “Jyllands Posten,” the initiator plans a new edition in book form. Flemming Rose, head of the Feature Page of the right-liberal paper will publish all twelve drawings again in September as a part of his book “Tyranny of Keeping Silence.”

He intends in the book to “put the pictures in a context with the destructive effect of pictures in general and to try and understand why the caricatures could bring a whole world to a rampage,” it was said in the competing paper “Politiken.” Rose’s book is to appear on September 30th.

The publishing of the pictures in September 2005 led with some months’ delay to extensive protests in the Islamic world. Rose wrote as foundation for the publishing of the pictures that, in spite of the prohibition against drawing images of the prophet, even Muslims should become accustomed to being “taunted, mocked, and ridiculed” in public just like any other group

Regarding his new book project, Rose said, he had been animated by US publishers who, however, opted out at the end. The reason for him was worries about the “sensitive subject.”

Rose says about his own intentions, “With the book, I would like to achieve a Europe-wide debate. It should deal with the fact that we need to live in the 21st century. The crisis over the Muhammad caricatures is an indicator for the 21st century, for there will be much more of the same developments.”

The 51-year-old Rose is considered since the protests as a possible target of attack and he works at his editorial office under massive security preparations. The caricaturist Kurt Westergaard who drew the prophet Muhammad as a sinister terrorist with a bomb in his turban for “Jyllands Posten,” barely escaped a murder attempt in his home in Århus at the beginning of the year.

A historical document that shouldn’t just be under each Christmas tree. It would also serve as a fantastic gift for moderate Muslim citizens — as an introduction or thank you gift for successful interreligious dialog.