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Following the release of Geert Wilders’ film Fitna, the European Union is quick to reassure the Islamic world that the whole idea of “free speech” is probably overrated: EU condemns Dutch anti-Islam film. (CNN) — The European Union on Friday condemned a new film by a Dutch lawmaker which ...
LGF, Geert Wilders, Netherlands, fitna, Video, Islam, Militant Islam, European Union, EU
The son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadafi has admitted they tortured the foreign medics they were holding hostage, and threatened their families: Libya ‘tortured’ Bulgarian medics. Real torture, not Andrew Sullivan-style torture. The European Union would be outraged, but they’re too busy making deals with Libya. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi told ...
LGF, Libya, Qadhafi, Gadafi, Kadafi, Lockerbie, Bulgarian Nurses, EU, European Union, Torture
Nicolas Sarkozy’s new nuclear partner, Muammar Gaddafi, has asked the Arab League to cut all ties with Bulgaria—because they pardoned the foreign medics jailed and tortured by Libya. Libya has called on other Arab countries to cut diplomatic and economic ties with Bulgaria after it pardoned six medics that Libya ...
LGF, Libya, Qadhafi, Gadafi, Kadafi, Lockerbie, Bulgarian Nurses, EU, European Union
Libya has finally released the foreign medics they accused of deliberately infecting children with AIDS, after the European Union sufficiently abased themselves: Medics freed after Libya-EU deal. (CNN) — Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were pardoned by President Georgi Parvanov upon their arrival in Sofia on Tuesday after ...
LGF, Libya, Qadhafi, Gadafi, Kadafi, Lockerbie, Bulgarian Nurses, EU, European Union
Libya has upheld the death sentences for those foreign medics accused of deliberately infecting children with AIDS. TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya’s Supreme Court upheld death sentences on Wednesday against six foreign medics for infecting Libyan children with HIV, but officials said they could win a reprieve next week. Foreign Minister ...
LGF, Libya, Qadhafi, Gadafi, Kadafi, Lockerbie, Bulgarian Nurses, EU, European Union
We should be doing this in the US too: EU proposes monitoring radical mosques. VENICE, Italy - Security officials from Europe’s largest countries backed a plan Saturday to profile mosques on the continent and identify radical Islamic clerics who raise the threat of homegrown terrorism. The project, to be finished ...
The European Union has solved Europe’s problem with Islamic terrorism and jihad. By banning the words. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The European Union has drawn up guidelines advising government spokesmen to refrain from linking Islam and terrorism in their statements. Brussels officials have confirmed the existence of a classified handbook ...
Europe, Islam, Islamophobia, Multiculturalism, Eurabia, EU, Orwell, Thought Crime
A criminal nation continues buying more time for its Manhattan Project, playing to sympathetic audiences in the European Union and the US House of Representatives with another call for “dialog:” Iran says talks can end atom standoff. MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Iran insisted on Saturday an escalating dispute with the ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, UN, EU, US
No, they don’t want to behead him (yet), but Iran is tossing out the IAEA’s chief nuclear inspector: Iran wants senior atom inspector out. It’s a purely symbolic gesture. He wasn’t doing anything anyway. VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran, cranking up a war of nerves with the West, has demanded the ...
United Nations, Iran, France, Russia, EU, Nuclear Weapons, ElBaradei, IAEA
We all know that the UN’s blind, toothless nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, is vehemently opposed to the very thought of any sort of military action to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. But he’s also opposed to any sort of sanctions against Iran, even the weak, meaningless ones now in ...
United Nations, Iran, France, Russia, EU, Nuclear Weapons, ElBaradei
Whistling past the thermonuclear graveyard: Iran’s caution under sanctions eases heat at IAEA. VIENNA (Reuters) - Talk of staging a special U.N. nuclear watchdog meeting to pile pressure on Iran has abated because of its moderate response to new U.N. sanctions and a wish to avoid damaging strife within the ...
United Nations, Iran, France, Russia, EU, Nuclear Weapons, IAEA
Iran demonstrates how much they fear United Nations sanctions: Iran to install 3,000 centrifuges from today after sanctions. (Hat tip: sr_soph.) TEHERAN - Iran will on Sunday start putting in place 3,000 uranium enriching centrifuges at a key nuclear plant in an immediate response to a UN sanctions resolution, top ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, UN, EU
After years of strong statements and harshly worded letters, the United Nations has taken the fateful next step—meaningless, watered down sanctions: Security Council approves Iran sanctions. UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed Saturday to impose sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, culminating two months ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, UN, EU
The French and the Russians are bickering over a set of utterly useless proposed sanctions against Iran: Paris warns against ‘altering’ Iran sanctions. (Hat tip: Ron.) PARIS, Dec 20, 2006 (AFP) - The French government Wednesday warned against any attempt to “alter the scope” of proposed UN sanctions over Tehran’s ...
We’re going to regret losing John Bolton: Bolton wants Iranian leader charged. NEW YORK - Outgoing U.S. U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and former diplomats from Israel and Canada called on the United Nations on Thursday to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with inciting genocide. The U.N. International Court of Criminal ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, UN, EU
EU to admit Iran nuclear talks have failed. LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - The European Union will acknowledge Tuesday that nuclear talks with Iran have failed and support a return to the UN Security Council to prepare sanctions, according to a draft document seen by AFP. Draft conclusions from Tuesday’s meeting of ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, UN, EU
Mass-murdering Iranian faux moderate Mohammad Khatami (granted a visa in one of the stupidest moves by our government in recent history) spoke at the convention of Wahhabist front group Islamic Society of North America yesterday in Chicago, and predictably blamed Islamic terrorism on the United States: Khatami: US policies trigger ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, EU
This is getting to be like one of those Saturday Night Live comedy skits that goes on way too long to be funny. But with nukes. EU gives Iran two more weeks in nuclear standoff.
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, EU
European donor countries have put together a sweet little bail-out package for Hamas—half a billion dollars: Donors pledge 500 million dollars in aid to Palestinians. Complete with dunderheaded multicultural moralizing from anti-Israel UN tool Jan Egeland. STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Donor countries have pledged 500 million dollars (390 million euros) in ...
Palestinians, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, EU, UN
The International Committee of the Red Cross seems to have removed the high resolution image of ambulance 782 (supposedly struck by an Israeli missile) from their web site: Conflict in the Middle East: selection of photos. Is someone getting a little too close to the truth? Here is the high-resolution ...
Lebanon, Israel, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hisbollah, United Nations, France, Europe, EU, ICRC
Following Lebanon’s statement yesterday that they would not allow UN troops on the Syrian border, Democrat Tom Lantos says he will block aid to Lebanon. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A key U.S. legislator said in Israel on Sunday he would block aid President George W. Bush promised Lebanon and free the ...
Lebanon, Israel, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hisbollah, United Nations, France, Europe, EU
By Catherine Triomphe of Agence France Presse: EU enters new era of Middle East influence with UN mission. BRUSSELS (AFP) - European support for the UN force in Lebanon has thrust Europe into a major new political role in the Middle East, a region where it has traditionally been better ...
Lebanon, Israel, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hisbollah, United Nations, France, Europe, EU
As with all of Fjordman’s essays, the new one at Gates of Vienna requires setting aside some time to follow the links and the arguments, but as always it’s worth the effort: Stupidity Without Borders — The Alliance of Utopias.
The European Union accuses Israel of “disproportionate force.” The European Union accused Israel on Friday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians in Gaza and of making a humanitarian crisis there worse. It was the first time the 25-nation bloc had made such a sharp criticism of ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Kidnapping, Gaza, UN, EU
Expatica’s German news in English: Iran delays nuke talks with EU, new date set. (Hat tip: RadicalRon.) BRUSSELS - Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani on Wednesday unexpectedly delayed long-awaited nuclear talks with the European Union by one day despite growing pressure for a quick response to last month’s international ...
Iran, United Nations, Nuclear Proliferation, Incentives, Appeasement, EU