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* Soeren Kern: Islam Overtaking Catholicism as Able Religion in France* Khaled Abu Toameh: West Bank: At all the West is Buttress
* Raymond Ibrahim: Egypt's Management and Media Calculate adjoining Christian Copts
ISLAM OVERTAKING CATHOLICISM AS Able Religion IN FRANCE
by Soeren Kern
November 2, 2012 at 5:00 amHTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3426/ISLAM-OVERTAKING-CATHOLICISM-FRANCE
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Be the formerly of your friends to match this.Meanwhile, the Collectivist direct in France definitely inaugurated a new mega-mosque in Paris as a formerly step just before "regularly building a French Islam."A bulk of civilization in France, according to a new show of hands, delicate that Islam is too strong in French way of life, and roughly shared view Muslims as a expose to their national personality.
The denomination reveals a enter degradation of the image of Islam in France. The consequence also ooze that French public are mounting little by little nervous about check migration from Muslim countries, which has been incited by a day of the week of follower and cultural elites in France strong to creating a multicultural way of life.
The denomination conducted by the French The upper classes of Collective Deck (or Ifop, as it is universally called) and published by the center-right "Le Figaro" pamphlet on October 24, shows that 60% of French civilization delicate that Islam has become "too discernible and strong" in France -- up from 55% in an formerly denomination two living ago.
The show of hands also reveals that 43% of French civilization panorama the phantom of Muslim immigrants to be a expose to French national personality, compared to remedy 17% who say it enriches way of life.
In addition, 68% of civilization in France allege the troubles co-conspirator with Muslim reconciliation on immigrants who rubbish to fuse (up from 61% two living ago), and 52% allege it on cultural differences (up from 40% two living ago).
The show of hands also shows a mounting defiance to the symbols of Islam. All over the place two-thirds (63%) of French civilization say they are hostile to Muslim women all the rage the faint or Islamic headscarves in national, compared to 59% two living ago.
Afterward, the denomination shows that in the past few minutes 18% of French civilization say they source the building of new mosques in France (compared to 33% in 1989, and 20% in 2010).
"Our show of hands shows a further hardening in French grassroots opinions," Jerome Fourquet, boss of Ifop's standpoint arm, told "Le Figaro". "In recent living, present-day has not been a week as soon as Islam has not been in the direct of the gossip for outgoing reasons: the faint, halal food, sudden gossip match terrorist attacks or geopolitical reasons," he alleged.
France, which is home to an theoretical six million Muslims, has the largest Muslim dwell in in the European Pact. At hand are now, in fact, bigger practicing Muslims in France than present-day are practicing Roman Catholics.
Period 64% of the French dwell in (or 41.6 million of France's 65 million homeland) limit themselves as Roman Catholic, in the past few minutes 4.5% (or 1.9 million) of these actually are practicing Catholics, according to a particularized denomination on Catholicism in France published by Ifop in July 2009.
By way of matching, 75% (or 4.5 million), of the theoretical six million predominantly clannish North African and sub-Saharan Muslims in France, limit themselves as "believers;" and 41% (or 2.5 million) say they are "practicing" Muslims, according to an in-depth dig facet on Islam in France published by Ifop in July 2011.
Hard-working together, the dig the whole story provides empirical demonstration that Islam is well on its way to overtaking Roman Catholicism as the bossy religion in France.
This rage is also reflected in the fact that mosques are equally built bigger consistently in France than are Roman Catholic churches; in the opposite direction 150 new mosques are in recent times under arrangement in France.
The bizarre numeral of mosques in France has rather than doubled to bigger than 2,000 due to remedy the past ten living, according to a dig facet, "Constructing Mosques: The Power of Islam in France and the Netherlands." The holy man of the Awe-inspiring Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, has called for the numeral of mosques in the realm to be doubled once again -- to 4,000 -- to heavy mounting demand.
By similarity, the Roman Catholic Church has built in the past few minutes 20 new churches in France due to the past decade, and has coolly blocked bigger than 60 churches, mass of which are set to become mosques, according to dig conducted by La Croix, a Roman Catholic document pamphlet based in Paris.
In recent weeks, tensions hold back flared throughout the planned use of an impassive church in the field of a mosque in the central French city of Vierzon. The struggle involves Saint-Eloi's, a small church located in a working class occupant that has been hard-working throughout by immigrants from Morocco and Collapse.
Similar to six churches to make a case and with a reduction of sincere every go out with, Roman Catholic creation in Vierzon say they can no longer provide to monitor Saint-Eloi's. They now entail to apportion the building for EUR170,000 (220,000) to a Moroccan Muslim relationship that wishes to rotation the church in the field of a mosque.
In an seminar with the French paper newsmagazine Le Nouvel Observateur, Alain Krauth, the borough priest of the largest Catholic church in Vierzon, said: "The Christian community is not as central as it cast-off to be in the past. If quite good Muslims buy Saint-Eloi's, we can in the past few minutes be cheerful that the Muslims of Vierzon are beneficial to smear their religion." His observations were greeted with injury by inn the population who are now tricky to obstruct the church from becoming a mosque.
Intimate scenes are equally played out on both sides of France.
In the close metropolitan area of Poitiers, all but 70 members of a conventional teenager group comfortable as Calculate Population definitely tiring a mosque that is equally built in the strongly Muslim Buxerolles society of the metropolitan area. The dawn venture on October 21 was intentional as a make a complaint adjoining Islam's mounting magnetism in France.
The protesters climbed onto the shade of the mosque (photos during) and unfurled a streamer with the voucher pressing out "732 Calculate Population," a give a price of to the go out with 732, as soon as Charles Martel halted the advance of the invading Muslim gang to the north of Poitiers (also comfortable as the Argument of Tours.)
Meanwhile, the Collectivist direct in France definitely inaugurated a new mega-mosque in Paris as a formerly step towards "regularly building a French Islam."
The new mosque, located in the northern Paris resolution of Cergy-Pontoise, is not in the past few minutes extreme in its figure (photos during), but is also anyway discernible and symbolic: its from head to foot minaret, which has exclusively been fated to harmony the suburb's skyline by equally taller than any church battlement in the occupant, is alleged to become the "new symbol of Islam in France."
Lecture on behalf of French Supervise Francois Hollande at the inauguration splendor of the mosque in Cergy, French Principal Cleric Manuel Valls expressed the Collectivist government's regulations vis-`a-vis the arrangement of new mosques in France. He declared: "A mosque, as soon as it is erected in the metropolitan area, says a simple thing: Islam has its place in France."
"Soeren Kern" is a Top Man at the New York-based Gatestone The upper classes". He is also Top Man for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat'egicos / Crucial Studies Throng together. Pursue him on Facebook"."
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WEST BANK: At all THE WEST IS Buttress
by Khaled Abu Toameh
November 2, 2012 at 4:45 amHTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3429/PALESTINIAN-AUTHORITY-FREE-SPEECH
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Be the formerly of your friends to match this.Harb alleged that the bestow to summon him for logical was in the context of the Palestinian Expert leadership's battle to harass Palestinian writers and lobby and revoke them from discussing rainy-day issues. Transnational human position groups and countries that support financially and source Abbas's exercise hold back yet to physically powerful their voices. Flagging to snag the Palestinian Expert conscientious phantom in the past few minutes toil bigger Palestinians int the arms of Hamas and other insurgent martial.The Palestinian Expert clue in the West Feature has come up with a new middle to tranquillity its Palestinian critics.
From now on, any Palestinian writer or announcer who dares to tackle Palestinian Expert Supervise Mahmoud Abbas and his policies or demand an end to vice phantom be accused of "vilification the self-confidence of the stage."
Considering the beginning of this go out with, at negligible 10 Palestinian lobby, bloggers and follower opponents hold back been confined by assorted Palestinian Expert custody services for language about vice and criticizing the Palestinian clue.
Until definitely, the Palestinian Expert, which is funded by the US and EU, cast-off to chuck its critics in the field of jail.
But watch condemnations from Palestinian and global human position organizations, the Palestinian Expert severe to alternative to a new middle to tranquillity its critics - this time by stern them of "vilification the self-confidence" of a non-existent Palestinian stage.
This charge is based on a 1960 Jordanian law not moving effective in the West Feature. Period the Palestinian Expert has its own laws, to go its goals it does not waver every now and then to alternative to Jordanian laws.
But as the box file of Jihad Harb shows, Abbas and his aides are bigger concerned about their own self-confidence than that of the unreal stage.
Harb, a Palestinian writer and follower therapist, was summoned this week for interrogation by the Palestinian custody martial in Ramallah and charged, on the heart of the Jordanian law, with "vilification the self-confidence of the stage."
Harb was told that the supervisor of Abbas's bifurcate had stuck a bother adjoining him for character assassination and offense such as of an gadget criticizing Abbas's regulations of promoting national people.
Entitled "Presidential Decisions Are Ready In A Russet Retailer," Harb's gadget criticized Abbas's bestow to profit bigger than 500 polite servants throughout the past five living -- noting that mass of them were unsuitable to meeting in their jobs.
Early he was summoned for interrogation, Harb conventional bullying from from top Palestinian Expert officials in Ramallah that he would be punished for hanging the filthy laundry in national.
The officials told the writer that he may would feature trial for criticizing Abbas at a time as soon as the US and Israel are "waging a intense battle" adjoining the Palestinian Expert come first such as of his control on pursuing his concentration for contribution in the UN.
Harb alleged that the bestow to summon him for logical was in the context of the Palestinian Expert leadership's battle to harass Palestinian writers and lobby and revoke them from discussing rainy-day issues.
Harb other that the bestow was also in sacrilege of Abbas's recent mention that the "sky was the boundary for transport of rumination" in the West Feature.
Palestinian writers and human position groups hold back, meanwhile, articulated grown-up utility throughout the Palestinian Authority's clean hurriedly on transport of rumination in the West Feature.
Transnational human position groups, nevertheless, and countries that support financially and source Abbas's exercise hold back yet to physically powerful their voices.
Heaps Palestinian writers and lobby in the West Feature today moving in weakness of equally stressed by the Palestinian Expert such as of their views and writings. Specified practice self-censorship, so others are language under different names or hold back found themselves new and less perilous professions.
At hand is no give up why group who are pouring millions of dollars on the Palestinian Expert requirement not demand an end to oppression of transport of rumination and the mounting become unconscious on writers and lobby in the West Feature.
Flagging to snag the Palestinian Expert conscientious for its clowning around phantom in the past few minutes toil bigger Palestinians in the field of the arms of Hamas and the other insurgent martial.
Associated TOPICS: Khaled Abu Toameh
EGYPT'S Management AND MEDIA Calculate In opposition to CHRISTIAN COPTS
by Raymond Ibrahim
November 2, 2012 at 4:00 amHTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3428/EGYPT-CHRISTIAN-COPTS
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Be the formerly of your friends to match this.The Egyptian media demonized the protesting Christians due to the new Maspero Take out, in which Egyptians in unbreakable vehicles mowed down protesting Christians. They were followed by the Western media, who unblemished never to bounds anything, who once again turned the losses in the field of the persecutors in their elucidation of the display.From top to stump, from the Muslim Brotherhood come first to the Muslim Brotherhood-monitored media, the lies clothed in Egypt's Christian minority-whether lies from the Supervise, claiming the Copts are cared for, or whether lies from the media, demonizing them-continue continual.
At the back two Christian boys were arrested formerly this month, for demonstration, for evidently blaspheming a Quran and were similar to at no cost, the Egyptian media, watch the claims of the Muslim Brotherhood, official Supervise Morsi with their trickle. Ikhwan Web, the Muslim Brotherhood's ceremonial English website, and the website of its follower escape, the Coordinate and Fairness Human being, apiece ran a facet entitled, "Morsi Succinct Rescue of Christian Boys Gripped for Desecrating Holy Quran in Egypt," the opening putting away of which reads: "Two Egyptian Coptic boys are lax from juvenile moderation, at Supervise Morsi's briefing..." This bountiful narrative was lengthily dispersed in the media, in the midst of in the West.
According to the lawyer of the two Christian boys, Guirgus Bebaway, nevertheless, "the utterly that Morsi interfered to hold back the two children at no cost is merely disloyal.... Supervise Morsi had go like a bullet to do with the Rescue of Nabil Nady Rizk, 10 living old, and Mina Nagui Farag, 9 living old," the two boys who "were hard-working to a different place until the tad calms down in their suburb," where passionate riots and protests had ensued.
Evenly, Morsi's slip to the Sinai Peninsula-where, plus other signs of jihadi discernment, Christians were definitely attacked and displaced-was trumpeted by the Western media as keep information of his date to protect the Copts. In a facet, for period, entitled, "Egypt's come first visits Sinai to 'reassure' Copts," AFP wrote, "Egyptian Supervise Mohamed Morsi visited the Sinai polo neck on Friday to heavy with and feed Coptic families who fled from the city of Rafah at what time gathering death bullying, "his Facebook page alleged." (Consequence other)
According to the Coptic bishop of Sinai, nevertheless, although he and mass other gathering of the Coptic community were strong to heavy with Morsi, they were never official an option. Sensibly, they were cool in the passage with Sinai's Bedouins and others, where they all got to hear the come first ruling from away from some generic platitudes clothed in the homogeny of all Egyptians, at what time which Bishop Qazmaan remarked, "We cannot think the sincerity of his words."
Last of all, such as Egypt's Copts were definitely denied justice at what time manage year's Maspero Take out - as soon as the Egyptian belligerent slaughtered Christians who were protesting the trusty attacks on their churches, in the midst of use throughout them with unbreakable vehicles, in the past few minutes to be exonerated in board - the Copts congregated once again all but Maspero apiece to make a complaint and pursue the golden jubilee of the harass. Very well as the Egyptian media had demonized the protesting Christians due to the new Maspero Take out - deceitfully claiming that Copts were abusive and slaughter Egypt's military, so Egyptian military in unbreakable vehicles were mowing down protesting Christians - they were followed by the Western media, who unblemished never to bounds anything, who once again turned the losses in the field of the persecutors in their elucidation of the display.
A TV anchorman for El Qahira position, for demonstration, so winding sheet the golden jubilee campaign, asked, "Why revise all this?" and, in the non-sequitur of the go out with, claimed that whenever Copts authenticate and beep for their position, "in the past few minutes one nation, one civilization" profits: Israel. He thereby once again portrayed Egypt's Christian minority, who look for in the past few minutes homogeny, as "traitors," bigger discerning in empowering exotic powers than in assign to build Egypt. He even viewing non-violent scenes from manage year's eliminate - not the ones of military slaughter at and use throughout Christians - and asked, "What's the big arrangement"?
The sister of one of the slain Copts from the eliminate, Mina Daniel, clear all this, saying that the media "continues to be underhanded"; that, although she was invited to be interviewed by one position, the civilization present-day proceeded to edit and delete her words; and that, in brief, "Not an iota has distorted... the fantastically thing that happened manage go out with due to the eliminate, as soon as the media claimed Copts were abusive the belligerent, is taking part in today... this is a breakdown, and we hold out to plunk from the fantastically story."
The Copts hold out to be portrayed as unruly troublemakers, who are anyhow cared for by the government-when the truth is the meticulous different.
"Raymond Ibrahim" is a Shillman Man at the David Horowitz Coordinate Middle and an Component Man at the Main East Federation."
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