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Post by Orao on Mar 26, 2010 20:34:31 GMT -5
They may be able to "fix" the sinking ship called Greece for now... but what if they all start to sink? Portugal, Spain, Italy and others to follow... might be a tougher one to "fix".
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Post by TsarSamuil on Mar 27, 2010 8:51:20 GMT -5
Anti-mosque demos take place in Warsaw. TheNews.Pl Saturday, March 27 2010 Demonstrations are set to take place over the weekend in Warsaw over the construction of a new mosque for the Muslim faithful in Poland. The Future of Europe Association is firmly against the construction of the mosque and Islamic cultural centre, furthermore believing that the mosque’s investor, the Polish League of Muslims, is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist movement. “The Polish League of Muslims is an organisation founded by Polish citizens and is officially registered,” Boguslaw Zadorski, director of the Ibn Khaldun Institute in Warsaw and lecturer at Collegium Civitas, has stated, adding that “no-one has ever accused the organisation of breaking Polish law, and saying that the League is connected with the Muslim Brotherhood is tantamount to slander.” Such words may fall on deaf ears, however, as news of the protests are making fast ground in various nationalist internet forums, with some comments heralding back to King Jan III Sobieski’s victory over the Ottomans at the Siege of Vienna in 1683. The mosque is being legally constructed according to planning permission granted by Warsaw City Council. “All the decisions and agreements for this investment were completed long ago,” Tomasz Andryszczyk from the Council has commented, adding that “it would be a shame if this building is surrounded by problems, especially as it is of a religious character.” The number of Muslims in Poland is estimated at around 40,000 faithful, with around 10-13,000 living in Warsaw. There are currently three mosques in the entire country: in the Baltic city of Gdansk, as well as two wooden mosques that serve the Tatar population in north-eastern Poland. There is also a prayer room in Poland’s capital. (jb) ------- Pic of mosque in Gdansk...  |
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Post by pastir on Mar 27, 2010 11:10:16 GMT -5
In a few decades the EU will be like 1980s Yugoslavia. I mean this in the economic sense. Same problems.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Mar 28, 2010 5:58:42 GMT -5
Polish group uses Swiss poster to protest new mosque. Expatica ^ | March 24, 2010 A Polish group calling itself "Europe for the Future" has refashioned a Swiss poster against minarets to demand a halt in the construction of a new mosque in the capital of mainly Catholic Poland. In the posters, seen in several parts of Warsaw Wednesday, the Swiss flag is replaced with a Polish one and wording that translates into "stop the mosque of the radicals". Switzerland voted in a referendum in November to ban the construction of new minarets, a move that drew criticisms worldwide including charges of Islamophobia. The Polish poster called for a demonstration on Saturday at the site of the mosque and cultural centre under construction near the centre of Warsaw, and described as "radical" the Muslim League of Poland building it. "The mosque and the centre of Muslim culture are financed by Saudi Arabia, a country which violates human rights and where the mere possession of a Bible constitutes a crime," the association said. In a petition address to the mayor of Warsaw, the group called for "an immediate halt to the work". Muslim League president Samir Ismail said the protests were inspired by individuals who were "sowing hate". "It will not be a classic mosque," he said in the Gazeta Wyborcza daily Wednesday. "It will be a cultural centre open to Muslims and non-Muslims. Arabic courses will be organised there and courses in Polish for children of diplomats." Ninety percent of Poles say they are Catholic while the country's Muslim population numbers between 15,000 and 30,000 people, about 10,000 of whom are in the capital. They include immigrants from Arab countries, Chechens and Tatars who have been based in Poland since the 17th century. Muslims in Warsaw only have access to one small mosque that can hold around 100 people and is in a villa in a suburban residential area. The new mosque is expected to be able to accommodate about 10,000 worshippers. At 12 metres (40 feet) high, it will be topped by a minaret of 18 metres.  |
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Post by Orao on Mar 28, 2010 16:55:01 GMT -5
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Post by TsarSamuil on Mar 29, 2010 12:39:12 GMT -5
Yay, go Merkel !  --------------------------- EU row sours Merkel's Turkey trip. Bbc.co.uk Monday, 29 March 2010 18:29 UK  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her belief that Turkey is not suitable for full EU membership, on the first day of an official Turkish visit. Turkey should not view her offer of a "privileged partnership" - rather than full membership - negatively, she said. Turkey, which began negotiations to become a member in 2005, has dismissed that offer as an insult. There were also disagreements over Iran, Cyprus and educating Turkish children in Germany in Turkish. Germany is Turkey's biggest trading partner, its biggest foreign investor, its biggest source of tourist revenue, and nearly three million Turks live in Germany. But, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Istanbul, for two countries with such deep-rooted historical and economic ties, Germany and Turkey struggled to find a common voice during Mrs Merkel's visit. 'Shifting the goalposts' On every important issue, Chancellor Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seemed to be at odds with each other, our correspondent adds. After months of avoiding the subject, Chancellor Merkel chose this moment to revive her idea of offering Turkey what she calls a privileged partnership with the EU, rather than full membership. Mrs Merkel has stressed that she does see integration as possible in up to 28 of the 35 so-called chapters of EU law with which Turkey has to comply before it can become a full member of the union. Speaking at a joint press conference in Ankara, she said: "The rules of the game have changed" since 2005. "The (accession) negotiations are an open-ended process. We should now pursue this open-ended process." Mr Erdogan said nothing - but has in the past expressed his outrage over what he calls "shifting the goalposts". The German proposal has been firmly rejected by the Turkish government as a breach of the terms agreed when membership negotiations began five years ago. "Such a thing as privileged partnership does not exist," said Egemen Bagis, Turkey's minister for European affairs. "So we do not take that option seriously because there is no legal foundation of it. At times I feel insulted for being offered something which does not exist." Manifold disagreement Turkey's sometimes fraught relationship with the European Union will not be helped by this visit. On Iran, Mrs Merkel wants Turkish support for international sanctions, which Mr Erdogan argues are counter-productive and hypocritical. Turkey has recently strengthened its relations with Iran and opposes the tougher sanctions threatened by Western governments. "We are of the view that sanctions is not a healthy path and... that the best route is diplomacy," said Mr Erdogan at the joint news conference. The two leaders also disagreed about Cyprus, with the German chancellor calling for the issue of Turkey's refusal to recognize the government on the divided island to be resolved quickly. |
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Post by TsarSamuil on Mar 29, 2010 13:09:54 GMT -5
Sound file, www.thenews.pl/national/?id=128441Battle of the Warsaw mosque. TheNews.Pl Peter Gentle 29.03.2010 11:53  Despite a huge amount of coverage in the media, Saturday’s demonstrations for and against the planned mosque in Warsaw attracted only couple of hundred supporters, on either side of the conflict. Though police and media almost outnumbered the protestors, the demonstrations – three different ones in all – were noisy but peaceful. Chants of “Down with Jihad” and “Freedom for women” by the anti-mosque protestors mingled with “Stop Islamophobia” from the pro-mosque group led by members of Poland’s extra-parliamentary leftwing. A third group from the far-right All-Polish Youth stood to one side, their green flags fluttering in a bitter wind. The anti-mosque demonstration was organized by the Future of Europe foundation, who fear the Islamisation of the continent. They claim that the group which will control the mosque, the Polish Muslim League, has possible links to the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood. “We are not protesting against freedom of worship or the freedom of someone to believe in Islam or Allah,” said Jan Wojcik of Future for Europe. “But we have information that connects the [Saudi Arabian] investor with the Federation of Islam in Europe, which many researchers believe is connected with the Muslim Brotherhood. This is why we are afraid and we want the government to check this.” The mosque, or ‘Centre of Islamic Culture’, has been designed by KAPS Architekci, and the building site is located in close vicinity of the Blue City shopping centre, at the Zeslancow Syberyjskich roundabout, just to the west of the city centre. The three-story building will have an 18-metre high minaret where the Polish capital’s Muslim population can come to pray or attend one of the many cultural events which will take place at the building. Non-Muslims can also come and learn about Islam. The fact that the mosque is being financed by an unnamed Saudi investor doesn’t make Jan Wojcik feel any easier about the project. “We know that Saudi Arabia is spending a lot of money around the world spreading the word of [Islam fundamentalist] Wahhabism,” he told thenews.pl. On the other side of a police line – and the argument – were a smaller group of pro-mosque demonstrators who fear Wojcik’s protest may stir up anti-Muslim feeling within Poland. “There are already two mosques in Warsaw,” someone called Magda told us. “I believe in a multi-cultural Poland. The small Muslim minority in Warsaw, just 11,000 people, need a place where they can build their community,” she said. Islam charter The Future of Europe foundation – which emphasizes that it has nothing against Islam as a religion, but is concerned about the rise of what they term “Islamo-fascism’ in Europe – has come up with what Jan Wojcik calls a “constructive proposal’ to end the conflict. “If [the Polish Muslim League] sign the Charter of Muslim Understanding then we have no problem with the mosque,” he said. The proposed charter, drawn up by an internationally recognized specialist in the Koran and Sharia law, was presented to the European Parliament in December 2006 and renounces religiously inspired violence and says that the position of women, for example, in Islamic culture is historical in nature and not doctrinal. Wojcik also wanted to disassociate his organisation from the handful of Catholic-nationalist All-Polish Youth who had also turned up to protest. “We told them to stand to one side,” he said. “These people are skinheads…” “We are a conservative and rightwing group who represent traditional values and Christian morality,” said Marcin from All-Polish Youth. “It seems to me that this group [Future of Europe] represent different values. They are social democrats and liberals. We think that this building will not change anything [in Poland] or our thinking about Islam. But we are thinking about the experience of France or Germany or any other western country. Islamic values are not connected to European, Christian values,” he said. Members of the Polish Muslim League were not at the demonstration. |
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Post by TsarSamuil on Mar 29, 2010 13:28:18 GMT -5
Tadić: Kosovo recognition not EU condition.
28 March 2010 | 10:30 | Source: FoNet, Tanjug
BRUSSELS -- President Boris Tadić said that even though 22 countries of the EU have recognized Kosovo, recognition is not a condition for Serbia’s integration.
“Any other situation would be a very big problem and the integration process would be blocked,” Tadić said at a joint press conference held with his Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipović after a forum dedicated to the Western Balkans held in Brussels.
Tadić said that Serbia accepts that Kosovo and all its residents are citizens of the EU, but as a southern Serbian province.
“When we are speaking of the EU integration process, it is completely clear that only UN member-states can join the EU. Serbia does not and will never recognize Kosovo, but is interested in all the people of the region and those that live in the southern province becoming EU citizens,” he said.
Approaches for Bosnia-Herzegovina have changed
Tadić said that leaders of Serbia and Croatia have completely different approaches now compared to leaders of the two countries in the early 1990s, as far as Bosnia is concerned.
He said that he and Josipović agree that everything must be done to preserve the integrity and sovereignty of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Tadić said that it is crystal clear that Serbia and Croatia will not destabilize Bosnia, and stressed that Belgrade and Zagreb do not support a partition of the country.
Josipović added that Croatia and Serbia have no aspirations of supporting the forces in Bosnia that want a partition of the country.
He said that it is important for Bosnia to function as a united state, which is not the case currently.
He said that Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats must find a solution and that no one else can solve their problems, stating that Bosnia-Herzegovina must be a country of three equal nations.
Organized crime main challenge
The Serbian and Croatian presidents agreed that organized crime is one of the main challenges and great problems, not only in the region, but also throughout Europe.
Tadić said that Serbia is working hard to fight organized crime and that the Serbian security services are cooperating closely with officials in America and Great Britain.
“Serbia is for the first time exporting security with this cooperation, which was shown in the example of the seizure of tons and tons of cocaine in the Atlantic Ocean,” Tadić said.
He said that organized crime is tied to the question of war crimes from the past, and that the solving of this problem is a key factor for stability in the region and a guarantee for the safety of future generations.
Josipović said that Croatia has taken large steps in the fight against organized crime, stressing that it is very important to recognize the problem as soon as possible on a state, regional, and European level, and then encourage government’s to solve it.
Both agreed that cooperation in the field of security between Serbia and Croatia is very good.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Mar 31, 2010 19:46:57 GMT -5
Bulgaria Muslims Prevent Founding of OTOMAN Party in Famed Mosque.
Novinite.com
Domestic | March 31, 2010, Wednesday
The Muslim community in the northeast Bulgarian city of Shumen will not allow the notorious Yuzeirovi brothers to set up their new OTOMAN party in the famed Tombul Mosque.
The two brothers, Ali Yuzeirov and Yuzeir Yuzeirov, will make do with a conference hall in the local “Shumen” hotel instead, Shumen Mayor Krasimir Kostov has announced.
Kostov defined the decision of the wannabe politicians to found their party on April 2, which is Good Friday for Orthodox Christians, as a “pure provocation.”
The brothers have responded to the accusation by saying that they have chosen that day because of the traditional Friday's Muslim prayer.
In order to prevent clashes between rival groups, Mayor Kostov has banned any rallies or manifestations on the day in question.
He claims that some of the founders of the new party are residents of Shumen, currently living in Belgium and France, who are financed by Muslim extremists.
“It is quite indicative that the leaders of the Muslim community in Shumen wants to have nothing to do with the founders of the party and refuse to grant them access to the Tombul Mosque,” declared Kostov.
OTOMAN is an abbreviation in Bulgarian which stands for “Union for tolerance, responsibility, moral, and alternative progress.” Yet the party's name bears uncanny connotation to the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria's bitter past under Turkish dominion.
The founders of the new OTOMAN party claim that its main goal is to promote religious and ethnic tolerance. Their similar initiatives in the summer and fall of 2009 have been slammed by many commentators as attempts to stir ethnic and religious tension and a test to the stability of Bulgarian democracy and of the Borisov government.
In the fall of 2009 the two brothers erected a monument of the Unknown Turkish/Muslim Soldier near Targovishte, which was torn down by the authorities after court action.
Again in 2009 Yuzeir Yuzeirov was refused registration of his “Muslim Democratic Union” party because it was based on religious and ethnic principles and hence unconstitutional
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Post by Dushko on Mar 31, 2010 23:58:27 GMT -5
Anti-mosque demos take place in Warsaw. TheNews.Pl Saturday, March 27 2010 Demonstrations are set to take place over the weekend in Warsaw over the construction of a new mosque for the Muslim faithful in Poland. The Future of Europe Association is firmly against the construction of the mosque and Islamic cultural centre, furthermore believing that the mosque’s investor, the Polish League of Muslims, is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist movement. AHA!!!! I was correct, the muslim slime is being forced on the Slavic EU countries. The tidal wave of the vermin has just begun. Wait until the EU bigwigs get a hold of this one, the Poles will be spanked severely for the protest. Soon we will hear apologies and the bullshit about Poland embracing multi-culturalism. All because of the threat of witholding a few lousy bucks. Blood money, bribes, charity, call it what you want. This is the EU most of you love? |
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Post by TsarSamuil on Apr 1, 2010 4:51:58 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with the EU saying anything Dushko, most of those muslims were already there and the rest used Poland as a transit to the west towards EU, before Poland even joined. They are probably 1% of the population, if that.
I don't know much about their immigration policies today, but neither do u.
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Post by Dushko on Apr 1, 2010 11:47:08 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with the EU saying anything Dushko, most of those muslims were already there and the rest used Poland as a transit to the west towards EU, before Poland even joined. They are probably 1% of the population, if that. I don't know much about their immigration policies today, but neither do u. You are a Nazi apologist for the EU and the Slavic traitors that aspire to be like them - imperialistic scumbags who are traitors to their religion and race. The Polaks in my experience have never shown any Slavic unity, most that I know do even understand that they are ethnically related to Serbs. I wish that were true. I don't know why you bother to post here, you certainly show no Slavic loyalty. Don't speak for me as to what I know and don't know. I do know for certain that the EU is BAD NEWS for the Slavic peoples. We will see how this story unfolds. |
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Post by TsarSamuil on Apr 1, 2010 11:56:00 GMT -5
Actually I didn't state any opinion about their immigration, just facts. Get a clue, u are a like a mad dog that has to bark.
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Post by Dushko on Apr 1, 2010 12:02:58 GMT -5
With the massive turd world immigration forced upon the USA, GB, Germany, etc., what would you expect from the EU devils for throwing a few lousy bucks to lap dogs like Poland?
Soon they will be dictating immigration policy in exchange for welfare money. Just like America which is being overrun by Asians, Africans, Latinos and other scum, so will Poland and the other fools who can't see the wolf in sheep's clothing.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Apr 1, 2010 12:31:01 GMT -5
And who will do this forcing within the EU? It's hardly a unified block. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament Also, individual member states handle their own immigration, some countries have very low immigration. |
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