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Belgium: First Islamic State in Europe?

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The leaders of Belgium's ISLAM Party apparently want to turn Belgium into an Islamic State. They call it "Islamist democracy" and have set a target date: 2030. "The program is confusingly simple: replace all the civil and penal codes with sharia law.

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The Love Affair with Syria’s Dictator

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Finally, a world leader, President Donald Trump, took a stance against the war criminal who rules Syria. Instead of supporting that action, however, many people have been attacking Trump for the clear message he sent Bashar Assad: He cannot use illegal

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Syria: The Defining Issue of Our Generation

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

How could we not understand that in the anti-war coalition's Manichaean world, the role of evil was reserved solely for the Western democracies? Over the past decade or so, Russia has waged war against Georgia in Ossetia and Abkhazia, attacked Ukraine,

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A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in Germany: March 2018

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Anti-Semitism is running rampant at German primary schools, according to Heinz-Peter Meidinger, president of the President of the German Teachers' Association (Deutschen Lehrerverbandes, DL). He also said that videos of beheadings are commonplace at

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Turkey Targeting Greece – Again

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

With the illegal seizures and occupation of northern Cyprus in 1974 and the Syrian city of Afrin this March -- with virtually no global reaction -- Turkey apparently feels unchallenged and eager to continue; this time, it seems, with the oil-and-gas rich

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UK: “Teacher Handbook” Supporting Extremism?

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Britain's educational authorities also failed to note the underlying message of the Teacher Handbook: that jihadist violence is justified when committed by those who believe themselves to be victims. This is a crucial point: it accepts at face value what

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Turkey’s Erdogan Threatens France

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

"Why hasn't any 'kind-hearted' anti-Assad Arab state (e.g. Saudi) taken any Syrian refugees? Shouldn't countries that spent billions on arming militants (including terrorists) in the name of 'liberating' Syrians take refugees in? The only Syrian refugees

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Let Turkish Scholars Speak: See What Islamism Is About

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

In a 2016 fatwa, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Turkey's highest religious authority, ruled that it was not forbidden in Islam if a father felt lust for his own daughter "on condition that the daughter is older than nine" According to

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Germany: Crackdown on Middle Eastern Crime Families

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Middle Eastern crime clans now control large swathes of German cities and towns — areas that are effectively lawless and which German police increasingly fear to approach. The crime families, which have thousands of members, have for decades been allowed

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German Mass Migration: A No-Win Situation?

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

In October 2017, Salzgitter was the first city to impose immigration restrictions: It will not accept any additional refugees. "I see it every day: 'Woman, step aside!' The elderly, who are often severely handicapped, stand no chance to compete." —

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Tariq Ramadan’s Rape Trial: Blame the Victim

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

If defending Tariq Ramadan is regrettable, Western silence is worse. There are also those who blame Ramadan's alleged victims. According to The New Yorker, "[Ayeri] is something of a heroine in the extreme-right circles of the fachosphère, where

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Christian, Yazidi Women Still in ISIS Captivity

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Despite losing control of Raqqa and other major strongholds in Syria and Iraq, ISIS continues to keep many of the women it kidnapped during its rise in 2014. The world seems to have forgotten about them. Habib, traded four times during her captivity,

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“Why Do They Think Islam Is a Religion of Peace?”

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Three Muslim men kidnapped a 12-year-old Christian girl, gang-raped, and sadistically tortured her, including burning her body with cigarettes. When her mother of went to police the same day, they refused to start a criminal investigation or even to file

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Turkey’s American Hostage – About to be Sentenced for Life?

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The Turkish government is using Pastor Brunson's detention as a bargaining chip. In exchange for his freedom, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had demanded the return to Turkey from the United States of self-exiled cleric Fethullah Gülen, a

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Europe, Trump and the Iran Deal

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

If we were to go by Mogherini's or Westmacott's "commitment" to an unchangeable "Iran Deal", Britain and France should have never denounced the "peace accord" that Chamberlain signed in Munich in 1939. However, the EU argument about "respecting

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A New Law Is Needed to Protect Lawyer-Client Communications

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The raid on President Trump's lawyer dramatically demonstrates the need for new legislation to assure that no FBI agents or US attorneys ever get to read privileged communications between a lawyer and a client, a doctor and a patient, a priest and

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Sweden’s War on Free Speech

Posted on April 14, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

Apparently, turning in fellow Swedes to the authorities for alleged "hate speech" is now viewed in Sweden as "heroic". "One can criticize fascism or Nazism, but why not Islam? Why should Islam have any protection status?" — Denny, a 71-year-old

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European Immigration: Nuns Out, Terrorists In

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

When the same Home Office that forbade Sister Ban even to enter the country discovered that the young male Iraqi was in Britain, he explained clearly that he had been trained by ISIS. He told the Home Office officials that the group had trained him to

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Palestinians: License to Kill Americans

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The ruthless rhetoric the Palestinians are using against the US suggests that they have decided to put the Americans on an equal footing with Israel. They miss the days when the State Department sometimes seemed to be more pro-Palestinian than the

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“Firewalls” and “Taint Teams” Do Not Protect Fourth and Sixth Amendment Rights

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Gatestone Institute :: Articles

The Fourth and Sixth Amendments prohibit government officials from in any way intruding on the privacy of lawyer/client confidential rights of citizens. The very fact that this material is seen or read by a government official constitutes a core

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