TEHRAN, Sept 3 – Energy-hungry India said on Saturday it would push on with plans to build a $7 billion gas pipeline from Iran, undaunted by the increasing threat of United Nations sanctions against Tehran. The International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday said questions re2_kommentared about Tehran’s atomic activities and confirmed Iran had resumed its […]
Les mer»LONDON, Sept 3 – Mosques in Britain will attract twice as many faithful as churches by 2040, according to a study on the future of religious belief carried out by the British-based association Christian Research. The study estimated that the proportion of British nationals describing themselves as Christian in recent official surveys would go down […]
Les mer»Av Shabana Rehman Den siste uken har det vært rapportert en rekke nyheter fra Norge til Pakistan. Sjefredaktørene i Pakistans største aviser svarer at det er mannlige norsk-pakistanere som er kilder. Jeg skjønner at dette er en annen måte å skyte på når pakistanske aviser skriver at jeg er «ludder, nakendanserinne, mine brødre er kriminelle […]
Les mer»ISLAMABAD, Sept 3 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf defended on Saturday his government’s talks with Israel, saying this was in accordance with the tenets of Islam. Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri on Thursday met with his Israeli counterpart Silvan Shalom in Istanbul in the first publicly acknowledged high-level contact between the predominantly Muslim nation […]
Les mer»Inshallah: No such inhibitions constrain today’s Islamic extremists. The Associated Press reported that they «rejoiced in America’s misfortune, giving the storm a military rank and declaring in internet chatter that ‘Private’ Katrina had joined the global jihad. With God’s help, they declared, oil prices would hit $100-a-barrel this year.» Niall Ferguson
Les mer»Franske intellektuelle har en egen evne til å våge å «tenke stort» og filosofisk om sin samtid. Paul Virilio er arkitekt og filosof. I et intervju med Sorbonne-lektor Mads P. Justsen i Weekendavisen fremfører han en del tanker om teknologi og katastrofer, som har en egen resonans i dagens situasjon: »Vi er vidne til genkomsten […]
Les mer»For annen gang på en uke er saudi-arabisk politi i skuddveksling med inntrengere fra Irak, melder reuters. Første gang det skjedde het det at det var irakiske biltyver som hadde sneket seg over grensen, og var blitt tatt på fersken i industribyen Jubail. Nå skjer det for annen gang, og det er kanskje ikke så […]
Les mer»THE HAGUE, Sept 2 – A Dutch businessman accused of genocide for supplying chemicals to the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein was aware his shipments would be used in deadly attacks on civilians, according to testimony presented before a war crimes tribunal here on Friday. Frans Van Anraat, 62, the first Dutch national to […]
Les mer»DEAUVILLE, France, Sept 3 – A documentary tackling an anti-Jewish lie that spread around the world after September 11, 2001 screened at a French film festival celebrating American film Saturday. The filmmaker, Marc Levin, told AFP he hoped his movie «The Protocols of Zion» would help dispel the myth — widely believed in Arab countries […]
Les mer»«The comparison between the disengagement of Gush Katif and the horrific events of the Holocaust simply helps the work of anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers. We must end these appalling comparisons. They denigrate the significance and memory of the Shoah an intolerable way, they are an insult to Holocaust survivors and they do damage to the […]
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