Magdi Allam

Arab website writes biased piece about our friend Magdi Allam: New ”Salman Rushdie” in Italy?

Bizarre News of the Day

“kissing friends on the cheek could lead to transmission of avian flu H5-N1 virus”. Mothers would be prevented from kissing their kids, too. That’s the pretext used by Islamists in Egypt to have kissing in public banned, as prescribed by the Islamic law.

Gingrich Won’t Run

Bad news, as Newt Gingrich announced he won’t run. Am still waiting to hear him explaining in detail the reasons behind such an unfortunate choice.

New Pics of the Ladies in White in Havana

Les envio 8 fotografías tomadas por este periodista Durante la Marcha Pacifica realizada por las Damas de Blanco , Madres , Esposas y otros familiares de presos políticos en Cuba , por las calles de la Habanera el pasado 24 de septiembre en el Día de la Merced , donde reclamaron la libertad de sus familiares y el resto de los presos políticos cubanos . La marcha salió desde la calle Neptuno . 963 entre Aramburo y Hospital , Centro Habanera y concluyó en la Iglesia Católica La Mereced , en la Habana Vieja . Saludos . Carlos Serpa Maceira , Periodista de la Agencia de Prensa Sindical Press

Carlos Serpa Maceira: DAMAS DE BLANCO REALIZAN VIGILIA, TÉ LITERARIO Y ACTIVIDAD EN LA IGLESIA CATÓLICA LAS MERCEDES

Les envio 13 fotografías tomadas por este periodista a las Damas de Blanco , madres , esposas y otros familiares de presos político en Cuba . Las fotografias tomadas en la Habana , son de la vigilia realizada en la noche del 23 de septiembre , en la vivienda de Laura Pollan Toledo , vispera de la celebración del Día de las Merecedez . Otras fotos muestran la realizacion del Te Literario no. 52 , y la marcha pacifica realizada en la Habana hasta la Iglesia Católica de las Mercedez , y posteriormente se podra apreciar fotos en la Iglesia Católica Las Mercedez . Fraternalmente , Carlos Serpa Maceira. Periodista de la Agencia de Prensa Sindical Press

Carlos Serpa Maceira: DAMAS DE BLANCO RECONOCEN TRABAJO DEL GRUPO DE APOYO A LA DEMOCRACIA

Updates from Burma

Maybe few noticed it, but the Junta fired on children, as well. There might be not that significant, but reports are coming out that Burmese generals are confronting each other. But today’s news is that the regime has imposed a total media and information blackout, closing down all cyber cafes, cutting off internet access and searching houses in search of ‘enemy propaganda’. More updates soon.

Real Change Has Begun‏

From yesterday’s newsletter by Newt Gingrich: What Is Happening Is the Beginning of Real Change

Three More Executed in Iran

Sharia kills 3 more people. The below note has been added by the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI), a major Iranian opposition group genuinely dedicated to democratic and non-violent regime change in Iran with the ultimate goal to establish a democratic and secular system of governance.

The Islamic regime uses, often, false labels, following forced confessions and made up accusation, in order to exterminate those Iranians who retaliate to its brutal rule.

This false process avoids an accentuation of rights accusation against the clerical rule.

These executions take place in public in order to send a warning to Iranians who would like to stand against the Islamic regime.

Read the whole report here.

And Britain is weighing to lift the ban on a notorious Marxist-Islamist terror group, the Mujaheddin- e-Khalq, which played a role in the attack on the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 and is known for torturing and harassing those who decide to defect from its ranks. MKO is shamelessly called “opposition group” by our leaders, while its ultimate goal is replace the Islamic regime with a Maoist/Pol Potist one. By lifting the ban, Britain is not just fuelling the Mullahs’ propaganda machine, but is enabling woud-be mass murderers.

Cuban Dissidents Detained, Missing, Over Peaceful Sit-In

With the world (rightly) focused on the situation in Burma, the Castros regime has shortly detained prominent dissident leader Martha Beatriz Roque (pictured below, first from right) and arrested numerous others, some are still missing as of this writing. All of this because of the below peaceful demonstration in front of the Ministry of Justice office to demand amnesty for all the political prisoners and protest brutal treatment they get in jail. Currently, Martha and others are being harassed by the State Security, who are monitoring them from outside their houses. The demo should have gathered almost 200 people, but most were detained in order to avoid joining those who were already there. Read more here.

Why You Can’t Never Count on the UN

Burma Sinks, UN Couldn’t Care Less

Here we are, again. Burmese military turned Yangoon (formerly known as Rangoon) into a battlefield. Peaceful demonstrators are being ruthlessly murdered, including foreign reporters, guilty with letting the world knowing about whats going on in a country where any attempt to provide fair information is banned. Meanwhile, at the United Nations, Security Council members China and Russia invoked ‘non-interference in internal affairs of nations’ (except when it comes to Taiwan or countries of the ex Soviet Union..) in order to justify their criminal support of the military regime. The Economist has an eye-opening piece on how destructive is the so-called ‘non interference’ principle applied to cases like this. Canadian Coalition for Democracies: Concrete Canadian action needed to end military dictatorship in Burma

Photos from Cuba

Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez: Evento para exigir mejoras a presos políticos

Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia: Inaugurada nueva agencia de prensa independiente

Aini Martín Valero: Ayuno en Regla

Iván Sañudo Pupo, Agencia Liberación: Continúa cadena de ayuno

Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello: Fotos de las actividades del Partido Cubano Demócrata Cristiano

Biblioteca independiente Comandante Cesar López

Outed & Sweet Nothings

Tiananmen Shadows on Myanmar

The heroism of Burmese monks and civilians has gone almost completely unnoticed by the int.l community. When I say unnoticed, I mean no real action has been promised. Or if it has, it will probably be too late. Indeed, riot police used force against peaceful monks and, firing on them and killing some (as of this writing, the death toll is likely to rise..). Yesterday, democracy leader Daw Aung San Su Kyii was moved to an infamous prison. Please, sign this Appeal to the UN Security Council to act and save the Burmese people. P.S.: I doubt the Council will do something, as some members are notorious human rights violators and China have veto power, which would most probably use to back the Junta, their ally.

NOTE: Burmese readers,if you have any photos, please send them to me at stefania07@hotmail.com

“We shall replace (crackdown) unjustice with justice”

Newt To Announce Presidential Bid?

For those like me who have been looking at it as an alternative to the current GOP candidates, this is actually a good news, as Gingrich may soon announce he’ll be running for his party’s nomination. And if he does, this blog will officially endorse him.

Donne e Islam

Magdi Allam: Il velo non è un diritto ma un’imposizione

International Terrorist Sets Foot in New York, Again

Hostage-taker, Holocaust denier and advocate, him who wouldn’t hesitate to use gas chambers if he could get them, delivered an utterly pathetic speech at the ex-prestigious Columbia University, in which he repeated what is shared by every single Mullah within the Islamic Republic regime (from Khatami to Rafsanjani, to Khamenei and Ahmadinejad himself) . As a professional denier, he played the truther card on 9/11 and denied the Holocaust. Lunatic far leftist students applauded and cheered some parts of his illegitimate speech, but were then disappointed as soon as he finished speaking taqyia and started claiming the following crazy nonsense:

“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”

“People in Iran are very free in expressing what they think.”

“Women in Iran are the freest women in the world … They’re active in every level of society.”

Outside, thousands protested his illegal presence in America.

Cuba News Roundup

No medicines for a 17-year-old poor Cuban girl suffering from several kidney problems. These medicines are available in hospital reserved to foreigners only. Because of the official medical apartheid system, this girl risks getting renal insufficiency.News report in Spanish, by Dr. Darsi Ferrer in Havana.

Dr. Darsi Ferrer, dir. Centro de Salud y Derechos Humanos ¨Juan Bruno Zayas¨: No más parodia electoral

Carlos Serpa Maceira: Inauguran Club Patriótico 24 de Febrero

el ejecutivo del Sindicato Independiente de Conductores de Bici Taxis elegido recientemente, de derecha a izquierda aparecen Rolando Aguirre Pattenson, Coordinador Nacional, Milton Meléndez Reynaldo, Secretario Ganeral ratificado en su cargo desde que se fundó el Sindicato el 2002, Juan Bermúdez Toranzo, secretario Organizador, y Manuel Pérez Soria, ex preso político miembro honorífico.

huelga realizada por los miembros del Sindicato frente a la estación policial de Dragones y Zulueta en la Habana Vieja, en solidaridad con Juan Bermúdez Toranzo, a quien le habían incautado su medio de trabajo.

Communism Meets Islamism – Again

The children of infamous Argentina-born Soviet mercenary and mass murderer ‘Che’ Guevara are currently in Iran meeting with genocidal Mullahs and paying their communist respects to one of the history’s worst killers: Khomeini. The goal of the trip is crystal clear; strenghten the Commie-IslamoFascist Alliance against a common enemy: the United States and Israel. And, specially, against freedom and democracy.

“Why I am Optimistic About America”

From Newt Gingrich’s newsletter: Science, Sports and Second Life: Why I am Optimistic About America . Don’t miss his column for the New York Post: WHY THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE FAILING BOTH PARTIES – AND THE VOTERS

Aung San Su Kyii Joins Democracy Fighters

There’s some unprecedented development in Burma, as detained democracy leader Aung San Su Kyii managed to step out of her home, and greeted in tears the crowd of monks gathered in Rangoon, Myanmar’s capital. This Washington Post’s good editorial wonders whether the world will stand by. With the exception of the US, there appears as if no one cares at what’s going on over there. Too busy filling the pockets of Hamas, that there’s no time to lend a hand to these brave people in a country too often forgotten. (h/t: 1972)

A man is detained by men in civilian cloths during a protest in Yangon on August 28, 2007

Submitting Art to Islamic Extremists

British artists are apparently just proud of their servilism toward Islamo-fascist totalitarians taking over their society and freedoms: Art world panders to sensitive Muslims

Burmese Junta Faces Major Uprising

The situation is even more tense in Burma now, as the military junta is gearing up for a major showdown with pro-democracy Buddhist monks, who issued a joint statement describing the regime as the ‘enemy of the people’ and calling on everyone to take to the streets in peaceful, but proactive defiance of tyranny.

Beaten and Tortured for Thinking Different

Here’s what happens if you openly express your opposition to Castro in Cuba: Activist brutally beaten and left unconscious after offering support to participants of national fast.

Israel Forgat Acosta, member of the Independent Peasants League, was beaten while he was collecting signatures for a petition demanding equal access to the Cuban currency by all citizens. This campaign – organized by the Cuban section of the Latin American Federation of Rural Women (FLAMUR) is very popular and it’s collecting thousands of signatures.

Translation pasted from TheRealCuba.com. The young man in the photo is Yuri Martinez Sanchez, 34 years old, who is suffering from AIDS. Martinez Sanchez has been arrested three times for what is known in Cuba as “peligrosidad social,” (social hazard) that allows the Cuban regime to send innocent people to jail just because it considers that they may be “inclined” to commit a crime in the future. On August 21, his birthday, Martinez Sanchez was walking on the street of what is known as ‘Habana Vieja’ (Old Havana) around 2 AM, when a Lada automobile, normally used by Cuba’s state security, stopped next to him. Four people came out of, grabbed him and forcibly threw him inside the car. The kidnappers covered his eyes and tied his hands. After driving around for a while, he was taken inside a house and left alone in a room for approximately 10 hours. Later, when his kidnapers returned, they tried to remove a tattoo that he had by placing a hot iron on is forehead while being held down by two of the men. The reason? Martinez Sanchez tattooed the letters ‘USA’ on his forehead about a year ago to protest for his several arrests. Afterward, the kidnapers placed Martinez Sanchez back in the car and after a 40 minute drive left him on a highway, far from the city. Before leaving, they untied his hands, but he was told not to remove his blindfold. He was warned that if he continued protesting against the regime, next time they would kill him.

Similarily, Pedro Calderin has a tatoo reading “Down with Fidel” and agents tried to remove it, unsuccesfully.

Council of Europe OKs Silencing Dissent

If you needed further evidence that the European Union is now looking like an authoritarian superpower, then you should read this statement made by the Council of Europe.

Newt Challenges Hillary

For those who missed Newt’s response to Hillary Clinton’s universal healthcare plan, broadcast on Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, here it is.

General Petraeaus reports

Barry Rubin on the biggest headache of the month for Dems: General Petraeaus reports

More Photos/Reports from Cuba

Photos sent by Martha Beatriz Roque

Una marcha pacífica desde la Iglesia Nuestra Sra. del Carmen en Infanta esquina Neptuno hasta Carlos III donde preside el Sr. Angel Enrique.

14/09/2007 – En la Iglesia de Nuestra Sra del Carmen.

Peaceful dissident Gladis Núñez laid to rest. She was only 45 years old when she died on Sept. 14th, 2007, after losing her battle against a bad disease.

Carlos Serpa Maceira: Rinden Homenaje Póstumo a la activista Gladis Núñez

Compatriotas y Amigos : Les envió nueve fotografías tomadas en la Habana, que patentiza como en el interior de la isla ha cobrado fuerza la “Campaña Con la Misma Moneda“. En las fotos se pueden apreciar la marcha pacifica realizada por la céntrica Avenida Carlos III en la Habana en apoyo a la Campaña, dicha marcha fue reprimida por la Policía Política y las Turbas paramilitares del gobierno de Fidel Castro . También se puede apreciar en las restantes fotos en el municipio ultramarino de Regla. como se realiza una vigilia en apoyo a la campaña, en todas las fotos, activistas pro democracias y ex presos políticos aparecen con el pulóver que identifican a la Campaña .

Algunos de los miembros de la FLAMUR.

Fear Factor

Lebanon and the European Way of Peacekeeping. Showing the world what post-heroic Europeans are really made of.

A Bug On Word Press’ Blogs

Dears all, as may you have noticed, someone must have violated my Blogroll. I had added links per category, but now links have been misteriously copied-pasted in other categories. I’m contacting WordPress to see why it’s like this and we’ll do my best to re-order links like they were before. Also, I’m going to change my password.

Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience.

UPDATE: I posted at WP’s Public Forums and I was told it is a bug on many of WordPress’ blogs and Staff is working on it.

UPDATE: Staff explains what’s going on here. So, it appears there’s no intruder stealing and ‘looting’.

Musings on Media Coverage

Another, excellent article from Barry Rubin, sent to us via e-mail: Musings on Media Coverage