Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday 29 January 2016

The European Union Times


Posted: 29 Jan 2016 03:21 AM PST

Parents of 10 year old children at a school in Austria are reportedly fuming after teachers assigned homework to learn the words to a Christian hymn.. except they substituted the word ‘God’ for the word ‘Allah’.
Austria’s largest newspaper Kronen Zeitung reports that school officials claim to have made the change the words to the song ‘Gottes liebe ist so wunderbar’ (God’s love is so wonderful) to ‘Allah’s liebe ist so wunderbar’ in order not to offend the Muslim children in the class.
The newspaper reports that an angry father registered a complaint with the Austrian schools inspectorate, saying that it is unacceptable to change the wording to Christian hymns.
The teacher and the Principal of the school are being questioned regarding the incident.
The teachers claim that Muslim and non Muslim children were supposed to be given different segregated versions of the hymn.
“The teacher had distributed to the Christian and Muslim pupils different texts.” said inspector Karin Lang, claiming that “In the case, a child must have received the wrong copy into their folder”.
The incident dovetails with a professor from the University of Vienna publishing a report warning of rapid Islamisation of Austria’s schools.
The government commissioned report noted that there are at least 150 “problematic” schools in the country.
Professor Ednan Aslan warned that Islamists are attempting to operate a parallel educational system under the radar of the governmental authorities.
The song controversy is also not an isolated incident.
Last month, video emerged of Canadian children singing a song which celebrates Muhammad’s arrival in Medina after he forced Christians to convert to Islam under threat of death.
“The video titled “Welcome to Canada Syrian Refugees” shows the choir singing one of the oldest songs in the Islamic culture.
Other similar incidents in California and Minnesota have angered parents, with schools forcing children to sing Muslim ‘fighting’ songs and songs about spreading the culture of Islam.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 12:22 PM PST

A Muslim terrorist man carrying two handguns and a Koran in his bag has been arrested at the entrance to a hotel in the Disneyland amusement park in Paris, according to French police.
The man was carrying two low-caliber handguns, a box of ammo and a copy of a Koran in a bag when he was arrested.
The bag set off a security alarm as the man was passing a metal detector at the theme park’s New York Hotel, Reuters reported.
“Firearms were discovered in the bags of a man as he went through the metal detector during a routine security check at one of our hotels,” Disneyland Paris spokesman, Francois Banon, confirmed.
According to police sources, the detainee was a 28-year-old man of European origin. Reports in the French media also suggested that he is a Paris resident.
The man had reportedly booked a room for two people, and the hotel staff said they had seen a woman with him.
A female who was arrested shortly afterwards was released, as she had no connection to the perpetrator, police sources told Europe 1 radio.
Investigators say the detained man wasn’t known to the French security forces previously.
The police have cordoned the area around the car that the man used to get the hotel, Le Figaro reported.
Disneyland Paris is the most popular theme park in Europe. It 2008, it set an attendance record of 15.3 million visitors.
France remains in a government-ordered state of emergency since Islamist attackers killed 130 people in a series of jihadist attacks in and near Paris last November.
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 12:00 PM PST

During a Campaign Stop in Iowa, Hillary Clinton spent a lengthy amount of time attempting to sympathize with the working class, prompting detractors to point out that she has no clue what it is like to be hard up.
Clinton spoke about a working mother who has two jobs and works every hour of the day to make ends meet, as if she has any clue what it’s like to do so.
The internet pointed out that Hillary has been receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from mega banks for giving an hour of her time to them.
Others pointed out that Hillary “misplaced” $6 Billion while head of the State Department. Woops!
More critics noted it was recently revealed that the Clinton foundation collected untold millions in Sweden, mainly by tapping the government run national lottery fund, while at the same time the country lobbied Clinton to forgo sanctions against it for trading with Iran.
In addition, the Clinton Foundation routinely accepts millions of dollars from the oil and gas industry, with donations coming directly from ExxonMobil and prominent oil-producing states in the Middle East. Yet Hillary claims she has no recollection of accepting money from big oil.
Hillary also turned up at a bowling alley Wednesday… Look hard-working Americans, she’s just like you!
Last month, Clinton told CBS anchor Charlie Rose that she “represented everybody from the dairy farmers, you know, to the fishermen.”
Meanwhile, Hillary’s daughter Chelsea, who previously worked on Wall Street and is married to an investment banker, was attending a fundraiser hosted by the head of international investment bank Evercore Partners who has contributed between $10,001 and $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
The fact is that while Clinton preaches about standing “for a lot of regulation on big banks and on the financial services sector,” and drones on about wealth inequality, she is raking it in from wealthy Wall St. donors.

Clinton has received sizeable donations from officials at Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase to name a few.
A New York Times report last week detailed how the Clintons have raked in more than $125,000,000 in speaking fees since they left the White House, most of it stemming from Wall Street-linked financial firms.
The head of a major banking association predicted last year that Clinton “would become Mrs. Wall Street if she’s elected.”
Hillary regularly likes to evoke 9/11 in an effort to offset talk about her Financial sector backing… because SHUT UP, 9/11 IS BAD.
Laughably, Clinton maintained in an interview aired Wednesday that she cannot be bought by special interest groups.
In between her struggle to help the poor survive, Hillary took a swipe at gun manufacturers, tweeting out that they need to be “held accountable for endangering Americans”:
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 11:41 AM PST

The migration crisis reflects the weakness of the EU’s architecture, which is leading to the rapid disintegration of the supranational union’s member states, according to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Europe is swiftly falling to pieces as EU countries remain at odds over many pressing issues, including those related to the ongoing migration crisis, political analyst Berthold Kohler Migration wrote in an article for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
According to the author, the migration gridlock and a raft of other problems inside the EU may finally result in the biggest disintegration of Europe in history.
“The struggle to preserve the currency union forced Europeans to realize how strongly political ideas differ in EU countries, where a variety of mentalities, experience and cultures is still in place,” Kohler said.
He added that even the location of countries and their size can cause discrepancies in terms of national interest, while disparities in standards of living between rich and poor EU members have led some to envy others.
The author also drew attention to the fact that the course that German Chancellor Angela Merkel chose in order to try to resolve the migration deadlock has revealed that Europeans are not able to pursue a common policy in this regard.
What’s more, Merkel herself, who was once heralded Time magazine’s Person of the Year, has become a “lonely European,” according to Kohler.
“One of the negative consequences of the crisis was that most EU members do not want to listen to the German government’s opinion any more. Merkel planned to take control of the flow of migrants at the EU’s external borders and fairly distribute the refugees in EU countries, but her plan does not work,” he said.
Merkel’s decision to take in almost all of the migrants without sticking to quotas has been cited by many as a fatal mistake, and her country is unlikely to achieve the successful integration that she has repeatedly touted.
Kohler concluded by saying that Merkel’s “special stance” on migration crisis-related problems has already undermined her authority at home and abroad.
The recent events in Cologne, in which dozens of women were robbed, sexually assaulted, and raped on New Year’s Eve by groups of aggressive men of predominantly Arab and North African descent, has raised criticism among the local population regarding Merkel’s ‘open door’ policy. Germany is reported to have accepted more than one million refugees in 2015 alone, exceeding the number of babies born in the country in 2014 (approximately 715,000).
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Posted: 28 Jan 2016 11:41 AM PST

Russia has accused Turkey of military buildup on the Syrian border as it rejected claims of Moscow’s plan to establish a new airbase in the Arab country.
The rebuttal followed remarks attributed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, suggesting Russia might be establishing a base in Qamishli.
Erdogan “expressed alarm” after 200 Russian personnel were allegedly observed strengthening the runway on the Syrian border with Turkey, the reports said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov dismissed the reports as “a complete farce.”
The general said the allegations were “an awkward attempt to provide a cover-up for the large deployment of Turkish troops to the Syrian border close to Qamishli.”
“There are no ‘new’ airbases or additional ‘jump-up bases’ for Russian military aircraft in the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as no plans to create any,” Konashenkov said on Monday.
The official said Russian fighter jets based at Hemeimeem in Syria’s coastal western province of Latakia can reach any location in the country in half an hour, “so there is no need for any additional base.”
Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the military’s general staff said Russian warplanes have been flying between 70 and 100 sorties daily over the past few days to provide air support for the Syrian army’s operations against foreign-backed Takfiri militants.
President Vladimir Putin has said the Russian air campaign in Syria will last for as long as it is necessary, and that Moscow’s goal is to help Damascus defeat terrorists.
Moscow began airstrikes against Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria on September 30 upon a request by the Syrian government.
The foreign-sponsored conflict in Syria, which flared in March 2011, has reportedly claimed the lives of more than 260,000 people and left over one million injured.
The UN says 12.2 million people, including more than 5.6 million children, remain in need of humanitarian assitance in Syria. The violence has also displaced 7.6 million people.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 19:31