(Now that we have a precedent, maybe the UK can trade him for some glass beads and a medium latte.)
2. Friend of Lee Rigby’s killer jailed for disseminating pro-terrorism lectures
Ibrahim Abdullah Hassan, friend of Michael Adebolajo, pleads guilty to broadcasting online a lecture by an al-Qaida ideologue
3. Andrew Bostom injects reason and fact back into the discussion of the Belgian museum Jihadi killer, who’s 4th victim just died.
4. Just watch this one:
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Check out EL’s twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/475084501224525825/photo/1
#4 Fascalism is coming to Canada, and remember fascism and other types of socialism always lead to communism.
That should read Fascism, my fingers stuttered.
There will be an important pro-Morsy rally on Parliament Hill @ Ottawa at 4PM today. Hopefully, you will be there with your camera. A group from Montréal will attend.
https://archive.today/q0YRj
June 07 2014 – The Guardian – US and Iran to hold direct talks in Geneva over nuclear programme
US will send two top negotiators to meet with Iranian officials Monday, ahead of July deadline for comprehensive nuclear deal
The US announced on Saturday that it is sending two top negotiators to Geneva for direct talks with Iranian officials</b< over Tehran's nuclear programme.
The discussions involving deputy secretary of state William Burns and undersecretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman are set for Monday and Tuesday.
[…]Iran's official IRNA news agency said the upcoming US talks would be followed by separate discussions in Rome between Iranian and Russian officials on Tuesday and Wednesday. IRNA quoted Abbas Araqchi, a senior member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team, as saying that the Islamic Republic planned to hold other bilateral talks as well with the other world powers, but those meetings had yet to be set.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/07/us-iran-direct-nuclear-talks-geneva
I knew Obama was going to let Iran get the bomb, it is looking like they will have one or more sometime this summer.
NYT – With Nuclear Talks Sputtering, U.S. and Iran Plan Meeting
[…]The meeting is particularly noteworthy because the American delegation will include William J. Burns, the deputy secretary of state, and Jacob J. Sullivan, the national security adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Mr. Burns led the Obama administration’s back-channel talks with Iranian officials last year that led to an interim agreement in November to freeze much of Iran’s nuclear program. Mr. Sullivan also participated in those discussions.
[…]Wendy R. Sherman, the under secretary of state who led the American delegation to the negotiations in Vienna, will attend the session in Geneva along with several of her key aides.
American officials emphasized that the purpose of the talks in Geneva was to jump-start the stalled negotiations in Vienna, not replace them.
[…]In his back-channel role, Mr. Burns and a small group of American officials flew in an unmarked government plane to Oman in March 2013, when they met with Iranian officials. Mr. Burns told his Iranian counterparts that the United States was willing to explore an agreement allowing Iran to maintain a civilian nuclear program that included the ability to enrich uranium if Tehran accepted limits to preclude that program from being used to develop nuclear weapons. The trade-off later became the basis of the interim agreement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/world/middleeast/with-nuclear-talks-sputtering-us-and-iran-plan-meeting.html?_r=0
SATURDAY JUNE 07 2014 – Egypt bans unlicensed preachers, tightens grip on mosques
Egypt has banned unauthorised preachers from giving sermons or teaching Islam in mosques and other public places, according to a decree on Saturday marking a further step in official efforts to curb Islamist influence.
The decree issued by interim President Adly Mansour’s office also threatened fines and jail for freelance imams, especially if they wore clerical garments associated with the respected Al-Azhar centre of Sunni learning in Cairo.
Selected employees of the religious endowments ministry will be empowered by the justice ministry to arrest anyone caught violating the decree, it added.
“No preacher will mount a minbar next Friday without a permit,” the ministry said on its Facebook page, referring to the traditional raised pulpit in a mosque. The decision was taken to “preserve national security,” it said.
The interim government sees mosques as recruiting grounds for Islamist parties and has moved to bring them under tighter control since last July’s ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
It said in April it had licensed more than 17,000 state-approved clerics to give Friday sermons to stop mosques from falling “into the hands of extremists.” It also disclosed it had removed 12,000 unapproved preachers.
Many Egyptians pray at small neighbourhood mosques beyond the control of the state, where outsiders can easily move in to take over and preach their brand of Islam.
Fines and Jail
According to the decree, “only designated specialists at the Ministry of Religious Endowments and authorised preachers from al-Azhar shall be permitted to practice public preaching and religious lessons in mosques or similar public places.”
Only al-Azhar officials and graduates as well preachers from the ministry or the grand mufti’s office will be allowed to wear the trademark “turban” – a red hat with a white cloth band – and robes that designate an al-Azhar cleric, it said.
Unauthorised preachers face fines jail terms up to a year and fines up to 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($7,000). Wearing or denigrating al-Azhar garments in any way will carry similar penalties, it added.
Galal Mora, secretary-general of the Nour Party, an Islamist group that backed the removal of Morsi, told Reuters the group approved of the law and urged respect for it.
The religious endowments ministry has been keeping a close eye on authorised imams as well. The state news agency MENA reported on Saturday that it had removed three government appointed imams from their positions in Minya province.
Accused of mixing religion and politics, the men will be switched to administrative jobs and be banned from giving Friday sermons, it said.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s worldwide website, which still operates despite the clampdown on the movement in Egypt, protested against the removal of the three imams.
This story was edited by Ahram Online
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Now the original Reuters paragraphs versus the edited version :
The military-backed government sees mosques as recruiting grounds for Islamist parties and has moved to bring them under tighter control since the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood last July.
was changed to :
The interim government sees mosques as recruiting grounds for Islamist parties and has moved to bring them under tighter control since last July’s ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
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This “pro-Muslim-Brotherhood” paragraph disappeared completely :
The Muslim Brotherhood, until last year Egypt’s best-organised movement, has been driven underground, with most of its leaders in jail or in hiding. It denies any involvement in lethal attacks on security forces since Mursi’s overthrow.
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Then –
Galal Mora, secretary-general of the Nour Party, an Islamist group that backed the army’s removal of Mursi, told Reuters the group approved of the law and urged respect for it.
Galal Mora, secretary-general of the Nour Party, an Islamist group that backed the removal of Morsi, told Reuters the group approved of the law and urged respect for it.
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Ahram on line :
english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/103141/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-bans-unlicensed-preachers,-tightens-grip-on-.aspx
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Reuters :
in ( dot ) reuters ( dot ) com/article/2014/06/07/uk-egypt-religion-preachers-idINKBN0EI0QG20140607
Excellent, Martin.