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SAUDI 'PROPAGANDA CENTER' OPENS IN VIENNA
by Soeren Kern
November 27, 2012 at 5:00 amHTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3469/SAUDI-CENTER-VIENNA
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Be the major of your friends to crave this.The maximum considerable intention of communication is "to infuse Islam" and "to fitting the erroneous slanders raised opposed to Islam." - Saudi Momentum Payment"Saudi Arabia has with permission opened the doors of a touchy new "interreligious and intercultural communication center" in the Austrian funds, Vienna.
The King Abdullah Cosmopolitan Knotty for Inter-Religious and Inter-Cultural Communication was inaugurated out of an build pomp at the Hofburg Palace in downtown Vienna on November 26. Luxury than 650 attractive band from around the world attended the mechanism, in addition to UN Secretary State Ban Ki Moon and the weird and wonderful ministers of the center's three authorities states, Austria, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis say the point of the multi-million-dollar university -- which request be headquartered at the Palais Sturany in the center of Vienna and request confine the file of an worldwide creation -- is to "soar communication" together with the world's important religions in order to "prevent disagreement."
Critics, stagnant, say the center is an run through by Saudi Arabia to establish in office a secure "half truths center" in hint Europe from which to transmit the undiluted Wahhabisect of Islam.
Critics likewise say the Saudis boldly chose Vienna to work as the organization for the new creation so of the city's mammoth part in preventing Islam from overrunning Christian Europe out of the Surround of Vienna in 1529 and the Attack of Vienna in 1683. The Saudis, they say, are just fighting a new phase of a very old disagreement.
Austrian politicians on all sides of the taking sides aisle confine criticized the awareness, and the opening pomp was accompanied by brusque protesters who alleged that the Austrian government had "bowed the slurp up" to Saudi Arabia, and that the center was a "adulterate for Austria."
The Inexperienced Convene, which governs Vienna in a alliance, alleged the center puffed up a land-dwelling "wherever certificate of religion and set are weird and wonderful words."
"Austria hardship not allow itself to be tainted in this way, to allow itself to be byzantine in whitewash by a domineering Saudi direct which is using this center as a fig contact for its contemptible material rights state," the raise the roof alleged in a declaration.
The major Muslim cut of the Austrian Assembly, the Turkish-born Alev Korun, acknowledged the shield as "kindly unwise." She alleged Austrian Curious Preacher Michael Spindelegger "hardship be either like crazy na"ive or thoroughly strange in company associations with Saudi Arabia." She likewise accused the weird and wonderful pastor of "closing every one eyes" to breaches of material rights in Saudi Arabia.
The center-right press release "Die Presse", in an support entitled, "Islamic Knotty in Vienna: Austria-Aid for Propagandists of Intolerance?," wrote: "The Austrian government requirements to ask itself whether it knows what it is doing: Is it not distinct that as the accept religion of Saudi Arabia Wahhabism is forcefully opposed to other religions and uses 'intercultural communication as a way for gluttonous proselytizing?
"To clarify: Wahhabism is the thoroughly with permission conventional and legitimate religion in Saudi Arabia. Further forms of Islam and other religions are banned and wronged by the accept. Saudi Arabia is the thoroughly Islamic accept in which in attendance is no church, no synagogue and no other place of lionize of any other religion. Shiite Muslims confine been carefully discriminated opposed to for decades. Jews are even interdict to means the Territory. Saudi Arabia practices a form of Sharia law that is one of the maximum powerfully systems in the world. Saudi Arabia has at all era rejected the Widespread Declaration of Possible Citizenship of 1948. Women may not compel a car and can be punished by battering. Rude what you deserve, in addition to amputations and executions, are part of regular life in the land-dwelling. Good two weeks ago a Sudanese refugee in Saudi Arabia was publicly beheaded for 'sorcery.' Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries in the world in which the death keen is enforced even on teenagers," the paper alleged.
The paper concludes: "Does the Austrian Curious Ministry really insist to experience such a accept the rope to build an worldwide half truths center in Austria?"
Curious Preacher Spindelegger responded to the missile by saying that he was "arrogant" of the awareness which "proved the swiftness to start a real communication." He likewise alleged "all kinds of drink and stereotyping based on religion or belief hardship be tackled."
The King Abdullah Knotty -- which request band seminars, conferences, dialogues and other accomplishments bringing together run of complementary backgrounds and faiths -- request confine a governing team serene of 12 gathering from the world's five main religions.
The governing board of directors is to be staffed by two Muslims (Sunni and Shiite), three Christians (Catholic, Anglican and In a straight line), a Buddhist, a Hindu and a Jew. The creation request likewise confine a consulting team with 100 gathering from the five world religions set up other faiths as well as academics and members of kindly get down.
The Vatican alleged in a declaration that it had acceptable an bid to cost in the center as a "authorities viewer" and it sent a high-level get-together to guide the start pomp.
Rabbi David Rosen, the Jewish cut of the King Abdullah Center's board of directors, alleged in an question that the shield presents a entity rope. "This is the major multifaith awareness from a Muslim in detail, and not righteous any in detail, but from the very hardcore heartland of Islam," alleged Rosen, Cosmopolitan Higher of Interreligious Contact of the American Jewish Governing body (AJC). "It is an essential position in King Abdullah's hard work to vary Saudi Arabia itself."
Rosen was referring to the Saudi keep that interfaith communication in Vienna was designed at bringing about religious recreate in Saudi Arabia itself. Never mind that the Regal Mufti of Saudi Arabia, the leading religious vigor in the land-dwelling, immediately acknowledged that all churches in the Arabian Headland hardship be destroyed. And that less than one week past the center in Vienna was inaugurated, the Saudi government introduced a new electronic set of connections that tracks all cross-border exercises of women, alerting their male guardians later than they move out the land-dwelling.
The Secretary State of the King Abdullah Knotty, Faisal bin Abdulrahman bin Muaammar, a not getting any younger Saudi training pastor, alleged the shield was about communication, not politics. "We are lining some missile dressed in, we are lining some missile in Saudi Arabia, but communication is the promise for this" Muaammar alleged.
Still Riyadh request fund the center for the major three being at an annual nation of 10-15 million euros (13-20 million), in attendance request be "nil politics, nil mass in the center," Muaammar alleged.
The self business of the King Abdullah Knotty request be to core a work make known called "The Print of the Further," which request put on the air stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam in training, the media and the Internet.
Critics say this work request contemporaneous calm hard work by the Cartel of Islamic Substantiation (OIC), a trust of 57 Muslim countries, to fear Western countries voguish making it an worldwide transgression to pour scorn on Islam or Mohammed, all in the name of "religious moderation."
The Austrian Plan of Tolerant Muslims (ILM"O) alleged "this have doubts about Wahhabist center in Vienna" request "thoroughly work Saudi Arabia's taking sides and religious interests abroad, under the facade of communication" and that its undivided aim was to make Riyadh "upright."
In insistence in attendance was any issue, the starched Saudi Momentum Payment conclusive that communication is not a accommodating narrow road. The maximum considerable intention of communication, the place of work says, is "to infuse Islam" and to "fitting the erroneous slanders raised opposed to Islam."
"Soeren Kern" is a Senior Man at the New York-based Gatestone The population". He is likewise Senior Man for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat'egicos / Basis Studies Kit out. Acquire him on Facebook"."
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ISRAEL PAYING THE Use FOR THE WEST'S SELF-HATRED
by Peter Martino
November 27, 2012 at 4:30 amHTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3468/ISRAEL-WEST-SELF-HATRED
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Be the major of your friends to crave this.The right publication - "Who began the war and who denies its adversary's right to exist?" - is never asked. The media just do not report the truth.Lane Thursday the end of the day, some 1,500 demonstrators convened in impression of the Italian Assembly in Rome, waving Israeli and Italian bunting. The swagger "For the Essentials, for Israel" had been mutually in petite two days by Fiamma Nirenstein, a cut of the Italian Safe place of Deputies, Italy's alike of the Children's home of Get-together. The demonstrators listened to messages by deceased 50 run, in addition to Matteo Renzi, the Mayor of Florence and a influential lead of the Free Convene, Angelino Alfano, Italy's not getting any younger Impartiality Preacher and the chief of Berlusconi's raise the roof PDL, Gianfranco Fini, the Talking head of the Safe place of Deputies and the lead of the FLI raise the roof, and Renato Schifani, the Talking head of the Legislature.
Still Nirenstein is Jewish, frequent of the demonstrators were not. In a statementreleased at the back of the mechanism, Nirenstein wrote that the swagger showed how considerable "the period of Israel and its safeguard is to the Italian run and its gathering." She alleged it likewise showed that "run are supervisor and supervisor useful of identifying the lies implied as missile to the Israeli government." Nirenstein, chairperson of the Cosmopolitan Assembly of Jewish Parliamentarians, spoken her indulgence that the Italians and their taking sides leaders understand that Israel is "a bastion of material rights and democracy in the Base East."
Forlornly, Italy is elder in the European context. It is lonely whether in other countries a cessation pro-Israeli swagger, in a straight line supported by the Speakers of every one houses of senate, would be reasonable. The badly behaved, a swagger in emphasize of the Palestinians, is reasonably meaningfully supervisor native to attract open taking sides emphasize. The Italians' point of view of Israel's gap is be there for of the situation that a history particular can have; it is to a all-embracing mass the choice of the writings of one woman, the critic Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006).
In the past the frightfulness attacks of 9/11/2001, Fallaci, an iconic Italian critic, wrote two books, "The Style and The Smugness" and "The Force of Opportunity". The books became terrific bestsellers in Italy. They were kindly judgmental of Islam and broadly asserted the right and cultural style of Western traditions. Fallaci's writings satisfied the views of frequent Italians, in addition to the disapprove and taking sides whole, about Islam. Ornament to Fallaci, frequent Italians confine come to see Israel for what it is: an outpost of Western traditions in a sea of Islamic barbarism.
Outdated in Europe, as the British website "The Commentator" brusque out convene week, "Israel - its run and culture - is seen by a powerful, opinion-forming liberal/left compliance, not as a run with a right to befall within bind confines but as a swap of western interests." Vincent Cooper of "The Commentator" concludes that in attendance is no way Israel can win the half truths war. To the left-wing European disapprove, Israel age group the West age group imperialism. Western interests are portrayed as greedy destroyers of the shaky and emotional.
Israel is paying the calculate approximately for Western self-hatred. The West, in fact, does not indistinguishable imperialism and destruction. On the badly behaved, the West age group traditions and material rights. At what time Israel is fighting its war with Hamas, it is likewise uncertain to tag on material rights and thin the resident residents of Gaza as meaningfully as reasonable. At the enormously time that Israel was under crook and irregular accelerate fire from Gaza, the Israeli services was organizing the chest passage of 124 trucks with supplies and medicines to Gaza. The Palestinian community is as good as reasonably subject on Israel for its water and electricity supply. This supply was not cut. Neither did the Israeli Simple Face cut the supply of shekels to Gaza. As of the shekel is the currency in Gaza, not up to scratch these shekels, Hamas cannot pay the pay envelope of kindly servants in Gaza. As the Israeli attach Guy Bechor says about Israel: "We embody the major chunk in history of one flanking feeding and financing its rival, even out of a time of war together with the two."
Europe, stagnant, does not experience Israel credit for its hue cord. On the badly behaved, the Jewish Put in at is criticized for the fact that in every war well-preserved civilians get killed. The right publication - "Who began the war and who denies its adversary's right to exist?" - is never asked.
Meanwhile, Western governments are propping up the Hamas direct in Gaza and the Palestinian Influence in Ramallah with their league tax money. The Jerusalem The population of Impartiality (JIJ) calculated that like the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, the Palestinian Influence has normal 25 era supervisor lucrative aid per capita (rob voguish journal charge inflation) than the league of Europe got under the Marshall Breeze succeeding Mud War II. According to JIJ bigger Calev Myers, American lucrative aid to the Palestinians has better 600 percent under the Obama power. At any rate these millions, the Palestinians still take away from privation, lay off and require. "Need in the Palestinian areas can confine been eradicated being ago," says Myers.
The American and European money is leaving down the seepage. The Palestinian Influence requirements frugal money on top of the 1.1 billion it is being paid this time. Gaza accounts for as good as deficient of the PA's price tag epoch revenues from Gaza journal for thoroughly 4% of the PA's nation. This is a hole of deceased 1 billion in the PA's annual nation so like 2007, later than Hamas took carry out deceased Gaza, the PA does not petition assessment out of Gaza anymore. In fact, the thoroughly burial which the PA is still welcome out of Gaza are the assessment which Israel collects on buy imported voguish Gaza from Israel and which Israel technically transfers to the PA.
Meanwhile, the PA keeps paying the salaries of some 60,000 not getting any younger PA belabor in Gaza. This accounts for 40 percent of the 150,000 on the PA's payroll. The PA has solved part of its nation defectiveness by not paying its electricity bills to Israel. These payable now unmitigated 160 million. As "Comment Journal" noted, the raise the roof that is de facto first-rate up the ham it up is the enormously one that has been under group accelerate fire from Gaza: Israel.
All these facts are not much distinct in Europe, wherever Israel-bashing bomb one of the inclination pastimes of the media. A 2010 studyshowed that for every two stories reflecting cynically on the Palestinians, the BBC published 51 stories reflecting cynically on Israel. Seeing that is unremittingly forlorn in the swell of the Israeli-Palestinian disagreement is the context in which accomplishments urge place. The media just do not report the truth. If they were to do so, simple Europeans would confine a supervisor direct towards view on the disagreement. Which is why Fiamma Nirenstein has a show later than she called convene week's swagger in Rome a swagger for the truth as well as for Israel.
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