Islamist leader of Turkey Erdogan declares death penalty will soon be reinstated.

@JoumanaGebara "Thank God almighty, I am a servant of sharia.” It was 1994, and Erdogan was proud to proclaim his Islamist roots Istanbul, pic.twitter.com/tpNZNtGTy5

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) October 30, 2016

Islamist leader of Turkey Erdogan declares death penalty will soon be reinstated....My note: 'As Sharia dictates'. (TurkishMinute).

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that legislation to reinstate capital punishment, which was abolished in 2004, will soon be taken to Parliament by the Justice And Development Party (AKP).

“It is soon. … Don’t worry. … It is soon, God willing. … Our government [AKP] will bring it to Parliament. I believe that it will be approved by the legislature. When it comes to me, I will approve it,” said Erdoğan after a group of people chanted “We want the death penalty” during a ceremony in Ankara on Saturday.

Asking why he would approve it, Erdoğan said: “Because what the nation wants will happen. Does not sovereignty, without any condition or reservation, belong to the nation? Yes it does. … Then the issue has been solved.”


“The West says this and that. … Sorry… What is important is not what the West says but my nation,” added Erdoğan, in reaction to criticism from the US and the European Union (EU). Read the full story here.

Flashback to November 2012:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent remarks on a possible reintroduction of capital punishment have triggered an outcry in the European Union, a leading advocate for its abolition.
Erdogan, famous for his provocative talk, triggered controversy earlier this month when he suggested the death penalty might be brought back due to popular support for the measure, particularly in terror-related cases.

The state cannot forgive a murderer, only the victim's family can, he said, supporting a stance defended by Islam. “Thank God almighty, I am a servant of sharia.” It was 1994, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan was proud to proclaim his Islamist roots in his native Istanbul, where he served as the mayor – or, as he customarily described himself, the city’s “imam.”

Hmmm.....Under Islamic Human rights (CairoDeclaration) all rights are subject to Shariah law, death penalty is no problem.

SOURCE.

German Officials to Be Banned from Wearing Burqa and face veils.

German Officials to Be Banned from Wearing Burqa and face veils. (FP).

According to a report by Der Spiegel, citing a representative of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Germany, a bill has been proposed to ban public officials from wearing full Islamic face veils on the grounds that it obstructs clear communication.

The authors of the bill emphasize that the hidden face “restricts the ability of travelers and does not allow to assess the personality”.

“Open communication is a formative part of the ability to live together in a free, democratic society,” the draft bill read.

The proposal, presented by the German interior ministry on Friday, further states that the face veil hinders “the possibility to get to know and evaluate someone’s personality,” as reported by i24news and covered by YJC.

The bill calls on state officials to not wear “clothing that makes open communication impossible or more difficult,” including women employed as public officials.

It further stipulates that women who wear the veil show their faces during passport control, court rulings, and at polling stations.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere came in favor of a partial ban on the burqa in August amid a fierce national debate on integration.

“We agree that we reject the burqa, we agree that we want to introduce a legal requirement to show one’s face in places where it is necessary for our society’s coexistence — at the wheel, at public offices, at the registry office, in schools and universities, in the civil service, in court,” he said at the time.


According to official data collected in 2009, 28 percent of women in German identifying as Muslim wore some kind of covering, including either a headscarf or full face veil.

Video - Kuwaiti Activist Nasser Dashti: Syrian Crisis Proved Failure of Religious System – Refugees Flee to Europe, Not Arab World

Kuwaiti Activist Nasser Dashti: Syrian Crisis Proved Failure of Religious System – Refugees Flee to Europe, Not Arab World.

Kuwaiti activist Nasser Dashti said that the secular system is better than the religious one "by light years." Speaking in a TV debate with Islamist Ali Abu Al-Hassan, who champions the establishment of an Islamic religious state,  Dashti said that the refugees fleeing from Syria prefer to die at sea in an attempt to reach Europe than to live under Islamic rule in Mecca or Najaf. The debate aired on Al-Baheth online TV on October 16. Source.

Video - Turkish Islamist chase & attack Asian tourists in Turkey's Gaziantep, calling them 'infidels' 'Christian missionaries'

Video - Turkish Islamist chase & attack Asian tourists in Turkey's Gaziantep, calling them 'infidels' 'Christian missionaries'. HT :abdbozkurt

Thugs chase & attack Asian tourists in #Turkey's Gaziantep, calling them 'infidels' 'Christian missionaries' pic.twitter.com/OHbmo1vzxE

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) August 19, 2016

UNBELIEVABLE: #Turkey police reportedly detained, deported Asian tourists who were attacked, not the thugs. pic.twitter.com/jtVqkNu9Rx

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) August 19, 2016

Korean reporter Ha briefly detained in #Turkey. @kyunghyang: 'I've never seen such treatment in any country before' pic.twitter.com/Pu5UClgbz3

— Turkey Observed (@TurkeyObserved) August 19, 2016

Video - Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayyeb: In Islam, Unrepentant Apostates Should Be Killed; Homosexuality Is a Disease

Head of Iran’s Human Rights Council Responds to Mogherini: 'EU had NO HR problem expanding Business'

Head of Iran’s Human Rights Council Responds to Mogherini’s Statements: "EU members had no problem with HR to expand expanded economic and military relations with Iran" (Iranfrontpage).

Mizan News – The Head of Iran’s Human Rights Council reacted to Mogherini’s statements on the continuation of human rights sanctions in Isamic Republic of Iran.

As reported by Mizan News, and quoted by the Human Rights Council Information Centre, Dr. Mohammad Javad Larijani emphasized that the Human Rights Council supports Iran’s Foreign Minister regarding Iran’s readiness for human rights negotiations with the European Union.

He said, “We support our Foreign Minister, but planning and enforcing sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s individuals and organizations under the excuse of human rights contraventions is a shameful and unjustifiable action.”

He said that Islamic Republic of Iran will consider such actions as political enmity, “The majority of EU members have expanded economic and military relations in our region without the least consideration of the norms of human rights.

Even worse is that these countries spend millions of dollars equipping or creating dangerous terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Al-Nusra and Ahrar al-sham, all met with absolute silence from the EU. They are the main reasons behind tragedies in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Africa – they should be ashamed to think of them.”

He then posed this question: “Doesn’t the EU count these [tragedies] as contraventions of human rights? Don’t they find it necessary to take action in this regard? Unfortunately, applying double standards – along with obvious human rights infractions in the West including racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia – all of this depletes the value of Western human rights claims.”

Concluding his remarks, Larijani said, “Iran and Europe’s human rights negotiations should work to expose these double standards, and to show that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the greatest democracy of the region.”

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'Refugee children are being raped in camp of the Calais Jungle' say aid workers.

Rigid Muslim socieites have the highest rape scales in the world – Study

'Refugee children are being raped in camp of the Calais Jungle' say aid workers. (Independent).

Medical volunteers say they have treated seven boys aged between 14 and 16 in the past six months.

Teenage boys are being raped in the Calais Jungle, aid workers have claimed, amid concerns over the lack of child protection measures in place in the refugee camp – and the risks of abuse facing thousands of displaced children across the continent.

Medical volunteers helping those camped outside the French town told The Independent they have treated seven boys aged between 14 and 16 in the past six months. who claimed to have been raped. They all had injuries consistent with these claims.

In four cases, the boys required surgery. Only one attended hospital, however, with the others refusing treatment for fear of repercussions or through shame at having been abused. Read the full story here.

Egypt - Niqab banned from Cairo University hospitals.

Egypt - Niqab banned from Cairo University hospitals. (Egyptindependent).

Cairo University President Gaber Nassar decided on Sunday to ban nurses and doctors from wearing the Niqab, the full-face veil, in Qasr Al-Aini Medical School (QAMS) and its affiliated teaching hospitals.

The decision was applied to nurses, graduate doctors, specialists, consultants, technical assistants and all academic staff in Qasr Al-Aini hospitals. The decision bans them from wearing the Niqab during working hours to guarantee patients' rights and interests, read a press statement.

Commenting on the decision, Al-Qasr Al-Aini Medical School Dean Fathy Khoudier said the number of female doctors and nurses wearing the Niqab is limited and hospital management will report the number to Cairo University administration.

The decision completely serves the interests of patients and guarantees their right to know who is treating them, Khodair said in a press statement.

Echoing on Khoudier, the manager of the new Cairo University Teaching Hospital, known as Al-Qasr Al-Aini Al-Faransawy, Nabil Abdel-Maksoud hailed the decision by saying that it is good for patients to know their doctor identity.

"The university has taken this decision in order to preserve the nature of work in the hospitals as any woman wearing Niqab can impersonate a doctor or a nurse," said Abdel Maksoud.

Abdel Maksoud told Youm7 newspaper that Al-Qasr Al-Aini Al-Faransawy hospital has no doctors or nurses wearing Niqab.

In September 2015, Nassar decided to ban female academic staff and their assistants from wearing Niqab in classrooms due to complaints that staff wearing Niqab are not able to communicate properly with students. Egypt's administrative court upheld the decision in January 2016.

Nassar claims that only 10 professors at Cairo University wear the Niqab, a claim that has been disputed by staff members.

Faculty members wearing the Niqab issued a statement in 2015 criticizing the decision, describing it as being racist and not scientific as communication does not depend only on facial expressions. The faculty members said there are many other ways for better communication, including verbal communication and nonverbal communication.

Ahmed Mahran, a lawyer and the head of the Cairo Center for Political and Legal Studies, said that he will file an appeal as the decision is flawed and violates the Constitution, particularly personal freedom articles and a woman's right to dress per her decision.

On behalf of 100 veiled Cairo University staff, Mahran and other lawyers already filed various lawsuits against Nassar in 2015 to the Administrative Court to challenge the unconstitutionality of the decision.

Moreover, the decision is against the law, especially since precedent provisions of the Administrative Court were in favor of the Niqab and most recently the Administrative Court of Kafr El-Sheikh supported women's rights to wear the Niqab at work, Mahran said.

EU Values? 38 pct of women in Turkey exposed to domestic violence - Report

EU Values? 38 pct of women in Turkey exposed to domestic violence - Report. (TZ).

                           109 women killed in southeast in 2015.

Thirty-eight percent of women in Turkey have been subjected to physical or sexual domestic violence at least once in their lives, a report drafted by the Ministry of Family and Social Policy in cooperation with Hacettepe University has shown.

The report, titled “Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey,” was prepared as a result of face-to-face interviews with more than 15,000 women and involves data on domestic violence incidents from 2014 and 2015.

A total of 36 percent of women have been subjected to physical violence, while another 12 percent of them have been exposed to sexual violence, the report states.

Among the women who are subjected to domestic violence in Turkey, 27 percent of them are exposed to both physical and sexual violence.

According to the report, 25 percent of female high school graduates and 20 percent of women who have college or higher degrees become victims of physical or sexual domestic violence.

Additionally, 25 percent of women are subjected to economic abuse, which means that their husbands do not allow them to work and provide economic support to the family.


The report states that getting divorced or living in separate houses does not solve the domestic violence problem of women in Turkey. Even the 75 percent of women who are divorced or not sharing a home with their husbands continue to be exposed to violence by them. Read the full story here.

Turkey detains 23 ISIS suspects and 21 children on Syria border

Turkey detains 23 ISIS suspects and 21 children on Syria border. (DS).

Turkish forces have detained 23 suspected ISIS extremists along with 21 children who were trying to illegally cross over from Syria, the army said Sunday.

The suspects, whose nationalities were not disclosed, were captured Saturday as they tried enter the Elbeyli district of Turkey's southern Kilis province.

"Twenty-three people suspected of being Daesh (ISIS) terror group members, together with 21 children, were caught," said the army in a statement, without giving any other details.

Turkey has over the last year been told by its Western allies to urgently step up efforts to stop the flow of extremists across its borders to and from Syria.

The army reported Saturday that it had Friday also captured six ISIS suspects, along with eight children, who were trying to cross illegally from Syria to Turkey in the same area. Hmmm........No word if those children are actually 'Caliphate cubs'? These 'Caliphate cubs' are my biggest fear as we are not prepared for such a scenario, better to prevent than to cure.

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In 2014, at least 23,000 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in Europe, and while estimates vary, aid agencies say as much as 7 percent of the 700,000 refugees who have applied for asylum in Europe this year are unaccompanied minors. That amounts to around 49,000.

From January to October 2015, over 23,000 unaccompanied and separated children had sought asylum in Sweden – the top destination for UASC in Europe – more than did in the entire EU last year. The majority are adolescent males

LGBT refugee shelter to open in Berlin after a considerable number of attacks against LGBT migrants.

LGBT refugee shelter to open in Berlin after a considerable number of attacks against LGBT migrants. (RT).

An LGBT-only dormitory is set to welcome 120 homo- and transsexual refugees in the Treptow-Köpenick borough of Berlin in March, local media report. The move comes amid a considerable number of attacks against LGBT migrants reported in refugee shelters.

From August to December 2015, the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany (LSVD) - the largest non-governmental lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organization in the country - received information on 95 accounts of violence towards LGBT refugees. The majority of those cases took place in asylums, local media report.

The number of LGBT asylum seekers in Berlin is estimated to be around 3,500. They are considered to be a group in need of special protection, and are therefore supposed to be provided with accommodation in hostels. However, every second LGBT refugee is denied this opportunity, according to Joana Hassoun, a LSVD representative.

“We are sure that this dormitory is necessary,” Marcel de Groot, director of the LGTB consultancy Schwulenberatung Berlin, said, as quoted by Die Welt. His organization will be in charge of running the dormitory as soon as its construction is completed.

“We are optimistic that it will be finished in March,” a spokesperson for Berlin's Senate Department for Labor, Women's Affairs and Integration said on Monday.

The German capital will become the country’s first federal area to house this type of shelter.
A scandal over cases of sexual abuse by refugees and police cover-ups is gathering pace across Europe.


Related: Pro Turkish 'Islamist' AKP Female supporter: "LGBT shouldn't be allowed on the streets"

Germany’s Human Rights Commissioner: "Turkey must improve its human rights record before it can justify admission to the EU".

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Germany’s Human Rights Commissioner: "Turkey must improve its human rights record before it can justify admission to the EU".(RT).

Turkey must improve its human rights record before it can justify admission to the EU, claims Germany’s Human Rights Commissioner Christoph Strässer, adding that under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the situation in the country has "deteriorated" drastically.

Asked whether the EU will make any concessions for Ankara's membership, Strässer replied: “This concern drives me. There can be no human rights policy discount for Turkey. We must not be generous towards Turkey just because presently we cooperate more with it. The EU must stick to its crystal-clear strict rules with respect to human rights and press freedom,” he told Germany's N24 news website.

Turkey first sought EU membership back in 1987, but its bid has made little progress since then, with key issues like fundamental freedoms and the future of Cyprus proving to be major obstacles.
“It seems to me that Turkey is trying to use the situation in Syria and its geopolitical tussle with Russia in order to bring this potential EU membership back on the agenda,” journalist Bryan MacDonald noted, sharing his opinion on Turkish membership in the EU with RT.

“However, I think it is ‘pie in the sky’ - it is just kind words they are getting from the EU because they are useful to NATO and the EU at the moment. I don’t see any possibility that 80 million Turks who are Muslims in a largely Christian EU will ever be allowed to join the organization,” he added.

According to Germany’s Human Rights Commissioner, Ankara is still far from attaining eligibility for EU membership, however.“We need to repeatedly send a compliance reminder to Ankara. In Turkey, dissenters are punished, and there are attacks against the opposition. As long as there's such a thing, the country doesn't belong in the EU. If we ignore it, it would be a fatal signal,” Strässer warned. Read the full story here.

Related: 

Amnesty International on Turkey’s Worsening Human Rights Record: 11 Key Issues.

Video - Bill Maher Schooling Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland: “All religions are alike and we do share values: B.S.”

Caution strong language use.

Video - Islam for dummies.

Video - 'Child Abuse' - ISIS "Caliphate Cub" Toddler Undergoes Military Training under Live Fire.

ISIS "Caliphate Cub" Toddler Undergoes Military Training under Live Fire.(Memri).

A video-clip posted on the Internet on October 15, 2015 shows a toddler in paramilitary garb crawling under barbed wire, as adults shout at him to cry: "Allah Akbar" and live fire is seen around him. The tweet says that he is an ISIS "Caliphate Cub." Hmmm....... These people must be brought to justice, none of them should escape... Just like NAZI war criminals.

Obama 'Admin' State Dep’t: ‘We Would Welcome’ Saudi Leadership Role at UN Rights Council

#SaudiArabia chairing the @UN's #HumanRights Council Panel is like Jack the Ripper guarding a women's shelter. pic.twitter.com/qGFZ4jGTYZ

— ISTANBUL THEMES (@ISTANBUL_THEMES) September 24, 2015

Obama 'Admin' State Dep’t: ‘We Would Welcome’ Saudi Leadership Role at UN Rights Council. (CNS).

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday that the administration would “welcome” Saudi Arabia’s appointment to a leadership position at the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying that the U.S. and the kingdom were “close allies.”

“We hope that it’s an occasion for them to, you know, to look at human rights around the world but also within their own borders,” he said in response to a question about the appropriateness of the kingdom holding a leadership post.

Asked whether he thought it was “appropriate for them to have a leadership position,” Toner said, “We have a strong dialogue, obviously a partnership with Saudi Arabia that spans, obviously, many issues. We talk about human rights concerns with them. You know, as to this leadership role, we hope that it’s an occasion for them to, you know, to look at human rights around the world but also within their own borders.”

“But you said that you welcome them in this position,” another reporter said. “Is it based on improved record? I mean, can you show or point to anything where there is you know, a sort of stark improvement in their human rights record?”

Saudi Arabia's appointment to chair the HRC panel was brought to public attention this week by the Geneva-based non-governmental organization U.N. Watch. It brought strong criticism from observers who said that with its poor human rights record Saudi Arabia should not even be a member of the 47-member HRC, let alone hold a leadership post. 

U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer called on U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to reverse the appointment.

Repressive regimes have long used their membership on the U.N.’s top human rights watchdog to defend each other, block scrutiny of their own records, and promote agenda items that focus on favored targets like Israel.

Their presence on the council frustrates democracies, but U.N. rules do not disqualify any country from standing for election. They generally have no competition, as regional groups put forward “closed slates” of candidates – the same number of candidates as there are vacancies.

With no mandatory qualification for members and with voting taking place at the U.N. General Assembly by secret ballot, countries with poor records (AND MONEY*) continue to win seats.

Meanwhile in other reaction to Saudi Arabia’s appointment to chair the HRC panel, the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders called the move “grotesque.”

“Saudi Arabia is ranked 164th out of 180 countries in the 2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index,” said Alexandra El Khazen, head of the group’s Middle East desk. “How could anyone image Riyadh making a significant contribution to the fight against human rights violations throughout the world?”

A grouping of liberal members of the European Parliament also slammed the decision.

U.N. Watch earlier launched a petition calling on the U.N. to remove Saudi Arabia from the council. Hmmm.......'The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet' Read the full story here.

Related: Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam.

* And Money

Saudi Arabia pledged $1 million to UNHRC before winning seat: Saudi Arabia pledged $1 million to the UN human... http://t.co/UUMPcu5Jdt

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) September 24, 2015

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UN issues urgent call to save juvenile offender set to be crucified in #SaudiArabia http://t.co/MYb2vtZ0Db pic.twitter.com/Of9bwK09W8

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) September 24, 2015

'Too Young to wed' - Underage 10 - 14 year old children tie the knot in Iran.

'Too Young to wed' - Underage children tie the knot in Iran. (ET).

A teenage boy and girl, although under the marriageable age, got married in Iran, with their wedding photo-shoot sparking interest across social media.

Although under the legal marriageable age in Iran, the couple’s families were granted permission by the authorities, after which the 14 and 10-year-olds were married.

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the legal age for girls to marry is 13 provided she has her father’s permission. On the other hand, boys can marry from the age of 15.

According to Iranian news website Tabnak, as many as 42,000 children aged between 10 and 14 were married over a period of time in the country. Hmmm.....Pres Hussein Obama's new BFF.....IRAN.Read the full story here.

Related: TOO YOUNG TO WED.

Fourth secular blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh.

A poster with pictures of slain Bangladeshi bloggers during a protest meeting in May.

Fourth secular blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh. (ET).

DHAKA: A gang armed with machetes hacked a secular blogger to death at his home in Dhaka on Friday in the fourth such murder in Bangladesh since the start of the year, an activist group and police said.

Niloy Chakrabarti, who used the pen-name Niloy Neel, was killed after the gang broke into his apartment, according to the Bangladesh Blogger and Activist Network, which was alerted to the attack by a witness.

“They entered his room in the fifth floor and shoved his friend aside and then hacked him to death. He was a listed target of the extremists,” the network’s head, Imran H Sarker, told AFP.

Police confirmed Chakrabarti had been murdered by a group of half a dozen people in the capital’s Goran neighbourhood, although they had no details on his background or the motive for the killing.

“There were six people who knocked his door, saying that they were looking to rent a flat,” Muntashirul Islam, a deputy police commissioner, told AFP.

“Two of them then took him to a room and then slaughtered him there,” Islam added. “His wife was in the flat but she was confined to another room.”

Asif Mohiuddin, another secular blogger who himself survived an attack by militants in Bangladesh in 2013, described Chakrabarti as an atheist “free thinker” whose posts appeared on several sites.

“He was critical against religions and wrote against Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist fundamentalism. He was a founding member of a rationalist organisation,” Mohiuddin, who is now based in Berlin, told AFP by phone.

He is the fourth secular blogger to be killed in the Muslim-majority nation since February, when Bangladeshi-born US citizen Avijit Roy was hacked to death in Dhaka. His wife was also badly injured in the attack.

The other victims include Ananta Bijoy, Das who was attacked by a group wielding machetes on May 13 as he headed to work in Sylhet, and 27-year-old Washiqur Rahman who was hacked to death in Dhaka in March.

Most secular bloggers have either gone into hiding, often using pseudonyms in their posts, or have fled abroad.

In a recent petition addressed to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, authors including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood called on her government “to do all in their power to ensure that the tragic events of the last three months are not repeated, and to bring the perpetrators to justice”.

“We are gravely concerned by this escalating pattern of violence against writers and journalists who are peacefully expressing their views,” said the petition. Bangladesh is an officially secular country, but more than 90 per cent of its 160 million people are Muslim.

Update:

#AQIS claimed the killing of Niloy #Chowdhury Neel... pic.twitter.com/nP22hlGh27

— -T- (@cheetah_T) August 7, 2015

1/2 #Bangladesh un communiqué présenté comme celui d'Ansar al-Islam revendiquant la mort du blogueur Niloy Chowdhury pic.twitter.com/2HCFo6Mxl4

— Gilles N. (@VegetaMoustache) August 7, 2015

#Media le #GIMF devenu un média officiel d'Ansar al-Islam #Bangladesh (= Ansar Bangla = Ansarullah Bangla Team) pic.twitter.com/637cuzXh3O

— Gilles N. (@VegetaMoustache) June 28, 2015

Iran, EU[Rabia] Agree to Begin High-Level Talks on Energy, Human Rights.

Iran, EU[Rabia] Agree to Begin High-Level Talks on Energy, Human Rights. (SP).

Iran and the European Union are determined to begin high-level talks to discuss various issues, including energy, human rights issues, and other topics, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said Tuesday.

“There are several topics related to the future of relations between Iran and Europe, including human rights, transportation, environment, energy, and the fight against drugs and other cooperation in various fields between Iran and the European Union,” Zarif said. Hmmmm....What a joke the EU Would sell their whole family to obtain deals and cheap gas from Iran and Turkey. Second ARAB (Islamic) Human rights are not the same as Human rights for the rest of the World...stop the pretending.

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Kenyan president rebukes Pres Hussein Obama’s gay rights message.

Kenyan president rebukes Pres Hussein Obama’s gay rights message. (TheHill).


President Obama on Saturday made an personal plea for gay rights during his visit to Kenya, warning that “bad things happen” when countries discriminate against certain groups of people.

“As an African-American in the United States, I am painfully aware of the history of what happens when people are treated differently under the law,” Obama added during a joint press conference with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. “I’m unequivocal on this.”

But Obama’s call for universal gay rights was quickly dismissed by Kenyatta, who described the issue as something “our culture, our society does not accept.”

“For Kenyans today, the issue of gay rights is really a non-issue. We want to focus on other areas that are day-to-day living for our people,” he said, citing heath concerns and women’s rights.

“This issue is not really an issue that is on the foremost of mind for Kenyans, and that is a fact," he said to some applause.

Obama made clear before his trip that he planned to raise the issue of gay rights with African government officials.

Still, Obama said he recognized that “there may be people who may have different religious or cultural beliefs.” Hmmmm.......Like? Islam?.