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The military junta ruling Egypt has announced that parliamentary elections will be held in September. Rather than spending the next five months complaining, those who aren’t supporting the Muslim Brotherhood better get started actually working and organizing. I’ll analyze this a lot more in the coming months but briefly the blocs are as follows: Islamists: The Muslim Brotherhood says it is aiming at getting 30 percent of the seats. I think they’ll succeed. A smaller, moderate Islamist party — whose members split from the Brotherhood because they say it is too extremist — would be lucky to get any seats....

The leaders of Moscow's 1.5 million strong Muslim community say they desperately need more places of worship. But a plan to build a new mosque has run into local opposition which is being fuelled by nationalists calling for a "clean Moscow" without Muslims and foreigners. Small trees are supposed to be keeping the Muslims out of Tekstilshchiki, a district in south eastern Moscow. A young man sets to work with his shovel, pushing it into the earth with a determined kick. Then he places a seedling into the hole and sprinkles earth over it. Using her watering can, Maria Sotova...

Unique discoveries revealed as a result of excavations at Shengavit (4000-3000 B.C.) confirm that Armenia is the motherland of metallurgy, jeweler's art, wine-making and horse breeding. A group of archaeologists studying the ancient city concluded that 4000-3000 B.C. Armenia was a highly developed state with exclusive culture. The excavations are carried out by an Armenian-American archaeological expedition. Director of the Scientific and Research Institute of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the RA Ministry of Culture Simonyan said that for example, the glass beads discovered at the territory of Shengavit are of a higher quality than the Egypt samples. "Meanwhile, the...

(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition partners are preventing him from going as far as he would like to in peace talks with the Palestinian Authority, US President Barack Obama said Thursday. Obama was speaking at a town hall meeting in Tampa, Florida. Answering a question on the subject, he explained to the audience that the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority are both being held back by more extremist elements in their nations.

A shock win for the far-right British National Party yesterday sent a tremor through Labour amid growing fears that the recession is driving angry voters into the arms of extremist parties. The BNP seized a Labour seat in a district council by-election in Sevenoaks on a substantial turnout, encouraging fears that the party could make significant advances in the June local and European elections. The Kent town is a Tory stronghold at Westminster and local politicians had previously dismissed the likelihood of a breakthrough for the BNP. But the result will be seized on as evidence that Gordon Brown's ill-judged...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The socialist and nationalist parties that will soon rule Serbia's capital Belgrade vowed on Wednesday to prove their pro-Western rivals wrong by making the city more attractive to investors and a better place to live. National and local elections on May 11 left Serbia split between nationalists, led by the Radical Party, and liberals led by the Democratic Party. The Socialists of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic emerged as kingmakers in the elections and hold the key to coalitions at the local and national level. It is unclear if the Socialists' deal with the Radicals in the capital,...

The heart, if not the soul, of Spain’s capital, Madrid, is its bustling financial district. Thousands crowd daily into the skyscrapers that overlook the district’s main square. Thousands more shop at a branch of El Corte Inglés (Spain’s Macy’s), attend soccer games at Bernabéu Stadium, or ride the subways, trains, and buses whose lines converge here. Terrorists had hoped to strike this densely packed urban space in early 2008. But unlike the devastating coordinated suicide bombings of March 11, 2004, which killed 191 train commuters and wounded 1,600, this plot did not originate with al-Qaida or any of its loosely...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party (KMT) thrashed the ruling DPP in legislative elections on Saturday, strengthening its bid to recapture the presidency in March and heralding better relations with China. With all the votes counted, the KMT had won 81 seats in the 113-member parliament, or 72 percent, according to the Central Election Commission. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party won just 27 seats, or 24 percent, the rest going to other parties. Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan's president since 2000, resigned as DPP chairman when the magnitude of his party's loss became clear, saying he should take responsibility for...

Fouad Ajami, the Lebanese-American analyst, notes the contradiction of "an Arab world that besieges American embassies for visas and at the same time celebrates America's calamities."[1] But this seeming paradox actually makes sense. The more attractive the United States is to Arabs, the more pro-U.S. feelings threaten Arab nationalists and Islamists. As a result, both Arab nationalists and Islamists have an even greater incentive to distort Washington's policies and the nature of U.S. society in their propaganda. For these opponents of liberalism, the United States becomes the great Satan whose devilishness justifies their behavior and explains their failures. The anti-American...

Jewish leaders in Russia said Tuesday that anti-Semitism and xenophobia were persistent in Russian society and they criticized law enforcement officials for not doing more to punish nationalist crimes. Borukh Gorin, spokesman for the Federation of Russia's Jewish Organizations, said an investigation by prosecutors into whether an ancient Jewish religious text was inciting religious hatred "was a sign of a serious illness of our society." Last week, prosecutors dropped the inquiry into whether the Russian translation of a 19th century summary of Jewish religious laws called Kitsur Shulhan Arukh provoked religious hatred. The inquiry had been prompted by a complaint...

Posted on Wed, Jun. 29, 2005 MEXICO Mexican migrants could vote from U.S. Mexican lawmakers approved absentee voting for millions of migrants living abroad. An estimated 11 million Mexicans live overseas, most in the United States. BY WILL WEISSERT Associated Press MEXICO CITY - Lawmakers overwhelming approved on Tuesday a law allowing millions of Mexicans living abroad to vote by mail in next year's presidential election -- a measure that could reshape the country's leadership race. To chants of ''Viva Mexico,'' the lower house of Congress passed an absentee voting proposal by a margin of 455 to 6 with six...

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German nationalists go to Poland to save Big News Network Thursday 19th May, 2005 (UPI) One of Germany's most right-wing parties has been caught with its newspapers crossing the border from their Polish printer. Deutsche Welle reports that police came across two Polish trucks loaded with copies of German Voice, the German National Democratic Party's newspaper. This discovery came at an embarrassing time, since its members of parliament in Saxony had adopted the slogan Closed Borders for Wage Dumping and called on other members of the provincial assembly to pass a resolution against moving jobs outside the country. Holgeir Apfel,...

ZHITOMIR, Ukraine - A Ukrainian rabbi was attacked on the street as he left a Passover Seder. Two young men assaulted Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, his son and two other members of the Jewish community on Sunday evening in downtown Zhitomir in central Ukraine, as the men were heading home on the second night of Passover. Police arrested the attackers, who reportedly were intoxicated. “They were a little drunk and they demanded money from us,” Wilhelm, the chief rabbi of Zhitomir, told JTA.

KYIV - Acting together on June 16, the leaders of two nationalist organizations, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists led by Mykola Plaviuk and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Revolutionary) headed by Andriy Haydamakha, and two political parties, the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN) and the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda, led, respectively, by Oleksii Ivchenko and Oleh Tiahnybok, publicly announced that the process of uniting had begun. In fact, the consolidation process started on May 28, when the four leaders signed a declaration under the title "Unity - A Guarantee for Victory!" Their declaration read: "Ukrainian nationalists are convinced, that the only...

Until modern times, there existed no form of legitimacy in the Middle East outside of Islam. Rulers ruled in the name of God; assassins struck them down in the name of God. The assassinations of the early caliphs and the struggle between the Sunni rulers and the Assassins in the Middle Ages took precisely this form: each side claimed to act in accord with divine will, revealed in divine texts. Religion played a crucial role in the rationale of assassination, but it also played a crucial role in the rationale of government, law, and warfare—indeed, of everything. This invocation of...

IT IS barely 5pm and Dave is already unsteady on his feet. It could be sunstroke: behind his tattoos and grimy England shirt I can make out distinct patches of seared and cracked red skin. A more likely explanation for his lack of balance is the twelve pints of lager he has had since his breakfast shortly after midday. "Tastes like piss mate. You bloody dagos can’t make a decent pint," he yells back at the barman, baring his yellowing teeth like a baboon as if to issue the insult as a threat. The barman shrugs his shoulders: nothing he...

Zagreb, Croatia-AP -- In Croatia, nationalists who led the former Yugoslav republic to independence in 1991 appear poised to return to power. Partial results from parliamentary elections show the nationalists ousting the current pro-Western government. With about ten percent of votes counted, returns give 76 seats to the bloc of the late President Franjo Tudjman (FRAHN'-yoh TOOJ'-mahn). Prime Minister Ivica Racan's (EE'-vih-chah RAH'-chihnz) likely coalition has gained only 63 seats. Racan acknowledges that if the results hold, he stands no chance of forming a new government. The nationalists capitalized on voter frustration with Racan's government, which has failed to deliver...

The linked source site is a thread I started here back before the elections on 9/3/2003 after David Horowitz and Michells Malkin and others exposed on National TV the racist/subversive nature of the "MECHA" organization as evidenced by their hate filled website. Almost immediately MECHA responded by replacing their Marxist diatribes and hate literature and "manifestos" with a plain blank white page on their many sites all around the country. I just checked and more then two months later the sites are mostly all still blank! Wow! If a little light is all it takes to keep these cockroaches hiding...

Oct. 13, 2003 (Supreme Court of Israel:) Ultra-nationalists barred from Temple Mount By ETGAR LEFKOVITS Acting on police recommendations, the Supreme Court on Monday barred the leader of the fringe Temple Mount Faithful group, and the head of another small ultra-nationalist organization, from ascending the Temple Mount on Monday morning. The high court rejected an appeal by Gershon Solomon, and Yehuda Etzion to enter the ancient compound, after police warned that visits by either men could lead to bloodshed at the bitterly contested holy site. The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims two months ago, after nearly three years when...