The dhimmis in the EU parliament hard at work trying to suppress the truth.
The EU has no understanding of freedom of speech.STRASBOURG (AFP) — The EU parliament prevented the showing on Wednesday of an anti-Islamic film made by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders, bringing cries of censorship from the British eurodeputy who organised the screening.
"The banning of this film is a direct attack on free speech," said British MEP Gerard Batten, who had organised the event, though officials pointed out that parliamentary leaders had banned the film from being shown in their Strasbourg building back in March.
"A parliament that constantly talks of freedom, democracy and tolerance has shown once again that these are empty words when it does not agree with what is being said," added Batten, a member of the eurosceptic UK Independence Party (UKIP).
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
EU parliament prevents screening of anti-Islam film
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sharif Backs out of Ruling Coalition
Saw this coming as soon as Zardari and Sharif formed the coalition. Especially since Musharraf resigned from the Presidency. Zardari and Sharif's opposition to Musharraf was the only thing that those two had in common. The split comes amid the negotiations to reinstate the judges that Musharraf dismissed last year.
Sharif wants all of the dismissed judges to be reinstated whereas Zardari wants different judges to be picked. Mainly because Zardari fears that his amnesty for corruption might be invalidated if all the same judges are reinstated.
Sharif said that for now his party will 'play a constructive role' in the opposition. He will probably use the threat to topple the government as leverage to gain more compromises. BBC
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says his PML-N party is pulling out of the country's multi-party governing coalition.
He has been in dispute with the country's biggest party, the PPP, over who should be the next president.
The two sides also disagree on the reinstatement of judges sacked by former President Pervez Musharraf.
The move throws Pakistan into further turmoil at a time of economic gloom and growing threats from militants.Mr Sharif told journalists in Islamabad that the PPP had broken promises, in particular over the issue of the judges. "When written documents are repeatedly flouted, trust cannot remain," he said. "We cannot find a ray of hope."
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However, he said his party wanted to play a constructive role in opposition, indicating that he will not try to bring down the government for now.
PPP leader Asif Zardari, whose wife Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December, has announced that he will stand for the presidential election on 6 September.
Mr Sharif now says his party will put up a candidate against him.
Uncomfortable
The PPP fears that if all the judges sacked by Mr Musharraf get their jobs back, they may invalidate an amnesty that paved the way for Mr Zardari and Ms Bhutto to return to the country last year.
Pakistans governing coalition is on the brink of collapse
Political vacuum in Pakistan
Musharraf resigns
Pakistan election winners not so moderate
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Some Afghan MPs Support Taliban & Heroin Trade
It's not just the Pakistani ISI that supports the taliban. Members of the Afghani parliament support the taliban and drug traffickers. Another reason why democracy cannot be implemented in islamic countries before the ideology is defeated. Reuters
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KABUL (Reuters) - A senior Afghan intelligence official has accused a number of parliamentarians of supporting Taliban insurgents, Afghan newspapers said on Wednesday.
Afghan and foreign troops are struggling to contain the growing Taliban insurgency while President Hamid Karzai's government is also coming under increasing international pressure to rein in rampant corruption fed by the booming drugs trade.
The deputy head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Dr. Abdullah, told parliament on Tuesday that a "number of delegates" in the parliament "supported drug traffickers and terrorists", several newspapers reported on Wednesday.Abdullah, who uses only one name, did not elaborate and did not name any politicians.
Such allegations have been made in the past by ordinary Afghans and Western officials, but it is the first time a senior official has accused lawmakers of helping the Taliban.
A spokesman for the NDS confirmed Abdullah's remarks, but declined to comment further.
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Afghanistan's upper and lower houses of parliament are dominated by a motley collection of former anti-Soviet mujahideen leaders, ex-Communist officials and some members of the Taliban government overthrown by U.S.-led and Afghan forces in 2001.
In recent years, key former mujahideen leaders have complained of being sidelined from power. Some even say privately foreign troops led by NATO and the U.S. military in Afghanistan are no different from the Soviet occupiers of the 1980s.
In an article published last month the U.S. government's former point man in the fight against the Afghanistan heroin trade accused Karzai and his government of obstructing counter-narcotics efforts and protecting drug lords.
