Drei (!) emails von moslemischen Studenten brachten die Universität dazu, einen Vortrag über Matthias Kuentzel abzusagen, der über “Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East” sprechen sollte. Die Universität bedauert die Ausladung, findet aber, sie habe richtig gehandelt. Mehr hier: http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=2045

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/ottolenghi/319

Why did the mullahs decide to seize the hostages and why did they release them unexpectedly? Hostage-taking has been part of the Islamic Republic’s strategy since its inception in 1979. In the first months of its existence, the Khomeinist regime seized and quickly released hundreds of Western hostages. The policy reached a crescendo in November 1979 when Khomeinist “students” raided the US Embassy in Tehran and held its diplomats hostage for 444 days. Today a German businessman, a Canadian academic and a French researcher are captives of the mullahs…
The seizure of the British naval personnel is the latest episode in a low-intensity war that the Islamic Republic has waged against the West for almost three decades. In this war, Iran has killed hundreds of Western, especially American and French troops, in suicide attacks in Lebanon...

Die Nachrichtenagentur dpa dokumentiert den Dialog zwischen dem iranischen Präsidenten Mahmud Ahmadinedschad und britischen Soldaten bei der Verabschiedung in Teheran (nach einer Übersetzung des iranischen Dolmetschers ins Englische).
http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID6591154_REF1_NAV_BAB,00.html

Charles Krauthammer: Where was the EU in the capture of the British sailors?
Where then was the EU? These 15 hostages, after all, are not just British citizens, but under the laws of Europe, citizens of Europe. Yet the EU lifted not a finger on their behalf.
Europeans talk all the time about their preference for “soft power” over the brute military force those Neanderthal Americans resort to all the time. What was the soft power available here? Iran’s shaky economy is highly dependent on European credits, trade and technology. Britain asked the EU to threaten to freeze exports, $18 billion a year of commerce. Iran would have lost its No. 1 trading partner. The EU refused.
Why was nothing done? The reason is simple. Europe functions quite well as a free trade zone. But as a political entity, it is a farce. It remains a collection of...

http://lizaswelt.blogspot.com/2007/04/berufsbreschenschlger.html

“Klimawandel bringt Orchideen in die Eifel… Je mehr Wärme und
Wasser, desto mehr Arten können existieren, vermuten Biologen. Der
Klimawandel könnte dem Deutschland der Zukunft mehr Artenvielfalt bescheren.”
(http://stern.de/wissenschaft/natur/:Artenvielfalt-Klimawandel-Orchideen-Eifel/586440.html)

“Jede dritte Tierart in Deutschland gefährdet… Der Klimawandel droht
in Deutschland jede dritte Tier- und Pflanzenart auszulöschen. Zu
diesem Schluss kommt nach Angaben von Umweltstaatssekretär Michael Müller
der neue Klimareport des UN-Klimarats, der am Freitag vorgestellt
wird.”
(http://www.morgenpost.de/desk/796581.html)

Und auch das noch: Der Mars wird unbewohnbar
http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissenschaft/news/276755.html

“Liberaal Reveil” (Liberal Dawn), the official magazine of the
think tank of the Dutch political party VVD - a slightly right of
center liberal party - today publishes a story about the necessity
to forbid the distribution and public reading of the Koran, the
holy book of Islam.

The author, H.S.M. Frankenvrij - a pseudonym - calls for muslim
editors to make a new version of the Koran without its aggressive
and intolerant paragraphs. ‘Frankenvrij’ describes the Koran as
‘primitive, without nuance, intolerant, aggressive and full of
hatred.’

The chairman of the advisory board of the magazine, professor
Heleen Dupuis, who herself is a member of the First Chamber of
Parliament for the VVD, told the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool
that she largely agrees with the article.

“Frankenvrij” (forthright and free) states...