The director of issues analysis of the fundamentalist anti-LGBT American Family Association (AFA) on Wednesday refused to answer a “simple yes or no question” about whether he had ever had a “gay impulse.” Liberal radio host Alan Colmes pointed out that AFA’s Bryan…
Afghansk fange skal udleveres til berygtet fængsel
Forsvarsministeriet arbejder på at udlevere afghansk fange i dansk varetægt til det tidligere brutale Bagram-fængsel i Afghanistan. Liberal Alliance og Enhedslisten tager sagen op … Read More
Four killed in massive Bangladesh anti-blasphemy protest (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
“One point, One demand: Atheists must be hanged”, chanted the demonstrators as they marched along at least six highways, blocking transport between Dhaka and other cities and towns.The demonstrators gathered in the capital’s Motijheel commercial district, amounting to between 150,000 to 200,000 people according to AFP. On their way, they set shops and vehicles on fire, according to police accounts.Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesters after they reportedly set off homemade explosives and threw stones at security. Local authorities had to deploy more than 15,000 security forces to the area.The protesters are reportedly the activists from the Hefajat-e-Islam group, which blames some Internet users for blasphemy; accusing people of using their blogs to spread atheism and apparent lies about Islam.The members of the radical Islamist group demanded the death penalty for those who they think defame Islam. The 13-point list of demands also included a ban on the right of women to work outside the household and the prohibition for women to mix with men. The Islamists also demanded the release of those accused of war crimes during country’s liberation war in 1971, which established the sovereign nation of Bangladesh.The government of Bangladesh has declined the group’s demands to enact an anti-blasphemy law saying that the country lives by secular liberal laws. The leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam promised to launch a campaign to dethrone the government unless their demands are met.The radical Islamist group was formed in 2010 to protest the government’s secular policies in education and politics. Last month it organized a general strike as well as a gathering attended by hundreds of thousands of activists, during three people died and more than 50 were injured. … Read More
At least 22 killed in Bangladesh uproar over ‘blasphemous blogging’ (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
The protesters are reportedly the activists from the Hefajat-e-Islam group, which blames some Internet users for blasphemy; accusing people of using their blogs to spread atheism and apparent lies about Islam.”One point, One demand: Atheists must be hanged”, chanted the demonstrators as they marched along at least six highways, blocking transport between Dhaka and other cities and towns.The demonstrators gathered in the capital’s Motijheel commercial district, amounting to between 150,000 to 200,000 people according to AFP. On their way, they set shops and vehicles on fire, according to police accounts.Police used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the protesters after they reportedly set off homemade explosives and threw stones at security. Local authorities had to deploy more than 15,000 security forces to the area.The members of the radical Islamist group demanded the death penalty for those who they think defame Islam. The 13-point list of demands also included a ban on the right of women to work outside the household and the prohibition for women to mix with men. The Islamists also demanded the release of those accused of war crimes during country’s liberation war in 1971, which established the sovereign nation of Bangladesh.The government of Bangladesh has declined the group’s demands to enact an anti-blasphemy law saying that the country lives by secular liberal laws. The leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam promised to launch a campaign to dethrone the government unless their demands are met.The radical Islamist group was formed in 2010 to protest the government’s secular policies in education and politics. Last month it organized a general strike as well as a gathering attended by hundreds of thousands of activists, during three people died and more than 50 were injured. … Read More
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Offentlig nulvækst er ikke længere nok for Liberal Alliance. Der skal skæres. … Read More
Clegg: Ukip offers simple answers to complex problems
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Anti-EU mood goes local: Election surge for UK Independence Party
Leader Nigel Farage’s protégé Richard Elvin scooped 24 per cent of the by-election vote in South Shields, North East England, taking 5,988 votes behind Labour’s winning 12,493. This is “more than DOUBLE the Conservatives’ 2,857,” a statement issued by the party pointed out. Labour MP David Miliband resigned from the South Shields seat at the end of March. The constituency is traditionally a Labour safe-seat. However, the country’s ruling party, the Conservatives, was pushed into third place behind the party that they have previously dismissed as ‘loonies and closet racists.’“The message to the Coalition is you are losing the argument. If I was a Tory MP in a marginal constituency I would be worried. If I was a Labour MP in a marginal I would be worried too,” said UKIP Deputy Leader Paul Nuttall speaking at the count.“We are not just taking votes from Conservatives. This is the fourth by-election on the trot in the North where UKIP has finished second,” he stated. Constituency residents and voters shed some light on why the party is enjoying so much newfound success.“Politicians now can never give a straight answer to a question…they trip themselves up. Nigel Farage, ask him a question, you get a straight answer. He’s a straight-talking man; a spade is a spade,” one South Shields voter told RT. The Liberal Democrats, in a coalition with the ruling Conservative party, finished with fewer than 400 votes, a mere seventh, just ahead of the Monster Raving Loony Party leader, ‘Howling Laud Hope.’Early successes in local council election results Early local council election results, being announced on Friday, also bode well for the anti-EU party. UKIP succeeded in winning 42 council seats – equaling Labour – after seven of the results from 35 councils nationwide had been declared, meaning that the party had polled roughly 26 per cent of the vote, widely considered to be the best result by a fourth party since World War II, according to Reuters. Among their victories was winning Lincolnshire County Council in east England from the Conservative party, leading to the founders of the Conservative Home blog, Lord Ashcroft and Stephan Shakespeare, to state:“The Lincolnshire result, in particular, is disappointing. Even in 2005 the Conservatives had a substantial majority – the result last time in 2009 increased that majority still further.” The party also won its first seats in Dorset and Somerset, also taking five seats in Norfolk and winning Tunbridge Wells East (three of 20 possible wards) from the Conservatives: 1,386 to 1,005. Tunbridge Wells has been a Conservative safe-seat in both local and national elections for some 40 years, excluding a two-year Liberal Democrat hiatus in the mid-1990s. Conservatives managed to hold onto Hertfordshire, Dorset, Essex, Somerset and Hampshire councils overall. Among the elected UKIP councilors is one distant relative of Guy Fawkes, famed for attempting to blow up the houses of Parliament in the 17th century. The Hampshire candidate, where UKIP gained 10 new seats, and the infamous gunpowder plotter share a relative in the latter’s 15th-century great-great-grandfather, leading Farage to comment that the blood of rebellion still run his veins. Fawkes took a 37.2 per cent share of the vote. “We’ve seen a growing public support for non-mainstream parties, and certainly UKIP’s been right at the center of that. They were coming right up on Labour’s heels throughout the campaign trail,” said RT’s Sara Firth in South Shields.“The mainstream political parties are going to be looking very closely at this now, because whilst many dismiss this as a protest vote, the support the UKIP’s had recently, it does represent quite a significant sea change,” she said. The still-incoming results, favorable towards UKIP, are widely regarded as symptomatic of an increasingly euro-skeptic and disillusioned UK. UKIP argues that all three main parties are share similar values, and is absorbing traditionally Conservative voters into their support base through their harder-line stance on immigration policy – something the three main parties have all begun to imitate in recent months. Grant Shapps, the Conservative chairman, issued a statement in the fallout from the local election results on Friday morning.“People have sent a message, we get it, we hear what people are saying, people are concerned that we get on with the big issues facing hard-working people in this country, like fixing the economy, sorting out the welfare system, helping hard-working people to get on,” it said. Final results of the local council elections, which encompass over 2,000 council seats in England and Wales, are to be announced later on Friday. … Read More
