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		<description>The New English Review - A monthly political/cultural magazine with a literary slant. The Iconoclast is a group blog featuring Hugh Fitzgerald, Mary Jackson, Rebecca Bynum, Theodore Dalrymple, Jerry Gordon, Norman Berdichevsky, Artemis Gordon Glidden, Christina McIntosh, John M. Joyce and Esmerelda Weatherwax.</description>
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		<title><![CDATA[ The Jihad Against Non-Muslim South Sudan Continues ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42143</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ For more than 50 years, ever since the Sudan gained independence in 1956, the northern Muslims, who like to think of themselves as &amp;quot;Arabs&amp;quot; -- that is, the people to whom Islam was given, and therefore the best of all peoples -- have been conducting, with occasional breaks, a Jihad against the black Africans, Christian and animist, in the south. The northern Muslims have been responsible for the deaths of 2.5 million black Africans in the south. But that Jihad received very little attention, despite the efforts of some -- apparently easy to dismiss because some could be linked to Christian missionaries -- and Gaston Biro, the U.N. special rapporteur for Sudan, was constantly frustrated and ignored in his efforts to draw attention to this Jihad, conducted by a member state of the U.N. and, of course, backed to the hilt by its fellow members in the Arab League.

It was only when the northern Muslims turned to rape, pillage, and mass murder of fellow, but African rather than Ar... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Hugh Fitzgerald ]]></category>
		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ The Cheese And The Worms, Or, Hold Onto Your Parmigiano ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ The earthquake in Italy the other day did terrible damage to the parmigiano producers. Three hundred thousand wheels (&amp;quot;meules&amp;quot;) of parmigiano were damaged or destroyed.
So in addition to saving your copper pennies, you should now hold onto your parmigiano. Prices may go sky-high. Or you can teach yourself to like the argentinean version.
From lefigaro.fr:
TOUT UN FROMAGE &amp;ndash; Le parmesan, l&amp;rsquo;autre victime du s&amp;eacute;isme en Italie

	Un producteur d&amp;eacute;couvre les d&amp;eacute;g&amp;acirc;ts dans son entrep&amp;ocirc;t de San Giovanni, &amp;agrave; Persiceto, le 21 mai 2012 - AP/Luca Bruno

Alors que le s&amp;eacute;isme de dimanche a fait&amp;nbsp;sept morts et priv&amp;eacute; plus de cinq mille personnes de toit&amp;nbsp;dans les provinces de Bologne, Mod&amp;egrave;ne, Ferrare et Mantoue, c&amp;#39;est d&amp;eacute;sormais une course contre la montre qui est lanc&amp;eacute;e pour sauver le fleuron de la gastronomie locale, le parmesan. Trois cent mille meules ont &amp;eacute;t&amp;eacute; endommag&amp;eacute;es ... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Hugh Fitzgerald ]]></category>
		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Pakistan Sentences Doctor Who Helped Americans Find Bin Laden to 33 Years in Prison ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42146</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ From AP:
PESHAWAR, Pakistan &amp;ndash; &amp;nbsp;A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding new strains to an already deeply troubled relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan.
U.S. officials had urged Pakistan to release the doctor, who ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify the al-Qaida leader&amp;#39;s presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where U.S. commandos killed him in May 2011 in a unilateral raid.
The lengthy sentence against Dr. Shakil Afridi will be taken as another sign of Pakistan&amp;#39;s defiance of American wishes. It could give further fuel to critics in the United States that Pakistan &amp;mdash; which has yet to arrest anyone for helping shelter bin Laden &amp;mdash; should no longer be treated as an ally....&amp;nbsp;
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		<category><![CDATA[ Rebecca Bynum ]]></category>
		<author>info@newenglishreview.org (Rebecca Bynum)</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ The King James Bible, Cultural Coherence, And Richard Dawkins ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42150</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ See the website Maghreb Christians here.... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Hugh Fitzgerald ]]></category>
		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Mark Steyn On Geert Wilders ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From National Review online:
The Spirit of Geert Wilders

	By&amp;nbsp;Mark Steyn
	May 14, 2012
	
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				When I was asked to write a foreword to Geert Wilders&amp;rsquo; new book, my first reaction, to be honest, was to pass. Mr. Wilders lives under 24/7 armed guard because significant numbers of motivated people wish to kill him, and it seemed to me, as someone who&amp;rsquo;s attracted more than enough homicidal attention over the years, that sharing space in these pages was likely to lead to an uptick in my own death threats. Who needs it? Why not just plead too crowded a schedule and suggest the author try elsewhere? I would imagine Geert Wilders gets quite a lot of this.
				And then I took a stroll in the woods, and felt vaguely ashamed at the ease with which I was willing to hand a small victory to his enemies. After I saw off the Islamic enforcers in my own country, their frontman crowed to The Canadian Arab News that, even though the Canadian Islamic Congress had ... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Hugh Fitzgerald ]]></category>
		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ A Musical Interlude: The Teddy Bears' Picnic (Henry Hall Orch.) ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42152</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Listen, with the obvious reservations, here. ... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Hugh Fitzgerald ]]></category>
		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 21:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ US Sen. Mark Kirk wants to stop Palestinian Rights of Return ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42118</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
UNWRA Palestinian Refugee logo &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; US Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
The Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has been front running support for a new initiative by US Sen. Mark Kirk (R. IL) who has recovered from a stroke to return to the Senate to fight the legislative battle in Congress against the&amp;nbsp; perennial&amp;nbsp; Palestinan demands for &amp;ldquo;rights of return&amp;rdquo;. &amp;nbsp;Kirk is pushing a proposal to have the State Department conduct a census of the numbers of Palestinian refugees in those UNWRA &amp;nbsp;camps to exclude &amp;nbsp;several&amp;nbsp; ineligible generations. &amp;nbsp;From the start of the UNWRA program &amp;nbsp;in 1950, the population of Palestinian refugees &amp;nbsp;zoomed from 750,000 to more than 5 million, today. We noted&amp;nbsp; in a recent post &amp;nbsp;about Al Nakba day, what Arabs refer to as the catastrophe of the Israeli victory in the 1948-1949 War for Inde... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Jerry Gordon ]]></category>
		<author>jerry_gordon38@yahoo.com (Jerry Gordon)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 01:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Mustafa new name, moans hater Hamza ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42119</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ From The Sun
HOOK-handed Abu Hamza has changed his name by deed poll to try to shake off his hate-preaching past.The jailed rabble-rouser now wishes to be known as Mustafa Kamal Mustafa.
Staff at London&amp;rsquo;s top security Belmarsh Prison, where he is awaiting extradition to the US, have been instructed to address him by his new name instead of Abu Hamza al-Masri.
Last night a Whitehall source said: &amp;ldquo;He is trying to shed the enormous amount of baggage associated with his old name. He can call himself what he likes officially but he will be forever known as Abu Hamza.&amp;rdquo; He was actually named Mustafa Kamal Mustafa at birth in Egypt. But when he became involved in Islamic extremism he switched to Abu Hamza &amp;mdash; which in Arabic means &amp;ldquo;strong and steadfast&amp;rdquo;.
The Prison Service said a serious deed poll name change &amp;ldquo;should be acknowledged officially&amp;rdquo;. European Court judges ruled Hamza, 54, can be sent to America to stand trial on terror charges which... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Esmerelda Weatherwax ]]></category>
		<author>esmerelda2007@yahoo.co.uk (Esmerelda Weatherwax)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 03:28:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Dewsbury: 11 years for rape of teenage girl ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42120</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Sentencing in this case. From the Yorkshire Evening Post and The Star&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 
A Dewsbury man has been jailed for 11 years for raping a drunken 15-year-old girl who was filmed as she was sexually assaulted by a number of men. (Mohammed) Ali Rehman, 26, was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court for his part in the attack on the teenager in May 2010, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The schoolgirl was &amp;quot;treated as little more than an object, something to use and abuse&amp;quot;, an earlier hearing was told. Rehman admitted raping the victim earlier this year.
Sharon Beattie, prosecuting, told the court that the schoolgirl and a friend had been drinking before they went to Rehman&amp;rsquo;s house in Tanhouse Street, Dewsbury, to buy some cannabis from him. Her friend left and once alone with Rehman and at least four other men, she was taken up to a bedroom where she remembers Rehman telling one of the other men: &amp;ldquo;You have ten minutes with her.&amp;rdquo;
After a few minutes, Rehman ret... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Esmerelda Weatherwax ]]></category>
		<author>esmerelda2007@yahoo.co.uk (Esmerelda Weatherwax)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 03:58:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Yemen suicide bomb massacre  beginning of Jihad,  says Al Qaeda ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42121</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ From the Toronto Star
SANAA&amp;mdash;A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal Monday in Yemen&amp;rsquo;s capital, killing 96 soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks in the city in years, officials said. Al Qaeda&amp;rsquo;s Yemen branch claimed responsibility for the attack.
The group said in an emailed statement that it had targeted the defence minister, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, who arrived at the heavily secured city square to greet the assembled troops just minutes before the blast ripped through the area.
The bombing left a scene of carnage, with scores of bleeding soldiers lying on the ground as ambulances rushed to the scene. Several severed heads were on the pavement amid large pools of blood and human remains.
This is a real massacre,&amp;rdquo; said Ahmed Sobhi, one of the soldiers who witnessed the explosion. &amp;ldquo;There are piles of torn body parts, limbs and heads. This is unbelievable. I am still shaking. The place turned into hell. I thought this on... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Esmerelda Weatherwax ]]></category>
		<author>esmerelda2007@yahoo.co.uk (Esmerelda Weatherwax)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 04:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Makari's Ministry of Misinformation ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42128</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Exaggerated self-criticism would be a harmless luxury of civilization if there were no enemy at the gate condemning democracy&amp;rsquo;s very existence. But it becomes dangerous when it portrays its mortal enemy as always being in the right. Extravagant criticism is a good propaganda device in internal politics. But if it is repeated long enough, it is finally believed. And where will the citizens of democratic societies find reasons to resist the enemy outside if they are persuaded from childhood that there civilization is merely an accumulation of failures and a monstrous imposture?&amp;nbsp; -- Francois Revel

Last week I posted an entry on CAMERA&amp;rsquo;s blog, Snapshots, about the monomaniacal obsession exhibited by the overseas arm of two mainline Protestant churches &amp;ndash; the United Church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ.
In the blog entry, I detailed how the newsfeed of the Common Global Ministries of these two churches encourages people to focus intensely on Israel&amp;rsquo;s ... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Dexter Van Zile ]]></category>
		<author>info@newenglishreview.org (Dexter Van Zile)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Pseudsday Tuesday ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ This exhibition is a must see. From The Telegraph:
Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, has promised it will &amp;quot;set our imaginations alight&amp;quot;.

	And so his gallery&amp;#39;s latest exhibition will have to, considering the fact that every piece of art inside it will be invisible.


	From a bare plinth to a canvas painted entirely with invisible ink, the imagination of the paying public will play a decisive role in the success or failure of the show, the first of its kind in Britain.


	For &amp;pound;8 visitors will be able to marvel at &amp;ndash; or search in vain for &amp;ndash; 50 works of &amp;quot;invisible art&amp;quot; by leading names including Andy Warhol, Yves Klein and Yoko Ono.
	She of the apple-on-a-plinth-as-sculpture? About time she disappeared.
	Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 &amp;ndash; 2012, which opens on June 12 and has been billed as &amp;quot;the best exhibition you&amp;#39;ll never see&amp;quot;, is designed to show how the goal of art is to stimulate people&amp;#39;s imag... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Mary Jackson ]]></category>
		<author>mjackson@newenglishreview.org (Mary Jackson)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:58:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Spells Out Iran's Position on Israel - Just in case it wasn't clear ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42130</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ An article entitled &amp;quot;Top Commander Reiterates Iran&amp;#39;s Commitment to Full Annihilation of Israel&amp;quot; published by the Fars News Agency, reaffirms the Iranian leadership&amp;#39;s wish to destroy Israel despite the pressure of sanctions. The article features the pronouncements of one Hassan Firouzabadi, the &amp;quot;Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces&amp;quot;. He made assertions such as &amp;quot;The Iranian nation is standing for its cause that is the full annihilation of Israel&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp;Such statements should make it more difficult for the many Western apologists of the regime, who are willing to play fast and loose with the lives of millions of innocents by condemning any Israeli strike on Iran&amp;rsquo;s nuclear facilities by minimising the&amp;nbsp;shocking fanaticism&amp;nbsp;of the regime, casting doubt on the translation of a certain famous statement, and ignoring prolific number of other genocidal threats&amp;nbsp;that eminate from the Iranian elite.
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	It is widely acknowledged ... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Robert Harris ]]></category>
		<author>info@newenglishreview.org (Robert Harris)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Shafilea Ahmed murder: parents 'suffocated teenager in front of their other daughter' ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42131</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ From The Telegraph&amp;nbsp;and The Mirror
The parents of a Muslim teenager suffocated her in front of one of their other daughters and later disposed of her body beside a Cumbrian river, a court has heard.

	Shafilea Ahmed, 16, was allegedly murdered at her home in Warrington, Cheshire, because her parents felt her increasingly Western ways, and her rejection of an arranged marriage, had brought shame on the family.


	Her younger sister, Alesha, was 15 when she claimed she witnessed the killing on the night in September, 2003, that Shafilea disappeared. She initially told friends that her father, Iftikhar Ahmed, had murdered her sister and &amp;ldquo;chopped up&amp;rdquo; her body. But she later retracted the claim and kept silent for the next seven years.


	Then, in August 2010, she finally gave detectives a detailed account of the murder and her parents&amp;rsquo; subsequent efforts to conceal the body.
	Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and Farzana, 49, both of whom were born in the same village in ... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Esmerelda Weatherwax ]]></category>
		<author>esmerelda2007@yahoo.co.uk (Esmerelda Weatherwax)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Hufffington Post UK Hires Mehdi Hasan as Senior Staffer ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42133</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Arianna, you&amp;#39;ve got to be kidding. This comes from the Washington Free Beacon:
A devout Muslim who has praised Iran&amp;rsquo;s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and publicly branded all non-believers as mentally ill &amp;ldquo;animals&amp;rdquo; was recently hired to serve as the Huffington Post&amp;rsquo;s political director in the U.K.
Mehdi Hasan, a controversial British media figure whom insiders have billed as a mouthpiece for the Iranian regime, recently left his job at the left-wing New Statesman magazine to join the Huffington Post as a senior staffer, according to reports in the British press.
The Huffington Post merged with Internet giant AOL in February 2011 to form the Huffington Post media group.
Hasan formerly served as political editor of the New Statesman, which is affiliated with a socialist political party and has faced criticism for publishing articles that many observers have deemed anti-Semitic. In one instance, the New Statesman published an article titled &amp;ldquo;A Kosher Conspirac... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Rebecca Bynum ]]></category>
		<author>info@newenglishreview.org (Rebecca Bynum)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:53:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ David Littman  Remembered  for Clandestine Rescue of Moroccan Jews ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42134</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ The late David Littman (&amp;quot;Mural&amp;quot;), Israeli President Shimon Peres and Shmuel Toledano 
Number 2 under legendary Mossad chief Isser Harel
A tip of the hate to Imre H.
by: Michael Garrote, Dreuz.info
I met the late David Littman and his wife, the author Bat Ye&amp;#39;or, in 1983 in Geneva. Since then, their respective works have often guided me. I would like &amp;nbsp;to tell here a little known episode of his career.
The late David Littman, representated &amp;nbsp;several NGO&amp;rsquo;s at the UN. Few know, however, he was also a sayan ( Hebrew for &amp;quot;helper &amp;quot;) for &amp;nbsp;Mossad.
For over twenty years, Littman fought the influence of Islamic countries at the United Nations with his legendary composure. David Littman was the first to invite the famous Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky to speak at the UN on March 5, 1987. The USSR delegation left the hall in protest. No other speaker has so disturbed the dictatorships of the Middle East. In 2008, he &amp;nbsp;caused an outcry by referr... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Jerry Gordon ]]></category>
		<author>jerry_gordon38@yahoo.com (Jerry Gordon)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 18:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ The Far-Left Fanatic Melenchon Wants To "Eradicate" The Front National ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42137</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Why? Because in his view, it is not Believers in Islam, and in the contents of Qur&amp;#39;an and Hadith, the millilons of Muslims who are inculated with contempt and hatred for non-Muslims (that not all of them act on this, and not all of them believe it deeply, for now, should be no consolation, and is certainly not to be relied on), who are a threat to the &amp;quot;republican ideals&amp;quot; of France but, rather, the Front National, which came into being only because Muslim immigration became, for those French who had to deal with it, an intolerable burden and threat.&amp;nbsp;
Here&amp;#39;s the story: from www.lefigaro.fr:
M&amp;eacute;lenchon veut &amp;quot;&amp;eacute;radiquer&amp;quot; le FN
AFP Publi&amp;eacute; 
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Un des objectifs du Front de Gauche est d&amp;#39;&amp;quot;&amp;eacute;radiquer politiquement&amp;quot; le Front national, a expliqu&amp;eacute; Jean-Luc M&amp;eacute;lenchon &amp;agrave; l&amp;#39;occasion d&amp;#39;un meeting de soutien aux candidats de so... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Hugh Fitzgerald ]]></category>
		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Lebanese Shi'ites Kidnapped In Syria ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From Voice of America:
Lebanese Shi&amp;rsquo;ites Kidnapped in Syria; Hezbollah Appeals for Calm

	May 22nd, 2012

The leader of Lebanon&amp;#39;s powerful Hezbollah militant group has appealed for calm after protests erupted in Beirut following the kidnapping of at least 11 Lebanese Shi&amp;#39;ites near the Syrian city of Aleppo as they returned home from a pilgrimage.
Tuesday&amp;#39;s abductions are the latest spillover of the neighboring Syrian conflict to sow unrest in Lebanon.
Lebanese security officials and eyewitnesses confirmed the kidnapping, but it was not immediately clear who had seized the group or exactly how many people were abducted.
The Hezbollah leadership and family members described the men as religious pilgrims transiting Syria by bus on their way back from visiting holy Shi&amp;#39;ite shrines in Iraq.
Lebanese media reports said members of the rebel Free Syrian Army kidnapped 13 men, while the Syrian news agency reported that 11 Lebanese and a Syrian driver were seized b... ]]></description>
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 21:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ A Musical interlude: Then I'll Be Tired Of You (Ambrose Orch., voc. Sam Browne) ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Listen here. ... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Hugh Fitzgerald ]]></category>
		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ In Memoriam: Robin Gibb ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ So farewell, then, Robin
	Gibb, brother of the late
	Maurice Gibb
	Stayin&amp;#39; alive. That was your
	Catch phrase. But not your
	Strong point
&amp;copy; E. J. Gibb Thribb Throbb, aged 17&amp;frac34;
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		<category><![CDATA[ Mary Jackson ]]></category>
		<author>mjackson@newenglishreview.org (Mary Jackson)</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Sister  saw parents kill teenager Shafilea Ahmed for bringing dishonour on family  ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From The Yorkshire Post, The Guardian and The Telegraph
The sister of a Bradford-born schoolgirl who went missing nine years ago saw their parents kill her, a court heard today.&amp;nbsp;Iftikhar and Farzana murdered their 17-year-old daughter because they believed she was bringing shame on the family by having regular contact with westernised boys against their wishes, the court heard.
Today, as her parents Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed went on trial for murder, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told Chester Crown Court they had killed her because she refused to obey them. Her parents controlled her so she didn&amp;#39;t have freedom of movement, the court heard. She ran away from home in 2002 and early 2003, but always returned. In the year before she died, the prosecution said, her parents &amp;quot;embarked on a campaign of domestic violence and abuse directed at her and designed to force her to conform so that she behaved in a way that was expected&amp;quot;.
Opening the case against the Ahmeds, Mr Edis ... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Esmerelda Weatherwax ]]></category>
		<author>esmerelda2007@yahoo.co.uk (Esmerelda Weatherwax)</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Brighton police release images of men wanted in connection with March for England violence ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ One month after the event police release CCTV photographs of persons wanted in connection with the attacks on the March for England St George&amp;#39;s Day parade in Brighton last month. From the Argus
Pictures have been released of five people wanted by police investigating violence which flared during the March for England through Brighton last month.
A 10-year-old girl and two police officers were injured after bottles were hurled at the fifth annual nationalist gathering.
Sussex Police said there was a &amp;quot;considerable level of violence&amp;quot; directed at the 140 marchers and attempts were made to block them at several points along the route.
Mounted police were drafted in to maintain calm but Superintendent Steve Whitton said it was clear some people were intent on not protesting peacefully.
Apologists for the UAF, Antifa, the unions and the rest were denying that a child was hit. Had a child been hit by a flying bottle, they insisted it would have been reported&amp;nbsp;in the Argu... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Esmerelda Weatherwax ]]></category>
		<author>esmerelda2007@yahoo.co.uk (Esmerelda Weatherwax)</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ German Iranian Rapper Shehin Najahi Learns You Don t Invoke  the 10th Imam Against the Islamic Republic ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ German Iranian Rapper Shehin Najahi
Source: Fox News
German Iranian-born rapper Shehin Najahi has more than 200,000 fans in the Islamic Republic.&amp;nbsp; He regularly uses the internet to criticize the corrupt Islamic Republic regime.&amp;nbsp; This time, he has gone too far. He&amp;rsquo;s reached out to &amp;nbsp;Ali al Hadi al-Naqi, &amp;nbsp;the 10th of the Twelver Imams murdered in 868 C.E. by poisoning on orders of the Abbasid Caliph, using scatological lyrics against the regime in Tehran. That earned him two death fatwas from Shiite clerics in the Islamic offering a bounty of more than $100,000 for Najahi&amp;rsquo;s killing.&amp;nbsp; That has sent him into hiding in Germany, while his protectors have called foul in the Federal Republic whose constitution allegedly protects free speech.&amp;nbsp; This has angered more than 100,000 ex-pat Iranians living in the Federal Republic.
Here are excerots from a Fox News report, &amp;quot;Iranian Rapper in hiding, but defiant after call for his death&amp;quot;:

The Ira... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Jerry Gordon ]]></category>
		<author>jerry_gordon38@yahoo.com (Jerry Gordon)</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:27:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Netanyahu's  Important  Message on Iran  to the G-8 Camp David and NATO Chicago Summits ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/42103</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Israeli PM Netanyahu and Czech PM Necas in Prague
The weekend of May 18th to the 20th witnessed a swirl of international gatherings beginning with the G-8 Summit at Camp David. The G-8 session was concerned with heavy issues including negotiations with Iran over its nuclear development program, the reining in of the blood bath in Syria and the crisis in the euro-zone monetary union. The G-8 gathering was also trying to enlist the support of Russia, an ally of Syria with an important Mediterranean naval base at Tartarus and a major client for military arm sales who has given aid and assistance to Iran&amp;rsquo;s nuclear power program.&amp;nbsp;Like most G-8 summits, proclamations are negotiated ahead of time and generally reflect the stasis of diplomatic maneuvering.
The Obama Administration wants to show resolve in advance of next Wednesday&amp;rsquo;s P5+1 meeting with Iranian nuclear envoys in Baghdad.&amp;nbsp;All while expressing the Administration&amp;rsquo;s views&amp;nbsp;that &amp;nbsp;tough sanctions ... ]]></description>
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		<author>jerry_gordon38@yahoo.com (Jerry Gordon)</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 00:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Taking on the Litterbugs ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Alice Arnold, the BBC announcer, has become a national heroine by tossing a plastic bottle back into a car from which a passenger had thrown it. In view of the growing perversity of our law-enforcement agencies, she was lucky not to be charged with threatening behaviour, or worse.


	As everyone knows, disputes over litter can become violent, which is why Arnold is now held in such high regard. In 2008, Evren Anil was stabbed to death in a busy London street after a youth threw a chocolate wrapper into his car and he objected. An elderly passer-by, who tried to intervene on Mr Anil&amp;rsquo;s behalf, was threatened with death. &amp;ldquo;If you do not get out of the way, I will kill you, too,&amp;rdquo; said the youth.


	Not every confrontation ends so badly, of course. Recently in Nottingham &amp;ndash; whose streets, incidentally, are paved with chewing gum &amp;ndash; a boy of about 13 started to throw food at his friends, some of which landed by my feet at the bus stop where I was waiting. &amp;ld... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Theodore Dalrymple ]]></category>
		<author>info@newenglishreview.org (Theodore Dalrymple)</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 06:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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