Archive for January 2007

OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) — Immigrants to the small Quebec town of Herouxville must not stone women in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules made public by the local council.

The declaration, published on the town’s Web site, has deepened a debate in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province over how tolerant Quebecers should be toward the customs and traditions of immigrants.

“We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here,” said the declaration, which also says women are allowed to drive, vote, dance, write checks, dress as they want, work and own property.

“Therefore we consider it completely outside these norms to … kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumsizing them, etc.”

No one on the town council was immediately available for comment Tuesday. Herouxville, which has 1,300 inhabitants, is about 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Montreal.

André Drouin, the councilor who came up with the idea of the declaration, told the National Post newspaper that the town was not racist.

“We invite people from all nationalities, all languages, all sexual orientations, whatever, to come live with us, but we want them to know ahead of time how we live,” he said.

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Self-proclaimed Roma king in Romania, Florin Cioaba, said Wednesday, January 24 that he will establish an ethnic Romas Parliament in Romania, after the American model. “It is time to take a stand, to stick together and to be united. We will establish the first Roma Parliament countrywide, which will be a test before running for the European Parliament, in mid-May,” Florin Cioaba said.

The new parliament will be called just like the Lower House of US’s Parliament. The Chamber of Romas Representatives in Romania, or CRRR, will be the first Parliament made up after exclusively ethnic criteria. Some 430 Roma representatives will be chosen through democratic vote. Each city will elect at least ten ethnic Romas and CRRR will have a president, a vice-president and a secretary general.

The new forum of ethnic Romas will gather all their 250 organizations. The Ethnic Romas Parliament will monitor the enforcement of the EU’s stipulations on this ethnic and will pass decisions which will be subsequently submitted for analysis to the Parliament and Government of Romania, and to the European forums. The first Romas’ general meeting to set up CRRR will be held on January 30, in Bucharest, Cioaba said.

Blacks voted overwhelmingly against the strong-mayor referendum in Miami-Dade County, while Hispanics strongly supported it. White non-Hispanic voters were divided.

That’s according to a postelection analysis by Dario Moreno, director of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University.

About 78 percent of Hispanic voters, 57 percent of white non-Hispanic voters and 8 percent of black voters said yes to Mayor Carlos Alvarez’s proposal.

The four black county commissioners ran a vigorous campaign against the measure, arguing that it would diminish their community’s voice. It worked. Those four commission districts were the only areas that voted down the referendum.

A Miami Herald analysis showed that heavily Democratic precincts strongly opposed the measure boosting the Republican mayor, while Republican-majority precincts favored it.

Another interesting factoid: early and absentee voters mostly favored the referendum, while the Election Day vote was split. Had the county commissioners gotten their act together earlier, they might have prevailed.

FEWER than 50 Muslims have been persuaded to join Britain’s armed forces in the past year, despite a high-profile recruitment campaign in areas with high ethnic Asian populations, The Herald can reveal.

Faced with the problem of steadily-declining manpower, the Ministry of Defence had hoped to tap into the pool of 1.6 million British Muslims who traditionally shun military careers.

But the campaign has been a dismal failure and there are now just 330 Muslims across an Army, Royal Navy and RAF, numbering almost 200,000 men and women.

The Muslim contingent is almost outnumbered by the 300 Christian chaplains appointed to take care of the spiritual welfare of the bulk of the UK’s fighting services.

They do, however, have their own full-time imam, Asim Hafiz, who is based at Wellington Barracks in London.

According to figures obtained by The Herald, the highest number of Muslim volunteers enlisted last year was 10 in each of two single months. Fewer than five signed up in each of four other months.

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A few days ago, the Minister of Justice in Denmark, Minister Lene Espersen (www.jm.dk), denied the rights of a peaceful demonstration by a group of citizens in Denmark - SIAD, freely translated as “Stop the Islamification of Denmark”. The Minister of Justice denied SIAD members the right to assemble and to protest the Islamification of Denmark. Danish resistance denied.

The minister’s reason for denying these brave Danes their freedoms under Danish law is that she feared they would be violently attacked by Islamists immigrants. She was right. The people were attacked but not during a peaceful demonstration. The group was subsequently attacked at a private meeting, SIAD meeting attacked by hooligans breaking into the private home screaming, “You will die, pigs!”

Become aware. Educate yourself to the growing strength of Islamic Imperialism within your own nation(s).

Fight now to protect your freedoms or you will be next. Demand investigations into the funding and foreign funding that is building Wahabbi schools and militant mosques throughout your nation. Support the Danes in protecting their nation from Islamification. Islamists want one thing and one thing only - Islamic Imperialism - a world dominated by the tyranny that is Islam.

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A call for tougher immigration laws is sweeping across the country and Texas seems to be leading the pack. Voters in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch will soon decide if it will be illegal to rent apartments to illegal immigrants. Now, some state legislators say the children of illegal immigrants should not receive state benefits.

House Bill 28 would deny babies of illegal immigrants from receiving state benefits such as food stamps, health care or public housing. That challenges the long standing federal policy of granting U.S. citizenship to babies born on American soil, no matter what their parents’ immigration status is.

House Bill 29 would impose an 8% fee on money transfers between Texas and Mexico, or Central and South America. Proceeds would pay for indigent health care.

House Bill 104 and House Bill 141 would amend a law that allows immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at public universities to exclude anyone in the country illegally.

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A federal court jury awarded $800,000 to a white police officer Friday, finding the city of Cleveland racially discriminated against him after he shot a black youth.

Patrolman Edward Lentz Jr. won the verdict five years after he wounded 12-year-old Lorenzo Locklear to end a confrontation that began outside the home of Mayor-elect Jane Campbell’s Shaker Square home.

During the ensuing city investigation, Lentz’s bosses yanked him from patrol duty and detailed him to the police gymnasium for 652 days. That miserable duty, Lentz claimed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, lasted far longer than any given to a black officer involved in a shooting.

It was clearly punitive, Lentz contended, and made him a scapegoat to appease black community leaders protesting a string of incidents in which white officers shot black suspects.

The all-white, nine-member jury found the city deliberately and intentionally discriminated against Lentz, and did so as a re sult of an official “policy or custom.” Jurors also found the city retaliated against Lentz by fil ing disciplinary charges to the fed eral Equal Employ ment Opportunity Commission when he complained during his protracted gym detail.

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When Pasco County’s schools wanted the voters to pass a school tax in 2004, they didn’t pussyfoot around.

They put a school employee in charge of the campaign, on the public’s dime. They put campaign literature in the schools and refused to let opponents of the tax do the same. They won.

Last year, the cities of Pinellas County got into a big fight with the county over questions on the ballot. So both sides spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars trying to sway the voters.

The cities even used their water bills to tell people how to vote. And when voters wrote the county for an absentee ballot, they got back a piece of county propaganda telling them to “Vote Yes.”

Pasco and Pinellas counties are not alone. Across Florida, city halls, county courthouses and school boards often spend tax dollars to “educate” voters on which way to vote.

In my book, that ought to be illegal. That is precisely the goal of Senate Bill 734, which has just been filed for the upcoming annual session of our Florida Legislature

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When French politics wants to show the world its cloven hoof, it shows Jean-Marie Le Pen. Now aged 78, the veteran leader of the Front National — a far-Right nationalist party no longer on the fringes of political life — is preparing to fight possibly his last presidential campaign.

He still has fewer than the 500 nominations needed from mayors to enter the lists: but having made it clear to the front-runner, Nicolas Sarkozy, that he will do everything to harm the Sarkozy campaign if he does not get nominated, help may soon be at hand. Mr Sarkozy probably will see to it that his party’s own mayors get Mr Le Pen on to the ballot.

Mr Le Pen shocked France in 2002 by coming second to Jacques Chirac and he is not setting his sights low this time. He once called the Nazi gas chambers “a detail of history”, but has superintended a softening of the FN’s image, in the hope of attracting mainstream votes.

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A Texas lawmaker is introducing a bill in February that would battle the 14th amendment, which grants citizenship to children born on American soil — including those born to illegal immigrants.

Lawmaker Leo Berman believes that immigrants are committing a crime against the U.S., from the time they’re in the hospital — but we grant their children citizenship anyway. “They’re violating our sovereignty and we’re granting them citizenship,” he said.

Democratic Texas lawmaker, Joaquin Castro says Berman is trying to interpret the Constitution to fit his agenda and create a name for himself. “It’s a low blow against children,” he said

Reader comments:

“The 14th amendment to the Constitution was written to ensure that the children of former slaves would be given automatic U.S. citizenship upon birth. There are no children of former slaves living in the United States today. The 14th amendment no longer applies and should be repealed.” — Robert

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