En el Reino Unido, la policía de la región inglesa de las West Midlands dio el año pasado un extremadamente inquietante paso: denunció a Channel 4, no por un presunto delito concreto, sino por lo que consideraba como una mala práctica periodística en uno de sus reportajes, "Undercover Mosque", en el que la cadena de televisión mostraba las imágenes conseguidas tras grabar con cámara oculta las brutales descargas de odio de los imanes a puerta cerrada en las mezquitas. Metidos a reguladores de la ética y la deontología periodística, los policías han tenido que envainarse ahora sus acusaciones, convertidos ya en poco más que en las tristes marionetas de los grupos musulmanes, cómodos mientras los agentes les hacen el trabajo sucio de 'cazaperiodistas". 

[Mientras en Holanda...] Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven es un holandés converso al islam que en 2005 denunció ante la policía al viñetista satírico, Gregorius Nekschot, por “islamofobia” e incitación al “odio racial”. El jueves pasado, un despliegue policial digno de operación antiterrorista de desarticulación de atentado inminente entró a saco en el domicilio de Nekschot en plena noche, con el dibujante durmiendo en su cama, y se le llevó a prisión junto con todo el material informático con el que pudo arramplar. Finalmente, tras la denuncia del converso, la fiscalía general del país había terminando sucumbiendo a la presión de un denominado Centro de Denuncias por Discriminación que, desde Internet y con financiación en parte pública, aseguraba haber recibido más de un centenar de quejas de grupos de musulmanes por la labor del viñetista. De forma que las autoridades ejecutaron la denuncia del converso, amparando las constantes protestas y acusaciones de las organizaciones islámicas y de cuanto individuo quiso apuntar con el dedo al dibujante desde la comodidad de su domicilio.

In the United Kingdon, the police from the English region of the West Midlands gave last year a disturbing step: they denounced Channel 4, not because of a concrete alleged crime, but because of what they considered it was a bad journalistic practice in one of their reports, "Undercover Mosque", in which the TV channel showed images they had recorded with a hidden camera the brutal downloading of hate from the Imams behind the doors of the mosques. Considering themselves the regulators of the ethic and the journalistic deontology, policemen have had to retract themselves from the accusations, having transformed themselves in sad puppets of the Muslim groups, who are very comfortable while the agents are doing the dirty work of "journalistbusters". But in other parts of Europe, politicians, prosecutors and policemen are beginnin other harrasment activities. Now, again a cartoonist is in the center of the Islamist typhoon in the Netherlands. But this time, Islamic organizations have learned their lesson. They are leadering from the rear front. Because in this case it is the Dutch Government the one who is leadering the hunting party.

Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven is a Dutch convert to Islam who denounced in 2005 the satirical cartoonist, Gregorius Nekschot, to the police because of "Islamophobia" and "stirring racial hatred". Last Thursday, within a policial operation more proper of an antiterrorist operation to dismember an imminent terrorist attack, the police entered Nekschot's home at night, when the cartoonist was sleeping in his bed, and took him to prison with all the computer material he had in his home. Finally, after the accusation from the convert, the General Prosecutor of the country has ended succumbing to the pressure of a self-called "Center for Denounces of Discrimination" that, from Internet and partly public financing, assured it has received more than a hundred complaints from Muslim groups about the cartoonist works.   So the authorities executed the convert's accusation, sheltering the constant protests and accusations from the Islamic organizations musulmanes por la labor del viñetista. So the authorities executed the convert's accusation, sheltering that way the constant protests and accusations that Islamic organizations and every other guy who wanted to point the cartoonist from their homes' comfortableness, made at that time.

One more time, the extreme violence of the Muslim converts in Europe -emitters of some of the most hateful speeches against Western societies where they were born-, Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven is a man that, on TV and some time before accussing the cartoonist, congratulated himself on the murder of Theo van Gogh and stated openly his hope of someone killing Geert Wilders the same way. Today Van de Ven continues free and active working as an imam in an organization with Saudi funding, while Nekschot has fallen into an apocalypsis of investigations and potential processes that's not less than the huge jihad of death threats who had been directed towards him, after the Dutch Prosecutor's office began the process , even if he works with a pseudonym, Nekschot, "shot in the neck", in Dutch. 

But when Nekschot was still in prison (he was two days detained), the Dutch Government saw himself in the middle of a political tornado with similar accusations from different political positions, both from far-right and far-left and from centered positions. The political accusations included the Labour party, one off the members of the coalition which forms the Government. Even the leftist newspaper, like De Volksrant, screamed in earnest against the harrasment to free speech, a harrasment that unites European Governments with Islam, which is extremely succesful in its gagging efforts in European lands.“In Denmark, they protect the cartoonist; in the Netherlands, the police arrest them”, De Volksrant said alluding to the case of Mohammed cartoons.

In fact, the most acid critics of the Government's action are this time the Dutch leftists, including those who are forming the coalition in the Government, like radical socialists, who said that "persecuting an artist because of his work is absurd". What is more, it has been a center-right party, the Demo-Christian CDA, the one who has stated that "probably the Prosecutor's office has good reasons to act the way it has acted", an attitude which  contrasts with the words of a Labour MP, who said that "prosecuting a cartoonist is going too far". The scandal has been so great that the Justice Minister has begged the pardon of the Parliament, stating his intention of investigating if there has been committed any unlawful acts in the process.

The Nekschot case was happening as the police from British West Midlands was obliged to apologize and to pay a considerable amount of money in concepto of indemnification to Channel 4, after accusing the TV channel of "spreading an ideology of intolerance and hate". In another uncomprehensive case of Western judicial systems' auto-prosecution, the Prosecutor's office and the Police united last August to accuse Channel 4 of "having distorted completely" the agressively incendiary sermons of the Imams recorded by the TV reporters with a hidden camera and which were aired with the name of "Undercover Mosque", revealing the massive charges of hate and menaces against United Kingdom and the Western way of life promoted by the Imams who, in a "surprising" double speech, were speaking outside their mosques about their moderated role and of Islam as the "Religion of Peace". After investigating the rabid statements of the Islamic clerics shown in the report, the police concluded that, even if they were "ofensive", there was nothing illegal in them. But they found allegedly criminal illegality in the role played by the journalists who had made the report, so they sent a report to Ofcom, the UK regulator of MSM. 

Ofcom, by the way, has considered that the report was impeccable in its edition of the statements, which shows that, after having to pay a considerable amount of money in concept of damages to Channel 4 because of the police activity in the case, the taxpayers have seen West Midlands' police making a formal apology, because they began the persecution against the TV Channel. But they did not and have not begun ANY action against the extremelly agressive imams and their teams who, from inside the mosques, were shouting for the destruction of the infidel in the Western world. Precisely, the Association of the Muslim Policemen of the UK was created at the beginning of this year, whose objective, just as the one created in Scotland, is to "fight against Islamophobia" of the societies in which they are serving for as agents. At the same time, there is no trace (and there is neither proof it would be tolerated) of an "Association of Christian Policemen", which would proclaim openly an activist view of their role inside the Police, as the Muslim agents are doing.

Just the same as what happened with a Belarus journalist who was condemned some months ago because of republishing the Danish Mo-toons, the situation was even aggravated from Brussels, when, in the middle of the persecution against the journalists in the name of "the fight against Islamophobia", the European Union decided a month ago to pass a Directive to fight against "hate" and "racism", terms in which the critics to Islam are included and, potentially, any other information like the one of Channel 4's report, that is not of the policial (or other type) bureacrat's liking. The new Directive passed by the Interior Ministers, which should be sanctioned by the national parliaments, considers a crime of European range any activity of this characteristics, but is seeings by many as a new and potentially devastating attack against the freedom of expression in Europe. This has to be considered inside the normal pressure from groups like the self-named "European Net against Racism", which considers the Directive text as very soft.

Germany considers the text also as "soft", because there is no express mention to the Holocaust, one of the Berlin's obssesions who is not, as should be, worried with the same intensity about German Muslim community, one of the most incendiary ones in Europe, severely excited and supported from Ankara, their home country, and with Islamic organizations totally silent because they see that the European policemen, prosecutors and politicians are doing their dirty work to crush any critical or merely descriptive voice about what is happening inside or outside their mosques.

This cartoon from the Chronicle Herald newspaper was drawn by Bruce MacKinnon and is supposed to reference the wife of one of the Toronto 18 - Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal. Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal if you recall was featured in a Globe and Mail article back in 2006 titled Hateful Chatter Behind the Veil.  She praises the Khadr (Canada's al-Qaeda) family and even fundraises to help Ahmed Said Khadr's widow, Maha. Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal and her friends hate Canada, hate jews, hate gays, hate fellow Muslims, and in general just hate us - but apparently this cartoon, is a possible hate crime.

Officials of various UN agencies called a news conference in Bangkok to give an update on their relief operations. The most basic data was missing, from the number of orphans to the extent of diseases and the number of refugee camps.

They also couldn't say whether all survivors are in camps, on the move or still living in destroyed villages in the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta. Cyclone Nargis also pounded Rangoon.

"The risk increases with each passing day," Pitt said, referring to the vulnerability of survivors to outbreaks of disease and other problems.

Even the death toll has not been confirmed.

"Everyone is still using range of figures because we don't have data yet. Access is making that difficult. We simply don't have the information, and I can't say when we will have it," said Steve Marshall, a UN official who has just returned from Burma. 

The government says at least 43,318 people were killed in the cyclone and nearly 28,000 are missing, but the Red Cross fears the toll may be as high as 128,000

France angered by Burmese aid delay @ BBC.

France's ambassador to the UN has accused Burma's government of being on the verge of committing a crime against humanity by not accepting foreign aid.

Jean-Maurice Ripert made the comment during a General Assembly session, after Burma's UN ambassador accused France of sending a warship to region.

France says the ship is carrying 1,500 tonnes of food and medicine for survivors of Cyclone Nargis.

State TV has put the official death toll of the 2 May storm at 78,000.

Another 56,000 people are thought to be missing according to the latest official estimates, which nearly double the figures released on Thursday, raising fears the final human toll may be enormous.

On Saturday May 17th we want as many people as possible to gather across the world to call for the International community to intervene in the humanitarian crisis in Burma. These can be in the form of peaceful demonstrations or vigils which will be held to urge world governments and the United Nations to intervene by supplying aid to the 1.7 million people affected by cyclone Nargis.

The Burmese regime has consistently blocked the international community from providing food, water and medical supplies to the worst affected regions. Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of death through starvation, dehydration and preventable diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea.

A truly global protest could make a BIG difference, YOU could make a big difference, as one Burmese refugee aid worker put it to us: "Global protest is a great idea. I told these guys about it and they are excited about it. Knowing that the world is with them means a lot."

"The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country.
The UN body says the Burmese government seized aid material flown in to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, which has killed tens of thousands.
The WFP said it had no choice but to halt aid until the matter was resolved.
Burma's ruling generals have faced mounting criticism over their handling of the crisis.
The UN fears more than 1.5 million people have been affected by the cyclone, with tens of thousands made homeless and vulnerable to disease.
Burmese state media say 22,980 people were killed, but there are fears the figure could rise to 100,000.
Hundreds of thousands of people have no food, water or shelter. International aid agencies on the ground say they have reached only 10% of those that need help.
Despite this, Burma's foreign ministry issued a statement on Friday saying it was not ready to allow foreign aid workers to enter the country.
The junta said it was happy to accept aid, but insisted it would control the distribution itself."

"Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz (right), America’s staunchest ally in the royal house, Minister of Defense and head of the Sudairi branch of princes, is dying of cancer at his villa in Geneva, Switzerland.

His brother, interior minister Prince Nayef (left), is standing by in Riyadh expecting to succeed him. And he will not have too long to wait before he reaches the throne. King Abdullah, at 85, is praised by Western analysts for the wise reforms he has introduced but some of the younger princes say he is no longer up to coping with the stresses and strains of his royal duties and most days he takes several hours off to rest."

Prince Nayef, the would-be king, who is roughly 75 years of age – a mere spring chicken on the Saudi royal geriatric scale – has managed to push his way to the front of the race for the throne despite his unpopularity. A scion of the Sudairi branch of the royal family, he is disliked for his bad temper, cantankerousness, hidebound opinions and close ties with the most extremist clerical circles.

Aged 83, Sultan contracted cancer many years ago. In late March, he moved to his palace in Rabat, Morocco, where Saturday, April 26, his condition took a turn for the worse. A special royal aircraft flew the Crown Prince to Geneva, Switzerland and handed him into the care of his regular Swiss doctors. There was nothing they could do at that point except place him in an induced coma to spare him pain.

Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaidan, the chief justice, who oversees terrorist trials, was recorded on tape in a mosque in 2004, encouraging young men to fight in Iraq. Entering Iraq has become risky now, he cautioned. It requires avoiding those evil satellites and those drone aircraft, which own every corner of the skies over Iraq. If someone knows that he is capable of entering Iraq in order to join the fight, and if his intention is to raise up the word of God, then he is free to do so.