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A devastating catalogue of errors by the security services

Intelligence and Security Committee report into the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in May 2013 is a devastating catalogue of errors made by the security services. The report explains that prior to events of May 2013 both Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale – subsequently convicted of the murder – were known to the security services, but they weren’t treated as priority suspects.

The warning signs were there, but over the course of several years - and seven Agency operations - landline telephone records went unchecked, links with other suspected terrorists weren’t followed up, and warrants for intrusive surveillance were not requested in circumstances which the Committee describes as ‘surprising’.

Even when Adebolajo returned from Kenya, having been voluntarily deported as a result of suspected involvement with terrorism there, he was not monitored by the security services and his allegations that he was tortured in Kenya were not investigated. When it was finally decided to place Adebowale under surveillance, there was a huge delay in granting authorisation for this request. The report reveals that, had this request been dealt with

in a timely manner, at least one of the men would have been under surveillance in the days leading up to the murder.

When challenged by the ISC, the security services responded that they didn’t realise that the pair posed a threat, and in any case, even if they had looked at the content of communications, they would have dismissed most of it as rhetoric rather than demonstrating intent to kill.

However the ISC concluded that had this series of basic errors not been made, many more routes of investigation would have been open to the agencies and decisions as to priority may have taken on a different colour. The Committee stated that there was no way of knowing whether the outcome would have been different, but over the course of 191 pages the evidence speaks for itself.

And yet having revealed serious individual and cumulative failings on the part of the Agencies, the Committee then decides to place the blame on the communication service providers (CSP). The report describes an email written

by Adebolajo in December 2012 in which he sets out that he wants to

kill a soldier, and claims that had the security services had access to this email, the suspects would have become a ‘top priority’. Deep in the body of the report, it is explained that the relevant CSP was not asked to intercept the suspect’s emails. It is also explained that had the CSP refused to hand over the information, the security services would have had the technological capability to get it for themselves.

The reason that none of this had happened was because – yet again – the security services didn’t consider his monitoring to be priority.

To blame the CSPs for not doing the work of the security services can only be described as perverse and is a dangerous deflection from the real issues at play.

In the face of a report showing that the UK’s anti-terror strategy is counterproductive and failing on almost every level it is bizarre that the Government is poised to introduce more of the same via its new counter terror legislation, due to be published today. Granting further divisive powers when it is clear that they are unable to properly use the ones they already have makes no sense, and will do nothing to make us any safer.

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Business, Innovation & Skills that identified twelve licences for components which it concluded could been used in the recent conflict.

CAAT says that despite its own findings the Government chose not to suspend a single licence.

Andrew Smith from CAAT, said: “Right up until the eve of the

bombing, the UK was supporting licences for the same kinds of weapons that Vince Cable’s own review found are likely to have been used against the people of Gaza.”

Last month, in a legal letter written to CAAT, the Government announced that it would be conducting a new review of arms sales to Israel.

The UK has a history of selling arms to Israel. A Ministerial Statement on 21 April 2009, by the then Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary David Miliband, confirmed that Israeli equipment used in Gaza in the 2008-9 conflict almost certainly contained UK-supplied components.

“Unfortunately it would not have been the first time UK weapons were used by Israel.

This new review will only be worthwhile if it means a real and fundamental change from business as usual. The public was rightfully shocked by the bombardment.

That is why the UK must announce a full embargo on all arms sales to Israel and an end to military collaboration”, concluded Andrew Smith. * Read the Treasury Solicitor’s letter to CAAT here https://www.caat. org.uk/resources/countries/israel/ legal/2014-11-05.tsol...

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Concerns raised over UK’s anti-terror bill

Britain’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson, has raised his concerns over the government’s new CounterTerrorism and Security Bill.

His response came after U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May outlined new measures in the draft bill including the establishment of a statutory duty for universities, schools, and prisons to prevent terrorism and radicalization.

The measures also included a ban on insurance companies from paying ransoms to kidnappers, the placement of temporary exclusion orders for British citizens who are suspected of terrorist activity abroad, and requirements on airlines to provide passenger data.

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Anderson said of the bill to the Joint Committee on Human Rights: “I sense that this was an announcement waiting for a policy.

“Where are the courts in all of this?” he asked, saying there could be a “more sensible” way of dealing with terror suspects.

He said: “One could look at it in terms of young, possibly vulnerable people, caught up with the wrong crowd in Syria – didn’t really know exactly what they were doing.

“Do you want to throw the book at them straight away in terms of arrest and charge? Or is there something to be said, even though you do suspect them of having fought, of keeping them under a very light regime where they might have to report daily to a

police station?”

Anderson, who was appointed by the Home Secretary and Treasury to report to Parliament on the operation of U.K. counter-terrorism law in the U.K., said alternative methods of dealing with vulnerable people could “be a more sensible way of dealing with them than putting them straight into the criminal justice process”.

The proposals unveiled by May which would see greater “anti-terror” powers being given to authorities have been criticized by human rights organizations and charity leaders.

Responding to the new bill, Amnesty International UK Legal advisor, Rachel Logan, said that it was dangerous to rush through “this grab-bag of measures without proper scrutiny or challenge”.

Human rights group Liberty’s Director Shami Chakrabarti said: “Yet again, politicians resort to high talk and rushed legislation in an attempt to look tough in the face of terrorism”.

The U.K. raised its terror level to “severe” from “substantial” a few months ago following increasing tensions over the conflicts in Iraq and Syria.

The British government says up to 500 Britons have traveled abroad to take part in fighting in Syria, and that at least 218 have returned to the U.K. www.pi-media.co.uk

Law Society drops Sharia wills guidance The Law Society has withdrawn its practice note on Sharia succession principles following feedback, including from some members.

Law Society president Andrew Caplen said: ‘Our practice note was

intended to support members to better serve their clients as far as is allowed by the law of England and Wales.

‘We reviewed the note in the light of criticism. We have withdrawn the

note and we are sorry.’

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Human rights group backs report on muslim charities persecution

CAGE supports the findings of the Claystone Report into the recent crackdown on UK charities, which has now taken the form of a draft protection of charities bill that empowers the Charity Commission to single out Muslim charities in the guise of combating “extremism”.

According to the report, Muslim charities have been disproportionately affected by investigations by the Charity Commission, with 38% of all disclosed statutory investigations initiated after January 1st 2013 and still ongoing being on Muslim charities.

The report raises particular concerns with the continued broad definition of “extremism”, the political appointment of William

Shawcross to a non-partisan chair, and the resultant tendency for some organisations to be under perpetual “investigation” by the Commission.

These moves threaten civil liberties, create suspicion among British communities, and will further alienate Muslims.

CAGE issues the following statements in support of the Claystone Report: “There is no clear definition of extremism aside from the fact that it encompasses all views that are a threat to ‘British values’, but what exactly British values are has also not been clearly defined,” says Cerie Bullivant, spokesperson for CAGE. “In this atmosphere, the burden of proof falls on individuals and groups already disadvantaged by laws that

are easily manipulated, and ideology as opposed to action becomes a crime.”

“The report raises key evidence that Shawcross’s appointment is part of a string of appointments where Conservative-backed figures were placed in offices that are supposed to be non-partisan, thereby threatening civil liberties.”

“The Muslim community has had a strong and sustained relationship with the charity sector, and charity is core to Islamic belief. Moves such as this risk being seen as an attack on Islam and will further alienate Muslims.”

“CAGE has had its own bank accounts shut down and funders investigated without being given any clear proof to justify why this is happening. This is taking place in a sector where experts have clearly stated that there are no clear links between charities and extremism.”

“Policy on charities should be simple. If the law has been broken, then the police should be contacted.

The Charity Commission must not operate outside of its expertise in remit.”

“The British government must seriously review its counter terror laws, not add more. Our domestic policy is increasingly marginalising people so that they are more likely to commit violence.”

UK criticized for admitting tiny number of Syria refugees

A coalition of international aid groups has lashed out at the UK for admitting a very small number of the people displaced by the war in Syria.

In an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron published

by The Independent, more that 30 aid organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, Amnesty International, the Refugee Council, CAFOD and Christian Aid criticized the UK government for accepting around 100 Syrian refugees, while it had committed to accepting more.

The aid group described as

“woefully inadequate” the UK’s response to the Syria refugee crisis, urging Cameron to “take the lead” in resettling some 10,000 refugees who are most vulnerable.

Earlier in February, the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, urged Western countries to open their doors to 100,000 Syrians, who need to find a haven outside their conflictstricken country.

In spite of a January pledge by the British government to admit up to 500 Syrian refugees, the Thursday immigration figures show that only

around 100 Syrians have arrived under the government’s Vulnerable Persons Relocation (VPR) scheme.

Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since 2011. Millions of Syrians have fled their homes as a result of the conflict. According to the UN, more than 200,000 people have died in the Syrian conflict since March 2011.

Syria’s neighbors, including Lebanon and Jordan, have warned that they have reached their threshold for accommodating displaced Syrians.

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Charity Commission launches consultation on changes to guidance for trustees

The regulator seeks views on the new draft, which says that trustees must comply with good practice unless they can justify not doing so, rather than treating it as optional.

The Charity Commission has launched a consultation on a new draft of The Essential Trustee (CC3), its guide to trustee duties, which makes clear that trustees who do not follow best practice might be breaching their legal duties.

The consultation runs until 17

February, with the commission asking specific questions or for consultees’ general comments on the old version or the new one, which is in draft form.

A document published by the commission outlining the changes says that the new version explains that trustees are expected to comply with specified good practice unless they can justify not doing so. Previously, good practice was explained by the guidance as “what trustees should do”, meaning some

trustees and their advisers have treated it as optional.

The document says other changes include a better layout, links to other commission guidance to avoid repetition and reflections of the commission’s current position and priorities.

Jane Hobson, head of policy at the commission, said: “It’s vital that trustees understand what we expect of them, and the revised guidance provides a clear, succinct and upto-date picture. Trustees’ basic legal responsibilities have not changed, nor has our role as regulator.

“The changes around ‘must’ and ‘should’ shouldn’t affect most charity trustees, who already take their role seriously. It’s a case of trustees understanding that ‘should’ means ‘really should’ – not ‘maybe, if you feel like it’.”

Muslim groups take Schedule 7 to Supreme Court In Case You Missed It

Schedule 7, which forms part of the Terrorism Act 2000, allows police to hold someone at a UK port for questioning for up to nine hours about whether they have been involved with acts of terrorism.

Anyone detained must “give the examining officer any information in his possession which the officer requests” or face arrest. Police need to have no reasonable suspicion to stop, interrogate or detain anybody.

Supreme Court hearing relates to the case of Sylvie Beghal, a French national of Algerian descent, who was stopped under the powers after arriving with her children at East Midlands Airport on a flight from Paris.

The mother of three refused to answer the questions put to her - which included requests for information about the French-

Algerian community in the UK - without the presence of a lawyer and was subsequently convicted for wilfully failing to comply with her duty under Schedule 7 to answer questions.

Mrs Beghal unsuccessfully brought a challenge against her conviction before the High Court last year. She had claimed that the detention had violated her rights under the European Convention on Human Rights - namely the right to liberty (Article 5), right to a fair trial (Article 6) the right to protection for her private and family life (Article 8).

She also argued that the prosecution was an unjustifiable interference with her “right to free movement” within an EU country as an EU national.

Judges rejected her appeal and Ms Beghal is now appealing to the Supreme Court. Her case is being

supported by several organisations including the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) and CAGE, who, with the support and coordination of the law firm Leigh Day, will all present evidence of the discriminatory and disproportionate impact of Schedule 7 on Muslims and minority ethnic communities.

Asif Bhayat at CAGE, said: “Recent statistics show a 100% rise in Islamophobia related incidents in the UK, Muslims are feeling targeted by state institutions in the same way.

We really hope that Schedule 7 misconduct is treated similarly to the old section 44 terror law which was equally abused before it was scrapped. It’s about time the Muslim community stopped being scared of being branded ‘extremist’ for challenging the status quo.”

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High Court will hear case of UK torture and rendition victim

A High Court judge has said that a victim of UK rendition and torture can proceed with his claims against the British Government.

In a judgment handed down today on 19 November, Mr Justice Leggatt found that the court would be “failing in its duty” if it did not deal with the claims of Yunus Rahmatullah, from Pakistan. Mr Rahmatullah was seized by UK forces in Iraq in 2004 and tortured before being handed over to the US and rendered to Bagram prison in Afghanistan, via the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He suffered a further decade of

secret US detention before he was finally released in June this year.

The UK long denied any involvement in rendition, before being forced to correct the record in Parliament in 2008, when thenDefence Secretary John Hutton publically admitted that the rendition of Yunus Rahmatullah and another man, Amanatullah Ali, had taken place.

The judgment by Mr Justice Leggatt, published this morning, confirms he was unconvinced by the Government’s ‘Foreign Act of State’ argument – the theory that

a British court cannot hear cases where the UK has cooperated with another state, in this case the US, in wrongdoing. Mr Leggatt wrote: “If it is necessary to adjudicate on whether acts of US personnel were lawful… in order to decide whether the defendants violated the claimant’s legal rights, then the court can and must do so.”

Today’s judgment follows a recent Court of Appeal ruling that a separate renditions case – Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and anor v Jack Straw and ors – should be heard, despite similar claims by the British Government that doing so would damage US-UK relations.

Kat Craig, legal director at the charity Reprieve, which is assisting Mr Rahmatullah, said: “Yunus Rahmatullah suffered some of the most shocking abuses of the ‘war on terror’ – now we know the Government’s attempt to avoid accountability for his ordeal is without merit. The fact is that victims of British rendition and torture, like Yunus, deserve their day in court – the Government must accept this, and be prepared to answer for its past actions.”

UK Muslim group slams school ‘witch-hunt’ A report by the U.K.’s education standards body Ofsted which declared six Muslim schools in east London to be “at risk of extremist views and radicalisation” amounts to a “witch hunt,” a Muslim group has said.

The comments came after Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) said in an advice note to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan that he was “extremely concerned about the large number of failings in each

of the six independent schools inspected.”

In a report released on Friday into six independent Muslim schools, Wilshaw said students’ “physical and educational welfare is at serious risk.”

But Asghar Bukhari of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee told Anadolu Agency: “To me, this is just another witch hunt against Muslims.

“Young people are supposed to explore different ideas, supposed to go through challenging views and ideologies, and mull them over and be allowed to do that, not be

demonised for taking a different stand or listening to the opinion of someone the government doesn’t like.”

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Discovering their names in the Emirates terror list, British Muslim groups have announced intention to sue the UAE against the list that has sparked public outcry across European and American Muslim communities.

“We are consulting with our lawyers to see what kind of legal action we will be taking,” Omer alHamdoon, a 42-year-old Imam who heads the British Muslim Association

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(MAB) in London told Middle East Eye. The inclusion of several Islamic think tanks, lobby groups and humanitarian organizations from across Europe and America has sparked a public outcry, accusing Emirates of tarnishing the image of Muslims.

The Cordoba Foundation (TCF), a think tank, has also rejected the Emirati list as “an unprecedented and

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irresponsible move and condemns the motives behind such a draconian measure.

“It is evident that the UAE have become agitated given the barrage of international opposition to oppression, anti-reform, and antidemocratic policies within its own borders and beyond, namely Egypt, Libya, and Yemen,” the statement added.

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New fast-track UK visa for Emiratis available in 24 hours A new fast-track 24-hour visa service for UAE nationals travelling to the UK is now available, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has announced.

The UAE was one of seven countries that were included in an expansion of the Super Priority Visa Service that’s already available in India and China, where demand has been averaging 50 to 60 applications per month and over 100 per month respectively.

The service is aimed at business leaders, investors and wealthy tourists who need to travel urgently,

and is part of the government’s efforts to attract more investment in Britain.

Welcoming the roll-out of the service, the Prime Minister said: “As part of our long-term economic plan, we are determined to do everything we can to back business, support investment and create jobs.

“We are already taking action on that front including cutting corporation tax to the lowest rate in the G7 but we’ve got to keep listening to business about what more we can do to support them. And this new 24 hour service is another way we can

help – it will persuade more business travellers, investors and tourists to visit Britain, to trade with Britain and to expand in Britain.”

Each visa application will cost £600 and those applying must meet the strict requirements of the UK’s immigration rules. An application through the 24 hour service does not in any way guarantee a visa application will be successful.

Other countries included in the expanded Super Priority Visa Service are South Africa, Thailand, Philippines, as well as the cities of New York and Paris.

Egypt court clears Mubarak of murder charges

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Tunisian detainee released from Guantánamo Bay

An Egyptian court dropped a case against former president Hosni Mubarak on charges of conspiring in the killing of protesters during a 2011 uprising.

The court also cleared ex-interior minister Habib al-Adly and six former top security officials of charges of ordering the murder of hundreds of protesters during the 18-day uprising, which ended Mubarak’s 30-year rule in early 2011.

In late 2012, Mubarak and al-Adly were both sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering the murder of demonstrators during the uprising.

The court later ordered a retrial, however, after the former president’s lawyers successfully appealed the sentence.

During the trial session, the court cleared Mubarak of corruption charges related to gas exports to Israel.

The judge also dropped another corruption charge against Mubarak, his two sons Alaa and Gamal and business tycoon Hussein Salem, saying that too much time had elapsed since the alleged crime took place for the court to rule in the case. www.pi-media.co.uk

A Tunisian national has been released from Guantánamo Bay after 13 years imprisoned without charge or trial.

Hisham Sliti, who is represented by the legal charity Reprieve, has been resettled in Eastern Europe along with four other detainees.

Siti was sold for a bounty to Pakistani soldiers in December 2001 before being handed to US forces in January 2002 and tortured over four months in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was transferred to Guantánamo in May 2002.

Whilst in Guantánamo, Siti spent years in isolation and suffered abuse. One interrogator, nicknamed “King Kong”, threw a mini-fridge at him, striking him in the face and leaving visible scars.”

UN launches $405 million aid appeal for Afghanistan

The United Nations launched a $405 million humanitarian assistance appeal for Afghanistan.

“We all wish to see a time when humanitarian assistance would no longer be needed,” Mark Bowden, the UN humanitarian coordinator, said in Kabul at the launch of the appeal.

“We must not allow Afghanistan to become forgotten emergencies,” Bowden added.

The UN official said the dragging armed conflict killed 7,965 civilians during the first nine months of the current year, 20 percent of whom were children.

Also, an estimated 100,000 people were forced to flee their homes across the country.

Bowden said that around 1.2 million children in Afghanistan were acutely malnourished, half a million of whom were younger than five.

He said half-a-million children die each year of preventable disease, and already 4,000 families were facing the onset of winter without adequate housing.

Aid activists too have come under serious threats while delivering services in the war-ravaged country.

The UN envoy said so far there had been 174 armed attacks on aid workers, which claimed the lives of 36 humanitarians.

Local experts said there must be coherence between the Afghan government and the donors.

Analyst Nizamuddin Katawazi said

some donor-driven projects had not yielded desired results in the past.

“The Afghan government should propose projects rather than the donor community implementing its own programs,” Katawazi suggested.

He said the Kabul government must also ensure transparency in the implementation of all such projects.

Also the Human Rights Watchdog urged foreign donors to press the new Afghan government to address the country’s persistent human rights problems at a major upcoming international donor conference in London.

The human rights body made the demand in letters to representatives of more than a dozen donor countries.

New political party launched in Turkey

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A new political party called the Electronic Democracy Party, or eParty, has emerged in Turkey weeks before the country enters election year in 2015.

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Halici said he had submitted the petition for the new party at the Turkish Interior Ministry.

The parliamentarian was a member of the opposition group, the

Nigerian Muslims irked by new ‘anti-Islamic’ banknote A new Nigerian banknote that removed an inscription written in Arabic letters has drawn the ire of the country’s Muslim community, with activists linking the note’s design to President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged disregard for Muslims – an assertion the presidency denies.

“The removal of the Arabic inscription, which is written in a language known in Nigeria’s north as ‘Ajami,’ from the new naira note is very unfortunate,” Khalid Aliyu, spokesman for the Muslim apex body Jama’atu Nasrul Islam (JNI), told The Anadolu Agency.

“This [the new note] is a slap on the face of the Muslims and a total disregard for their rights. We feel very strongly about this,” Aliyu said, noting that, on the new note, the Ajami had been replaced with a symbol that some say resembles a six-pointed star, a sign associated with Israel.

President Jonathan recently unveiled a new 100-naira currency note, which does not contain the inscription in Arabic letters featured on the old one, but still contains the name of the money in Nigeria’s three

major languages: Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa.

Use of the Ajami language, which is a local Hausa dialect that uses Arabic letters, predates the arrival of the British in Nigeria.

Frequently used in the country’s majority-Muslim north, it is said that most of the African continent’s precolonial history was written in Ajami.

“It is a total disregard for the integrity and identity of Muslims in this country when a whole segment that constituted more than half of this country whose way of communication, the Ajami, right from time is being obliterated and now to be substituted by a Jewish sign,” said Aliyu.

“It shows that, as Nigerians, we don’t even matter and even foreigners are better than us and that is a sign of insensitive leadership that doesn’t care about the cost or the implications of the actions they take,” he charged.

The Muslim leader went on to rebuke Jonathan for the move, saying it did not demonstrate good governance on his part. www.pi-media.co.uk

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Republican Peoples Party or the CHP, until September.

The party founder said the principles of his e-Party could be accessed online. He claimed that many people have already expressed interest.

He said members of the newly formed party were mainly tech-savvy young people. The party aims to contact people face-to-face as well, he said.

According to Turkey’s Supreme Election Board, 25 parties registered to participate in the country’s last local elections in March 2014.

Palestinian inmates assaulted by Israeli jail guards: PA An unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners at Israel’s Ramon Prison were injured after being attacked by prison guards, a Palestinian Authority (PA) official said.

“Israeli guards stormed a ward of Ramon Prison, triggering clashes with Palestinian prisoners,” Issa Qaraqe, head of the PA’s agency for Palestinian prisoners, said in a statement.

The clashes left several prisoners wounded, he said, without providing further details.

The clashes, Qaraqe added, had come following a thorough search of the prison by the Israeli authorities and after a number of prisoners were denied cash provided by their families.

Around 1,000 Palestinians are currently held in Ramon Prison in southern Israel.

The Israeli authorities are yet to comment on Qaraqe’s assertions.

Over 7,000 Palestinians continue to languish in prisons throughout Israel, according to official Palestinian statistics.

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A tendency toward using violence is continuing to grow among far-right extremists in Germany, according to a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Almost 29 percent of right-wing extremists surveyed said that they are ready to use violence, including physically, if they would feel it necessary to protect their interests, according to the German political foundation aimed at promoting democracy and political education.

The figures show an increase on the 21.5 percent of right-wing extremists who expressed a tendency toward violence in a similar

survey carried out in 2006.

The foundation’s biannual survey, “The Fragile Middle”, analyzes rightwing attitudes in German society, focusing on support for authoritarian dictatorship, anti-Semitism, approval of chauvinism and the trivialization of National Socialism.

The researchers of the Bielefeld University’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, who conducted the research for foundation, concluded that right-wing attitudes have been on the decline in Germany compared with 2012, but were still on a considerable extent.

They stressed that while a general decline in right-wing attitudes is evident, the radicalization within the far-right demands attention.

The research has registered a decrease in xenophobia from 25.1 percent in 2012 to 7.5 percent in 2014.

A total of 12.1 percent of those surveyed expressed support for chauvinist views, while 1.8 percent expressed views that praised National Socialism.

Those who favored anti-Semitic attitudes increased from 8.5 percent in July to 14.1 percent in September.

A total of 31.5 percent of those surveyed said that they “sometimes feel like a foreigner in their own country due to so many Muslims living here,” while 18.2 percent of Germans expressed support for the prohibition of immigration of Muslims to Germany.

The research team made telephone interviews with 1,915 citizens aged between 16 and 95, a representative group reflecting the demographic composition of the German population.

The research was conducted between June and September.

Israel’s Interior Minister Gild Erdan renewed a travel ban against Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement inside Israel, for the third time in a row, the movement said.

“Israel’s security arms issued an order for maintaining the travel ban against Sheikh Salah,” the Islamic Movement inside Israel added on its website, noting that the ban would be in effect until January 9.

Salah, a Palestinian who lives in northern Israel, is an outspoken opponent of Israel’s settlement construction policies.

Some observers have said that the travel ban renewal against the

man aims to tighten the noose around him against the background of his defense of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Islamic Movement said in the travel ban renewal notice, which was signed by the Israeli Interior Minister himself and handed Salah, Israel wrote that Salah’s travel abroad would harm its security.

Salah, meanwhile, was unfazed by the ban, saying in comment that Israeli authorities would never succeed in laying a siege around his voice, even if they managed to lay a siege around his body.

“My voice is the voice of every free man in the Arab world,” Salah

was quoted by the website of the movement as saying. “This voice cannot be silenced or broken because it is the voice of right against the Israeli occupation,” he added.

Describing the Israeli move as “racist”, Salah added that Israel was mistaken in believing that it could break the will of the Palestinian people or defeat Palestinians living in Jerusalem.

This is the third time the travel ban against Salah is renewed. The ban was renewed for six months in June. It was initially issued for a month earlier.

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Restrictions on use of hijab in Nigeria condemned

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The Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) has expressed worries over the incessant denial of the right and duty of Muslim women and girls regarding the wearing of hijab in some parts of the country.

The organisation particularly expressed disappointment at the recent ruling of a Lagos high court banning the use of hijab in public schools in Lagos State.

A release by FOMWAN’s National Amirah (President), Hajia A. B. Omoti, said the court ruling had upset the Muslim community in the state and, indeed, the entire country as evidenced by the series of protests, agitations and press conferences by

various Muslim groups.

“Islam, without gainsaying, is both a religion and a way of life for adherents. Hijab is a covering for Muslim women and girls, the wearing of which is an injunction of Allah, aimed at protecting the vulnerability of women in the society.

“Hijab is also a form of dressing by which female Muslims manifest profession and practice of their faith.

“The Nigerian Constitution, section 38(B), recognises the fundamental right of citizens to adhere to and practice their religion.

“It is in recognition of this fundamental right that the Federal Government, in its wisdom, prescribed a dress code for the

Belarus bans headscarved photos for IDs and passports Muslim women’s in Belarus are now banned from having any photos on ID cards showing them with the headscarf.

In the capital city of Minsk, the Religious and National Interfaith Commissioner Council that is tied to the government in their annual general meeting came to some agreements.

Amongst these was the decision that will affect Muslim women whereby the headscarf will be banned in all official photos.

Dmitry Levchenko, the President of the Domestic Residency Department said that no photographs of scarves or hats will be accepted

on identification cards or passports.

Levchenko also pointed that in 2008 a decision was made that photographs of women with their headscarves will no longer be accepted on passports.

The Mufti of Belarus Ali Varanovich who participated in the meeting stated that Muslim women must wear their headscarf and that this was something that all sects within the Islamic community agreed upon, that this issue of photographs would be a serious issue that cannot be resolved any other way and that this ban will effectively give way to distrust between the Muslim community and the government.

Muslim girl in the unity schools throughout the country,” FOMWAN said.

It said the Oyo and Ekiti state governments had similarly given approval for Muslim students in their public schools to don the hijab.

“We are also aware that female nurses in training and qualified female nurses in most government hospitals are permitted to wear the hijab. This policy has recently been approved by the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), in Lagos State.

“In view of the forgoing, FOMWAN calls on the Lagos State government to take a look into this serious issue as a matter of urgency in the interest of peace and harmony in the state.“It is our hope and prayer that this matter would be amicably resolved,” the organisation added.

Georgia returns mosques back to Muslims

The Georgian Governments Financial Affairs Commission held a meeting where the representatives of the three major religions were in attendance.

In the meeting, the issue of sacred relics that were previously taken to be returned to the rightful religious organisations was discussed.

During the meeting, their financial value was weighed Acoording to news reports in the Georgian media, this meeting was seen as the first that assessed the possessions and the financial situation of religious organisations.

Close to 58 buildings and their position was assessed in the meeting and it was decided that 21 of them would be handed over to Georgian Muslim control.

The remaining Muslim places of worship that weren’t returned will be decided at a later date.

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14,000 Muslims forced to leave Myanmar: Rights Groups In Case You Missed It

Rights groups say thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been forced to leave Myanmar in the last few weeks due to a new controversial government plan.According to the Rakhine Action Plan passed by the government recently, over one million Rohingya Muslims will face expulsion unless they can prove their family has lived in the Asian country for more than 60 years.

“In the last few weeks alone, 14,500 Rohingyas have sailed from the beaches of Rakhine State to Thailand, with the ultimate goal of reaching Malaysia,” said the Arakan

Project, a group that monitors Rohingya refugees.

However, those who can prove their residence qualify only for naturalized citizenship, which carries fewer rights than full citizenship and can be revoked.

Rohingyas could also face indefinite detention under the plan that requires them to either accept ethnic reclassification and register as Bengalis or be detained.

Human Rights Watch has urged the international community to press the Myanmar government to rescind the decree.

Swiss court supports school hijab

A Swiss court has overturned a ban imposed earlier by a school in the northeastern canton of Saint Gallen on Islamic hijab worn by a 13-year-old girl, labeling the ban as unjustified.

The court said the ban on hijab was “disproportionate”, SDA news agency reported.

The decision was issued by the court in Saint Gallen canton against the ban imposed on hijab or Islamic headscarf.

The judge agreed with the argument of the girl’s lawyer who saw the ban as contradicting with freedom of religion, protected by federal and cantonal law, as well as

the European Convention on Human Rights.

The court added that there was no evidence that wearing hijab caused any problems in the school or affected the teen’s integration in the class Such a ban would only be justified if it became “a serious threat to the religious peace,” the court said.

For Muslims, hijab is not a symbol, but rather an obligatory dress code for Muslim women.

According to the CIA Factbook, Switzerland is home to some 400,000 Muslims, representing 5 percent of the country’s nearly eight million people.

The rights group called the plan as “nothing less than a blueprint for permanent segregation and statelessness.”

Local authorities have reportedly rounded up a number of community and religious leaders and tortured some of them to death.

Myanmar’s 1.3 million Muslims, who are denied citizenship, are one of the world’s most persecuted communities, a fact that the UN also attests to.

Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have faced torture, repression and neglect since the country’s independence in 1948.

The Myanmar government has been repeatedly criticized by human rights groups for failing to protect the Rohingya Muslims.

Hundreds of Rohingyas have been killed and over 140,000 displaced in attacks by extremist Buddhists over the past two years.

Lack of teachers of Islamic sciences in Spain Spain’s Union of Islamic Societies said the country’s Muslim minority faces a lack of religious sciences teachers.

The union has recently issued a report which says at least 400 new teachers of Islamic sciences should be employed by Spain’s education ministry, Yabiladi website reported.

It said currently only 46 Muslim teachers of religious sciences serve in eth ministry.

The report also pointed to other problems facing Spanish Muslims, including the rising trend of Islamophobia in the European country as well as the lack of Islamic cemeteries where deceased Muslims can be buried.

Spain is home to a large and growing Muslim population.

Approximately one million Muslims live in the western European country.

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Russian banks lobby central bank to draft Islamic finance law

A lobby group for Russian banks has written to Moscow’s central bank seeking measures to promote Islamic finance at a time when the banking sector is facing a squeeze on foreign financing due to economic sanctions imposed over the Ukraine crisis.

The Association of Russian Banks (ARB) said in a letter sent to the central bank late last week that promoting Islamic finance could give a boost to the economy and draw significant investment from the Middle

East and Southeast Asia, regions where Islamic finance is flourishing.

Its appeal has risen as Russia’s $2 trillion economy teeters on the brink of recession with several top Russian banks effectively shut out of Western capital markets due to Western sanctions over Moscow’s perceived backing for a pro-Russian separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine.

Central among the lobby group’s concerns is the absence of Russian legislation regulating Islamic finance.

Zionist settlers set fire to West Bank Mosque Zionist settlers launched an arson attack on a Palestinian mosque in a village in the occupied West Bank, torching part of the holy place.

“The settlers set fire to the whole of the first floor of the mosque” in the village of al-Mughayir, near the West Bank city of Ramallah overnight, Palestinian security officials said Wednesday, RT reported.

In a similar incident in 2012, another mosque was set afire in the same village, which is located near the Israeli settlement of Shilo.

The settlers, mostly armed, regularly attack Palestinian villages and farms and set fire to their mosques, olive groves and other properties in the West Bank under

the so-called “price tag” policy.

However, Tel Aviv rarely detains the assailants.

Price tag attacks are acts of vandalism and violence against Palestinians and their property as well as Islamic holy sites by Israeli settlers.

In mid-October, Israeli settlers set ablaze part of a mosque located in the village of Aqraba in the West Bank, in an arson attack.

In a similar move in January, Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian mosque in the north of the occupied West Bank, torching part of it.

The main gate and some carpets of the mosque in Deir Istiya village were damaged in the incident.

This means banks are unable to offer clients certain Islamic financial instruments that comply with sharia (Islamic law), as well as a lack of Islamic banks and the expertise needed to run them.

“It’s not spelled out anywhere in Russian legal documents what an Islamic financial institution, or sukuk (Islamic bonds) or a mudaraba (a common Islamic financial contract) are,” read the letter, published on the ARB website. “To solve this problem, we suggest adopting a special federal law.”

Elsewhere in the letter, the ARB suggests setting up a working group with input from Russia’s Islamic clerics to draft the necessary legal amendments and creating a central bank department to supervise Islamic financial institutions.

Russia’s central bank declined to comment when asked how it would respond to the ARB initiatives.

Smart carts for special needs and elderly pilgrims A study is underway to use smart golf carts to help special needs people and the elderly perform the circumambulation of the Kaaba and Saee (running or walking seven times between the two hills of Safa and Marwa) with ease.

An instruction to this effect has been issued by the Saudi king, Dr. Faisal Wafa, chairman of the technical committee for the Expansion Project of the Grand Mosque.

He said the smart golf carts will help 6,000 pilgrims perform Umrah in an hour.

These carts will pick special needs, elderly and physically challenged pilgrims from various points in the Grand Mosque and help them perform Tawaf (circumambulation of the Kaaba) and Saee.

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AFC condemns Israel’s search of Palestinian FA headquarters

An alleged search of the Palestinian Football Association headquarters in the West Bank by the Israeli military was denounced by Asian Football Confederation president Sheik Salman Bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa.

The military, however, said it hadn’t targeted the building and there was no raid there.

A day after the alleged incident, Sheik Salman accused the Israelis of “breaking into the PFA headquarters ... a dangerous precedent that requires the international sporting family to stand together and support

the PFA,” he said in a statement on the AFC website.

The AFC would work with FIFA, he added, to “study ways and mechanisms to put an end to the suffering of Palestinian football, and send a tough message to the Israeli authorities to stop its attacks on various parts of the Palestinian footballing system.”

FIFA said in a statement that President Sepp Blatter “was very sad to learn about an incident involving (the) Israeli army force.”

In Tel Aviv, The military said a

Qatar beats Saudi to win the Gulf Cup Qatar clinched their third Gulf Cup title after coming from behind to beat hosts Saudi Arabia 2-1 in Riyadh.

Saud Kariri opened the scoring for Saudi Arabia, also three-time champions, after 16 minutes at the nearly full King Fahd stadium but Qatar replied with a magnificent header from defender Al Mahdi Ali two minutes later.

Algerian-born Khoukhi Boualem

scored the winner for 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar in the 58th minute to hand his team their first Gulf title away from home.

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routine patrol in the area asked some Palestinians for their identification cards, and when they said the cards were inside the football association building, had followed them inside to check the cards.

The PFA has complained about Israeli travel restrictions on some of its players in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a territory ruled by the Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas.

Israel has cited concerns about possible attacks by Palestinian militants as the main reason for sweeping restrictions on movement that affects most Palestinians, including athletes.

Blatter intervened to try to mediate, and first hosted a meeting with leaders of the Israeli and Palestinian football federations at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters in September 2013. Still, the problems persist.

“Therefore a joint meeting between both organizations has been scheduled for December in Morocco,” FIFA said. The planned meeting is on the sidelines of the Club World Cup. Despite a lack of training camps and the travel restrictions, the Palestinians won the AFC Challenge Cup in May to qualify for the Asian Cup, in 2015 in Australia, for the first time.

Demba Ba Fajr call for one of his twitter followers Demba Ba got a request from one of his followers asking him to wake her up for the morning prayer.

Demba Ba reply was awesome, here is the conversation between Demba and his fan.

“Hey Demba! Can you help me? When you wake up to pray in the morning can you wake me up?

If you call me I will pray....:))” Ba tweeted back by saying “send me your number”.

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Morocco were officially stripped of the right to host the African Nations Cup next year, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said.

It has also disqualified Morocco from playing in the finals, which the CAF said would go ahead.

The immediate future of the 16team tournament, the showpiece of African football, remained unclear with no exact timetable for the next step in the bid to find an alternate host to Morocco which has also been kicked out of the competition.

Morocco’s removal as host followed the north African country’s request for a postponement of the January 17 - February 8 Nations Cup

over fears of the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

CAF said it had received “some applications” from countries expressing a desire to step in as hosts on the scheduled dates, even though the practicalities of arranging a tournament of the size of the Nations Cup at such short notice seem daunting.

African soccer’s governing body did not name the prospective candidates and there have been no public expressions of interest.

“These applications are currently under review and the executive committee will finalise the selection of the successful national association

Barcelona FC donate kit to refugee camp

Football Club Barcelona has gifted displaced children at a Harsham refugee camp, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

This was a part of the FC Barcelona (FCB) and Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF).

The children received their kits from Isaac Tutumlu Lopez, a representative of FC Barcelona (FCB) and Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF). Tutumlu, is a Spanish race driver, originally from Kurdistan handed clothing and FCB sports equipment to thousands of refugees in the camp.

Isaac Tutumlu with one of the refugee chuldren who recieved a kit.

Isaac Tutumlu later shared a Facebook status, on behalf of the Kurdish children, thanked the foundations for their support of the Kurdish community in this difficult time.

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shortly,” CAF said in a statement.

That merely added a new dimension to the speculation over the destiny of the tournament which is CAF’s main source of revenue and, if cancelled, could cost the organisation dearly.

Angola, Egypt, Gabon and Nigeria were the countries being touted as possible replacement hosts by African media following a statement.

Morocco believes thousands of travelling supporters from west Africa pose a risk and wanted a postponement of at least six months while the fight against Ebola intensified.

But CAF rejected any change to the planned dates citing a packed calendar. It gave Morocco an ultimatum of to withdraw its request which was rejected.

CAF announced it would seek legal redress from Morocco based on its contractual agreement with the Royal Moroccan Football Federation which was signed in April.

Moroccan football is also likely to be heavily sanctioned, including a likely ban from future Nations Cup competitions.

Zinedine Zidane’s coaching ban lifted

A Spanish court has lifted Zinedine Zidane’s coaching ban, allowing the Real Madrid great to manage its reserve team.

The same court had already suspended the ban this month while it considered its ruling.

It ruled in favour of Madrid’s appeal of the three-month ban.

The now-voided ban had resulted from a complaint lodged by Spain’s national training center for coaches that Zidane did not have the required qualifications.

Zidane served as Carlo Ancelotti’s assistant last season, when Real Madrid won the Champions League.

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Mums & Dads: Want to learn how to get your child to learn?

All parents will agree that learning is an important feature for the future of every child. However, often parents will find it difficult, to motivate their child. Parental efforts and sharing of life experiences go unappreciated.

These children have no desire to learn; they dislike school and they dislike homework.

As a parent, you too want to develop the mind-set of your child, so they take a positive academic attitude towards learning. But how can a parent motivate and instil the belief that their child can become successful if they try hard? Why would a child not want to learn?

What can parents do to improve their child’s motivation?

Negative Beliefs about Learning Simply – it is easy, for a young child with negative learning experiences to believe they are incapable. When school activities do not make sense they stop trying. They belief there is no point working. This makes the circumstance even worse. They believe it is the situation, rather than their efforts which is failing them.

There are many reasons why a child will not want to learn: Every child should succeed at school. Even if your child has learning disabilities, or a difficult temperament, or developmental delay, schools are accountable for achievement of these pupils.

Schools who do not address this point will see the gap widen between achieving children and those that are struggling. These children will need specialised support in the classroom to help them achieve the grades. As well as help in the school children can complement help through private tuition in maths, English and science.

Speak to parents at school or search online maths, English and science tuition or online maths, English and science tutoring.

Sometimes due to the characteristics of the child, or the environment, depression or chronic life stress may make it more difficult for a child to learn in school. These influences also affect the progress of the more able children. With family break ups, family tensions and divorces rifling, this problems would have detrimental effect on the emotional balance on your child

– effecting learning at school.

Parents who have unrealistic standards may discourage their child from learning. This is because the child may feel they can measure up to the high expectation. Ever-parent will agree that education is important but placing unrealistic standards can demoralise children.

Competition is healthy. However, schools that foster competition where the focus is always on who is best— are discouraging children, because those pupils may never be “the best” in school.

Increasing Children’s Academic Motivation How can parents improve their child’s motivation?

• Start with having a strong relationship with your child.

• Stress how important schooling is and why it is important.

• Acknowledge success.

• Teach your child how to learn • Help your child form study habits and routines.

Encourage Positive Family Relationships and Responsibility • Older children should learn to become independent and responsible learners.

• Teaching children responsibility around the house will make them self-discipline at home and this can transfer to school-related learning.

• Spend fun family time with your child.

• Take an interest in your child. Make conversations so that you may learn about any concerns they may have.

• Letting your child know when their doing will is important.

Model the Importance of Learning • Plan family activities to the library, museum, and parks.

• Teach why learning is important in the bigger picture of life.

• Discuss about your likes and dislikes.

• Talk with their child about the books, newspapers and magazines they read.

• Take an interest in what may be happening in your child’s school life.

• Discuss career options and guide them into researching and exploring careers.

Teach Habits that Encourage Learning • Your child should have a routine at home. They should know when they are expected to study at home.

• Your child should have a set area of study. This place should be quiet.

• Your child should finish all their studies, before having fun time.

• Watching TV or playing video games should be limited.

• Help your child take an interest in a sport such as basketball, tennis and letting them excel in an area is important for a healthy study-life balance.

• Never handle disagreements with your child’s teacher near your child.

Otherwise they will lose respect for them.

• Never wait for the end of year school report when it will be too late to make improvements. You should be in touch with your child’s class teacher and always remain updated about your child’s progress throughout the year.

• Work on developing good study skills is important.

If Your Child Is Already Having Problems • Talk with your child about learning and motivation.

• Be supportive, if they need help get it.

• Encourage your child by telling them what they are good at and not just over stressing on weaknesses.

Get More Help if You Need It Despite your efforts, if your child is struggling there are other sources of help: • The child’s teacher, school counsellor, or school psychologist will provide useful help and advice.

• Seek early if they have special help if your child has leaning has special needs • Look for tutoring or after-school homework programs • Your school may have parents’ groups or PTA groups. These can provide support or resources to help you improve your child’s motivation.

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