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by Soeren Kern
• February 8, 2015 at 5:00 am
Austrian
Chancellor Werner Faymann has expressed public outrage over the refusal
of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for
Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue to speak out against the
flogging of Raif Badawi, a Saudi human rights activist and blogger who
has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for
"insulting Islam."
"Saudi
Arabia practices a form of Sharia law that is one of the most brutal
systems in the world... Does the Austrian Foreign Ministry really want to
give such a state the opportunity to build an international propaganda
center in Austria?" — Editorial, Die Presse.
"An
inter-religious dialogue center that remains silent when it is time to
speak out clearly for human rights is not worthy of being called a dialogue
center. It is a silence center." — Austrian Chancellor Werner
Faymann.
"If
the center wants to remain only an economic center with a religious fig
leaf, then Austria should no longer be a part of it. In any event,
Austria will not allow itself to be threatened or blackmailed." —
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann.
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Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann (left) has
expressed public outrage over the refusal of the KAICIID to speak out
against the flogging of Raif Badawi (right), a Saudi human rights
activist and blogger who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in
prison for "insulting Islam."
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The Austrian government has threatened to close a controversial
Saudi-sponsored religious dialogue center because of the latter's failure
to condemn the flogging of a Saudi human rights activist and blogger.
Saudi Arabia has responded to the threat by issuing a counter-threat
to move the permanent headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries [OPEC] out of the Austrian capital of Vienna.
The dust-up began in mid-January, when Austrian Chancellor Werner
Faymann expressed public outrage over the refusal of the King Abdullah
bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural
Dialogue [KAICIID] to speak out against the flogging of Raif Badawi, a
Saudi human rights activist and blogger who has been sentenced to 1,000
lashes and 10 years in prison for "insulting Islam."
by Burak Bekdil
• February 8, 2015 at 4:00 am
It
all looks nice. It isn't.
On
Muslim Brotherhood channels based in Turkey, Egyptian clerics and
commentators called for the murder of Egypt's President Abdel Fatteh
al-Sisi and the journalists who support him.
Under
the nice wrappings of Holocaust Remembrance Day, there is an entirely
different Turkey.
Perhaps
he thinks the Holocaust, too, happened because of the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict.
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The Speaker of Turkey's Parliament, Cemil Cicek, in
his speech on Holocaust Remembrance Day, linked rising anti-Semitism to
Israeli actions. (Image source: Haberler video screenshot)
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For a few moments, one could think there are two countries in the
world that go by the name "Turkey." Then reality quickly
corrects the mistaken belief.
"We hope that every person develops an understanding of the
Holocaust, which constitutes one of the darkest moments in human history,
and will consider the importance of working together so that such a
tragedy, and the conditions that made this inconceivable crime possible,
will never re-emerge," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a
written statement on January 27. How nice and thoughtful. But there were
more Turkish niceties.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was among the participants
in Poland at the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation
of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, on Holocaust Remembrance Day. And
Turkey donated a modest sum of 150,000 euros this year as its
contribution to the long-term preservation and restoration of the
concentration camp.
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