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by Soeren Kern
• August 2, 2016 at 6:30 am
- Turkey has
threatened to back out of an agreement to stem the flow of migrants
to the European Union if Turkish nationals are not granted visa-free
travel to the bloc by October.
- Europe is
trapped in a no-win situation. European officials say that although
Turkey has fulfilled most of their conditions, it has failed to
relax its stringent anti-terrorism laws, which are being used to
silence critics of President Erdoğan, especially since Turkey's
failed coup on July 15.
- The German
newspaper Bild recently reported a confidential plan to house
all migrants arriving from Turkey on Greek islands. Public
transportation between those islands and the Greek mainland would be
cut off to prevent migrants from moving into other parts of the EU.
- "No matter
how uncouth, how merciless, how unscrupulous Western countries act,
they have no chance of keeping the migration flows under
control." — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, quoted by
German journalist Wolfram Weimer.
Thousands of newly arrived migrants, the vast majority
of whom are men, crowd the platforms at Vienna West Railway Station on
August 15, 2015 -- a common scene in the summer and fall of 2015. (Image
source: Bwag/Wikimedia Commons)
Turkey has threatened to back out of an agreement to stem the flow
of migrants to the European Union if Turkish nationals are not granted
visa-free travel to the bloc by October.
Although Turkish officials have repeatedly threatened to renege on
the March 18 EU-Turkey deal, this is the first time they have set a
deadline.
If the EU approves the visa waiver, tens of millions of Turks will
gain immediate and unimpeded access to 26 European countries. If the EU
rejects the visa waiver, and Turkey retaliates by reopening the migration
floodgates, potentially millions of migrants from Africa, Asia and the
Middle East could begin flowing into Greece this fall. Europe is trapped
in a no-win situation.
The migration deal, which entered into force on June 1, was hastily
negotiated by European leaders desperate to gain control over a crisis in
which more than one million migrants poured into Europe in 2015.
by Vijeta Uniyal
• August 2, 2016 at 6:00 am
- Jihadis,
trained and armed by Pakistan, are purging Kashmir of its native
Hindu and Sikh population, and waging a terrorist campaign to carve
out a separate Islamic country in that part of India.
- What the New
York Times did not say is that these "boys with guns"
are members of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, a group designated as a terrorist
organisation by both the European Union and the United States.
- After being at
the forefront of gun control campaigns in the U.S. for decades, the New
York Times finally supports "open carry" -- but only
for terrorists waging jihad against "infidels."
- India is not
"occupying" Kashmir, which is already part of India. India
is waging a war against Islamic terrorism, which has claimed the
lives of more than 4,800 Indian civilians and more than 2,400 Indian
security personnel.
Left: Indian soldiers carry the coffin of Indian Army
Colonel M N Rai, who was killed in January 2015 by terrorists in Kashmir.
Right: Masked Islamist radicals in Kashmir display a version of the black
flag of jihad.
Indian security forces are again waging pitched battles with violent
Islamists on the streets of the Muslim-majority province of Kashmir. Mobs
began congregating in towns on July 9, after the customary Friday
prayers, to protest the killing the previous day by Indian security
forces of a prominent Islamic terrorist, Burhan Wani. The protestors
waved black ISIS flags and pelted stones at riot police. The riots have
so far claimed 49 lives, including 2 policemen.
The mainstream media in the West have been quick to point the finger
of blame on India for using -- as BBC puts it -- "excessive
force." "Allegations that the forces are trigger happy in the
region have been a common criticism for years," the BBC said. The
mainstream media, however, did not take into account that more than 1,500
members of the Indian police and army were injured by the mobs.
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