Όχι στο τέμενος, του Φαήλου Κρανιδιώτη

Σε ποιους δίνουμε εξετάσεις με το τέμενος στο Βοτανικό; Στις εγχώριες βαρεμένες ιέρειες της πολιτικής ορθότητας; Στους ξένους, που 39 χρόνια δεν δίνανε δεκάρα για τις λεηλατημένες εκκλησίες μας στην κατεχόμενη Κύπρο και τα 1619 αγνοούμενα αδέρφια μας; Ακόμη αρνούνται να θεωρήσουν την Θράκη και το Αιγαίο σύνορα της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Μήπως κρινόμαστε από τις ισλαμικές χώρες με την απόλυτη δυσανεξία στην δική μας πίστη αλλά και σε οποιονδήποτε διαφορετικό από αυτούς; 

International tobacco contraband, by Ioannis Michaletos

The contraband of tobacco products internationally, has attracted little interest on a media level, although it constitutes an important and increasing segment for revenues for a variety of illicit actors, be it organized crime figures, terrorists and extremist sects. 



In contrast to the narcotics illegal trade or human trafficking, tobacco smuggling constitutes no obvious social threat; nevertheless the proceedings of such activity go into the hands of the same people that conduct the bulk of the other dangerous illicit trades nowadays, while it fuels governmental corruption in  developing nations. 

13 ερωτήματα για το τζαμί στο Βοτανικό και το Ισλάμ στην Ελλάδα από έναν αντιναύαρχο

Αντιναύαρχος Β. Μαρτζούκος Π.Ν.

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Η δημιουργία τεμένους στον Βοτανικό ευρίσκεται στην τελική ευθεία και προκαλεί οξείες πολιτικές και κοινωνικές αντιπαραθέσεις και εντάσεις.



Από την αναμόχλευση του θέματος αυτού και τις σχετικές δημοσκοπήσεις, προκύπτει ότι η συντριπτική πλειοψηφία του ελληνικού λαού, σε αντίθεση με τους εκπροσώπους του, στην Βουλή των Ελλήνων, δεν στηρίζει την ανέγερση του μουσουλμανικού τεμένους. Από δηλώσεις ιεραρχών διαφαίνεται ότι η Εκκλησία της Ελλάδος αντιτίθεται στην ανέγερση τζαμιών στην ελληνική επικράτεια αλλά εάν υπήρχε σειρά θρησκευτικών ανταλλαγμάτων στην Τουρκία (π.χ. λειτουργία Αγ. Σοφίας, Σχολή Χάλκης, εκκλησίες στην Μ. Ασία κ.λ.π.), κατά πάσα πιθανότητα θα μετέβαλε την στάση της.

Israelis, Saudis and the Iranian Agreement

By George Friedman - STRATFOR


A deal between Iran and the P-5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany) was reached Saturday night. The Iranians agreed to certain limitations on their nuclear program while the P-5+1 agreed to remove certain economic sanctions. The next negotiation, scheduled for six months from now depending on both sides' adherence to the current agreement, will seek a more permanent resolution. The key players in this were the United States and Iran. The mere fact that the U.S. secretary of state would meet openly with the Iranian foreign minister would have been difficult to imagine a few months ago, and unthinkable at the beginning of the Islamic republic.
The U.S. goal is to eliminate Iran's nuclear weapons before they are built, without the United States having to take military action to eliminate them. While it is commonly assumed that the United States could eliminate the Iranian nuclear program at will with airstrikes, as with most military actions, doing so would be more difficult and riskier than it might appear at first glance. The United States in effect has now traded a risky and unpredictable air campaign for some controls over the Iranian nuclear program.

The changing dynamics of the Afghan heroin trail, by Ioannis Michaletos

Developments, new routes, probable outcomes


The following data derive from an international closed conference on the subject held in a Southeastern European country in November 2013. 

The Afghan heroin and opiates production is by far the largest in the world with safe predictions for a 90% share on word production in 2014. Afghanistan is a county that can be classified as the “Saudi Arabia of opium production”. As the country of the House of Saud is the world largest exporter of oil and fully depended on it, so is Afghanistan in poppy cultivation in which it relies the main part of its GDP and a great deal of its social equilibrium between competing tribes that divide their districts of influence based on the control of opium. 

Greece: Taxpayer-Funded Mosque Planned in Athens

By Soeren Kern - Gatestone Institute

Opponents of the mosque argue that Greek taxpayers should not be footing the bill for this project at a time when their massively indebted country is dependent upon foreign aid just to stay afloat. The Greek government appears to be worried about thinly veiled threats of violence by thousands of residents in Athens who have been pressuring government ministers to meet their demands to build a mosque or face an uprising.
"It is a very big tragedy for us Muslims that there is no mosque here. Greece produced democracy and civilization and the respect of religion, but they don't respect our Muslims to provide us with a regular, legal mosque." — Syed Mohammed Jamil of the Pakistan-Hellenic Society

The Secret History of Hezbollah

By Tony Badran - Foundation for Defense of Democracies



Thirty years ago last month, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of the U.S Marines and French paratroopers stationed at the Beirut airport, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 Frenchmen. It wasn’t Hezbollah’s first terrorist operation, but this attack, the most memorable in Lebanon’s vicious and chaotic 15-year-long civil war, marked the Party of God’s entry onto the world stage.