Ropa, islám, USA. Martin Koller shrnuje vše, co potřebujete vědět o Íránu, který dnes řeší celý svět

ROZBOUŘENÝ SVĚT MARTINA KOLLERA K otázce, zda je Írán nebezpečný, je nutné přistupovat z více pohledů a rovin, upozorňuje ve svém komentáři pro ParlamentníListy.cz analytik Martin Koller. Rozdílné je podle jeho slov ohrožení naší republiky, Iráku, nebo Izraele. Rozdílné je rovněž ohrožení z hlediska vojenských prostředků a prostředků terorismu. Navíc je třeba vycházet z historického vývoje a zájmových vazeb, které se vždy a všude promítají do současnosti i budoucnosti. Popírání těchto faktorů, ať už z jakéhokoli důvodu, vede obvykle ke katastrofám.

U.K.’s Boris Johnson Once Claimed Islam Had Put the Muslim World ‘Centuries Behind’ the West

Boris Johnson, the U.K. lawmaker expected to become the country’s prime minister, once argued that the practice of Islam had historically put the Muslim world “literally centuries behind” western countries, an article unearthed by a British newspaper reveals.

“There must be something about Islam that indeed helps to explain why there was no rise of the bourgeoisie, no liberal capitalism and therefore no spread of democracy in the Muslim world,” Johnson wrote in an essay included in a 2007 version of his historical book The Dream of Rome, The Guardian reports.

Johnson suggested that the religion had played a role in inhibiting the Islamic world’s technological and cultural progress. “It is extraordinary to think that under the Roman/Byzantine empire, the city of Constantinople kept the candle of learning alight for a thousand years, and that under Ottoman rule, the first printing press was not seen in Istanbul until the middle of the nineteenth century,” Johnson wrote. “Something caus..

Greek Police Have Arrested a Suspect in the Killing of an American Researcher on Crete

Greek police have arrested a suspect in the murder of an American molecular biologist, who they say was run down by a local man during her daily walk, put in the trunk of his car, raped and abandoned in a nearby tunnel.

The national police held a press conference on Tuesday afternoon where they confirmed the arrest of a local 27-year-old man and said they have “solved” the case of the death of 59-year-old Suzanne Eaton. They did not release the name of the suspect.

Eaton, a molecular biologist working as a research leader at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, German, was visiting the Greek island of Crete to attend a conference at the Orthodox Academy of Crete when she went missing in early July.

After a nearly week-long search by authorities and family, Eaton’s body was discovered 7 miles from her hotel in a man-made cave that was reportedly dug by Nazi troops occupying Crete during World War II.

Hellenic Police spokeswoman Eleni Papathanasiou described Eaton’s final moments.

A..

On the Cusp of Power, Boris Johnson’s Inflammatory Language on Islam Returns to Haunt Him

As the final live debate of the Conservative leadership contest came to an end on Monday evening, the two men competing to be Britain’s next Prime Minister turned to one another, smiled, and bantered out of range of the room’s microphones.

Officially rivals, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt both seemed to recognize that the race to be the U.K.’s next Prime Minister had already been decided, even though the winner would not be announced until July 23. Johnson was the clear favorite among the Conservative Party members who will decide the contest when the starting gun was fired last month, and remains ahead coming out of the race.

By the end of Monday evening, the pair were joking with the audience, and one another. “I don’t think [the debate] changed very much from what we already knew,” Johnson told TIME moments after the event.

But while the leadership contest appears to be a foregone conclusion, its final weeks have been bruising for Johnson. Newspapers scrutinizing his past as a jou..

Pirát z regionu: Je prokázáno, že některé argumenty bojovníků za klima byly podvod. Je z toho dogma, hysterie, fanatismus

POLOČAS HORKÉHO ROKU „Nejsvobodnější jsem se cítil v devadesátých letech, nyní se situace neustále zhoršuje. Znovu jsou tu dogmata, o kterých se nediskutuje, a odchylka od „správného“ názoru je trestána. Není to však totalitní systémový přístup jako tehdy, tentokrát jsou to spíše šikanózní aktivity jedinců, kteří soutěží v loajalitě k mocným. Pro mnohé lidi je jednodušší prosazovat se pomocí loajality k mocným bez ohledu, zda je to z jejich strany ‚svazácké nadšení‘ nebo jen oportunismus,“ míní jihomoravský krajský zastupitel Ivo Vašíček, bývalý místopředseda Pirátů. „Zatím pořád máme mnoho politických stran s odlišnými názory. Demokracie je dynamická a věřím, že dokud mohou lidé svobodně volit, tak svobody uhájíme,“ dodává.