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Spain
8 MUSLIMS TERRORISTS ARRESTED
8 Al Qaeda forgers arrested in Barcelona
At least eight people have been arrested this evening in several flats of the Raval district of Barcelona and Badalona by agents of the National Police in an operation against Islamist terrorism, reported sources close to the investigation.
Security forces linked the detainees, all Pakistani nationals, with a network of document forgers working for members of Al Qaeda in different countries.
The police raids were carried between late Tuesday and early Wednesday in at least seven homes in the neighborhood of Raval in the center of Barcelona, and neighbouring Badalona. However, the operation conducted in Spain has “international ramifications” according to police, and is being carried out jointly with other EU police forces…
http://thereader.es/en/spain-news-stories/5372-8-al-qaeda-forgers-arrested-in-barcelona.html
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Oborne shared with us his conversation with the Mayor: glossing the famed US academic John Esposito’s sentiment, in the introduction to the report, that ‘the exclusive Judaeo-Christian tradition of the West was an unhelpful and false doctrine’ (I quote) and should be jettisoned.
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The Judaeo-Christian tradition of the West is not a false doctrine.
I wonder what he thinks of the Graeco-Roman tradition out of which it came?
False doctrine also, Esposito?
I would never, ever study under this man.
He is an embarrassment to his academic honors; he should be thrown out of Georgetown and exported to Al-Azhar.
Each generation lives free, but lives foolishly if it disregards the truth of its past.
And the truth is that the U.S. and Europe are the Western World.
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Oborne shared with us his conversation with the Mayor: glossing the famed US academic John Esposito’s sentiment, in the introduction to the report, that ‘the exclusive Judaeo-Christian tradition of the West was an unhelpful and false doctrine’ (I quote) and should be jettisoned.
end quote.
The Judaeo-Christian tradition of the West is not a false doctrine.
I wonder what he thinks of the Graeco-Roman tradition out of which it came?
False doctrine also, Esposito?
I would never, ever study under this man.
He is an embarrassment to his academic honors; he should be thrown out of Georgetown and exported to Al-Azhar.
Each generation lives free, but lives foolishly if it disregards the truth of its past.
And the truth is that the U.S. and Europe are the Western World.
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