January 12, 2008 by asgard14.

Teachers are having to cope with a growing influx of immigrant children who cannot speak English, official figures have revealed. The number of pupils joining schools shortly after arriving from overseas has jumped 50 per cent in two years.

The figures - based on analysis of GCSE league tables - suggest that at least 20,000 immigrant children have joined primaries and secondaries during the last academic year.

Mick Brookes, of the National Association of Head Teachers, said schools needed more specialist staff to cope. “This is yet another indication that we have a growing issue here,” he added. “There is huge turbulence in schools, particularly with immigrant children.” He said the fact that so many pupils arrived in the middle of the year was disruptive, with friendship groups already formed and classwork under way.

Nearly 2,000 pupils were removed from last year’s GCSE league tables at their teachers’ request because they had recently arrived from overseas and did not speak English at home. The figure was 50 per cent up on 2005. Schools Minister Jim Knight said: “Individual schools can ask for pupils recently arrived from overseas, including the children of refugees and asylum seekers whose first language is not English, to be removed from their own achievement and attainment results - we ask for clear evidence before agreeing to this.”

If the numbers were similar for other year groups, about 20,000 immigrant pupils who do not speak English would have joined schools during the 2006/07 academic year.

The proportion of pupils in England whose first language was not English rose from 9 per cent in 2003 to 12 per cent last year.

The document also said that asylum- seeking children from Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea, China and Somalia were at the top of the list of school applicants.

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January 12, 2008 by asgard14.

A teenage bride was beaten to death by her husband while her in-laws who shared the same house ignored her sickening ordeal, a court heard yesterday.

Sabia Rani, 19, was repeatedly attacked over a three-week period, suffering bruising over 90% of her body and ‘catastrophic’ injuries usually only seen in car crash victims.

The ‘vulnerable’ teenager, who had arrived five months earlier from Pakistan for the arranged marriage, required emergency treatment in a hospital intensive care unit, the jury at Leeds Crown Court heard.

But not only did four members of her husband’s family do nothing to help her, they turned a blind eye as he continued the beatings and ultimately murdered the helpless young woman at the house they all shared, it was alleged.

The victim’s mother-in-law and a sister-in-law blamed her horrfic injuries, which included at least 15 fractures on 10 fractured ribs, on ‘evil spirits, curses and black magic.’ While two of the family allegedly lied under oath while giving evidence in husband Shazad Khan’s murder trial in a deliberate attempt to help him cheat justice, the court heard.

Khan, 25, of Oakwood Grange, Leeds, was convicted of murdering his wife at Leeds Crown Court last January. After the trial police launched an investigation into the role of other family members sharing the house.

Detectives arrested and charged the victim’s mother-in-law Phullan Bibi, 52, sisters-in-law Nazia Naureen, 28, sister-in-law Uzma Khan, 23, and her husband Majid Hussain, 28. All four denied a charge of allowing the death of a vulnerable adult. Khan and Hussain also denied a charge of perjury.

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January 12, 2008 by asgard14.

EXCLUSIVE: A clash of cultures between Asian and eastern European youths is leading to increasing tension and violence on Yorkshire’s streets, it is claimed.

Some young Britons of Asian descent are now leading a campaign of intimidation against the new economic migrants from eastern Europe, whom they claim are taking their jobs.

The situation has become so bad in cities like Bradford that a leading social think-tank has begun research into how to get the two sides working together.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has commissioned Bradford-based organisation QED to identify the causes of tensions between the two groups and improve cultural understanding and communication between them.

In the introduction to the project it states: “The newly-arrived central and eastern European migrants have settled within five of Bradford’s most deprived communities, which have high percentages of ’settled’ ethnic minorities.

“There are problems of local cultures clashing and major misunderstandings of each other’s backgrounds and ways of living.”

Project director Mohammed Ali told the Yorkshire Post: “The European Union expansion has had an impact on the number of jobs going to those in the ethnic minority communities it’s easy to bring in outsiders who will work for less but we run the risk of leaving people behind.

“We’re looking at the causes of tension and ways of bringing the groups together. Communication is the key to these things we want to look at opportunities to bring people together to share each other’s cultures and backgrounds and experiences.”

While most of the crime between the communities goes no further than verbal threats, car vandalism and petty fights, little gets reported to the police because of the traditional eastern European wariness of authority.

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January 12, 2008 by asgard14.

The smiling children giggled as they patted the young goat on its head and tickled it behind the ears.Some of the more boisterous ones tried to clamber onto the animal’s back but were soon shaken off with a quick wiggle of its bottom.

It could have been a happy scene from a family zoo anywhere in the world but for what happened next.

A man hoisted up the goat and nonchalantly threw it over a wall into a pit full of hungry lions. The poor goat tried to run for its life, but it didn’t stand a chance. The lions quickly surrounded it and started tearing at its flesh.

“Oohs” and “aahs” filled the air as the children watched the goat being ripped limb from limb. Some started to clap silently with a look of wonder in their eyes.

The scenes witnessed at Badaltearing Safari Park in China are rapidly becoming a normal day out for many Chinese families.

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January 12, 2008 by asgard14.

A plot by Islamic terrorists to blow up the Eiffel Tower has been uncovered.

A scrambled short-wave radio conversation exposing the planned attack on the world’s most visited monument was picked up by Portuguese air traffic controllers and passed on to French spy chiefs.

The 1,060ft high tower has more than six million visitors a year - an average of more than 16,000 a day.

A successful strike on the 7,500 ton iron tower, which was looked down on Paris since 1889, would be a French 9/11 and could cost thousands of lives.

The threat was uncovered in a “vague and muffled” radio conversation picked up by air traffic controllers in Lisbon on Thursday.

It comes after a spate of other threats made in recent days on the websites linked to Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terror network, calling for the “brothers of Islam to strike Paris”.

A police source close to France’s DST intelligance agency said last night: “It was a muffled conversation in Arabic that was passed on to us as a matter of course, but our analysts clearly identified the threat.

“The sheer number of visitors going up the tower every day means a bomb blowing up there could cause the most massive loss of life. We’ve been at our red security alert for several months.”

The source added: “Security at the tower was already tight, but is now being stepped up.”

Paris’s socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, has been given extra security protection after an Islamist website used by Al Qaeda members listed him as a target.

Mr Delanoe - one of France’s few openly gay politicians - was stabbed in an anti-gay attack in 2002.

In January 2005, French intelligence officers arrested three French-born Algerians suspected of plotting to blow up the Eiffel Tower.

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January 12, 2008 by webmaster.

Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has warned the EU it will have to decide between an independent Kosovo or closer ties with Belgrade. In a statement, he said EU governments would have to determine whether they wanted a “whole” Serbia as a partner or a “quasi-state on Serbia’s territory”. Kosovo is expected to declare independence in the next few months. EU foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to consider sending a police and justice mission.
Serbia strongly opposes the EU’s plans. In November 2007, Serbia initialled a Stabilisation and Association Agreement, taking a first step towards membership of the EU. But the Serbian prime minister said a full signing would not take place if the EU contingent was sent. Serbia is facing presidential elections on 20 January and the future of Kosovo is likely to be an important issue in the campaign.

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January 12, 2008 by webmaster.

He was about to kill a Protestant pastor in Samsun: he was detained, and then released
Turkey: Christians as Enemies of the People
by Mavi Zambak

He’s just the latest of a number of young people involved in actions against representatives of the Christian minority. He denies being part of any terrorist organisation, but his is one of a series of actions - sometimes public - against the Christian minority.
The online Turkish agency Gazeteport broke the news: “at the last minute, a new assassination attempt against a Protestant pastor in Turkey has been foiled”. The setting of the possible act: the “Agape” Protestant church in Samsun (a Turkish city on the Black Sea), which has been a target of various acts of violence in the past.
The attempt against the pastor - Orhan Pýçakçýlar, a Turkish national - was prepared by the “umpteenth” young man, who was arrested in time by the police, thanks to telephone surveillance.

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January 12, 2008 by webmaster.

Los Angeles Times reports that Hollywood is torn between its pro-Obama heart and its pro-Clinton head
Notoriously, Hollywood is a major source of overwhelmingly Jewish money for Democratic candidates. Indeed, in a recent blog, Philip Weiss noted that “Steve Rabinowitz, Clinton friend, told me this year that if anyone did a study of how much Dem money comes from Jews, it would fuel conspiracy theories.”
Now the Los Angeles Times reports that Hollywood is torn between its pro-Obama heart and its pro-Clinton head. What’s striking about this is that all this money goes to leftist political candidates who are sure to be stalwart soldiers in pursuit of multicultural America and other high-minded causes.
But they don’t spend any of that money on attempting to wrest control of the pro-Israel lobby from the hands of what James Petras terms the “reactionary minority of American Jews” who head the major American Jewish organizations. While supporting the left in the US, they are complicit in dispossessing the Palestinians and erecting a racialist, apartheid state in Israel.

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