Wishes of blessing and peace

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On the occasion of the fasting month of Ramadan, the Catholic bishops sent their wishes of happiness and blessings to the Muslims in Germany. Vatican calls for increased efforts to educate younger generations for peace in face of ongoing armed conflicts.

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue put its message for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, released Friday, under the motto "Educating Young Christians and Muslims for Justice and Peace". In it, the president of the Vatican authority, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, congratulated Muslims worldwide in advance of Id-al-Fitr, the breaking of the fast, around 18. August.

Education for justice and peace is "inseparable from truth and freedom," the curia cardinal stressed. Peace is not given only by "absence of acts of war and on the balance of power", warned the former Vatican "Foreign Minister".

Believers must build peace continuously through commitment to "harmonious growth, sustainable development, prevention and resolution of conflicts," according to the Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Christians and Muslims must fight for truth and freedom in order to contribute to a culture of justice, peace and respect for the dignity of every human being. In doing so, they should "not make dubious compromises, take deceptive shortcuts, or use means that lack respect for people.".

Zollitsch calls for united stand against extremists
In a message of greeting published in Bonn on Friday, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch stressed that it was a great need for him to express the solidarity with the Muslims. At the same time, he called for a firm stand against extremists. The president of the German Bishops' Conference stressed "that everywhere in the world, and sometimes also in our country, deluded people and extremists strive to burden the good coexistence of the faithful". He said it is the common task of Muslims and Christians to "always resist them". Christians and Muslims have much in common, Zollitsch stressed. May the fasting month of Ramadan give Muslims the experience of how God changes the world.

Lent is an important break in the year for Muslims, he added. Muslims remembered how much good God has done for people. "The many encounters between Muslims and Christians are also among the events for which we can be heartily grateful."The exchange at work in everyday life, but also the encounter on special occasions and celebrations had deepened and enriched the coexistence between Christians and Muslims.

The fasting month of Ramadan began in Germany on 20. July started. It will be held until 18. August celebrated, on 19. August follows the festival of breaking the fast. Fasting, like the profession of faith, daily prayers, the tax on the poor and the pilgrimage to Mecca, is one of the five pillars of Islam. During Ramadan, believers are called upon to abstain from food, drink, smoking and sexual intercourse from sunrise to sunset.

With the Errreng not only the government, but also the Turkische Volkes tries the terrorist group "Tawhid Whale Jihad" At a new strategy of mass leg flatng

In Iraq, the terrorist group has "Tawhid Whale Jihad", Al-Qaeda is close and wanted to be guided by Sarkawi, a new dimension of Erpreng introduced. On Saturday evening, the Al-Josira sent a video of the terror group in which she announced to tip three Turkish hostages when Turkish companies do not hire their work in Iraq within three days and do not take rough demonstrations against US Prassident Bush in Turkey. who relocate to the NATO summit from today to Tuesday.

The Terrorgruppe now seems to be bleeded in addition to bombing and occasionally also open strab beams, especially on Errrarg by remuneration of hostages, which are knocked up when the receivables are not met. The already carried out in the style of an execution of the American Nicholas Berg (the media and the cruel pictures) and the Sudkoreaner Kim Sun-Il have shown the success of the strategy in the sense of the terrorists (the Sudkorean government blocks access to websites with the Environmental video of KIM SUN-IL). The clothing of the hostages increased the effect, as it already visually referred to the torture scandal in Abu Ghraib and the execution is staged in response.

The media strategy developed by the terrorists is important, which is, of course, in such regions, as currently the Iraq, which is in the center of global attention, can also quickly create a global openness. First, videos are sent to the media on which the muted debuts and the endowed exposures can be seen in order to make the threat of belonging to the threat. If the video is currently being partially or completely broadcast by a broadcaster along with the requirement, these are the other media and spread the information provided by the terrorists, so to speak. If this efficient mechanical dissemination is not possible through a kind of infection of a medium, the video can also be put into the Internet, where it is also analogous to a viral epidemic gradually spread to finding the way into the mass media.

Update: On Sunday, two more terrorist groups have sent videos with shots of hostages that have been captured by them. A marine inferredist, according to the threat, should be beheaded if the demand for freezing of prisoners is not met. While this video was shown by the transmitter Al-Jasira, the competing channel Al-Arabija has published a video of another terror group that threatens to a driver of a Pakistani hostage, a driver of the US company Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR), if Not the Pakistani Embassy in Iraq is closed.

The hostage taking with threat of the beheading seems to be more and more imitators with the media strategy ritual. Cynically, a wave of such terrorists was allowed, but even if they did not lead to the successful Errreng, go to the course of all the strategies of attention when they are copied numerous of imitators. With the repetition, the attention decreases, the media report only on the edge, it becomes a cruel reality of everyday life as already much, which is going on in Iraq.

With the spread of the first video, the bean is created for the next step. The terrorists demand from the most pressed actions, which must be readily involved in the media-friendly way to maintain the time interval between receivable and (not) exploitation and thus the media attention. If the Erpreng success, love himself through another video a victory and probably more threats. In case of non-validity, a video is made with a kind of verdict and the assassination of the victim.

at "Tawhid Whale Jihad" If one decided on the type of death of the beheading, because it is probably a conventional Sharia penalty on the one hand and has the character of an execution, but certainly because death is because death in this bloody way and with the showing of the separated head is a safe media event, which the spectators are encouraging and abolished, but also banned, especially if they could be potentially affected by themselves. Even if the mass media does not completely send the video with the beheading or uniform the corresponding images, then the Internet is now a medium to help you "information" Viral without coarse effort and largely exposed to be spread. The terrorist group and their act achieve the desired prominence required to teach the message, because finally the media at least report the executed head and usually also circulate the images on the Internet.

But these elements of the terrorist media strategy have now added another dimension. "Traditionally" is the requirement that the Turkish government should deduct all Turkish companies within three days from Iraq. But the second requirement brings a new element into the game. There was also in 2002 in the mass hostel in a theater in Moscow through Chechen terrorists the demand that the relief of the 800 hostages in the city against Russian Chechen policy and for the demands of terrorists should demonstrate. This is also happening, the terrorists were able to observe success in the theater about television. In addition to the actual act, the spectacular mass hostel, they were still indirectly controlled by the inclusion of other actors media and publicity and from the distance (the media coup in the theater).

The Iraqi terrorists now not only compress a government in another country, they exercise them not only on religious or friends of their victims, but they want to take the burgers of a state into their services and mobilize them if they demand that the Turkish people to go to the strain against Bush – in "Groben demonstrations". If the demands are not invited, so threatens the hostages "The just punishment of the beheading". The hostages thus also serve the Errreng of a whole people. The conclusion was checked at the screens.

The criticism of the war against Iraq was roughly rough in Turkey, but the Errreng of a people to mobilize rough crowds is perhaps a media strategically interesting goal, but at the same time also shows the limits of the Morderischer game at the same time. The Erpreng the government and the companies alone probably had the effect on how to see again in Sudkorea, that the criticism of the government and the US rises because the threat can serve as a confirmation of upliant warnings or to say people that hospitals of their people should not be sacrificed foreign interests. But set the case that the government of Erpreng will give up, but none "gross" Demonstrations take place and the terrorists then punish the Turkish people by murdering the hostages?

It lights up that this was not worked, at least not in the sense of the terrorists. They can, symptomatic for asymmetric conflict, only act out of the weaker position, because only the funds they used at least for sympathizers although not appropriate, so somehow remain acceptable. However, from the position of the weak one acts only if one attacks the seemingly powerful. Although the anarchists of the 19. Century set a fanal with their striking, which people call up to the uprising, but directly to blackmail a people abroad, which the politics of the opponents of the terrorists rejectingly refuses, let the terrorists become stronger, as they live on the life and death of hostages pour and force people to a decision.

In addition, people who actually go to the strain to protest against the policy of Bush, easy to accuse that they were now served as a helper or tools of the terrorists. While the media, which spread the information produced by the terrorists, also as a means of terrorists, but they have the advantage that they allegedly only report and so worst only indirect tools are. Of course, the terrorists will adhere to the (predictable) reaction of the government, but probably they have diligently damaged themselves with their new media strategy step as well as used. Even in Iraq, even people who are the resistance to the occupying power and the government of their owned government are more and more about calling for the validation of the terrorists. Nevertheless, tens of thousands protested against the visit of US Prassident Bush in Istanbul on Sunday.

Banner showing number of wives murdered in Spain due to domestic violence © Andreas Drouve (KNA)

Domestic violence remains a major ie in Spain. Many women are still killed by partners and ex-partners. But society, politics and the church are sensitized and want to combat the phenomenon more strongly.

It is an oppressive duty that Fernando Gutierrez, head of the Provincial Council of Leon, must fulfill day after day. On the website of Spain's Ministry of Social Affairs, it reviews the latest count of female fatalities from domestic violence in the country.

The saddest balcony in Spain

Then, if necessary, he updates the number on a banner and hangs it back in its place: a balcony of the Renaissance Guzmanes Palace, seat of the provincial parliament in the middle of Leon. This makes the balcony the saddest in Spain – but it is important, as a signal, as a reminder.

In a country long dominated by machismo, where until a few decades ago women had to ask their husbands for permission to open a bank account, some men can't cope with the advance of the opposite sex.

Throughout the country and across all social strata, abuse by former or current partners – including homicide – occurs again and again. As of November, there have already been 43 female fatalities this year, a total of 971 since 2003.

Society and politics are reacting to this in an increasingly sensitized and offensive manner. Platforms and women's organizations have formed against machismo, demonstrations occasionally occur, a banner on the subject is emblazoned between the market halls of Santiago de Compostela.

At entrances to provincial capitals such as Vitoria (Basque Country) and Pamplona (Navarre), but also in smaller towns, signs point to a zero-tolerance attitude toward domestic violence; in the same vein, sculptures of red hands at popular festivals in Navarre symbolize the abhorrence of macho excesses. For potential perpetrators, the message should be unmistakable: even minor aggression is not a trivial offense. The emergency number 016, set up specifically for victims of gender-based violence, is available around the clock.

Regional help centers of the church

Spain's church does not have a united campaign against domestic violence, says Maria Carmen Ramirez of the press department of the Spanish Bishops' Conference, but there are regional help centers and programs for women: a total of 102 throughout the country. According to the latest statistics, there have been around 22.300 women assistance, reception, accompaniment, psychological and legal support. Women are not only affected by beatings, but also by social exclusion, sexual and other exploitation.

A look at the regions is revealing. Andalusia, where southern machismo has traditionally been particularly pronounced, has the highest number of people seeking advice and help (6.023). And sparsely populated regions such as Galicia (3.414) and Aragon (2.375) outnumber – in relation to population density – the million-strong Madrid metropolitan area (2.512) by lengths. Which leads to the conclusion that Spain still has an extreme machismo problem, especially in rural areas.

The Castilla-La Mancha region launched a pioneering law in Spain in October that focuses on other victims of domestic violence who have often been overlooked: the children of women who have been killed. They will now receive until 18. The church also provides a state subsidy of 4.000 euros per year.

At the same time, secondary schools in the region have been given a two-year deadline to introduce a new compulsory school subject with content on equality, women's lib and the prevention of domestic violence. If Spain tackles the root of the problem and educates the public, it is to be hoped that the numbers on the billboard at Guzmanes Palace in Leon will eventually reach "0". There is still a long way to go.

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