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Germany: Uzbek Security Chief Visit a ‘Disgrace’
Human Rights Watch October 28 2008
The German government should not have permitted the head of Uzbekistan’s secret police to visit Germany immediately after the European Union lifted sanctions stemming from a 2005 massacre in Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today. 
Luther City Revisits the Reformation
Spiegel Online, Germany October 28 2008
By Stefan Berg
Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation in the German city of Wittenberg 500 years ago. But, today, only 10 percent of its population is Protestant. Church leaders have launched a major drive to change that -- but have come up against the city's communist past.
Hitler and Jihad (Part 3)
AndrewBostom.org October 23 2008
By Andrew Bostom
The convergence of jihadism and Nazism: al-Mashriqi (left), and Hitler (right) with Hajj Amin el-Husseini (center)
During an interview conducted in the late 1930s (published in 1939), Karl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychiatry, was asked “…had he any views on what was likely to be the next step in religious development?” Jung replied, in reference to the Nazi fervor that had gripped Germany,
Frankfurt Book Fair urged to ban Muslim countries' anti-Semitic tracts
Jerusalem Post, Israel October 17 2008
By HAVIV RETTIG
Books on display at the 59th Frankfurt Book Fair.
Anti-Semitic tracts can be found throughout the Muslim-world book stands at the Frankfurt Book Fair, including at the displays of this year's "honored guest," Turkey, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
First mosque opens in Germany's ex-communist east
guardian.co.uk, UK October 16 2008
By MELISSA EDDY
A Muslim community was opening the first mosque in Germany's formerly communist east on Thursday despite a steady stream of protests from local residents and far-right demonstrators.
Turkey`s true colors: Turkish Novelists Lambast Government At Book Fair
Spiegel Online, Germany October 16 2008
Turkey is "guest of honor" at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair but top novelists, including Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, are not just publicizing their books. They are shining a spotlight on their country's murky human rights' record.
