Le Conseil militaire de la ville de Nawa (province de Deraa), dirigé par l’ASL, a décrété que le blasphème contre Dieu serait puni de 3 jours d’emprisonnement et d’une amende de 25000 LS :
▻https://twitter.com/ajaltamimi/status/733741243029671936
Commentaire de Joshua Landis :
▻https://twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/733800366106652672
These groups are the “secular” Southern Front the US and others support from the Joint Operations Center in Jordan
En Arabie saoudite, on peut se faire couper la tête pour cela, alors c’est bien la prevue qu’ils sont « modérés » non ?
#groupe_modéré je crois qu’en Allemagne on peut avoir une grosse amende si on blasphème.
Allemagne ▻https://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/X2H-Xref-ViewHTML.asp?FileID=11521&lang=fr
Lors de la révision de 1969 du code pénal fédéral, on a supprimé les références à la protection de Dieu et de ses institutions et remplacé le blasphème par une infraction qui recouvre plus largement les troubles à la paix civile causés par des actes visant à ridiculiser des croyances (Bekenntnisse) ou des groupes idéologiques (Weltanschauungsvereinigungen).
31. L’article 166 du code vise le fait de tourner en dérision des croyances, des associations cultuelles ou des groupes idéologiques. Quiconque outrage des convictions religieuses ou idéologiques en public ou par la diffusion d’écrits, d’une manière pouvant raisonnablement être jugée propre à troubler la paix civile, est passible d’une peine d’emprisonnement maximum de trois ans ou d’une amende. Est passible des mêmes peines quiconque ridiculise une Eglise établie dans le pays, une association cultuelle ou un groupe idéologique, leurs institutions ou leurs cérémonies, en public ou par la diffusion d’écrits, d’une manière jugée propre à troubler la paix civile.
32. La forme et le contenu de l’insulte doivent être tels qu’un observateur objectif puisse raisonnablement penser qu’elle est propre à offenser les personnes partageant les convictions attaquées, et l’auteur de l’infraction doit avoir eu l’intention (ou avoir été conscient) de commettre une infraction.
33. En pratique, les personnes poursuivies au titre de l’article 166 ont généralement subi un stress et perdu de l’argent, mais n’ont pas été condamnées à de lourdes peines. En 1981, dans une affaire dont le cardinal Meissner avait saisi la justice, la juridiction pénale d’appel de Cologne a estimé qu’une caricature défendant le droit à l’avortement, qui représentait Marie et Joseph, ne témoignait cependant d’aucune hostilité envers les chrétiens. Quatre ans plus tard, la juridiction d’appel de Karlsruhe a déclaré qu’un article sarcastique concernant la Cène n’était pas une insulte.
34. La Berliner Tageszeitung, à qui l’évêque de Berlin avait intenté un procès à cause d’un article satirique, a été acquittée en 1987. En 1988, dans une affaire jugée à Bochum, la justice a estimé qu’une brochure insultante pour le Vatican ne risquait pas de troubler la paix civile. Plus récemment, les auteurs de parodies du pape Jean-Paul II ont été mis hors de cause. En 2006, par contre, l’ancien détenu « Manfred van H » a été condamné à un an d’emprisonnement avec sursis et à trois cents heures de travaux d’intérêt général pour avoir fait imprimer les mots « Koran, der Heilige Qur’än » sur du papier toilette, qu’il avait ensuite envoyé à des médias et à des mosquées.
35. Les poursuites ont été plus nombreuses en Autriche. Les articles 188 et 189 du code pénal interdisent les insultes de nature à provoquer une indignation légitime. Ces dispositions ne semblent pas avoir été appliquées à ce qu’un juriste a qualifié de « croyances minoritaires ». La jurisprudence récente comprend notamment la décision de 1986 interdisant la projection publique d’un film inspiré de la pièce de Panizza intitulée Le Concile d’amour.
Reshuffling Eurasia’s energy deck — Iran, China and #Pipelineistan: Escobar
BY PEPE ESCOBAR on JULY 31, 2015 in AT TOP WRITERS, CENTRAL ASIA, EMPIRE OF CHAOS, PEPE ESCOBAR, SOUTH ASIA
Pipelineistan – the prime Eurasian energy chessboard — never sleeps. Recently, it’s Russia that has scored big on all fronts; two monster gas deals sealed with China last year; the launch of Turk Stream replacing South Stream; and the doubling of Nord Stream to Germany.
Now, with the possibility of sanctions on Iran finally vanishing by late 2015/early 2016, all elements will be in place for the revival of one of Pipelineistan’s most spectacular soap operas, which I have been following for years; the competition between the IP (Iran-Pakistan) and TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) gas pipelines.
The $7.5-billion IP had hit a wall for years now – a casualty of hardcore geopolitical power play. IP was initially IPI – connected to India; both India and Pakistan badly need Iranian energy. And yet relentless pressure from successive Bush and Obama administrations scared India out of the project. And then sanctions stalled it for good.
Now, Pakistan’s Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi swears IP is a go. The Iranian stretch of the 1,800-kilometer pipeline has already been built. IP originates in the massive South Pars gas fields – the largest in the world – and ends in the Pakistani city of Nawabshah, close to Karachi. The geopolitical significance of this steel umbilical cord linking Iran and Pakistan couldn’t be more graphic.
Enter – who else? – China. Chinese construction companies already started working on the stretch between Nawabshah and the key strategic port of Gwadar, close to the Iranian border.
China is financing the Pakistani stretch of IP. And for a very serious reason; IP, for which Gwadar is a key hub, is essential in a much larger long game; the $46 billion China-Pakistan economic corridor, which will ultimately link Xinjiang to the Persian Gulf via Pakistan. Yes, once again, we’re right into New Silk Road(s) territory.
Workers in Kazakhstan complete a section of a pan-Central Asian gas pipeline
And the next step regarding Gwadar will be essential for China’s energy strategy; an IP extension all the way to Xinjiang. That’s a huge logistical challenge, implying the construction of a pipeline parallel to the geology — defying Karakoram highway.
IP will continue to be swayed by geopolitics. The Japan-based and heavily US-influenced Asian Development Bank (ADB) committed a $30 million loan to help Islamabad build its first LNG terminal. The ADB knows that Iranian natural gas is a much cheaper option for Pakistan compared to LNG imports. And yet the ADB’s agenda is essentially an American agenda; out with IP, and full support to TAPI.
This implies, in the near future, the strong possibility of Pakistan increasingly relying on the China-driven Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) for infrastructure development, and not the ADB.
Recently, the IP field got even more crowded with the arrival of Gazprom. Gazprom also wants to invest in IP – which means Moscow getting closer to Islamabad. That’s part of another key geopolitical gambit; Pakistan being admitted as a full member, alongside India, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), something that will happen, soon, with Iran as well. For the moment, Russia-Pakistan collaboration is already evident in an agreement to build a gas pipeline from Karachi to Lahore.
Talk to the (new) Mullah
So where do all these movements leave TAPI?
The $10 billion TAPI is a soap opera that stretches all the way back to the first Clinton administration. This is what the US government always wanted from the Taliban; a deal to build a gas pipeline to Pakistan and India bypassing Iran. We all know how it all went horribly downhill.
The death of Mullah Omar – whenever that happened – may be a game changer. Not for the moment, tough, because there is an actual Taliban summer offensive going on, and “reconciliation” talks in Afghanistan have been suspended.
Whatever happens next, all the problems plaguing TAPI remain. Turkmenistan – adept of self-isolation, idiosyncratic and unreliable as long as it’s not dealing with China – is a mystery concerning how much natural gas it really holds (the sixth largest or third largest reserves in the world?)
And the idea of committing billions of dollars to build a pipeline traversing a war zone – from Western Afghanistan to Kandahar, not to mention crossing a Balochistan prone to separatist attacks — is nothing short of sheer lunacy.
Energy majors though, remain in the game. France’s Total seems to be in the lead, with Russian and Chinese companies not far behind. Gazprom’s interest in TAPI is key – because the pipeline, if built, would certainly be connected in the future to others which are part of the massive, former Soviet Union energy grid.
To complicate matters further, there is the fractious relationship between Gazprom and Turkmenistan. Until the recent, spectacular Chinese entrance, Ashgabat depended mostly on Russia to market Turkmen gas, and to a lesser extent, Iran.
As part of a nasty ongoing dispute, Turkmengaz accuses Gazprom of economic exploitation. So what is Plan B? Once again, China. Beijing already buys more than half of all Turkmen gas exports. That flows through the Central Asia-China pipeline; full capacity of 55 billion cubic meters (bcm) a year, only used by half at the moment.
China is already helping Turkmenistan to develop Galkynysh, the second largest gas field in the world after South Pars.
And needless to add, China is as much interested in buying more gas from Turkmenistan – the Pipelineistan way – as from Iran. Pipelineistan fits right into China’s privileged “escape from Malacca” strategy; to buy a maximum of energy as far away from the U.S. Navy as possible.
So Turkmenistan is bound to get closer and closer, energy-wise, to Beijing. That leaves the Turkmen option of supplying the EU in the dust – as much as Brussels has been courting Ashgabat for years.
The EU pipe dream is a Pipelineistan stretch across the Caspian Sea. It won’t happen, because of a number of reasons; the long-running dispute over the Caspian legal status – Is it a lake? Is it a sea? – won’t be solved anytime soon; Russia does not want it; and Turkmenistan does not have enough Pipelineistan infrastructure to ship all that gas from Galkynysh to the Caspian.
Considering all of the above, it’s not hard to identify the real winner of all these interlocking Pipelineistan power plays – way beyond individual countries; deeper Eurasia integration. And so far away from Western interference.
Syrie : Al-Nosra détruit un mausolée sunnite
▻http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2015/01/07/97001-20150107FILWWW00386-syrie-al-nosra-detruit-un-mausolee-sunnite.php
Des membres du front Al-Nosra, la branche syrienne d’al Qaida, ont détruit un mausolée d’un imam sunnite, dans le sud de la Syrie, a rapporté aujourd’hui l’agence officielle Sana.
« Des terroristes appartenant à l’organisation al-Nosra ont dynamité et fait exploser le mausolée de l’imam Nawawi », un religieux sunnite réputé dans la ville de Nawa, à 45 km de Deraa (sud), selon l’agence.
#Al-Qaeda, ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels Capture Key Southern Town — News from Antiwar.com
▻http://news.antiwar.com/2014/11/09/al-qaeda-moderate-syrian-rebels-capture-key-southern-town
... in the far south, in Darra Province, the US-armed rebels are still working hand-in-hand with Nusra, and the two have reportedly seized the important town of Nawa, near the Jordanian border.
The area around the Jordan border is one of the last vestiges of influence for the “moderates,” as fighters trained by the US in Jordan cross into the country and aim to take at least a little territory.
Yet it’s also becoming a significant power-base for Nusra, and as has been seen in the past, any alliance among rebel factions in Syria inevitably leads to arms-sharing, which is to say US-provided arms sharing, and with Nusra shaping up to be a significant US enemy, the arms there are liable to eventually be turned against the US.