For several years in his youth Ghaffar Hussain was a part of a radical Islamist group but because of his open mind and his interest in analyzing history and politics he recognized the narrowness of the Islamists. Currently he works against the radicalization and uses the advantages of his knowledge from his terrorist past. He exposes that lots of young men, who leave their country and their family, to join a terroristic camp, don’t feel adapted in society and can’t identify with their parent’s generation. In the Islamist groups they have the feeling to belong to somebody and feel attracted by the Umma concept, which says all the Muslims form a unity. Now they are being told that fighting is their duty and they have the urgent feeling to do something good and to fight for their conviction. Politics are explained very easily to them and they are pushed into a very narrow direction of understanding. Many of the members weren’t really successful in their earlier lives but in the terrorist organizations they feel like Heroes. They belief that there is nothing worthwhile left to return to their families. Suddenly they are convinced that they are the only ones who know about the truth and what is really going on. They think they are the real Muslims, neither influence nor corrupted by the West. They aren’t willing to discuss their opinions and they separate themselves from their parents, because they think they are better than they are.

But in fact, the religion is not the source they base on. The terroistic groups are motivated by politics! Ghaffar Hussain says that 90 per cent of their speeches are political ones but they justify their statements with the Koran. None of them have some religious background but they all belief they act in the wish of Allah. “They make their arguments look Islamic” (Ghaffar Hussain).

Ghaffar Hussain and his organization (training for Britain’s Quilliam Organization) have already managed to take away about 40 men from these organizations through individual conversations. Temporary they are only active in England but when they are successful they plan to expand their enterprise to other countries.

Our presentation deals with the new founded information and management centre in Mali (in the west of Africa), the CIGEM. This centre is supposed to inform about the dangers, which result from migration, to advise people in finding jobs and vocational education and to support repatriates. The project is a pilot project established by the European Union in partnership with the government of Mali. The European Union aims at establishing more of them in every development country to “control” the migration (to Europe) and to help the Africans.                              © www.daylife.com

The centre gives rise to a lot of criticism by Malians and politicians. The critics complain that the centre only wants to deter people from migrating but isn’t really willing and able to offer effective help. Still it is the first move to a better collaboration between Africa and Europe, concerning migration, and the horrible consequences arising from it.

For more details watch the presentation below…

cigem

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by Lela & Paula

http://www.eiz-niedersachsen.de/19.98.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=7382&cHash=5d26f630f1

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1463&format=HTML&aged=0&language=DE&guiLanguage=en

->it starts in the 11th week of gestational age ;in the 9th week after fertilisation; before it is an embryo

embyo and fetus define by law: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/eschg/BJNR027460990.html

monday: sight seeing: palace( park), big ben, bridge,st pauls cathedral afternoon: free time, evening
:…pub?/ bridge at night

tuesday: morning/midday: soho evening: tiger tiger club

wednesday: 12.00 shakespear globe,afternoon: notting hill http://www.visitlondon.com/de/karten/ausfluge/ein-tag-in-notting-hill

thursday: morning: convent garden(café flee markets..) evening: wicked musical

friday: home sweet home

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Brick Lane

Brick Lane, E1 6PU

Brick Lane Market is pure East End London, which means Jewish bagel shops, Bangladeshi curry houses, Indian sari silks – and Cockneys crying out their wares. This chaotic, bustling market is half way between jewel and junk heap. It attracts lots of young Londoners, in search of second-hand furniture, unusual clothes and bits of this-and-that. They’ll finish with an inexpensive Sunday lunch (probably curry) in a local restaurant. The market is open Sunday early morning to around 14:00. London’s Curry Mile also plays host to a number of outdoor festivals as the weather warms up, and this is the street to visit any time of the year for a first-rate Indian or Bangladeshi meal followed by a night of dancing in some of London’s best dance venues.

Address: Brick Lane, E1 6PU
Nearest Station: Liverpool Street Tube or Rail / Whitechapel Tube / Aldgate East Tube

Brick Lane – Information

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Petticoat Lane Market

Between Middlesex and Goulston Streets, E1 7HT

Petticoat Lane is London’s world-famous Sunday market and sells mainly clothes for men, women and children, from street-cred clubwear to over-orders of designer goods and last year’s must-haves. One of its specialities is leather-wear and there’s bric-a-brac and household goods too.

The market is held in and around Middlesex Street (there is no Petticoat Lane any more) and is open from 09:00-14:00 on Sundays, with a smaller market open from Monday to Friday.

Address: Between Middlesex and Goulston Streets, E1 7HT
Nearest Station: Liverpool Street Tube / Rail

Petticoat Lane Market – Information

South Africa:

- already in SA Gandhi fought for the rights of the Indiand people, who were oppressed by the Apartheid system

       India :“ no participation”

-          1920 he started the non-violent resistance in India against the British Colonial power with the INC (Indian national congress)

-          The Indian stopped working, and therefore fought against poverty and surpression trying to boycott the British “asahayoga” stands for “ no participation”

-  Firstly Gandhi stopped wearing British clothe, instead he wore traditional Indian ropes. – Gandhi requested that everybody should produce their own fabric by using spinning wheels, he himself yarned and therefore the spinning wheel is used as a symbol for political and economical independence on the Indian flag.

-Ghandi himself was imprisoned often but because of not resisting he was released every time and more and more people supported and followed Gandhi

Quotes:

-Mein Glaube an die Gewaltlosigkeit verpflichtet mich zu äußerster Entschlossenheit. Da bleibt kein Raum für Feigheit oder Schwäche.

-Es gibt nur einen Weg, durch Gewaltlosigkeit Unabhängigkeit zu erreichen: Wenn wir sterben, leben wir, wenn wir töten, niemals.

-Gewalt ist die Waffe des Schwachen; Gewaltlosigkeit die des Starken.

(c) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/africa_kenya_scavengers/html/1.stm

This is one rubbish dump in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, whre many people of the slums around the dump work all day long. They pick up food from richer people and plastic bags which they first wash and later sell on the market of nairobi. for 300 plasic bags, thats the usual rate one human is able to pick up and wash per day, they`ll get 1 US Dollar.

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