(ANSAmed) — MADRID — The project centres on the creation of a television channel called “Cordoba” in Madrid, with headquarters in the industrial area of Tre Cantos. A channel meant to spread, in Spanish, in the Iberian peninsula and in Latin America the conservative Islamic school of Wahhabism. But, according to anti-terrorism experts quoted today by ABC newspaper, the television channel risks being the basis for ‘Jihad’ preaching in the Hispanic community which, with 700 million Spanish speakers, is tempting for Wahhabi proselytism.
Wahhabism, a conservative Islamic movement begun in the 18th century with the aim of bringing Islam back to its pure origins, is official doctrine in Saudi Arabia, the native country of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and the country of origin of most of the September 11 bombers, but whose government is a U.S. ally and is strongly involved with the fight against Islamic terrorism.
The man behind the promotion of the new TV channel, the launch of which was put back from August to October, is the Saudi Sheikh and theologian Saleh Al Fawsan, member of the Council of great sages of Saudi Arabia. The second part of the project would include, according to sources quoted in the newspaper, the launching of “Cordoba TV” also in France, the United Kingdom and China. “Saleh Al Fawzan, “ writes ABC, “not only executes therefore one of the duties of his doctrine, which is to spread it outside of Saudi Arabia, but he includes his project in an attack by Islamic extremism to ‘recuperate Al Andalus’, considered by Muslims to be paradise lost and occupied by the Spanish”.
The new channel could start up in October, if the obstacles that blocked its scheduled start in August are overcome. But it is by no means certain that the project will get the go ahead.
Sheikh Saleh Al Fawzan, together with his son in Saudi Arabia, is the owner of a communications company and a digital newspaper and has reportedly already received a ban by the government of Mohamed VI on launching his TV channel in Morocco. Attempts to start up the channel in Granada and Cordoba, in Andalusia, came to no conclusion. From here arose the decision to head for Madrid.
According to the quoted anti-terrorism experts, Cordoba TV could become a dangerous instrument for proselytism and for the radical Islamic factions, destabilising the Islamic community in Spain. The August start of the channel of seventy year-old Sheikh Al Fawzan and his son Abdulaziz Al Fawzan has also been problematic, according to ABC, because of the rivalry between the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities (FEERI) and the Union of Islamic Communities of Spain (UCIDE), the two most numerous Islamic associations in the Iberian peninsula, inspired by different interpretations of the Koran.
Al Fawzan is identified by ABC as the spiritual guide of one of the terrorists behind the September 11 attacks, Saudi Abdulaziz al Omari, who was part of the command group directed by Mohamed Atta. Al Omari graduated from the Islamic University Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud, where his professor of sharia, Islamic law, was none other than Saleh Al Fawzan. (ANSAmed).
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Eight Indian States Are Poorer Than 26 African Countries Put Together
According to a new UN index for measuring poverty, more than 421 million poor people in the eight Indian states, including Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, compared with 410 million of 26 African countries, like Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Niger and Somalia. The new measure takes into account not only per capita income but also access to resources, education and medical care. For the Indian Church a major cause of poverty is the corruption of local governments and the indiscriminate exploitation of resources to the detriment of the population.
New Delhi (AsiaNews) — In eight states in India the number of poor is higher than that of the 26 most underdeveloped countries in Africa. This data has been revealed by the multidimensional poverty index (MPI), a new index for measuring poverty, created by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) in collaboration with the UN. According to the MPI there are over 421 million poor in the Indian states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, versus 410 million recorded in the 26 African countries like Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Niger and Somalia.
The new index uses 10 variables such as access to fuels and electricity and also takes into account the quality of food, school and health care, in contrast to the previous indices based mainly on family income. The aim is to find development solutions for each country to address the needs of the population.
In India, a major factor of poverty is high level corruption in the public and private sectors. To attract foreign investment, local governments allow indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources to the detriment of the population, which is often forced to abandon their land to make way for industries.
Fr. Udanayath Bishoy, a social worker in Orissa, affirms: “In most cases, the government does not care about the development of Dalits and tribals, who constitute the largest portion of the poor of India”. According to the priest, the authorities are making significant concessions to the industries that prey on the land under the pretext of the development of depressed areas.
“They do not allow local industries to participate in the planning — he continues- and this only adds to the corruption and poverty.” “Those who pursue this policy get rich — he adds- while the population grows poorer because no one is seriously interested in the people’s real needs. Local politicians back development projects that only favour the companies and which lack transparency”. In May, the Prime Minister of Orissa, Naveen Patnaik, guaranteed the federal government and the South Korean steel giant ‘Posco’ the use of over 4 thousand acres of land, forcing thousands to abandon their homes and fields. The local church was the only one to take up the farmers cause and urged politicians to rethink the logic of exploitation and expropriation of land, saving that land which is productive.
In May, the Prime Minister of Orissa, Naveen Patnaik, guaranteed the federal government and the South Korean steel giant ‘Posco’ the use of over 4 thousand acres of land, forcing thousands to abandon their homes and fields.
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