[EUROPEAN AWAKENING] Occupy London protesters take over Swiss bank...
It started last month with one encampment outside Saint Paul's Cathedral. Next came the expansion to Finsbury Square, a smaller but similarly...
It started last month with one encampment outside Saint Paul's Cathedral. Next came the expansion to Finsbury Square, a smaller but similarly active protest camp.
Now, Occupy London have unveiled their latest base, and this time they mean business.
At four storeys high and taking up almost half a street, this is the third of the Occupy London movement's locations, coming complete with a fully functional conference room and a five hundred seat auditorium. More significantly, this building is owned by the Swiss bank UBS, who themselves are no strangers to controversy.
In two thousand and seven, they were accused of heavily profiting from a controversial mortgage scheme in which thousands of British pensioners lost a total of around one billion pounds. They bought the troubled mortgages from another bank. At the time they said that it was an “entirely usual” transaction.
It was bailed out by the Swiss government just one year later. This building is one of its assets, and it's worth over fifty four million pounds.
Occupy London want to hold educational workshops and community events here. They've named their new space “The bank of ideas”, this concept was explained to us by one occupier.
After weeks of being told that their protest was going nowhere, those within the Occupy movement are seeing this as proof that they aren't giving up any time soon. They plan on hosting a conference of worldwide occupy movements inside.
Officially the building is now a 'legal squat', meaning that police are powerless to remove the activists from the building without first consulting the courts.
The City of London has already started legal action against the Saint Pauls cathedral protest camp. Although this is a private building and in a different part of London, its owners are likely to start taking steps to launch their own case against the protesters.
UBS bank today said that they were taking “appropriate action”. In the meantime, Occupy London is likely to squeeze as many events as it can into their limited occupancy time to take full advantage of their new found space.
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[24 May 2012] What is view of Islam on building Christian churches in...
[24 May 2012] What is view of Islam on building Christian churches in Muslim lands - English
A recent fatwa issued by a Wahhabi mufti calls for...
[24 May 2012] What is view of Islam on building Christian churches in Muslim lands - English
A recent fatwa issued by a Wahhabi mufti calls for destruction of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula. He issued the fatwa in late March 2012 in response to a Kuwaiti lawmaker who asked if Kuwait could ban church construction in Kuwait. The fatwa paves the way for adding an article to the new Kuwaiti constitution that forbids building of new churches. Ahl al-Bait assembly condemns the fatwa saying that it is contrary to both Shia and Sunni traditions, and has no precedence in Islamic jurisprudential schools.
The assembly also slams the "deadly silence" of Muslim scholars in the face of such fatwa that distort the image of Islam. It also criticizes international human right organizations as well as Western and Christian governments for their support of Saudi regime and Wahhabi doctrine. The chairman of a group of European Catholic Bishops slams the Saudi Mufti by saying that his fatwa "shows no respect for the religious freedom and free co-existence of religions". This week's Islam and Life asks: What is the view of Islam on building Christian churches in Muslim lands?
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The Islamic Republic Is Building An Ark of Salvation | Agha Alireza...
What was the calamity and trial that was brought upon Prophet Nuh (A)?
And are the trials and tribulations that have been faced by the...
What was the calamity and trial that was brought upon Prophet Nuh (A)?
And are the trials and tribulations that have been faced by the Islamic Republic comparable to those of Prophet Nuh (A)?
What was the response of the evil people around Prophet Nuh (A) when they found out that his eminence was building an ark?
According to who and when was it expected for the Yemeni Resistance to actually stand up on its feet?
And how many followers and devotees does Imam al-Mahdi (A) have just in the land of Yemen, due to the Yemeni Resistance?
What is the present-day \'ark\' that is being put forth by the Islamic Republic?
What position does logic and rationality play in the modern era?
What does the term \'The Logical Republic of Iran\' mean?
Finally, what does it mean when it is said that \"The Islamic Republic Is Building An Ark of Salvation\"?
Ustad Agha Alireza Panahian answers these questions and more, as he speaks about how \"The Islamic Republic Is Building An Ark of Salvation\".
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