And western women are slammed in their new 15th edition manual for not being shy and acting like "Maidens." When explaining why they dislike emancipated women they say: "They need not be a mother, a wife, or a maiden, but rather, she should work like man, rule like man, and have intercourse like an animal, without being conscious of her Lord watching both her and her heinous partner in crime."

The group also targets English naturalist and geologist, Charles Darwin, philosopher Karl Marx, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, French sociologist David Durkheim, German sociologist Max Weber and Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud for criticism.

The rambling editorial also goes on to make reference to the Orlando shootings. It says: "Shortly following the blessed attack on a sodomite, Crusader nightclub by the Mujahid Omar Mateen, American politicians were quick to jump into the spotlight and denounce the shooting, declaring it a hate crime, an act of terrorism, and an act of senseless violence. A hate crime? Yes. Muslims undoubtedly hate liberalist sodomites."

A case in point is the recent presence in Malta of Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for Enlargement whose visit was covered in the Press for the wrong reasons. The press reported mainly what Hahn stated about Malta’s readiness for the EU Presidency. However even if Malta were not prepared (which is not the case here), no diplomat in his right senses would say so in public.

Nonetheless, the most interesting aspect of this event was not the official speeches by Hahn and Vella but their off-the-cuff replies to the questions. It was at this point that inadvertently Hahn's true purpose for being here came out; it had nothing to do with Brexit or its repercussions on Malta or the Southern Neighbourhood Policy as such. Behind the diplomatic talk about the need for a European Neighbourhood Policy for the Mediterranean, there is now a new approach to rely on military strength to resolve what is perceived as a Mediterranean problem.

In simple words, Hahn came here to pave the way for Malta's eventual participation in the new EU Army that Brussels intends creating in response to its internal existential crisis. Judging from the way he talked, the EU wants the setting up of an army to be the main assignment of Maltese presidency. Hahn confirmed that creating a European Military force has become top priority for Brussels.

This is the lacerating verdict of the IMF’s top watchdog on the fund’s tangled political role in the eurozone debt crisis, the most damaging episode in the history of the Bretton Woods institutions. It describes a “culture of complacency”, prone to “superficial and mechanistic” analysis, and traces a shocking breakdown in the governance of the IMF, leaving it unclear who is ultimately in charge of this extremely powerful organisation.

The report by the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) goes above the head of the managing director, Christine Lagarde. It answers solely to the board of executive directors, and those from Asia and Latin America are clearly incensed at the way European Union insiders used the fund to rescue their own rich currency union and banking system.

The three main bailouts for Greece, Portugal and Ireland were unprecedented in scale and character. The trio were each allowed to borrow over 2,000 percent of their allocated quota – more than three times the normal limit – and accounted for 80 percent of all lending by the fund between 2011 and 2014.

“The Jewish right to the Temple Mount was established in the Bible, and should therefore be recognized by Christianity and Islam,” wrote the Sanhedrin. “In fact, the Jewish claim to Jerusalem is as essential to those religions as it is to Judaism. This Biblical connection between the Jews and Jerusalem led to the building of the First Temple by King Solomon, which strengthened our claim to Jerusalem even more.”

“A plethora of archaeological evidence in and around Jerusalem is undeniable proof of Jewish settlement in Biblical times. Islam did not exist, in Israel or anywhere else, until the year 636 CE, more than 500 years after the destruction of the Second Jewish Temple,” reasoned the Sanhedrin’s statement. Rabbi Weiss affirmed their statement saying, “The Temple was intended to be the place where all the nations came together to serve God, in peace. By enabling the Muslims to turn the Temple Mount into the antithesis of this idea, UNESCO is doing the opposite of their stated mission of uniting the nations.”

“The Muslims have turned the Temple Mount into a place of violence and lies, a battleground where Islam establishes exclusive domain, claiming supremacy over the other nations, where their violent ways have usurped the domain of peace,” said Rabbi Weiss. “By allowing the Muslims exclusive access to prayer on the Temple Mount, the world has chosen ‘priests’ of war and terror. The world must allow the Jews, the real lovers of peace, to be the priests representing all the nations on the Temple Mount,” he concluded.

Chernobyl’s Cesium 137 was carried by wind and spring rain patterns in high concentrations to central Sweden and Norway and within days, Swedish and Norwegian scientists measured dangerous levels of cesium in the atmosphere. As a result Sweden raised the cesium concentration limit for marketability. In May 1987, the limit was raised to 1,500 Bq/kg, which thereby classified most herding areas as safe.

Then, post Fukushima, the Japanese Japanese Ministry of Health decided to more than double the maximum allowable exposure for nuclear workers from 100 millisieverts to 250 millisieverts. Then in 2011 under new public radiation limits, Japanese children can now be exposed to 20 times more radiation than was previously permissible. The reasoning here is that it was necessary in order to keep schools in the Fukushima region open. Just raise the limits and the children are somehow safe!

Now we have the US EPA significantly raising the allowable limits of radioactive contamination in America’s domestic drinking water. Is this the result of the atmospheric contamination previously received in the US in the days after the Fukushima multiple reactor meltdown, or are the authorities taking a proactive step in preparing for the next nuclear disaster sure to come?

Whatever the case it is so convenient that the biological effects of radiation can be altered simply by increasing the allowable “safe” limits.

Abbas' statement called on other members of the Arab League to support Palestine in carrying out a lawsuit against the UK over the Balfour Declaration, which paved the way for the creation of Israel in 1948. Mahmoud Abbas and his government pointed the finger at Britain for facilitating and ultimately supporting "Israeli crimes". He also said that the UK was one of the main parties responsible for the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948.

Foreign Minister al-Maliki told delegates at the summit that Palestine would be filing a lawsuit against Britain in the international court, but did not specify exactly when the government planned to do so. Whether or not the international community will take Abbas' statement seriously remains to be seen, but it marks an unprecedented move in British-Palestine relations over the last decade.

In terms of motivation, the attacks came from all directions. The Würzburg and Ansbach attackers claimed allegiance to the Islamic State, while the Munich killer said he wanted to copy the Norwegian right-wing extremist and mass murderer Anders Breivik. All of this has Germans reeling. What kind of extremism poses the greater danger to Germany — the Islamic State, or the German far right? Are we safer as a globally engaged society, or should we isolate ourselves?

The Alternative for Germany party was quick to link the attack to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy. On Friday night, long before the police had details on the Munich perpetrator’s motives, a party leader tweeted: “Merkel, thank you for terrorism in Europe.”

But perhaps more so in Germany than any other country in Europe, the fear of terrorism isn’t limited to the possible attacks themselves; it is about what our bête noire, the German far right, will do with it. We have already seen the political risks of xenophobia; the right-wing sentiments of the Munich attacker raise the possibility that xenophobic violence will escalate further.

Merkel interrupted her summer holiday in order to hold the press conference and used the media-fomented hysteria following recent attacks in Germany to announce a law-and-order programme. Although the police investigation is still underway, Merkel spoke of “Islamic terrorism”, and described the attacks in Würzburg and Ansbach as a “breach of civilised taboos”. Those pulling the strings, she threatened, would feel the “full force of the law”.

In one breath, Merkel spoke of the attacks in Würzburg and Ansbach, about the “terrible terrorist attacks” in Nice in France, of the attack in Orlando, USA and the murder of a French priest. The aim of the terrorists was to “destroy our way of life”, she said. They were sowing hatred and fear between cultures, and were sowing hatred and fear between religions, the Chancellor said.

On the morning before Merkel’s government statement, the Bavarian state administration, which was holding a cabinet meeting at Tegernsee, announced its own “extensive security package”. It includes more posts and improved technical resources for the police, more staff at the prosecutor’s offices and courts and an expansion of video surveillance in public places and roads, at railway stations and on trains.

In addition, the retention of internet data would be expanded. As well as telephone companies, those providing email services and social media will also be required to store traffic data. Moreover, the 10-week time limit for storing data will be “significantly” increased. Penalties for resisting police officers will be raised from six months up to five years’ imprisonment.

When asked about the Bavarian security package, Merkel told the press conference: “In these matters, we have much common ground.”

More than 5,000 protested in Berlin and thousands more throughout Germany over the 'open-door' policy that many have blamed for four brutal terrorist attacks that left 13 dead over the last month. The Chancellor faced a fresh wave of fury after it emerged that two recent terror attacks and a third killing were carried out by men who entered the country as refugees.

Despite the massive waves of criticism, Merkel defended her policy this week, dramatically proclaiming 'we can do it' as she pledged not to let the violent acts guide political decisions. But now her key ally in Bavaria - which bore the brunt of the attacks - has launched a fresh attack on her leadership, distancing his party from Merkel and straining the coalition that keeps her in power.

Now, however, that sense of unity across Europe and North America against Russian aggression is flailing, as NATO does drastic amounts of self-harm. "Putin has the luck of the devil," Mark Galeotti, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told Bloomberg about the fraying nature of NATO. "He can just sit back and watch this richer, more powerful and legitimate values-based bloc tear itself apart."

The lack of commitment to upholding NATO's cornerstone of collective defense from a US presidential candidate undermines the alliance as a whole, experts said, and could cause considerable anxiety among NATO allies — particularly in the Baltic States and Eastern Europe. The failed coup in Turkey has also deeply shaken the military alliance. Turkey has the second-largest military in NATO and provides vital security to the alliance's eastern and southern flanks. However, since the failed putsch, Turkey is rapidly moving away from NATO, the US, and the West as a whole.

"Anti-American sentiment is rising in the Turkish government and on the Turkish street," Aaron Stein, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told Bloomberg. "The Obama administration is at its wit’s end about the Turkey issue."