1. NYT: Beards in Prison Hold Next Religion Test for Supreme Court
The new case, to be argued on Oct. 7, the second day of the next term, concerns whether prison officials may prohibit Muslim inmates from growing the beards required by their faiths.
The juxtaposition of the two cases may color the justices’ analysis in the second one, said Marci A. Hamilton, a law professor at Cardozo Law School.
“After going out on a limb by providing newfound rights to corporations,” she said, “are they now going to turn around and say that prisoners can’t grow beards?”
2. Nicolai Sennels: Psychologist on Muslim rape gangs: Psychology of sexual abuse is ingrained in their religion and culture
The recent rape scandal in Rotherham, England, where authorities ignored the fact that packs of Pakistanis were abducting, raping, and torturing children by the hundreds, forcing them to abort their unborn babies and threatening to kill them in the most horrific ways if they told about the abuse, is far from unique. The phenomenon of “Asian” gangs — which actually are Muslim gangs — seducing children and youngsters with gifts, drugs and promises of love, or simply using sheer violence, to get get their sexual and paedophilic lusts satisfied, is haunting many British and European cities.
There are several reasons for this. The first is Islam. It is a fact that its founder and prime role model liked to rape small children.
3. There are more and more Islamic State videos appearing with beheadings of people for apostasy. It is hard to know what to do about these videos. Certainly ignoring them does no good but neither does damaging decent people’s psyches with endless slaughterhouse videos. Last night I watched one, and accidentally saw the actual brutal section, which I normally try not to do, and cannot un-see that. I will spare you all an embed but I will post what the translator had to say about it. Keep in mind when you watch it, you hear a word that sounds like ‘American’ so we asked the translator from that perspective:
To his American masters, the worshippers of the Cross, (then here he says somethings about the blood of the Muslims that I didn’t understand. I am missing two key words), today we are upholding against him the penalty of apostasy with the strike of the sword! Allahu Akbar, prayers and chants of dedication, etc…
Sorry I could not not do a better job this time! But I hope it could be of some help anyway. I don’t know if the poor victim is American or not. They said they are killing him for apostasy. So I guess he is a local Muslim who is not zealot enough for their taste or a convert to some other religion. In the beginning he said that his masters were American. But he didn’t say that the guy himself was an American.The title of the video says: “ISIS beheads a citizen with the sword”. It doesn’t say which country’s citizen. I guess if he were an American the murderers themselves would have made a bigger deal out of it for propaganda value. They would not leave it to us to do the guesswork. But who knows!!
Thank you RitaMalik for subjecting yourself to this for us.
4. Another story about a Christian brutally murdered for failing to be a muslim.
For more than three weeks, Salem Matti Kourk was holed up in his home to avoid capture by Islamists. Once he ran out of food, he went out to find some but was stopped and beaten to death, his body dumped on a street. For Chaldean Patriarchate, he is “another martyr, a victim of extremist folly.” In the capital, a car bomb kills a young Syrian Catholic student.
5. Saudi arrests 88 suspects in alleged al-Qaida cell
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A top Saudi security official said Tuesday that police had arrested 88 men suspected of being part of an al-Qaida cell that was plotting attacks inside and outside of the kingdom.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki did not give any details about the alleged plots, but said 59 of men arrested had previously served prison sentences for similar offenses. He said they were also planning assassinations.
6. The Islamic State is starting to do positive propaganda now.
Check out these two pages of photos. The first page has a header which reads (After Google Translate)
Thrive in the city of Mosul under the Caliphate
The thing of it is, they are bragging about a pre existing condition as if they had created it. Its like if Somali pirates took over Disneyland in Florida and then released photos of the place about how great Somali pirates are because look at how cool Disneyland is!
I think after a couple of years, it will be much more interesting to see how it looks.
Its not like they built that bridge
7. Crowd cheers as Iraqi forces retake town from Islamic State
Thank you M, Maria J., and many who sent in material. More to come shortly.
http://i.4cdn.org/b/1409679825353.webm
Steven Joel Sotloff beheading (with sound)
http://www.sockshare.com/file/ECF294EC6C58B96E#
PFLP militants celebrate a week of truce in Gaza
#6 “starting”? What was the sharia compliance police section in the Vice video, then? That made it look wonderful and benign. Having said that, these pictures do look like they’re from a tourist brochure, and that’s the idea.
Like – they want me to book a tour?
TURKEY – Görmez blames Vatican for inaction over attacks on Islam
Mehmet Görmez, head of the Religious Affairs Directorate, has said that the prevalence of attacks targeting mosques and Muslim communities has been increasing year by year, and he criticized the Vatican and other religious foundations for remaining ineffective in preventing such attacks against Muslims.
Speaking during an event on Tuesday organized by the Religious Affairs Directorate, which was recently placed under the authority of the prime minister, Görmez said there were 22 attacks on mosques in Germany from 2001 to 2012. Between 2001 and 2013, this number increased to 36, and it has gone up to 70 when this year is included.
Görmez believes all religious institutions, and in particular the Vatican, should take necessary steps to curb this rise. Referring to a ceremony during which Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of two young Muslim women at a juvenile detention center as part of the Holy Thursday ritual in March 2013, Görmez said: “This [preventing attacks on Islam] cannot be accomplished by just washing the feet of a young lady or organizing an interfaith football match or tournament. … It is necessary to prevent discriminative actions targeting the members of such a holy religion as Islam. The Religious Affairs Directorate also has many responsibilities [to fulfill] in this regard.”
http://www.todayszaman.com/latest-news_gormez-blames-vatican-for-inaction-over-attacks-on-islam_357500.html
Two killed in fresh Brazil prison mutiny
Barely a week after rioting inmates killed five fellow prisoners in a Brazilian jail, two more have been slain in a similar disturbance, authorities said Tuesday.
Military police said one of the men had been beheaded and had a hand cut off while the other victim was stabbed to death at the penitentiary in Parintins in the northern region of Amazonia.
A spokesman told AFP at least two fights had broken out at the facility, housing 138 in a jail whose official capacity is 75.
He added that a new administration at the jail would seek to address conditions there.
He added that the prisoners had done substantial material damage to the prison during more than nine hours of disturbances.
Last week saw an uprising which killed five and two prison guards were taken hostage in Cascavel in the southern state of Parana.
A further 25 were hurt in that disturbance.
Overcrowded Brazilian jails are regularly the scene of uprisings and the violence and often unhygienic conditions in many are the subject of debate ahead of an October 5 presidential election.
President Dilma Rousseff dubbed the situation in the worst penitentiaries as “barbaric” during a televised debate with rival candidates on Monday night.
In a July interview with US broadcaster CNN she said she was aware that there were “huge” numbers of prisoners being held in “sub-human conditions”.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/8/109858/World/Region/Two-killed-in-fresh-Brazil-prison-mutiny.aspx
pic on this page :
http://www.portaldoholanda.com.br/cenas-fortes/caso-presidio-parintins#sthash.Z1VGRoDa.dpbs
The head looks like that of a child.
I bet anything someone named “Moh” is involved.
Ebola kills 31 people in DR Congo: WHO (Sept 2, 2014)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Ebola-kills-31-people-in-DR-Congo-WHO/articleshow/41531128.cms
“An outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 31 people and the epidemic remains contained in a remote northwestern region, UN the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
“There are now 31 deaths,” Eugene Kambambi, the WHO’s head of communication in DR Congo, told AFP, citing Congolese authorities and stressing that the epidemic “remains contained” in an area around 800 kilometres (500 miles) north of the capital Kinshasa.
Health officials had previously given a death toll of 13 people from the lethal haemorrhagic fever since August 11 around the isolated town of Boende, surrounded by dense tropical forest in Equateur province….”
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Scores killed as Boko Haram insurgents overrun Nigerian town (indiatimes, Sept 2, 2014)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Scores-killed-as-Boko-Haram-insurgents-overrun-Nigerian-town/articleshow/41531449.cms
“Islamist Boko Haram insurgents have overrun much of a northeastern Nigerian town after hours of fighting that has killed scores and displaced thousands of residents, several security sources said on Tuesday.
The Islamists launched an attack on the town of Bama, 70 km (45 miles) from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, on Monday. They were initially repelled but came back in greater numbers overnight, the sources and witnesses said.
Nigeria’s defence spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The sources said there were heavy casualties on both sides. One security source said as many as 5,000 people fled the town….”
Islam very good!
A million people at risk as Somalia slides towards famine: UN (indiatimes, Sept 2, 2014)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/A-million-people-at-risk-as-Somalia-slides-towards-famine-UN/articleshow/41518769.cms
“Over a million people in war-torn Somalia are struggling in conditions close to famine, with hunger and drought due to worsen, United Nations experts said on Tuesday.
The grim assessment, based on the latest data collected by the UN, comes three years since famine in the Horn of Africa nation killed more than a quarter of a million people, and as heavy fighting persists in some of the hardest hit regions.
The UN said 1,025,000 people were classified in either “crisis” or “emergency” situations, just one step short of famine on its hunger scale. This represents an increase of a fifth compared with the numbers affected in January.
The joint report was released by the UN’s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and the US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network…”
Omar Khadr trying again to sue Canada for $20M
TORONTO — Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr tries again Wednesday to expand his civil lawsuit against the federal government to include a claim that Canada conspired with the United States for what he says was the abuse of his rights and torture.
The proposed $20-million action foundered last December when Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled the amended lawsuit, initially filed in 2004, needed to be rewritten before it could proceed on its merits.
A key issue is whether Mosley will now allow Khadr to press his conspiracy claim — a cause of action the federal government says should not be available to him.
In essence, Khadr wants to argue that Canada conspired with the U.S. in breaching his charter rights when intelligence agents went down to Guantanamo Bay to interview him in 2003 and 2004. The conspiracy claim — if successful — would tie Canada’s conduct to that of the United States.
“A conspiratorial claim (would make) Canada liable for the torture that was committed by the States,” Khadr’s lawyer, John Phillips, said in an interview Tuesday.
“I want Canada liable for the torture.”
None of the allegations has been proven in court. The U.S. government has denied Khadr was seriously abused or tortured.
Documents show the RCMP was building a terrorism-related case against the Toronto-born Khadr at a time the Americans were developing war-crimes charges against him.
American authorities allowed Canadian agents access to him at the Guantanamo prison only if they shared any intelligence they gained, which they did, the documents show. Khadr was never told he was the target of a criminal probe in Canada or about the information-sharing deal.
Following that agreement, Khadr’s military captors subjected him among other things to sleep-deprivation — known as the “frequent flyer” program — to soften him up for interrogation by Canadian authorities, something Mosley acknowledged when he refused to shut the door to the conspiracy claim.
Mosley also noted that Federal Court would not have to pass judgment on the legality of what the U.S. did to Khadr, but on whether Canada’s agreement with the Americans to share information to be used in prosecuting him was legal.
If Mosley rules the conspiracy claim can proceed, Khadr’s lawyers say it would likely pave the way for the production of documents that could help him in his suit and in his quest for damages.
Khadr, who turns 28 later this month, was 15 years old when the Americans arrested him in July 2002 following a brutal firefight in which he was horrifically injured and an American special forces soldier was killed.
He ultimately pleaded guilty to five war crimes — including murder in violation of the law of war — before a widely maligned military commission in October 2010 and was sentenced to a further eight years.
He transferred to Canadian custody in September 2012 and later said his guilty plea was a desperate act to get out of American custody. He is currently incarcerated in the Bowden Institution in Innisfail, Alta. Ottawa insists he’s an unrepentant, hardened terrorist.
Meanwhile, Khadr has yet to find an American lawyer willing to defend him against a US$45-million lawsuit filed in Utah in May by the widow of the U.S. special forces soldier killed in Afghanistan and another American soldier blinded by a grenade. That leaves open the possibility of a default judgment against him.
It remains far from clear, however, whether Canadian courts would enforce any such judgment.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/omar-khadr-trying-again-to-sue-canada-for-20m-1.1987728
Can’t they drive a stake through this guy’s heart?
According to the legends driving a stake through the heart is to disable the vampire long enough to decapitate the creature.
Well, if this is known, why not just finish this nuisance off?
CNN – ‘Stay tuned’ on ISIS strategy, says U.S
State Department Official Brett McGurk says there must be a “very sophisticated approach” to combating ISIS.
……we are going to launch a much more subsidized training program for the SYRIAN OPPOSITION
More U.S. soldiers to Iraq to defend embassy in Baghdad
The White House announced on Tuesday evening that President Obama had approved a State Department request to have the Pentagon send more military personnel to Iraq, in order to defend the U.S. embassy complex in Baghdad, the largest American diplomatic facility in the world.
The extra 350 military personnel would bring the total of American servicemembers in Iraq to around 1,300, acting in roles as military advisers or for protection of U.S. diplomats inside Iraq, as the White House made clear that these extra troops “will not serve in a combat role.”
In a statement issued by the White House, while the issue of countering Islamic State forces was mentioned, this latest U.S. military force to be ordered to Iraq will not be fighting Islamic State militants in the field, as the Obama Administration looks for other allies to help with that possibility.
Here is the statement from the White House on the additional military deployments – for diplomatic protection – in Iraq:
Statement by the Press Secretary on Iraq
Today, the President authorized the Department of Defense to fulfill a Department of State request for approximately 350 additional U.S. military personnel to protect our diplomatic facilities and personnel in Baghdad, Iraq. This action was taken at the recommendation of the Department of Defense after an extensive interagency review, and is part of the President’s commitment to protect our personnel and facilities in Iraq as we continue to support the Government of Iraq in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). These additional forces will not serve in a combat role.
The President has made clear his commitment to doing whatever is required to provide the necessary security for U.S. personnel and facilities around the world. The request he approved today will allow some previously deployed military personnel to depart Iraq, while at the same time providing a more robust, sustainable security force for our personnel and facilities in Baghdad.
In addition to our efforts to protect our personnel, we will continue to support the Government of Iraq’s efforts to counter ISIL, which poses a threat not only to Iraq, but to the broader Middle East and U.S. personnel and interests in the region. The President will be consulting this week with NATO allies regarding additional actions to take against ISIL and to develop a broad-based international coalition to implement a comprehensive strategy to protect our people and to support our partners in the fight against ISIL. As part of this effort, Secretary Kerry, Secretary Hagel, and President Obama’s counterterrorism advisor, Lisa Monaco, will be traveling separately to the region in the near-term to build a stronger regional partnership.
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jamie-dupree/2014/sep/02/more-us-soldiers-iraq-defend-embassy-baghdad/
Who’s opposed to whom?
Does anybody have a flag?
Everyone is opposed to everyone, that is the easiest way to think about it.
That makes us all allies then. Lovely.
And all enemies.
Ebola response lethally inadequate, says MSF (BBC, Sept 2, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29031987
“A global military intervention is needed to curb the largest ever Ebola outbreak, according to the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
In a damning criticism of world leaders, it says the global response has so far been “lethally inadequate”.
The charity said countries were turning their back on West Africa and merely reducing the risk of Ebola arriving on their shores.
More than 1,550 people have died in the outbreak which started in Guinea.
At least 3,000 people have been infected with the virus, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that more than 20,000 people are likely to be infected.
n a speech to the United Nations, the international president of MSF, Dr Joanne Liu, said repeated calls for help had been ignored.
She said: “Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it.
“Leaders are failing to come to grips with this transnational threat.
“The WHO announcement on August 8 that the epidemic constituted a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ has not led to decisive action, and states have essentially joined a global coalition of inaction.”
MSF said military and civilian teams capable of dealing with a biological disaster were needed immediately as the spread of Ebola “will not be prevented without a massive deployment”……”
Afghan militants Hezb-e-Islami ‘may join Islamic State’ (BBC, Sept 2, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29009125
“Fighters from a militant Islamic group in Afghanistan, allied to the Taliban, have told the BBC they are considering joining forces with Islamic State (IS).
Their commander also said they would still fight the Afghan government, even after Nato forces left in 2014.
Commander Mirwais said that if IS, which he called by its Arabic acronym Daish, proved a true Islamic caliphate, they would link up with it….”
Commander Mirwais just wants to be invited, playing coy for that really polite invitation. Together with Boko Haram and Al-Shabab, there’s your conga line.
Iraq crisis: Islamic State accused of ethnic cleansing (BBC, Sept 2, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29026491
“Amnesty International says it has new evidence Islamic State militants are carrying out “a wave of ethnic cleansing” against minorities in northern Iraq.
The human rights group said IS had turned the region into “blood-soaked killing fields”.
The UN earlier announced it was sending a team to Iraq to investigate “acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale”.
IS and allied Sunni rebels have seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Thousands of people have been killed, the majority of them civilians, and more than a million have been forced to flee their homes in recent months….”
Shocking!!
No our leaders don’t think we are in a war, they are living in denial and are sentencing a lot of people to death by their inaction.
Not necessarily. They’re more likely to have 24-carat survival plans, complete with multiple modes of evacuation for themselves and their little piece on the side.
Leaving the rest of us to look out for ourselves, thank God for the Second Amendment.
They’ll be in helicopters dropping bombs on us like we should’ve dropped on the Toyota-Cowboys of IS.
Learning curve – they’ll know by then how to get us, in our homes and on our porches where we’re holding our guns.
Gotta find a cave, get a retired Hezbollah creep who teaches tunnel construction to supplement his pension. Maybe do the ‘50s nuclear duck-&-cover thing.
FYI coptors use rockets and miniguns or side mounted machine guns, not bombs. they don’t have a large enough payload for pattern bombing to be effective.
We have enough mining engineers and miners to build the tunnels ourselves, and he duck and cover is a good way to stop damage from flying debris.
Good to know. Just keep filing it away.