Battling dissimulation about the Islamic State links: Sept. 15 – 2014

1. Stephen Crowder on, ‘How islamic is isis’

2. Uganda police seize ‘explosives from al-Shabab cell’

Authorities said the terrorist cell was planning to carry out imminent attacks in the capital Kampala.

Nineteen people have been arrested and are being interrogated about their intentions, a police spokesman said.

3. Thailand deaths: Two British tourists killed in Koh Tao

(This particular attack seems like it may have been personal. But clearly muslims have been trying to damage Thailand’s tourism as the bottom few paragraphs suggest)

4. ‘Islamic State fighter’ to go on trial in Germany

Prosecutors say Kreshnik Berisha received weapons training and combat experience with the jihadist militants over several months last year.

He was arrested at Frankfurt airport last December while on his way home.

The trial – the first in Germany for alleged membership of IS – comes amid growing alarm at the potential threat posed by jihadis returning to Europe.

5. Alan West interview on the state of the conflict with ‘islamo-fascism’

(Rep. West clearly is attempting to frame what he knows to be true into a package which is more widely salable. Even so he does an excellent job of it and manages to get some important truths out. One of them is that Netanyahu had predicted what would happen when Obama first started talking about troop withdrawal out of Iraq to Alan West)

6. Australian Muslim predictably claims fighting Islamic terrorists will increase hostility towards Australia by local muslims. 

(And fighting Nazi Germany tended to make Nazis living in the US more hostile. And fighting the cold war made communist agents within the US, especially Hollywood, more hostile. And fighting Chinese communists in Vietnam made all the chicken balls go more sour than sweet at communist sympathetic San Diego restaurants. And….)

7. This video claims to be of whimpering Islamic State fighters captured by someone or other.

(While this smacks a little of a kind of triumphalism, I do enjoy hearing these f*cks say something other than the usual aloha snackbar as they torture or kill someone and act like they have scored a winning touchdown in the Superbowl. More here)

8. China in middle of sweeping raids on child islamic indoctrination centers. Claims to have rescued over 190 children.

(The original article puts ‘rescues’ in scare quotes. But I think its a fair term under the circumstances)

9. Cruelty is Simply a Part of Islam, Says Expert

Islamic State’s head-chopping barbarity is not different from everyday Islamic cruelty, says Prof. Rafi Israeli.

10. Rotherham child-sex victim confronts her alleged abuser in the street… but SHE is arrested by a van load of police

(A few weeks ago, on the blogtalk radio program I host on Tuesday evenings (except this Tuesday) we spoke about vigilantism. What I said then holds well to this case. if the British judicial system was working well to represent the interests of the victims, to be a deterrent to criminals, and generally the pubic believed in the state’s ability to deliver justice and keep people safe, then she should have been arrested if she violently confronted her abuser as the law has to be allowed to take its course or its anarchy. However that is not the case now in the UK. The state has admittedly sided with the criminals although they phrase it differently. They knew about what happened and not only did nothing but interfered with those that tried to do something about it. Under these circumstances, the British public needs to rethink their relationship with the state or risk becoming some odd mix of North Korea a typical Islamic state)

A victim of Rotherham’s child sex abuse scandal confronted a man she says groomed her – but was left shocked when she was the one arrested.

The woman was shocked when she saw the man walking through the town’s centre on Friday and decided to challenge him over the allegations.

But she was tackled by two police officers and pushed up against a wall during her ‘thuggish’ arrest, a witness has said.

Thank you Wrath of Khan, Yucki, M., DP111, Oz-Rita