1. BBC: Amazingly self blinkered and inaccurate analysis of why the Caliphate exists.
This is a stunning piece of Islamic propaganda. The facts of the Caliphate are simple. Having a Caliphate allows institutional justification for rape, murder, slavery and theft by muslims from the Kafir or unbeliever. This is the sole purpose of the existence of Islam as anyone who has actually bothered to read Koran will know. However this author uses all kinds of buzz words typical of Islamic Taqiyya merchants without bothering to explain the Islamic meaning of these terms. And by Islamic meaning, I mean very clearly spelled out in authoritative scripture as well as submitted in documents to the UN by the OIC. etc. One example from the article is that in a proper Caliphate, no Caliph is above the law. An under informed reader would imagine this to be a highly noble thing as they would imagine the law to be what we are used to in secular democracies. Of course, a brief look at what constitutes law for a Caliph shows that pretty much nothing is out of bounds except for the actions of disbelief. Actions like failing to rape, rob, murder and take slaves.
Predictably, the article allows no comments. Feel free to leave them here.
2. Ceremony of fealty of the Islamic State by Syrian muslims.
3. Egypt states that Palestinians are behind the most recent slaughter of Egyptians in the Sinai.
4. Op-Ed: Where Islam Treads, It Leaves a Desert
(There are a few special areas of interest I have tried to emphasize on this site in terms of Islamic hostility towards Western culture. One is the Islamic war on dogs, another is war on music and the arts, if for no other reason, hoping to wake up the intellectually lazy leftist artists that think they are showing political sophistication by siding against the West that created them and with Islam who would kill them and congratulate each other for doing so, and lastly, islam’s war on history itself. This link is a well-researched expose on this major crime against the human race. I don’t think there is even a word to describe denying a people its own history)
Islam destroys all traces of other cultures and religions, many of them priceless and irreplaceable – artifacts and Heritage sites and people. […]
Around the year 645 A.D., Omar Ibn Al Khattab, the second caliph and a successor of Muhammad, set fire to the library of Alexandria, according to a fatwa: “Or the books that are here are in accordance with the Qur’an, and therefore these are useless to us; or are not in accordance with the Qur’an and then they are bad”. The world lost several centuries of knolewdge and thought due to that Islamic fire.
Today another caliph, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, has issued a fatwa against the World Heritage Sites of the Middle East. The much vaunted Middle Eastern richness is shrinking to a cultural desert, a single religion and a handful of languages.
5. Officer shoots, critically injures man who attacked him with box-cutter: police
(Ah the box cutter. The 911 memorial weapon of Muslim terrorists across the USA)
6. Arab TV interview discussing Jerusalem as capital of caliphate.
(Much to notice about this interview, not the least of which is that Jerusalem has never been mentioned even once in any Islamic scripture, certainly not Koran. This might lead one to believe that the desire to make the Israeli city the capital of the Caliphate is motivated by hate of Jews rather than love of Islam, as Mecca and Medina are so clearly the center of the Islamic universe.)
7. Radical Islamic cleric (Choudary) declares BRITISH law is invalid…in BRITAIN
(Videos and Douglass Murray debate at site)
8. ASIA NEWS has a piece detailing the odd Kurdish Islamic State mocking video we posted a couple of weeks ago. It is an interesting thing.
1/ Bizarrely, Edward Stourton is the author of a book called ‘It’s a PC World: What it Means to Live in a Land Gone Politically Correct.’
On closer inspection, however, it appears that this is actually something of a *defense* of PC. From a one-star review on Amazon:
“…it almost seems Stourton has written an attempt to appease, apologise, make excuses for, and generally extinguish any ‘dangerous’ thoughts any decent person may have for being utterly sick of the supremacist ideology of Political Correctness.”
That appears to be what he is about here as well, easing any apprehension the unenlightened might have about the re-establishment of a proper caliphate, a just and a true caliphate, which is pretty much inevitable, since the Arabs aspire to it urgently, and which will be entirely unlike the slaughter we see from the atavistic megalomaniacs of Islamic State.
Can Stourton really be unaware that IS was ‘greeted by a chorus of condemnation across the Middle East’ because every member of that chorus wanted the leading part himself?
Hizb ut Tahrir, more ordinarily identified as a ‘conveyor belt for terrorists,’ comes off sounding noble and respectable in contrast to the ‘motley crew of dictators’ it stands against.
IS conforms in detail and at length to the classical idea of what a caliphate should be. Has Stourton read none of IS’s propaganda, nor compared it to the classical sources it tirelessly cites?
The ‘democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood’ terror regime in Egypt was thrown out with the support of 30 million Egyptians protesting the ruin it was bringing Egypt. Islamic State only changed its name from Al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2013, it most certainly did not materialize out of nowhere as some sort of spontaneous reaction to General Al-Sisi.
How much less work it is copy and paste clichés about the ‘Golden Age’ than to look at historical sources and try to sort out the truth of matter for oneself.
But this is a gem: “I think the Islamic State should come from within.” That must be based on the well-known Buddhist version of the Koran written in India by the 12th-century Turkic scholar Mohammed Bakhtiyar Khilji after his years of reading and meditation in Nalanda Monastery.
Such mendacious clap-trap ends up in high-school textbooks.
Major General Horner Chair of Military Theory at Marine Corps University and Breitbart editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka offers a less blinkered appreciation of the Caliphate, at ICT’s 14th Annual Conference, Sept 9 2014
Time for a big boot to come down and smash the bug that calls itself “Qatar”.
Together with whatever’s lurking in its foul nest.
With luck we will live long enough to see the big boot crush most of the nasty spots on earth.
I love to think about Johnny Appleseed. How he put his mitten down and – bang – shaped the Great State of Michigan.
Now he lifts his boot, and… splatt!
I thought it was Paul Bunyan.
Ashura on Nov 3 or 4 this year …
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Statement by Official Opposition leader Tom Mulcair on the Islamic New Year
The leader of the New Democratic Party made the following statement on the Islamic New Year:
“The beginning of the new Islamic year is a commemoration of the moment that the prophet Mohammed left mecca with a handful of disciples to escape persecution and to found a pious community in which all citizens would be equal.
“On this 1st day of the sacred month of Muharram, Muslims in Canada and around the world are preparing to observe fast and pray for peace, human solidarity and a better fate for the least fortunate.
“Today, I would like to offer all Canadian Muslims my best wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous year.”
http://www.ndp.ca/news/statement-official-opposition-leader-tom-mulcair-islamic-new-year-0
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Canadian Parliament – Oct 24 :
Djaouida Sellah – MP ( NPD ) Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC
Mr. Speaker, as the Hijri new year is about to begin, I would like to wish all Muslims health, happiness and prosperity. In these difficult times, both at home and abroad, it is very important that we continue to spread messages of peace all around us.
I invite everyone to take this opportunity to spend some time with loved ones and think about how we can make our society fairer, more inclusive and more peaceful. Let us also keep Corporal Nathan Cirillo’s loved ones in our thoughts. We must not forget the daily sacrifices made by members of the armed forces and their families on our behalf. We must continue working together to protect our institutions and improve our society.
[Member spoke in Arabic.]
http://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/10/24/djaouida-sellah-1/#hl
Shia Muslims celebrate the first day of the month of Muharram in Mosul, Iraq
Shia – islamic new year + muharram celebration – ( in Iraq ??? )
Thousands flee during truce in restive north Lebanon
Thousands of civilians fled their homes Sunday in a battered district of northern Lebanon’s Tripoli, taking advantage of an informal truce in fighting between the army and Islamist militants.
[…] Syria’s Al-Qaeda branch renewed a threat that it will execute one of 27 Lebanese soldiers it has held hostage since August unless the military halts its operations in Tripoli.
[…]The Sunnis have recently focussed their attacks on the army over its alleged support for Damascus ally Hezbollah. The latest clashes erupted on Friday at the city’s historic market, which is a major tourist attraction.
On Sunday army mortar fire pounded the impoverished, outlying neighbourhood of Islamist bastion Bab al-Tebbaneh, where the gunmen were pushed back and cornered.
Five civilians have been killed in three days, among them a child and two adults on Sunday, said a security official.
After pleas from residents and mediation by clerics, the army allowed thousands of civilians who had been caught in the crossfire for hours to flee Bab al-Tebbaneh.
The AFP journalist on the spot described chaotic scenes as people of all ages left their ravaged neighbourhood. Many of the women walked out in their pyjamas, crying as they and the men were searched by army and intelligence troops. Men carried out children and elderly people too weak to walk. Five wounded civilians and dozens of people suffering from illness were evacuated in Red Cross ambulances. Many went to stay with relatives. Others were put up in schools, which the authorities said would be closed on Monday, along with universities, because of the violence.
It is unclear how long the informal humanitarian truce will last, and the army has said it has no intention on letting up on the fight.
“We are going through with this operation to the end,” a military source said.
Bab al-Tebbaneh is home to some 100,000 people, while the parts of the neighbourhood where the fighting is worst is usually inhabited by some 15,000.
[…]Earlier, the army said gunmen ambushed a patrol north of Tripoli, killing four soldiers.
[…]Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate meanwhile threatened to kill at dawn on Monday a Lebanese soldier it captured in August during a bloody battle in restive Arsal unless the army halts its Tripoli operations.
Al-Nusra Front has previously executed one captive Lebanese soldier. The latest threat, issued via the group’s Twitter account, came after two previous warnings on Sunday, which it apparently backtracked on. Both Al-Nusra and rival Islamic State group jihadists captured 30 Lebanese soldiers and police in August around the eastern town of Arsal, close to the Syrian border. They have since executed two of them.
Al-Nusra has previously demanded that in return for the release of its prisoners, Shiite militant group Hezbollah end its intervention in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and that Lebanon free jailed Islamists.
The Lebanese government has so far rejected the terms.
Islamist gunmen in Tripoli have carried out repeated attacks against the army, accusing it of cooperating with Hezbollah.[…]
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/syria-qaeda-threatens-lebanon-prisoners-over-tripoli-unrest-105257909.html