The changing landscape of Islam and Civilization. Links 1 for Aug. 27 – 2014

1. Muslims flee Northern Ireland to escape anti-Islam violence

(This is from June 3 2014. I would like to know if this trend has continued or was it an isolated thing which has been crushed. But it is instructive either way. A minimal amount of fighting back appears to have a large impact.)

WASHINGTON, June 3, 2014 — Some Muslims in Northern Ireland have announced plans to leave the country to avoid anti-Islamic violence. The announcement comes after an attack on a Muslim family in the city of Belfast, when crazed rioters broke into their home and assaulted them.

2. Report finds children were ‘raped, beaten and intimidated’ in Rotherham

3. 10 Acts of Jihad in America That Americans Haven’t Heard About

4. Friday sermon in Spain: “Allah, Destroy the Plundering Jews, Do Not Spare a Single One”

5. Any Portuguese speakers out there want to take a crack at this video? It appears to be a news story about a large number of ordinary objects converted into weapons, presumably found at a mosque. If anyone is able to translate for titles please leave a comment and ill contact you with details.

6. Components of the UK and Norway both look to initiate revocation of citizenship to those who go fight for ISIS

(And both governments have it backwards as usual. There is so much wrong in the approach that probably it deserves its own post)

7. Tripoli International Airport ravaged by fighting

Thank you Nick V., Maria J., Bains, M., and more to come. Waiting on a translation or two.

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24 Replies to “The changing landscape of Islam and Civilization. Links 1 for Aug. 27 – 2014”

  1. #2 It’s not against Sharia law in Rotherham. Tricky putting innocent Muslims in prison.

    The Socialists have a plan to solve the problem….Renaming Rotherham. Yes I know it’s at committee stage but to leak the names they have come up so far is to demonstrate their care and consideration for Diversity.

    Rottenham (deleted for being so silly)
    Rotherstan
    Ruttingham
    Redham
    Rothergood
    Rother (without the ham)
    Robama (they wanted to twin the town with Washington DC)

    The name they felt the best so far but would sleep on it was:
    Palestine (people would feel at home and the flag could be flown without a problem)

  2. Help identify ‘aspiring terrorists’ – Scotland Yard (BBC, Aug 26, 2014)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28935613

    “The UK’s head of counter-terrorism has appealed to the public to help identify people who have travelled to Syria or are showing signs of being radicalised. Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley made his appeal after the murder of US journalist James Foley in Syria. “Significant progress” has been made towards identifying an Islamic State militant with an English accent seen in a video of the killing, said AC Rowley. Counter-terrorism arrests are running at five times last year’s levels.

    This is because of the threat posed by would-be jihadists travelling to and from Syria, said AC Rowley of the Metropolitan Police, the National Policing Lead for Counter Terrorism. He also described the growth in numbers of dangerous individuals as challenging, as nearly half of those going to Syria were not previously known as being potential terrorists….”

      • SYRIA – RAQQA – TABQA airbase – Islamic State executes soldiers, takes hostages at Syria base: social media

        Islamic State militants have executed Syrian army soldiers and are holding a group hostage after capturing an air base in northeast Syria at the weekend, pictures posted on social media by supporters showed on Wednesday.

        Islamic State, an offshoot of al Qaeda, stormed Tabqa air base near Raqqa city on Sunday after days of fighting with the army that cost more than 500 lives, according to monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

        Tabqa was the army’s last foothold in an area otherwise controlled by the militants, who have seized large areas of Syria and Iraq. The United States has carried out air strikes on the group in Iraq and is considering its options in Syria.

        In one picture posted online, a group of militants in balaclavas are seen gunning down at least seven kneeling men identified as army personnel. It was not possible to immediately confirm the authenticity of the images.

        […]346 Islamic State fighters were killed and more than 170 members of the security forces had died in five days of fighting over the base, one of the deadliest clashes between the two groups since the start of the war.

        The photos also showed the attack on the base, which used at least one tank. Other photos showed bodies and abandoned military hardware, such as a jet, warplane munitions and missiles, although it was not clear if any were operational.

        http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/27/us-syria-crisis-idUSKBN0GR0N920140827

  3. Yea… We must embrace more “good” Islam to prevent that “bad” Islam. Two sides of the same coin. Good cop, bad cop strategy. Stupid are those who succumb to this nonsense…

    Muslim Council says Prevent anti-terror scheme has ‘failed’ (BBC, Aug 26, 2014)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28934992

    “A senior figure in the Muslim Council of Britain says a key government anti-terrorism strategy has “failed”. Deputy secretary general Harun Khan told BBC Radio 5 live the Prevent scheme was having a “negative impact”.

    The scheme seeks to lessen the influence of extremism – but Mr Khan said it alienated young Muslims and pushed them towards radical groups. The government said it was supporting the vast majority of UK Muslims in combating extremism…”

  4. Someone with more brains.

    Met chief backs ‘new control orders’ to tackle jihadists (BBC, Aug 27, 2014)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28950562

    “Measures similar to control orders should be re-introduced to tackle the threat from Britons who fight with militants in Syria and Iraq, the UK’s most senior police officer has said.

    The orders were replaced in 2011 by less restrictive measures but Met Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said the “drum beat has changed”.

    He also told LBC radio he would back a call to seize passports from jihadists.

    The home secretary has already proposed changes to the law to tackle extremism.

    Control orders, under which ministers could sign an order placing a suspect under close supervision. were scrapped and replaced with Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPims).

    Sir Bernard said “something like” control orders were needed again as people subject to TPims could not be made to live in a specific location – and that “puts quite a lot of responsibility on all the security services”.

    He told LBC that control orders “were stopped because the threat was reduced and quite properly they were seen as too intrusive… But I think these things have got to be considered when the drum beat changes”.

    His comments came after Mayor of London Boris Johnson said in a newspaper article at the weekend that control orders should be brought back.

    Mr Johnson also said Britons who travel to “war areas” should be presumed to be potential terrorists unless they can prove otherwise and people with “allegiance to a terrorist state” should lose their citizenship….”

  5. Ebola outbreak: Nigeria closes all schools until October (BBC, Aug 27, 2014)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28950347

    “All schools in Nigeria have been ordered to remain shut until 13 October as part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The new academic year was due to start on Monday.

    But the education minister ordered the closures to allow staff to be trained on how to handle suspected Ebola cases. Five people have died of Ebola in Nigeria. The West Africa outbreak has centred on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 1,400 people.

    It is the largest ever outbreak and has infected an estimated 2,615 people. About half of those infected have died….”

  6. Ebola outbreak: ‘It’s even worse than I’d feared’ (CNN, Aug 27, 2014)
    http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/27/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html

    “”It’s even worse than I’d feared,” Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday of the Ebola outbreak rampaging through West Africa. “Every day this outbreak goes on, it increases the risk for another export to another country.

    “The sooner the world comes together to help Liberia and West Africans, the safer we will all be.”

    Frieden spoke to CNN’s Nima Elbagir in Monrovia, Liberia, where fear and anger over the largest Ebola outbreak on record has grown as health officials put up quarantines around some of the capital city’s poorest areas.

    More than 2,600 people have been infected by Ebola in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria since the outbreak began in December, according to the World Health Organization. Nearly 1,500 have died….”

  7. Syrian Islamists seize Golan Heights border crossing (CNN, Aug 27, 2014)
    http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/27/world/meast/syria-crisis/index.html

    “Islamist militants battling the Syrian government seized control of the Quneitra border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday, according to an Israeli military spokesman and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

    Among the fighters were members of al-Nusra Front, a Syrian rebel group with ties to al Qaeda, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

    And while the Islamist forces are no match for Israeli troops in the heavily militarized zone, the takeover represents a new dynamic in a war long feared not only for its deadly effects inside Syria but for threatening to widen into a destabilizing regional conflict, CNN’s Ben Wedeman reported Wednesday….”

  8. SYRIA – Aug 27 2014 – Key rebel groups form joint military command in Eastern Ghouta

    5 Rebel factions in the embattled Eastern Ghouta near Damascus have agreed to form a Joint military command and to appoint Islam Army commander as General Chief, days after the fall of strategic Mleiha town by Syrian army forces.

    Sources to Zaman Alwasl said rebels in neighboring suburbs of Syria’s capital are in sincere need to have one military body to halt any possible advance for Bashar al-Assad’s forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and Shia militias.

    The brigades of Ajnad al-Sham (Soldiers of the Levant), Al-Rahman Legion, Ahrar al-Sham, Alhabib al-Mustafa and Islam Army have merged in one armed group called the Unified Military Command in Eastern Ghouta under the leadership of Zahran Alloush,

    Allosh, the controversial leader of Islam Army, who had been accused of kidnapping prominent activist Razan Zeitouneh with her colleagues from his hometown Douma months ago, is struggling to mobilize all rebels in Eastern Ghouta.

    The move toward one armed group works under Islam Army banner seemed to be backed by hidden concerns of mounting power of the Islamic Sate (IS), analysts said.

    Islam Army fears of losing territory to al-Qaeda splinter group that has captured large swaths in both Syria and Iraq.

    Last week, Assad’s forces took control of Mlieha town in a blow to the Islam Army who had held it for more than a year.

    Mleiha’s fall will lead to the fall of other towns into the hands of Syrian army, said an army commander to Reuters. “And that what is pushing rebels to unite ASAP,” activists said.

    https://www.zamanalwsl.net/en/news/6333.html

  9. Rotherham child sex abuse scandal: ‘Failings by officials will cost the taxpayer £200m’

    OFFICIALS who failed to stop Asian gangs preying on young girls for fear of being branded racist are set to cost taxpayers up to £200million.

    At least 1,400 girls aged as young as 11 are believed to have been sexually abused in Rotherham, South Yorks, for 16 years by men who viewed them as “white trash”. But it is feared the real number could be more than 2,000.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/504067/Rotherham-child-sex-abuse-scandal-taxpayers-cost

  10. UK
    Multiculturalism is to blame for the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal

    POLITICAL correctness is a vile, perverted ideology which is wrecking our society and ruining the lives of the innocent.

    The key fact about this brutal crime wave was that almost all the predators were men of Pakistani and Kashmiri origin, while the majority of their victims were white. That is precisely why the abuse went on so long and the terrible suffering of the girls was ignored.

    Immersed in this doctrine the social services and police shamefully refused to confront the reality of predatory Muslim gangs attacking white girls.

    http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo-mckinstry/504104/Leo-McKinstry-Multiculturalism-to-blame-for-Rotherham-abuse

  11. Rotherham child abuse: …..Cases in other towns

    “told the BBC there was no “national intelligence-gathering system” for dealing with such crimes, adding: “We cannot say that Rotherham is any better or worse than other places because the information simply doesn’t exist on a national level to tell us that.”

    “shocking” abuse was happening “up and down the country”, but did not single out towns and cities in its study”.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28953549

  12. AUSTRALIA – Man on plane carrying ‘beheading images and $30,000’

    The terror suspect dragged off a plane at Melbourne airport by Australian Federal Police was reportedly carrying images of beheadings and the Islamic State flag, as well as up to $30,000 in Australian bills.

    He was travelling to the Middle East with family members who were not suspected of any terror-related activities but who chose not to continue their flight, the Herald Sun has reported.

    The man was released from custody after being questioned, but it is understood he is still under investigation.

    http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8897374/man-on-plane-carrying-beheading-images-and-30000
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    Man arrested at Melbourne Airport for allegedly trying to fly to Syria to join extremist battle ‘had images of beheadings’

    A SUSPECTED Australian terrorist was dragged from a plane at Melbourne Airport by Border Force officials after allegedly trying to fly to Syria to join a jihadi group.

    The revelations come as it appears increasingly likely Australia will be called upon by America in coming days to back military-action in Syria and Iraq against the ISIL terror group.

    The Melbourne man, who is an Australian citizen, was flying to Beirut in Lebanon with three family members when he was detained aboard a flight on a Middle Eastern airline on Monday.

    He was searched by Australian Federal Police officers, who discovered he was carrying around $30,000 in Australian currency.

    He was also allegedly in possession of terror-related images including photographs of beheadings, and images of the flag flown by the murderous terror group ISIL, which is rampaging across Syria and Iraq.

    The family members were not suspected of any illicit behaviour and were free to continue but chose not to fly.

    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/man-arrested-at-melbourne-airport-for-allegedly-trying-to-fly-to-syria-to-join-extremist-battle-had-images-of-beheadings/story-fni0fiyv-1227039272883

  13. Morocco – Muslim Fury as Burkini Banned in Top Hotels

    Scores of resorts across Morocco have banned the conservative burkini, in a move that has sparked anger among many in the Muslim country.

    Thinking of jetting off to Morocco for a last-minute end-of-summer getaway while staying uber modest? Well now you can’t — because hotels across the traditionally Muslim country have banned the burkini. Scores of resorts across the state have slapped a ban on the halal swimsuit, which covers the body and has a head covering attached, because they claim it’s unclean.

    Holiday hotspots across Morocco have been flooded with signs screaming “burkini not allowed,” causing misery for Muslim tourists planning to take a dip. One resort near the economic capital Casablanca told Al Arabiya News that burkinis are not allowed to be worn in the resort, with only “ordinary swim-suits” getting the green light from over-zealous fashion police.

    The controversial stunt has sparked fury among activists. Government MP Abdelaziz Aftati has sent a complaint to Tourism Minister Lahcen Haddad, after a woman wearing a burkini was reportedly banned from a swimming pool in al-Jadida, according to local press reports.

    Aftati claimed that the move signified the “rudeness of the new colonisation.” Meanwhile, he claimed that it is unacceptable to restrict people’s freedom and their beliefs.

    In 2009 in France, a 35-year-old convert to Islam threatened legal action after she was evicted from a public pool for wearing a burkini. Meanwhile in Egypt, it is also common for hotels and resorts to ban women wearing the burkini to swim in pools.

    http://www.cairoscene.com/ViewArticle.aspx?AId=13927

  14. Vigilante action has normally been carried out when law and order has broken down or the legal authorities refuse to defend the people, looks like at least on group in Ireland things it is necessary once again.

    The reactions of the police will determine if this is a one off or the first of many attacks to defend their faith and culture.

  15. Some 12 years ago, even I knew that mass rapes of young White girls was taking place in the UK.

    If I knew, then it is not credible that successive PMs, Home secretaries, Chiefs of police, and social services did not know. It is also stretches incredulity that the the MSM, did not know.

    What is going on now, is a coverup of the complicity of involving the entire Establishment. All of them are complicit.

    It is therefore not a surprise that every effort is being made to sweep it under the carpet, or hang a few minor officials, and move on.