1. Jordanian MPs. “I hate the Jews I hate the Jews I hate the Jews”
(The veneer of geopolitics seems to have been scraped off of islamic antisemitism. The question now is, how do leftists manage to preserve their totem of anti-Israel policies to hide their antisemitism now that the muslims have abandoned that strategy. I guess they just hope we dont see this sort of material)
2. EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda plot to blow up 5 passenger planes in Christmas ‘spectacular’
DAVIDDYSON
Armed police patrol Heathrow amid warnings of a serious terror threat to UK airports
The threat has been taken so seriously it came close to leading to an outright ban on all hand luggage, a senior insider has revealed.
Mobile phones and electronic devices could still be banned from plane cabins, with the threat of a 9/11-style coordinated attack on London and other major cities feared imminent.
The warning comes as Whitehall officials admit that a terror strike on the UK is now “almost inevitable” particularly with British jihadis returning from fighting alongside the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
An airport security source told the Sunday Express: “We’ve been told that five planes are being targeted in a high profile hit before Christmas. They’ve been waiting for the big one.
3. FSA Clashes with Jabhat Al-Nusra over “Booty” Taken from Syrian Army
(I may watch this again later with a ham sandwich and a cold beer. Its very enjoyable indeed!)
4. Bomb Threat Against American Airlines Jet Being Investigated
5. Calls for the resignation of the Arts Director at a Maltese arts organization for his accurate depiction of sharia law are now being made. (See the video and article posted last night here at Vlad) The irony of course is that should sharia and its defenders get their way, there will be no more arts organizations whatsoever in any meaningful way.
Devil’s Island in French Guiana, which French politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has said would be a fitting place to hold people who have fought with radical groups such as Islamic State and Al QaedaMr Dupont-Aignan – the founder of the right-wing DLF party and an affiliate to the UMP, the party of the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy – admitted the proposal would ‘cause a stir’, but insisted it had widespread support. It is the latest suggested solution for the problem of what to do with returning jihadis. In Britain, there have been demands for extremists to be denied re-entry into the country.
Referring to the official name for Devil’s Island, Mr Dupont-Aignan said he ‘proposes the re-establishment of a Cayenne detention centre which would allow us to permanently isolate the madmen’.
7. Canadian stabbed in Saudi Arabian shopping mall.
(The CBC article contains no more information than the headline which leads me to at least suspect that it was an attack on a kufar by a religious muslim. Could have been something else though)
(Even if he is telling the truth, the UK still has a choice to control its own borders. That choice just has consequences)
9. Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected proposals on Sunday to boost gold reserves and impose strict new curbs on immigration, averting a potential nightmare for policymakers struggling with a popular backlash against the country’s open borders.
(The Swiss may be the worlds most practical people of all time)
Thank you M., Yucki, Richard, Don C. Oz-Rita and GoV. amongst many others. Interesting things to come soon.
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I’d love to have the power to make all the Ben Afflecks and the Justin Trudeaus of this world just sit down and listen to what those ignorant hateful pigs have to say. And when the fat ugly one says that the people of Jordan share his hatred of the Jews, he’s right, and there are Pew polls that back his fat ugly assertions up. Those are Arabs, Ben. There ain’t no way to negotiate with them and there ain’t no fact or provable truth or wisdom that will change their minds about anything. They are a completely and pathologically unreasonable people, Justin, and it’s not our fault that they’re like that – it’s just the way it is…
Pope says it is wrong to equate Islam with violence
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Sunday that equating Islam with violence was wrong and called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism to help dispel the stereotype.
“They (Muslims) say: ‘No, we are not this, the Koran is a book of peace, it is a prophetic book of peace’.”
[…]In an address at a Mass on Sunday, he said Islamic State were committing a “profoundly grave sin against God” and called for inter-religious dialogue and action against poverty to help end the conflicts in the region.
He added that ending poverty was crucial, partly because it gave rise to “the recruitment of terrorists”. Francis has in the past said that, while it is lawful for the international community to use force to stop an “unjust aggressor”, lasting solutions must be found that tackle the root causes of violence.
https://news.yahoo.com/pope-says-islamist-violence-syria-iraq-grave-sin-102554540.html
On its way to viral, Matti Friedman’s latest:
What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/?single_page=true
Read her earlier article if you get a chance. Secrets of the international press corps:
An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth
A former AP correspondent explains how and why reporters get Israel so wrong, and why it matters
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183033/israel-insider-guide
I really like this writer, read his first story you linked to below, have bookmarked this one – but will probably print it, because I’m still a hard-copy-kind-of-woman.
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INDIA – Islamic State has ‘Special Plans’ for India, Majeed Said: Sources to NDTV
Areeb Majeed, one of the four youths from Mumbai who allegedly went to fight for the Islamic State and returned last week, has told investigators the IS was looking east towards to India, for which it has “special plans”. Also he said the “new world order” under the IS was something “everyone should fight for”, sources have told NDTV.
Majeed has said his joining the IS was willed by God and he does not regret it. His parents, he said, should not have asked for New Delhi’s help to get him home, sources said.
His questioning had provided ground for the security agencies’ concern that hardline Islamists were out to make India their happy hunting grounds.
“Areeb’s level of radicalisation is scary,” a senior intelligence officer questioning him told NDTV. “The only ones who come close are the foreign terrorists – mainly from Afghanistan – of the now defunct group Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami, who were arrested from Jammu and Kashmir in the mid 90’s,” the officer added.
A 23-year-old, Majeed was arrested after he landed in Mumbai on Friday. He reportedly said he left because he wanted medical treatment for the bullet injuries he had sustained while fighting in Syria and Iraq. Indian agencies had provided him with emergency travel documents to get home.
But investigators suspected that the IS had a motive in releasing him – that the youth had been tasked with spreading jihadi doctrine in India.
Earlier today, at a conference on internal security in Guwahati, Director of the Intelligence Bureau Asif Ibrahim told Prime Minister Narendra Modi the emergence of the IS “to form a caliphate, in support of which youth and fringe elements have gathered, poses a serious challenge when the Al Qaida has created a separate wing for the sub-continent.”
“These developments are disturbing and indicate the development of global jihad mindset in India,” he said.
For now, the government has decided to take a soft approach. The security establishment is concentrating on counselling young men who have come under the influence of jihadi doctrine and preventing them from leaving home to join the IS. At least 20 such youths have been stopped so far, sources said.
In case of Majeed too, though the NIA filed criminal charges against him, officials said they were taking a “humane view of the situation” and providing him with psychiatric help.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/islamic-state-has-special-plans-for-india-majeed-said-sources-to-ndtv-627872
7/ Fourth attack on a Westerner in a month. Not very nice.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/fourth-western-expat-attacked-in-saudi-arabia-573529.html
Not much more information there. They say the mall was in Dhahran.