Awareness of islam grows in the West and with it, popular revulsion of it: Links 3 on June 19 – 2015

Yemen peace talks descended into chaos on Thursday after a woman threw a shoe at the head of the Houthi delegation, causing fights to break out and bottles and books to be thrown.

The woman, who has not been named, reportedly stormed into a press conference being held by the Yemeni delegates and hurled a shoe at Hamza al-Houthi, the head of the Houthi delegation in Geneva, and called him a mass murderer.

(Where is the shoe-stealing wing of the Mosad when you actually need those guys!)

(More here. But really, who thought these peace talks would not collapse, and who is surprised no one was blown up at them?)

2. Geert Wilders explains to Breitbart why he is hosting a Mohamed cartoon event tomorrow, and why every nation should.

Transcript of interview here

(Later on, there might be an article here explaining why Canada will not)

3. Serbia concerned about Hungary’s new fence. (probably because it makes it harder for muslims to get out of Serbia once they got in)

4. An interesting survey over at Blazing Cat Fur

5. WikiLeaks releases ‘massive cache’ of cables and documents from Saudi Arabian state institutions

(It would be interesting to do a word search in these documents for a certain popular Canadian dry cleaner)

WikiLeaks publishes the Saudi Cables

Today, Friday 19th June at 1pm GMT, WikiLeaks began publishing The Saudi Cables: more than half a million cables and other documents from the Saudi Foreign Ministry that contain secret communications from various Saudi Embassies around the world. The publication includes “Top Secret” reports from other Saudi State institutions, including the Ministry of Interior and the Kingdom’s General Intelligence Services. The massive cache of data also contains a large number of email communications between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and foreign entities. The Saudi Cables are being published in tranches of tens of thousands of documents at a time over the coming weeks. Today WikiLeaks is releasing around 70,000 documents from the trove as the first tranche.

[…]The Saudi Cables provide key insights into the Kingdom’s operations and how it has managed its alliances and consolidated its position as a regional Middle East superpower, including through bribing and co-opting key individuals and institutions. The cables also illustrate the highly centralised bureaucratic structure of the Kingdom, where even the most minute issues are addressed by the most senior officials. 

Since late March 2015 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been involved in a war in neighbouring Yemen. The Saudi Foreign Ministry in May 2015 admitted to a breach of its computer networks. Responsibility for the breach was attributed to a group calling itself the Yemeni Cyber Army. The group subsequently released a number of valuable “sample” document sets from the breach on file-sharing sites, which then fell under censorship attacks. The full WikiLeaks trove comprises thousands of times the number of documents and includes hundreds of thousands of pages of scanned images of Arabic text. In a major journalistic research effort, WikiLeaks has extracted the text from these images and placed them into our searchable database. The trove also includes tens of thousands of text files and spreadsheets as well as email messages, which have been made searchable through the WikiLeaks search engine.

6. Short statement to the press by Geert Wilders on migrants at Ventimiglia: “Send them back”

7. Palestinian shoots Israeli dead near West Bank settlement

Near Dolev settlement (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – A Palestinian opened fire on two Israeli men near a West Bank settlement on Friday, killing one and wounding the other, authorities said, in what appeared to be a lone-wolf attack.