Reader’s links for Feb. 4 – 2016

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About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

119 Replies to “Reader’s links for Feb. 4 – 2016”

  1. Mr Eeyore,
    I am a regular reader since I discovered this site, great work.
    On one of the latest new links you fell for the mainstream medias lies though.
    That would be RooshV article, about him wanting legalizing rape.
    You don’t need to like the guy, or what he stands for, but if you read his article, and especially his other works, it should be crystal clear that it was not serious, more like a thought experiment.
    In his view, in the US false rape accusations are everywhere, while real rapes are silenced, if they are committed by people the media does not want to report about. That is why he wrote an ironic article.

    On his sites, he keeps pushing against the same mainstream media agenda that you do, many articles about Rotherham, Sweden’s muslim rape epidemic, etc. Here is a few links from ROK and RooshV.com.
    Plus yes, he wrote a lot of books about picking up women, that was his lifestyle until a few years ago.
    Like I said, you don’t need to like him, but don’t repeat the same bullshit the media does.
    ON SWEDEN (just a few, there are many, just do a search on ROK):
    http://www.returnofkings.com/78973/police-captain-in-sweden-sympathizes-with-migrant-who-killed-swedish-asylum-worker
    http://www.returnofkings.com/77039/will-swedish-men-rediscover-their-balls-before-sweden-becomes-a-matriarchal-hellhole
    http://www.returnofkings.com/76026/a-year-in-review-for-swedens-failed-immigration-policies
    http://www.returnofkings.com/75672/sweden-showcases-the-war-of-two-national-narratives
    http://www.returnofkings.com/72948/the-school-attack-in-sweden-was-just-what-the-leftists-needed
    ON ROTHERHAM:
    http://www.returnofkings.com/65151/british-rotherham-investigator-gets-obscence-payoff-for-doing-nothing-then-plays-the-victim-card
    ON GERMANY (just a few relevant ones, just search “germany” on ROK:
    http://www.returnofkings.com/78572/will-germans-resort-to-merciless-violence-to-save-their-country
    http://www.returnofkings.com/77028/congratulations-to-feminists-for-helping-import-actual-rape-culture-to-germany
    http://www.returnofkings.com/74553/germany-is-finding-false-middle-eastern-refugees-homes-as-penniless-greek-women-sell-their-bodies
    http://www.returnofkings.com/77129/germany-proves-that-rape-culture-is-merely-a-political-weapon-against-western-men
    http://www.returnofkings.com/71082/saudi-arabia-wants-to-build-200-mosques-in-germany-and-help-outbreed-the-non-muslim-population
    http://www.returnofkings.com/78878/desperate-angela-merkel-attempts-to-blame-greece-for-the-problem-she-created

    Sir, just do a search on ROK on “islam”, “muslims”, “benghazi”, etc.
    You will see that you are essentially on the same team, do not shoot at each other, even if you don’t like each other.

    • The violence will last longer then a year and will be directed against the individuals that are attacking the Europeans. The raise of organized vigilante groups is a sign of the growing resistance that I have expected for a long time. Some ot the vigilante groups may be neo nazi but from what I have seen the neo nazi’s are the ones attacking the resistance. The leftist media is practicing the Big Lie technique, if you tell a big enough lie often enough over a period of time people will start believing the lie.

      Major example of the big lie working the the way the left has convinced people that Fascism is the far right we in reality they are part of the left. They are further to the right then the socialist/communist but not by much.

  2. I am writing here, since there is no contact email.
    So.
    don’t like “pick up artists”? that’s OK
    don’t like tasteless jokes? that’s OK
    don’t like the dudes face/voice/ideas on gender/whatever? that’s OK
    choosing to spread and perpetuate media bullshit is NOT OK
    (whether out of laziness to check on facts or by personally disliking the person in question)
    By this time I know that you know that the link of RooshV is bullshit.
    I know that you know.
    1 minute of checking/searching ROK article titles would suffice.
    I will keep reading your site, just a bit less enthusiastically.

    • Any comment with multiple links is held for moderation. I approved it as soon as I woke up, You are likely correct. I’ll add your research to the post. Thank you.

  3. my bad, I have seen that you did not delete my original comment, feel free to delete the second one, I already said what I wanted to say with the first.
    make of it what you wish, have a good day.

    • How can anyone watch this and not decide they are selling body parts, you can argue about when life begins but the specimens she is talking about are human body parts. That is illegal under Texas law.

  4. Iraq building security wall around Baghdad

    Baghdad (AFP) – Iraq is building a three-metre-high security wall and trench defences around Baghdad in an effort to thwart jihadist attacks, a security official said on Thursday.

    The aim is to prevent the infiltration of “terrorists” and car bombs into the city, Brigadier General Saad Maan said.

    “We began constructing a three-metre-high (10 foot) concrete wall and a trench around the city of Baghdad,” he told AFP.

    Construction will take place in two phases, with areas north and west of Baghdad being addressed first, followed by other locations, though some will not require a wall or trench due to natural features, Maan said.

    Territory held by the Islamic State jihadist group is located north and west of the capital, making those directions the priority.

    After the completion of the first phase, which is expected to take six months, Maan said that 50 percent of checkpoints inside Baghdad will be removed.

    The city is littered with checkpoints that often wave cars through or at most perform cursory searches, adding little to security while causing major traffic jams.

    http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-building-security-wall-around-baghdad-005504080.html

  5. We are returning to the days of walled cities!! This could get interesting as the strength of the walls are tested against the power of the explosive warheads.

  6. U.S. eyes ways to toughen fight against domestic extremists

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is considering legal changes to combat what it sees as a rising threat from domestic anti-government extremists, senior officials told Reuters, even as it steps up efforts to stop Islamic State-inspired attacks at home.

    Extremist groups motivated by a range of U.S.-born philosophies present a “clear and present danger,” John Carlin, the Justice Department’s chief of national security, told Reuters in an interview. “Based on recent reports and the cases we are seeing, it seems like we’re in a heightened environment.”

    Over the past year, the Justice Department has brought charges against domestic extremist suspects accused of attempting to bomb U.S. military bases, kill police officers and fire bomb a school and other buildings in a predominantly Muslim town in New York state.

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-eyes-ways-toughen-fight-against-domestic-extremists-060402478.html

    • I don’t remember any of the anti-government groups committing violent acts, the terror attacks the article is talking about were all committed by Moslems in the name of Islam and called domestic terrorism not Islamic terrorism.

  7. Border Surge: Apprehensions Decline with 23,767 Illegals Caught at Border Last Month
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    While the level of border apprehensions of unaccompanied minors and adults traveling with children this fiscal year has dwarfed years past, the month of January saw fewer migrants detained illegally entering the U.S. than months prior.

    In January, Customs and Border Patrol apprehended 3,113 unaccompanied minors and 3,145 adults with children, according to new Customs and Border Protection data. There were 23,767 overall apprehensions at the border.

    The level of apprehensions represents a decline compared to earlier months. Total apprehensions were down nearly a third compared to December and apprehensions of unaccompanied minors and so-called family units dropped by more than 50 percent.

    Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson highlighted the new numbers as representing a decline in attempts to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The decline in apprehensions follows last month’s DHS enforcement actions to remove 121 illegal immigrant family units in the U.S. who crossed the border illegally after May 2014 and had been issued final orders of removal.

    The DHS secretary indicated such immigration enforcement actions — though minor compared to the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant arrivals since 2014 — would continue.

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/03/border-crossings-surge-yet-apprehensions-decline/

  8. Toxic Loans Around the World Weigh on Global Growth

    Beneath the surface of the global financial system lurks a multitrillion-dollar problem that could sap the strength of large economies for years to come.

    The problem is the giant, stagnant pool of loans that companies and people around the world are struggling to pay back. Bad debts have been a drag on economic activity ever since the financial crisis of 2008, but in recent months, the threat posed by an overhang of bad loans appears to be rising. China is the biggest source of worry. Some analysts estimate that China’s troubled credit could exceed $5 trillion, a staggering number that is equivalent to half the size of the country’s annual economic output.

    Official figures show that Chinese banks pulled back on their lending in December. If such trends persist, China’s economy, the second-largest in the world behind the United States’, may then slow even more than it has, further harming the many countries that have for years relied on China for their growth.

    But it’s not just China. Wherever governments and central banks unleashed aggressive stimulus policies in recent years, a toxic debt hangover has followed. In the United States, it took many months for mortgage defaults to fall after the most recent housing bust — and energy companies are struggling to pay off the cheap money that they borrowed to pile into the shale boom.

    • The toxic loans they are talking about were in the west generated for the most part by the leftist laws designed (according to the left) to create economic “justice” They want to see everyone have equal economic success, this means that everyone gets poorer with the poor bear the brunt of the loss of income which then gives the left ammo to attack the rich. Look at current day China or the USSR to see what they want for us, a few oligarchs/party members get rich and the rest live in utter poverty.

      When the government get out of the way it is the middle class that drives the economy.

    • German police arrest two in coordinated terror raids

      A 35-year-old Algerian man, who is believed to be in charge of a terrorist cell, was arrested in refugee accommodation

  9. Woman possibly stabbed with needle on subway

    NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) – A 37-year-old woman is recovering after being stabbed with what doctors believe was a needle while aboard a subway platform in Midtown Manhattan.

    The incident occurred Wednesday at about 7 p.m., according to police. The victim says she was bumped into at the 49th Street/7th Avenue station on the R line.

    She felt a sharp pain. When she went home her husband looked at the wound and called cops. The woman was being treated at Mt. Sinai/Queens Hospital. The ER doctor said the injury is consistent with a needle wound.

    The suspect is described as a white man in his 40s. No other details were provided.

    http://www.fox5ny.com/home/84416175-story

  10. New York City slashing attacks continue with three more within 24 hours

    WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) —
    The recent rash of slashing attacks in New York City is continuing with three more incidents since Tuesday in three separate boroughs.

    BROOKLYN
    In Brooklyn, an 18-year-old high school student was slashed while walking home in Williamsburg at around 3:15 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.

    The teen was surrounded by four young men at the corner of Graham Avenue and Maujer Street, investigators say.

    The suspects struck him repeatedly with their fists, and one took a 2 to 3 inch blade and slashed him to the left side of his face.

    The victim sustained lacerations above his left cheek and his left eye. He was treated at Woodhull Hospital

    He told detectives he did not know his attackers. “He seemed to be minding his own business,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.

    THE BRONX
    On Tuesday night, a 65-year-old Bronx businessman was cut as he walked to his car during a robbery outside his business in the Parkchester section.

  11. WikiLeaks’ Assange ‘unlawfully detained’ in Ecuador embassy, U.N. panel to rule, BBC says

    SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s three-and-a-half-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London amounts to ‘unlawful detention’, a United Nations panel examining his appeal will rule on Friday, the BBC reported.

    Assange, a former computer hacker who has been holed up in the embassy since June 2012, told the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention that he was a political refugee whose rights had been infringed by being unable to take up asylum in Ecuador.

    Reuters was unable immediately to confirm the BBC report and the UN said the panel’s opinion, which is not legally binding, was due to be published on Friday.

    Britain said it had never arbitrarily detained Assange and that the Australian had voluntarily avoided arrest by jumping bail to flee to the embassy.

    It said Assange will be arrested if he leaves the embassy and then extradited to Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape in 2010. Assange denies the rape allegations.

    http://www.oann.com/julian-assange-will-leave-ecuador-embassy-accept-arrest-if-loses-u-n-case-wikileaks/

  12. Billions pledged for Syria as tens of thousands flee bombardments

    LONDON (Reuters) – Donor nations pledged on Thursday to give billions of dollars in aid to Syrians as world leaders gathered for a conference to tackle the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with Turkey reporting a new exodus of tens of thousands fleeing air strikes.

    With Syria’s five-year-old civil war raging and another attempt at peace negotiations called off in Geneva after just a few days, the London conference aims to address the needs of some 6 million people displaced within Syria and more than 4 million refugees in other countries.

    Underlining the desperate situation on the ground in Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told the meeting that tens of thousands of Syrians were on the move towards his country to escape aerial bombardments on the city of Aleppo.

    “Sixty to seventy thousand people in the camps in north Aleppo are moving towards Turkey. My mind is not now in London, but on our border – how to relocate these new people coming from Syria?” he said. “Three hundred thousand people living in Aleppo are ready to move towards Turkey.”

    Turkey is already hosting more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees. Jordan and Lebanon are the other countries bearing the brunt of the Syrian refugee exodus.

    • Syria: Locals celebrate as govt. forces liberate Aleppo towns

      Locals celebrated after Syrian army forces and militias loyal to the Syrian government, assisted by Russia’s air force, successfully lifted the siege by anti-government on the towns of al-Zahraa and Nubl, Thursday.

    • Syria troops advance on Aleppo, threatening siege of rebels

      Syrian government troops moved closer on Thursday to encircling rebels in the country’s second city Aleppo, entering two Shiite towns that had been under rebel siege.

    • Turkey calls for more decisive U.S. stance against Russia over Syria intervention

      LONDON (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called on Thursday for the United States to take a more decisive stance against Russia over its intervention in Syria.

      Speaking at a news conference in London, Davutoglu said that after each discussion held between Washington and Moscow, Russia carried out even more attacks.

      http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-calls-more-decisive-u-stance-against-russia-141502812.html

      Russia accuses Turkey over Syria as donors pledge aid

      Russia said on Thursday it had serious grounds to suspect Turkey was preparing a military incursion in Syria as a Syrian army source said the city of Aleppo would soon be encircled by government forces that are advancing with Russian air support.

      Turkey, which has backed the Syrian rebellion, meanwhile called for the United States to take a more decisive stance against Russia over its intervention in Syria, and said there was no point to peace talks while Russia carried out attacks.

      The United Nations on Wednesday suspended the first peace talks in two years, halting an effort that seemed doomed from the start as the war raged unabated on the ground and government forces severed a major rebel supply route into strategically-important Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city before the war began.

      The refugee crisis created by the five-year-long war moved back into focus as donors convened in London on Thursday, with countries pledging billions of dollars in aid to help the victims of a conflict that has forced millions from their homes.

      Turkey said at the conference up to 70,000 refugees from Aleppo were moving toward the border due to air strikes. Rebels meanwhile said they hoped the failure of peace talks would encourage their foreign sponsors to send them better weapons.

      Four months of Russian air strikes have tipped the momentum Assad’s way after rebel advances earlier in 2015 that posed a growing threat to his control of crucial areas of western Syria.

      With the help of Russian air power and allies including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iranian fighters on the ground, the Syrian army is regaining areas on key fronts in the west, where Syria’s most important cities are located.

      But swathes of the country are in the hands of armed rebels, including Islamic State in the east, Kurdish militia in the north, and a mosaic of groups in the west who have been the target of many of the Russian air strikes.

      Any Turkish incursion would be a major escalation in a war that has already drawn in neighboring, regional and international governments, and would risk direct confrontation between Russia and a NATO member.

      Russia’s defense ministry said it had registered “a growing number of signs of hidden preparation of the Turkish Armed Forces for active actions on the territory of Syria”. There was no immediate comment from Turkey.

      […]Aleppo, just 50 km (30 miles) south of the Turkish border, is a major strategic prize in the war and is currently divided into areas of government and opposition control. Many of the rebels fighting in and around Aleppo have close ties to Turkey.

      […]Rebel commanders said they hoped the peace talks’ collapse would convince their foreign backers, including Saudi Arabia, that it was time to send them more powerful and advanced weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles.

      Assad’s foreign opponents have been funneling weapons to vetted rebel groups via both Turkey and Jordan.

      […]While vetted “Free Syrian Army” rebels have received weapons including U.S.-made guided anti-tank missiles, their calls for anti-aircraft missiles have gone unanswered mostly because of fears they could end up in the hands of powerful jihadist groups such as the Nusra Front that are also fighting Assad.

      http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN0VC169

      UK: 300,000 in Aleppo ready to move towards Turkey border, claims Davutoglu

      • Syria civil war: 70,000 refugees head to Turkey, says PM (BBC, Feb 4, 2016)
        http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35495157

        “Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are moving to Turkey’s border to flee heavy fighting near the city of Aleppo, officials and activists have said.

        Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said up to 70,000 may be heading to the border, while a monitoring group put the number at about 40,000.

        Intense Russian air strikes have helped Syria’s government troops make advances near the country’s largest city.

        Meanwhile, Russia accused Turkey of preparing an invasion into Syria….”

    • Kurdish and government offensives in northern Syria likely to force Turkey into proxy-war defeat or high-risk intervention

      Key Points

      -The advance of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against Islamic State forces and towards the Kurdish canton of Afrin raises Turkish fears of the prospect of the de facto establishment of a contiguous Kurdish territorial entity bordering Turkey inside Syria.

      -A Kurdish entity would provide a haven for Kurdish militants waging an ongoing insurgency inside Turkey, a development that Russia and Iran would be likely to exploit as a means of diverting Turkish attention away from Syria proper.

      -To pre-empt this outcome, Turkey is likely to orchestrate a cross-border insurgent attack on Islamic State-controlled Jarabulus. If, as is likely, this assault were to fail, Turkey would be faced with either accepting defeat in the proxy regional war in Syria and Iraq or taking the high-risk option of intervention within Syria by Turkish ground forces.

      http://www.janes.com/article/57753/kurdish-and-government-offensives-in-northern-syria-likely-to-force-turkey-into-proxy-war-defeat-or-high-risk-intervention

    • UK: Merkel announces €2.3 billion aid package for Syrian crisis

      German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany was pledging a package of aid funds totalling €2.3 billion ($2.6 billion) dedicated to alleviating the humanitarian crisis in Syria, a fundraising conference for the Syrian refugee crisis in London, Thursday.

      SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (English translation from German) “I would like to say thanks, thank you to Turkey, to Lebanon, and to Jordan. With their own population they are now prepared to share with the refugees from Syria, this is incredible and for all of those we are receiving refugees, we know what it means when you have so many new people that are trying to seek refuge in your country. It is an enormous effort, it is an enormous achievement and what we can do by providing some funds for you, that is one element, but what you do is much more important.”

      SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (English translation from German) “All in all Germany will make 2.3 billion [euros] available, we will start with that this year and I think the dual message of today is very important: first of all in 2016, we will have the money for the important things but the projects can be continued. We do have a prospect for the future. That obviously does not replace the political process, which needs to be reinforced for the future and we call upon all people involved, we call upon the Assad regime and the others to come to a point that we don’t create more misery, that we don’t cause more people to flee the country, but that we have a political process underway”

      • Yes, and she wants others to pay too. In Poland some pro-EU groups right now are saying that Poland also should pay. That it will be good for the country (I wonder in what way??) and if Poles pay money to Turkey then Poland would be accepted as serious partner.
        They really think that people are stupid.

    • GENEVA – Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva objects to nude statues in the hotel: NOT IN THE US MEDIA
      Of course, Western correspondents in Beirut and Geneva who report on the Syrian war would never reveal this to their public: that the Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva objected to nude statues in the hotel, and then the statues were covered.

      http://angryarab.blogspot.ca/2016/02/syrian-opposition-delegation-in-geneva.html

      Des statues représentant des femmes dénudées ont été retirées d’un hôtel de Genève avant l’arrivée des opposants syriens .

      https://twitter.com/Malbrunot/status/695265479351496704

    • Saudi Arabia Declares Its Ground Forces Ready to Invade Syria

      A Saudi military spokesman has confirmed that Riyadh is prepared to join any US-led ground operations to fight Daesh, also known as IS/Islamic State, in Syria, if such operations are approved by the coalition.

      “The kingdom is ready to participate in any ground operations that the coalition (against Islamic State) may agree to carry out in Syria,” Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri told al-Arabiya TV. Asseri is also the spokesman for the Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen.

      “If there was a consensus from the leadership of the coalition, the kingdom is willing to participate in these efforts because we believe that aerial operations are not the ideal solution and there must be a twin mix of aerial and ground operations,” Asseri added.

      Asked about the report, US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that the coalition is generally welcome to its partners increasing support in the fight against Daesh, but could not comment specifically on Asseri’s comments.

      http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160204/1034244705/saudi-ground-troops-syria.html
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      Saudi Arabia ready to send ground troops to Syria, official says

      A Saudi military spokesman says the kingdom is ready to send ground troops to Syria to fight Islamic State group provided coalition leaders agree during an upcoming meeting in Brussels.

      Brig. Gen. Ahmed Asiri told The Associated Press on Thursday that Saudi Arabia has taken part in coalition air strikes against IS since the U.S.-led campaign began in September 2014, but would now provide ground troops.

      The United States is scheduled to convene a meeting of defence ministers from countries fighting IS in Brussels this month.

      “We are determined to fight and defeat Daesh,” Asiri said, using the Arabic acronym for IS. He didn’t elaborate on how many troops the kingdom would send. Saudi Arabia is deeply involved in Yemen’s civil war, where it is fighting Iranian-backed Shiite rebels.

      http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/saudi-arabia-ready-to-send-ground-troops-to-syria-official-says/article28552650/

  13. Body of Italian student shows signs of torture: Egypt officials

    CAIRO (Reuters) – The body of an Italian student who went missing in Cairo was found half naked by the roadside with cigarette burns and other signs of torture, a senior Egyptian prosecutor said on Thursday.

    In Rome, Italy’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Egyptian ambassador to express concern over the death of Giulio Regeni, who disappeared on Jan. 25, the five-year anniversary of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.

    The body of the 28-year-old Cambridge University doctoral student has been taken to a Cairo morgue, a morgue worker and security officials said.

    Security officials said an investigation had begun. Regeni was found at the start of the highway from Cairo to Alexandria, they said.

    A friend said Regeni had disappeared after leaving his home in a smart district in Cairo to meet another friend downtown.

    http://www.oann.com/body-of-italian-student-shows-signs-of-torture-egypt-officials/

  14. Greek police turn to teargas as tempers flare over pensions

    ATHENS (Reuters) – Scuffles broke out and police used teargas during a mass rally in Athens on Thursday as Greeks railed against government pension reforms needed to meet demands of international creditors.

    Demanding an end to austerity, about 50,000 Greeks marched peacefully on parliament in central Athens chanting for the government to ditch the proposals, which many see as a betrayal of the leftist values of the main governing party, Syriza.

    Public health workers carried black balloons, and a large banner depicting a hunched-over nurse with a walking stick. “This is retirement at 67,” it said, a reference to the later pension age that will come from the reforms.

    Breaking away from the main march, black clad youths hurled stones and petrol bombs at police, who responded with rounds of teargas and stun grenades. Some of them smashed bus stops and set a car alight after the march, during a cat-and-mouse game between police and protesters in the back streets of central Athens.

    The angry backlash is piling pressure on leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, first elected just over a year ago. With just a three-seat majority in parliament, he is stuck between either pushing the reforms through to appease international creditors, or attracting the wrath of thousands of Greeks.

    http://www.oann.com/greeks-strike-against-leftist-governments-pension-plans/

      • I always look more favorably on a crowd that includes women not shrouded with cloth baggies.
        Never thought about it before, only now can I appreciate what that says about our societies.

  15. Latest Islamic State video

    – beheading carried out by a teenager —–> from 14:00 to the end

    ( beheading as such starts at 15:00)

    low resolution copy on youtube :

  16. Hezbollah Cell Arrested for Selling Cocaine to Buy Arms
    Included in the arrests, announced by the DEA, were the cells leaders, notably, Mohamad Noureddine, a specially designated global terrorist

    Members of Hezbollah’s European cell have been arrested for selling millions of dollars of cocaine in the U.S. and Europe to buy arms in Syria. Included in the arrests were the cells leaders, notably, Mohamad Noureddine, a specially designated global terrorist.

    Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shiite terror group, loyal to Iran and fighting in Syria on the side of Syria’s beleaguered president Bashar al-Assad. The group was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. in 1997.

  17. Europe’s Climate of Denial: Sexual Assaults and Vigilante Groups
    At a town meeting in Germany, the mayor said girls should not ‘provoke’ migrants by walking past them. In Finland, vigilante groups have sprouted up.
    By Meira Svirsky

    Tue, February 2, 2016

    A town-hall meeting in a small German city erupted with outrage when the mayor told citizens, concerned about sexual harassment of their daughters and granddaughters by migrants, there was an easy solution to this problem: don’t walk past them so they won’t be “provoked.”

    The mayor was responding to a question by a Bad Schlema resident, who identified himself as a grandfather of a girl under the age of 10.

    “I have a question regarding the school… about physical education in the school gym … the girls have been harassed by the refugee ‘children,’ the ‘asylum seekers.’ They get harassed from the windows [of the shelter] and things like that. How will this be in the summer? When the schoolgirls wear less clothing?” the grandfather asked.

    “That’s easy; just don’t provoke them and don’t walk in these areas,” responded Mayor Jens Muller (a member of Christian Democratic Union party, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel).

    Muller’s remarks caused a thunderous maelstrom in the town hall, with outraged residences yelling, “Oh! In your own country! You can’t even walk in your own city anymore!”

    In a reference to the similarly offensive remarks by the mayor of Cologne (who said after coordinated sexual attacks at the Cologne’s train station on New Year’s Eve by hundreds of migrants swarming women that women should stay a meter away from the men), one resident yelled, “Yeah, let’s all keep one meter distance! So easy!”

    The crowd shouted at the mayor, “Go home, boy. What kind of a mayor is this? He should step down!” And, “You don’t even have excuses left! They [the migrants] come here and we’re not allowed to walk here anymore!”

  18. The Left’s Manufactured Muslim Crisis
    Posted by Daniel Greenfield 32 Comments
    Men and women, some whose clothes were still marked with gray ash, walked dazedly toward Union Square. Many did not know what to do or where to go. So they kept on walking. They knew the country was under attack, but they did not know how bad it was or what might still be heading for them.

    Behind them lay a changed city and thousands of American dead. Ahead was the bronze statue of George Washington, facing into the devastation and raising his hand to lead his men forward in victory. Around its base, with the destruction of the World Trade Center as their backdrop, leftists had set up shop, coloring anti-war posters even while rescue workers were risking their lives at Ground Zero.

    In the coming days, the statue of Washington would be repeatedly vandalized by leftists drawing peace signs and “No War” and “War is Not the Answer” slogans on it. But that moment crystallized my realization that while Muslim terrorists had carried out the attack, it was the left we would have to fight.

    While some New Yorkers had gone to help the victims of Islamic terrorists, the left had rushed to aid the terrorists. Unlike the rest of us, they were not shocked or horrified by the attack. They were treasonously working on ways to spin the murder of thousands of Americans to protect the enemy.

  19. Venezuela, Colombia Exchange Fire in Border Shootout

    The Venezuelan navy violated the sovereignty of neighboring Colombia on Saturday night, as armed navy sailors crossed the border by the Colombian town of Arauquita, storming a night club and terrorizing beachgoers.

    While the Venezuelan government has yet to make any official statement on the matter, Colombian officials report that armed Venezuelan servicemen appeared to be chasing suspects aboard a canoe on the Arauca River, an official border crossing between the two nations. In chasing the suspects, the Venezuelan

    While the Venezuelan government has yet to make any official statement on the matter, Colombian officials report that armed Venezuelan servicemen appeared to be chasing suspects aboard a canoe on the Arauca River, an official border crossing between the two nations. In chasing the suspects, the Venezuelan sailors crossed onto Colombian land and entered an establishment called “Beach Bar” (“Playa Bar”), in an area known as Beach B. Here the soldiers came across Colombian policemen, who exchanged fire with the Venezuelans until they returned to their side of the border. No injuries were reported.

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/02/01/venezuela-sends-soldiers-over-colombian-border/

  20. Probe of Somali Jet Blast Points to Suicide Bomber

    Authorities suspect a man used a wheelchair to bypass security screening in Mogadishu

    NAIROBI, Kenya—A passenger who boarded a commercial plane in a wheelchair may have been a suicide bomber responsible for an explosion that tore a hole in the side of the jet as it took off from Somalia’s capital, a Western diplomat briefed on the investigation said.

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/somali-jet-blast-may-have-been-caused-by-suicide-bomber-1454603775

    Suicide bomber in wheelchair suspected in mid-flight blast on Somalian plane

    A suicide bomber strapped into a wheelchair may have been behind the mid-flight explosion on board a Somalian plane, a Western diplomat said.

    Investigators believe the explosive-loaded man’s wheelchair allowed him to skirt around airport security and get onto the passenger jet with the bomb, a source told the Wall Street Journal.

    The blast — which went off just minutes after the flight took off from Mogadishu’s airport Tuesday — blew a hole in the cabin and ejected the alleged bomber, sending him plummeting to the ground below.

    Investigators believe the Al-Shabaab militant group is behind the attack, an American source told Reuters.

    Somalia’s investigators have insisted that there are no signs of criminal activity, but two U.S. government sources said on Wednesday that initial forensic testing detected possible traces of the explosive TNT on the aircraft. More tests are underway.

    Al-Shabaab, the Al Qaeda-linked militant group behind numerous terror attacks in Eastern Africa, has not claimed responsibility for the explosion.

    Passenger Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh was killed by the blast on the Daallo Airlines plane, carrier officials said. Somalian officials have not named him a suspect in the explosion.

    Local authorities north of Mogadishu said the body of a man — believed to have been sucked out through the hole in the fuselage made by the blast — was found in their area.[…]

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/terror-group-al-shabaab-suspected-somalian-plane-blast-article-1.2520019

  21. Marine Commandant, Army Chief of Staff Agree: Women Should Register for Draft
    By Melanie Hunter | February 2, 2016 | 11:49 AM EST
    (AP Photo)

    (CNSNews.com) – Requiring women to register for the draft “is not an official administration position,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters on Tuesday.

    Earnest spoke shortly after the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Chief of Staff for the Army told the Senate Armed Services Committee they think it is time to require women to register for the Selective Service.

    “I believe that those military leaders were asked their personal opinion on that,” Earnest said. “I didn’t see the exchange firsthand, but that–there is no policy change to announce from here today.”

    Earnest said he was informed about the congressional exchange shortly before he walked into the briefing room. “I’m not aware of any rigorous policy process that’s underway to consider changing that policy. But let me take a look at and see if there is additional information on this that I can provide to you. I can just tell you that right now, our policy on this has not changed. OK?”

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/us-military-leaders-agree-women-should-register-draft

    Video at article site

  22. Merkel’s Deadly Misstep
    The dark and tragic details of what the German chancellor’s open-door “refugee” policy really caused.

    When German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced last August that her government would allow unregistered refugees to come to Germany, she set off the biggest migrant wave since the Second World War.

    Despite the negative effects this huge influx of people has had on the German economy and society, such as the mass sexual molestation and rape of hundreds of women last New Year’s Eve in Cologne, increased crime and concerns for personal safety among native Germans, supporters of Merkel’s action believe it was nevertheless justified by the humanitarian emergency and the need to save lives.

    But in an exclusive and revealing interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, an internationally recognised migration and Third World expert, Paul Collier, author of the book Exodus: How Migration Is Changing Our World, convincingly debunks this myth. Collier, a former director of the World Bank who currently holds an economics professorship at Oxford University, believes Merkel’s open-doors decision “…did not save a single Syrian from death.”

    “Despite best intentions, Germany has, instead, dead people on its conscience,” Collier told Die Welt. “Many people understood Merkel’s words as an invitation and only after that did they actually set out on the dangerous journey, sacrifice their savings and entrust their lives to dubious smugglers.”

    Meant as a humanitarian gesture, Collier maintains Merkel’s announcement had the opposite effect in regard to migrants’ safety and well-being. The refugees, he said, were already in safe, third states, such as Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, and did not come to Germany directly from “war and crisis countries.” But it was this “invitation” that caused them to leave these relatively safe havens, where most lived in tolerable conditions, and risk their lives on the arduous trip to Germany.

  23. This is an interesting take on the interview:

    Did Chelsea Clinton Admit Donald Trump’s Attacks on Her Parents Are Accurate?

    She doesn’t say that but she doesn’t exactly defend her parents either. Instead, the Clintons’ only daughter changes the subject. Why would she do that unless she knew that Donald Trump’s attacks have merit?

    Ironically, the editors of Cosmopolitan, which published the interview with Clinton’s comments, seem to have been blind to the obvious dodge. They trumpeted it in their headline, “Chelsea Clinton: Republican Hate Speech Is “Far More Troubling” Than Attacks On My Parents.”

    Odd. She skips away from the concrete criticisms of her parents and instead refers to undefined “hate speech.”

    The question that elicited her response asked Clinton what she thought of the fact that “Donald Trump has called your dad an abuser of women, and your mom his enabler.”

    She replies,
    I find what Donald Trump — and many of the Republicans, because it’s not only Mr. Trump — say about Americans far more troubling than what he says about my parents. […]

    But what I have found surprising and really disturbing in this election cycle is the broad-based misogyny and sexism and racism and Islamophobia and jingoism and homophobia and anti-immigrant rhetoric. All of that is coming out from the Republican side.
    I find what Donald Trump — and many of the Republicans, because it’s not only Mr. Trump — say about Americans far more troubling than what he says about my parents. […]

    But what I have found surprising and really disturbing in this election cycle is the broad-based misogyny and sexism and racism and Islamophobia and jingoism and homophobia and anti-immigrant rhetoric. All of that is coming out from the Republican side.

    (She doesn’t answer the question she changes the subject)

  24. Swedish church to collect funds to build mosque

    The Swedish church in Naka has been planning to raise funds to build a mosque adjacent to the church building in Fisksätra, Stokholm, for years.

    The joint building is to be called the “House of God” and is estimated to cost SEK 39 million ($4,548,630), an amount the church tries to collect through a foundation.

    Priest and former bishop of Karlstad, Bengt Wadensjö, presented the project in an article in a Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Referring to the Swedish democrats, he wrote “When fear of the unknown in the form of Islam now gives Sweden a profile in the news by SD taking place in parliament, I want to highlight a different picture of Sweden.”

    Contradicting Jimmie Akesson, head of SD’s statement that Muslims were the biggest foreign threat, he wrote, “In Nacka we do not believe that immigrants or Muslims would be a threat. They are an asset.”

    Bengt Wadensjö said that Muslims and Christians should unite in the idea that God is one, and added that “Muslims are generally peaceful and honest”, and that the project would lead to that “world peace begins in Fisksätra”.
    Presently, the idea is to build the mosque adjacent to the church, a glazed foyer joining the two.

    In November 2014, Nacka Parish decided to transfer bequeathed funds to the collection fund to build the mosque, ie money from deceased who wanted to support the Swedish Church by donating money. Although this decision was appealed, the protest was rejected.

    http://www.christiansinpakistan.com/swedish-church-to-collect-funds-to-build-mosque/

  25. Man sucked out of passenger jet after bomb exploded was a suicide bomber who smuggled his device on board in his WHEELCHAIR, claim investigators

    A wheelchair bound suicide bomber may have been responsible for the explosion which tore a hole in the side of a jet in Somalia, investigators have said.

    They said the suspected terrorist, thought to be part of the Al-Shabaab Islamist group, may have faked a disability to bypass security checks at Mogadishu airport.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3431295/Islamist-terror-group-Al-Shabaab-named-prime-suspects-bomb-blast-tore-hole-Somali-plane-sucked-passenger-death.html

  26. Pakistani-American dentist charged with sexual assault of sedated patient (tribune, Feb 4, 2016)
    http://tribune.com.pk/story/1040187/pakistani-american-dentist-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-sedated-patient/

    “A Pakistani-American oral surgeon has been charged with first degree sexual assault of an anaesthesised male-patient.

    Bilal Ahmed has been accused of forcing the sedated patient to perform oral sex on him. The patient, who went to show Ahmed a chipped tooth in May 2014 at his practice centre, Universal Smiles, in Washington DC, said the dentist knocked him out with nitrous oxide and then unbuttoned his trousers and forced him to perform oral sex.

    The patient claimed that an assistant was present when the anesthesia was administered; however, midway through the assault, the victim woke up and the assistant was gone. At this point, Ahmed, a married father of six, quickly pulled up his pants and rushed the victim off to a recovery room.

    The victim immediately contacted the police after leaving the office.

    A detective asked the victim to call the dentist and ask him if the incident was a hallucination. During the recorded conversation, Ahmed confessed to the crime, telling the victim he was “not crazy” and that he had, indeed, sexually assaulted him whilst he was under anesthesia.

    The 43-year-old was arrested at New York‘s JFK airport while returning to the United States from Pakistan on January 7. He was later released after posting $50,000 bail and is due back in court on February 17.”

  27. Saudi authorities arrest 10 Egyptians on terror charges (ahram, Feb 4, 2016)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/186718/Egypt/Politics-/Saudi-authorities-arrest–Egyptians-on-terror-char.aspx

    “Saudi authorities arrested 10 Egyptians over terrorism related charges in a security raid that took place in the last five days, a Saudi newspaper reported Thursday.

    The newspaper said that security officials arrested 40 suspects, including 27 Saudis, 10 Egyptians, two Yemenis and a Jordanian.

    Some media outlets reported last week that Saudi Arabia, which is a member of an international military coalition against the Islamic State group, arrested 55 suspects on charges of association with extremists and radical groups.

    In Early 2016, Saudi authorities executed 47 people convicted of adopting the radical “takfiri” ideology, joining “terrorist organisations” and pursuing various “criminal plots”.

    The execution list included prominent Shia cleric Nimr Al-Nimr who supported anti-government protests that broke out in 2011 in the Sunni-ruled kingdom’s east, where the Shia minority complains of marginalisation.

    The list also included Sunnis convicted of involvement in deadly 2003 and 2004 Al-Qaeda attacks in that killed Saudis and foreigners in the kingdom.

    In 2015, Saudi Arabia executed 153 people convicted of various crimes, including drug-trafficking.

    Authorities in the kingdom set up specialised courts in 2011 to try dozens of Saudis and foreigners accused of belonging to Al-Qaeda, or of participating in the wave of attacks that swept the country from 2003.”

  28. Australian churches offer to take in asylum seekers (BBC, Feb 4, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35489100

    “Australian churches have said they will offer sanctuary to asylum seekers who face deportation to Nauru.

    The High Court on Wednesday found Australia’s policy of sending asylum seekers to government-funded offshore processing centres was constitutional.

    The decision means people, including 37 babies, face deportation to the detention centre on Nauru.

    The Anglican Dean of Brisbane Dr Peter Catt said they would likely face trauma and abuse if deported.

    “This fundamentally goes against our faith so our church community is compelled to act, despite the possibility of individual penalty against us,” Dr Catt said in a statement.

    “Historically churches have afforded sanctuary to those seeking refuge from brutal and oppressive forces.”

    Ten Anglican and Uniting churches are offering sanctuary, including Brisbane Cathedral.

    Ian Rintoul of the Refugee Action Coalition welcomed the move, but said it would be largely symbolic as only about 30 of the asylum seekers were in the community and able to attend a church. The rest are in detention centres….”

  29. Australia Resists International Pressure Not To Deport Child Migrants, Says Allowing Them To Stay Encourages More To Come By Boat (breitbart, Feb 4, 2016)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/02/04/australia-resists-international-pressure-not-to-deport-child-asylum-seekers-with-a-minister-warning-that-allowing-them-to-stay-could-encourage-more-refugees-to-come-by-boat/

    “CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is resisting mounting international pressure not to deport child asylum seekers, with a minister warning Thursday that allowing them to stay could attract more refugees to come by boat.

    Australia’s 3-year-old policy of paying the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru to accommodate asylum seekers who attempt to reach Australian shores by boat survived a challenge in the High Court on Wednesday.

    The test case ruling means 267 asylum seekers, most of whom came from Nauru to Australia for medical treatment or to support a family member who needed treatment, face potential deportation back to Nauru.

    Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said that asylum seekers, including children, would be returned to Nauru once their medical needs had been met.

    “We have to be compassionate on one hand, but we have to be realistic about the threat from people smugglers,” Dutton told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio. “We’re acting in the best interests not only of these children, but children that would follow them.”

    The government has all but stopped the trafficking of asylum seekers from the Middle East and Asia in rickety Indonesian fishing boats during the past two years by refusing to allow new arrivals to ever settle in Australia. The government argues that the policy has saved lives because asylum seekers were no longer drowning at sea during long and treacherous voyages from Indonesian ports.

    Human rights agencies have called for the asylum seekers to be allowed to stay, with most focus on the 54 children and 37 Australian-born babies among them. Several churches around Australia have declared themselves places of sanctuary for asylum seekers facing deportation, a symbolic gesture that carries no legal consequences for authorities.

    The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, said amendments legislated by the government last year to safeguard its deal with Nauru against the High Court challenge “significantly contravenes the letter and spirit of international human rights law.”

    The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child reminded Australia that under the terms of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the best interests of the asylum seeker children should be a primary consideration in deciding whether to deport them.

    The Australian Human Rights Commission, a government-funded independent agency, reported that a medical team that had examined children held an immigration detention center in the Australian city of Darwin found that many had been severely traumatized by their experiences on Nauru.

    The government said this week it was investigating a doctor’s report that a 5-year-old boy currently in Australia had been raped on Nauru.”

  30. Nearly 5,000 militants concentrated along Tajik-Afghan border: Report (khaama, Feb 4, 2016)
    http://www.khaama.com/nearly-5000-militants-concentrated-along-tajik-afghan-border-report-0073

    “The security authorities of Tajikistan have expressed concerns regarding thousands of militants concentrated along Tajikistan-Afghanistan border, it has been reported.

    According to the authorities, the number of militants concentrated along the border has been estimated to be up to 5,000.

    “Our intelligence agencies are not only closely following the situation in the inhabited localities in this and other districts of Kunduz Province, but also took additional security measures by reinforcing the Panj border detachment,” a spokesman for Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS) told Russia’s TASS news agency on Wednesday.

    The official further added that the insurgents belonging to Taliban group, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Jamaat Ansarullah as well as few dozen natives of Tajikistan are among those gathered along the border.

    The official also added that Dushanbe neither “underestimated nor overestimated these groups’ danger” having sufficient forces to rebuff the attacks and also “having strategic military allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), primarily Russia.”

    This comes as sources close to the Secretary General of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said in mid September last year that the Russian forces may return on Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan amid fears the deteriorating security situation may affect the security of Central Asian countries.

    The Russian officials had earlier expressed concerns regarding threats posed to Tajikistan from the South due to deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan amid presence of terrorist groups and emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) loyalists.”

  31. Amnesty International slams ‘disproportional’ French state of emergency (france24, Feb 4, 2016)
    http://www.france24.com/en/20160204-france-amnesty-international-report-slams-disproportional-state-emergency

    “In a damning report published Thursday, Amnesty International has slammed the “disproportional impact” of France’s state of emergency, which was declared in the aftermath of the November 13 Paris attacks.

    The report was released a day after the government introduced a bill to extend the extraordinary security measures – due to expire on February 26 – for another three months.

    Under the state of emergency, police powers are greatly expanded to allow authorities to conduct raids and make arrests without the prior accord of a judge.

    Amnesty said that since the state of emergency came into effect nearly three months ago, authorities have carried out 3,210 raids, placing more than 400 people under house arrest and closing 12 places of worship.

    The human rights group interviewed 35 people for the report, all of whom were either witnesses to or the target of a police raid.

    ‘I thought it was an Islamaphobic attack’

    Among them was a man simply identified as Marc, who was at home with his pregnant wife and 10-year-old son in the northern region of Picardie when the police banged on his door on the night of November 17, 2015.

    “I thought it was an Islamaphobic attack, vengeance for the attacks in Paris,” Marc said.

    He and his family quickly sought refuge in the bathroom while the police forced their way into the home.

    “I thought we were finished… they said that it was the police, but we didn’t believe them. My wife and child were in a panic. Then, as soon as I opened the door, they hit me in the face and handcuffed me and my wife,” he said.

    Marc and his family were eventually released without charge, but according to Amnesty, his experience was not unique.

    ‘Discriminatory’

    “In a number of incidents, the authorities did not inform the people targeted of the exact reason behind the raid at their home. This lack of explanation, and the raid’s inevitable intrusion into [one’s] personal space has left many perplexed,” the report said.

    The group also said that the way the state of emergency has been enforced was “discriminatory”, pointing out that a number of people had been put under house arrest for “vague and insufficient” reasons.

    “The authorities have often justified house arrests by stating that the person targeted represented a threat, because of their religious practices or their presumed ‘radicalisation’, or their ties with other Muslim suspects, without specifying how this behaviour or suspected beliefs constituted a threat to public safety,” the report said.

    In other cases, Amnesty said that those targeted by the authorities faced trumped-up charges.

    “While governments can use exceptional measures in exceptional circumstances, they must do so with caution – sweeping executive powers, with few checks on their use, have generated a range of human-rights violations,” said John Dalhuisen, director of Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia programme.

    “It is difficult to see how the French authorities can possibly argue that they represent a proportionate response to the threats they face,” he added.

    Amnesty urged the government not to extend the state of emergency past its February deadline, unless it can prove that the measures are indispensible.

    “Amnesty International asks the French government not to prolong the state of emergency unless it is able to actually demonstrate that the situation has reached a level of public danger elevated enough to threaten the country’s existence,” the report concluded.”

  32. Global response needed to defeat terrorism: General Raheel (tribune, Feb 4, 2016)
    http://tribune.com.pk/story/1040321/global-response-needed-to-defeat-terrorism-general-raheel/

    “Army chief General Raheel Sharif has said terrorism is a global phenomenon and required a coordinated, global response.

    According to the ISPR, General Raheel visited on Thursday the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) to witness exercise “Eagle Dash-I” between Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives in Pabbi, Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

    Congratulating the participants for displaying high level of professionalism and combat skills, army chief underscored that such exercises consolidate special relationship between the forces and help eliminate terrorism from the region.

    “Terrorism is a global phenomenon and terrorists have no country, religion or sect. Hence, a coordinated global response from us all [is required].”

    “Pakistan has been victim of terrorism for over a decade and sacrificed a lot but at the end we have turned the tide primarily due to resilience displayed by the whole nation and professionalism of our armed forces,” added the COAS.

    General Raheel said Pakistan was “willing to share our experiences with the world for the benefit of humanity and as an obligation towards international peace”…..”

  33. Darmstadt PhD student arrested for supporting ‘IS’ (DW, Jan 3, 2016)
    http://www.dw.com/en/darmstadt-phd-student-arrested-for-supporting-is/a-19021849

    “The German police have arrested a Syrian graduate student in the country’s northwest. The 35-year old had posted an Arabic-language video proclaiming his support for the “Islamic State” group.

    The Syrian citizen was detained in a “concentrated police action” and is facing a thorough investigation, authorities said Tuesday. The police indentified him as Malik F., a doctoral student based in Darmstadt.

    Malik first drew public attention earlier this week when his online video started making rounds on social media.

    In the clip, Malik explains why he “supports and defends” the “Islamic State” (IS) group.

    The Darmstadt student accuses the US, “the figurehead of heresy,” of the systematic extermination of Sunni Muslims, and describes the rulers of Saudi Arabia and rulers of other their Arab allies as “worse than pigs.”

    He also accuses the Saudis and the Free Syrian Army of trying to “appease the infidels” and being “funded by the infidels.”

    In the Arabic-language video, Malik also defends IS’s burning of the Jordanian pilot and its stoning of women accused of adultery, saying that the acts were justified by Sharia law.

    Islamic State is “in the right, I say, because they rule by the Sharia of our Lord,” he concludes.

    A spokeswoman for the German domestic intelligence service described the clip as “jihadist propaganda.”

    ‘I love Germany’

    The video, which was recently discovered and translated into English by the US-based Middle East Media Research Institute, came as a surprise to his colleagues in Darmstadt.

    Malik was “respected as a colleague” and never “drew attention with extremist attitudes” said the Technical University spokesman Jörg Feuck to the newspaper, “Die Welt.”

    According to the “Welt” report, the mathematician arrived in Germany in 2007, and was the recipient of a Syrian government scholarship for his PhD in mathematics until 2011.

    “I love Germany” Malik stated just hours before his arrest, when contacted by reports from the regional broadcaster Hessische Rundfunk.

    When asked if he approved of stoning of women, Malik answered: “That is our religion, I think our religion is good, of course.”

    Spreading IS propaganda has been punishable by law in Germany since September 2014.”

  34. Saudi Cleric Ali Al-Malki: West Tampers with Burgers, Whiskey to Induce Birth of Girls among Muslims

    In a 2013 show on the Saudi channel Dana TV, Saudi cleric Ali Al-Malki warned viewers that Western burger chains, such as McDonald’s and Harvey’s, tamper with the meat in order “to kill the male genes” among Muslim men and women and make them give birth to girls rather than boys. Sheikh Al-Malki further complained that Saudi Arabia exports all its prime agricultural produce to America and in return, America exports whiskey to Saudi Arabia. “Some of that whiskey is not fresh,” he said. “It’s defective.”

  35. Canada: Atlantic Beef Products can now sell with assurance to Muslims

    The Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of Canada (IFNCC) has certified the Albany beef plant for halal production of its products.

    Atlantic Beef Products Inc., is eastern Canada’s only federally Inspected producer of beef products.

    IFNCC says it is Canada’s leading halal certifying organization.

    A halal certificate provides Muslims with a reliable and independent testimony that a third party has examined the plant for quality assurance, said a press release from the plant.

    The council web site says meat must not be, with absolute certainty, contaminated by pork or certain other animals, must be hung to properly drain of blood and must be killed in the name of God, to name a few criteria.

    “Canada has a Muslim population of over one million and those customers can now confidently choose Atlantic Beef Products and be assured that this beef will meet the needs of Muslims for halal food products,” said Russ Mallard, president.

    “There has been a steadily growing interest from Muslim consumers, food retailers and food service operators looking for halal beef in Atlantic Canada,” said Mallard.

    The company says that animals used for beef at the plant are fed from primarily pastured grasses, grass and clover silage and hay, as well as local grains and potatoes.

    “This natural diet, combined with the time-honoured technique of caring for the animals produces a superior quality beef, rich in marbling and flavour.,” said Mallard.

    Atlantic Beef markets its products as Prince Edward Island Certified Beef, Blue Dot Beef and various other cuts and supplies leading grocery retailers, food service distributors and independent butchers throughout Canada.

    http://halalfocus.net/canada-atlantic-beef-products-can-now-sell-with-assurance-to-muslims/