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  1. Düsseldorf terror plotters ‘linked to refugee sleeper cell’

    The Syrian men arrested last week for allegedly plotting to attack Düsseldorf for Isis may be linked to a sleeper cell of 20 terrorists.

    The Netherlands is investigating media reports that a sleeper cell of the Isis jihadist group has been hiding among people living at a Dutch refugee camp, officials said Tuesday.

    http://www.thelocal.de/20160608/would-be-dsseldorf-attackers-linked-to-refugee-sleeper-cell-isis

  2. BERLIN—Police were questioning six residents of a refugee shelter in Düsseldorf after a fire destroyed the building Tuesday.

    Police said they had no evidence that the blaze, which left 28 residents and two rescue workers suffering from smoke inhalation, had originated outside the building.

    Police suspicions centered on refugees who resided in the center, located on the city’s trade fair grounds…

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/german-police-investigating-dusseldorf-refugee-shelter-fire-1465321138

    • Feuer in Düsseldorf Asyl erschlichen: Brandstifter aus Marokko gab sich als Syrer aus

      Düsseldorf –

      Er hat sich seinen Aufenthaltstitel erschlichen! Der mutmaßliche Brandstifter von Düsseldorf hat sich nach EXPRESS-Informationen bei den Behörden als Sysrer ausgegeben. Dabei stammt er aus Marokko.

      Marokko gilt mittlerweile als sicherer Herkunftsstaat, in den auch abgeschoben werden kann. Ins Kriegsgebiet Syrien können die Behörden nicht abschieben.

      Der Tatverdächtige hatte in dem abgebrannten Flüchtlingsheim gewohnt und sich vor seiner Verhaftung EXPRESS-Reportern offenbart.

      Streit um RAMADAN-Frühstück

      Er fühlte sich in der Unterkunft als Araber schlecht behandelt! Angeblich sollte die Security die Araber vor dem Sonnenaufgang zum Ramadan-Frühstück wecken.

      „Das haben die aber nicht gemacht – absichtlich!“, sagte der Täter. Daraufhin sei der Feuer-Plan entstanden.

      24 Verletzte

      Ein Wunder, dass niemand schwerer verletzt wurde. 180 Flüchtlinge waren vor Ort, als das Feuer ausbrach. 24 Personen kamen mit Rauchgasvergiftung ins Krankenhaus.

      Dem Verdächtigen und einem mutmaßlichen Komplizen, ebenfalls Marokkaner, drohen bis zu fünf Jahre Gefängnis. Und die Abschiebung nach Marokko.

      http://www.express.de/duesseldorf/feuer-in-duesseldorf-asyl-erschlichen–brandstifter-aus-marokko-gab-sich-als-syrer-aus-24191498

      Flüchtlingsheim in Düsseldorf: Verdächtiger prahlt mit Video von den Flammen

      Das Motiv: Unzufriedenheit mit der Unterkunft

      „Wir wollen unsere Rechte, wir wollen besser leben“, sagten die jungen Männer unserem Reporter.

      Die weiteren vier Verdächtigen stammen aus Marokko, Algerien, Syrien und Irak. Sie sollen am Mittwoch dem Haftrichter vorgeführt werden.

      Bereits seit Monaten hatte es in der Notunterkunft, die eigentlich schon längst nicht mehr belegt sein sollte, aber wegen des Andrangs nach Düsseldorf weiter gebraucht wurde, immer wieder Streit gegeben.

      Erst vor zwei Wochen brannte es

      Erst vor drei Wochen hatte ein Bewohner eine Matratze angezündet, es blieb bei leichtem Sachschaden.

      Prügeleien zwischen Arabern auf der einen und Iranern und Afghanen auf der anderen Seite waren fast an der Tagesordnung.

      Die Security-Leute im Heim sollen überwiegend auch Iraner gewesen sein.

      Laut einiger marokkanisch-stämmiger Flüchtlinge hätten sie gestern Morgen die Araber absichtlich nicht zum Ramadan-Frühstück geweckt. Daraufhin sei der Plan mit der Brandstiftung geschmiedet worden.

      „Weil wir hier einfach nur weg wollten“, wie ein Bewohner erzählt.

      Ziel erreicht, wenn auch mit unterschiedlichem Ausgang: Die beiden mutmaßlichen Täter gingen in Polizeigewahrsam, die anderen Bewohner wurden auf andere Heime verteilt.

      http://www.express.de/duesseldorf/exklusiv-fluechtlingsheim-in-duesseldorf–verdaechtiger-prahlt-mit-video-von-den-flammen-24187430-seite2

    • Brand in Düsseldorfer Flüchtlingsunterkunft: Polizei nimmt weitere Verdächtige fest

      Die Polizei hat nach dem Großbrand in einer Flüchtlingsunterkunft in Düsseldorf acht Verdächtige festgenommen. Zwei von ihnen seien dringend tatverdächtig, das Feuer in der Halle nahe der Messe gelegt zu haben, teilte die Polizei am Mittwoch bei einer Pressekonferenz mit.

      Es handele sich um unzufriedene Bewohner. Über die Gründe der Unzufriedenheit wurde zunächst nichts bekannt. Ein 26-jähriger Mann nordafrikanischer Herkunft soll Flüssigkeit auf eine Matratze geschüttet und angezündet haben, hieß es. Durch den Brand am Dienstag wurde die Unterkunft, in der 282 Männer lebten, komplett zerstört. Bisher war von sechs Verdächtigen die Rede gewesen.

      Vor dem Großbrand hat es Zeugen zufolge Streit um die Beachtung des islamischen Fastenmonats Ramadan gegeben. Bei der mittäglichen Essensausgabe sei es zu den Auseinandersetzungen gekommen, hätten die zuständigen Mitarbeiter des Roten Kreuzes berichtet, sagte ein Sprecher der Düsseldorfer Staatsanwaltschaft am Mittwoch. Dabei sei es um die ordnungsgemäße Beachtung des Ramadan gegangen. Ob ein Zusammenhang zur Brandstiftung bestehe, werde noch geprüft.

      Christen und Muslime lebten unter einem Dach

      In der Halle hätten Christen und Muslime unter einem Dach gelebt, sagte eine Sprecherin des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes. Die Stimmung sei schwierig gewesen und habe sich mit Beginn des Ramadans noch verschlechtert. Es sei zu Gewalttätigkeiten gekommen. DRK-Mitarbeiter, Wachleute und Polizisten seien bespuckt und mit Schuhen beworfen worden. Die unterschiedlichen Gruppen hätten sich jeweils benachteiligt gefühlt, obwohl mit einer Essensausgabe um 22.00 Uhr auf die Belange der Muslime imRamadan Rücksicht genommen worden sei.

      Bei dem Großbrand ist ein Schaden von rund zehn Millionen Euro entstanden. Der Abriss der 6000 Quadratmeter großen Halle des Düsseldorfer Messe habe bereits begonnen, sagte ein Feuerwehrsprecher. Die Feuerwehr habe in der Nacht noch Glutnester gelöscht, sei am Mittwochmorgen aber abgezogen. Die Polizei ermittelt wegen schwerer Brandstiftung mit 34 Beamten. Bewohner der Unterkunft wurden festgenommen. Nun wird geprüft, wer dem Haftrichter vorgeführt wird.

      In den kommenden Tagen soll Düsseldorf wegen des Brandes keine neuen Flüchtlinge mehr zugewiesen bekommen. Laut “Express” hat ein nordafrikanischer Bewohner der Unterkunft die Tat einem Reporter der Zeitung gestanden – aus Unzufriedenheit über die Unterkunft habe er das Feuer gelegt. Die Ermittler wollten sich dazu zunächst nicht äußern.

      http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/brand-in-duesseldorfer-fluechtlingsunterkunft-polizei-nimmt-weitere-verdaechtige-fest_id_5609357.html

    • BREITBART – REPORT: Migrants Burn Down Asylum Centre After Not Receiving Ramadan Wake Up Call

      A massive fire at Düsseldorf’s major international trade fair grounds yesterday has been followed by reports that the blaze was set deliberately by migrants who were angry because of Ramadan.

      […]There were initially two arrests of migrants that were found at the scene boasting about setting the fire, but this number later rose to six. The men arrested are reported to have been citizens of Morocco, Algeria, Syria and Iraq.

      Breitbart London has reported on the problem of migrant guards, who often lack basic qualifications and any sort of oversight by government agencies as they are employed and run by private contractors. One under-addressed expression of this problem is the attacks and discrimination against Christian refugees by Turkish heritage and Arab migrant guards.

      Severe beatings are the order of the day for many Christian migrants in the care of the German state, who have given uniforms and authority to the exact people they fled the Middle East from in the first place. The hospital report of one Christian who was beaten near to death by “Turkish and Arab descent” guards read: “Skull contusion, monocular hematoma right stump chest trauma, blunt abdominal trauma history.

      http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/08/migrants-burnt-international-exhibition-centre-ground-didnt-get-ramadan-breakfast/

  3. Austria far-right challenges election result

    Austria’s anti-immigration Freedom Party filed Wednesday a legal challenge two weeks after its candidate lost out by the narrowest of margins on being elected the EU’s first far-right president, alleging “terrifying” irregularities.

    Hofer, 45, was portrayed as moderate but he nevertheless believes Islam is not part of Austria, opposes gay marriage and says that if the country were not a member of the EU, he would vote against joining.

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/31797513/austria-far-right-files-legal-challenge-to-poll-result/#page1

    • Austria: Far-right FPO’s Strache challenges pres. election results after loss

      The chairman of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) Heinz-Christian Strache announced that his party could launch a court challenge over the results of Austria’s recent presidential elections, during a press conference in Vienna, Wednesday.

      SOT, Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) (German): “There have been numerous irregularities and accidents. We are thankful to the voters for the numerous hints. But we are also obliged to the the voters, democracy and the state of law.”

      SOT, Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) (German): “We have a big number of hints under oath. And I am telling you clearly, that the extent of these findings is more than frightening, and also more than relevant.”

      SOT, Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) (German): “At 7 district-election-authorities the counting has not been conducted by the respective district-election-authories, but instead through people, who are not responsble. 58,374 polling cards are affected.”

      SOT, Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) (German): “On the issues, we have shown today, that 573,275 voting cards have been affected, it can not be assured, that everything was done correctly. There have been breaches of law, and because of that of course we could challenge the election.”

  4. Iran Bans Goalie for Infractions Including ‘SpongeBob’ Pants (abcnews, June 8, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-bans-goalie-infractions-including-spongebob-pants-39694665

    “A semi-official news agency in Iran is reporting that the country’s football federation has suspended a goalkeeper for six months for a series of offenses, including wearing yellow pants reminiscent of “SpongeBob SquarePants.”

    The ISNA news agency reported Wednesday that Sosha Makani, formerly a goalie for Persepolis Football Club, can appeal his suspension.

    An image of Makani smiling and wearing the dotted yellow pants that showed his ankles circulated online last month. Those pants were apparently too close to looking like “SpongeBob SquarePants,” a yellow sponge character on a popular children’s animated television show.

    Athletes and celebrities in Iran have been targeted by hard-liners in the judiciary and elsewhere for what they wear and how they behave. Iranian hard-liners view much of Western culture as corrupt and un-Islamic.”

  5. Germany: Family Reunification Could Double Number of Syrians (abcnews, June 8, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-family-reunification-double-number-syrians-39694666

    “German officials say the country’s migration agency calculated that each Syrian who has arrived in the country could on average eventually be joined by one more, under rules allowing family reunification.

    Interior Ministry spokesman Tobias Plate confirmed Wednesday a report by the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees reached the conclusion in an internal paper last November. He cautioned that the office’s prediction doesn’t make account of a legal change since then that may make it harder for some Syrians to bring relatives to Germany.

    German authorities registered over 428,000 Syrians as asylum-seekers last year and nearly 72,000 in the first five months of this year.

    Officials say the calculation appears plausible. Some people have speculated that family reunification could produce a much larger influx.”

  6. Afghan Security Forces Deploy to Prevent Illegal Mining (abcnews, June 8, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghan-security-forces-deploy-prevent-illegal-mining-39692387

    “Afghan authorities are deploying security forces to ensure that insurgents fighting to overthrow the government do not benefit from illegal mining, an official said on Wednesday.

    The pledge follows recent reports that the Taliban earn tens of millions of dollars each year from illegal extraction and export of minerals, which the government has failed to keep safe…”

  7. Pakistani Woman Burns Daughter Alive for Marrying for Love (abcnews, June 8, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistani-woman-burns-daughter-alive-marrying-love-39691817

    “A Pakistani woman was arrested Wednesday after dousing her daughter with kerosene and burning her alive, allegedly because the girl had defied her family to marry a man she was in love with, police said.

    Police official Sheikh Hammad said the killing took place in the eastern city of Lahore, the country’s cultural hub, and that the mother was arrested the same day.

    The suspect, Parveen Rafiq, has confessed to tying up her 18-year-old daughter Zeenat Rafiq to a cot after which, with the help of her son, Ahmar Rafiq, she poured the oil on the girl and set her ablaze, Hammad said.

    Nearly 1,000 women are killed each year in so-called “honor killings” in Pakistan for allegedly violating conservative norms on love and marriage.

    A schoolteacher, Maria Bibi, was assaulted and set on fire last week for refusing to marry a man twice her age. Before she died, she managed to give a statement to the police, testifying that five attackers had broken into her home, dragged her out to an open area, beat her and set her ablaze.

    The prime suspect in the case — the father of the man she refused to marry — and the other four are all in custody.

    A month earlier, police arrested 13 members of a local tribal council who allegedly strangled a girl and set her on fire for helping a friend elope. The charred body of 17-year-old Ambreen Riasat was found in a burned van.

    The daughter killed in Lahore, Zeenat Rafiq, had gotten married last month before a court magistrate to a motorcycle mechanic, Hasan Khan, said Hammad.

    Three days ago, he said, the girl’s mother and an uncle visited her to try to persuade her to return home and have the marriage ceremony repeated in a traditional family function, instead of being labelled her whole life as someone who had “eloped.”

    Khan, her husband, told the local Geo News TV station that his bride had feared the worst.

    “Don’t let me go, they will kill me,” Khan recounted his wife telling him.”

  8. Send Eritrea to International Criminal Court, UN Group Says (abcnews, June 8, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/refer-eritreas-human-rights-crimes-icc-group-39692269

    “Eritrea’s “systematic, widespread” human rights abuses should be referred to the International Criminal Court as crimes against humanity that include enslavement and torture, a United Nations commission of inquiry said Wednesday.

    The commission said the government of the tiny Horn of Africa country has made no progress on most critical rights violations the group first documented a year ago…”

  9. Syria conflict: Hospital ‘hit in Aleppo air strike’ (BBC, June 8, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36479415

    “At least 15 people are reported to have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of air strikes on rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

    One of the strikes hit near the Bayan hospital in the eastern Shaar district, activists and a monitoring group said.

    Video footage, purportedly of the aftermath, showed bodies being pulled from burning and destroyed buildings…”

  10. EgyptAir jet lands in Uzbekistan after hoax bomb threat (BBC, June 8, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36477768

    “An EgyptAir plane that was forced to land in Uzbekistan due to a hoax bomb threat has been cleared to resume its journey from Cairo to Beijing.

    All 118 passengers and 17 crew on board the Airbus A330-220 were evacuated at Urgench International Airport.

    The aircraft was searched by Uzbek security forces but no explosive device was found, Egyptian officials said…”

  11. France releases terror alert app ahead of Euro 2016 (BBC, June 8, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36479720

    “The French government has released a mobile phone app to alert the public in the event of a terrorist attack.

    The app is being released ahead of the Euro 2016 football tournament, which starts on Friday.
    It will alert geo-located users “in case of a suspected attack”, the interior ministry said in a statement (in French).

    The government said the app was developed after November’s attacks in Paris. which killed 130 people…”

  12. North Korea restarts plutonium production for nuclear bombs – U.S. official

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea has restarted production of plutonium fuel, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday, showing that it plans to pursue its nuclear weapons program in defiance of international sanctions.

    The U.S. assessment came a day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog said it had “indications” that Pyongyang has reactivated a plant to recover plutonium from spent reactor fuel at Yongbyon, its main nuclear complex.

    The latest developments suggest North Korea’s reclusive regime is working to ensure a steady supply of materials for its drive to build warheads, despite tightened international sanctions after its fourth nuclear test in January.

    The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Washington is worried by the new plutonium reprocessing effort, but he offered no explicit word on any U.S. response.

    “Everything in North Korea is a cause for concern,” the official told Reuters.

    “They take the spent fuel from the 5 megawatt reactor at Yongbyon and let it cool and then take it to the reprocessing facility, and that’s where they’ve obtained the plutonium for their previous nuclear tests. So they are repeating that process,” the official said. “That’s what they’re doing.”

    North Korea, which conducted its fourth nuclear test in January, vowed in 2013 to restart all nuclear facilities, including the main reactor and the smaller plant at Yongbyon, which was shut down in 2007 as part of an international disarmament-for-aid deal that later collapsed.

    http://www.oann.com/exclusive-north-korea-restarts-plutonium-production-for-nuclear-bombs-u-s-official/

    • When will begin to increase our nuclear arsenal? The Great and Powerful Obama wants to keep reducing our nukes. I had a good laugh listening to a DW piece on how Obama was spending all this new money on a nuclear weapons. But, listening to the piece indicated he was simply addressing outmoded delivery systems. What need to start an increase in actual weapons numbers. We don’t even know if our nukes even WORK anymore. Computer simulations are just someone’s idea how a device MIGHT work, not IF they actually work.

      • After Trump takes over or if Hillary is elected once the revolution (really a counter revolution) has been won.

        I know what you mean, the lack of testing of even one of each new type has everyone wondering if the computer programs were written correctly. Given the world situtation we need to co an emergency rebuild of the military and of our military equipment. Obama wanted to cripple us to he ordered the equipment scrapped instead of mothballed. Welcome to reliving 1942 and 1943, and we are going to be doing this with home grown terrorists workiong against us as well as having the foreign fighters Obama has let in the country do its best to prevent us building anything.

  13. Euroscepticism on rise in Europe, poll suggests (BBC, June 8, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36471989

    “Euroscepticism is on the rise across Europe, new research has suggested, with little more than two weeks to go before Britons decide whether to remain within the EU.

    Nonetheless, the Pew Research Center report found that a slim majority – a median of 51% – of respondents across 10 EU countries still favoured the EU.

    Forty-two percent want more power returned to their national capitals.

    Another poll has found most Europeans want the UK to stay in the EU.

    The findings, by TNS (in French), contrasted with its survey among Britons, which found that 41% supported remaining within the 28-member bloc, compared with 43% in favour of leaving.

    The UK holds a referendum on 23 June on whether it should stay in the EU or leave…”

  14. Half a million more Syrians to join loved ones in Germany

    Germany expects to take in a further half a million Syrians who will be reunited with family members whose refugee status has already been granted.

    The refugees will arrive as husbands and wives, children or parents of people who have been granted asylum, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports (SZ), citing a report written by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).

    http://www.thelocal.de/20160608/half-a-million-more-syrians-could-join-families-in-germany

    • This is how we got ZILLIONS of people that have no reason at all to be here, that will become permanent parasites on the US taxpayer, have families, become a growing cancer on the economy.

      DON’T LET THEM IN.

  15. No jail for ‘illegal’ migrants, says EU court’s chief legal advisor

    It’s chief advisor said on Tuesday that under EU rules, non-EU nationals can only be imprisoned if they’ve already been given a deportation order and have refused to go.

    The court’s opinion came in the case of a woman from Ghana who was caught by French police on a coach from Belgium to London using somebody else’s passport.

  16. Bosnia struggles to rein in Muslim ‘radicals’

    Bosnia’s inter-ethnic war in the 1990s was a magnet for Arab and Afghan fighters who brought with them a strict Salafist branch of Islam. Many of the today’s Bosnian Salafist communities refuse to comply with the country’s official Muslim leaders and stand accused of nurturing terrorism. Now the country is exporting foreign fighters, with hundreds leaving Bosnia to wage Jihad in the Middle East.

  17. Migrant crime wave slams Germany

    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has warned time and again that allowing unvetted refugees into the West would be a huge mistake, and crime would follow in their wake.

    According to a shocking new report, Trump was right — and Germany is paying the price for not listening.

    “Migrants in Germany committed or tried to commit some 69,000 crimes in the first quarter of 2016, according to a police report that could raise unease, especially among anti-immigrant groups, about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal migrant policy,” Reuters reported, including over 750 sex crimes.

    Germany was the top destination for asylum-seekers entering Europe last year, and an estimated million migrants swarmed into the country in 2015.

    With the refugees mass arrival has come an upswell of crimes, most notably sexual assaults against women.

    On New Year’s Eve in Cologne, hundreds of women filed police reports that they’d been sexual assaulted and robbed by gangs of suspects who were almost entirely of North African and Arabic descent. And just last week, three asylum seekers in the country were arrested for sexually harassing dozens of women at a popular music festival.

    According to Reuters, “The report showed that 29.2 percent of the crimes migrants committed or tried to commit in the first quarter were thefts, 28.3 percent were property or forgery offences and 23 percent offences such as bodily harm, robbery and unlawful detention. Drug-related offences accounted for 6.6 percent and sex crimes accounted for 1.1 percent.”

    Trump has called Merkel’s leadership during the refugee crisis “catastrophic.”

    With migrants committing over 225 sex crimes a month to start 2016, the numbers seem to back him up.

    https://thehornnews.com/migrant-crime-wave-slams-germany/

  18. Eeyore is this one that has been on the blog before? It has the yellow subtitles but I don’t remember it.

    • Homeland Security Whistleblower: 10 Jarring Revelations
      A new book by Dept.of Homeland Security whistleblower Philip Haney is filled with first-hand testimony that will make your mouth drop.

      A new book by Department of Homeland Security whistleblower Philip Haney, titled See Something Say Nothing, is filled with first-hand testimony that will make your mouth drop.

      If you read the Clarion Project, then you’re aware of how U.S. governments, Democrats and Republicans, have tried to accommodate Islamism and political correctness. This book shows that it’s even worse than we thought.

      A little background: Haney’s research on Islamist movements—rather than a narrow focus on membership in proscribed terrorist organizations derived from such movements– won the respect of his peers, many of whom are quoted in the book.

      Haney was commended for identifying over 300 possible terrorist suspects and working on important and complex counter-terrorism cases. He and 10 colleagues were honored by a FBI Special Agent-in-Charge for proactively contributing to 98 FBI investigations, identifying 67 individuals engaged in suspicion activity who were previously known to the Joint Terrorism Task Force and identifying 24 persons of interest.

      He developed a database of 185 Islamist terrorist groups in 81 countries and associated Islamist movements, believing that we need to “connect the dots” between the movements and radicalization, instead of only “connecting the dots” between individual jihadist operatives.

      Here are 10 jarring revelations from DHS whistleblower Philip Haney’s new book:

      Investigations into Islamist movements like the Tablighi Jamaat and Muslim Brotherhood were stopped by the federal government in the name of religious liberties.

      The National Targeting Center investigation into the Tablighi Jamaat networks resulted in over 1,200 law enforcement actions, such as denial of visas to Jamaat members who wanted to enter the country. Then the State Department Civil Rights Division intervened.

      “We know that members of the Tablighi Jamaat are fundamentalists, but they’re not terrorists,” Haney recalls a State Department representative informing him and his colleagues.

      They informed the State Department official that its own consular officers were rejected three out of four Tablighi Jamaat-affiliated visa applications because of security concerns. That soon came to an end.

      The same story happened with the Muslim Brotherhood, despite the fact that the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are an intertwined network, as shown by the Justice Department in the trial of a Brotherhood front (Holy Land Foundation) for financing Hamas.

      The hard work of the investigations was not only stopped; it was thrown out. Haney was ordered to delete over 800 records related to Islamist extremists.

      Haney calls it the “great purge” and counter-terrorism personnel unconnected to him have also talked about databases related to Islamist extremist movements being cleansed.

      Thanks to the DHS Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, a narrow focus on illegal activity in support of banned terrorist organizations took hold. The DHS deemed that data collection related to permitted Islamist movements like Tablighi Jamaat and Muslim Brotherhood is a threat to religious freedom and must be deleted in order to prevent profiling.

      https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/homeland-security-whistleblower-10-jarring-revelations#

  19. Louisiana House Censures Gov’t, Police Working with CAIR
    The resolution, which passed 63-18, was made due to concern that the organization and its officials have links to terror groups.

    The Louisiana House passed a resolution discouraging the state’s law enforcement and government agencies from working with the Council on American Islamic relations (CAIR).

    The resolution, which passed 63-18, was made due to concern that the organization and its officials have links to terror groups. It carries no force of law.

    CAIR describes itself as “America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group,” but in 2007, the U.S. government labeled CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for financing the Hamas terrorist group.

    In November 2014, CAIR was designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates along with a host of other Muslim Brotherhood entities.

    CAIR was listed by a U.S. district court among “individuals/entities who are/were members of the U.S.Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.” The Palestine Committee is a secret body set up to advance the Brotherhood/Hamas agenda.

    The FBI subsequently severed official contacts with the group, saying it “does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner.”

    https://www.clarionproject.org/news/louisiana-house-censures-govt-police-working-cair

  20. SPECIAL
    REPORT
    :
    THE
    COUNCIL ON AMERICAN
    ISLAMIC RELATIONS (CAIR

    THE COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS (CAIR)
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    ORIGINS
    The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) describes itself as “America’s largest
    Islamic civil liberties group.” In reality, CAIR it grew out of the Islamic Association for
    Palestine (IAP), a group founded in 1981 by Hamas member Mousa Abu Marzook.
    Marzook is now a senior Hamas official. U.S. Muslim Brotherhood documents clearly
    identify the IAP as one of its fronts.
    In 1993, the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Palestine Committee organized a secret meeting
    in Philadelphia that the FBI wiretapped. The particip
    ants, which included two future
    CAIR founders, Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, discussed how to support Hamas and, in
    the words of a 2009
    ruling
    by a federal judge, “goals, strategies and American
    perceptions of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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    Ahmad was recorded discussing how to
    modify language about destroying Israel for an American audience.
    The
    need to create a new “neutral” entity
    for influencing U.S. policy and opinion was
    agreed upon because as they said “it is known who we are.” CAIR was formed by Awad
    and Ahmad the next year. A 1994 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood
    Palestine Committee
    meeting agenda
    includes “suggestions to develop work of” CAIR and IAP.
    2
    In 2007, the U.S. government labeled CAIR an unindicted co

    conspirator in the trial of
    the Holy Land Foundation for financing the Hamas terrorist group. C
    AIR was listed
    among “individuals/entities who are/were members of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s
    Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.”
    3
    The Palestine Committee is a secret
    body set up to advance the Brotherhood/Hamas agenda

    http://www.clarionproject.org/sites/default/files/CAIR-Council-on-American-Islamic-Relations-factsheet.pdf

    • We’ll destroy Egyptian pyramids like Iraqi temple, ISIS video (ansamed, June 8, 2016)
      http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2016/06/08/isis-threatens-to-destroy-egyptian-pyramids_f2f8bd05-38c8-4efe-bff0-7bf0ca214842.html

      “BEIRUT – The Islamic State (ISIS) has in its most recent video threatened to destroy the pyramids in Egypt.

      The video shows the blowing up of the Babylonian temple of Nabu, in Iraq, which was over 2,500 years old. The images were circulated by Vocativ. The final scenes of the video show the Giza pyramid near the Egyptian capital, while a jihadist pledges to destroy ”ancient sites built by the infidels”.

      The Temple of Nobu, dedicated to the Babylonian god of wisdom, was located near Nimrud, an ancient city on the Nineveh plain about thirty kilometers south of Mosul, where ISIS members engaged in destruction using bulldozers last year.

      Over the past two years, ISIS has destroyed ancient monuments in the territory under its control in Iraq and Syria, including Palmyra, justifying is actions by saying that the works are from the pre-Islamic period and are idolatrous. Several cases of ISIS members smuggling archaeological finds out of the country and selling them on the international black market have been reported.

      A source from the Egyptian interior ministry who spoke on condition of anonymity told the daily Al Youm 7 that the country’s tourist sites were safe and under 24-hour surveillance. The source underscored the high level of security, saying that a terrorist attack on the Temple of Luxor had been prevented in recent months and that there were 197 surveillance cameras for the pyramids.”

  21. Justin Trudeau breaks first Ramazan fast with Muslims

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who is often seen as the champion of minority rights and diversity, has now gone one step further in not only wishing Muslims all over the world Ramazan Mubarak, but also highlighting the true meaning of the holy month.

    “It was a pleasure to celebrate Iftar and break the first Ramazan fast with Muslim members of our caucus last night,” Trudeau tweeted.[…]

    http://tribune.com.pk/story/1118764/justin-trudeau-breaks-first-ramazan-fast-muslims/

    https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/740223703946924032

    Justin Trudeau celebrate Iftar and break the first Ramadan with Muslim members of caucus

    • CBC – Saskatchewan residents invited to join Ramadan, ‘fast with a Muslim friend’

      The campaign aims to increase understanding of the Ramadan experience

      Saskatchewan residents are being invited to fast with a Muslim friend during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which started on June 6.

      The Saskatoon branch of Islamic organization Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at is inviting the public to join Muslims around the world who are fasting as part of the 30-day spiritual event.

      Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at said in a press release the campaign was about sharing the Ramadan experience and connecting with non-Muslims.

      “As we enter the holy month of Ramadan, I invite my fellow Canadians to experience the spiritual uplifting provided by Ramadan and take part in this unique campaign,” said Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada president Lal Khan Malik.

      Fasting aims to teach self-control and discipline, and inspire awareness of those who are less fortunate. When the fast is over, Muslims celebrate with a three-day festival of eating called Eid al-Fitr.

      Members of the Baitur-Rahmat Mosque in Saskatoon also promoted the campaign last year.

      To find out more visit

      http://fastwithmuslims.com/

      http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/fast-with-a-friend-saskatoon-1.3621069

  22. Swedish Politicians: “Islam is Definitely Compatible with Democracy!”
    Part II of a Series: The Islamization of Sweden

    It should not be a mystery whether Islam is compatible with democracy or not. All you have to do is look at the Islamic sources or call any imam and pretend to be impressed that Islam does not separate religion and politics.

    Yet, when Gatestone Institute called Swedish politicians at all levels to ask if Islam and democracy were compatible, they gave assurances that there were no problems whatsoever with Islam’s capacity for democracy — or they hung up.

    The two most common answers given were:

    Islam is definitely compatible with democracy!
    I cannot discuss this matter right now.

    The question cuts through all parties; apparently no one dares to face the facts. So far, throughout history, and now in the world’s 57 Muslim countries in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), nowhere has Islam been compatible with democracy, freedom of speech, human rights and legal certainty. These Muslim states have not signed the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights, a document Swedish politicians seem to cherish. Instead, those countries have joined the Cairo Declaration, which stipulates that sharia is the only foundation for human rights. In short, human rights are all well and good so long as they do not conflict with sharia — if they do, sharia wins. In practice, this means that in the Islamic world, there are, in the Western sense, no human rights.

    Then why do Swedish politicians believe they will be able to democratize Islam? Do they know something the rest of the world does not? Or, as the alternative is so terrifying, are the

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8190/sweden-islamization-democracy

  23. USA – [ M U S L I M ] Man accused of vandalizing mosque arraigned

    Mahomed Haji was arraigned Tuesday for burglary and disorderly conduct.

    According to arrest records, he broke windows and kicked in a back door at a mosque on South Fourth Street Monday morning.

    Police said when an officer arrived, the 31-year-old was still busting out windows with a large stick and threatened to destroy the mosque and a nearby liquor store when he was released from jail.

    A judge left his bond at $5,000.

    “The conduct alleged here is highly unusual and does concern the court for the safety of the community and those who worship at that mosque and other mosques in this community,” Judge David Holton said.

    Haji will be back in court next week.

    http://www.wlky.com/news/man-accused-of-vandalizing-mosque-arraigned/39941170

  24. GRAPHIC VIDEO: If You Thought You’ve Seen the Worst of the Violent Anti-Trump Mobs, Think Again (WARNING- EXPLICIT LANGUAGE)
    Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/graphic-video-if-you-thought-you-ve-seen-the-worst-of-the-violent-anti-trump-mobs-think-again-warning-explicit-language#rSc3Gm8EWfvI2BO0.99

    The video is 16 minutes long but you should take the time to watch it, It shows how the media has been censoring the reports of the riots.

  25. ‘He is from Windsor’: Canadian identified as leader of ISIL affiliate in Bangladesh

    After the near-decapitated body of a 68-year-old Hindu priest was found in western Bangladesh on Tuesday, the local ISIL affiliate claimed responsibility in a communiqué that vowed to “cleanse” the country of “filth.”

    It was the latest in a wave of sectarian killings in Bangladesh — many of them attributed to a regional franchise of ISIL that is reportedly led by a Canadian and former southwestern Ontario resident named Tamim Chowdhury.

    “He is from Windsor,” said Prof. Amarnath Amarasingam, a post-doctoral fellow at Dalhousie University’s Resilience Research Centre. “People who knew him say he was a quiet guy. Not much else is known about him at the moment.”

    According to a report in the Bangladesh newspaper The Daily Star, Chowdhury now uses the alias Shaykh Abu Ibrahim Al-Hanif, who was identified in the latest edition of the ISIL propaganda magazine Dabiq as the “emir” of its branch in Bangladesh.

    In the magazine, distributed in April, Al-Hanif comes across as a violent hatemonger, referring to Hinduism as a “filthy, cow-worshipping religion” and threatening to “slaughter” those who did not subscribe to his militant version of Islam.

    “We let our actions do the talking,” the lengthy interview quoted him saying. “And our soldiers are presently sharpening their knives to slaughter the atheists, the mockers of the prophet and every other apostate in the region.”

    Although not large, the Bangladeshi ISIL branch is believed to have committed more than two dozen murders over the past 18 months, Zayadul Ahsan wrote in the Daily Star, which said some members were veterans of the Syrian conflict.

    “Targets of the so-called IS include a wide spectrum of people — Hindu, Christian, Buddhist or Bahai leaders,” as well as Shias, spiritual leaders, university teachers, religious converts and foreigners, among others, Ahsan wrote.

    The latest victim was reportedly Ananda Gopal Ganguly, who was riding his bicycle to his temple to conduct a prayer service on Tuesday when three men approached him from behind on a motorcycle and hacked him to death. […]

    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/he-is-from-windsor-canadian-identified-as-leader-of-isil-affiliate-in-bangladesh

  26. U.N. blacklists Saudi Arabia for killing kids in Yemen, then reverses decision

    It’s no surprise Saudi Arabia was upset when it found its U.S.-backed military coalition in Yemen on the latest United Nations blacklist , released on June 2, of states and armed groups that committed “grave violations” against children in the course of armed conflict from January to December 2015.

    The Saudis didn’t have to be upset for long, though.

    After public criticism by Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.N. — and, presumably, a healthy dose of closed-door diplomatic pressure — a spokesperson for U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Monday afternoon that the Saudi coalition would be removed from the list, pending a review.

    Now, the U.N. flip-flop is giving human rights groups whiplash, drawing accusations of political manipulation at the U.N. and raising new questions about whether the international community is giving Saudi Arabia and its allies a pass when it comes to the coalition’s devastating intervention in Yemen’s civil war.[…]

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/08/united-nations-saudi-arabia-coalition-yemen/85588502/

    Saudi Arabia Threatened to Break Relations With U.N. Over Human Rights Criticism in Yemen

    Riyadh warned Turtle Bay it would pull hundreds of millions of dollars from U.N. programs if it was singled out for killing and maiming children in Yemen.

    Saudi Arabia threatened this week to break relations with the United Nations and cut hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to its humanitarian relief and counterterrorism programs to strong-arm the U.N. into removing Riyadh and its allies from a blacklist of groups that are accused of harming children in armed conflict.

    The threat — which has not been previously reported — worked, and the U.N. subsequently dropped the Saudis from a rogues’ gallery of the world’s worst violators of children’s rights in conflict zones.

    In their Monday warning, senior Saudi diplomats told top U.N. officials Riyadh would use its influence to convince other Arab governments and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to sever ties with the United Nations, the officials said. The threats were issued in a series of exchanges between top Saudi officials in Riyadh, including Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, according to U.N.-based officials. The Saudi mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday afternoon.

    Riyadh was enraged after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon included the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen on a list of countries, rebel movements, and terrorist organizations that killed, maimed, or otherwise abused children in conflict. The 40-page report — which was issued last week and primarily written by Leila Zerrougui, the U.N. chief’s special representative for children and armed conflict — claimed the coalition was responsible for about 60 percent of 1,953 child deaths and injuries in Yemen since last year.

    Hoping to mollify the Saudis, Ban issued a statement Monday saying he would remove the Saudi-led coalition from the list, pending a review of the matter by a joint U.N. and Saudi panel. The reversal triggered a wave of criticism of the U.N. from human rights groups, who accused Ban of caving to Saudi intimidation.

    “It appears that political power and diplomatic clout have been allowed to trump the U.N.’s duty to expose those responsible for the killing and maiming of more than 1,000 of Yemen’s children,” Sajjad Mohammad Sajid, Oxfam’s country director in Yemen, said in a statement. “The decision to retract its finding is a moral failure and goes against everything the U.N. is meant to stand for.”

    The Saudi threat reflects a growing trend by U.N. member states to threaten retaliation against Turtle Bay for challenging their human rights records.

    In March, Morocco expelled 84 international staffers from a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara region after Ban characterized the territory as “occupied.” Last year, the United States warned that Congress might cut off funding to the U.N. if it included Israel on the same blacklist of armed entities that killed or injured children in conflict, according to two U.N. diplomatic officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. In that case, Ban removed Israel from a draft blacklist before it was made public.

    Pushing Monday for Riyadh to be delisted, Saudi Arabia’s U.N. ambassador, Abdallah al-Mouallimi, said it was unfair for Israel to be quietly let off the hook, while the kingdom initially was not.

    “We have to ask the question: Why was Israel removed from the list last year?” Mouallimi said. “Israel has been guilty of crimes against children that are far in excess of even the inaccurate numbers that report contains about Yemen.”

    At the time, Israel said it should not be part of a list that also included outlawed extremist groups like the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and the Taliban. Israel also maintained it continually sought to protect civilians from its warfare with Palestinian armed groups.

    Mouallimi said he protested Saudi Arabia’s inclusion on the 2016 list in a face-to-face meeting Monday morning with U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and said Ban had shown “wisdom” in striking Israel from the tally in 2015. “We fail to see why he has not exercised the same wisdom in this report this year,” Mouallimi said.

    But hours later, Mouallimi praised Ban for seeing the light and reversing his position.

    Taking Riyadh off the list “clearly vindicates” the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, he told reporters. The U.N. decision, he insisted, is “irreversible and unconditional.”

    http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/07/saudi-arabia-threatened-to-break-relations-with-un-over-human-rights-criticism-in-yemen/

    • U.N. chief faced funding cut-off, fatwa risk over Saudis: sources

      “Bullying, threats, pressure,” another diplomatic source told Reuters on condition of anonymity about the reaction to the blacklisting, adding that it was “real blackmail.”

      The source said there was also a threat of “clerics in Riyadh meeting to issue a fatwa against the U.N., declaring it anti-Muslim, which would mean no contacts of OIC members, no relations, contributions, support, to any U.N. projects, programs.”

      A fatwa is a legal opinion used in Islamic Sharia law. In Saudi Arabia fatwas can only be issued by the group of top, government-appointed clerics and are sometimes commissioned by the ruling family to back up its political positions.

      […]Several diplomatic sources said that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) would be hit especially hard if the blacklisting were upheld. Saudi Arabia was the fourth biggest donor to UNRWA after the United States, European Union and Britain, having supplied it nearly $100 million last year.

      Coalition members Kuwait and United Arab Emirates are also key donors for UNRWA, together supplying nearly $50 million in 2015.

      In addition to Saudi Arabia, Dujarric said that Jordan, United Arab Emirates and Bangladesh contacted Ban’s office to protest the listing of the coalition. Diplomats said Egypt, Kuwait and Qatar also complained to Ban’s office.

      The Saudi-led coalition includes Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal and Sudan.

      http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-saudi-un-idUSKCN0YT2UT

  27. AUSTRALIA – Federal election 2016: Anti-racism protesters target Pauline Hanson launch

    Pauline Hanson’s Queensland Senate campaign launch has been targeted by rowdy protesters who said they were determined to shame racists.

    Ms Hanson, a divisive anti-immigration figure who is on the cusp of a return to politics 18 years after she was ousted from parliament, was launching her Senate campaign at Brisbane’s Norman Park Bowls Club on Friday night.

    But as guests began to arrive, a group of about 50 protesters gathered at the doors of the club.

    As they were moved to the car park by more than a dozen Queensland police officers, they chanted: “Pauline Hanson, go to hell – take One Nation there as well.”

    Protester Carl Jackson led the small but vocal crowd’s speeches, saying Ms Hanson’s politics were unwelcome in Australia.

    “There is a wave of racism rising in this country, and we have a responsibility as anti-racists to stand with our Muslim brothers and sisters, to stand with Asians, to stand with Aboriginal people,” he said.

    “All the people who bear the brunt of the kind of racism that Pauline Hanson and her motley crew whip up.

    “Maybe we can’t stop them from being racist, but maybe we can make them too ashamed to admit it in public.”

    Ms Hanson’s supporters continued to arrive and were met with a chorus of “shame on you racists” as they made their way inside.

    Inside, there was more trouble despite additional security.

    Just before the event was due to start, a group of protesters began yelling as they were escorted out.

    Minutes later, another man jumped up and yelled “you’re all a bunch of f—ing racists” in the faces of guests.

    Political strategists say Ms Hanson has her best chance yet at winning a Senate seat, courtesy of changes to voting laws and the double dissolution election, which halves the quota of votes needed to grab a spot in the upper house.

    She lost a bid for the Queensland seat of Lockyer in 2015 – the 12th election campaign of her controversial career.

    Ms Hanson was first elected to federal parliament in 1996 and was defeated in 1998.

    Her anti-immigration policy platforms, which include a ban on wearing the burqa in public and a royal commission into Islam, are frequently branded as racist by critics.

    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/federal-election-2016-antiracism-protesters-target-pauline-hanson-launch-20160603-gpbezl.html

    Pauline Hanson defends her suggestion for a Royal Commission into ‘Islam’

  28. TEL AVIV – shooting –

    CNN – Three people are dead and six are injured as a result of Wednesday night’s shooting in Tel Aviv, said Dr. Gil Fire, deputy director of Ichilov Hospital. An injured suspect also is at the hospital. Five people are in serious condition, Fire said.

    Two “terrorists” have been captured following Wednesday night’s deadly shooting in Tel Aviv, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Twitter. One of the suspected attackers was shot at the scene, the second was arrested and both are being questioned, Rosenfeld told CNN. The three dead are Israelis, Rosenfeld said.

    Information about a motive in the shooting wasn’t immediately available.

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/08/middleeast/israel-tel-aviv-shooting/

    TIME of ISRAEL -Hamas tweets praise for ‘hero’ Tel Aviv shooters

    Three confirmed killed in Sarona Market attack; Netanyahu lands from Moscow visit, convenes security chiefs over terror attack

    Celebratory fireworks in Hebron over deadly Tel Aviv shootings

    Four wounded remain in critical condition

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-june-8-2016/

    Israel: 3 killed as [ Muslim ] gunmen dressed as Orthodox Jews launch attack in Tel Aviv

  29. Migrants in Germany Linked to 69,000 Committed or Attempted Crimes in Early 2016

    Migrants in Germany committed or tried to commit some 69,000 crimes in the first quarter of 2016, according to a police report that could raise unease, especially among anti-immigrant groups, about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s liberal migrant policy.

    There was a record influx of more than a million migrants into Germany last year and concerns are now widespread about how Europe’s largest economy will manage to integrate them and ensure security.

    The report from the BKA federal police showed that migrants from northern Africa, Georgia and Serbia were disproportionately represented among the suspects.

    Absolute numbers of crimes committed by Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis – the three biggest groups of asylum seekers in Germany – were high but given the proportion of migrants that they account for, their involvement in crimes was “clearly disproportionately low”, the report said.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/06/07/migrants-in-germany-linked-to-69000-committed-or-attempted-crimes-in-early-2016/

  30. Italian police officer kills migrant in “legitimate defense”: media reports

    An officer of Carabinieri military police on Wednesday shot dead a migrant who stabbed him at a tent camp in southern Italy, local media said.

    The officer together with a colleague went to break up a fight between two migrants at the camp near the town of Rosarno, according to Corriere della Sera newspaper.

    One of the two migrants, reportedly a Mali national named Sekine Traore, pulled out a knife and repeatedly hit the officer, injuring him in an eye and in an arm. The attack prompted the police officer to react and kill the 27-year-old.

    The camp hosts hundreds of migrants engaged in seasonal orange picking in Calabria region, and the fight between the two migrants reportedly started after Traore’s attempt to steal from the other migrant, also from Mali.

    Local prosecutor Ottavio Sferlazza told ANSA news agency that the officer was set to be investigated, as is normal, for his action, which however could already be defined as “legitimate defense.”

    “According to our reconstruction based on the accounts of witnesses, the migrant initially showed an intimidating attitude against the officer which then turned aggressive, when he stabbed the officer in his face,” the prosecutor was quoted by ANSA as saying.

    Rosarno Mayor Giuseppe Ida commented however that the accident could have been avoided, and called on the government to give more support to local communities faced with the migrant crisis.

    Italy is coping with growing flows of sea migrants from African and Middle Eastern countries, and police officers are deployed in many migrant-related issues, from search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean to handling migrants at borders and facing their protests.

    http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2016-06/09/content_38632579.htm

    Italy policeman ‘shoots dead migrant who stabbed him’

    Rome (AFP) – A policeman in Italy has shot dead a mentally unstable migrant who stabbed him during a brawl in an area renowned for tensions between immigrants, locals and police, media reports said Wednesday.

    The fight reportedly broke out after the Malian migrant suffered a psychotic episode, became violent and tried to steal from fellow seasonal workers in the vast tent camp in San Ferdinando, which sits on the outskirts of the southern city of Rosarno.

    The overcrowded and dirty tent camp houses thousands of people who scrabble to get work largely in the area’s orange groves.

    Two policemen intervened, but called for back-up when they failed to calm the Malian. When he saw extra police arrive he lashed out with the knife, wounding one of the officers near the eye, the Corriere della Sera said.

    Fearing a possible second attack, the officer shot the migrant in the chest, killing him instantly, it said.

    Shocked and angry migrants then circled the officers, who drew their weapons and called for more back-up. The situation calmed down after several hours when police in riot gear arrived, but tension remained in the camp, the report said.

    Dozens of migrants were taken to the local police station for interviews.

    Rosarno is notorious in Italy for the climate of tension between its seasonal workers — many of whom hail from sub-Saharan Africa — security forces and local residents, and has been the scene of repeated clashes.

    Two days of unrest in 2010 prompted more than 1,000 Africans to flee the Calabrian town after clashes left 67 people injured, between migrants, police officers and locals.

    Doctors Without Borders at the time fiercely condemned local attitudes towards the migrants, saying conditions in the Italian tent camps were often worse than in refugee camps in Africa.

    The Corriere della Sera said the camp was littered with rubbish, water was limited and migrants fought over the few jobs to be found.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-policeman-shoots-dead-migrant-stabbed-him-130432402.html

    RT -Italy: Police shoot mentally unstable migrant dead at makeshift workers camp

    A Carabinieri officer shot dead a mentally unstable migrant after he allegedly attempted to stab the officer at a seasonal workers camp in San Ferdinando near Rosarno, Tuesday. Law enforcement quickly put the site on lockdown following the event.

    SOT, Migrant from Burkina faso (Italian): “Why do you have to kill him?”

    Journalist (Italian): “The carabiniere was injured with a knife.”

    Refugee: “Both Carabinieri and police were inside”

    Journalist: “But your friend injured a man with a knife.”

    Refugee: “I wasn’t there inside, I thought my friend punched the carabiniere, not that he wounded him with a knife.”

    Journalist: “The man was injured with a knife.”

    Refugee: “I saw him coming out, bleeding but he hadn’t been injured with a knife, they are lying: seven people against only one man, how is it possible that the man hurt the carabiniere with a knife? With a kitchen knife.”

    Journalist: “But the knife was there.”

    Refugee: “Yes but it is a knife to make sandwiches not to injure people”

    Journalist: “But your friend used the knife.”

    Refugee: “The police arrived unexpectedly; probably he (the friend) did something that was wrong, for sure. But they didn’t try to avoid confrontation. He was always a nervous type in the first place.”

    Journalist: “Where did the shot hit your friend”

    Refugee: “There were seven of them inside and they didn’t let any black person inside to check how the body was, how the arms, how the legs were. As the ambulance came, they covered him, and put it on the ambulance, and he was gone.”

  31. Muslim Leader Advertises that 9/11 was ‘Israeli-Jewish Job’
    Hamas and David Duke supporter, Sofian Zakkout, once again finds way to target Jews.

    ofian Zakkout, President of the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), is always looking for new ways to promote hatred of Jews. Recently, he advertised on his Facebook page an article about how the Nazi Holocaust was “faked.” Now, he is targeting Jews by posting onto social media a claim that they perpetrated the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Will any of the hate he is peddling do harm to the relationships he and his group have made, both financial and otherwise, with organizations associated with fighting crime?

    Usually, anti-Semites — those rabid ones who are violently opposed to Jews — attach themselves to one of two categories, white supremacists or Muslim terrorists. Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, who is Muslim himself, strongly supports both.

    When it comes to white supremacy, Zakkout is a fervent follower of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Zakkout has described Duke as “David Duke, a man to believe in!” and Zakkout has said of Duke, “I respect him for his honesty!” Zakkout’s Facebook page and the websites of his organization AMANA each have been used to promote Duke and his bigoted videos. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has previously cited Zakkout and his group for posting what the ADL described as a “venomous” anti-Semitic Duke video onto AMANA’s official site.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263119/muslim-leader-advertises-911-was-israeli-jewish-joe-kaufman

  32. The Obama administration believes that at least 12 detainees released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have launched attacks against U.S. or allied forces in Afghanistan, killing about a half-dozen Americans, according to current and former U.S. officials.

    In March, a senior Pentagon official made a startling admission to lawmakers when he acknowledged that former Guantanamo inmates were responsible for the deaths of Americans overseas.

    The official, Paul Lewis, who oversees Guantanamo issues at the Defense Department, provided no details, and the Obama administration has since declined to elaborate publicly on his statement because the intelligence behind it is classified.

    But The Washington Post has learned additional details about the suspected attacks, including the approximate number of detainees and victims involved and the fact that, while most of the incidents were directed at military personnel, the dead also included one American civilian: a female aid worker who died in Afghanistan in 2008. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, declined to give an exact number for Americans killed or wounded in the attacks, saying the figure is classified.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/about-12-released-guantanamo-detainees-implicated-in-deadly-attacks-on-americans/2016/06/08/004d038e-2776-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_gitmo-515pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

  33. Obama’s administration strips all connections between Islam, Muslims and terrorism – and people died:

    Whistleblower Says He Could Have Prevented CA Attack If Gov’t Didn’t Cut Funding

  34. In an official statement over twitter, the Hamas terror group praises the Tel Aviv shooting as “Heroic” and suggests more attacks are likely to come over the month of Ramadan.

    “The heroic operation that happened Wednesday evening is the first of the signs for the holy month, and the first of the surprises that await the Zionist enemy during the month of Ramadan,” the statement said.

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-june-8-2016/

  35. BREITBART – GERMANY – Nudists Protest Proposed Neighbouring Migrant Home

    Nudists in Dresden are protesting the proposal for a migrant home to be built near their nudist colony over safety fears.

    A new migrant home is scheduled to be built in the town of Moritzburg outside of the eastern German city of Dresden. Neighbours of the proposed home, which is to cost €1.5 million, are up in arms over safety concerns because the town is home to a nudist camp.

    The nudists have started a protest against the migrant home despite guarantees by the district office of Meissen who said there are plans to mitigate “cultural tensions”, Junge Freiheit reports.

    Petra Hoffmann, who is the treasurer of the nudist group “Familiensport- und FKK-Bund Waldteichfreunde Moritzburg”, claims that many of the members of the group have legitimate fears over their own personal safety due to the high number of reports of migrant sexual assaults across Germany.

    One member of the naturist group expressed their fears, saying: “If there is going to be a camp for young men, as they say, I will not stay in my caravan alone at night.”

    According to Ms. Hoffmann, the group has been in the area for over a century and thus should have a say on the proposed centre as migrants may affect their ability to carry on their nudist lifestyle:

    “Since 1905, our more than 400 members maintain a traditional way of life, the culture of nudity,” she said, and went on to question the decision to build the home in the location: “I do not know if it wise to set up the asylum home here”.

    According to reports, soon after complaining about the migrant home publicly, Ms. Hoffmann was heavily criticised, like many others who have spoken out against migrants. She now no longer wishes to speak to the media.

    The Meissen regional council said they are looking into the concerns of the nudists and are treating their concerns with care. Spokeswoman for the district office, Kerstin Thoens, said: “This newly built home is only built as a reserve and is not intended to be used during the warm summer months,” and claimed that the district will install a large privacy screen between the migrant home and the nudist camp.

    Ms. Thoens said that any migrants who come to Germany should be expected to adapt to the local culture — including accepting nudism, which finds its origins in German culture.

    She said that the district would also work specifically with young migrant men to both educate them on naturist culture and ensure that they are accepting of it, explicitly that nudism in Germany has nothing to do with immortality. “With mutual respect and tolerance there is certainly a way for peaceful coexistence,” she said.

    The nudists join an ever growing list of residents of towns and cities across Germany who are protesting the construction of migrant homes in their neighbourhoods over fears of safety.

    The cost of migrant housing is rising. The migrant home in Meissen alone costs €1.5 million —which will only be occupied for part of the year — but in Berlin it is estimated that migrant housing will cost the city €2 billion.

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/08/nudists-protest-neighbouring-migrant-home/

    • What idiot wants to put a refugee camp for Moslems next to a nudist camp? This is sheer stupidity.

  36. Uri Ariel, minister of agriculture, told the Times of Israel that Israel should annex Area C of the West Bank since “there are no Arabs at all” living there.
    An Israeli minister said he wants to expel the estimated 300,000 Palestinians from the largest area of the West Bank and annex it, since “there are no Arabs at all” and they “do not constitute a significant numerical factor.

    http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Israeli-Minister-Expel-300000-Arabs-to-Annex-West-Bank-Area-20160608-0014.html

  37. Ramadan in Morocco: ‘Tramdeen’ Claims Lives of Three People (moroccoworldnews, June 8, 2016)
    http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/06/188521/ramadan-in-morocco-tramdeen-claims-lives-of-three-people/

    “Casablanca – The Moroccan phenomenon of “tramdeen” has emerged barely 36 hours after the beginning of Ramadan. Tramdeen refers to the brawls and violent altercations that are a recurring theme during the month of Ramadan, despite the pious behavior required of all Muslims in this holy month.

    The side effects of fasting range from mild arguments due to irritability to fatal fights leading to hospitalization.

    This was the case in Tangier, near the Al Irfane complex in an altercation between two roommates. One violently hit the other on the skull, causing fatal internal bleeding, according to Alyaoum24.

    Their conflict stemmed from an argument due to the water and electricity bill that they shared, and ended with one of them, aged 24, dying from his wounds only minutes after he arrived at the hospital. The perpetrator of the crime was arrested at his home.

    Another case of this social phenomenon was found again in Tangier, where two men engaged in a sabre fight in the middle of the street before bystanders separated them. A video of the event is currently going viral online.

    In the region of Ain Zarka near the city of Fqih Ben Salah, residents found the body of a handicapped girl, mutilated on her face and neck, laying in her blood near the house she lived in with her family, according to the same source. An autopsy is to yet be conducted and an investigation has been opened.

    Married only fifteen days prior to Ramadan, a wife was killed by husband due to a misunderstanding that occurred during their wedding night in Dmenhour. The husband is currently in police custody.

    These violent altercations may seem like isolated events, but most Moroccans have experienced at one point or another the wrath of irritable fasting Moroccans in less violent manners.

    One popular recipient of insults and bad moods is the person responsible for booting cars for unpaid parking tickets. Bad traffic is also a trigger for verbal altercations, as drivers have even less patience than usual.

    The social phenomenon of “tremdeen” and the sudden change in behavior could be linked to the side effects generated by certain Moroccans’ dependency on food, nicotine and other substances in their daily lives. When they abstain from consuming these substances, bad moods, irritability and violence result.”

  38. Tunisian husband of woman planning to join ISIS deported (ansa, June 8, 2016)
    http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/06/08/tunisian-husband-of-woman-planning-to-join-isis-deported_04ce07a0-c3b0-4f53-b597-b459500abb22.html

    “(ANSA) – Brescia, June 8 – A 30-year-old Tunisian married to a 25-year-old Italian woman who had been planning to leave for Syria, allegedly to join the Islamic State (ISIS), was deported on Wednesday.

    Sagrari Naim, husband of Brescia-native Sara Pilè, left Italy on a flight to Tunis after a deportation order was issued by the interior ministry.”

  39. Italy trained 7,200 Kurdish, Iraqi forces – Pinotti (ansa, June 8, 2016)
    http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/06/08/italy-trained-7200-kurdish-iraqi-forces-pinotti_e6984807-a391-49b8-b78c-486c510c62fb.html

    “(ANSA) – Rome, June 8 – Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti said Wednesday Italy had trained some 7,200 Kurdish and Iraqi troops and was among the top contributors to the international coalition fighting ISIS. “After the US we are the country with most forces in Iraq, we have given arms to the Peshmerga, we have trainers in Erbil and Baghdad who have trained around 7,200 Peshmerga and Iraqis, 36% of the units trained by the coalition countries” she told a joint session of the parliamentary defence and foreign affairs committees..”