Reader’s links for September 24 – 2016

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  1. ”You f****ng whore!”: Jewish girl, 13, forced to flee Sweden after being brutally raped and harrassed by Muslims

    Friends of the Somali rapist began harassing and beating 13-year-old Ida after he was convicted. Despite documented injuries, prosecutor Jens Göransson consistently drops all charges. Social services threaten to put Ida in a foster home because she lives in a Muslim “risk environment”. Now, the family is forced to flee to Norway in order to keep the girl to themselves.

    http://www.friatider.se/you-fng-whore-jewish-girl-13-forced-flee-sweden-after-being-brutally-raped-and-harrassed-muslims

    • https://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-perfectfriedchicken-e14/menu

      These murders will become more common, and might have to be put down as just another example of the continually-stupid non-muslims funding Islam by eating their Halal and getting killed when expecting civilized behavior within ear-shot.

      So on evolutionary terms, and the protecting of future generations, this may be a positive gain to the rest of humanity with one less vote for the Left.

      Don’t eat Halal. Period.

  2. Obama used a pseudonym in emails with Clinton, FBI documents reveal

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-228607#ixzz4LBEawJhJ
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    President Barack Obama used a pseudonym in email communications with Hillary Clinton and others, according to FBI records made public Friday.

    The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents from its investigation into Clinton’s private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

    The 189 pages the bureau released includes interviews with some of Clinton’s closest aides, such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills; senior State Department officials; and even Marcel Lazar, better known as the Romanian hacker “Guccifer.”

    In an April 5, 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin was shown an email exchange between Clinton and Obama, but the longtime Clinton aide did not recognize the name of the sender.

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-228607#ixzz4LBEmf7ri
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  3. Do ‘White Lives Matter’ in Charlotte? Internet Outrage Grows After Protests Turn Violent

    The ongoing protests in Charlotte over the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott has some outraged observers wondering if “white lives matter.”

    Influential finance blogger Zero Hedge, among others, have drawn attention to a video posted on social media that appears to show Charlotte protestors “beating, dragging, stripping, and laughing at an innocent white man.”

    http://heatst.com/culture-wars/white-lives-matter-charlotte/

  4. Police search for gunman who killed five at mall in Washington state

    Reuters) – Police in northwest Washington state searched for a gunman on Saturday who opened fire in a shopping mall, killing five people, according to media reports and the state’s police force.

    A man walked into the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, about 65 miles (105 km) north of Seattle and began shooting at about 7 p.m. local time on Friday, Washington State Patrol spokesman Mark Francis said on Twitter.

    Four women were killed in the attack in the mall’s Macy’s store cosmetics department, Francis told the New York Times. A man who was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries died overnight, Francis said in a statement early on Saturday morning.

    Local and state police officials were not immediately available for comment but were expected to hold a news conference later on Saturday morning.

    Francis said on Twitter that police and rescue workers carefully worked their way through the mall, clearing stores and evacuating shoppers, some of whom, according to local media, locked themselves in dressing rooms.

    http://www.oann.com/four-dead-in-shooting-at-mall-in-washington-state-police/

  5. Re-elected head of Britain’s Labour Party, Corbyn calls for unity

    LONDON (Reuters) – Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Saturday, ending a “coup” attempt by more moderate lawmakers who say his left-wing agenda can never deliver victory at the polls.

    The veteran campaigner’s triumph, by 313,209 to 193,229 votes, cements his authority over the divided party and will fuel his drive to turn Labour further left – a move many of his colleagues say will see them out of power and allow the ruling Conservatives free rein to set Britain’s divorce from the EU.

    http://www.oann.com/leftist-corbyn-re-elected-as-leader-of-britains-labour-party/

  6. Anti-Brexit group challenges UK government over Article 50 disclosure

    LONDON (Reuters) – A group opposed to Britain’s exit from the European Union has accused the government of refusing to allow it to make public the official justification for triggering Article 50 to start the Brexit process without a parliamentary vote.

    The British government’s position is that it has no legal obligation to consult parliament on invoking Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty which will give Britain a two-year period to work out the terms of its departure.

    The People’s Challenge, which is financed by a crowdfunding campaign, said it had planned to make public the government’s written legal defense of its position on triggering Article 50 alongside its own lawyers’ submissions to court so that the country could see and engage with the competing arguments.

    But it said the government was insisting that every word of its defense must be kept confidential.

    The People’s Challenge on Friday lodged an urgent application to the court to allow it to publish the government’s argument. The court is yet to rule on this application.

    http://www.oann.com/anti-brexit-group-challenges-uk-government-over-article-50-disclosure/

  7. The Left’s solution to Muslim terrorism? More Muslim immigration, of course
    By Benny Huang September 24, 2016

    What do the pope and President Obama have in common? They both agree that the key to fighting Islamic terrorism is to import the maximum number of Muslim refugees as fast as possible. Yes, that’s really their solution.

    Though estimates vary widely as to the exact proportion of terror-prone individuals among the refugees, nearly everyone acknowledges that there are at least some scattered throughout. Any rational person would see that this whole thing is analogous to Russian roulette — the more refugees the West brings in, the more likely we are to fall prey to terror attacks like the St. Cloud mall stabbing (perpetrated by a Somali Muslim refugee) or the New York/New Jersey bombings (perpetrated by an Afghan Muslim refugee).

    Just don’t tell that to Pope Francis. At a conference on refugees, the pontiff spoke of hospitality as “our greatest security against hateful acts of terrorism.” Oh, I get it — if we’re not nice to them they’ll kill us. Somehow I’m reminded of the drone C3PO and his immortal words when facing a brute who wished to dismember him: “Let the Wookie win.” That’s not Christian charity; it’s just plain old, garden variety cowardice.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/09/24/lefts-solution-muslim-terrorism-muslim-immigration-course/

  8. Italian Navy Ship Docks in Iran (abcnews, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/italian-navy-ship-docks-iran-42325282

    “An Italian navy ship docked in the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Saturday in the first official visit by a Western naval vessel to the country in several years.

    The Italian navy said the frigate Euro — named for a wind that blows across the Mediterranean from North Africa — was part of an EU anti-piracy mission and would remain docked in Iran for three days before returning to Italy.

    The Italian navy said the visit comes as part of the resumption of “historic and excellent relations” between the two navies. It posted a picture on its Twitter account showing an Iranian girl handing flowers to an Italian officer in Bandar Abbas.

    The last time an Italian naval vessel visited Iran was the frigate Bersagliere in April 2001. The frigate Euro last visited in 1999.

    Iranian forces have had a series of tense encounters with U.S. naval vessels in the Persian Gulf over the past year. Iran briefly detained 10 U.S. sailors in January after their boats drifted into Iranian waters.

    Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency said the Euro would visit other Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf. It noted that the visit comes two weeks after an Italian navy delegation visited the capital, Tehran.

    Tehran has moved to improve relations with Western nations following last year’s nuclear agreement, which lifted sanctions on Iran in return for it curbing its uranium enrichment program.”

  9. ‘We Are Thirsty’ Say Tunisians as Drought Creates Tensions (abcnews, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thirsty-tunisians-drought-creates-tensions-42324783

    “Struggling with extremism and economic woes, Tunisia now faces another menace: persistent drought across several regions that is creating new social tensions and threatening farming, a pillar of the economy.

    Farmland is too parched to cultivate crops and rural protesters have tried disrupting water supplies to the capital, while one legislator is calling for a “thirst revolt.”

    A lack of rain, combined with years of bad resource management, has left reservoirs and dams at exceptionally low levels that could lead to a “catastrophic situation,” said Saad Seddik, who was agriculture minister until last month.

    With municipal water supplies periodically cut off, residents of some towns are walking several kilometers (miles) to fetch water from public fountains, loading up donkeys with water canisters — if there’s any left.

    “We come here twice a day, first early in the morning before the dam becomes agitated and dangerous. But what we fetch in the morning isn’t enough. So we repeat the trip in the afternoon,” but it’s still not enough to clean the house or wash clothes, said Hadiya Farhani from the town of Sbikha in the central Kairouan region.

    Fellow resident Samir Farhani says the government is concentrating on fighting terrorism “while forgetting that thirst could make us turn into terrorists.” Tunisia suffered two major Islamic extremist attacks last year targeting tourists and sees sporadic violence and threats from the Islamic State group in Libya and other radical groups in the region.

    “We are thirsty. Give us water, we don’t need work, just water,” he pleaded…”

  10. UP IN FLAMES: Turkey’s credit rating cut to JUNK amid fears country could WRECK Eurozone (express, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/713986/Turkey-EU-membership-credit-rating-president-erdogan

    “Ratings agency Moody’s announced it is downgrading Turkey’s economy to “junk”, another huge blow to the troubled country which is recovering from a failed military coup against President Tayyip Erdogan and hostile tensions with Russia.

    But although its economy is slowing dangerously and GDP per capita – at €13,000 – is less than half the EU average, Brussels said it will continue accession talks and is even considering SPEEDING UP negotiations…”

  11. Christians threatened with FLOGGING for drinking Holy Communion wine (express, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/713995/Christians-threatened-flogging-drinking-Holy-Communion-wine

    “EXCLUSIVE: THREE Christians face being flogged after drinking Holy Communion wine as the Iranian authorities continue to crackdown on non-Islamic religions.

    In a shock move, oppressive officials in Tehran have charged the three with “acting against national security” for taking part in the Christian ritual.

    The Christian converts are due to appear in court next week and if found guilty face punishment by flogging…”

  12. Migrant smugglers getting ‘DRUNK’ so they can try to get smaller jail sentence if caught (express, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/713515/Migrant-smugglers-drunk-smaller-jail-sentence

    “PEOPLE-SMUGGLERS in Hungary are getting drunk so if they get caught with migrants in their vehicles they can say they did not realise and receive a reduced punishment.

    At a talk in the capital last week, refugee Hassan Akkad spoke about his journey as he fled from war-torn Syria to the UK.

    The 28-year-old said: “Smugglers in Hungary get drunk because then if they get caught, they can say that ‘someone put these people in my car’.”…”

  13. Furious migrants fight EACH OTHER as overcrowded camp turns to BLOODBATH (express, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/713969/Migrant-crisis-violence-locals-tensions-refugee-camps

    “MIGRANTS used iron bars, clubs and rocks to attack each other during a sprawling night-time fight in an overcrowded camp

    The disturbing fight between two rival migrants gangs unfolded in the early hours of Friday morning amid soaring tensions with locals.

    Footage of the brutal fight, which went on for hours, saw migrants break beds and pummel each other with sticks and stones.

    The violent clashes left many hospitalised and follows growing anger from local residents…”

  14. ‘We will NEVER accept EU telling us what to do’ Hungarian minister attacks European elites (express, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/713972/Hungarian-Minister-defiant-EU

    “THE Hungarian Foreign Minister hit out at unelected Brussels officials for denying that “uncontrolled migration” has wreaked havoc across the EU which has seen the “harassment of women and the threat of terror soar”

    Péter Szijjártó, the Hungarian foreign minister, said that the EU will “never, ever accept the mandatory quota for migrants”.

    The remarks come a week before the country holds a defiant referendum on whether to let the EU decide Hungary’s migrant policy.

    During an interview with France24, the foreign minister said that the EU was “acting stupid” for denying the chaos that uncontrolled immigration has caused…”

  15. Home Counties ‘vulnerable to ISIS gun rampage’ Areas outside London at risk of attack (express, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/713955/Terror-threat-armed-officers-Home-Counties-vulnerable-ISIS-attack

    “THE Home Counties are being left vulnerable to a terror attack because highly-trained firearms officers are being lured to work in London by higher pay, new figures show.

    Forces outside the capital say they are struggling to hire enough armed officers with the skills and experience to respond to a Paris-style gun attack.

    After the attacks in the French capital last November, which left 130 dead, British police chiefs were instructed to boost the number of armed officers in case of a copy cat attack on a city in the UK.

    However, new figures released to the London Assembly reveal that dozens of officers are being poached by the Met from surrounding forces leaving counties such as Kent and Surrey vulnerable…”

    • This is the result of close to a Century of leftist gun control removing firearms from the civilians and drastically reducing the number of people who know how to use firearms. Britain and the other heavy handed gun control nations are going to pay a massive price in blood for their efforts to turn Europe in a continent of unarmed defenseless sheep. Reality is knocking at the door and will soon kick the door open, an act that is going to shock a lot of people some of which will die from the discover of what reality is and others who will learn to hate the left for the lies they have told that costs so many lives.

  16. Germany: ‘We don’t want Sharia to enter Germany furtively’ – AfD’s Petry

    Leader of the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Frauke Petry, gave a speech at a campaign rally at the Gallushalle restaurant in Grunberg, Friday.

    SOT, Frauke Petry, Chairperson of AfD (German): “They try to refer to AfD, among other bad things, as a party of an anti-Semitic nature and by doing so, the public opinion forgets that Ms Merkel was the one who clearly opened the doors, and not by accident, to the biggest anti-Semitic flow into Germany since the war ended.”

    SOT, Frauke Petry, Chairperson of AfD (German): “Ladies and gentlemen, it is imperative that we start a debate about religious abduction of this country, and we should be proud that the article 4 of the constitution guarantees that every citizen may peacefully practice their beliefs in freedom and privacy or not practice anything at all. This [article 4] protects, under the label of ‘freedom of religion,’ a religion which in many substantial ways has been imprisoned in the seventeenth century and wants to impose its structures, and this can also be read in many different Muslim documents and found in the main texts. Then we, as democrats, are responsible to rise up against it as we don’t want Sharia to enter Germany furtively.”

    SOT, Frauke Petry, Chairperson of AfD (German): “It is a fairy tale to believe that a border can be better controlled and observed from behind the border and not at the border itself. And AfD couldn’t assert it, it was again someone else to state it, but the dogma of open borders inside Europe has not allowed us to lead a debate about the pros and cons of border controls. And I remember how shocked they were about my programme of the Landtag elections in 2014 when a member from Goerlitz, a border triangle with Poland and Czech Republic, suddenly supported the closure of the border. Today I have to say that this man anticipated this in his state association, a couple of months before the AfD on a national level. And I am happy that the AfD was the first party to support this concept so openly. Today it is not a problem to talk about the pros and cons of open and uncontrolled borders and we also know now that it has been influencing the economic assessment of costs. And we can clearly say that we need to follow through this topic forcefully and always remind people that long before the Schengen, Germany was an export power in the world and that this type of movement in Europe is not challenged if you have to show a passport at the border control.”

  17. Iraner soll Kind missbraucht haben

    Ein sechsjähriges Mädchen soll am Sonnabend in Schönhausen von einem Flüchtling aus dem Iran in sexueller Absicht bedrängt worden sein.

    Schönhausen (asr) l Wie die Staatsanwaltschaft Stendal am Donnerstag mitteilte, hatte sich der 34-jährige Iraner im Rahmen eines Kirchenasyls in den dortigen Räumlichkeiten aufgehalten, in denen zu dieser Zeit auch das Kind aus dem Landkreis Stendal anwesend war. Es fand zu diesem Zeitpunkt keine kirchliche Veranstaltung statt.

    Nähere Angaben zur Tat und auch zum Kind macht die Staatsanwaltschaft nicht. Die nahm den Tatverdächtigen am selben Abend vorläufig fest.

    Auf Antrag der Staatsanwaltschaft Stendal hat der Richter Haftbefehl wegen des dringenden Tatverdachts des sexuellen Missbrauchs von Kindern erlassen.

    Nach Volksstimme-Informationen bestand das Asyl seit wenigen Tagen. Kirchen können Flüchtlingen Asyl gewähren, sie befinden sich hier in einem sicheren Raum und dürfen nicht abgeschoben werden. Das Kirchenasyl in Schönhausen ist inzwischen beendet.

    http://www.volksstimme.de/lokal/havelberg/kirchenasyl-iraner-soll-kind-missbraucht-haben

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    Germany: Rise in attacks on asylum seekers a national ‘disgrace’ – de Maiziere

  18. Geographer: China’s Claim to South China Sea Not Rooted in History

    A British geographer and journalist described China’s claims to large swaths of seas and land formations off its coast are based on 20th-century events — from the Boxer Rebellion to the defeat of Japan in World War II — and not deeply rooted in its history.

    This assertion brought several heated questions from the audience.

    Bill Hayton, an associate fellow at London’s Chatham House and the author of South China Sea, The Struggle for Power in Asia, said in response to a question that Beijing’s claims are valid “because [these territories] are ours” historically, said “a hundred years ago you [Chinese citizens] wouldn’t feel” the same way. For much of China’s past, most of the South China Sea was viewed as “a place where pirates roam.”

    http://www.rightsidenews.com/world/national-security/geographer-chinas-claim-to-south-china-sea-not-rooted-in-history/

    Richard: check out the article, especially the map showing the very large area that China is claiming. As you look at the map remember we have long standing treaties to protect Taiwan, the Philippines, Japan and South Korea. Treaties that Obama and the left are ignoring.

  19. Read the full article for history that puts a new light on what the Moslems were doing on the beaches. The info is not new to the long time readers but gives them ammo to use to try and convert more people into accepting reality instead of living in a leftist generated fantasy.

    France: What Is Hidden Behind the “Burkini Ban”

    by Guy Millière
    September 24, 2016 at 5:00 am

    In Sisco, Corsica, on August 13, a group of Muslim men arrived on a beach in the company of women wearing “burkinis” (full-body bathing costumes). The Muslim men firmly asked the tourists on the beach to leave and posted signs saying “No Entry”. When a few teenagers resisted, the Muslim men responded with a harpoon and baseball bats. The police intervened — but it was just the beginning.

    In the following days, on beaches all over France, Muslim men showed up, accompanied by women in burkinis, and asking beachgoers to leave. Tourists packed up and fled. Several mayors of seaside resorts decided to ban the bathing costume, and the “burkini ban” scandal was born.

    Some politicians said that banning the burkini “stigmatized” Muslims and infringed on their “human rights” to wear whatever they liked. Other politicians, including Prime Minister Manuel Valls and former President Nicolas Sarkozy, called the burkini a “provocation”, and asked for a law to ban it. The Council of State, the highest legal institution, eventually declared that banning the burkini was against the law; the ban was lifted.

    What is important to explain is what lies behind the “burkini ban.”

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8971/france-islam-burkini

  20. Warplanes bomb Aleppo after Syrian army launches offensive

    Warplanes bombed Aleppo on Friday with what residents described as unprecedented ferocity after the Russian-backed Syrian army announced an offensive to fully capture Syria’s biggest city, killing off any hope of reviving a ceasefire.

    Video images filmed by residents showed a young girl screaming as rescuers frantically dug her out of rubble, pulling her out alive. Another showed rescuers digging out a toddler with their bare hands, shouting “God is Great” as they lifted him from the debris. The boy showed no signs of life as he was rushed off in a rescuer’s arms.

    The apparent collapse of U.S.-backed peacemaking may mark a turning point in the 5-1/2-year-old war, with the government and its Russian and Iranian allies now seemingly determined to crush the rebellion in its biggest urban stronghold.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-idUKKCN11T10Y

    • Syrian opposition says ‘no longer any use’ for partial truces

      NEW YORK: Syria’s chief opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said on Saturday there was “no longer any use” for a strategy of partial truces as the United States and Russia try to revive a ceasefire deal.

      “I know there is no Plan B and that is why we are demanding the U.S. to do something and let there be a Plan B,” he told reporters.

      http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Sep-24/373581-syrian-opposition-says-no-longer-any-use-for-partial-truces.ashx

      Syria says belief in victory in war against terrorism ‘even greater’

      The Syrian government said on Saturday its belief in victory was “even greater” because the Syrian army was progressing in the war against terrorism, while the Syrian opposition plans to meet to decide whether to continue with stalled U.N.-led peace talks.

      Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem was speaking at the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders, after the Syrian army and allied militia seized ground north of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening a siege of the city’s rebel-held east.

      “Our belief in victory is even greater now that the Syrian Arab Army is making great strides in its war against terrorism, with the support of the true friends of the Syrian people, notably the Russian Federation, Iran and the Lebanese national resistance,” Moualem told the 193-member General Assembly.

      United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “appalled by the chilling military escalation” in Aleppo, his spokesman said.

      “Since the announcement two days ago by the Syrian Army of an offensive to capture eastern Aleppo, there have been repeated reports of air strikes involving the use of incendiary weapons and advanced munitions such as bunker buster bombs,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement on Saturday.

      “The secretary-general considers this a dark day for the global commitment to protect civilians,” he said.

      U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met several times this week in New York to try to revive a deal the pair agreed on Sept. 9 aimed at putting Syria’s peace process back on track.

      The deal included a nationwide truce to improve humanitarian aid access and the possibility of joint military operations against Islamic State militants and al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.

      The truce effectively collapsed after a week when an aid convoy was bombed on Monday, killing some 20 people. Then on Thursday the Syrian army announced a major new offensive to win full control of Aleppo.

      NO PLAN B

      “I call on the United States of America, from here in New York, to take urgent measures – military, political and diplomatic measures – to protect the Syrian people,” Syria’s chief opposition coordinator Riad Hijab told reporters.

      Hijab said he has called a meeting of Syria’s mainstream political opposition, the Riyadh-based High Negotiations Committee (HNC), in the coming days to consider “the future of the political process, which is clearly being used by the regime’s allies to achieve gains on the ground.”

      Kerry said on Friday he made “a little progress” in talks with Lavrov. The pair are exchanging proposals, diplomats said.

      The issues at the heart of the current talks is a U.S. demand for Russia and Syria to ground their warplanes for seven days to allow aid to get to besieged communities and for opposition groups to separate from Nusra Front, diplomats said.

      Hijab said on Saturday that there was “no longer any use” for partial truces.

      “I know there is no Plan B and that is why we are demanding the U.S. to do something and let there be a Plan B,” he said.

      The assault on Aleppo, where more than 250,000 civilians are trapped in a besieged opposition sector, could be the biggest battle yet in a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and driven 11 million from their homes.

      “What is happening in Aleppo today is unacceptable. It’s beyond the pale,” Kerry said in Boston on Saturday before meeting with his counterparts from the European Union, Britain, France, Germany and Italy.

      “If people are serious about wanting a peaceful outcome to this war then they should cease and desist bombing innocent women and children, cease cutting off water and laying siege in medieval terms to an entire community,” he said.

      Moualem rejected accusations the Syrian government was starving its population and placing it under siege. He accused the United States and its allies of being “complicit” with Islamic State militants and other “terrorist armed” groups.

      http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-un-idUSKCN11U0HX

      video – starving Syrians

  21. Horror as two-year-old girl allegedly genitally mutilated at home as man arrested (mirror, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horror-two-year-old-girl-8902195#ICID=sharebar_twitter

    “A man in his 30s is being questioned over the alleged female genital mutilation of a young girl.

    The Somalian national was arrested on Thursday evening at an apartment where a mother lives with two girls under the age of five.

    It is believed the arrest in Crumlin, South Dublin, is one the first of its kind in Ireland, reports Dublin Live.

    This morning specialist police teams combed the first floor apartment.

    Dressed in head-to-toe white forensic outfits, the specialist detectives carried out a detailed examination as part of the probe.

    Uniformed officers stood guard at the door of the house on Friday morning.

    It’s believed a girl, aged two, is undergoing treatment in hospital…”

  22. Experts: Mexican President’s Defense of Migrants at UN Doesn’t Square With Reality at Home

    Mexico City (CNSNews.com) – Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto this week delivered a vigorous case for respecting migrants, but immigration experts say his words are at odds with the reality of how Mexico treats migrants fleeing violence in Central America.

    Addressing the U.N. Summit for Refugees and Migrants on Monday, Peña Nieto said “Mexicans believe that the mixing of cultures and races is the future and destiny of humanity.”

    “Cultures are revitalized and enriched when they live together and talk to each other. Migrants have been the principal partners in this,” he said. “We must put migrants, along with their rights, dignity and well-being in the center of the global dialogue.”

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/mark-browne/experts-mexican-presidents-defense-migrants-un-doesnt-square-reality-home

    Richard: This is a very big case of do as I say not as I do. Mexico treats the migrants/refugees fleeing violence further south are treated like dirt and turned back, beaten and grabbed by criminal gangs and turn out as hookers.

    • The Fulford File | Mexico’s Moaning Elites Whiter Than Either U.S. Immigrants Or Hispanic Congressional Caucus

      James Fulford
      September 7, 2016, 7:15 pm

      Allan Wall’s SAID IN SPANISH: Mexican Elite In Tailspin After Trump’s Triumphant Visit, Speech reported the response of Mexico’s elite politicians and pundits to the visit of Donald Trump to Mexico. You may remember that Trump, announcing his candidacy, said

      “When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. They are not sending you. They are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs and they are bringing crime, and they’re rapists.”

      Here are six pictures of Mexico’s elite from Allan Wall’s column.

      A party president, a columnist and editor, a failed male presidential candidate, the wife of another, a failed female presidential candidate, and a former Foreign Minister–the equivalent of a Secretary of State.

      What do you notice about them? The answer: they’re extremely white. They’re certainly much whiter than many of the people who fill the same roles in the United States.

      For example, America’s current President and First Lady are black, and America has already had two black Secretaries Of State. We even have black (and Mexican) pundits.

      Of course, the Mexican politicians and pundits above are also much whiter than most Mexicans, as is common with Mexico’s elite.

      See Steve Sailer’s series of VDARE.com articles from the year 2000:

      Part 1: Shackled To An [Ungrateful] Corpse
      Part 2: Importing Mexico`s Worsening Racial Inequality
      Part 3: America`s Imported Caste System

      Not only do many of Mexico’s elite not stem from indigenous stock, many of the aren’t even Spanish. In a column about Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (Armenian) I mentioned

      salmahayekpinaudVicente Fox (grandfather was a German-American named Fuchs
      The world`s richest man, Carlos Slim (family name is Salim, a Lebanese Christian)
      The best-looking Mexican actress in the United States, Salma Hayek (part-Lebanese, pictured right)
      Mexican intellectual Elena Poniatowska (born in Paris in 1932—birth name Princess Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor )

      The pictures above include Enrique Krauze and Jorge Castaneda Gutman, both of whom are descended from Jewish refugees from Poland.

      What do you notice about these legislators, selected from a gallery of the US Congress Hispanic Caucus?

      Below, Representatives Raúl Grijalva, Luis Gutiérrez, Raul Ruiz, Joaquin Castro, Nydia Velázquez and Norma Torres. The accented ú, é, and á in those names are just showing off a lack of assimilation. (Not by me, by the Hispanic Caucus’s official web page.)
      Raul Grijalva Luis Gutierrez

      They look like actual Mexicans. Many of them would say “I’m a Mexican” if asked something like “What is your heritage?” (Luis Gutierrez is actually Puerto-Rican. Quote from him: “I have only one loyalty,and that`s to the immigrant community.”) It’s only when Trump says that a Mexican-American is a Mexican that it’s a Hate Crime.

      So what we’re seeing is that people like Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, at the top left, may be more successful being disloyal Americans than they would be if they or their parents had stayed home being loyal Mexicans.

      But Mexico’s white stay-at-home elite are patriotically outraged at Trump’s criticism of the illegals, who, he said were “bringing drugs… bringing crime, and they’re rapists.”

      Let’s look at one more picture–a group even less white and European than America’s Hispanic Congressional Caucus.

      The collage of below is from Dave Gibson at Universalfreepress.com–the rapists you’ve been hearing about.

      illegalimmigrants

      During the month of December 2014, there were 94 illegal aliens charged with 518 various counts of sexual assault against North Carolina’s children, according to the citizens advocacy group known as NCFIRE.

      The charges range from the manufacturing of child pornography, to the rape of a 5-year-old girl, and even incest. In one incident, a 4-year-old boy was molested by a 25-year-old Mexican national, while he was attending a birthday party.
      View the sickening report in its entirety…

      Illegal Aliens Committed 500 Child Sexual Assaults in North Carolina During January, Feb 23, 2015

      Above, I’ve pictured the top three rows of Gibson’s collage–the whole thing is nine by twelve, and represents only one month, in one state.

      Guess what? They look like “actual Mexicans” too.

      James Fulford [Email him] is a writer and editor for VDARE.com.

      http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-fulford-file-mexicos-moaning-elites-whiter-than-either-u-s-immigrants-or-hispanic-members-of-congress

      • Finally someone noticed – and said it outright.
        Parts of Central and South America are suitable for ethnic European immigration. That’s a definite option, together with Eastern Europe settlements. Might be less costly.

  23. London mayor says terror attacks are way of life for cities

    Reaction from former UKIP leader Nigel Farage

  24. N Y T – Hillary Clinton for President

    Our endorsement is rooted in respect for her intellect, experience and courage.

    In any normal election year, we’d compare the two presidential candidates side by side on the issues. But this is not a normal election year. A comparison like that would be an empty exercise in a race where one candidate — our choice, Hillary Clinton — has a record of service and a raft of pragmatic ideas, and the other, Donald Trump, discloses nothing concrete about himself or his plans while promising the moon and offering the stars on layaway. (We will explain in a subsequent editorial why we believe Mr. Trump to be the worst nominee put forward by a major party in modern American history.)

    […]Mrs. Clinton’s occasional missteps, combined with attacks on her trustworthiness, have distorted perceptions of her character. She is one of the most tenacious politicians of her generation,

    […]As secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton was charged with repairing American credibility after eight years of the Bush administration’s unilateralism. She bears a share of the responsibility for the Obama administration’s foreign-policy failings, notably in Libya. But[…]

    Mrs. Clinton has shown herself to be a realist who believes America cannot simply withdraw behind oceans and walls, but must engage confidently in the world to protect its interests and be true to its values, which include helping others escape poverty and oppression.[…]

    Mrs. Clinton’s husband, Bill Clinton, governed during what now looks like an optimistic and even gentle era. […]Many in the news media, and in the country, and in that administration, were distracted by the scandal du jour — Mr. Clinton’s impeachment — […]

    She has evinced a lamentable penchant for secrecy and made a poor decision to rely on a private email server while at the State Department. That decision deserved scrutiny, and it’s had it. Now, considered alongside the real challenges that will occupy the next president, that email server, which has consumed so much of this campaign, looks like a matter for the help desk.

    And, viewed against those challenges, Mr. Trump shrinks to his true small-screen, reality-show proportions, as we’ll argue in detail on Monday.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/sunday/hillary-clinton-for-president.html

    • Gennifer Flowers Agrees To Join Trump At Presidential Debate

      Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that “perhaps” he would put Flowers, the former model who once had an affair with Bill Clinton, in the debate audience. An assistant to Flowers told BuzzFeed News she would accept the invitation.

      Gennifer Flowers, the former model who had an extramarital affair with Bill Clinton in the 1980s, says she’ll accept an invitation from Donald Trump to sit in the front row of Monday’s presidential debate, according to an assistant.

      The prospect of Flowers attending the debate was raised on Saturday when Trump tweeted that he would put her in the audience, if billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban sat in the front row.

      “If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Jennifer Flowers right alongside of him!” Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon.

      An assistant to Flowers told BuzzFeed News in the past she had declined such invitations, not wanting to be a “sideshow,” but said she would forward the invite to Flowers.

      In an email to BuzzFeed News, Judy Stell, her personal assistant then confirmed she would be attending.

      “Ms. Flowers has agreed to join Donald at the debate,” she said.

      A Trump campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to a BuzzFeed News if the invite was official.

      The co-chair of the nonpartisan commission that operates the debates said on Saturday that Cuban will not actually be sitting in the front row. But he will attend the debate, continuing his ongoing feud, which dates back about a decade, with Trump. Just this summer, Cuban questioned whether Trump is really a billionaire and criticized Trump as a liar.

      https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/gennifer-flowers-agrees-to-join-trump-at-presidential-debate

      • The Democrats are use to the Republicans not fighting back and aren’t sure how to react to Trump who is a bar fighter. This is going to bother Hillary more then Trump.

  25. France – Versailles Sep 24 2016 – protest against a camp for illegal migrants

    Manifestation à Versailles contre l’établissement d’un camp de “Migrants” à Louveciennes, à proximité du Chesnay et de Versailles.

    • RT-France: Anti-refugee protesters decry planned migrant centre near Versailles

      Around 1,000 protesters gathered in the Yvelines department near Paris, in front of the town hall to protest against the decision to build a migrant camp in the area, Saturday.

      The camp is set to be built in Louvenciennes, near Versailles, where the castle attracts millions of tourists each year.

  26. Ontario NDP’s table “Islamic Heritage Month” bill

    The Ontario NDP’s are tabling a bill that would make October, “Islamic Heritage Month”.

    The move would put the Province in line with the Federal government, which already recognizes the month.

    NDP leader Andrea Horwath called it an opportunity to tackle Islamophobia, which she says is on the rise in Ontario.

    “We have to do more to tackle discrimination, prejudice and Islamophobia,” said Horwath. “This is an opportunity to recognize that increasing Islamophobia is a reality in Ontario, and to take action to combat it.”

    Horwath attended Ibrahim Jame Mosque in Hamilton, which was the target of arson and a possible hate crime this month.

    NDP Citizenship and Immigration Critic MPP Teresa Armstrong will be introducing the bill.

    “Dialogue, conversation, asking questions, seeking knowledge; these are all things that combat ignorance and hatred. New Democrats have been working diligently to find ways to combat racism in Ontario,” said Armstrong. “We have called for an end to arbitrary, race-based police street checks and carding. We pushed the Premier to finally set-up the Anti-Racism Directorate and have been vocal advocates for the series of public community meetings now being held in towns and cities across the Province to address the Directorate’s mission and goals.”

    Andrea Horwath will be attending Monday’s anti-racism panel at Mohawk College.

    http://www.900chml.com/2016/09/23/ontario-ndps-table-i/

  27. Dr. Keith Ablow: Hillary Should Drop Out of Monday’s Debate – She Could Get Severely Injured

  28. Keith Scott’s Mom: Shooting Took Place Near Time Scott Read Quran Daily

    The mother of the man shot by police in Charlotte, N.C., said Thursday night that she spoke to her son about 90 minutes before the controversial incident in which Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was killed on Tuesday.

    Vernita Scott Walker said she received the call at 2:22 p.m. on Tuesday. The call, which she played for the media, consisted of noises, and Keith apparently saying “Lamont.”

    “And he done got shot. And he called me. Yes he did, he called me,” she said. “He just wanted me to know that it was him.”

    http://www.westernjournalism.com/keith-scotts-mom-shooting-took-place-time-scott-read/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=WJDailyEmail&utm_content=2016-09-24

  29. AUSTRIA – Curfew for migrants following sex attacks in Austrian town

    Authorities in the Austrian town of Wels have slapped a curfew on young migrants in response to a series of sex attacks at a wine and beer festival.

    It came after underage asylum seekers from Afganistan assaulted seventeen women at the Welser Volksfest festival.

  30. The Dead Are Now Voting In Colorado

    So care to guess who these dead people are going to voted for… Republican or Democrat? I would be betting the latter since Democrats typically cheat to win. Thank you 7 News for exposing this. This has been going on for years. The remedy? Voters need to be required to show picture ID! That would absolutely end the problem!

    DENVER (CBS4) – A CBS4 investigation has found multiple cases of dead men and women voting in Colorado months and in some cases years after their deaths, a revelation that calls into question safeguards designed to prevent such occurrences.

    “We do believe there were several instances of potential vote fraud that occurred,” said Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams after reviewing the CBS4 findings. “It shows there is the potential for fraud.”

    The cases of dead men and women casting ballots ranged from El Paso County in southern Colorado to Denver and Jefferson County. CBS4 discovered the fraudulent voting by comparing databases of voting histories in Colorado against a federal death database.

    http://patriottribune.com/44516/dead-now-voting-colorado/

  31. BLM Activist Dominique Alexander Who Seriously Injured Child Gets Out Of Jail After 8 Days

    Dominique Alexander was also behind the protest which ended when 5 police officers were killed by Micah Johnson. Previous time behind bars, you know like when a defendant is jailed awaiting trial is always subtracted from a prison sentence. But time on probation does not typically apply. What good are judges if they are not held accountable to uphold the laws on the books?

    Dallas News:

    A Dallas activist was released from prison Wednesday just eight days after he reported to prison to serve a five-year sentence for seriously injuring a child by shaking him.

    And it isn’t an error.

    http://patriottribune.com/44512/blm-activist-dominique-alexander/

  32. Hillary’s Secret ‘Ideas for Regime Change’ Program Gave Rise to Arab Spring (sputnik, Sep 24. 2016)
    https://sputniknews.com/military/20160924/1045669777/hillary-regime-change-arab-spring.html

    “”I’m going to give you credit for the ‘peaceful’ protests” wrote Huma Abedin to Hillary Clinton in the lead up to the collapse of the Mubarak regime in Egypt as evidence mounts that the United States manufactured the overthrow of an ally.

    New documents first analyzed by Breitbart News show that the US State Department under Hillary Clinton developed a forged a program first started in the last months of the Bush presidency focused on training radical groups, including the controversial Muslim Brotherhood, on how to effectively use social media and other communication outlets to cause disruption and even topple governments.

    The program known as Alliance of Youth Movements Summit was co-founded by a close adviser to Clinton, Jared Cohen, during his tenure with the State Department at the end of George W. Bush’s presidency, which enabled anti-Mubarak activists to organize and plot the eventual overthrow of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.

    The program was forged on November 18, 2008, only two weeks after Barack Obama was elected US President but during the “lame-duck” portion of the Bush administration with the first summit held at Columbia Law School in New York. The seminar focused on using social media outlets including Facebook and MySpace to engage in a tactic called “smart mobbing” in which mobile devices are used to quickly assemble and coordinate mass rallies and protests before authorities are able to fully respond according to Cohen. The controversy surrounds a particular attendant of the event, a Muslim Brotherhood activist, who was allowed to attend the summit, speak before the audience, network and was introduced to US government officials despite expressing his interest in removing Mubarak from power. Government documents show that officials were aware that the activist had intentions to use social media with acute precision, including systematically alternating sim cards to avoid government detection and avoidance, to forge a movement capable of overthrowing the Mubarak regime. One of the US government dispatches regarding the individual was even titled “Washington Meetings and April 6 Ideas for Regime Change” and detailed that the activist had met with a “variety” of congressional staffers, two US Senate staffers, and several think tanks and was even invited to speak at a US Congress hearing on House Resolution 1303 on political and religious rights in Egypt.

    The US State Department under Hillary Clinton took bold steps to execute the vision initially laid out by Cohen partnering with Google, Facebook and other tech companies to sponsor the 2009 Alliance of Youth Movements in Mexico City on October 16, 2009 in Mexico City addressing that summit for “citizen activists” interested in creating change in their countries via video message.

    The Alliance of Youth Movements later spawned into Movements.org in 2011 which has been credited with playing a key role in enabling Egyptian activists to organize rapidly beyond the stretch of government surveillance and before the country’s officials could orchestrate an appropriate response. The reality that the protesters behind the Arab Spring movement received Western training in how to effectively organize and coordinate using social media hardly comes as a surprise given the unprecedented level of sophistication employed by the activists, but the fact that the US State Department knew and accepted that the training may be employed to overthrow the government of an ally does represent a shocking and untoward revelation.”

  33. A trip to New York leaves Egyptian MPs impressed by Donald Trump (ahram, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/244576/Egypt/Politics-/A-trip-to-New-York-leaves-Egyptian-MPs-impressed-b.aspx

    “An Egyptian parliamentary delegation who visited New York last week to rally support for Egypt’s political and economic reforms told reporters that Donald Trump would be a “good friend” of Egypt in comparison with Hillary Clinton.
    The 20-member delegation, comprising a mix of opposition and pro-government MPs, participated in the 71th round of UN General Assembly (UNGA) meetings and also joined Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi who was in New York to deliver a speech before the UNGA on 20 September.

    Tarek Radwan, deputy head of parliament’s foreign relations committee, told reporters that Egyptian MPs held a very important meeting with Walid Phares, a foreign policy advisor to the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

    “He briefed us on President El-Sisi’s meeting with Trump on 19 September and he answered some of our questions on America’s foreign policies in the Middle East under a Trump administration,” said Radwan.”

    “In an hour-long meeting, Phares disclosed that Trump had told El-Sisi that Egypt and the US should be strategic partners again, with America doing everything possible to help Egypt in its war against terrorism and Islamist radicalism,” said Radwan.

    According to the MP, Phares answered a question on whether Muslim Brotherhood would be designated as a terrorist group under a Trump administration.

    “Phares stressed that Trump in all of his foreign policy speeches was keen to describe the group as the radical Muslim Brotherhood,” said Radwan, adding that “Phares also stressed that Trump’s administration would do its best gather support among Congress people in favour of legislating the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation.”

    Solaf Darwish, a female MP from the Nile Delta governorate of Qalioubiya, told reporters that while President El-Sisi and Trump seized their meeting to explore the views of each other on important issues such as terrorism, Trump in particular used the meeting to respond to attacks in the mainstream US media that he does not have high regard for Muslims.

    “Trump was keen to meet with El-Sisi not only because he admires him as the leader of a nation who revolted against the religious autocracy of the radical Muslim Brotherhood, but also to tell Muslims in America and everywhere that he has high regard for Muslims, especially those are in a war against Islamist extremism,” said Darwish.

    Phares, an American of Lebanese origin, appeared on 20 September on Fox News channel to talk about his recent visit to Egypt and his meeting with members of its parliament in New York.

    “They (Egyptians) have the tools of extreme vetting when it comes to screening people who want to either enter the country or become citizens and they know what the (radical) ideology is, something America needs to do in order to defeat Islamic terrorism,” Phares said.

    A Trump administration campaign also said in a statement after his meeting with El-Sisi that Trump thanked the president and the Egyptian people for what they have done in defence of their country and expressed support for Egypt’s war on terrorism, and how under a Trump administration, the US will be a loyal friend, not simply an ally.

    Most Egyptian MPs agree that there was a kind of “love chemistry” between Trump and El-Sisi.

    “While Trump was keen to meet with El-Sisi and was clear in his support of anti-Islamist Egypt, there is no question that President El-Sisi also saw Trump as representing a new political trend which stands against Barack Obama’s tolerance for political Islam and estrangement with Egypt under his rule,” said Darwish.

    Mohamed Abdel-Hadi, Al-Ahram’s chief editor who covered El-Sisi’s visit to New York last week, wrote on Friday that “El-Sisi and Trump agreed that Obama’s policies had caused a lot of harm to Egypt’s national security, and that there should be no tolerance in any way for political Islam.”

    In addition, most Egypt MPs in the delegation said they believe that US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “is an extension of the Obama mentality.”

    Tarek El-Khouli, a leading member of parliament’s foreign relations committee, told reporters that “it was good that Clinton sought to meet with El-Sisi.”

    “Although we know she is an extension of the Obama mentality, we believe that in light of the growing threats of terrorism, Clinton might choose to scrap her predecessor’s tolerance of political Islam and correct many of his disastrous policies in the Middle East,” said El-Khouli.

    While Trump’s meeting with El-Sisi focused on Islamist terrorism, Clinton discussed issues like human rights and civil society in Egypt. “And these are the issues which represent an extension of the Obama mentality and which President El-Sisi believes should not be of a top priority,” said El-Khouli.

    A large number of Egyptian MPs, politicians and policymakers believe that Clinton had a big hand in helping Muslim Brotherhood reach power in Egypt after the removal of former president Hosni Mubarak from office in 2011.

    “Her tolerance towards such kind of groups also led to the killing of America’s former ambassador in Libya, but she and the radical liberal community in America still do not want to learn the lessons of this disastrous policy,” said Emad Gad, an Al-Ahram political analyst and a MP affiliated with the Free Egyptians Party.

    According to a CNN report, Clinton addressed prickly topics with some world leaders she met in New York last week. “Clinton addressed the need for a more vibrant – and free – civil society with Egypt while she met with El-Sisi,” said the report.

    Salah Hassaballah, chairman of the Freedom Party and a member of the Egyptian parliamentary delegation in New York, told reporters “see how the two campaigns of Trump and Clinton described their meeting with El-Sisi.”

    “While Trump focused on a new agenda – that is defeating political Islam – Clinton showed that she does not want to change Obama’s radical liberal agenda which caused all the chaos we saw in the Arab world over the last five years under slogans of democracy, civil society and human rights,” said Hassaballah.

    Hassaballah notes that while Egyptian MPs were in America, mass protests erupted in the city of Charlotte in North Carolina after a policeman killed an African-American man.

    “While Obama, Clinton and all of America’s radical liberal community like to give Arab leaders lessons on human rights and tolerance of protests, they ignore that their country is by no means perfect or ideal on such issues,” said Hassaballah, adding that “if you told the Americans that their country is rife with human rights abuses, they would simply answer you that they are a democracy, but you the Arabs are an autocracy.”

    According to Al-Ahram editor Mohamed Abdel-Hadi, El-Sisi told Clinton that he is against the reports issued by organisations with “radical liberal agendas” like Human Rights Watch.

    “These organisations sometimes allege that there are 30,000 political prisoners in Egypt, and in other times they up the figure to reach 45,000,” said Abdel-Hadi.

    Nader Mostafa, deputy chairman of Al-Gomhouria Centre for Political and Strategic Studies and a member of Egypt’s parliamentary delegation in New York, told reporters that “he was not shocked by the American mainstream liberal media’s hostile attitude towards President El-Sisi.”

    “But this media gives a cover for political Islam movements – especially the Muslim Brotherhood – to infiltrate America and this is why we admire Donald Trump because he stands firm against this radical liberal community whose views only leads to chaos,” said Mostafa, also wondering that “the American media and Human Rights Watc take Muslim Brotherhood prisoners as political prisoners.”

    “Members of this group are the same like Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man who was arrested for implementing a terrorist act in New York one day before we reach there,” said Mostafa, wondering how the American media would react if the Egyptian media described Rahami as “a political prisoner.”

    The CNN report cited a Clinton advisor as cautioning that the meeting on Monday with El-Sisi did not augur any kind of policy change towards Egypt. But nevertheless, the official said, Clinton does understand the complexity and complications of US relations with Egypt, a nation that is pivotal to the balance of power in the Middle East, is facing its own terror threats and would be critical to any renewed effort at Israeli-Palestinian peace.”

  34. BREAKING: Massive explosion rocks Hungarian capital Budapest multiple casualties reported

    According to reports an explosion has taken place in the Oktogon area of Budapest Hungary, emergency services are on the scene.

    Hundreds of people appear to be out in the street as a massive police operation swings into action.

    2 police officers are believed to have been injured in the blast, and while the full extent of the injuries suffered in the explosion are yet to be confirmed eye witnesses have claimed there are casualties.

    According to locals there are a number of people being treated in the street near the Corninthia hotel.

    The explosion, which police have claimed was caused by a gas leak, reportedly took place on the ground floor of a shop.

    However the exact cause of the blast is yet to be confirmed.

    In videos emerging from the scene people appear to be being treated for injuries in the street however there does not appear to be damage to buildings.

    Members of the public say they are being evacuated from restaurants as the emergency services continue their work at the scene.

    Twitter user Ilona Vanouplines ?said: “I heard and felt a really loud #explosion in the city center of Budapest, a lot of police cars are passing by at Erzsébet krt.”

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/714102/Massive-explosion-rocks-Hungarian-capital-Budapest-multiple-casualties-reported

    Photos :

    http://www.blikk.hu/galeria/itt-vannak-az-elso-fotok-a-nagykoruti-robbanas-helyszinerol/th2se0t

    • Robbanás Budapesten

      video ( Hungarian )

      http://www.hirado.hu/2016/09/24/robbanas-hallatszott-a-koruton/#
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      RT – 2 injured in Budapest explosion, police evacuating central area

      A powerful blast struck a central area of the Hungarian capital Budapest late Saturday. Footage on social media shows a large police presence at the Oktogon intersection. Witnesses have reported several casualties.

      At least two people have been injured in the blast, Hungarian Blikk daily reported, citing local emergency services.

      The victims are reported by the outlet to be police officers, and have been rushed to a hospital.

      Police have cordoned off the busy Octogon intersection in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, with residents of nearby houses and club visitors being evacuated from the area.

      There have been conflicting reports about the cause of the incident. Local media reported that the explosion may have been triggered by a gas leak at the premises, citing an unnamed police officer at the scene.

      The explosion took place on the ground floor of a shop at the corner of Kiraly Utca (King Street) according to HVG magazine.

      A crew of firefighters was called to the scene and they examined the building.

      https://www.rt.com/news/360533-hungary-budapest-explosion-police/

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  35. ISIS fighters in Afghanistan mainly ex-Pakistani Taliban members: Gen. Nicholson (khaama, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.khaama.com/isis-fighters-in-afghanistan-mainly-ex-pakistani-taliban-members-gen-nicholson-01933

    “The ISIS loyalists fighting in Afghanistan are mainly ex-Pakistani members and are receiving support from the main group leaders based in Syria, the top US commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has said.

    General Nicholson who is also the commander of the NATO-led Resolute Support (RS) mission in Afghanistan has said there are up to 1,300 ISIS loyalists in Afghanistan.

    He said the loyalists of the terror group receive money, guidance, and communications support from the main group in Syria.

    General Nicholson further added that the U.S. and Afghan military have killed many IS leaders and members in recent months and that they are in fewer Afghan areas than they previously were.

    According to General Nicholson, the terror group loyaliss re currently holding only three to four districts compared to 10 one year ago.

    The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) launched a major operation in Nangarhar to suppress the activities of ISIS loyalists in mid-July this year.

    The US forces also provided support to the Afghan forces during the operation conducted in Kot, Achin and parts of the province where ISIS loyalists were conducting insurgency.

    The US forces resumed operations against ISIS loyalists after the Obama administration granted them broader role to combat the terror groups in Afghanistan…”

  36. Muslim Woman Shot Dead in France (moroccoworldnews, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/09/197218/muslim-woman-shot-dead-france/

    “A veiled woman was shot dead in Pantin, France last night at 9:40 p.m. The victim of this hate crime reportedly sitting in her car when the shooting occurred.

    The woman was hit by five bullets. Two bullets to the head were fired at close range. The shots were reportedly fired by a person on a scooter. The assailant has not been identified nor apprehended.

    “No damage was found on the vehicle which suggests that the individual put his arm inside the car and made this point blank shot, reported Agence France Presse from a source close to the investigation.

    Police found six shells from an automatic pistol at the site of the murder.

    The female victim, who has not been officially identified, is said to be of North African ancestry and approximately 35 years of age.

    The victim was wearing a hijab but investigators said that they are not looking at this killing as an act of Islamophobia.

    An investigation for murder is underway and headed by the criminal brigade of the judicial police in Paris.”

  37. French Intelligence Uses Moroccan Women to Spy on Salafists (moroccoworldnews, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/09/197229/french-intelligence-uses-moroccan-women-spy-salafists/

    “Moroccan women are used in the French intelligence services to spy on Salafists, Moroccan daily Al Massae said in its weekend issue.

    The report says that Moroccan women were far “more effective” than their French counterparts.

    Women are regularly used to spy as part of a special division of the French Intelligence Service which has as its mission the monitoring of Salafist. This division monitors Salafist through wire-tapping, the analysis of data collected by spies, and the taking of material evidence from suspects.

    The Salafi movement is widespread throughout the Islamic world. Those calling themselves Salafist dress more conservatively and practice the traditions and customs of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his companions into the third or even fifth generation.

    Salafist purist tend to shy away from politics and focus on simply studying the Quran, Sunnah and laws.

    However, the French-Jewish scholar Gilles Kepel, coined the term “Salafi Jihadism” to describe those Salafi groups who started developing an interest in armed jihad in the mid-1990s. It is estimated that there are 10 million Muslim men and women worldwide who follow the Salafi path.

    The report says the women live double lives and are trained not to disclose their connection with French intelligence services.

    The effectiveness of these female spies has encouraged the French Intelligence service to recruit more women who have technical or religious studies background or have graduated from a major university.

    Al Massae also reported that the French intelligence services have recruited more than 600 Moroccan and Algerians in the fight against Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the Islamic State.”

  38. ‘No camps in France,’ vows Hollande, under rightwing pressure (france24, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.france24.com/en/20160924-no-camps-france-vows-hollande-under-rightwing-pressure

    “TOURS (FRANCE) (AFP) – President Francois Hollande, under pressure from the right wing, on Saturday stepped up his pledge to combat illegal migration, vowing to dismantle a squalid settlement near Calais and prevent similar camps from becoming established in France.

    “There will be no camps in France,” said Hollande, two days ahead of a maiden visit to the notorious “Jungle” settlement near Calais, where between 7,000 and 10,000 desperate migrants live.

    The Socialist leader spelt out promises to “completely dismantle” the Jungle and set up “reception and orientation centres around the country” to accommodate asylum-seekers.

    Hollande’s government has vowed to scrap the Jungle “before winter” and a flurry of preparations underway there suggest the operation may begin shortly.

    Migration has been a low-key issue under Hollande’s four-year-old presidency.

    But he has been forced to take a visible stance on the issue, under pressure from his conservative predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy — who is hoping to make a comeback as president — and far-right leader Marine Le Pen…”

  39. At Vienna EU summit, Merkel calls for rejected asylum-seekers to return to home countries (DW, Sep 24, 2016)
    http://www.dw.com/en/at-vienna-eu-summit-merkel-calls-for-rejected-asylum-seekers-to-return-to-home-countries/a-35883468

    “European leaders met in the Austrian capital to find a common solution to the wave of migration to the continent. Germany’s chancellor has proposed accords to return rejected asylum seekers to their countries of origin…”

    • EU should build ‘gigantic refugee city’ for African migrants, says Hungarian PM

      VIKTOR Orban says the EU should set up a “gigantic refugee city” on the coast of Libya for African migrants trying to reach Europe.

      The hardliner said migrants arriving from other African countries should be sent to Libya too have their asylum claims processed before they set foot in the EU.

      Mr Orban, speaking in Vienna after a summit of European and Balkans countries on the migrant crisis, gave few details just days after demanding the EU round up and deport illegal immigrants to an island off the North African coast.

      Mr Orban insisted the EU’s external borders should be under “total control” – including the Mediterranean border, in which Libya was instrumental.

      […]Mr Orban said: “The EU needs a new Libya policy.

      “Libya is a region whose shores can be used to set sail for Europe because no state exists there.”

      “Unless we preserve Libya as one and stabilise it we cannot create the gigantic refugee city by Libya’s Mediterranean coast.”[…]

      http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/714049/EU-build-giant-refugee-city-Libya-African-migrants-Hungary-Prime-Minister-Viktor-Orban