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  1. Boney M singer’s Muslim convert brother is jailed for life for hiring a hitman to kill Syrian preacher in a row over a controversial London mosque (dailymail, Oct 19, 2016)
    http://dailym.ai/2ekOCwD

    “A Syrian-born preacher was shot dead by a former soldier in a contract killing ordered by the brother of a Boney M singer.

    Iraqi war veteran Leslie Cooper, 37, executed Abdul Hadi Arwani, 48, with a MAC-10 machine gun as he sat in his Volkswagen Passat in Wembley, northwest London.

    The hit was ordered by mosque ‘ruler’ Khalid Rashad, 62, the brother of singer Liz Mitchell, who fronted the 1970s chart-topping disco band.

    Rashad had been locked in a legal battle with Mr Arwani as he tried to oust him from the An-Noor Cultural and Community Centre in Church Road, Acton.

    Cooper and Rashad – both Jamaican-born Muslim converts – were jailed for at least 32 years each for the murder earlier this year after a trial.

    The case could not be reported while Rashad awaited trial for possessing plastic explosives and ammunition in the garage of his suburban home near Wembley Stadium.

    Rashad converted to Islam in 1993 and changed his name from Brunel Mitchel.

    Mr Arwani discovered his belongings had been removed from the building and the locks to his office had been changed in 2011.

    He left the centre and in June 2012 began legal proceedings seeking an order of the court to reinstate him as a member and director of ANT.

    ‘It was the dispute between Mr Rashad and Mr Arwani regarding the control and ownership of the mosque that provided the motive for the shooting, and was the reason Khalid Rashad recruited his friend, Leslie Cooper, to carry out his dirty work,’ said prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC…”

    • “… The mosque has been investigated by MI5 after a series of incidents including a male terrorist suspect escaping from the premises dressed in a burqa and another who was killed in Syria.

      The mosque had also hosted a number of controversial speakers, including one of the sons of radical imam Abu Hamza.

      The case can finally be reported at the end of a second trial in which Rashad was convicted of possessing military-grade plastic explosives and rounds of ammunition at his home, yards from Wembley Stadium.

      Although there was no evidence that Rashad was involved in terrorism, detectives say they are concerned that the machinegun or explosives could easily have fallen into the wrong hands.

      Investigators believe the fight was not just about control of the mosque and that money also played a part because the premises had quadrupled in value in a decade in the London property boom and were said to be worth £3-£4million…”

  2. “Islamic Jihad plotted to blow up Israeli wedding hall, kidnap IDF soldier

    Four men indicted for planning attacks under the instruction of a senior Islamic Jihad official in Gaza.

    Security forces announced Thursday that they had thwarted an Islmaic Jihad plot to carry out a terror attack at a wedding hall in the South and to kidnap and kill an IDF soldier for the purposes of bargaining with Israel.

    Mahmoud Yousef Hassin abu-Taha, a resident of Khan Younis in Gaza, was arrested last month while entering Israel through the Erez Crossing, ostensibly for purposes of commerce.

    Abu-Taha was enlisted by Wael Sufian abu-Taha, a senior Islamic Jihad official in Gaza. He instructed abu-Taha to form a cell in order to carry out a terror attack in the South and to kidnap a soldier to be used in a prisoner swap deal, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said.
    The three men who Abu-Taha enlisted to help him with the attacks were also arrested.

    One of the suspects, 55-year-old Shafik Hamed Ahmed abu-Taha was illegally residing in Israel and was an employee of the wedding hall that the cell planned to attack. A second suspect, 39-year-old Ahmed Tisir Abdulrahman abu-Taha from Gaza, was also illegally residing in Israel. A third suspect, a 40-year-old from Deir al-Balah in Gaza, was living in the South legally after having gained residency through marriage by way of the “family reunification” law.

    The suspects had carried out reconnaissance at the wedding hall, devising a plan that would claim the lives of a maximum number of victims, the Shin Bet stated.

    At the same time, Mahmoud began planning the kidnapping of the soldier, receiving thousands of shekels from Wael abu-Taha in order to rent an apartment in Israel to which he planned to lure a soldier. According to the Shin Bet, Abu Taha planned to kill the soldier, bury him and send his belongings back to Gaza to use as bargaining chips with Israel.

    “This grave affair yet again exhibits the efforts of terrorist elements in Gaza to carry out murderous terror attacks in Israel,” the Shin Bet stated.

    The affair also shows the way in which terrorists take advantage of entry permits to Israel, given for humanitarian porpoises to improve the economy of Gaza, the Shin Bet said.

    In addition, the terror plot shows the danger posed by Palestinians illegally residing in Israel, the Shin Bet warned.”

    http://jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Islamic-Jihad-plotted-to-blow-up-venue-in-South-kidnap-IDF-soldier-470494#article=6017QTA3RkY3MzZENkM4NzJBMzJDRkE4Q0VEQkY4RjEyQ0Q=

  3. “How Islamic State Weaponized the Chat App to Direct Attacks on the West

    Police alarmed by emergence of militants that they say are using chat apps and social media to recruit militants in Europe from abroad”

    “PARIS—A predawn attack on a French policeman’s home, the killing of a priest during Mass and a car bomb planted near Notre Dame Cathedral in recent months were plots that appeared isolated until investigators discovered a common thread.

    Their authors had all allegedly been in contact with a man whom authorities identify as 29-year-old Rachid Kassim.
    From somewhere in Islamic State-held territory in Iraq or Syria, authorities say, the French national had used the encrypted Telegram chat app and other social-media tools to contact people back home—mainly French teenagers who are believed to have little or no previous connection to the terror group or each other—and instruct them on how to mount attacks.

    Investigators across Europe are alarmed by the rise of militants such as Mr. Kassim, who they suspect have developed a way to “remote control” attacks from far away. That is blurring the lines between assaults carried out by militants trained in Islamic State territory and those by so-called lone wolves who authorities assumed were acting without the direction or support of terror groups.”

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-islamic-state-weaponized-the-chat-app-to-direct-attacks-on-the-west-1476955802

  4. Fed risks repeating Lehman blunder as US recession storm gathers

    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

    The risk of a US recession next year is rising fast. The Federal Reserve has no margin for error.

    Liquidity is suddenly drying up. Early warning indicators from US ‘flow of funds’ data point to an incipent squeeze, the long-feared capitulation after five successive quarters of declining corporate profits.

    Yet the Fed is methodically draining money through ‘reverse repos’ regardless. It has set the course for a rise in interest rates in December and seems to be on automatic pilot.

    “We are seeing a serious deterioration on a monthly basis,” said Michael Howell from CrossBorder Capital, specialists in global liquidity. The signals lead the economic cycle by six to nine months.

    “We think the US is heading for recession by the Spring of 2017. It is absolutely bonkers for the Fed to even think about raising rates right now,” he said.

    The growth rate of nominal GDP – a pure measure of the economy – has been in an unbroken fall since the start of the year, falling from 4.2pc to 2.5pc. It is close to stall speed, flirting with levels that have invariably led to recessions in the post-War era.

    “It is a little scary. When nominal GDP slows like that, you can be sure that financial stress will follow. Monetary policy is too tight and the slightest shock will tip the US into recession,” said Lars Christensen, from Markets and Money Advisory.

    If allowed to happen, it will be a deeply frightening experience, rocking the global system to its foundations. The Bank for International Settlements estimates that 60pc of the world economy is locked into the US currency system, and that debts denominated in dollars outside US jurisdiction have ballooned to $9.8 trillion.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/19/fed-risks-repeating-lehman-blunder-as-us-recession-storm-gathers/

    • Here are some facts that aren’t brought out in the article:

      1 The Heartland has never really recovered from the 08 recession.

      2 The official rate of inflation is way to low, the real inflation rate has been much higher.

      3 The real unemployment is well into double digits and has been getting worse.

      4 The stock prices is in a bubble, a massive bubble that is about to burst.

      The Keynesian economics that the left loves have failed and the worlds economy is finally breaking through the artificial barriers to bring market reality to the world.

      Contrary to popular opinion WWII didn’t end the Great Depression, it was a tax cut after the war that stimulated the economy to bring us out of the depression. The government stimulus programs benefit a small sector of the economy while tax cuts makes more money available to everyone and stimulates the entire economy. The left hates this idea and refuses to admit it is true because they don’t want anyone doing anything without the government telling them to. When the government tries to run the economy manufacturing drops and the entire economy shits to service where almost everything is manufactured overseas. When the people are allowed to keep their money and spend it the way they want the economy booms.

  5. Hillary Clinton’s security detail laughed when she broke her elbow

    Hillary Clinton’s security detail hated her so much that they privately snickered after she accidentally fell and broke her arm when she was secretary of state in 2009, one of her former guards told the Post.

    Clinton, then 61, was in the State Department basement on her way to meet President Obama when she took a spill — and ended up in the hospital for an operation to repair her shattered right elbow.

    “We sort of got the last laugh. It was kind of like payback: You’re treating us like s–t. Hey karma is a bitch! We were smiling to ourselves,” the agent told The Post on Wednesday.

    http://nypost.com/2016/10/19/hillary-clintons-security-detail-laughed-when-she-broke-her-elbow/

  6. Duterte says U.S. has lost, aligns Philippines with China

    BEIJING (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced his “separation” from the United States on Thursday, declaring that it had “lost” and he had realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.

    Duterte made his comments in China, where he is visiting with at least 200 business people to pave the way for what he calls a new commercial alliance as relations with longtime ally the United States deteriorate.

    His trade secretary, Ramon Lopez, said $13.5 billion in deals would be signed

    Duterte’s efforts to engage China, months after a tribunal ruling in the Hague over South China Sea disputes in favor of the Philippines, marks a reversal in foreign policy since the 71-year-old former mayor took office on June 30.

    “America has lost now,” Duterte told Chinese and Philippine business people at a forum in the Great Hall of the People, attended by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli.

    http://www.oann.com/chinas-xi-says-hopes-dutertes-visit-can-fully-improve-ties/

    • Obama strikes again. The man is afraid that Hillary will win and that China won’t give the Philippines as good a deal when Hillary is in office. This move is not a good one for the US but if Hillary wins will be the first of many nations that move to try and keep China from taking their entire country.

      • Message to el señor presidente: Don’t cuddle up to China ’cause you’re mad at this evil POTUS, those who pull his strings, and the entire corrupt entourage. I can only imagine how good it feels, but with China you may bite off your own nose – & ears! & testicles! – to spite your face.

        Just sit tight, see how it goes. You’ve got lots of company. Others are making goo-goo eyes at Russia, but they should also proceed with EXTREME caution.

        (You’ve touched a chord: heads of states far more powerful than the Philippines admire your plain talk. Just be careful.)

        • The way things are going he needs to be real careful because he may end up begging us to come save him from China. And we need the bases in the Philippines enough that we will have to. Unless of course he decides to kick us out which his military will oppose.

        • Russia is stepping in to offer the Philippines an alternative to China, this won’t help the US but will allow a smart politician to play China against Russia to keep them from getting economic or military control of the South China Sea nations.

  7. Suspected Islamic State-inspired militant stabs three Indonesian police

    JAKARTA (Reuters) – A suspected supporter of Islamic State stabbed and wounded three Indonesian police on Thursday in what appeared to be the latest violence inspired by the militant group in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation.

    The man also threw a pipe bomb which failed to explode during the rush hour attack in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, police said.

    He was shot and died of his wounds, a police spokesman said, while the three victims were being treated in hospital.

    A second pipe bomb and a large IS sticker were found at the scene, police said.

    Indonesian authorities are increasingly worried about a resurgence in radicalism in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, driven in part by a new generation of militants inspired by Islamic State.

    “Two of (the police) were stabbed in the arm and chest. Then the attacker walked around showing off his weapon, walking to the police post and shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is greatest),” Mohammad Isa Ansori, deputy police chief of Tangerang district, told Reuters.

    http://www.oann.com/suspected-islamic-state-inspired-militant-stabs-three-indonesian-policemen/

  8. Iran’s war in Iraq: Waged by terror chief Qassem Soleimani, directly supported by Obama
    By J.E. Dyer October 19, 2016

    Let’s take a moment to focus on a reality that has been staring us in the face for more than two years.

    The Obama administration has been directly supporting the operations of the Iranian Qods Force in Iraq, both by bankrolling the Iranian government through the nuclear “agreements” with Iran, and by providing air support to the battles waged by Iran-backed forces on the ground.

    The Iranian general in charge of planning and orchestrating those battles, Qassem Soleimani, is the commander of the Iranian Qods Force: the paramilitary force that trains terrorists and proxy “militias,” including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Shia Basij militias in Iraq (known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Force, or PMF).

    Soleimani, a top orchestrator of terrorism, has been under U.S. sanctions for arms proliferation since 2007. He was under UN and EU sanctions until they were lifted with implementation of the nuclear JCPOA in January 2016. (Notably, this meant that he wasn’t supposed to be visiting Iraq at all in the period when he was coordinating military operations there in 2014 and 2015. So much for tough “travel sanctions.”)

    Yet Obama has been providing direct military support to Soleimani’s battles in Iraq, and enabling Iran to pay for his activities, by releasing funds to Iran – some of them literally payments from the U.S. taxpayer – under the provisions of the Joint Plan of Action of November 2013, and the JCPOA of July 2015.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/10/19/irans-war-iraq-waged-terror-chief-qassem-soleimani-directly-supported-obama/

  9. In third debate, did Hillary Clinton imply that all Queens residents are terrorists?

    …..Did you pick up on it — her mention that Trump was bon in same the New York City borough as Islamist gunman Omar Mateen? Was this an attempt to tie Trump to Mateen’s murderous rampage at a gay nightclub via guilt by accident of birth? Or perhaps she was suggesting that all residents of Queens should be thoroughly vetted before they are permitted to cross the border into Manhattan.

    Her response immediately after the shooting in June included her observation that “the Orlando terrorist may be dead, but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive. We must attack it with clear eyes, steady hands and unwavering determination in pride in our country and our values.” Maybe she could clarify now exactly who she thinks the enemy is. Regardless of her answer, Mateen’s father, Seddique Mir Mateen, has come out in support of Clinton. Does that make Hillary guilty by association?

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2016/10/20/third-debate-hillary-clinton-imply-queens-residents-terrorists/

    Richard: There is a lot more in the article be sure and read all of it.

  10. WikiLeaks: A vote for Hillary is a vote for not ‘knowing what planet we are living on’
    By Howard Portnoy October 19, 2016

    Recently, LU ran an item from Campus Reform in its Web Crawler section that revealed that students interviewed on the campus of Georgetown University were unable to name a single accomplishment of Hillary Clinton in her three decades of public service. Those students shouldn’t be judged too harshly since the Democratic nominee doesn’t even know what planet she’s living on, much less where her views generally fall on the ideological spectrum.

    The critique in the previous paragraph is not mine. It is the considered opinion of Neera Tanden, formerly of the far-left Center for American Progress, and currently in the running for White House chief of staff under President Hillary Clinton.

    In September 2015, a frustrated Tanden wrote to Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta (via WikiLeaks):

    I mean it makes my life more difficult after telling every reporter I know she’s actually progressive but that is really the smallest of issues. It worries me more that she doesn’t seem to know what planet we are all living in at the moment.

    Podesta answered back, “I pushed her on this on Sunday night. She claims she didn’t remember saying it. Not sure I believe her,” to which Tanden rejoined, “Why did she call herself a moderate?”

  11. Germans Leaving Germany ‘In Droves’

    A growing number of Germans are abandoning neighborhoods in which they have lived all their lives, and others are leaving Germany for good, as mass immigration transforms parts of the country beyond recognition.

    Data from the German statistics agency, Destatis, shows that 138,000 Germans left Germany in 2015. More are expected to emigrate in 2016. In a story on brain drain titled, “German talent is leaving the country in droves,” Die Welt reported that more than 1.5 million Germans, many of them highly educated, left Germany during the past decade.

    The statistics do not give a reason why Germans are emigrating, but anecdotal evidence indicates that many are waking up to the true cost — financial, social and cultural — of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to allow more than one million mostly Muslim migrants to enter the country in 2015. At least 300,000 more migrants are expected to arrive in Germany in 2016, according to Frank-Jürgen Weise, the head of the country’s migration office, BAMF.

    Mass migration has — among many other problems — contributed to a growing sense of insecurity in Germany, which is facing a spike in migrant crime, including an epidemic of rapes and sexual assaults. Mass migration is also accelerating the Islamization of Germany. Many Germans appear to be losing hope about the future direction of their country.

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9154/germans-leaving-germany

  12. Erasing the West

    Last week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted Christian and Jewish heritage off of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; Tuesday they ratified their perfidy. The vote seems clearly a response to the expansionist, jihadist aspirations of members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that sponsored it: Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan. The vote, and the behind the scenes machinations, deserve evaluation.

    Upfront:

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9150/unesco-jerusalem-vote

  13. Turkey’s Land-Grab Wish List

    Each time in recent history that Turkey’s pro-Sunni neo-Ottomans opted for assertive foreign policy in this turbulent part of the world, there were more casualties and no happy ending for any state- or non-state actor, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey. As multiple asymmetrical wars in the triangle of Turkey, Syria and Iraq turn more violent and complex, with the U.S.-led international campaign fighting jihadists — while Iran and Russia try to win proxy wars — Turkey keeps raising the stakes with the risky nonsensical wish to revive its imperial past. Erdogan looks determined to fight any war in the hope that all will end with Turkish-Sunni dominance in the region. He is wrong.

    In his recent speeches Erdogan often revisited a long-forgotten Arabic phrase that is so dear to every Turk’s heart and mind: Misak-i Milli (“National Contract”).

    On February 12, 1920, the last Ottoman parliament proclaimed a set of decisions which Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, adopted as “the main principle of our independence.” Misak-i Milli, among other principles, set modern Turkey’s borders; it was a guideline to determine where the borders of the Turkish Republic would start and end. It would be used as the basis for the new Turkish Republic’s claims in the Treaty of Lausanne.

    According to Misak-i Milli, “the future of the territories inhabited by an Arab majority at the time of the signing of the Armistice of Mudros shall be determined by a referendum.” On the other hand, the territories which were not occupied at that time and inhabited by a Turkish majority are the homeland of the Turkish nation. The status of Kars, Ardahan (Turkish provinces since then) and Batumi (a province in the Republic of Georgia) may be determined by a referendum. The status of Western Thrace (in Greece) will be determined by the votes of its inhabitants. Misak-i Milli also claimed that the former Ottoman province of Mosul should be a Turkish province. Instead, Mosul was first left to British control, then became an Iraqi province. Mosul is now Iraq’s second largest city, but tenuously under the control of the Islamic State (ISIS).

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9155/turkey-land-grab

    • I will disagree with him on one point, this isn’t a large group of small to medium wars, what he is calling individual wars are different campaigns in one large war to determine who is going to lead Islam in the 21st Century? Will it Be Sunni or Shiite? Iran or Turkey? Or some other nation? In my opinion the main reason the Iranian leaders want the Mahdi to return is to give Iran leadership of Islam.

  14. Germany: Refugee goes to trial for war crimes in Syria

    A Syrian refugee, named in the media only as ‘Suliman Al-S.’, went to court in Stuttgart Correctional Facility, on Thursday, to face charges of war crimes he allegedly committed while in Syria.

    • Germany: State prosecutor addresses press at refugee war crimes trial

      A Syrian refugee, named in the media only as ‘Suliman Al-S.’, went to court in Stuttgart Correctional Facility, on Thursday, to face charges of war crimes he allegedly committed while in Syria.

      SOT, Dr Barthe, State Prosecutor (German): “The perculiarity of trial presented here is that it is the first criminal trial in Germany that deals with a Syrian refugee due to an allegation of war crimes being committed.”

      SOT, Dr Barthe, State Prosecutor (German): “Please, I hope you understand that, due to the incident described, I’m not able to provide any more information. It is also not the role of the State Prosecution Service, when such an incident takes place, to clarify it. Rather, that is why the responsible prosecution is obliged to do this.”

      SOT, Dr Barthe, State Prosecutor (German): “The reason why a German Higher Regional Court is responsible for this case is due to the fact that war crimes are concerned with so-called ‘International criminality’, that means it does not depend on the nationality of either the culprit or the victim, it also does not depend on where the crime took place, with regards to the other crimes for which the accused is defending himself, that the criminal proceedings are based on the fact that the accused is residing here in Germany, and we as representatives don’t operate with criminal justice system of the Syrian state which is not capable of acting.”

  15. Germany: Trial begins for 16 y/o girl charged with alleged terror attack

    A 16 year old German girl went on trial in Celle, on Thursday, accused of committing a knife attack in Hanover, in February this year.

    The prosecution argue that she was motivated to stab a police officer following a long process of ‘Islamic radicalisation’.

    • This just makes me incredibly sad. We have very powerful people controlling the narrative and then we have people like myself that don’t believe a word of it.
      Then Project Veritas comes out to validate baby part selling or election interference and they are slimed by the left. It is interesting that during a Donna Brazil interview she managed to say three times that James O’Keefe was arrested.
      Funny how she never mentioned that Mr Creamer was a convicted felon.
      Who is it that actually believes the left’s excuse? I think it is those that do not pay attention and those that have too much to lose if their gravy train is cut off.
      More I think that they just don’t pay attention.
      I fear that Ms. Clinton will be our next president and the country will continue to swirl into the toilet.
      If I were to place a bet today I would say that Clinton will win.

      • Yesterday I posted an article saying that in Britain the big money bettors are betting on her but that well over half of the bettors are betting on Trump. For the last elections (I don’t remember how many but it was over two) the person the most Brits bet on won the election.

  16. Turkey Leaves Yazidis Suffering With No Legal Status
    ‘My experience at the Yazidi camp was devastating’: Omer Eryilmaz, health official at a Yazidi camp in Turkey for three years.

    Iraqi Yazidis who fled the invasions and massacres of the Islamic State in 2014 and arrived in Turkey have not been given a legal status (“refugees” or “persons benefiting from temporary protection”) by the Turkish government.

    An official of the prime ministry’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said that Yazidis in their camp in the city of Mardin have been given “AFAD cards” with which they can benefit from health services in the camp.

    Many Yazidis, however, do not want to be settled in Syrian refugee camps run by AFAD. So, they have been settled in the camps of the municipalities run by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP).

    “They think that those in the Syrian camps are affiliated with the Islamic State,” said Ali Atalan, a Yazidi MP of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). “They are scared of Islamic symbols there. Their historical and current memories of these symbols are still haunting them.”

    https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/turkey-leaves-yazidis-suffering-no-legal-status

    • OIC lists Gülen network as ‘terror group’

      The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Oct. 19 listed the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, believed to be behind Turkey’s July 15 coup attempt, as a terrorist organization, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu has said.

      “We thank the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for showing solidarity by understanding our sensitivities and declaring [the Fethullah Terror Organization] FETÖ as a terror group,” Cavusoglu posted on his Twitter account, describing the OIC’s move as a “milestone.”

      The OIC’s Parliamentary Union, meeting in the Uzbekistan capital Tashkent on Oct. 18, denounced all forms of terrorism in a joint declaration.

      The body issued a declaration following the meeting expressing its solidarity with Turkey in fighting terror.
      Last week, foreign ministers of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states also designated FETÖ a terrorist group and stressed its support for Ankara’s crackdown on the network.

      Founded in 1969, the OIC, with a current membership of 57 states, is the second-largest inter-governmental organization after the U.N. and describes itself as “the collective voice of the Muslim world.” Turkey has been a member since 1969 and holds the presidency of the organization, taking over the duty this year.

      http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid=105128

  17. Muslims call for Norway minister to resign after pork post

    Norwegian Muslims have called on the country’s integration minister to step down after she said that immigrants should adapt to a culture of pork, alcohol and no face-veils.
    Sylvi Listhaug, a minister appointed by the anti-immigrant Progress Party, caused outrage on Monday when she made an incendiary post on the eve of an national integration conference.

    “I think those who come to Norway need to adapt to our society. Here we eat pork, drink alcohol and show our face. You must abide by the values, laws and regulations that are in Norway when you come here,” she wrote in a post that was ‘liked’ by 20,000 people.

    Omar Gilani Syed, a criminologist who has worked with integrating refugees, asked whether Listhaug could continue to be responsible for integration in the country while making such statements.

    “If she does not understand the complexity and does not have the expertise to deal with these social issues in a good way, it’s time to ask: should Listhaug reconsider her position?” he wrote in the Aftenposten newspaper.

    He accused Listhaug of putting electoral advantage above the needs of her nation.

    “Is this yet another populist statement with the aim to gathering as many as possible votes?” he asked. “For myself, I become frightened and uneasy at the thought of an integration minister who sweeps the really big problems under the carpet and reduces the whole integration debate to dealing with pork and alcohol.”

    Zaineb Al-Samarai, an politician in Oslo for Norway’s Labour Party, accused Listhaug of deliberately seeking to divide Muslim immigrants from the rest of Norwegian society.

    “If you are to be Integration Minister, you must begin to integrate,” she wrote in an article in Dagbladet. “Do not frighten and separate people.”

    “I do not believe that Norwegian culture is so weak that it’s going to lay down and die if someone chooses to wear a hijab as their national costume,” she continued. “Norwegian culture is not as weak or in danger as you believe. And Norwegian culture is about a lot more than pork and headgear.”

    Norway’s government, a coalition between the centre-right Conservative Party and the populist anti-immigrant Progress Party, has been coming down hard on Norwegian Muslims over the last week.

    Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in an interview connected with Tuesday’s conference that she personally would not employ someone wearing the Islamic Niqab face veil.

    “No, you probably wouldn’t get a job from me or from many others if you were wearing a niqab on you,” Solberg told NRK.

    Meanwhile, Siv Jensen, who leads the Progress Party and serves as Finance Minister, on Wednesday accused Muslim woman of wearing the Niqab simply to provoke a reaction.

    “I believe those who choose to wear it desire to provoke,” she said. “I would find it smarter if they instead used their time and energy to adapt themselves to Norwegian society.”

    “I believe we need to be able to look people in the face when we work together.”

    https://www.thelocal.no/20161020/muslims-call-for-norway-minister-to-resign-after-pork-post

  18. DAILY MAIL – Row as charity FALSELY claims the ’38-year-old child asylum seeker’ is an interpreter as more migrants arrive today hiding their faces under blankets

    Charity TACT tweet interpreter claims later shared by thousands online
    Home Office forced to confirm that the migrant was not working for them
    Calais migrant and charity worker admit ‘Jungle’ residents lie about age
    Aid workers with megaphones asking for children who want to go to UK
    Councils threatened revolt if they were burdened with fake ‘child’ migrants
    Migrants suspected of lying about their age being given ‘benefit of doubt’

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3854888/Charity-FALSELY-claims-38-year-old-child-asylum-seeker-actually-interpreter-one-migrant-Calais-confesses-course-majority-lie-age-UK.html

  19. BREAKING: Conservative Group Exposed Voter Fraud, Now They’re Taking the Fight to Hillary
    Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/breaking-conservative-group-exposed-voter-fraud-now-they-re-taking-the-fight-to-hillary#MLkVwqODatbQvcML.99

    Fresh off putting out two videos where two high level Democratic officials detailed how their campaign engages in voter fraud and incites riots, Project Veritas is now taking Hillary Clinton to court. The organization put out a press release today announcing the news:

    Following the release of two explosive undercover videos [ VIDEO 1 ] [ VIDEO 2 ]showing how the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee coordinated communications with the SuperPAC Priorities USA Action and various organizations, James O’Keefe and Project Veritas Action have filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission.

    You can read the complaint here. We wish them the best. At some point, someone will make a case against Crooked Hillary that sticks.

    Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/breaking-conservative-group-exposed-voter-fraud-now-they-re-taking-the-fight-to-hillary#MLkVwqODatbQvcML.99

  20. Russia Is Deploying The Largest Naval Force Since The Cold War For Syria: NATO Diplomat

    Just moments ago we reported that in the latest escalation involving Syria, the Russian aircraft carrier Kuznetsov was now sailing past Norway on its way to Syria, where it is expected to arrive in just under 2 weeks. As part of the carrier naval group, Russia also deployed an escort of seven other Russian ships, which we dubbed the “most powerful Russian naval task force to sail in northern Europe since 2014” according to Russia’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily reports.

    It turns out it it was even bigger, because according to a NATO diplomat cited by Reuters, Russia is “deploying all of the Northern fleet and much of the Baltic fleet in the largest surface deployment since the end of the Cold War,” the diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

    “This is not a friendly port call. In two weeks, we will see a crescendo of air attacks on Aleppo as part of Russia’s strategy to declare victory there,” the diplomat said.

    An intensified air campaign in eastern Aleppo, where 275,000 people are trapped, would further worsen ties between Moscow and the West, according to the diplomat who added that “With this assault, it should be enough to allow a Russian exit strategy if Moscow believes Assad is now stable enough to survive.”

    As we reported earlier, photos of the vessels have been released by the Norwegian military. A Norwegian newspaper quoted the head of the Norwegian military intelligence service saying the ships involved “will probably play a role in the deciding battle for Aleppo”.was more than this and as Reuters reported second ago, citing a NATO diplomat, Russia is in fact deploying the largest naval force since end of Cold War to reinforce its Syria campaign. From Reuters:While there is little we can add to this that we did not just say in the previous post, we want to remind readers what the east Meditteranean looked like in the summer of 2013, when the first escalation between Russia and the US converted the sea off the Syrian coastline into a parking lot for warships.[…]

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-19/russia-deploying-largest-naval-force-cold-war-syria-nato-diplomat

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    Russia’s Large Aircraft Carrier Leads Warships Towards Mediterranean

    Four Russian navy warships are on their way to the Mediterranean Sea led by Russia’s large and only aircraft-carrier Admiral Kuznetsov.

    The contingent from Russia’s Northern Fleet was spotted sailing past the Norwegian city of Bergen Wednesday, after the fleet announced the deployment in state media over the weekend.

    Besides Admiral Kuznetsov, the Kremlin is also deploying the nuclear missile cruiser Peter the Great, as well as the large anti-submarine ships Severomorsk and Vice-Admiral Kulakov.

    The four vessels are currently nearing northern Scotland, with Peter the Great leading the formation between the Faroe Islands and the Shetland Islands, according to Russian navy tracking site Flot. The Russian navy currently has six other vessels deployed in Mediterranean waters, three of which are landing ships.

    The arrival of the air carrier, possibly within two week’s time, would serve as a big boost to Russian military capabilities near Syria, where Western partners have been unable to make Russia follow its earlier pledge to a ceasefire.

    The deploying strengthens Moscow’s hand in the fight for Aleppo, where Russian forces have supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, despite appeals for a truce.

    The Russian Ministry of Defence vowed to begin a “humanitarian pause” of airstrikes Wednesday, though it is unclear if the arrival of Admiral Kuznetsov will change that commitment.

    A NATO official said that although Russia has the right to “operate in international waters,” the alliance is planning to monitor the Russian ships as they make their way towards the Mediterranean, likely passing a number of NATO allies in the process.

    “At the same time, the deployment of the carrier group to the eastern Mediterranean does not inspire confidence that Russia is working towards a political solution to the conflict in Syria,” he added.

    http://www.newsweek.com/russias-large-air-carrier-leads-warships-towards-mediterranean-511969

  21. ‘Amaq News Agency of the Islamic State published a video showing the corpses of two Peshmerga fighters hung upside-down from a bridge in Mosul

    • Belgium: Actions in Aleppo ‘completely inhumane’ – Merkel

      erman Chancellor Angela Merkel said that “what’s happening in Syria with Russian support is completely inhumane, against the people who live in Aleppo,” speaking ahead of the European Council meeting in Brussels, Thursday.

      SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (German): “In the evening, we will discuss the relationship with Russia. Together with the French president, we will report on yesterday’s negotiations relating to the Ukrainian president and the Minsk process, as well as to the Syrian crisis. I think it is always important to talk to each other and that is what yesterday evening has shown us. But it’s not only about talking. It is also about clarifying positions. I hope that we, as the European Council, are in the position to clearly state that what’s happening in Syria with Russian support is completely inhumane against the people who live in Aleppo. That’s why a ceasefire must be worked on as soon as possible and not for several hours per day, followed by bombing rather than a lasting ceasefire, which will allow us to get humanitarian assistance for the people who can show that they need a ceasefire and the end to the war, as well as show that they have nothing in common with terrorists. I hope that we all will make this position clear today.”

  22. Mass migrant brawl breaks out in city centre dubbed the ‘Wild West’ (express, Oct 20, 2016?
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/723228/brawl-migrants-city-station-fight-Milan-wild-west

    “BRAWLING migrants brought a city centre station to a stand-still in scenes described as the ‘Wild West’.

    The Central Train Station in Milan has been home to dozens of migrants who have taken up residence there.

    A permanent camp has been set up in the station for the past couple of months.

    But tensions boiled over on Wednesday afternoon when a mass fight broke out among the migrants.

    Witnesses reported seeing no police whatsoever to quell the brawl…”

  23. Belgium border LOCKDOWN: Border guards scramble fearing Calais Jungle migrant rush (express, Oct 20, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/723431/Calais-Jungle-migrant-rush-fear-Belgium-border-guards-scramble

    “BELGIAN security forces are trying to bolster border checks fearing the Calais Jungle migrants will storm the country and build a new Jungle and route to Britain.

    Officials in Belgium are prepared to do “whatever it takes” to stop migrants fleeing the doomed shanty town in Calais to set up another Jungle-type camp.

    But they are restricted by the Schengen freedom of movement agreement, so can do little more than bring in 120 extra police officers to patrol the French border.

    The Belgian government has been dreading the migrant camp’s closure for months, fearing Zeebrugge will become the next hotspot route…”

  24. Baby nearly dies after Calais migrants block road leaving ambulance trapped in tear gas (express, Oct 20, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/723337/Calais-jungle-migrants-baby-nearly-dies-road-block-ambulance-trapped-tear-gas

    “CALAIS Jungle migrants who set up a road block with a human chain put a newborn baby in a life-threatening situation when its ambulance became stuck in traffic clouded by tear gas.

    The sick baby, who was born in a hospital in Dunkirk, 23 miles east of the Calais Jungle refugee camp, was being moved to a neonatal unit in Calais for emergency care on Tuesday night.

    But despite the wail of ambulance sirens and flashing lights, the knot of migrants – who had gathered to cause traffic chaos in another chaotic effort to force their way into UK-bound lorries – did not budge.

    The chaos continued when a lorry even reversed into the ambulance as it tried to stop migrants climbing into its load…”

  25. ‘I don’t want MEN sitting with our pupils!’ LBC callers on refugees ‘taking UK for a ride’ (express, Oct 20, 2016)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/723298/LBC-callers-blast-child-regugees

    “HORRIFIED radio callers blasted “child” refugees from entering the UK after the ages of migrants arriving from Calais were called into question.

    The LBC listeners called on the Government to introduce tougher measures to verify the ages of those coming from France as it prepares to demolish the Calais Jungle.

    The comments come after pictures of refugees. who have families in the UK, arrived in the country and caused Tory MP David Davies call their ages into question, saying they “didn’t look like ‘children’ to me”.

    Speaking to host Nick Ferrari, caller Phil said: “Isn’t it awful Nick, that we live in a country where we are quite happy to parade our sick, our disabled people before panels to make them perform tricks or tasks? To see if they’re entitled to a benefit from a country that they’ve probably paid into all their life.

    “And yet we can bust people in from outside and shower them – I’m not a discompassionate person, definitely not, although there will be some people that will say ‘yeah right’ but I am a realist and reality has to be looked at here because we are being taken for a ride.”

    The controversy comes as Home Office documents revealed almost two-thirds of child refugees questioned about their age were actually adults.

    Another caller, Helen, said she did not want her teenage daughter going to school with “grown men”.

    “I have absolutely no problem with my children sitting in a classroom next to a child refugee as long as they have been confirmed to be a child,” she said.

    “What I have a massive problem with is my 14-year-old daughter sitting next to, as you say, a man in his 20s or 30s in double chemistry…”

  26. The Latest: Britain Says Its Military Is Hacking IS (abcnews, Oct 20, 2016)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-attacks-iraqi-special-forces-car-bombs-42933375

    “… Britain’s Defense Secretary Michael Fallon says the British military is launching cyberattacks against the Islamic State group in support of the offensive against militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

    Fallon says he “can confirm we are using offensive cyber for the first time in this campaign.” He was responding to a question in London on Thursday.

    He didn’t go into any further detail but the admission is a sign of how some officials are tentatively opening up about the use of hacking on the battlefield.

    In 2012, a U.S. general raised eyebrows by acknowledging the use of cyberattacks against insurgents in Afghanistan.

    Last month, Der Spiegel reported that the German army hacked into an Afghan telecommunications firm as part of an operation to help free a kidnapped aid worker…”

  27. Jakarta attacks: IS bombmaker smiles after 10-year sentence (BBC, Oct 20, 2016)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37717744

    “An Indonesian man has been jailed for 10 years for his role in a bomb and gun attack in Jakarta in January.

    Four civilians died in the terror attack, the country’s worst in years.

    Dodi Suridi, 23, a supporter of the so-called Islamic State group (IS), helped make one of the bombs used on the day. He said he accepted the verdict as “the risk of being a terrorist”.

    Five assailants were killed by police during the attack and about 40 have since been arrested.

    Prosecutors said Suridi altered gas canisters to provide bombs for two attackers who blew themselves up at a police post…”

  28. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/16-year-old-german-boy-stabbed-death-refugee-sitting-girlfriend-water/

    As the police reported, an unknown perpetrator was supposed to have stabbed the youths under the Kennedy Bridge on Sunday evening. The teenager died shortly afterwards in the hospital of his serious injuries.

    According to the investigations so far, the perpetrator had suddenly come from the rear of the youth, and he has then repeatedly stabbed his victim, presumably with a knife. After the attack, the man pushed the boy’s 15-year-old companion into the Alster. The girl could save herself from the water, it was said. The victim and his companion, according to media reports, were a pair – the police wanted to confirm on request that the two knew each other. Whether they knew the perpetrator was unclear.

  29. A real treat: Pinhas Inbari does Judea & Samaria (aka West Bank) for the JCPA.
    Intro + 3 parts to read online or download as pdf.
    Hebron – Torn between Fundamentalism, Nationalism, and Commercial Interests;
    Ramallah and the Palestinian Non-Government Organizations (PNGOs);
    The Fate of Nablus (Shechem): Anarchy Prevails.

    The Fraying Palestinian Political Entity in the West Bank
    http://jcpa.org/the-fraying-palestinian-political-entity-in-the-west-bank/
    or,
    http://jcpa.org/pdf/Inbari-Fraying-Palestinian-Political-Entity-West-Bank.pdf

    • Palestinian Militants in Nablus Rebelling Against Palestinian Authority

      Sun-bleached posters of Palestinian militants adorn storefronts in the Balata neighborhood of Nablus in the West Bank in tribute to those killed in an uprising that faded more than a decade ago. But rebelliousness remains in Balata, much of it directed at the Palestinian Authority rather than Israel. Since June, four police officers have been killed by gunmen and four Nablus residents have died at the hands of police. Palestinian security officers say a recent crackdown is part of a campaign to restore order and break up gangs. With arms trade flowing freely in Nablus, gunfire at night is a regular occurrence.

      “Nablus is the epicenter of the anti-Abbas movement in Palestine right now,” said Grant Rumley, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The longer Abbas goes on in this stagnant rule, where Fatah remains divided, and factions are positioning themselves for a post-Abbas vacuum, the more instability there is. The camps [such as Balata] are the front line.”
      http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-Pal-chaos-snap-story.html

      • Palestinians: Fatah Prepares for War with Israel

        “We have pledged to prepare an army of fighters by devoting our full abilities and energies to consolidate the option of armed struggle as the only means to liberate Palestine.” — The armed wing of Fatah, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Martyr Nidal Al-Amoudi Division.

        The international community continues to perceive Fatah as the “moderate” Palestinian party with whom Israel should make peace. Yet Fatah is far from a single united bloc; many groups within the faction continue to seek the “liberation of Palestine” through armed struggle. Moreover, neither Abbas nor any of his senior Fatah loyalists have repudiated the war-set Fatah militias. Crucially, many of these Fatah militiamen continue to receive salaries from the Palestinian Authority.

        These Fatah gunmen who are preparing for war with Israel are indirectly receiving their salaries from Western donors, including the US and many EU countries, who fund the Palestinian Authority.

        These groups believe that they represent the real Fatah, the one that never recognized Israel’s right to exist and holds on to armed struggle as the only way to “liberate Palestine.” They are not breakaway groups. That is why they continue to operate under the name of Fatah.

        Fatah is a two-faced hydra; one face tells the English-speaking international community what it wants to hear, namely, that it supports a two-state solution and seeks a peaceful settlement to the conflict with Israel, while the other tells the truth: it is committed to an armed struggle and the “liberation of Palestine,” and is even preparing for war with Israel.

        https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9148/fatah-war-israel

  30. A Frightening Preview of Hillary’s America
    Dark and unaccountable.

    Hillary Clinton, of all people, summed up this debate and this election best.

    “What kind of country are we going to be?”

    The Evita of Arkansas is a compulsive liar who has never told the truth in her life. But this time around she was right. This election does not come down to the personalities. It comes down to the kind of country we are going to have. And in the third debate, the one that took a break from the petty haranguing of media lackeys like Lester Holt and Martha Raddatz, the issues took center stage.

    The core issue came into focus with the very first question asked by Chris Wallace. Wallace asked Hillary and Trump if their vision for the Supreme Court was based on the Constitution or not. Hillary launched into a spiel about a Supreme Court that would stand for class warfare and gay rights. The only time she mentioned the Constitution was when she insisted that the Senate was constitutionally obligated to confirm Obama’s nominee. That is her vision of the Constitution; a document that grants her power to reshape the country without regard to the Founders or any previously existing rights or freedoms.

    It fell to Trump to speak of justices who would “interpret the Constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted”. And that is the core issue. Personalities and politicians come and go. Today’s trending topic has been forgotten a day later. Outrages explode like fireworks and then fizzle out.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264564/frightening-preview-hillarys-america-daniel-greenfield

      • Yes, didn’t you love her answer about the Supreme Court?
        Abortion and gun control. That’s pretty straightforward.
        That’s a coup.

  31. This is what happens when you get your medical expertise by reading the Koran:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/imdad-ali-pakistan-death-penalty-execution-supreme-court-schizophrenia-not-a-mental-disorder-un-a7372261.html

    Pakistan’s highest court has ruled that schizophrenia does not qualify as a “mental disorder” under the country’s legal definition, paving the way for a mentally ill man’s execution.

    The United Nations warned it would be against international law to hang Imdad Ali, who was sentenced to death over the murder of a religious scholar in 2002.

  32. The Western Intelligentsia and the Islamist Threat
    Turning a blind eye to the dangers within.

    Currently, the West is being confronted with foreboding challenges by Islamic States and Islamist groups of one kind or another, all of which view Western democracy and the Western way of life with abhorrence. Perversely, no matter how provocative and despicable the behavior and pronouncements of such entities, the general response of the prevailing Western intelligentsia and some of their governments ranges from sheer indifference and/or disbelief to a search for offenses committed by their own countries in “provoking” an anti-Western animus and, finally, to the actual proffering of assistance to the Jihadists.

    While the majority of individual Muslims in the West are decent, law-abiding citizens, the nature of their communal structures and leadership gives rise to concerns that are briskly swept under the carpet. Many, if not most, mosques are officiated by imams trained abroad in madrasas that inculcate a belligerent attitude to Western values and lifestyles, which, in turn, gives rise to Islamic extremism. To the Muslim communities’ credit, Islamist groups have usually been small in size, drawing on only a limited number of active adherents. The Islamists do, however, pose serious security threats and are potentially capable of inflicting appreciable harm.

    What compounds the problem is the fact that too few Muslim community leaders are genuinely utterly and unequivocally appalled by any manifestation of Islamic terrorism, no matter who the slain and injured happen to be. In the wake of the slaying on October 2, 2015, of a NSW police department employee by a young Muslim gunman, the Grand Mufti of Australia rationalized the incident as being due to “racism, Islamophobia, curtailing freedoms through securitization, duplicitous foreign policies and military intervention.”[1] Needless to say, the Grand Mufti made no reference to any features within his own Muslim community that could possible engender terrorism.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264545/western-intelligentsia-and-islamist-threat-leslie-stein

  33. Hillary’s Achilles’ Heel
    Benghazi exposed her role in promoting Islam’s global ascendance.

    Nov. 8 may very well go down in history as the day Americans signed our nation’s death certificate. We the people need to understand what is at stake in the most important election in U.S. history. A Hillary Clinton vote will mean the death of free speech, the right to bear arms, and the right to life for the unborn. Most significantly, a vote for Mrs. Clinton will give birth to an Islamic theocracy and its supremacist ideology here in America.

    Donald Trump still has time to expose Mrs. Clinton as the candidate whose subversive policies will bring this great nation to its knees. It’s time for Mr. Trump to get specific and go for her Achilles heel — Benghazi.

    Russia has purportedly exposed Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as complicit for the turmoil in the Middle East, and now they are working feverishly to quiet those revelations by claiming that Russia is hijacking the election. Mr. Trump must use his platform to further expose the ugly truth about Hillary Clinton and her dangerous agenda. If he doesn’t, we have everything to lose.

    Mrs. Clinton understands full well that Benghazi is a representation of what happens when world leaders play with fire — and that fire is Islam. The attack on our embassy and CIA compound in Libya was not an isolated Muslim attack on Americans because of an inflammatory video against Islam. Rather, it was a demonstration of what happens when two sects of Islam are represented by powerful nations, each side seeking the defeat of the other. Though the attack on Sept. 11, 2012 and the deaths of four men seem to be a mere bump in the road for Mrs. Clinton, the precipitating event and the aftermath reverberate today.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264557/hillarys-achilles-heel-dr-mark-christian

      • The election is just around the corner, when Trump wins we will be able to breath easier. Although the media will start screaming worse then ever, and the leftist agitators will start their own terror attacks.

        • We can’t afford a crooked H win.
          It may seem unacceptable to many people by the time this thing’s over. Then, who knows?
          notice the careful phrasing?

  34. https://www.rt.com/news/363493-belgium-f16-aleppo-airstrike/

    Russia insists two Belgium warplanes flying from an Air Force base in Jordan attacked a village in Syria, citing radar data. Belgium denies conducting any airstrikes.
    Brussels’ continued denial of the jets movements in the area is Belgian Defense Minister Steven Vandeput “deliberately deceiving people in Belgium and elsewhere in the world, or his subordinates and the Americans are lying to the leadership of Belgium,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said.

  35. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-india-media-idUSKCN12K0P7?il=0

    Pakistan will ban all Indian content on television and radio channels from Friday, its media regulator said, stepping up media tit-for-tat bans that followed a spike in tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

    The blanket ban drew immediate criticism from viewers and cable operators in Pakistan, a nation of 190 million people where Indian soap operas and Bollywood’s elaborate song-and-dance sequences are wildly popular.