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  1. To finish:

    What penalty awaits those who so willingly misconstrue the malign intentions and exploits of this world’s most abject underclass? Shall the rational citizens of Western nations simply cast aside all of their perfectly justified apprehensions and allow into their midst the most destructive elements of our planet’s Third World?

    Finally, will none of this result in conflicts that may well shroud WWII in a robe of near-benign righteousness? It is up to us in the counterjihad to avert this senseless and avoidable conflagration.

    Please be assured that I do not envy us this nearly impossible task.

  2. Montreal mosques hold open doors to foster understanding in wake of tragedy

    Two weeks after a gunman killed six Muslim men as they prayed in Quebec City, mosques around Montreal held open door events aimed at fostering understanding in the wake of the tragedy.

    The Quebec City shooting was a “wake up call” that highlighted the need for more dialogue between cultural communities, according to Salam Elmenyawi, president of the Muslim Council of Montreal.

    “We want to deconstruct these false stereotypes and break that link of disinformation and misinformation within our society,” he said Sunday at the Assuna Annabawiyah mosque.

    “There’s a lot of it, and now we know it’s not just talk.”

    About 14 mosques were to participate in Sunday’s event, which in some cases included meals, presentations, and meet-and-greets.

    Visitors arriving at the Assuna mosque in the Parc-Extension neighborhood were offered Tim Hortons coffee and doughnuts, spicy tea, and answers to their questions.

    One visitor, who only identified herself as Luce and indicated she was 77, said the shooting in Quebec City prompted her to visit a mosque for the first time.

    “It makes you wonder what you can do to be closer to these people instead of looking at them from a distance,” she said.

    Luce, who attended with her daughter Yolande, said she asked mosque members about their beards and attire, as well as “why they don’t shake hands with women.”

    She said she was told the no-touching policy was “all about keeping the respect between men and women” — which she deemed a “very good answer.”

    Another visitor, Julie Bruneau, came with a group of family and friends that included her seven-year-old son.

    She said the event was a chance for him to learn more about diversity, especially since several of his schoolmates were Muslim.

    “That’s a reality he shares with his classmates, so I think (the event) is a way to create those links and discover new spaces,” she said.

    In the main hall, several dozen people browsed through pamphlets with titles like “an illustrated guide to Islam” and “what do they say about the Qur’an?” and chatted with the mosque’s regulars.

    When the call to prayer came, visitors were invited to a balcony to watch as some 80 men bowed down facing Mecca for the afternoon ritual.

    One visitor, 58-year-old Isabelle Larrivee, said it was a chance to meet her neighbours. She said she’s already familiar with Islam after spending 12 years in Morocco, but appreciated the mosque’s offer to demystify its activities to the public.

    “I think its really important to open things, for ordinary people who don’t know the Muslim culture to see, to talk and to realize there are some very welcoming and nice people here.”

    Elmenyawi said the rise of far-right politics show that all communities must try harder to understand each other.

    “We want to work together to make sure the effect of these people will be very little,” he said.

    At the Islamic Centre of Quebec in the Saint-Laurent borough, Danish Muzaffar said he wanted people to know they can visit any day, not just once a year.

    “It’s always been an open house,” he said as he set out a tray of vegetarian samosas. “As long as you take off your shoes at the entrance, you’re welcome.”

    https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/02/12/montreal-mosques-hold-open-door-events-to-foster-understanding-in-wake-of-shooting.html

    video :

    http://video.theloop.ca/watch/mosques-across-montreal-open-doors-/5320874558001

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    The Reward for going to a Mosk by Sheikh Abdel Salam El-Menyawi

      • Yucki– well, they did not violate the sanctity of the Jewish Sabbath. “Don’t ascribe to malice, that which can best be explained by incompetence.”

        • Jews who painted swastikas on their store windows were surprised with broken glass the morning after Krisallnacht. Those charming, assimilated barely-Jews were craven and naive.

          These tikun-olam Jews are flat-out stupid.

        • Don’t ascribe to malice, that which can best be explained by incompetence.

          I’ve always liked:

          Do not attribute to conspiracy that which can be explained by stupidity.

    • BREITBART – Anti-Trump ‘Jewish Rally for Refugees’ Organizer Funded by Obama Government to Resettle Refugees

      TEL AVIV – A Jewish group that organized a “Jewish Rally for Refugees” in New York on Sunday was massively funded by the federal government under the Obama administration to resettle refugees.

      In attendance at the rally was Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who used the platform to compare the Trump administration to the Third Reich.

      “Those same people who sent Jews back to the Third Reich never left,” stated Ellison. “We will stand up, we will stand together and we will say, refugees are welcome here.”

      Those statements are instrumental coming from Ellison, a politician who in the 1980s and ’90s was reportedly associated with the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam and defended the radical group’s controversial leader, Louis Farrakhan.

      Other speakers at Sunday’s rally included New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

      De Blasio also channeled the Holocaust at the event.

      The mayor stated:

      From the German pastor Martin Niemoller at the time of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, he famously said: “First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

      I bring that to you today because this is why we need solidarity. An attack on refugees is an attack on all of us. An attack on our Constitution hurts all of us. Any attempt to divide people by religion hurts all of us. And it leads us to someplace dangerous. And that’s why we stand up against President Trump’s executive order.

      The New York rally was organized by the nonprofit HIAS, which describes itself as standing “for a world in which refugees find welcome, safety, and freedom.”

      Unmentioned in much of the news media coverage about the rally is that HIAS has taken in large sums of federal grants to help resettle refugees.

      Haaretz, for example, described HIAS as “the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees.”

      The Jerusalem Post described the organization as a “global Jewish nonprofit organization that works to protect refugees.”

      Local Fox 5 simply labeled HIAS as “the global Jewish nonprofit.”

      HIAS is more than that, as this reporter previously documented.

      HIAS specializes in refugee resettlement and in 2015 received 65.3 percent of its annual $25 million budget from government grants.

      Annual grants include funds from the State Department and the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and Human Services. Another major donor is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

      In 2015, the State Department provided $17,663,704 and the Department of Health and Human Services gave another $2,765,195.

      The fiscal year 2014 saw a $16,959,850 State Department grant and $2,546,469 in funds from the Department of Health and Human Services.

      Guidestar documented that in 2013, HIAS received $16,261,661 from government and intergovernmental agencies and took in a total of $31,218,870 in revenue.

      In 2012, $14,707,399 in government grants was donated to HIAS and the organization produced $27,677,240 in revenue.

      In 2008, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, a division of the UN Economic and Social Council, officially accepted HIAS as an accredited NGO.

      HIAS openly states on its website that it is the “only Jewish organization designated by the federal government to undertake” refugee resettlement, which “lies at the heart of HIAS’ work.”

      The group is partners with local Refugee Assistance Organizations around the country to “ensure successful integration.”

      “Although this can be a long process requiring the participation of many actors, refugees bring the resilience and resourcefulness that saved their lives at home,” HIAS relates.

      HIAS was an acronym that previously stood for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and it originally worked to resettle Jewish emigrants from Russia. It dropped the full title and only goes by the acronym now. Mark Hetfield, HIAS president and CEO,told the Washington Jewish Week in December 2014 the word “Hebrew” was exclusionary and outdated, comparing it with the use of the word “colored” to refer to African Americans.

      http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/02/13/anti-trump-jewish-rally-for-refugees-organizer-funded-by-obama-government-to-resettle-refugees/

    • How about all of the lies the Dems always tell about the Republicans? Try calling out the left for their fake news.

  3. No word when evacuation order for 188,000 will be lifted as Oroville threat remains

    Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html#storylink=cpy

    Yolo County opens shelter

    Yolo County has opened a shelter to assist those affected by the Oroville Dam spillway evacuation at the Yolo County Fairgrounds in the home arts building, 1250 East Gum Avenue, Woodland.
    Massive state response in place for dam emergency

    State officials have activated hundreds of people to help deal with the Oroville Dam crisis, sending 100 California Highway Patrol officers to the region and placing 1,200 California National Guard members on notice that they may be needed.

    Three CHP helicopters and two aircraft have been dispatched to help with search and rescue, if needed, swift water rescue teams have been sent to the area and military police are being dispatched to help.

    “The situation has been stressful,” said Mark Ghilarducci, director of the state Office of Emergency Services. “It’s complex and rapidly changing, so we are doing everything we can to support Butte County and the local authorities to be able to address most of the folks who have been displaced.”
    Main spillway holding even as massive releases continue

    The huge water releases that officials began to thwart an emergency at the Oroville Dam do

    Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article132332499.html#storylink=cpy

  4. Hungary welcomes ‘real refugees’: Europeans escaping EU policies
    By LU Staff February 12, 2017

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says he’s open to accepting refugees, but only those fleeing liberal policies in Western Europe.

    Orban used his annual state of the nation address Friday to list five threats Hungary faces, including EU policies and Hungarian billionaire George Soros.

    He also welcomed Europeans who are fed up with their liberal governments to move to Hungary.

    “Of course we can give shelter to the real refugees: Germans, Dutch, French, Italians, scared politicians and journalists,” Orban said in his address. “Christians who had to flee their own country, those people who want to find here the Europe that they lost at their home.”

    Hungary recently introduced plans to put migrants in indefinite detention while their asylum applications are processed. The migrants will be housed in shipping containers to stop them from moving freely across Europe.

    “The foxes are let into the henhouse to compete freely, and nobody can stop the foxes winning time after time,” Orban said.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/02/12/hungary-welcomes-real-refugees-europeans-escaping-eu-policies/

  5. DAILY MAIL More than 50 million Muslims are willing to support those who carry out terror attacks to defend their religion, migration expert warns the EU

    Professor Ruud Koopmans of the Netherlands warned the EU on Monday to block the entry of any refugees whose identity cannot be categorically confirmed
    Koopmans said of the 1billion adult Muslims in the world, half are conservative
    He claimed that of these 500million conservative Muslims, at least – and probably more – than 50million are willing to sanction violence
    The migration researcher stressed that not every one of them was ready to exert violence directly

    A migration expert warns that there are more than 50 million Muslims willing to accept violence and support those who carry out terror attacks to defend their religion.

    Professor Ruud Koopmans of the Netherlands warned the EU on Monday to block the entry of any refugees whose identity cannot be categorically confirmed.

    Koopmans said that of the 1billion adult Muslims in the world, ‘half of them are attached to an arch-conservative Islam which places little worth on the rights of women, homosexuals, and people of other faiths’.

    n an interview with a German news website he claimed that of these 500million conservative Muslims, at least – and probably more – than 50million are willing to sanction violence.

    The migration researcher stressed that not every one of them was ready to exert violence directly.

    But he added: ‘They support the radicals, they encourage them and provide them shelter or simply keep their mouths shut when they observe radicalization.’

    He says he considers his own estimate of 50million ‘an understatement’, citing studies that show eight per cent of German Muslims agreed to the use of violence against ‘Infidels,’ while in his own country 11 per cent of Muslims agreed with the statement: ‘There are situations in which it is acceptable for me from the perspective of my religion, that I use violence’.

    In several Islamic countries, 14 per cent of local Muslims think suicide attacks against innocents are ‘sometimes’ or ‘often’ justified to defend Islam, said Koopmans, citing a study by the US-based Pew Research Center.

    I’m very conservative with my estimate of 50million violent Muslims,’ added Professor Koopmans.

    The expert sees a ‘clear difference’ between anti-Islam baiting and justified criticism of Islam.

    He went on: ‘There is nothing wrong with foreign cultures, as long as they are looking for the connection to the majority in society and actually enrich our countries.

    ‘But those who are here to spread their medieval beliefs, which are unfortunately widespread in Islamic countries, must be met with zero tolerance’.

    He stressed that the EU should be much more careful to let suspected Islamists have uncontrolled travel to and within Europe.

    He sad refugees and migrants should be placed initially in transit zones, ‘as long as their identity is unclear’.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4219154/Some-Muslims-support-carry-terror-attacks.html

  6. UN Watch – PICS – Walk of shame: Sweden’s “first feminist government” don hijabs in Iran

    […]The scene in Tehran on Saturday was also a sharp contrast to Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin’s feminist stance against U.S. President Donald Trump, in a viral tweet and then in a Guardian op-ed last week, in which she wrote that “the world need strong leadership for women’s rights.”

    https://www.unwatch.org/walk-shame-swedens-first-feminist-government-don-hijabs-iran/

    • Sweden defends officials wearing headscarves in Iran (BBc, Feb 13, 2017)
      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38956212

      “The Swedish government has defended its decision to have its officials wear headscarves during a trip to Iran, saying that failing to do so would have broken the law.

      Trade Minister Ann Linde led a business team last week and faced criticism for wearing a headscarf, or hijab.

      Sweden says it has the world’s first “feminist government”.

      A prominent Iranian women’s rights activist and Swedish politicians have criticised the decision.

      “It is ruinous to what is called a feminist foreign policy” said Liberal party chief Jan Bjorklund, who said Iran oppressed women through legislation.

      The Swedish government should have requested that female members of the delegation should not have been required to wear a headscarf, he said, and that if the request were not granted any trade agreements should have been signed in Sweden or a third country.

      But Ms Linde told the Aftonbladet newspaper that she was not willing to break Iranian law. She said that since the only other option would be to send an all-male delegation, she was required to wear a headscarf…”

    • Fury as feminist Swedish minister wears HIJAB as she ‘bows down to oppressive’ Iran (express, Feb 13, 2017)
      http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/766744/Swedish-minister-Ann-Linde-feminist-hijab-Iran-oppressive

      “A SWEDISH minister known for her feminist stance has been accused of bowing to “oppressive” Iran by wearing a Muslim headscarf during an official visit to the Middle East.

      Trade Minister Ann Linde, who is well-known as a women’s rights campaigner, has sparked outrage in Sweden after she was pictured with her female colleagues wearing a hijab during a trade visit in Iran.

      The Swedish women all put headscarves on when they landed on Iranian soil over the weekend for a visit led by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven aimed at encouraging economic co-operation between the two countries.

      Photos show the women wearing scarves over their heads meeting President Hasan Rouhani and eight ministers, as well as in meetings where banners read “distinguished guests from Sweden welcome to IDRO”.

      The move has sparked criticism from fellow Swedish politicians who have called the headscarf oppressive and said the decision for a “feminist government” to wear a hijab sends a highly negative signal to Iranian women fighting for the right to not wear a veil.

      Ms Linde said she did not want to violate the law in Iran where it has been mandatory for women to wear headdress since the 1979 revolution…”

      • A SWEDISH minister known for her feminist stance has been accused of bowing to “oppressive” Iran by wearing a Muslim headscarf during an official visit to the Middle East.

        Trade Minister Ann Linde, who is well-known as a women’s rights campaigner, has sparked outrage in Sweden after she was pictured with her female colleagues wearing a hijab during a trade visit in Iran.

        Don’t ya just love it when Liberal cognitive dissonance bites Leftists squarely on their hypocritical, posturing butts?

        When will Feminists finally learn admit that Islam is one of their most dire enemies? Not even despicable Hispanic machismo brings anywhere near the same amount of harm into the lives of women—although it’s not for want of trying.

        Notice how all of those women marchers against Trump had not a single placard denouncing Islam’s institutionalized misogyny or murdering of homosexuals? It is this sort of moral and ethical hypocrisy which totally undermines whatever legitimate complaints that modern women express.

        Considering that Sweden has become Rape Capitol of the World™, courtesy of its non-asslaminating Islamic immigrants, Trade Minister Ann Linde’s kowtowing to Iran’s offensively sexist attitude towards women makes this sordid episode doubly meaningful. Just not in any complimentary sense at fecking all.

        • Sweden’s got an awfully heavy karmic burden.
          Goes way back.
          In order to keep my soul as clean of Schadenfreude[*] as possible, I’ll politely avert my eyes, when push comes to shove.
          …….
          [*] Though I’m pretty sure the Old Testament tribe of which I’m a member doesn’t count Schadenfreude as a sin. The Psalms and The Prophets really get into the retribution-thing, old-fashioned justice. Or fantasies of same.

          Who knows? It might be good mental hygiene.

      • What in Iranian law forbids Prime Minister Stefan Löfven from donning a headscarf? Certainly, Swedish law doesn’t.

  7. Black Lives Matter co-founder appears to label white people ‘defects’

    By Anthony Furey, Postmedia Network

    TORONTO – A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto argued that white people are “recessive genetic defects” and purportedly mused about how the race could be “wiped out,” according to a post on what appears to be her Facebook page.

    Yusra Khogali has faced increased scrutiny over the past year after BLM Toronto gained political influence following their disruption of the Toronto Pride parade and confrontations with Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne.

    On Friday, Toronto Police announced they would not participate in this year’s upcoming parade. This has been a longstanding demand of BLM TO and one that the board of Pride Toronto recently backed in a controversial vote.

    Khogali has a track record of inflammatory, divisive rhetoric.

    Only last week during a protest in front of the US consulate Khogali shouted into a microphone that “Justin Trudeau is a white supremacist terrorist” and urged the crowd to “rise up and fight back.”

    “Look at us, we have the numbers,” she said.

    She also faced controversy in the news for a tweet posted a year ago stating: “Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today.”

    While these remarks alarmed many Canadians, they pale in comparison to a statement numerous sources forwarded to the Sun that Khogali appears to have posted on Facebook in late 2015.

    “Whiteness is not humxness,” the statement begins. “infact, white skin is sub-humxn.” The post goes on to present a genetics-based argument centred on melanin and enzyme.

    “White ppl are recessive genetic defects. this is factual,” the post reads towards the end. “white ppl need white supremacy as a mechanism to protect their survival as a people because all they can do is produce themselves. black ppl simply through their dominant genes can literally wipe out the white race if we had the power to.”

    http://www.torontosun.com/2017/02/11/black-lives-matter-co-founder-appears-to-label-white-people-defects

    Please click through and read the rest ot the article, it is worth your time.

  8. Parents of People Killed by Muslim Hit Trump for Calling Murders Terrorism
    Sure, he was screaming “Allahu akbar,” but who doesn’t?
    February 13, 2017
    Robert Spencer

    The Trump administration recently released a list of terror attacks it said were unreported or underreported by the establishment media, and the parents of two of the victims of one of the listed attacks were enraged. Last August a Muslim named Smail Ayad, screaming “Allahu akbar,” stabbed two people to death in an Australian hostel. Not only was this not terrorism, we are supposed to believe, but President Trump is a terrible person for suggesting otherwise.

    Rosie Ayliffe, the mother of 21-year-old victim Mia Ayliffe-Chung, wrote an open letter to Trump, declaring: “My daughter’s death will not be used to further this insane persecution of innocent people.” The Washington Post added helpfully that yes, “Smail Ayad had yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ during the attack,” but “he had also rambled incoherently, stabbed a dog and ‘was apparently infatuated with’ her daughter.”

    In her open letter to President Trump, Ayliffe added: “I have spoken to friends of Mia’s and other backpackers who worked long days in the fields with Ayad, and none of them ever saw him put down a prayer mat. Salat or prayer is the second of five pillars of Islam, and calls for 5 daily rituals of ablution, prayer and prostration. An Islamic fundamentalist by definition must respect the five pillars of Islam. It would be very hard to imagine someone managing to perform this ritual five times a day in the close confines of Home Hill Hostel without witnesses….Any fool can shout Allahu Akbar as they commity [sic] a crime.”

    Les Jackson, the father of the other victim, Tom Jackson, agreed, and excoriated Trump for not doing his homework: “I’m pretty sure he and his advisors know full well — or could very easily verify — that Tom and Mia died not as the result of an act of terror but rather through the actions of a disturbed individual. Of course, that doesn’t suit his agenda.”

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265776/parents-people-killed-muslim-hit-trump-calling-robert-spencer

  9. Lefty Parents Worried Trump’s 4-Year-Old Grandson Will Infect Theirs With Trumpism
    February 13, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    Trumpsim is the new cooties. No one can quite define what it is. But they are very afraid of it.

    One of the anonymous contributors to UrbanBaby.com said her son had gotten into Buckley [School], but she didn’t want to send him there because a son of Donald Trump Jr.’s (likely 4-year-old Spencer Frederick) is said to be going to kindergarten there in the fall.

    “They will be in the same classroom and I don’t think I can deal with this. Birthday parties, etc.,” the mother wrote.

    A third mother wrote: “You almost have to decline. It sounds like it will drive you crazy .?.?. You want to spend nine years worried that DS [darling son] is getting infected with Trumpism?”

    How does a 4-year-old boy infect anyone with Trumpism? What is Trumpism besides a cutesy neologism that represents a long trend of the left accusing every Republican president of being the next Hitler?

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/265782/lefty-parents-worried-trumps-4-year-old-grandson-daniel-greenfield

  10. Germany’s Migrant Rape Crisis: January 2017
    Tolerating a “rape culture” to sustain a politically correct stance on mass migration

    by Soeren Kern
    February 13, 2017 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9934/germany-rape-january

    German authorities are investigating reports that dozens of Arab men sexually assaulted female patrons at bars and restaurants in downtown Frankfurt on New Year’s Eve 2016.

    The attacks, in which mobs of migrants harassed women in a “rape game” known as “taharrush gamea” (Arabic for “collective sexual harassment”), are said to have mirrored the mass sexual assaults of women in Cologne and other German cities on New Year’s Eve 2015.

    A report published by Bild on February 5 alleged that some 900 migrants, many of whom were intoxicated, gathered at the central train station in Frankfurt on December 31, 2016. Police blocked their access to the Mainufer, a downtown pedestrian area along the Main River and the site of a large New Year’s celebration, so the migrants walked to the Fressgasse, another downtown pedestrian zone known for its restaurants and bars.

    Witnesses said that groups of up to 50 migrants of “Arab or North African” appearance entered several establishments and began sexually assaulting female patrons. They also stole handbags and jackets, threw bottles and firecrackers, and, for good measure, finished their victims’ drinks.

    Frankfurt Police insist they did not know about the incidents until Bild, the newspaper with the largest circulation in Germany, reported on them. It remains unclear why the victims waited more than a month before coming forward with their complaints. A police spokesperson said the claims are “worrying” and “cannot be excluded.”

    Some say the incidents in Frankfurt harken back to those in Cologne, where police covered up the sexual assaults for several days, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments, until local media reported on them. Others question why no cellphone videos or photographs surfaced on social media to corroborate the claims.

  11. Islamic Terror and the U.S. Temporary Stay on Immigration

    by Uzay Bulut
    February 13, 2017 at 4:30 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9932/islamic-terror-immigration

    In San Bernardino on December 2, 2015, 14 people were murdered and 22 others seriously wounded in a terrorist attack. The perpetrators were Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple. Farook was an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health department employee. Malik was a Pakistani-born lawful permanent resident of the United States.

    Among the victims of the terror attack was Bennetta Bet-Badal, an Assyrian Christian woman born in Iran in 1969. She fled to the U.S. at age 18 to escape Islamic extremism and the persecution of Christians that followed the Iranian revolution.

    “This attack,” stated the Near East Center for Strategic Engagement (NEC-SE), “showcases how Assyrians fled tyranny, oppression, and persecution for freedom and liberty, only to live in a country that is also beginning to be subject to an ever-increasing threat by the same forms of oppressors.”

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9932/islamic-terror-immigration

  12. Thanks to Security Officials, These Terror Attacks Were Stopped
    Clarion Project thanks security personnel in the U.S. and abroad for preventing these five terror attacks.

    Mohammed Jalloh, 26, of Sterling, Virginia was sentenced to 11 years in prison for providing material support to a terrorist organization. After two attempts to join the Islamic State overseas, Jalloh returned to the U.S. and talked to an undercover FBI agent about carrying out a Fort Hood-style attack. He also sent hundreds of dollars to an undercover FBI employee whom he believed was a member of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

    Four people were arrested in southern France in a raid which French officials say prevented an “imminent attack.” The arrests included a 16-year-old girl who pledged allegiance to ISIS in a recent video posted on social media. The raid uncovered a bombing-making factory stocked with chemicals used in the November 2015 attacks in Paris and the March 2016 attack in Brussels carried out by ISIS.

    Two men in New York pleaded guilty to planning to bomb prominent targets in New York City with pressure cookers. Munther Omar Saleh, 21, of Queens, who was studying electrical circuitry, was spotting by police scoping out the George Washington Bridge two days in a row, visiting a spy store in Queens and searching for disguises. Fareed Mumuni, 22, of Staten Island, was given the go-ahead by ISIS to perpetrate a suicide attack against security officials who were following the two.

    https://www.clarionproject.org/news/thanks-security-officials-these-terror-attacks-were-stopped#

    • Two men in New York pleaded guilty to planning to bomb prominent targets in New York City with pressure cookers.

      Weren’t the Boston terrorist murders enough to convince people that all this “pressure cooker” nonsense is just a predictable extension of Islam (pure and simple) weaponizing every last artifact of Western Civilization?!?

      Whether it be our priceless Constitutional rights, gun ownership, access to ammonium nitrate fertilizer, or just the rental of a fecking truck, when will all of these bleeding-heart loons figure out that, THERE IS NO ADEQUATE PROTECTION AGAINST THOSE WITH HARMFUL INTENT WHO YOU INDISCRIMINATELY INVITE INTO YOUR MIDST.

      • For most of them it will take direct attacks on their families or the families of friends and in some cases (like those in the article posted earlier today) this won’t work.

  13. Georgetown Professor Condones Rape And Slavery Under Sharia
    No flap has ensued at Georgetown University after one of its professors declared, ‘It’s not immoral for one human to own another human.’

    A Georgetown professor of Islamic studies sent shockwaves through the academic and secular world for a lecture he gave essentially condoning Islamic slavery and nonconsensual sex (that’s academic for “rape”).

    That would have been the opening sentence to comment on such a lecture if we lived in normal times – which we don’t. The lecture in question actually created very little stir – neither at the university where he is employed nor elsewhere save for some very astute blogs (see here and here) deconstructing the professor’s astonishing breadth of obfuscation.

    In a lecture (see below) at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (a Muslim-Brotherhood-linked group) and in subsequent questions and answers following his talk, Georgetown Islamic Studies professor Jonathan Brown, a convert to Islam, declares:

    “It’s not immoral for one human to own another human.”

    He waxes poetic about the great life a slave has under sharia law (versus slavery under white men in the South) without actually defining that life. Perhaps, as Clarion Project has done, he should get his information from a Yazidi girl from Iraq.

    https://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/georgetown-professor-condones-rape-and-slavery-under-sharia

    • 14-Year-Old Yazidi Girl Raped by ISIS Speaks Out
      Islamic State terrorists continue buying and selling women and girls in their vicious slave markets. One young woman tells her story.

      When ISIS men entered the village of Kuju, which is in Sinjar, they kidnapped the girls and divided them by age.

      One of those captured, now aged 14, escaped and told her story at the Committee for Peaceful Coexistence organized by a group of Muslim clerics in cooperation with Sulaymaniyah University.

      She recounted how she was raped dozens of times by an ISIS fighter with Iraqi citizenship.

      After he was killed in one of the battles his father also started raping her. He eventually sold her in one of the slave markets regularly held by ISIS.

      Before being sold she was kept for two years in a holding camp. She said she saw no traits during that time to suggest the ISIS men are Muslims.

      While she was in the holding camp she became acquainted with a nine-year-old girl who told her that she was kidnapped and then also raped and tortured barbarically. Even the elderly did not escape rape. She became acquainted with a woman aged 65 who cried because she had been tortured and raped.

      This is the everyday reality of the women and girls still suffering as slaves under Islamic State rule.

      https://www.clarionproject.org/news/14-year-old-yazidi-girl-raped-isis-speaks-out

  14. Pakistan: 16 killed, 53 hurt as suicide bomber hits Mall Road in Lahore

    At least 16 people were killed and 53 more injured when a suspected suicide bomber set off his explosives during a protest outside the Punjab Assembly on the main thoroughfare of the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday evening.

    The blast occurred as a large number of chemists and pharmaceutical manufacturers were staging a demonstration against a new drug control act on the Mall Road, where several key government buildings are located. It was not clear if the protest was the target of the blast.

    The media reported that the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, had claimed responsibility for the attack.

    Lahore’s traffic police chief Ahmad Mobin and two other senior police officials were among the dead, authorities said.

    Drone camera footage aired on Samaa TV?channel showed a powerful blast shortly after a man approached a group of protesters on the Mall Road. “Apparently it was a suicide blast, but police are still investigating to know the exact nature of the blast,” Punjab police spokesperson Nayab Haider told local media.

    The blast shattered windows of nearby buildings and some cars caught fire. Ambulances and fire tenders rushed to the scene as contingents of soldiers and paramilitary Pakistan Rangers were deployed. The injured were taken to Mayo Hospital and Ganga Ram Hospital.

    An Easter Day bombing in Lahore last year killed more than 70 people in a public park. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar had also claimed responsibility for that attack.

    Elsewhere in Pakistan, a roadside bomb killed two members of bomb disposal squad on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta, said police officer Abdur Razzaq Cheema. Another eight people were wounded, he said. A Taliban-linked group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, said it planted the bomb.

    http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/bomb-blast-in-lahore-s-mall-road-scores-injured-pakistan-media/story-kcbKWkdRdatPWX5yKMGtaN.html

    graphic:

  15. Pakistan police: Bomb kills 11 at protest rally in Lahore (abcnews, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/large-bomb-explodes-protest-rally-pakistans-lahore-45455181

    “A large bomb blast ripped through a protest rally in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding nearly 60 in an attack claimed by a breakaway Taliban faction.

    The blast occurred when a man on a motorcycle rammed into the crowd of hundreds of pharmacists, who were protesting new amendments to a law governing drug sales, local police official Zaheer Abbas said. He added that two senior police officers, including a former provincial counterterrorism chief, were among those killed.

    Sameer Ahmad, the Lahore deputy commissioner, said at least 11 people were killed and 58 wounded.

    A Taliban splinter group called Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claimed the attack in a text message, saying it was revenge for Pakistani military operations against Islamic militants in tribal regions along the Afghan border…”

  16. Austrian president brands Brexit voters THICK and CRAZY in extraordinary Brussels rant (express, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/766695/Brexit-news-Austrian-president-Alexander-Van-der-Bellen-Brussels-rant-EU-vote

    “AUSTRIA’S left-wing president today branded people who voted for Brexit “crazy” and “not particularly intelligent” during an extraordinary rant in Brussels.

    Green Party veteran Alexander Van der Bellen railed against the populism behind Britain’s decision to leave the EU as he went on the attack.

    He described his recent election victory against far-right candidate Norbert Hofer as evidence that you “can win against populism” and urged other EU chiefs to follow his lead…”

  17. Deported Albanian murderer is back in Britain and running a £40k-a-year car wash (express, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/766609/Deported-Albanian-murderer-immigration-Britain-car-wash

    “A CONVICTED murderer is living the high life on the streets of a British town after fleeing justice in Albania.

    And 43-year-old Selami Cokaj who escaped jail after stabbing a man to death in 1994 was supposed to have been deported from the UK in 2009.

    The vicious thug is using his own name after initially applying for asylum in the UK in 1997, posing as a refugee from Kosovo under the name Valton Gashi.

    He arrived in the UK after escaping jail just three years into his 20 year sentence for the horrific murder and armed robbery.

    In 2006, Cojak was finally rumbled by police, but was freed by magistrates as he used taxpayers money to fund a legal battle to remain in the UK for three years.

    His extradition process involved a legal battle that ended up with appeals being heard in the High Court and House of Lords.

    He was eventually deported in 2009 and sent back to his home country but the statute of limitations applied over his original sentence and he was freed in 2012.

    Now he’s back living in a four bedroom house, in Oadby, Leicestershire, running a car wash and garage that has an income of £40,000-a-year and is even a director registered at Companies House…”

  18. PARIS ERUPTS IN VIOLENCE: Many streets are NO-GO ZONES as five suburbs in flames (express, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/766635/Paris-riots-theo-immigration-violence-Aulnay-Sous-Bois

    “POLICE in Paris are struggling to cope with the fall out from a plague of riots which have kicked off in the city’s northern suburbs.

    Five large areas have been reduced to no go areas for the past five nights as masked men cause mayhem on the streets.

    Now there are fears the fall out from allegations of police brutality could spread all over the country as unrest in the city grows.

    Residents have been on lockdown as armed police tried to tackle the rioters who have caused millions of pounds of damage.

    Police were hit with molotov cocktails and the heavy metal balls used in the French game Petanque.

    And after setting cars and even a disability vehicle on fire the police have been forced to fire live rounds of bullets.

    A reporter for the French TV company BMTV was also injured after being attacked…”

    • I just listened to the 2-mins.
      This Stephen Miller is great!
      He may look like an egg – but – just think of what he’ll be after he’s hatched! When he’s old enough to qualify, maybe even President!

    • Trump National Security Advisor under fire for alleged contact with Russia
      Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton on the controversy over allegations National Security Advisor Mike Flynn lied about being in contact with the Russians before President Trump took office.

  19. Renzi to Italy’s feuding Democrats: Populists are the enemy (abcnews, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/renzi-italys-feuding-democrats-populists-enemy-45459034

    “Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi admonished his Democratic Party on Monday to stop its internal squabbling and focus instead on defeating the populist politicians and protectionist politics gaining popularity in Europe.

    Renzi repeatedly invoked the name of U.S. President Donald Trump while making a pitch to other top Democratic figures for a united front ahead of a national election that might come as soon as the spring.

    The country’s next Parliamentary election is scheduled for 2018, but calls for voters to go to the polls early have been rising from some opposition leaders, including far-right Northern League leader Matteo Salvini and comic-turned-populist Beppe Grillo of the 5-Star Movement.

    Opinion polls show the 5-Stars making headway in the movement’s bid to dethrone the Democrats as Italy’s top party.

    Renzi resigned as premier after losing a Dec. 4 referendum on some key reforms. He remains the Democrats’ leader, but more left-leaning elements of the party have criticized his leadership. Ex-Premier Massimo D’Alema, a former Communist, is among his biggest detractors.

    In his speech, Renzi reminded his Democratic critics to keep their focus on the 5-Star Movement and the smaller far-right parties wooing frustrated middle-class Italians disenchanted by years of virtually no economic growth.

    “The politics of fear” are fueling populists’ and far-right parties’ popularity, Renzi said, adding that the Democrats should concentrate on countering “Trumpism,” or “at least Grilloism.”

    “Have you seen the video of Marine Le Pen’s presentation?” Renzi asked, citing the fiery speech with which France’s far-right leader kicked off her presidential campaign.

    A previous Democratic leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, spoke about the declining fortunes of the middle class, saying “large inequality isn’t being stomached” by voters anymore…”

  20. Calls for shoppers to ‘BOYCOTT’ Debenhams after retailer announces plans to sell hijabs (express, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/766824/Italy-mayor-blocks-street-sand-protest-migrant-crisis

    “AN ITALIAN mayor has blocked the streets around a refugee centre in protest about the number of migrants arriving in his town.

    Raffaele Scarinzi, the mayor of Vitulano, ordered bags of sand to be dumped in the streets to block any new arrivals from coming to the town in southern Italy.

    Vitulano currently has one SPRAR (System for the Protection of Refugees and Asylum Seekers) centre which houses 30 migrants.

    But the mayor claimed there were not enough facilities set up to accommodate any more people and “too many” migrants arriving in the town…”

  21. Outrage as Geert Wilders says Islamic ideology ‘possibly more dangerous’ than Nazism (express, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/766820/Geert-Wilders-Islam-possibly-more-dangerous-Nazism-PVV-Mark-Rutte

    “GEERT Wilders has sparked controversy after he said that the Islamic ideology was “possibly even more dangerous” than Nazism.

    The far-right politician, the leader and founder of the Party for Freedom (PVV), also promised to close all mosques in the Netherlands, which he compared to “Nazi temples” and ban the Koran, if he was voted into power.

    The 53-year-old made the controversial comments during a 40-minute interview with the broadcaster WNL.

    He said: “This is a book which even contains more anti-Semitism than Mein Kampf. It is full of calls to violence.

    “If there would be any Nazi temples in the Netherlands everyone would be outraged if we would allow it. Islam does not belong in our country.”

    Mr Wilders, who has been dubbed the “Dutch Trump”, appears to have marginally softened his view on the Koran as previously he had stated that mere ownership of the holy book should be a crime but now seems to advocate banning it from bookstores and only allowing scholars access to it.

    Mr Wilders has gained public awareness with his “the Netherlands is ours again” and an 11-point programme which aims to “de-Islamise” the country and close the borders to immigrants…”

  22. Calls for shoppers to ‘BOYCOTT’ Debenhams after retailer announces plans to sell hijabs (express, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/766870/Debenhams-hijabs-Muslim-clothes-sale-UK-Department-store

    “HIJABS will be sold in UK department stores after retailer Debenhams announced it would become the first to stock the Islamic dress as part of a new range of Muslim clothing.

    The veil which is worn around the head and neck, will be launched first in the Oxford Street store before being rolled out to Birmingham’s Bullring, Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush, Manchester’s Trafford Centre and Leicester’s Highcross Shopping Centre.

    Tops, kimono wraps, caps, hijab pins and headscarves for Muslims will feature in the new range to be launched in May.

    London-based clothing brand Aab, which is behind the line, describes itself as selling ‘contemporary modest wear’ for women.

    As the new lines launch in the UK – Debenhams will open stores in Dubai, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran, Indonesia and Malaysia.

    Jeanette Whithear, of Debenhams, said: “Adding the high quality fashion range to our product mix enables us to offer collections that are highly relevant in both international markets and to our domestic customers.

    “This is a step closer to creating a product offer that caters for broader customer needs.”

    The move has been both embraced and heavily criticised.

    Some defended the store for allowing women to “choose” their clothing – others were outranged and demanded a “boycott” of the store.

    One Twitter user said: “[Debenhams] have no problem with representing females as chattels of men to be covered up from view.”

    Some said they would no longer use the store…”

    Another user wrote: “They already have their own private retail outlets for these items is there any need for a national chain to start socking them?”…”

  23. BE AFRAID: The Left’s Resistance Movement Is EXACTLY as Orwell Depicted It

    By:
    John Nolte
    February 11, 2017
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    Proving once again that irony will never die, through their Resistance Movement, American Leftists have embraced George Orwell’s 1984. Let’s start with the biggie, let’s open with how truly Orwellian it is for the Left to pretend they are on the side of 1984’s angels.

    After all, Orwell’s seminal work is a cautionary tale aimed directly at the king of all Leftists, Josef Stalin, at the immorality of stripping one’s individualism in service to the State — this includes the horrors of an all-powerful central government (that knows what’s best for us), speech and thought policing, endless wars, and the elimination of the family and gender differences.
    VideoOrwell’s ‘1984’ back as bestseller

    We conservatives are not without our flaws, but we most certainly are not the ones running around portraying a centralized federal government as the solution to every problem, policing language, brutalizing thought-apostates, seeking the destruction of religious faith, spewing anti-science nonsense about gender-fluidity, or doing everything possible to eliminate the nuclear family — including the replacement of the father with a government check. We are also not the ones ginning up endless race and gender wars based on viralized lies and hoaxed hate crimes.

    And if you’re looking for Big Brother, for a 24/7 television-monster relentlessly dedicated to destroying Thought Criminals, or anyone who dares threaten the power of central government, what do you think our national news media is? Have you noticed how our media ceaselessly hounds an individual until he or she says what the media demands they say? Have you heard of CNN? And if you’re looking for a Two Minutes Hate… click here.

    It would be a few years before I read the novel, but I first saw Michael Radford’s brilliant film version of the Orwell classic the same year it was produced, in 1984. At the time, as engrossing as it was, the dystopian events depicted seemed preposterous. Here we were in the middle of Reagan’s golden-era. It is Morning in America and I’m supposed to worry about words being placed off limits, guys in dresses peeing next to my daughter, and the Christian Gospels being portrayed on 24/7 cable news s as bigotry?

    http://www.dailywire.com/news/13393/be-afraid-lefts-resistance-movement-exactly-orwell-john-nolte?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=021317-news&utm_campaign=position2

  24. Germany: Radicalisation a result of ‘fissures and trenches’ in society – SPD’s Schulz

    The Socialist Democratic Party of Germany’s (SPD) candidate for chancellor, Martin Schulz, addressed the topic of radicalisation at the party’s headquarters in Berlin on Monday, claiming it was a result of “fissures and trenches” in society.

    • BREITBART – GERMANY Security Personnel to Be Permanently Stationed at Cologne Cathedral

      Cologne Cathedral is to introduce stringent new security measures amid ongoing security fears, with worshippers’ bags being searched and private security drafted in.

      Cathedral provost Gerd Bachner told a press conference on Saturday that people “must not be afraid” when they visit the building.

      “We have to do more to ensure safety,” the provost said. However, that personnel should still act “proportionately”.

      From 1 March, there will be a ban on bringing large suitcases, travel bags, and hiking bags into the cathedral. Kölnischer Rundschau also reports that a private security firm will join the traditional cathedral vergers in policing worshippers, including performing random bag and pocket checks at the entrances to the building.

      The provost declined to say exactly what size bag would be too big, and the cathedral will not be installing security doors, he added.

      The cathedral square was the scene of mass sex assaults on New Year’s Eve 2015, with over 1,000 criminal complaints filed yet few arrests and convictions made.

      Statistics in December showed 1,222 criminal complaints had been investigated by authorities, some 500 of which were related to sexual assault. The rest were in relation to other violence offences, as well as theft.

      The area was also turned into a “security zone” in Christmas 2016, with armed police and checkpoints, to prevent terror attacks similar to the Berlin Christmas market attack.

      The security measures were the first time ever that bags of worshippers were searched, with the cathedral provost saying at the time: “You have to get used to it.”

      Now, some of those measures are to become permanent, although the cathedral says it has yet to sign a contract with a security firm.

      The security guards, the provost adds, need not be Catholic, although they will be expected to be Christian of some denomination.

      http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/13/security-personnel-permanently-stationed-cologne-cathedral/

      • This is a sign of the trouble the German Government expects in the future, personally if I had the ability I would order armed guards on all Christian and other non Moslem Churches.

  25. Germany: Hundreds form human chain to halt far-right rallies on WW2 Dresden bombing anniversary

  26. Minister visits Malmö as shootings continue (thelocal, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.thelocal.se/20170213/minister-visits-malm-as-shootings-continue

    “Sweden’s interior minister, Anders Ygeman, visited Malmö on Monday, just a day after another man was shot dead in the southern Swedish city.

    A 23-year-old man died in hospital after being shot outside a restaurant on the central Möllevången square at 6.40pm on Sunday. The man was known to police, with a series of previous convictions.

    He is the latest person killed in a spate of gun violence in Malmö this year. On January 3rd a 22-year-old man was shot dead in the Fosie district, just a week before a 16-year-old boy was killed in Rosengård.

    A janitor who was shot last week while clearing walkways from snow remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries.

    Interior Minister Anders Ygeman met police and local representatives in Malmö on Monday to discuss strategies to crack down on organized crime in the city.

    “We have to mobilize all resources in our society against these gangs. From the government side we have to tighten punishments, streamline prosecution and have more police officers,” he told broadcaster SVT ahead of the visit…”

  27. Le Pen calls for bilateral accord with Italy on migrants (ansamed, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2017/02/13/le-pen-calls-for-bilateral-accord-with-italy-on-migrants_f8883dcf-2e99-479f-8da2-8ab3e44c7233.html

    “French far-right Front National leader Marine Le Pen on Monday urged a bilateral agreement between Italy and France on migration issues.

    So long as Italian authorities continue to comply with orders from the EU, she said, ”it will be impossible to eliminate the problem on clandestine migration and the only way to regulate the phenomenon is a bilateral agreement between Italy and France to stop the migrant boats, secure them and take them back”. Le Pen was speaking at the Ventimiglia border crossing between Italy and France in response to a question on what her message was to Italian authorities in order to curb the phenomenon. ”It is necessary to radically change policies because for every time a clandestine migrant sets foot in the EU, there are at least ten others who are trying to do the same things,” the far-right French presidential candidate stressed, adding that it was a catastrophic situation resulting in ”3,000 deaths in the Mediterranean Sea”.”

  28. IHC bans Valentine’s Day celebrations (tribune, Feb 13, 2017)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1325299/ihc-bans-valentines-day-celebrations/

    “The Islamabad High Court on Monday imposed a ban on Valentine’s Day celebrations across the country.

    The order came during a hearing of a petition arguing that the day is not part of Muslim tradition and should be banned immediately.

    According to the court order, Valentine’s Day related festivities have been banned in public places as well as on an official level. Electronic and print media have also been directed to not give coverage to any promotion of the day celebrating love.

    The IHC directed the information ministry, federal government, Pemra chairman and chief commissioner to submit a reply within 10 days.

    Last year, President Mamnoon Hussain urged the nation not to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

    Valentine’s Day has no connection with our culture and it should be avoided,” the president had said. Mamnoon said that the day was not a part of Muslim tradition but of the West and urged that we must maintain our religious and national identity.”

  29. Pakistan carried out abuses, threats campaign to drive out 600,000 Afghans: HRW (khaama, Feb 13, 2017)
    http://www.khaama.com/pakistan-carried-out-abuses-threats-campaign-to-drive-out-600000-afghans-hrw-02873

    “The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed the Pakistani authorities for their abusive and threatening campaign which was carried out to drive out nearly 600,000 Afghans.

    The New York-based watch group said the Afghans were driven out since July 2016 and at least 365,000 registered refugees were also among those targeted in the campaign.

    According to a report by HRW, the expelled refugees now face spiraling armed conflict, violence, destitution, and displacement in Afghanistan.

    The report “Pakistan Coercion, UN Complicity: The Mass Forced Return of Afghan Refugees,” documents Pakistan’s abuses and the role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in promoting the exodus.

    “After decades of hosting Afghan refugees, Pakistan in mid-2016 unleashed the world’s largest recent anti-refugee crackdowns to coerce their mass return,” said Gerry Simpson, senior refugee researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the report.

    Simpson further added “Because the UN refugee agency didn’t stand up publicly to Pakistan’s bullying and abuses, international donors should step in to press the government and UN to protect the remaining Afghan refugees in Pakistan.”…”

  30. TTP publishes second issue of Vogue-style magazine (tribune, Feb 13, 2017)
    https://tribune.com.pk/story/1324956/propaganda-tool-ttp-publishes-second-issue-vogue-style-magazine/

    “In an effort to promote its ideology and update supporters about its latest actions in the country, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has brought out a high gloss, Vogue-style magazine, The Express Tribune has learnt.

    The first issue of Mujjallah magazine was published in November 2016 and reportedly distributed in Pakistan sometime in December last year. The inaugural issue had 56 pages.

    The second issue printed a couple of weeks ago is slicker and thicker and has more pages than the first one. The paper quality of the magazine is at par with that of Vogue, besides having fine printing quality.

    The cover carries bulletins of the banned outfit’s activities in Pakistan and also features reports on how to make bombs and other explosives…”

  31. EURO HUMILIATION: Germany ‘freaked out’ as Greece ‘could ditch EU currency for US DOLLAR’

    GREECE could be poised to humiliate Brussels by ditching the euro and instead choosing to be tied to the US dollar, Donald Trump’s reported pick as EU ambassador has sensationally claimed.

    Professor Ted Malloch revealed that senior Greek economists have enquired about the possibility of adopting the greenback if the country crashes out of the single currency.

    He asserted that Athens is so desperate it is prepared to tie itself to the dollar on the same terms as the likes of Puerto Rico if it means being able to quit the eurozone

    And Prof Malloch said German leaders including Angela Merkel were “freaked out” at the humiliating possibility of losing Greece to a rival currency, which would be a devastating blow to the EU project.

    Tying Greece temporarily to the US dollar would be one way for the authorities in Athens to ensure that its currency does not completely tank if it leaves the eurozone, as would likely occur with a reissued drachma.

    However critics may argue the country would be jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire, as it would simply be trading one currency it has no control over for another.

    In an explosive interview with a Greek broadcaster Prof Malloch said it would be the best thing for the the country’s people if it quits the eurozone, adding that the current situation is “simply unsustainable”.

    He told Skai TV: “I know some Greek economists who have even gone to leading think tanks in the US to discuss this topic and the question of dollarization.

    “Such a topic of course freaks out the Germans because they really don’t want to hear such ideas.”

    On the ongoing debt crisis, he added: “Greece might have to sever ties and do Grexit and exit the euro. It needs debt restructuring, it really needs debt relief, and I know people in Europe don’t want to hear that.

    “They need to reduce the debt overhanging and that means frankly something that people in Germany and elsewhere have not been able to accept, it means a haircut to the lenders and to the banks in Germany and probably, at least in my perspective, a return to the drachma.

    “So the problem then is who will manage that transition, and how, to avoid all the chaos and all the instability.”

    World leaders are locked in frantic talks over Greece’s finances yet again this month, with the country about to run out of cash unless a fresh bailout package can be agreed.

    Previous agreements have required Greece to sign up to devastating austerity measures which have gutted its economy, and have been heavily propped up with German cash.

    But Greece’s debt has now got so huge, and the sense of weariness is so great on both sides of the talks, that there are now fears a deal will not be reached, causing the country to crash out of the euro.

    Elsewhere Prof Malloch also expressed his opinion that the new US President will want to seal a trade deal with Britain before the rest of the European Union.

    He described negotiations with Brussels on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) as “literally dead” under Mr Trump’s administration.

    And in an interview with Inside US Trade he said a free trade pact with the United Kingdom could be signed, sealed and delivered within a year of negotiations beginning because the countries have so much common ground.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/766811/Eurozone-crisis-Greece-ditch-euro-US-dollar-Trump-Ted-Malloch