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  1. Every “Liberal” in western nations needs to witness the video of separation of church and state or more vividly separation of head and body.

  2. White House Temporarily Ordered to ‘Shelter in Place’ After Bomb Threat

    March 28, 2017

    Washington, D.C. – Trey Yingst, OAN Chief White House Correspondent

    Secret Service placed the White House on lockdown today after a man claimed to have a bomb outside the North entrance gates.

    The incident started around before 11am, outside the Treasury building next to the White House.

    A Secret Service agent told One America News that a man approached a crowd of people, claiming to have an explosive. Secret Service immediately evacuated the surrounding area and arrested the man. The suspect, described as a middle aged male, had a warrant out for his arrest, the agent said.

    “He is claiming he has a bomb,” the agent told One America News as the incident unfolded.

    According to the agent, a bomb squad then sent a robot to examine the package that the suspect was carrying.

    Once it was determined that it did not contain a bomb, the lockdown was lifted.

    http://www.oann.com/white-house-temporarily-ordered-shelter-place-bomb-threat/

  3. European Islam Converts Involved in All Resonant Terror Acts of 21st Century (sputniknews, Mar 29, 2017)
    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201703291052083025-european-islam-converts/

    “The terrorist act committed on March 22 in London by a former Christian Adrian Elms (Khalid Masood) still remains a mystery. What urged the native-born British citizen to convert to Islam, move to the Middle East, and later commit a mass murder in his own country?

    Statistics show that about 20 percent of the members of terrorist organizations in Europe were brought up in another faith. Former Christians and atheists go to war in Syria, provide financial and logistical assistance to terrorists, and become criminals themselves.

    In 2014, the French L’Express newspaper published intelligence data, according to which 23 percent of jihadists were Christians who converted to Islam in adulthood. Among the most notorious names are Maxime Hauchard and Michael Dos Santos, who executed an American hostage, Peter Kassig.

    The alarming trend is: former Christians and atheists who converted to Islam have been involved in all the terrorist acts of the 21st century in the West — starting with the 9/11 attacks.

    The investigation into the latest terrorist attack in London is still underway, but it remains unclear when Elms (Masood) decided to convert to Islam, practicing the ultra-conservative branch of Salafism.

    The newspaper Blic claims that the son of a single mother from Kent county took part in the Muslim “holy war” against the Serbs in Bosnia in the early 1990s. However, according to the British Express, in the late 1990s, the future terrorist experienced serious problems with alcohol and was imprisoned when he attacked a visitor in a bar while drunk.

    Der Stern magazine argued that he started showing interest in radical Islam while in prison, however his trip to the Middle East and the life there appeared to be a decisive factor behind his conversion.

    In Saudi Arabia, where terrorist acts occur relatively rarely, Masood did not establish ties with any radical groups, but he absorbed the Islamic doctrine in its most irreconcilable interpretation.

    According to Sky News, when he returned to his homeland, Masood became “incredibly religious.” On Fridays, the man refused to receive guests, because he spent the whole day praying. In disputes over religion, the terrorist quickly “lost control over himself, arguing that there is no better religion than Islam.”

    However, in the Muslim community of the United Kingdom, it is believed that Masood’s inherent craving for violence, and not the religion, influenced his life choice.

    “The offender was a radical Christian before becoming a Muslim,” said Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a member of the House of Lords.

    However, the reference to his traits of character as a decisive motive behind his actions is not viewed as convincing by some experts.

    “We, apparently, will never understand why he did it,” a police representative commented on the recent terrorist act.

    On Wednesday, Masood drove at people with a car in London and then tried to enter the Palace of Westminster armed with a knife, before being shot down by the police. Due to the incident, four people, including a police officer and the attacker, were killed and 40 others were injured.”

    • What urged the native-born British citizen to convert to Islam, move to the Middle East, and later commit a mass murder in his own country?

      After the recent tsunami of near-continuous jihadist attacks throughout Europe, anyone who still asks this inane idiotic utterly misleading question needs to be regarded as part of the problem and treated as an active co-conspirator with Islam. Only Propaganda Media will continue to keep asking (or has any need to pose) these disingenuous and obfuscatory questions.

      Any Islamic convert who then travels to the Middle East should take on a radioactive glow in the files of their homeland’s intelligence department. How cunning of Islam to mandate that all Muslims must—at some point in their lives—travel, at least once, into the very maw of terrorist indoctrination (i.e., going to Saudi Arabia on the haj).

      The only significant question that remains is: “When will the non-Islamic world finally succumb to Muslim Fatigue™ and begin wholesale deportation or outright liquidation of the colonizing invaders?

      In some ways, Communist China will be the most interesting one to watch. Of all the different invaded nations (with, perhaps, the exception of Russia) recently targeted by ISIS, Red China is one of the most ruthless and unforgiving of all with respect to foreign organisms invading their body politic.

      It will be more than a little amusing to watch Western apologists for Communist China perform the mental and ethical gymnastics needed to justify Beijing’s (soon-to-arrive) policies of Muslim extermination even as they condemn the West for daring to turn a single hair on jihadist heads.

  4. Austrian Government to Ban Burqa (breitbart, Mar 29, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/29/austrian-government-ban-burqa/

    “The grand coalition government of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and the Socialist Party (SPÖ) have now agreed to ban the full-face Islamic veil, known as the burqa, as part of a new integration package.

    The grand coalition agreed on the burqa ban proposal Tuesday as part of a new sweeping integration package that aims to tackle issues with asylum seekers as well as Islamic fundamentalism. Much of the legislation had already been proposed by Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz of the ÖVP last year but was not agreed upon until the two parties renegotiated their coalition agreement earlier this year, Die Welt reports.

    The ban on the burqa, which covers the face and obscures the eyes of the wearer, will also cover the niqab which covers the face but not the eyes. Any full face veil that obscures a woman’s face will also be banned under the new legislation.

    Also in the legislation is a ban on the distribution of the Quran in public places. Foreign Minister Kurz had proposed a ban on the distribution of the Quran after a radical Islamist Salafist organisation called “True Religion” was raided and banned in Germany. The group used the distribution of Qurans as a cover to radicalise and recruit Muslims for extremist groups like Islamic State…”

    • Driver rams into Capitol Police cruisers as car chase ends in Hill scare

      A police car chase ended Wednesday morning with the suspect driving into Capitol Police cruisers and other vehicles near Capitol Hill before being arrested, in the latest security scare in the nation’s capital.

      The chase of the female suspect appeared to have followed a traffic stop gone bad. A police official briefing reporters said the investigation is in “preliminary stages” but there appears to be “no nexus to terrorism.”

      “This incident appears to be criminal in nature,” the official said, adding that the standoff started as a “traffic stop.”

      Sources said the incident began when police saw the car driving erratically on Independence Avenue. After they tried to stop the vehicle, the driver did a U-turn near the Library of Congress and started driving the wrong way against traffic.

      Capitol Police then raised the barriers at the bottom of Capitol Hill to “trap” the vehicle inside the perimeter near the Botanic Garden and the Rayburn House Office Building.

      The driver then stopped but “revved the engine” and tried to lurch forward.

      Fox News is told at least one officer fired a weapon at this point. The suspect was not hit. Further, police said no individuals were injured during the arrest.

      It is unclear if the suspect had a weapon.

      The chase occurred during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, the height of Washington’s tourist season.

      The incident near the Capitol comes on the heels of multiple recent cases of people jumping the fence at the White House.

      On Sunday, a 38-year-old woman who had tried to jump a White House security fence last week, scaled a fence near the Treasury Building. Secret Service agents arrested her around 2:15 a.m.

      Earlier this month, a suspect named Jonathan Tuan Tran allegedly scaled two fences and a security gate to get on the White House grounds before he was arrested. Also this month, another man was arrested after jumping over a bike rack in an attempt to surmount the fence, and still another suspect was arrested for allegedly making a false bomb threat at a Secret Service checkpoint.

      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/29/driver-tried-to-hit-capitol-police-officers-officials-say.html

      • The chase occurred during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, the height of Washington’s tourist season.

        Precisely when large numbers of people will conveniently be clustered up in a manner conducive to vehicular attacks. Now, what could that possibly mean?

        Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

  5. BREITBART – Center for Medical Progress Video Investigation — Planned Parenthood Abortionist: ‘Pay Attention to Who’s in the Room’ When Verifying Signs of Life

    A new video released by Center for Medical Progress (CMP) reveals a former Planned Parenthood abortionist allegedly discussing how she performs elective abortions on healthy unborn babies up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, and the situation she encounters if a baby is aborted showing some signs of life.[…]

    http://www.breitbart.com/abortion/2017/03/29/planned-parenthood-abortionist-pay-attention-whos-room-verifying-signs-life/

  6. Planned Parenthood videos: Anti-abortion activists charged with 15 felonies for secret tapes

    Two anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood were charged with 15 felonies, California prosecutors announced Tuesday.

    State Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the charges against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. Becerra said the two used a fictitious bioresearch company to meet with women’s health care providers and covertly record them.

    Prosecutors said they invaded the privacy of medical providers by filming without consent.

    Daleiden and Merritt allegedly filmed 14 people without permission between October 2013 and July 2015 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties. One felony count was filed for each person and the 15th was for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy.

    Daleiden called the charges “bogus” and that they were coming from “Planned Parenthood’s political cronies.”

    “The public knows the real criminals are Planned Parenthood and their business partners,” Daleiden said.

    Planned Parenthood said in a tweet that the charges send a “clear message… You can’t target women & health care providers without consequences.”

    Daleiden and Merritt had previously been indicted in Texas on similar charges in January of 2016, but all of the charges were eventually dropped by July as prosecutors said a grand jury had overstepped its authority. The grand jury had originally been convened to investigate Planned Parenthood, but after finding no wrongdoing turned around and indicted Daleiden and Merritt instead.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/29/planned-parenthood-videos-anti-abortion-activists-charged-with-15-felons-for-secret-tapes.html

  7. Swedish Prosecutor Accuses Syrian Man of Alleged Terror Attack on Muslim Center

    A Syrian male was accused by a Swedish prosecutor on Monday of engaging in an act of terrorism by allegedly starting a fire at a Malmo community center.

    MOSCOW (Sputnik) – In October, the suspect allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at the community center, owned by Shia Muslim organization Aldorr, causing one million kronor ($113,000) worth in damages to the building. The incident did not result in any injuries. Malmo’s district court judged, in December, ruled that there was not enough evidence to prove the fire was an act of terrorism, and the suspect was remanded in custody on suspicion of arson.

    According to Qvarnstrom, the man is affiliated with the Daesh terror group, outlawed in Russia and many other countries.

    The charge sheet, seen by The Local, claims that “the purpose of the attack was to seriously intimidate a population group, in this case Shia Muslims, in the name of Isis.” It also notes that the suspect is a Sunni Muslim, and has previously voiced his dislike of Shia Muslims.

    The charge sheet also reportedly states that police found evidence that the man had researched how to make a detonator and watched propaganda films of Daesh militants.

    The prosecutor added that the man had claimed he wanted to die “a martyr’s death” in “Facebook conversations, among other things.”

    There is reportedly no DNA evidence to prove the man was responsible for the fire, although the event was caught on CCTV. The charge sheets states that the suspect wore plastic gloves which were later found at his house.

    The 30-year-old suspect has denied the allegations and stated that he is not a member of the Daesh.

    The trial is due to begin at Malmo District Court on Friday.

    https://sputniknews.com/europe/201703271052013554-sweden-terror-attack/

  8. Germany: Gabriel warns against anti-Turkish tendencies due to constitutional referendum

    German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned against growing anti-Turkish tendencies because of the country’s upcoming constitutional referendum, speaking after a meeting with Germany’s Turkish societies and their representatives in Berlin, Wednesday.

    SOT, Sigmar Gabriel, German Foreign Minister (German): “The community of Turkish origins, or as one would like to call it, is worried that the conflict from the referendum and of the manner of confrontation between Turkey and Germany, Turkey and Europe, is leading to a break in the successful work of 20-30 years of coexistence and that anti-Turkish, anti-Muslim sentiments will be mobilised again in our society. And when the referendum is over or even the term of Erdogan is over what will remain is that we would have to start over again.”

    SOT, Thomas de Maiziere, German Interior Minister (German): “The foreign minister and I agree in almost every question. In one of them not, he has said that the integration successes will be broken. We have to work for them not to be broken. They are at risk, but hopefully they won’t be broken.”

    SOT, Aydan Oezoguz, German Minister for Migration, Refugees and Integration (German): “It is really really important to say we are the community in Germany, we are part of this German society and we want to have here, in every freedom of expression, a good life together.”

    • It’s nice to see the video use Clinton’s now-infamous, “What difference at this point does it make?”

      During the Benghazi Hearings, the moment that those words left her lips, her political career should have evaporated like morning dew in the Sahara desert. That she then was enthusiastically allowed an opportunity to run for America’s highest office—and thereby make Trump an only alternative—is an albatross that should remain around her (and the Democratic Party’s collective) neck for all time.

      Every single time one of these Liberal SJWs opens their d@mned pie hole about Trump, someone needs to remind them that, almost entirely unassisted, Hillary is the one who enabled his Presidency.

      While there were potentially better candidates than Trump (though I freely admit that it’s hard to name them)—when America was confronted with the grim prospect of hyper-corrupt Hillary ensconced in the Oval Office—the Presidential ballot became a zero-option document. Again, only America’s Liberals are obliged to answer for this.

      All of this becomes especially pertinent when one pauses to consider how Hillary outright colluded with the DNC (and mass Propaganda Media) to preclude even a slight chance of Bernie Sanders obtaining the Democratic nomination. While his lunatic pro-“Palestinian” views alone disqualified him from the start, Sanders comes off looking every bit the same sort of Boy Scout, just like Trump, when compared to Clinton.

      Put another way, a contest between Sanders and Trump would have, at the very least, constituted some sort of remotely reasonable (key word: “remotely”) choice for American voters. To be clear, Hillary’s presence on the ballot totally negated any possibility of that reasonableness or “choice”.

      Again, not in any way do I resent nor oppose Trump’s victory. In fact, I continue to be intrigued by the potential outcome of his policies being enacted. After all, he certainly deserves some sort of breathing room, even more so considering that he has yet to see just his first 100 days in office.

      Merited or not (and we all know which magnetic pole pertains here), Conservative dislike or disgust with 0bama never manifested in the countless un-Constitutional and violent or seditious acts that currently typify Liberal—and especially, the Fascist tactics of oxymoronic, “Antifa” agitators terrorists—”opposition” to Trump.

      Again, this not about Trump. It is about the willingness of America’s Liberals to engage in almost nothing that even slightly resembles Gandhian “civil disobedience” and, instead, seems to voluntarily adopt the cloak of flat-out treason.

  9. French Socialist and former PM Valls defects to Macron’s centrist camp

    Just weeks before France’s presidential election and former Socialist prime minister Manuel Valls is the latest to turn his back on his own party and lend his support to centrist Emmanuel Macron, the favourite candidate.

    Valls said he believes far-right leader Marine Le Pen must not win at all costs. “It’s not a matter of the heart, it’s a question of reason,” he told a French TV station.

    • PARIS MARCH 29

      LIVE: Protests against police violence reignited in Paris after Chinese man killed

      Protesters denouncing police brutality and police continue to clash in Paris. The unrest comes after a 56-year-old Shaoyo Liu of Chinese ethnicity was allegedly killed by the police who were called to Liu’s house following a family disagreement on March 26.

    • RT- Tear gas & pepper spray: Protests against Paris police turn violent 3rd day in row

  10. Sanctuary Cities Choose Criminals Over Citizens
    City governments vow to protect even violent predators in defiance of Trump administration.

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned on Monday that sanctuary jurisdictions risked losing federal grants if they persisted in obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Billions of dollars in federal law enforcement funding are at stake. “I urge the nation’s states and cities to carefully consider the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws,” Attorney General Sessions said. “Countless Americans would be alive today and countless loved ones would not be grieving today if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended.”

    Instead of heeding the Attorney General’s sound advice and taking care of their own citizens, city officials around the country are planning to sabotage federal law enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.

    “We are going to become this administration’s worst nightmare,” said New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. On the same day that Attorney General Sessions issued his warning, she hosted a meeting with like-minded officials from other sanctuary cities, including San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, and Philadelphia, who prioritize the welfare of illegal immigrants over their own citizens. Ms. Mark-Viverito and her comrades threatened to block access by federal immigration authorities to city property and to city records that could help with the enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws. They are acting in the spirit of Alabama’s late Governor George Wallace, who stood in the schoolhouse door to defy federal enforcement of desegregation.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266260/sanctuary-cities-choose-criminals-over-citizens-joseph-klein

  11. Brexit is Here
    March 29, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    Theresa May delivered her letter to European Council President Donald Tusk this morning, officially triggering Brexit .

    The letter was handed to Tusk by British Ambassador to Brussels this morning. As he handed over the letter, Prime Minister Theresa May was outlining its contents in the House of Commons. “This is an historic moment from which there can be no turning back,” she said. “Britain is leaving the European Union .”

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266270/brexit-here-daniel-greenfield

  12. Israel: Muslim women shot dead after attempting to stab officer – police report

    A Muslim woman was shot dead after she allegedly attempted to stab an Israeli police officer, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, Wednesday.

    According to the Israeli police, the women tried to stab the officer with a pair of scissors after which she was fatally shot by security forces. However, the police confirmed that no Israeli officer had sustained an injury in the incident.

  13. Obama Inc. Cleaning Clinton Loyalists Out of the DNC
    March 29, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    The glorious purge begins. They thought they had a front row seat for the new boss. Instead they’re finding themselves under the bus.

    Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez has launched a major overhaul of the party’s organization, which has been stung by recent crises — and the DNC has requested resignation letters from all current staffers.

    Party staff routinely see major turnover with a new boss and they had been alerted to expect such a move. However, the mass resignation letters will give Perez a chance to completely remake the DNC’s headquarters from scratch. Staffing had already reached unusual lows following a round of post-election layoffs in December.

    Forget the spin.

    The Clintons layered the DNC and a whole lot of organizations with their people. Now Obama has taken over the DNC. And Clintonites are being handed a mass purge. One mob is out. The new mob is in. All that means is that any plans for Chelsea Clinton have a new barrier. Aside from her own general unfitness.

    The DNC isn’t being cleaned up. Instead we will likely find that it will be even more closely integrated with Obama’s OFA and that it will financially benefit Obama Inc. the way that the DNC benefited Hillary Inc. And all this will further clear the Clintons out of politics.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266264/obama-inc-cleaning-clinton-loyalists-out-dnc-daniel-greenfield

  14. zero hedge – Judge Napolitano Returns On Fox News, Stands By Claim Brits Spied On Trump

    Fox News’ legal analyst Andrew “Judge” Napolitano returned to the air on Wednesday morning, nine days after the network benched him when President Donald Trump cited the Fox talking head as the source of claims that Barack Obama used British intelligence to wiretap him. Napolitano refused to change his story saying he stood by his claim about spying on President Donald Trump that got him benched by the network on March 21 for an indefinite period.[…]

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-29/judge-napolitano-returns-fox-news-stands-claim-brits-spied-trump

  15. Why Does the Left Want Sexual Orientation to be the Government’s Business?
    March 29, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    One of the million outrages that the left is outraged about this very second is that the census form will not ask about sexual orientation.

    The Trump administration canceled plans to probe Americans for their sexual orientation in the 2020 Census, nixing efforts by congressional Democrats who’d wanted a better picture of the country’s increasingly complex family and sexual dynamics.

    Gay-rights advocates had been pressing for the questions, saying it was time the country got an official count.

    They appeared to have won a victory Tuesday morning, when the Census Bureau released its list of proposed subjects for 2020, and said “sexual orientation and gender identity” were new additions. But hours later the Census released an updated list striking the sexual orientation proposal.

    A spokesman for the bureau said they had been asked by members of Congress to include the questions, and had been studying it — but determined there was no “federal need” for that information to be collected.

    “The Subjects Planned for the 2020 Census and American Community Survey report released today inadvertently listed sexual orientation and gender identity as a proposed topic in the appendix. This topic is not being proposed to Congress for the 2020 Census or American Community Survey,” the bureau said in a statement.

    Instead the 2020 census will return to the same age, race, occupation, marital status and other areas of inquiry that have been used for years.

    Most of those are also on the debatable side. Certainly it’s unclear why the government needs racial statistics. But asking about sexual orientation is even more dubious. If there was any intervention by Team Trump, which is quite unproven, it did a favor to gay rights advocates. The public perceptions of the prevalence of gay and transgender identification in the general population and the actual presence backed by statistics are widely apart. If anything such a census would have harmed their cause.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266268/why-does-left-want-sexual-orientation-be-daniel-greenfield

  16. (Richard: Click through and read the entire article, it is a very good condemnation of the left and the way they try to mask their power grabs in science, and fail. Until Obama went on his spending spree the US national debt was almost exactly the amount spend on the war on poverty.)

    The Dems Aren’t “Brights”
    The Left’s aggrandizement of power at the expense of individuals, states, and civil society.
    March 29, 2017
    Bruce Thornton

    “Brights” was the term popularized by evangelical atheists Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett to describe people who think like them: materialist determinists who scoff at faith and traditional wisdom, and proclaim their devotion to rationalism, science, and critical thought. The label was mocked to death for its smug narcissism, but the idea behind it is still a foundational assumption of progressives. The irony is much of the superiority progressives claim based on their “respect for science” is an illusion, reflecting instead scientism and ideology.

    Indeed, as a political movement now over a century old, progressivism was founded on the belief that new knowledge of human nature and behavior required a revision of the American political order. Herbert Croly, founder of the New Republic and a leading progressive theorist, wrote that a “better future would derive from the beneficent activities of expert social engineers who would bring to the service of social ideals all the technical resources which research could discover.” This faith in “science” was embraced by progressive president Woodrow Wilson, who wanted to discard the Constitution’s popular self-rule filtered through divided government and checks and balances, and replace it with administrative bureaus staffed by the “hundreds who are wise” who would guide and control the thousands who are “selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn, or foolish.”

    Wilson’s vision succeeded, which is why today we have a bloated federal government with 2.5 million workers and a nearly four-trillion-dollar budget, two-thirds of which is committed to entitlement spending. Thanks to Wilson, today we are subjected to a regulatory regime that “covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate,” as Alexis de Tocqueville prophesized. This technocratic rule has diminished our freedom and autonomy, compensating for that loss by redistributing money through various entitlements that corrupt character and create dependency on our government overseers.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266245/dems-arent-brights-bruce-thornton

  17. Lt. Gen McInerney: ‘Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Are Both in Violation of Espionage Act’

  18. UK: Faith leaders join hundreds at vigil for London attack victims

    ISLAM MEANS PEACE

    Hundreds of people attended a vigil in Westminster, London on Wednesday to pay tribute to the victims of last Wednesday’s terror attack that killed four people and injured at least 50.

    People of all faiths united on Westminster Bridge, holding banners that read ‘Love for all, hatred for none.’ One attendee, a Muslim man named Zishan, said “the purpose of us coming here is to show the true message of Islam,” and asserted that “after this incident last week London has been united and we have become stronger than before.

    The assailant, believed to be 52-year-old Khalid Masood, born Adrian Elms, drove a car into a crowd of people on Westminster Bridge. He then stabbed a police officer at the entrance to the Houses of Parliament before he was shot dead.

    • “the purpose of us coming here is to show the true message of Islam,”
      A minority of Beaten Housewife Syndrome, that became a majority of Socialist White Straight Christian Male Syndrome, that became all the Useful Idiots Dhimmi Syndrome: “We won’t hit you any more if you comply with us. Look, see how nice we all are – smile.”

      Muhammadan or Muslim? One face for themselves, one face to those who resist Allah’s Mercy.

      Muhammadan:
      “But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance – [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand.”
      https://quran.com/4/34

      Muslim:
      “As to those women on whose part you see ill?conduct, admonish them (first), (next) refuse to share their beds, (and last) beat them (lightly, if it is useful); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of annoyance). Surely, Allaah is Ever Most High, Most Great”
      [al-Nisa’ 4:34]
      https://islamqa.info/en/41199

      One in the car
      One on the bridge
      Shariah Kufar
      Is the Islam Sandwich.

  19. CNN – Senate intelligence leaders: 20 people to be questioned, first hearing Thursday

    The Senate intelligence committee has asked 20 people to be questioned in its investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the panel’s chairman said Wednesday.

    “This one is one of the biggest investigations the Hill has seen in my time here,” Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, said at a news conference with committee vice-chairman Mark Warner. Burr’s been in the Senate since 2005, and served in the House since 1995.
    Burr and Warner say they have 20 witnesses they plan to interview and have scheduled interviews with five of them so far. The committee leaders said that they are happy that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort have agreed to testify, but they have not yet decided when they will bring them in.

    “To date, we have made 20 requests for individuals to be interviewed by the committee,” Burr said. “As we stand here today, five are already scheduled on the books, and probably within the next 10 days the remaining 15 will have a scheduled date for those individuals to be interviewed by our staff. We anticipate inviting additional individuals to come and be interviewed, and ultimately some of those interviewed individuals may turn into private or public hearings by the committee, but yet to be determined.”

    Among those the committee appears to have talked to: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned after he misled administration officials regarding his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

    “It would be safe to say we have had conversations with a lot of people, and it would be safe to say Gen Flynn is a part of that list,” Burr said.
    The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation has garnered increased intention as the House investigation has stalled along partisan lines related to its chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, and his communication with the White House related to the incidental collection of President Donald Trump and his aides.

    Democrats have called on Nunes to step down from his post, while most Republicans in the chamber say they support Nunes.
    The panel will hold its first public hearing Thursday.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-conference/

    • WaPo- Senate Intelligence Committee to start Russia probe interviews next week

      […]Though the committee leaders declined to comment directly Wednesday on the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation or its chairman, Warner offered some thoughts about Nunes earlier Wednesday, telling reporters that if Nunes was onto something with the information he gleaned from his White House visit, it was a mystery to every other intelligence investigator in the Capitol.

      “None of us, Republican or Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, has any idea what he’s talking about,” Warner said. He wondered aloud why, after the Trump administration denied any Russia connections and railed against leakers, Nunes would act in a way to raise suspicions about both.

      “There continues to be more and more smoke about contacts between people related to the campaign and foreign officials,” Warner added.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-lawmaker-senate-should-take-lead-on-congresss-russia-investigation/2017/03/29/c31d0fb0-1485-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html

      NYT – Senate Intelligence Committee Leaders Vow Thorough Russian Investigation

      […]Each senator offered some evidence of what they had reviewed so far, with Mr. Warner saying that there could have been 1000 internet trolls in Russia who generated fake news stories and targeted them at swing states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, and Mr. Burr noting that it was clear that Russians are “actively involved” in the French elections. The committee will hold a public hearing on Thursday.

      […]As a consequence, the Senate investigation amounts to a credibility test for Republicans under the Trump administration — a chance to prove their willingness to ask uncomfortable questions of a Republican president, even if the answers might weaken his and the party’s standing.

      […]The president seized on the information as evidence for his thoroughly debunked claim that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower —[…]

      https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-burr-warner-russia-investigation.html

    • RT & Sputnik blamed for interfering in Google search results

      Senator Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senator Mark Warner, the ranking member, held a press conference about the allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential elections. One example Warner listed was the prominence of “Russian propaganda” outlets such as RT and Sputnik in Google search results.

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    ) Texas Residents Traveling to Join Foreign Terrorist Groups
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    ) Five Texas cases illustrate the prospect that still more Texas residents have joined or will try to join
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    terrorist groups abroad, raising concerns that some will return with plans to cause harm.
    (U) In January 2016, Houston resident and Iraqi-born refugee Omar Faraj Saeed Al-Hardan was indicted
    for planning to join ISIS and to bomb two Houston malls when his travel plans stalled.
    Al
    -Hardan, a
    legally resettled refugee who was granted legal permanent resident status in August 2011,
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    reportedly
    began planning to join ISIL in May 2014 and made false statements to federal investigators regarding
    automatic weapons training he received overseas with ISIS. In addition, Al-Hardan maintained ties to
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    Qaeda’s
    Syrian affiliate. In October, he pleaded guilty to providing material support to ISIS.
    (U) Mesquite resident Bilal Hamed Abood, an Iraqi-born naturalized
    US
    citizen, succeeded in traveling to
    a rebel group in Syria and returning to the state. The FBI arrested Abood in May 2015 for lying about
    initial plans to travel to Syria in 2013 to join rebel fighters. At D/FW International Airport, homeland
    security authorities refused to let Abood board his overseas flight. But a short time later, in April 2013,
    Abood found his way there by departing through Mexico.
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    After his September 2013 return, Abood told the FBI that he spent time in Syria with a rebel group
    not banned under US law, and that he did not support the banned terrorist group ISIS.
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    However, the FBI
    later learned from a search warrant
    on Abood’s computer that he wanted to “help build the Islamic State
    of Iraq” and that he
    had pledged an oath to ISIS leader Abu Bakr
    al-Baghdadi. The FBI finally arrested
    Abood for the original lie he told in 2013 at the D/FW airport.
    (U) In May 2015, the FBI arrested Spring, Texas, resident As

    http://www.dps.texas.gov/director_staff/media_and_communications/2017/threatOverview20170115.pdf#page=21

  21. CBC – Trudeau airport secure despite concerns about radicalized workers, officials say

    Airport confirms 4 employees had security clearance revoked, were banned from restricted area

    Officials are trying to reassure the public that Montreal’s Trudeau airport is secure and there are strict screening procedures in place to vet employees, following a report about potentially radicalized workers.

    “We do conduct, on a continuous basis, threat analysis, risk analysis, vulnerability analysis, just to make sure we can face any kind of threat,” said Pierre-Paul Pharand, vice-president of airport operations.

    The comments come following an investigation by the French-language television station TVA that revealed four airport employees had their security clearance revoked as a precautionary measure due to concerns they were becoming radicalized.

    According to the report, at least one had access to runways and had been the subject of a police investigation.

    One suggested committing an attack similar to the one in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people, while another shared ISIS propaganda on his Facebook page.

    Two of the four employees still work at the airport, according to TVA.

    Pharand confirmed the people mentioned in the report had their security badges withdrawn and are not allowed in restricted areas.

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government will cut no corners when it comes to ensuring air travel safety.

    “When issues come to light, we deal with them in a responsible way. We look into what is happening and how to ensure that Canadians remain safe,” he said.

    Continuous vetting process

    Pharand said the four employees in question don’t work for Aéroports de Montréal, the corporation that runs the airport, therefore the airport isn’t able to terminate their employment. He said he doesn’t know who they are or who they work for.

    Prospective employees are vetted before they start working at the airport, he explained, but there are other processes that kick in once they’re hired, including surveillance, to ensure the airport is safe.

    A number of law enforcement agencies have jurisdiction at the airport, including the Airport Patrol, Montreal police, RCMP, Canadian Border Services Agency, Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Sûreté du Québec.

    Pharand said he has no information about an imminent threat toward the airport.

    Public Security Minister Martin Coiteux said he is watching the “serious situation” closely and has been in touch with federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau, since his department oversees air transportation.

    Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said he is willing to work with Transport Canada and airport officials. He said more municipal police officers could be allotted to the airport if necessary.

    “It’s a matter of ongoing vigilance, but I think there’s no [need] to panic,” he said.

    Tyler Stoute, who works at a duty-free shop in international departures, said he’s concerned by the level of security.

    “It is a bit concerning, because there are many people who just walk through security every day without being searched and that is definitely a concern,” he said.

    As an employee, Stoute has a card that allows him to get special clearance, though he can still be subject to random security checks. New employees on temporary passes are, like passengers, required to go through security any time they go into restricted areas.

    Airport security multi-layered, Ottawa says

    In an emailed statement, Garneau said the country’s airports are “secure environments protected by a multi-layered approach to security.”

    “Canadians can be assured that their government takes security matters very seriously and will not hesitate to take appropriate action to mitigate risks and respond to any threats, when identified, to the transportation system,” he said.

    Garneau explained that in order to enter the restricted area of an airport, employees must obtain a transportation security clearance (TSC) from Transport Canada.

    That process includes background checks with CSIS, the RCMP and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

    All TSC holders are verified daily in a police database. When criminal activity is identified, “immediate action” is taken, which can include the suspension or revocation of the clearance, Garneau said.

    More than 1,100 clearances have been refused or cancelled at airports across the country over the past two years.

    Conservative public security critic Tony Clement issued a statement saying the TVA report was “troubling,” adding the Liberals must “take all measures necessary to ensure security levels are being maintained.”

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/trudeau-airport-radicalization-security-concerns-1.4045525

  22. CBC – Woman takes on Islamophobia at school board meeting

    CBC News speaks with Christina Dixon, who confronted a group of people shouting Islamophobic comments at a Peel District School Board meeting last week

    + comments on the youtube page

  23. Obama Aide Evelyn Farkas Squeals Live On MSNBC: ‘I Helped Spy On Trump For Obama'(VIDEO)!!!