Reader’s links for May 5 – 2017

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  1. IS leader in Egypt vows to step up attacks on Christians (abcnews, May 5, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-leader-vows-escalate-attacks-christians-47234083

    “The leader of an Islamic State affiliate in Egypt vowed to escalate attacks against Christians, urging Muslims to steer clear of Christian gatherings and western embassies as they are targets of their group’s militants.

    “Targeting the churches is part of our war on infidels,” the unidentified leader said in a lengthy interview published by the group’s al-Nabaa newsletter on Thursday. He said that churches, security posts and institutions, as well as places where “crusader nationals of western countries” gather were all “legitimate targets.”

    He also called on Muslims who don’t join jihadists to carry out lone wolf attacks across Egypt, and complained that a large number of Egyptians were antagonistic to his group’s call and mission…”

  2. Turkey sacks 107 judges and prosecutors linked to Gulen (abcnews, May 5, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-sacks-107-judges-prosecutors-linked-gulen-47231534

    “Turkey’s state-run news agency says a judicial body has dismissed 107 judges and prosecutors as part of an ongoing crackdown on suspected followers of U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey blames for last summer’s failed coup.

    The Anadolu Agency said Friday the Judges and Prosecutors’ Supreme Council also filed criminal complaints against the 107 suspects — a move that is likely to lead to detentions.

    Turkey declared a state of emergency following the July 15 coup attempt and moved to purge a network of suspected Gulen supporters from the judiciary, police and other government bodies.

    Anadolu said 4,238 judges and prosecutors have been sacked for alleged Gulen links since then, including those purged Friday.

    Gulen denies involvement in the coup.”

  3. The Nightmare Reality of the Communist Dream
    Another communist fantasizes that ‘this time’ they’ll get it right.
    May 5, 2017
    Mark Tapson

    With a Republican in the White House threatening to – horrors! – make America great again, nostalgia for the Communist-utopia-that-could-have-been is running high among dejected leftists. Last Monday on May Day, otherwise known among Reds as International Workers’ Day, the New York Times actually published an encomium to those thrilling days of yesteryear “when Communism inspired Americans.” But it’s not just American communists keeping the dream alive; in the run up to May Day the week before, writing for the digital news publication Quartz, Australia’s Helen Razer explained “Why I’m a Communist—and Why You Should Be, Too.”

    According to the website description, the chief focus of Razer’s work “has been what she sees as the crisis of liberalism.” The real crisis is that true liberalism has been shoved aside by a radical left that embraces violent totalitarianism, but that’s not Razer’s take. In her mind, the crisis is that pure communism hasn’t been given enough of a chance to succeed. “Communism is a system of social organization that has never been truly tried and, these days, never truly explained. Yet it inspires fear in some, derision in others, and an almost universal unconcern for what it is actually intended to convey.”

    This is the excuse communists repeatedly trot out in the face of a tsunami of evidence that their ideology has indeed been tried all over the world and has proven to be arguably the most devastating, inhumane belief system ever imposed on mankind. Every country where communism has been “tried” has gone to hell because of it. That’s not a coincidence nor is it just a failed effort to get it right; that is the inevitable consequence of communism.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266620/nightmare-reality-communist-dream-mark-tapson

    • German Nationalist Socialism (i.e., Nazism) = 10 million dead
      Stalinist Socialism = 30 million dead
      Maoist Socialism = 100 million dead

      How many (more) oceans of blood will have to be spilled before morons like Helen Razer and her deluded co-fanatics finally admit that Socialism (and Communism) will never work? One can only hope that all of these maggots perish with the words, “it just hasn’t been done right yet”, lingering on their lips

      • How many (more) oceans of blood will have to be spilled before morons like Helen Razer and her deluded co-fanatics finally admit that Socialism (and Communism) will never work?

        I don’t think they will ever decide it won’t work, their arrogance is so great they believe that they are so superior to anyone who has ever lived that they will be able to make the unworkable work.

        Remember it is impossible to overstate the arrogance and narcissism in the Marxists, especially their leaders and so called intellectuals.

  4. Pakistan-Afghan border cross-fire kills 15 on both sides (abcnews, May 5, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-afghan-security-fires-census-workers-killing-47223137

    “Backed by artillery, Afghan security forces fired across the border on Pakistani census workers and troops escorting them on Friday, killing nine and drawing a response from the military, Pakistan said. On the Afghan side, officials reported six killed in the incident, a significant escalation of hostilities between the two neighbors.

    Pakistani government and military officials said the artillery rounds that hit in the border town of Chaman in southwestern Baluchistan province were unprovoked but Afghan provincial officials claimed that the Pakistanis fired first.

    The incident was the latest escalation between the two neighbors who share a volatile and porous boundary.

    Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor said the army shut the border crossing in Chaman in response to the early morning attack, blocking all movement of people and supplies to its landlocked neighbor.

    Residents in the area said Pakistani and Afghan security personnel exchanged fire using light and heavy weapons…”

  5. Germany says ‘unthinkable’ that local Turks be allowed to vote in Ankara’s death penalty referendum (RT, May 5, 2017)
    https://www.rt.com/news/387292-germany-turkey-death-penalty/

    “If Ankara decides to hold a referendum on the re-introduction of the death penalty on German territory, Berlin would ban such a move, a spokesman for the German government has said, adding that such a plebiscite would contradict the country’s constitution.

    “It is politically unthinkable that we would agree to hold such a vote in Germany on a matter that clearly contradicts our constitution and the European values,” Steffen Seibert told journalists, noting that if Turkish President Recep Erdogan would indeed hold such a referendum, Germany would ban it on its territory.

    “If another country wants to hold an election or vote in its embassies or consulates here in Germany, it is a subject to approval,” the government spokesman said, as cited by the German DPA news agency.

    He said that any country considering such a move should first file a corresponding request and “Germany is not obliged to comply with this request.”

    “It means that the federal government can also withdraw from its approval… and ban a referendum in Germany,” he said, and that he “believes that [the German authorities] would use all legal means to forbid something like that.”

    He noted that the German government has so far received no such request from Turkey and the issue remains a “hypothetical one,” on which he would not normally comment. Earlier, the leader of the German Social Democratic Party and a chancellor candidate in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, Martin Shultz, also said that a referendum on the reintroduction of the death penalty would be unthinkable in Germany.

    “If the Turkish government would indeed hold a referendum about the reintroduction of the death penalty, it should be clear that Turkish citizens living in Germany would not be allowed to take part in such a vote,” Shultz told the German Der Spiegel weekly…”

    • Hilarious. This is virtue signaling on a gigantic scale. Soon enough, the Germans will be repealing their own ban on the death penalty if they want to have any hope of surviving.

      • Every nation in Europe will repeal their ban, and the first people executed should be their politica leaders who allowed this mess to start.

    • OT/ Lots of death penalty in this week’s Parsha!
      Acharai Mos-Kedoshim, Leviticus 16-20
      http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displaypage&book=3&chapter=16&verse=1&portion=29

      (The context is just after the death of Aaron’s two sons.)
      Sacred-profane. Don’t do these ugly things (customs elsewhere) in mourning rituals.

      Another attempt to make us the best we can be, “Be nice, be decent. Because I am your G-d and you are my people. Act like it!”

      Parts will be very familiar to Christians, general decency: 10 Commandments, expanded to many. Don’t hate your brother in your heart. Don’t take advantage of vulnerable people. You WON’T get away with it – I AM watching!

      Then heavier going. Definition of incest, unnatural carnal relations. Don’t mess with supernatural bs.

      Don’t MUTILATE yourselves, for G-D’s sake!
      Details of what constitutes mutilation. [Though sorely tempted, I never got a tatoo. Don’t cut your hair to imitate Fatboy Nork.]

      To satisfy the urge to throw your children into the fire, find a really special little kid or calf or something and perform these complicated rituals. The urge to sacrifice your brats will pass.

      Stoning for this and that, exile for something else, shunning. It may not be a punishment inflicted by others, but you may incur a “cutting” off of your soul – the spiritual link between the Lord Almighty and His [your brethren] people. I think that’s as dead as it gets. Zombie = fate worse than…
      ……..
      Lot of homework this week, but you’ll find the reading satisfying. Right and wrong, there it is. It’s the WWII movie series, Why We Fight.

      Relax, enjoy the Sabbath. Let goodness and grace fill your body and soul. However difficult this week may be, you’ll meet it with purpose and find grace.

  6. The New, “Moderate” Hamas: Severe Cruelty to Jewish and Arab Prisoners and Their Families
    Even an anti-Israeli NGO is appalled.
    May 5, 2017
    P. David Hornik

    Hamas is trying to project a new image. At a news conference in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, May 1, it announced a purportedly moderate new document—without indicating in any way that it was abrogating its notoriously anti-Semitic 1988 charter.

    The New York Times—at least on the face of it—quickly took the bait. That day its lead headline read: “Hamas Tempers Extreme Stances in Bid for Power”—later revised to “In Palestinian Power Struggle, Hamas Moderates Talk on Israel.”

    The article quotes Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum: “The document gives us a chance to connect with the outside world…. We are a pragmatic and civilized movement….”

    Yet, elsewhere in the report, even the Times is unable to get too enthused about the new “Document of General Principles and Policies.”

    The Times notes that it “reiterates the Hamas leadership’s view that it is open to a Palestinian state along the borders established after the 1967 war, though it does not renounce future claims to Palestinian rule over what is now Israel.” Or in the document’s more emphatic words:

    • “Moderate” Hamas. Please spare me before I puke.

      Just one more characteristically Islamic oxymoron like:

      Arab unity
      Muslim women’s rights
      Spiritual jihad

  7. Hijabs allowed for basketball players under new governing body ruling (RT, May 5, 2017)
    https://www.rt.com/sport/387107-bansketball-governing-body-allow-hijabs/

    “The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has changed its rules regarding religious headgear, allowing for the wearing of hijabs during games.

    The FIBA Central Board made amendments to previous rules on headgear at a first-ever meeting of the federation’s mid-term congress on Thursday. The changes will come into effect as of October 1

    In a statement, FIBA said the rule “was developed in a way that minimizes the risk of injuries as well as preserve consistency of the color of the uniform.”

    “The new rule comes as a result of the fact that traditional dress codes in some countries – which called for the head and/or entire body being covered – were incompatible with FIBA’s previous headgear rule,” the statement reads…”

    • All the better reason to immediately declare Antifa a terrorist organization so that such funding can be choked off.

  8. Eeyore, I don’t recall seeing this mentioned here last December: “The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun“.

    Please consider talking to The Baron about posting some or all of this excerpt from Matt Bracken’s latest work-in-progress. At the very least, For those who are unfamiliar with this author, his, “Piss Christ? Piss Koran!“, is highly recommended reading. “Bastille Day in the Caliphate” is the most accurate projection I’ve ever seen of what will happen in Europe when push comes to shove it.

    Bracken has an almost unparalleled ability to invert what are commonly accepted as Islamic advantages (e.g., “no-go zones, taqiyya, etc.) and show how—in the hands of competent administrators—they can become devastating strategic flaws. A glimpse of this magnificent creative ability is shown below. Here is an excerpt from his preview excerpt, “Bastille Day in the Caliphate“:
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    “But how can you trust them? You know they’re allowed to lie to infidels.”

    “Of course I know that, everybody does. But they had to swear the pledge while standing on the Saudi flag, facing the Union Jack and a picture of the king. You know what’s written on the Saudi flag, right?”

    “The main Muslim prayer, the Shahada: ‘There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger.’ The green Saudi flag is basically the same as the black flag of jihad, except for the color.”

    “Right. They have to wipe their feet on the Shahada flag, spit on it, and pledge loyalty to king and country. And it’s all on video. Tends to separate the sheep from the goats, knowing they can never live among practicing Muslims ever again. In the end, most of them went through the ritual. And most of them said they were glad to do it.”

    “Even so, Colonel, I wouldn’t trust them. The Koran tells them to lie to infidels if it helps to spread Islam.”

    “The sincere ex-Muslims are the best at sniffing out the fakers. They know that if there’s any more Muslim terrorism in the UK, they’ll all be deported next time — every last one of them. And they don’t want to go back, oh no, they don’t want to go back. Being dropped off on a deserted stretch of the Libyan beach is not very pleasant, I’d imagine. And after they take the king’s oath standing on the Saudi flag, it’s a death sentence if they’re ever sent back to a Muslim country. It’s all on video. They know full well they have the most to lose from any more Muslim terrorism in Britain. They’re the best ferrets we have, the sincere ex-Muslims. Most of them became Christians, just prove their loyalty even more strongly. Anyway, there’s not many left. Most of them went home on the ships. Better than ninety percent. The ex-Muslims who are left are a good lot, by and large. King and country.”

  9. the gateway pundit – LORETTA LYNCH BUSTED=>Leaked Email Shows She ‘Would Do Everything She Could’ to Protect Hillary from Criminal Charges

    Catherine Herridge from FOX News dropped this BOMB ON LORETTA LYNCH on Friday afternoon.

    Catherine Herridge: This is the most significant headline coming out of the investigation today… What we heard today for the first time were details about a document that related to Attorney General Loretta Lynch that had been obtained by Russian hackers. And that the document indicated that Lynch would do whatever it took to prevent criminal charges to be brought against Hillary Clinton in the email probe.

    FBI Director James Comey told US Senate leaders he could not talk about the email in a public forum and refused to discuss it.

    Catherine Herridge: In several of the questions referring to Loretta Lynch the FBI director said he couldn’t discuss it in an open unclassified setting… The FBI director said today he felt boxed in by Lynch and kind of a victim of circumstances. But that really didn’t wash with Republicans who were on the committee.

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/loretta-lynch-bustedleaked-email-shows-everything-protect-hillary-criminal-charges-video/

  10. Ex-Clinton adviser: Press was unfair to Hillary

    Tucker takes on a former Clinton adviser who says the White House press corps owes her an apology for their coverage of her presidential campaign

  11. as usual …… NOTHING TO DO WITH ISLAM –

    MONTREAL – Provincial Coroner Issues Long Awaited Report on Death of Martin Couture-Rouleau

    The coroner who investigated the circumstances surrounding the October 2014 death of Martin Couture-Rouleau, the man who ran over and killed Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, has filed a report that supports the theory the tragedy had more to do with mental illness than radicalization.

    Coroner André Dandavino’s 14-page report released late on Friday details the struggle Couture-Rouleau’s family, in particular his father, went through for several months as they tried to get help for him while his mental health clearly grew much worse.

    Couture-Rouleau was fatally shot by police after he struck Vincent and another member of the Canadian Armed Forces with the car he was driving. It was apparent that Couture-Rouleau chose his targets because they were wearing military uniforms. In the days following the tragedy, two portraits emerged. One was focused on Couture-Rouleau’s recent conversion to Islam and how he was drawn to radicalization propaganda while the other revealed Couture-Rouleau’s family’s desperate pleas for help.

    The coroner’s recommendations indicate Couture-Rouleau did not get the help he needed.

    The first recommendation in the report calls on the Haut-Richelieu Hospital, in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, to “re-evaluate its intervention procedures so that people who show signs of mental sickness and signs of radicalization and who show up at the (hospital) be evaluated by a psychiatrist.”

    Dandavino also recommends that the Association des médicins psychiatres du Québec, the Collège des médicins and the minister of health and social services do a similar revision of its protocols.

    The role of provincial coroner is not to lay blame but to try to find ways to prevent similar deaths from occurring in the future.

    Dandavino’s report details a key day — Aug. 27, 2013, when a a group of people who had assessed Couture-Rouleau in the previous weeks met at a psychiatry clinic and came to the conclusion he no longer had to be treated because he claimed he no longer needed any help. Earlier that same month, he had expressed a serious interest in conspiracy theories involving the illuminati, a secret society founded in 1776 that was the subject of the popular book and movie Angels & Demons. Instead of recommending that he continue seeing mental health experts, the clinic “referred him to a mosque in Brossard and one in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu.”

    The following day, Couture-Rouleau’s father showed up at the clinic and told staff his son needed help. He recounted how his son was spending a lot of time praying in his basement and on the Internet. The father also described how his son had punched a fridge and broke his bed during fits of anger.

    “The father was discouraged and no longer knew what to do. He was advised that the only two conditions that would oblige a person to be given care against his will were if he represented a threat to others or to himself,” Dandavino wrote in his report, while adding that the father was handed a pamphlet for a support clinic in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu. At around the same time, Couture-Rouleau found a contact in Pakistan and planned to meet the person in that country. He called his father a demon for questioning his intentions to travel to Pakistan.

    http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/provincial-coroner-issues-long-awaited-report-on-death-of-martin-couture-rouleau

  12. Sweden needs more police officers, union says (thelocal, May 5, 2017)
    https://www.thelocal.se/20170505/sweden-needs-more-police-officers-union-says

    “A lack of adequate staff numbers and changes within the police organization are preventing more crimes from being solved, according to the Swedish Police Union (Polisförbundet) survey of its members.

    According to 39 percent of police surveyed, a lack of investigation staff means the country’s crime clearance rate is going in the wrong direction. 23 percent blamed changes in the police organization for that meanwhile, and 13 percent blamed a lack of staff to carry out arrests.

    “They lack officers to investigate all crimes. Talented police officers are quitting these days because they get better conditions within other fields,” Polisförbundet spokesperson Lena Nitz said in a statement.

    The number of cases handed over by police to prosecutors in Sweden has decreased from 200,000 per year to 150,000 in 2016 according to the union, though a change in the trend appears to have started this year.

    The survey also showed the at almost a third of police officers consider half of their administrative work to be unnecessary, and that it could be avoided by streamlining.

    READ ALSO: Swedish police ‘in crisis’, union says

    The union says that too many people leave their job prematurely due to a difficult working environment and low salaries. Last year 460 officers quit in order to pursue something else, and by March this year the figure was at 130.

    In 2016, 200 police officers under the age of 40 left their positions, while police training positions were not fully filled at the same time.”

  13. Marine Le Pen, a Descendent of Prophet Muhammad? (moroccoworldnews, May 5, 2017)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/05/215808/marine-le-pen-descendent-prophet-muhammad/

    “An AFP dispatched claiming French far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, is a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, has made the headlines in France and worldwide.

    The dispatch circulated widely but was quickly retracted, as the AFP claimed it was a draft that had been “published by mistake.”

    Still, Jean-Louis Beaucarnot, the French genealogy expert cited in the dispatch, continued to uphold the veracity of his claim in interviews with French media outlets..

    “I confirm everything I say in the dispatch,” he told the French daily Le Parisien. He explained that Le Pen is a descendent of the Prophet through her mother’s ancestry.

    While her mother is from a family from Aveyron, in south-west France, Beaucarnot said that a woman in this family, Anne de Roquefeuil, is a descendant of King Louis VI, whose ancestors were kings of England and Spain. The genealogist went on to explain that one of these Spanish ancestors married a woman from the Omayyad caliphate during the Muslim rule of Spain.

    “Among the ancestors of this woman, there are many Syrian caliphs who are descendants of the Prophet Muhammad,” he stated in interview with the magazine Marianne.

    Despite the seriousness of Beaucarnot’s claim, French social media users found it quite funny, pointing to the irony that the presidential candidate, known for her anti-Muslim political platforms, might be a descendant of the prophet of Islam.

    A picture posted on Twitters shows Le Pen wearing a headscarf while her name changed to “Fatimarine”.”

  14. Court rejects Wikipedia’s appeal over access ban, says freedom of expression can be ‘restricted’ in some cases (hurriyetdailynews, May 5, 2017)
    http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/court-rejects-wikipedias-appeal-over-access-ban-says-freedom-of-expression-can-be-restricted-in-some-cases.aspx?pageID=238&nID=112766&NewsCatID=339

    “An Ankara court on May 5 rejected an appeal by Wikipedia against a previous ruling to block access to the website in Turkey, saying freedom of expression can be “restricted in some cases” and citing the country’s ongoing state of emergency.

    The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) stated on April 29 that it had blocked access to Wikipedia, citing a law allowing it to ban access to websites deemed obscene or a threat to national security.

    The Ankara 1st Criminal Court of Peace later ordered the ban after Wikipedia’s administration refused to remove two pages stating that Ankara channeled support to jihadists in Syria.

    The Wikimedia Foundation later appealed against the decision on the grounds that freedom of expression had been violated as the court blocked the entire platform even though the related content only appeared in two different pages.

    However, the court board rejected the foundation’s appeal on May 5, citing a law that enables a broader access ban when a specific violation cannot be prevented.

    “As can be understood from the mentioned legal texts, freedom of expression is not one of absolute rights. It may be restricted when conditions are suitable and in situations where moderateness is required,” the court stated in its ruling….”