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  3. “…this year, the world seems to have become more divided by race, religion, gender, economic status, sexual orientation and ethnicity, and Canadians are wondering whether this will spread to our own country.” – Hydra Khalid

    https://youtu.be/LHQaL6kRDtc

  4. Kate Holmes was fired from her spot on LBC radio because of this offensive’ tweet.

    “”22 dead – number rising,” she wrote on 23 May. “Schofield. Don’t you even dare. Do not be a part of the problem. We need a final solution #Machester.””
    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/kate-hopkins-lbc-radio-manchester-attack-final-solution-daily-mail-muslims-racism-a7756776.html

    An accurate assessment; enough is enough.

    But what did Triggered-Jews and theirLGBTQ+M friends do?

    They simply accused her of exactly what they do. They claimed she incited violence through subtext.

    She did not. She is not anti-semitic. The Deceased used by The Left, to silence their critics. The Manchester Dead is the next weapon they will use to prevent the analysis of Islam.

    “Complaints were made to the Metropolitan Police about Hopkins’ tweet, which she later said she stood by, but claimed the use of “final” was a typo, changing it to “true” in a new tweet.”

    Here is the charge:

    “Her “final solution” tweet was not the first time she has referenced the Holocaust, previously saying of the House of Lords: “Frankly, I don’t really mind if we seal up the room and gas the lot of them.””

    Can you see? It’s the same as splicing two unrelated videos together. It’s fraudulent. A quick scan and you get only the Holocaust narrative. These people in the media are Marxist criminals. They spread propaganda all the way back to the New Soviet Man.

    Putting the House of Lords out of our misery, filled with purchased Peerages and without a vested interest in the nation, with their dual citizenships, means this Last Line of Defence can bolt and never be seen again.
    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-to-apply-for-an-irish-passport-brexit-latest-news-mps-peers-a7336911.html%3Famp

    The evil of Communism with their religion of the Socialism of Diversity, mass deportation immigration and multi-inclusion, has created the prisons of free-movement of the mind.

    • If anything happens that resembles a “Final Solution”, the Muslims will only have themselves to blame. Their deafening collective silence about terrorism, jihad, genocide, and Islamic intolerance are gradually earning them the world’s wrath. In this present framework of appeasement and inaction, it is only a matter of time until some atrocity of sufficiently unimaginable scale is committed by Muslims that causes the civilized world to say, “Enough!” and simply begin the obliteration of all Islamic countries. There is no way around this due to the imperative of jihad that is embedded in Koranic doctrine. Without any change of that fundamental fact, Islam is barreling headlong towards total annihilation. The only question that remains is, “How much longer will the world tolerate this constant assault upon global civilization?”

      Islam’s doomsday clock has been ticking all-the-more-loudly ever since the 9-11 Atrocity. If anything, it is beginning to run even faster than ever. At present, there is no respectable or trustworthy body of Muslims doing anything of genuine significance to alter this ominous countdown. It is merely an issue of when (not “if”) the other shoe drops.

      • “..there is no respectable or trustworthy body of Muslims doing anything…”

        Islam has an everlasting, Final Solution, murderer and pervert at their head. Only LGBTQ+ get their sense of life from this. There is no “respectable or trustworthy” except submission or hands lopped. Terror within becomes terror without.
        Honor or taqiyya runs through their veins. “Yes Boss” or deception. Little terrorists or bigger terrorists. Grooming or booming.

        As explained here: It’s because they’re Muslim.
        https://youtu.be/dJPAEemWtfU

  5. BA BANK HOLIDAY CHAOS British Airways cancels ALL flights from Heathrow and Gatwick until 6pm after IT systems go down across the world and cause chaos for British holidaymakers

    Customers have reported that they aren’t able to use the airline’s website and app with one saying he had to miss his flight as he couldn’t fetch his boarding pass

    BRITISH Airways have cancelled all flights from Heathrow and Gatwick airports until 6pm after their computer systems were brought down across the entire world.

    Angry passengers on social media have said that their flights aren’t taking off, that there are huge queues at check-in, and that they can’t use the app or website.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3663439/british-airways-cancel-flights-cyber-attack-computer-systems/

    • Isn’t it about time to start applying the death penalty for malicious, large-scale hacking?

      Annually, just email spam alone costs the global economy around $20 billion. Combine this with the expenses of firewall maintenance, anti-virus software, added IT staffing payrolls, and the hemorrhaging of Western capital due to intellectual property theft – these costs are in the sub-trillion dollar range and growing with each passing day.

      Nothing short of executing these digital termites will have the least impact with respect to discouraging similar activities. Remember, only physical pain or death will ever deter this sort of scum.

  6. Federal prosecutor found dead on Hollywood Beach possibly suffered head trauma
    Passerby finds Beranton J. Whisenant Jr., 37, dead early Wednesday

    HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – A federal prosecutor who was found dead this week on a South Florida beach possibly suffered head trauma, authorities said.

    Hollywood police spokeswoman Miranda Grossman said the body of Beranton J. Whisenant Jr., 37, was found early Wednesday by a passerby on the city’s beach.

    More News Headlines

    The body of Miami federal prosecutor Beranton J. Whisenant Jr. was found Wednesday on the beach in Hollywood. Federal prosecutor found dead on beach in Hollywood

    She said detectives are trying to determine if the death was a homicide, suicide or something else.

    Whisenant worked for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami in its major crimes unit. He joined the office in January. Court records show that he had been handling several visa and passport fraud cases.

    Acting U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg said in a statement that Whisenant was a “great lawyer and wonderful colleague.”

    https://www.local10.com/news/federal-prosecutor-found-dead-on-hollywood-beach-possibly-suffered-head-trauma-

  8. Obama administration let known MS-13 gang members into U.S. during illegal immigration surge

    The Department of Homeland Security under former President Barack Obama knowingly admitted teenage members of a vicious transnational gang into the U.S. during a flood of illegal immigration, a leading Republican senator said Wednesday.

    Sen. Ron Johnson ?
    56%
    , citing internal agency documents from a whistleblower, told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that DHS allowed at least 16 MS-13 members to stay in the U.S. after border agents detained them in 2014. The gang members arrived in the U.S. as a part of a wave of unaccompanied minors from Central American countries, where MS-13 is a dominant criminal organization.

    “CBP apprehended them, knew they were MS-13 gang members, and they processed and disbursed them into our communities,” Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, said.

    Johnson revealed the whistleblower documents during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee to discuss the threat of MS-13, which has been responsible for a recent spate of grisly murders in several cities across the country. The police commissioner in Suffolk County, N.Y., the site of at least 17 MS-13-related murders since 2016, told the committee that gang members are often drawn from populations of Central American teens who came to the U.S. in the unaccompanied minor surge.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/05/26/obama-administration-let-known-ms-13-gang-members-u-s-illegal-immigration-surge/

  9. Enough with the anonymous sources already
    By Benny Huang May 26, 2017

    If it weren’t for anonymous sources, it seems that the media wouldn’t have any sources at all. In the past two weeks the media have promoted a number of weighty stories that rested upon the credibility of people whose names we are not allowed to know. Two of these stories were veritable bombshells that, if true, should rightly land powerful people in prison. It’s too bad both stories were so thinly sourced.

    Perhaps the bigger of the two stories, measured at least by the news coverage that it got, was The Washington Post’s scoop that Donald Trump had allegedly shared classified intelligence with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador concerning ISIS terror plots. That report was followed by a barrage of stories about exactly which beans were spilled and whether they were really classified beans. Each volley of articles only muddied the waters more.

    The second bombshell involved a new development in the Seth Rich murder investigation. Rich, a 27 year-old DNC staffer, was gunned down last July in a wealthy section of Washington, D.C. Shortly thereafter, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange very strongly hinted that Rich was the source of embarrassing internal party emails leaked to his organization — emails that showed that the system was rigged against the insurgent candidate Bernie Sanders among other juicy details. If that was the real motive for his murder it would seem to point accusatory fingers at officials in the Democratic Party.

    http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/05/26/enough-anonymous-sources-already/

  11. Afghanistan: 18 killed in Khost suicide bomb attack on first day of Ramadan

    18 people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack, close to a bus station in the eastern city of Khost, on Saturday.

    Most of the victims were civilians, a further 10 people were injured. According to government officials the attack intended to target Afghan police, working as security for US military personnel.

  13. Morocco -Clashes after activist interrupts sermon in north Moroccan town

    Clashes erupted in a northern Moroccan city after authorities sought to arrest a well-known activist who has led recent demonstrations and who interrupted a Friday prayer sermon, activists and local residents said.

    Political protests are rare in Morocco, but tensions in Al-Hoceima city have been simmering since October after the death of a fishmonger who was crushed inside a garbage truck while trying to retrieve fish confiscated by the police.

    His death sparked outrage against “Hogra”, a colloquial Derja Arabic term for deprivation of dignity because of official abuses or corruption, and prompted some of the largest protests since Arab Spring-inspired demonstrations in 2011.

    Al-Hoceima and other towns in Rif region have a long history of dissent against the “Makhzen”, the royal establishment in the North African kingdom where the king still holds ultimate authority despite ceding some powers to ease tensions in 2011.

    According to activists present on Friday, a preacher in a local mosque criticized the so-called “Hirak” protests as “inciting unrest.” In response, Nasser Zefzafi, leader of the “Hirak” movement, interrupted the sermon in the mosque.

    “These are mosques of God, not of the Makhzen,” Zefzafi said to chants of support among prayer-goers in a video widely circulated on social media.

    Activists and local residents said people took to the streets around Zefzafi’s home in the city, and clashes broke out between police and his supporters. They said there was a heavy security presence in the area that the activists said was an attempt to arrest him.

    State news agency MAP confirmed an arrest warrant was issued for Zefzafi and an investigation had been opened into him and those with him during the mosque incident.

    The Interior Ministry did not respond to a request for details on the incident. But the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, charged with overseeing Friday prayer sermons, denounced Zefzafi’s actions as an “enormous disorder.”

    “The law stipulates sanctions against those who hinder religious rites,” the statement read. “This incident constitutes vile behavior.”

    The penal code punishes those who hinder religious ceremonies with a prison term ranging from six months to three years, and with fines.

    “These sort of actions merit arrest, but I do not know whether or not authorities have arrested him,” one government official told Reuters.

    Zefzafi appeared on social media later where he released a video from an undisclosed location, assuring supporters he was free and urging them to remain peaceful.

    “I asked the police why they’re doing this,” one activist told Reuters. “They told me there’s a warrant out for Zefzafi’s arrest.”

    One eyewitness said people were out on the street and security forces responded forcefully, and there was a heavy presence near Zefzafi’s home.

    Moroccan authorities usually police protests heavily, nervous about unrest since the 2011 demonstrations. During those protests, the king devolved some of his authority to an elected government in a constitutional reform.

    Thousands of Moroccans marched under the watch of police in Al-Hoceima last week, waving banners proclaiming “Are you a government or a gang?”

    http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN18M2JV

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    Hoceima’s Public Prosecutor Orders Arrest of Nasser Zafzafi

    Rabat – The public prosecutor at Hoceima’s Court of Appeal has ordered the arrest of Nasser Zafzafi following his interruption of the Friday Sermon and an investigation into obstructing the freedom of worship within a mosque.

    Following the state of unrest in the northern city of Hoceima, which came about after Nasser Zafzafi interrupted the Friday Sermon in the city’s Mohammed V mosque, the public prosecutor ordered the arrest of Zafzafi.

    The public prosecutor at the city’s Court of Appeal also approved the opening of an investigation into his obstruction of the freedom of worship, says the statement that carries the public prosecutor’s signature.

    The statement pointed out that the investigation came in response to what “Nasser Zafzafi and other individuals, who were inside the mosque of Mohammed V in Hoceima, committed related to the obstruction of the freedom of worship.”

    It added that Zafzafi also prevented the imam from completing the sermon, made an inflammatory speech where he humiliated the imam, disturbed the sanctity of a place of worship, and “thus made the worshipers miss the last Friday Prayer of the month of Shaaban.”

    Tension in the city of Hoceima escalated abruptly after the leading figure in Hoceima’s protests, Nasser Zafzafi, stood up in a mosque in the city and interrupted a religious sermon that he claimed was “politicized.” Zafzafi denounced the content of the sermon and accused the preacher of “promoting the state’s agenda,” leading to a protest that began at the mosque and extended through the streets of the city.

    Soon after, Zafzafi appeared in a video addressing the crowd from the roof of his house which they had gathered around and called upon them to continue to demonstrate peacefully.

    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/05/217788/hoceimas-public-prosecutor-orders-arrest-of-nasser-zafzafi/

    Morocco: Clashes erupt after police try to arrest local protest leader for interrupting sermon

    Clashes broke out between protesters and riot police in the Moroccan city of al-Hoceima, Friday, after law enforcement personnel reportedly tried to arrest a local protest leader after he interrupted a Friday prayer sermon.

  16. Bomb squad descends on Manchester streets as police raid Rusholme address (express, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/809974/Moss-Side-homes-evacuated-Manchester-terror-raids-police-arrest-Manchester-Arena

    “MANCHESTER homes are being evacuated after reports of ‘an explosion’ in Rusholme.

    Greater Manchester Police has confirmed they are conducting a raid in connection with the Manchester Arena terror attack.

    A total of 11 people have been arrested and detained after ISIS terrorist Salman Abedi, 22, killed 22 people and maimed many more.

    Two people were released without charge and two relatives of the bomber have been detained in Libya.

    Abedi’s youngest victim was just eight, while other children have been left without parents who were killed by the bomber in the foyer of the well known Manchester venue.

    GMP have said there was no explosion in Rusholme but they are asking surrounding homes to evacuate.

    Boscombe Street is being evacuated while a police bomb disposal unit has arrived.

    Some residents in Thornton Road said they have been advised to remain inside…”

  17. Generation ISIS: Horror photos which show we could be fighting Daesh for DECADES (express, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/809955/Manchester-terror-ISIS-photos-Daesh-children-Islamic-State-Attack-level-Critical-latest

    “Smiling beneath black and white headscarves, girls as young as four and five are posed for a picture – while holding huge guns.

    Others, jsut as small, clutch flags to show support for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his fake “caliphate”.

    Meanwhile, the boys are trained to kill and are pictured attacking their victims.

    Terror attacks have claimed hundreds of lives across Europe in the last two years – with the latest seeing pop fans targeted at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.

    Mums, dads and fans as young as eight were targeted by Salman Abedi who killed 22 people and maimed children with a suicide bomb on Monday.

    Terror analysts have claimed foreign wars in countries like Iraq and Libya have seen anger towards Britain grow, and has made it easier for ISIS to recruit.

    But online photos show children’s parents are radicalising them before they even reach school age – raising them to support murderous terrorists.

    On Telegram, an encrypted messaging service favoured by jihadis, groups of ISIS fans celebrate killings of westerners – THIS WEEK.

    One of the images shared was of three girls with guns.

    Along with the picture, are emojis with heart faces and a caption celebrating the fact they will grow up to wage ‘holy war’.

    It states: “Our little lions.

    “The children of our Uyghur (Eastern Turkistan) siblings here in Shaam

    “Educated to love Allah and Jihad ..”….”

    • “Generation ISIS: Horror photos which show we could be fighting Daesh for DECADES

      This is the sort of hand-wringing bullsh!t that eventually should be rewarded with prolonged imprisonment. It is enemy propaganda and nothing else. Only a lack of adequate scrotal endowment enables the continuing existence of these ISIS oxygen thieves. Western powers have lost all sight of the basic fact that actual war involves collateral civilian casualties. The fact that this enemy fights out of uniform and hides within civilian populations makes the Hollywood fantasy of waging war without any collateral fatalities a Liberal pipe dream, at best.

      • The only reasons the libs are worried about collateral damage is because they think they can use this to get the West to commit suicide, let them create even part of their socialist utopia and watch how they flatten entire cities when someone rebels against their intolerance.

  18. Britain reduces terror threat level from ‘critical’ to ‘severe’ (abcnews, May 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/britain-reduces-terror-threat-level-critical-imminent/story?id=47676901

    “British Prime Minister Theresa May said Saturday morning that the country’s terrorism threat level has been reduced from its top level of “critical” to “severe.”

    The change indicates an attack is highly likely, not imminently expected…”

  20. Spain saves 73 migrants in 3 boats crossing from Africa (abcnews, May 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/spain-saves-38-migrants-boats-crossing-africa-47676399

    “Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has saved 73 migrants from three small boats attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

    The service says that the first boat carrying 27 men and six women was located in waters east of the Strait of Gibraltar late on Friday after being spotted by a Spanish military plane.

    Another rescue boat intervened early on Saturday to pull five men from another boat.

    A third craft in danger of sinking with 35 men aboard was then spotted by a Spanish navy outpost on the Alboran Island between Spain and Morocco. The Spanish military helped the boat dock on the island, where the migrants were to be picked up by the rescue service.”

  21. Syria: Russian air force kill 120 IS militants on their way to Palmyra

    Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a column of trucks belonging to self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants, that was moving from Raqqa to Palmyra, with the Russian Defence Ministry releasing footage on Saturday.

    According to the ministry, a column of 39 trucks equipped with large-caliber machine-guns was heading from Raqqa to the ancient city of Palmyra on Thursday.

    The ministry confirmed that 32 pick-up trucks were destroyed and some 120 militants were killed as the result of the airstrike.

    Russian drones as well as combat aircraft were reportedly deployed to the area to monitor the possible routes that the militants could use to flee Raqqa.

  23. Turkey jails 2 journalists from opposition newspaper (abcnews, May 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-jails-journalists-opposition-newspaper-47676941

    “Two journalists from a pro-secular opposition newspaper in Turkey have been arrested and accused of aiding a terror organization.

    Turkey’s official Anadolu news agency said nationalist Sozcu newspaper’s online editor Mediha Olgun and reporter Gokmen Ulu were charged with aiding the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen without being members.

    The government blames Gulen for orchestrating last year’s coup attempt, which he denies…”

  24. Cannes: pro-burkini protest stopped by police

    A small group of women who were headed to the beach in Cannes on Friday for a “Toutes en burkini” (all women in burkinis) protest were immediately stopped by police and taken to the station for questioning. The mayor of Cannes had imposed a controversial ban on the full-body swimsuits last year, a decision overturned by the country’s highest court.

  25. BBC Newsnight – Did Russia help elect Trump? –

    Paul Wood takes a closer look at the allegations that Russia colluded with Donald Trump during the US presidential election.

    • MoA – The Activities Around Trump’s Foreign Policy Are Scandalous – But The Media Won’t Tell You Why

      During the election campaign Donald Trump argued for better relations with Russia. He wanted to engage in a common fight against the Islamic State and other terrorists. […]

      […]The scandal here are not various contacts by whatever means of Trump advisors with Russia and with other country’s diplomats. The scandal is the undermining of the constitutional prerogative of the elected President of the United State to set foreign policy:

      Under the Constitution, the President serves as head of state and head of government. [..] As head of government, he formulates foreign policy, supervises its implementation and attempts to obtain the resources to support it. He also organizes and directs the departments and agencies that play a part in the foreign policy process. Along with the Vice President, he is the only government official elected nationally. This places him in a unique position to identify, express and pursue the “national interests” of the U.S.

      The scandal here is not Trump and are not his adviors’ contacts with Russian officials. The scandal are the leaks by “officials” about confidential diplomacy, the sham FBI “investigations” and the general undemocratic hostility and resistance of the foreign policy establishment, the security services and the media towards the president’s chosen policies.

      http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/05/the-actvities-around-trumps-foreign-policy-are-scandalous-but-the-media-wont-tell-you-why.html

  26. Philippine forces hit militants; civilians wave white flags (abcnews, May 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/philippines-forces-hit-militants-civilians-wave-white-flags-47674291

    “Philippine fighter aircraft unleashed rocket fire against militants on Saturday, prompting villagers to hoist white flags to avoid being targeted as the military turned to airstrikes to try to end the siege of a southern city by Islamic State group-allied militants.

    The predominantly Muslim city of Marawi, home to some 200,000 people, has been under siege since a failed army raid Tuesday on a suspected hideout of Isnilon Hapilon, who is on Washington’s list of most-wanted terrorists.

    Hapilon got away and fighters loyal to him took over parts of the city, burning buildings, taking cover in houses and seizing about a dozen hostages, including a Catholic priest. Their condition remains unknown.

    At least 48 people have died in the fighting, including 35 militants and 11 soldiers, officials say, adding that an unspecified number of civilians are feared to have died.

    While up to 90 percent of Marawi’s people have fled amid the fighting, many who were trapped or refused to leave their homes have impeded military assaults, officials said. That has slowed efforts to end the most serious crisis President Rodrigo Duterte has faced since he took power nearly a year ago…”

  27. Anti-India protests hit Kashmir after top rebel is killed (abcnews, May 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indian-army-suspected-rebels-killed-disputed-kashmir-47674057

    “One civilian was killed and dozens of others injured Saturday after massive anti-India protests and clashes erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir following the killing of a prominent rebel commander and his associate in a gunbattle with government forces in the disputed region.

    Rebel leader Sabzar Ahmed Bhat and a fellow militant were killed after troops cordoned off the southern Tral area overnight following a tip that rebels were hiding there, police said.

    The gunbattle ended later Saturday and soldiers recovered the bodies of two militants. However, they were searching the area for at least one more body, police said.

    As the violence raged, hundreds of angry residents chanting anti-India slogans marched in an attempt to help the trapped rebels escape.

    Clashes between rock-throwing protesters and government forces erupted in different places in the area, with police and paramilitary soldiers firing shotgun pellets and tear gas to stop the protests.

    Witnesses said a young man was killed and several other people were injured after government forces fired on the protesters near the site of the gunbattle. Police chief S.P. Vaid said the man was killed by crossfire.

    As the news of the rebel leader’s killing spread in the region, thousands of people, including students, took to the streets shouting “Go India, go back” and “We want freedom.”…”

  28. Central African Republic killings send entire town fleeing (abcnews, May 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/central-african-republic-killings-send-entire-town-fleeing-47676293

    “Scores of blackened homes dot this town where more than 41,000 people have fled for their lives.

    Deadly sectarian violence that has gripped Central African Republic since 2013 is surging again, even spreading to parts of the country that once had been spared. The number of people displaced could reach half a million by month’s end, the United Nations says, a level not seen in more than three years.

    Some people have had little time to escape.

    “I have nothing. No sheets, no covers. I have nothing,” says 50-year-old Marie Edith Mambleka.

    She sits on the ground in a squalid camp for the displaced, surrounded by people constructing makeshift shelters. Her son was killed when the clashes erupted in Bria last week. Her house was destroyed.

    She has yet to bury her son. “We suffer a lot,” she says. “We don’t even have the ability to recover our dead.”

    The United Nations says about 300 people have been killed and 200 wounded in the past two weeks alone in Bria and a handful of other towns…”

  29. Iraq says Iranian commander killed fighting IS (abcnews, May 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/aid-groups-warn-chaos-mosul-civilians-told-flee-47675493

    “A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander was killed in an explosion during clashes with the Islamic State group west of Mosul, an Iraqi official told The Associated Press on Saturday, as aid groups voiced concern for the safety of civilians after Iraq’s government called for residents in militant-held neighborhoods to flee immediately.

    Gen. Shaaban Nasiiri was an adviser to Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force. Soleimani has acted as a key adviser to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces — an umbrella group of Mostly Shiite militia forces sanctioned by the Iraqi government — in the fight against IS since 2014.

    The Iraqi official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said Nasiiri was killed Friday and is the first senior Iranian commander to die in the Mosul fight…”

    • Lovely, keep Zbigniew Brzezinski company in hell~
      True friends of the _Islamic Republic_ of Iran.
      Much more fun when 0 and Valerie Jarrett join them.
      And Christiane Amanpour…

      like making a list for Santa Claus…

  30. Girls are increasingly being married off in war-torn Yemen (abcnews, May 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/girls-increasingly-married-off-war-torn-yemen-47675101

    “Nasrine’s husband was once a happy, optimistic man. He made good money from a restaurant and butcher shop he owned. “With his hands, he could turn dust into gold,” Nasrine says.

    Then Yemen’s civil war escalated, and as the country collapsed, so did he. He lost his businesses, the family became destitute, he began abusing Nasrine, and they divorced, she says. Soon after, she says, she learned to her horror that her ex-husband had agreed to marry off their 10-year-old daughter to a man in his 60s for 1 million riyals, or about $4,000.

    Nasrine managed to block the wedding and went into hiding with her daughter.

    Her case illustrates what human rights activists say is a dire situation for girls in Yemen: Child marriages are mounting dramatically in the Arab world’s poorest country, fueled by a war that has thrown society into turmoil.

    As the fighting grinds on in its third year, millions of families are unable to make ends meet, and more than 3 million people have been driven from their homes, ending up in camps. For families desperate for cash, unable to support their children or afraid they cannot protect their daughter’s “virtue,” marrying off a girl becomes the solution.

    UNICEF said in March that early marriage in Yemen has become “alarmingly widespread.” In a survey conducted in September in six provinces, 72 percent of female respondents said they got married before 18 — compared with around 50 percent in surveys before the war — and about 44 percent said they were wedded before they turned 15, the organization said.

    “Parents marry off their daughters to be relieved of the cost of their care or because they believe a husband’s family can offer better protection,” UNICEF said. “Families also seek dowry payments to cope with conflict-related hardship.”

    Local organizations working to end child marriage point to what they consider numerous egregious cases.

    In one case, a father ran out of cash while buying qat — leaves habitually chewed as a stimulant in Yemen — so he gave his daughter to the dealer in marriage. Another man married off his daughter three times in two years for repeated dowries, all before she turned 18. In another case, a child bride who had been handed over by her father in exchange for a taxi bled to death after being forced to have sex days after her wedding.

    There is no minimum age for marriage in Yemen. In the 1990s, a law setting the age at 15 was repealed by Parliament under pressure from Muslim conservatives, who argue that Islamic Shariah law does not prohibit child marriage and that attempts to curb the practice are a Western plot. While the Ministry of Justice has issued a directive against marriages of girls under 18, it is often disregarded by judges.

    Sexual intercourse before the girl reaches puberty is banned, but the law is nearly impossible to enforce. Human rights groups have documented cases of prepubescent girls bleeding to death from being raped by husbands.

    At a shelter in the city of Ibb, Nasrine told The Associated Press about her fight to rescue her daughter. She spoke on condition that her last name not be used to protect the girl’s identity.

    Before the war upended her family, her husband would bring in the equivalent of $20 a day, a decent wage in Yemen, and during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, when everyone hires butchers to slaughter sheep and other livestock, he would make as much as $4,000.

    After losing his businesses and scrounging for work with little success, “he lost the appetite to do anything, work, eat or live,” Nasrine said. She added: “He used to beat us up and became very pessimistic, unlike the man I used to know, who used to be optimistic.”

    Soon after the couple’s divorce, she said, she learned that he had signed a marriage contract for their daughter and the wedding was set to take place in a month.

    A top tribal leader, Mohammed Shabana, intervened, and the father agreed under pressure to return half the money and to sign, along with the husband-to-be, a pledge not to marry off the girl until she turns 18. Shabana said the father had entered into the contract for the money and to take revenge against his former wife.

    “We stopped it,” he said.

    In trying to block the wedding, Nasrine said she sought help from the judge who presided over the marriage contract, but he refused.

    “Go learn the law and come talk to me later,” she quoted the judge as saying. “Even if the girl is 2 months old, the father agreed. It’s done.”

    The judge, Abdu al-Wahed Nagi Mohsen, denied the mother’s accusations and said he has never been part of any underage marriages. He said he asks for identification and proof of age in keeping with the Ministry of Justice’s instructions.

    Nasrine is now in hiding in a shelter run by the Yemen Women Union, a women’s rights organization, and said she is afraid her ex-husband and the groom-to-be will retake the girl. She said the situation breaks her heart: “I want my daughter to go out and play with the rest of the kids. For a year now, she is trapped here.”

    Hayat al-Kaynaee, the representative of the U.N. Population Fund in Ibb, confirmed Nasrine’s story.

    The father and the would-be husband could not be reached for comment.

    Because of the fighting between government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition on one side and Houthi rebels supported by forces loyal to the country’s former president on the other, more than 400,000 girls under 18 have lost their homes, and many of them are living in refugee camps. Hundreds of thousands of girls have lost access to schooling, and when girls are not in school, many families start to think about marrying them off.

    Child marriage is growing dramatically in the camps, said Najlaa Mohammed, with the Yemen Women Union. Sometimes, she said, the father fears his daughter will be raped and seeks a husband in hopes of protecting her. Other times, it is purely for the money, she said.

    Once common in rural areas, child marriage is also sweeping into cities because of the conflict, said Nabil Fadel, head of the National Organization to Combat Human Trafficking.

    “Imagine for the past six months, there were no salaries, soaring unemployment and poverty,” he said. For men who stand to benefit financially by marrying off their daughters early, “it’s hard to resist.”

    International organizations warn that child brides are in danger of domestic violence.

    Hanadi, a divorced 17-year-old, told the AP that she was married off at 13 because of her family’s need for money and the notion that marriage is a woman’s destiny. She said she was abused by her in-laws, with whom she lived in rural Sanaa.

    She was prevented from going to school, banned from talking to her family, forced to do household chores and treated like a “slave,” she said. She said she fled and sought a divorce after a beating by her in-laws caused her to suffer an abortion.

    “Even laughing, I was not allowed to laugh,” she said. “They took control over the simplest things in my life.””

  31. Two men killed in Portland after trying to stop in anti-Muslim rant: police (reuters, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-muslims-portland-idUSKBN18N080

    “Two men were stabbed to death in the U.S. city of Portland on Friday when they tried to stop their attacker from harassing two women because they appeared to be Muslim, police said.

    The incident unfolded on a commuter train hours before the start of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month, when most of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims observe a religious fast.

    The attack began shortly before 4:30 p.m. when a man started yelling ethnic and religious slurs toward two women who appeared to be Muslim on a MAX train at the Hollywood Transit Station, the Portland Police Department said in a statement.

    Three men who intervened were stabbed, two fatally. The attacker was arrested shortly after he got off the train, police said, adding that the women left the scene before police could interview them.

    “In the midst of his ranting and raving, some people approached him and appeared to try to intervene with his behavior and some of the people that he was yelling at,” Portland police spokesman Pete Simpson said during a news conference aired by local news outlets.

    “They were attacked viciously by the suspect,” he added.

    In a statement responding to Friday’s attack, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said that anti-Muslim incidents increased by more than 50 percent in the United States from 2015 to 2016 due in part to President Donald Trump’s focus on militant Islamist groups and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

    “President Trump must speak out personally against the rising tide of Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry and racism in our nation that he has provoked through his numerous statements, policies and appointments that have negatively impacted minority communities,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.

    The administration says that while it strongly opposes Islamist militants, it has no quarrel with Islam…”

  32. India’s Muslim meat traders plan legal action over new rules (reuters, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-politics-meat-idUSKBN18N0KT?il=0

    “Indian meat traders plan to take the government to court over new rules banning the trading of cattle including buffalo for slaughter, calling it a move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration to hurt the business run mainly by Muslims.

    The environment ministry said this week that animal markets will only be able to trade in cattle meant for agricultural purposes, the biggest blow yet for meat suppliers facing several reverses under Modi’s three-year old Hindu nationalist government.

    The slaughter of cows, considered holy in Hinduism, is banned in most Indian states and laws on the issue have become more stringent over the past few years. Muslims, who make up 14 percent of India’s 1.3 billion people, dominate the Indian meat industry.

    India is the biggest seller of buffalo meat in the world, with exports of more than $4 billion a year to countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia and Egypt.

    But that could change following the government’s May 23 notification regarding changes to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, made public on Friday. It requires owners to declare that cattle have not “been brought to market for sale for slaughter” and for market committees to verify that the buyer is an “agriculturist by seeing the relevant revenue document”.

    The new rules define cattle as bulls, cows, buffalo, steers, heifers, calves and camels.

    “The business is dead,” said Aqil Qureshi, president of the Delhi Buffalo Traders’ Welfare Association who runs a slaughterhouse outside the city and sells hides to leather companies. “We will take legal help, we will hit the streets. Who does not fight for their livelihood?”

    The environment ministry said in a statement on Saturday that the regulation was to protect “animals from cruelty and not to regulate the existing trade in cattle for slaughter houses”. Animals for slaughter will have to be bought from farmers directly, it said.

    Abdul Faheem Qureshi, a lawyer in the southern city of Hyderabad and head of the All India Jamiatul Quresh Action Committee, said direct buying was “not always practical” and that he was drafting a court appeal after meeting with many of his “shocked” trader clients…”

  33. UK: Welcome Mat for Jihadists

    by Khadija Khan
    May 27, 2017 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10424/britain-jihadists

    England, which once was a jewel of both East and West, today symbolizes the degeneration of Europe, the continent which has turned its back on the threat Islamist terrorists are posing. England has increased its terror threat level from “severe” to “critical”; counter-terror measures include employing the British army in key public locations as well as stepped-up counter-intelligence, and raids against suspected terrorists.

    It seems, however, that British politicians have simply put the whole nation in a loop of feed, kill, repeat; meanwhile acting as if they haven’t a clue as to what has stricken the lovely country.

    Prime Minister Theresa May, in her public statement after the blast, stated:

    “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but as an opportunity for carnage…. But we can continue to resolve to thwart such attacks in future. To take on and defeat the ideology that often fuels this violence.”

    May was careful to avoid naming the ideology.

    Ironically, the terror spree caught the United Kingdom in the midst of its election season. Nonetheless, neither the Tories nor the Labour Party are offering any solid plans to counter the menace. It seems these politicians have decided to sleep on the issue, while leaving their poor citizens at the mercy of terrorists, protected only by the brave law enforcement personnel who are also targets.

  34. Return of the Traditional Woman – Cal Poly SLO
    Lauren Southern
    Lauren Southern

  35. Horror on London street as woman is shot dead in ‘cycle-by attack’ (express, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/810032/London-Kilburn-shot-dead-cycle-by-attack-police-Brent

    “A WOMAN has been shot dead in a horror street attack in London after being fired at by a cyclist.

    Police rushed to the scene in Malvern Road, Brent, north-west London after the brutal killing.

    According to emerging reports the woman was standing with a group of other people, at 9pm on Friday night, when they were “approached by a number of suspects possibly on pedal cycles”.

    The Metropolitan Police said: “A firearm was discharged towards the group and the victim was shot.

    “The suspects made off from the scene.”

    The 20-year-old was shot in the road and later pronounced dead.

    In recent weeks more than a dozen people have been knifed to death in the capital.

    Labour parliamentary candidate Tulip Siddiq tweeted: “Horrified to hear of fatal shooting this evening in Kilburn – thoughts are with victim & family.”

    Councillor Tom Miller wrote: “Terrible fatal shooting in South Kilburn this evening and a cordon now up. Thoughts with family and friends of the victim.”

    The victim’s family have been notified and a post-mortem examination is due to take place on Saturday, police said…”

  37. Prosecutors Helped Boston Slayer Avoid Deportation

    Opinion

    by Judicial Watch – May 27, 2017

    After committing two crimes state prosecutors agreed to reduced charges against the African immigrant who recently murdered two Massachusetts doctors, allowing him to dodge deportation. This crucial information is being ignored by the mainstream media but a Boston newspaper exposed it this week and it’s especially alarming because it appears to be part of a movement by local officials nationwide to help illegal immigrants avoid removal. Earlier this month Judicial Watch reported that state prosecutors in two major U.S. cities have ordered staff not to charge illegal immigrants with certain crimes because it could get the offenders deported. It’s an effort to help alien criminals avert “collateral immigration consequences,” and the fallout could be catastrophic.

    In the recent massacre, an immigrant from Guinea-Bissau, on the west coast of Africa, slashed the throats of two local doctors, 49-year-old Richard Field and 38-year-old Lina Bolaños, inside the south Boston condo they shared. The crime scene was gruesome, according to local news reports, and the doctors’ bodies were bound at the hands. The walls were covered in blood and the assailant, Bampumim Teixeira, wrote a message of retribution on the wall.

    Teixeira’s ex-girlfriend told a local media outlet that he had been released from a “house of correction” just weeks before he murdered the doctors. Several media reports included Teixeira’s criminal history and that he had pleaded guilty to larceny, but extremely relevant information has been withheld.

    It turns out that prosecutors in Suffolk County, where the crimes occurred, went along with a plea deal that allowed Teixeira to avoid deportation. The local newspaper that broke the story got ahold of an audio recording of the hearing in which Teixeira’s attorney and a state prosecutor presented a joint motion to reduce the charges against him. At that point, Teixeira had been charged with two counts of unarmed robbery and the backdoor deal let him get off easy with a charge of larceny from a person. Last summer the African immigrant was arrested for robbing a Boston bank that he also admitted robbing back in 2014.

    http://www.libertynewsnow.com/prosecutors-helped-boston-slayer-avoid-deportation/article7199

    • This article points out the growing trend among Liberal Politicians of shielding illegal alien criminals from prosecution and deportation. They are ignoring the rights of the citizens and ignoring their need for protection, they try to disarm the citizens and at the same time work to ensure that no illegal alien is prosecuted no matter what their crimes.

      • Suffolk County, we’re just the sweetest!

        But this article’s wrong. The information was even on the front pages of our Prava. It said the perp was – I can’t remember the euphemism – but he was reTARDed. Didn’t know the difference between right and wrong.

        According to that distinction, ALL tards are retarded.

        Get ’em out.

  38. About 10,000 migrants rescued off Libya coast in 4 days, as 54 die (middleeasteye, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/about-10000-migrants-rescued-libya-coast-4-days-54-die-1850523056

    “About 10,000 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya over the previous four days but at least 54 others died, Libyan and Italian officials said on Saturday.

    On Saturday, the Tunisian army also rescued 126 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa hoping to reach Italian shores, officials said. They were aboard a flimsy inflatable boat off the coastal town of Ben Gardane, near the Libyan border.

    On Friday, more than 1,200 migrants were rescued by Libyan ships and taken to Tripoli or Zawiya, about 50km west, while the Italian coastguard and commercial boats rescued 2,200 others and took them to Italy.

    At least 10 bodies were also found by the Italian coastguard, officials said.

    Migrants were still disembarking in southern Italy on Saturday.

    Another 6,400 were picked up between Tuesday and Thursday, but at least 44 people died, including 35 who drowned on Wednesday when a powerful wave struck their vessel, pitching them into the sea as a rescue ship was distributing life jackets.

    Officials expressed fears that many more people were still missing at sea…”

    • Gad Saad is not kosher, sorry to say.
      He’s just not yet fully discredited, but he’s – how shall I say? – unclean.
      Bad news.

  40. France admits it had special forces operating in Syria (memo, May 27, 2017)
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170527-france-admits-it-had-special-forces-operating-in-syria/

    “France’s Armed Forces Minister Sylvie Goulard revealed that her country has dozens of special forces soldiers operating in Syria while reiterating that there are no intentions to send more ground troops, the Egyptian Middle East News Agency reported yesterday.

    Speaking to Europe 1 Radio, Goulard said that France currently has no large-scale presence on the ground in Syria.

    France’s AFP said that Paris has been trying to keep secret the issue of its special forces’ existence in the war-torn Arab country.

    Meanwhile, the US has deployed 900 military consultants and special forces soldiers in northern Syria…”

  41. Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia says it is dissolving (reuters, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-idUSKBN18N0YR

    “Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to Al-Qaeda, is formally dissolving itself, it said in a statement on Saturday.

    The group, which Washington says was behind the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed the U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens, had been at war with Khalifa Haftar’s eastern-based Libyan National Army.

    The group said its decision came on the back of heavy losses that have wiped out its leadership and decimated its fighters, according to the statement…”

  42. Family group assaults gay man in Berlin Neukölln (DW, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.dw.com/en/family-group-assaults-gay-man-in-berlin-neuk%C3%B6lln/a-39010591

    “On a warm and sunny afternoon in Neukölln, a family with kids started verbally abusing a gay man before they attacked. He was only saved when a good Samaritan stepped in to help.

    A gay man was attacked in Berlin by a family with children, police announced Saturday. It was the latest in a string of homophobic assaults in the city.

    The 35-year-old man was walking through the southeastern neighborhood of Neukölln on Friday afternoon when a group of men, women and children started verbally abusing him.

    The men then started punching and kicking him before a female passerby intervened. The good Samaritan helped him seek shelter and call police. The victim was then taken to hospital.

    Police said they were investigating and had not yet found the family, but gave no description of them.

    The man told police the group were abusing him in Hermannplatz for his sexuality and for a cross worn on his neck. He told police it was clear they were a family.

    Homophobic violence jumps 16 percent in Berlin

    The beating was the latest in a series of attacks on gay men in Berlin. Berlin police reported nine homophobic crimes so far this month, gay news outlet Queer.de reported on Saturday.

    In 2016 there were 291 acts of homophobic violence, up 16 percent year-on-year, Berlin-based anti-homophobic violence group Maneo reported. Berlin police counted just 162 homophobic crimes over the same period.

    Last week a 19-year-old gay man was beaten up by a group in Alexanderplatz. Police later arrested a 17-year-old and an 18-year-old for the attack.

    Earlier this month, a 34-year-old gay Italian man was stabbed to death in Volkspark Friedrichshain, a well-known gay cruising area.

    Just one day prior to the killing, a group of men were attacked in the gay district of Schöneberg after being homophobically abused, police said.

    In December, three young gay men were assaulted on the U8 metro line by a group of four men, who asked why they were gay. A 17-year-old was later arrested.

    In June, a 28-year-old man was attacked by a group of five people in Mitte after they demanded to know whether he was gay.

    Berlin police regularly report on the possible homophobic motives of crimes, unlike many other cities in Germany.”

  43. Erdogan told Merkel of anger over asylum for ‘putschists’ (thelocal, May 27, 2017)
    https://www.thelocal.de/20170527/erdogan-told-merkel-of-anger-over-asylum-for-putschists

    “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his disapproval to German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her country’s reportedly giving asylum to people accused of links to last year’s failed coup, he said in an interview published on Saturday.

    “We brought to the agenda the putschist soldiers whose asylum applications have been accepted and gave a firm reaction,” Erdogan said, referring to his meeting with Merkel on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday.

    “We asked: ‘How can you do this?'” Erdogan said, quoted by the Hurriyet newspaper.

    Since the coup attempt, dozens of Turkish diplomats and high-ranking officials have sought asylum in Germany as Ankara continues its crackdown on those suspected of links to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it accuses of ordering the coup.

    German media reported this month that numerous Turkish military personnel and their families holding diplomatic passports had been granted political asylum.

    But Erdogan said Merkel told him asylum approval “was not up to her”.

    Relations between Berlin and Ankara have been strained since last July’s attempted putsch, but have deteriorated further over several issues including the referendum campaign to expand Erdogan’s powers.

    Ties also worsened after Turkey imprisoned Deniz Yucel, a German-Turkish journalist with Die Welt, on terror charges in February.

    Erdogan hit back at Germany’s “fixation with Deniz”, saying he told Merkel: “I reminded them: ‘You have many Deniz, I gave you these documents’.”

    He was referring to 4,000 dossiers which Turkey previously said it gave its Berlin colleagues about “terrorist” suspects in Germany.

    Germany’s interior ministry said Friday that 217 of the asylum applications came from Turks holding diplomatic passports while another 220 were from people with passports issued to other government employees and their dependents.

    It is not known officially how many have been given asylum or how many are from the military.

    Erdogan also said that the issue of German lawmakers wanting to visit the Incirlik military base near Syria was also discussed by the two leaders.

    Ankara refused to allow German lawmakers to visit the base this month, and Erdogan said Turkey wanted a list of those who would visit because some MPs “openly support terrorists”.

    The lawmakers called off their visit but not before Berlin warned it could move its 250 military personnel stationed at the base to another location in the region, most likely Jordan.

    The German forces at the base fly Tornado surveillance missions over Syria and refuel flights for partner nations battling the Islamic State jihadist group.”

  44. Bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished: Trump on Minya attack (ahram, May 27, 2017)
    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/269606/Egypt/Politics-/Bloodletting-of-Christians-must-end,-and-all-who-a.aspx

    “US President Donald Trump has expressed his sadness and support for Egypt and President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi following the terrorist attack on Christians in Minya Friday that saw 28 Copts killed by armed gunmen.

    “America stands with President El-Sisi and all the Egyptian people today, and always, as we fight to defeat this common enemy,” an official statement said.

    “This merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt tears at our hearts and grieves our souls,” the statement reads, adding that this attack also “steels our resolve” to bring nations together for the righteous purpose of crushing the evil organisations of terror.

    On a televised speech Friday, following the terrorist attack, El-Sisi directly addressed Trump, saying: “Your Excellency, I trust your ability to wage war on terrorism as your first priority, with the cooperation of the whole international community, that should unite against terrorism.”
    El-Sisi added that, “All countries that support terrorism should be punished, without any courtesy or conciliation.”

    Trump stressed that America also makes it clear to its friends, allies and partners that the “treasured and historic Christian communities of the Middle East must be defended and protected,” and that the “bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished.”
    In his speech, El-Sisi said that a strike was being launched targeting a camp that had been a source of terrorists who had carried out attacks in Egypt, without specifying a location.

    The Egyptian armed forces released a short video Friday and which was shown on state television after El-Sisi’s speech. The voiceover said that upon the directions of the president, the airforce had carried out a strike against terrorist gatherings in Libya “after confirming their involvement in planning and committing the terrorist attack in Minya governorate on Friday.”

    Sisi warned, “Egypt will not hesitate in striking any camps that harbour or train terrorist elements whether inside Egypt or outside Egypt,” adding that Friday’s attack will not pass easily.

    Twenty-eight Christians were killed and 23 injured in the armed attack on buses carrying them to St Samuel’s Monastery in Upper Egypt’s Minya governorate Friday morning.

    No group has yet claimed the Minya attack, which is the latest in a series of deadly attacks on Egypt’s Christians.

    On 9 April, suicide bombers targeted St George’s Church in Tanta and St Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria, killing and injuring dozens in the deadliest attacks against civilians in the country’s recent history. A total of 29 people died in the Tanta explosion and 18 in Alexandria.

    Cairo imposed a nationwide three-month state of emergency after the April bombings, with the option to extend for another three months dependent on a parliament vote.

    Coptic Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population of 92 million.”

  45. 15 ISIS loyalists killed by Afghan civilians in Nangarhar province (khaama, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.khaama.com/15-isis-loyalists-killed-by-afghan-civilians-in-nangarhar-province-02842

    “At least fifteen militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during clashes with the civilians in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

    The provincial government media office in a statement said a clash broke out between the local residents and the ISISI loyalists in Wach Kot area of Achin district on Friday.

    The statement further added that fifteen ISIS loyalists were killed after hours of gun battle that lasted until 3 pm local time.

    At least six civilians including a woman were also killed during the clashes and another civilian was wounded, the provincial government added.

    Provincial governor Mohammad Gulab Mangal hailed the local residents of Wach Kot area for defying threats posed by ISIS militants and taking a brave step to eliminate them.

    Mangal also expressed grief over the loss of civilian lives during the clashes with the ISIS loyalists.
    According to the local government officials, the ISIS loyalists escaped from the area after the gun battle ended and additional forces were deployed to suppress the insurgents.”

  47. Migrant Mass Brawl Turns Quiet Austrian City Area into Chaos (breitbart, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/27/migrant-mass-brawl-turns-quiet-austrian-city-chaos/

    “A mass brawl of around 30 migrants from Afghanistan and other Arab countries turned a quiet area in the Austrian city of Linz into chaos, frightening local residents.

    At 9:20 am on Thursday morning, residents in the residential area on Böhmerwaldstrasse in the Austrian city of Linz phoned police as around 30 migrants started brawling in the area. One restaurant owner was forced to barricade his establishment to protect his customers from the violence, Kronen Zeitung reports…”

  48. Majority of Britons Believe Mass Immigration Undermines Local Culture, Survey Finds (breitbart, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/27/majority-of-britons-believe-mass-immigration-undermines-local-culture-survey-finds/

    “More than 50 per cent of Britons believes mass immigration threatens their country’s ‘Britishness’, according to a new study.

    The Aurora Humanitarian Index 2017, which “seeks to empower modern-day saviours to offer life and hope to those in urgent need”, found that 56 per cent of Britons believe ethnic minorities pose a threat to local culture.

    Almost a quarter – 24 per cent – said they worried immigration was depriving natives of jobs, and over a third – 34 per cent – said immigration costs society more than it contributes.

    In fact, the government’s Migration Advisory Committee concluded in 2012 that for every one hundred migrants brought to Britain from outside the European Union, around 23 native workers are displaced, with later analyses suggesting the effects are particularly acute for Britons in working-class occupations.

    Moreover, a 2015 study by the Bank of England found that “a 10 percentage point rise in the proportion of immigrants working in semi/unskilled services — that is, in care homes, bars, shops, restaurants, cleaning, for example — leads to a 1.88 per cent reduction in pay” for British workers.

    In terms of contributions to the public purse, a landmark University College London (UCL) study found that recent migrants from the European Economic Area (EEA) have contributed somewhat more the Exchequer than they have consumed in services, at least by according to the study’s criteria.

    However, the UCL study also revealed that, if you analyse the impact of all types of immigrant between 1995 and 2011, you end up with a net negative impact on the order of £95 billion.

    Irrespective of the validity of survey respondents’ views, the Aurora Humanitarian Index’s organisers were clearly unhappy with the results.

    “This year’s findings demonstrate an overall decline in the support for humanitarian action based on scepticism in the ability to make an impact and ambivalence in defending social values over self-interest,” the report noted disapprovingly.”

  49. Security Services Have Foiled Five UK Terror Plots Since Westminster Attack (breitbart, May 27, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/27/security-services-have-foiled-five-uk-terror-plots-since-westminster/

    “The pace of terror plots successfully intercepted and prevented by Britain’s intelligence and counter-terror agencies considerably quickened in the months leading up to the Manchester attack.

    Security service sources have revealed five terror plots were foiled between the Westminster attack in March, where Islamist Khalid Masood ran down a number of pedestrians and stabbed a police constable to death outside the Palace of Westminster, killing five, and the Manchester bombing which killed 22.

    The five plots foiled in less than two months contribute to a total of 18 stopped since 2013.

    The comments of the sources reported by The Sun said Britain’s domestic intelligence agency MI5 was running around 500 active investigations, that encompassed some 3,000 “subjects of interest”. It has since been revealed that in addition to those subjects of interest, the British government was also aware of a further 20,000 potential Jihadists who had been reported to the services or detected by other means, but were judged not enough of a risk to monitor in greater depth.

    Both Khalid Masood, the Westminster killer and Salman Abedi, the Manchester bomber were part of this greater pool of potential subjects, who did not receive the full attention of the security services because there are not enough intelligence and police officers to monitor them all. Allowed to have “slipped through the net”, these individuals were able to plan and execute their attacks without the attention of the security services.

    The paper reported the remarks of a “former senior figure” who said: “Knowing of someone’s radical sympathies and knowing they present a real and present danger are very different things.

    So the essence of the security dilemma is triage, how to assess who and when to investigate very deeply given the resources needed for 24/7 surveillance.

    “For every suspect that appears to be high priority another has to be pushed down the list. So who not to investigate urgently is as important a decision as who might be worth investigating”.”

  50. Burma’s Muslims face restrictions on where to pray during Ramadan – Rights group (asiancorrespondent, May 28, 2017)
    https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/05/burmas-muslims-face-restrictions-pray-ramadan-rights-group/#JVR3usat5MECPYjr.97

    “AS Ramadan begins, Muslims in Burma are increasingly restricted in where they can pray or study their faith, points out Human Rights Watch (HRW).

    Using Thaketa Township in Rangoon as a case study, Richard Weir, a Fellow in the Asia Division of HRW, highlights the pressure on the Muslim community after the closure of the township’s two Islamic schools, or madrassas.

    Both establishments were chained shut late last month after a Buddhist ultranationalist mob pressured authorities to close them. At the time, HRW called for the Burmese government to immediately reopen the schools, labelling the move a “craven capitulation to mob demands.”…”