Reader’s links for Aug. 7, 2017

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  1. When “Alternative Facts” Kill

    What sense can we make of the recent crisis at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem? It began on 14 July when, having smuggled automatic weapons into Al-Aqsa mosque, terrorists emerged from what is frequently called “the third holiest site in Islam,” and killed two Israeli security guards.

    Far from oppressing anybody, at least one of the guards (also Arabs, Israeli Druze), had their backs turned to the killers because they were protecting the Muslims inside the Mosque. But when the Israeli government, deeply shaken by this egregious act of violence so close to the Holy Sanctuary, erected metal detectors to prevent any further killings, the roof of the world fell in on… Israel’s head.

    As David Horovitz, editor of [leftist]</strike centrist newspaper The Times of Israel, said: “To put it really crudely…Arabs killed Arabs at a holy place, the Jews are trying to ensure that it doesn’t happen again, and the Arab world is furious with the Jews about it.”

    http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/when-“alternative-facts”-kill

  2. Conjuring Disrespect
    A much-touted study of Oakland police shows researchers’ determination to find racism, not cops’ bias.
    August 7, 2017
    Heather Mac Donald

    The attempt to find systemic police bias has come to this: the difference between an officer saying “uh” and saying “that, that’s.” According to Stanford University researchers, police officers in Oakland, California, use one of those verbal tics more often with white drivers and the other more often with black drivers. If you can guess which tic conveys “respect” and which “disrespect,” you may have a career ahead of you in the exploding field of bias psychology.

    In June, a team of nine Stanford psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists released a paper purporting to show that Oakland police treat black drivers less respectfully than white ones. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, elicited a huzzah from the press. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and Science, among many other outlets, gave it prominent play. “Police officers are significantly less respectful and consistently ruder toward black motorists during routine traffic stops than they are toward white drivers,” gloated the New York Times.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267502/conjuring-disrespect-heather-mac-donald

  3. ERDOGAN’S Genocidal INCITEMENT
    Funding Palestinian Jew-hatred.
    August 7, 2017
    Joseph Puder

    Turkey’s dictatorial president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent efforts to mediate between the Saudis, their Arab Gulf allies and Egypt on one side versus his Qatari ally (both are staunch supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood) on the other, have failed to materialize. At the same time, his war of words with Germany, and the European Union’s cold shoulder, has left the arrogant Erdogan with one avenue to make headlines – incite Muslims against Israel. His crude anti-Semitic incitement has gone hand-in-hand with his posturing as the leader of the Sunni-Muslim world.

    Erdogan has called on Muslims to show solidarity with the Palestinians by flooding Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. He has used invectives against Israel with such words as “racist and discriminatory.” This comes after the Israeli government backed away from a confrontation with the incited Muslim community, and ordered the removal of the metal detectors and security cameras. The Israeli actions followed a week of Palestinian rioting, and the murders of three Israeli family members by a Palestinian terrorist. Erdogan declared that, “In our religion and historical responsibility for Al-Quds and the fight of our Palestinian brothers for rights and justice is of great importance to us.”

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267479/erdogans-genocidal-incitement-joseph-puder

  4. Uncover the Toxic Connection Between Drugs and Jihad
    Home > Political Islam > In the US > National Security > Uncover the Toxic Connection Between Drugs and Jihad

    The path from drug addict to religious fundamentalist is a well-trodden one. In the late 1960s through the seventies the movement dubbed as the ‘Jesus Freaks’ abandoned flower power for the Prince of Peace, helped on their way by joints and LSD. The Jewish corollary saw Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach bring hippies into the fold through his “House of Love and Prayer.”

    Although most of these teenagers grew out of it, many were inducted into Christian cults like the Children of God, also known as The Family, where sexual abuse and brainwashing abounded.

    Jihadism is no different and although many jihadi recruits have not experimented with mind altering substances, there is a strong component which has. We are not talking here about the well-documented financial and paramilitary connections between terrorist groups and drug cartels, although as investigative journalist Don Winslow, who has covered drug cartels and terrorism for 15 years writes “our drug policies have driven these groups into each other’s bloodstained arms.”

    We’re talking about terrorists who take drugs. So what is the connection?

    https://clarionproject.org/uncover-toxic-connection-drugs-jihad/

  5. Where Does U.S. Law Stand on Hate Speech?
    Home > Political Islam > In the US > Legal Issues > Where Does U.S. Law Stand on Hate Speech?
    By Elliot Friedland Sunday, August 6, 2017

    The Simon Weisenthal Center in late July 2017 asked then U.S. homeland security secretary John Kelly “to launch an immediate investigation of Imam Ammar Shahin, the imam of the Islamic Center of Davis in California, for inciting to murder Jews.”

    Imam Shahin called on Allah to “liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews” saying “Oh Allah, count them one by one and annihilate them down to the very last one. Do not spare any of them.”

    So where does the law stand on such sermons?

    Laws on free speech and hate speech differ around the world. In the United States at this time there is no legal concept of “hate speech,” which is protected by the first amendment.

    The only form of speech deemed illegal is that which is likely to incite violence imminently, even if it incites violence at some future time. This has been the case in U.S. constitutional law since 1969.

    https://clarionproject.org/where-does-the-law-stand-on-hate-speech/

  6. Iran says arrested 27 IS-linked militants, foiled attacks (abcnews, Aug 7, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iran-arrested-27-linked-militants-foiled-attacks-49077167

    “Iran’s intelligence ministry says its forces have detained 27 militants linked to the Islamic State group who planned to carry out terrorist operations in religious cities inside the country.

    The ministry says Monday in a statement on its website, vaja.ir, that they were identified during an exchange of intelligence with one of the regional services, ahead of President Hassan Rouhani’s inauguration.

    The report did not say which country Iran exchanged the intelligence with, or mention where they were arrested.

    It said 10 of them were detained at a “control center” abroad, and sent to Iran, while 17 others were arrested in Iran.

    The ministry added five of them had planned to carry out terror attacks inside Iran and the others were their supporters.”

  7. Militant group Jamaat-ud-Dawa launches new party in Pakistan (abcnews, Aug 7, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/militant-group-jamaat-ud-dawa-launches-party-pakistan-49077340

    “Pakistan’s banned militant group Jamaat-ud-Dawa is seeking to enter the political sphere by launching a new party.

    Saifullah Khalid, a religious scholar and longtime official of the group, is president of the newly-formed Milli Muslim League party. He told reporters in Islamabad Monday that his party will work to make Pakistan “a real Islamic and welfare state” and that it’s ready to cooperate with like-minded parties.

    The U.S. has offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of JuD’s founder Hafiz Saeed. Pakistan placed him under house arrest earlier this year.

    The JuD widely is believed to be a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group behind the 2008 deadly attacks in Mumbai, India.”

  8. Tunisia tells ports to deny anti-migrant ship entry (abcnews, Aug 7, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/tunisia-tells-ports-deny-anti-migrant-ship-entry-49077346

    “A port director in Tunisia says authorities have instructed commercial ports in the North African nation to deny access to a ship rented by European identity groups and sailing the Mediterranean Sea with an anti-migrant message.

    Fishermen and human rights activists in the Tunisian city of Zarzis unfurled a banner reading “No Racism” as the C Star, the flagship of operation Defend Europe, sailed in international waters off Tunisia’s coast over the weekend.

    Zarzis port director Karim Nouira told The Associated Press the ship never asked to dock at Zarzis and sailed north toward Sfax. But Nouira says Tunisia’s Transport Ministry told ports to forbid C-Star’s entry.

    Defend Europe says it is monitoring aid groups that rescue migrants who have paid large sums to cross the sea in flimsy boats, claiming the groups are complicit in human trafficking.”

  9. ‘Dodgy’ greenhouse gas data threatens Paris accord (BBC, Aug 8, 2017)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40669449

    “Potent, climate warming gases are being emitted into the atmosphere but are not being recorded in official inventories, a BBC investigation has found.

    Air monitors in Switzerland have detected large quantities of one gas coming from a location in Italy.

    However, the Italian submission to the UN records just a tiny amount of the substance being emitted.

    Levels of some emissions from India and China are so uncertain that experts say their records are plus or minus 100%….”

  10. Yemeni Army’s Missiles Inflict Heavy Casualties on Saudi-Led Troops in Assir Province (alalam, Aug 7, 2017)
    http://en.alalam.ir/news/2003694

    “The Yemeni army and popular forces’ missiles and artillery units pounded the gatherings of the Saudi-led forces in Assir province in Southern Saudi Arabia, killing and wounding over 100 troops.

    The Yemeni missiles hit Alab military base in Assir province, killing and wounding over 100 Saudi-led troops.

    The Yemeni sources confirmed that the Yemeni army and popular forces hit Alab military base with Zalzal-2 missiles and Katyusha rockets

    “More than 100 Saudi-led forces were either killed or wounded in the Yemeni army attacks,” the Arabic-language Sabanet news agency quoted a military source as saying…”

  11. Anti-Islamophobia bill stalls in Congress (alaraby, Aug 7, 2017)
    https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2017/8/7/anti-islamophobia-bill-stalls-in-us-congress

    “After President Donald Trump introduced his January executive order banning travel to the United States from seven Muslim majority countries, Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) introduced HR 852, entitled The Freedom of Religion Act of 2017.

    The legislation would ensure that a foreigner could not be denied admission to the US because of their religion.

    Introducing the legislation in a February press conference with multiple Congressional Democrats, Beyer emphasised the bill’s important messages of ending religious discrimination in the wake of Trump’s presidency.

    But, just over five months later, HR 852 has stalled, unable to obtain the support of a single Congressional Republican.

    Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) explained why she backed the legislation, telling The New Arab: “These are just fundamental American values that we don’t discriminate based on religion, certainly not here at home.” While the bill does not mention the word Islam or Muslims once, Schakowsky noted that the legislation was in response to Trump’s “Muslim ban”.

    The bill has received the support of 113 Members of Congress – out of 435 – including prominent representatives such as Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee Keith Ellison (D-MN), John Lewis (D-GA), and ranking Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Elliot Engel (D-NY)…”

  12. ‘100 minors killed in raid in Syria’. ‘Were ISIS little lions’ (ansamed, Aug 7, 2017)
    http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2017/08/07/100-minors-killed-in-coalition-airstrikes-in-syria_96961ab9-1127-4962-9dcb-77bda90f35a7.html

    “Saudi broadcaster al Arabiya said “100 minors” were killed when the US-led coalition in Syria conducted an airstrike on an ISIS training camp in the country’s east.

    The attack took place in the area of Dayr az Zor, a city on the Euphrates at the border with Iraq, according to information provided by the pan-Arab broadcaster.
    The news hasn’t yet been officially confirmed.

    100 minors killed in Syria were ‘ISIS little lions’

    The news of “100 minors” killed in Syria by a US-led coalition airstrike has also been reported by a group of Syrian anti-ISIS activists working secretly in the area hit, Dayr az Zor. The group, which publishes news in Arabic online on the website Furat Post (“Furat” is the name of the Euphrates in Arabic), said “100 members of the Little Lions of the Caliphate”, the militia of young ISIS jihadists, were killed in the airstrike.

    The strike took place during the night between Saturday and Sunday in Kashkiya, between Mayadin and Albukamal, south of Dayr az Zor, 50 kilometres west of the Iraq border.

    The activists said ISIS militants surrounded the area of attack and have banned civilian access. The majority of jihadist militants in that area are from Central Asia and the Far East, they said.

    At the end of 2016, in the battle of Mosul in northern Iraq, ISIS lost 38 members of its “Little Lions of the Caliphate”, 31 of whom were originally from Raqqa, in northern Syria”

  13. Turkey’s Erdogan claims Germany abetting terrorists (memo, Aug 7, 2017)
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170807-turkeys-erdogan-claims-germany-abetting-terrorists/

    “Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Germany on Monday of assisting terrorists by not responding to thousands of files sent to Berlin or handing over suspects wanted by Turkish authorities.

    “Germany is abetting terrorists,” Erdogan told a conference in the Black Sea province of Rize, in comments likely to further escalate tensions between the two countries.

    “We gave (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel 4,500 dossiers, but have not received an answer on a single one of them,” he told members of his ruling AK Party.

    “When there is a terrorist, they can tell us to give that person back. You won’t send the ones you have to us, but can ask us for yours. So you have a judiciary, but we don’t in Turkey?” he said.

    In Berlin, a German government source rejected Erdogan’s latest remarks…”

  14. Morocco 2nd Biggest Buyer of French Weapons in Africa: French Ministry (moroccoworldnews, Aug 7, 2017)
    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/08/225492/morocco-2nd-biggest-buyer-of-french-weapons-in-africa-french-ministry/

    “Morocco was the second African purchaser of French armaments in 2016, behind Egypt and ahead of Algeria. The kingdom spent EUR 127 million on French weapons, according to a new report by the French Ministry of Armies presented to the Parliament…”

  15. German ex-president Christian Wulff criticized for Turkish fashion job (DW, Aug 7, 2017)
    http://www.dw.com/en/german-ex-president-christian-wulff-criticized-for-turkish-fashion-job/a-39998105

    “Disgraced former German President Christian Wulff faced a new barrage of criticism after it emerged that he had taken a job for a Turkish fashion store. He already receives a six-figure salary from the German state.

    Christian Wulff, a leading Christian Democrat figure once considered a possible successor to Angela Merkel, has faced anger after a newspaper revealed that the former German president was now working for a Turkish high-street fashion chain.

    The Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday that Wulff had been working for the German subsidiary of Istanbul-based chain Yargici since the end of April – just before the firm opened its first stores in Germany.

    “Basically it was Mr Wulff who motivated the company to launch in Germany,” Yargici’s managing director in Germany, Erik Schaap, told the paper. Announcing its plan to expand into Germany in April, Yargici described itself as a “strong and fun-loving brand for women,” that has been successful in Turkey and Cyprus for 39 years.

    Wulff had reportedly already been working as the company’s legal representative in Germany since the beginning of 2016, but his office refused to answer questions about his work for Yargici on the grounds that it would violate his rules of professional conduct as a lawyer. DW’s requests for comment on Monday remained unanswered…”

  16. Asylum seekers deported from Finland film their return home (france24, Aug 7, 2017)
    http://observers.france24.com/en/20170807-iraqi-asylum-seekers-deported-finland-film-return-war-torn-country

    “Finland began to toughen up its requirements for asylum seekers in 2015. Since Finnish authorities decided that the security situation has improved in Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan, failed asylum seekers from those countries are no longer eligible for “humanitarian protection” — despite the fact that their countries are still at war. On social media, failed asylum seekers have been documenting their fear, outrage, and sorrow while being deported…”