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Three out of four child refugees trying to reach Europe face ‘appalling’ levels of exploitation, report finds (independentm Sep 11, 2017)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/child-refugees-uk-exploitation-smugglers-crisis-a7941301.html
Who are Myanmar’s militants? Five questions about ARSA (CNN, Sep 12, 2017)
http://us.cnn.com/2017/09/12/asia/arsa-rohingya-militants-who-are-they/index.html
“Who is ARSA? ARSA stands for the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, and is also known by the name Harakat al-Yaqeen, or “Faith Movement.” A December 2016 report by the International Crisis Group said the group is led by a “committee of Rohingya émigrés in Saudi Arabia and is commanded on the ground by Rohingya with international training and experience in modern guerrilla war tactics.”…”
Gary Oldman: Modern world has parallels with Winston Churchill era
Gary Oldman has warned the world may be in an “eye of the storm” similar to the one British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warned about ahead of the Second World War.
The actor, 59, is playing the wartime Prime Minister in Darkest Hour, by Atonement director Joe Wright.
Oldman said he can see similarities between now and when Churchill was warning of Adolf Hitler’s danger to the world while others wanted to appease him.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/gary-oldman-modern-world-has-parallels-with-winston-churchill-era-805581.html
Richard: There are also parallels to what happened shortly before WWI, one of them is that people engage in group think saying it can’t happen now the weapons are too destructive for anyone to think about using.
“… the weapons are too destructive for anyone to think about using.”
Try telling that to Kim Jong Un or Ali Khamenei.
Syria countdown: Maneuvers around Deir ez-Zor as rebels try to plant a flag east of Euphrates
By J.E. Dyer September 12, 2017
All over social media, drive-by pundits are trying to turn the fight for Deir ez-Zor, ISIS’ last stronghold in eastern Syria, into a showdown between Russia and the U.S.
I don’t think it’s going to work, as signs are not propitious for either the U.S.-backed rebel fighters, or the appetite for long-term engagement by the U.S. What the Kurdish YPG and the SDF fighters can’t hold on their own, they’re probably going to lose eventually. Once there is no way to justify U.S. combat support as “attacking ISIS,” the support will dry up.
That said, a brief tour of the tactical situation. A week ago, I summarized the Iran-backed Syrian regime push toward Deir ez-Zor that started 1 September. The push moved quickly, and has continued its rapid success in the past seven days. Key positions on the west side of Deir ez-Zor have been secured by the regime coalition, including the airbase on the southern edge of the city.
In the last day, videos have been posted on social media showing convoys of vehicles “pouring into” Deir ez-Zor City under regime auspices. The city is not fully under Syrian army control, but the momentum is with the regime coalition.
Russian media report that Russian sappers are deploying to Deir ez-Zor to begin the systematic search for mines.
http://libertyunyielding.com/2017/09/12/syria-countdown-maneuvers-around-deir-ez-zor-rebels-try-plant-flag-east-euphrates/
Read the article and think hard about the implications, Iran/The Persian Empire are about to seize control of a land bridge from Iran to the Med. this is going change the entire power structure in the Middle East. Saudi, Jordan and Israel are going to have to react to this. That reaction may cause the expansion of WWIII to a true world war, the land bridge will give Iran Naval Bases in the Med as well as giving them a way to supply Hezbollah without shipping the weapons through the Red Sea which will threaten Israel, Jordan and Saudi. A swing south through Jordan into Saudi will place the Iranian military in position to seize control of most of the oil production from the Middle East. Think about that one Iran will control the majority of oil production int he Middle East and given their close working relationship with North Korea (China) this means they have thermonuclear weapons and missiles in all four classes (Short Range Intermediate Range, Long Range and ICBM) to mount these weapons on.
North Korea (China) supplying Iran with nukes and missiles is going to change the Iranian Russian relationship in ways that aren’t readily apparent to anyone, I wonder how far ahead is Putin thinking? How far ahead is Xi thinking? Given the close relations between Iran and North Korea(China) are Iran, North Korea (China), and Russia orchestrating the lead into WWIII to pull the American Forces to the Far East just before Iran touches off the fighting between Shiite and Sunni for domination of Islam? Also of concern how will the Egyptian government react? How will the Islamic expats in Europe and the Americas react?
Afghanistan: ‘We don’t want the US to be in Afghanistan’ – hundreds decry troops’ presence
Hundreds of protesters rallied against the presence of US troops in the country near the Bagram base in the Parwan Province on Tuesday, after the US air forces reportedly spread leaflets that are offensive to Muslims.
Demonstrators set car tires on fire and waved placards depicting US President Donald Trump as a dog.
A lot of people in Europe don’t want Afghan’s there.
Merkel: Hungary can’t ignore EU refugee ruling (abcnews, Sep 12, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/merkel-hungary-ignore-eu-refugee-ruling-49786090
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel says it’s unacceptable for Hungary to ignore a ruling by the European Union’s top court that it must accept refugees under an EU-wide plan. But she’s not specifying any consequences.
Hungary’s prime minister has said that while he “took note” of the European Court of Justice’s ruling last week, he’d continue to oppose the plans.
Merkel told Tuesday’s edition of the daily Berliner Zeitung: “That one government says it isn’t interested in a verdict by the European Court of Justice cannot be accepted.”
Asked whether that means Hungary must leave the EU, she replied: “It means that a very fundamental European question is affected, because for me Europe is a place governed by laws.” Merkel said an EU summit in October must discuss the issue.”
Chinese imprisoned for 2 years after teaching about Islam (abcnews, Sep 12, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chinese-imprisoned-years-teaching-islam-49784843
“A member of a Muslim minority group has been sentenced to two years in a Chinese prison after forming online discussions groups to teach about Islam.
Huang Shike was arrested in 2016 in Xinjiang province, three months after he formed a discussion group about Muslim worship on the messaging app WeChat, according to the official website China Judgments Online. Huang, 49, taught about the Quran, Islam’s holy book, in another WeChat discussion group. More than 100 people were members of each group, the website said.
The discussion groups “disturbed normal religious activity” and violated laws about using the internet to discuss religion, the website said.
Chinese authorities have dramatically increased surveillance and police patrols in Xinjiang, fearing the spread of militant Islam which they believe has infiltrated the region from Central Asia…”
International waters: Humanity ‘will go down’ if climate change not tackled – Pope Francis
Humanity “will go down” if it does not address the issue of climate change, stated Pope Francis as he spoke to press on board of his plane, returning to the Holy See from a trip to Colombia, Monday.
SOT, Pope Francis (Italian): “I don’t know whether it will take three years or not, but that if we don’t go back, we will go down – that [I do know] is true. Climate change can be seen, its effects [can be seen]; and scientists clearly say [what is] the path to follow. All of us have a responsibility, all of us. Each of us has a small one or a bigger one. [Everyone has] a moral responsibility in accepting [or] giving an opinion or taking a decision. And we need to take [this issue] seriously. I believe that no one should joke on this matter, it’s really serious.” *JUMPCUT AT SOURCE*
SOT, Pope Francis (Italian): “‘Man is stupid’, said the Bible. It’s like that: when one doesn’t want to see [things], one does not see [them]. One looks only in one way.”
Turkey issues warrants for ex-agents for links to cleric (abcnews, Sep 12, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-issues-warrants-agents-links-cleric-49785362
“Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have issued detention warrants for 63 people, mostly ex-intelligence agency workers, for alleged ties to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of masterminding last year’s failed coup attempt.
Anadolu Agency reported that warrants were issued Tuesday for 45 former employees of the National Intelligence Agency, MIT, and 18 others suspected of being operatives of the cleric, Fethullah Gulen. Anadolu said that nine of the suspects have been detained in the capital, Ankara.
Turkey has launched a large-scale crackdown against Gulen’s movement after the July 2016 coup attempt, dismissing more than 110,000 people from government jobs and arresting more than 50,000 people for alleged links to terror groups.
Gulen denies involvement in the coup attempt.”
Russia says Syrian government controls 85 percent of country (abcnews, Sep 12, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-syria-government-controls-85-percent-country-49785886
“Russia’s military said Tuesday that Syrian troops have liberated about 85 percent of the war-torn country’s territory from militants, a major turn-around two years after Moscow intervened to lend a hand to its embattled long-time ally.
Russia has been providing air cover for President Bashar Assad’s troops since 2015, changing the tide of the war and giving Syrian and allied troops an advantage over opposition fighters and Islamic State group militants.
Speaking to reporters at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria’s province of Latakia, Lt. Gen. Alexander Lapin said the Syrian government still must clear the militants who hold approximately 27,000 square kilometers (10,425 square miles), the remaining 15 percent.
The reporters were later flown to Aleppo city, which opposition fighters lost to the Syrian government in late 2016, and where Russian military police patrol parts of the city.
Syrian troops, along with strong support from Iranian-backed ground fighters, have in recent weeks pushed IS militants out of central Homs province, near the border with Lebanon, and are now fighting them in the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province in the east.
Deir el-Zour is the last major IS holdout in Syria and the Syrian campaign, backed by Russian air power, broke a nearly three-year-old siege on the provincial capital where troops had been encircled by IS militants.
But activists said civilians are bearing the brunt of the offensive amid intensive airstrikes and IS taking them as human shields. An overnight airstrike hit recently displaced Syrians from Deir el-Zour on the western side of the Euphrates River, killing at least eight civilians.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Omar Abu Laila, who runs a group that monitors developments in Deir el-Zour, said the airstrikes were suspected to be from Russian aircraft.
At the height of its strength, IS controlled nearly half of Syria, seizing mostly territories in the east and north of Syria…”
EU anti-terror chief: IS still has 2,500 European fighters (abnews, Sep 12, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-anti-terror-chief-2500-european-fighters-49786736
“The European Union’s counter-terrorism coordinator says the Islamic State group still has about 2,500 fighters from Europe among its dwindling ranks.
Gilles de Kerchove told German daily Welt in an interview published Tuesday that the extremist group used to have about 5,000 European fighters in Iraq and Syria.
De Kerchove says about 1,500 fighters have since returned home and 1,000 have been killed. He says many of those remaining are likely to die fighting or at the hands of IS if they desert, while some may move to other conflict areas such as Somalia or Yemen.
According to official U.S. estimates, IS has up to 13,000 fighters overall left in Syria and Iraq.
De Kerchove says the loss of territory won’t end the terror threat posed by IS.”
Saudi prince acquires $1.5B stake in Banque Saudi Fransi (abcnews, Sep 12, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudi-prince-acquires-15b-stake-banque-saudi-fransi-49786818
“The Kingdom Holding Company, run by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, says it will acquire from Credit Agricole a 16.2 percent stake in Banque Saudi Fransi in a deal valued at around $1.5 billion (5.8 billion riyals).
Kingdom Holding is acquiring the stake from Credit Agricole SA’s corporate and investment banking arm, positioning Alwaleed’s company as the largest shareholder in the bank, which has some 86 branches across Saudi Arabia and is among the biggest lenders there.
In a statement Tuesday, the prince said the investment in Banque Saudi Fransi demonstrates the company’s confidence in Saudi Arabia’s efforts to diversify the economy in line with a Vision 2030 blueprint.
The prince’s investment firm has a number of high-profile holdings, including in Twitter, Apple, News Corp and Citigroup.”
IS says it used suicide car bomb against Egyptian police (abcnews, Sep 12, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/suicide-car-bomb-egyptian-police-49786904
“The extremist Islamic State group says it used a suicide car bomb in its deadly attack on a police convoy in the turbulent north of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The account given by Egypt’s Interior Ministry of Monday’s attack only says that a car that rushed toward the convoy exploded when policemen in the convoy shot at it.
Egyptian security and military officials say four armored vehicles and a fifth one carrying signal-jamming equipment were destroyed in the attack and a police pickup was commandeered0 by the militants. They say 18 police were killed and another seven wounded in the attack.
The late Monday IS statement says the attack left a total of 35 dead or wounded and identifies the suicide bomber by his alias, Abu Suleiman al-Masri.”
Abducted Indian priest rescued in Yemen after 18 months (abcnews, Sep 12, 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/abducted-indian-priest-rescued-yemen-18-months-49787562
“An Indian Catholic priest who was kidnapped by militants from a home for the aged in Yemen has been rescued after 18 months of captivity, an Indian official said Tuesday.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter that Tom Uzhunnalil had been rescued but gave no details.
Uzhunnalil had worked for more than four years as a chaplain at the home in Aden in southern Yemen established by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
He was abducted by militants in March last year when they attacked the home, killing 16 people including four nuns. The militants also destroyed the chapel and the center.
There were about 80 residents at the home at the time of the attack. Missionaries of Charity nuns also came under attack in Yemen in 1998, when gunmen killed three nuns in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida.
The Hindustan Times newspaper said the priest was flown from Yemen to Muscat, the capital of Oman, after his release.
“Our prayers were finally heard. We thank all who stood with us in trying times,” the newspaper quoted the priest’s older brother, Mathew, as saying.
Uzhunnalil comes from Ramapuram in the southern Indian state of Kerala.”
India: Indian Union Muslim League demands international support for Rohingya Muslims
Protesters gathered at Teen Murti Gol Chakkar in New Delhi on Monday to protest the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims and call for international support for those currently fleeing the Southeast Asian nation.
SOT, Protester (English): “Aung San Suu Kyi that you speak up for the Rohingyas or you give up your Nobel Peace Prize. Today you are becoming an embarrassment to the Nobel Peace Prize.”
SOT, Protester (English): “What we are demanding is that [the] international community make their very strong observations and they should try to make their level best to make an end to this kind of atrocity.”
Iraq’s parliament rejects Kurdish independence vote (abcnews, Sep 12. 2017)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/iraqs-parliament-rejects-kurdish-independence-vote-49788393
“Iraq’s parliament voted on Tuesday to reject a controversial referendum on independence for Iraqi Kurds set for later this month, saying it is “unconstitutional” and a “threat” to the country’s unity.
Iraq’s Kurds plan to hold the referendum on Sept. 25 in three governorates that make up their self-ruled region as well as disputed areas that are controlled by Kurdish forces but claimed by Baghdad, including the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
The parliament decision states that the referendum is a “threat to Iraq’s integrity which is guaranteed by the constitution…. in addition to the civil peace and the regional security,” according to the assembly’s website.
The ruling considers the polls “unconstitutional.” It also requires that the central government “shoulder its responsibly to protect the unity of Iraq and to take all necessary measures to preserve that unity,” he added.
All Kurdish lawmakers boycotted Tuesday’s session, while Arab lawmakers voted in favor, said lawmaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, who attended the session. A breakdown for the vote was not immediately available.
Turkey and Iran, concerned about separatist leanings among their own Kurdish populations, are also opposed to the referendum, and the U.N. mission to Iraq has said it will not be “engaged in any way or form” in the vote.
Late last month, the ethnically-mixed Kirkuk province voted to join the Kurdish independence vote in a meeting boycotted by Arab and Turkmen councilmen.
Kurdish regional President Masoud Barzani, who is spearheading the independence vote, visited Kirkuk on Tuesday.
Oil-rich Kirkuk is home to a mix of Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen and Christians. Kurdish forces took control of the province and other disputed areas in the summer of 2014, when the Islamic State group swept across northern and central Iraq and the Iraqi armed forces crumbled.”
Anti-racism protesters greet ex-Trump aide Bannon in Hong Kong
Activists gather in central Hong Kong to protest the visit of US President Donald Trump’s former top strategist Steve Bannon, chanting “Nazis are not welcome here!” as they donned cartoon Trump masks.
FRANCE -Clashes break out at rally against proposed labor law reform in Paris
France: Police water cannon drenches anti-labour reform demo in Paris
Pentagon Told Turkey About Concerns Over S-400 Purchase From Russia (sputniknews, Sep 12, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201709121057325114-pentagon-turkey-russia-s400/
“As Moscow and Ankara signed a contract on the delivery of S-400 air defense systems, the Pentagon has commented on a NATO member state’s purchase of a Russian next-generation weapon.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US Department of Defense has told Turkish authorities about its concerns over the country’s purchase of the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, Pentagon spokesman Johnny Michael told Sputnik on Tuesday.
“We have relayed our concerns to Turkish officials regarding the potential purchase of the S-400,” Michael said. “A NATO interoperable missile defense system remains the best option to defend Turkey from the full range of threats in its region.”
The Pentagon added that the US is committed to speedy delivery of military equipment to Turkey in light of Ankara’s signing of a S-400 delivery contract with Moscow.
“Turkey continues to pursue anti-missile systems from NATO Allies, including the US, for its broader, long-term missile defense needs. The United States is committed to expediting the delivery of equipment purchased by Turkey, when possible,” Michael said.
The Pentagon’s comment comes as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said earlier in the day that Ankara had made the first payment for the Russian S-400 systems…”
Islamist Recruitment in German Prisons: How to Identify Radicalization (sputniknews, Sep 12, 2017)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201709121057314437-islamist-recruitment-german-prisons/
“The problem of radicalization in German prisons is getting more and more serious due to a large number of radicals returning to Germany from Syria, an expert on Islam and Islamism, Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall, said, commenting on a recent German police report on recruitment attempts in the country’s prisons.
Islamists will try to recruit a growing number of prisoners in their ranks, convincing them of the rectitude of Islamist ideology, a German political and religious expert, Sigrid Herrmann-Marschall, told Sputnik Germany.
“I think that the problem with the radicalization of prisoners will only worsen,” Herrmann-Marshall said.
“After all, there are new criminal cases that have been recently launched against Islamists, including those radicals who were detained a while ago. In particular, it concerns those who returned from Syria and face criminal charges… as well as those who have been sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. These people pose the most serious challenge to prisons, since they have combat experience. And only a small part of them cooperate with the authorities,” the expert added.
According to the analyst, only 25 percent of imprisoned Islamists cooperate with the German state.
“The rest, the overwhelming majority, are people who remain advocates of Islamist ideology and can convince others of its rectitude,” he stated.
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has recently released an internal report on radicalization and recruitment attempts in German prisons. The document is supposed to help prison officials recognize suspicious activities among detainees.
Hermann-Marshall revealed certain signals and identification signs that might speak of radicalization among prisoners.
In particular, suspicions may arise based on the content of their conversations and changes in their way of life, he noted.
“Prisoners suddenly start demanding their food to be made only from halal products, which are consistent with the requirements of Islam. They might also demand a possibility to follow namaz,” Hermann-Marshall said, referring to the document.
“One of the indicators is a drastic change in the way of life and… significant changes in appearance. Also, pay attention to a name change [for example, from Martin to Muhammad],” the document said.
Role of Imams
An important role in the radicalization of prisoners is played by prison imams who come to visit detainees every Friday, according to Hermann-Marshall.
In the expert’s opinion, the state authorities must ensure that imams come from serious Muslim communities, but this requirement has not always been met.
As an example, the expert cited a recent incident in the federal state of Hessen.
“We had a case there when the local Ministry of Justice dismissed an imam who had paid visits to Hessen’s prisons. And it had good reasons to do so: the dismissal took place because this person was in contact with the Muslim Brotherhood,” the expert noted, stressing that the state should be especially careful in order to avoid similar incidents in the future.
Lacking Staff in Prisons
The shortage of prison employees plays into the hands of extremists as well, said René Müller, chairman of the Union of Prison Employees in Germany.
“The lack of prison employees definitely plays into the hands of the Islamists,” Müller told Sputnik Germany.
According to the union’s recent assessment, German prisons lack at least 2,000 people in order to properly fulfill their duties.
“Our colleagues are completely overloaded. One employee sometimes has to deal with about 70 prisoners. Imagine, when 70 prisoners walk in the prison yard… anything can happen. A prison officer is incapable of controlling them all. In a crowd, you can recruit someone or arrange something…. Something might happen that will go unnoticed for the prison’s leadership,” the expert concluded.”
Alt-Left Extremists Vandalise Monument to Polish King Who Broke Turkish Siege of Vienna (breitbart, Sep 12, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/12/alt-left-extremists-vandalize-monument-polish-king-saved-vienna/
“Far-left extremists vandalised a monument to former Polish King Jan III Sobieski who broke the Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683 ahead of an event put on by the hipster-right Identitarian movement to celebrate the anniversary of the battle.
The left-extremists wrote “no nazi!” and crossed out the date, ’12th of September 1683?, on the monument to the Polish King who, along with his elite troops, the Hussars, broke the Turkish siege of Vienna.
The defacement has provoked outrage amongst many and the Polish Foreign Ministry has said they are looking into the incident, Polish broadcaster RFM24 reports.
The police in Vienna say they arrested two individuals on Saturday they believe to be connected with the graffiti as well as several other incidents of vandalism on the same day. The pair, a 24-year-old and a 27-year-old, were said to be in possession of around 17 spray paint canisters and could be responsible for as many as 10 instances of vandalism in the area.
The monument itself is incomplete as the base is the only part which has been built. On top of the base sits a sign which shows the future monument of Jan III Sobieski on a horse which is slated to be built in the coming years.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement Sunday saying: “The inscriptions from the painted boards and plinth of the future monument of Jan III Sobieski in Kahlenberg in Vienna have already been partially removed.”…”
UK Imam Tells Congregation to ‘Spill Blood’ and ‘Establish Law of Allah’ (breitbart, Sep 12, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/12/uk-imam-tells-congregation-spill-blood-establish-law-allah/
“An imam preaching in a West Midlands mosque acted as a recruiter for Islamic State and told Muslims to “be ready to spill blood” and “establish the law of Allah over the necks of the people” including the Queen, a court has heard.
Kamran Sabir Hussain, 40, allegedly told up to 15 children and about 25 adults at the mosque in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, that martyrdom was the “supreme success”, greater than achievements at school or college, The Times reports.
He was caught after the mosque was infiltrated by an undercover police officer, who recorded 17 of the alleged hate preacher’s sermons, starting in June last year.
A jury at the Old Baily heard that Mr. Hussain told one congregation: “Stand up and be ready to sacrifice, be ready to stand in the face of the elements of shaytan [Satan], be ready to spill blood and have your blood spilt.”
“Much of the context of Mr. Hussain’s sermons was unobjectionable,” Sarah Whitehouse, QC, for the prosecution, said. “Some of the sermons, however… moved into support and encouragement to those carrying out acts of terrorism.”…”
Finland: 70 Per Cent of Migrants Denied Asylum Convert to Christianity, Appeal (breitbart, Sep 12, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/12/seventy-per-cent-rejected-asylum-seekers-finland-convert-christianity-appeal-deportation/
“Authorities in Finland have noted a significant increase in failed asylum seekers converting to Christianity and appealing their deportation orders.
Immigration Service’s department for asylum seekers director Tirsa Forssell told national Finnish broadcaster Yle Novosti that cases of asylum seekers converting to Christianity has “increased significantly” – notably after the migrants are denied refugee status.
“Amongst the converts [to Christianity] there are now Afghans and Iraqis. The change of religion occurs after receiving a denial of asylum – that is, during the appeals period,” said Forssell.
According to Forssell, 70 per cent of asylum decision appeals cite ‘conversion to Christianity’. As the penalty for apostasy (leaving Islam) in many Muslim-majority countries is death, appeals are more likely to be successful as human rights laws prevent governments from returning failed asylum seekers to countries where they are likely to be tortured or executed…”
Islamic Prayer in German
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Islamische Machtdemonstration in Halle: Öffentliches Kampf-Beten zum Opferfest 2017
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Schools Watchdog to Meet Campaigners Who Want Hijab Ban in Primaries (breitbart, Sep 12, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/11/schools-watchdog-campaigners-hijab-ban/
“The chief inspector of schools in England is to listen to the concerns of Muslim campaigners who are calling for a hijab ban in state primaries.
Ofsted’s head of inspections Amanda Spielman agreed to meet with the women, who are concerned over the rise of children as young as five wearing the Muslim headscarf after it was revealed that hijabs are included in the approved uniform lists at “thousands” of UK primary schools.
“Muslim girls as young as five are increasingly veiled and schools are sanctioning this by including it as part of school uniform policies,” wrote the activists, led by former Labour parliamentary candidate Amina Lone, in a letter to The Sunday Times.
Its eight signatories accuse Britain of having “an abysmal record” of protecting Muslim girls “who suffer under the pretext of protecting religious freedoms”, criticising the country’s responses to “so-called sensitive issues such as female genital mutilation and forced marriages”.
“Islam does not require children to cover their heads, so why are our schools allowing this in the name of “religious tolerance” the letter questions, its signatories branding the trend of young children in hijabs “an affront to the historical fight for gender equality in our secular democracy”….”
SWEDEN SEPTEMBER 2017
Turkey signs deal to buy Russian S-400 missile system
That’s ok.
It’s easier for Mossad to tend the S400 in Turkey than in Iran.
reuters – Hezbollah declares Syria victory, Russia says much of country won back
BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Lebanese Shi‘ite group Hezbollah has declared victory in the Syrian war while Russia said government forces had driven militants from much of the country where President Bashar al-Assad’s rule seemed in danger two years ago.
The comments from two Syrian government allies mark the most confident assessments yet of Assad’s position in the war, though significant parts of the country remain outside the government’s control. Russia’s assertion that the army had won back 85 percent of Syria was dismissed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said the government held 48 percent of Syria.
The government’s most recent advances have recovered swathes of territory in eastern Syria from Islamic State, which is being targeted in the same region in a campaign waged by U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militias.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose group has sent thousands of fighters to Syria, dismissed the fighting left to be done in Syria as “scattered battles”.
“We have won in the war (in Syria),” he said in comments reported by the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar.
Referring to Assad’s opponents, Nasrallah said “the path of the other project has failed and wants to negotiate for some gains”. The comments, made at a religious gathering, were confirmed to Reuters by a source familiar with the speech.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the conflict, which has fractured Syria into a patchwork of areas and generated a refugee crisis of historic proportions, forcing millions of people into neighbouring states and Europe.
Military backing from Iran and Russia has proven critical to Assad in the war with insurgents including rebels who have been backed by Gulf Arab states, Turkey and the United States, which has decided to end a programme of covert support to rebels.
Rebel groups were making steady advances against Assad as recently as 2015, when the deployment of the Russian air force to Syria turned the tide in his favour.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-hezbollah/hezbollah-declares-syria-victory-russia-says-much-of-country-won-back-idUSKCN1BN0YL
A Christian teenager has been beaten to death by his classmates for drinking from the same glass as a Muslim.
“High-flying Sharoon Masih, 17, was battered by fellow students in a classroom in the Vehari District in Punjab, Pakistan, on just his fourth day at a new school.
Shockingly, the boy’s teacher was in the room when the brutal attack took place, but claims he didn’t see anything because he was reading a newspaper. ”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4877138/Christian-student-beaten-death-Muslim-classmates.html
2015:
“A Christian woman on death row in Pakistan for drinking from the same cup as Muslims is suffering from intestinal bleeding and is so weak she cannot walk.
There are fears Asia Bibi, now 50, may not even live to face execution after languishing in jail for five years after receiving her death sentence.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3144300/Christian-woman-sentenced-death-drinking-Muslim-water-cup-Pakistan-not-live-face-execution-five-years-imprisonment-left-intestinal-bleeding.html
Terror trial: Potential jurors asked about impartiality toward Muslim suspects
Superior Court Justice Marc David told 150 potential jurors to expect the trial, of Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali, to last 10 weeks.
Jury selection has begun at the Montreal courthouse in the trial of a young couple who face terror-related charges, including an accusation they planned to leave Canada to commit a terrorist act.
Early Tuesday morning, Superior Court Justice Marc David, the judge who will preside over the case, told the pool of roughly 150 potential jurors to expect the trial of Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali to last 10 weeks. He also said they will hear from at least 31 witnesses.
Djermane and Jamali, both now 20, were arrested in 2015 and have been detained since then. The two accused watched the jury selection from behind a specially-designed prisoner’s dock that keeps the accused sealed off from the rest of the room behind thick windows.
The pair are charged with attempting to leave Canada with the goal of committing a crime in another country, being in possession of an explosive substance, facilitating a terrorist activity and committing a criminal act for the benefit or under the direction of a terrorist group by having an explosive substance under their control.
Before the selection process began, Judge David announced he wants to choose 14 jurors as opposed to the standard 12.
David is asking potential jurors an unusual question before they are put through the standard procedures for jury selection: “Considering that Mr. Jamali and Mrs. Djermane are charged with terrorist offences, is your capacity to judge the evidence without taking a side, prejudice and partiality affected by the fact the accused are Arabic and of the Muslim religion?”
The first three potential jurors said they would have no trouble being impartial and, within a matter of minutes, one of the three was selected to be part of the jury.
The fourth candidate asked to be exempt from the trial for health, professional and religious reasons. He said he is a Muslim “and I might know people who know the accused. This makes me anxious,” the man said while his voice shook. David agreed to exempt the man.
A woman who asked to be exempted trembled as she explained that she was not comfortable with the trial itself.
“I don’t feel well,” the woman whispered twice before David excused her.
One candidate asked to be exempt because his uncle was killed in Afghanistan by a terrorist group. “Hearing today what the accused are charged with brought back bad memories,” the man said. David also agreed to exempt the man.
Another candidate was exempted after he said he would have difficulty being impartial because he worked at the same school as the accused before they were arrested.
“I have seen what it is done to the college,” the man told David.
In another somewhat unusual step in the jury selection process, David selected two women from the jury pool and asked them to size up the answers other candidates had given, and to say whether those other candidates seemed to be partial or impartial. The judge has already rejected two candidates that the two women deemed to be partial.
Despite this unconventional approach to jury selection, the process went smoothly Tuesday morning. Five people were selected to be on the jury before noon.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/jury-selection-starts-in-terror-trial-of-young-montreal-couple
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Trial begins in Montreal for two youths charged with terrorism-related offences
MONTREAL — A trial is underway in Montreal for two youths charged with terrorism-related offences.
El Mahdi Jamali and Sabrine Djermane each face four charges.
Both pleaded not guilty today through their lawyers.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Marc David asked some 150 prospective jurors whether, given the terrorism charges, their ability to judge the case impartially would be affected by the fact the accused are of Arab descent and practise the Muslim faith.
Jamali and Djermane are charged with attempting to leave Canada to commit a terror act abroad; possession of an explosive substance; facilitating a terrorist act; and committing an act under the direction or for the profit of a terrorist organization.
The trial is expected to last 10 weeks.
The federal prosecutor trying the case rattled off the names of 31 Crown witnesses who will testify.
David said the trial could hear from its first witnesses as soon as the selection is completed.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/trial-begins-in-montreal-for-two-youths-charged-with-terrorism-related-offences-1.3586099
President of Mosque Linked to World Trade Center Bombing Orders Erasure of 9/11 College Memorial
September 12, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
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It never ends.The Jihad against America. Against our values, our culture and even our honored dead.
As Lauren Cooley at Red Alert Politics points out, Shehadeh Abdelkarim is the President of the Islamic Center of Cleveland.
The Islamic Center of Cleveland had its own controversial past.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267852/president-mosque-linked-world-trade-center-bombing-daniel-greenfield
Just too much.
‘Inshallah, We Will See the Black Flag of Islam over Big Ben and Downing Street’
The children are our future. Teach them welll and let them behead the way.
The Islamic education system leaves something to be desired. For its students and for their victims.
Being a dead serial killer is the greatest thing ever, Just ask Mohammed.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267854/inshallah-we-will-see-black-flag-islam-over-big-daniel-greenfield
Following the Trump administration’s announcement of the wind-down of the unconstitutional Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, there has been a disappointing lack of information presented by the national news media regarding just how damaging and anti-American the program was. Listed below are some of DACA’s worst characteristics and effects, all of which should be common knowledge for patriotic Americans who want enforcement of our immigration laws and security of our borders.
1. To Push It Through, Obama Ignored the Mass Victimization of American Children
After DACA was announced in June of 2012, the Obama DHS made one crucial mistake: it forgot to promise DACA aliens that the agency wouldn’t consider their long history of social security fraud. After the open-borders lobby raised concerns about this issue, the White House stated that they were “not interested in using [DACA] as a way to identify one-off cases where some individual may have violated some federal law in an employment relationship.” After official guidance was released from DHS’s Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Soros-funded open-borders law firm, the National Immigration Law Center, stated in a notice to clients:
Since illegal aliens can’t have social security numbers under the law, any number they use is by definition “not theirs.” Still, the Social Security Administration has estimated that 3 out of 4 illegal aliens possess a SSN that’s been either stolen from an American or simply made up. According to estimates from a few years ago, American victims have to spend $1,400 and 1.5 years on average restoring their identity. What’s worse, sellers of stolen documents actually prefer children’s numbers because children don’t need them for credit or employment applications and the crime can go unnoticed for years. As a result, researchers have found children to be 51 times more likely to be victims of identity fraud.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267849/5-more-reasons-ending-daca-was-right-call-dale-wilcox
Criminalfornia, Here We Come
Governor Jerry Brown prepares to privilege the lawless.
September 12, 2017
Lloyd Billingsley
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As California’s legislative session winds down, Democrats are pushing hard for approval of SB 54, the “sanctuary state” bill authored by the senator formerly known as Kevin Alexander Leon. The Los Angeles Democrat now calls himself Kevin de León, claiming that his Guatemalan-born father was “a quarter, or as much as half-Chinese.” He’s not quite sure about that but as his hagiographers in the Sacramento Bee explain, he “identifies strongly with Mexican culture.”
Under the Democrat’s sanctuary state bill, police can only transfer someone to federal immigration authorities if they produce a warrant signed by a federal judge or a probable-cause determination. For state law enforcement to transfer a violent felon to ICE, they must be stopped for a legal reason and must have been previously deported.
On Monday, the senate boss struck a deal that supposedly makes the bill more acceptable to governor Jerry Brown. According to a Sacramento Bee report, the changes give local police discretion to hold for federal authorities those convicted of a serious or violent felony, a misdemeanor punishable as a felony, and other crimes. Federal immigration acts will supposedly have access to those in jail, and state law enforcement will be able to share information from databases.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267840/criminalfornia-here-we-come-lloyd-billingsley
Judge Orders Maryland Bar to Investigate Hillary Chief of Staff
September 12, 2017
Daniel Greenfield
Standards. Do we still have those anymore?
Mills was Hillary’s Chief of Staff. She was also one of the Clintonworld vets being covered by the corrupt Comey immunity deal. From Benghazi to the Hillary email scandals, Mills was on point.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267853/judge-orders-maryland-bar-investigate-hillary-daniel-greenfield
Japanese thought to be among suspected IS fighters’ foreign wives, children held in Iraq
MOSUL, IRAQ – Iraqi forces are holding more than 1,300 foreign women and children, the families of Islamic State fighters — including people from Japan — at a camp for displaced people in northern Iraq.
The 1,333 individuals, from 14 countries, surrendered to Kurdish forces at the end of August after an Iraqi offensive drove the extremist group from the northern town of Tal Afar, near Mosul, Iraqi security officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with military protocol.
They say the women and children will not be charged with crimes and will likely be repatriated to their home countries. Most hail from Central Asia, Russia and Turkey, but the group also includes people from as far away as Japan and South Korea.
A Japanese Foreign Ministry official said the ministry is aware of reports concerning Japanese nationals being among those in the camp. The official said the ministry has already contacted the foreign and defense ministries of Iraq through the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad, but no details have been confirmed, according to the official.
“We believe it will take a while” to get a full picture of the situation, the official said.
Tens of thousands of foreigners traveled to Iraq and Syria to live in the IS group’s self-styled Islamic caliphate. The territory under their control has rapidly shrunk over the past two years as Iraqi and Syrian forces have retaken several cities and towns.
“We couldn’t practice our religion in Azerbaijan. We couldn’t wear the niqab (a veil that covers the face) because there were intelligence officers everywhere,” said Feyruza, who is originally from Dagestan in Russia.
“We were told that in Iraq they had implemented Islam and we came here and it was true. We lived our lives as Muslims and we were very happy until the warplanes came and destroyed everything,” she said.
She and other women said they had been living in Tal Afar since early 2015. They said they knew nothing about the group’s widely publicized atrocities.
“We didn’t see any killings. It didn’t happen. Everything was according to the Quran and the Sunna (teachings of the Prophet Muhammad). What we saw was the implementation of Islamic rule,” said another woman named Aybenis, also from Azerbaijan. The women declined to give their last names out of security concerns.
The women said they lived well up until August, when Iraqi forces launched the operation to retake the town. Their account of life under the militants is in sharp contrast to that offered by other residents of Tal Afar, who fled by the thousands in the months leading up to the operation because of severe shortages of food and other supplies.
The women and children are now living in tents and receiving aid from humanitarian groups. They are among hundreds of thousands of Iraqis displaced by fighting over the past year. Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul, the country’s second largest city, in July following a grueling, nine-month campaign.
The women said they didn’t know the fate of their husbands, who surrendered to Kurdish forces separately. Brig. Gen. Kamel Harki, a Kurdish commander, said some of the captured fighters were handed over to Iraqi authorities while others were killed after faking their surrender and then attacking their captors.
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Iraq: ‘No crime in being married to someone that’s committed a crime’ – NRC spokesperson
“There’s no crime in being married to someone that’s committed a crime, and there’s certainly no crime in being a child of a criminal,” the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Iraq media coordinator Melany Markham said in a skype interview, speaking from northern Iraq, Tuesday.
She was referring to a camp in Iraq, which was set up to accommodate the wives and children of suspected IS fighters following the liberation of the IS stronghold Tal Afar.
Might want to re-think that, sister.
2003
Feature: Black Widows new Chechen ‘weapon’
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2003/12/11/Feature-Black-Widows-new-Chechen-weapon/UPI-25881071172978/
2010
Why Chechnya’s Black Widows are driven to kill
Chechnya’s Black Widows are fuelled by a toxic brew of grief and imported religious radicalism. What else makes a female political murderer?
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2010/04/02/why_chechnyas_black_widows_are_driven_to_kill.html
2006
Black Widows: The Chechen Female Suicide Terrorists
[Abstract -edited by Yucki]
Chechnya’s notorious “Black Widows” have been active since June 7, 2000 when the first Chechen female suicide bombers…drove a truck filled with explosives into the temporary headquarters of an elite OMON (Russian Special Forces) detachment in the village of Alkhan Yurt in Chechnya. The attack resulted in two dead and five wounded.
Since then Chechen female terrorists have been involved in 22 of the 27 suicide attacks [81%] attributed to Chechen rebels.
There were a total of 110 bombers 1 in the period reviewed, 47 of whom were women [43%].
Chechen women bombers were named Black Widows by the Russian and international press when it became clear that many were acting in revenge for the deaths of their husbands, sons, and brothers.
Since the Dubrovka Theater takeover in October 2002, in which 19 female bombers appeared in black mourning clothes with bombs strapped to their bodies, we have engaged in a particular multi-dimensional means of studying these terrorists.
The first avenue involved interviewing surviving hostages who had the opportunity to observe and converse with the bomb-girded women, which provides a singular perspective on suicide terrorists.
The second measure involved interviewing the women’s family members and close associates in Chechnya after the death or arrest of the bombers, to construct a type of psychological post-mortem of the bomber.
The third measure was studying news reports and talking to Russian security officials involved in the investigations of such cases.
To date we have a sample of 45 interviews with family members, close associates, or former hostages of 34 suicide bombers, twenty-six of them Chechen female suicide terrorists.
Black Widows: The Chechen Female Suicide Terrorists.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237362743_Black_Widows_The_Chechen_Female_Suicide_Terrorists [accessed Sep 12, 2017].
(PDF Download Available)
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‘Black Widow’ female suicide bombers kill 37 in Moscow metro blasts
Two female suicide bombers detonated their vests during morning rush hour at metro stations in Moscow, killing 37 people and wounding 65 more. The attack was carried out by the Caucasus Emirate’s ‘Black Widows,’ and was foreshadowed by the leader of the terror group in a statement in February.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/03/female_suicide_bombe_3.php
Anat Berko is the gold-standard on suicide terrorism.
Daniel Pipes [Richard Pipes’ father], Intro to The Smarter Bomb, Women and Children as Suicide Bombers, by Anat Berko (2012)
“Foreword? Understanding Female Suicide Bombers”.
http://www.danielpipes.org/12166/female-suicide-bombers
[Follow the link above to book info]
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Some of this is in English:
A New Book by Dr. Anat Berko: The Smarter Bomb. Women and Children as Suicide Bombers
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/18115/
Not convinced YET?!
Ok, just one more. From Robert Spencer:
Daughters of the Jihad Death Cult
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/10/28/daughters-of-the-jihad-death-cult/
Above in single-page format:
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/10/28/daughters-of-the-jihad-death-cult?print=true&singlepage=true
Video interview [MEMRI] and article:
Inside the Mind of a Suicide Bomber
Dr. Anat Berko, a world-renowned terrorism expert, knows suicide bombers like nobody else.
http://www.aish.com/jw/me/Inside-the-Mind-of-a-Suicide-Bomber.html
Terrorists or victims? RT debate over stranded wives of ISIS fighters
As hundreds of wives and widows of supposed ISIS fighters and their children remain stranded in a secret camp in Iraq, commentators on RT clashed over how to treat them: as willing accomplices of terrorists or victims that need rehabilitation.
Political commentator for the New York Observer, Andre Walker, and British political commentator Mo Ansar take part in the discussion
[ comments on the YT page --- people dont buy it anymore ]Glad to see the comments.
Russia isn’t going to let them come back openly. We’d be crazy if we did.
Europe might have to learn about the Black Widows the hard way.
Tal Afar – 400 Turkish widows want to go back to Turkey
( in Turkish )
http://odatv.com/400-isid-suphelisi-turkiyeye-donmek-istiyor-1209171200.html
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reuters Exclusive: Iraq holding 1,400 foreign wives, children of suspected Islamic State fighters
SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters after government forces expelled the jihadist group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said.
Most came from Turkey. Many others were from former Soviet states, such as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Russia, Iraqi army and intelligence officers said. Other Asians and a “very few” French and Germans were also among them.
The wives and children are being held at an Iraqi camp south of Mosul. Most had arrived since Aug. 30, when Iraqi troops drove Islamic State out of Mosul.
One intelligence officer said that they were still in verifying their nationalities with their home countries, since many of the women no longer had their original documents.
It is the largest group of foreigners linked to Islamic State to be held by Iraqi forces since they began driving the militants from Mosul and other areas in northern Iraq last year, an aid official said. Thousands of foreigners have been fighting for Islamic State, or Daesh, in Iraq and Syria.
“We are holding the Daesh families under tight security measures and waiting for government orders on how to deal with them,” said Army Colonel Ahmed al-Taie from Mosul’s Nineveh operation command.
“We treat them well. They are families of tough criminals who killed innocents in cold blood, but when we interrogated them we discovered that almost all of them were mislead by a vicious Daesh propaganda,” he said.
Reuters reporters saw hundreds of the women and children sitting on mattresses crawling with bugs in tents without air-conditioning in what aid workers called a “militarized site”. Turkish, French and Russian were among the languages spoken.
“I want to go back (to France) but don’t know how,” said a French-speaking veiled woman of Chechen origin who said she had lived in Paris before. She said she did not know what had happened to her husband, who had brought her to Iraq when he joined Islamic State.
A security officer said the women and children had mostly surrendered to the Kurdish peshmerga near the northern city of Tal Afar, along with their husbands. The Kurds handed the women and children over to Iraqi forces but kept the men – all presumed to be fighters – in their custody.
Many of the families had fled to Tal Afar after Iraqi troops pushed Islamic State out of Mosul.
Iraqi forces retook Tal Afar, a city of predominantly ethnic Turkmen that produced some of Islamic State’s senior commanders, last month. Most of its pre-war population of 200,000 have fled.
An interior ministry official said Iraq wanted to negotiate with embassies the return of the women and children. “We can’t keep this number in our custody for a long time,” he said.
Officials had counted so far at least 13 nationalities, said Army Lieutenant Colonel Salah Kareem.
TENSION
Aid workers and the authorities are worried about tensions between Iraqis, who lost their homes and are also living in the camp, and the new arrivals.
Many Iraqis want revenge for the harsh treatment they received under the extremists’ interpretation of Sunni Islam, which they imposed in Mosul and the other areas they seized in 2014.
“The families are being kept to one side (of the camp) for their own safety,” an Iraqi military intelligence officer said.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which is supporting the 541 women and their children, said Iraq “must swiftly move to clarify its future plans for these individuals”.
“Like all those fleeing conflict, it is imperative that these individuals are able to access protection, assistance, and information,” NRC said in a statement. “They are in de-facto detention.”
Western officials are worried about radicalized fighters and their relatives coming home after the collapse of Islamic State’s “caliphate”.
French officials have indicated a preference for citizens found to be affiliated with IS to be prosecuted in Iraq.
“The general philosophy is that adults should go on trial in Iraq,” a French diplomatic source told Reuters last month, of those found to have been fighters. “We think children would benefit from judicial and social services in France.”
“TRICKED”
The women in the camp were cooking noodles or lying on mattresses with their babies in the hot tents. Many were still wearing the black abayas and face veils, which were mandatory in areas the militants controlled.
“My mother doesn’t even know where I am,” said a 27-year-old French woman of Algerian descent. She said she had been tricked by her husband into coming with him through Turkey into Syria and then Iraq when he joined Islamic State last year.
“I had just given birth to this little girl three months before,” she said holding the infant and asking not to be named.
“He said ‘let’s go for a week’s holiday in Turkey.’ He had already bought the plane tickets and the hotel.”
After four months in Mosul, she ran away from her husband to Tal Afar in February. She was hoping to make it back to France but he found her and would not let her leave.
She tearfully recounted how her five-year-old son was killed in June by a rocket while playing in the streets.
“I don’t understand why he did this to us,” she said of her husband, who she said was killed fighting in Mosul. “Dead or alive – I couldn’t care less about him.”
She and a few other families had walked for days to surrender at a Kurdish peshmerga checkpoint beyond al-Ayadiyah, a town near Tal Afar where the militants made their last stand.
“We were getting bombed, shelled and shot at,” she said.
Kurdish officials said dozens of fighters surrendered after the fall of Tal Afar but gave no details. One Tal Afar resident said he had seen between 70 and 80 fighters fleeing the town in the final days of the battle.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-families-exclusiv/exclusive-iraq-holding-1400-foreign-wives-children-of-suspected-islamic-state-fighters-idUSKCN1BL0SF
Germany freezes arms exports to Turkey, Ankara says it weakens anti-terrorism fight (RT, Sep 12, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/403071-germany-arms-sales-turkey/
“Germany has put all big arms exports requests from Turkey on hold, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, amid the bitter dispute with Ankara. Turkey said the decision weakens Turkey’s fight against terrorism.
Gabriel’s comments came after German media revealed that Berlin still sells sophisticated weapons and ammunition worth millions of euros to its long-standing NATO ally.
“We have put on hold all big requests [for arms exports] that Turkey has sent to us, and these are really not a few,” Gabriel said during a panel discussion organized by ‘Handelsblatt’ newspaper, as cited by Reuters.
Berlin is aware of its obligation to send arms to its NATO ally if requested, Gabriel said. However, he added, this was currently not possible, with some exceptions such as exports of vehicles.
Turkish EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik reacted to Sigmar’s statement later on Tuesday, saying that Germany’s decision compromises Turkey’s efforts to combat terrorism…”
BREITBART – ‘It’s Not Good Enough’ – Breitbart’s Kassam Tells Fox Trump Admin Must Name Radical Islam, Ban Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/12/raheem-kassam-urges-trump-administration-call-out-radical-islam-name/
Brigitte Gabriel: ‘Something Has Happened in the Trump Presidency’ Regarding Radical Islam
Brigitte Gabriel, president of Act for America and author of They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam regarding her Breitbart News piece on 9/11 and President Trump’s failure to mention “radical Islamic terrorism” in his speech Monday.
Citing the speech, Gabriel said, “Yesterday, it was obvious that something has happened in the Trump presidency that has changed and changed dramatically. When I listened to the speeches yesterday – like you mentioned – by all the leaders in the administration – by Trump, by Mattis, by Pence – it was literally a speech that could have been uttered by President Obama himself.”
Gabriel went on to discuss the Saudis and their funding of mosques in America that she claims are linked to preaching hate.
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/09/12/brigitte-gabriel-something-has-happened-in-the-trump-presidency-regarding-radical-islam/
Germany: The Rise of Islam
by Giulio Meotti
September 12, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10831/germany-islam-rising
Jan Fleischhauer, a journalist of the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, coined an expression to define the free fall of German Christianity: Selbstsäkularisierung (“self-secularization”). It is the Church being liquidated?
The German Bishops’ Conference just released the data on the decline of Catholicism in Germany for 2016. In one year, the German Catholic Church lost 162,093 faithful and closed 537 parishes. From 1996 to today, one quarter of the Catholic communities have been closed. “The faith has evaporated,” said Cardinal Friedrich Wetter, the Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1982 to 2007.
Christians in Germany will become a minority in the next 20 years, according to Die Welt. Around 60% of the country is currently Christian, with 24 million Catholics and 23 million Protestants. But that number is falling by 500,000 a year through deaths alone. “Those statistics are embodied by what visitors observe in German cities on Sunday: largely empty churches”, the Catholic theologian George Weigel wrote.
German Protestantism is facing the same crisis. Die Zeit revealed that in 2016, 340,000 Protestants passed away, and there were just 180,000 baptisms. Some 190,000 people left the church and just 25,000 people chose to join it.
In his most famous lecture, Pope Benedict XVI famously said that the West, including those who do not accept transcendence, should act “etsi Deus daretur”, as if God does exist. The old-fashioned Christian society will never come back, but it is critical for even a secular West to stay based on — and profoundly inspired by — its Judeo-Christian values.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10831/germany-islam-rising
Iran: See a Pattern?
by Shoshana Bryen
September 12, 2017 at 4:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10975/iran-pattern
If you have not been paying attention, the last thing you heard was that Syria had used sarin gas attack on civilians in 2013. President Obama’s “red line” was washed pink in an agreement with Russia to remove the weapons and destroy them at sea. The U.N. Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) special coordinator Sigrid Kaang, in a remarkably precise statement, said 96% percent of Syria’s declared chemical weapons were destroyed. Not 95% or 87% or 43.5%, but 96% on the nose. Secretary of State Kerry said: “In record time, even amid a civil war, we removed and have now destroyed the most dangerous chemicals in the regime’s declared stockpiles.”
It was good PR, but as a solution to a deadly violation of international law, it was a huge, gaping failure. The word “declared” is the giveaway — Syria was allowed to tell inspectors what it had and where, and the inspectors were allowed only to touch those sites. It you think they cheated, you are right.
This week, the Israel Air Force destroyed a “research center” in Syria, one that “researched” chemical weapons. The attack came the morning after U.N. investigators said the Syrian government was responsible for a sarin gas attack in April 2017. Israel has conducted approximately 100 strikes inside Syria in the six years of civil war, not to change the course of battle or support one side over the other, but to eliminate weapons and facilities deemed unacceptable threats to Israel — including missile factories, a nuclear reactor and now a chemical weapons factory.
Iran Deal Devotees Try in Vain to Save a Sinking Ship
by John R. Bolton
September 12, 2017 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10980/iran-deal-devotees
Supporters of Barack Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear agreement have, over the past two years, tried almost everything to sustain it.
Nonetheless, weaknesses in its terms, structure, implementation and basic strategic fallacy — i.e., that Iran’s international behavior would “moderate” once it was adopted — are all increasingly apparent. For the deal’s acolytes, however, continuing U.S. adherence has become a near-theological imperative.
At the most basic level, the agreement’s adherents ignore how ambiguous and badly worded it is, allowing Iran enormous latitude to continue advancing its nuclear-weapons and ballistic-missile programs without being even “technically” in violation.
The adherents ignore Iran’s actual violations (exceeding limits on uranium enrichment, heavy-water production and advanced-centrifuge capacity, among others). Having first argued strenuously there were no violations, they now plead that the violations are “not significant.”
The adherents ignore the “truth-that-dare-not-speak-its-name”: America does not know with confidence where all of Tehran’s nuclear and missile work is being done.
Unfortunately, both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and our national intelligence assets are likely missing significant Iranian facilities (perhaps operated jointly in North Korea) that continue to pursue threatening activities.
Bolton’s being polite.
SPAIN – Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia evacuated for anti-terrorism operation
Catalan police said on Tuesday they were evacuating Barcelona‘s Sagrada Familia church and nearby businesses as part of an anti-terrorism operation.
Officials said they had sent a bomb squad to check a van parked by the church, which is a famous tourist site.
Police said earlier on Twitter they had cordoned off the site.
http://globalnews.ca/news/3738085/barcelona-sagrada-familia-terrorism/
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Sagrada Familia evacuation: Barcelona police clear iconic church in anti-terror operation
The landmark was the intended target of a terror attack in August, which killed 13 people
Catalan police have evacuated the iconic Sagrada Familia church in central Barcelona in an anti-terrorism operation, Reuters reports.
Officers from the bomb squad were on the scene on Tuesday evening, according to Mossos, the Catalan police service.
The officers are investigating a van parked nearby.
Armed police officers were also seen patrolling the area.
The landmark was the intended target of a terrorist attack in August which killed 13 people.
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The Slow Eradication of Freedom of Speech in Canada (THE SAAD TRUTH_506)
Gad Saad
Rep. Franks Predicts Awans Will Get Immunity For “Significant, Disturbing Story” About Wasserman Schultz
Last week the Washington Examiner reported that Hina Alvi, the wife of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s now-infamous former IT staffer Imran Awan, had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to return to the U.S. where she currently faces charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. The deal with prosecutors mandates a return to the U.S. during the “last week of September 2017” and is structured so that she will not be arrested in front of her children.
Now, if you’re the cynical type, then it might have struck you as somewhat odd that Alvi would agree to return from Pakistan, the place to which she successfully fled specifically to avoid the charges she now seems to be embracing.
But, at least according to Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) who appeared on Fox News recently, there may be more to Alvi’s return than meets the eye as he predicts that the Awans could be working on a broader immunity deal with prosecutors in return for a “significant” and “pretty disturbing” story about Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-12/rep-franks-predicts-awans-will-get-immunity-significant-disturbing-story-about-wasse
This is an outstanding piece on the history of Burma and the Muslim Rohingyas.
I was telling my husband about it and he wondered if you could believe it. So, I googled the author, Hugh Fitzgerald, and it turns out that his name is a nome de plume. However, he has written for several solid sites like the New English Review among others.
I highly recommend this article.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/reporting-on-the-rohingya-the-tip-of-a-huge-iceberg-of-misinformation
Thanks for this article, Babs.
“Hugh Fitzgerald” is a favorite of mine. He writes frequently about my familiar spirit, President John Adams [Potus-2]. Little could be more endearing.
The “Rohingya” racket is of a piece with the “Palestinians”. You’ll see my intemporate comments in Readers’ Links under the videos Martin’s been posting.
Timing of “Rohingya” campaigns is always puzzling. The banners and graphics are MB, as are the astro-turfed protesters. The best stuff is reversible: one side ‘Rohingya’, the other ‘Palestinian’. Generic Bengali Muslims over here, Arab Muslims over there. Idiot dhimmi leftists everywhere.
CBC – Canada’s far right: Inside La Meute
Far-right group La Meute is gaining in popularity, attracting more than 43,000 people to a secret Facebook group in little over a year. CBC got exclusive access to the Quebec group’s leaders.
Channel 4 – Battle for Raqqa: is Isis being driven out?
The family interviewed in the middle of the video – who said they were ok under IS, only leaving because of the bombing – they’re all well-fed, even plump.
None of the kids are malnourished.
These were collaborators: they’ve got to be tried in Iraq. No doubt there are witnesses who can clarify the situation.
King reminds MPs they represent ‘all of Sweden’, including immigrants (thelocal, Sep 12, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.se/20170912/king-reminds-mps-they-represent-all-of-sweden-including-immigrants
“King Carl XVI Gustaf reminded MPs that it is their duty to represent all of Sweden, including immigrants and young people, as he reopened the country’s parliament on Tuesday…”