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  1. Notes from NorseRadish

    THE MISINFORMATION AND MALFEASANCE OF MEDIA MYTHS – PART II

    The other evening, Richard’s deceptively uncomplicated reply to my previous “Reader’s Link” monograph brought up numerous issues that provide additional and useful insights into the end results of Propaganda Media’s downplaying about the threats posed by Islamic jihad.

    Richard on October 25, 2017 at 11:26 am said:

    If the “terrorists” use any WMD on one US city the politicians will be faced with a binary choice, 1) order overwhelming retaliation against the entire Islamic world, or 2) suffer a military mutiny (coup) that will then order the extermination of all living Moslems. Any military member of the deep state will forced to go along with the coup to save their own lives.

    I fully expect one bio war attack in [the] future and possibly the near future. Bio weapons are cheaper to produce, [don’t] need massive installation[s] to produce and are easier to smuggle into a nation and use. And given the modern attitude towards common sense rule that would limit the spread of the epidemic they will probably kill several orders of magnitude more people.

    So, as Richard unarguably notes:

    If the “terrorists” use any WMD on one US city the politicians will be faced with a binary choice…

    Although this is absolutely true, with or without a WMD attack on American soil, our nation ALREADY IS confronted with a, “binary choice”. Either we surrender to Islam right now or immediately quash its invasive ability (if not sheer existence).

    Any delays in making either move means unbelievably avoidable and reprehensible losses of human life. This is the binary choice that Islam has always presented the non-Muslim world. That there are those in the West who can pretend to ignore this fact is testimony to how far down the rabbit-hole most European and American politicians are.

    What few individuals within the Propaganda Media—regardless of rank, stature or even partisan alignment—will ever admit or reveal to us, the great unwashed, is that an immediate surrender to Islam would claim far more lives than even a relatively prolonged conventional war against the global Muslim population. An unconventional war (by Western nations), “against the global Muslim population” would last a few dozen HOURS. Full stop.

    The reason regarding this abrupt need for resolution involves a complex set of issues. For example, Islam’s concept of jahiliyyah—as in, the period of conveniently asserted “confusion and disorder” that (always) precedes any arrival of sharia law in non-Muslim lands—which typically is paired with Al-Insan al-Kamil, regarding the notion of Mohammad being the “perfect man”, worthy of painstaking emulation by all Muslim males.

    Taken in combination, this catastrophically and unimaginative doctrinal conjunction manufactures a widespread Islamic objective which demands that our world should be returned to a socioeconomic milieu approximating the time of Mohammad (some 1,400 years ago).

    This utterly deranged and supremely duplicitous ideological artifice—please note how Muslims generally prize modern, rapid-fire, automatic weapons which are amongst the very first choice of terrorists who, otherwise, vehemently command the institution of these ultra-violent throwback “cultures”—is responsible for destruction of Afghanistan’s irreplaceable Bamiyan Buddhas and (more recently) the equally priceless Palmyra ruins in Syria. “The Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan” – 02:11:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPjOeJyNDI

    This next video is particularly hard to watch as it depicts intentional defacing and vandalism of these no-longer-dazzling Palmyra treasures. “PALMYRA RUINS VISION | Before and after ISIS Attack” – 08:04:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoAsAPGYgY

    As Mullah Omar—the Taliban leader who knowingly sheltered Osama bin Laden during his planning of the 9-11 Atrocity—once said about the Bamiyan vandalism, “We are only breaking stones.” What then, should the Islamic world have to say when irrevocably frustrated Western powers decide that destruction of Mecca’s sacred Ka’bah merely deserves to be termed as, “only breaking [a stone]”? Can you imagine the howls of outrage when Muslims would be subjected to the exact same degree of disregard for treasured antiquities that they constantly impose upon the world?!?

    What should be their (collective) punishment? As if Islam’s routine obliteration of inestimably precious Western (and Oriental) monuments does not merit immediate and equal-or-better retaliation. This matter of retribution brings to mind a quote by Niccolo Machiavelli:

    If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

    So it is with Islam. At present, the price of tolerating the evildoing of this planet’s Muslim population is already well beyond any value they bring to Civilization’s table. The price tag of interdicting random jihadist terrorism—an impossible task at best and a ridiculous cost burden to begin with—long-ago exceeded the expense of simply appropriating the only bankable asset that Islam possesses, namely oil.

    Plainly put, taking over the Middle East oil fields would have been less expensive than continuing to financially accommodate this deluge of jihadist violence and mayhem. The sole complication (and a not insignificant issue) being that Russia and Communist China would take a dim view of Western nations securing control over this massive reservoir of energy resources.

    None of which addresses how this tag-team of anti-Western (Socialist) elements benefit immensely from the present arrangement that bleeds their opponents white and maintains a constant state of instability that does the most harm to American and European interests.

    Islam’s Perpetual Bio War

    As things stand, the West (and elsewhere) already is experiencing a constant “bio war attack“. Make no mistake, in both America and (especially throughout) Europe, demographic displacement has emerged as a clear-cut form of biological warfare. As the grandfather of modern Islamic terrorism, Yasser Arafat noted about his efforts to destroy Israel, ““The womb of the Arab woman, is my strongest weapon.”

    Islamic higira—a reenactment of Mohammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina—represents another form of “slow” (but inexorable) jihad that has seeded dozens of prosperous Western nations with seditious and hostile Muslim populations.

    In its mildest form of “economic tourism” these new arrivals drain Western coffers at an alarmingly disproportionate rate (compared to almost any other competing ideological group). None of which includes the Islamic concept of jizyah (i.e., tribute) whereby many immigrant Muslims regard the unrestrained leeching of host country finances to merely be their expected due as the world’s Master Race™.

    There is a global aspect as well to this aforementioned “bio war attack”. With birth rates that far exceed almost any other demographic segment on the planet, Muslims continue to—be it in their nations of origin or newly occupied host countries—consume and divert resources in a completely lopsided manner. Moreover, wherever they go, Muslims constantly spread the very most backward sorts of political, medical, theological, therapeutic, technological, judicial, agricultural, and organizational structures.

    Given sufficient time, water poverty—and its conjoined evil twin, food in-security—will upend a majority of MME (Muslim Middle East) nations. Their outdated farming methods, lack of arable land, unrestrained population growth, and continuous depletion of deep aquifer water supplies all spell certain doom within this century.

    Not even wealthy Saudi Arabia can construct the necessary numbers of desalination plants and CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) facilities—like greenhouses, hydroponic, aeroponic or aquaponic systems—at a rate than could overcome their existing lack of food security. In this respect, these parasitic MME populations will eventually hit a proverbial brick wall once Western nations are obliged to halt exportation of crops (i.e., water); be it due to changing climate or just a long-overdue and dawning awareness of how foolish it is to feed an aggressive, hostile group that aspires to global domination.

    Sadly—especially with the increasing proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons technology by Pakistan and North Korea—even one century (a veritable eye-blink in geological terms) represents an unacceptably roomy window of opportunity with respect to “waiting out” the antagonistic MME.

    The “hockey-stick” trajectory of progress (and affordability) in bulk-scale biological, chemical, and nuclear materials processing simply disallows any such patience. Equally implicit is how the humanity inferred in avoiding such otherwise implied conflict no longer exists. Any postponement of this “Clash of Civilizations” (per Huntington) bodes ill for both sides, but especially for poorly armed and ill-prepared Islam.

    Beyond this is (as Richard frequently and appropriately points out) the plummeting cost of propagation, fermentation, and weaponization technologies needed with respect to developing biological armaments. This is a fatal siren song for less-well-funded (but equally hostile anti-West) entities. The irresistible notion of inflicting tremendous harm—without expending the billions of dollars required to fabricate nuclear weapons—can only represent

    This is the ultimate drain upon Western resources as these non-assimilating and supremely hostile groups work with determined effort to destroy modern Civilization. What will be the West’s (appropriate) response when it comes to ENDING the (slow, fast, demographic, economic, judicial, sociological, ideological or ETHICAL challenges that Islam confronts us with?!? ) Eh?

    • Thanks NR. Lots of effort in your post and so well written as usual. This reminds me of a thought I had–and he may scoff–but what about Vlad putting together a book of best comments from his corner of the counter-jihad from the last 10 years or whatever it is? Vlad? Might put a few bucks in your pocket (I know that’s not what you’re about). Or a collaboration between you and GoV? It might be a good read along with a narrative that fills out the story of how you guys came to be and the challenges you face (besides death by tard).

      • Thank you, Johnnyu, and Richard.

        Please keep track of more comments (by me). All of us have so much to do (in the way of positively contributing) when it comes to this, too often maddening and infuriating, bit of commentary we call the Counterjihad.

        Bless you both.

        NorseRadish

      • … what about Vlad putting together a book of best comments from his corner of the counter-jihad from the last 10 years…?

        HELL YES! I will cheerfully contribute the editorial effort required. A few dozen embedded (subtitled) videos would only increase the value. Please consider playing a crucial part by helping to identify whatever key posts or clips might have the most impact. You too, Richard.

        Let’s do this!!!

        NorseRadish

      • Hungary Orders Spies to Target Soros ‘Empire’

        Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban renewed his assault on George Soros, instructing his intelligence services to map what he described as the networks run by the billionaire financier’s “empire” targeting his country.

        Intelligence agencies will help evaluate what he sees as efforts by Soros to get Hungary punished by EU institutions pursuing a “mixed-population” continent, Orban said in an interview with Kossuth Radio on Friday.

        Orban, who is the favorite to win next year’s parliamentary elections, said Europe is set to be split between a “migrant-free zone” and those in the west who refuse calls to “haul” undocumented migrants away.

        Soros, whose philanthropy has supported education and pro-democracy activism in Hungary since the 1980s, has hit back at Orban, himself a former Soros scholar, accusing him of running a “mafia state.”

        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/orban-marshals-spy-agencies-in-renewed-attack-on-soros-empire

          • Yes. What kind of mafia state holds a referendum? Or has a free and critical press?

            Please pardon me, Johnnyu.

            AMERICA.

            It makes me vomit to even suggest this possibility.

            All the same, this possibility has become an issue of absolute revulsion.

            Please bear with me,

            NorseRadish

  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahM-5pVyyQk

    This is Rebel Media talking to Pamela Geller about the judo finals. It seems, once again, that the Israelis are facing a tough choice; either take your flag off your uniform or, don’t compete.
    WHAT OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD is being asked/forced to do this?

    I am unabashedly pro Israel.

    The fact that the “civilized” world is willing to go along with this judo thing makes me sick. It is similar to the “take a knee” thing going on in the states. You have a point you want to make and you want to shove it down my throat. Well, I can skip your gladiator game and your car commercials and you will quickly find out that I am not buying what you demand to sell.
    The problem with the judo competition is that it is fairly obscure. We can’t boycott the sponsors or turn the channel. So, Israel has to take it because the rest of the world is totally screwed up.

  3. Shocking Video: Woman Knocked Out, Witnesses Rob & Take Selfie, Instead Of Calling 911

    PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It’s a breathtaking, horrifying and jaw-dropping moment caught on surveillance video which has Pittsburgh Police investigating and deeply concerned.

    “They don’t treat animals like that. They wouldn’t treat a dog that way,” says a Pittsburgh woman whose daughter is seen being beaten and lying unconscious on a sidewalk in the video.

    A surveillance camera captured the incident in Beechview more than a month ago. It shows a man walk up to the woman, kick her leg out and punch her in the face, knocking her out cold. The man then walks away from the scene.

    The next moments may be more disturbing. One young man walks up to the woman, looks at her motionless body, then pulls out his phone and takes a video. Four more young people do the same.

    http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/10/26/get-marty-beechview-woman-knocked-out-video/

  4. DoD Plans Solar-Storm-Based National Blackout Drill During Antifa Protests In November

    According to The National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL), elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will simulate a “communications interoperability” training exercise across the United States on November 04-06. The announcement released on October 24 has not been widely distributed to the media, because the drill is simulating a total grid collapse and could spark public fear.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-26/dod-plans-solar-storm-based-national-blackout-drill-during-antifa-protests-november

    • The Russians appear to have used GPS jammers and possibly cell phone jammers in recent war games.

      http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nato-chief-allies-concerned-russian-phone-jamming-50735194

      if you tune around the HF amateur shortwave frequencies, they are amazingly devoid of ham radio operators. So there is plenty of usable spectrum for new amateur radio operators. So if anyone is looking for a new hobby remember, learning Morse code is no longer a requirement in the USA. In the absence of network communications, point-to-point HF comms could really become important; after all, it’s the “Amateur radio service.”

  5. Catalonia declares independence from Spain, direct Madrid rule looms

    BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – Catalonia’s parliament declared independence from Spain on Friday in defiance of the Madrid government, which at the same time was preparing to impose direct rule over the region.

    Although the declaration was in effect a symbolic gesture as it will not be accepted by Spain or the international community, the moves by both sides take Spain’s worst political crisis in four decades to a new level.

    Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy immediately called for calm and said the rule of law would be restored.

    The motion passed in the regional parliament in Barcelona — which was boycotted by opposition parties — said Catalonia constituted an independent, sovereign and social democratic state. It called on other countries and institutions to recognize it.

    http://www.oann.com/spain-to-impose-direct-rule-in-catalonia-as-crisis-spirals/

  6. Senate Democrats demand crackdown on campus speech
    By Jerome Woehrle October 26, 2017

    Can the federal government ban students from saying, “Build the wall”? One would think not, due to freedom of speech, and Supreme Court rulings saying that the First Amendment protects speech about political issues in public schools. (See, e.g., Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969)).

    But yesterday, Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and eight other Senate Democrats asked the federal Education Department to do so. They sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy Devos, asking her to crack down on what they viewed as “hateful and discriminatory speech” and racial “harassment” in colleges and schools.

    As a prime example, they cited students “chanting ‘Build the Wall’” on their lunch break. They then asked the Education Department to show its “commitment to enforcing the civil rights laws” by taking action against such “harassment.”

    But saying “Build the Wall” is protected speech under the First Amendment. It may offend Hispanics (or liberals), but that doesn’t make it unprotected harassment.Can the federal government ban students from saying, “Build the wall”? One would think not, due to freedom of speech, and Supreme Court rulings saying that the First Amendment protects speech about political issues in public schools. (See, e.g., Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969)).

    But yesterday, Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and eight other Senate Democrats asked the federal Education Department to do so. They sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy Devos, asking her to crack down on what they viewed as “hateful and discriminatory speech” and racial “harassment” in colleges and schools.

    As a prime example, they cited students “chanting ‘Build the Wall’” on their lunch break. They then asked the Education Department to show its “commitment to enforcing the civil rights laws” by taking action against such “harassment.”

    But saying “Build the Wall” is protected speech under the First Amendment. It may offend Hispanics (or liberals), but that doesn’t make it unprotected harassment.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/10/26/senate-democrats-demand-crackdown-campus-speech/

  7. The Roots of the Dem’s Russia Obsession
    From Russia with excuses.
    October 27, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    Five years ago, Mitt Romney was hammering Barack Obama for being soft on Russia. And Obama was ridiculing him as a Cold War fossil. The Russia exchanges may seem confusing today, but back then they were a natural outgrowth of the respective Democrat and Republican foreign policy positions.

    The Dems had accused President Bush of alienating Russia with the Iraq War. The McCain-Obama debates echoed the Romney-Obama debates with McCain taking a harder line on Russia. In ’08, Vladimir Putin even suggested that relations would improve once Obama took office. By ’12, Obama was caught on a hot mic promising more flexibility for Russia after the election was over.

    Until the end of the Obama era, foreign policy fell along these predictable lines. Republicans focused on the old Cold War need to maintain NATO against Russian expansionism. Democrats had their own Cold War reflex. Whenever they heard Russia, they began to talk about nuclear disarmament.

    And that was exactly what Obama did.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268220/roots-dems-russia-obsession-daniel-greenfield

  8. The Roots of the Dem’s Russia Obsession
    From Russia with excuses.
    October 27, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    Five years ago, Mitt Romney was hammering Barack Obama for being soft on Russia. And Obama was ridiculing him as a Cold War fossil. The Russia exchanges may seem confusing today, but back then they were a natural outgrowth of the respective Democrat and Republican foreign policy positions.

    The Dems had accused President Bush of alienating Russia with the Iraq War. The McCain-Obama debates echoed the Romney-Obama debates with McCain taking a harder line on Russia. In ’08, Vladimir Putin even suggested that relations would improve once Obama took office. By ’12, Obama was caught on a hot mic promising more flexibility for Russia after the election was over.

    Until the end of the Obama era, foreign policy fell along these predictable lines. Republicans focused on the old Cold War need to maintain NATO against Russian expansionism. Democrats had their own Cold War reflex. Whenever they heard Russia, they began to talk about nuclear disarmament.

    And that was exactly what Obama did.

    It’s hard to overestimate how much of our foreign policy consisted of unthinking virtue signaling.

    For example, no one is quite sure why Obama decided to launch his disastrous Afghanistan surge with its accompanying horrifying death toll. But a debate exchange with Mitt Romney offers one possibility.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268220/roots-dems-russia-obsession-daniel-greenfield

  9. Normalizing Anti-Semitism in Student Governments
    Purging Jewish students from the Israeli/Palestinian debate.
    October 27, 2017
    Richard L. Cravatts

    In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from student anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is that their quarrel is only with Israel and its government’s policies, not with Jews themselves. But that specious defense continues to fall away, revealing some caustic and base anti-Semitism, representing a seismic shift in the way that Jews are now being indicted not just for supporting Israel, but merely for being Jewish.

    At McGill University this week, as the latest example, three board members of the University’s Students’ Society were removed from their appointments after a vote at the Fall General Assembly due to what was reported to be their perceived “Jewish conflict of interest.” The ouster was led by a pro-BDS student group, Democratize McGill, which was campaigning against pro-Israel students in the wake of a September ruling by the Judicial Board that, once and for all, rejected the BDS movement on the McGill campus, stating that it was violative of the SSMU’s constitution because it “violate[d] the rights of [Israeli] students to represent themselves” and discriminated on the basis of national origin.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268237/normalizing-anti-semitism-student-governments-richard-l-cravatts

  10. Obama “Lightworker” Columnist Returns to Defend Calls for EPA Head’s Death
    October 27, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    Hope. Change. Hate.

    When they go low, we lose our minds.

    Once upon a time this would have been a deranged letter to the editor. The sort of thing that would have triggered an FBI investigation. Now it’s the new normal. It’s a column at the San Fran Chronicle’s sister site. The same left that endlessly preached about violence and claimed that Sarah Palin’s map killed is completely okay with a winking defense of sending death threats to the head of the EPA.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268249/obama-lightworker-columnist-returns-defend-calls-daniel-greenfield

    • The environmental movement turned into a religion a long time ago and they are ow showing this fact to the world. Their new religion is turning as violent as Islam, the true believers of both faiths are going to have a lot of hatred for each other and will probably turn on each other long before we have been destroyed.

  11. Where Did All the ISIS Jihadists from America Go?
    October 27, 2017
    Daniel Greenfield

    With the Caliphate collapsing, there’s a roundup of some of the numbers, real and estimated, for foreign ISIS fighters.

    The report asserts that for the United States, 129 fighters succeeded in leaving the country and only seven have returned.

    Of the 5,000 residents of the European Union who flocked to Iraq and Syria, a quarter are alleged to have returned home. But in the U.K., that figure was closer to half, with some 425 of the 850 fighters who left Britain to join the self-styled caliphate back on home soil. Around 5,000 left from Central Asia, of which just 500 — 10 percent — too have returned.

    The countries with the highest number of foreign fighters included Jordan at 3,000 (around 250 returned), France at 1,910 with 271 back and Morocco at 1,623 with 198 having gone home. Meanwhile, 400 of Russia’s 3,417 fighters are estimated to be back on their native soil, 147 of the 1,300 Tajikistan fighters, 800 of Tunisia’s 2,926, none of the 1,200 from Uyghurs — in China’s western Xinjiang region — have returned and none of the 1,500 from Uzbekistan are believed to have crossed back into their mothership.

    • http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/268248/where-did-all-isis-jihadists-america-go-daniel-greenfield

      http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/26/almost-all-american-isis-fighters-unaccounted-for-sparking-fears-could-slip-through-cracks-and-return.html

      Almost all American ISIS fighters unaccounted for, sparking fears they could slip through cracks and return

      When it came to recruiting foreigners to flee the comforts of home for the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, ISIS succeeded like no other — encouraging more than 40,000 fighters from more than 110 countries to travel to the fighting fray both before and after the declaration of the “caliphate” in June 2014. Subsequently, authorities have warned about the threat of returning jihadists to their homeland and since the falls of Mosul, Raqqa and the rapidly receding footprint of ISIS, such fears have come to the forefront.

      According to a new report, “Beyond the Caliphate: Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees,” released this week by the Soufan Center — a Washington-based security intelligence consultancy — there are now at least 5,600 citizens or residents from 33 countries who have returned home — accounting for about 15 percent of the fighters.

      • http://thesoufancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Beyond-the-Caliphate-Foreign-Fighters-and-the-Threat-of-Returnees-TSC-Report-October-2017.pdf

        BEYOND THE CALIPHATE:
        Foreign Fighters and the Threat of ReturneesKey Findings

        As the so-called Islamic State (IS) loses territorial control of its caliphate, there is lit

        tle doubt that the group or something similar will survive the worldwide campaign
        against it so long as the conditions that promoted its growth remain. Its appeal will
        outlast its demise, and while it will be hard to assess the specific threat posed by
        foreign fighters and returnees, they will present a challenge to many countries for
        years to come.

        Despite the overall increase in Foreign Fighters since The Soufan Group’s last report
        in December 2015, the flow of fighters came to a virtual standstill as the Islamic State
        began to lose its territory in both Syria and Iraq and states implemented better mea

        sures to prevent travel. However, from 2015, there was a marked rise in the number
        of foreign women and children traveling to or, in the case of children, b

  12. Qatar’s Increased Ties to Iran Threaten U.S. Security
    Does the U.S. need another Pakistan in the Persian Gulf?
    October 27, 2017
    Shahab Moghadam

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268236/qatars-increased-ties-iran-threaten-us-security-shahab-moghadam

    Friday the 13th is not typically considered an unlucky day in Iran. However, this year proved different. This year, President Trump used the inauspicious date to deliver a landmark speech lambasting Iran for its state-sponsorship of terrorism, human rights abuses, and various violations of the nuclear deal. In his speech, Trump laid forth a vision for a clear-eyed and sensible U.S. policy toward Iran that does not accept, and instead counters, its nefarious actions across the region as well as its support for terrorist groups worldwide.

    The opposition from certain European countries willing to overlook Iran’s bad behavior to obtain commercial benefits has been predictable. However, the bulk of the response to the President’s speech, including from stalwart US ally Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, has been positive. Israel and many of America’s Arab allies have long believed Tehran is a force for spreading chaos in the Middle East. But one nation has remained remarkably silent in the aftermath of the Iran speech, having played a double game on the Iran issue for several months without facing accountability or consequences: Qatar.

    Qatar has been double-dealing in the Middle East for decades, paying lip service to Gulf Arab unity while simultaneously working to destabilize its neighbors. The world’s largest exporter of natural gas, Qatar has used part of its wealth to finance extremist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. Domestically, Qatar depends upon its poorly-treated and poorly-paid migrant labor force to sustain its development. In the process, the country often violates the human rights of those migrants

  13. Number of arrests plunge by half in a decade: Police are accused of ‘soft justice’ amid soaring rates of crime (dailymail, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5022301/Number-UK-arrests-plunge-half-decade.html

    “Police are arresting half as many suspects as they did a decade ago despite a surge in crime.

    The number held fell from 1.5million in 2007-08 to 780,000 this year – down 48 per cent – figures reveal.

    But the total crimes recorded by police in England and Wales has risen to 5.2million, the highest for ten years…”

  14. Christmas market TERROR FEARS: Concrete barriers placed around Birmingham shopping centre (express, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/872014/Birmingham-Christmas-market-terror-fears-concrete-barries

    “HUGE concrete barriers have been installed in Birmingham to prevent a terror attack on the city’s main Christmas market.

    Birmingham Council has installed the hefty barriers amid fears of a terror attack similar to the one in Berlin last year.

    An ISIS attacker drove a lorry into the market in central Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring more than 50 others in the devastating attack.

    Ramped-up security is designed to prevent a similar incident in line with Government guidelines on preventing a terrorist attacks in high-risk areas.

    Similar security measures were installed last Christmas in city squares across the UK. Concrete barriers have also been installed on three London bridges in the wake of attacks at Westminster and London Bridge, when drivers mounted the pavement to attack pedestrians…”

  15. Hungarian PM Orbán: ‘Soros Network Aims to Create a Europe of Mixed Population’ (breitbart, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/27/hungarian-pm-orban-soros-network-aims-create-europe-mixed-population/

    “Billionaire George Soros is trying to use mass immigration to dilute European ethnic cultures into one anonymous blend, according to Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

    Speaking on Hungarian radio Friday morning, the redoubtable prime minister denounced the campaign of the Soros-funded “Open Society” network to aggressively drive a pro-immigration agenda as a means to eradicate the cultures and Christian identity of European states.

    “The Soros network has an extensive sphere of influence within the European Parliament and other EU bodies,” Orbán said, “and its aim is to build a Europe of mixed population and to condemn the Hungarian government for opposing their view on migration.”

    Earlier this month, George Soros transferred $18 billion to his Open Society Foundations, his tool of choice for forging a brave new world without borders and without nations.

    In his Friday interview, Orbán said that he had to fight tooth and nail during last week’s summit in Brussels against efforts to pass European policy that would jeopardize Hungary’s sovereignty.

    “There was a great deal of pressure on me to compromise on migration,” he said, but he held his ground…”

  16. While 14,000 Failed Asylum Seekers Await Deportation, Govt Plane to Afghanistan Flies With 166 Empty Seats (breitbart, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/27/germany-14-failed-asylum-seekers-180-seat-aeroplane/

    “The German government has resumed deportations to Afghanistan but according to reports, the authorities placed a mere 14 people on a 180-seat aircraft despite there being 14,263 Afghans scheduled for deportation.

    Saxony Interior Minister Markus Ulbig said that not all Afghans were deported but rather the authorities prioritised known criminals and other ‘troublemakers’, like those who refuse to identify themselves, Tag 24 reports…”

  17. Two Million Euro Deportation Centre Deports Just 86 Migrants a Year (breitbart, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/10/27/hamburg-two-million-euros-deportation-centre-rarely-used/

    “The regional government in Hamburg relocated their deportation detention centre last year and so far the new location has cost 2.4 million euros, despite only facilitating the deportation of fewer than a hundred people.

    The new facility, which places failed asylum seekers and illegal migrants in detention to await their deportation, opened in October 2016, located at the Hamburg international airport, and has so far led to the deportation of a mere 84 migrants, Hamburger Morgenpost reports.

    The report comes after a formal request into the matter by Cansu Özdemir, a local member of the Left Party, who said that the costs associated with the deportation centre were “enormously high”.

    “The money should be invested in the integration of refugees and not in questionable deportation prisons,” Özdemir said…”

  18. Outspoken Pakistani journalist attacked in Islamabad (abcnews, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/outspoken-pakistani-journalist-attacked-islamabad-50756366

    “Assailants riding on motorcycles have attacked an outspoken Pakistani journalist in the capital, Islamabad, leaving him badly hurt with head injuries.

    The attackers intercepted investigative reporter Ahmad Noorani’s car, dragged him out and beat him up with clubs as passers-by watched before fleeing the scene. Noorani was taken to hospital.

    No one has claimed to be behind the attack, which drew condemnation from Noorani’s colleagues and government officials.

    Noorani works for the independent English-language The News newspaper.

    Pakistan is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, where they are targeted by spy agencies, Islamic militants and criminal gangs.

    Friday’s attack comes two weeks after the Pakistani Taliban killed local journalist Haroon Khan in northwestern town of Swabi.”

  19. The Latest: Iraq temporarily halts movement against Kurds (abcnews, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/latest-coalition-iraq-kurds-cease-fire-reached-50760229

    “Iraq’s Prime Minister is issuing a 24-hour suspension of the movement of troops who are deployed to bring territory held by Kurdish forces back under federal control.

    Haider al-Abadi says in a statement Friday the order was given to “prevent clashes and bloodshed between the sons of one nation.”

    The announcement follows conflicting reports from the U.S.-led coalition that a cease-fire had been reached between Kurdish forces and troops deployed by Iraq’s central government.

    After initially announcing a cease-fire, the Coalition said the statement was incorrect, but added talks were ongoing.

    Tensions between Irbil and Baghdad spiked following a controversial referendum on independence held by the Kurds in September.

    Earlier this month, al-Abadi ordered federal forces to retake Kirkuk and other areas held by Kurdish forces, but outside their autonomous region.”

  20. Pakistan army claims shooting down Indian drone in Kashmir (abcnews, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-army-claims-shooting-indian-drone-kashmir-50761363

    “Pakistan’s military says it has shot down an Indian unmanned drone after it entered Pakistani airspace in country’s part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

    In a statement, army spokesman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor says the drone was spying when it was shot down Friday in Rakhchikri village along the Line of Control in Kashmir.

    He said Pakistani troops retrieved the wreckage. There was no immediate comment from India.

    Kashmir is split between Pakistan and India, who claim the territory in its entirety and have fought two wars over it since their independence from British rule in 1947.”

  21. Egypt says 13 militants killed in western desert (abcnews, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypts-news-agency-12-militants-killed-western-desert-50755778

    “Egyptian security forces killed 13 militants in a shootout on Friday in the country’s western desert, the Interior Ministry said, a week after a deadly shootout between police and militants southwest of the capital Cairo.

    The ministry said in a statement that the exchange of fire took place in a raid on a militant hideout southwest of Cairo, based on information it received from the national security apparatus on their location. The state-run MENA news agency earlier quoted an unnamed Interior Ministry official as saying the shootout was in the New Valley province, which covers a vast area of the western desert and shares part of the porous border with Libya.

    The ministry said 13 unidentified bodies were found as security forces combed the area following the shootout. They were found with firearms and ammunition in their possession, the ministry said. The statement did not say whether any police were killed.

    Friday’s shootout took place in an area farther south from the region where 16 policemen were killed a week ago in a brazen ambush by militants.. Security officials had earlier told The Associated Press and other media outlets that the death toll among policemen was over 50, making it one of the worst attacks against Egypt’s police in years. The discrepancy in numbers could not be rectified…”

  22. Yale ‘decolonizes’ English dept. after complaints studying white authors ‘actively harms’ students

    English majors no longer required to take class focused on Chaucer, Shakespeare

    A year and a half after a petition circulated calling for Yale to “decolonize the English department,” the first students are enrolled in a new course created by the department to increase the breadth of the curriculum and combat claims of departmental racism.

    What’s more, new requirements are in place to ensure a more “diversified” slate of courses.

    Previous requirements for the major included two courses in “Major English Poets,” including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton and Eliot, among others. But that two-course series petitioners had deemed actively harmful due to its focus on white male poets. The series is no longer a graduation requirement for Yale’s English majors.

    The petition, a Google document which has since been made private, critiqued the perceived whiteness of the English department requirements: “A year spent around a seminar table where the literary contributions of women, people of color, and queer folk are absent actively harms all students, regardless of their identity.”

    “It’s time for the English major to decolonize — not diversify — its course offerings,” the petition added. “A 21st century education is a diverse education: we write to you today inspired by student activism across the university, and to make sure that you know that the English department is not immune from the collective call to action.”

    Nearly a year after the petition, around seven months ago, Yale’s English faculty voted to “diversity” the curriculum. At the time of the vote, the director of the department’s undergraduate studies, Jessica Brantley, told The Yale Daily News: “We’ve constructed a curriculum that has inclusion as its goal, embedded in the structures of its requirements, and I’m very excited to implement and develop that curriculum further.”……
    http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38303/

  23. RT – PAKISTAN – ‘Taliban not against us, why should it leave?’ – Pakistani General

    The US Secretary of State has called on Pakistan to wipe out the terror groups undermining political stability in the country.

    The day before he gave that statement, America’s top diplomat didn’t receive the warmest of welcomes at a military airport in Pakistan.

    Relations between the two countries have dipped, after Washington accused Islamabad of allegedly providing ‘safe havens’ for Taliban militants.

    Sophie Shervanadze met with retired 3-star Pakistani general Assad Duranni to discuss US-Pakistan relations.

    • ‘Today’s US ‘terrorist’ can be US ally tomorrow’ – Former Pakistani intel chief

      The Taliban is refusing to continue peace talks with Afghanistan following the death of its former leader, Mullah Mansur, who was killed by a US drone strike on the border with Pakistan. US military leadership has conceded that further negotiations are unlikely following the strike. The drone operation was not the first to take place inside the Pakistan border – something that its people have been protesting for a long period, counting a number of innocent among the casualties.
      Was Pentagon’s decision the right one – or it will just breed more trouble? What goal does Pakistan pursue with their intricate relations with the Taliban? And, even more importantly, why does Washington prefer to ignore the alleged connections between Islamabad and a group that the US considers terrorists. We ask the former chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, the ISI – Lieutenant-General, Asad Durrani is on Sophie&Co today.

  24. Headscarf row: German university lecturer ‘humiliates’ Muslim (BBC, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41780436

    “A row has erupted in Germany after a university lecturer told a Muslim woman she should remove her headscarf.

    Professor Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet has been accused of “discrimination” after asking everyone at the University of Würzburg lecture to take off their headwear.

    The professor argued this should include the Muslim woman, because the lecture hall was a secular space.

    But she says she did not insist that the headscarf be removed.

    Instead, a university spokesman told BR24 [in German] that Professor Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet had launched into a discussion of equality between men and women, before expressing her personal disapproval.

    The spokesman added that she “regrets the excitement and misunderstanding” which arose from her opinion…”

  25. US Backs Killing ISIS Foreign Fighters
    Home > Political Islam > In the US > National Security > US Backs Killing ISIS Foreign Fighters
    By Elliot Friedland Thursday, October 26, 2017

    Foreign fighters who have travelled to Syria to join and fight for the Islamic State must die in Syria, a leading envoy to the global coalition against ISIS has said.

    “Our mission is to make sure any foreign fighter who is here, who joined ISIS from a foreign country and came into Syria, they will die here in Syria,” Brett McGurk, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS, told media, as reported by The Daily Mail.

    His remarks came after Kurdish-led forces captured the ISIS capital of Raqqa last week.

    “So if they’re in Raqqa, they’re going to die in Raqqa,” McGurk added.

    McGurk’s announcement follows that of French Defense Minister Florence Parly. “What we want is to go to the end of this combat, she told reporters, “And, of course, if jihadists die in the fighting, then I’d say it’s for the best.”

    The British also agree.

    https://clarionproject.org/us-killing-isis-fighters/

  26. Militias vs. Palestinian “Reconciliation”

    by Khaled Abu Toameh
    October 27, 2017 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11230/palestinian-militias-gaza

    Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas says he does not want to see “militias” in the Gaza Strip if and when the “reconciliation” agreement he reached with Hamas is implemented. “The Palestinian leadership will not accept the model of militias in the Gaza Strip because it isn’t a successful one,” Abbas told the Chinese news agency Xinhua. “There should be one authority, one law and one weapon, with no militias.”

    Hamas, for its part, has already rejected Abbas’s demand. Hamas has said it has no intention of disarming despite the “reconciliation” agreement recently signed in Cairo. “We can’t give up our weapons and because the Palestinian people are still in the phase of national liberation,” said Yehya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip. “We also can’t and won’t recognize Israel.”

    Hamas’s refusal to disarm should come as no surprise. Since Hamas violently seized control of the Gaza Strip ten years ago, it has built a huge security apparatus that consists of thousands of militiamen, most of them members of Ezaddin Al-Qassam, the movement’s military wing. Hamas has also smuggled large amounts of weapons into the Gaza Strip and dug dozens of tunnels along the borders with Israel and Egypt.

  27. “JW Pres. Tom Fitton discussing Clinton/Russia Collusion, 72K New Clinton Docs, & Purple Heart Battle”
    Judicial Watch – October 27, 2017

    • Should Robert Mueller resign?

      MAGA Coalition Chief Strategist Sebastian Gorka on President Trump’s push to release the JFK documents and whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller should step down.

    • Conservative website funded Fusion GPS opposition research

      Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer on the Washington Free Beacon funding Fusion GPS’s effort to dig up dirt on then-candidate Trump.

    • Fmr. CIA Dir. Panetta: Intel Committee Needs To Look Into Clinton/DNC Involvement With Dossier

  28. “Bill Warner PhD: The Near Enemy– Silicon Valley Enforcers”
    Political Islam – Published on October 27, 2017

  29. American who ‘regretted’ joining Islamic State gets 20 years in jail (middleeasteye, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/american-who-regretted-joining-islamic-state-gets-20-years-jail-947455902

    “A 27-year-old American who joined the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and later claimed he escaped and fled into the hands of Kurdish troops after a “bad decision” was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison.

    In a separate case, an Uzbek citizen was sentenced on Friday to 15 years in New York for planning to join the militant group.

    Mohamad Jamal Khweis, who received a 20-year sentence on Friday, left his job driving a bus for disabled people in northern Virginia in December 2015 to travel to IS’s stronghold of Raqqa.

    He spent about two and a half months as a member of IS, taking part in religious training and staying in various safe houses, allegedly preparing to be a suicide bomber.

    He was detained by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in March 2016 in Tal Afar, Iraq, and later claimed he escaped the militants, telling a Kurdish television station in Erbil that he did not see them as “good Muslims”.

    But US authorities rejected his claims, saying he clearly had sought to join the group, selling his car and leaving home without telling anyone.

    “The evidence at trial demonstrated that Mohamad Khweis is an unpredictable and dangerous person who was radicalised towards violent jihad,” said Dana Boente, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

    A federal jury convicted Khweis on 8 June on all three charges against him, including providing and conspiring to provide material support or resources to IS, and a related firearms count.

    He faced a maximum life sentence.

    Also on Friday, a Brooklyn man was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support to IS.

    Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 27, an Uzbekistan citizen who once chopped salad at a Brooklyn gyro shop, was one of six people charged in the same case with plotting to aid IS…”

  30. Yemen’s Salafi warlord – armed by Riyadh, branded a terrorist by Riyadh (middleeasteye, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/yemen-al-qaeda-taiz-saudi-arabia-salafi-1527398621

    “Abu al-Abbas commands the largest Salafi force inside Taiz’s Popular Resistance. He controls most major routes in and out of the city, dominates most public institutions as resistance finance manager and has for three years been armed and paid by Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

    But that could soon change – earlier this week, Abu al-Abbas was designated an al-Qaeda and Islamic State supporter by the Saudis, their Gulf allies, Qatar and the US…”

  31. Austria’s hard right turn alarms Muslims and Jews (gulfnews, Oct 27, 2017)
    http://gulfnews.com/news/europe/austria-s-hard-right-turn-alarms-muslims-and-jews-1.2114238

    “A little over a century ago, the ancestors of modern Austrians were at the vanguard of religious liberty in Europe, giving their small Muslim community the same rights as Christians or Jews.

    Today, the much larger and rapidly growing Muslim population of Austria sees their country again setting the tone in Europe – but this time in a far more ominous direction.

    In Sunday’s election, well over half the country’s voters chose parties that defined themselves by their hard-line stances on immigration, integration and multiculturalism.

    The third-place finisher, the Freedom Party, campaigned on the proposition that Islam is incompatible with Austrian values and an existential threat to Europe.

    The leader of the vote-topping People’s Party and Austria’s likely next chancellor, 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, doesn’t go that far. But he’s mimicked much of the Freedom Party’s rhetoric, lashing out at Muslim kindergartens, calling for rescued migrants to be sent back to Africa and promising sharply reduced benefits for newcomers.

    Fearful outcome

    Together, the two parties are expected to form a coalition government that leaders of the Austrian Muslim community see as a nightmare come true.

    “This election result is something we feared,” said Ramazan Demir, a Vienna-based imam and a leader of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria, an umbrella group. “During the campaign we saw how populists created panic. Austrians voted for them for that reason.”

    The Austrian results reflected anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment that has been rising across Europe in recent years. But it has been especially pronounced in Austria, a country that hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers transited at the height of the European refugee crisis.

    Tens of thousands – many of them Muslims fleeing war in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan – settled in the central European nation.

    The newcomers added to a fast-growing Muslim community that represented just 4 percent of Austria’s population as of 2001, but has now expanded to 8 percent – or 700,000 people.

    Austria was long known for its relative openness to Muslims – an outgrowth, analysts say, of a 1912 law that gave Islam official status in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and that remains on the books today, long after the empire’s collapse.

    In the 1960s and 1970s, guest workers were recruited to Austria from Turkey and the Balkans. The country also welcomed significant numbers of Balkan refugees in the 1990s.

    But attitudes have hardened in recent years, with widespread perceptions that newcomers haven’t adequately integrated. Terrorist attacks in Europe – and the departure of some 300 Austrian Muslims to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State – have heightened concerns. Politicians have picked up on the fears, and exacerbated them.

    “They did their politics on the backs of Muslims,” said Demir, who is Turkish-born. “There’s never been this much Islamophobia in Austria.”

    Peter Hajek, an expert on Austrian public opinion, said that after initially welcoming refugees in 2015, voters grew jaded and came to see the newcomers less as legitimate asylum seekers than as economic migrants. They also began to regard Muslims in general as suspect.

    “They do not really differentiate between Muslims and Islamic extremists,” he said. “Nearly every Muslim seems to be dangerous.”

    Capitalising on emotions

    Kurz, more than any other mainstream politician, managed to capitalise on those sentiments.

    On the campaign trail, he boasted that as foreign minister he had stopped the flow of asylum seekers along the Balkans route by closing Austrian borders. He has promised to force Europe to do the same with the central Mediterranean route, the main path by which migrants reach the continent today.

    Domestically, Kurz has championed changes to the country’s laws for Muslims, including a prohibition on foreign donations for Islamic institutions and a ban on women wearing full-face veils.

    He also caused a storm of controversy by commissioning a study on Islamic kindergartens, which have equal weight under Austrian law with other religious-based schools. The study found that the schools contribute to “a parallel society,” and Kurz frequently cited the findings on the campaign trail.

    But the study’s methodology was widely questioned by academics, and Austrian media reported that Kurz’s ministry had changed the findings to make them more politically advantageous.

    Kurz has consistently denied that charge, and his aides bristle at the notion that he’s simply copied the language and policies of the far-right. But they don’t deny that he’s responding to a genuine discomfort in Austrian society with multiculturalism.

    Stoking fears

    “Most European populations don’t want to become half-Afghan or half-Syrian or half-African,” said a Kurz adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak for the record. “And you have to accept it. If you don’t, we’ll go to the extreme far right.”

    But that’s where some fear the country may be headed – and the fears are hardly limited to Muslims. After the vote, the European Jewish Congress called on Kurz not to pick the Freedom Party, which was founded by a former SS officer, as his coalition partner.

    “Europe in general and Austria in particular should know all too well where acceptance of populist and pernicious ideologies leads,” the group said.

    But the overall reaction from European leaders was muted – a stark contrast to 2000, when inclusion of the Freedom Party in an Austrian government triggered sanctions from EU members.

    Muslim leaders in Austria, too, have been restrained in their public responses. There have been no major protests so far.

    —Washington Post”

  32. Man jailed in Frankfurt for fighting with Somali Islamists (thelocal, Oct 27, 2017)
    https://www.thelocal.de/20171027/man-jailed-in-frankfurt-for-fighting-with-somali-islamists

    “A Frankfurt court sentenced a Somali-born German national to two years and ten months in jail on Friday, for joining the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group and fighting alongside the Islamists in his native country.

    The suspect, identified only as 29-year-old Abshir A, was found guilty of membership of a foreign terrorist group.

    The court said the accused, who was born in Mogadishu, left Germany for Somalia in 2012 after becoming radicalized and was active for the militant group until early 2014.

    He spent around four months undergoing combat training upon arrival, during which time Shabaab militia taught him how to handle weapons and employ guerrilla tactics, according to a court statement.

    The accused was then sent to a Shabaab base but left “shortly afterwards because of health problems”, it added.

    He remained in Somalia however, and only returned last year.

    He was arrested upon his return at Frankfurt airport in July 2016…”