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From: Germany: Jewish Community Bochum Asks Members to Not Wear Jewish Symbols in Public Anymore
Judenrein by Proxy
With respect to modern European Antisemitism, there seem to be several factors at work—be it singularly or in combination. Most surreal of all is that a country like Germany, that is so wracked with guilt over its Nazi Holocaust past, would tolerate having within its midst an overt reconstitution of that same repulsive mindset as represented by so many recent Muslim invaders.
Here are some possibilities:
A.) A bizarre psychological displacement by Germans of latent resentment towards the Jews for being an integral part of Germany’s shameful Nazi history. This goes well-beyond “blame the victim” and enters a twilight zone of “it’s your fault that you Jews remind us of our past evil.”
B.) Related to the forgoing may even be a factor of resentment towards the Jews over how they are “surpassing” Germany’s (crippling) self-flagellation by being so forgiving. Amidst so much halo polishing and virtue signaling by the willkommenskultur there may be a sense of antipathy for how—despite being entitled to a far greater and more deserved sense of grievance—German Jews have shown such tremendous forgiveness.
NOTE: Not being Jewish, the preceding analysis may only be pure speculation. All input is welcome.
C.) Strange, if not stranger, is how all of this might be as simple as, “judenrein by proxy” (you saw it here first). Lingering (or latent) European Antisemitism has found its surrogate agent in the form of imported Muslims who will gladly do the dirty work required—regardless of whatever ostensive legal prohibitions.
That these same imported Muslims have every intention of annihilating indigenous Europeans is something far more difficult to explain. This would represent a pyrrhic victory (by the willkommenskultur) that makes the Battle of Ausculum look like a proverbial walk in the park.
D.) It is impossible to avoid mentioning the “Clockwork Orange Effect”. As noted on other occasions, there is a distinct possibility that Germans, in particular, have experienced such intense social behavioral conditioning (with respect to violence) that—accompanied by a rigidly enforced government monopoly on violence—the general public has been reduced to a state of legally enforced helplessness akin to that of Alex DeLarge.
E.) There remains the incomprehensible aspect of Germany clutching to its breast the Islamic viper. Be it an abject fear about being accused of racism, the idiotic delusion that unemployable, high-birthrate Muslims will somehow manage to prop up the unsustainable Ponzi scheme of EU social benefits, or just the typical fantasy of Multiculturalism and sacrosanct “diversity”, nothing adequately explains this allowance of Anti-Semitic Muslim violence.
F.) Utterly inexplicable is how, not just Germany, but the entire European Union has allowed itself to be paralyzed by a fear of racist accusations (despite Muslims not being a “race”), such that a supremely bigoted and predatory ideology like Islam has been allowed to metastasize within its borders.
For a culture that prizes (if overly-so) diplomatic “nuance” and “sophistication”, the barely impeded brute force and blunt trauma being inflicted by Islamic jihadists all across the EU, there emerges a highly suspect motive with regard to this nod-and-a-wink being directed towards Muslim Antisemitism.
Perhaps, most disturbing of all, is that this “tolerance of the intolerable” represents an abdication of all Enlightenment values—one of Europe’s most precious and enduring gifts to the entire world. (Insert Postmodernist reference >here<.)
Finally, there is the alarming issue of Europe’s Jewish community adopting—what has become—an increasingly common practice of self-censure. This abandonment of traditional apparel or other personal attire is on a par with young Swedish women dying their blonde hair black in order to avoid regular Muslim harassment or assault.
One of the most indicative and disheartening symptoms of Western compliance with Islamic sharia law is voluntarily refraining from any and all gestures which might offend whatever endless number of curiously delicate Muslim “sensitivities” that they continually bleat about like so many forlorn sheep .
Forsaking well-established ethnic or cultural traditions in the name of assuaging impossible-to-satisfy Islamic strictures is a fool’s errand whose only terminus is abject dhimmitude. Likewise, stomaching this new wave of Muslim-driven European Antisemitism—however much facilitated by concealed EU agendas—is just one more battlefield surrender to an Islamic foe that will not flinch at erasing every last vestige of Continental culture or Enlightenment values.
Thank your Norse for your noted look at the situation of the Jews – as a fixation of subconscious hatred by Germans. (The millennials from openly Socialist-indoctrinating schools).
My take is if it wasn’t the Jews, it would be someone else they would point their ‘you didn’t make that’ fingers at.
The “Every Child Matters” drummed into Citizens that every person has responsibility for the lives of another. The “If you don’t feed me I will shoot myself,” has morphed into the self-harmers getting the keys to the country.
“The Peculiar Sex Life of Adolf Hitler is the culmination of almost two years writing and research. It analyses all the phases of Hitler’s sexual experiences: His early mother fixation, his long-term homosexual phase, and his final years as a “reluctant heterosexual”.
During his childhood, Hitler was beaten viciously and often by his father, Alois, and adored by his gentle mother, who tried to protect him from his father’s whip and belt. Hitler later said that his fondest childhood memories were of “sleeping alone with his mother in the big bed” while his father was away at work. Throughout his life, his devotion to the memory of his mother Klara continued, but he rarely, if ever, spoke of his father.”
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/the-peculiar-sex-life-of-adolf-hitler-offers-insight-into-the-dictators-gay-partners-391500.html
The fatherless: Hitler, Stalin, Muhammad, Jesus, Pol Pot, Mao… where only one, repented and faced their demons to change themselves. The others in their cowardace crushed all before them for World Peace, to bow down to and tip toe around the pride of Messiahs.
Jews have fathers. There is nothing to be added.
Likewise America is hated as much as Israel.
Europe opens herself, and their manboys their anuses.
Islam, Communism and Sodomites… Radicalization to hate the Patriarchy. Turning men into feral pigs; into Nazis as the only way they can assert themselves; and the Jew is Iike looking themselves in the mirror as they should have been.
“My take is if it wasn’t the Jews, it would be someone else they would point their ‘you didn’t make that’ fingers at. ”
Then what can possibly explain European reluctance to point at Muslims. Especially with so many of them the most barbaric sorts of behavior (unlike the Jews)?
The Jews represent the fathered. If they were not there, then the European Socialists would target another conservative group with the same moral values as scape goats
Islam does not hold men and women as equal in opportunity. For Marxist, this cult therefore is wonderful, because class warfare is already built-in. Muslims have resentment and brittle pride to be grapple with and hold fast to, to force them to submit. This is what Gabreil did to Muhammad three times and he submitted. The beginning of Islam. The birth of ego-pride to hide shame.
“Sahih Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 1, Number 3:
“…The Prophet added, “The angel caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read and I replied, ‘I do not know how to read.’ Thereupon he caught me again and pressed me a second time till I could not bear it any more. He then released me and again asked me to read but again I replied, ‘I do not know how to read (or what shall I read)?’ Thereupon he caught me for the third time and pressed me, and then released me and said, ‘Read in the name of your Lord, ….”
https://forums.catholic.com/t/muhammad-beaten-by-gabriel/339008/3
It is those who do not hate – that they cannot poison with thorns in their sides to be seduced to do good works for the Price of Heaven – that they fear.
The people who did not sell out.
“Islam does not hold men and women as equal in opportunity. For Marxists, this cult therefore is wonderful, because class warfare is already built-in. Muslims have resentment and brittle pride to be grappled with and held fast to, to force them to submit.”
Really interesting, Perfectchild.
Let’s please keep this exchange going. Whatever our disagreements, you are one of the few that poses such a serious philosophical challenge.
Again, a very merry Christmas,
NorseRadish
So what does a male who has submitted do? He gets other men to submit so he does not appear to be the biggest Dhimmi. Cruelty through pain is the greatest of deceivers. Women are not loved – for it needs a man to do that – but mauled.
Communism is an alternatve male’s way of ruling women. Rather than the Muhammadan dhimmi toyboy asserting himself through violence, the female-reared self-intellectualized males, manipulate their mommies into becoming whores. Antagonizing the bitch of pride in her so that her echo chamber emotionally makes her think she is in control, and willingly gives up her children to the State for proper work. “You didn’t make that.” “You don’t own your child.” Forced labor and stealing eggs from a narrow-vision chicken-brain.
Societies where the musselma can only be impregnated by a muslim and socialists can only be impregnated by low-lifes. Each female believing, ‘you cannot tell me what to do,’ when it is already done.
Blind-siding women into believing they’re not slaves at all; but are serving a higher purpose of God or Mankind when releasing their wombs to the beast.
Islam has four terrorized ‘wives,’ Communism has four baby mothers.
No wonder sex with animals awakens in them to google-seek, for where is the dying soul to go?
Creating the next generations has never been so joyless. Righteous anger is all these slaves possess. Try to remove it at your peril. But it must be done or the free Intelligence of humanity, in a brief moment in time, is gone.
Test
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-16/canadian-billionaire-wife-found-dead-suspicious-suicide
Don’t forget their connection to the Clintons and Haiti
That´s the first thing that crossed my mind coming so close after the doctor that “stabbed himself” in the chest. Do you have any links with info about their connection to Clinton/Haiti? Thanks.
One has been posted further down (not by me the one I posted doesn’t talk about the link) I think it is on page 2
Here is the url, it is a Google translate page
http://archive.is/uJbfO#selection-2083.0-2103.72
Original url
http://www.neonnettle.com/news/3396-big-pharma-boss-with-clinton-foundation-ties-found-dead-at-home
I’m sorry, Norse.
What’s going on is too upsetting for me.
I’m avoiding most of it here.
“I’m sorry, Norse.
What’s going on is too upsetting for me.”
Dear yucki,
You have nothing to apologize for. As in, ZERO.
While any input of yours would be more than welcome, all of this rubbish is so repugnant that I would have to be a heartless SOB to demand that you provide any feedback.
My only hope is that you might confirm how the concept of “judenrein by proxy” has some sort of validity. The EU’s (and Germany’s, especially) policy of ignoring flagrant Antisemitism is so repulsive that their blatantly genocidal model is simply revolting.
However repulsive, creating this “judenrein by proxy” meme is my (admittedly bizarre) personal Hanukkah gift to you and all Jews as part of fighting the ongoing Shoah that didn’t end during WWII.
Let’s please work together and end this evil forever.
Thank-you, Norse, for your understanding and for the sweet holiday greeting.
The 8th and last night.
I’m home alone with 8+1 candles. My fragile hands + all that fire = scary. (5th night, I extinguished my hair just in time.)
By now I know by heart all six stanzas of Maoz Tzur [devoid of meaning in the popular Christian hymn, Rock of Ages].
Slightly singed, Yucki, Maccabee Warrier
….
Here’s a version of Maoz that begins to capture the fighting spirit. The historical enemies in the lyrics are allusions to ones we face today.
For example, note the emphasis this version puts on EDOM, the RED One.
Lots & lots olim arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union. The hammer & sickle is still a swastika to plenty of them.
The Red One is right up there with the Pharoah, Babylon, Persians (before Cyrus), and Hasmonean Greeks.
…..
But the referent changes in popular interpretation. – The Red One – The Enemy – would depend on historic [or mythic] context.
….. There is a foot-noted book (whose name I no longer recall) that was published in the early 1960’s in English on the purposeful steps that transformed pre-War German society into a place that cut off those who did not echo antisemitic words. The case is made that Germans at that time enjoyed participating in social and hobby common-interest groups, but that such groups were transformed into clubs that required members to share common politics and hatreds. Without a copy of the book, I’m not able to share more, so this argument seems thin, but consider how the BDS movement has swayed American academic groups–the librarians, even, via the ALA–and American universities, by inserting political statements (against Israel) into these contexts for the first time. That is, one can deliberately manipulate common interest affiliates to go along with the loudest voices because the affiliate cares more about being accepted in the group than what the group is saying. Here’s another example of group peer pressure today ns the uncritical presentation in academic circles of “We will be like Che”: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22be+like+Che%22+site%3A.edu&t=hg&ia=web
On the positive side, the Nazis took Jewish property to help finance and sustain the Reich’s mad plans. When today’s Jews move on, I doubt they’ll be leaving as much to their (former) countrymen, so one can hope that the dark age will collapse for lack of funds.
Egypt rejects refugee camps out of humanitarian considerations, FM Shoukry tells EU Commissioner for Migration (ahram, Dec 17, 2017)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/285464/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-rejects-refugee-camps-out-of-humanitarian-co.aspx
“Egypt rejects the notion of establishing refugee camps in the country out of humanitarian and legal considerations, Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry told EU Commissioner for Home and Migration Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos during a meeting in Cairo on Saturday.
Shoukry said that Egypt’s policy against having refugee camps aims to integrate refugees with the native community, despite the lack of international support Egypt receives in this regard, according to a statement by Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid.
The meeting was held to launch the first round of a high-level Egyptian-European dialogue to exchange viewpoints and experience on handling the influx migrants across the Mediterranean into Europe.
The talks come a few days ahead of International Migrants Day.
Shoukry said that Egypt believes the root of the problem lies in poverty, unemployment, the lack of legitimate migration channels, as well as instability in the region.
He added that Egypt has been successful in dealing with the problem, pointing to a sharp decline of Egyptian migrants crossing the Mediterranean…”
Almost humorous…
German anti-Semitism commissioner idea backed by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere (DW, Dec 17, 2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/german-anti-semitism-commissioner-idea-backed-by-interior-minister-thomas-de-maiziere/a-41826585
“Germany’s interior minister has joined the chorus of politicians expressing concern over the burning of Israeli flags in Berlin. Germany’s Central Council of Jews has been calling for an anti-Semitism commissioner.
Acting Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said in an interview with German national newspaper Bild am Sonntag that he supports creating the position of anti-Semitism commissioner in the next German government…”
Prepare for attacks trying to bring down Muslims from within: Erdo?an (hurriyetdailynews, Dec 16, 2017)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/prepare-for-attacks-trying-to-bring-down-muslims-from-within-erdogan-124232
“The Muslim world is the target of plots to reshape it to the benefit of others, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said in his address on Dec. 16.
“Like a century ago, the Islamic world is facing efforts to reshape it through blood, tears, and strife between brothers,” Erdo?an said in Istanbul, at the 7th Hadith and Sira Studies Awards Ceremony.
He called on people “to be prepared for attacks which try to bring down Muslims from within.”
“As Muslims fight each other, the ones that benefit are terrorist groups, and terrorist states like Israel,” he said.
Erdo?an also reiterated his condemnation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Following Trump’s announcement, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) this week issued a declaration recognizing East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state.
Erdo?an said the OIC move would create a multiplier effect, encouraging other nations to follow in its lead.”
Turkey: Erdogan voices hope to open Palestine embassy in Jerusalem
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his hope to open a Turkish embassy to Palestine in East Jerusalem, during a local AK Party meeting in the Turkish town of Cankiri on Sunday.
SOT, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey (Turkish):
“You cannot assign Jerusalem, which is a capital for Muslims, to Jews, nor to Hebrews.
There is an ancient history of Muslims and Christians here, but not of others.
You better stay put and not attempt to make any Zionist moves. If you dare, there would be a big price to pay.
What I mean, brothers, is that Turkey put the dead hand into these dirty strategies by making steps in the region. Our country managed to prevent the establishment of the terror state by carrying out successful operations both militarily and diplomatically.
Now Kemal [Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of main opposition party, CHP] is saying, ‘That place should be announced as the capital of Palestine.’ We have already announced it [Jerusalem] as the capital of Palestine a while ago.
But, since Jerusalem is under siege, we cannot open our Embassy there. Our General Consulate is already represented by an ambassador, we have done that in effect. But Allah willing the day is close when, with Allah’s permission, we will open our embassy there soon.”
Heavy explosion rocks Quetta city in Pakistan (khaama, Dec 17, 2017)
https://www.khaama.com/heavy-explosion-rocks-quetta-city-in-pakistan-04062
“A heavy explosion has rocked Quetta city of Pakistan amid reports a gun battle is underway between the security forces and the remaining militants.
The incident has taken place in the vicinity of Zarghoon road but the type of the explosion has not been ascertained so far.
There are also no reports regarding the casualties as a result of the explosion.
Hospital sources in Quetta have confirmed that dead bodies of five people including a woman and twenty others in wounded condition have been shifted to the hospitals.
The home minister of Balochistan Sarfaraz Bugti earlier told local media outlets that the incident has taken place close to Imdad Chowk and the target of the attack is apparently a church locate don Zarghoon road.
He said preliminary reports indicate a group of four suicide bombers have take position in the blast site and a clash is underway in the area.
No Individual or group has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.”
14 ISIS militants killed, wounded in latest operations in Nangarhar (khaama, Dec 17, 2017)
https://www.khaama.com/14-isis-militants-killed-wounded-in-latest-operations-in-nangarhar-04061
“At least fourteen militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed or wounded during the latest operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the Afghan security forces conducted counter-terrorism operations against the terror group in Khogyani and Haska Mina districts in the past 24 hours.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted with the air support and as a result at least nine IS militants were killed and five others were wounded…”
Ghani issues new orders to act against terror groups in Nangarhar (khaama, Dec 17, 2017)
https://www.khaama.com/ghani-issues-new-orders-to-act-against-terror-groups-in-nangarhar-04060
“President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has instructed the Ministry of Defense (MoD) to take strict measures against the terror groups in eastern Nangarahr province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in Nangarhar in a statement said President Ghani in his meeting with the elders of Khogyani district has said that the ministry of defense has been instructed to clear Khogyani and all other parts of Nangarhar from the presence of ISIS militants.
The latest instruction by President Ghani to the ministry of defense to act against the terror groups has been issued amid ongoing operations in the restive districts of Nangarhar.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in eastern Afghanistan but the anti-government armed militant groups including the ISIS loyalists have been attempting to expand their foothold in this province during the recent years…”
India is Afghanistan’s most reliable regional partner, says Pentagon (khaama, Dec 17, 2017)
https://www.khaama.com/india-is-afghanistans-most-reliable-regional-partner-says-pentagon-04059
“The United States Department of Defense, Pentagon, says the United States welcome additional support by the Indian government to Afghanistan, noting the country’s contribution to the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
In its latest report, Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan, Pentagon said Pentagon called India as Afghanistan’s most reliable regional partner and the largest contributor of development assistance in the region.
The report further adds that this assistance includes civil development projects such as the Afghanistan-India Friendship Dam and the Afghan parliament building.
According to Pentagon, India provides significant training opportunities for Afghan officers and enlisted personnel and has frequently offered to increase its burden sharing for Afghanistan. Approximately 130 Afghans travel to India each year to attend various military academy and commissioning programs.
“India has also donated limited security assistance, most notably four Mi-35 aircraft,” the report said, adding that “The new South Asia policy highlighted our relationship with India and called on India to provide more assistance to the international efforts in Afghanistan.”
“The United States welcomes additional Indian economic, medical, and civic support to Afghanistan,” the report concludes.”
Explosion rocks Yemen’s Taiz city (gulfnews, Dec 17, 2017)
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/explosion-rocks-yemen-s-taiz-city-1.2142199
“Dubai: An explosion rocked the southern city of Taiz on Sunday, Sky News has reported.
There is no word yet on casualties and no one has yet claimed the blast.
Yemen’s southern provinces have been battling terrorist attacks by Al Qaida and Daesh, which have recently suffered heavy losses due to counter-terrorism efforts by UAE-trained forces.
The terrorists groups have took advantage of a three-year civil war in the country to boost its presence in lawless areas.
However, since UAE-supported forces have taken hold, the groups have been on the run.”
Here are the main policies of Austria’s new right-wing government (thelocal, Dec 17, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.at/20171217/here-are-the-main-policies-of-austrias-new-right-wing-government
“Austria’s conservatives and the far-right unveiled on Saturday their programme for a coalition led by Sebastian Kurz, 31, set to be chancellor and the world’s youngest leader.
Both Kurz’s People’s Party (OeVP) and the Freedom Party (FPOe) campaigned on promises of getting tough on illegal immigration and cutting taxes and bureaucracy.
OeVP ministries will include finance, economy and justice. FPOe-led ministries will include interior, defence and foreign affairs, and its leader Heinz-Christian Strache will hold the position of vice-chancellor.
Here is a look a their principal plans:
EU
Despite the FPOe’s historical ambivalence towards the European Union, the coalition “commits to Europe” but will act to “steer the EU back in the right direction towards its fundamental ideas”.
During its EU presidency in the second half of 2018, Austria will “take a leading role in correcting some of the erroneous developments” of the bloc, including “strengthening the idea of subsidiarity”.
Although the new government wants more Swiss-style “direct democracy”, Strache said Saturday he had agreed to OeVP demands to rule out a British-style referendum on Austria’s EU membership.
During its presidency it will hold a summit on immigration.
It also wants to contribute to an improvement of relations between the West and Russia and says Vienna will not agree to Turkey joining the EU.
Immigration
The programme calls for a halt to “illegal immigration” and to speed up the asylum process to deport those who are not accepted. Asylum is “temporary protection” only.
Those “refusing to integrate must expect sanctions” and “parallel societies” must be prevented.
There will also be a stop to “immigration into the social system”. Monthly payments to those with asylum and subsidiary protection will be cut to €365 plus an “integration bonus” of €155.
“We want to protect our homeland Austria as a liveable place with all its cultural assets. This includes deciding for ourselves who can immigrate and live with us and ending illegal immigration,” the document says.
Bureaucracy and taxes
The coalition also wants a “slimmer state” and a “brake on bureaucracy”, with the aim of cutting state expenditure by several billion euros (dollars). Lawmakers will see their salaries frozen.
Austria, the programme says, is the “world champion when it comes to regulation and limiting freedom and personal responsibility”. It no longer has the lowest unemployment rate in the EU.
Looser labour laws will see workers be able to work up to 12 hours a day in what the parties say is a “win-win” for employees and employers.
There is also a pledge that there will no new taxes and that the proportion of taxes and other charges taken off salaries will be cut “towards” 40 percent from 43 percent.
Families will get a tax bonus of €1,500 per child.”
“Congratulations it’s a boy”
“Michelle Cretella, M.D., is president of the American College of Pediatricians, a national organization of pediatricians and other health care professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children.”
She discusses the transgender abuse of young children.
https://youtu.be/9-NQhDfloaM
A emotionally suceptable child explains how “In my mind, to be the body I should be.”
https://youtu.be/7rf8qkMWDV0
Envy. The Socialist mantra. Outcome Politics.
You look. And the whole LGBTQ+ falls apart without there being a child abused.
Islam and Communism are Classroom Cults as well. Neglected children with nannies and nursery nurses.
Hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza ‘yearns to return to comforts of British prisons after having enough of tough conditions in US ‘Supermax’ jails’ (dailymail, Dec 17, 2017)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5187647/Abu-Hamza-supermax-prefers-Belmarsh.html
“Hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza has had enough of the US ‘Supermax’ prison where he spends 23 hours a day in his cell and would go back to a British one ‘in a second’.
The former imam of north London’s Finsbury Park mosque has registered an appeal against his incarceration at the high security Colorado prison ADX Florence.
The convicted hate preacher, 59, claims his conditions at the prison are a breach of his human rights under Article 3 of the European Convention, which protects people from ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’.
Since he was convicted of 11 charges in October 2015 he has been kept in solitary confinement, only being allowed out of his cell for an hour a day, the Sunday Times reports.
US court documents seen by the newspaper reveal even when he’s allowed into the fresh air, he has to be kept in a cage with no other inmates allowed…”
Tough, he is crying because he can’t convert more people to Islam and send them out to commit more terror attacks. Let him rot.
There are few individuals more deserving of Hamza’s Supermax solitary confinement. I hope the isolation drives him irreversibly mad.
Something tells me that the US isn’t providing anyone to help him wipe his @ss, like they did in Britain.
Let us hope so.
Something is preventing me from posting anything more than a test.
That’s strange, Johnnyu. All of my posts zip right through.
S. Korean, U.S. forces hold drill for removing North Korea’s WMDs
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) — South Korean and U.S. forces conducted a joint training last week for infiltrating North Korea and removing weapons of mass destruction in case of conflict, military sources said.
The “Warrior Strike” exercise was held at Camp Stanley, located north of Seoul, and other places from Tuesday to Friday, involving hundreds of soldiers from the two sides, they said.
The U.S. 2nd Infantry Division said on Facebook on Friday that Gen. Jung Kyung-doo, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, and Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Vandal, commander of Eighth Army-Korea, visited the U.S. base and observed Warrior Strike training on the final day of the drill.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/12/17/0200000000AEN20171217002100315.html
‘North Korea is a time bomb’: government advisers urge China to prepare for war
The risk of conflict on the Korean peninsula is the highest its been in decades and Beijing must mobilise resources for fallout, observers say
Beijing, once seen as Pyongyang’s key ally with sway over its neighbour, was losing control of the situation, they warned.
“Conditions on the peninsula now make for the biggest risk of a war in decades,” said Renmin University international relations professor Shi Yinhong, who also advises the State Council, China’s cabinet.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2124613/north-korea-time-bomb-government-advisers-urge-china
Nothing is posted on and Chinese paper, including the Hong Kong ones without Chinese government approval. I doubt that China is going to move into North Korea but it is possible. The US and allies going in is more likely.
Australian man, 59, charged with being a North Korean ‘agent’ and trying to ‘broker the sale of weapons of mass destruction’ including MISSILE parts for rogue regime
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5186991/Australian-charged-helping-North-Korea-weapons.html#ixzz51WhD9Syv
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An Australian man has been arrested for allegedly working with North Korea and assisting the hermit state buy weapons of mass destruction.
Chan Han Choi, a 59-year-old from Sydney’s west, was apprehended by Australian Federal Police units on Saturday, charged with six charges of brokering and discussing the supply of weapons of mass destruction.
He allegedly has been in contact with ‘high-ranking officials’ within the regime, attempting to transport oil and coal to countries including Indonesia and Vietnam, provide military expertise and selling missile componentry including software for guidance weapons.
The alleged economic agent has breached Australian and United Nations laws. He will face Parramatta Bail Court on Sunday.
He is the first Australian to ever face these charges.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5186991/Australian-charged-helping-North-Korea-weapons.html#ixzz51WhIJqKq
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Fears Kim will launch ANOTHER missile to mark the sixth anniversary of Kim Jong-il’s death as thousands of North Koreans mark a national day of mourning
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5187693/North-Korea-marks-sixth-anniversary-Kim-Jong-ils-death.html#ixzz51WhZHJjy
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Crowds of flower-bearing North Koreans paid respects on the sixth anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-il, on Sunday as fears that the country could launch another missile continued to rise.
Thousands of people marched up Pyongyang’s Mansu Hill to bow and place flowers at the feet of two giant bronze statues of Kim Jong-il and national founder Kim Il-sung, who is North Korea’s ‘eternal president’ and Kim Jong-un’s grandfather.
Somber, recorded music played in the sub-zero air as North Koreans made their way up the hill.
Kim Jong-il died on December 17, 2011. In the past, Pyongyang has marked such commemorations with rocket tests and military drills.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5187693/North-Korea-marks-sixth-anniversary-Kim-Jong-ils-death.html#ixzz51WhhiZoz
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Hawaii is preparing for a North Korean nuclear attack. Should the Bay Area follow suit?
HONOLULU — For the first time in more than three decades, an ominous warning siren blared across Hawaii earlier this month — an alarm that one day could mean a nuclear missile is about to hit.
The siren, a Cold War relic brought back in the wake of new threats from North Korea, is the centerpiece of the most wide-ranging campaign in the U.S. to prepare for a nuclear strike. Over the last few months, state officials have aired TV ads warning Hawaiians to “get inside, stay inside” if an attack is imminent. They’ve also held meetings across the islands to educate residents on the danger.
Especially after North Korea’s latest missile test, some experts believe California and the Bay Area — one of the closest U.S. metro areas to Pyongyang after Honolulu — should follow Hawaii’s example. But so far the Golden State’s reaction has been starkly different.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/16/hawaii-is-preparing-for-a-north-korean-nuclear-attack-should-the-bay-area-follow-suit/
There have been reports that Satellite photos and radio traffic show what may be preparations for another nuclear test. I posted the article several days ago but can’t find it now.
Trump transition lawyer: Mueller improperly obtained documents in Russia probe
Exclusive— A lawyer for the Trump presidential transition team is accusing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office of inappropriately obtaining transition documents as part of its Russia probe, including confidential attorney-client communications, privileged communications and thousands of emails without their knowledge.
In a letter obtained by Fox News and sent to House and Senate committees on Saturday, the transition team’s attorney alleges “unlawful conduct” by the career staff at the General Services Administration (GSA) in handing over transition documents to the special counsel’s office.
Kory Langhofer, the counsel to Trump for America (TFA), argues the GSA “did not own or control the records in question” and the release of documents could be a violation of the Fourth Amendment – which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Langhofer wrote in Saturday’s letter that the GSA handed over “tens of thousands of emails” to Mueller’s probe without “any notice” to the transition.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/16/trump-lawyer-mueller-improperly-obtained-transition-documents-in-russia-probe.html
Mueller obtains “tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained “many tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails, including emails of Jared Kushner, transition team sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: The transition emails are said to include sensitive exchanges on matters that include potential appointments, gossip about the views of particular senators involved in the confirmation process, speculation about vulnerabilities of Trump nominees, strategizing about press statements, and policy planning on everything from war to taxes.
https://www.axios.com/scoop-mueller-obtains-tens-of-thousands-of-trump-transition-emails-2517994590.html
Trump lawyers set for key meeting with special counsel next week
(CNN)President Donald Trump’s private lawyers are slated to meet with special counsel Robert Mueller and members of his team as soon as next week for what the President’s team considers an opportunity to gain a clearer understanding of the next steps in Mueller’s probe, according to sources familiar with the matter.
While the lawyers have met with Mueller’s team before and might again, the sources believe the upcoming meeting has greater significance because it comes after the completion of interviews of White House personnel requested by the special counsel and after all requested documents have been turned over. Mueller could still request more documents and additional interviews. No request to interview the President or the vice president has been made, sources tell CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/15/politics/trump-lawyers-special-counsel-meeting/index.html
GOP lawmaker: Top FBI officials will be subpoenaed
A Republican on the House judiciary committee said Saturday he’s gotten a commitment from committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) to subpoena top officials at the FBI and Justice Department in their ongoing inquiry into claims of bias against President Donald Trump.
Republicans have zeroed in on deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, top counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, FBI attorney Lisa Page, former associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie, who reportedly worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that compiled opposition research on Trump in 2016.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/16/fbi-subpoenas-bob-goodlatte-jim-jordan-299578
Once again Congress can investigate but can’t prosecute, they have to refer the crime to the Department of Justice for prosecution. They do have the authority to charge witnesses with Contempt of Congress and fine them but that is the worst they can do.
I am not sure if Congress can require the appointment of a Special Prosecutor.
Billionaire founder of Canada drug firm in ‘suspicious’ death
Ottawa (AFP) – Canada’s global pharmaceutical giant Apotex has confirmed the death of its billionaire founder Barry Sherman, after police reported two “suspicious” deaths at the couple’s upscale Toronto home.
Police did not identify the victims, who were found on Friday, but Canadian media named them as Sherman and his wife Honey, prominent Canadians whose deaths sparked an outpouring of grief among the country’s political elite.
“We’ve been informed of the tragic news that Barry and Honey Sherman have unexpectedly passed away,” said the Twitter account of Apotex, which Sherman founded in 1974.
The company, which made its name producing generic drugs, grew to employ more than 11,000 people worldwide.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-founder-canada-drug-firm-suspicious-death-102945462.html
Islamic State: What happened to all the foreign fighters?
Washington (AFP) – An estimated 40,000 people traveled from around the world to take up arms for the Islamic State group as it occupied territory in Syria and Iraq and declared a caliphate in 2014.
A few hundred are believed to still be fighting as IS struggles to survive, having lost most of its territory to campaigns by Western-backed Syrian and Iraqi coalition armies.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/islamic-state-happened-foreign-fighters-022212559.html
Education Department delays Obama rule encouraging racial quotas in special ed
By Jerome Woehrle December 16, 2017
Is it OK to sacrifice a child’s education in the name of preventing racial stereotyping? In a sane world, the answer would be “no.” But to the Obama administration, the answer was apparently “yes.”
Because it thought that black and Hispanic children were wrongly stereotyped as needing special education, it issued a regulation in 2016 that financially penalized states if their school systems identified blacks and Hispanics as needing special education at a rate exceeding whites. It did so even though experts say blacks and Hispanics really need special education at a higher rate than whites do.
The Trump administration is now soliciting public input on whether to delay the regulation’s effective date from 2018 to 2020, or perhaps get rid of it altogether.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2017/12/16/education-department-delays-obama-rule-encouraging-racial-quotas-special-ed/
Attacker ‘shouting Allahu Akbar’ wounds two Danes in Gabon
https://citizen.co.za/news/news-africa/1761426/gabon-unrest-attack/
Police are hunting a suspect after gay men were punched and told “you are not welcome” in east London.
One of the victims was punched to the ground and left with a black eye after he was attacked in Walthamstow late on evening.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-hunt-after-gay-men-punched-and-told-you-are-not-welcome-in-homophobic-attacks-in-walthamstow-a3721016.html
Man dies after being beaten for wearing suspenders with colors of Spanish flag
Suspect had previously served time for 2006 attack which left police officer quadriplegic
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/12/13/inenglish/1513160403_880677.html
So…uh, I guess… he wasn’t rehabilitated after 4.5 years in prison for attacking a young cop, whom he left QUADRAPLEGIC?
And he goes and beats somebody else to DEATH, just because…oh, whatever, he FEELS like it.
………
This is the Western justice system?
=> Harvest his organs and incinerate what’s left.
On September 24, 2014, ISIS inspired Islamic convert Alton Nolen entered a food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma. He took out a butcher knife and beheaded Colleen Hufford and critically stabbed Tracy Johnson. Both were employees at the factory. Nolen, who had been recently suspended from the plant, was a practicing Muslim who was obsessed with gruesome Islamic State beheading videos going viral at the time.
Nolen was shot and apprehended after his rampage.
Nolen was facing either the death penalty or life in prison without parole after a jury trial in Oklahoma.
Friday, the judge handed down his sentence: Death.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/15/breaking-muslim-man-who-beheaded-woman-at-food-plant-just-received-harsh-american-justice/
Obama State Dept Made Deal With Hillary Allowing Removal Of Records. Here’s What They Removed.
Newly-revealed documents obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch reveal that the Obama State Department allowed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin to remove sensitive documents that were not to be made public records.
Judicial Watch received the records on Thursday in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that sought all DS-1904 forms completed by or on behalf of Former Secretary Hillary Clinton, Former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, Former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, and Former Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/24711/obama-state-dept-made-deal-hillary-allowing-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=121717-news&utm_campaign=position4
At least 8 dead, 16 injured in blast, gun attack on Quetta church
At least eight people, including a woman, were killed in a blast and 16 others injured at a Catholic church in Quetta city after which law enforcers have been dispatched to the area.
Inital reports say that four terrorists attacked the church located on Quetta’a Zarghoon Road.
Balochistan’s home minister says that apparently the attack targeted the church where prayers of Christian community were being held.
According to Quetta Deputy Commissioner Farukh Atiq, at least five people lost their lives while 16 others have been injured during attack on the church.
Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti said that a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance gate of the church when stopped by the security guards while another one managed to get inside……..
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1586259/1-blast-heard-near-catholic-church-quetta/
IS claims pre-Christmas suicide bombing of Pakistan church
They’re waaaay overdue for the MOA-Earthquakes.
Richard: Selective enforcement has been around for a long time, murder in one case and not in another.
Man Charged With ‘Premeditated Killing’ For Spiking Girlfriend’s Drink With Abortion Pill
“Ultimately, if harming a fetus is criminal in one context, why wouldn’t it be in another?”
A woman from Farmington, New York says her then-boyfriend, Sikander Imran, spiked her drink with an abortion pill when she was 17-weeks pregnant, causing the death of the couple’s unborn son.
Imran, a doctor, allegedly confessed to Brook Fiske that he spiked her drink with misoprostol after the woman drank the tampered-with tea and started having contractions.
When Fiske found out she was pregnant, Imran had already moved from Rochester to Arlington, Virginia. She told Imran of the baby and he pressured her to get an abortion. She refused.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/24717/man-charged-premeditated-killing-spiking-amanda-prestigiacomo?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=121717-news&utm_campaign=position7
Austria: New Government to Resist “Islamization”
by Soeren Kern
December 17, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11556/austria-islamization
The anti-immigration Austrian People’s Party and the anti-establishment Austrian Freedom Party have reached a deal, creating a new coalition to govern Austria for the next five years. The ground-breaking political alliance, which will be sworn into office on December 18, is poised to catapult Austria to the vanguard of Western Europe’s resistance to mass migration from the Muslim world.
Chancellor-elect Sebastian Kurz, 31, who won Austria’s national election on October 15 after campaigning on a promise to halt illegal immigration, will govern with Heinz-Christian Strache, 48, the Freedom Party leader, who has warned that mass migration is “Islamizing” Austria. Under the agreement, Strache will become the vice-chancellor; the Freedom Party will also take control of the ministries of defense, interior and foreign affairs.
This might be Soeren Kern’s least depressing article evah !!
Christians “Slaughtered Like Chicken”
Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2017
by Raymond Ibrahim
December 17, 2017 at 4:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11557/christians-slaughtered-like-chicken
Luc Ravel, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Strasbourg “went against the grain of Church leaders in France who have largely remained politically correct,” states a report, because he criticized “the demographic shift in France. Muslims, he said, are having far more children than native French, and slammed the widespread ‘promotion’ of abortion.” “Muslim believers,” he continued, “know very well that their birthrate is such that today, they call it … the Great Replacement, they tell you in a very calm, very positive way that, ‘one day all this, it will be ours.'”
Where Russian and Iranian Aircraft Carriers Clash
by Amir Taheri
December 17, 2017 at 4:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11551/russia-iran-syria
Last week, the Tehran daily Kayhan, believed to reflect the views of “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei offered its readers a front-page treat.
It claimed that Arabs “are clamoring for statues of General Qassem Suleimani to be installed in Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut, cities that he has saved from ISIS.”
The claim came hot on the heels of the Sochi meeting in which Russian President Vladimir Putin officially asserted his control over the Syrian dossier, at least as far as one side of that tragedy is concerned.
Did the mullahs want to contest Putin’s role as “savior of Syria” by advancing an even bigger claim on behalf of Soleimani, known in Tehran as “The Selfie General”?
It is almost certain that regardless of what happens next in Syria, the mullahs of Tehran are unlikely to grab the leading role in shaping that nation’s future. Besides Russia there are several other major players in Syria who won’t welcome the take-over bid from Tehran. So, there is no chance of a Soleimani statue in Damascus anytime soon.
This article is interesting although I can’t help but remember Yucki’s statements that we can’t believe much that is coming out of that region.
Are Russia and Iran about to start having problems because of the Iranian ambition to control that entire region? Yes they are but we don’t know when.
Is the US in position to take advantage of this clash? Not really, Obama cut our military to the point that we can’t maintain enough forces to be a credible threat in both the China/North Korea region and have one in the Med and one in the Persia Gulf.
It’s not the “can’t” so much as the “won’t”.
The US has bow-wow-ed out.
NOT lack of military assets: Lack of WILL.
Everybody in the region knows by now that PT blows hot air that’s chilled instantly by the rest of his team. Even the Jerusalem announcement – already undermined in _fact_ by DoS and even VP-Pence.
The players aren’t counting our planes or sizing up our military. It’s the posture, intent, and strategy that’s gone AWOL. We’ve been leaving markers, one after another:
Bye-bye. Good-luck y'all.Even as we throw packets of young soldiers here, there, and everywhere. Some will surely die. For nothing.
Plus advanced weaponry that keeps defense contractors happy. It will surely be used against our allies – till it drills down to us.
Americans and the President don’t want it anymore. It being “foreign entanglements”. G. Washington would be pleased. Rand Paul – [pos Jew-hater] – and his ilk may as well be on RT’s payroll.
Or the communist chinaman’s.
Suicide bombers attack church in Pakistan’s Quetta before Christmas, killing nine
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-attack/suicide-bombers-attack-church-in-pakistans-quetta-before-christmas-killing-nine-idUSKBN1EB08E?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29
Eric Holder warns GOP not to go after Mueller with ‘BS attacks’ — then Benghazi hero shuts him down
Eric Holder, who served as the attorney general for most of the Obama administration, received a stern rebuking on Friday after he warned the GOP not to go after special counsel Robert Mueller.
What happened?
It all began when Holder tweeted this:
Trump lawyer accuses Mueller’s investigation of serious wrongdoing that may even violate Constitution
A lawyer for President Donald Trump’s transition team is accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of improperly obtaining documents used or made during the presidential transition in his Russia investigation, Fox News reported Saturday.
What’s going on?
Kory Langhofer, the counsel to Trump for America, wrote a letter to congressional oversight committees Saturday alleging Mueller’s investigation “acted inappropriately” in obtaining hoards of sensitive documents used by the Trump transition, many of which are reported to be protected by attorney-client privilege and presidential privilege.
Langhofer claims Mueller’s team intentionally went around the transition team and went straight to the General Services Administration to obtain the private documents. The GSA provides presidential transition teams with office space, equipment and even email hosting during the transition period. In exchange, the GSA says that any confidential information will remain private.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/12/16/trump-lawyer-accuses-muellers-investigation-of-serious-wrongdoing-heres-what-theyre-alleging
French people going to Poland to learn to shoot (in French):
https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/le-zoom-de-la-redaction/le-zoom-de-la-redaction-16-octobre-2017
Italian town removes Christmas tree from town hall for Muslims
https://voiceofeurope.com/2017/12/italian-town-removes-christmas-tree-from-town-hall-for-muslims/#.WjaXnSwrGwt.reddit
An academic department at the University of Minnesota declared that “bows/wrapped gifts” are “not appropriate for gatherings and displays at this time of year.”
Encouraging employees to “consider neutral-themed parties such as ‘winter celebration,’” the document even suggests avoiding color combinations associated with Christmas or Hanukkah.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10278
Putin thanked Trump for CIA information that helped prevent terror attack in St. Petersburg
https://www.rt.com/news/413459-putin-trump-cia-information/
For the first time many NY City residents will finally feel the full burden that their state legislators and city leadership have put on them…
(Robert Donachie, Daily Caller News Foundation) Wealthy New York City elites are preparing to flee the state because the Republican tax bill is going to make them face the full brunt of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Democratic state leadership’s tax rates.
“Everybody I speak to brings this up. Every NYC resident I speak to asks about the feasibility involved in doing it,” Wall Street tax expert Robert Willens told Yahoo Finance. “I’ve been doing this more than 40 years, and never heard more discussion about relocating than recently.”
Wealthy New Yorkers can currently lower their federal taxable income by more than $100,000 through a provision of the tax code known as the State and Local Tax Deduction, or SALT. The average SALT deduction in the Manhattan area is at least $60,000.
The Republican bill will cap the deduction amount at $10,000, meaning wealthy New Yorkers who currently write off expensive real estate could face an extra six figures in taxable income.
http://www.libertyheadlines.com/wealthy-elites-prepare-flee-ny-city-due-tax-burden/?AID=7236
heh, heh, heh
Trump Cuts 22 Regs for Every New One
‘Far exceeded’ promise to cut two rules for every new reg
he administration has cut 22 regulations for every new rule introduced, President Donald Trump announced at the White House Thursday.
Agencies and departments issued 67 deregulatory actions and imposed only three new rules in fiscal year 2017, according to senior administration officials. The number far exceeded Trump’s goal through his executive order to cut two old rules for any new regulation proposed.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/trump-cuts-22-regs-every-new-one/
British diplomat Rebecca Dykes, who worked at UK embassy in Beirut, found murdered, police say
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42386721?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central
A British woman who worked at the UK embassy in Beirut has been found dead, Lebanese police have said.
Rebecca Dykes’ body was found on the side of a motorway on Saturday.
She had been sexually assaulted and strangled, the BBC was told by senior police sources.
Her family said in a statement: “We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. We are doing all we can to understand what happened. We request that the media respect our privacy.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42386721
Jakarta: Thousands of Muslims protest US Jerusalem move
Russia: FSB counter terrorism operation carried out in Dagestani village
Several suspected militants were killed during the counter-terrorist operation carried in the Dagestani village of Gubden, on Sunday.
Judge Jeanine: Outing the FBI crime family
CNN – Fox News host calls FBI ‘criminal cabal’
BREAKING: UK diplomat murdered in Beirut – body found on motorway ‘with choke marks’ (express, Dec 17, 2017)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/893531/rebecca-dykes-murdered-british-embassy-beirut-lebanon
“A BRITISH diplomat has been murdered in Beirut, Lebanese police have confirmed.
A woman’s body was discovered on the side of the Metn Highway in Beirut yesterday.
The body had choke marks, according to local press, who said it also appeared she had been thrown from a car and possibly sexually assaulted.
Lebanese police today confimed the woman was Rebecca Dykes, who worked at the British embassy in Beirut. They said they were treating the incident as murder.
Her body was taken to Dahr al-Bashak Hospital where a post-mortem has now taken place.
Ms Dykes family said: “We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca. We are doing all we can to understand what happened.
“We request that the media respect our privacy as we come together as a family at this very difficult time.”
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: “Following the death of a British woman in Beirut, we are providing support to the family. We remain in close contact with local authorities.
“Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time.”
This is a breaking story, more to follow…”
Syrian Asylum Seeker Pair Murdered By Another Migrant In Knife Attacks (breitbart, Dec 17, 2017)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/17/syrian-asylum-seeker-pair-murdered-another-migrant-knife-attack-city-street/
“A 37-year-old Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested in the Dutch city of Maastricht after stabbing two other Syrians to death. and wounding several others.
The Dutch police claim that they are not investigating the attacks, which took place on Thursday night, as terrorism with some believing instead that the man arrested may have been motivated by revenge, the Telegraaf reports…”