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Niqab seeks return in Sri Lanka amid fears, uncertainty (aa, Sep 6, 2019)
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/niqab-seeks-return-in-sri-lanka-amid-fears-uncertainty/1574394
“To veil or not to veil? Since the lifting of the state of emergency on Aug. 22, this nagging question has divided Sri Lanka’s Muslim community.
The niqab, or the full face cover except the eyes, was banned under an emergency regulation following the April 21 Eastern Sunday suicide bomb attacks carried out by pro-Daesh terrorists. Also banned was the burqa – a loose garment covering the body from head to toe.
In the aftermath of the attacks in which more than 250 people died and 500 were wounded, several incidents were reported with Muslim women being harassed and intimidated in public places, including government offices.
The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulema (ACJU), an umbrella organization representing a majority of Sri Lanka’s Sunni Muslim scholars, has insisted that the hijab is Wajib on Muslim women. Wajib is an Arabic term meaning an obligatory act, the non-performance of which is a sin.
However, following the imposition of the state of emergency, ACJU issued a statement urging Muslim women to avoid the niqab in public places in view of the country’s security needs.
After the state of emergency was withdrawn, some clerics have been using social media to urge Muslim women to wear the niqab without any fear. In one widely circulated video clip, a man identifying him as Miflal Moulavi says preventing Muslim women from wearing the niqab is a human rights violation.
“If women can wear immodest European attire in this country, Muslim women should be able to wear modest garments?” he said. The cleric urged women to come out into the open wearing the niqab.
Defiance
Come out they did, at least a few of them. Soon they faced trouble. Last week, security personnel on duty at Colombo’s popular Galle Face Green promenade took into custody four niqab-wearing family members of a Colombo businessman. They were subsequently released after a Muslim politician intervened, but not before police recorded a statement from them. Incidents of veiled women being taken in for questioning were also reported in other parts of the country.
A Muslim activist said niqab-clad women were still not allowed to mount public buses, and enter some restaurants or government offices. Most public places still display notices warning that wearing a full face cover would not be allowed due to security reasons.
Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera told the media last week authorities are awaiting the Attorney General Department’s ruling to make a clear statement on the niqab.
Amidst the uncertainty, the ACJU issued another statement urging Muslim women to avoid the niqab, taking into consideration the possibility of harassment.
Stressing that “wearing the dress code of one’s own choice is one of the fundamental human rights of every male and female on the earth,” the English language statement warned of the possibilities of Muslim women being inconvenienced if they wear the niqab.
Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission senior lawyer Javid Yousuf told Anadolu Agency that his personal view was one need not wear face cover as part of a religious practice.
“However, there are some people who believe that the face cover is part of their religious beliefs. Since the constitution entitles everyone the freedom to practice their own religion this also is part of that right,” he said, adding that if there was discord within the community about the issue, it needed to be sorted out internally.
“But we cannot impose our views on the niqab on those who are wearing it and say ‘give it up’ when they believe it is their right because constitutionally it is part of the practice of one’s religion,” he said.
Muslim victims
Yusuf pointed out that during the crisis period after the Easter Sunday attacks, the Muslim community unanimously gave up the niqab in view of the security situation.
Asked whether niqab had become a security problem now, he said that throughout the 30-year-long insurrection of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the niqab had not been a security issue and there was no indication that it had facilitated the terrorists to carry out the attack.
“I think the government also needs to be sensitive to the feelings of the Muslim who are also the victims of the April 21 attack because the whole thing was turned on the community and there are attempts by hardline forces to slowly deprive us of our rights,” the senior lawyer said.
Sri Lanka Muslim Council President N.M. Ameen feels wearing the niqab at a time when the country is facing a security crisis is unwarranted and unnecessary.
He said his council had said in a statement that when there was uncertainty over whether niqab could be worn or not, it was better to avoid the niqab until the government explained its stance. The statement urged Muslim women not to be misled by those who say women could wear the niqab as the emergency regulations had been allowed to lapse.
A Muslim student who has been wearing the niqab for eight years said she would not risk it and wear the niqab until the government makes a clear statement.
Asked whether the niqab posed a safety problem, the student, who did not want to be identified said: “Yes, it did.” She also said she feared for her safety if she wore the niqab and walked on the street. “I fear if I wear it and go, I will be harassed. So it’s better not to wear it rather than getting harassed,” she told Anadolu Agency.
She said that given the security situation, she would not insist on her right to wear the niqab. For the sake of national harmony, for the sake of peace in the Muslim community, she would not go all out to defend the niqab, she said.
A Muslim teacher, who also did not want to be identified, said she was not sure whether she could wear the niqab again although the emergency had been lifted. She said she was aware of the harassment the Muslim women faced because of their attire.
The teacher who wore the niqab for seven years believe Muslim women should have the right to wear what they wanted, just as other people were able to wear what they wanted.
A Muslim woman researcher and academic, who did not want to be identified for fear of threats from extremists, said the burqa and the niqab were an alien-cultural attire and not suitable to a pluralist society like Sri Lanka.
She said the burqa and the niqab cut the Muslim women and girls off from many opportunities in life — like education and building a career path.
Meanwhile, moves to bring in fresh legislation to regulate the Muslim women’s attire have been put off. Muslim Affairs Ministry official B.A.C.M. Rameem said a Cabinet paper was opposed by Muslim ministers who argued the existing laws were adequate to deal with the issue.
Senior lawyer Yusuf said that from what he had heard the provisions in the Police Act and the Prevention of Terrorism Act were being looked into to deal with situation. But he needed to further study them to comment on how it could be done.
The niqab has been a controversial subject that has divided Muslim scholars across the world, with some Salafi and Wahabi interpretations insisting that it is obligatory. A majority of the mainstream schools, however, dispute that opinion.”
“…Salafi and Wahabi interpretations insisting that it is obligatory”
Salifist burnout:
https://youtu.be/-Tss29fv4Bo
Al-Azhar – supposedly the highest authority – can make a ruling on the niqab. That it is _NOT_ obligatory. If they refuse to do so – they refused to condemn ISIS, after all – that’s another data point.
A man has been charged with manslaughter after a 12-year-old boy died when he was hit by a car and pinned to the ground outside a Sydney school.
The incident occurred outside Hurstville Public School in Sydney’s south just after 8.30am.
The 36-year-old driver, Rabih Abdul Rahman, has been charged with manslaughter, dangerous driving occasioning death, driving while disqualified and other traffic offences.
Link. https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/child-trapped-beneath-car-in-hurstville-southern-sydney/news-story/a8b7b97e733fc1c3b374425249f8fece
AMNESTY’S HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST – SORRY – I MEANT TERRORIST SUPPORTER
Anyone who takes Amnesty International’s Israel material seriously is nothing short of delusional. David Collier
http://david-collier.com/amnesty-international-terrorist-supporter/
Meet the Met.
“PC Toni Alden, 27, claimed she went to the home of PC Rob Exworthy in Northolt, West London on March 10 last year to get some money back he owed her.
But when she arrived, she found a scantily clad woman inside and forced her way into the property before stamping on the other woman’s glasses and calling her a ‘dirty little w***e’, the panel heard.
As PC Alden tried to enter the property, PC Exworthy, dressed in his shorts, tried to close the door – and eventually ‘rugby tackled’ her as she pushed past him.
But PC Alden forced her way past screaming and shouting ‘shut the f*** up’ at the woman before smashing two wine glasses and throwing PC Exworthy’s bedding in a bin. She also snatched the £150 cash she claimed he owed her. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7434697/Met-Police-officer-27-attacked-boyfriend-colleague-finding-woman-flat.html
Another Day by Day cartoon that is very good
https://www.daybydaycartoon.com/comic/reasonable/
Seattle’s Zombie Homeless Hordes Ruining Progressive Public Transit
Nova Scotia Priest Fired for Honoring Judaism and Israel
The head priest of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Church in Halifax, Father Vladimir Tobin, 77, received a letter from Orthodox Church in America Archbishop Irenee, the archbishop of Ottawa and Canada, on Aug. 12, informing him that he is being forcibly retired for delivering a sermon that honored Judaism and Israel.
The sermon mentioned Israel and Judaism in favorable terms, asked congregants to pray for Israel, and reminded the congregation that Jesus was a Jew.
Father Tobin said that when studying the early Christian period at Dalhousie University in Halifax, he realized that early Christians were Jewish and their scripture was the Old Testament.
Father Tobin responded to the archbishop: “It is true that I regularly pray for both Israel and the United States, its armies and its president, and for ‘the land of Israel and the armies which protect her.’…The U.S. and Israel are our allies and need our support for peace in the Middle East.”
https://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/nova-scotia-priest-fired-for-praying-for-israel
Hizbullah’s Media Empire
Hizbullah has constructed a Shiite “mini-state” in Lebanon with massive Iranian support to create a “resistance society” which supports Hizbullah in its struggle against Israel. The social institutions established by Hizbullah in the spheres of education, culture, health, welfare, finance, sports, construction, and agriculture are of the sort usually provided by the state. This reflects the weakness of the Lebanese central government and years of neglect of the Shiite community.
Hizbullah’s media empire plays an important role in disseminating the ideology and political messages of Iran and Hizbullah in Lebanon, the Middle East and throughout the world. Such an extensive media empire in the possession of a terrorist organization is unprecedented.
Its two main media outlets, Al-Manar TV and Al-Ahed newspaper, also operate in English, French and Spanish. Al-Manar TV, believed financed by Iran, involves an annual expense of tens of millions of dollars. The channel broadcasts via four satellites: three Russian and one Indonesian. The channel focuses on “the resistance” and broadcasts Iranian content (the Islamic Revolution, tourist sites in Iran, Iranian films dubbed in Arabic or with Arabic subtitles) and Shiite content (prayers and ceremonies).
In January 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury added Al-Manar and Hizbullah’s Radio Nour to its list of sanctioned institutions. In 2004, France, Egypt and Saudi Arabia stopped providing satellite services to Al-Manar, and several countries (including Germany) banned the channel’s broadcasts on their territory.
https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/hezbollahs-media-empire/
“Illinois woman is being forced to remove a September 11 memorial on her property that officials say is ‘obsolete'”
by Emily Crane – September 3, 2019
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7423829/Illinois-woman-forced-remove-obsolete-9-11-memorial.html
Israel to Help Nigeria Become a Food Superpower
Israeli authorities Monday announced that they will partner with the Federal Government of Nigeria to address numerous insecurity challenges currently confronting the country, especially to end the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East zone. Professor Joseph Shevel of the Galilee International Management Institute disclosed the institute was drawing up a framework towards engaging the Boko Haram insurgency with dialogue.
The institute agreed to offer post-graduate degrees and short certificate courses in agriculture, water management, health management, computer science, education and national security to students of Michael and Cecilia Ibru University. “This is the first Nigeria-Israeli university,” said Prof. Shevel. “Nigeria can be a superpower in providing food for the rest of West Africa.” He added, “We have been working with Nigerian organizations for the last 30 years and we have about 2,300 alumni and a lot of them are senior people.”
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/09/israel-to-help-nigeria-fight-insecurity/
I’m not posting a link to this piece because it’s NYSlimes. I accessed it via an Israeli site. It’s by Bret Stephens, a good guy gone wrong. I don’t know why.
He worked full out on the team formed to oppose the Iran Deal; he was tireless, eloquent, and passionate. We were all bugged and pursued in one way or another by the heinous 0 administration, the Iran Lobby, and minions of the Qatari clan.
He’s still committed to the fight against a nuclear Iran. He has a platform in the “paper of record” and is using it to continue the fight.
What Was Iran Hiding in Turquz Abad?
Buried a recent report from the International Atomic Energy Agency is: “Iran’s implementation of its Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol require[s] full and timely cooperation by Iran. The Agency continues to pursue this objective with Iran.” That’s an exquisite way of saying that Iran is stonewalling the agency.
Last September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly that Iran had a “secret atomic warehouse for storing massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran’s secret nuclear weapons program” on the outskirts of Tehran in a village called Turquz Abad. He urged IAEA chief Yukiya Amano to “inspect this atomic warehouse immediately.”
The IAEA only got around to inspecting the site earlier this year, long after the suspicious materials had vanished. But nuclear inspectors were nonetheless able to detect radioactive particles, corroborating Israeli claims about the purpose of the warehouse.
The agency’s unwillingness to follow up promptly and effectively on Israel’s allegations, along with its reluctance to disclose what it found, inspire little confidence in the quality of its inspections and even less in its willingness to call out cheating.
Moreover, Iran’s hiding of nuclear materials is further evidence that Tehran was in violation of the nuclear deal from the moment it was signed. “If Iranians aren’t cooperating, it tells you that potentially they are hiding more,” notes David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security.
If those who fear an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites are serious about averting it, they could play a helpful part by demanding more credible inspections and honest reporting from the IAEA, starting with a thorough accounting for what went mysteriously missing from Turquz Abad.
Iran Attempts to Stand Firm in the Face of U.S. Pressure
The Iranian regime is waging a campaign on the diplomatic, economic, and nuclear fronts as it confronts the U.S. “maximum pressure” policy. The top Iranian echelon has repeatedly made clear that it will not negotiate under duress, and there is no debate regarding the need to continue measures in the nuclear realm.
The Iranians believe that Iran now holds valuable cards: the American president is interested in a high-profile meeting, and European countries are prepared to go a long way in order to prevent escalation in tensions over the nuclear file and spur an American-Iranian dialogue.
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/iran-attempts-to-stand-firm-in-the-face-of-us-pressures/
If the U.S. Wants to Make a Deal with the Regime in Tehran, It Should Talk to Khamenei, Not Rouhani
Like most revolutionary regimes, the Khomeinist outfit has no mechanism for reform in the direction desired by the Western powers. In the Islamic Republic, the number of executions and political prisoners has always risen under “reformist” presidents.
Whether we like it or not, it is Khamenei, and not Rafsanjani, Khatami or Rouhani, who set the tone in the Islamic Republic. In fact, each time Western powers made a deal with the Islamic Republic it was ultimately with Khomeini and, after him, Khamenei. Thus, if Trump, or anyone else, wishes to make a deal with the present regime in Tehran, the man they should talk to is Khamenei, not Rouhani, an actor playing the president.
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1878901/amir-taheri/trump-and-deceiving-mullahs
EUROPRAVDA -Discussion: Young Iranians tell Euronews about key issues and their hopes for their country
Modestly veiled Anelise Borges spoke to a group of young Iranians about their prospects for the future, the Iran nuclear deal, and their country’s friends and foes
EUROPRAVDA -Inside Iran as international pressure mounts over nuclear programme
Does the IG Report “Exonerate” James Comey? Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton Weighs In
Knife attack in Marseille – 17 y o suspect yelled Allahu ackbar
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Marseille : agression au couteau dans une école élémentaire
Les faits se sont déroulés peu avant 7 heures. Une heure trente plus tard, la police a annoncé l’interpellation d’un suspect, âgé de 17 ans.
Deux femmes ont été agressées ce vendredi matin tôt dans une école publique de Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). Il était environ 6h40 quand un jeune homme, torse nu et très excité, s’est jeté sur une employée municipale qui aide à la cantine les enfants des classes de maternelle du groupe scolaire La Pauline, boulevard Romain-Rolland (IXe arrondissement). Il lui a asséné plusieurs coups, avec un couteau ou une paire de ciseaux, dans le thorax, puis a frappé d’un coup de poing une autre employée qui tentait de s’interposer. Prenant la fuite, il a aussi asséné un coup de poing à un homme dans la rue.
Transportées à l’hôpital, les deux cantinières ne sont pas en danger. Six de leurs collègues étaient en état de choc. Le personnel a été confiné dans l’établissement. À 8h20, la police des Bouches-du-Rhône a annoncé sur Twitter qu’un « individu susceptible d’être l’auteur des faits » venait d’être interpellé.
Le jeune homme interpellé, âgé de 17 ans, est connu de la brigade des stupéfiants. La police judiciaire de Marseille a été saisie de l’enquête.
Venu sur place, le procureur de la République de Marseille Xavier Tarabeux a précisé que « l’agresseur aurait proféré Allah Akbar, dans le cadre de propos qui restent confus, mais cela reste à confirmer ». « Je suis en contact avec le parquet antiterroriste, mais celui-ci n’est pas saisi à ce stade », a ajouté le magistrat.
Présent à ses côtés, le maire de Marseille, Jean-Claude Gaudin (LR), a parlé d’« un événement extrêmement gravissime ». Il a assuré que des policiers municipaux seraient présents devant l’école lundi pour l’entrée et la sortie des enfants. L’école est restée fermée ce vendredi matin, pour permettre aux enquêteurs de travailler.
http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/marseille-agression-au-couteau-devant-une-ecole-06-09-2019-8146614.php
Are We Too Self Absorbed to Reclaim Our Country
ContraPoints Cancelled by the CHURCH of WOKE
Why Anti-Gun Extremism By The Left Is A Good Thing
Fireside Chat Ep. 98 – Does Poverty Cause Crime?
“8 Year-Olds Should VOTE!” Crazy Environmentalist Propaganda 18 to 8
Westminster vs the People
Red Flag Laws Spur Debate Over Due Process
In the year since Florida enacted its red flag law, Kendra Parris has defended nearly 20 clients against risk protection orders that could remove their firearms.
The Orlando-based lawyer has long represented people who might be subject to the state’s involuntary mental health treatment provision. But when this new law, meant to protect against people who might be a harm to themselves or others, passed in the aftermath of the February 2018 Parkland mass shooting, she saw yet another opportunity for the state to potentially deprive certain people of their civil liberties.
“It’s almost like a shiny new toy for law enforcement,” Parris said, “filing them left and right.”
Since the law’s adoption, Florida courts have approved around 2,500 risk protection orders, according to an August count by NPR.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/09/04/red-flag-laws-spur-debate-over-due-process
(Richard: Now the left is deciding starting moves to give them the power to decide how much land individuals can own. Call me crazy but that is the logical end to this article.)
Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America
The 100 largest private landowners in the U.S. own 40 million acres—an area the size of Florida.
Jeff Bezos spent summers on his grandparents’ ranch in Texas as a kid, learning how to, among other things, castrate cattle.
Today he has his own spread in the Lone Star State, where his company Blue Origin tests its reusable New Shepard rocket. The world’s wealthiest person amassed the 420,000 acres over two decades to become the 26th-largest private landholder in the U.S.
He’s in rich company with a relatively new kind of landed gentry—billionaires including John Malone and Ted Turner—and with families whose ancestors purchased their parts of America generations ago. The 100 largest owners of private property in the U.S., newcomers and old-timers together, have 40 million acres, or approximately 2% of the country’s land mass, according to data from the Land Report and reporting by Bloomberg News. Ten years ago, the top 100 had fewer than 30 million acres.
It may not seem like much—all told, just about the size of Florida. But land is an often-overlooked repository of wealth, one of those quiet assets, such as artworks or trusts, that make up so much of the country’s unexamined riches as inequality widens.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-largest-landowners-in-us/
Mega, humungous~
Clarion EXCLUSIVE Report: Foreign Influence Ops on US Universities
A massive amount of the funding comes from foreign governments (and government-tied entities) that run influence operations in the U.S. to try to mold public opinion and policy.
The Department of Education is currently investigating funding from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and (presumably) other countries.
The law requires universities to disclose information about foreign gifts and “any ownership interests in or control over the institution by a foreign entity.” Yet, many concerns exist about possible gaps in the accounting.
According to our tally, published June 13, 2019, Qatar alone has provided almost $1.5 billion to U.S. universities and colleges since 2012.
In some cases, the funding comes via government-tied entities with known links to subversion, spying, terrorism and extremist ideology. For example, the terror-linked Qatar Foundation donated a jaw-dropping $33 million to Georgetown University in 2018. That’s just a single year from a single worrisome donor.
Contrary to common belief, the Department of Education records do not show all donations from foreign actors. Disclosure can be avoided with simple evasive measures.
https://clarionproject.org/us-universities-foreign-funding-clarion-intel-exclusive/
“BOMBSHELL! Did Ghislaine’s Sisters Backdoor the FBI, NSA + more?”
Jeff Nyquist – September 5, 2019 – Twitter
https://twitter.com/JRNyquist/status/1169674758478290944
“I’m listening to Jeff Nyquist Show ? @ iHeartRadio”
Jeff Nyquist – September 3, 2019 – Twitter
https://twitter.com/JRNyquist/status/1168969117312966656
Hong Kong police fire tear gas as protests resume despite withdrawal of bill
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray on Friday to clear protesters outside a subway station on the densely populated Kowloon peninsula, the latest clash in 14 weeks of sometimes violent anti-government demonstrations.
Hundreds of protesters, many of them masked and dressed in black, took cover behind umbrellas and barricades made from street fencing. Some had broken through a metal grill to enter the station where they pulled down signs and daubed graffiti on the walls.
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“We’re angry at the police and angry at the government,” said Justin, 23, dressed in black and wearing a hoodie. “Police was very brutal with us at this station. We cannot let them get away with it.”
Hundreds had gathered outside Prince Edward station in Mong Kok, one of the world’s most densely populated regions, where police had fired beanbag guns and used pepper spray to clear demonstrators this week.
https://www.oann.com/hong-kong-braces-for-weekend-protests-as-leader-fails-to-appease-activists/
A Preemptive Attack Is a Must
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-a-preemptive-attack-is-a-must-1.7804152
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I’m not thrilled with the “Campaign Between the Wars” (CBW) that’s apparently the current strategy.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-campaign-between-wars-how-israel-rethought-its-strategy-to-counter-iran
But who knows?
The reason is:
“Now, they have piled up tens of thousands of missiles [140,000], embedded them within homes, and they can shoot at population centers in Israel in order to kill Israelis. You come into a home in a Lebanese village in southern Lebanon and there is a parents’ room, the children’s room, the kitchen, the living room and there is the rocket room.
“There is a rocket room, literally. There is a rocket targeted toward Israel. There is a movable ceiling so, like a convertible car, you can move the ceiling, shoot, and then you close it. So, they might have a dog, a cat, and a missile in their home.…
“It’s a long-range missile. It is a pretty big thing. You cannot bring it in after you build the homes, so there are some homes that they actually built around the missiles. Quite literally. This happens primarily in Shiite villages but not only. You got villages where 30 to 40% of the houses are hosting missiles right now. The rest of the villages are booby-trapped.”
https://www.israelhayom.com/writer/rachel-avraham/
Enemies With Benefits: Swedish Veteran Jihadist Demands Compensation for Missing Welfare Payments (sputniknews, Sep 6, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201909061076736349-enemies-with-benefits-swedish-veteran-jihadist-demands-compensation-for-missing-welfare-payments/
“The ex-jihadist stood accused of attending a terrorist camp and spreading propaganda for terrorist groups. He was also found trampling on dead Syrian soldiers, posing with corpses and humiliating Christians.
The man formerly known as Bherlin Gildo, one of Sweden’s first jihadists to travel to Syria, is demanding over SEK 200,000 (about $20,600) in damages from Sweden, because the Social Insurance Agency didn’t pay him the so-called activity support while he was detained in the UK.
Gildo was arrested by the British authorities in September 2014 and was investigated for terrorist offences, but released in June 2015 and cleared of the charges after, as the British press put it, a “wrangle between lawyers” as intelligence services “refused to hand over evidence”.
Before the charges were dropped, he was due to stand trial at London’s Old Bailey, accused of attending a terrorist camp between 2012 and 2013 and becoming a propagandist for terrorist groups.
After Gildo joined Daesh* in Syria, photographs of him trampling on dead Syrian soldiers, posing with corpses and humiliating Christians were published on social media, some of them by Gildo himself, the Swedish newspaper Expressen reported.
After his release, Gildo returned to Sweden, where he changed his name and address. Now he is demanding compensation for the benefits he didn’t receive while incarcerated in the UK. He also accused the Swedish Security Service SÄPO of playing a role in what he claims to be a wrongful deprivation of liberty.
“Who ordered or decided on the detention has not been acknowledged, but SÄPO cooperated with MI6 in England,” Gildo was quoted as claiming.
Magnus Ranstorp, a senior researcher at the National Defence College and one of Sweden’s foremost experts on terrorism, said this was the first case when a Swedish jihadist has demanded damages from the state, calling Gildo’s claims “bizarre”.
“He claims that the Swedish Security Police helped with information, but there is no evidence for that. Granted, they have talked to each other, but that does not mean that he was prosecuted on behalf of the Swedish state in the UK,” Magnus Ranstorp told Expressen, suggesting that Gildo should rather address his demands to the British state.
At the same time, he stressed that the documented acts committed by Gildo had no legal consequences whatsoever.
“I would say he is disgustingly open about what he has been doing down there. The pictures he posed in and the like. That’s why I wonder why they didn’t start a preliminary investigation into war crimes given what he did,” Ranstorp said.
While directly contributing to the jihadist cause with about 300 individuals, yielding among the highest perecentages per capita in Europe, Sweden has been notoriously lax with so-called “returnees”, as they are called in official parlance.
While some of the former jihadis were punished for violent crimes they committed after their return, almost none faced prosecution for the crimes committed in the Middle East. This was attributed to lack of corresponding laws and the difficulties with obtaining evidence.
* Daesh (also known as ISIS/IS/ISIL/the Islamic State) is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia and other countries”
For the Spygate probe, it’s not necessarily indictments we want – now or later
By J.E. Dyer September 6, 2019
For months, Americans have been asking where the indictments are as the malfeasance of federal officials is methodically, relentlessly exposed. The Justice Department Inspector General’s report on James Comey and his leaked memos is just the latest set of formal revelations to prompt this question.
The specific case of Comey’s memos may not be the best example, as his behavior in that regard was worth firing him over, but not necessarily prosecutable. (It would depend to some extent on how classified the memos themselves were, and the answer appears to be, not very. There are other ambiguous factors as well, such as the proper scope of his authority as the FBI director.)
However, the critics are right that if ordinary citizens had been caught in some of the things the IG found Comey did, they would have received punishment, probably at the career-ending level, if not outright criminal sanction. Comey gets to wander free, publishing a book and collecting federal retirement benefits and plying a speakers’ circuit. Just the contrast with Michael Flynn, for whom the consequences of pleading to a single, trumped-up process crime have been life-altering, is enough to cause justifiable indignation.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/09/06/for-the-spygate-probe-its-not-necessarily-indictments-we-want-now-or-later/
Richard: Read the entire article,I don’t know how much what she is saying is based on information she can’t make public and how much is based on her experience as an Intelligence Analyst. I do know that the entire article needs to be read.
This article is one of her best, and if the scenario she implies exists does exist (What she is saying makes sense and fits with other things that are happening like the Weiner lab top scandal being buried by unidentified power people in DC and possibly New York City) or is even partially true the US dodged a much bigger bullet then we thought.
She lays out evidence that the Deep State or what other name you care to call it started building the legal, technological and human infrastructure to be able to do things like the attempted coup long before Donald Trump said the was going to run for President. The first evidence she gives points to 2014 as the starting date but it is probable it started even earlier. She provides evidence that the corruption is much deeper and isn’t limited to the attempted coup and that there was a deliberate move (changing/updating the communications equipment in the Oval Office) to make it easier for members of the Deep State to acquire all of the electronic communications to and from the Oval Office.
She points out other actinos (like the unmasking) that started long before Trump started running for President. I have long been concerned by the IRS slow walking the tax free status for the TEA Party groups and by the other bureaucratic actions that help the Dems and hurt anyone who opposes them. Actions like this are why Trump is dispersing the offices of the Federal Departments to locations in fly over country. Let the Bureaucrats get out and live with the people they have been despising.
She points out that getting the full information about who was doing whaout to the public is as important as getting indictments and convictions. I have several things to say about this, first lots of luck getting the full facts out from behind the smoke screen the Deep State are going to throw up, especially since there are several to many Dem appointed Judges in the Deep State. Next I still say that higher ranking members of the conspiracy Obama and both of his Attorney Generals must if at all possible must be prosecuted. Any other action will give acceptance to the multilayered judicial system the left has created. The rule of law has to be re-established in the US if freedom is to survive. Next when the foreign actors are identified as being members of the coup we will have to indict the citizens of allied nations and decide what action to take against the enemy nations that were involved.
As I said at the beginning of this commentary if the conspiracy she talks about exists or even partially exists the election of Donald Trump let the US dodge a much larger bullet then we have been thinking. Our next job is to discover and unmask the members of the Deep State (both foreign and domestic) and remove them from power. Their actions were in the case of the US citizens treason and acts of war by the foreign members of this organization. As the members of this group are made public the Dem Militias will become more violent and the kinetic portion of the Civil War (this has started by so far is limited t o beatings and not murders) will grow much worse and given the high probability of that many left wing members of our “friendly” “allied” governments are members of the group the war wills spread.
Remember the survival of freedom in the world is our goal, we can’t compromise on anyth8ing that will hurt the chances of freedom surviving.
Fascinating.
The WHOLE ARTICLE.
There’s no need for her to have access to inside sources – she already knows the methods. She’s outlining what appears to be an enemy operation from material that’s been made public: the Mueller report, the two Horowitz reports, Congressional testimony, leaks to media, etc.
I grabbed this piece:
“Add to that one more noteworthy preparation, made by the Obama administration and almost universally overlooked in the years since: the comprehensive modernization of IT and communications systems for the Oval Office. That effort began in 2014. Before it was undertaken, the reporting suggests it would have been literally impossible to monitor most Oval Office communications by stealth, except through actual, old-school wiretapping – gaining physical access to the lines in or just outside the Oval Office….
“That one piece of information, especially in conjunction with evidence that federal departments and agencies may have used their NSC representatives to spy on the Trump White House, suggests that the infrastructure arrangements made by the Obama administration were not solely about convenience for its own operations.”
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– Bibi doesn’t have that connectivity in his “Oval Office”. He’s chosen to avoid that channel of risk.
– – – Why would a POTUS make such arrangements?
I caught and mentioned that point, not in the detail you did but mentioned it. The only reason for any national leader to lessen the safety of their communications is because they want to learn what their successors are saying and doing.
The reason I mentioned information she can’t talk about is a comment early in the article, nothing big just something that implies more info she can’t share.
Besides spying on their successors, they gave outside monitors access to their own executive-level activities.
Their puppetmasters can listen to what’s going on in real-time. THEY make the decisions anyway, THEY don’t have to depend on the puppets to decide what’s important to pass on.
Like a dropbox in CHINA for Clinton email communications, unfiltered data transmission.
Judicious Use of Force
Israel must prepare simultaneously for a range of war scenarios. This includes development of a credible capacity to strike Iranian nuclear targets; preparation for war on three fronts against an Iranian-led coalition; the ability to “mow the grass” in the two Palestinian arenas; and the ability to withstand an intense missile war.
The highest priority is building a ground force capable of swift maneuver and attaining a decisive victory by taking the fight into enemy territory. Reliance on intelligence and accurate firepower (which has been the IDF approach in recent years) is insufficient; this is an important adjunct, not an alternative, to ground combat.
The IDF must not be deterred by the prospect of casualties. Casualties can be reduced by swift and forceful forays that rapidly bring about enemy collapse. This will also reduce the time that the home front is exposed to enemy missile fire.
Read the whole chapter:
https://jiss.org.il/en/mitve-judicious-use-of-force/
Chapter 6 on “Regional Realities and the Eastern Mediterranean” is also good.
Reality check on the Gulf countries vs. the core population/historical Arab anchor that is Egypt.
“There is reason to doubt whether the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE (and their junior partner Bahrain) have the experience, knowledge or human capital to fulfill this leadership role successfully. Most of the initiatives and efforts of the two crown princes (and de facto leaders) of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Muhammad Bin Salman and Muhammad Bin Zayid (MBS and MBZ), have not gone well.
… [I]t is worth bearing in mind that the Saudi Arabian leadership is not stable and may not succeed in reforming the kingdom and reshaping the region.
Therefore, it would be wise for Israel to reduce the visibility of these growing ties to Arab countries. Specifically, Jerusalem should take steps to avoid being portrayed as advocates of the Saudi leadership.…”
“A key difference between Egypt and its rivals in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi is that Cairo does not regard Iran and the Shi’a as the primary regional antagonist. Rather, the Egyptian government views the Salafi terrorists and Muslim Brotherhood as the main threats. As it emerges from its self-imposed isolation, Egypt will increasingly challenge growing Saudi dominance in the region.…”
Exact a Price for Turkish Hostility:
“…Turkey’s neo-Ottoman and Islamist posturing and the regional ambitions of President Erdogan are bringing together the other countries in the region. Ankara’s overt hostility towards Israel and the Egyptian regime, Turkey’s threat to prevent Cyprus from using its gas fields and repeated hints about re-igniting the territorial dispute in the Aegean Sea with Greece that had been addressed in the Treaty of Lausanne – all drive the other countries in the region together.” [Think Libya.]
Read the whole chapter:
https://jiss.org.il/en/mitve-regional-realities-and-the-eastern-mediterranean/
I like Vanessa but,why she says moslems are not a problem in Syria I don’t know. It’s always globalist terrorists and forget about Islam. But look in this city that Assad liberated and you can’t deny the mosque looks untouched. Why did ISIS not blast it?
MUHARRAM 6 1441
Ashura March in Europe and North America
Iran: Thousands commemorate death of Prophet Muhammad’s great-grandson in Tehran
Thousands joined the commemoration ceremony of the death of Ali Asghar, the great – grandson of Prophet Muhammad, on Friday. Six-month-old Ali Asghar was the youngest martyr of Battle of Karbala that happened on October 10 in 680.
Women were seen carrying their children dressed in white and green and chanting religious slogans.
One of the ceremony’s attendees, Elham Radfar, said “We have come here to show the world that we are the followers of prophets’ religion and beliefs and we will always be.”
“These conferences are really good if we bring our children here, we will be able to make our children familiar with Islamic culture and customs of Ashura,” another attendee, Mariam Fazeli said.
According to Head of the World Commemoration Assembly of Ali Asghar, Davoud Manafipour, over 6,250 similar commemoration ceremonies are expected to be held in Iran and 45 other countries around the world.
Ep. 1061 Debunking The Latest Media Whopper. The Dan Bongino Show 9/6/2019.
Inside China’s High-Tech Dystopia
Inside China’s Future Factory
Bloomberg’s a tool.
Not on our side.
He isn’t on ourside, but it pays to listen to the enemy propaganda from time to time. On page 2 I posted a South China Morning Post video about how Hong Kong is essential and how all of the attempts to create another city that can take Hong Kongs place. The main proof that is shown is the fact that after 3 months the CCP still hasn’t sent in the troops.
I don’t know if it was one of the 2 videos above but earlier I watched a video about how the Factory Owners (meaning the CCP) is busy replacing all of the workers with robots. This action places the people on permanent welfare, when you only source of food and housing is the government you are careful to not piss off the government.
I’m still shocked by Wall Street, Inc. advocating for CHINA, lock-stock-&-barrel for short-term corporate wealth and against OUR national interest.
All these tools like Bloomberg and the wire services AP, Reuters, UPI. They push recession, hammer the “Trump trade war” like Tokyo Rose.
China’s High-Stakes Robot Wars
PUTIN OFFERS TRUMP A GREAT DEAL – WHY NOT JUST BUY OUR NEW MISSILES INSTEAD OF STARTING ARMS RACE
video – 2 minutes 2 seconds [Russian with English subtitles]
Russia isn’t pleased by the USA’s intentions to deploy new missiles in Japan and South Korea that were banned by the INF Treaty. Now, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is on the line. The USA may not extend it. But then, the whole world system of checks and balances would collapse. Moscow is ready for new negotiations. Putin recalled that he talked about it with Trump in Osaka.
Russia has been breaking those treaties, if the other side isn’t fulfilling their treaty requirements good sense says pull out.
And China wasn’t even a party to the treaty.
PT managed another reversal of deals designed to sabotage our security. The legacy of a series of traitors elected by a deluded America.
ENGINEERS & CLIMATE STRIKERS – UNITE
video – 3 minutes 41 seconds
… let’s get the climate striker kids back into the classroom learning how to be the next generation of engineers. Let’s have those who made so much of modern life possible, teach these passionate youth the realities of how things work.
Meghan McCain Says Her Firearms Are ‘Not For Sale’: ‘I’m Not Living Without Guns!’
Seth Frantzman is multilingual, Ph.D. Personal courage. Studied under Prof. Barry Rubin [z”l], as did Jonathan Spyer. A little younger, further left. (Gone native from time to time. Jonathan lost some multiculti idealism as a frontline soldier during the Second Lebanon War.)
Seth spent considerable time on the ground covering the war against ISIS. His reports on the Yazidis are examples of the very best journalism. Anywhere. Ever.
FIGHTING ISIS, FINDING IRAN
An excerpt from Seth Frantzman’s forthcoming book, ‘After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East’
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/290736/fighting-isis-finding-iran
Report: Netanyahu ‘Shellshocked’ by Obama’s Radical Pro-Palestinian Stance in First Meeting
NEW YORK — Barack Obama was so radical in his views about Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged shellshocked, ashen faced and traumatized after his first White House meeting with the newly-elected president in May 2009, according to an adviser who was present.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/09/05/netanyahu-barack-obama-adopted-most-of-the-palestinian-narrative/
Turkey: Politician convicted for tweets insulting president (abcnews, Sep 6, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-politician-convicted-tweets-insulting-president-65432190
“A Turkish court convicted an opposition party branch leader Friday of engaging in terrorist propaganda and insulting Turkish government officials with a series of social media posts, a verdict the opposition immediately alleged was politically motivated.
Canan Kaftancioglu, who heads the Istanbul branch of the secular Republican People’s Party, received a prison sentence of nine years and eight months for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other accusations, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Kaftancioglu denied wrongdoing. She plans to appeal and won’t be imprisoned until the outcome of that process.
The politician is a key opposition figure who helped deliver a stunning victory for colleague Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul’s mayoral election, dealing a major blow to Erdogan.
Republican People’s Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu described Kaftancioglu as a victim of political “vengeance” and vowed to fight for justice.
Anadolu Agency said she was found guilty of the charges of insulting the Turkish republic, state officials and Erdogan as well as making terrorist propaganda and inciting public enmity.
Prosecutors sought up to 17 years in prison for her social media posts. They included a 2013 tweet referring to the co-founder of an outlawed Kurdish militant group who was killed in Paris.
Opposition broadcaster Halk TV said the court refused to suspend the sentence on the grounds that she had not shown any remorse during the course of the trial.
Large crowds gathered outside the courthouse in Istanbul and protested the verdict, shouting demands for “rights, laws, justice.”
The former leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party, Selahattin Demirtas, and other party officials are in jail on terror-related charges.”
4 killed in Berlin after car veers onto sidewalk (abcnews, Sep 6. 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/killed-berlin-car-veers-sidewalk-65437392
“Berlin’s fire service says four people died, including a young child, when a car veered onto a sidewalk in the German capital.
The fire service described the incident Friday evening in Berlin’s central Mitte district in a tweet as a “traffic accident.”
Police also used that description in a separate tweet. They didn’t give more details, but said two people were injured.”
Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Celebrates After Judge Rules Terror Watch List Violates Constitutional Rights
Radical Muslima Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) celebrated after a federal judge ruled that the US government’s watchlist of over 1 million people violates the Constitutional rights of those placed on the list.
“This is tremendous” Omar said congratulating terror-tied CAIR for working to weaken protocols in place to protect the US from terror attacks.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/democrat-rep-ilhan-omar-celebrates-after-judge-rules-terror-watch-list-violates-constitutional-rights/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
The Mysterious Explosion of a Russian Nuclear Missile Engine
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/russia-nuclear-missile-engine/
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,280, September 6, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The fatal explosion that occurred recently during testing of the Russian Burevestnik nuclear cruise missile raises many questions. Could it have been avoided? Was it a fundamental failure of the ambitious armaments plan declared by President Putin in 2018? Whatever the answers to these questions, the renewed trend toward an unconventional armaments race could deteriorate into a second Cold War.
On August 8, during a test of the nuclear-powered engine of the 9M730 Burevestnik cruise missile (petrel in Russian; nicknamed the SSC-X-9 Skyfall in the West), held on a floating platform in the White Sea near the Nyonoksa missile test site in the far north of Russia, a mysterious explosion occurred that killed eight people. The blast raised questions about the status of a new generation of five advanced weapons introduced by Putin in 2018, of which Burevestnik, described by the Russian president as supersonic and of unlimited range, occupied pride of place.
Five of the eight people killed in the explosion were Rosatom (Russian State Atomi? Energy Corporation) employees, and three more employees were injured. According to the company’s announcement, the disaster occurred while testing an “isotopic energy source for a liquid propulsion system.”
Shortly after the explosion, the weather monitoring agency Roshydromet reported a significant spike in radiation 40 km from the blast site. Also, in the city of Severodvinsk, which is near the explosion site in the Archangelsk district, the radiation level was reported to have jumped to 16 times the normal level. This led the alarmed residents to rush to stock up on iodine, which reduces the effects of radiation exposure.
FRANCE 24 – Chief Raoni: “People listen to Bolsonaro and think they can do whatever they want with the Indians”
Trump’s Trade War Threat to China
Proof The Goal is To Ban The 2nd Amendment
MOROCCO – Singer Adil El Miloudi Promotes Violence Against Women
“He who does not beat his wife is not a real man,” said the singer on Chada TV.
Rabat – The popular Moroccan singer, Adil El Miloudi, has been under fire for his pro-violence statements. “He who does not beat up his wife is not a real man,” El Miloudi confidently stated during his appearance on the Kotbi Night show broadcast on June 29 on Chada TV.
The video recently resurfaced on social networks, prompting a widespread backlash. The controversy comes only a few months after the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA) suspended Radio Mars host, Adil El Omari, for misogynistic remarks.
The host told a female football fan that she’d better “take care of her cooking, watch Choumicha’ s shows (famous Moroccan cooking show) and leave the national team alone.”
El Miloudi further added that he still beats his wife and that he was arrested once for it in Spain. “She told the cops that I did not do anything to her; they released me 24 hours later,” he explained. The singer also stated that “this is normal in Morocco; everyone can do whatever they want with their wife, hit her, kill her…”.
Imad Kotbi, the host of the Kotbi Night TV show, told Huffpost Maghreb that Chada TV was not yet under HACA’s supervision at the time of broadcast, possibly implying that the Chada TV will not be sanctioned.
Several Internet users took to their keyboards to condemn El Miloudi’s statement. Some demanded the opening of a judicial investigation as well as a boycott of the singer on all platforms. Others called on women’s rights associations to intervene.
The singer is known for his sexist and threatening remarks. In July 2015, through his song “Kifach Houma Mahadrouch” (“Why didn’t they talk?”), he threatened director Nabil Ayouch and actress Loubna Abidar after the release of their controversial movie “Much Loved”.
“Loubna Abidar, today, you are in danger. Everyone knows what you did, it will bring you only misfortune,” sang El Miloudi referring to Abidar’s sex scenes in the movie. The song continued, “Nabil Ayouch will be arrested, and we will see what “Much Loved” means then.”
In March 2018, El Miloudi went live on Facebook defending the singer Saad Lamjarred, who was, at the time, suspected of rape for the second time in two years.
One Twitter user replied to El Miloudi’s video saying, “El Miloudi must be banned from TV, radio, social networks, shows, and concerts. He is a real public danger.”
In a more recent post, the user demanded if “any explanations have been asked from the channel, producer, and broadcaster?”
The commenter also stated, “God only knows how many times, they rebroadcast this sh**; with his 400,000 fans, no wonder we will have 200,000 women beaten in Morocco 10 years from now.”
“I am scandalized by these toxic words. Now, I think we need to mobilize so that all Moroccan radio and TV stations ban this person,” added another user.
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/09/282007/adil-miloudi-violence-against-women/