"Objects in history may be closer than they appear" – Eeyore for Vlad
(The standards at the Junior Varsity level have gone up a lot since Obama played I think)
This is quite extraordinary. Check the videos at 7 News
There was a call to arms over the weekend that is, in any terms, truly frightening.
It came from a known Islamist who wants to raise an army to impose Sharia law here in Australia.
His message was met by cries of “Takbir… Allahu Akbar!” by his followers at Lakemba in Western Sydney.
“Eventually, we will bounce back and we will reclaim everything that they have taken from us,” Bilal Merhi told the crowd.
According to Rob Snow on CFRA, police have ordered that Jewish people close their stores in part or all of Paris.
Here is a LIVE webcast of events at one or both of the hostage takings by muslims in Paris right now. It does not appear to be available outside the UK or possibly Europe. You will need a VPN
There are several titles missing, some of which repeatedly say, “Kufar” (unbeliever/infidel/hated-other) so I may venture out to find someone to help me translate the missing titles. But as it is, this is quite a video. The view count on the original is in 6 figures already. The story is here.
1. RT- Iraq: Baghdad military base flooded with battle-ready volunteers
2. Iraq arrest that exposed wealth and power of Isis jihadists
Two days before Mosul fell to the Islamic insurgent group Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), Iraqi commanders stood eyeballing its most trusted messenger. The man, known within the extremist group as Abu Hajjar, had finally cracked after a fortnight of interrogation and given up the head of Isis’s military council.
“He said to us, ‘you don’t realise what you have done’,” an intelligence official recalled. “Then he said: ‘Mosul will be an inferno this week’.’
Several hours later, the man he had served as a courier and been attempting to protect, Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, lay dead in his hideout near Mosul. From the home of the dead man and the captive, Iraqi forces hoovered up more than 160 computer flash sticks which contained the most detailed information yet known about the terror group.
3. Saudi toddler survives slaughter attempt by her brother
Manama: A toddler aged 18 months in Saudi Arabia has barely survived a killing attempt by her brother who was influenced by slaughtering scenes he had just witnessed at a sheep abattoir.
The boy, aged three, had accompanied his father to the slaughterhouse in the Naseem neighbourhood in the Saudi capital Riyadh where he saw how sheep were slaughtered.
(Yep I have fond memories of when my dad took me to see the slaughter house when I was three and seeing how they killed all those farm animals. Oh no wait a minute that was the sugar bush and that was maple syrup not blood. But if I recall correctly I did try and tap a tree afterwards)
4. Libya crisis: More deadly clashes in Benghazi
Fresh clashes broke out in Benghazi on Sunday after a rogue general launched a fresh assault on Islamist militants.
Tanks were seen on the streets and explosions could be heard throughout the day in Libya’s second-biggest city.
General Khalifa Haftar, who accuses the government of supporting terrorism, began an assault against Islamist fighters in the city last month.
5. Lindsey Graham: “Seeds of 9/11” being planted in Iraq, Syria
Thank you Wrath of Khan, M, and all who helped out with links today. I have something lined up for tomorrow which I think will be both interesting and important and illustrate just how significant the gains of Islamic operatives have been through very manipulated ‘interfaith’ initiatives. I hope to have something on this up late Monday the 16th
This is the direct link to the video as they have blocked embed code from working
I feel I need to correct a few of the statements made by the well intentioned, well informed and generally excellent point of view of Rep. Gohmert.
To his first point, if there were ‘peace loving muslims’ in Nigeria, they would have stopped Boko Haram the way the Israelis stop factions of Jews who decide to go all vigilante or Christians when they denounce psychos who lone-wolf out on doctors etc.
On to his second point. This religious war does in fact need to happen. The reason I say that is the muslim side is already at full scale war against the non-muslim side. They are attacking villages, taking slaves, slaughtering Churches full of people at every opportunity. The only reason, and let me stress only, that this war is not happening now, is because the other side is not fighting back. The consequences of that in the medium and long term are not hard to calculate. Rep. Gohmert says this war does not need to happen. I beg to differ. The options given to Nigeria and the non-Muslims are the classical Islamic ones.
1. Convert to Islam. Kick up a fifth of your booty to the Caliph and live under the sharia
2. Live as dhimmis. A kind of second class semi-slave non-citizen at the mercy of every whim of any muslim. As the Christians in Pakistan are now, and as any non-Muslim living in Saudi Arabia would be if there were any left.
3. War.
To paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill:
“You were given the choice between war and dhimmitude. You chose dhimmitude and you will have war.”
I think its important we do not repeat this error.
Eeyore for Vlad
H/T Bains
H/T M
“Islam has bloody borders” -don’t remember but probably millions of people, mostly dead or injured.
H/T Magic Martin
Several videos and some news here
Myanmar declared a state of emergency Friday for a riot-hit town where 20 people have been killed in Buddhist-Muslim violence that has sparked fears of spreading unrest.
Swathes of Meiktila, located 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of the capital Naypyidaw, have been reduced to ashes as the authorities struggle to establish control after three days of clashes and arson.
“At least 20 people have been killed. We estimate that it could be higher but it is also difficult for us to gather all the figures,” a police officer who did not want to be named told AFP.
English news video:
Another English news vid
Sectarian violence has engulfed Myanmar’s frontier state of Rakhine in recent days, with clashes between Buddhist and Muslim ethnic groups. Tension between the two groups is not new and there are few solutions in sight.
The cycle of revenge attacks between ethnic groups in the border state of Rakhine is posing a new challenge to Myanmar’s reformist government, with the repercussions now rippling across the border into neighboring Bangladesh.
The latest surge in sectarian unrest began with the rape and murder of a Rakhine Buddhist woman, allegedly by three Muslims, late last month. Within days, the response had turned more brutal, with at least 10 Muslims killed when they were pulled off a bus in the Taungup township.
Last Friday, Muslims belonging to the Rohingya ethnic minority are alleged to have run amok in the town of Maung Taw, burning down hundreds of houses and killing seven people.
By Monday, many Rohingya were taking flight, with groups of men – apparently ethnic Rakhine Buddhists – roaming the streets of the state capital Sittwe carrying sticks and knives.
Announcing a state of emergency in the region on Sunday, President Thein Sein warned of the possible terrible outcome, with security forces drafted into the area.
Thein Sein has warned that the violence might spread
“The situation could deteriorate and could extend beyond Rakhine state if we are killing each other with such sectarianism, endless hatred, the desire for vengeance and anarchy,” Thein Sein said.
Attacks ‘well-planned and organized’
However, the president of the British-based Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO), Nurul Islam, said he believed that the attacks had in part been orchestrated by the security forces themselves.
He claimed Muslim residents had been fired upon for breaking a curfew when they fled homes that Rakhine extremists had set alight.
“All of this is well planned and organized. The leading Rakhine political organization is behind this,” he told Deutsche Welle.
Under Myanmar law, the Rohingya are denied citizenship, with many of the Buddhist majority in the state describing them as illegal immigrants. Many Rohingya travel between Myanmar and Bangladesh and the government says their presence in Myanmar does not date back to 1814 – a requirement that needs to be met under the country’s citizenship laws. Bangladesh claims the Rohingya are from Myanmar.
An Islamist rebel mans a gun near Timbuktu in rebel-held northern Mali
AFP
Mali’s Tuareg rebels clashed overnight with their former Islamist allies, witnesses said Friday, after the two groups fell out over forming a breakaway state in the northern desert region they control.
The clash involving automatic weapons near the remote regional capital Kidal was the first between the rebel National Liberation Movement of Azawad (MNLA) and the Islamist Ansar Dine, reports AFP.
Both groups are made up of Tuareg tribesmen from different various clans and the fighting has raised fears of widening chaos in the vast northern swathe of the country.
The rebel forces seized the region with little resistance from Malian government forces seizing the initiative after officers in the southern capital Bamako seized power in a March 22 coup.
The rival northern groups belong to different Tuareg tribes — Taghat Melet and Idnane for the MNLA and Ifora for Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) — and hold separate ideologies and objectives, observers say.
“Divisions are appearing within the armed Tuareg rebel groups,” said Malian journalist Tiegoum Boubeye Maiga.
Another excellent and critically important essay by Fjordman:
A number of books published in recent years have demolished the myth of an allegedly tolerant Islamic culture that preserved the Greco-Roman heritage. Ibn Warraq’s book Why the West Is Best is among the better and more accessible titles in this field. As I concluded in one of my earlier essays, the only part of the ancient Greek heritage that proved to be more compatible with Muslim than with Christian European culture was slavery, and possibly anal sex with young boys in certain parts of the Islamic world.
In early 2012 the historian Emmet Scott published Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy. If you have any interest in the subject of the Greco-Roman legacy and Islam as they relate to medieval Europe, I strongly recommend that you buy this book. For those who are interested, Scott has published some excerpts from this work online at the New English Review.
Many books claim to be groundbreaking, but rather few of them actually are. Emmet Scott’s Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited falls into the latter category.
He shows convincingly that archaeological excavations paint a very clear picture of devastation brought by the Arab conquests throughout the entire Mediterranean region, from Syria to Spain, in the seventh century AD.
