1. Daniel Greenfield article on the leftist racism of lowered expectations when it comes to islam, coupled with the need to pretend islam is other than it is.

(This is a very good article even by the standards of Daniel Greenfield)

2. CNN clip on US raid on Islamic State leader Abu Sayif

3. Dirty Dozen- President Obama’s model mosque

4. Egyptian judges shot dead in Sinai hours after former president Mohamed Morsi sentenced to death

Police said the judges were travelling in a car in the city of al-Arish, Sinai, when it was attacked by suspected Islamist gunmen.

An fourth person was killed and at least three more were injured in the assault. A militant believed to support Mohamed Morsi during attacks on security forces in al-Arish after he was deposed in August 2013

5. Egypt ‘hangs’ six men from group affiliated with ISIL

The men are accused of carrying out attacks in the name of a group that pledged loyalty to ISIL, police say. […] It was not immediately clear when they were executed though the AFP report on Sunday did say the six men had been sentenced to death by a military tribunal.

In November 2014, Egypt’s Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the country’s most active armed group, pledged its allegiance to ISIL, in a recording posted on Twitter.

“We announce our pledge of allegiance to the caliph Ibrahim Ibn Awad … to listen and obey,” the audio recording said, referring to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

(Treating this as a military problem and not a law and order one, is the only way to beat this thing)

6. Islamic State militants ‘smuggled to Europe’

Abdul Basit Haroun said smugglers were hiding IS militants on boats filled with migrants.

Officials in Italy and Egypt have previously warned that IS militants could reach Europe by migrant boat.

However, experts have cautioned that it is very difficult to verify or assess such claims.

Mr Haroun based his claim on conversations with smugglers in parts of North Africa controlled by the militants.

7. Shiia muslims in Pakistan, upset with Saudi Arabia for sentencing a shiia cleric to death, decide to burn American and Israeli flags

8. Ottawa Citizen: Beware of the Muslim Brotherhood, expert warns

Groups sometimes go to great lengths to sever or hide such ties, Vidino told the committee. He said they include the Muslim Association of Canada and what used to be called CAIR-CAN, now the National Council of Canadian Muslims.

Another group he identified is The International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy – Canada, IRFAN. Its charitable status was revoked after the government alleged the organization sent almost $15 million to groups affiliated with the Palestinian terror outfit Hamas between 2005 and 2009. IRFAN has since been listed as a banned terrorist organization in Canada.

(A medium quality article but for the Ottawa Citizen, its surprisingly pointing in the right direction)

9. Colorado: Muslim who kept sex slave refuses sex offender course as against Islam

A Saudi national who was convicted of keeping his Indonesian maid as a sex slave has refused to attend a mandatory sex offender’s course, arguing that his Muslim beliefs do not allow him to look at pictures of scantily-clad women.

Homaidan al-Turki, 45, was jailed for 28 years in 2006 after his maid claimed she had been forced to work 12 hour days with no break and then locked in a cellar and abused regularly by the Saudi, who was in the US on an academic scholarship with his wife and five children.

Than you Gates of Vienna, M., Don C., Wrath of Khan, and all who sent in links and comments. More to come.

1. Explosion in Gaza

2. Jordanian gynaecologist leaves cell phone in patient’s abdomen

(Not a headline you see every day. I can only imagine what a gut wrenching phone call that first one must have been)

Ramallah: A Jordanian gynaecologist is alleged to have accidentally left his cell phone in his patient’s abdomen during a Caesarian section in April this year.

Hanan Mahmoud Abdul Karim, 36, was admitted to a private hospital in Amman for the operation on April 24, according to the Jordanian media. During the procedure, the gynaecologist somehow misplaced his mobile phone in the woman’s abdomen.

Majeda Abdul Hamid, the patient’s mother, told the media that after Hanan gave birth to a 4.8 kilogram baby boy she was discharged from hospital, and later the family started noticing her abdomen vibrating.

3. 14 Iranian fishermen held by Somalia militants: Officials

4. NTSB: Amtrak assistant conductor heard engineer say train struck by “something”

5. Saudi Arabia prepares to hang opposition Shia cleric amid large protests

(I can see this going a long way to increase peace in the middle east. Or a middle east in pieces. Either way really.)

6. AUSTRALIA – Adelaide – More than 100 angry parents have picketed the Islamic College of South Australia, worried it is becoming too fundamental after it cut music and sport from its curriculum, described pianos as evil and stopped singing the national anthem at assemblies.

From Facebook:

(Anyone who thinks a piano is evil, hasn’t spent any time around banjos)

More here

Parents of students at The Islamic College of South Australia call for government intervention

FEDERAL Education Minister Christopher Pyne has warned of the potential radicalisation of Muslim students in Islamic schools, following another parent protest against management of the Islamic College of SA.

Parents rallying outside the school yesterday demanded the resignation of its board and called for State Government intervention.

They claim a hardline school board has introduced a stricter form of Islam, including more segregation of male and female students, while firing experienced staff and lowering education standards.

Mr Pyne has written to the school and state Education Minister Susan Close about the allegations against the school.

7. (It looks like Sweden does turn down some Bangladeshi asylum seekers)

Sweden slammed for denying visa to murdered blogger

Stockholm: A free speech group launched a blistering attack on Sweden on Wednesday after it denied a travel visa to a secular Bangladeshi blogger who was then hacked to death by suspected Islamists.

(Islamists is PC for ‘practicing muslim’)

8. Italy: Girl, 12, beaten by classmate, for wearing crucifix – update

(ANSA) Terni, May 15 – A schoolboy of African origin attacked a 12-year-old-girl at a school in central Italy because she was wearing a crucifix on a neck chain, police said Friday.
The boy punched the girl violently in the back at the entrance to a middle school in the town of Terni on Thursday and the girl’s mother caught the boy, who subsequently told Carabinieri paramilitary police he attacked the girl because she was wearing a crucifix, police sources said.

Thank you M., Richard, Wrath of Khan, many more who sent in links and interesting comments and observations as well today. Very possibly more to come. The train derailment in the US seems to be a lot more interesting  than it was yesterday. One more item to come, a partial translation from a few sites about the mayor of a town in France that wants to ban islam. Ultimately, that is what will probably have to happen but by the time enough people figure it out, it won’t be possible.

1. First on CNN: Five Iranian boats fire shots in the Persian Gulf

(Video at link. Add this to all the hostile actions by the IRI in the past couple of weeks and it makes you want to watch Master and Commander again at the very least)

More here 

2. Terror arrests reach record level, says Metropolitan Police

Terror-related arrests in England, Wales and Scotland reached record levels last year, when 338 people were held, Scotland Yard has said.

More than half of those arrests were related to Syria, Met Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said.

Police said more than 700 potential terror suspects are now thought to have travelled to Syria.

About half of those people – said to be of “significant concern” – are believed to have since returned to the UK.

3. Terrifying moment man is surrounded and attacked by HUNDREDS of men at a shopping mall in Qatar after a rumour spread he had written an ‘anti-Islamic’ post on Facebook 

(This is just one of hundreds of excellent contemporary examples of how sharia works in fact on a day to day basis. Each believer is accuser, police, judge, jury and executioner.

Here is how this often works. Say you owe a guy, Let’s call him Mohamed, 5 minutes with your sheep. A retail value of maybe a dollar and a quarter USD. You decide you don’t want to pay. So you float the rumor that Mohamed said something bad about islam or any of its icons or avatars or fetish objects. Next thing you know as he is off to the mall to get some new boots for his sheep session, he is mobbed by a raging throng of people, each of whom are certain they have been elevated in the eyes of allah for having committed this act of irrational violence on the slightest hint of an unsubstantiated accusation that he might have murmured a victimless crime against the usual crew. Now lets say instead of Mohamed his name was Chris. That same mob would have rocks.)

Shocking footage has emerged of a hundreds-strong mob in Qatar attacking an Indian man they believe has posted anti-Islamic comments on Facebook.

The short clip, filmed on a mobile phone last Friday, shows the man cowering outside a mall in Doha as he’s assaulted and jostled by shoppers while surrounded by a huge crowd.

At one point a man rushes in and hits him on the head. 

More here

4. Three Algerians escape from Alitalia jet in Rome

Three Algerians forced open the emergency exit of an Alitalia passenger plane while it was heading for take-off at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, slid down the safety slides that were activated and escaped from the airport late on Wednesday night, an Alitalia spokesman said.

“When the plane was taxiing, in the preliminary stages of approaching the runway, these people forced open a door and slid down the slides that were activated, and then they escaped,” the Alitalia spokesman told The Local.

The three Algerians had departed from Algiers and were due to fly to Istanbul after a layover in Rome, the spokesman said.

They are still missing. They were among a group of Algerians on the Alitalia AZ702 flight who had been denied entry to Italy, according to media reports.

5. Ex-Nat’l Guardsman Given 20 Years for Trying to Join ISIS

Donald Morgan, a 44-year old North Carolina man and former National Guardsman, was given a prison term of more than 20 years, after he tried to join the Islamic State in Syria.

A convert to Islam, Morgan was arrested at New York’s JFK airport last June for the illegal possession of a gun that he had been trying to sell online. He had travelled to Lebanon and on to Turkey from where he was planning on crossing the border to Syria. However, his plans went awry when authorities at the Istanbul airport sent him back to Lebanon.

6. North Korea executes defence chief with an anti-aircraft gun: South Korea agency

(One might think that would be a spectacular, but probably very fast and relatively painless way to die compared to the three generations of slavery and torture that the average North Korean can expect if they are accused of mishandling a piece of paper from a magazine that contains a photo of one of the ruling dynasty)

North Korea executed its defence chief by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service told lawmakers, which would be the latest in a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took charge.

Hyon Yong Chol, who headed the isolated nuclear-capable country’s military, was charged with treason, including disobeying Kim and falling asleep during an event at which North Korea’s young leader was present, according to South Korean lawmakers briefed in a closed-door meeting with the spy agency on Wednesday.

7. BBC under fire after Home Affairs Editor Mark Easton ‘compares extremist preacher Anjem Choudary to Gandhi and Mandela’

The BBC is under fire after the Home Affairs Editor appeared to compare notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

Following a lengthy report on last night’s BBC News at Ten about Choudary’s ‘radicalising force’, Mark Easton appeared to question whether there were similarities between Britain’s most famous extremist and two of history’s greatest civil rights campaigners.

Referring to Theresa May’s pledge to clamp down on extremism, the journalist said Gandhi and Mandela had been seen as extremists and that those stances ‘are sometimes needed to challenge very establish values’.

But outraged viewers slammed the comparison as ‘disgusting’ while campaigners said the ‘ludicrous’ comments gave credence to Choudary’s ‘complete rejection’ of democracy and tolerance.

(Regular folks of Great Britain, your on your own)

Thank you Draculea, Tundra T., M., CB Sashenka, Buck, and all who sent in materials. Lots more to post and edit today. Please check back soon.

1. Yet more arrests in Spain of Islamic State recruiters.

2. Obama greets Saudi royals

(Does anyone sense a kind of air of urgency in this interchange?)

3. The Right Scoop has a look at the derailed Amtrack train with some questions and Gateway Pundit reminds us of an FBI warning from a few years ago about exactly this and another link to that story

4. Turkey and Saudi Arabia alarm the West by backing Islamist extremists the Americans had bombed in Syria

Turkey and Saudi Arabia are actively supporting a hardline coalition of Islamist rebels against Bashar al-Assad’s regime that includes al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, in a move that has alarmed Western governments.

The two countries are focusing their backing for the Syrian rebels on the combined Jaish al-Fatah, or the Army of Conquest, a command structure for jihadist groups in Syria that includes Jabhat al-Nusra, an extremist rival to Isis which shares many of its aspirations for a fundamentalist caliphate.

5. Some decent animated cartoons mocking mohamed and the origins of islam

6. Here is a sticker we need to see everywhere

7. Lindsay Lohan seems to be embracing Islam.

(They can have her. What a great testament to the moral clarity of Islam that she embraces it)

Thank you M., Buck, Richard, ML., and all!

1. Video on the blogger murdered in Bangladesh. An officially secular country but in truth under sharia. Just in case anyone thinks this cannot happen here, Bangladesh is actually a good example of why it will. Sharia isn’t imposed by legislation or consent. It is imposed because enough muslims are in an area that they just enforce it by being accuser, cop, judge, jury and executioner. Next thing you know, people conform if they won’t fight back. When they do, their fellow traveler calls it a Crusade and demonizes it.

2. Two new statements from the reelected UK government on terror crackdown and immigration reform.

(As one might expect, his new plan is a more Orwellian Britain where obeying the law is no excuse not to be interfered with by Gov’t for all)

3. Turkey sends warship to escort cargo vessel attacked off Libya

(A lot of flashpoint potential on the seas near the middle East these days)

4. The three teen girls who ran away from the UK and went to the Islamic State to be jihadi brides are rumored to have escaped their Islamic State husbands and are trying to escape the area.

(May has said she may not let them back in. A very wise position generally speaking, but the stories of these girls may be more valuable to the anti IS efforts than any danger they may present. Not letting in the jihadis who leave to fight the West in the IS should they attempt to reenter should be absolute. However tens of thousands of them are coming in to Europe as ‘refugees’ thanks to the EU and we shall all feel their presence soon enough if The Project is to be believed)

5. Pakistan gunmen kill 45 on Karachi Ismaili Shia bus

At least 45 people have been killed and 20 injured in a gun attack on a bus carrying Ismaili Shia Muslims in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say.

A police official said six gunmen on motorcycles had stopped the bus and fired indiscriminately at passengers. […] ‘Dressed as police’A leaflet was also left at the scene claiming the so-called Islamic State group was responsible.

(Should Iran decide to start defending shiia muslims in Pakistan etc. there could be some very welcomed attrition)

6. Trey Gowdy: Obama administration obstructing Benghazi probe

A special House panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, has uncovered tens of thousands of new documents, but is still facing “obstacles” from the Obama administration, an interim report issued Monday said.

An “Interim Progress Update” was released Monday revealing the investigation “has uncovered new witnesses, new documents, new facts and will result in the most detailed and complete accounting of what happened in Benghazi.”

7. A Norwegian documentary on Islam in the UK mostly in English.

(I haven’t seen it yet but its interesting just by virtue of it being from Norway)

Thank you Wrath of Khan, M., Maria J., Draculea, Buck, antikythera, and many more. More to come shortly.

1. Iranian Cargo Ship Heads Toward Yemen and Saudi Blockade

An Iranian cargo ship was headed toward Yemen on Tuesday, setting up a potential confrontation with Saudi Arabia as a halt in the Saudi-led bombing campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels was about to take effect.

Iranian news agencies said the cargo vessel, flying the Red Crescent Society of Iran flag, was under escort by Iranian naval warships from the southern city of Bandar Abbas carrying emergency relief supplies to the Yemeni port of Hodeida. That city, the fourth largest in Yemen, is controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, who are targets of the Saudi bombings.

In what appeared to be a thinly disguised warning to the Saudis and their Arab allies in the Persian Gulf against interdicting and boarding the vessel, the head of the Red Crescent Society of Iran, Amir Mohsen Ziya’ee, said that “based on international regulations, no one can inspect a vessel that is moving in international waters carrying the flag of a country,” according to Iran’s official Press TV.

This ship can be tracked here 

US suggests that Iran uses the UN hub for giving international relief

2. 1.6 Million Immigrants from Predominantly Muslim Countries Since 9/11 

(This seems like the logical solution to islamic terror in the US)

How many people in this country are aware of the fact that immigration from Islamic countries has doubled since 9/11? According to data Conservative Review collated from the DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the U.S. has issued 1,628,854 green cards to immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries from 2001-2013.  Here is the breakdown by country:

3. Isis in Libya: Child brides’ boom in Derna as record number of girls married off to jihadi fighters

Child marriage has boomed in the Libyan city of Derna since it was taken over by the Islamic State (Isis) group, with girls as young as 12 married off to jihadist fighters, often in exchange of protection and power, local doctors have confirmed.

The number of under-age girls forced to marry has increased 15 fold since an IS local branch seized large part of the coastal city in October last year, local doctors told The Times.

“Just in the clinics that we are able to monitor, we are seeing four to five cases of under-age brides every week and it’s getting worse,” Asmaa Said, a local activist who drew up a report on the practice based on data secretly passed on to her by doctors operating in Derna, told the British newspaper.

“There is also the spread of STDs and the growing prevalence of miscarriages, premature and stillbirths”. […] Under the jihadi group’s rules, purported un-Islamic activities, such as smoking and playing instrumental music, are also banned.

4. RT video on the events in Macedonia and some odd anti-American analysis

(Some RT battle scenes here)

5. Update on the Turkish ship that was attacked from Libya. 

6. Here is an odd parsing of a sermon that was given in Detroit shortly after the attack in Texas which I felt needed a little scrutiny. (The whole unedited thing can be seen here)

7. Pakistani Man Convicted of Ordering Honor Killing on Daughter’s In-Laws in Pakistan from Brooklyn Cab

The long arm of American justice has reached right into Pakistan, where a heinous overseas revenge-for-honor killing was perpetrated—one that was orchestrated by cell phone from the front seat of a taxi in Brooklyn, New York.

Muslims driving taxis in American and European cities have been known to park them illegally when it is time for prayer, and to help lead families to daughters on the run. At least one “horror”/honor killing was carried out in a taxi when Yasir Said murdered his two academically promising and vivacious daughters, Sarah and Amina, in cold blood.

In the case of Mohammad Choudhry, a taxi was used as a command center to terrorize a daughter as well as the people who helped rescue her from captivity. It was the moving vehicle from which Chouhdry ordered a vigilante hit on those who had shamed him.

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8. Allen West: Muslim employees at Walmart get to pick what products they will ring up and which not.

9. Flotilla ahoy! A refresher on the background to another anti-Israel publicity stunt

As readers may be aware, flotilla season is apparently again upon us and on May 10^th the self-styled ‘Freedom Flotilla Coalition’ announced that a trawler had set sail from Sweden.

The Times of Israel reports:

“The trawler Marianne of Gothenburg will be carrying a “limited cargo of, among other things, solar cell panels and medical equipment” for use in Gaza, according to a statement by the Ship to Gaza campaign. […]

Along the way it will pick up eight other crew members, according to Israel Radio. Two other vessels are expected to join the flotilla later on.”

One of the various vessels’ passengers will apparently be Moncef Marzouki who has collaborated in the past with Hamas-linked groups in Europe and their associated personalities involved in the organization of previous flotillas.

Thank you M., Phyllis Chesler, Yucki, and many more.