Iran.

1. Iran, Hezbollah Reportedly Backing Al-Qaeda Attacks Against US Interests in the Middle East

Iran and Hezbollah have been supervising and funding fighters linked to Al-Qaeda to target US interests in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, independent Lebanese online newspaper Naharnet reported on Sunday citing a breaking report from pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat.

Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that Iran is playing a central role in running the affairs of Al-Qaeda, and even, surprisingly, Jabhat al-Nusra, after it has taken in a number of leading fighters in order to plan terrorist attacks against these US interests.

The sources confirmed that the fighters have been moving between Iranian cities, including Tehran, Meshad and Zahdan. Meanwhile, Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah has been taking care of planning and providing them with financing.

2. Phased US-Iran nuclear deal taking shape

GENEVA (AP) — The United States and Iran are working on a two-phase deal that clamps down on Tehran’s nuclear program for at least a decade before providing it leeway over the remainder of the agreement to slowly ramp up activities that could be used to make weapons.

Officials from some of the six-power talks with Iran said details still needed to be agreed on, with U.S. and Iranian negotiators meeting Monday for the third straight day ahead of an end-of-March deadline for a framework agreement. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joined the negotiations after arriving Sunday.

3. Iran Press: Obama desperate for a nuclear deal

How are the ongoing nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran playing out in the Iranian press? Well, the U.S. is being portrayed as desperate.

 

In an article by Press TV, an Iranian propaganda organ, the headline reads, “Obama ‘under pressure’ to reach nuclear agreement with Iran: Analyst.”

US President Barack Obama is “under pressure” to reach an agreement with Iran over Tehran’s nuclear energy program, an American foreign policy analyst says.

“It’s quite obvious to everyone that Mr. Obama would like to have a deal with Iran,” said James George Jatras, a former US diplomat and adviser to the Senate Republican leadership.

4. Nuclear-Themed Domino Show in Iran Culminates with Missile Destroying Israeli Flag

 

Thank you Richard, Yucki, M., and all of you who sent in materials.

 

England and Europe uses its Jews as a ‘hatesync’

Twice now I have read news from the UK on how a school board has banned pork or pig products from meals served at public schools – something which should not be happening in the first place – and is trying to spread the blame for this on Jewish students as well as on muslims. In today’s story, the claim is that “it’s too expensive to monitor the diets of Islamic and Jewish pupils.”

In fact, there is no prohibition in Jewish law from handling or serving pork or pork products. Many Jewish people, in fact, have pig hearts and stomach parts surgically implanted as treatment for disease, as do many other patients preferring an organ from an animal over an artificial or synthetic one. Jews simply cannot eat pig meat. They have no objection to being near pigs or having any other relationship with them such as pets. Add to that, Jews have been in England for centuries and all the while never required these sorts of changes in public eateries for non-muslims, changes that we see only muslims requiring from non-muslims and only since the number of non-muslims within the UK have risen.

It’s pretty much a guarantee that it’s only muslim students and their families who have an issue with being near pork or with allowing non-muslims to make their own choices that are in defiance of islamic sensitivities. So clearly then, the idea of including Jews in the excuse to ban all pork products is a kind of ‘hate-sync’ or ‘blame-sync’ in much the same way as a computer uses a piece of metal as a heat-sync to get heat away, which it generates itself, from a sensitive part. This is done to soften the inevitable and well-justified vitriolic reaction to muslims who certainly caused it, so that they can say: ‘This isn’t just muslims!’

One has to wonder how a government agency can make a policy more cynical than this one. Clearly it knows that there is no future for Jews in Europe, thanks to unlimited and irrational islamic immigration. And so it cannot matter what is true, fair or just or what kind of problems will result from a calculated lie that protects the guilty at the expense of the most vulnerable segment of the population. Pre-teenage girls raped by hundreds of thousands, by muslim gangs that are often protected by muslims within the establishment, notwithstanding of course.

Eeyore for VladTepesBlog with thanks to CB. Sashenka

MEMRI: Brooklyn Imam Tareq Yousef Al-Masri on Paris Terror Attacks: We Muslims Must Admit That We Are Time Bombs and We Hate Christians

(Update at bottom of post)

Also, since posting this, some rather revealing news about what certainly appears to be this guy have been placed in the comments. For all interested, please click the links offered by the commenters. See if they fit the thesis of this post.

Original site at MEMRI:

(It is larger there, might be easier to read the titles at the MEMRI link)

This is a fascinating clip. Please watch it all the way through before passing any kind of judgment. One of the first curious things I noticed, was an odd sense of suspicion about this imam because early on I noticed he was using reason. Something which is anathema to islam overall.

A few times this site has alluded to the ‘wedge strategy’ and even spoken about what I call, ‘Government imams’. I would suggest this is one of them.

A one on one debate between this man and Robert Spencer would be one for the books although I believe I have seen something like it before, where Robert is arguing for the demonstrably true nature of islam using reason, islamic scripture and islamic history, against an imam who is trying to retroactively rewrite the islamic narrative in order to achieve an outcome most of us would agree with.

I would love it if this worked. But it won’t, it can’t and frankly I think this contributes to motivating young cultural muslims and other young people to join up with the jihadis because of the moral outrage when it is discovered that governments and government sponsored mosques and imams, (not saying this one is but betting it is) are discovered to be exactly that, peddling an acceptable version of islam, easily discoverable to be untrue by even a cursory look at the scripture and facts. For example abrogation is in the koran itself.  While this imam does an admirable job of trying to undo the horrific and incalculable damage the concept has done to humanity and the world, it remains right there in the koran clear as day.

I look forward to the comments on this one.

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Thanks to a commenter, ‘Just a thought’, it would appear that someone who looks very similar and who’s name is the same except the last part of it has been changed to ‘From Egypt’ (Al Masry) may have been in the news before where a woman who rebuked his offer to make her his 4th wife or temporary whore annoyed him so much he called her a Jew.

Al MasriArticle here from the New York Post

Do have a look. If it is indeed the same man it demands a few answers and raises a few questions, not the least o which is if indeed he is on the payroll to sell the Obama-Cameron narrative.

Thanks GoV and Just a Thought

Paras guard Jewish neighbourhood in Antwerp

From Deredactie.Be

Armed Belgian paratroopers on Saturday started to guard strategic locations across the Jewish district of the northern port city of Antwerp. The troops are among 300 members of the Belgian armed forces mobilised to ensure security as Belgium faces a level three alert in response to the threat of Islamic fundamentalist terrorist violence.

VRT News’s Liesbeth Indeherberge: “On our way to the Jewish neighbourhood we suddenly found ourselves bang in the middle of a column of military vehicles. Purely by chance I was able to witness the briefing of 3 Para. It took place at the local police station and the police were in charge.”

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H/T GoV

(Does anyone think this is a sustainable strategy for defending Europe’s target population from the muslims that Europe is importing by the millions?)

Turkish suspected GONGO threatens to destroy synagogues and eliminate Jews from Constantinople (Istanbul)

Earlier today we posted just the headline, a video and graphic from the link.

Tania was nice enough to translate the most important parts of the article as she read it.

From this Turkish website:

Wednesday 5th November 2000 people protested at Beyoglu carrying the Palestinian flag in their hand. they believed that the Golden Dome in Jerusalem was attacked and bombed. During the demonstration they praised Hamas and shouted out “demolish Israel” and “Hamas kill the Jews”.
Ahmet Yilmaz published a message on IHH social media, saying get rid of the synagogues and the Yahudis (Jews) in Istanbul, there wer negative comments such as “they are killing children and selling women all you care is about the golden dome.” and they removed it from Facebook.

Posters says, “To be demolished”, and was placed on the synagogue front, and back doors. The person he put the sign and walked away. What you see in the pictures was the demonstration that took place on the 5th. They are two different events.

[Editor]

Any errors in translation are mine as I edited what I thought were grammatical mistakes in the translation which could have had more than one meaning. I fixed them based on brief chats with the translator. There is a great deal more on the original page if anyone wants to try and load it up on Google translate.

I am referring to the IHH as a ‘GONGO’ because that is what I suspect they are. A GONGO is a government agency masquerading as a non-governmental agency, or an NGO. One example of this would be an Iranian human rights group created by the Islamic regime but masquerading as a separate entity. The value of this would be to fill up time at, for example, the UN HRC where they would use up all the time allotted to real NGOs and human rights groups by just basically flattering the regime that created them and asking bogus questions. The IHH is the group that set up the initial flotilla to Gaza a few years ago which was widely believed to be a Turkish government event. But I cannot be certain of any of that. It is also possible that the IHH is an official part of the Turkish government as opposed to just a kind of ‘Cossack’ which I suspect they are.

Anyone who knows, please explain in the comments and ill fix as needed here in the post.

Eeyore for Vlad.

A few articles on recent events in Israel.

1. A rocket fired from Gaza causes a fire in a factory in Sderot 

Rocket fire on the Israeli south continues: Two rockets hit Sderot in first attack, one hits factory and the other an open area, two others hit open areas in Sdot Negev.

2. Israelis take out a couple of terrorists with rather precision ornaments

3. An article translated by Oz-Rita from the French Jewish Defense League:

Magnificent targeted elimination of 2 terrorists in Gaza.

No collateral victims. Perfect clean-up. Bravo Tahal!

Two Arabs, called incorrectly “Palestinians”, have been neutralized Friday in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, near the house of the ex-leader of the terrorist government of islamist Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh.

The remains of the two responsibles for launching rockets on Israel, killed in the magnificent Israeli raid in their car, arrived in separate small pieces at the Hospital Al-Chifa of Gaza.
The 2 Nazislamists have been identified as Oussama al-Hassoumi, 29 y.o. from Beit Lahia, in the North of Gaza and Mohammad Fassih, 24 y.o. from the town of Gaza. We wish them a nice time in hell for eternity.

Meanwhile the Israeli Minister for Defence, Moshe Yaalon has assured us that Israel “will react firmly to any rocket attack against its territory or against its civilians or Israeli soldiers as we did today”. “We hold Hamas responsible for everything that happens in Gaza, and we advise them to not tempt our patience and our determination” the Minister added.

The Vatican, the Imam, the three unapproved prayers and interfaith movement origins in general.

An interesting thing happened at the Vatican on June 8 of this year. The pope invited what sounds like the setup for a 70s joke, an imam, a rabbi and a priest, to come and each give prayers for peace in the Vatican rose garden.

When the imam got up to read his prepared materials, all of which had been submitted in advance for approval as had all the materials to be read by all, the imam read 3 verses of the koran which he had not submitted in advance as well as some free form thoughts of his own.

Gates of Vienna and this site have written a few posts on this, here and here and GoV here But the importance of the event should not be underestimated. The meaning of the 3 extra verses you are about to see with great attention to detail and with highly acclaimed and authoritative Islamic texts,  will be shown to be basically a direct insult to the Jews and Christians in attendance. The Vatican’s response was to write some pot-boiler sophistry to deflect the imam’s insult in order to not take away from the intended spirit of the event one would assume. But this event was broadcast live to the entire Islamic world and it is highly likely that a large percentage of muslims watching knew exactly what took place, not to mention a number of Christian and other minority groups living in Islamic lands, even if nearly no Westerners did.

This is not without importance and not without consequence.

Special thanks to Stephen Coughlin who worked patiently with me on this over several days of recording as well as assembling the materials referenced in his answers and explanations.

Below, the actual speech the imam gave subtitled. There is a minor error with the translation. Unbelievers should read, ‘Kufar’

Here is a related interview with Maj. Coughlin by Robert Spencer on interfaith in detail

Gates of Vienna post on the Vatican brief 

Ukraine warns Jewish people of confiscation and expulsion by armed men with written notice

From Gateway Pundit:

Jews in Eastern Ukraine are being blamed for supporting the revolution that forced pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country. Armed men handed out a leafleton Passover evetelling Jews to register or face confiscation of their property.

Ukraine Jews expulsion

Sovereignty, the Dome of the Rock, and one Israeli elected representative, Moshe Feiglin

Article by CB Sashenka:

The area known as the Temple Mount at the top of Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, was the site where the First Jewish Temple was built over 3,000 years ago (957 BC) by King David’s son King Solomon. King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel in 1003 BC. The Temple was destroyed in 586 BC by the Babylonians, was rebuilt in 516 BC, and destroyed again in 70 AD by the Romans.

Since 70 AD, the first mass Jewish pilgrimage near the mount was allowed to take place after the Six-Day War in 1967 (a war that Israel fought in self-defense and won against the neighbouring states of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, all preparing to obliterate Israel), when Israel took back its holiest site, the 36-acre Temple Mount in East Jerusalem (Israel’s ancient capital) from Jordan. Not only did Israel allow Muslims to worship there (as opposed to the Muslims who forbade Jews to worship there when the Temple Mount was under Muslim control), but then-Israeli Defense Minister Dayan entrusted administrative control of the Temple Mount to the Jordanian Waqf (the Islamic authority in Jerusalem). Overall security control of the area was maintained by Israel.

In the First and Second Jewish Temples, the holiest spot was the “Holy of Holies”, built around the “Foundation Stone” where the binding of Isaac by Abraham to sacrifice him to God, and other religious events in Judaism, were believed to have taken place. This is where the Ark of the Convenant (containing the 10 Commandments) was placed in the First Temple.

Over the centuries, Muslims who eventually took control of Christian Jerusalem (and who neither made Jerusalem a capital of a Muslim area nor a province of a Muslim empire) built a shrine, the gold-topped Dome of the Rock in 691 AD, less than 60 years after Mohammed’s death, on the site where Solomon’s Temple once stood, over the Holy of Holies. The Al Aqsa mosque was also built (705 AD) on the Temple Mount.

It is a common Islamic custom to build mosques on the sites of other people’s sacred places after being conquered, in order to emphasize the superiority of Islam over other religions, and to give the city an Islamic identity. Many churches, synagogues, and Hindu, Buddhist and Zoroastrian temples have been converted into mosques.

The fact that The Dome of the Rock was built in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount and over the Holy of Holies, asserts that Islam has replaced Judaism. And the 600-foot inscription in the dome that consists of several koranic passages challenging the Christian belief in the trinity and the divinity of Christ, asserts that Islam has also replaced Christianity:

“People of the Book (the Bible), overstep not bounds in your religion and of God, speak only truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is only an apostle of God and His word which He conveyed to Mary and a Spirit proceeding from Him. Believe therefore in God and his apostles and say not ‘Three.’ It will be better for you. God is only one God. Far be it from His glory that He should have a son. His is whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And God is a sufficient Guardian. The Messiah does not disdain being a servant of God nor do the angels who are near Him. And all who disdain His service are filled with pride. God will gather them all to Himself” (64:1, 33:54, 4:169-171).

Part of one of the verses inscribed says: “the true religion of God is with Islam” (3:16-17).

Around three years ago, the Dome of the Rock area became inaccessible to non-Muslims. And the Israeli government currently enforces a ban on non-Muslim prayer on the Temple Mount to accommodate Islam. Non-Muslims who are observed praying on the site are subject to expulsion by the police.

Notice how, in the aerial view below of the Temple Mount area, the Dome of the Rock stands out. It was meant to stand out, to dwarf or obliterate any trace of other religious structures, just as the Waqf’s archaeological excavations at Judaism’s holiest site are destroying ancient Jewish antiquities and artifacts – in other words, destroying all evidence of an ancient Jewish presence in Jerusalem.

In the same way, the Taliban erased the Buddhist past of Afghanistan in 2001 by blowing up the world’s two largest standing sandstone Buddhas carved into the hillside 1700 years ago (one of them 165 feet high). Palestinians desecrated and vandalized Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem/Nablus many times, attempting to rebuild it as a mosque, and still refer to Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem as a mosque. Turkey’s Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Spain’s Cordoba Cathedral, and Greece’s Parthenon in Athens were converted into mosques. The intention is to erase every sign, remnant, and memory of a pre-Islamic past.

Middle East genocide

H/T Golem Bar

NY Post:

We do nothing as Muslims eradicate the last vestiges of Christians and Jews from nation after nation

  • By RALPH PETERS
  • Last Updated: 12:57 PM, June 2, 2013
  • Posted: 10:39 PM, June 1, 2013

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Ralph Peters
We are witnesses to murder, and our governments are accomplices. The relentless destruction of the last remnants of the Middle East’s Judeo-Christian civilization is well under way. And we are silent.

Captives of political correctness, our governments cater to radical immigrant tantrums as our leaders contort the truth to deny the existence of Islamist terrorism. Meanwhile, our Middle Eastern “allies” and foes alike eradicate thousands of years of Jewish and Christian heritage. Our diplomats treat the persecution as a minor embarrassment, best ignored.

Muslims set fire to a Copt Christian church in Cairo.
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Muslims set fire to a Copt Christian church in Cairo.


The banishments and butchery aren’t new, but the breakdown of the last rotting order in the wake of the “Arab Spring” has empowered psychotic fanatics who do not even value the lives of the faithful, let alone the lives of unbelievers. This is the end-game, the final persecution of Christians clinging to lands they’ve called home for 2,000 years. Except for Israel and the rarest exceptions elsewhere, Jews are already gone from the realms that nurtured them since the early years of their faith.

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