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News and links for Dec 13 2012

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1. Update from Tommy Robinson in prison.

This is pretty depressing. I really do not want to believe the UK keeps political prisoners and so dishonestly at that. At least the USSR was pretty up front about it.

2. Japan scrambled fighter jets on Thursday after a Chinese government plane entered for the first time what Japan considers its airspace over disputed islets in the East China Sea… “Despite our repeated warnings, Chinese government ships have entered our territorial waters for three days in an row,” Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Osama Fujimura told reporters.

3.  Renovations in Amsterdam apartments – nicknamed “halal homes” in the press – have sparked a political row in the Netherlands.

About 180 apartments in Amsterdam have been given special makeovers which suit the wishes of Muslim residents. Features include individual taps that can be used for ritual cleansing before prayers and sliding doors to keep men and women apart.

4.  Syrian refugees get help from Swedish churches. Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing Syria and Sweden is the fave destination.

5. Nonie Darwish on what Egyptians are afraid to know

The problem with Egypt and many other Islamic nations is that they are ignorant of what they are demanding, and are left ignorant by their own media and educational system. By now it seems apparent that Egyptians do not even want to learn the truth about Sharia, in case they might reject it — an act that would turn them into apostates, eligible for death.

6. Syrian opposition urges U.S. review of al-Nusra blacklisting

(Reuters) – The leader of Syria’s opposition coalition urged the United States on Wednesday to review its decision to designate the militant Islamist Jabhat al-Nusra as a terrorist group, saying religion was a legitimate motive for Syrian rebels.

7. Press TV does propaganda piece accusing Canada of stealing children from Amer-Indian families without bothering to look at the very real conditions in the homes where these children may have been taken. I might add, to the best of my knowledge, Amer-Indian women do not cover their faces in that classically Arabian fashion as a rule. I wonder what prompted that?

8. No Shots Fired: State Dept Benghazi Security Force Unarmed

Breitbart: A source with personal knowledge of the security situation in Benghazi told Breitbart News that Senators who listened to closed door testimony about the Benghazi attack were shocked to learn State Department security personnel agents were not immediately armed.

9. Somali community uses riots, thuggery and intimidation as way to show that they should be allowed more public funds to live off of.

Remember the riots requiring large police presence and pepper spray when Somalis rioted at a meeting for applying for subsidized housing? Well they are now claiming this shows how they should all be given nice homes to live on that other people have to pay for. I think the Jews have a word for this. Starts with a Ch…

10. Christina Hoff Somers, a psychologist, author and personal hero of mine, discusses Sweden’s attempt to obliterate the facts of human sexual dichotomy. In this article she explains why it won’t work. Next step of course will be the Swedes will try and make boys feel really bad if they don’t act like girls. Because feeling bad is quite OK of course for commies when people do not go with the prescribed narrative. It is to be avoided for all other reasons of course.

 

Xinjiang militants in Syria, China sounds ‘high alert’

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Zeenews India:

Beijing: China on Monday asked the international community to be on “high alert” and step up cooperation to fight against terrorism saying that Islamic militants from its troubled northwest province of Xinjiang, bordering PoK, were in Syria and battling government forces there.

Confirming reports that the militants from Xinjiang, where China is grappling with ethnic unrest between Muslim Uyghur population and Han Chinese settlers, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei said that the Xinjiang militants were “colluding” with international terrorist groups.

“China opposes all forms of terrorism. The East Turkistan terrorist forces lead by the East Turkistan Islamic movement, (active in Xinjiang) have been colluding with international terrorist organisation,” Hong told a media briefing without directly naming al Qaeda.

“It not only seriously undermines China’s national security but also a threat to other countries peace and stability. The international community should stay on high alert against them and step up cooperation the joint fight against all terrorist organisations including them,” he said.

Earlier state-run Global Times quoted unidentified Chinese anti-terrorism officials as saying that leaders from “East Turkestan” terror organisations sending their members to Syria to participate in their quest for jihad.

China backs the embattled Assad regime in Syria even though it established contacts with the rebel groups.

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China conveys protest after Chinese fisherman shot dead by S. Korean Coast Guard

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Xinhuanet:

English.news.cn   2012-10-17 02:28:36              

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — The Chinese embassy in Seoul conveyed protest and strong dissatisfaction to South Korea after a Chinese fisherman was shot dead by a South Korean Coast Guard officer during a raid Tuesday.

The Chinese embassy asked the South Korean side to investigate into the case seriously and thoroughly, and to protect the legal rights of Chinese fishermen. It also urged civilized law enforcement to make sure this kind of incident never happens again.

The Chinese fisherman was shot with a rubber bullet by a South Korean officer who was trying to arrest him during a raid, he died from injuries after transported to a nearby hospital, according to South Korean authorities.

Canada should heed warnings of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor,’ security experts say

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H/T Shab

from Canada.Com

By Jordan Press, Postmedia News October 12, 2012 9:01 PM
U.S. Air Force personnel in the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center on July 20, 2010. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

U.S. Air Force personnel in the Air Force Space Command Network Operations & Security Center on July 20, 2010. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

OTTAWA — The escalating threat of cyber attacks requires a rethink in the government’s security priorities, experts and opposition critics said Friday in the wake of a stark warning from the American defense secretary about potentially devastating Internet-based threats.

Leon Panetta warned his own nation Thursday that businesses needed to better protect their own systems, as does government, to prevent a “cyber Pearl Harbor” – a cataclysmic cyber attack that would take down large parts of North American networks and be more devastating than the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

Panetta’s warning comes after concerns raised earlier this week in Canada about potential Chinese spying through state-backed telecommunications firm Huawei, and the country’s ability to secure information after Sub.-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle admitted he took secrets from a secure facility using a USB key.

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Chinese general warns troops to gird for war

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I have to confess, if we put their General Tsao up against our Colonel Sanders, I would bet on General Tsao for the win hands down.

Times 24/7

Chinese general warns troops to gird for war

Protesters carrying banners with anti-Japan slogans are stopped by riot police near the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 18. The 81st anniversary of a Japanese invasion produced a fresh wave of anti-Japan demonstrations in China. Photo Credit:AP

China’s most powerful military leader, in an usual public statement, last week ordered military forces to prepare for combat, as Chinese warships deployed to waters near disputed islands and anti-Japan protests throughout the country turned violent.

Protests against the Japanese government’s purchase of three privately held islands in the Senkakus chain led to mass street protests, the burning of Japanese flags, and attacks on Japanese businesses and cars in several cities. …

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Chinese protesters storm Japanese embassy in Beijing

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A man tries to climb over police lines during an anti-Japanese protest over the Diaoyu islands issue, known as the Senkaku islands in Japanese, outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on September 15, 2012.

Asia

Chinese protesters storm Japanese embassy in Beijing

Anti-Japan protests have broken out across China, with thousands of people mobbing the Japanese embassy in Beijing. Tensions between the two countries have risen over a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea.

Thousands of protesters hurled rocks and bottles at the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Saturday, as tensions between Asia’s two largest economies escalated over a row involving a disputed chain of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.

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Car Carrying Japanese Ambassador in China Attacked, Kyodo Says

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There has been quite a lot of increased hostility and tension in the far east between China, Japan, both Koreas with each other and with Japan etc. and seemingly over various islands and archipelagos.

While these growing conflicts involving ‘activists and flotillas of civilians’ as well as increased military presence and posturing may well be geopolitically significant, I just haven’t had time to research them all and post articles and links. But this one did raise an eyebrow.

Business Week:

A man attacked an official car carrying Japanese Ambassador Uichiro Niwa in Beijing and ripped the flag from the vehicle, Kyodo reported today.

Niwa was not hurt and Japan filed a protest with China’s Foreign Ministry, Kyodo said, citing officials at the Japanese Embassy whom it didn’t identify and an embassy statement. China expressed regret over the incident, Kyodo said, citing the embassy.

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China region bans Muslims from fasting during Ramadan

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The National Ae:

Chinese Special Police Corps in China's far-western Xinjiang region where Muslims have been barred from fasting.

BEIJING // Authorities in China‘s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang have banned Muslim officials and students from fasting during Ramadan, prompting an exiled rights group to warn of new violence.

Guidance posted on numerous government websites called on Communist Party leaders to restrict Muslim religious activities during the holy month, including fasting and visiting mosques.

Xinjiang is home to around nine million Uighurs, a Turkic speaking, largely Muslim ethnic minority, many of whom accuse China’s leaders of religious and political persecution.

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China Steps Up Curbs on Muslims

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H/T Blazing Cat Fur:

Radio Free Asia:

2012-07-23

Authorities in Xinjiang ban public religious activities during the holy month of Ramadan.

AFP

Ethnic Uyghur women pass Chinese paramilitary police on patrol in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, July 3, 2010.

Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have imposed curbs on the public observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan among the region’s Uyghur ethnic minority, an exile group said on Monday.

The government, which earlier this month stepped up security around the sensitive anniversary of the 2009 ethnic violence between the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese that killed nearly 200 people, has banned any public religious activities by the region’s Muslims, according to a spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

“They have set up Ramadan stability groups in every official department and organization, and they have to select people to serve on them,” spokesman Dilxat Raxit said. “Officials from these departments have to go and stay in mosques, so as to carry out personal surveillance work in all localities.”

The Muslim holy month devoted to dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and good deeds culminates with the three-day holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

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Two men suspected of trying to hijack a flight in China were beaten to death by passengers

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Now this should be a movie of the week.

Thoughts of these Chinese defenders will help me sleep for days.

From The Daily Mail:

By Amy Oliver

PUBLISHED: 15:01 GMT, 2 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:19 GMT, 2 July 2012

Two men who allegedly tried to hijack a plane in China were beaten to death by passengers and crew, state media said today.

The men were part of a six-strong gang, aged 20 to 36, who attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for Urumqi last Friday.

Minutes after the flight carrying 101 people took off from Hetian, southwest Xinjiang, three men in the front and three in the back stood up and announced their plans to terrified passengers, according to reports.

Terrifying: The men were part of a six-strong gang, aged 20 to 36, who attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for Urumqi last Friday (file picture)Terrifying: The men were part of a six-strong gang, aged 20 to 36, who attempted to hijack a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for Urumqi last Friday (file picture)

The group, all from the city of Kashgar in the west of Xinjiang, then broke a pair of aluminum crutches and used the pieces to attack passengers while trying to break into the cockpit, a regional government spokesman said.

They were tackled by police and passengers who tied them up with belts before the plane returned to the airport safely just 22 minutes later.

Several passengers and crew members were injured in the tussle. The alleged hijackers were taken to hospital where two of them later died, the state-run Global Times reported.

 

The newspaper said two others were hospitalised after mutilating themselves, but gave no others details.

 

 

The regional government spokesman added the men had smuggled  suspected explosives on board. These were still being tested by police today.

Xinjiang is home to a large population of minority Uighurs (pronounced WEE’-gurs), but is ruled by China’s ethnic majority Hans.

There have been clashes between authorities and Uighurs resentful of government controls over their religion and culture.

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North Korean hubris may finally push it over the cliff with it’s only real ‘ally’

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WAPO:

Kidnapped fishermen’s case angers Chinese public 

By , Updated: Wednesday, May 23, 10:16 AM

BEIJING — The plight of 28 Chinese fishermen who were kidnapped, robbed, stripped and held for 13 days by North Koreans has inflamed Chinese public opinion, with many Internet users taking to microblogging sites to question the Beijing government’s close relationship with its reclusive ally in Pyongyang.

But for the moment, experts and diplomats said, the episode seems unlikely either to shake the alliance or lead Beijing’s Communist authorities to heed Washington’s call to apply more pressure on North Korea.

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Has the United States abandoned all of the values that define it?

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One ‘Left-wing’ friend of mine who I admire, and who is intelligent and articulate beyond measure, described Barack Obama as the most right wing president since Richard Nixon. I may be beginning to agree with him once the labels and definitions are jiggered a little.

Here are two articles which describe the way in which the US embassy managed to shuck off an awkward diplomatic situation when a Chinese human rights activist attempted to seek asylum at the US embassy in Beijing.

This one by Anne Bayefsky on FOX News:

and this one from National Review:

The Obama foreign policy lynchpin known as “engagement” has run into one more eminently predictable quagmire in the case of Chen Guangcheng. State Department officials knew full well that five seconds out of American custody and into Chinese hands they could not guarantee Chen a thing.

So what did they do? They took a man who had suffered years of Chinese human rights abominations and in less than one week they asked him — of their own admission — over and over: What do you want to do now? What do you want to do now? What do you want to do now?

It is hardly a surprise that eventually they got the answer they wanted — the response that made their life a whole lot easier given Chinese banquets for visiting Obama emissaries were waiting and Hillary Clinton was coming to town. And yet astoundingly Obama officials expect us to believe that the atmosphere at the embassy was one of “no pressure.”

 
UPDATE:

China says at least 12 killed in Xinjiang (muslim) riot

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Uighurs living in Turkey stage a demonstration outside a hotel where Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is staying in Ankara Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. The protesters carried placards that read "Stop the Chinese Massacre against Uighurs" and "Freedom for Eastern Turkistan." - Uighurs living in Turkey stage a demonstration outside a hotel where Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is staying in Ankara Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. The protesters carried placards that read "Stop the Chinese Massacre against Uighurs" and "Freedom for Eastern Turkistan." | Burhan Ozbilici/Associated Press

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China says at least 12 killed in Xinjiang riot

Globe & Mail:

CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

BEIJING— The Associated Press
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At least 12 people were killed in riots Tuesday in China’s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media reported.
No details were given about what might have set off the violence near the city of Kashgar, although Xinjiang sees periodic outbreaks of anti-government violence by members of the region’s native Turkish Muslim Uighur ethnic group.

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