Category Archives: Pakistan

Pakistan admits it created some terrorist groups.

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Asif Ali Zardari speaks at Capitol Hill in Washington. Seen along with him is Hamid Karzai. AP/PTI

From Press Trust of India:

  • Pak created and nurtured terrorists, admits Zardari

    • STAFF REPORTER 14:7 HRS IST

    Rezaul H Laskar

    Islamabad, Jul 8 (PTI) For the first time, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari admitted that militants and extremists were “created and nurtured” in the country as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives.

    But they began to haunt the country in the post-9/11 era, Zardari said in a candid admission during an interactive meeting with former senior civil servants at the presidency last night.

    Militants and extremists emerged on the national scene and challenged the state not because the civil bureaucracy was weakened and demoralised, but because they “were deliberately created and nurtured as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives,” he said.

    “Let us be truthful to ourselves and make a candid admission of the realities,” Zardari said.

    “The terrorists of today were the heroes of yesteryears until 9/11 occurred and they began to haunt us as well,” he added.

    Taliban claim ‘3 month supply’ of purchased child suicide bombers.

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    Islam. The most repugnant, disturbing, disgusting, horrific, anti human theology ever spawned. Buying children as the guidance component of a missile to attack civilians is about the worst thing I have heard.

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    Traditional marriage Islam style.

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    If you guessed this won’t read like fun for the women, you would be right…

    H/T Gates of Vienna:

    From Pakistan’s Daily Star:

    Killed over dowry
    Mother of 2 beaten up, ‘forced’ to drink poison
    A Correspondent, Narsingdi
    A 29-year old woman lost her life in Narsingdi yesterday after her dowry demanding husband beat her up and allegedly forced her to drink poison.

    Suraiya Akhter, 28, a mother of two from Joshor village under Shibpur upazila, died on the way to the local hospital.

    Relatives said that Suraiya’s husband Anwar Hossain, 32, of the same village has long been torturing his wife for dowry from her parents. He wanted Tk 1 lakh in cash.

    As her parents were not able to cough up this amount, Anwar regularly tortured his wife.

    On Friday night, an argument broke out between the husband and wife again over this matter, and Anwar mercilessly beat his wife and later tried to strangle her with his own hands.

    As she struggled to breathe, Anwar allegedly forced her to drink poison before taking her to the hospital.

    She died on the way, and Anwar told everyone that Suraiya had committed suicide. Suriaya’s relatives refuted this, citing the regular beatings she received at his hand for dowry.

    When they confronted Anwar and accused him of murdering Suraiya, Anwar and his brother Iqbal attacked Suraiya’s relatives with a daa (curved chopper), seriously injuring Arun, Al Amin, Sohrab, Saidur, Khokan and Shamim.

    The injured men were admitted into different clinics.

    A case has been filed in this regard with Shibpur thana.

    Police sent the body to Narsingdi Sadar Hospital for an autopsy.

    Pakistan: Muslims, incited by mosque broadcasts, burn down 100 Christian homes and churches

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    From Jihad Watch:

    Pakistan: Muslims, incited by mosque broadcasts, burn down 100 Christian homes and churches

    And the world yawns. I have many times reversed the situation in headlines to stories like these — i.e., “Christian mob burns down 100 Muslim homes.” Can you imagine the international outcry, the “Islamophobia” studies launched, the hand-wringing at the UN, if a Christian mob (chanting “Deus vult” or “Christ is risen” or some such) began setting fire to Muslim homes and mosques? Yet when Muslim mobs go wild and attack Christians, as they do so often in Pakistan, Egypt, and Nigeria, the international media goes dark, Ban Ki-Moon sees nothing worth remarking upon, Barack Obama sends more money to the government of the perpetrators, and life goes on as usual.

    “Muslim Mob Burns Down 100 Christian Homes in Pakistan,” from International Christian Concern, July 1 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):

    07/01/09 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – This morning 100 Christian houses and churches were set on fire by local Muslims in the city of Kasur South, east of Lahore, Pakistan. The riots were incited by broadcasts from local mosques. This incident is similar to a February 1997 attack when thousands of Christian houses and churches were burned and hundreds of Christians were injured.

    ICC partners received the news this morning and went immediately to the scene to help injured Christians transferred to Lahore, renting two mini vans for this purpose. So far 9 burned women and 4 children have been transferred to Lahore for further medical treatment. All of them have been injured by throwing acid on them. Local police have arrived on the scene but the situation is out of control as thousands of Muslims have gathered for this purpose.

    More details to follow. Please call the Pakistani embassy in your country to ask them to protect the Christians in Kasur South.Pakistan Embassies:

    USA:   (202) 243-6500
    Canada:  (613) 238-7881
    UK:   0870-005-6967

    New video from the Mumbai attack. Graphic.

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    H/T jdamn and  beutifickid

    Here is an article with the transcripts of the calls between the handlers and the terrorists for those that wish to read them:

    Below is another source of the same documentary in case for any mysterious reason the yuotube one stops working:

    Link: Terror in Mumbai complete

    Pakistan to UK: UK must do more to combat militants

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    How bad can things be in the UK when Pakistan asks to stop radicalization of Muslims there?

    LONDON (Reuters) – Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday Britain has to tackle its own issues of deprivation to stop the radicalisation of British Muslims.

    In an interview with ITV’s “News at Ten”, he rejected the suggestion it was Pakistan’s role to win the hearts and minds of radicalised British Muslims, although he said his country would arrest any radical Briton visiting Pakistan and send them back to the UK.

    Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Brussels, June 17, 2009. Zardari said on Tuesday Britain has to tackle its own issues of deprivation to stop the radicalisation of British Muslims. (REUTERS/Francois Lenoir)

    “The appeal has to be on the other side,” he was due to say in the programme to be aired on Tuesday evening.

    “I think Britain has to take the responsibility and make sure that they do not feel the deprivation they have been. Because we all know this is a state of mind that comes up from some kind of this.

    “And one has to fight it in Britain and not in Pakistan.”

    British security services say there have been Pakistani links to almost all of the dozen major terrorism plots foiled since 2001, including the London bombings in 2005.

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    Would use Pakistani nuclear weapons: al-Qaeda

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    From The National Post: H/T GAR

    A Pakistani soldier stands with his heavy machine gun on a hill of the Biha valley in upper Swat on Jun. 20, 2009 where the military launched an operation against Taliban militants.Abdullah Jan/AFP/Getty ImagesA Pakistani soldier stands with his heavy machine gun on a hill of the Biha valley in upper Swat on Jun. 20, 2009 where the military launched an operation against Taliban militants.

    DUBAI — If it were in a position to do so, al-Qaeda would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in its fight against the United States, a top leader of the group said in remarks aired on Sunday.

    Pakistan has been battling al Qaeda’s Taliban allies in the Swat Valley since April after their thrust into a district 100 km northwest of the capital raised fears the nuclear-armed country could slowly slip into militant hands.

    “God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans,” Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the leader of al-Qaeda’s in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Al Jazeera television. Continue Reading →

    Pakistan: Muslims accuse mentally challenged girl of blasphemy

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    Obama”s religious brothers keep on sinking to new lows.
     
    Hat-Tip to Robert Spencer
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    Posted by Robert at 8:53 PM

    She was not even sure of her own name, but they were sure she had blasphemed Islam — yet another indication of how Pakistan’s blasphemy laws victimize non-Muslims. Instead of prattling about Islam’s tradition of tolerance, Obama should have called upon Pakistan and other Muslim countries to repeal all such laws.

    “Muslims Accuse Mentally Challenged Girl of Blasphemy,” by Jawad Mazhar and Jeremy Sewall for International Christian Concern, June 19 (thanks to Maxwell):

    The General Secretary of a fundamentalist Muslim party in Pakistan accused a Christian girl of blasphemy, taking her to the police who interrogated her for 16 hours.On June 3, Muhammad Abid Raza returned to his home in Kharian to find that his younger brother had saved burnt pages of the Koran in plastic bags which he claimed had been burned by their Christian neighbor, Nazia. Even though it was 10pm, Raza said that he immediately alerted the Saddar Police Station.

    The next day, police arrived at Nazia’s home and took her and her family members to the police station for questioning, where they kept her for 16 hours. Police realized she was mentally challenged when she failed to respond clearly to basic questions. When police asked her name, she responded, “Nadia.” A few moments later she suddenly said, “No, my name is Shaista,” and then, “No, my name may be Nazia.”

    Raza did his own research after accusing her of blasphemy, inquiring about her from neighbors and discussing the issue with Muslim clerics. His investigation led him to drop his charges against Nazia and request that police set her free on June 5.

    Jeremy Sewall, ICC’s Advocacy Director, said, “There are two major concerns with this story. First, this is another example of why Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are morally and legally bankrupt. Second, it shows that not even the mentally challenged are adequately protected from harassment and persecution. Praise God that Nazia was released, but her case illustrates exactly why Pakistan must repeal its extremist blasphemy laws.”

     

    Indeed.

    Christian beaten to death for drinking from ‘Muslim Cup’

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    H/T GOV with thanks

    Contact: Jeremy Sewall, Advocacy Director, International Christian Concern, 800-422-5441

    WASHINGTON, June 12 /Christian Newswire/ — International Christian Concern (www.persecution.org) has learned that radical Muslims running a tea stall beat a Christian man to death for using a cup designated for Muslims on May 9. The young man, Ishtiaq Masih, had ordered tea at a roadside stall in Machharkay village, Punjab, Pakistan, after his bus made a rest stop.

    When Ishtiaq went to pay for his tea, the owner noticed that he was wearing a necklace with a cross and grabbed him, calling for his employees to bring anything available to beat him for violating a sign posted on the stall warning non-Muslims to declare their religion before being served. Ishtiaq had not noticed the warning sign before ordering his tea.

    The owner and 14 of his employees beat Ishtiaq with stones, iron rods and clubs, and stabbed him multiple times with kitchen knives as Ishtiaq pleaded for mercy.

    The other bus passengers and other passers-by finally intervened and took Ishtiaq to the Rural Health Center in the village. The doctor who took Ishtiaq’s case told ICC that Ishtiaq had died due to excessive internal and external bleeding, a fractured skull, and brain injuries.

    Makah Tea Stall is located on the Sukheki-Lahore highway and is owned by Mubarak Ali, a 42-year-old radical Muslim. ICC’s correspondent visited the tea stall and observed that a large red warning sign with a death’s head symbol was posted which read, “All non-Muslims should introduce their faith prior to ordering tea. This tea stall serves Muslims only.” The warning also threatened anyone who violated the rule with “dire consequences.”

    A neighboring shopkeeper told ICC on condition of anonymity that all Ali’s employees are former students of radical Muslim madrassas (seminaries).

    Ishtiaq’s family said that they immediately reported the incident to the police and filed a case against Ali. However, the murderers are still freely operating the tea stall.

    When ICC asked the Pindi Bhatian Saddar police station about the murder, the police chief said that investigations were underway and they are treating it as a faith-based murder by biased Muslims. When asked about Ali’s warning sign, police chief Muhammad Iftikhar Bajwa claimed that he could not take it down. However, the constitution of Pakistan explicitly prohibits such discrimination.

    The public is encouraged to call the Pakistani embassy of their country to protest this heinous crime?

    Pakistan Embassies:

    USA: (202) 243-6500, in**@******************sa.org
    Canada: (613) 238-7881, pa*********@****rs.com
    UK: 0870-005-6967, ho*@*******on.org

    Taliban attack musicians at Afghan wedding

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    As part of Vladtepesblog’s special focus on Islam and the arts please see this:

    Taliban attack musicians at Afghan wedding

    JALALABAD, Afghanistan, June 15 (Reuters) – Taliban fighters beat musicians, shaved their heads and left them tied to trees overnight because they performed at an Afghan wedding, a village tribal chief said on Monday, a sign of the fighters’ growing influence.

    While in power from 1996-2001, the Taliban banned music as un-Islamic.

    The militants have returned to areas in the east and south of the country, where violence has sharply spiked in recent years. They attack government officials, Afghan police, foreign troops and schools that teach girls, another practice they forbid.

    “A party was going on when a group of Taliban grabbed five musicians and started beating them and smashing their musical instruments,” said Rahmatullah Khan, a head of Merke Khel village in the east of the country.

    “The musicians were tied up with rope to trees last night and villagers found them in the morning when going out for prayers,” Khan said.

    Khan said Taliban fighters shaved the heads of the musicians and made them take oaths in the presence of villagers that they would not sing or play music at weddings again.

    Afghan weddings and engagement parties in rural areas are traditionally celebrated with hundreds of guests, music and singing that often continues until late at night.

    (Reporting by Rafiq Sherzad; Writing by Hamid Shalizi)

    I feel it is doubly important for multiculturalists and moral cultural relativists to understand that all cultures are not equal. Islam does not have the same basic values as western societies but plays it’s music using the Byzantine scale. It murders musicians. The band in the story above got off light. More typically they are murdered.

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    Britain commits cultural suicide.

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    As if the cultural identity of indigenous Britons wasn’t diluted enough.

    BNP HOMEPAGE

     new British youth“Earned Citizenship” Scandal Allows Invaders Quicker Access to British Passports if They ‘Mentor a New Refugee’ or Join a Strike

    The “earned citizenship” programme to be introduced in December 2010 will grant immigrants a British passport two years quicker than normal if they can show that they have “mentored a new refugee” or been active in a trade union (possibly by going on strike).

    The earned citizenship programme forms part of the Government’s Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Bill which claimed that newcomers would have to “earn” the right to stay in the UK and be given a new “path to citizenship.” Initially, Government ministers had said that some form of community work such as running a local scout group would contribute towards gaining citizenship.

    Now, however, the Home Office has said that immigrants will win fast track approval for British citizenship if they take part in trade union activities, canvass for political parties, volunteer for a “faith” organisation or “mentoring a newly-arrived refugee.”

    Migrants who complete 50 hours of such voluntary work will be entitled to receive British citizenship after six years – two years earlier than if they do nothing. Observers point out that migrants cannot vote until they become citizens, so by offering British passports to those who take part in Labour Party-supporting trade union activities, the Government is effectively growing its own immigrant vote.

    There is also no definition of what constitutes a “faith organisation” either. This would easily be simply joining the activities of a local mosque, which is part of many immigrants’ lifestyle choice in any event.

    The most outrageous suggestion, however, is that an immigrant can gain two years remission off the passport application process by “mentoring a new refugee.” The absurd situation will therefore arise where immigrants – possibly ‘refugees’ or ‘asylum seekers’ can speed up their applications by aiding other ‘asylum seekers’ to settle in Britain.

    As if this was not astonishing enough, the Home Office document which spells out the rules says that employers will be expected to give immigrants paid time off during working hours to complete this “voluntary service.”

    The Home Office document says: “We are keen for migrants to participate in our civic and political life and we recognise the important part that political parties and trade unions play in our democracy. Canvassing and handing out leaflets will qualify as active citizenship because it includes interaction with other party members.”

    Christian Man Raped, Murdered for Refusing to Convert to Islam, Family Says

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    Now if the main-stream media would only start reporting on the hundreds or thousands of cases of forced convertion that happen in Islamic society all under the nose of police and government officials. I’m sure some of this will be addressed in Obamas next speech to his Muslim brothers and sisters.

    Convert or Die. Infidel

    Convert or Die. Infidel

    FOX NEWS
      A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police are doing nothing about it, the victim’s brother and minister told FOXNews.com.Pakistani police reportedly found the body of Tariq “Litto” Mashi Ghauri — a 28-year-old university student in Sargodha, Pakistan — lying dead in a canal outside a rural village in Punjab Province on May 15. He had been raped and stabbed at least five times.

    “They have sexually abuse him, torture him with a knife on his testicle and genitals,” Ghauri’s brother, 24-year-old Salman Nabil Ghauri, said. “They have tortured him very badly, and after that they have stabbed five times with a knife and killed him.”
    The family believes Litto Ghauri was murdered by the brothers of his Muslim girlfriend, Shazi Cheema, after they found him in a compromising sexual position with their sister.

    The Rev. Haroon Bhatti, a Christian clergyman in the village and a friend of the Ghauri family, said Cheema’s three brothers came to Litto Ghauri’s house on May 11 and gave him an ultimatum: Marry their sister and convert to Islam.“On that farmhouse — four days there — we all, Christians and family, were searching for him,” the Rev. Bhatti said. “I was with him. I was searching for him.”

     After police discovered the body, Ghauri’s death was declared a homicide and the family filed paperwork with the Atta Shaheed police station in their small village, Adda 44SB. But Ghauri’s brother said police still have not arrested the alleged killers and have refused to meet with his family. Continue Reading →

    Villagers fight Taliban after Pakistan mosque blast

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    By Kamran Haider

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Villagers in northwest Pakistan have attacked Taliban militants killing seven of them in revenge for a bomb attack on a mosque that killed at least 40 people, a top government official and residents said on Sunday.

     It was the latest in a series of instances of people turning their guns on the Taliban in recent weeks and trying to force them out of their areas and will encourage the Pakistani government which needs public support to defeat the militants.

     The United States, which needs sustained Pakistani action to help defeat al Qaeda and cut off militant support for the insurgency in Afghanistan, will also be heartened by the move.

     The Pakistani military has been battling Taliban in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, for more than a month after the militants took advantage of a peace pact to gain new ground.

     The army offensive has broad public support even though many in Pakistan are ambivalent about the Taliban and are wary of the government’s close alliance with the United States.

     Taliban militants have also launched a string of bomb attacks in response to the military offensive and are suspected of being behind a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Upper Dir region, near Swat, that killed about 40 people on Friday.

     After the blast, enraged villagers formed a militia, known as a lashkar, of about 500 men to expel the militants from the area, said the top government official in the region. Continue Reading →

    Pakistanis turn backs on ‘erring’ Taliban

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    Pakistanis turn backs on ‘erring’ Taliban From The BBC:

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    As the fighting between the Taliban militants and Pakistani army becomes a war for the soul of Pakistan, Hanif Mohammed thinks the Taliban may have already lost one crucial battle.

    IDP’s queue for food
    Support for the Taliban is fading as fighting increasingly affects civilians

    On the 11th day of every Islamic month, my next-door neighbours in Karachi set up a sound system in the evening and start singing songs of devotion.

    The house belongs to a banker who is also a minor spiritual leader of the Gilani sect, which originated in Iraq.

    Their evening usually begins with hymns for the Prophet Muhammad, set to Bollywood’s hit tunes.

    Sometimes I observe them from my roof top.

    They are all middle-aged men, and most sport flowing beards.

    The long line of cars parked outside the house suggests that they have a preference for the latest, flashy models.

    The finale of their spiritual evening is usually a rousing chorus where everyone joins in.

    Imaginary past

    The chant is difficult to translate, but it expresses their collective desire to get teleported to the holy city of Baghdad.

    “Karachi has its share of problems,” a guest staying with us and listening to this chorus commented recently, “but surely I wouldn’t move to Baghdad. Don’t these people read the newspapers?”

    Until recently, many thought the Taliban would lead the way to this promised land

    My neighbours are not the only urban, middle class Pakistanis yearning for a return to an imaginary past in the Arab deserts – a puritanical utopia where they would live blessedly ever after.

    Every day, in a thousand prayer and preaching sessions, the believers beg to be returned to Mecca and Madina.

    And until recently, many thought that the Taliban would lead the way to this promised land.

    Or at least create a replica at home.

    For a long time the Taliban presented themselves as the lost link to a pure past, a conduit to a simple life and eternal salvation.

    Only four weeks ago most Urdu television channels were acting as cheerleaders for the Taliban.

    Most Urdu columnists in newspapers were presenting the Pakistani Taliban as the reincarnation of early Muslim warriors.

    Change of heart
    The Pakistani army has stepped up an offensive against Taliban militants

    Now in a rare consensus they are all clamouring for an all-out war against them.

    Even the people who were sitting on the fence – or considered the Taliban a localised problem – have suddenly realised that actually the Taliban are out to destroy their way of life.

    Every single opinion poll carried out in Pakistan has concluded that the country is a hotbed of anti-Americanism.

    But now, faced with a war against the Taliban, the nation seems to have united behind the most American of slogans: they are threatening our way of life.

    How did we change our minds so quickly?

    More than the government or the media, it is the Pakistani Taliban who are responsible.

    This collective change of heart can be traced back to a two-minute flogging video that made headlines around the world.

    Everyone knew that the Taliban flog and behead people, and when they want to show their softer side they just shoot them or slice off their ears. But nobody had seen them at work.

    A young girl’s screams

    Displaced people in Swat
    More than two million people have been displaced by the fighting Continue Reading →

    Richard Holbrooke asks the right question. Where is the OIC?

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    Here is a Stratfor Sitrep on Holbrooke’s request for more international aid for those fleeing the Swat Valley:

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    June 4, 2009 From Stratfor.com
    U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, urged European and Muslim countries June 4 to assist refugees from Swat Valley, Reuters reported. Holbrooke, speaking from the Shah Mansoor Camp, 50 miles northwest of Islamabad, said the United States is providing almost half of all aid to Pakistan and asked, “Where are the Europeans? Where is the OIC [Organisation of the Islamic Conference]?” Holbrooke also said he will meet with Pakistani leaders, including the head of Pakistan’s army, General Ashfaq Kayani, in Islamabad on June 5 to discuss the next phase of the Swat Valley operation.

    Where exactly is the OIC? We may remember them for such great public works as Durban conference I and II both of which where designed to demonize Israel while obliterating ‘Islamaphobia’ world wide and attempting to destroy meaningful freedom of speech all over the globe using the veneer of ‘religious tolerance’

    The OIC is prepared to invest a great deal of resources into these two activities, demonizing Israel and destroying free speech except for Islam, but they seem to show a rather stunning disregard for the well being of actual Muslims. Pakistan is seeing a refugee crisis of staggering proportions. I mean real refugees not fake ones as in Gaza or West Bank where territorial wars occasionally see Muslims seeking refugee status within Israel to avoid the mercenaries from Hamas but actual refugees where hundreds of thousands of Muslim men women and children are fleeing parts of Pakistan where the Taliban and Al Queda are at war over control and implementation of sharia law. The OIC or indeed any Muslim state such as oil rich Saudi or Iran seems not be offering one farthing to the hungry and desperate who have fled their homes and traditional lands due to what is likely Saudi and Iranian funded terrorist activity in these areas.

    (As a post script I linked above to a PressTV article about Holbrooke and the refugee crisis. Here is the link again. Read the article by all means but do stay for the comments and think those are the people we are importing in the hundreds of thousands even the millions to the western world. At least it answers the great question for me, ‘For whom was the caps lock invented’.)