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Ohio Attack Victim: I Didn’t Come to America to Hear the President Preach About Islam
ByPAMELA GELLER on May 8, 2016
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ohio
A devout Muslim goes into an Ohio restaurant with a machete and starts hacking up the patrons because the owner is an Israeli Christian. This is a news story that was virtually ignored by the enemedia. If a “right wing” Christian ever walk into a Muslim restaurant and started hacking (which has never happened), it would be the biggest story since 9/11. But Muslims hacking Christians and Jews? Not news. Typical.
“Ohio Attack Victim: I Didn’t Come to America to Hear the President Preach About Islam…” Breitbart, May 7, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
TEL AVIV – The Israeli Arab owner of the Columbus, Ohio, restaurant attacked by a machete-wielding Muslim immigrant from West Africa in February expressed his frustration during an interview in Israel this week that U.S. authorities have not labeled the attack an act of Islamic terrorism.
Hany Baransi, the owner of the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, told the Times of Israel upon his visit here that he is certain his establishment was targeted because he is Israeli.
“I am sure it was an assassination attempt. I was the target. Why else would the Nazareth have been targeted? It wasn’t a random attack. Mine is the only restaurant in Columbus that displays an Israeli flag,” said Baransi.
“I’m an American Israeli Christian Arab. My being Israeli comes first,” Baransi said.
The Times of Israel reported that Baransi said the FBI has been recently refusing to reply to his requests for information about the ongoing investigation. And he said he is dismayed U.S. officials do not discuss Islamic extremism.
“There is a problem in the US to mention terrorism or Islamic extremism. Obama talks about how Muslims are peace-loving. I didn’t come to America to have the president preach about Islam,” Baransi stated.
Baransi made similar comments in February, when he was interviewed on this reporter’s talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” which is broadcast Sunday nights on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia.
During that interview, Baransi argued the attack was “most definitely” a terrorist act, and he revealed that he often argued with local Arabs about his staunch pro-Israel views.
Asked why he thought the attack was a terrorist incident, Baransi replied, “I’m from Israel. I’m a very outspoken Israeli Arab. People don’t like that here. I don’t have too many friends.”
Baransi was asked by this reporter to elaborate on his outspoken views. The restaurant owner said he often debated with local Arabs who expressed anti-Israel sentiment.
Baransi stated:
When I meet Arabs, they ask me “where are you from.” I say, “I’m from Israel.” And then they start arguing about Palestine and stuff. You might be Palestinian. I’m not. I’m Israeli. I have Israeli citizenship. I’m a proud Israeli citizen.
And I try to talk to them back. “Hey, do you know there’s a democracy in Israel? Do you know the Muslim in Israel has more freedom than any Muslim in any other country?”
…
Israel to me is the greatest country in the Middle East. And I’m tired with people putting us down and putting the Jewish people down. And I defend that.
Baransi said he was born in Haifa, Israel in 1965 and was raised Catholic. He said he immigrated to the U.S. in 1983.
According to Baransi, the suspected attacker, Mohamed Barry, 30, came into the Nazareth restaurant thirty minutes before the attack and inquired about Baransi’s Israeli background.
He stated that Barry walked in, “and one of my waitresses was in the front greeting people. He looked around. I have by the cashier area [an] Israeli flag, an American flag. And he looked around and asked where was I. Asked where was I from. And when I was coming back and such.”
“Then he left, came back thirty minutes later with a knife and machete and walked into the restaurant and went from one table to another slashing people,” Baransi stated.
Barry injured four people in the brutal attack before taking off and being chased down by local police who were able to identify his vehicle utilizing witness reports.
CNN reported on the police chase:
Once authorities were able to get the suspect off the road, he tried to exit from the passenger side of the vehicle and an officer unsuccessfully tried to use a stun gun on him, Weiner said.
The suspect eventually made it out of the vehicle with a machete and another knife in hand.
Then, “he lunged across the hood at the officers,” Weiner said. “Another officer in a cruiser fired a couple shots at him and put him down.”
Barry’s uncle told local media that the suspect was born in Guinea and moved to the U.S. in 2000, living mostly in Philadelphia, and then moving about two years ago to Columbus.
NBC4 in Columbus quoted law enforcement sources saying the FBI had investigated Barry four years ago over expressing radical Islamic views.
CBS News homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues reported in February local officials believe Barry may have traveled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2012.
The news agency added: “Pegues reports that law enforcement is concerned that this incident has the hallmarks of the type of so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attack that they have been working to stop.”
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ByPAMELA GELLER on May 8, 2016
CURRENT AFFAIRS 11 Comments
ohio
A devout Muslim goes into an Ohio restaurant with a machete and starts hacking up the patrons because the owner is an Israeli Christian. This is a news story that was virtually ignored by the enemedia. If a “right wing” Christian ever walk into a Muslim restaurant and started hacking (which has never happened), it would be the biggest story since 9/11. But Muslims hacking Christians and Jews? Not news. Typical.
“Ohio Attack Victim: I Didn’t Come to America to Hear the President Preach About Islam…” Breitbart, May 7, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
TEL AVIV – The Israeli Arab owner of the Columbus, Ohio, restaurant attacked by a machete-wielding Muslim immigrant from West Africa in February expressed his frustration during an interview in Israel this week that U.S. authorities have not labeled the attack an act of Islamic terrorism.
Hany Baransi, the owner of the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, told the Times of Israel upon his visit here that he is certain his establishment was targeted because he is Israeli.
“I am sure it was an assassination attempt. I was the target. Why else would the Nazareth have been targeted? It wasn’t a random attack. Mine is the only restaurant in Columbus that displays an Israeli flag,” said Baransi.
“I’m an American Israeli Christian Arab. My being Israeli comes first,” Baransi said.
The Times of Israel reported that Baransi said the FBI has been recently refusing to reply to his requests for information about the ongoing investigation. And he said he is dismayed U.S. officials do not discuss Islamic extremism.
“There is a problem in the US to mention terrorism or Islamic extremism. Obama talks about how Muslims are peace-loving. I didn’t come to America to have the president preach about Islam,” Baransi stated.
Baransi made similar comments in February, when he was interviewed on this reporter’s talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” which is broadcast Sunday nights on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia.
During that interview, Baransi argued the attack was “most definitely” a terrorist act, and he revealed that he often argued with local Arabs about his staunch pro-Israel views.
Asked why he thought the attack was a terrorist incident, Baransi replied, “I’m from Israel. I’m a very outspoken Israeli Arab. People don’t like that here. I don’t have too many friends.”
Baransi was asked by this reporter to elaborate on his outspoken views. The restaurant owner said he often debated with local Arabs who expressed anti-Israel sentiment.
Baransi stated:
When I meet Arabs, they ask me “where are you from.” I say, “I’m from Israel.” And then they start arguing about Palestine and stuff. You might be Palestinian. I’m not. I’m Israeli. I have Israeli citizenship. I’m a proud Israeli citizen.
And I try to talk to them back. “Hey, do you know there’s a democracy in Israel? Do you know the Muslim in Israel has more freedom than any Muslim in any other country?”
…
Israel to me is the greatest country in the Middle East. And I’m tired with people putting us down and putting the Jewish people down. And I defend that.
Baransi said he was born in Haifa, Israel in 1965 and was raised Catholic. He said he immigrated to the U.S. in 1983.
According to Baransi, the suspected attacker, Mohamed Barry, 30, came into the Nazareth restaurant thirty minutes before the attack and inquired about Baransi’s Israeli background.
He stated that Barry walked in, “and one of my waitresses was in the front greeting people. He looked around. I have by the cashier area [an] Israeli flag, an American flag. And he looked around and asked where was I. Asked where was I from. And when I was coming back and such.”
“Then he left, came back thirty minutes later with a knife and machete and walked into the restaurant and went from one table to another slashing people,” Baransi stated.
Barry injured four people in the brutal attack before taking off and being chased down by local police who were able to identify his vehicle utilizing witness reports.
CNN reported on the police chase:
Once authorities were able to get the suspect off the road, he tried to exit from the passenger side of the vehicle and an officer unsuccessfully tried to use a stun gun on him, Weiner said.
The suspect eventually made it out of the vehicle with a machete and another knife in hand.
Then, “he lunged across the hood at the officers,” Weiner said. “Another officer in a cruiser fired a couple shots at him and put him down.”
Barry’s uncle told local media that the suspect was born in Guinea and moved to the U.S. in 2000, living mostly in Philadelphia, and then moving about two years ago to Columbus.
NBC4 in Columbus quoted law enforcement sources saying the FBI had investigated Barry four years ago over expressing radical Islamic views.
CBS News homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues reported in February local officials believe Barry may have traveled to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2012.
The news agency added: “Pegues reports that law enforcement is concerned that this incident has the hallmarks of the type of so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attack that they have been working to stop.”
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/05/ohio-attack-victim-i-didnt-come-to-america-to-hear-the-president-preach-about-islam.html/#sthash.ytmzNJwV.dpuf
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Muslim Council Of Britain Appoints Pro ‘Death To Apostates’ Imam To Investigate ‘Death To Apostates’ Group
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 29, 2016
Herein lies the rub – death to apostates is Islamic law. It is absolute. Any imam who follows true Islam is going to support it maybe not publicly but the two faces of Islam (one for believers, one for non-believers) is regular Islamic practice.
“Muslim Council Of Britain Appoints Pro ‘Death To Apostates’ Imam To Investigate ‘Death To Apostates’ Group,” By by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, April 28, 2016:
The UK’s largest Muslim organisation has appointed a panel to investigate a sectarian hate group making death threats against alleged “apostates”, led by a man who has supported the group and believes apostates should be killed.
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is the, “largest national representative of British Muslim associations, mosques and schools”, and a government report last year found they are connected to the international caliphate-agitating Muslim Brotherhood.
After the murder of Glasgow shop keeper Asad Shah, a member of the persecuted Ahmadi sect, the MCB was criticised for being affiliated to Khatme Nubbawat – an organisation with the sole purpose of annihilating of the Ahmadi Community, who they refer to with derogatory language as “Qadiyani cult”.
The MCB itself officially classes Ahmadis as “apostates”, a charge punishable by death in many Muslim nations, but insists violence must not be used against them in the UK.
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Khatme Nubbawat has been directly implicated in inciting violence in Pakistan that has led to the murder of Ahmadis. In the UK, they are known as the Stockwell Green Mosque, and were distributing literature calling for “capital punishment” of Ahmadi’s in top London universities just last year.
After the high profile murder, the MCB ordered the “temporary suspension of its affiliate” Khatme Nubuwwa, and set up an “Independent Investigation Panel” tasked with:
“Determin[ing] whether the named affiliate has been and/or remains engaged in such activities that make its continued affiliation with the MCB undesirable and not in accord with the Shariah and the duty to promote and work for the common good of the society”.
They claim that: “Spreading of hatred and espousal of violence on any ground is neither permitted nor sanctioned by Shariah and the laws in the United Kingdom.
However, one of the men leading the panel, Maulana Shahid Raza Naeemi OBE, a sharia judge and imam, told the Dewsbury Reporter in 2011, that: “Sharia law says that if a Muslim changes their religion it is treason and the punishment for treason is death”, when asked if a man who converts from Islam to Christianity must receive the death sentence.
Furthermore, as pointed out by secular campaigner Sadaf Ahmed, Mr. Naeemi has spoken at Khatme Nubbawat hate events himself, where he appears to demonstrate support for the very organisation he is now tasked with “independent[ly]” investigating.
Mr Naeemi was awarded an OBE by Prince Charles in 2008 for “his years of tireless work in interfaith dialogue, for the support and leadership he has shown for Muslims in Britain, and his services to British society at large”. He was also given a honorary degree by the University of Leicester this year.
The Crown Prosecution Service has repeatedly declined to bring criminal charges against Khatme Nubbawat, a decision which has been criticised by Lord Avebury, former vice chairman of the government’s Parliamentary Human Rights Group, who said the decision showed Britain’s laws against inciting religious hatred were “not effective”.
However, this week police in Scotland finally began removing anti-Ahmadi hate posters from Muslim shops, and the UK’s most senior police officer vowed to protect the group.
Ahmadis in London are currently so threatened that they have airport-style security at the entrance to their mosques.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/death-to-apostates-imam.html/#sthash.Puq541vs.dpuf
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Italy nabs four Muslims in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy, Vatican
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 29, 2016
*LIVE* MIGRATION CRISIS COVERAGE
Italy nabs four Muslims in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy, Vatican
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 29, 2016
ISLAMIC JEW HATRED ITALY 00 Comments
Pope Francis kisses the foot of a man during the foot-washing ritual at the Castelnuovo di Porto refugees center, some 30km (18, 6 miles) from Rome, Thursday, March 24, 2016. The pontiff washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic refugees Thursday, declaring them children of the same God, in a gesture of welcome and brotherhood at a time when anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment has spiked following the Brussels attacks. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
Pope Francis kisses the foot of a man during the foot-washing ritual at the Castelnuovo di Porto refugees center, some 30km (18, 6 miles) from Rome, Thursday, March 24, 2016. The pontiff washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic refugees Thursday, declaring them children of the same God, in a gesture of welcome and brotherhood at a time when anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment has spiked following the Brussels attacks. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
But the Pope washed Muslim migrants’ feet and has scolded Europeans for opposing the migrant invasion — and this is the gratitude the Islamic State (which said in February 2015 that it was going to flood Europe with 500,000 refugees) shows him. No amount of appeasement and surrender will suffice: the invaders are after total conquest.
“Italy nabs four suspected in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy, Vatican,” Jerusalem Post, April 28, 2016:
Italian police on Thursday arrested four people suspected of conspiring to carry out attacks on behalf of Islamic State in Italy.
The Israeli embassy in Rome and the Vatican were among the alleged targets, Newsweek cited Milan prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli as saying.
“I want to hit Israel in Rome,” one suspect named as Abderrahim Moutahrrick was said to have told another suspect in an intercepted conversation, according to the report.
Investigators believe one of the suspects asked another to plan an attack in Italy and mentioned Rome.
As part of the same investigation, police also issued arrest warrants for two fugitives – a Moroccan man and his Italian wife who left Italy and headed towards Iraq and Syria last year.
The four arrested Thursday include a man and wife living near Lake Como — a 23-year-old Moroccan man, and a female relative of the fugitive couple….
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/italy-nabs-four-muslims-in-isis-plot-to-attack-israeli-embassy-vatican.html/#sthash.IZs5dEjO.dpuf
Muslim Council Of Britain Appoints Pro ‘Death To Apostates’ Imam To Investigate ‘Death To Apostates’ Group
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 29, 2016
Herein lies the rub – death to apostates is Islamic law. It is absolute. Any imam who follows true Islam is going to support it maybe not publicly but the two faces of Islam (one for believers, one for non-believers) is regular Islamic practice.
“Muslim Council Of Britain Appoints Pro ‘Death To Apostates’ Imam To Investigate ‘Death To Apostates’ Group,” By by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, April 28, 2016:
The UK’s largest Muslim organisation has appointed a panel to investigate a sectarian hate group making death threats against alleged “apostates”, led by a man who has supported the group and believes apostates should be killed.
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is the, “largest national representative of British Muslim associations, mosques and schools”, and a government report last year found they are connected to the international caliphate-agitating Muslim Brotherhood.
After the murder of Glasgow shop keeper Asad Shah, a member of the persecuted Ahmadi sect, the MCB was criticised for being affiliated to Khatme Nubbawat – an organisation with the sole purpose of annihilating of the Ahmadi Community, who they refer to with derogatory language as “Qadiyani cult”.
The MCB itself officially classes Ahmadis as “apostates”, a charge punishable by death in many Muslim nations, but insists violence must not be used against them in the UK.
Screen Shot 2016-04-29 at 9.33.20 AM
Khatme Nubbawat has been directly implicated in inciting violence in Pakistan that has led to the murder of Ahmadis. In the UK, they are known as the Stockwell Green Mosque, and were distributing literature calling for “capital punishment” of Ahmadi’s in top London universities just last year.
After the high profile murder, the MCB ordered the “temporary suspension of its affiliate” Khatme Nubuwwa, and set up an “Independent Investigation Panel” tasked with:
“Determin[ing] whether the named affiliate has been and/or remains engaged in such activities that make its continued affiliation with the MCB undesirable and not in accord with the Shariah and the duty to promote and work for the common good of the society”.
They claim that: “Spreading of hatred and espousal of violence on any ground is neither permitted nor sanctioned by Shariah and the laws in the United Kingdom.
However, one of the men leading the panel, Maulana Shahid Raza Naeemi OBE, a sharia judge and imam, told the Dewsbury Reporter in 2011, that: “Sharia law says that if a Muslim changes their religion it is treason and the punishment for treason is death”, when asked if a man who converts from Islam to Christianity must receive the death sentence.
Furthermore, as pointed out by secular campaigner Sadaf Ahmed, Mr. Naeemi has spoken at Khatme Nubbawat hate events himself, where he appears to demonstrate support for the very organisation he is now tasked with “independent[ly]” investigating.
Mr Naeemi was awarded an OBE by Prince Charles in 2008 for “his years of tireless work in interfaith dialogue, for the support and leadership he has shown for Muslims in Britain, and his services to British society at large”. He was also given a honorary degree by the University of Leicester this year.
The Crown Prosecution Service has repeatedly declined to bring criminal charges against Khatme Nubbawat, a decision which has been criticised by Lord Avebury, former vice chairman of the government’s Parliamentary Human Rights Group, who said the decision showed Britain’s laws against inciting religious hatred were “not effective”.
However, this week police in Scotland finally began removing anti-Ahmadi hate posters from Muslim shops, and the UK’s most senior police officer vowed to protect the group.
Ahmadis in London are currently so threatened that they have airport-style security at the entrance to their mosques.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/death-to-apostates-imam.html/#sthash.Puq541vs.dpuf
http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/italy-nabs-four-muslims-in-isis-plot-to-attack-israeli-embassy-vatican.html/
Italy nabs four Muslims in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy, Vatican
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 29, 2016
*LIVE* MIGRATION CRISIS COVERAGE
Italy nabs four Muslims in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy, Vatican
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 29, 2016
ISLAMIC JEW HATRED ITALY 00 Comments
Pope Francis kisses the foot of a man during the foot-washing ritual at the Castelnuovo di Porto refugees center, some 30km (18, 6 miles) from Rome, Thursday, March 24, 2016. The pontiff washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic refugees Thursday, declaring them children of the same God, in a gesture of welcome and brotherhood at a time when anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment has spiked following the Brussels attacks. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
Pope Francis kisses the foot of a man during the foot-washing ritual at the Castelnuovo di Porto refugees center, some 30km (18, 6 miles) from Rome, Thursday, March 24, 2016. The pontiff washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic refugees Thursday, declaring them children of the same God, in a gesture of welcome and brotherhood at a time when anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment has spiked following the Brussels attacks. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
But the Pope washed Muslim migrants’ feet and has scolded Europeans for opposing the migrant invasion — and this is the gratitude the Islamic State (which said in February 2015 that it was going to flood Europe with 500,000 refugees) shows him. No amount of appeasement and surrender will suffice: the invaders are after total conquest.
“Italy nabs four suspected in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy, Vatican,” Jerusalem Post, April 28, 2016:
Italian police on Thursday arrested four people suspected of conspiring to carry out attacks on behalf of Islamic State in Italy.
The Israeli embassy in Rome and the Vatican were among the alleged targets, Newsweek cited Milan prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli as saying.
“I want to hit Israel in Rome,” one suspect named as Abderrahim Moutahrrick was said to have told another suspect in an intercepted conversation, according to the report.
Investigators believe one of the suspects asked another to plan an attack in Italy and mentioned Rome.
As part of the same investigation, police also issued arrest warrants for two fugitives – a Moroccan man and his Italian wife who left Italy and headed towards Iraq and Syria last year.
The four arrested Thursday include a man and wife living near Lake Como — a 23-year-old Moroccan man, and a female relative of the fugitive couple….
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/04/italy-nabs-four-muslims-in-isis-plot-to-attack-israeli-embassy-vatican.html/#sthash.IZs5dEjO.dpuf
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Obama plots with UN to increase Muslim “refugees” from 10,000 to 200,000
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 27, 2016
Obama means to do as much damage as he can in the last months of his failed presidency. Europe is the cautionary tale. It had been struggling with its Muslim population, but this invasion/hijrah is the final nail in the coffin. Obama means to bring it here.
Evil. #Obamastan
The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America
“U.S. plots with United Nations to expand Syrian refugees from 10,000 to 200,000,” By Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 4/25/16, (thanks to Lookmann):
In a move around the standard refugee settlement process in America, the United Nations and the administration are scheming to find other ways to boost the number of Syrians entering the country, from 10,000 this year to possibly 200,000.
U.S. officials, meeting with United Nations human rights officials in Geneva, joined in a project that looks to “alternative safe pathways” to setting Syrian refugees in America and Europe that include pushing colleges and universities to offer tuition programs and encouraging Syrians already in the country to open their homes to those who’ve fled the war-torn Middle East nation.
The plan already has one victory. Last week, the University of Southern California revealed that it is offering five free tuition programs for Syrian refugees, including one in the school’s journalism program.
The effort was revealed Monday in a Center for Immigration Studies post. It quoted a Georgetown University professor and U.N. refugee policy advisor who spelled out the backdoor plan to settle thousands more Syrians past the 10,000 President Obama has pledged to OK this year.
Beth Ferris, a research professor at Georgetown University and U.N. advisor, even suggested a total of 200,000 at a recent Brookings Institution conference:
“Refugees and government officials are expecting this crisis to last 10 or 15 years. It’s time that we no longer work as business as usual … UNHCR next month is convening a meeting to look at what are being called ‘alternative safe pathways’ for Syrian refugees. Maybe it’s hard for the U.S. to go from 2,000 to 200,000 refugees resettled in a year, but maybe there are ways we can ask our universities to offer scholarships to Syrian students. Maybe we can tweak some of our immigration policies to enable Syrian-Americans who have lived here to bring not only their kids and spouses but their uncles and their grandmothers. There may be ways that we could encourage Syrians to come to the U.S. without going through this laborious, time-consuming process of refugee resettlement.”
The Geneva meeting took place March 30 and CIS had the details on what occurred.
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told representatives of 92 nations that they needed to explore “alternative avenues” for the admission of Syrian refugees. He said:
“These pathways can take many forms: not only resettlement, but also more flexible mechanisms for family reunification, including extended family members, labor mobility schemes, student visa and scholarships, as well as visa for medical reasons. Resettlement needs vastly outstrip the places that have been made available so far… But humanitarian and student visa, job permits and family reunification would represent safe avenues of admission for many other refugees as well.”
At the end of the meeting, he said that many countries had made commitments, among them:
— Increasing the number of resettlement and humanitarian admission places.
— Easing family reunification and increase possibilities for family reunion.
— Providing scholarships and student visas for Syrian refugees.
— Removing administrative barriers and simplify processes to facilitate and expedite the admission of Syrian refugees.
— Using resources provided by the private sector in order to create labor mobility schemes for Syrian refugees.
It would be just the latest expansion of benefits for refugees that Americans and other nations already supply. Secrets reported Sunday, for example, that poor refugee children receive more cash payments, food stamps and Social Security than poor American children.
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Obama plots with UN to increase Muslim “refugees” from 10,000 to 200,000
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 27, 2016
Obama means to do as much damage as he can in the last months of his failed presidency. Europe is the cautionary tale. It had been struggling with its Muslim population, but this invasion/hijrah is the final nail in the coffin. Obama means to bring it here.
Evil. #Obamastan
The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America
“U.S. plots with United Nations to expand Syrian refugees from 10,000 to 200,000,” By Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 4/25/16, (thanks to Lookmann):
In a move around the standard refugee settlement process in America, the United Nations and the administration are scheming to find other ways to boost the number of Syrians entering the country, from 10,000 this year to possibly 200,000.
U.S. officials, meeting with United Nations human rights officials in Geneva, joined in a project that looks to “alternative safe pathways” to setting Syrian refugees in America and Europe that include pushing colleges and universities to offer tuition programs and encouraging Syrians already in the country to open their homes to those who’ve fled the war-torn Middle East nation.
The plan already has one victory. Last week, the University of Southern California revealed that it is offering five free tuition programs for Syrian refugees, including one in the school’s journalism program.
The effort was revealed Monday in a Center for Immigration Studies post. It quoted a Georgetown University professor and U.N. refugee policy advisor who spelled out the backdoor plan to settle thousands more Syrians past the 10,000 President Obama has pledged to OK this year.
Beth Ferris, a research professor at Georgetown University and U.N. advisor, even suggested a total of 200,000 at a recent Brookings Institution conference:
“Refugees and government officials are expecting this crisis to last 10 or 15 years. It’s time that we no longer work as business as usual … UNHCR next month is convening a meeting to look at what are being called ‘alternative safe pathways’ for Syrian refugees. Maybe it’s hard for the U.S. to go from 2,000 to 200,000 refugees resettled in a year, but maybe there are ways we can ask our universities to offer scholarships to Syrian students. Maybe we can tweak some of our immigration policies to enable Syrian-Americans who have lived here to bring not only their kids and spouses but their uncles and their grandmothers. There may be ways that we could encourage Syrians to come to the U.S. without going through this laborious, time-consuming process of refugee resettlement.”
The Geneva meeting took place March 30 and CIS had the details on what occurred.
slovenia_migrantsts.img_assist_custom-638x404
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told representatives of 92 nations that they needed to explore “alternative avenues” for the admission of Syrian refugees. He said:
“These pathways can take many forms: not only resettlement, but also more flexible mechanisms for family reunification, including extended family members, labor mobility schemes, student visa and scholarships, as well as visa for medical reasons. Resettlement needs vastly outstrip the places that have been made available so far… But humanitarian and student visa, job permits and family reunification would represent safe avenues of admission for many other refugees as well.”
At the end of the meeting, he said that many countries had made commitments, among them:
— Increasing the number of resettlement and humanitarian admission places.
— Easing family reunification and increase possibilities for family reunion.
— Providing scholarships and student visas for Syrian refugees.
— Removing administrative barriers and simplify processes to facilitate and expedite the admission of Syrian refugees.
— Using resources provided by the private sector in order to create labor mobility schemes for Syrian refugees.
It would be just the latest expansion of benefits for refugees that Americans and other nations already supply. Secrets reported Sunday, for example, that poor refugee children receive more cash payments, food stamps and Social Security than poor American children.
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Brussels Terrorist Was Star Of Documentary About Successful Integration Of Immigrants
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 15, 2016
Boom. There it is. Policy failure after policy failure, and still the political and leftist elites hit bottom and keep digging. Their de-radicalization programs are a farce. How can you de-radicalize if you ban discussion of the ideology and religious motivation these savages are radical about? Insanity.
Islamic Terrorists
Havve Carried Out More Than 28149 Deadly Terror Attacks
Terror Attacks Since 9/11
The religionofpeace.com
How about once, just once, we approach it with the understanding that it is Islam and it is a religious war? This moronic experiment is an abject failure. 15 years after 9/11 and over 28,000 deadly Islamic attacks since — it’s time to face reality.
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“Alleged Brussels Terrorist Was Star Of Documentary About Successful Integration Of Immigrants,” By Oliver Lane, Breitbart, April 15, 2016:
The Syrian-origin Swedish passport holder arrested in Belgium last week for his involvement in the Brussels bomb attacks is a former poster boy for Sweden’s efforts at integrating migrants into their society.
Now accused of murder, and captured on CCTV cameras carrying bags which contained the explosive devices which killed 32 civilians, Islamist Osama Krayem had once been hailed as a model of integration. A former employee of the city of Malmo, at the age of 11 Osama starred in a documentary about migrants in Sweden.
Both of Osama’s parents are Syrian migrants to Sweden, and have told tabloid Aftonbladet they wanted to see their son integrate into Swedish society. The family featured in a 2005 documentary called ‘Without Borders — A Film About Sport And Integration’, in which football-mad Krayem demonstrated how the Malmo football team had helped him settle into Swedish society.
The club had run an integration project, encouraging local migrant youth to play football. Club marketing manager Christer Girke said of the programme: “We wanted to show the importance of integration… the boys were to go to the association to see what the other Swedes did and get to know the [football] associations were important, how it can be a gateway to jobs and much more”.
At the time of the film’s release, he had told local media: “90 percent of our members have a migrant background, as this integration is something I think a lot about. With this project we want to take responsibility for the society we all be living in formed. And how we are formed as people”.
A school friend told the paper that he was “noticeable” by the fact he didn’t party or drink because of his religion. Even when Krayem started posting pictures of himself on Facebook with Islamic State flags and guns, his old friends didn’t think anything was wrong. One said he just thought Krayem was trying to be “cool”, and that was just what “young people are doing”.
Shot with a budget of £22,000, an opening-night review of ‘Without Borders; in Sydsvenskan hailed the “football mad sons” of the Krayem family — the central players in the film — as showing “the essential role of sport for integration”.
When Osama Krayem got a job with Malmo city council as a management intern, he may have been displaying the outward signs of assimilation that were expected of him, but what his employers did not know is that he was saving his salary to buy tickets to Syria. He worked for a year, before suddenly failing to turn up for work one day in 2014.
Osama had successfully joined the Islamic State and started posting pictures of his exploits on Facebook. A year later, Krayem has swapped the migrant enclave he had grown up in — Rosengard — for another. Traveling through Greece as a refugee, he came to reside in Molenbeek, Brussels, he took on took a leading role in organising the bomb attacks.
That superficially well integrated migrants could be plotting attacks or engaging in criminal activity is not a phenomenon limited to Sweden. Breitbart London reported in January on four “unaccompanied minor” migrants who sexually abused young girls at their new school shortly after arrival.
The headmistress of the school responsible for the boys, who abused girls as young as 14, said they were ““integrating themselves very well” into Austrian society.
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Brussels Terrorist Was Star Of Documentary About Successful Integration Of Immigrants
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 15, 2016
Boom. There it is. Policy failure after policy failure, and still the political and leftist elites hit bottom and keep digging. Their de-radicalization programs are a farce. How can you de-radicalize if you ban discussion of the ideology and religious motivation these savages are radical about? Insanity.
Islamic Terrorists
Havve Carried Out More Than 28149 Deadly Terror Attacks
Terror Attacks Since 9/11
The religionofpeace.com
How about once, just once, we approach it with the understanding that it is Islam and it is a religious war? This moronic experiment is an abject failure. 15 years after 9/11 and over 28,000 deadly Islamic attacks since — it’s time to face reality.
Osama-Krayem-640x480
“Alleged Brussels Terrorist Was Star Of Documentary About Successful Integration Of Immigrants,” By Oliver Lane, Breitbart, April 15, 2016:
The Syrian-origin Swedish passport holder arrested in Belgium last week for his involvement in the Brussels bomb attacks is a former poster boy for Sweden’s efforts at integrating migrants into their society.
Now accused of murder, and captured on CCTV cameras carrying bags which contained the explosive devices which killed 32 civilians, Islamist Osama Krayem had once been hailed as a model of integration. A former employee of the city of Malmo, at the age of 11 Osama starred in a documentary about migrants in Sweden.
Both of Osama’s parents are Syrian migrants to Sweden, and have told tabloid Aftonbladet they wanted to see their son integrate into Swedish society. The family featured in a 2005 documentary called ‘Without Borders — A Film About Sport And Integration’, in which football-mad Krayem demonstrated how the Malmo football team had helped him settle into Swedish society.
The club had run an integration project, encouraging local migrant youth to play football. Club marketing manager Christer Girke said of the programme: “We wanted to show the importance of integration… the boys were to go to the association to see what the other Swedes did and get to know the [football] associations were important, how it can be a gateway to jobs and much more”.
At the time of the film’s release, he had told local media: “90 percent of our members have a migrant background, as this integration is something I think a lot about. With this project we want to take responsibility for the society we all be living in formed. And how we are formed as people”.
A school friend told the paper that he was “noticeable” by the fact he didn’t party or drink because of his religion. Even when Krayem started posting pictures of himself on Facebook with Islamic State flags and guns, his old friends didn’t think anything was wrong. One said he just thought Krayem was trying to be “cool”, and that was just what “young people are doing”.
Shot with a budget of £22,000, an opening-night review of ‘Without Borders; in Sydsvenskan hailed the “football mad sons” of the Krayem family — the central players in the film — as showing “the essential role of sport for integration”.
When Osama Krayem got a job with Malmo city council as a management intern, he may have been displaying the outward signs of assimilation that were expected of him, but what his employers did not know is that he was saving his salary to buy tickets to Syria. He worked for a year, before suddenly failing to turn up for work one day in 2014.
Osama had successfully joined the Islamic State and started posting pictures of his exploits on Facebook. A year later, Krayem has swapped the migrant enclave he had grown up in — Rosengard — for another. Traveling through Greece as a refugee, he came to reside in Molenbeek, Brussels, he took on took a leading role in organising the bomb attacks.
That superficially well integrated migrants could be plotting attacks or engaging in criminal activity is not a phenomenon limited to Sweden. Breitbart London reported in January on four “unaccompanied minor” migrants who sexually abused young girls at their new school shortly after arrival.
The headmistress of the school responsible for the boys, who abused girls as young as 14, said they were ““integrating themselves very well” into Austrian society.
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Brussels: NINETY PERCENT of Muslim teens call jihad murderers heroes
ByPAMELA GELLER on April 12, 2016
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Remember this when the leftists try to sell you the “majority of Muslims condemn Islamic terror” myth.
This is consistent with the numerous polls conducted both in the US and Europe showing alarming support for jihad terror in the cause of Islam.
“Brussels: NINETY PERCENT of Muslim teens call jihad murderers heroes,” Jihad Watch, April 11, 2016:
And Yves Goldstein, a councilman from Schaerbeek and chief of staff for the minister-president of the Brussels Capital Region, blames Belgian non-Muslims for not integrating these young people. The possibility that the Muslim youth think of themselves as the “best of people” (Qur’an 3:110) and have no desire to assimilate into the society of the “most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6) doesn’t enter his mind.
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“Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalized Youth,” by Steven Erlanger, New York Times, April 7, 2016:
BRUSSELS — Yves Goldstein makes no excuses for Belgium’s failure to find Salah Abdeslam and the other Islamic State recruits who attacked Paris and then bombed Brussels Airport and a subway station.
The problem is not Islam, he insists, but the negligence of government officials like himself in allowing self-contained ethnic ghettos to grow unchallenged, breeding anger, crime and radicalism among youth — a soup of grievances that suits Islamist recruiters.
“Our cities are facing a huge problem, maybe the largest since World War II,” Mr. Goldstein said. “How is it that people who were born here in Brussels, in Paris, can call heroes the people who commit violence and terror? That is the real question we’re facing.”
Friends who teach the equivalent of high school seniors in the predominantly Muslim districts of Molenbeek and Schaerbeek told him that “90 percent of their students, 17, 18 years old, called them heroes,” he said.
Mr. Goldstein, 38, grew up in Schaerbeek, the child of Jewish refugees from Nazism. Now a councilman from Schaerbeek, he is also chief of staff for the minister-president of the Brussels Capital Region….
But “we failed,” he said. “We failed in Molenbeek” and Schaerbeek, too, to ensure the mixing of populations.
“We have neighborhoods where people only see the same people, go to school with the same people,” he said. “What connection do they have with the whole society, what connection do they have with real diversity? It’s the establishment of the ghetto,” he said, “and it’s the thing in our urban development that we have to tackle.”
Jews have left Schaerbeek, and the last two synagogues are being sold. Instead, there is a kind of suffocating, insular, ethnic uniformity. “These young people will never go to museums until 18 or 20 — they never saw Chagall, they never saw Dalí, they never saw Warhol, they don’t know what it is to dream,” Mr. Goldstein said.
Of course there is poverty and unemployment, he said. “But we don’t give these young people the keys to think differently, to think outside the little box, the little neighborhood where they live — this ideological box, this closed-eyes box.”
As for the terrorists, “religion for them is a pretext,” he said. “They believe in nothing. But Islam is the way they find to express, to crystallize their radicalization.”
Young people whose parents or grandparents were immigrants face serious questions of identity, Mr. Goldstein acknowledged, speaking during and after a conference here of the German Marshall Fund. “But identity is a two-sided relation” — between young Muslims and ourselves.
“We have to fight racism and discrimination with the same force” as radicalization, he said, because “our society gives to these young people a bad idea of who and what they are.”
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ByPAMELA GELLER on April 12, 2016
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Remember this when the leftists try to sell you the “majority of Muslims condemn Islamic terror” myth.
This is consistent with the numerous polls conducted both in the US and Europe showing alarming support for jihad terror in the cause of Islam.
“Brussels: NINETY PERCENT of Muslim teens call jihad murderers heroes,” Jihad Watch, April 11, 2016:
And Yves Goldstein, a councilman from Schaerbeek and chief of staff for the minister-president of the Brussels Capital Region, blames Belgian non-Muslims for not integrating these young people. The possibility that the Muslim youth think of themselves as the “best of people” (Qur’an 3:110) and have no desire to assimilate into the society of the “most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6) doesn’t enter his mind.
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“Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalized Youth,” by Steven Erlanger, New York Times, April 7, 2016:
BRUSSELS — Yves Goldstein makes no excuses for Belgium’s failure to find Salah Abdeslam and the other Islamic State recruits who attacked Paris and then bombed Brussels Airport and a subway station.
The problem is not Islam, he insists, but the negligence of government officials like himself in allowing self-contained ethnic ghettos to grow unchallenged, breeding anger, crime and radicalism among youth — a soup of grievances that suits Islamist recruiters.
“Our cities are facing a huge problem, maybe the largest since World War II,” Mr. Goldstein said. “How is it that people who were born here in Brussels, in Paris, can call heroes the people who commit violence and terror? That is the real question we’re facing.”
Friends who teach the equivalent of high school seniors in the predominantly Muslim districts of Molenbeek and Schaerbeek told him that “90 percent of their students, 17, 18 years old, called them heroes,” he said.
Mr. Goldstein, 38, grew up in Schaerbeek, the child of Jewish refugees from Nazism. Now a councilman from Schaerbeek, he is also chief of staff for the minister-president of the Brussels Capital Region….
But “we failed,” he said. “We failed in Molenbeek” and Schaerbeek, too, to ensure the mixing of populations.
“We have neighborhoods where people only see the same people, go to school with the same people,” he said. “What connection do they have with the whole society, what connection do they have with real diversity? It’s the establishment of the ghetto,” he said, “and it’s the thing in our urban development that we have to tackle.”
Jews have left Schaerbeek, and the last two synagogues are being sold. Instead, there is a kind of suffocating, insular, ethnic uniformity. “These young people will never go to museums until 18 or 20 — they never saw Chagall, they never saw Dalí, they never saw Warhol, they don’t know what it is to dream,” Mr. Goldstein said.
Of course there is poverty and unemployment, he said. “But we don’t give these young people the keys to think differently, to think outside the little box, the little neighborhood where they live — this ideological box, this closed-eyes box.”
As for the terrorists, “religion for them is a pretext,” he said. “They believe in nothing. But Islam is the way they find to express, to crystallize their radicalization.”
Young people whose parents or grandparents were immigrants face serious questions of identity, Mr. Goldstein acknowledged, speaking during and after a conference here of the German Marshall Fund. “But identity is a two-sided relation” — between young Muslims and ourselves.
“We have to fight racism and discrimination with the same force” as radicalization, he said, because “our society gives to these young people a bad idea of who and what they are.”
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Danish terror arrests: Police bust ISIS sleeper cell amid warning of fresh jihad attacks
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ByPAMELA GELLER on April 7, 2016
Another day, another Islamic terror bust. All the while President Obama is expediting the importation of Muslim migrants from jihad regions.
“Danish terror police smash ISIS sleeper cell amid warning of fresh attacks,” By Tom Batchelor, The Express, April 7, 2016:
EUROPEAN counter-terrorism police have smashed a huge Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cell in Denmark which authorities fear could have been planning a Brussels-style massacre.
Four terror suspects were arrested in the capital Copenhagen on Thursday as investigators across Europe race to foil jihadi plots.
Police believe the group were recruited by Islamist extremists in Syria to carry out attacks on the West.
Ammunitions and weapons were also found in a connected search in the Danish city, police said.
A statement said: “The arrests took place as part of efforts to combat people enlisting in terrorist groups in the war-torn areas in Syria and northern Iraq.”
More than 125 people from Denmark are believed to have joined ISIS after going to Syria and Iraq, Danish intelligence service PET said in October, adding that at least 27 of them have died there.
Danish authorities have been on high alert since two people were killed in shooting attacks on a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen in February last year.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for bombing that killed 32 people in Brussels last month and attacks in Paris on November that killed 130 people.
Danish terror arrests: Police bust ISIS sleeper cell amid warning of fresh jihad attacks
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ByPAMELA GELLER on April 7, 2016
Another day, another Islamic terror bust. All the while President Obama is expediting the importation of Muslim migrants from jihad regions.
“Danish terror police smash ISIS sleeper cell amid warning of fresh attacks,” By Tom Batchelor, The Express, April 7, 2016:
EUROPEAN counter-terrorism police have smashed a huge Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cell in Denmark which authorities fear could have been planning a Brussels-style massacre.
Four terror suspects were arrested in the capital Copenhagen on Thursday as investigators across Europe race to foil jihadi plots.
Police believe the group were recruited by Islamist extremists in Syria to carry out attacks on the West.
Ammunitions and weapons were also found in a connected search in the Danish city, police said.
A statement said: “The arrests took place as part of efforts to combat people enlisting in terrorist groups in the war-torn areas in Syria and northern Iraq.”
More than 125 people from Denmark are believed to have joined ISIS after going to Syria and Iraq, Danish intelligence service PET said in October, adding that at least 27 of them have died there.
Danish authorities have been on high alert since two people were killed in shooting attacks on a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen in February last year.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for bombing that killed 32 people in Brussels last month and attacks in Paris on November that killed 130 people.
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VIDEO: Devout Muslim Disrupts #BrusselsAttack Memorial, Screams Jew-Hatred Slogans, Incites to Violence
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 28, 2016
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Evil to the bone. Muslims so seethe with hatred that they cannot let a moment of grief for the victims of jihad pass without incident or agitation. No humanity, no respect. Bloodshed evokes more bloodlust.
The bodies are not yet buried. This incident took place at a memorial for the victims of the unspeakable jihad attacks in Brussels. Trying to incite the crowd against the Jews, a devout Muslim runs into the center of the memorial, stamping on the flowers for the dead and screams “Palestine,” the rallying cry for jihadis and Jew-haters everyone.
He was booed and removed, but for those Muslims and Jew-haters in the crowd — this is just the beginning (and they know it, support it).
The Blaze: During an otherwise somber gathering at a large Brussels square paying tribute to those slain in last week’s terrorist attacks, one man positioned himself at the center of the crowd and repeatedly shouted, “Palestine!”
He was booed emphatically by the crowd standing around the makeshift memorial Saturday filled with flowers, candles and memorial notes in Brussels’ Place de la Bourse.
DW reporter Dana Regev who captured the moment on video observed that the agitator was led away, sparking a round of applause from those paying tribute to the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and subway station.
#Palestine! Yells a man in the improvised memorial in #Brussels before taken by police. pic.twitter.com/laQdStpdOz
— Dana Regev (@Dana_Regev) March 26, 2016
Though his full sentence was not captured in the video, Regev reported that the man was demanding, “Justice for Palestine!”
“Many people booed, shouting for him to ‘focus on Brussels today,’ saying that ‘Belgium is strong.’ Others cheered and applauded his statements,” she added.
The man’s outburst followed a separate incident last week in the same city square in which a woman dressed in a Muslim hijab headscarf ripped an Israeli flag, one of many national flags placed at the makeshift memorial, likely by tourists from around the world paying their respects for those killed.
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VIDEO: Devout Muslim Disrupts #BrusselsAttack Memorial, Screams Jew-Hatred Slogans, Incites to Violence
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 28, 2016
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Evil to the bone. Muslims so seethe with hatred that they cannot let a moment of grief for the victims of jihad pass without incident or agitation. No humanity, no respect. Bloodshed evokes more bloodlust.
The bodies are not yet buried. This incident took place at a memorial for the victims of the unspeakable jihad attacks in Brussels. Trying to incite the crowd against the Jews, a devout Muslim runs into the center of the memorial, stamping on the flowers for the dead and screams “Palestine,” the rallying cry for jihadis and Jew-haters everyone.
He was booed and removed, but for those Muslims and Jew-haters in the crowd — this is just the beginning (and they know it, support it).
The Blaze: During an otherwise somber gathering at a large Brussels square paying tribute to those slain in last week’s terrorist attacks, one man positioned himself at the center of the crowd and repeatedly shouted, “Palestine!”
He was booed emphatically by the crowd standing around the makeshift memorial Saturday filled with flowers, candles and memorial notes in Brussels’ Place de la Bourse.
DW reporter Dana Regev who captured the moment on video observed that the agitator was led away, sparking a round of applause from those paying tribute to the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and subway station.
#Palestine! Yells a man in the improvised memorial in #Brussels before taken by police. pic.twitter.com/laQdStpdOz
— Dana Regev (@Dana_Regev) March 26, 2016
Though his full sentence was not captured in the video, Regev reported that the man was demanding, “Justice for Palestine!”
“Many people booed, shouting for him to ‘focus on Brussels today,’ saying that ‘Belgium is strong.’ Others cheered and applauded his statements,” she added.
The man’s outburst followed a separate incident last week in the same city square in which a woman dressed in a Muslim hijab headscarf ripped an Israeli flag, one of many national flags placed at the makeshift memorial, likely by tourists from around the world paying their respects for those killed.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/video-devout-muslim-disrupts-brusselsattack-memorial-screams-jihad.html/#sthash.7WcP0okV.dpuf
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VIDEO: German Children Beaten Up by Muslim Migrants
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 28, 2016
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The parents of anyone with children in Germany should be marching on Merkel’s bunker, pitchforks and torches in hand.
The video is from October. Since then, Merkel has imported a million more of these invaders.
“VIDEO: German Kids Beaten Up by Muslim Migrants” By Information Liberation, March 26, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):
This is the reality of Germany right now where the migrants become untouchable just because they are the minority, if anything happens to them then it ‘must be our fault.'”
These poor kids have been so culturally brainwashed and demoralized they’re scared to even fight back. Their parents and feminized culture have left them helpless.
Remember one 15-yr-old boy who did fight back in Sweden was stabbed in the back and killed by a 14-yr-old Syrian migrant.
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VIDEO: German Children Beaten Up by Muslim Migrants
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 28, 2016
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The parents of anyone with children in Germany should be marching on Merkel’s bunker, pitchforks and torches in hand.
The video is from October. Since then, Merkel has imported a million more of these invaders.
“VIDEO: German Kids Beaten Up by Muslim Migrants” By Information Liberation, March 26, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):
This is the reality of Germany right now where the migrants become untouchable just because they are the minority, if anything happens to them then it ‘must be our fault.'”
These poor kids have been so culturally brainwashed and demoralized they’re scared to even fight back. Their parents and feminized culture have left them helpless.
Remember one 15-yr-old boy who did fight back in Sweden was stabbed in the back and killed by a 14-yr-old Syrian migrant.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/video-german-children-beaten-up-by-muslim-migrants.html/#sthash.kgP6RZVg.dpuf
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Pope didn’t just WASH THE FEET of Muslim migrants, he KISSED THEM
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 25, 2016
Pope Francis kisses the foot of a man during the foot-washing ritual at the Castelnuovo di Porto refugees center, some 30km (18, 6 miles) from Rome, Thursday, March 24, 2016. The pontiff washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic refugees Thursday, declaring them children of the same God, in a gesture of welcome and brotherhood at a time when anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment has spiked following the Brussels attacks. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
What did you get when you oppress, subjugate and slaughter members of the Pope’s flock — your feet washed and kissed.
There is a genocide of Christians in the Middle East — what will the Pope kiss next?
Photos: thanks to Urban Infidel
Pope Francis washes feet of Muslim migrants, says we’re all “children of the same God” March 25, 2016 1:50 pm By Robert Spencer, Jihadwatch:
Apparently if we’re all “children of the same God,” we’re racist, bigoted and Islamophobic to be concerned about jihad terror committed by Muslim migrants, and certainly have placed ourselves beyond the pale of the Catholic Church, which apparently would prefer the West to commit suicide rather than defend itself.
The Pope has washed the feet of Muslims before. What does he mean by it? If he means simply to imitate Christ’s action of extreme humility at the Last Supper, and to demonstrate that no one is beyond the pale of God’s mercy, no Christian could object to that. However, coming at a time when Muslim persecution of Christians is escalating worldwide, and when there is very serious concern about the Catholic Church’s apparent determination to accommodate Islamic supremacism at all costs, and not speak up for the persecuted Christians, this foot-washing can unfortunately be interpreted as meaning that the Church is surrendering and bowing down to its new Islamic overlords. As Christians in the Middle East are being slaughtered on a massive scale by Muslims, this looks more like surrender and submission than charity.
If the Pope really meant by washing these Muslims’ feet that Catholics and Christians in general should not defend themselves and their loved ones and their homelands against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, then his gesture is not only lamentable, but in contradiction to centuries of Church teaching about the right and even the duty of defending oneself. It is also worth noting, if any of the Muslims whose feet he washed were women, that if the Pope had dared to touch and kiss a Muslim woman’s feet in Saudi Arabia or Iran, he would have been immediately killed.
Above all, his act of humility would not have been received in the spirit in which it was intended. Among all too many Muslims worldwide it will be seen as his, and the Church’s weakness. Nor will it be reciprocated by any Muslim authority, in any way, shape or form.
As for being “children of the same God,” what would Pope Francis make of these Qur’an verses, were he to know about them (as he almost certainly does not):
Christians have forgotten part of the divine revelations they received: “From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it is they have done.” — Qur’an 5:14
Jesus is not the Son of God: “O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not “Three” – Cease! (it is) better for you! – Allah is only One Allah. Far is it removed from His Transcendent Majesty that He should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender.” — Qur’an 4:171
“It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” — Qur’an 19:35
Those who believe that Jesus is God’s Son are accursed: “The Jews call ‘Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! ” — Qur’an 9:30
Jesus was not crucified: “And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger – they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.” — Qur’an 4:157
Muslims must wage war against and subjugate Christians: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29
And there’s the Pope now, helpfully feeling himself subdued.
Pope foot washing
“‘Children of the same God’: Pope Francis washes the feet of Muslim migrants,” by Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, March 25, 2016:
They came from Mali, Eritrea, Syria and Pakistan. They were Muslim, Hindu, Catholic and Coptic Christians. And one by one, Pope Francis knelt down before these migrants on Holy Thursday and washed their feet.
The ritual, performed in a center for asylum seekers outside of Rome, comes amid anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and in the wake of a terrorist attack in Brussels, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility.
“All of us together, Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, Copts, Evangelical [Protestants] brothers and sisters – children of the same God – we want to live in peace, integrated,” Francis said during his homily.
What? What about Jews? Buddhists? They’re not children of the same God?
The foot-washing ritual became a part of Holy Thursday Mass in the 1950s. Jesus washed the feet of his 12 apostles at the Last Supper. The symbolic act also imitates Jesus’s gesture of servitude.
A number of the migrants whose feet were washed by the pope had tears streaming down their faces.
Shortly after Francis became pope in 2013, he washed the feet of Muslims.
A massive crowd didn’t turn out to participate in the ceremony or listen to the pope’s homily on Thursday, though. From the Associated Press:
Francis was greeted with a banner reading “Welcome” in a variety of languages as he walked down a makeshift aisle to celebrate the Mass. But only a fraction of the 892 asylum-seekers living at the shelter attended, and many of the seats were left empty. Those who came out, though, received a personal greeting: At the end of the Mass, Francis greeted each refugee, one by one, posing for selfies and accepting notes as he moved down the rows.
Francis condemned the attack in Brussels and those behind such violence. “There are manufacturers, arms dealers who want blood, not peace; they want the war, not fraternity,” the pope said.
“You, we, all of us together, of different religions, different cultures, but children of the same Father, brothers – and there, those poor people, who buy weapons to wreck fraternity,” Francis said Thursday. “Today, at this time, when I do the same act of Jesus washing the feet of twelve of you, let us all make a gesture of brotherhood, and let us all say: ‘We are different, we are different, we have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace.’”
The Vatican said eight men and four women took part in the ritual, AP reported, including: an Italian Catholic; three Eritrean Coptic Christians; four Catholics from Nigeria; three Muslims from Mali, Syria and Pakistan; and a Hindu man from India….
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Pope didn’t just WASH THE FEET of Muslim migrants, he KISSED THEM
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 25, 2016
Pope Francis kisses the foot of a man during the foot-washing ritual at the Castelnuovo di Porto refugees center, some 30km (18, 6 miles) from Rome, Thursday, March 24, 2016. The pontiff washed and kissed the feet of Muslim, Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic refugees Thursday, declaring them children of the same God, in a gesture of welcome and brotherhood at a time when anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant sentiment has spiked following the Brussels attacks. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
What did you get when you oppress, subjugate and slaughter members of the Pope’s flock — your feet washed and kissed.
There is a genocide of Christians in the Middle East — what will the Pope kiss next?
Photos: thanks to Urban Infidel
Pope Francis washes feet of Muslim migrants, says we’re all “children of the same God” March 25, 2016 1:50 pm By Robert Spencer, Jihadwatch:
Apparently if we’re all “children of the same God,” we’re racist, bigoted and Islamophobic to be concerned about jihad terror committed by Muslim migrants, and certainly have placed ourselves beyond the pale of the Catholic Church, which apparently would prefer the West to commit suicide rather than defend itself.
The Pope has washed the feet of Muslims before. What does he mean by it? If he means simply to imitate Christ’s action of extreme humility at the Last Supper, and to demonstrate that no one is beyond the pale of God’s mercy, no Christian could object to that. However, coming at a time when Muslim persecution of Christians is escalating worldwide, and when there is very serious concern about the Catholic Church’s apparent determination to accommodate Islamic supremacism at all costs, and not speak up for the persecuted Christians, this foot-washing can unfortunately be interpreted as meaning that the Church is surrendering and bowing down to its new Islamic overlords. As Christians in the Middle East are being slaughtered on a massive scale by Muslims, this looks more like surrender and submission than charity.
If the Pope really meant by washing these Muslims’ feet that Catholics and Christians in general should not defend themselves and their loved ones and their homelands against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, then his gesture is not only lamentable, but in contradiction to centuries of Church teaching about the right and even the duty of defending oneself. It is also worth noting, if any of the Muslims whose feet he washed were women, that if the Pope had dared to touch and kiss a Muslim woman’s feet in Saudi Arabia or Iran, he would have been immediately killed.
Above all, his act of humility would not have been received in the spirit in which it was intended. Among all too many Muslims worldwide it will be seen as his, and the Church’s weakness. Nor will it be reciprocated by any Muslim authority, in any way, shape or form.
As for being “children of the same God,” what would Pope Francis make of these Qur’an verses, were he to know about them (as he almost certainly does not):
Christians have forgotten part of the divine revelations they received: “From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it is they have done.” — Qur’an 5:14
Jesus is not the Son of God: “O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not “Three” – Cease! (it is) better for you! – Allah is only One Allah. Far is it removed from His Transcendent Majesty that He should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender.” — Qur’an 4:171
“It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” — Qur’an 19:35
Those who believe that Jesus is God’s Son are accursed: “The Jews call ‘Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! ” — Qur’an 9:30
Jesus was not crucified: “And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger – they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.” — Qur’an 4:157
Muslims must wage war against and subjugate Christians: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29
And there’s the Pope now, helpfully feeling himself subdued.
Pope foot washing
“‘Children of the same God’: Pope Francis washes the feet of Muslim migrants,” by Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, March 25, 2016:
They came from Mali, Eritrea, Syria and Pakistan. They were Muslim, Hindu, Catholic and Coptic Christians. And one by one, Pope Francis knelt down before these migrants on Holy Thursday and washed their feet.
The ritual, performed in a center for asylum seekers outside of Rome, comes amid anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and in the wake of a terrorist attack in Brussels, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility.
“All of us together, Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, Copts, Evangelical [Protestants] brothers and sisters – children of the same God – we want to live in peace, integrated,” Francis said during his homily.
What? What about Jews? Buddhists? They’re not children of the same God?
The foot-washing ritual became a part of Holy Thursday Mass in the 1950s. Jesus washed the feet of his 12 apostles at the Last Supper. The symbolic act also imitates Jesus’s gesture of servitude.
A number of the migrants whose feet were washed by the pope had tears streaming down their faces.
Shortly after Francis became pope in 2013, he washed the feet of Muslims.
A massive crowd didn’t turn out to participate in the ceremony or listen to the pope’s homily on Thursday, though. From the Associated Press:
Francis was greeted with a banner reading “Welcome” in a variety of languages as he walked down a makeshift aisle to celebrate the Mass. But only a fraction of the 892 asylum-seekers living at the shelter attended, and many of the seats were left empty. Those who came out, though, received a personal greeting: At the end of the Mass, Francis greeted each refugee, one by one, posing for selfies and accepting notes as he moved down the rows.
Francis condemned the attack in Brussels and those behind such violence. “There are manufacturers, arms dealers who want blood, not peace; they want the war, not fraternity,” the pope said.
“You, we, all of us together, of different religions, different cultures, but children of the same Father, brothers – and there, those poor people, who buy weapons to wreck fraternity,” Francis said Thursday. “Today, at this time, when I do the same act of Jesus washing the feet of twelve of you, let us all make a gesture of brotherhood, and let us all say: ‘We are different, we are different, we have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace.’”
The Vatican said eight men and four women took part in the ritual, AP reported, including: an Italian Catholic; three Eritrean Coptic Christians; four Catholics from Nigeria; three Muslims from Mali, Syria and Pakistan; and a Hindu man from India….
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VIDEO: Hijabed Muslima RIPS APART, HIDES Israeli flag at Brussels memorial site #SAVAGES
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 24, 2016
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Even thought blood of infidel is still fresh, Muslims cannot overcome their vicious hate. Savage.
Islamic Jew hatred – it’s in the Quran.
Woman with hijab at Brussels memorial site rips apart, hides Israeli flag
Brussels, Belgium-3/23/16- This was today, at the site of the Brussels memorial to the terrorist attacks, near the site of the metro bombing. She also seems to replace it with the Palestinian (Jew-hatred) flag. It seemed people witnessing it were unsure of what to do.
The images were captured by the RTL television network and disseminated on the web and social media. (J Post):
Candles are pictured around a Belgian flag on the Place de la Republique in Paris. (photo credit:REUTERS)
A French-language television station captured footage of a woman wearing a hijab ripping up an Israeli flag at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Tuesday’s bombings in Brussels.
The images were captured by the RTL television network and disseminated on the web and social media.
The incident took place at the vigil that was set up in the central Brussels landmark Place de la Bourse.
In the clip, the woman is seen sifting through the flags that were lining the pavement. After lifting a Palestinian flag, she then spots an Israeli flag and begins tearing it up. She then buries the ripped shards underneath other flags.
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VIDEO: Hijabed Muslima RIPS APART, HIDES Israeli flag at Brussels memorial site #SAVAGES
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 24, 2016
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Even thought blood of infidel is still fresh, Muslims cannot overcome their vicious hate. Savage.
Islamic Jew hatred – it’s in the Quran.
Woman with hijab at Brussels memorial site rips apart, hides Israeli flag
Brussels, Belgium-3/23/16- This was today, at the site of the Brussels memorial to the terrorist attacks, near the site of the metro bombing. She also seems to replace it with the Palestinian (Jew-hatred) flag. It seemed people witnessing it were unsure of what to do.
The images were captured by the RTL television network and disseminated on the web and social media. (J Post):
Candles are pictured around a Belgian flag on the Place de la Republique in Paris. (photo credit:REUTERS)
A French-language television station captured footage of a woman wearing a hijab ripping up an Israeli flag at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Tuesday’s bombings in Brussels.
The images were captured by the RTL television network and disseminated on the web and social media.
The incident took place at the vigil that was set up in the central Brussels landmark Place de la Bourse.
In the clip, the woman is seen sifting through the flags that were lining the pavement. After lifting a Palestinian flag, she then spots an Israeli flag and begins tearing it up. She then buries the ripped shards underneath other flags.
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Cruz: “In the wake of Brussels, we don’t need another lecture from President Obama about Islamophobia,” Cruz for police to patrol Muslim neighborhoods
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 23, 2016
Thank you, Mr. Cruz. Obama lecturing us, yet again, on islamofaubia is like FDR lecturing America on naziophobia after attacks on various European cities.
Ted Cruz is calling for law enforcement to ‘patrol and secure’ Muslim neighborhoods. Ted Cruz on Tuesday called for law enforcement to step up their policing of Muslim neighborhoods in the U.S. in the wake of terrorist attacks in Brussels, comparing it to police boosting their presence in areas with known gang activity. He should call for the surveillance of mosques as well.
Behind every islamic attack is an imam and a mosque. Mosques are good places to hide arms, ammunition and those running away from the law.
Here is our AFDI 18 point platform in defense of freedom. Every GOP candidate should adopt it. We have been calling for these policy changes for years.
Cruz has been consistent on this issue.I am sorry Robert Spencer is not on his foreign policy advisory board but maybe he will finally get there. As for Trump tweeting this out, color me unconvinced.
“Today’s attacks in Brussels underscores this is a war. This is not a lone war. ISIS has declared jihad.” Yes. This shouldn’t even be controversial. It’s painfully obvious — as is Cruz’s call for an end to Obama’s suicidal migrant policies.
“Cruz: ‘We Don’t Need Another Lecture on Islamophobia,’” by Cortney O’Brien, Townhall, March 22, 2016 (thanks to Robert Spencer):
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke to the press in the nation’s capital Tuesday morning to address the horrific terror attacks in Brussels. He mourned with the victims’ families, then pinned the blame on failed leadership both at home and abroad.
“Today’s attacks in Brussels underscores this is a war,” Cruz said. “This is not a lone war. ISIS has declared jihad.”
“It is way past time we have a president who will acknowledge this evil and will call it by its name and use the full force and fury to defeat ISIS,” he continued. “Until they are defeated, these attacks will continue. Their target is each and every one of us.”
Cruz, one of five remaining presidential candidates, urged America needs a leader who is not afraid to speak about terrorism in bold terms.
“We need a president who sets aside political correctness,” Cruz insisted. “We don’t need another lecture about Islamophobia.”
VIDEO
More than a change in rhetoric, Cruz noted we need a more robust security process. The Brussels attacks, Cruz said, are “the fruit of a failed immigration policy in Europe.”
He called the president’s plan to allow thousands of Syrian refugees into the States woefully wrong. We need “serious vetting,” he said.
Asked to address his rival Donald Trump’s suggestion on Monday that the U.S. withdraw from NATO, Cruz appeared visibly disgusted.
“Trump is wrong” when he says that we withdraw from NATO and retreat from Europe, Cruz said. “Trump’s proposal to withdraw from NATO is sadly consistent with his statement he intends to be neutral with Israel.”…
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Cruz: “In the wake of Brussels, we don’t need another lecture from President Obama about Islamophobia,” Cruz for police to patrol Muslim neighborhoods
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 23, 2016
Thank you, Mr. Cruz. Obama lecturing us, yet again, on islamofaubia is like FDR lecturing America on naziophobia after attacks on various European cities.
Ted Cruz is calling for law enforcement to ‘patrol and secure’ Muslim neighborhoods. Ted Cruz on Tuesday called for law enforcement to step up their policing of Muslim neighborhoods in the U.S. in the wake of terrorist attacks in Brussels, comparing it to police boosting their presence in areas with known gang activity. He should call for the surveillance of mosques as well.
Behind every islamic attack is an imam and a mosque. Mosques are good places to hide arms, ammunition and those running away from the law.
Here is our AFDI 18 point platform in defense of freedom. Every GOP candidate should adopt it. We have been calling for these policy changes for years.
Cruz has been consistent on this issue.I am sorry Robert Spencer is not on his foreign policy advisory board but maybe he will finally get there. As for Trump tweeting this out, color me unconvinced.
“Today’s attacks in Brussels underscores this is a war. This is not a lone war. ISIS has declared jihad.” Yes. This shouldn’t even be controversial. It’s painfully obvious — as is Cruz’s call for an end to Obama’s suicidal migrant policies.
“Cruz: ‘We Don’t Need Another Lecture on Islamophobia,’” by Cortney O’Brien, Townhall, March 22, 2016 (thanks to Robert Spencer):
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke to the press in the nation’s capital Tuesday morning to address the horrific terror attacks in Brussels. He mourned with the victims’ families, then pinned the blame on failed leadership both at home and abroad.
“Today’s attacks in Brussels underscores this is a war,” Cruz said. “This is not a lone war. ISIS has declared jihad.”
“It is way past time we have a president who will acknowledge this evil and will call it by its name and use the full force and fury to defeat ISIS,” he continued. “Until they are defeated, these attacks will continue. Their target is each and every one of us.”
Cruz, one of five remaining presidential candidates, urged America needs a leader who is not afraid to speak about terrorism in bold terms.
“We need a president who sets aside political correctness,” Cruz insisted. “We don’t need another lecture about Islamophobia.”
VIDEO
More than a change in rhetoric, Cruz noted we need a more robust security process. The Brussels attacks, Cruz said, are “the fruit of a failed immigration policy in Europe.”
He called the president’s plan to allow thousands of Syrian refugees into the States woefully wrong. We need “serious vetting,” he said.
Asked to address his rival Donald Trump’s suggestion on Monday that the U.S. withdraw from NATO, Cruz appeared visibly disgusted.
“Trump is wrong” when he says that we withdraw from NATO and retreat from Europe, Cruz said. “Trump’s proposal to withdraw from NATO is sadly consistent with his statement he intends to be neutral with Israel.”…
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Muslim Community Helped Paris Terrorist Hide from Police
ByPamela Geller on March 21, 2016
The Paris terrorist got most help from his neighbors, not ISIS. This is typical, but largely kept from the public. The media and cultural narrative runs counter to reality. There were marches and demonstrations of support for Muhammad Merah, the French Muslim who staged a series of Islamic attacks including opening fire on a Jewish Day school, as well as mowing down French soldiers. Every time there is a jihad attack, the Muslim community goes on the offense — accusing law enforcement of “entrapment” or blaming “islamophobia.” Never do we see the Muslim community calling for reform or looking inward to address the problem of violence and hatred in Islam.
“Paris fugitive helped more by friends and neighbours than Islamic State,” Reuters, March 20, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
After the Paris attacks, security forces searched far and wide for prime suspect Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after returning to Brussels, believing Islamic State could have spirited him away to Turkey, Syria or Morocco.
It appears Europe’s most wanted man never left the Belgian capital. And it was family, friends and petty criminals who helped him evade a manhunt for four months before he was arrested on Friday in the neighbourhood he grew up in, not far from his parents’ home.
As security services seek to understand how Islamic State operates in Europe to prevent more attacks, Abdeslam’s case highlights the difficulty of tracking suspects who can rely on the protection of community networks, many of which do not involve religious radicals and are not on the police radar.
“Abdeslam relied on a large network of friends and relatives that already existed for drug dealing and petty crime to keep him in hiding,” Belgium’s federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said of the only surviving suspect of the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.
“This was about the solidarity of neighbours, families,” Van Leeuw told public broadcaster RTBF, speaking about Abdeslam’s ability to hide for so long despite 24,000 calls from the public to a Belgian police hotline seeking information about the suspected attackers.
Abdeslam may have been hidden in the basement of an apartment of the mother of a friend with no links to militants, Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique reported on Sunday.
Such friendships, not Islamic State operatives, proved crucial from the start for Abdeslam, who ran a bar in Molenbeek with his brother, which was a nexus of social life for young Arab men with little interest in the mosque but was shut down shortly before the attacks for being a hub for drug dealing.
Abdeslam relied on two friends to drive him back to Brussels after his brother Brahim blew himself up at a Paris cafe. Others drove him around Molenbeek and its environs between safe houses.
Police, who were eventually able to move in to seize him at a house in the rundown North African neighbourhood of Molenbeek, have charged a man and a women whom they suspect of being part of a family who harboured the fugitive.
While Abdeslam’s networks were not infallible – his call to an acquaintance for help looking for a new hiding place let police finally locate him – they were formidable.
‘IT’S NOT OVER’
Few residents would talk to Reuters about Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French citizen raised by Moroccan-born parents in Molenbeek, on the poorer side of the city’s industrial-era canal.
Most of those that did said he was a likeable guy who was known in the area.
Dominique, who ran a newsagents close to where Abdeslam was arrested, described him as “a very nice boy” who showed no signs of becoming a radical. Abdeslam did not fight in Syria.
“I won’t say he was normal because everyone always say that, but he had a nice manner, he wasn’t aggressive,” said Molenbeek resident Pierre, in his 50s.
But another Molenbeek resident, Henri, meanwhile warned that Abdeslam was not the only one attracted by radicalism in the area. “It’s not over,” he said. “There are a lot of them.”
Western fighters in Syria and Iraq have found some of their most willing recruits in Belgium, partly because of the frustration many jobless young men feel in the marginalised quarters of Brussels – just a few kilometres from the wealth and power of the headquarters of NATO and the European Union, but effectively a world away.
Belgium has supplied the highest per capita number of fighters to Syria of any European nation. More than 300 Belgians have gone to take up arms in Syria and Iraq, according to an estimate from the Brussels-based Egmont think-tank.
Radicals such as another Molenbeek man Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected planner of the Paris attacks who was killed by French police late last year, posted internet videos of his exploits as a foreign fighter in Syria.
‘PEOPLE WORK FREELANCE’
But while three of the Paris attacks suspects grew up in Brussels, not all radicalised Belgian militants head for Syria.
They are part of “networks and accomplices” who have not attracted police attention, according to Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders and who vowed to extend surveillance.
Some sell drugs and weapons in an area where locals have a reputation for not cooperating with police, doing only part-time work for Islamic State such as recruiting fighters to go to Syria and helping to plan attacks, Belgian prosecutors said.
That would suggest police work cannot be focused simply on city mosques or monitoring social media and intercepting intelligence from militants in Syria and Iraq.
“I don’t think Daesh is giving orders 24 hours a day. That would make it too easy for us,” said prosecutor Van Leeuw, referring to the militant group by its Arabic acronym. “People work freelance.”
Such complexity has prompted European police chiefs to urge governments to focus on the links between political militants and organised crime – noting, for example, that financing for militant groups has often come from drug dealing and racketeering while established crime gangs probably supplied the Kalashnikovs favoured in recent IS attacks.
Counter-terrorism expert Rik Coolsaet said that spotting Islamic State recruits in Europe was also becoming more difficult because, unlike in the past, youngsters were less likely to be pious conservatives but rather secular rebels who feel they have no part in society and are disillusioned by a perceived lack of opportunity.
Following the worst financial crisis in a generation and with few of the lower-skilled jobs their parents’ generation enjoyed in Belgian car factories and coal mines remaining, there is a “no-future atmosphere” said Coolsaet, from the Egmont think-tank.
“Joining Islamic State opens a thrilling, bigger-than-life dimension to their way of life. For most of them it is akin to street gangs, drug trafficking, juvenile delinquency,” he said.
“A journey to Utopia.”
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Muslim Community Helped Paris Terrorist Hide from Police
ByPamela Geller on March 21, 2016
The Paris terrorist got most help from his neighbors, not ISIS. This is typical, but largely kept from the public. The media and cultural narrative runs counter to reality. There were marches and demonstrations of support for Muhammad Merah, the French Muslim who staged a series of Islamic attacks including opening fire on a Jewish Day school, as well as mowing down French soldiers. Every time there is a jihad attack, the Muslim community goes on the offense — accusing law enforcement of “entrapment” or blaming “islamophobia.” Never do we see the Muslim community calling for reform or looking inward to address the problem of violence and hatred in Islam.
“Paris fugitive helped more by friends and neighbours than Islamic State,” Reuters, March 20, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
After the Paris attacks, security forces searched far and wide for prime suspect Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after returning to Brussels, believing Islamic State could have spirited him away to Turkey, Syria or Morocco.
It appears Europe’s most wanted man never left the Belgian capital. And it was family, friends and petty criminals who helped him evade a manhunt for four months before he was arrested on Friday in the neighbourhood he grew up in, not far from his parents’ home.
As security services seek to understand how Islamic State operates in Europe to prevent more attacks, Abdeslam’s case highlights the difficulty of tracking suspects who can rely on the protection of community networks, many of which do not involve religious radicals and are not on the police radar.
“Abdeslam relied on a large network of friends and relatives that already existed for drug dealing and petty crime to keep him in hiding,” Belgium’s federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said of the only surviving suspect of the Nov. 13 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.
“This was about the solidarity of neighbours, families,” Van Leeuw told public broadcaster RTBF, speaking about Abdeslam’s ability to hide for so long despite 24,000 calls from the public to a Belgian police hotline seeking information about the suspected attackers.
Abdeslam may have been hidden in the basement of an apartment of the mother of a friend with no links to militants, Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique reported on Sunday.
Such friendships, not Islamic State operatives, proved crucial from the start for Abdeslam, who ran a bar in Molenbeek with his brother, which was a nexus of social life for young Arab men with little interest in the mosque but was shut down shortly before the attacks for being a hub for drug dealing.
Abdeslam relied on two friends to drive him back to Brussels after his brother Brahim blew himself up at a Paris cafe. Others drove him around Molenbeek and its environs between safe houses.
Police, who were eventually able to move in to seize him at a house in the rundown North African neighbourhood of Molenbeek, have charged a man and a women whom they suspect of being part of a family who harboured the fugitive.
While Abdeslam’s networks were not infallible – his call to an acquaintance for help looking for a new hiding place let police finally locate him – they were formidable.
‘IT’S NOT OVER’
Few residents would talk to Reuters about Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French citizen raised by Moroccan-born parents in Molenbeek, on the poorer side of the city’s industrial-era canal.
Most of those that did said he was a likeable guy who was known in the area.
Dominique, who ran a newsagents close to where Abdeslam was arrested, described him as “a very nice boy” who showed no signs of becoming a radical. Abdeslam did not fight in Syria.
“I won’t say he was normal because everyone always say that, but he had a nice manner, he wasn’t aggressive,” said Molenbeek resident Pierre, in his 50s.
But another Molenbeek resident, Henri, meanwhile warned that Abdeslam was not the only one attracted by radicalism in the area. “It’s not over,” he said. “There are a lot of them.”
Western fighters in Syria and Iraq have found some of their most willing recruits in Belgium, partly because of the frustration many jobless young men feel in the marginalised quarters of Brussels – just a few kilometres from the wealth and power of the headquarters of NATO and the European Union, but effectively a world away.
Belgium has supplied the highest per capita number of fighters to Syria of any European nation. More than 300 Belgians have gone to take up arms in Syria and Iraq, according to an estimate from the Brussels-based Egmont think-tank.
Radicals such as another Molenbeek man Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected planner of the Paris attacks who was killed by French police late last year, posted internet videos of his exploits as a foreign fighter in Syria.
‘PEOPLE WORK FREELANCE’
But while three of the Paris attacks suspects grew up in Brussels, not all radicalised Belgian militants head for Syria.
They are part of “networks and accomplices” who have not attracted police attention, according to Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders and who vowed to extend surveillance.
Some sell drugs and weapons in an area where locals have a reputation for not cooperating with police, doing only part-time work for Islamic State such as recruiting fighters to go to Syria and helping to plan attacks, Belgian prosecutors said.
That would suggest police work cannot be focused simply on city mosques or monitoring social media and intercepting intelligence from militants in Syria and Iraq.
“I don’t think Daesh is giving orders 24 hours a day. That would make it too easy for us,” said prosecutor Van Leeuw, referring to the militant group by its Arabic acronym. “People work freelance.”
Such complexity has prompted European police chiefs to urge governments to focus on the links between political militants and organised crime – noting, for example, that financing for militant groups has often come from drug dealing and racketeering while established crime gangs probably supplied the Kalashnikovs favoured in recent IS attacks.
Counter-terrorism expert Rik Coolsaet said that spotting Islamic State recruits in Europe was also becoming more difficult because, unlike in the past, youngsters were less likely to be pious conservatives but rather secular rebels who feel they have no part in society and are disillusioned by a perceived lack of opportunity.
Following the worst financial crisis in a generation and with few of the lower-skilled jobs their parents’ generation enjoyed in Belgian car factories and coal mines remaining, there is a “no-future atmosphere” said Coolsaet, from the Egmont think-tank.
“Joining Islamic State opens a thrilling, bigger-than-life dimension to their way of life. For most of them it is akin to street gangs, drug trafficking, juvenile delinquency,” he said.
“A journey to Utopia.”
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Muslim Migrant Gangs Leave Severed Head On Amsterdam Street
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 20, 2016
Get used to it. Islam in the West.
The poison fruit of multiculturalism.
“Migrant Gangs Leave Severed Head On Amsterdam Street,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, March 20, 2016:
In Amsterdam a severed head was found laying in the open street. It is just the latest gruesome murder in what is being called the “MOCRO War” involving North African migrants from Morocco.
Amsterdam resident Stan Koeman made the discovery. He first thought it may just be a bag laying on the ground but he soon realized what lay in front of his deli was much worse: “But then, I saw: sh*t it looks like a head,” he told Dutch media according to Welt.de.
The remains of the body belonging to the victim were found a day earlier, partially burned, in a different section of the city. The victim was a 23 year-old man, Nabil Amzieb.
Police say the positioning of his head was done on purpose. His eyes were pointed toward a local shisha smoking lounge called “Fayrouz” which, according to local police, is a known meeting place for North African gangs who have been in a bitter and bloody turf war since 2012.
Police are tight lipped about the case and didn’t want to confirm many details as the investigation is still ongoing but it is known in the area that more such incidents have occurred and that at least one person was shot near the shisha bar in 2014.
Since 2012 there have been dozens of attacks by members of the so-called “MORCO mafia” against each other. Nearly 20 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict but Nabil Amzieb is the youngest killed so far.
Over the past year police released statistics showing the scale of the gang war. They showed 396 fire arms seizures and six murders, which was down from the average of ten per year since 2012.
Amsterdam’s Mayor Eberhard van der Laan compared the violence to the notorious Mexican drug cartels saying: “We usually see these things on television series like “Narcos” or in places like Columbia, not in Amsterdam, but it was in Amsterdam.”
He called the whole event a “big shock for the public”. Back in 2014 he was concerned that the city’s streets were becoming more violent, now he says he sees this event as merely a new chapter in the escalating violence.
While police are being quiet about the investigation they were clear that they did not believe the “MOCRO war” was anywhere near over.
In Germany this week migrant gang violence led to a car exploding in Berlin. The man who was targeted was involved in drug trafficking and was thought to have been the target of assassination by a rival migrant gang.
Austrian capital Vienna also saw migrant gang violence that started out as a dispute on social media and led to around 50 Afghani migrants stabbing and beating young Chechens. Both gangs are said to have also been involved in the drug trade.
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Muslim Migrant Gangs Leave Severed Head On Amsterdam Street
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 20, 2016
Get used to it. Islam in the West.
The poison fruit of multiculturalism.
“Migrant Gangs Leave Severed Head On Amsterdam Street,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, March 20, 2016:
In Amsterdam a severed head was found laying in the open street. It is just the latest gruesome murder in what is being called the “MOCRO War” involving North African migrants from Morocco.
Amsterdam resident Stan Koeman made the discovery. He first thought it may just be a bag laying on the ground but he soon realized what lay in front of his deli was much worse: “But then, I saw: sh*t it looks like a head,” he told Dutch media according to Welt.de.
The remains of the body belonging to the victim were found a day earlier, partially burned, in a different section of the city. The victim was a 23 year-old man, Nabil Amzieb.
Police say the positioning of his head was done on purpose. His eyes were pointed toward a local shisha smoking lounge called “Fayrouz” which, according to local police, is a known meeting place for North African gangs who have been in a bitter and bloody turf war since 2012.
Police are tight lipped about the case and didn’t want to confirm many details as the investigation is still ongoing but it is known in the area that more such incidents have occurred and that at least one person was shot near the shisha bar in 2014.
Since 2012 there have been dozens of attacks by members of the so-called “MORCO mafia” against each other. Nearly 20 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict but Nabil Amzieb is the youngest killed so far.
Over the past year police released statistics showing the scale of the gang war. They showed 396 fire arms seizures and six murders, which was down from the average of ten per year since 2012.
Amsterdam’s Mayor Eberhard van der Laan compared the violence to the notorious Mexican drug cartels saying: “We usually see these things on television series like “Narcos” or in places like Columbia, not in Amsterdam, but it was in Amsterdam.”
He called the whole event a “big shock for the public”. Back in 2014 he was concerned that the city’s streets were becoming more violent, now he says he sees this event as merely a new chapter in the escalating violence.
While police are being quiet about the investigation they were clear that they did not believe the “MOCRO war” was anywhere near over.
In Germany this week migrant gang violence led to a car exploding in Berlin. The man who was targeted was involved in drug trafficking and was thought to have been the target of assassination by a rival migrant gang.
Austrian capital Vienna also saw migrant gang violence that started out as a dispute on social media and led to around 50 Afghani migrants stabbing and beating young Chechens. Both gangs are said to have also been involved in the drug trade.
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NY Muslim pizzeria owner who recruited for IS gets 22.5 years
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 19, 2016
It’s sedition. Treason. This devout Muslim should get life.
Photo: Mufid Elfgeeh is escorted under heavy guard into the Federal Building for a hearing in Rochester, New York, December 17, 2015. (Jamie Germano/Democrat & Chronicle via AP, File)
“NY pizzeria owner who recruited for IS gets 22.5 years,” By Gino Fanelli, March 18, 2016:
Yemen-born Mufid Elfgeeh, 32, set up Facebook, WhatsApp accounts that helped people travel to Syria to fight for jihadist group
ROCHESTER, New York (AP) — A Yemen-born pizza shop owner who admitted he tried to recruit people for the Islamic State group was sentenced Thursday to 22 1/2 years in prison.
Mufid Elfgeeh, 32, plead guilty in December in federal court to attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization in 2013 and 2014.
A naturalized US citizen, Elfgeeh was operating a convenience store and pizzeria in Rochester, New York when he was arrested by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in May 2014.
Investigators said he had bought two handguns and silencers that he planned to use to kill returning US soldiers. Authorities said he also tried to recruit three people to join the Islamic State group to fight in Syria.
“Thanks to today’s sentence, one of the first ISIL recruiters ever captured has been brought to justice and will now serve a very long jail sentence,” said US Attorney William Hochul, using another acronym for IS.
“But while this case strikes a significant blow against ISIL killers and wannabes, our ongoing efforts to eradicate terrorist groups will continue until all are brought to justice,” he added.
Elfgeeh did not speak at his sentencing, but his lawyer read a statement that included a renunciation of the Islamic State group.
“I watched ISIS carry out acts of violence, such as beheadings and burning people alive,” Elfgeeh said. “They say they do this for religion, I believe they are wrong.”
He also discussed his motivation.
“Like many, I was interested in the Arab Spring in Tunisia, and how it spread through Africa and the Middle East,” Elfgeeh said. “I wanted to help my Muslim brothers fighting the horrors of the Assad regime. I was an early supporter of ISIS, as they were the first to address the crisis in Syria.”
His sentence includes more than 27 years of supervision after his release, including monitoring all of his Internet activity. Assistant US Attorney Brett Harvey said that was because of Elfgeeh’s active social media use during his plot.
Elfgeeh was accused of creating 23 Facebook pages, under various aliases, in order to contact ISIL members and recruit, as well as a WhatsApp account to arrange a contact for two people, referred to as “individuals A and B,” to travel to Syria.
“The defendant showed use of social media, through various aliases, to support ISIL and help encourage other members,” Harvey said. “The defendant worked to send three people to Syria to fight with ISIL, and though he did not fight on the ground, he considered himself a fighter to help form the Islamic State and impose Shariah law.”
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Belgium: Muslims Riot, Attack Police After Paris Jihad Murderer Arrested
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 19, 2016
Europe is betting its future on the proposition that the overwhelming majority of the huge numbers of Muslims it is importing are “moderates” and will become loyal citizens. If that were true, however, why do things like this happen? Why weren’t the Muslims in Molenbeek out cheering the police as they apprehended the Paris jihad murderer Salah Abdeslam? And why hadn’t they already turned him in? - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/belgium-muslims-riot-attack-police-after-paris-jihad-murderer-arrested.html/#sthash.vXvxxZGT.dpuf
“Violence Breaks Out in Molenbeek After Paris Suspect’s Arrest,” by Abigail R. Esman, Investigative Project, March 18, 2016 (thanks to Patrick):
The most wanted terrorist in Europe, considered the mastermind in November’s multi-targeted attack in Paris that left 130 people dead, was arrested Friday by Belgian authorities.
But residents in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, where Saleh Abdeslam was captured, didn’t breathe a sigh of relief. Within hours, the district, which has a majority Muslim population, erupted into riots. Dozens of Abdeslam’s fans attacked police with bottles, stones, and other objects, local press reported, angered by the arrest of their “hero.”
The situation is developing.
Worse yet, Belgian newspaper De Morgen reported (subscription only) that “the whole neighborhood” knew where Abdeslam was ever since the Paris attacks. Nobody tipped off authorities.
The violence and code of silence over Abeslam’s hideout is not as surprising as it might seem. As we’ve noted previously, the Paris attacks were hatched in Molenbeek, in addition to the 2015 attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo‘s offices.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/belgium-muslims-riot-attack-police-after-paris-jihad-murderer-arrested.html/#sthash.vXvxxZGT.dpuf
NY Muslim pizzeria owner who recruited for IS gets 22.5 years
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 19, 2016
It’s sedition. Treason. This devout Muslim should get life.
Photo: Mufid Elfgeeh is escorted under heavy guard into the Federal Building for a hearing in Rochester, New York, December 17, 2015. (Jamie Germano/Democrat & Chronicle via AP, File)
“NY pizzeria owner who recruited for IS gets 22.5 years,” By Gino Fanelli, March 18, 2016:
Yemen-born Mufid Elfgeeh, 32, set up Facebook, WhatsApp accounts that helped people travel to Syria to fight for jihadist group
ROCHESTER, New York (AP) — A Yemen-born pizza shop owner who admitted he tried to recruit people for the Islamic State group was sentenced Thursday to 22 1/2 years in prison.
Mufid Elfgeeh, 32, plead guilty in December in federal court to attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization in 2013 and 2014.
A naturalized US citizen, Elfgeeh was operating a convenience store and pizzeria in Rochester, New York when he was arrested by the Joint Terrorism Task Force in May 2014.
Investigators said he had bought two handguns and silencers that he planned to use to kill returning US soldiers. Authorities said he also tried to recruit three people to join the Islamic State group to fight in Syria.
“Thanks to today’s sentence, one of the first ISIL recruiters ever captured has been brought to justice and will now serve a very long jail sentence,” said US Attorney William Hochul, using another acronym for IS.
“But while this case strikes a significant blow against ISIL killers and wannabes, our ongoing efforts to eradicate terrorist groups will continue until all are brought to justice,” he added.
Elfgeeh did not speak at his sentencing, but his lawyer read a statement that included a renunciation of the Islamic State group.
“I watched ISIS carry out acts of violence, such as beheadings and burning people alive,” Elfgeeh said. “They say they do this for religion, I believe they are wrong.”
He also discussed his motivation.
“Like many, I was interested in the Arab Spring in Tunisia, and how it spread through Africa and the Middle East,” Elfgeeh said. “I wanted to help my Muslim brothers fighting the horrors of the Assad regime. I was an early supporter of ISIS, as they were the first to address the crisis in Syria.”
His sentence includes more than 27 years of supervision after his release, including monitoring all of his Internet activity. Assistant US Attorney Brett Harvey said that was because of Elfgeeh’s active social media use during his plot.
Elfgeeh was accused of creating 23 Facebook pages, under various aliases, in order to contact ISIL members and recruit, as well as a WhatsApp account to arrange a contact for two people, referred to as “individuals A and B,” to travel to Syria.
“The defendant showed use of social media, through various aliases, to support ISIL and help encourage other members,” Harvey said. “The defendant worked to send three people to Syria to fight with ISIL, and though he did not fight on the ground, he considered himself a fighter to help form the Islamic State and impose Shariah law.”
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Belgium: Muslims Riot, Attack Police After Paris Jihad Murderer Arrested
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 19, 2016
Europe is betting its future on the proposition that the overwhelming majority of the huge numbers of Muslims it is importing are “moderates” and will become loyal citizens. If that were true, however, why do things like this happen? Why weren’t the Muslims in Molenbeek out cheering the police as they apprehended the Paris jihad murderer Salah Abdeslam? And why hadn’t they already turned him in? - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/belgium-muslims-riot-attack-police-after-paris-jihad-murderer-arrested.html/#sthash.vXvxxZGT.dpuf
“Violence Breaks Out in Molenbeek After Paris Suspect’s Arrest,” by Abigail R. Esman, Investigative Project, March 18, 2016 (thanks to Patrick):
The most wanted terrorist in Europe, considered the mastermind in November’s multi-targeted attack in Paris that left 130 people dead, was arrested Friday by Belgian authorities.
But residents in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, where Saleh Abdeslam was captured, didn’t breathe a sigh of relief. Within hours, the district, which has a majority Muslim population, erupted into riots. Dozens of Abdeslam’s fans attacked police with bottles, stones, and other objects, local press reported, angered by the arrest of their “hero.”
The situation is developing.
Worse yet, Belgian newspaper De Morgen reported (subscription only) that “the whole neighborhood” knew where Abdeslam was ever since the Paris attacks. Nobody tipped off authorities.
The violence and code of silence over Abeslam’s hideout is not as surprising as it might seem. As we’ve noted previously, the Paris attacks were hatched in Molenbeek, in addition to the 2015 attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo‘s offices.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/belgium-muslims-riot-attack-police-after-paris-jihad-murderer-arrested.html/#sthash.vXvxxZGT.dpuf
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Ivory Coast JIHADIS targeted Obama Official, 16 DEAD, Muslim children SPARED. non-Muslim children SHOT DEAD
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 13, 2016
Despite this, Obama will continue to aid, abet and fund the jihad here and abroad. Africa is being subsumed by jihad terror made possible by Obama’s anti-freedom policies.
Here’s what the Muslim killers did:
“[Eyewitness] Marcel Guy said he saw at least four gunmen with Kalashnikov rifles on the beach. He said one approached two children, and spoke in Arabic. One child knelt and prayed, the other child was shot dead.”
Why? Because the Muslim child knew Islamic prayers and the non-Muslim child did not. This is a pattern in Islamic attacks. Muslims are freed and spared, non-Muslims mutilated and slaughtered in cold blood.
Islam, not like other religions.
VIDEO: Jihadis SHOOT Westerners at Popular Ivory Coast Beach Resorts Shout ALLAHU AKBAR, Women, Children SHOT DEAD
“Ivory Coast gunmen who killed 16 had sights set on Obama official, source says,” FOX news, March 13, 2016:
A deadly attack on a popular Ivory Coast beach resort Sunday that killed at least 16 most likely targeted a U.S. delegation led by the assistant commerce secretary, who was visiting the country, a diplomatic source in the region told Fox News.
There was no indication any Americans had been killed or wounded in the attack, according to the source.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Marcus Jadotte was leading a group of Americans in Grand-Bassam, including college recruiters from the University of Florida. U.S. embassy officials from the capital city of Abidjan were also included in the group, according to the source.
The delegation was supposed to arrive at the scene of the attack, Etoile du Sud, a hotel popular with Westerners. The delegation had not yet made it to the hotel when the attack occurred.
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Map locates Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, where gunfire has been reported; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm; Expand / Contract
Gunfire was reported in Grand-Bassam. (AP)
A jihadist group called Ansar Dine, or “defenders of the faith,” linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was suspected of the attack, according to the source.Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb later claimed responsibility for the attack, according to a Jihad monitoring website cited by the Associated Press.
The US Embassy in Ivory Coast instructed all Americans to “shelter in place.”
The U.S. ambassador to the Ivory Coast was not in the country at the time of the attack having left to attend a conference in Washington led by Secretary of State John Kerry.
But the deadly attack did leave 14 civilians and two special forces soldiers dead, as well as all six attackers, President Alassane Ouattara said, according to Reuters.
The attackers, who were “heavily armed and wearing balaclavas, fired at guests at the Etoile du Sud, a large hotel which was full of expats in the current heatwave,” a witness told AFP.
Marcel Guy said he saw at least four gunmen with Kalashnikov rifles on the beach. He said one approached two children, and spoke in Arabic. One child knelt and prayed, the other child was shot dead.
“I was swimming when it started and I ran away,” said Dramane Kima, who showed video of the carnage to Reuters. He also took pictures of grenades and ammunition clips he believed were left behind by the gunmen.
Jacques Able, who identified himself as the owner of Etoile du Sud said one person had been killed at the hotel.
A receptionist at Etoile du Sud hotel said the attacks happened on the beach.
“We don’t know where they came from, and we don’t know where they’ve gone,” he said of the gunmen.
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Ivory Coast JIHADIS targeted Obama Official, 16 DEAD, Muslim children SPARED. non-Muslim children SHOT DEAD
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 13, 2016
Despite this, Obama will continue to aid, abet and fund the jihad here and abroad. Africa is being subsumed by jihad terror made possible by Obama’s anti-freedom policies.
Here’s what the Muslim killers did:
“[Eyewitness] Marcel Guy said he saw at least four gunmen with Kalashnikov rifles on the beach. He said one approached two children, and spoke in Arabic. One child knelt and prayed, the other child was shot dead.”
Why? Because the Muslim child knew Islamic prayers and the non-Muslim child did not. This is a pattern in Islamic attacks. Muslims are freed and spared, non-Muslims mutilated and slaughtered in cold blood.
Islam, not like other religions.
VIDEO: Jihadis SHOOT Westerners at Popular Ivory Coast Beach Resorts Shout ALLAHU AKBAR, Women, Children SHOT DEAD
“Ivory Coast gunmen who killed 16 had sights set on Obama official, source says,” FOX news, March 13, 2016:
A deadly attack on a popular Ivory Coast beach resort Sunday that killed at least 16 most likely targeted a U.S. delegation led by the assistant commerce secretary, who was visiting the country, a diplomatic source in the region told Fox News.
There was no indication any Americans had been killed or wounded in the attack, according to the source.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Marcus Jadotte was leading a group of Americans in Grand-Bassam, including college recruiters from the University of Florida. U.S. embassy officials from the capital city of Abidjan were also included in the group, according to the source.
The delegation was supposed to arrive at the scene of the attack, Etoile du Sud, a hotel popular with Westerners. The delegation had not yet made it to the hotel when the attack occurred.
Related Image
Map locates Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, where gunfire has been reported; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm; Expand / Contract
Gunfire was reported in Grand-Bassam. (AP)
A jihadist group called Ansar Dine, or “defenders of the faith,” linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was suspected of the attack, according to the source.Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb later claimed responsibility for the attack, according to a Jihad monitoring website cited by the Associated Press.
The US Embassy in Ivory Coast instructed all Americans to “shelter in place.”
The U.S. ambassador to the Ivory Coast was not in the country at the time of the attack having left to attend a conference in Washington led by Secretary of State John Kerry.
But the deadly attack did leave 14 civilians and two special forces soldiers dead, as well as all six attackers, President Alassane Ouattara said, according to Reuters.
The attackers, who were “heavily armed and wearing balaclavas, fired at guests at the Etoile du Sud, a large hotel which was full of expats in the current heatwave,” a witness told AFP.
Marcel Guy said he saw at least four gunmen with Kalashnikov rifles on the beach. He said one approached two children, and spoke in Arabic. One child knelt and prayed, the other child was shot dead.
“I was swimming when it started and I ran away,” said Dramane Kima, who showed video of the carnage to Reuters. He also took pictures of grenades and ammunition clips he believed were left behind by the gunmen.
Jacques Able, who identified himself as the owner of Etoile du Sud said one person had been killed at the hotel.
A receptionist at Etoile du Sud hotel said the attacks happened on the beach.
“We don’t know where they came from, and we don’t know where they’ve gone,” he said of the gunmen.
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VIDEO Interview׃ Turkish Muslims want to kill non-believers, “I shall stab them one by one wherever I find them”
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 14, 2016
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This video is very revealing. A citizen journalist interviews a number of Turkish citizens about non-believers. Every person questioned appears to be your ordinary, normal man on the street. There is no religious garb or other “tells.” And yet their responses are shocking to those unfamiliar with the Quran and Islamic texts/teachings.
Islam, it’s not like other religions.
Video thanks to Jason
Here are some of the answers:
Man #1: “Catch them and kill them. They don’t believe in Allah or the Quran.”
Man #2: “They [the unbelievers] are animals. They are not human. They’re not human. They are not like us.”
Man #3: “God damn them. They don’t believe in Allah. To hell with them.”
Man #4: “God damn them. I shall stab them one by one wherever I find them.”
Sounds like he is quoting Quran, “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.”
There’s more. Watch it. Send it to your liberal friends (if you still have any).
And Chancellor Merkel is expediting Turkey’s membership into the EU. Truly the final nail in Europe’s coffin.
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VIDEO Interview׃ Turkish Muslims want to kill non-believers, “I shall stab them one by one wherever I find them”
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 14, 2016
THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM 18 Comments
Screen Shot 2016-03-14 at 11.07.52 AM
This video is very revealing. A citizen journalist interviews a number of Turkish citizens about non-believers. Every person questioned appears to be your ordinary, normal man on the street. There is no religious garb or other “tells.” And yet their responses are shocking to those unfamiliar with the Quran and Islamic texts/teachings.
Islam, it’s not like other religions.
Video thanks to Jason
Here are some of the answers:
Man #1: “Catch them and kill them. They don’t believe in Allah or the Quran.”
Man #2: “They [the unbelievers] are animals. They are not human. They’re not human. They are not like us.”
Man #3: “God damn them. They don’t believe in Allah. To hell with them.”
Man #4: “God damn them. I shall stab them one by one wherever I find them.”
Sounds like he is quoting Quran, “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.”
There’s more. Watch it. Send it to your liberal friends (if you still have any).
And Chancellor Merkel is expediting Turkey’s membership into the EU. Truly the final nail in Europe’s coffin.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/video-muslims-want-to-kill-unbelievers.html/#sthash.EqkHsX37.dpuf
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Lebanon No More: “Hezbollah’s Iranian colony”
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 11, 2016
Members of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah stand on a pick-up truck mounted with a multiple rocket launcher as they take part in a parade in the southern city of Nabatiyeh on November 7, 2014, to mark the 13th day of Ashura, where believers mourn the killing of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam Hussein, during the battle of Karbala in central Iraq in the seventh century. AFP PHOTO / MAHMOUD ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
As the order of the world suffers seismic shifts seemingly overnight, the man who could have done the most but did the worst is still protected and exalted by the enemedia mafia.
Read Caroline Glick’s blistering report of the defeat of Lebanon, Israel’s northern neighbor. Speaking of which, when is PM Netanyahu going to name Glick to his cabinet?
The Fourth Strategy, by Caroline Glick, March 11, 2016:
This week we learned that Lebanon is no more. It has been replaced by Hezbollah’s Iranian colony in Lebanon.
Two weeks ago, Saudi Arabia listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and canceled its $3 billion aid package to the Lebanese military. The Gulf Cooperation Council followed suit. Rather than support the move by his sponsors and allies, Saad Hariri, the head of the anti-Hezbollah March 14 movement, flew to Syria to meet with Hezbollah leaders.
Arabia’s decision to end its support for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) doesn’t mean that Saudi Arabia is making peace with Hezbollah. It means that the Saudis are no longer willing to maintain the fiction that with enough support, the LAF will one day challenge Hezbollah’s effective control of Lebanon.
Hezbollah and its bosses in Tehran don’t seem too upset about the Sunnis’ decision to acknowledge that Hezbollah is a terrorist group. And they are right not to care. In essence, the Saudi move is simply an admission that they have won. Lebanon is theirs.
Hezbollah’s isn’t the dominant force in Lebanon because it has better weapons than the LAF. Unlike the LAF, Hezbollah has no air force. It has no armored divisions.
Hezbollah is able to dominate Lebanon because unlike the LAF and the March 14 movement, Hezbollah is willing to destroy Lebanon if doing so advances its strategic goals.
This has all been fairly clear for more than a decade. But it took the war in Syria to force the truth above the surface. And now that it is clear to everyone that Lebanon has ceased to exist and that the country we once knew is now an Iranian colony, the time has come for Israel to reckon with the lessons of its own misadventures in our neighbor to the north.
Since the mid-1990s, Israel has implemented three strategies in Lebanon and in Syria. All of them originated on the Left. All of them failed.
The first strategy was appeasement.
From the mid-1990s until the Syrian war began five years ago, Israel’s strategic framework for understanding Syria was appeasement. Initially, the notion was that Syria was our enemy because we control the Golan Heights. If we surrendered the Golan to Syria, we would have peace in exchange.
In the years leading up to the Syrian war, our leaders embraced the idea that Syria was the weakest link in the Iranian axis. If we gave the Golan Heights to Syria, they said, then the Assad regime would withdraw from the Iranian axis.
As it turned out, these positions had no basis in reality. Appeasement failed.
Then there was unconditional surrender – or disengagement. Then-prime minister Ehud Barak implemented this strategy when he removed IDF units from the security zone in south Lebanon in May 2000.
From the mid-1990s on, Yossi Beilin was the chief advocate of unconditional surrender in Lebanon. The logic of surrender was similar to that of appeasement – of which he was also a principal architect and advocate. The surrender strategy in Lebanon was based on the idea that Hezbollah fought the IDF in south Lebanon because the IDF was in south Lebanon. If the IDF were to leave south Lebanon, Hezbollah was have no reason to fight us anymore. So if we were gone, Beilin argued, Hezbollah would stop fighting, ditch terrorism and Iran, and become a normal Lebanese political party.
The war with Hezbollah in 2006 destroyed the credibility of the surrender strategy. But the Left didn’t despair. They simply replaced surrender with the strategy of internationalization.
The internationalization strategy forms the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that set the cease-fire terms at the end of the war with Hezbollah. IDF soldiers, who left Lebanon without victory, were replaced by UN forces from UNIFIL. UNIFIL forces were supposed to block Hezbollah’s reassertion of control over south Lebanon by facilitating the LAF’s takeover of the border with Israel. While UNIFIL was protecting the LAF on the ground, the LAF itself would be empowered by a massive infusion of US and Saudi aid.
Saudi Arabia’s belated recognition that Hezbollah dominates the LAF, and controls Lebanon, makes clear that like appeasement and disengagement, internationalization is an utter failure.
To a certain degree, Israel’s serial strategic blundering did have one ameliorative effect. Through them, Hezbollah has become so powerful that it now poses a threat to the great powers. So Russia in Syria now needs to curb it. So, too, it is so powerful that Iran is loath to waste it on a war with Israel that it will lose when it is fighting to win the war in Syria.
For now then, Hezbollah is not an immediate threat. This is the case despite Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s recent threat to bomb Haifa’s chemical depots and cause a fireball with the cataclysmic effect of a nuclear bomb.
But that doesn’t mean that the lessons of our repeated strategic mistakes in Syria and Lebanon shouldn’t be applied today. They should be applied, but toward another, more immediate foe – the Palestinians, toward whom Israel has applied the same failed policies, one after another, with similarly destructive outcomes.
After the first intifada ground to a halt in 1991, Israel adopted the Left’s first strategy. The so-called peace process with the PLO, which began in 1993, was an attempt to implement a strategy of appeasement. We would gradually give the PLO Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem.
In return, the PLO would stop supporting terrorism and live at peace with Israel.
The failure of the appeasement strategy led to the second intifada. The second intifada caused Israel to adopt the Left’s second strategy – unconditional surrender.
Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza failed just as spectacularly as its 2000 disengagement from Lebanon. Not only did it lead to the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007. It led to the further radicalization of the PLO and Palestinian society as a whole. The latter became convinced that terrorism worked. The former became convinced that the only way to garner public support was by being just as anti-Israel as Hamas.
Today, the center-left parties – the Zionist Union and Yesh Atid – cling to the failed strategy of disengagement. The far Left, together with the Arab political parties, have already moved on to the internationalization strategy. In the Palestinian context, the goal of the internationalization strategy is the collapse of Israeli sovereignty.
This strategy was in evidence this week with Peace Now head Yariv Oppenheimer’s outrageous claim Wednesday that in killing the terrorists who were in the midst of murdering innocents in Petah Tikva and Tel Aviv, civilians and security forces carried out summary executions.
Oppenheimer, whose group is funded by foreign governments, did not make the claim because he wished to build his support base at home. He demonized his fellow citizens to advance his paymasters’ goal of delegitimizing Israeli sovereignty by among other things, criminalizing Israel’s right to self-defense.
The goal of this delegitimization campaign is to make it impossible for Israel to function as a coherent nation-state and for it instead to become a powerless ward of Europe and the US.
In the face of both the rise in Palestinian terrorism and of efforts by Oppenheimer and his comrades to use Palestinian terrorism as a means to cause the collapse of Israeli sovereignty, the government is at a loss. Its paralysis doesn’t owe to a lack of will. Rather it is the consequence of the government’s difficulty in contending with the coalition of powerful domestic and foreign actors that together make it all but impossible for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers to abandon the Left’s failed strategies and embark on a new strategic course.
Perhaps the most poignant and infuriating expression of the government’s distress is its constant demand that PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas condemn Palestinian terrorism.
On seemingly a daily basis our leaders voice the demand that the man who heads a regime that indoctrinates its youth – including its young children – to murder Jews condemn his own actions.
Beyond being irrational, the demand is both defeatist and self-defeating. By demanding action from Abbas, we legitimize him and empower him. But so long as Israel refuses to abandon the appeasement strategy, and continues to accept that there is a peace process that can be resuscitated, the government will be unable to stop treating Abbas as legitimate and moderate.
So, too, so long as the Knesset fails to take serious, concerted action against the nonprofit groups funded by hostile foreign governments and foundations, the government will be unable to take effective action against the radical Left and its partners from the Joint (Arab) List that openly support both Palestinian terrorists and Hezbollah.
Just as Oppenheimer’s remarks weren’t directed toward the domestic audience, but to his European sponsors, so the Arab Knesset members who this week announced their opposition to Saudi Arabia’s decision to label Hezbollah a terrorist group, were directing their remarks toward their supporters – and Hezbollah’s sponsors – in Qatar.
While adopting in turn every failed strategy the Left could invent and recycle, for the past generation, Israel has avoided implementing the only strategy that has ever worked. That is the strategy of sovereignty – or, more broadly, of governing territories necessary for our defense.
From 1982 through 2000, Israel restrained Hezbollah and prevented it from taking over Lebanon by maintaining security control over the security zone in Lebanon. For 28 years, Israel prevented the Palestinians from becoming a terrorist society dedicated to the destruction of the people of Israel, by exerting security and civil authority over Judea, Samaria and Gaza through its military government and its civil administration.
And it worked. By fighting our enemies rather than empowering them, we weakened them.
The image of the first intifada that convinced us to legitimize the PLO was the teenager with a slingshot.
The image of the second intifada that convinced us to run away from Gaza was a bombed out bus.
So far, the image of the third intifada is a girl wielding scissors attempting to stab Jews. And we still haven’t figured out our response to her, although the Left would like us to run away or collapse.
It is time to let this image guide us though.
The girl with the scissors is not empowered. She is both dangerous and pathetic. She is both an enemy and a victim. You cannot destroy her. You can only punish her and then raise her up. In other words, you need to govern her.
Governing enemies is unpleasant. It brings no instant gratification. Instead it promises only thankless, Sisyphean efforts. In other words, governing your enemies is the price you pay to be free.
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Lebanon No More: “Hezbollah’s Iranian colony”
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 11, 2016
Members of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah stand on a pick-up truck mounted with a multiple rocket launcher as they take part in a parade in the southern city of Nabatiyeh on November 7, 2014, to mark the 13th day of Ashura, where believers mourn the killing of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam Hussein, during the battle of Karbala in central Iraq in the seventh century. AFP PHOTO / MAHMOUD ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
As the order of the world suffers seismic shifts seemingly overnight, the man who could have done the most but did the worst is still protected and exalted by the enemedia mafia.
Read Caroline Glick’s blistering report of the defeat of Lebanon, Israel’s northern neighbor. Speaking of which, when is PM Netanyahu going to name Glick to his cabinet?
The Fourth Strategy, by Caroline Glick, March 11, 2016:
This week we learned that Lebanon is no more. It has been replaced by Hezbollah’s Iranian colony in Lebanon.
Two weeks ago, Saudi Arabia listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and canceled its $3 billion aid package to the Lebanese military. The Gulf Cooperation Council followed suit. Rather than support the move by his sponsors and allies, Saad Hariri, the head of the anti-Hezbollah March 14 movement, flew to Syria to meet with Hezbollah leaders.
Arabia’s decision to end its support for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) doesn’t mean that Saudi Arabia is making peace with Hezbollah. It means that the Saudis are no longer willing to maintain the fiction that with enough support, the LAF will one day challenge Hezbollah’s effective control of Lebanon.
Hezbollah and its bosses in Tehran don’t seem too upset about the Sunnis’ decision to acknowledge that Hezbollah is a terrorist group. And they are right not to care. In essence, the Saudi move is simply an admission that they have won. Lebanon is theirs.
Hezbollah’s isn’t the dominant force in Lebanon because it has better weapons than the LAF. Unlike the LAF, Hezbollah has no air force. It has no armored divisions.
Hezbollah is able to dominate Lebanon because unlike the LAF and the March 14 movement, Hezbollah is willing to destroy Lebanon if doing so advances its strategic goals.
This has all been fairly clear for more than a decade. But it took the war in Syria to force the truth above the surface. And now that it is clear to everyone that Lebanon has ceased to exist and that the country we once knew is now an Iranian colony, the time has come for Israel to reckon with the lessons of its own misadventures in our neighbor to the north.
Since the mid-1990s, Israel has implemented three strategies in Lebanon and in Syria. All of them originated on the Left. All of them failed.
The first strategy was appeasement.
From the mid-1990s until the Syrian war began five years ago, Israel’s strategic framework for understanding Syria was appeasement. Initially, the notion was that Syria was our enemy because we control the Golan Heights. If we surrendered the Golan to Syria, we would have peace in exchange.
In the years leading up to the Syrian war, our leaders embraced the idea that Syria was the weakest link in the Iranian axis. If we gave the Golan Heights to Syria, they said, then the Assad regime would withdraw from the Iranian axis.
As it turned out, these positions had no basis in reality. Appeasement failed.
Then there was unconditional surrender – or disengagement. Then-prime minister Ehud Barak implemented this strategy when he removed IDF units from the security zone in south Lebanon in May 2000.
From the mid-1990s on, Yossi Beilin was the chief advocate of unconditional surrender in Lebanon. The logic of surrender was similar to that of appeasement – of which he was also a principal architect and advocate. The surrender strategy in Lebanon was based on the idea that Hezbollah fought the IDF in south Lebanon because the IDF was in south Lebanon. If the IDF were to leave south Lebanon, Hezbollah was have no reason to fight us anymore. So if we were gone, Beilin argued, Hezbollah would stop fighting, ditch terrorism and Iran, and become a normal Lebanese political party.
The war with Hezbollah in 2006 destroyed the credibility of the surrender strategy. But the Left didn’t despair. They simply replaced surrender with the strategy of internationalization.
The internationalization strategy forms the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that set the cease-fire terms at the end of the war with Hezbollah. IDF soldiers, who left Lebanon without victory, were replaced by UN forces from UNIFIL. UNIFIL forces were supposed to block Hezbollah’s reassertion of control over south Lebanon by facilitating the LAF’s takeover of the border with Israel. While UNIFIL was protecting the LAF on the ground, the LAF itself would be empowered by a massive infusion of US and Saudi aid.
Saudi Arabia’s belated recognition that Hezbollah dominates the LAF, and controls Lebanon, makes clear that like appeasement and disengagement, internationalization is an utter failure.
To a certain degree, Israel’s serial strategic blundering did have one ameliorative effect. Through them, Hezbollah has become so powerful that it now poses a threat to the great powers. So Russia in Syria now needs to curb it. So, too, it is so powerful that Iran is loath to waste it on a war with Israel that it will lose when it is fighting to win the war in Syria.
For now then, Hezbollah is not an immediate threat. This is the case despite Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s recent threat to bomb Haifa’s chemical depots and cause a fireball with the cataclysmic effect of a nuclear bomb.
But that doesn’t mean that the lessons of our repeated strategic mistakes in Syria and Lebanon shouldn’t be applied today. They should be applied, but toward another, more immediate foe – the Palestinians, toward whom Israel has applied the same failed policies, one after another, with similarly destructive outcomes.
After the first intifada ground to a halt in 1991, Israel adopted the Left’s first strategy. The so-called peace process with the PLO, which began in 1993, was an attempt to implement a strategy of appeasement. We would gradually give the PLO Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem.
In return, the PLO would stop supporting terrorism and live at peace with Israel.
The failure of the appeasement strategy led to the second intifada. The second intifada caused Israel to adopt the Left’s second strategy – unconditional surrender.
Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza failed just as spectacularly as its 2000 disengagement from Lebanon. Not only did it lead to the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007. It led to the further radicalization of the PLO and Palestinian society as a whole. The latter became convinced that terrorism worked. The former became convinced that the only way to garner public support was by being just as anti-Israel as Hamas.
Today, the center-left parties – the Zionist Union and Yesh Atid – cling to the failed strategy of disengagement. The far Left, together with the Arab political parties, have already moved on to the internationalization strategy. In the Palestinian context, the goal of the internationalization strategy is the collapse of Israeli sovereignty.
This strategy was in evidence this week with Peace Now head Yariv Oppenheimer’s outrageous claim Wednesday that in killing the terrorists who were in the midst of murdering innocents in Petah Tikva and Tel Aviv, civilians and security forces carried out summary executions.
Oppenheimer, whose group is funded by foreign governments, did not make the claim because he wished to build his support base at home. He demonized his fellow citizens to advance his paymasters’ goal of delegitimizing Israeli sovereignty by among other things, criminalizing Israel’s right to self-defense.
The goal of this delegitimization campaign is to make it impossible for Israel to function as a coherent nation-state and for it instead to become a powerless ward of Europe and the US.
In the face of both the rise in Palestinian terrorism and of efforts by Oppenheimer and his comrades to use Palestinian terrorism as a means to cause the collapse of Israeli sovereignty, the government is at a loss. Its paralysis doesn’t owe to a lack of will. Rather it is the consequence of the government’s difficulty in contending with the coalition of powerful domestic and foreign actors that together make it all but impossible for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers to abandon the Left’s failed strategies and embark on a new strategic course.
Perhaps the most poignant and infuriating expression of the government’s distress is its constant demand that PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas condemn Palestinian terrorism.
On seemingly a daily basis our leaders voice the demand that the man who heads a regime that indoctrinates its youth – including its young children – to murder Jews condemn his own actions.
Beyond being irrational, the demand is both defeatist and self-defeating. By demanding action from Abbas, we legitimize him and empower him. But so long as Israel refuses to abandon the appeasement strategy, and continues to accept that there is a peace process that can be resuscitated, the government will be unable to stop treating Abbas as legitimate and moderate.
So, too, so long as the Knesset fails to take serious, concerted action against the nonprofit groups funded by hostile foreign governments and foundations, the government will be unable to take effective action against the radical Left and its partners from the Joint (Arab) List that openly support both Palestinian terrorists and Hezbollah.
Just as Oppenheimer’s remarks weren’t directed toward the domestic audience, but to his European sponsors, so the Arab Knesset members who this week announced their opposition to Saudi Arabia’s decision to label Hezbollah a terrorist group, were directing their remarks toward their supporters – and Hezbollah’s sponsors – in Qatar.
While adopting in turn every failed strategy the Left could invent and recycle, for the past generation, Israel has avoided implementing the only strategy that has ever worked. That is the strategy of sovereignty – or, more broadly, of governing territories necessary for our defense.
From 1982 through 2000, Israel restrained Hezbollah and prevented it from taking over Lebanon by maintaining security control over the security zone in Lebanon. For 28 years, Israel prevented the Palestinians from becoming a terrorist society dedicated to the destruction of the people of Israel, by exerting security and civil authority over Judea, Samaria and Gaza through its military government and its civil administration.
And it worked. By fighting our enemies rather than empowering them, we weakened them.
The image of the first intifada that convinced us to legitimize the PLO was the teenager with a slingshot.
The image of the second intifada that convinced us to run away from Gaza was a bombed out bus.
So far, the image of the third intifada is a girl wielding scissors attempting to stab Jews. And we still haven’t figured out our response to her, although the Left would like us to run away or collapse.
It is time to let this image guide us though.
The girl with the scissors is not empowered. She is both dangerous and pathetic. She is both an enemy and a victim. You cannot destroy her. You can only punish her and then raise her up. In other words, you need to govern her.
Governing enemies is unpleasant. It brings no instant gratification. Instead it promises only thankless, Sisyphean efforts. In other words, governing your enemies is the price you pay to be free.
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Report: “Obama sees Netanyahu as most disappointing of all Mideast leaders”
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 10, 2016
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It’s to laugh, it’s to cry.
Obama sees Netanyahu as most disappointing of all Mideast leaders. Not Rouhani, not Morsi, not Assad, not Abbas, not Erdogan, not Mashal, not Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — the Jew.
I sees Obama as the most disappointing and antisemitic President of all U.S. president. This anti-semite is in a league of his own.
“In recent days,” Goldberg continues, “the president has said privately, ‘All I need in the Middle East is a few smart autocrats.’ A true dictator at heart. Obama was instrumental in overthrowing autocrats in order to install jihad terror rule. And now he weakly and pathetically laments? Colour me skeptical.
“Obama sees Netanyahu as most disappointing of all Mideast leaders — report,” Times of Israel, March 9, 2016:
The Atlantic: Israeli PM is ‘in his own category’ when it comes to those who frustrate US president; article cites ‘condescending’ lecture by PM, asserts that Obama sees Netanyahu as ‘too fearful and politically paralyzed’ to secure two-state solution
Disregarding, of course, daily terror attacks against the Jews, the vow of the Israel’s enemy to never recognize the Jewish state and their charter which vows to annihilate the Jews.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is in his own category” when it comes to the Middle East leaders who have most deeply disappointed President Barack Obama, according to a major overview of the Obama presidency, featuring numerous interviews with the president, published online Thursday by The Atlantic.
In the piece, headlined “The Obama Doctrine,” writer Jeffrey Goldberg goes to great lengths to trace the president’s growing disillusionment, over the course of his presidency, with the possibility of changing the region for the better. “Some of his deepest disappointments concern Middle Eastern leaders themselves,” Goldberg writes. Of these, “Benjamin Netanyahu is in his own category.”
According to Goldberg, “Obama has long believed that Netanyahu could bring about a two-state solution that would protect Israel’s status as a Jewish-majority democracy, but is too fearful and politically paralyzed to do so.”
To illustrate Obama’s impatience with Netanyahu, one of several Middle Eastern leaders said to have questioned the president’s understanding of the region, Goldberg relates an incident during an undated Obama-Netanyahu meeting, at which the Israeli prime minister “launched into something of a lecture about the dangers of the brutal region in which he lives.”
Obama, relates Goldberg, “felt that Netanyahu was behaving in a condescending fashion, and was also avoiding the subject at hand: peace negotiations. Finally, the president interrupted the prime minister: ‘Bibi, you have to understand something,’ he said. ‘I’m the African American son of a single mother, and I live here, in this house. I live in the White House. I managed to get elected president of the United States. You think I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I do.’”
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The piece does not single out Netanyahu as the only regional leader to “frustrate him immensely.” Obama now thinks of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who he had hoped could bridge the East-West divide, as “a failure and an authoritarian, one who refuses to use his enormous army to bring stability to Syria,” Goldberg writes.
He also says Obama two years ago took Jordan’s King Abdullah II aside at an international summit because he was unhappy that the monarch was badmouthing him. “Obama said he had heard that Abdullah had complained to friends in the U.S. Congress about his leadership, and told the king that if he had complaints, he should raise them directly. The king denied that he had spoken ill of him.”
“In recent days,” Goldberg continues, “the president has taken to joking privately, ‘All I need in the Middle East is a few smart autocrats.’ Obama has always had a fondness for pragmatic, emotionally contained technocrats, telling aides, ‘If only everyone could be like the Scandinavians, this would all be easy.’”
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US President Obama delivering his famed Cairo Speech in 2009. The president highlighted the need for social progress in his first major address to the Muslim world. (photo credit: screen capture, YouTube)
According to Goldberg, Obama now acknowledges that a goal of his Cairo speech in 2009, early in his presidency, in which he sought to persuade Muslims to look honestly at the sources of their unhappiness and stop blaming Israel for all their problems, has proved unsuccessful.
Liar. This was nowhere in his speech. His speech was submission and apologia.
He quotes Obama as follows: “My argument was this: Let’s all stop pretending that the cause of the Middle East’s problems is Israel… We want to work to help achieve statehood and dignity for the Palestinians, but I was hoping that my speech could trigger a discussion, could create space for Muslims to address the real problems they are confronting — problems of governance, and the fact that some currents of Islam have not gone through a reformation that would help people adapt their religious doctrines to modernity. My thought was, I would communicate that the U.S. is not standing in the way of this progress, that we would help, in whatever way possible, to advance the goals of a practical, successful Arab agenda that provided a better life for ordinary people.”
What unfolded over the following three years, Goldberg goes on, “as the Arab Spring gave up its early promise, and brutality and dysfunction overwhelmed the Middle East,” left Obama bleak. “The unraveling of the Arab Spring darkened the president’s view of what the U.S. could achieve in the Middle East, and made him realize how much the chaos there was distracting from other priorities,” Goldberg writes.
When reality meets fantasy, it is a bloody smash-up. It was never a “spring,” it was an Islamic winter. And that was plain from the start. Read all of my writings and those of my colleagues. We knew but this plant didn’t?
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Undated file image posted on a militant website on January 14, 2014, shows Islamic State fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP/Militant Website)
More recently, says Goldberg, the rise of the Islamic State terror group has “deepened Obama’s conviction that the Middle East could not be fixed — not on his watch, and not for a generation to come.”
Thanks to his complicity and hatred for freedom. The rivers of blood are on his hands.
In the piece, Goldberg quotes Obama castigating Islamic State in the most bitter tones, as “the distillation of every worst impulse.” Says Obama: “The notion that we are a small group that defines ourselves primarily by the degree to which we can kill others who are not like us, and attempting to impose a rigid orthodoxy that produces nothing, that celebrates nothing, that really is contrary to every bit of human progress— it indicates the degree to which that kind of mentality can still take root and gain adherents in the 21st century.”
It’s pure Islam. Authentic Islam. And Obama still cannot bring himself to identify the ideology behind this supremacist holy war. Still.
Obama is also quoted praising Israelis’ ability to withstand a relentless climate of terrorism. Writes Goldberg of the US president: “Several years ago, he expressed to me his admiration for Israelis’ ‘resilience’ in the face of constant terrorism, and it is clear that he would like to see resilience replace panic in American society.”
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A worker outside the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
Relating to last July’s nuclear agreement with Iran, on which he and Netanyahu disagreed so profoundly and so publicly, Obama told Goldberg as recently as January that he wasn’t bluffing when he said in 2012 that he would have attacked Iran to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon. “I actually would have,” Goldberg quotes Obama saying, in reference to a strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities, “If I saw them break out… This was in the category of an American interest.”
Where he and Netanyahu differed, Goldberg elaborates, is that “Netanyahu wanted Obama to prevent Iran from being capable of building a bomb, not merely from possessing a bomb.”
Much of the article relates to Obama’s decision not to strike at Syria after President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people in the summer of 2013 — a landmark volte face in his presidency. Goldberg reveals, however, that Secretary of State John Kerry has continued to press Obama “to violate Syria’s sovereignty” and “launch missiles at specific regime targets, under cover of night, to ‘send a message’ to the regime.” The president has insistently refused these requests, Goldberg writes, “and seems to have grown impatient” with Kerry’s lobbying. “Recently, when Kerry handed Obama a written outline of new steps to bring more pressure to bear on Assad, Obama said, ‘Oh, another proposal?’”
Obama blames everyone except himself. These are his picks to execute his disastrous policies.
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US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
Goldberg concludes the piece by arguing that Obama “has placed some huge bets” in foreign policy — notably where the Iran deal is concerned. When Goldberg told him last May that he was “nervous” about the deal, Obama replied: “Look, 20 years from now, I’m still going to be around, God willing. If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it’s my name on this… I think it’s fair to say that in addition to our profound national-security interests, I have a personal interest in locking this down.”
So he knows. And he sounds proud that the Iran nuke will have his name on it.
For supporters of the president, Goldberg sums up, “his strategy makes eminent sense: Double down in those parts of the world where success is plausible, and limit America’s exposure to the rest. His critics believe, however, that problems like those presented by the Middle East don’t solve themselves — that, without American intervention, they metastasize.”
“For supporters of the president, Goldberg sums up, “his strategy makes eminent sense…” Of course, these people are nuts.
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Report: “Obama sees Netanyahu as most disappointing of all Mideast leaders”
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 10, 2016
OBAMA AND ISLAM OBAMA: LETHAL FOR ISRAEL 00 Comments
Netanyahu Obama finger
It’s to laugh, it’s to cry.
Obama sees Netanyahu as most disappointing of all Mideast leaders. Not Rouhani, not Morsi, not Assad, not Abbas, not Erdogan, not Mashal, not Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — the Jew.
I sees Obama as the most disappointing and antisemitic President of all U.S. president. This anti-semite is in a league of his own.
“In recent days,” Goldberg continues, “the president has said privately, ‘All I need in the Middle East is a few smart autocrats.’ A true dictator at heart. Obama was instrumental in overthrowing autocrats in order to install jihad terror rule. And now he weakly and pathetically laments? Colour me skeptical.
“Obama sees Netanyahu as most disappointing of all Mideast leaders — report,” Times of Israel, March 9, 2016:
The Atlantic: Israeli PM is ‘in his own category’ when it comes to those who frustrate US president; article cites ‘condescending’ lecture by PM, asserts that Obama sees Netanyahu as ‘too fearful and politically paralyzed’ to secure two-state solution
Disregarding, of course, daily terror attacks against the Jews, the vow of the Israel’s enemy to never recognize the Jewish state and their charter which vows to annihilate the Jews.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is in his own category” when it comes to the Middle East leaders who have most deeply disappointed President Barack Obama, according to a major overview of the Obama presidency, featuring numerous interviews with the president, published online Thursday by The Atlantic.
In the piece, headlined “The Obama Doctrine,” writer Jeffrey Goldberg goes to great lengths to trace the president’s growing disillusionment, over the course of his presidency, with the possibility of changing the region for the better. “Some of his deepest disappointments concern Middle Eastern leaders themselves,” Goldberg writes. Of these, “Benjamin Netanyahu is in his own category.”
According to Goldberg, “Obama has long believed that Netanyahu could bring about a two-state solution that would protect Israel’s status as a Jewish-majority democracy, but is too fearful and politically paralyzed to do so.”
To illustrate Obama’s impatience with Netanyahu, one of several Middle Eastern leaders said to have questioned the president’s understanding of the region, Goldberg relates an incident during an undated Obama-Netanyahu meeting, at which the Israeli prime minister “launched into something of a lecture about the dangers of the brutal region in which he lives.”
Obama, relates Goldberg, “felt that Netanyahu was behaving in a condescending fashion, and was also avoiding the subject at hand: peace negotiations. Finally, the president interrupted the prime minister: ‘Bibi, you have to understand something,’ he said. ‘I’m the African American son of a single mother, and I live here, in this house. I live in the White House. I managed to get elected president of the United States. You think I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I do.’”
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The piece does not single out Netanyahu as the only regional leader to “frustrate him immensely.” Obama now thinks of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who he had hoped could bridge the East-West divide, as “a failure and an authoritarian, one who refuses to use his enormous army to bring stability to Syria,” Goldberg writes.
He also says Obama two years ago took Jordan’s King Abdullah II aside at an international summit because he was unhappy that the monarch was badmouthing him. “Obama said he had heard that Abdullah had complained to friends in the U.S. Congress about his leadership, and told the king that if he had complaints, he should raise them directly. The king denied that he had spoken ill of him.”
“In recent days,” Goldberg continues, “the president has taken to joking privately, ‘All I need in the Middle East is a few smart autocrats.’ Obama has always had a fondness for pragmatic, emotionally contained technocrats, telling aides, ‘If only everyone could be like the Scandinavians, this would all be easy.’”
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US President Obama delivering his famed Cairo Speech in 2009. The president highlighted the need for social progress in his first major address to the Muslim world. (photo credit: screen capture, YouTube)
According to Goldberg, Obama now acknowledges that a goal of his Cairo speech in 2009, early in his presidency, in which he sought to persuade Muslims to look honestly at the sources of their unhappiness and stop blaming Israel for all their problems, has proved unsuccessful.
Liar. This was nowhere in his speech. His speech was submission and apologia.
He quotes Obama as follows: “My argument was this: Let’s all stop pretending that the cause of the Middle East’s problems is Israel… We want to work to help achieve statehood and dignity for the Palestinians, but I was hoping that my speech could trigger a discussion, could create space for Muslims to address the real problems they are confronting — problems of governance, and the fact that some currents of Islam have not gone through a reformation that would help people adapt their religious doctrines to modernity. My thought was, I would communicate that the U.S. is not standing in the way of this progress, that we would help, in whatever way possible, to advance the goals of a practical, successful Arab agenda that provided a better life for ordinary people.”
What unfolded over the following three years, Goldberg goes on, “as the Arab Spring gave up its early promise, and brutality and dysfunction overwhelmed the Middle East,” left Obama bleak. “The unraveling of the Arab Spring darkened the president’s view of what the U.S. could achieve in the Middle East, and made him realize how much the chaos there was distracting from other priorities,” Goldberg writes.
When reality meets fantasy, it is a bloody smash-up. It was never a “spring,” it was an Islamic winter. And that was plain from the start. Read all of my writings and those of my colleagues. We knew but this plant didn’t?
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Undated file image posted on a militant website on January 14, 2014, shows Islamic State fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP/Militant Website)
More recently, says Goldberg, the rise of the Islamic State terror group has “deepened Obama’s conviction that the Middle East could not be fixed — not on his watch, and not for a generation to come.”
Thanks to his complicity and hatred for freedom. The rivers of blood are on his hands.
In the piece, Goldberg quotes Obama castigating Islamic State in the most bitter tones, as “the distillation of every worst impulse.” Says Obama: “The notion that we are a small group that defines ourselves primarily by the degree to which we can kill others who are not like us, and attempting to impose a rigid orthodoxy that produces nothing, that celebrates nothing, that really is contrary to every bit of human progress— it indicates the degree to which that kind of mentality can still take root and gain adherents in the 21st century.”
It’s pure Islam. Authentic Islam. And Obama still cannot bring himself to identify the ideology behind this supremacist holy war. Still.
Obama is also quoted praising Israelis’ ability to withstand a relentless climate of terrorism. Writes Goldberg of the US president: “Several years ago, he expressed to me his admiration for Israelis’ ‘resilience’ in the face of constant terrorism, and it is clear that he would like to see resilience replace panic in American society.”
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A worker outside the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)
Relating to last July’s nuclear agreement with Iran, on which he and Netanyahu disagreed so profoundly and so publicly, Obama told Goldberg as recently as January that he wasn’t bluffing when he said in 2012 that he would have attacked Iran to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon. “I actually would have,” Goldberg quotes Obama saying, in reference to a strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities, “If I saw them break out… This was in the category of an American interest.”
Where he and Netanyahu differed, Goldberg elaborates, is that “Netanyahu wanted Obama to prevent Iran from being capable of building a bomb, not merely from possessing a bomb.”
Much of the article relates to Obama’s decision not to strike at Syria after President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people in the summer of 2013 — a landmark volte face in his presidency. Goldberg reveals, however, that Secretary of State John Kerry has continued to press Obama “to violate Syria’s sovereignty” and “launch missiles at specific regime targets, under cover of night, to ‘send a message’ to the regime.” The president has insistently refused these requests, Goldberg writes, “and seems to have grown impatient” with Kerry’s lobbying. “Recently, when Kerry handed Obama a written outline of new steps to bring more pressure to bear on Assad, Obama said, ‘Oh, another proposal?’”
Obama blames everyone except himself. These are his picks to execute his disastrous policies.
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US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)
Goldberg concludes the piece by arguing that Obama “has placed some huge bets” in foreign policy — notably where the Iran deal is concerned. When Goldberg told him last May that he was “nervous” about the deal, Obama replied: “Look, 20 years from now, I’m still going to be around, God willing. If Iran has a nuclear weapon, it’s my name on this… I think it’s fair to say that in addition to our profound national-security interests, I have a personal interest in locking this down.”
So he knows. And he sounds proud that the Iran nuke will have his name on it.
For supporters of the president, Goldberg sums up, “his strategy makes eminent sense: Double down in those parts of the world where success is plausible, and limit America’s exposure to the rest. His critics believe, however, that problems like those presented by the Middle East don’t solve themselves — that, without American intervention, they metastasize.”
“For supporters of the president, Goldberg sums up, “his strategy makes eminent sense…” Of course, these people are nuts.
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London ‘more Islamic’ than Muslim world, says Muslim scholar
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 10, 2016
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He says this is because Islam is all about love and justice and so is London, but let’s get real: when have we ever seen Islam being all about love and justice, anywhere in the world or anytime in history? Still, Rizvi is right: London is “more Islamic” than some Muslim countries. In London, the government actively encourages the practice of Islam, whereas in many Muslim countries the governments are repressive. Remember also that David Cameron is working to make London the “global capital of Islamic finance.” London is racing toward sharia.
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“London ‘more Islamic’ than Muslim world – scholar,” by John Bingham, Telegraph, March 9, 2016:
London is a more “Islamic” city than much of the Muslim world put together, a leading Muslim scholar has argued.
Maulana Syed Ali Raza Rizvi, a prominent Shia cleric, who was born in Pakistan and studied in Iran, said he “feels more Islamic” in Britain than other countries because of the freedom to worship and the multicultural mix.
He said Islam could be summed up as being about “love and justice” but that the “Muslim political leadership” around the world was failing to foster this.
He was speaking alongside the Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis at the annual Benedict XVI Lecture, an interfaith discussion event in London.
The three leaders discussed how members of their own faiths had, in different ways, lived as “creative minorities”.
Maulana Rizvi said that unlike their “Jewish and Christian brothers”, Muslims in Britain were a new community, established for decades rather than centuries, and had a “lot to learn” from other religious groups.
But he added: “I feel that London has more Islamic values than many of the Muslim countries put together.
“There are many different communities living together in peace and harmony, giving respect to the others and loving others and that is what Islam is all about – and unfortunately [much] of the Muslim political leadership has failed to provide that.
“I feel more Islamic living here because I can easily practise my faith and give respect to all other members of the community belonging to different faiths and not even belonging to a faith, to anything.
“Because that is what Islam is all about, respecting and giving to others … if in one line I could say what Islam is all about, it is all about love and justice.”
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London ‘more Islamic’ than Muslim world, says Muslim scholar
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 10, 2016
london prayers
He says this is because Islam is all about love and justice and so is London, but let’s get real: when have we ever seen Islam being all about love and justice, anywhere in the world or anytime in history? Still, Rizvi is right: London is “more Islamic” than some Muslim countries. In London, the government actively encourages the practice of Islam, whereas in many Muslim countries the governments are repressive. Remember also that David Cameron is working to make London the “global capital of Islamic finance.” London is racing toward sharia.
Maulana Rizvi
“London ‘more Islamic’ than Muslim world – scholar,” by John Bingham, Telegraph, March 9, 2016:
London is a more “Islamic” city than much of the Muslim world put together, a leading Muslim scholar has argued.
Maulana Syed Ali Raza Rizvi, a prominent Shia cleric, who was born in Pakistan and studied in Iran, said he “feels more Islamic” in Britain than other countries because of the freedom to worship and the multicultural mix.
He said Islam could be summed up as being about “love and justice” but that the “Muslim political leadership” around the world was failing to foster this.
He was speaking alongside the Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and the Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis at the annual Benedict XVI Lecture, an interfaith discussion event in London.
The three leaders discussed how members of their own faiths had, in different ways, lived as “creative minorities”.
Maulana Rizvi said that unlike their “Jewish and Christian brothers”, Muslims in Britain were a new community, established for decades rather than centuries, and had a “lot to learn” from other religious groups.
But he added: “I feel that London has more Islamic values than many of the Muslim countries put together.
“There are many different communities living together in peace and harmony, giving respect to the others and loving others and that is what Islam is all about – and unfortunately [much] of the Muslim political leadership has failed to provide that.
“I feel more Islamic living here because I can easily practise my faith and give respect to all other members of the community belonging to different faiths and not even belonging to a faith, to anything.
“Because that is what Islam is all about, respecting and giving to others … if in one line I could say what Islam is all about, it is all about love and justice.”
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Stabbing victim pulls knife out of own neck, kills Muslim terrorist
Take notes. As Muslim immigration escalates be prepared for drastic self defense.
1 killed, 14 wounded in series of attacks across Israelis – Islamic Jew hatred in action.
Stabbing victim pulls knife out of own neck, kills terrorist,” Times of Israel, March 8, 2016:
An Israeli man who was stabbed multiple times Tuesday afternoon in a terror attack in Petah Tikva managed to remove the knife from his neck and use it to stab and neutralize his attacker, aided by the store owner, police said.
The attacker, a Palestinian, died a few minutes later, police said. The victim, an ultra-Orthodox man of about 40 who suffered multiple stab wounds to his upper body, was hospitalized in moderate condition. The store owner was not injured.
The Palestinian assailant had followed the man, who was collecting money for charity, into a wine shop on the central city’s Baron Hirsch Street and began stabbing him “multiple times” in the upper body in a “frenzied attack,” police said.
The knife used in a stabbing attack in Petah Tikva on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 (Israel Police)
At one point, the victim managed to break away and fled the store, while the owner of the store hit the attacker and tried to subdue him, police said. The victim then returned to the store, pulled the knife out of his own neck, and stabbed his attacker.
Initial reports had said the stabbing may have occurred during an altercation; however, the incident was later confirmed by police as a terror attack.
Magen David Adom paramedics said they treated the victim at the scene before taking him to the city’s Beilinson Hospital.
Nati Ostri, a volunteer medic from United Hatzalah who also treated the victim, said he found the man lying on the floor outside a convenience store.
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“Together with other volunteers of the Ambucycle Unit of United Hatzalah we treated the victim utilizing first aid treatment, following which he was taken to Beilinson Hospital in an ambulance. At the time of transfer the victim was conscious,” he said.
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Stabbing victim pulls knife out of own neck, kills Muslim terrorist
Take notes. As Muslim immigration escalates be prepared for drastic self defense.
1 killed, 14 wounded in series of attacks across Israelis – Islamic Jew hatred in action.
Stabbing victim pulls knife out of own neck, kills terrorist,” Times of Israel, March 8, 2016:
An Israeli man who was stabbed multiple times Tuesday afternoon in a terror attack in Petah Tikva managed to remove the knife from his neck and use it to stab and neutralize his attacker, aided by the store owner, police said.
The attacker, a Palestinian, died a few minutes later, police said. The victim, an ultra-Orthodox man of about 40 who suffered multiple stab wounds to his upper body, was hospitalized in moderate condition. The store owner was not injured.
The Palestinian assailant had followed the man, who was collecting money for charity, into a wine shop on the central city’s Baron Hirsch Street and began stabbing him “multiple times” in the upper body in a “frenzied attack,” police said.
The knife used in a stabbing attack in Petah Tikva on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 (Israel Police)
At one point, the victim managed to break away and fled the store, while the owner of the store hit the attacker and tried to subdue him, police said. The victim then returned to the store, pulled the knife out of his own neck, and stabbed his attacker.
Initial reports had said the stabbing may have occurred during an altercation; however, the incident was later confirmed by police as a terror attack.
Magen David Adom paramedics said they treated the victim at the scene before taking him to the city’s Beilinson Hospital.
Nati Ostri, a volunteer medic from United Hatzalah who also treated the victim, said he found the man lying on the floor outside a convenience store.
VIDEO
“Together with other volunteers of the Ambucycle Unit of United Hatzalah we treated the victim utilizing first aid treatment, following which he was taken to Beilinson Hospital in an ambulance. At the time of transfer the victim was conscious,” he said.
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Germany: Muslim teen girl who stabbed police officer did it because she couldn’t go wage jihad in Syria
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 5, 2016
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German officials are probably still congratulating themselves for preventing young Muslims from going to jihad in Syria. But they haven’t considered the fact that they’ll just wage jihad at home.
And why is her terror mosque just under “observation”? Why hasn’t it been shut down?
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“Teenage female ISIS fanatic was ‘radicalised at the age of seven and stabbed a German police officer because she was unable to make it to Syria,'” by Allan Hall, MailOnline, March 4, 2016:
A teenaged female ISIS fanatic who nearly killed a policewoman in a knife attack in Germany last week was radicalised at the age of seven, it has been revealed.
The grammar school girl identified only as Safia S told detectives she wanted to strike in Germany because she could not make it to Syria.
An attempt to enter the country last month failed when her mother flew out to Turkey and brought her back from the border.
Police say hate preachers in a mosque where she regularly attended Friday prayers as a toddler ‘manipulated’ her mind and set her on the path of perverted Islam and violence.
Her mother Hasna L, 57, came from Morocco and her father is German. Both she and brother Saleh, 18, were brought up by Hasna after their father walked out on the family in childhood.
The mosque she attended has for long been under the observation of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.
‘Sie is a loving girl and no terrorist,’ said her mother after her arrest following the near-fatal stabbing at Hanover railway station last Friday evening. The knife she used to stab the policewoman only narrowly missed a vital artery in her neck.
A well known German Salafist preacher called Pierre Vogel got to know her when she was seven and appeared on a propaganda video with him in which he said: ‘The children are proud of the headscarf, want to live as chaste women and dress themselves accordingly.
‘This is a new Muslim generation here and I am proud of her. Learn the Koran by heart, for on judgment day you will go one level higher for every verse.’
A police spokesman said: ‘We are looking at radical Islam as the cause behind the attack on our colleague last week.’ Her brother Saleh is languishing in a jail in Turkey after he was stopped at the border with Syria where he was trying to cross over to join ISIS.
The girl attacked the police officer when she was stopped for a routine search in Hanover main station last Friday.
‘As she was politely pulled to one side to confirm her identity a knife appeared lightningly quick in her hand and our colleagues had little chance to defend themselves,’ said a police spokesman. ‘This was an Islamic attack against our officers.
‘The attacker was ice cold. Her only worry was that her headscarf was rumpled and she wanted to put it straight. It was nothing to her if the police officer lived or died.’
The girl is being held without bail charged with attempted murder and supporting a proscribed terrorist organization.
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Germany: Muslim teen girl who stabbed police officer did it because she couldn’t go wage jihad in Syria
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 5, 2016
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Muslima teen stabber
German officials are probably still congratulating themselves for preventing young Muslims from going to jihad in Syria. But they haven’t considered the fact that they’ll just wage jihad at home.
And why is her terror mosque just under “observation”? Why hasn’t it been shut down?
15yearoldMuslimaIslamicState
“Teenage female ISIS fanatic was ‘radicalised at the age of seven and stabbed a German police officer because she was unable to make it to Syria,'” by Allan Hall, MailOnline, March 4, 2016:
A teenaged female ISIS fanatic who nearly killed a policewoman in a knife attack in Germany last week was radicalised at the age of seven, it has been revealed.
The grammar school girl identified only as Safia S told detectives she wanted to strike in Germany because she could not make it to Syria.
An attempt to enter the country last month failed when her mother flew out to Turkey and brought her back from the border.
Police say hate preachers in a mosque where she regularly attended Friday prayers as a toddler ‘manipulated’ her mind and set her on the path of perverted Islam and violence.
Her mother Hasna L, 57, came from Morocco and her father is German. Both she and brother Saleh, 18, were brought up by Hasna after their father walked out on the family in childhood.
The mosque she attended has for long been under the observation of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.
‘Sie is a loving girl and no terrorist,’ said her mother after her arrest following the near-fatal stabbing at Hanover railway station last Friday evening. The knife she used to stab the policewoman only narrowly missed a vital artery in her neck.
A well known German Salafist preacher called Pierre Vogel got to know her when she was seven and appeared on a propaganda video with him in which he said: ‘The children are proud of the headscarf, want to live as chaste women and dress themselves accordingly.
‘This is a new Muslim generation here and I am proud of her. Learn the Koran by heart, for on judgment day you will go one level higher for every verse.’
A police spokesman said: ‘We are looking at radical Islam as the cause behind the attack on our colleague last week.’ Her brother Saleh is languishing in a jail in Turkey after he was stopped at the border with Syria where he was trying to cross over to join ISIS.
The girl attacked the police officer when she was stopped for a routine search in Hanover main station last Friday.
‘As she was politely pulled to one side to confirm her identity a knife appeared lightningly quick in her hand and our colleagues had little chance to defend themselves,’ said a police spokesman. ‘This was an Islamic attack against our officers.
‘The attacker was ice cold. Her only worry was that her headscarf was rumpled and she wanted to put it straight. It was nothing to her if the police officer lived or died.’
The girl is being held without bail charged with attempted murder and supporting a proscribed terrorist organization.
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Russian police now searching for the ISIS boyfriend of the muslim nanny who beheaded the young child in Moscow
Cops searching for Islamic State boyfriend of Muslima who beheaded toddler
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“Police are probing whether a mysterious boyfriend with links to the Islamic State (ISIS) radicalised the nanny accused of beheading the little girl in her care.” This casts additional doubt on the idea that this woman is simply mentally ill.
“Allah told me to do it: Cops probe ISIS boyfriend link of nanny who beheaded child,” by Leda Reynolds, Express, March 2, 2016:
Police are probing whether a mysterious boyfriend with links to the Islamic State (ISIS) radicalised the nanny accused of beheading the little girl in her care.
Gulchekhra Bobokulova grinned as she appeared before a Moscow court where she admitted killing four-year-old Nastya Meshcheryakova.
Pictures of the burka-clad 38 year old screaming “Allahu Akbar” and clutching the child’s severed head outside a train station in the Russian capital sent shockwaves around the world.
Now detectives investing [sic] the grisly event suspect that although Bobokulova murdered the child, she was not alone.
Police suspect Bobokulova, who was recently divorced, may have been inspired by an ISIS fanatic.
The Islamic fundamentalists revel in their brutality and proudly show off despicable videos of beheadings on social media.
Now eagle-eyed detectives in Russia are scouring CCTV footage from the area near the little girl’s home in the hunt for clues to the man’s identity.
They know Nastya was killed at around 8.40am on Monday morning and believe the mystery man either visited the flat before the murder or was present when it was carried out.
After being arrested, Bobokulova showed police where the child’s remains lay in her bloodied cot.
It emerged the little girl was strangled before her head was severed with a kitchen knife.
Forensic experts have been conducting a
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Russian police now searching for the ISIS boyfriend of the muslim nanny who beheaded the young child in Moscow
Cops searching for Islamic State boyfriend of Muslima who beheaded toddler
MARCH 2, 2016 4:05 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER12 COMMENTS
“Police are probing whether a mysterious boyfriend with links to the Islamic State (ISIS) radicalised the nanny accused of beheading the little girl in her care.” This casts additional doubt on the idea that this woman is simply mentally ill.
“Allah told me to do it: Cops probe ISIS boyfriend link of nanny who beheaded child,” by Leda Reynolds, Express, March 2, 2016:
Police are probing whether a mysterious boyfriend with links to the Islamic State (ISIS) radicalised the nanny accused of beheading the little girl in her care.
Gulchekhra Bobokulova grinned as she appeared before a Moscow court where she admitted killing four-year-old Nastya Meshcheryakova.
Pictures of the burka-clad 38 year old screaming “Allahu Akbar” and clutching the child’s severed head outside a train station in the Russian capital sent shockwaves around the world.
Now detectives investing [sic] the grisly event suspect that although Bobokulova murdered the child, she was not alone.
Police suspect Bobokulova, who was recently divorced, may have been inspired by an ISIS fanatic.
The Islamic fundamentalists revel in their brutality and proudly show off despicable videos of beheadings on social media.
Now eagle-eyed detectives in Russia are scouring CCTV footage from the area near the little girl’s home in the hunt for clues to the man’s identity.
They know Nastya was killed at around 8.40am on Monday morning and believe the mystery man either visited the flat before the murder or was present when it was carried out.
After being arrested, Bobokulova showed police where the child’s remains lay in her bloodied cot.
It emerged the little girl was strangled before her head was severed with a kitchen knife.
Forensic experts have been conducting a
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Time Magazine blames America’s crumbling infrastructure on “Islamophobia”
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 4, 2016
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How long before these Islamic thugs blame islamophobia for cancer and AIDS?
What’s worse is news personalities such as Megyn Kelly and publications such as TIME host stealth jihadist clowns, i.e. Haroon Moghul as “experts,” giving him and his seditious colleagues the imprimatur of legitimacy.
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Time Magazine blames America’s crumbling infrastructure on “Islamophobia” By Robert Spencer, March 4, 2016:
It’s always fun to see Haroon Moghul, or “Dwayne,” as he styles himself for fear of “Islamophobia” at Starbucks, taking up the cudgels again, as his increasingly risible “Islamophobia” victimhood posturing has made him the clown prince of the “Islamophobia” propaganda industry: Dwayne is far funnier than, say, Dean Obeidallah, who actually calls himself a comedian but appears never to have said anything funny in his life. To be sure, Moghul is as vicious as other “Islamophobia” propagandists, despite his comic persona: he cheerfully traffics in defamation and dishonesty and routinely takes advantage of his audience’s ignorance about Islam to invert reality, portraying Muslims as victims of a cruel “Islamophobia” machine, instead of non-Muslims threatened by the global jihad.
And now we learn from the sage and stalwart Dwayne that “Islamophobia” is to blame for these factoids: “Your smartphone is more advanced than nearly every air-traffic control system. Our sewage pipes, bridges and highways are falling apart. The residents of Flint, Michigan, just found their water is the opposite of potable….You can blame Islamophobia for that.” What? Have dastardly “Islamophobes” infiltrated the air-traffic control system and the government of Flint, Michigan? Have these “Islamophobic” villains persuaded those who take care of our nation’s sewage pipes, bridges and highways that if they kept them in good repair, Muslims might use them?
No. Dwayne has a splendid comic touch, but he is not quite that good. What he means is that if we hadn’t spent all that money in Iraq and Afghanistan, we would have the money to shore up our infrastructure. And that is actually true. Osama bin Laden has stated that he carried out the 9/11 attacks in order to weaken America economically, and he succeeded in splendid fashion. Both the Iraq and Afghanistan incursions were disasters in every way. They were intended to create stable secular republics that would be beacons of freedom in the Islamic world; only someone who believed that Islam is religion of peace that is completely compatible with democracy could ever have thought that outcome would be achieved.
The problem, however, was how we responded to 9/11, not the fact that we responded at all. But Moghul is suggesting that the best response to the global jihad threat would be to ignore it: al-Qaeda, he says, was “a fringe terrorist movement with the support of the backwater Taliban” that Bush transformed into “an existential threat to Western civilization.” Never mind that the Taliban actually ruled Afghanistan at the time, and that al-Qaeda had a global network and had declared war against the United States. “Jeb Bush was one of the rare Republican candidates who wasn’t an anti-Muslim bigot, but he still described ISIS as an ‘existential threat.’ Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, maybe, and in any case, Jeb’s out. But I hardly think Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi can destroy the world’s most powerful nation.” Certainly not by means of a conventional war. But his plan is to overwhelm law enforcement and intelligence agencies with so many jihad attacks and plots that they collapse, and bring the whole system down with them. And in September 2014, the Islamic State issued a lengthy call to Muslims to murder non-Muslim civilians in the U.S. It says: “If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him. Do not lack. Do not be contemptible. Let your slogan be, ‘May I not be saved if the cross worshipper and taghūt (ruler ruling by manmade laws) patron survives.’ If you are unable to do so, then burn his home, car, or business. Or destroy his crops. If you are unable to do so, then spit in his face.” Yes, how “Islamophobic” of Jeb to see this group as an existential threat!
What’s more, as wrongheaded as Bush was about both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was responding to a jihad attack that took 3,000 lives. Haroon Moghul is characterizing that response as “Islamophobia.” Apparently he would have preferred we had surrendered outright.
More below.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/time-magazine-blames-americas-crumbling-infrastructure-on-islamophobia.html/#sthash.KfnsAlwb.dpuf
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 4, 2016
ADVANCING ISLAMIC LIES ISLAMIC/LEFTIST ALLIANCE LEFT/ISLAMIC ALLIANCE: MEDIA, INTELLIGENTSIA 18
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How long before these Islamic thugs blame islamophobia for cancer and AIDS?
What’s worse is news personalities such as Megyn Kelly and publications such as TIME host stealth jihadist clowns, i.e. Haroon Moghul as “experts,” giving him and his seditious colleagues the imprimatur of legitimacy.
http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/time-magazine-blames-americas-crumbling-infrastructure-on-islamophobia.html/
Time Magazine blames America’s crumbling infrastructure on “Islamophobia” By Robert Spencer, March 4, 2016:
It’s always fun to see Haroon Moghul, or “Dwayne,” as he styles himself for fear of “Islamophobia” at Starbucks, taking up the cudgels again, as his increasingly risible “Islamophobia” victimhood posturing has made him the clown prince of the “Islamophobia” propaganda industry: Dwayne is far funnier than, say, Dean Obeidallah, who actually calls himself a comedian but appears never to have said anything funny in his life. To be sure, Moghul is as vicious as other “Islamophobia” propagandists, despite his comic persona: he cheerfully traffics in defamation and dishonesty and routinely takes advantage of his audience’s ignorance about Islam to invert reality, portraying Muslims as victims of a cruel “Islamophobia” machine, instead of non-Muslims threatened by the global jihad.
And now we learn from the sage and stalwart Dwayne that “Islamophobia” is to blame for these factoids: “Your smartphone is more advanced than nearly every air-traffic control system. Our sewage pipes, bridges and highways are falling apart. The residents of Flint, Michigan, just found their water is the opposite of potable….You can blame Islamophobia for that.” What? Have dastardly “Islamophobes” infiltrated the air-traffic control system and the government of Flint, Michigan? Have these “Islamophobic” villains persuaded those who take care of our nation’s sewage pipes, bridges and highways that if they kept them in good repair, Muslims might use them?
No. Dwayne has a splendid comic touch, but he is not quite that good. What he means is that if we hadn’t spent all that money in Iraq and Afghanistan, we would have the money to shore up our infrastructure. And that is actually true. Osama bin Laden has stated that he carried out the 9/11 attacks in order to weaken America economically, and he succeeded in splendid fashion. Both the Iraq and Afghanistan incursions were disasters in every way. They were intended to create stable secular republics that would be beacons of freedom in the Islamic world; only someone who believed that Islam is religion of peace that is completely compatible with democracy could ever have thought that outcome would be achieved.
The problem, however, was how we responded to 9/11, not the fact that we responded at all. But Moghul is suggesting that the best response to the global jihad threat would be to ignore it: al-Qaeda, he says, was “a fringe terrorist movement with the support of the backwater Taliban” that Bush transformed into “an existential threat to Western civilization.” Never mind that the Taliban actually ruled Afghanistan at the time, and that al-Qaeda had a global network and had declared war against the United States. “Jeb Bush was one of the rare Republican candidates who wasn’t an anti-Muslim bigot, but he still described ISIS as an ‘existential threat.’ Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, maybe, and in any case, Jeb’s out. But I hardly think Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi can destroy the world’s most powerful nation.” Certainly not by means of a conventional war. But his plan is to overwhelm law enforcement and intelligence agencies with so many jihad attacks and plots that they collapse, and bring the whole system down with them. And in September 2014, the Islamic State issued a lengthy call to Muslims to murder non-Muslim civilians in the U.S. It says: “If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him. Do not lack. Do not be contemptible. Let your slogan be, ‘May I not be saved if the cross worshipper and taghūt (ruler ruling by manmade laws) patron survives.’ If you are unable to do so, then burn his home, car, or business. Or destroy his crops. If you are unable to do so, then spit in his face.” Yes, how “Islamophobic” of Jeb to see this group as an existential threat!
What’s more, as wrongheaded as Bush was about both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was responding to a jihad attack that took 3,000 lives. Haroon Moghul is characterizing that response as “Islamophobia.” Apparently he would have preferred we had surrendered outright.
More below.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/time-magazine-blames-americas-crumbling-infrastructure-on-islamophobia.html/#sthash.KfnsAlwb.dpuf
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Muslim Migrants Use BATTERING RAM to Storm Thru Border Fence in Greece: EU HANDS OVER $800 MILLION to Invaders to ‘Maintain Their Dignity’
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 3, 2016
The more they pay, the more will come. These same Muslim migrants have been rioting. They used a BATTERING RAM to break through the European border fence — like the Muslim armies of old (but there’s no Charles Martel to greet them). Instead, the Euro-elites respond by paying them a ransom, jizya, with money that they haven’t even got.
Migrants in Greece to be handed cash in envelopes to ‘maintain their dignity’ under £550million EU disaster fund
Brussels acts despite dangers of giving taxpayer money to refugee camps
Aid plan is the first of its kind to provide humanitarian relief inside the EU
Money will be used to help charities provide medicines, blankets and food
Aid officials want migrants to have the option of buying things themselves
By John Stevens In Brussels For The Daily Mail, 3 March 2016
Migrants in Greece are set to be handed envelopes of cash under a £550million EU disaster fund announced yesterday.
Brussels officials said despite the obvious dangers of giving taxpayers’ money directly to those in refugee camps to spend as they wish it would help them ‘maintain their dignity’.
The EU aid plan – the first of its kind to provide humanitarian relief inside the continent – will be used to help charities provide essentials such as medicines, blankets and food.
Migrants in Greece are set to be handed envelopes of cash under a £550million EU disaster fund announced yesterday. Above, refugees and migrants wait at the borders between Greece and Macedonia
But Christos Stylianides, the Commissioner in charge of humanitarian aid, said he believed migrants should also have the option of buying things themselves rather than being forced to queue up for aid drop-offs.
His suggestion comes despite internal European Commission documents warning about ‘corruption and security risks’ when providing humanitarian assistance in cash.
Tory MEP David Campbell-Bannerman last night said: ‘There is a danger that by handing over cash rather than basic essentials, British taxpayers’ money could end up in the hands of the human traffickers smuggling people through Europe. This is no way to ensure our security in Britain.’
People smugglers are currently offering for 1,000 euros to help migrants make the 375 mile trip from the Greek border with Macedonia to Belgrade in Serbia, where they can pay an extra 1,000 to 3,000 euros to get to Vienna.
The European Commission yesterday launched the 700million euro (£550million) humanitarian disaster
When EU countries are overwhelmed by major crises – such as the current migrant crisis – the money will be spent through charities and aid organisations such as the Red Cross.
Groups working in Greece, where tens of thousands of migrants are currently stranded, are expected to be the first to be allocated funds from the new pot.
Mr Stylianides said there were different ways the Commission could ‘help refugees on the ground to make sure they can survive and have the best possible living conditions’ including through giving cash or vouchers.
He said: ‘I believe that in Greece, given that it is a European country that has a certain degree of a good functioning of the banking sector, we could apply the cash and voucher procedure.
‘It is my own personal view that the cash and voucher procedure will prove particularly helpful in this case and it is an important option being given as it ensures dignity for refugees, while helping local communities because they will be selling their own goods and services.’
Commission documents suggested the money could be distributed through cash in envelopes, mobile phone transfers or bank account deposits.’
Christos Stylianides, the Commissioner in charge of humanitarian aid, said he believed migrants should also have the option of buying things themselves rather than being forced to queue up for aid drop-offs
An EU official admitted the failure of the Commission to handle the crisis meant it was having to set up the type of fund usually reserved for easing humanitarian crises in places such as Africa.
‘For the first time in its history the EU is struggling to deal with wide-ranging humanitarian needs within its borders,’ he said.
‘The Commission wants to learn the lessons from this crisis and prepare for the next one. We should not be caught off guard again whether we have a different or similar crisis that triggers humanitarian needs.’
European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker last night said he was ‘not only concerned but really worried’ about the situation in Greece where around 30,000 people have been stranded after neighbouring countries introduced border restrictions to preventing them from continuing to other parts of Europe.
Greek authorities have asked for around 480 million euros from Brussels to help shelter 100,000 migrants.
At least 11,000 people are camped on the border with Macedonia at Idomeni where numbers are quickly building as only a few hundred are being allowed through each day.
An EU official admitted the failure of the Commission to handle the crisis meant it was having to set up the type of fund usually reserved for easing humanitarian crises in places such as Africa
Aid groups have reported a shortage of food and tents, warning that the wet weather is taking its toll on the migrants, including children.
Antonis Rigas of Medicins Sans Frontieres said: ‘Conditions are very bad. We worry that if it exceeds 12,000 the situation might get out of hand.’
Turkey, which has been offered 3billion euros by EU countries to stem to influx into the continent, yesterday started taking back economic migrants from Greece with four coach loads carrying 308 Moroccans, Tunisians and Algerians the first to be sent back.
Officials in Ankara said it was ‘out of the question to immediately stop’ the flow of migrants, adding: ‘There’s no magic wand in our hands’. But they said they were ready to sign agreements with 14 EU countries to take back failed asylum seekers.
European Council president Donald Tusk, who will chair a meeting of Turkey and the 28 EU countries on Monday, yesterday said he would press the Turkish government for ‘a more intensive engagement’ in the migrant crisis.
’It is a crisis that is testing our Union to the limits,’ he said. ‘It is a crisis that is provoking tensions between the Member States and neighbouring countries
Muslim Migrants Use BATTERING RAM to Storm Thru Border Fence in Greece: EU HANDS OVER $800 MILLION to Invaders to ‘Maintain Their Dignity’
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 3, 2016
The more they pay, the more will come. These same Muslim migrants have been rioting. They used a BATTERING RAM to break through the European border fence — like the Muslim armies of old (but there’s no Charles Martel to greet them). Instead, the Euro-elites respond by paying them a ransom, jizya, with money that they haven’t even got.
Migrants in Greece to be handed cash in envelopes to ‘maintain their dignity’ under £550million EU disaster fund
Brussels acts despite dangers of giving taxpayer money to refugee camps
Aid plan is the first of its kind to provide humanitarian relief inside the EU
Money will be used to help charities provide medicines, blankets and food
Aid officials want migrants to have the option of buying things themselves
By John Stevens In Brussels For The Daily Mail, 3 March 2016
Migrants in Greece are set to be handed envelopes of cash under a £550million EU disaster fund announced yesterday.
Brussels officials said despite the obvious dangers of giving taxpayers’ money directly to those in refugee camps to spend as they wish it would help them ‘maintain their dignity’.
The EU aid plan – the first of its kind to provide humanitarian relief inside the continent – will be used to help charities provide essentials such as medicines, blankets and food.
Migrants in Greece are set to be handed envelopes of cash under a £550million EU disaster fund announced yesterday. Above, refugees and migrants wait at the borders between Greece and Macedonia
But Christos Stylianides, the Commissioner in charge of humanitarian aid, said he believed migrants should also have the option of buying things themselves rather than being forced to queue up for aid drop-offs.
His suggestion comes despite internal European Commission documents warning about ‘corruption and security risks’ when providing humanitarian assistance in cash.
Tory MEP David Campbell-Bannerman last night said: ‘There is a danger that by handing over cash rather than basic essentials, British taxpayers’ money could end up in the hands of the human traffickers smuggling people through Europe. This is no way to ensure our security in Britain.’
People smugglers are currently offering for 1,000 euros to help migrants make the 375 mile trip from the Greek border with Macedonia to Belgrade in Serbia, where they can pay an extra 1,000 to 3,000 euros to get to Vienna.
The European Commission yesterday launched the 700million euro (£550million) humanitarian disaster
When EU countries are overwhelmed by major crises – such as the current migrant crisis – the money will be spent through charities and aid organisations such as the Red Cross.
Groups working in Greece, where tens of thousands of migrants are currently stranded, are expected to be the first to be allocated funds from the new pot.
Mr Stylianides said there were different ways the Commission could ‘help refugees on the ground to make sure they can survive and have the best possible living conditions’ including through giving cash or vouchers.
He said: ‘I believe that in Greece, given that it is a European country that has a certain degree of a good functioning of the banking sector, we could apply the cash and voucher procedure.
‘It is my own personal view that the cash and voucher procedure will prove particularly helpful in this case and it is an important option being given as it ensures dignity for refugees, while helping local communities because they will be selling their own goods and services.’
Commission documents suggested the money could be distributed through cash in envelopes, mobile phone transfers or bank account deposits.’
Christos Stylianides, the Commissioner in charge of humanitarian aid, said he believed migrants should also have the option of buying things themselves rather than being forced to queue up for aid drop-offs
An EU official admitted the failure of the Commission to handle the crisis meant it was having to set up the type of fund usually reserved for easing humanitarian crises in places such as Africa.
‘For the first time in its history the EU is struggling to deal with wide-ranging humanitarian needs within its borders,’ he said.
‘The Commission wants to learn the lessons from this crisis and prepare for the next one. We should not be caught off guard again whether we have a different or similar crisis that triggers humanitarian needs.’
European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker last night said he was ‘not only concerned but really worried’ about the situation in Greece where around 30,000 people have been stranded after neighbouring countries introduced border restrictions to preventing them from continuing to other parts of Europe.
Greek authorities have asked for around 480 million euros from Brussels to help shelter 100,000 migrants.
At least 11,000 people are camped on the border with Macedonia at Idomeni where numbers are quickly building as only a few hundred are being allowed through each day.
An EU official admitted the failure of the Commission to handle the crisis meant it was having to set up the type of fund usually reserved for easing humanitarian crises in places such as Africa
Aid groups have reported a shortage of food and tents, warning that the wet weather is taking its toll on the migrants, including children.
Antonis Rigas of Medicins Sans Frontieres said: ‘Conditions are very bad. We worry that if it exceeds 12,000 the situation might get out of hand.’
Turkey, which has been offered 3billion euros by EU countries to stem to influx into the continent, yesterday started taking back economic migrants from Greece with four coach loads carrying 308 Moroccans, Tunisians and Algerians the first to be sent back.
Officials in Ankara said it was ‘out of the question to immediately stop’ the flow of migrants, adding: ‘There’s no magic wand in our hands’. But they said they were ready to sign agreements with 14 EU countries to take back failed asylum seekers.
European Council president Donald Tusk, who will chair a meeting of Turkey and the 28 EU countries on Monday, yesterday said he would press the Turkish government for ‘a more intensive engagement’ in the migrant crisis.
’It is a crisis that is testing our Union to the limits,’ he said. ‘It is a crisis that is provoking tensions between the Member States and neighbouring countries
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Obama Refuses to Call ISIS Mass Slaughter of Christians a “Genocide”
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 1, 2016
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While Obama whines and finger points about Clockmed and proselytizes for Islam from the pulpit of a terror-tied mosque in Baltimore, he refuses to recognize the extermination of Christians by Muslim supremacists. This is a pattern. When large numbers of Christians were being oppressed, subjugated and slaughtered by Muslims in 2012, Obama’s State Department addressed the problem by removing the sections covering religious freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights. That’s how he rolls (over non-Muslims).
White House Says It Has Not ‘Reached’ Determination That ISIS Slaughter of Christians Is Genocide
By Susan Jones, CNS: | March 1, 2016 |
Assyrians protest in solidarity with Christians abducted in Syria and Iraq, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. The Islamic State group, which has repeatedly targeted religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, abducted more than 220 Assyrians in northeastern Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
(CNSNews.com) – Asked on Monday if Islamic State terrorists are carrying out a campaign of genocide against Syria’s Christians, White House Spokesman Josh Earnest said the word genocide “involves a very specific legal determination that has, at this point, not been reached.”
He condemned the terrorists’ “willingness to target religious minorities, including Christians.”
Earnest noted that the Obama administration has long expressed its concerns over ISIS/ISIL’s “slaughter” of religious minorities in Iraq and Syria.
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“You’ll recall, at the very beginning of the military campaign against ISIL, at the–some of the first actions that were ordered by President Obama, by the United States military were to protect Yazidi religious minorities that were essentially cornered on Mount Sinjar by ISIL fighters. We took those strikes to clear a path so that those religious minorities could be rescued.
“So we have long been concerned by the way that–that ISIL attempts to target religious minorities.
“We also know that they target Christians in the area, too. In that region of the world, Christians are a religious minority, and we certainly have been concerned–you know, that’s one of the many reasons that we’re concerned with ISIL and their tactics, which is that it’s an affront to our values as a country to see people attacked, singled out or slaughtered based on their religious beliefs.”
The reporter asked Earnest, “But you’re not prepared to use the word ‘genocide’ yet in this situation?”
VIDEO
“The — my understanding is the use of that word involves a very specific legal determination that has, at this point, not been reached. But we’ve been quite candid and direct, exactly, about how — how ISIL’s tactics are worthy of the kind of international, robust response that the international community is leading. And those tactics include a willingness to target religious minorities, including Christians.”
As CNSNews.com recently reported, Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress last week that he is having an “additional evaluation” done to help him determine whether the systematic murder of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East should be declared “genocide.”
“I will make a decision on it as soon as I have that additional evaluation, and we will proceed forward from there,” Kerry told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Feb. 24.
Kerry was responding to Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R.-Neb.), who is the sponsor of a resolution that would declare on behalf of Congress that the slaughter of Christians is in fact genocide.
Hillary Clinton in December agreed that “genocide” describes the Islamic State’s treatment of Christians.
A New Hampshire voter asked her, “Will you join those leaders, faith leaders and secular leaders and political leaders from both the right and the left, in calling what is happening by its proper name — genocide?”
“I will, because we now have enough evidence,” Clinton replied.
Speaking in Bolivia last July, Pope Francis denounced the persecution of Christians: “In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end,” he said.
In January, the United Nations released a report on the “armed conflict” in Iraq, stating that “the violence suffered by civilians in Iraq remains staggering.” The report noted that ISIS “continues to commit systematic and widespread violence and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law. These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.”
The same report said that ISIL continues to target members of different ethnic and religious commuities, “systematically persecuting these groups and subjecting them to a range of abuses and violations. These acts exemplify ISIL’s apparent policy of suppressing, permanently expelling, or destroying some communities. Women and children remain particularly vulnerable….”
And finally, the report noted that, “While the precise reasons for many of the targeted killings are unknown, information indicates that ISIL continues to target particular individuals and groups, such as those opposed or perceived to be opposed to it and its ideology.” The report then mentions cases where Islamic State terrorists blew up the homes of Christians.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/white-house-says-it-has-not-reached-determination-that-isis-slaughter-of-christians-is-genocide.html/#sthash.wrRDm98y.dpuf
ByPAMELA GELLER on March 1, 2016
OBAMA AND ISLAM RELIGIOUS MINORITIES UNDER ISLAM 1 Comments
christian ad afdi
While Obama whines and finger points about Clockmed and proselytizes for Islam from the pulpit of a terror-tied mosque in Baltimore, he refuses to recognize the extermination of Christians by Muslim supremacists. This is a pattern. When large numbers of Christians were being oppressed, subjugated and slaughtered by Muslims in 2012, Obama’s State Department addressed the problem by removing the sections covering religious freedom from the Country Reports on Human Rights. That’s how he rolls (over non-Muslims).
White House Says It Has Not ‘Reached’ Determination That ISIS Slaughter of Christians Is Genocide
By Susan Jones, CNS: | March 1, 2016 |
Assyrians protest in solidarity with Christians abducted in Syria and Iraq, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. The Islamic State group, which has repeatedly targeted religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, abducted more than 220 Assyrians in northeastern Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
(CNSNews.com) – Asked on Monday if Islamic State terrorists are carrying out a campaign of genocide against Syria’s Christians, White House Spokesman Josh Earnest said the word genocide “involves a very specific legal determination that has, at this point, not been reached.”
He condemned the terrorists’ “willingness to target religious minorities, including Christians.”
Earnest noted that the Obama administration has long expressed its concerns over ISIS/ISIL’s “slaughter” of religious minorities in Iraq and Syria.
isis church2 isis-church-0316152027057432
“You’ll recall, at the very beginning of the military campaign against ISIL, at the–some of the first actions that were ordered by President Obama, by the United States military were to protect Yazidi religious minorities that were essentially cornered on Mount Sinjar by ISIL fighters. We took those strikes to clear a path so that those religious minorities could be rescued.
“So we have long been concerned by the way that–that ISIL attempts to target religious minorities.
“We also know that they target Christians in the area, too. In that region of the world, Christians are a religious minority, and we certainly have been concerned–you know, that’s one of the many reasons that we’re concerned with ISIL and their tactics, which is that it’s an affront to our values as a country to see people attacked, singled out or slaughtered based on their religious beliefs.”
The reporter asked Earnest, “But you’re not prepared to use the word ‘genocide’ yet in this situation?”
VIDEO
“The — my understanding is the use of that word involves a very specific legal determination that has, at this point, not been reached. But we’ve been quite candid and direct, exactly, about how — how ISIL’s tactics are worthy of the kind of international, robust response that the international community is leading. And those tactics include a willingness to target religious minorities, including Christians.”
As CNSNews.com recently reported, Secretary of State John Kerry told Congress last week that he is having an “additional evaluation” done to help him determine whether the systematic murder of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East should be declared “genocide.”
“I will make a decision on it as soon as I have that additional evaluation, and we will proceed forward from there,” Kerry told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Feb. 24.
Kerry was responding to Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R.-Neb.), who is the sponsor of a resolution that would declare on behalf of Congress that the slaughter of Christians is in fact genocide.
Hillary Clinton in December agreed that “genocide” describes the Islamic State’s treatment of Christians.
A New Hampshire voter asked her, “Will you join those leaders, faith leaders and secular leaders and political leaders from both the right and the left, in calling what is happening by its proper name — genocide?”
“I will, because we now have enough evidence,” Clinton replied.
Speaking in Bolivia last July, Pope Francis denounced the persecution of Christians: “In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end,” he said.
In January, the United Nations released a report on the “armed conflict” in Iraq, stating that “the violence suffered by civilians in Iraq remains staggering.” The report noted that ISIS “continues to commit systematic and widespread violence and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law. These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.”
The same report said that ISIL continues to target members of different ethnic and religious commuities, “systematically persecuting these groups and subjecting them to a range of abuses and violations. These acts exemplify ISIL’s apparent policy of suppressing, permanently expelling, or destroying some communities. Women and children remain particularly vulnerable….”
And finally, the report noted that, “While the precise reasons for many of the targeted killings are unknown, information indicates that ISIL continues to target particular individuals and groups, such as those opposed or perceived to be opposed to it and its ideology.” The report then mentions cases where Islamic State terrorists blew up the homes of Christians.
- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/white-house-says-it-has-not-reached-determination-that-isis-slaughter-of-christians-is-genocide.html/#sthash.wrRDm98y.dpuf
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