Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
From Pakiland, a failed state: Christian Mother to Languish in Prison for Two More Years
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Protesters hold up placards while demanding the release of Asia Bibi at a rally in Lahore November 21, 2010. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
LAHORE:
Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman on death row whose blasphemy conviction was decried as unjust by slain former governor Salmaan Taseer, faces a wait of at least another two years behind bars before her appeal is likely to come up before the Lahore High Court.
Bibi, 45, has been jailed since June 19, 2009, when her neighbours in a village near Nankana Sahib accused her of making derogatory remarks about the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). An additional district and sessions judge convicted and sentenced her to death in November 2010, pending confirmation of the decision by the LHC.
The case attracted the attention of then Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, who visited Bibi in jail and denounced her conviction as well as the blasphemy law. A couple of months later, Taseer – and any hope Aasia Bibi had of a quick release was killed in a hail of bullets fired by his own bodyguard.
Some two-and-a-half years later, Bibi is waiting for a date to be fixed for the hearing of her appeal. The court has a large backlog of cases and is currently hearing appeals filed at the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009. Appeals filed at the end of 2010 are due to come up in 2015. Continue here for the whole article....
'Refugee' Demands Right to Bring 2nd Wife to Ireland By PATRICK COOPER, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
A Muslim man has gone to the High Court in Ireland demanding that he be allowed bring in his second wife to Ireland. The native of Lebanon, where polygamy is allowed, says his polygamous marriage must be recognized.
Liam Egan, a member of the Muslim Public Affairs Congress, told the Irish Sunday Times the man was being discriminated against unfairly. “It is draconian to treat this family differently,” said Egan.
“Ireland discriminates against Muslims seeking citizenship by asking them to sign an affidavit. The state should not be interfering in families like this. It is silent on adulterous affairs but the moment you try and do something honourable by bringing a woman into a marriage, even a polygamous marriage, there is an issue.Continue here to the whole article....
Six Taliban Suffer Premature Detonation - Workplace accident
KABUL – Six Taliban accidentally blew themselves up with their own bombs June 27 in separate incidents, Bakhtar News Agency reported, citing an Afghan Interior Ministry statement.They were trying to plant bombs to target security forces, but the devices detonated prematurely, the statement said.The incidents occurred in the Tanay District of Khost Province, the Zankhan District of Ghazni Province and the Zhamkani District of Paktia Province. Central Asia Online
WOMAN IN SYRIA KILLED FOR BEING CAUGHT WITH A BEER
Another victim of the new Egypt-run worldwide terrorist organization and father of al-Qaeda and Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood. The genocide of non-Muslims have dramatically increased under Morsi. Over 100,000 Christians have been slaughtered per year on Muslim Brotherhood initiatives. The rebel extremists encouraged by the Muslim Brotherhood are forcing themselves into Syria. Syria in return is another vicious nation. They’re all the same.
This innocent Syrian woman was killed for being caught with a beer. She was then tied up with her ID card placed by her feet to identify her, put next to a sign asking people to spit on her. Must make Barack Hussein and the evil conglomerate retards in Brussels proud. A beer is all her life was worth. She was an unknown mother, wife, sister.
Don’t allow your tax money to pay for this evil. Their funding of Egypt funds the Muslim Brotherhood. The provision of weapons and military support is only supporting terrorists (‘rebels’) and is pure EVIL. Demand that Europe, Canada. Australia, U.S. – the entire Western world ban and stop all trade with Middle Eastern countries. Stop the oil trade, stop them from investing in the West and making more money through us. Their savaged evil never ends. There is no foreign policy behind their savagery. They have behaved the same for 14 centuries. And it will continue for another 14 centuries. Our participation and association makes us equally responsible for their savagery and does nothing but import Muslims and asylum seekers into our own countries – and bring the problems to our shores. From Muslim Issue
British laws and culture are going down the toilet!!
Absolutely disgusting... How on earth can they be arrested for trying to do a charity walk and yet there are groups who wish death and spew hatred for hours and hours on marches and they are not allowed to be stopped. I truly fear for my children, as in 10yrs time, British people we will be ruled by people who are everything but British: From Jihad Watch
Arrested for walking. Anjem Choudary, meanwhile, openly preaches sedition and enjoys the protection of the British government, and those who defend the freedom of speech and equality of rights of all before the law are barred from the country.
Sign the petition asking that we be allowed into the UK here.
"EDL Leader Robinson Arrested Amid Tribute Bid," from Sky News, June 29
Two English Defence League leaders have been arrested in London as they attempted to march to Woolwich, where Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in May. Tommy Robinson shouted, "You are enforcing Sharia law", at officers who held him on suspicion of obstructing police as he tried to enter the London borough of Tower Hamlets. The EDL had previously announced plans to walk through part of the capital before gathering outside Woolwich Barracks, near where Drummer Rigby was hacked to death in broad daylight.
But the Metropolitan Police put conditions on the march which demanded that it ended at Old Palace Yard, opposite the House of Lords. As well as planning to lay flowers in memory of Drummer Rigby, Mr Robinson and EDL co-leader Kevin Carroll, who was also arrested, were walking to raise money for a young girl fighting cancer. Sky Correspondent Tom Parmenter said: "They'd walked six miles when they were arrested outside Aldgate East underground station. "Police had been tracking the walk across London and had regularly spoken to them about their route.
"The EDL leaders had been warned not to go past a large mosque in east London or enter the borough of Tower Hamlets. "As they approached the boundary of the borough they were warned again by officers who told them they may be arrested." Mr Robinson and Mr Carroll repeatedly asked if they would actually be arrested before another man approached the pair and assaulted Mr Carroll. Parmenter said: "As police officers tried to deal with the situation the EDL leaders continued to walk forward and then a senior policewoman placed the pair under arrest."
The pair, who were wearing T-shirts bearing the words "support our troops", were led into a police van in handcuffs while complaining about their treatment. Two other men were arrested over the assault. At the start of the walk in Hyde Park, Mr Robinson had said: "There's two of us doing a charity walk. "They're (police) saying it (Tower Hamlets) is a Muslim area but to me there is no Muslim area, there are just areas of my capital city that if I have to walk from A to B then you have to walk through." "Obviously I don't want to get arrested and I don't want to get in trouble so we'll cross that bridge when we get to it."
Scotland Yard said the conditions were imposed because of fears the march and the gathering would result in "serious public disorder" and it had warned that a breach would lead to arrest. The Met said it had attempted to work with the EDL to facilitate the march and gathering and offered them two alternative routes that avoided the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is home to the East London Mosque. In a statement posted on the EDL's Twitter feed, the group said: "Tommy Robinson & Kev Caroll arrested for obstructing the police and carted off."
The statement claimed "negotiations" for their release were taking place and that the pair still hoped to walk to Woolwich to lay flowers. Mr Robinson earlier replied to a tweet asking him what weather he was expecting for Saturday: "ill be in a cell by lunch time so won't matter. Ha ha" The EDL campaigns against what it says is the spread of radical Islam, but it has been accused of Islamophobia and previous rallies have ended in clashes with anti-fascist groups.
"Anti-fascist groups," i.e., fascist thugs.
Earlier this week, two American political activists who founded an anti-Muslim group were banned by the Home Secretary from entering the UK following reports they were to attend this weekend's march.
Calling us "anti-Muslim" is like calling foes of the Nazis "anti-German."
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who set up Stop Islamisation of America and run the website Jihad Watch, have been forbidden from entering the country on the grounds their presence would "not be conducive to the public good". Hat tip: Jihad Watch
The Associated Press The warden of a U.S. prison holding high-risk inmates, including American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh, insisted Thursday that he was obeying a court order to allow daily group prayer by permitting inmates to pray in pairs within their cells. Warden John Oliver told a federal judge that when the prison allowed group prayer earlier this year, Muslim inmates formed gangs and bullied other prisoners. Lindh attended the hearing by video conference from the high-security unit that houses him and about 40 other inmates, including several convicted on terror charges. A U.S. District judge ruled in January that barring Lindh and his fellow Muslims from engaging in daily group prayer violates a 1993 law that bans the government from curtailing religious speech without showing a compelling interest. The judge issued an order demanding that the prison allow group prayer.
Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, filed a motion in Lindh’s name in April asking the judge to find the prison warden in contempt. The motion argued that the warden allowed only three group prayers per day in a single room, instead of the five that Lindh said his faith requires. But Oliver said he believed he was balancing inmates’ religious rights with the security needs of the special unit that severely restricts inmates’ communications with the outside world.The prison converted a recreation room into a “meditation room” to accommodate group prayer in March, but Muslim inmates, who make up more than half of the 42 people in the unit, used the inmate-led prayers to set up a prison gang, Oliver said.
Some Muslim inmates “shunned” others by banning them from the prayer group, controlled access to food and claimed the room as their territory by leaving prayer rugs and other religious items there. Oliver said this intimidated inmates of other faiths and deterred them from using the room. In response to what Oliver called “gang activity,” he changed the rules in May, barring use of the meditation room for group prayer and limiting prayer to two inmates per single cell, which he said was more secure.The judge said she will rule later on whether the prison has violated her order.
U.S. troops captured Lindh in Afghanistan in 2001. Lindh, who was raised Catholic, was accused of fighting for the Taliban to help them build a pure Islamic state. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to supplying services to the now-defunct Taliban government and carrying explosives for them. He is eligible for release from prison in 2019.
Syrian Residents Decry 'Occupa-tion' by Islamist 'Liberators'
Execution of 3 Shiites in Raqqa in revenge for killing of Sunnis in other towns.
Raqqa a city of about 500,000 has been in rebel hands for almost four months now but there are already conflicts between many remaining in the city who want a civil and democratic state and the Islamists who want an Islamic caliphate. The struggle between the two viewpoints is shown in a battle of slogans:"A slogan painted in small letters on a school wall reads, "We the people want Syria to be a civil, democratic state." Scrawled next to it in bigger letters is the response from an unknown Islamic hard-liner: "The laws of the civil state contradict the Islamic caliphate." " The rebellion's three star flag is not seen in Raqqa but black Islamic banners. Moderates have been trying to struggle with the radical's grip on power. They have managed to establish a number of newspapers and other media outlets and also public forums trying to educate the residents about democracy and the right to vote. This seems rather surprising to me in that one would think that the militants would immediately crack down on the media and the forums. Perhaps they wish to win the support of the public. There are two radical factions that took control of Raqqa, the Al Nusra Front many of whom are foreign fighters. The group is on the US terror lists and has links to Al Qaeda. The other group is Ahrar al-Sham which is Syrian but with a jihadist ideology as well. Many opponents of the Assad regime have been distressed by the extreme brutality of the fighters. In the days after seizing the city, the brigades brought captured security forces into a public square, killed them, and drove their bodies through the streets. Later in May, Al Nusra fighters brought three Shiite Muslims into the city's main square and shot them in the back of the head. The group announced that the shootings were in retaliation for killing of Sunni Muslims in other nearby cities. The statement was made in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant referring to a merger announced in April. Appended videos show two sets of executions in Raqqa. Mohammed Shoeib, who witnessed the events, said that the Shiites were executed in front of everyone, young and old. For several hours no one dared approach the bodies to take them away for burial. The nurse, Saado, who finally did, was assassinated the next day. Other observers confirmed Shoeib's account. Shoeib complained:"Executing people in this manner in a public square and killing Saado was unacceptable and turned many people against them. Our revolution was against oppression and we don't accept such actions under any circumstance." Activists erected a mourning tent where the three were executed. For three days, they received mourners who expressed their anger at the execution. The al-Nusra front were not pleased but did not remove the demonstration. The rebels were greeted with great enthusiasm when they first took the city. But the Assad regime still mounts air attacks that cause considerable damage. Schools in the city are closed and Syrian government employees have no paychecks coming in. The residents complain that the Syrian National Coalition pays little attention to the needs of Raqqa. An anonymous owner of a sweets shop said:"The opposition groups are too busy fighting each other. They have not sent anyone to ask about our needs, nor is there any contact with any of them." A spokesperson for the Coalition said the city was receiving aid but that it was unmarked and so people might no be aware of it. He also said that air strikes around the city made delivering aid difficult. The rebel groups do their best to administer the city. They set up bakeries, and try to keep the electricity and water going and also distribute the aid they receive from international agencies. Many residents praise the militant groups and support them more than the opposition in exile. The militants are there trying to make things function at least. However, the owner of the sweets shop said:"Raqqa has not been liberated. It has been re-occupied by the Islamists." All Voices
Human Rights Watch expressed alarm on Thursday over the lynching of four Shiites by a mob led by an Egyptian Salafi Sheikh in Greater Cairo on Sunday. The rights group said the violence in the village of Abu Musallim comes after months of anti-Shiite rhetoric.
“The brutal sectarian lynching of four Shiites comes after two years of hate speech against the minority religious group, which the Muslim Brotherhood condoned and at times participated in,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at HRW. “This horrific incident in Abu Musallim shows that Shiite can’t even gather in the privacy of their homes to celebrate and heightens fear of persecution among all religious minorities in Egypt.”
The ruling Muslim Brotherhood, which President Mohammed Mursi is affiliated with, were involved in propagating the hate speech, HRW warned, adding the Egyptian government must “recognize that Shiites in Egypt are at risk,” and should “take protective measures to ensure their protection and equal rights. Al-Azhar, Egypt’s main center of Islamic learning and authority, also “publicly called for an end to the spread of Shiite Islam in Egypt.”
The police failed to intervene and halt the mob attack on a house of Shiites, who were gathered for a religious feast, they arrived three hours late, HRW said, adding the investigation ordered by Mursi needs to examine their failure. “Mursi should state unequivocally that Shiites in Egypt have the right to practice their religious beliefs without fear and intimidation, something he has failed to do.”
The Al Aqsa Foundation issued a statement today saying that every piece of evidence that points to the existence of any Jewish Temple - first or second - on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is a lie. The group says that it rejects these myths and confirma the Islamic and Arab character of the area. According to the statement, they say that all the experts in the Israel Antiquities Authority who claim they found stones and jewelry and seals in the area of the Al Aqsa Mosque, claiming they are archaeological discoveries of Jewish objects dating from the time of the First and Second Temples, are lying, since there were no Temples. The group said "these lies and myths are a figment of the imagination," and said that international and even Israeli archaeologists have confirmed through research and vigorous exploration that was scientific and objective that there were no structures in the area that were Jewish temples. They stressed that Arabs Canaanites were the first residents who built Jerusalem, with Jebusites and Amorites living there for thousands of years, while "the Jews" were there for only a short time. The Al-Aqsa Foundation says that the Israel Antiquities Authority and other groups are trying desperately to fabricate history of Hebrew presence in Jerusalem, through the myths and legends of the alleged phantom structure in the place of or under the Al Aqsa Mosque, to the point of wanting to demolish the mosque. The groups asserted that the real history is clear and it has proved beyond a doubt that the al-Aqsa mosque is for Muslims alone, The foundation even says that relics found by sifting through the tons of debris that were criminally excavated from the site by the Islamic Waqf and dumped outside Jerusalem were really not from the Temple area at all. They even illustrate the article with some of these lying relics.
It is true that there is only fragmentary yet intriguing archaeological evidence so far of the First Temple, because it was replaced by the Second Temple and no one is allowed to dig underneath the Temple Mount to look for it. But lots of the Second Temple is still there, as Wikipedia summarizes:
After 1967, archaeologists found that the wall extended all the way around the Temple Mount and is part of the city wall near the Lion's Gate. Thus, the Western Wall is not the only remaining part of the Temple Mount. Currently, Robinson's Arch (named after American Edward Robinson) remains as the beginning of an arch that spanned the gap between the top of the platform and the higher ground farther away. This had been used by the priests as an entrance. Commoners had entered through the still-extant, but now plugged, gates on the southern side which led through beautiful colonnades to the top of the platform. One of these colonnades is still extant and reachable through the Temple Mount. The Southern wall was designed as a grand entrance. Recent archeological digs have found thousands of mikvehs (ceremonial bathtubs) for the ritual purification of the worshipers, as well as a grand stairway leading to the now blocked entrance. Inside the walls, the platform was supported by a series of vaulted archways, now called Solomon's Stables, which still exist and whose current renovation by the Waqf is extremely controversial. The temple itself was constructed of imported white marble that gleamed in the daylight.
On September 25, 2007 Yuval Baruch, archaeologist with the Israeli Antiquities Authority announced the discovery of a quarry compound which may have provided King Herod with the stones to build his Temple on the Temple Mount. Coins, pottery and an iron stake found proved the date of the quarrying to be about 19 BCE. Archaeologist Ehud Netzer confirmed that the large outlines of the stone cuts is evidence that it was a massive public project worked by hundreds of slaves.[30]
Moreover, there is a significant and growing collection of artifacts that verify specific parts of the Biblical narrative. But I guess they are all fake too. Also, as I learned during my tour of the Temple Mount earlier this year, the Al Aqsa Mosque itself was constructed on top of the Herodian extensions of the Mount, meaning that the Temple was not underneath it - the Temple was where the Dome of the Rock is. Hat tip: EoZ
A new German intelligence report presented on Tuesday showed that Egypt had replaced Waziristan as the main centre for the training of militants. German intelligence voiced concern over the growing number of ultra-conservative Islamic extremists in the country, some of whom are swelling militant ranks abroad, while warning of an increasingly violent German extreme right. Hat tip:EoZ
What an extraordinary thing to say. Geller and Spencer don’t go round calling for people to be killed, or preaching genocide or holy war, or spreading conspiracy theories and lies to foment hysteria and hatred. But when he was chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Tony Lloyd led a delegation to Gaza to meet leaders of Hamas, where he was photographed fraternally shaking the hand of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. So Lloyd is happy to meet with a group whose leader has called Israel a ‘cancerous tumour that must be removed’ EoZ
An interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of "Infidel" "From the perspective of the Arab leaders, reaching a two-state solution is to betray God. If you want peace and not merely a process, you must make peace with the people. The negotiators themselves are of no importance."
Lt. Col. Hayib, 45, is from the Jezreel Valley, where he lives with his wife and five children. He has been serving in the IDF for 28 years and is currently an officer in the tracking unit of the IDF’s Edom Division, charged with obstructing illegal breaches of Israel’s southern border regions.
The Witnesses in Uniform program brings IDF soldiers and officers to Poland to commemorate and learn about the Holocaust, providing them with the unique opportunity to experience Poland in an entirely new light – in a way Jews from previous generations perhaps never imagined: proud and in uniform. Hat tip: EoZ
Bishop says bill on minors' conversion a litmus test by Terence Netto
From Malaysiakini
Catholic Bishop Paul Tan Chee Ing described the proposed amendments to the Administration of Islamic Law (Federal Territories) on the conversion of minors as a "flagrant violation of the equality of persons' provisions of the federal constitution". The amendments, tabled in Parliament earlier this week, by dint of the use of the word 'parent' instead of 'parents', makes it legal for a father or a mother, or guardian, to convert children below the age of 18 to a religion of proprietary choice.Bishop Paul Tan wondered if there was not an element of diabolism in the intent of the framers of the amendment who he said knew that the word 'parent' can also be construed as a collective noun like 'crowd', and hence, when push comes to shove, they could limit its meaning to one of the two progenitors - father or mother - or a guardian.
"This shows the mala fide of the framers of the amendments," he argued.
"I understand this amendment contravenes a decision by the cabinet announced on April 23, 2009 that a single parent cannot convert a minor," said the head of the Catholic Church in the Melaka-Johor diocese.
"If so, this would not be the first time that the cabinet is overridden by civil service functionaries - the main drivers of creeping Islamisation in this country," charged the Jesuit-trained prelate. "Truly, it does not come as a surprise to me that a cabinet undertaking on a matter of this importance has been shown to be not worth the vapor it takes to avow it," expatiated the bishop. Commitment to gender equality
"What would come as a surprise is the way the vote would go in Parliament because there are legislators in the House who have signed on to gender equality in their election manifestoes," he reminded. "The proposed amendment clearly violates this commitment to gender equality so that the way those signatories vote on this bill would be a test of whether they will match deed to word. Failure to do so would expose them for the imposters they are," warned the bishop.
He also noted that the proposed amendments provide for the Syariah High Court to determine whether a person is a Muslim or not. "This power to determine whether a person is Muslim or not has always resided with the civil High Court so that the proposed shifting of this onus on to an Islamic jurisdiction is further evidence of not just creeping, but galloping Islamisation which is a matter of the gravest concern to non-Muslims," he argued.
Bishop Paul Tan warned that the vote on the bill will be a litmus test of the fidelity to the Federal Constitution of legislators elected to Malaysia's 13th Parliament. "I fully support the Malaysian Consultative Congress of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism and the Christian Federation of Malaysian in their opposition to this bill," he said.
Israel is the center of the world “in so many ways,” the archbishop of Canterbury said Thursday in Jerusalem. He stressed Israel’s legitimacy and right to security, and also spoke, in the context of persecution of Christians by Islamists in the Middle East, about the Christian imperative to “love our enemies.” The Most Reverend Justin Welby, who has a Jewish father, is the leader of the Church of England and of 80 million Anglicans worldwide. He was enthroned in Canterbury on March 21.
“In 1947, the Political Committee of the Arab League drafted a law that...called for the freezing of bank accounts of Jews, their internment and [the confiscation of their assets].
On the recent World Refugee Day, the Israeli Knesset member Shimon Ohayon, whose family fled Morocco in 1956, called on the Arab League to “accept their great responsibility for driving out almost a million Jews from lands [in] which they had lived for millennia.” He explained that “In 1947, the Political Committee of the Arab League drafted a law that...called for the freezing of bank accounts of Jews, their internment and [the confiscation of their assets]. Various other discriminatory measures were taken by Arab nations and subsequent meetings reportedly called for the expulsion of Jews from member states of the Arab League.”
Ohayon challenged the League to accept responsibility for “the ethnic cleansing of the Jewish population from most of the Middle East and North Africa...[and] to provide redress to the Jewish refugees.
They are so afraid of criticism they seek to silence any criticism. They are so afraid of being challenged that they will kill to keep people from speaking truth. Source: Answering Islam
The Muslim Brotherhood at the White House By Michelle Malkin
Friday, June 28, 2013
Forget Paula Deen. There are far more dangerous bigots and poisonous
haters spoiling the American landscape. They cook up violent rhetoric
and murderous plots against our troops, our citizens, and our allies
24/7. And they have direct access to the White House.
Earlier this
week, the indefatigable Investigative Project on Terrorism blew the
whistle on the Obama administration’s latest flirtation with Muslim
jihad. Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah bragged on his website that he had met
with Team Obama on June 13. IPT reported that bin Bayyah was invited by
National Security Council official Gayle Smith “to learn from you and
we need to be looking for new mechanisms to communicate with you and the
Association of Muslim Scholars.”
Someone associated with bin Bayyah deleted his website reference to the
meeting, but the Internet is forever. The White House has now ’fessed up
to the confab. According to Fox News, a senior official spun the
troubling event as a discussion about “poverty, global health efforts
and bin Bayyah’s own efforts to speak out against al-Qaida.”
Bin Bayyah’s moderate-Muslim costume shouldn’t fool anyone. This
sharia thug, who has worked with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
to boost his progressive-friendly cred, lobbied the United Nations to
outlaw all mockery and criticism of Allah. He raised money to benefit
the terror group Hamas. He is a top lieutenant of Muslim Brotherhood
spiritual leader Yusuf Qaradawi, who exhorts followers to kill every
last Jew; sanctioned suicide bombings and the killing of our soldiers;
expressed support for executing apostates and stoning gays; and declared
that the “U.S. is an enemy of Islam that has already declared war on
Islam under the disguise of war on terrorism and provides Israel with
unlimited support.” In full at The National Review here.....
Malaysia continues to have bouts of shocking news since the
run-up to the GE-13. Of late, the nation is in shock after learning from the
alternative media – in particular, of two key leaders embroiled in highly
questionable circumstances that not only affect their individual credibility
but more so the very entities they are leading.
The Home Minister and the current Inspector General of Police are in
hot soup. And the cauldron will get hotter by the hours until and unless they
are able to clear all allegations, suspicions and any wrong perceptions. Their continuing
silence is unhealthy for the nation’s honor and certainly damages the integrity
of the organization’s they head.
This is not a time for the proverbial monkey-stance of see
no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. The very fact that they are heading the
very bodies that are vested with law enforcement, protection of nation, rakyat
and King, and serving as vanguards of safety and security of Malaysia, they have
a categorically imperative duty to come clean immediately of the charges making
its waves through the media.
In any other dignified nation, the implicated person or
persons would tender their immediate resignation first and pursue judicial redress subsequently, before
returning to their seats of power. That would be the right action to take in
the best interest of all fellow comrades and the institutions they head. But
since this is not the tradition of BN, the burden of proof and decision has nowhere but to
fall flat on the BN leader’s lap.
Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the Prime Minister – even though he
is from the minority government, has a moral and express duty to expedite
clarification of the matters afflicting his appointed leaders to ALL Malaysians.
The PM owes
quick action in the interest of all law abiding Malaysians as well as the external
audiences ranging from foreign investors, political associates, and heads of
nations especially our ASEAN fraternity and even international bodies dedicated
to the fight for democracy and humanitarian justice.
Since the affected and implicated individuals are not moving
their butt, there are only two options left to salvage the dignity and honor of
Malaysia, the battered image of the BN-led government, the embroiled PM himself
and of course the entire uniformed forces of Malaysia.
One, the PM sets off the two individuals on paid leave until
and when the dark clouds clear with transparent and accountable actions with
justice seen to be dispensed accordingly. The second option would be that the PM sacks them first without
further delay and lets the law take its due course. For both options, what is the underlying Principle of Best Practice?
The Principle of Best Practice demands that for as long as
there are established legal cases in progress or concluded and implicating bad or
malafide and questionable behavior on the part of the appointed leaders,
holding public positions of leadership is absolutely untenable.
If the PM further delays his decisive and swift action, it
only provides his opponents extra rope to hang the minority government of BN.
In fact now that the Opposition has raised the alarm bells on these two issues
even before the PM saw the urgency to redress, serves as a serious and crippling disadvantage
for the PM.
Hence his continued silence will only compound his political party
further. Wonder where and who are the PM’s seemingly learned,
experienced and knowledgeable political and Public Relations advisors?
If the PM feels that he has sufficient information and
grounds to save the reputation and credibility of the Home Minister and the
IGP, then it is equally critical that he expeditiously goes on prime time news
to explain the details and bring salvation to the uniformed forces and the Office
of the Home Ministry.
A
failure on the part of the PM to act decisively and
immediately is a serious attack on the dignity and reputation of
Malaysia. Let us not deny or belittle this fact. We
cannot go on and on, allowing indecisiveness and highly questionable
actions to
incessantly rape and destroy His Majesty’s sovereign nation - unless if
we are all resigned to the mantra of "semua-nya okay" and live by that
infamous quote, "Tutup satu mata".
Accepting the results of GE-13 is not a problem. But if the
in-coming minority-government continues to be plagued, smudged and smeared in murky,
contentious and ridiculous issues that speak volumes about the inability to
govern with integrity and honor, what do we do? Let them carry on? Then where
is our patriotism? Whereat rests our sense of loyalty and duty to King and
nation?
The mood in the police force, from the ground all the way up to the
federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman, is not pretty after the top
cop of Malaysia and his boss, the home minister, both made the news in
the past two days for the wrong reasons.
The rank and file and even very senior officers want to hear their
bosses defend themselves publicly against the charges levelled at them
recently, especially the Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu
Bakar. "It is not easy being a policeman and the demands of the public have
never been higher. But I just could not believe it when I read the
judge's findings in Kugan's case," said a lance corporal, referring to
the landmark ruling two days ago when a judge scolded Khalid for his
handling of the case of a prisoner who died in police custody.
The detainee, A. Kugan, was held at the Subang Taipan police where he
was assaulted, suffering 45 external and multiple internal injuries. He
died of kidney failure from the beatings. Yesterday, Home Minister
Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi too was dealt a blow by a judge when
the Federal Court ruled he had a case to answer for assault of a man who
was interested in Zahid’s daughter. Such bad news about the highest levels of the force has shaken morale and confidence, particularly over the IGP.
"After everything I have read in the past 24 hours, what is clear is
that Khalid has been accused of covering up the circumstances
surrounding Kugan's death and he should give an explanation," an
Assistant Superintendent told The Malaysian Insider, on condition of
anonymity. "It is imperative that the IGP comes out and explains rather than
keep mum on the issue while the public gets angrier and loses confidence
in the force." He added, "I do not know the actual facts or what actually transpired
during Kugan's case. Perhaps Khalid himself received the wrong
information from his men on the ground?" His views were echoed among the rank and file by a lance corporal,
who said: "As the personnel on the ground, we are also waiting to hear
from our top officers on what is actually transpiring as so far we are
reading a lot of negative reports.
"We would also like to hear from Tan Sri IGP and listen to his side
of the story. All the feedback and comments we have heard thus far is
quite demoralising," the policeman said.
But a Senior Assistant Commissioner said it was better to look at the
bigger picture. He said: "It is true Khalid is responsible as he
was then the Selangor police chief and answerable for the actions of his
subordinates. If I was the state police chief, I would also be placed
in the same position. But we should be fair as well. The actions of an
irresponsible few should not result in Khalid's removal. "Do we keep sacking IGPs if their subordinates misbehave? “That would mean the government might not last five years because the prime minister and home minister should also quit." "There is no doubt that Khalid should be held accountable for Kugan's
death. If I was a civilian, I would feel angry too, but we must look at
the bigger picture."– June 28, 2013.
Saudi Religious Police Stop Wedding over Unveiled Bride
Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police raided a park in the Gulf
Kingdom and stopped a wedding they considered as a violation of
conservative local traditions.
Hundreds of visitors to the park south of the capital Riyadh
surrounded the newly-wed Egyptian couple to take part in the party
before members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice entered the park and stopped the event.
“A source in the Commission said the wedding was stopped because it
violated local traditions as the bride was not covering her face and the
groom was holding her hand and hugging her sometimes,” Ajel newspaper
said. From the Emirates
Nigerian Islamists Slaughter 23 People in Two Days
From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri
A suspected Boko Haram member yesterday revealed how he killed 23
people including a village head and a police officer in Maiduguri in two
days. The suspect, who started reeling out his murderous escapade hours
after he was arrested by the volunteer armed youths famously known as
civilian JTF, shocked residents when he confessed to have killed 23
people within 48 hours.
The middle-age man, arrested by the youths on Tuesday at Ngomari
ward, Bakin Borehole within Maiduguri metropolis and subsequently handed
over to the Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Order, said he
slaughtered a village head and a police officer because he felt they
were against the activities of the dreaded sect.
Residents of the area where the suspect was arrested said he came
from Gwange, adding that the suspect was picked up by the vigilance
youth group following the arrest of his younger brother who assisted the
youths by taking them to Ngomari where the suspect was residing until
his arrest. In full here....
BEIRUT -- A Greek
Orthodox priest has been found slain after
being kidnapped near the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Syrian government and
the Vatican news service reported Thursday.
The body of
the Rev. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of St. Elias Church in Qatana, outside
Damascus, was discovered in the Jaramana
district of the capital, reported
Agenzia Fides, the Vatican news service. The site was not far from the area
where he was kidnapped by an “unidentified armed group" last Friday, the agency
said.
The Vatican
agency quoted a colleague saying the priest had been “horribly tortured.” The official
Syrian news service said the priest was found with a gunshot wound to his head.
The government news agency blamed the crime on “terrorists,” its usual
characterization of the armed opposition fighting to oust President Bashar
Assad. Read it all here.....
By now, it must have dawned on even the most dim-witted
European politician that there is a discrepancy between Turkey's
rhetoric and performance -- at least, as far as Europe is concerned.
Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bağış has from time to time entertained us
with his various distortions of reality, including his recent claim that
"the sun of Europe rises from Istanbul every morning nowadays." But the
events that have unfolded in Turkey in recent weeks present a different
picture.
It repeats some well known facts about the very loose connection between Muslims and Jerusalem, highlighting
facts such as their bowing in prayer with their face to Mecca and their
backsides to Al Aksa mosque, and the kids playing soccer in the sacred
plaza. Incidentally, Palestinians want a lot of things removed, it’s no reason to get over excited.
As a new report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center puts it: “The depth of the Sunni-Shi’ite schism can be seen in all the major
arenas where regional conflicts are being waged. It is reflected in
Hezbollah’s growing involvement in the fighting in Syria, the spilling
over of the Syrian civil war into Lebanon, record-breaking sectarian
violence in Iraq, and the aggressive stance taken by the Persian Gulf
states towards Iran and Hezbollah. Thus, the Sunni-Shi’ite schism is
emerging as one of the most influential factors shaping the Middle East
in a time of regional upheaval.” Hat tip: EoZ
The world loves the Palestinians because of their choice of enemies!
Why the world loves Palestinians The unique outpouring of love and money for the Palestinians
can’t be because the other Arab nations care for them. If they did,
they wouldn’t treat them so badly whenever they come in contact with
actual Palestinian Arabs. And it certainly can’t be because they are
such exemplary world citizens: Palestinian Arabs popularized airline
hijacking and suicide bombing (the main ingredients of the worst
terrorist attack ever), and have been responsible for several wars in
Lebanon, Jordan, Gaza, etc., not to mention terrorism against Israel.
How many people are dead that would be alive were it not for
Palestinians and their Cause? I think the explanation is simple: the world loves the Palestinians because of their choice of enemies! Hat tip: EoZ
1)
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a Canadian police department’s diversity
enforcer attempt to shut down a Pamela Geller speech by getting her bounced from a Toronto synagogue.
In Britain, the shut-up-he-explained crowd cut to the chase: They went
to the (supposedly Conservative) Home Secretary, the ghastly Theresa
May, and got Miss Geller and Robert Spencer banned from the entire
country on the grounds that their presence in the United Kingdom would
not be “conducive to the public good“.
By contrast, the presence of, say, Anjem Choudary, philosophical mentor of the Woolwich head hackers and a man who calls for the murder of the Prime Minister,
is so “conducive to the public good” that British taxpayers subsidize
him generously and provide a half-million-dollar home for him to live
on. Mrs May’s Home Office has just admitted to the UK Muhhamed al-Arefe
who advocates wife-beating.
Perhaps Mr May will try out Imam al-Arefe’s expert advice on the
beneficial effects of “light beating” on Theresa this weekend – or is
spousal abuse only “conducive to the public good” of Muslim women?
The reflexive illiberalism of Britain’s so-called liberals
– the urge to ban the debate rather than win it – is now so deeply
ingrained they will soon be hungry for new victories. Nearly four
centuries after Milton’s Areopagitica, freedom of speech is dead in
England. In denying her charges access to dissenting ideas, Mrs May is
inviting them to find alternative means of expression. No good will come
from this.
OTTAWA - An
Alberta MP has succeeded in his bid to repeal a section of the Canadian
Human Rights Act long seen by free-speech advocates as a tool to
squelch dissenting opinions. Conservative MP Brian Storseth saw
the Senate give third and final reading late Wednesday to his Bill C-304
which repeals Section 13 of the Human Rights Act, an act that had been
used to, among other things, attack the writings of Sun News Network’s
Ezra Levant and Maclean’s columnist Mark Steyn… Last summer,
Storseth’s bill cleared the House of Commons in a free vote and, now
that it’s through the Senate, it will get Royal Assent and Section 13
should soon disappear.
I believe it received Royal
Assent a couple of hours ago. So victories against the state’s
encroachments on free speech are protracted and difficult, but still just about possible.
I am honored to have played a small role in a modest victory for
liberty in Canada, and I hope my friends in London ashamed by what their
government has done will take heart.
3) What connects the above
to today’s decisions in Washington is the slapdash contempt of Anthony
Kennedy’s opinion. Whatever the merits of gay marriage, it ought to
revolt anyone with a decent respect for self-government that this
incompetent jurist could find no other way to frame the issue than to
besmirch the motives of those who oppose him. As Justice Scalia wrote:
To
defend traditional marriage is not to condemn, demean, or humiliate
those who would prefer other arrangements, any more than to defend the
Constitution of the United States is to condemn, demean, or humiliate
other constitutions. To hurl such accusations so casually demeans this
institution. In the majority’s judgment, any resistance to its holding
is beyond the pale of reasoned disagreement… It is one thing for a
society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose
change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies
of the human race.
What I always objected to in
Canada about Section 13 was its casual contempt for the citizenry, the
same contempt on display today in Washington and London. Like Theresa
May, Justice Kennedy would rather impute motive than engage argument.
The need to delegitimize those who disagree does indeed “demean this
institution”, and is profoundly disturbing. National Review
A blast in an old
Christian quarter of the Syrian capital Damascus has left four people
dead, in what Syrian state TV describes as a suicide attack. Several people were injured in the attack in the Bab Sharqi neighbourhood, near a church. Rebel sources confirmed the number of dead, but said the attack was caused by a mortar bomb. More than 90,000 people have died and millions have been displaced by Syria's two-year conflict, the UN says.
Reports say that the bomber was wearing a suicide belt and blew himself up outside the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox church. Some shops were damaged in the blast. No-one has claimed responsibility for the attack. There have been consistent but unverified reports of violence
directed against Christians in Syria since the uprising began in March
2011, including attacks on churches. In full from the BBC..
English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson denied his organisation had any involvement in the attack. He
said: "Anyone who knows anything about our group knows there is no way
we do anything like that. It’s just so blatant it’s not us.
"All this CCTV where people get caught dropping litter but no one can see who’s doing these attacks. "We’re
gaining a lot of public support at the moment, a lot of people support
us and this is being doing to discredit our movement. "No one is accepting that this is being done by the EDL any more." In full here.....
Libyan Intelligence: Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi Involved in U.S. Consulate Attack
Thursday, June 27, 2013
According
to a Libyan intelligence document, the Muslim Brotherhood, including
Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in the September 11, 2012
terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where several
Americans, including U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, were
killed.
Image of the Libyan intelligence document
On Wednesday, June 26, several Arabic websites, including Veto Gate,
quoted the intelligence report, which apparently was first leaked to the
Kuwaiti paper, Al Ra’i. Prepared by Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif,
Director of National Security for Libya, the report is addressed to the
nation’s Minister of Interior.
It discusses the preliminary findings of the investigation,
specifically concerning an “Egyptian cell” which was involved in the
consulate attack. “Based on confessions derived from some of those
arrested at the scene” six people, “all of them Egyptians” from the
jihad group Ansar al-Sharia (“Supporters of Islamic Law), were arrested.
According to the report, during interrogations, these Egyptian jihadi
cell members “confessed to very serious and important information
concerning the financial sources of the group and the planners of the
event and the storming and burning of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi….
And among the more prominent figures whose names were mentioned by cell
members during confessions were: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi;
preacher Safwat Hegazi; Saudi businessman Mansour Kadasa, owner of the
satellite station, Al-Nas; Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Hassan; former presidential candidate, Hazim Salih Abu Isma’il…”
It should be noted that these findings are unsurprising: the
supremacism of prominent Brotherhood figure Safwat Hegazi is such that
he publicly declares the Brotherhood “will rule the world“;
Saudi Mansour’s hate-mongering, pro-Brotherhood TV station repeatedly
aired footage of the YouTube Muhammad movie inciting violence around the
Muslim world; popular Sheikh Muhammad Hassan holds that smiling to
non-Muslims is forbidden, except when trying to win them over to Islam; and Sheikh Hazim Abu Ismail is simply an openly anti-freedom, anti-infidel religious leader.
As for President Morsi, a video made during the consulate attack
records people speaking in the Egyptian dialect: as they approach the
beleaguered U.S. compound, one of them yells to the besiegers, “Don’t
shoot—Dr. Morsi sent us!” From Raymond Ibrahim.
Two Christians, one of them a priest, have been beheaded by militants
because they were suspected of cooperating with the Syrian military,
according to an Al-Alam report. A video uploaded to the internet yesterday shows two men with their
hands bound, surrounded by dozens of people, many of them armed and
cheering in celebration. Note: Video Below Article
The two are brutally executed – beheaded with a small combat knife.
Echoing previous beheading recorded by insurgents, the head is held up
to the cheers of onlookers and then placed on the body. This month has seen an escalation in sectarian atrocities committed
by insurgents, who have been publicly armed and supported by America,
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and other actors. Indeed, the atrocities are
coinciding with further arms transfers – with new advanced weaponry
witnessed in the hands of militants in the past number of weeks.
The most recent beheading recorded on video and uploaded to the internet, reportedly took place in Idlib countryside. Recently, a Catholic priest was executed
by foreign militants. The monastery in which he resided was burnt and
looted, echoing the events of a massacre in Homs last month which
resulted in the entire population of a Christian village being wiped out and their houses and possessions burnt. Two Christian bishops who were kidnapped by Chechen gunmen in Aleppo earlier this year, are still missing.
As well as Christians, Shia villages are receiving the brunt of a
boldly-confident insurgency. This newly-found confidence has resulted in
having just recently received confirmation of America’s intent to
supply them with more weapons. Last week, militants massacred dozens of villagers in the province’s town of Hatla. Since then, summary executions and sectarian house-to-house raids have taken place.
The following video is extremely graphic and viewer discretion is advised. Many thanks to Arabi Souri, a Syrian activist for the translated version of the video. Syria Report
Muhammad has had it with the Muslim Brotherhood. From
the moment we meet, it takes the 30-something Egyptian three minutes,
tops, before he expresses his crashing disappointment with his
government. “On June 30, you will see another revolution,” he
predicts, as we approach the Egyptian Museum. “Millions of Egyptians
will fill Tahrir Square and other squares around the country. We want
the Muslim Brothers out!”As we admire sarcophagi, masks, and mummies in this legendary palace of
antiquities, Muhammad barely can contain his frustration with current
events.
“The Muslim Brothers,” as he and others here call them, “have craved
power for 85 years. Now they have it, and they cannot run anything. We
were happy to be rid of Mubarak, but right now, we would take him back.”
Egyptians rallied for 18 days in early 2011 until their autocratic
president stood down. Now 85, Hosni Mubarak is on trial for corruption and complicity in killing protesters during the uprising. Muhammad
is in the tourism industry. (Like others in this article, his identity
is obscured for his protection.) “I used to work four days a week,”
Muhammad laments. “Now, I work four days a month.”
Thanks to President Mohamed Morsi’s economic mismanagement, Egyptians have seen unemployment rise from 8.9 percent when Mubarak got booted to 13.2 percent today. Annual GDP
growth, which was 5 percent in 2010, slowed to 3.3 percent in 2012
(although it was just 2.2 percent last quarter), according to
TradingEconomics.com. Foreign-exchange reserves have plunged from $36 billion in December 2010 to $16 billion last month. No surprise, the Egyptian pound,
which was 5.5 to the U.S. dollar when Mubarak resigned, now is 7.0.
While this exchange rate dazzles visiting Americans, Egyptians wilt
beneath this 27 percent loss in buying power.
The Muslim Brothers’ economic agenda seems to involve printing money; borrowing from Libya, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar; and awaiting a new $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. Egyptians also are coping with energy shortages. These include rolling blackouts and gasoline lines that Deya Abaza describes in Ahram Online as “a recurring feature of Egypt’s post-revolutionary landscape.” “My
best year was 2010,” Muhammad says. “I was saving money to buy a house.
Now, I have lost one third of my savings. My dreams have been crushed.” One
educated Anglophone Egyptian considered her prospects so grim that she
recently used Craigslist to seek someone to marry her and whisk her
overseas.
“Very big. Very big,” one cabbie predicts about June 30
as we fight rush-hour traffic. He continues in what one observer calls
Earth’s lingua franca: Broken English. “Morsi out! Mubarak no good.
Morsi no good. Same same.” The U.S. embassy will close that day, “in anticipation of demonstrations that may turn violent.” Continued here..........
A day of mourning for those persecuted in Islamic regimes
Recently in Canada an event was held to highlight the plight of those
suffering persecution in Muslim nations, and the complicit silence of
the majority of our politicians and chattering classes on this matter.
For while some Western governments continue to persecute counter-jihad
fighters for the truth, some Islamic states continue to murder
Christians with impunity. Christine Williams is a Federally appointed Director with the
Canadian Race Relations Foundation, a member of the Friends of Simon
Wiesenthal Center Task Force Against Anti-semitism, and a nine-time,
international award-winning talk show Host and Producer at CTS TV in
Burlington, Ontario. She has also contributed several articles to Jihad
Watch. Blazing Cat Fur and Blogwrath have more on the event. Hat tip: Jihad Watch
