Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
This Merdeka Day more questions than answers - A Singapore Minister - Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Any chance of a similar personality in our cabinet? Contrast with a non English speaking ..Indon born..with a 230mil question mark!
Is our little (But Big ) neighbour mired in corruption..mired with a stagnant economy..a huge Debt burden..running on deficit..slumping currency...a nation divided by race , religion and inequities...when the real challenges are not addressed but focused on how to address the Almighty.
More treasure wasted on a bunch of people who are more enmeshed in intifadas then nation building... Is our neighbour having an illegal migrant problem? And is already a developed state..with an armed service much much more advanced then ours...able to arm twist to get returned strategic railway land...ensure water is supplied cheaply..foreign reserves far far ahead of us...has the protection of a super power..whilst we whistle in the wind about O I Cee type support.
One has risen from humble beginnings..the other has squandered its people s talents n natural resources n continues...Anybody know which of many steep cliffs our decrepit wagon is lurching towards? MSA was split into MAS n SIA in the early 70s..I still recall that split..I was in primary school..today one is a sick and poor performer with leased planes.the other a leading world class company ...with the youngest n most modern fleet.
One has nil to negligble reserves..lives of tax payer handouts, bailouts and inefficiency..the other has reserves greater then the GDP of some developing nations...flies profitably to almost every destination...Frankly ...How Did We Screw up this Badly? I haven't even touched upon the quality of our schools n institutions of higher learning..the quality of our publuc health care...the standard of safety n welfare of our citizens.
Crime statistics..the perception of a fair n efficient legal system..trampoline welfare safety net...here..what net for 35% of its popn.? Corruption index...are we even in the same Ball park? As Msian citizes...high time to stand up n Ask the Questions...can the Politicians in power since 1957 give us an Answer...? Heck its 60 years tomorrow since these people started this down slide...
UK: Primary school teacher urged Muslims to wage jihad and establish caliphate
Jihad Watch : āInitially Malik was also prevented from going to marches or
demonstrations at Islamic events but Mr Ikram said this would infringe
on her human rights so lifted the condition.ā
So now she can make recruits at will at such marches and
demonstrations. Good thing the British authorities, as alert to the
sensitivities of Islamic supremacists as ever, are so concerned about
her human rights.
āPrimary school teacher āurged Muslims to take up Jihad and establish global caliphate,āā by Andy Wells, Yahoo News UK, August 29, 2017:
A special needs primary school teacher has been suspended
for allegedly encouraging Muslims to sacrifice all their money to help
establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate. Prosecutors say that Sadia Malik, 36, promoted Islamic hate groups and urged Muslims to take up Jihad. The special education needs coordinator from Wales, is accused of
sending two messages via WhatsApp with YouTube links to four videos and a
website linked to banned British-born hate preacher Omar Bakri
Mohammed.
One video described tactics for fighting in Syria and Iraq and
another described how martyrs would still be smiling even if they had
been decapitated. She was arrested along with her husband Sajid Idris, and charged with
two counts of distributing terrorist material on January 28, 2014. She appeared at Westminster Magistratesā Court today and sat outside
the dock wearing a dark blue hijab and black burkha, where she spoke
only to confirm her name, date of birth and address.
The court heard Malik also had links to the banned Al-Muhajiroun
group, through her husband, set up by jailed hate-cleric, Anjem
Choudary. Samuel Main, prosecuting, said: āThe Crown say the defendant sent messages with links to videos to 12 recipients via WhatsApp. āThese contained links to sites and a YouTube channel which contained extremist material, including several videos.
āOne video called for Muslims to challenge the values created by society through Jihad. āIt also encourage viewers to fight against the kuffar regime. āAnother was titled āRules Relating to Smilingā and stated that even
after death from being decapitated the martyr will still have a smile on
his face. āAnother by video entitled āTawheedā talked about the global Muslim
population being under one caliph and creating a military wing to ensure
the implementation of Sharia law.
āThe Crown say the important thing is that Ms Malik distributed these
videos, she furnished receivers with the keys to the warehouse to
access these videos. āIn addition there was one called Frontier of Islam which suggested
all Muslims should sacrifice all their health and wealth for the service
of their creed.
āA āWar Strategiesā video gave details of how tactics could be
implemented in places such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and
Nigeria.ā Deputy Chief Magistrate Tanvir Ikram released Malik on conditional bail. One condition of her bail was not to give talks at any public event where Islam is being discussed or to distribute leaflets.
Initially Malik was also prevented from going to marches or
demonstrations at Islamic events but Mr Ikram said this would infringe
on her human rights so lifted the condition.
UK: Muslim refuses to stand for judge, is ordered: āGet up. This is not a court of religion.ā
Jihad Watch : Many times we have seen Muslims refusing to stand in court, because
they recognize only Sharia, which they regard as divine law, as opposed
to āmanmade law.ā
It is rare, however, to see a judge actually ordering
one of these Islamic supremacists to stand. Is he aware that in doing
so, he is forcing Ricardo McFarlane to transgress a tenet of Islam, and
as such has become an āIslamophobeā? Apparently not, since he said:
āThat isnāt in breach of any religious principles Iām aware of.ā
Meanwhile, British authorities should become aware of and study the
fact that so many converts to Islam get the idea that their new religion
makes them contemptuous of the authorities of their home country. But
they wonāt.
āāGet up. This is not a court of religionā: Judge blasts Muslim
convert who refuses to stand as he faces charges of promoting sharia law
in Oxford Street,ā by Amie Gordon, Mailonline, August 29, 2017 :
A Muslim convert accused of preaching sharia law in
central London was ordered to stand up for a judge who told him: āThis
is not a court of religion.ā Ricardo McFarlane, 30, allegedly breached an ASBO made in February
2014, which barred him from approaching members of the public āin order
to promote sharia lawā.
McFarlane and a group of up to 20 other men are said to have set up a
stall outside Topshop in Oxford Street on March 25 last year and called
for strict Islamic laws to be imposed across the UK. He is also said to have gone to Tooting Broadway Station on April 4
and Kingsland Road in Dalston on April 16, 2016, to set up similar
stalls. He denies one count of breach of an ASBO and was due to stand trial at Southwark Crown Court today.
The bearded defendant, wearing a green and gold robe, told the court
usher he would not stand for āany manā before the hearing began. Judge Martin Beddoe noticed that McFarlane, who is on conditional bail, did not stand up when he entered the courtroom. āIf Mr McFarlane isnāt going to treat this court with respect then I
might have to deal with him differently than to release him on bail,ā he
said before a break in proceedings. He denies one count of breach of an ASBO and was due to stand trial at Southwark Crown Court today.
Roy Hedlam, defending, said: āBecause of his religious belief he believes there is only one person who he should bow to.ā Judge Beddoe continued: āThat is as may be, but this isnāt a court of
religion, this is a secular court and it expects to be treated with
respect. āThat isnāt in breach of any religious principles Iām aware of.ā
McFarlane stood up in the dock while judge Beddoe was speaking,
prompting him to say: āHeās very kindly standing up for me because Iām
about to go.ā The defendant stood up in the dock during the rest of the hearing. His trial was adjourned until the week beginning 11 September because a witness was unable to attend court.
Judge Beddoe said: āIām sorry your case hasnāt been able to advance
today, but you know the reasons why. It is now in the warned list for
the 11 September.ā
Ad for an Islamic temporary husband ā in Ontario
Jihad Watch : We are constantly told that only greasy Islamophobes think that any
of the aspects of Sharia that contradict Western principles of human
rights will ever come to Western countries.
Reality is different. Here is an ad for a nikah halala ā a temporary
marriage allowing a woman to return to her previous husband ā in
Scarborough, Ontario: This is based on the Qurāan. Allahās regulations for divorce
emphasize regarding women that āmen have a degree over themā (Qurāan 2:228).
This may be why men can divorce their wives simply by saying,
āTalaqā ā You are divorced ā but women may not do this. Such an easy
procedure leads to divorces in a fit of pique, followed by
reconciliation ā and the Qurāan anticipates this and attempts to head it
off by stipulating that a husband who divorces his wife three times
cannot reconcile with her until she marries another man and is in turn
divorced by him:
āAnd if he has divorced her [for the third time], then
she is not lawful to him afterward until she marries a husband other
than himā (Qurāan 2:230). This has given rise to the phenomenon of ātemporary husbands,ā who
marry and divorce thrice-divorced women so that these poor women can
then return to their original husbands.
Malaysiakini : āMay your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.ā ā Nelson Mandela
COMMENT | The opposition are
slaves to the 'avoiding three-cornered fights' meme. I get that the data
favours the strategy of avoiding three-cornered fights, but this idea
only makes sense if it means denying BN allies in Parliament. It makes
no sense if it means helping potential BN allies retain power, or
potentially enabling opposition-held states to be destabilised from
within.
Furthermore, this idea that denying BN a two-thirds majority somehow
constrains the regime because they are unable to make constitutional
amendments is misleading. The current Umno regime has put forth
legislation that further sustains their power and erodes individual
liberties and they did this without needing the magical two-thirds
majority.
I'm glad they have Juan Williams. He's a good representative of the libertards ideology and it shows the American people just how nutty the Liberals are!
President Trump owns reporter after critical-theory style question
LOVE THIS!!!!!!! BOOOOOM!!!!!!!!! Way to gooo President Trump!!!!
He has the right to pardon just as former President's did before him! God Bless President Trump and the United States of America!!! Absolutely Genius to use ratings so people would know!!!!He called the transgender HE. Love Trump, he doesn't play fantasy with confused people.
City Mayors can defy Federal law and it is overlooked. But a county Sheriff gets held to the letter of the law. Yea, I agree President Trump did the right thing AGAIN!
The fourth week of August .. 5 commando operations and wounding 3 Zionists In the context of the follow-up and continuous statistics of the
Jerusalem intifada, in the fourth week of August 2017, the Intifada site
monitored 5 attacks wounding 3 Zionists in various parts of the
occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. In the town of Teqoa in the Bethlehem governorate, a Zionist soldier was
injured by the stones of the youth of the uprising, after the clashes
that took place in the town.. In Shu'fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, a settler was injured by stones thrown at him during clashes in the camp. In the town of Housan, Bethlehem district, a settler was injured by stones thrown by the village's residents. The Zionist occupation forces claimed to have thwarted two stabbings in the city of Ramallah and the occupied city of Jerusalem. During the fourth week of August, a group of young men in the occupied
West Bank attacked Israeli occupation forces in the occupied West Bank
with two explosive devices at Rachel's Camp and Aida camp. Any one of these attacks, motivated by racism, would be front page news in the US or Europe.
But Palestinians are expected to act this way against "Zionists" or "settlers" (meaning Jews.)
Italy: Pakistani 'cultural mediator' suspended for rape comments
EOTW :(Rimini)
24-year-old Abid Jee, a Pakistani "cultural mediator" for Italian
migrant-reception cooperative Lai-Momo, has been suspended by his
employer.
After he commented on a spate of rapes
in Italy by North African gangs by saying that rape is "a worse act,
but only at the beginning, when the willy goes in, then the woman
becomes calm and you enjoy it like normal intercourse".
Islamic contributions to their new societies are, as they have been in their own environments for 14 centuries, virtually nil
CHARLOTTE, NC, August 29, 2017 ā Europe had a chance
to solve a problem before it became one. To a lesser degree, so did the
United States. Rather than close the barn door before the horse escaped
however, the West chose to leave it wide open, while, for the most
part, many of our leaders still think it is closed.
Apologize for it or not, Islam is a āreal and present dangerā to our Western way of life. Writing in āThe Quadrant Online,ā Peter Smith accurately notes that āThose who hold to (Islam), however intrinsically peaceful they happen to be, are part of the problem. Apologists and appeasers are also part of the problem.
(emphasis added) Unless things change and the will to fight
rediscovered, it is only a matter of time before we are swept away into
the dustbin of history.ā
Thank you, Angela Merkel and Barack Obama.CNNās Wolf Blitzer, supposedly a media giant who is certainly well paid for his insights, posed the thought that the recent attack in Barcelona might have been a ācopycatā of the violence in Charlottesville.ā
Using that logic, then every terrorist incident since September 11, 2001 could have been dismissed as a ācopycatā of those attacks on the U.S. In other words, hundreds, if not thousands, of terror events, mostly carried out by followers of Islam, were merely ācopiedā; the Bali nightclub, the Boston Marathon, Charlie Hebdo, Londonās bridges, Berlin Christmas Market, Madridās railway station and on and on.
As Muslim populations increase, so too do their ghettos. Other than terrorism, Islamic ghettos are the biggest contribution to Western society. Add in Sharia Law and you have a recipe for disaster. ā
The imam hosted a workshop for would-be foster carers just months after the High Court ruled him an āextremist Islamic speaker ā who had āpromoted and encouraged religious violenceā. His mosque, the Lewisham Islamic Centre, was attended by the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby. The imam and the centre had condemned the murder.
The event was organised on behalf of the London borough of Lewisham as part of a drive to find more Muslims willing to foster children. The disclosure comes amid a growing furore over the decision by crisis-ridden Tower Hamlets, another London council, to place a five-year-old girl in the care of two Muslim households.A council source said the borough had a shortage of non-Muslim carers with whom to place Christian children. In contrast, most councils have a shortage of Muslim families to provide foster care for children of Islamic heritage.
Lewisham Islamic Centre was chosen as the venue for a
workshop āon the importance and need of foster carers in the Muslim
communityā in March this year. A photograph from the event posted on the
mosqueās website shows the gathering being addressed by Shakeel Begg,
the imam.
Antifa reveals its true self: thuggish and totalitarian
BCF : One of the least safe places to be in Berkeley, Calif., is in the vicinity of someone holding a āNo Hateā sign.
So-called anti-fascist, or antifa, activists bearing shields emblazoned with those words assaulted any of the handful of beleaguered Trump supporters they could get their hands on at a small political rally over the weekend. All in the cause, mind you, of demonstrating their supposed opposition to hatefulness.
Too many people were willing to perfume antifa in the wake of Charlottesville, where it clashed with Nazi thugs who caused, and deserved, a wave of national revulsion. But Berkeley demonstrates once again the true nature of this left-wing movement, which is thuggish in its tactics and totalitarian in its sensibility. Anyone who at this point makes excuses for antifa ā or worse, justifies it ā is participating in its moral rot.
The antifa goons showed up in force at Berkeley at what had been a small āanti-Marxistā rally of Trump supporters at a public park. Antifa wore its usual fascistic garb of black masks and body armor. They overwhelmed the police who had been trying to maintain order and, holding aloft smoke-spewing flares, chanted, āWhose park? Our park!ā
BCF : Most Catholics in the U.S. are vaguely aware that Christians are being persecuted in the Middle East, Africa, and other parts of the Islamic world. Most are aware of the many terrorist attacks in Europe. And most are aware of the major jihad attacks here in America.
But if youāre mainly focused on the occasional terror attack, you are probably underestimating the extent of the Islamic threat and the speed with which it is spreading. Thatās because people have short memories. Take the recent terror
attacks in Spaināin Barcelona and Cambrils. You undoubtedly saw some of
the news coverage of the carnage, and you probably think you wonāt
forget the event. But memories fade.
How many remember the much more
deadly jihad attack on the Madrid train system
in 2004? The nearly simultaneous bombings aboard four commuter trains
killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. But, unless you live in
Spain, the Madrid train bombings passed out of your mind years ago, and
if youāre under twenty-five, you likely never knew about them in the
first place.
When a spectacular terror attack occurs, the average person is
temporarily alarmed, but then settles back into a state of complacency
until the next major terror attack triggers the alarm once again. But
this cycle of alarm-complacency-alarm-complacency doesnāt bring us any
closer to understanding the underlying problem or solving it. Indeed, it
conditions us to live with a certain level of terror.
We know that the
jihadists will strike again, but we also know that the odds are low that
we will be among the victims. And so we manage to get on with our
lives. As long as bombs are not going off in nearby subways or buses we
stop thinking about jihad.
Besides the internet censorship, it's more scarier that our college students coming out with this PC Cultural Marxist ideology are going to be our future world leaders in the future.
Germany: Police uncover plot to kidnap and murder leftist politicians by German Police
EOTW : (Berlin)
Whist The German leader is unrepentant in the face of numerous protests
against her importation of millions of economic migrants into the
country, a few people it seems are willing to take matters into their
own hands in which to send the message to Mrs Merkel that the social
fabric of Christian Germany has been rent asunder and that enough is
enough.
Protesters greet Merkel at an election rally (Kanzlerin=Chancellor)
Which is why German Police
have today raided the homes of two German policemen who were caught out
using social media in which to plot the kidnapping and murders of a
list of leftwing Politicians whom they felt had betrayed the country.
The plot was uncovered when the two suspects were monitored
discussing politics on online chat forum. . They were unhappy at the
governmentās immigration and refugee policies and, fearing they could
result in
a collapse of public order, they had hoarded food supplies and
ammunition for
their legally licensed guns. In addition, the suspects saw the crisis
they
feared also as an opportunity to kill figures on the left-wing of the
political
spectrum with these weapons.
A Palestinian refugee receives a budget four times larger than a Syrian,
Iraqi or African refugee, this according to a study conducted by the
Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary
Center (IDC) in Herzliya. At the end of last week, UNRWA released its annual financial report,
which stated that in 2016 the organization spent an average of $246 for
each of the 5.3 million Palestinians it defines as refugees, while UNHCR
spent only a quarter of that, $58 per refugee. In addition, the data show that UNRWA employs some 30,000 people, while
the World Refugee Agency, which handles tens of millions worldwide,
employs only 10,000 people. Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor heads the
Abba Eban Institute, which formulated a plan of action for structural
changes that will improve the treatment of refugees around the world by
merging UNRWA into the UNHCR. "Consolidating the budgets and manpower of both agencies will lead to
better treatment of refugees," Prosor said. "In Jordan, for example,
there are 44 clinics that treat refugees from the civil wars in Syria
and Iraq, out of 233 clinics that are required for this mission.
Alongside them are 25 UNRWA clinics that ignore Syrian refugees and care
only for Palestinian refugees. "Uniting the resources of the two agencies will enable more quality and
efficient assistance, and contribute to a solution for what that the UN
itself has defined as the most serious refugee crisis in history."
How The Left Gets Away With Unlawful Discrimination
BCF : āFor the last 40 years-plus, liberals and the far-left have not only come to dominate the media, academia, and entertainment, but have systematically engaged in an effort to limit or outright eradicate Republican, conservative, libertarian, independent, and even Christian thought.ā
They have done so by methodically gaining positions of power within
those fields and then going out of their way to only hire those who
thought like them and more importantly, acted like them. The irony that many of these liberals made their names or launched their careers fighting discrimination is not lost on them.
They know they are engaged in unlawful discrimination but truly believe that any means now justifies the end they seek. That end being total capitulation to the "progressive" group-think they espouse. Totalitarian thought by any other name is still totalitarian thought. Those three all-powerful megaphones within our nation have a
number of critically important subsets. Two of those being book
publishing and sports. Again, while the liberals and the far-left
may not want to embrace this truth, it is a fact that the vast majority
of "mainstream" book publishing is controlled ā with an iron fist ā by
liberals and the far-left.
With that virtually unchecked power, has come
a goal to censor conservative and Christian authors. Nothing is ever
admitted. The owners and editors who run these publishing empires simply
publish fewer and fewer conservative and Christian authors in favor of
much more politically correct and diverse writers who simply reflect
their views.
If 2016 is the year when our political parties failed, inflicting on America arguably its worst presidential choice in our nationās history, then 2017 is when our broader institutions began to lose their collective minds.
This is the year when reasonable men surrendered to unreason ā when political tribalism trumped human decency. The primary tragedy of Charlottesville was the loss of a young womanās life. The secondary tragedy was the distortion of our political culture.
The president of the United States actually declared some portion of a collection of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and alt-right white nationalists to be āvery fine people.ā He just couldnāt bring himself to completely disavow men and women whoād supported him since the day he descended down the escalator at Trump Tower. Yet rather than doing the easiest and most sensible thing in the world ā condemning white supremacy while also condemning political violence on the far left ā some portion of the left-wing intelligentsia actually decided to embrace their own thugs.
They supported Antifa. They decided to lionize some of the worst people in American life. And in so doing, they actually compared them to the American heroes who stormed Omaha Beach. The tweets below, as the saying goes, did not age well. First, hereās Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, one of the best and most respected political journals in American life:
Recent reports suggest that President Trump is torn about what to do about DACA, the de facto amnesty for so-called DREAMers instituted by Barack Obama.
We understand the hesitation, since many of the beneficiaries of this amnesty have sympathetic stories, but as a matter of fidelity to our constitutional system and his campaign promises, Trump must end DACA.
If we are going to amnesty an entire class of people, it should obviously be done through the democratic process and, in our view, happen only in exchange for reforms to the immigration system. DACA contravenes the elementary principle that the legislative branch ought to pass laws and the executive branch ought to enforce them. In 2012, after Congress rejected the DREAM Act, President Obama issued the policy by unilateral decree.
Under DACA ā Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ā illegal immigrants under the age of 36 can apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for deferred status. And while the Obama administration pretended the policy would be implemented via āprosecutorial discretion,ā with each case considered individually, in practice, USCIS officials say, any illegal immigrant who appears eligible is granted deferred status ā which comes with benefits such as a work permit, a Social Security number, and a driverās license.
More than 750,000 illegal immigrants currently enjoy this functional amnesty. Candidate Trump made ending DACA a priority, but since being elected, the president has not followed through. The politics is tricky. It is difficult to roll back this de facto amnesty after it has already been implemented. And some of the DREAMers did indeed come here at a young age and have effectively known no other country (this isnāt true of all DACA beneficiaries ā the Obama policy was so sweeping that it can apply to illegal immigrants who came here as teenagers). But the most important consideration is that DACA is flagrantly unconstitutional.
Gorka: McMaster āsees the threat of Islam through an Obama administration lensā
Jihad Watch : McMaster āsees the threat of Islam through an Obama administration
lens, meaning that religion has nothing to do with the war we are in.ā
When jihad terrorists the world over are invoking the Qurāan and
Sunnah to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful
Muslims, this is a self-defeating stance that prevents American
officials from understanding the enemy and devising ways to counter that
enemy properly. This was something Trump appeared to be saying during
his campaign that he would end.
When he rebuked Obama and Hillary
Clinton for refusing to say āradical Islamic terrorism,ā he seemed to be
saying that he would deal realistically with the motivating ideology
behind the jihad threat. Trump has failed, and betrayed that promise.
āGorka says McMaster has āObama lensā on threat of radical Islam,ā by Michael Wilner, Jerusalem Post, August 27, 2017:
WASHINGTON ā Sebastian Gorka, a senior staffer at the
White House until last week, came to the defense on Sunday of H.R.
McMaster, President Donald Trumpās national security adviser who last
month endured a far-right campaign against him over his posture toward
Israel. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Gorka said he had not once
heard H.R. McMaster speak critically of the state in his six months
since taking office.
āIām not here to feed stories of palace intrigue ā I hate that, and
Iām still loyal to the president and his agenda,ā Gorka said. But āI
have never heard Gen. McMaster say things that are anti-Israeli. Iāve
never heard that.ā Gorka did, however, offer harsh criticism of McMasterās stance toward
Islamists, speaking of the violent extremism as a problem inherent to
Islam itself.
McMaster āsees the threat of Islam through an Obama administration
lens, meaning that religion has nothing to do with the war we are in,ā
Gorka said. āHe believes ā and he told me in his office ā that all of
these people are just criminals. That is simply wrong."
Defying international pressure, Islamic Republic of Mauritania refuses to free slaves
Jihad Watch : āUS warned Mauritaniaās ātotal failureā on slavery should rule out trade benefits,ā by Rebecca Ratcliffe, Guardian, August 25, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The routine abuse of thousands of enslaved Mauritanians,
including rape, beatings and unpaid labour, should prevent the African
republic from receiving US trade benefits, American labour unions have
said.
Mauritania, which has one of the highest rates of modern-day slavery
in the world and has been roundly criticised for its poor human rights
record, is currently on a list of countries that benefit from the
African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa). The act, designed to promote
the economic development of countries that can show they uphold human
rights and meet labour standards, enables African countries to export
goods duty-free to US markets.
The US trade union AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations, this week called on the US trade
representative to remove Mauritania from the roster of approved
countries.āThe government of Mauritania routinely fails to conduct
investigations into cases of slavery, rarely pursues prosecutions for
those responsible for the practice and fails to ensure access to remedy
or otherwise support victims,ā the union wrote in a petition, adding
that the state harasses and imprisons anti-slavery activists and will
not publicly acknowledge the continued existence of slavery.
āThis represents a total failure to take any meaningful steps to establish freedom from forced labour,ā said the petition. Mauritania abolished slavery in 1981, the last country in the world
to do so, but only made it a crime in 2007. Since then, campaigners say
the government has passed a handful of inefficient reforms and failed to
properly address the issue.Although the union says it is unlikely the US will immediately remove
Mauritania from the Agoa list, Celeste Drake, trade and globalisation
policy specialist at the AFL-CIO, said the petition should āput
Mauritania on watchāā¦.
āIt took decades to actually have a conviction let alone compensation
for any victims,ā he said. āOne issue we have with the agency
[Tadamoun] is that it doesnāt involve any of the former slaves. Itās run
by the white Moor community there, and it focuses a lot on a poverty
alleviation mandate and doesnāt really address the slavery issues.ā
āThey donāt speak Englishā: Five-year-old Christian girl in UK placed in foster care with niqab-wearing Muslims
Jihad Watch : The Stupid British Bastards! āAnd more recently the girl told her that āChristmas and Easter are
stupidā and that āEuropean women are stupid and alcoholicāā¦the child was
āvery distressedā and claimed the foster carer had removed her
Christian cross and encouraged her to learn Arabic.ā
Imagine what the outcry would be if a Muslim child were placed in a
Christian family that denigrated her Muslim beliefs. And that would
never happen in Britain or anywhere else in the West.
But this incident
is all in a dayās work in shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, in
which the May government is so bent on appeasing Islamic supremacists
and jihadis that it is willingly sacrificing non-Muslim children to the
chimera of a harmonious multicultural future, a vision that will
dissolve in blood.
āChristian girl, 5, is forced into foster care with Burka-wearing
Muslim carers who ātook away her crucifix and stopped her eating
bacon,'ā by Fiona Parker and Martin Robinson, Mailonline, August 28, 2017:
Massive win for Indian diplomacy: Doklam standoff to end as China agrees to disengage with India
Financial Express : Doklam standoff to end: India and China have decided to disengage their soldiers in the Doklam region of Sikkim sector.Doklam standoff:
India and China have decided to disengage their soldiers in the Doklam region of Sikkim sector, External Affairs Ministry said today. Soldiers of both countries were engaged in standoff since mid-June. In a statement, the MEA said, āIn recent weeks, India and China have maintained diplomatic communication in respect of the incident at Doklam.
During these communications, we were able to express our views and convey our concerns and interests. On this basis, expeditious disengagement of border personnel at the face-off site at Doklam has been agreed to and is ongoing.ā
Reuters reported Chinaās foreign ministry as saying that Chinese forces will continue to patrol in Doklam region. It said Indian forces have already withdrawn to the Indian side of the border in Doklam.
Chinese state media CGTN also reported that India and China have agreed to end the standoff in Donglang area of both countriesā border.
It based its report on a Times of India story about the recent development. China calls Doklam as Donglang.
The standoff had started after Chinaās Peopleās Liberation Army tried to build a road in the Doklam area, which belongs to Bhutan and is strategically significant for India. China claims the as its own. The standoff threatened to derail decades of trust-building between New Delhi and Beijing after the fallout of 1962 war.
With Gorka out, White House is nearly cleansed of hard-liners against Islam
BCF : The White House today is nearly devoid of the hard-liners who arrived in January wanting to use the bully pulpit to expose radical Islam as the root cause of global terrorism.Sebastian Gorka, a scholarly but intense voice on the need for Islam to reform itself, exited Friday after a number of other like-minded thinkers were shown the door. Mr. Gorka was a cable news regular who took joy in bashing Mr. Trumpās critics, especially CNN.
The exodus began with retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who had planned to use his national security adviser role for the Gorka-type message. Next were a cadre of his people on the National
Security Council staff. Then chief strategist Steve Bannon left the White House and returned to fighting his wars at Breitbart News Network.
Critics see the cleansing as a victory for Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, Mr. Flynnās successor as national security adviser.As an Army strategist and prominent public speaker, the historian-warrior has expressed a consistent theme that the Islamic State terrorist organization, al Qaeda and other ultraviolent Muslim groups do not reflect Islam.
It is much the same argument made by President Obama, who saw himself as a personal defender of Islam.
Hard-liners have held out hope that President Trump, as commander in chief, will counter the McMaster culture. But the White House shift from the Gorkas and Bannons came into even sharper focus last week when Mr. Trump
delivered his first prime-time TV address to the nation. His speech on
how to win in Afghanistan against a collection of violent Islamic groups
never mentioned the word āIslamic,ā only the generic term āterrorist.ā
BCF : Britons are being groomed to accept these outrages and to believe nobody is to blame.
I wonder how Mohammad Khan is getting on in his legal action against Virgin Atlantic. Mo ā a Muslim, the clueās in the name ā was waiting to board a flight when he started āharmlesslyā talking about 9/11.
There is no reason to believe he has any connections with extremists, but he was kicked off the flight because of security concerns and had to fly out of the UK with another airline. Although he was later offered a refund, he is now suing, claiming he was āracially and religiously profiledā by the Virgin staff. āI know this wouldnāt have happened if Iād been a white man in his sixties,ā Mo complained. No, probably not. But if the world were comprised entirely of white men in their sixties, then 9/11 might not have happened.
The world might also be a nicer place to live, although there might be too many bridge tournaments for my own taste. It is axiomatic that white men in their sixties are privileged oppressive bastards, but it is also true that they have been remarkably quiet of late. No white men in their sixties were suspects in the recent carnage in Barcelona in which 15 people were killed and scores more injured. The police instead were looking for people who look a bit like Mo ā Muslim men in their twenties.
Nor were older white folk implicated in the knife attack in Turku, Finland, in which two women were murdered and eight people injured. Nor yet in the attack in Hamburg in which one person was killed and six injured.
In all of those cases the police were after people who might well be called āMohammedā. They donāt give out the names of suspects anymore because everybody knows itās probably someone called Mohammed.
āAnd you got the nerve to say that we are hateful?ā
Jihad Watch : Yeah, how could I have gotten such a crazy idea, when I get love letters of this quality?
Here is an email I received a few minutes ago. The words were all
written out in full in the original; I starred them out to keep the
Internet censors from pulling our plugs any more quickly than theyāre
already planning to. Otherwise the spelling and grammar are as in the
original.
Email: F**KYOU@YAHOO.COM Subject: Your hate mongoring Message: Hey Spencer,
You must be sick mother f**ker, you are filled with so much hate to the
point where you spend that much time and energy to Lie about Islam and
Muslims and you got the nerve to say that we are hateful? you mother
f**ker are a pure bastard and I doubt you know your own father you son
of a brothel mistress.
The biggest atrocities in history were caused by
Christians like you mother f**ker! it is recorded in history books to
this day, and you think you are the f**ken lamb? you are sick a**hole.
Well I got news for you stupid b**ch, Islam is and will always be the
fastest growing religion on this planet, it is destined to bulldoze your
a** and bulldoze every other religion in the world. by doing all this
bulls**t you are only making it worst for your self and helping Islam by
making people really curious about all these lies so they go and read
the Quran and discover you are a f**ken liar so they end up embracing
Islam, thatās why it is the fastest growing religion because itās the
most unfairly attacked religion.
Najib and Hadi working on a pact, reports Straits Times
Malaysiakini : Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang are reportedly working on an electoral pact to capture Selangor in the coming general election.
Quoting sources, Singapore's Straits Times claimed that Najib and Hadi have been in ānear-daily contact for several monthsā.
In November 2013, Elena Zakusilo, a Ukrainian Jewish woman, appeared on the Ukrainian TV show "Lie Detector", revealing that she worked for the Israeli army and continued to do so.
"The first time I killed was difficult for me. I threw the weapon and said I wasn't going anywhere. But I went," she said and admitted to having killed civilians, including children.
The only problem is that Zakusilo was indeed lying on the TV show.
The IDF says that Zakulsilo was a volunteer but had no rank or any of the roles she claimed - and her stories were literally unbelievable anyway, claiming that she was in charge of training dogs who would be equipped with cameras and who would be sent to attack Palestinians from ten kilometers away.. But also that she was a combat soldier who killed children in riots after Arafat died. She claimed that she reported directly to a general.
Somehow she was not investigated by the IDF after killing however many children she claims to have killed and on the program she claimed to still be working for the IDF in the Ukraine protecting Israelis on airplanes.
Her story has more holes than Blackburn, Lancashire.
Yet Al Jazeera chooses to highlight her obvious lies as the anchor to the program about how nefarious it is that Israel uses volunteers in both combat and non-combat roles:
Sibel Kekilli to German Muslims: āYou Are Full of Hate and Jealousyā
GOV :The well-known actress Sibel Kekilli was raised in a Muslim home
in Germany, but left Islam to free herself from its oppressive treatment
of women. The following report by Egri Nƶk was originally published at Vlad Tepes in a slightly different form.
Sibel Kekilli: āYou donāt accept other people, especially not women or people of other beliefsā-by Egri Nƶk
The popular German actress Sibel Kekilli (born in Germany in 1980 as
the daughter of immigrants), known to an international audience as
āShaeā in Game of Thrones, has left Instagram over harassment mainly by
Muslims. Bild quotes her as saying:
This is the first and the last time that I will speak to the people who hate me, most of them are Turks, unfortunately. I will no longer tolerate threats, insults and disgusting sex photos
that you send me. You are full of hate and jealousy. You call yourselves
Muslims, yet you donāt accept other people, especially not women or
people of other beliefs. You are full of sh**⦠Honestly, I feel sorry
for you. Stop following me. I will say goodbye for a little while.
Sibelās own experience as growing up as a girl in a ārelatively modernā
Muslim family in Germany, not being allowed to go to college, or to
partake in school field trips, led her to break away from her family and
champion womenāsā rights. She caused a āscandalā in 2006, when, in a speech in Berlin addressing domestic violence, she said:
I have experienced for myself that both physical and psychological
abuse are regarded as normal in a Muslim family. Sadly, violence belongs
to the culture of Islam.
Part of the audience booed her, one man interrupted her speech and yelled: āIslam has got nothing to do with violence. You humiliate our people!ā, and the Turkish consul general got up and left in protest.
In a speech on behalf of Terre des Femmes on International Womenās Day, 2015, Kekilli called Islamic culture āmercilessā. She said women like herself were treated āworse than murderersā, which inflicts psychological damage upon women, and asked Muslim men to let women live their lives in peace. [Photo caption (not shown): Sibel Kekilli: āThis inhumane pressure is making you sad, hunched, depressiveā]
This is interesting. Reasonable left of centre Americans discussing where we are all at now
Vlad Tepes : In truth though, the current narrative would call this mix of pretty decent folks, āFar right wing bigoted extremistsā based on the game of āmove the goalpostsā we have been subjected to for 15 or 20 years now.
Robert Spencer: House Votes Down Proposal to Know the Enemy
Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer discusses the House of Representatives' vote against a measure that would require military officials to study the motivating ideology behind the jihad threat.
California: Catholic school removes statues to avoid offending Muslims
Jihad Watch : āThe students attending San Domenico come from a variety of religious
backgrounds besides Christianity: Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and
Islam.ā
Hmmm. Which of those four is likely to have been the only
one objecting to the presence of these statues? And so here again we see
the universal principle: in Muslim countries, one must change oneās
behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities. And in non-Muslim countries, one
must change oneās behavior to suit Muslim sensibilities. āLeave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.ā (Matthew 15:14)
āSan Anselmoās San Domenico School creates stir by removing Catholic statues,ā by Richard Halstead, Marin Independent Journal, August 24, 2017:
Removal of a number of statues and other smaller Catholic
icons from the campus of San Domenico School in San Anselmo has raised
concerns among some parents. In an email to the schoolās board of directors, Dominican Sisters of
San Rafael and the head of school, Shannon Fitzpatrick objected to the
removal of the statues and other steps the school has taken in an effort
to make the school more inclusive.
āArticulating an inclusive foundation appears to mean letting go of
San Domenicoās 167-year tradition as a Dominican Catholic school and
being both afraid and ashamed to celebrate oneās heritage and beliefs,ā
wrote Fitzpatrick, whose 8-year-old son attends the school. She added, āIn our time here, the word āCatholicā has been removed
from the mission statement, sacraments were removed from the curriculum,
the lower school curriculum was changed to world religions, the logo
and colors were changed to be āless Catholic,ā and the uniform was
changed to be less Catholic.ā
Responding to follow-up questions Monday, Fitzpatrick wrote, āThere
are other families having the same concerns I do. Many parents feel if
the school is heading in a different direction then the San Domenico
community should have been notified before the signing of the enrollment
for the following year.ā Cheryl Newell, who had four children graduate from San Domenico,
said, āI am extremely disappointed in the school and the direction
theyāve been going. This isnāt a new thing that theyāve been
intentionally eroding their Catholic heritage. Theyāre trying to be
something for everyone and theyāre making no one happy,ā
Kim Pipki, whose daughter left San Domenico two years ago after
graduating from ninth grade, said some of the statues were also
important to families who arenāt Catholic. āThe one main statue that has everyone fired up is the baby Jesus and
Mary one,ā Pipki said. āIt was at the center of the primary school
courtyard.ā Pipki said the school had a ceremony during which children would place a crown on the statue of Mary.
Dearborn Muslims in uproar over Christian proselytizing, police chief admits it āappears to be legalā
Jihad Watch : This Arab American News story is written as if the Christian
preachers were spreading bubonic plague, and of course, for the Muslims
interviewed for it, they might as well have been: Islamic law mandates
death for those who leave the religion, and so from the Islamic
perspective, these preachers were actively endangering the lives of
those Muslims to whom they were preaching.
Nonetheless, it is not illegal in the United States to preach
Christianity or any other religion. It is only illegal to preach
Christianity under Islamic law. But perhaps unsure as to whether
Dearborn were under the rule of the U.S. Constitution or Sharia,
Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad checked with lawyers and got the bad
news: āAccording to our corporation counsel, it appears to be legal to
engage in the noted activities under the First Amendment in the park.ā
At least he asked this time. A few years ago, Dearborn Police arrested some Christian evangelists
for daring to try to preach to Muslims (the video and photos are gone
from that link, but you can still get the gist of what happened). But
remember: if youāre concerned about the influence of Sharia in the U.S.,
youāre a racist, bigoted āIslamophobe.ā
āChristian missionaries from California proselytize in Hemlock Park,ā by Stephen Martin, Arab American News, August 18, 2017 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
Glad you made this as a proud I am tired of watching these thugs attack us and we get labeled the bad guys.
At least, the White House "declare ANTIFA terrorists" petition reached 100,000 signatures and is now headed for the White House so Trump is going to declare ANTIFA a terrorist organisation which would be A BIG WIN for us.
Bye, Bye, violent terrorists.Don't the lovely "people" at YouTube know that by hiding BPS's content they are only going to spread it further? Streisand Effect, anyone? Keep up the good fight, brother.
So what if Utusan is anti-DAP? - By Commander (Rtd) S THAYAPARAN Royal Malaysian Navy
Malaysiakini : āWe can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle
is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil
still.ā ā John Stuart Mill, 'On Liberty'
COMMENT | So, Utusan Malaysia has ācongratulatedā Malaysiakini
on its supposed immunity to state sanction because of its
readers' comments that are "wild and slanderous." While I happen to
think that many of the comments Malaysiakini chooses not to highlight are indeed āwild and slanderous,ā this is the natural consequence of free speech.
To argue that Malaysiakini is immune from state sanction misses the point. Malaysiakini and its editors have been subject to state intervention countless times and the most recent intervention was when Malaysiakini was merely reporting the news.
In defending Malaysiakini during this latest assault on the free press, I wrote
ā āWhen simply reporting what was said is considered offensive, obscene
or false, the whole charade that this is a democratic country comes
tumbling down like a deck of cards. When a journalist is barred from
reporting what was said or done, this truly becomes the āsee no evil and
hear no evilā profession that old-school journalists have been
struggling against for years.ā
Of course, going after readers' comments is like shooting fish in a
barrel. The fact that establishment propagandists often times use racist
and slanderous comments of certain anonymous subscribers in their
propaganda pieces seems to escape this establishment paper. It
apparently also escapes these subscribers who then wonder why race
relations in this country are so bad.
Report: Google to āPolice YouTube Like it Never Has Beforeā
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Breitbart : Google began to āpolice YouTube like it never has beforeā Thursday, cracking down further on āoffensive content,ā according to a report.
āGoogle will police YouTube like it never has before, adding warnings
and disabling advertising on videos that the company determines crosses
its new threshold for offensive content,ā reported
Bloomberg Technology on Thursday.
āGoogle outlined these moves in June,
but the implementation comes as debate about extremism and political
speech is front-and-center in the national spotlight ā and when tech
giants like Google and Facebook Inc. face deeper scrutiny over how they
moderate information distributed through their digital services.ā
Offending videos will not be removed, potentially allowing Google to
still make money from them but cutting off monetization for the
creators, who will also face other restrictions: āYouTube isnāt removing
the selected videos, but is instead setting new restrictions on
viewing, sharing and making money on them.
Brussels: Man shot dead after attacking soldiers with machete
Jihad Watch : White supremacists? A mentally ill lone wolf? Or Islamic jihadists? No telling yet, but there is this: the Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:
āBREAKING: Machete-wielding man SHOT DEAD after attacking soldiers in Brussels,ā by Will Kirby, Express, August 25, 2017:
A MAN armed with a machete has been shot dead after trying to attack soldiers on patrol in Brussels, according to reports.Images on social media show a police cordon on the pavement on
Boulevard Emile Jacqmainand a number of police officers stood nearby.
Gunshots were reportedly heard in the Belgian capital with
unconfirmed reports claiming the man tried to attack two soldiers who
were on patrol. The soldiers are not believed to have suffered injuries in the attack.
Witness Ryan MacDonald tweeted: āSound of gunshot, heavy police presence outside on Boulevard Emile Jacqmain, Brussels.ā
UK: Man with machete attacks two cops outside Buckingham Palace
Jihad Watch : Right-wing extremists? Anglican fanatics? Maybe. But there is, as unlikely as it may be, one other possibility. The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:
So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by
wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops
of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents.
Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with
themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European ā
especially the spiteful and filthy French ā or an Australian, or a
Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war,
including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition
against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any
manner or way however it may beā¦.
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 himā¦.
āBuckingham Palace on lockdown: Two officers injured as police arrest
driver in his twenties āarmed with a MACHETEā after he stops his car on
the Mall ā as terrified tourists look on,ā by Abe Hawken, Mailonline, August 25, 2017:
Buckingham Palace is on lockdown after police arrested a
man who allegedly attacked two officers while armed with a sword in
front of frightened tourists. Police stopped the man on the Mall at 8.35pm and discovered he was
carrying a knife and two officers suffered āminor injuriesā to their
arms when they detained him.
The man, who is in his 20s, was arrested on suspicion of grievous
bodily harm and assault on police. Officers remain outside the world
famous building this evening. One witness described seeing the man wrestled from a car by police having apparently driven his vehicle towards them. Kiana Williamson said: āWe turned up and there was one police van and
one car, there was also a civilianās car that had veered towards the
police car.
āThey were trying to get the man out of the car, shouting, more
police were arriving on to the scene and the man was fighting back. āI saw one injured policeman with an injury to his arm although it
didnāt look severe. He was being tended to by another officer. āThe man had been restrained and looked almost unconscious by the side of the road. āI didnāt see the car driving but the car had been left at the side
of the road and an eye witness had said that he had driven towards the
police car.ā The whole encounter lasted around one minute, she added.
Social media users suggested the alleged attacker was carrying a sword ā while others said he was holding a machete.
The Metropolitan Police said it was too early to know whether the incident was terror related.