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."
Muslims react positively and negatively to heavyweight boxer Amir Khan's Christmas photo. What is so offensive about a Christmas tree and wishing someone Merry Christmas?
Stone kissers don't celebrate Christsmas. I mean just imagine if they can abuse Amir Khan for sharing a picture of Christmas celebration than what they will do to Ex Muslims. Now imagine being a Non-Muslim minority surrounded by people of this mentality.
And this contempt towards Non-Muslims and their culture doesn't remain confined to only festival greetings, but spills over to all areas of life.
My pick of top news of 2019 - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Rags for Toilet Paper
Malaysiakini : "The headlines screamed at him as soon as he saw the paper. He almost screamed back." - Terry Pratchett, Going Postal.
COMMENT |
My pick for the top news stories this year is a little different.
Instead of five news stories, I am honing on three narratives and two
news items. The three narratives I am focusing on are not new.
What is new is that it points to the virulence of a system that Pakatan
Harapan is incapable – for various reasons – of dismantling. These
narratives confirm that the new Malaysia Kool-Aid is just as dangerous
as the Kool-Aid Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin said BN was imbibing when they lost the last general election.
What
we will be dealing with in 2020 is the collective failure of Harapan to
establish a counter-narrative to the Umno/PAS narrative of racial and
religious supremacy. The reality is that Umno and PAS play the
game better because they do not have to worry about the expectations of a
base which was promised a new dawn in racial and religious dynamics.
Reality trumps hypocrisy, when it comes to the CAA - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Malaysiakini : “Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.” - Sam Harris
CAA
COMMENT
| Non-Muslims are constantly told we live in an Islamic state. While
the late Karpal Singh and a host of others may disagree, the mainstream
narrative of politicians is that we are an “Islamic” state. If
you are one of those people who disagree with this statement, good luck
to you because, these days, political operatives who would disagree
with the idea that Malaysia is an Islamic state are hiding somewhere.
We
live in a country where non-Muslims cannot use certain words. Each
state has its own list of words verboten to non-Muslims. We live in a
country where Jakim (Islamic Development Department) recently stated
that it is “not compulsory” for Muslims to participate in interfaith
prayers.
We live in a country where mainstream Muslim politicians
scream about Islamophobia but get away with saying that non-Muslims
have to be pak turut. We live in a country where unilateral conversion is thought of as the right of the majority.
P Ramasamy recently wrote that the prime minister backs secular principles
when Muslims are a minority. The reality is that the Muslim political
elite and a majority of Muslims in Malaysia who have no issue with their
racial and religious privileges use “Western liberal” principles to
uphold the rights of Muslims where they are a minority.
O Holy Night - Great Christmas show with Sissel in Danish
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
I believe that God gives a few people on earth the ability to give us a preview of what heaven is going to sound like, and she must be one of them.
Sissel is simply the best I have EVER heard, and I'm almost 73. Just found her
last year, and have great remorse over what I have been missing all these years!
I have never heard or seen anyone with such beauty and talent. Her voice is
absolutely angelic, as so many others have noted!
Angels cry when they hear her sing. And to the 37 people who do not know a voice in the purest form, go back to listening to your Beyonce and Rhiannon, neither of whom belong on the same planet as Sissel, let alone the same stage.
When I hear her sing this, I want it to be Christmas year-round.
This new depiction of the Nativity story recounts in beautiful detail the sacred events found in the Bible about Jesus's birth over 2,000 years ago.
Journey with Joseph and Mary from Nazareth to Bethlehem. Witness the awe of the shepherds in the plains of Judea. Feel the joy of the wise men as they kneel before the Light of the World – our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6.
Come and see the fulfillment of this scripture as though you were there. Come and feel the angels’ message. Come and worship with the wise men. Come and stay in the presence of the Savior and feel the love of God.
“Silent Night”: Persecuted Palestinian Christians Kept Out of Sight by Palestinian Muslim Terrorists
BCF : “The moment they [Hamas] took control [of the Gaza Strip], they started persecuting us, ruining our churches and forcing Christians to convert to Islam.”
Christianity is on the verge of disappearing in the place of its birth,
including Bethlehem (pictured). According to lawyer and scholar Justus
Reid Weiner, "The systematic persecution of Christian Arabs living in
Palestinian areas is being met with nearly total silence by the
international community, human rights activists, the media and NGOs...
In a society where Arab Christians have no voice and no protection it is
no surprise that they are leaving." (Image source: Daniel
Case/Wikimedia Commons)
Such are the recollections, reported recently, of Kamal Tarazi, a 60-year-old Christian man from Gaza, now living in the streets of Nazareth. Before fleeing, he tried to resist the Islamist takeover, including by calling on Muslims and Christians to unite against Hamas.
As a result, “I was jailed several times. Do you know what a Hamas prison is? It is pure torture.”
The report adds that “the Islamic group decided to keep him alive to avoid depicting themselves as persecutors of the local Christian population, something that could potentially anger the international community.” Tarazi was eventually released, fled the region, returned, got imprisoned again, and fled again, permanently.
“I am sure there are no more than 500 Christians left in Gaza,” he offers, “and it is just part of the general trend.” It seems that the unique situation of Palestinian Christians — living
in a hotly contested arena with much political and media wrangling in
the balance — best explains the lack of news from that area. "The Persecution of Christians in the Palestinian Authority,"
a report by Dr. Edy Cohen, published by the Begin-Sadat Center for
Strategic Studies earlier this year, goes a long way in validating this
supposition.
First, it documents three anecdotes of persecution of Christians, all
of which were back-to-back, and none of which was reported by the
so-called "mainstream media." Summaries include:
Chinese Organisations Congress - a bad idea in rotten times - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Chinese Organisations Congress (COC)
Malaysiakini : “[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” - Jim Henson, 'It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider'
COMMENT
| As someone who has been accused of being “anti-Malay” and
“anti-Muslim”, the idea that I think this Chinese Organisations Congress
(COC) is a dumb idea is amusing.
In addition, I do not think
that Dong Jiao Zong needs to “respect” the cabinet decision as claimed
by the boy minister. Yes, Dong Jiao has the right to hold the congress
and they should be allowed to air their views without threats of
sanction.
P
Ramasamy – who I have often described as the conscience of Harapan –
made a couple of points which I take issue with. The first, he wrote: “I
think the intention of Dong Zong to hold the congress must be respected
in the spirit of democracy.”
Here is the thing though. Dong Jia,
while expecting its democratic rights to be championed, is not allowing
the democratic process to thrive in vernacular schools. What Dong Jiao
Zong needs to respect is the democratic process which they are trying to
stifle with the help of dog-whistle politics.
Christmas Message from the Leader of the Free World
Sunday, December 22, 2019
During the annual lighting of the White House Christmas tree this year, President Donald Trump made good on his promise to bring "Merry Christmas" back to America.
He then doubled down by referring the Jesus Christ as "God" and "Our Lord and Savior". As the economy continues to soar and Hilary continues to sour, it's pretty difficult not to be a little hopeful this Advent. At the very least, we can all agree that our situation as Catholic Americans could be a lot worse this Christmas. Thanks, Mr. President. Merry Christmas indeed!
Every knee shall bow and confess that he is the Lord, if you acknowledge Jesus before men he will acknowledge you before the Father in Heaven.
The problem with Tian Chua not calling Anwar the '8th PM' - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Saturday, December 21, 2019
A Turncoat?
Malaysiakini : “Every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous." ― Erich Maria Remarque, 'All Quiet on the Western Front'
COMMENT
| PKR vice-president Tian Chua did a great disservice to party deputy
president Azmin Ali in the ongoing fiasco that PKR has presented to its
supporters, in the midst of supposedly saving Malaysia. Tian Chua, like
Azmin Ali, is part of the next generation of leaders who one assumes
have learnt the mistakes of their elders but insists on playing the same
games that brought us to this Neo Malaysia.
The only reason why Tian Chua thinks
it is “mischievous” for PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim supporters to carry
placards naming him the eight prime minister is because, as Tian Chua
claims, PKR is split down the middle and Azmin loyalists do not like
being reminded that Anwar is the heir apparent to the top job.
Grooming Gang Representation - A Muslim Police Officer was in a sex grooming gang
Akkad Daily : I, for one, applaud the Conservative government's achievements in increasing the amount and quality of representation of the Muslim community in all walks of life.
Kuala Lumpur Summit & The Race For Supremacy In Muslim World
Race For Supremacy In Muslim World In Light Of The Kuala Lumpur Summit.
For the last 1,400 years these folk have been chased away from one land to another primarily because of their ideologies that seek singularity, savagery and selfishness in progression.
And yet which ever non Muslim countries they go to, they claim minority rights as a whole group supported from the outside by the OIC and now this?. What nonsense and downright hypocritical!!
Altantuya murder: The cover-up is as heinous as the crime - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Malaysiakini : The executive cannot exert its authority because it needs rogue
elements in the police force and judiciary to do its dirty work, which
in turn compromises their own position. – ES Shankar, 'Altantuya – the Malaysian scene of the crime'
COMMENT
| In my column about the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) and its rather
ridiculous “Islamic/Moral” test for new recruits, I wrote: “Tradecraft,
ethics and enforcement are extremely difficult to navigate, especially
when political interference is the norm in tottering democracies like
Malaysia.”
Altantuya (above)
Setev Shaariibuu, the father of Altantuya (above),
said that Malaysia should come clean about the murder of his daughter.
Lim Kit Siang is correct when he likens the murder of Altantuya to that
of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated allegedly on
the orders of Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, in terms of
brazenness and institutional complicity.
While
I do not want to distract from the murder of Altantuya, these
allegations by Azilah Hadri point to deeper and older concerns for the
public, non-governmental organisations, activists, former politicians
and, of course, former state security personnel of the massive
corruption and political interference in the state security apparatus.
This would explain the easiness of lying. His bias-against America and its Founding principles has shown “fluently”since his conversion to Islam years ago! That folks is all you need to know about the Swamp. He can study Arabic at Gitmo. So he was studying Arabic and Islam while also voting communist. That would explain his hatred of America. I am looking forward to seeing this partisan lib in jail.
Pure corruption. So he was studying Arabic and Islam while also voting communist. That would explain his hatred of America. The Enemy within remains an enemy within! Is our government hijacked? I think I understand why all these people hate Trump.
They go, pad around with other students and elites then say how wonderful it all is. Then become the so-called experts, seeing themselves more as citizens of the world. This is why they hate Trump and his supporters who want America first because their loyalties are elsewhere.
The swamp needs much more cleaning. Support the cleaner. I just want to see him be accountable for his crimes against our country.
DAP's chickens coming home to roost - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, December 16, 2019
Malaysiakini : “We should not bow to fate, and have the right to equality. We
should not kneel and beg. We should be brave enough to stand and ask for
it.” – Lim Guan Eng (2012)
Zaid Ibrahim
COMMENT | Zaid Ibrahim’s (above)
Twitter feed of late is a treasure trove of bons mots chronicling the
failure of Harapan to fulfil its mandate to reform the government. Zaid –
someone I consider a friend – has always been the political outsider
who has never had a problem burning bridges if he thinks that is what it
takes to get his point across.
The best way to describe Zaid
Ibrahim’s political career is that it is a self-inflicted wound.
People's takeaway is always, “Can Zaid ever play well with others?”
Whether he was slaying Malay sacred cows or giving the middle finger to
whoever is supporting him at the time, he has always been an interesting
political operative to write about.
When
Zaid had to retract his statement made against Tun Daim Zainuddin, most
folks thought it was over for Zaid. His recent statements about the DAP
losing its shine has gained some traction because of the
disillusionment many partisans feel of Harapan. As far as I am
concerned, Bersatu is merely the wreckage of the old order. PKR and DAP
stand a chance of turning this country around, and this is why they are
constantly under attack from the mainstream political parties and, of
course, the deep Islamic state.
Does Islamic test for new police recruits include Zakir Naik lectures? - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
PDRM
Zakir Naik recently tried to cross over to Maldives but was not allowed:
Nasheed
: Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik recently tried to cross over to Maldives from Malaysia but the island nation did not allow it, Maldives' Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed said on Friday.
Malaysiakini : "These are among the measures that we will implement to ensure our new recruits fulfil the criteria that we are looking for." - Bukit Aman Management Department director Abdul Rahim Jaafar
COMMENT
| This new policy by the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) for new recruits
to undergo an Islamic (for Muslims) or moral (for non-Muslims) test is the kind of a hypocritical agenda that only a morally and intellectually bankrupt state advocates in lieu of substantive policies which would ensure a functional security apparatus.
A
good example of substantive policy – I have no idea of the follow-up
though – is when inspector-general of police Abdul Hamid Bador said this:
"An example is illegal gaming and vice syndicate operations, which have
seen police officers being compromised by these syndicates before. I
have issued a warning, an ultimatum to all these officers to cut off any
connection whatsoever that they have with these syndicates."
Harapan's feebleness enabling Umno's relevance - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
UMNO
Malaysiakini : “We must see fascist rule as a never-ending struggle for
pre-eminence within a coalition, exacerbated by the collapse of
constitutional restraints and the rule of law, and by a prevailing
climate of social Darwinism.”- Robert O Paxton, 'The Anatomy of Fascism'
COMMENT
| Umno’s relevance is based solely on its currency of demonising the
Chinese community in its continuing quest to maintain racial and
religious hegemony. The recent Umno AGM was an orderly congress of
racist polemics and religious baiting that finds support in the majority
community burdened by the failure of Harapan's neo-Barisan Nasional
(BN) policies.
If you are someone who believes in the “social
contract” or the “shared prosperity” propaganda, then you would probably
be comfortable with the possibility of Umno and PAS returning this
country to Old Malaysia status.
To
be clear, the old maverick has claimed that he wants Malaysia to
return to what it was before. The racial and religious politics of
this country have always roughly translated to “do not spook the
Malays”, hence going back to the “good old days” of everyone knowing
their place may be appealing to an electorate fatigued by the
continuing saga of Harapan’s shenanigans.
Japanese people are angry that the Pope wants to destroy their society. Pope Francis’ order to Japan that they must take refugees from the third-world has prompted considerable backlash from Japanese people who do not want to see their culture destroyed by unwanted foreigners.
“In a special way, I ask you to extend the hand of friendship to
those who come here, often after great sufferings, seeking refuge in
your country,” Pope Francis said to an audience of 900 during his recent
visit to Japan.
“Indeed, a small group of refugees is present with us here, and your
kindness to them will show that they are not strangers. Not in the
least, for you regard them as brothers and sisters,” he added.
Jihad Watch : A monstrous human rights abuse, but the international media would only care if the roles were reversed. “No Christians Allowed: Muslim UN Officials Block Syrian Christian Refugees from Getting Help,” by Dale Hurd, CBN News, December 4, 2019:
LONDON – Christian Syrian refugees have told CBN News that they have
been blocked from getting help from the United Nations Refugee Agency,
the UNHCR, by Muslim UN officials in Jordan. One of the refugees, Hasan, a Syrian convert to Christianity, told us
in a phone call that Muslim UN camp officials “knew that we were
Muslims and became Christians and they dealt with us with persecution
and mockery. They didn’t let us into the office. They ignored our
request.”
Hasan and his family are now in hiding, afraid that they will be
arrested by Jordanian police, or even killed. Converting to Christianity
is a serious crime in Jordan. A clear pattern of discrimination by the United Nations refugee
agency in Jordan against Christians. And it appears to be one reason
that while tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim war refugees have been
settled in the United States and Britain, only a small number have been
Christian.
And the two governments that could stop this persecution of Christian
refugees – the US and Britain – have done little to nothing about it. A Former Archbishop of Canterbury Says “Enough” Lord George Carey is suing Britain’s home office alleging that
“politically correct” officials have been “institutionally biased”
against Christian refugees. He also wants to find out why out of
60-thousand Syrian war refugees accepted into the United States and
Britain in 2014, almost none were Christians. Lord Carey’s attorney, Paul Diamond, explains the case:
“You have this absurd situation where the scheme is set up to help
Syrian refugees and the people most in need, Christians who have been
“genocided,” they can’t even get into the U.N. camps to get the food. If
you enter and say I am a Christian or convert, the Muslim U.N. guards
will block you [from] getting in and laugh at you and mock you and even
threaten you. Christian Refugee Viewed as the Enemy by Muslim UN Officials Another Syrian refugee, Timothy, who told us he became a Christian
after seeing Jesus in a dream, said he was also blocked from entering a
refugee camp by Muslim UN officials. “All of the United Nations officials, most of them, 99 percent, they
are Muslims,” Timothy explained from Jordan, “and they were treating us
as enemies.”
Diamond says, “Sunni Muslim officials have blocked the way. They’ve
laughed at them, threatened them, said ‘You shouldn’t have converted.
You’re an idiot for converting. You get what you get,’ words to that
effect.” Carey says by doing nothing, western governments are complicit in what calls “the steady crucifixion of Middle East Christians.” “And no simple measures are taken by both the British and the
American government,’ Diamond says, “It would be simple just to open up a
refugee camp for religious minorities, for Christians, Yazidis,
whatever they are, and they’d be safe. But no one does that.”…
Swedish attorney Gabriel Donner who represents Christian asylum
seekers, says Sweden is now deporting up to one-third of Christian
refugees back to Muslim nations where they are likely to be imprisoned
or killed….
President Trump told CBN News in 2017 that Christian refugees would
be given priority. But Muslim governments officially classify Christians
as security threats, causing their asylum applications to western
countries to be rejected…
Jihad Watch : Sadiq Khan, the Muslim mayor of London, and a tireless apologist for
Islam, had his usual reaction to the latest murders by Muslim terrorists
in “the greatest city in the world.”
For Sadiq Khan, the defense and
promotion of “diversity” has become an obsession. Last summer Sadiq Khan
earned the outrage
of many Londoners for his expensive focus on this “diversity”; they
discovered he now spends annually close to $2 million on”diversity”
bosses for London Transport, far more than he does on employees devoted
to keeping fares down, or on improving safety in the system.
Here’s Khan’s latest praise of “diversity”:
London mayor Sadiq Khan told reporters that diversity is
one of the British capital’s strengths in the wake of the London Bridge
attack, and that all great cities are targets for terrorists.
“Look, I’m mayor of the greatest city in the world, and one of our strengths is our diversity,”
he told reporters shortly after the attack by Usman Khan, a convicted radical
Islamic terrorist who had been freed from prison on a tag after serving
less than half of a 16-year term, which left two dead and three
injured.
This insistence that “diversity is our strength” is the byword not
just of Sadiq Khan, but of many European politicians, and above all, of
Chancellor Merkel. It is stated as a given; no evidence need be offered.
But why should we accept this assertion? Is all “diversity” a “source
of strength”? What kind of “strength”? Start asking these questions, and
you will not get a coherent answer, but merely self-satisfied
repetition of the mantra that brooks of no disagreement.
In Seoul, in
Beijing, in Tokyo, in Warsaw, in Budapest, there is precious little
diversity, and no one in those cities appears to be longing for it to
arrive, so that those capitals can be more like the London of Sadiq
Khan. London’s “diversity” finds its expression not just in the
terrorist attacks that fill Londoners with anxiety, but in the crime
wave of stabbings by Muslim criminals, in the “greatest city in the
world.”
The “diversity” that the 3.5 million Muslims have brought to
Great Britain includes, as well, the grooming gangs in a dozen of its
cities that have led to the ruined lives of tens of thousands of English
girls, the victims of “diversity” whom Sadiq Khan appears not to have
noticed.
Uncle of Pensacola jihad murderer: “He had his religion, his prayer”
Jihad Watch : “One of al-Shamrani’s uncles told CNN on Saturday that he was shocked
by the attack, as his nephew was ‘likable and mannered towards his
family and the community’.
Manifesto
Mohammed Saeed al-Shamrani
‘He had his religion, his prayer, his honesty
and commitments’, the uncle stated.”
Might his religion, his prayer, have led him to wage jihad in the
cause of Allah? Will investigators even ask that question, or has the
situation so deteriorated in the United States that it would now be
“Islamophobic” to ask it?
“Military bases across the U.S are put on high alert as FBI hunts
missing Saudi servicemen linked to Pensacola shooting and probes
shooter’s trip to New York two days before as terror investigators are
called in,” by Andrew Court, Dailymail.com, December 8, 2019 :
Jihad Watch : Walter Sieruk : The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia in no friend of any Western nation, Saudi Arabia is best defined as a kingdom of Islamic hate.
As one Arab scholar who had lived in a Middle Eastern country, for many years revealed “Saudi madrassa notably teach hatred and condemnation of the West and non-Muslims” and “The Saudi Government also provides free textbooks to Islamic schools throughout the world . many of the Saudi- Issued textbook’s contain wording that encourages hatred and intolerance for non-Muslims.”
Saudi Arabia in many ways is no better than Iran. : Yeah, and what does Saudi Arabia do? What just happened in Pensacola,
Florida? It may not have been a direct action of the Saudi state,
because it certainly happened because of the beliefs and assumptions
that Saudi authorities inculcate in their people. “Saudi minister says Iran ‘assassinates diplomats’ and ‘cultivates terrorist cells,’” Al Masdar News, December 7, 2019:
Egypt: Three Christian Churches “Accidentally” Burn or Have “Terrorists Changed Operations”?
Church of St. George in Helwan (Source: Gulf News).
Gatestone Institute Recently, over the course of two weeks, three Christian churches were torched in Egypt.
First, on Sunday, October 13, “a massive fire swept through a major Coptic church in a Cairo suburb causing heavy damage, but no casualties.” Online images and video of the St. George Church in Helwan — considered “one of the greatest and oldest churches belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church” — confirm that, to quote Bishop Bishara, it “had been completely destroyed.”
“I immediately rushed to the church and found it on fire with heavy smoke filling the place,” said
Fr. Andrew, who personally served at the church for three decades: “The
old wooden building burned down very fast and the fire destroyed
everything inside, even before the firefighters arrived…. Our loss is
great. We have lost a great historical building and we can’t rebuild
anything like it.”
Vlad Tepes : The FBI says that no arrests have been made in the deadly shooting at the Florida naval base shooting and that all international students at the base have been accounted for. (Dec. 8)
Oxford study reveals Pakistan is 3 times more dangerous to humanity than Syria
The study conducted by Oxford University says that if we look at the
most dangerous terrorist groups, based on hard facts and statistics, we
find that Pakistan hosts or aids majority of them. (Photo: Reuters file)
Malaysia too should be worried about this, as many of them have been invited in by the Harapan Government, as they are now buddies with our Great Leader. The reports says if one looks at the most dangerous terrorist groups, based on hard facts and statistics, one finds that Pakistan hosts or aids majority of them.
A study published by the Oxford University and the Strategic
Foresight Group (SFG) has revealed that the risk posed to humanity by
terrorism in Pakistan is three times the risk posed in Syria. The
report titled 'Humanity at Risk-Global Terror Threat Indicant (GTTI)',
says, "Afghan Taliban and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) pose the maximum
threat to international security and Pakistan is placed on top of the
list of countries with the highest number of terrorist bases and safe
havens."
It said that if one looks at the most dangerous terrorist
groups, based on hard facts and statistics, one finds that "Pakistan
hosts or aids majority of them". "Also, there are a significant number
of groups based in Afghanistan, which operate with the support of
Pakistan." The report has been prepared to discuss security
challenges in the next decade and it presents an analytical framework
for policymakers to tackle terrorism.
"The rise of competitive
extremism of all shades, misuse of weapons of mass destruction and
economic disruptions can undermine human progress or even survival in
the period from now until 2030. They are all interlinked with
terrorism," the report added. The Strategic Foresight Group
analysed some 200 groups actively involved in committing acts of terror
in the first half decade of the 21st century. During that period, the
groups who were motivated by their own interpretation of ideology
accounted for only a fourth of almost 200 terror groups around the
world.
Fox and Friends host Pete Hegseth is ‘BANNED from Twitter’ after sharing anti-American ‘manifesto’ of Pensacola shooter Mohammed Alshamrani
Pete Hesgeth
BCF : Fox and Friends host Pete Hegseth said he was banned from Twitter Saturday after he shared an anti-American manifesto said to have been written by Pensacola shooter Mohammed Alshamrani.
The TV journalist, 39, posted screenshots Sunday which showed his tweet, calling the actions of the gunman ‘Islamist terror’, was ‘no longer available’. He followed up with a picture of his appeal regarding the decision.
Saudi military student Alshamrani, 21, killed three people and injured 12 when he opened fire at Navy Station Pensacola on Friday.
Pensacola: Muslims keeping children home “out of fear they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims”
Islamic Center of Northwest Florida
Jihad Watch : “As news reports of the shooter’s background have come out, Ashmawi
said parents who usually take their children to Sunday school at the
mosque are planning to keep their children home this week out of fear
they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims.”
This was eminently predictable: after every jihad massacre and foiled
jihad plot, the establishment media publishes handwringing stories
about poor, pious Muslims fearing a “backlash.” Actual stories of that
“backlash” are much rarer, since the backlash usually does not
materialize. “But sadly enough, people don’t understand that this has nothing to
do with our faith. In fact, what he did is totally forbidden and against
faith. Somebody that does something so horrific is not blessed. God has
said if you kill one human, it’s as though you have killed all
humanity.” That’s adapted from. This is what the Qur’an really says:
Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel
that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption in the
land — it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one —
it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had
certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them,
after that, throughout the land, were transgressors. (5:32)
First, note that this is not a general moral principle applying to
everyone, as Ashmawi implied, but one only for the Children of Israel.
Nor is it a general prohibition of killing: there are big exceptions for
those who kill “for a soul or for corruption in the land.” And it
concludes that even after this command was given, “many of them, after
that … were transgressors” — so all it is really saying is that Allah
gave a command to the Children of Israel and they transgressed against
it. It isn’t anything more than yet another Qur’anic castigation of the
Jews.
Also, it is followed in the Qur’an by 5:33, which specifies the
punishment for the corruption and transgressions of the Children of
Israel: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and
His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be
killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from
opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a
disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great
punishment.”
Thus this passage is explaining what must be done with Jews who reject Muhammad, not dictating lofty moral principles. But in this article, in any case, we see how the establishment media
narrative works. When Muslims murder infidels, Muslims are the victims.
When racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” supposedly target Muslims, Muslims
are the victims. And when Muslims fake “Islamophobic hate crimes,”
Muslims are the victims.
Always and in every situation, Muslims are
victims, to be appeased and accommodated in every possible way. Once you
understand that, we can all lock arms and march together into our
glorious multicultural, diverse future. “Pensacola Muslims worried about backlash against community after NAS Pensacola shooting,” by Jim Little, Pensacola News Journal, December 7, 2019:
While New Malaysia burns, PKR squabbles - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Malaysiakini : "Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another." - Alexandre Dumas, "The Count of Monte Cristo"
COMMENT
| Well, the peace treaty between Anwar Ibrahim and Azmin Ali did not
last long. When I wrote that Anwar should expel Azmin, a few politicians
from Harapan texted me. They told me that this was politics and that
Anwar was using tactics and strategy when dealing with his frenemy.
Well, how is that working out for Harapan and PKR?
Wherever he is,
the old maverick is smirking. Azmin and gang are doing a better job of
clouding the succession issue and destabilising Harapan then anything
the warlords of Bersatu and the flotsam and jetsam of the fetid swamp of
mainstream Malaysian politics have done or will do.
PKR
communications director Fahmi Fadzil, when dismissing claims that there
are two camps in PKR, said, "That is something portrayed by the media. I
understand that there could be a perception of such, but the reality
is, there are no camps. What we have now is Parti Keadilan Rakyat that
is strong and united" – which is Trumpian in its perversity. Anwar warned that anyone attending the parallel congress would be sacked.
He then agreed to a ridiculous four point agreement with his rival. I
get that some people think that this is some sort of great strategy on
Anwar’s part.
I cannot listen without crying and lifting my arms in praise.
You must be heavens angels. You've taken my breath away. Merry Christmas and God bless. Four different voices and timbres. Clifton an operatic tenor, Fraser a pop tenor, Clifton a mix between pop and choir tenor and Remi a rock tenor with a slight rasp. Individual styles and genres, yet singing together they accomplish a beautiful blend. What beautiful voices. This is my favorite Christmas song!!!
US forces ‘mince’ to death Al-Qaeda-linked chief and two jihadis in third known use of ‘Ninja’ missile
US forces are believed to have killed a jihadist leader and two others using a ‘Ninja’ missile that cut through their Hyundai car.
The Hellfire R9X was reportedly aiming at an Al-Qaeda target travelling between Azaz and Afrin in northern Aleppo, Syria.
Reports say there was no explosion and no harm caused to individuals outside of the silver car in Al-Bassuta, Afrin.
Jihad Watch : “You cannot bring the words terror and Islam together. If you keep doing it, then we are condemning those who do it.”
This is a familiar sleight-of-hand. It is Islamic jihad terrorists
who bring terror and Islam together. When they do that, Erdogan says
nothing. But when non-Muslim foes of jihad terror point out that there
are some Muslims who bring terror and Islam together.
Erdogan cries
“Islamophobia” and pretends that the non-Muslims are responsible for the
equation. Erdogan is by far not the only one who employs this tactic. “Erdoğan rejects reference to ‘Islamic terror,'” Anadolu Agency, December 6, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
11-year-old girl gang raped in Sweden – Perpetrators walk free and laugh in her face
A look alike of the 11 year old girl
Vlad Tepes : I guess Swedish men have lost their balls? Swedish independent journalist Joakim Lamotte has talked to a mother whose 11-year-old daughter was raped by two men.
The girl was forced to both anal and oral sex. The young men were
arrested, but released shortly after. Several times the daughter has met
the boys when she walks to school. They laughed in her face. The mother has just been informed that the investigation has been closed, and that her daughter will not be redressed.
Her daughter’s life has been destroyed, she says, and the only resort
they see is to move to another town. She is strongly critical of how
the police have handled the case. At the same time, the political development in Sweden is worrying to
say the least. While children are raped and the police fail to solve the
cases, politicians in Stockholm cannot even form a government. The
situation is acute and instead of talking to each other, the party
leaders act like kindergarteners.
Because of this fuss, the new budget must not contain any new
political proposals, which means that the police will not receive any
new resources. “It is incomprehensible. I thought politicians would work
for the people’s best. Now they only work for their own best,” writes
Lamotte.
BCF : Just over a century ago this week, Turkish and Kurdish forces invaded land that the Assyrian people had inhabited since antiquity and began exterminating them.
The slaughter that ensued lasted from 1915-1923, leaving 300,000 Assyrians dead and innumerable women abducted.
Joseph Yacoub’s Year of the Sword: the Assyrian Christian Genocide, published in French in 2014 and translated into English in 2016, is the most accessible historical account of the events that composed the genocide, as well as a comprehensive case for those events as genocide.
Yacoub, emeritus professor of political science at the Catholic University of Lyon, provides a distillation of sources in the languages used by both the perpetrators of and witnesses to the genocide. Year of the Sword is necessary for the breadth and depth of scholarship that informs that distillation, as well as the careful marshaling of it into analysis.
The Assyrian genocide formed one distinct yet indivisible chapter of a
program of eradication that also encompassed the coeval Armenian and
Greek genocides. The purpose was to put an end to the presence of all
three Christian peoples in the territory that became the Republic of
Turkey. The politics of the genocide were not the outgrowth of a robust
nationalist ideology or tradition. (Turkish nationalism has always
struggled to reconcile the need for an atavistic sense of racial
origins, usually placed somewhere within Central Asia, and the need to
subjugate and cohere territories in Asia Minor.)
The Republic of Turkey
was instead founded upon the application of violent jihad to the
territorial boundaries of the emerging Turkish state. The Islamization
of Turkey was inseparable from the establishment of its national
sovereignty. Yacoub discusses political developments in the decades prior to the
genocide: the draconian centralization of power in the flailing Ottoman
caliphate under Sultan Hamid II (1876-1909), and the nationalism of the
Young Turks who supplanted him and ushered in an era of genocide. This
background is not treated as an inductive source of understanding, but
rather a context. Yacoub’s major focus is on detailing the act of
killing.
Pensacola shooting victim ‘saved countless lives’ before he died
Joshua Kaleb Watson, 23, was confirmed as one of the three victims
The stupid Americans bombed Afghanistan and invaded Iraq!! Both wrong countries.
They should have bombed the Saudis back to the stoneage where they
actually belong. 💣😛
The style of the #Pensacolashooting doesn't necessarily resemble one group over another. However, given that ISIS has very little to lose at this point, it wouldn't be surprising if it claimed the attack, regardless of the attacker's potential allegiances.
BCF : “Today has been the worst day of my life. My youngest brother gave his life for his country in a senseless shooting. Joshua Kaleb Watson saved countless lives today with his own,” his brother Adam wrote on Facebook.
“After being shot multiple times he made it outside and told the first response team where the shooter was and those details were invaluable. He died a hero and we are beyond proud.” Saudi student watched mass shooting videos during dinner party before Florida naval base attack: Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, who was identified as a member of the Saudi
military participating in a flight training program for foreign military
personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola,
was killed by law enforcement after he fatally shot three people in
what investigators are trying to determine was an attack motivated by
terrorism.