Public opinion in Australia has exploded in outrage over the “Australian” mujahid in Syria who posted a photo on Twitter of his little boy holding the severed head of an enemy, proudly captioned: “That’s my boy.” Prime Minister Abbott was among those who publicly condemned the posting of the photo.
In other news, the brilliant comedian Robin Williams has died in his home in California at the age of 63. He apparently committed suicide after experiencing a long bout of depression.
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Feinstein Warns of Risk of ISIL Attack on America, Says Must be Confronted
Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein warned Friday of the risk that the insurgent group ISIL could be preparing fighters to attack American and European targets.
“It has become clear that ISIL is recruiting fighters in Western countries, training them to fight its battles in the Middle East and possibly returning them to European and American cities to attack us in our backyard,” the California Democrat said in a statement backing military action authorized by President Barack Obama. “We simply cannot allow this to happen.”
Feinstein called for a broader military campaign against ISIL, not just the targeted missions authorized by the president.
“It takes an army to defeat an army, and I believe that we either confront ISIL now or we will be forced to deal with an even stronger enemy in the future. Inaction is no longer an option. I support actions by the administration to coordinate efforts with Iraq and other allies to use our military strength and targeting expertise to the fullest extent possible,” Feinstein said.
[Egghead: The elites have arranged this situation in order to send young and middle aged adults of the Christian West into war in the Middle East — including now our young women and young mothers. You NEVER send your women into war because your women bear and raise the future of your civilization. If you think that the IRS targeted the Tea Party, just wait until the national draft board railroads Christian men and women into the most grisly war ever — leaving the older Christian people to the tender mercies of vicious gangs imported from South and Central America.]
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It’s Time for America to Take Islamic Extremism Seriously
In January President Obama dismissed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group currently terrorizing much of the Middle East, as “jayvee.” “If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” he said when asked about the fact that such al-Qaeda offshoots were flying their flag in Iraq.
Well, since then that jayvee team of jihadists has taken over large swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory, beheading and crucifying people along the way. ISIS and other al-Qaeda affiliates have shown time and again that they mean exactly what they say…
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James O’Keefe Crosses the US-Mexico Border Dressed as Osama Bin Laden
Investigative filmmaker James O’Keefe exposes the U.S.-Mexico border’s vulnerability to terrorism in his latest undercover project, obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller.
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Lindsey Graham: Obama Trying to Avoid ‘Bad News Story’ With Airdrops
“I think of an American city in flames because of the terrorists’ ability to operate in Syria and Iraq,” Graham said.
“There’s no political reconciliation in Baghdad going to protect the American homeland,” he said. “This commander-in-chief has no strategy, he has no vision.”
The directors of National Security, the FBI and Homeland Security have said ISIS is a direct threat to the United States, and hundreds of Americans and Europeans trained there. That raises fears they can return to the West, including the United States, to launch terror attacks.
[Egghead: Who wants to bet that those ‘hundreds of Americans and Europeans trained there’ are first or second generation Americans and Europeans with NO genetic, religious, and/or cultural ties to indigenous Americans and Europeans?]
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Marco Rubio: Left Unchecked, ISIS Will Attack Americans
“If we do not continue to take decisive action against ISIS now, it will be not just Iraqis or Syrians who continue to suffer, it will likely be Americans, as a result of a terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland or on our personnel overseas,” he warns.
“Its expansionist ideology will lead it to attack U.S. allies in the region and eventually Europe and the United States,” he asserts.
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Missouri Crowd After Shooting: ‘Kill the Police’
The fatal shooting of a black teenager by police sent hundreds of angry residents out of their apartments Saturday in a St. Louis suburb, igniting shouts of “kill the police” during a confrontation that lasted several hours.
At the height of the post-shooting tensions, police at the scene called for about 60 other police units to respond to the area in Ferguson, a city of about 21,000 residents, about two-thirds of whom are black.
“Anytime you have this type of event that’s taken place, emotions are going to run high,” he [John Gaskin, a member of the St. Louis County NAACP] said. “But for 600 people to gather around an area to see where a man is lying in the street, that means something happened that should have not happened.”
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Muslim Society Plans New Mosque in Nokesville [Virginia]
The All Dulles Area Muslim Society, known as ADAMS, has scheduled an informational meeting Tuesday evening about plans to build a mosque in the Nokesville area.
The meeting is at 7 p.m. at the Nokesville Volunteer Fire Department at 12816 Marstellar Drive.
ADAMS, which has branches in Sterling, Ashburn, Chantilly and Gainesville, sent a letter inviting homeowners in the area to hear about its plans for a 14-acre property at 12655 Vint Hill Road. The Gainesville branch currently meets at a hotel in the Manassas area…
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Robin Williams Dead: Beloved Actor Dies in Apparent Suicide
Beloved actor Robin Williams was found dead on Monday, police reported. He was 63. The apparent cause of death was suicide, authorities said.
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Robin Williams Dies Aged 63 From an Apparent Suicide
Actor Robin Williams has died aged 63 from an apparent suicide, police in California said tonight.
A spokesman for the Marin County Sheriff’s Department in California said: ‘On August 11, 2014, at approximately 11.55am, Marin County Communications received a 911 telephone call reporting a male adult had been located unconscious and not breathing inside his residence in unincorporated Tiburon, California.
‘At this time, the Sheriff’s Office Coroner Division suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia, but a comprehensive investigation must be completed before a final determination is made.
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Robin Williams: Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63
The actor Robin Williams died on Monday morning, his publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said in a statement.
Mr. Williams, 63, had been battling severe depression recently, the statement said.
Mr. Williams was found unconscious at his home in Tiburon, Calif., around noon on Monday, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. His death appeared to be a suicide due to asphyxia, the statement said.
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A suspected American member of Islamic State has been arrested at JFK airport amid fears he may be trafficking guns to the terrorist group and preparing for jihad.
FBI agents swooped on Donald Ray Morgan, 44, after he arrived in New York on August 2 following an eight-month stay in Lebanon where his wife lives, the New York Daily News reports.
A Brooklyn judge ordered the 44-year-old be held without bail following allegations he had been brokering deals for military-grade weapons and ammunition in his home state…
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A biracial woman has won an $10,200 payout after she was fired from her job at the Black Educators Association (BEA) in Nova Scotia, Canada because she ‘wasn’t black enough’.
Rachel Brothers, was awarded the sum last week after Donald Murray, the Chairman of the Board of Inquiry at the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, ruled that she was discriminated against because of the color of her skin.
According to the Chronicle Herald, colorist thinking occurs to ‘someone who believes the closer a person’s skin tone comes to pure white, the better the chances of getting jobs, accommodations and other opportunities available to “actual ‘white’ people.’
Indeed, colorists also think the ‘more visibly black, East Indian, American Indian or Asian a person is, ‘the greater the potential there will be for discriminatory distinctions to be made based on ‘color,’ Murray wrote.
The Black Educators Association was founded in 1969 to help African Nova Scotian communities.
[Egghead: I wonder if Africa has any Nova Scotian African communities or Nova Scotian Educators Associations….]
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Justin Trudeau and His Friends at the Terror Mosque
Justin Trudeau, the leader of the Liberal Party and the most widely touted name to be the next Prime Minister of Canada, is at the center of a controversy this week for a 2011 visit to the Al-Sunnah Al-Nabawiah mosque in Montreal, which was identified by U.S. intelligence officials as a site where “known al-Qaeda members were recruited, facilitated or trained.”…
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Austria’s Army ‘Needs More Money’
The conservative People’s Party’s (ÖVP) military spokesman Bernd Schönegger has said that he wants to support the Minister of Defence Gerald Klug (Social Democrats/SPÖ), in demanding more money for the Austrian army.
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Austria: Two Chechens Dead in Apparent Murder Suicide
Tragedy struck on Sunday evening in the Favoriten suburb of Vienna, when a 38-year-old Russian woman was apparently shot and killed by a 39-year-old Russian man outside a liquor store.
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Finland: Muslims in Fruitless Search for Burial Ground
The Finnish Islamic Council has been scouring the Uusimaa region to purchase a burial ground for Muslims for six years, but so far without success. Muslims are being buried in a “Muslim section” in Lutheran church cemeteries.
“Perhaps it has to do with a lack of political will. If you even scan web forums they are extremely anti-Muslim. (You see) “Finland doesn’t need any mosques” and “When in Rome…”,” Jardi observed.
Currently tens of thousands of Muslims are estimated to reside in Helsinki.
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France Keeps Crown as Top Tourist Destination
France continues to top the global rankings when it comes to tourist numbers. With Paris leading the way as the most visited city in the world a new study has confirmed France’s place as the world’s top tourist destination.
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French Wine Producers in Belated Science Embrace
A group of wine cooperatives in southwest France has joined forces with leading scientists to “liberate” the flavours most prized by consumers in growing wine markets, from China to the US.
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Germany: Vandals Cut Internet to 160,000 Berlin Homes
Vandals cut internet, television and telephone connections to 160,000 homes in Berlin on Sunday when they sliced through 400 fibre optic cables.
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House Tour: The Secret Paris Apartment of Madame De Florian
In 1942 at the age of 23, Madame de Florian was forced to flee Paris as the German troops drew ever nearer. She locked the doors and moved to the South of France, never to return, although she continued to pay her service charges until her death at the age of 91. It wasn’t until 2010 that auctioneers opened the doors to the apartment once again and discovered the incredible time capsule that lay gathering dust inside.
Amongst the elegant carved furniture, moth-eaten silks and dulled cut crystal the auctioneer came across Marthe de Florian’s portrait alongside ribbon-bound love letters that confirmed the identity of both the artist and subject, who was only 24 when it was painted. The painting recently sold for an astonishing €2.1 million… the apartment however remains in the hands of the de Florian estate, back behind closed doors and just as it was the day Madame de Florian left.
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Netherlands: Geert Wilders Again Threatened With Death
A portrait of Dutch politician Geert Wilders is featured with a bullet hole through his head on a film shown by an English-language online magazine
The 20-second film shows portraits of other well-known politicians such as US president Barak Obama and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Pistol shots are heard and bullet holes appear in their heads, the AD reports. At the end of the film are the words ‘targets enough’.
Wilders, who has been under permanent protection since 2004, told the paper: ‘After ten years, these threats still upset me deeply. They show that criticising Islam remains dangerous but also necessary. The price you pay is loss of personal freedom.’
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Norway: Pro-Israel Protest Causes Tensions in Oslo
Police were out in force as hundreds of pro-Israeli protesters gathered in Oslo on Sunday to back Israel in its continuing conflict with Gaza.
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Norway’s Wealth Fund Buys $576 Million of Mayfair Area
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, bought a stake in an estate in London’s Mayfair district for 343 million pounds ($576 million), expanding its property holdings in the U.K. capital.
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Spy Satellites Fighting Crime From Space
(CNN) — Months after the murder of Rania Alayed, the search for her body had ground to a halt. Although her husband — who had admitted to her killing — indicated the approximate location where he buried the body off a highway near Manchester, northern England, police were still left with miles of open field to dig through.
Frustrated with the high cost and lack of progress, investigators turned to an experimental form of satellite imaging.
“We see this technology as taking us into the next generation of crime investigation. For me it’s a ‘wow factor’ to have assistance from a satellite in space rather than using a spade on the ground. This is moving forward.”
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‘Sweden Ever So Quickly Has Gone From So-Called Anti-Zionism to Open Anti-Semitism’
Swedish Jew visiting Israel told by friend: “Don’t come back here, you have no idea how bad it has become since you left.”
Less than a week ago we wrote about how The anti-Semitic shame of Malmö, Sweden continues with attack on Rabbi.
It’s part of an outburst of open, unabashed anti-Semitism throughout Europe and the world, but particularly Europe, under the mask of opposition to Israel’s Gaza war.
This trend did not start with the Gaza war. We covered almost exactly a year ago how many parts of Europe were becoming unlivable for Jews due mostly to anti-Semitic violence from Muslim communities, tolerated and egged on by anti-Zionist leftists, Jews in Europe past their expiration date.
Anti-Semitism masquerading as anti-Zionism is so open now that even The Guardian in Britainissued an Editorial denouncing the practice. The Editors of The Guardian likely did not consider how their own biased anti-Israel coverage contributes to this atmosphere.
Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, a Swedish Jewish writer and political commentator, writes in The Jerusalem Post about how Sweden has become unlivable for Jews, so she is leaving for Israel permanently, Hold on, I’m coming home:…
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Sweden: Kiruna Residents Talk Life in a Town on the Move
Not everyone in the mining town of Kiruna is happy that the town is being shifted three kilometres down the road. The Local catches up with residents of Sweden’s northernmost town to find out more.
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Sweden: Stockholmers Protest for Christians in Iraq
IN PICTURES: Thousands of people gathered in central Stockholm on Sunday to protest violence against Christians in the Middle East, particularly Iraq.
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Switzerland: Nestlé Celebrates 200th Birthday of Founder
Swiss-based Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, celebrated on Sunday the 200th anniversary of the birth of its founder, Henri Nestlé.
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UK: Jail for Mosque Committee Man in £140k Benefits Fraud
A Bedford man been jailed for 16 months for stealing almost £140,000 in benefits over 14 years.
Alas Miah, of Brereton Road and formerly of The Avenue, Bedford, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court after admitting seven offences relating to benefit fraud spanning 14 years from 1998 to 2012. In total, he had claimed £137,572 in housing benefit, council tax benefit and Jobseeker’s Allowance that he was not entitled to…
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UK: Leading Right-Wing Thinkers Join Bow Group Think-Tank Despite Tory Party Attacks
One of the world’s leading conservative philosophers, Roger Scruton, and one of Britain’s leading historians are joining Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, the Bow Group, as senior patrons.
The news comes despite the Conservative Party’s recent attacks on the Bow Group in the Telegraph newspaper, a strategy that has been closely linked to Tory Party Chairman Grant Shapps and his bag carrier Paul Abbott, who are known to be opposed to traditional conservative values…
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UK: Prisons Can’t Control Muslim Gangs, Says Stabbed Officer
From the Times
A prison officer stabbed by a Muslim convert has accused the prison system of failing to tackle extremism. Iain Fleming has claimed that prison authorities “cannot control the Muslim gangs” that pose “a violent threat to guards and other prisoners”. He was stabbed five times by Adrian Hylton with sharpened plastic knives at HMP Swaleside in Kent.
Hylton, who is thought to have converted to Islam in a youth offenders’ institute, allegedly told the prison imam in the weeks before the attack that it was his duty to kill all non-Muslims and make Britain an Islamic state. The prison imam reported the conversation to the authorities, but no formal report was logged until after the attack.
Mr Fleming accused the Prison Service of ignoring the signs that Hylton was a threat. An investigation decided that the Prison service dealt with the risk that Hylton posed inadequately and awarded Mr Fleming £35,000 compensation for his injuries which have prevented him from returning to his former job.
The prison service said it could not comment on individual cases, but that claims of Hylton’s extremist views were “unfounded”.
At the time of the incident, he was serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection after a robbery. He also had a previous conviction for attacking prison officers. The court heard Hylton will remain in prison even after serving half of his sentence until he is judged to be no longer a danger.
Judge Stephen Kramer said: “This was an explosion of totally unjustified and unlawful violence against prison officers who were simply doing their duty properly and professionally.” The judge said CCTV footage of the incident had showed a “frightening” level of violence and left the victims suffering “psychological trauma”. During the struggle at Swaleside, on the Isle of Sheppey, Hylton also attacked Iain Fleming by trying to gouge out his eye.
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UK: Young Muslims Defend Decision to Fly Islamic Black Flag at Gates of East London Council Estate
Young Muslims today defended the flying of a black flag above the gates of an east London council estate. Youths at the gates to the Will Crooks estate, in Poplar, branded objectors to the flag — which has been adopted by some jihadist groups — as “racist”.
The flag was removed yesterday for the second time following two visits from Met officers in as many days. It was hung there alongside the Palestinian flag as part of an “end the siege in Gaza” protest.
Today one youth outside the estate said: “It’s just racists complaining. If it was the St George’s flag, it would be alright. But this is our version and there’s this big reaction.” Another added: “I don’t understand why it has caused so much reaction. All it is is a declaration of the belief in Allah. It’s not the ISIS flag.”
The first flag was taken down by local nun, Sister Christine Frost, 77, on Friday, after she suspected it had been hoisted there by “naive young hot heads.”…
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What is it Like to be a Muslim in Ireland?
Is it different from any other faith? We found out.
THE MUSLIM POPULATION in Ireland has grown from less than 4,000 in 1991 to nearly 50,000 at the end of 2011.
There are now 10 mosques or cultural centres on the island, eight of those Sunni, one Shia and one Ahmadiyya and there are Islamic societies in most colleges in Ireland…
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Kosovo Police Net Iraq and Syria ‘Militant Suspects’
Forty men suspected of fighting in Iraq and Syria have been arrested by police in Kosovo, in an operation targeting Islamist extremists.
Up to 200 Kosovo Albanians have travelled to the Middle East to fight and 16 of them have died, reports say…
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Morocco: Unprecedented: Prayer With Two Imams in a Mosque in Casablanca
Casablanca — A new video that was posted on YouTube on Sunday shows two groups of Moroccans separately performing the Maghreb prayer in a mosque in Casablanca, each group with a different imam.
A group of people who appeared to be taken aback by the scene vented their disapproval of what happened, with some of them saying that the second group, who were performing the prayer on the back of the mosque, represented the extremist ideology of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS).
According to Islamic teachings, collective prayer in a mosque can be led only by one imam.
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Liberman Rejects Hamas Demands: ‘Terror Must Not Pay’
As negotiators meet in Cairo, Liberman says Hamas must not get any rewards for attacking Israel, no sea port until Hamas gone.
As Israeli negotiators arrived in Cairo early Monday afternoon a 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas began the night before, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) stated that Israel must not allow Hamas’s terror on Israel to pay off for the Gaza-based organization.
Speaking to Yedioth Aharonoth, Liberman declared “we must not blink, we must not allow even the smallest appearance that it pays to fight against Israel.”
“It cannot be that the result of the clash between Israel and Hamas, which began with the abduction and murder of the three youths and continued in a confrontation in Gaza, will end with Hamas leaving with a feeling that terror pays,” clarified the foreign minister…
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Norway, Turkey Offered Gaza Seaport to Hamas
Hamas’s demands for unlimited transportation and import power allegedly garnering international support as talks continue.
Turkey and Norway have expressed their willingness in principle to operate a seaport in the Hamas enclave of Gaza, according to the Palestinian delegation in Cairo.
According to a report in Israel Today, the government in Ankara has already announced its intention to send to Gaza over 3,000 prefabricated houses to be quickly assembled, accommodating local Arab families whose homes were destroyed during Operation Protective Edge.
The seaport proposal gives international credence to Hamas’s unprecedented demands for unlimited transportation and import access. The terror group has already demanded an international airport in Gaza, a demand which has been categorically denied thus far in the negotiating process due to its security threat on Israel…
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Owen Jones is Lying About Israel. Plain and Simple
by Douglas Murray
Owen Jones’s column in the Guardian is headlined ‘Anti-Jewish hatred is rising — we must see it for what it is.’ Sadly the article falls well short of that headline’s aspiration.
At one point in the piece Owen singles me out for criticism: ‘Take Douglas Murray, a writer with a particular obsession with Islam.’ (I suppose ‘obsession’, rather than ‘interest’, say, is intended to suggest something untoward. But I confess that I am indeed especially interested in one of the major stories of our day.) Owen goes on to say of me:
‘“Thousands of anti-Semites have today succeeded in bringing central London to an almost total standstill” was his reprehensible description of a Palestine solidarity demonstration last month. This is not simply an unforgivable libel against peace protestors — Jews among them — who simply object to their government’s complicity in the massacre of children. It makes it much harder to identify genuine anti-Semitism.’
Now I have had to pick Owen up on this before. But here we go again.
The last time there was an exchange between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, Owen appeared on primetime BBC TV and seemed especially eager to claim, during a lengthy anti-Israel rant, that Israel was particularly interested in killing children…
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500 Women and Children Buried Alive by Islamic Extremists, Claims Iraqi Minister
IRAQ’S human rights minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, claims there is undeniable evidence that Islamic gangs have executed at least 500 Yazidis
PETRIFIED women and children were buried alive in a mass slaughter by Islamic State extremists, it was claimed yesterday.
An estimated 500 Yazidis were murdered in the atrocity in Iraq, according to the country’s human rights minister. He also said around 300 girls and women have been kidnapped as slaves by the terror group.
The outrages have piled pressure on the West to step up its actions against the jihadists who have besieged around 150,000 Yazidis in the Sinjar region of the country…
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After Erdogan’s Victory: What’s Next for Turkey?
Erdogan’s victory by direct election has ushered in a new era in Turkish politics. Opponents fear the newly elected president might hold early parliamentary elections to achieve the constitutional changes he is after.
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Arab League Condemns is Crimes in Iraq
CAIRO, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi on Monday denounced “the crimes against humanity” committed by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, demanding that all the perpetrators face international justice.
In a statement, Arabi condemned the crimes, including killings and forced displacement, against Coptic minorities in Mosul and Yazidis, and other groups which represent essential civilized ethnic or religious components in Iraq…
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Bahrain Minister’s Mobile Phone Stolen
A Moroccan female journalist stole the mobile phone of Bahrain’s culture minister who was visiting the north African Arab country this week for a cultural event.
Sheikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa was talking to a journalist during the event in the northern Moroccan town of Tangier before she noticed her phone was gone.
Security cameras showed a female journalist pinched the phone which was placed on a table while the minister was busy speaking to the media.
[Stealing phones is still better than deliberately lying to millions, like the MSM. — RR]
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Because: I Love…Peace Daily Facebook Updates on Iraqi Refugee Situation
Updates August 10th, 2014:
The Shabak people are an ethnoreligious group who live mainly in the villages of Ali Rash, Khazna, Yangidja, and Tallara in Sinjar district in Nineveh Province in northern Iraq. They speak Shabaki, a Northwestern Iranian language.Their population was estimated at around 15,000 in the 1970s. (Taken from Wikipedia)
Most of the minority groups I met were from Shabak, Sinjar, Mahmodia, and Qaraqwish. There is huge amount of people between the roads, and in places that no one is reaching. Most of those people are either Shabak, Sinjar people or Ifeli kurds. All those minorities are suffering too much under the current circumstances.
There is more than 5,000 people scattered between the roads and in all the old constructions sites. Some have nothing to live of or no, because they are way behind where no body is checking.
[Egghead: Because, I Love…Peace is a Facebook page that posts daily detailed updates from Muslim Dentist Sarah AK Ahmed who works with Canon Andrew White, Vicar of the Anglican Church in Baghdad, to actively help the refugees from ISIS in Iraq. It is worth reading the entire Facebook page with text and pictures.]
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Children on the Streets of Kuwait
By Jamie Etheridge
There has been a recent increase in the number of children on the streets of Kuwait offering random services. In Kuwaiti neighborhoods like Khaldiya, Kaifan and Salwa, you can find children curbside with pyramid stacks of watermelon or crates of oranges in the heat of the day. According to a friend of mine, it’s simply understood that the children are begging and that most passersby will give them money but not take the fruit. They stand in the middle of the day in order to garner the most sympathy. Many times at traffic lights in Salmiya, Shuwaikh and Bayan and Mishref, you can find young boys approaching cars to sell lights or small toys or other cheap items.
Even more disturbing, boys as young as eight are now to be found in front of shopping areas directing cars into parking spots and offering to ‘wash’ the car in exchange for a few fils. While the phenomena is far from new to Kuwait, the numbers of children on the streets has definitely increased. Moreover it’s clear that the majority are foreign children or else bedoon and they are not going to school. By the looks of it, their only education will come in the form of the life lessons learned on the street. It’s impossible to say the circumstances of each and every one of these children and their families.
When asked where his parents were, one such boy simply turned around and walked away rather than be questioned. Are the parents in such bad circumstances that they need the children to beg for their daily bread? Or are they exploiting the generosity of the people of Kuwait at the expense of their children’s education. If the parents are legal here, surely they have jobs and a responsibility to educate their children. The impermanence of their begging stations is likely reflected in a larger impermanence in their lives.
As far as I know, there are no laws requiring expatriates living in Kuwait to send their kids to school. The question now is what can be done? Will calling the police or the Municipality to investigate result in any kind of help for these kids? Will charity given help change their circumstances at all?
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CNN Interviews Canon Andrew White: Can Harmony be Achieved in This Generation?
On August 5th, CNN ran this story showing the dire situation of the Christians in Iraq. They interviewed Canon Andrew White, asking him if harmony could be achieved once again between religious groups. More specifically, can it be achieved in this generation? He responds with simply, “I don’t know.” The ultimatum given to Iraqi Christians coupled with increasing persecution makes it hard to tell.
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Erdogan Wins With 80 Percent of Austrian Turks
Recep Tayyip Erdogan secured his place in history as Turkey’s first directly elected president on Sunday, sweeping more than half the vote in a result his opponents fear heralds an increasingly authoritarian state.
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Extremist Insurgents Seize Town in Iraq’s Diyala
BAQUBA, Iraq, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — Islamic State (IS) militants took control of a town in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala after fierce overnight clashes with Kurdish security forces, a provincial security source said on Monday.
Dozens of IS militants, backed by some 20 suicide bombers and three car bombs, stormed the Peshmerga Kurdish security forces in the town of Jalawlaa, some 130 km northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, and seized the town after the withdrawal of Peshmerga fighters, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity…
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For Iraq Yazidis, A Frantic Search for the Missing
SEMALKA, Syria — Trucks and jeeps trundled slowly across the pontoon bridge, packed with refugees, with children poking their dusty heads out of the windows and truck beds. Nearby, a distraught father frantically scanned them as they passed, hoping to catch sight of his missing son…
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Former CIA Chief: Underestimating ISIS a Policy Failure, Not Intelligence Failure
Monday on “CBS This Morning,” former director of the Central Intelligence Agency Michael Morell contradicted President Barack Obama’s claim Saturday that bad “intelligence estimates” were the reason the administration did not anticipate the speed in which ISIS would capture large portions of Iraq.
Morell replied, “So I don’t think this was an intelligence failure. This is a classic problem in the intelligence world. There’s a difference between strategic warning and tactical warning. There was strategic warning here in the sense that the intelligence community was saying for over a year, year and a half, two years that this group was getting stronger and stronger and stronger.”
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Horror — Anglican Vicar of Baghdad: “Child I Baptized Cut in Half by ISIS”
“I’m almost in tears because I’ve just had somebody in my room whose little child was cut in half. I baptized his child in my church in Baghdad. This little boy, they named him after me — he was called Andrew.” — Vicar of the Anglican Church in Baghdad, Canon Andrew White
Canon Andrew White, the Vicar of the Anglican Church in Baghdad has become an important source of news from within the terror filled nation for the outside world of Christendom. He has been able to provide a first hand account of the horrors being faced by Christians (and other non-Sunni Muslim minorities) as the monsters of ISIS bear down on them.
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Iraq Nominates New Leader as Defiant Maliki Musters Troops
Iraq’s president on Monday nominated Haider al-Abadi, a member of the government’s Shiite coalition, as the country’s next prime minister, setting off a potential clash with Nouri al-Maliki, the current prime minister, who has demanded to remain in power.
The Iraqi president, Fouad Massoum, who is charged with forming a new government is expected to formally announce Mr. Abadi’s nomination later on Monday. The move is likely to deepen tensions in Baghdad because Mr. Maliki has continued to insist he had the right to form the government because he commanded the largest bloc in the Iraqi Parliament. On Sunday, a defiant Mr. Maliki mustered Iraqi forces in Baghdad’s government center, known as the Green Zone, in a show of force meant to intimidate Mr. Massoum and other leading political figures.
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Lord Williams warns Iraq conflict could lead to ‘complete genocidal breakdown’ as Kurdish forces set to be supplied with weapons — follow latest updates
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16.39 Conservative Andrew Rosindell MP has called for UK military strikes on Islamic State.
“Britain has unique military capabilities and it is only right that these should be extended to preserve the lives of innocent civilians. We simply cannot, and should not, stand idly by and witness the unlawful and thoughtless slaughter of families in their homes, on the streets and in the mountains.
I strongly believe that we should carry out immediate targeted airstrikes to hold back attacks by Islamist insurgents; whilst making humanitarian aid drops to support groups fleeing from persecution.”…
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Iraq: Dr. Sarah A.K. Ahmed: Christians Leaving…
This is the first time in years, Mousl has no Christians! Christians the flavor of our country, are being pushed to leave their homes, cars, work and everything they knew behind because of ISIS. A friend of our just called saying “They took everything even our passports, gold and money.”. The situation is really bad and now I feel that I have a bigger obligation toward all those people, we’ll do our best as a foundation to help them all. May God help all the Christians. ISIS does not speak for Muslims, or for Iraq. I am a Muslim and I condemn ISIS for all they did and still doing.
[Egghead: Dr. Sarah A..K. Ahmed works with Canon Andrew White, Vicar of the Anglican Church in Baghdad, and this website covered the initial ISIS turmoil in Iraq via text and pictures. Now, she is using her Facebook page for updates.]
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Iraq: Who, What, Why: What Happens When Airdrops Land?
The UK and US have started dropping aid into Mount Sinjar in Iraq. But how effective are airdrops?
Parcels including food, water purification cans and solar lanterns have been dropped to thousands of Yazidis fleeing the advance of Islamic State (IS) forces. Packed into crates and parachuted in, airdrops are described as the “least favoured option” for delivering aid…
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Iraq: Yazidis: An Entire People on the Brink of Annihilation
by Kek Hamo
An entire religion is at risk of being wiped out, as the threat of genocide looms in Iraq. The international community must help.
On the 3rd of August, at around 1 am, terrorists from the Islamic State (IS) started a massive offensive on Kurdish Yazidi villages in Sinjar (Kurdish: Shengal) in Iraq’s northwestern Ninawa governorate.
The town and surrounding villages were mainly inhabited by Kurdish Yazidis with an Arab and Assyrian minority. The area was protected by Kurdish Peshmerga forces but they withdrew from Sinjar to the city of Zakho in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan in the north. However, as the Islamic State also had initiated attacks on the town of Zummar, the Peshmerga were rerouted to Zakho through Rojava, the recently declared Kurdish autonomous areas in Syria. Those injured were taken to hospitals by the YPG (Kurdish army in Rojava)…
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Iraq: ISIS Suicide Bombing Instructor Blows Up His Own Class by Accident
Terrorist commander detonated an explosive belt strapped to himself
By Christopher Hooton — 11 August 2014
An Isis commander at a terrorist training camp north of Baghdad accidentally detonated a belt packed with explosives during a demonstration in front of a group [of] militants on Monday, killing himself and 21 nearby trainees…
[Reader comment by BobBidurski on 11 August 2014.]
“Now watch closely, I’m only going to show you this once….”
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Islamic State Beheads, Crucifies in Push for Syria’s East
BEIRUT (Reuters) — Islamic State has crushed a pocket of resistance to its control in eastern Syria, crucifying two people and executing 23 others in the past five days, a monitoring group said on Monday…
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Israel Finds Silent Backing by Arab Nations Hostile to Hamas
As Israel seeks to sideline Hamas in any accord on the Gaza Strip’s future, it’s finding quiet support among Arab nations where antagonism toward the Islamist group eclipses their enmity toward the Jewish state.
Egypt, which mediated a second 72-hour halt to Gaza fighting yesterday, is now ruled by an army chief who presided over a crackdown on Hamas’s Islamist patrons. Saudi Arabia’s king didn’t explicitly criticize Israel in a recent lament over civilian deaths in Gaza. The United Arab Emirates, which pledged aid to help rebuild the coastal strip, is also hostile to political Islam.
There’s an “alignment of interests” between nations that aren’t allies yet have “common adversaries,” said Martin Indyk, vice president of the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former U.S. negotiator in the Middle East. “As they see that the U.S. is less engaged than it was before, it’s natural that they look to each other — quietly, under the table in most respects — to find a way to help each other.”
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John Oliver Rips Obama’s ‘Reluctant’ Iraq Airstrikes
At the top of his weekly show Sunday night, John Oliver spent a couple of minutes recapping the biggest news story of the week: President Barack Obama’s decision to launch military airstrikes in Iraq. “On Friday, you might have felt a whiff of nostalgia in the air,” Oliver said. “And I’m not talking about ninja turtles.”
As Oliver put it, the world is starting to feel a bit of “déjà boom,” but when the president made the announcement he tried hard to make two things clear: “One, that this was the right thing to do. And two, how little he wanted to do it.”…
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Jordan: 20 Islamic State Supporters Arrested
(ANSAmed) — AMMAN, August 11 — Jordan intelligence service have arrested at least 20 men in connection with a rally held in support of the hardline Islamist State (IS), but no charges have been made against the salafi suspects, their lawyer said on Monday.
The men were napped by security service during raids conducted in the past few days in cities of Amman and Zarqa (20 km east of the capital), according to lawyer of Islamist groups Moussa al Abdallat.
“These young men were arrested for expressing their political beliefs in an attempt to discourage citizens from showing their support for IS,” Mousa was quoted by the Jordan Times English daily.
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Kuwait Strips 10 People, Top Cleric of Citizenship
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwait has revoked the citizenship of 10 people, among them an influential young sheik who has openly criticized the government of bowing to pressure from Washington to clamp down on financial assistance to Syrian rebels…
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Officials: ISIS Recruiting on the Rise in Sunni Areas of Iraq
(CNN) — Abu Raad pleaded with his son not to volunteer.
But there was nothing he says he could say to talk his 19-year-old son out of joining ISIS, which refers to itself as the Islamic State and is formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
“I don’t know what they told him,” Abu Raad told CNN by telephone from his home in Mosul. “Last week, my son came home and told me that he is leaving home and joining the Islamic State.”
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Our Leaders Are in Denial About This Islamic Revolution Because it Exposes Their Own Naivety
By Robin Harris
The terrorist group now calling itself Islamic State has been lucky. It has so far been able to advance its repulsive agenda of violence and cruelty without bothering about comeuppance from the great powers.
This is because it is confronted by probably the most incompetent and ill-equipped Western leaders of modern times. For two months, this barbaric group has been rolling forward. But Washington just dithered.
Barack Obama and David Cameron do not dare, even now, tell the truth about what Islamic State (or IS) are, or what motivates them. Obama and Cameron talk of averting ‘genocide’. But genocide is, by definition, the destruction of a racial or national group.
Islamic State isn’t remotely interested in that. It is interested in religion — its own extreme brand of Sunni Islam — and it has for months now been engaging in forced conversions, killings, plunder and expulsion of all those it considers infidels.
The Yazidis, dying on a mountain in northern Iraq, while being pelted from the skies with humanitarian aid, are seen as devil worshippers. The Shia Muslims, meanwhile, are heretics, and so worthy of death. The thousands of Christian victims of IS, about whom Obama and Cameron found it convenient to stay silent, are regarded as having no rights whatever.
In the Iraqi city of Mosul, Christian properties were painted with the Arab letter ‘N’ (signifying Nazarenes) and then confiscated. The Christians were first told to convert or pay the Jizya (tax on infidels), and then, to simplify matters, killed or expelled.
They sought haven in the Nineveh plain; that, too, then fell to Islamic State. The likely fate of many or most of these Christians, and of the Yazidis, is now a horrible death.
The West’s strategic interests are also imperilled. Islamic State is a more dangerous terrorist force than even Al Qaeda. It has carved out a vast territory sprawling far across the Iraq-Syria border. It possesses a huge cache of advanced weapons. It has its own financial resources, in the form of conquered oil installations. It is a magnet for global jihad.
And the West has looked on. Or rather Western leaders have looked away, and focused instead on Ukraine…
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Psychopathic Jihadists Betray an Evil Not Seen Since Hitler
By Milo Yiannopoulos
We’ve all seen them in photographs. Swathed in black, standing triumphant but dispassionate over the dismembered victims of their genocidal ideology. No, I’m not talking about Hitler’s SS: rather, the jihadis of ISIS. But you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re one and the same: after all, the similarities are endless, and hideously unsettling.
The second instalment in VICE News’s five-part documentary into the ISIS-controlled Islamic State in Iraq and Syria reveals how children are being groomed for jihad and brainwashed into a loathing of “infidels”…
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Syria: Australia, US Appalled at Decapitated Head Photo
A shocking image of what is believed to be the young son of an Australian man holding a decapitated head in Syria shows how barbaric the Islamic State “terrorist army” is, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday (Aug 11).
SYDNEY: A shocking image of what is believed to be the young son of an Australian man holding a decapitated head in Syria shows how barbaric the Islamic State “terrorist army” is, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday (Aug 11).
He made the comment while announcing Australia will likely join airdrops of supplies to Iraqi civilians besieged by jihadist IS militants on a barren mountain. The picture, taken in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, was posted on the Twitter account of Khaled Sharrouf, an Australian who fled to Syria last year and is now an IS fighter, The Australian newspaper said.
It reportedly shows Sharrouf’s seven-year-old, Sydney-raised son dressed like any other young boy in blue checked trousers, a blue shirt and baseball cap, struggling to hold up the severed head of a slain Syrian soldier by his hair. It was captioned with the words “That’s my boy”…
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Turkish Activists Say New Flotilla to Challenge Israeli Blockade of Gaza
A Turkish aid group said on Monday it would again send ships to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza, four years after Israeli commandos stormed its flotilla bound for the Palestinian territory and killed 10 Turks.
The plan looked set to throw a fresh obstacle in the way of efforts to rebuild shattered diplomatic ties between Turkey and Israel, just as Ankara launches an “air corridor” carrying wounded Palestinians to Turkey and aid to Gaza…
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Young Muslim From Portsmouth Killed in Syria
A young British Muslim from Portsmouth has been killed while fighting in Syria. Muhammad Hamidur Rahman was reportedly shot after being recruited by the terror group ISIS. The 25-year-old left the UK last October — telling his family he was going to deliver aid to Syria…
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Large-Scale Military Drills Start in Russia’s Siberia, Far East
MOSCOW, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — Battalion tactical drills kicked off in five regions of Russia’s Siberia and the Far East, a military official said Monday.
“Over 2,000 personnel and about 500 pieces of the armor, including over 30 Ka-52, Mi-24, Mi-8 military helicopters and up to 20 Su-25 aircraft, are involved in the drills,” the Itar-Tass news agency quoted military spokesman Alexander Gordeyev as saying.
The drills started in the republic of Buryatia and Transbaikal military district in East Siberia, as well as the Primorye Territory, Amur and Sakhalin regions in the Russian Far East…
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More Than 100 Escape After Shelling of Donetsk Prison
Rockets slammed into a high-security prison on Monday in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, igniting a riot that allowed more than 100 prisoners to flee, authorities in eastern Ukraine said.
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Russia to Send Humanitarian Convoy Into Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia will send a humanitarian convoy into Ukraine in cooperation with the International Red Cross, the Kremlin said Monday, despite strong opposition from the Ukraine and the West.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Russia has reached agreement with Ukraine on the issue, or if it has decided to move unilaterally as Ukrainian government forces have been closing in on a few remaining rebel strongholds…
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Afghan Conflicts Leave 45 Dead in Single Day
KABUL, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — Taliban-linked violent incidents and conflicts have claimed the lives of 45 people including 34 militants, five civilians and six police elsewhere in the conflict- ridden Afghanistan in a single day on Monday.
In the latest violent incident, a mine planted by militants struck a police van in Ghazni province with Ghazni city as its capital 125 km south of national capital Kabul city left six police dead Monday morning, a local official confirmed.
“A police van was driving to respond Taliban militancy in Andar district of Ghazni province but unfortunately ran over a mine leaving six policemen dead on the spot Monday morning,” spokesman for provincial government Shafiq Nang told Xinhua…
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Gun Battle Leaves 14 Dead, 28 Injured in E. Afghanistan
ASSADABAD, Afghanistan, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — Gun battle between Taliban militants and security forces killed 14 persons, including two civilians and injured 28 others in the eastern Kunar province on Monday, police said.
“A group of Taliban rebels launched offensive against police checkpoints in Narai district Monday morning and police retaliated killing 12 insurgents on the spot,” provincial police chief Abdul Habib Sayedkhili told Xinhua.
“During the gun battle which lasted for a while two civilians were killed and 28 others including 14 Taliban rebels, four police and 10 civilians including three children sustained injuries,” the official added…
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Indonesia: Muslims in Jakarta Pray for the Martyrs of Azerbaijan
Hundreds of Indonesian Muslims performed sholat zenajah (special prayers for deceased) for Azerbaijani fighters who died in the recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta.
“Just after Friday prayers, hundreds of Indonesian Muslim brothers performed sholat zenajah for our martyrs. We express our gratitude to our Indonesian brothers who took part in it,” Azerbaijani Ambassador to Indonesia Tamerlan Karayev told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.
In a sudden escalation of fighting recently over Muslim-majority Azerbaijan’s territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, at least 13 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed by Armenian troops, in a clear violation of the decade long cease-fire between Azerbaijani and its neighbor Armenia, Ambassador Tamerlan said…
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Islamic Extremists Planned Attack on Carlsberg in Southeast Asia
With more and more Malaysians and Indonesians becoming involved in the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts, western companies operating in the region, Carlsberg included, have suddenly found themselves in the crosshairs.
Over the past seven months, Malaysian security forces have arrested 19 Islamic extremists looking to launch terror attacks on a number of targets in Malaysia and Indonesia, including a Carlsberg factory near Kuala Lumpur.
“During questioning, they (the suspects) admitted one of their main objectives was to attack the government,” Ayub Khan, a senior official at Malaysia’s Special Branch Counter-Terrorism Division, told South China Morning Post.
“They also discussed planning attacks against a disco, pubs in Kuala Lumpur and a Carlsberg factory in Petaling Jaya.”
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Malaysia: ISIS Planned a Terror Attack Against Carlsberg
The Islamist militant group allegedly planned to carry out an attack at one of the brewer’s locations in Malaysia. Danish brewer Carlsberg was on the target list of the Islamist militant group Isis, according to a report in the South China Morning Post.
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Australian PM Denounces Image of Seven-Year-Old Boy Holding a Severed Head as ‘Barbaric’
Tony Abbott says photograph of seven-year-old Australian boy holding a decapitated head in Syria shows need to battle Islamic extremists
A graphic image which apparently shows the seven-year-old son of an Australian jihadist in Syria holding a decapitated head has been described as ‘‘barbaric’’ by Australian prime minister Tony Abbott…
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Home-Grown Terror Response Risks Government Overreach
The photograph of a Sydney boy holding what is purported to be the decapitated head of a Syrian soldier drives home that no one is immune from barbaric terrorism.
The cries for action will be loud, given the child is reported to be the son of convicted Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, now fighting for the Islamic State across Syria and northern Iraq.
Along with other graphic examples of ISIL atrocities, the photo will garner for the federal government significant support for plans to strengthen laws against home-grown terrorism…
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A young Sydney man has been suspended from his job and is ‘scared to leave’ his house after a hate-filled rant threatening those who do not follow Islam was posted from his Facebook account.
The 22-year-old allegedly threatened to ‘cut the throats’ of any Australian who opposes Islam, and said the nation is headed towards a third world war. He also apparently wrote that ‘aussie dogs’ should convert before its too late otherwise they will be forced to suffer the ‘wrath’ of the religion.
However the Sydney Trains employee told Nine News he did not post the comments to the anti-Islam Facebook page Australian Defence League, and he is now a target himself. ‘It’s thrown my whole world out of balance’, the non-practicing Muslim told the program. ‘It’s scary, I’m scared to leave my house.’…
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The uncle of a young boy who was photographed gripping the severed head of a slain Syrian soldier says Australia should ‘forget’ the image which has caused outrage.
‘He’s gone, forget about it. He’s forgotten about youse. I’m sure you’ve seen much worse than that,’ Mostafa Sharrouf told the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday…
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Man Claiming to be Commander of ISIL Speaks to 3AW
A man claiming to be the military commander of the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL) has told a Melbourne radio station the terrorist group’s assault will spread from northern Iraq across the world.
Omar Shishani, who claimed to be speaking from Raqqa, in Syria’s north, insulted Jews and the Yazidi minority during the interview on 3AW.
Shishini also described Khaled Sharrouf, the radical father of a young boy raised in Sydney who was pictured on Monday holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier, as a “very lovable, good kid”…
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Ebola Drug Supply is Exhausted After Doses Sent to Africa
The Ebola drug given to two Americans and a Spanish priest has been sent to a West African country that requested it, and the supply of the medicine is now exhausted, its manufacturer said.
Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., based in San Diego, said it was told by U.S. health officials that the countries, including Nigeria and Liberia, had requested the drug, called ZMapp. The company said it has complied with every request for the drug that was authorized by legal and regulatory authorities. It said it provided the drug at no cost.
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New Attacks on Catholic Churches in Nigeria
At least one person was killed and several injured in a new attack on a Catholic church in Nigeria on August 10, the Fides news service reports.
Armed gunmen burst into a church in the Kaduna state, in northern Nigeria, during Sunday Mass, firing at parishioners. The attackers were identified as members of the Fulani tribe, which is believed to have obtained assault rifles from the Boko Haram terrorist group…
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Nigeria: JTF Arrest Suspected Suicide Bomber Trainer
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano has arrested a man suspected to be the master trainer of Boko Haram female suicide bombers with 16 females who were reportedly being trained for suicide operations, Daily Trust, gathered from security sources…
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Nigeria: Jonathan Describes Late Patrick Sawyer Actions as Pure ‘Madness’
By Victoria Ojeme
ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan Monday described describe late Patrick Sawyer actions as pure ‘madness’ and craziness.
Jonathan made the statement at the annual Interfaith Conference in Abuja. The president who expressed his disappointment with the way and manner Sawyer brought Ebola to Nigeria assured citizens that government is ready to stop Ebola…
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Nigeria: No Chibok Girls No 2015 Re-Election, Northern Elders Tell Jonathan
The Northern Elders Forum on Monday gave President Goodluck Jonathan up to October to produce the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by the Boko Haram sect or forget his 2015 presidential re-election bid.
The Alhaji Sule Maitama-led NEF noted that the warning became imperative because they were in firm conviction that the insurgency occasioned by the activities of the sect and other related security challenges posed a threat to the 2015 elections and the survival of the nation.
“In the light of our firm conviction that the insurgency and related security challenges pose threats to the 2015 elections and the survival of our nation, we strongly advise President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to bring an end to the insurgency in all its manifestations and produce the Chibok girls before the end of October 2014,” Mr. Solomon Dalung, ex-Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, said at a press briefing in Kaduna on Monday.
The former Speaker, who spoke on behalf of the Northern Elders Forum said failure of the president to produce the Chibok girls and tackle other security challenges in the land, amounts to the forfeiture of his rights to ask for another mandate to lead Nigeria beyond 2015…
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267 Migrants Rescued From 28 Boats in Strait of Gibraltar
The Spanish coastguard rescued 267 people from 28 small boats in the Strait of Gibraltar on Monday. All the men, women and children onboard were found to be in apparent good health and taken to Tarifa, in Cádiz province, to be treated.
On Sunday two other boats carrying 27 sub-Saharans were intercepted when they were trying to reach the coasts of Algeciras and Tarifa in Cádiz province. The first was an inflatable dinghy with 10 people aboard, including a pregnant woman.
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Census Bureau: One New Migrant Enters U.S. Every 40 Seconds
By Joel Gehrke
The Census Bureau calculates that one person enters the United States legally, on net, every 40 seconds.
The Census Bureau’s U.S. and World Population Clock lists “components of population change” on the website: “one birth every 7 seconds;” “one death every 13 seconds;” “one international migrant (net) every 40 seconds;” making for a “net gain of one person every 12 seconds.”
The Census provides some background on the immigration debate in the United States on August 3rd, apropos of the 131st anniversary of the law banning people from immigrating to the United States if they were likely to need government assistance.
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Italy Saved Nearly 100,000 Boat Migrants This Year
The Italian navy said on Monday it had rescued more than 2,000 migrants over the weekend from boats in the Mediterranean, bringing the number it has brought ashore this year to nearly 100,000.
It said the latest arrivals included 94 migrants crammed into a 30-metre (98-foot) long sailing boat intercepted off the coast of Calabria by the coast guard, which arrested three Turkish men on board on suspicion of human trafficking.
Another 2,700 migrants were rescued last weekend, and the boats continue to come as traffickers take advantage of calm summer seas.
Most of the migrants making the risky and often deadly journeys come from Eritrea, Somalia and Syria, but there are also many arriving from across Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Spain Rescues Over 200 African Migrants
Spain’s coastguard said it had rescued 213 sub-Saharan African migrants on Monday, including 26 women and two children who were among those trying to reach Spanish soil on a flotilla of small boats.
The migrants were picked up in the Strait of Gibraltar and taken to Tarifa, Spain’s southernmost port, a spokeswoman for the coastguard told news agency AFP.
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It’s always about them, isn’t it? The Muslims appear to never waste an opportunity to cry ‘victim’ as evident in the comment by Sharrouf’s friend; somehow the world is always against them, ‘look at poor us, the world hates us Muslims’. The Western world is fool enough to be deceived by this cry when in reality they are the perpetrators of barbarity.
The hellish question is: How can we change the minds and attitudes of a cowardly, stupid villainous Continent, when they volunteer to become base dhimmis? The more atrocities muslims commit the more the base dhimmis grovel at the muslimas’ and muslims’ shoes.
Good question.
It’s hard to hold out hope when you’re watching France24 and Valerie Stocker, an alleged Libya expert, is fumbling and mumbling her way through her position that Libya’s current troubles would be solved if only the liberals would invite the Islamists into Parliament.
Unbelievable.
It’s not enough to associate this barbaric beheading with islam. The direct connection must be drawn to the koranic verse, which, after all, muslims believe is the literal word of allah, that enjoins believers to smite at the necks of Infidels.
The Govt of Australia is still getting it wrong when it comes to dealing with jihadis. Let the bastards leave and then yank their passports, along with their citizenship. They are all dual citizens so it’s not as if they could complain we were leaving them stateless.
And the longer they are over there the greater the chance of them getting their 72 white raisins and good riddance.
Actually, some if not all of these ‘Australians’ were born here, not that I personally think that that makes them Australian.
So, I’m not confidant about the dual passport thing working. If their passport cannot be revoked while they’re overseas, then jail on return is the option, with the concomitant cost to the taxpayer and the opportunities to radicalise others in our jails.
And how do you make sure that ‘head boy’ gets un-radicalised and stays that way when he grows? My feeling is that some children who have been subjected to traumatic environments revisit them as adults to try to make sense of it. E.g. Sex offences by former victims.
It’s all too hard given the constraints of our legal system and the general public’s current desire not to inconvenience or offend _anyone_.
I don’t give a tinkers cuss if they were born here. They have dual citizenship and have chosen to emphasis one over the other. That’s fine, we just take away their Australian citizenship.
War. They are fighting one against us. Our leaders are folding.
I for one am pleased that in Sweden so-called anti-Zionism has now become open anti-Semitism. Firstly, because the “anti-Zionist” cloak has always been a nauseatingly dishonest euphemism for Jew-hatred wrapping itself in a supposedly respectable ideological position on a smallish geo-political issue within a larger religio-political issue. Secondly, because the virulent purveyors of anti-Zionism for the past four decades such as the Guardian and Independent newspapers and the BBC (and their imitators in other Western countries) will be forced into even more desperate and transparent contortions to pretend they aren’t running an anti-Jewish (impolite, “racist” and thus unacceptable) editorial line.
For years I have wondered why the Israeli secret services don’t bug the phones and homes of people like Robert Fisk and release the transcripts to the public – dispelling once and for all the bankruptcy of Fisk’s protests that he is merely anti-Zionist. Actually Fisk is so dishonest I don’t think he even admits to that!
to quote Stevie Wonder, “There are some sad things known to man, but there ain’t too much sadder than-the tears of a clown, when there’s no one around.”
We loved you Robin, and so did Claremont, California and Pitzer College, your alumnus.
Actually, Stevie Wonder wrote the music to “Tears of a Clown”. Smokey Robinson wrote the lyrics.