[DAWN] Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube announced Monday the launch of an anti-terror partnership aimed at thwarting the spread of murderous Moslem content online.
The "Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism" intends to share engineering, research and knowledge to help "continue to make our hosted consumer services hostile to turbans and violent murderous Moslems," the companies said.
Each of the technology giants has been working individually to prevent its platforms or services from being used to promote or spread murderous Moslem views.
"The spread of terrorism and violent extremism is a pressing global problem and a critical challenge for us all," said a joint statement posted on Twitter's policy blog.
"We believe that by working together, sharing the best technological and operational elements of our individual efforts, we can have a greater impact on the threat of terrorist content online."
The new forum built on discussions in Europe and conclusions of recent G7 and European Council, according to the companies.
The forum planned to work with smaller tech firms as well as civil groups, academics and governmental bodies.
"The scope of our work will evolve over time as we will need to be responsive to the ever-evolving terrorist and murderous Moslem tactics," the founding companies said.
[Ynet] Facebook is deleting about 66,000 posts a week as the social media giant cracks down on what it considers to be hate speech.
The company says in a blog post Tuesday that deleting posts can "feel like censorship," but that it is working on explaining its process better.
Facebook says it defines hate speech as attacks on people based on their race, sexual orientation and other "protected characteristics." The Menlo Park, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, company says it mostly relies on its nearly two billion users to report any hateful posts they see. Workers then review the posts and decide whether to delete it.
Facebook Inc. says it has 4,500 workers reviewing posts and plans to hire 3,000 more in the next year.
The deleted posts went up over the last two months.
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I'd look at the small print - in particular their definition of "terrorism", very carefully.
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The definition of terrorism includes any action in support of Donald Trump or other Republican (other than Mcshame), libertarian or conservative; or any criticism of any Clinton or other top Democrat, Planned Parenthood or any organization judged supportive of SJWs.
[Libya Observer] Military officers from the Amazigh community in western Libya are planning to declare a military council for Libyan Amazigh, Fassato news website quoted a military source as saying.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told the Amazigh news outlet on Thursday that the move comes in response to "the policy of exclusion and marginalization practiced by the Presidential Council and its government towards the Amazigh in Libya."
"These practices pose a threat to the national security of the Amazigh," the source said.
The military source also rejected the latest Presidential Council appointment of Osama al-Jwaili, from Zintan, as Chief of the Western Military Zone.
"The inclusion of the Amazigh districts within this military zone is a political decision imposed from the outside." The source stated.
No date was set for the declaration of the Amazigh military council.
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[Libya Observer] Senior commanders of Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB) said on Friday the group is ready to dissolve, but they stressed their right to return to their city.
In a statement read by the top commander, Brig Mustafa al-Shirksi, the BDB indicated that their intention to dissolve aims to spare the country the woes of international war.
According to the statement, the dissolution also aims to alleviate the suffering of Libyan people in general and Benghazi IDPs in particular.
The BDB pointed out that they had withdrawn from Jufra region peacefully to save lives of local residents, confirming they could have repelled Dignity Operation forces.
"We forward our intention to the concerned state authorities for consideration," read the statement, adding a group of BDB fighters are ready to join the Libyan Army as individuals, while others aim to engage in legal and human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... works to voice their rejection of the "coup project."
The BDB was placed by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , UAE, and Bahrain on a list of alleged "terror." The claims were rejected by the BDB, saying they were politically motivated.
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[Libya Observer] Libya’s top religious holy man Sheikh al-Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... has called for an inclusive reconciliation and stoppage of bloodshed and fighting in the conflict-hit country, as Libyans, like many Moslem countries, celebrate Eid al-Fitr on Sunday.
In a televised address on Tanasuh TV to announce the end of Ramadan and start of Eid al-Fitr, he said the nation does not need more fighting or differences, urging the Libyans to rally behind a newly-proposed national initiative to resolve the political crisis.
"Despite our repeated calls for reconciliation, some parties are still accusing us of inciting bloodshed," he said.
He criticized "some countries" for fueling the conflict in Libya, saying their support to one of the conflicting parties over another is a clear example that they cannot reconcile between the Libyans.
The Mufti is an advocate for a Libyan-Libyan political solution to the conflict.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kuwait has said it will not allow the entry of figures who are currently named on a Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... -linked terrorism blacklist by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt, local media reported on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain have blacklisted 59 individuals and 12 entities for their support to terrorism whether by supplying money or arms.
In a previous joint statement by the four countries, it said that the list is linked to Qatar, highlighting the latter country’s two-faced policy, which appears to be fighting terrorism on one hand while funneling and supporting terrorist organizations on another.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Tuesday expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over what he said was the administration of United States (US) President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 'speaking India's language', a day after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Trump during an official trip to the US.
In the run-up to the meeting, the US State Department designated Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salahuddin ...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating.... a global terrorist and slapped sanctions on him ─ a move slammed by the Foreign Office today as 'completely unjustified'.
"It seems as though the blood of Kashmiris in not at all important to the US, and international laws relating to human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... do not apply to Kashmire," Nisar said.
Accusing the Indian government of serious human rights violations in India-held Kashmire, and of trying to paint 'freedom fighters as terrorists', Nisar said that Indian acts should concern every principled nation.
The interior minister said that deliberately overlooking 'the worst kind of state terrorism ... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ... ' in IHK has not only adversely impacted the values of justice and international principles, but also laid bare the double standards of powers who claim to champion human rights and democratic values.
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Moslem Values are bigly in favor of Democratic Values? And Islam is an absolute hotbed of freedom and Liberty and open elections and so forth?
Well, you learn something every day.
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Actually, it's our language, but we're happy to let them use it because that's how we roll.
[AA.TR] Pakistain on Tuesday rejected as "unjustified" the U.S. decision to declare the chief of the Hizbul Mujahideen group, Syed Salahuddin ...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating.... , a "global terrorist".
"The designation of individuals supporting the Kashmiri right to self-determination as Death Eaters is completely unjustified," Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry front man Nafees Zakaria said in a statement, adding that the 70-year-old indigenous struggle of Kashmiris in the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmire remained legitimate.
"The people of Kashmire cannot be denied the right to self-determination," he added.
The U.S. State Department announcement came ahead of the first ever meeting between President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on Monday.
The State Department in its statement accused Sallahuddin of blocking " the peaceful resolution" to the conflict of Kashmire, and of threatening to turn the valley into "a graveyard of Indian forces".
"The gross and systematic violations of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... of the Kashmiri people in IOK [Indian-occupied Kashmire] that have been recorded and reported by independent human rights bodies is a reality.
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I consider all Pakistanis terrorist
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[Iran Press TV] The Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, has stressed that Israel uses fabricated claims of rocket fire to justify its attacks on the Gazoo Strip.
"The Israeli claim of a rocket being fired from Gazoo and issuing a statement on behalf of ISIS to justify the escalation and an attack of resistance positions are part of a dangerous and transparent Israeli game," said Hamas on Tuesday.
The resistance movement was referring to claims made by Israeli media that a Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group affiliated to ISIS had announced its responsibility for a rocket being launched from Gazoo into an unpopulated area in the occupied territories.
Hamas released the statement after Israeli fighter jets carried out multiple Arclight airstrikes on various positions throughout the Gazoo Strip in response to the alleged rocket fire.
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[Ynet] The Shin Bet's director announces during conference that Israel has gone on the offensive against hackers seeking to carry out cyber attacks on Israel, arguing that 'passive defense' is not enough; Mossad also launches technological innovation fund to ’strengthen both startup companies and the Mossad’s knowledge base.’
Israel's security chief said Tuesday that the Shin Bet has gone on the offensive against hackers trying to carry out cyberattacks against Israel on the internet.
The remarks by Nadav Argaman are a rare admission of Israel's use of offensive cyber capabilities.
Argaman comments were made at a cyber defense conference in Tel Aviv.
He said that "passive defense" is not enough, and that the Shin Bet studied hackers' strategies and developed "a variety of ways and methods" on how to strike back.
Israeli cyber officials are ordinarily reluctant to discuss the use of offensive capabilities against hackers.
Also on Tuesday Israel's Intelligence and Special Operations agency, the Mossad, officially launched Libertad Ventures, a technological innovation fund, which the organization says seeks to "strengthen both startup companies and the Mossad’s knowledge base, operating at the forefront of technological innovation."
Libertad--the Latin word for freedom and also the name of a ship that carried immigrants colonists from Bulgaria to mandatory Paleostine during World War II--will invest up to NIS 2 million in five startups every year working on groundbreaking technologies at the R&D stage.
Developers would retain the rights to their product and could sell it on, a Libertad statement read.
[AlAhram] U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says America will continue to provide weapons to Syrian Kurdish fighters after the battle to oust Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... turbans from Raqqa, Syria.
Describing American reassurances to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... that the U.S. will take back weapons given to the Syrian Kurds after the IS group fight, Mattis says it depends on when or where the next mission is.
And he's also sounding a cautionary note when asked if all the weapons would be returned.
"We'll do what we can," the defense secretary told news hounds traveling with him to Germany Tuesday.
Mattis' comments marked the first time he has spoken at length publicly about the U.S. pledge to recover the weapons provided to the Kurds.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS ordered shopkeepers and traders to price goods in its currency, the dirham, as of Tuesday and set the value at 1,000 Syrian pounds ($1.80) per dirham, seeking to steer its own monetary policy even as its territorial grip is shaken.
The announcement, circulated in an audio statement on ISIS-run messaging platforms, said two Syrian banknotes - the 1,000 pound note and 50 pound note - would be banned in the areas it controls as of July 25.
The murderous Moslem group has lost swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, and is under siege in its de facto Syrian capital at Raqqa as US-backed forces press an assault to capture the city. It is also on the brink of defeat in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The group is believed to have moved its leadership to the Syrian town of al-Mayadeen, southeast of Raqqa, close to the Iraqi border in Deir al-Zor province.
The ISIS decree made no mention of a ban on the 500 Syrian pound note. It said exchange rates for the ISIS currency would be declared on a daily basis. ISIS declared the launch of its own currency in 2015.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... has said Moslems today are obliged to fight Israel with whatever means they have because Paleostine is the foremost issue of the Islamic world.
Tell that to those fighting for survival or conquest in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, and so forth, O Ayatollah Khamenei.
"According to Islamic jurisprudence, when an enemy takes over Moslem lands, Jihad in any possible form becomes everyone’s duty," Khamenei told Moslem ambassadors, Iranian officials and the public in Tehran on Monday during a meeting on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, reported Iran’s state-owned news media Press TV.
"Paleostine is the number one issue of the Islamic world, but some Islamic countries are acting in such a way as to have the Paleostinian case ignored and forgotten."
He referred to remarks this month by the US politicianDana Rohrabacher ...Representative for Caliphornia's 48th congressional district, and previously the 46th, 45th and 42nd, serving since 1989. He is a member of the Republican Party and a former speech writer for President Reagan... appearing to support a terror attack in Tehran by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and implying that it was President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s strategy.
Ayatollah Khamenei said, "A US congressman defending a Sunni community against Shias, while they are hostile to the essence of Islam and Moslems, is a vicious conspiracy.
"And this matter calls for awareness and concern, but unfortunately, the authorities of the Islamic states are neglecting these hostilities," he added.
The Iranian leader’s remarks come at a time of growing conflicts between the country and the Arab states.
Several Arab states in the Middle East and North Africa, led by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , have recently slapped paralysing sanctions on the Gulf state of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , ordering it to sever its ties with Iran and to shut down the Al Jazeera news network.
Iran has responded by sending food and other resources to the country. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has condemned the move and said Tehran will stand by Qatar’s government.
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When hasn't Iran’s supreme leader not called for jihad against Israel?
[RUDAW.NET] The Syrian regime has dismissed warnings from the White House that it had "potential" evidence Damascus was preparing to carry out another chemical weapon attack.
Ali Haider, Syrian minister for national reconciliation, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the move was part of a new diplomatic campaign against Syria at the UN.
On Monday, the White House issued a statement claiming it had "potential" evidence the Syrian regime was preparing to carry out a chemical weapon attack similar to one that killed dozens in April. The statement warned Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... "he and his military will pay a heavy price" if they carry out another "mass murder attack."
Pentagon spokesperson Capt. Jeff Davis said on Tuesday that activity at Syria’s Shayrat air base indicated "active preparations" of chemical weapons.
US intelligence claimed Shayrat air base was used to launch a sarin gas attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province on April 4, killing as many as 86 and injuring hundreds more.
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"It was...somebody else"
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...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Tuesday 
[AA.TR] Pakistain on Tuesday rejected as "unjustified" the U.S. decision to declare the chief of the Hizbul Mujahideen group, 
[Iran Press TV] The Paleostinian resistance movement 
Also on Tuesday Israel's Intelligence and Special Operations agency, the Mossad, officially launched Libertad Ventures, a technological innovation fund, which the organization says seeks to "strengthen both startup companies and the Mossad’s knowledge base, operating at the forefront of technological innovation."
[AlAhram] U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says America will continue to provide weapons to Syrian Kurdish fighters after the battle to oust 
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