[Daily Mail, where America gt its news] As predicted, another known wolf.
Mohamad Barakat killed a cop and wounded two others in Fargo on July 14
He was on his way to carry out a mass casualty attack that would have had dozens if not hundreds of victims
He was brought down eventually by 32-year-old cop Zach Robinson
FBI admits to DailyMail.com it visited him 3 times in 2021 - then did nothing
In response to inquiries from DailyMail.com about whether or not he was on any form of watch list or was known to police, the FBI today revealed that agents received an anonymous tip in 2021 about how many weapons he owned.
They however forwarded the matter on to Fargo Police Department, whose officers visited his home three times in 2021.
They had received a tip from a concerned member of the public.
The cops spoke with Barakat once, during which time he insisted he had 'no ill-intentions' despite his enormous weapons inventory. They then decided not to pursue any kind of action against him.
'During this visit, FPD detectives observed Barakat had several firearms in the apartment; however, none of them were illegal. Barakat was not prohibited from acquiring or possessing guns.
Police say they have not found any evidence that he was a religious fanatic, and believe instead that he was motivated purely by hate and fascinated by mass shootings.
That sounds like Sudden Jihad Syndrome to me. To fulfill the requirements he needn’t hate those he killed — the only necessity is that they were not among the faithful.
[8am] In a distressing incident that sheds light on the growing assertiveness of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in various regions, reports from Ghor province indicate that Taliban fighters compelled a man to divorce his wife under duress, employing the threat of arms.
According to sources cited by Hasht-e Subh, on the night of Monday, August 14th, two armed Taliban members entered the residence of a man named Habibullah in Firuzkoh city, the center of Ghor province. Using weapons, they forcefully coerced him into divorcing his spouse against the will of both parties.
These sources further detail that the Taliban operatives, through armed force, extracted written and verbal confessions from Habibullah.
It has come to light that the woman was a dedicated Koranic teacher at a private school.
Following this event, the Taliban members allegedly sent coerced confessions from Habibullah to a district court operating under Taliban administration.
Simultaneously, reports indicate that the Taliban’s intelligence department has apprehended an individual associated with this incident, subjecting the matter to rigorous investigation.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... a specific source alleges that Abdul Wahid Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Taliban spokesperson in Ghor, is the primary suspect in this case. Allegedly, the Taliban’s intelligence department in Ghor summoned him to the group’s headquarters in the region for further inquiries.
These developments unfold against a backdrop of increasing reports where Taliban commanders and fighters have faced accusations of forced marriages and have repeatedly dealt with such cases using armed coercion.
[ToloNews] The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) is likely to end the financial running of 25 Afghan hospitals by the end of August due to funding constraints, a spokesperson told Rooters, amid growing concerns over a plunge in aid to Afghanistan.
"Although we continue to engage with government ministries, donors, and organizations to find alternative sustainable support mechanisms for the hospital sector, the phase-out of the Hospital Program is expected to happen tentatively at the end of August," Diogo Alcantara, ICRC's spokesperson for Afghanistan, told Rooters on Thursday.
"The ICRC does not have the mandate nor the resources to maintain a fully functioning public health-care sector in the longer term," Alcantara said.
In April, ICRC said its governing board approved 430 million Swiss francs ($475.30 million) in cost reductions over 2023 and early 2024 and a rolling back of operations in some locations as budgets for humanitarian aid were expected to decrease.
"The financial difficulties the ICRC is facing have sped up, in transparency with IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) authorities, the expected return of the full responsibilities of the health services to the Ministry of Public Health," Alcantara said, referring to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... administration.
The program's end comes amid growing concerns over cuts to Afghanistan's humanitarian aid, two years after the Taliban took over and most other forms of international assistance, which formed the backbone of the economy, were halted.
The Geneva-based organization would continue its other Afghanistan health programs, including rehabilitation support for people with disabilities.
A front man for the Taliban-run Afghan health ministry did not respond to request for comment.
It was not clear how much was needed to pay for the operations, which fund salaries and other costs at many of Afghanistan's major hospitals serving millions of people, and if Taliban authorities could cover that amount from the fiscal budget.
An Afghan finance ministry front man said this year's budget had been finalised, but not publicly released.
The hospitals have been supported by ICRC since a few months after foreign forces left in August 2021.
Development funding was cut to Afghanistan as the Taliban - which has not formally been recognised by any country - took over the country. The sudden financial shock imperilled critical public services including health and education.
The ICRC and other agencies including the U.N. stepped in to try to fill gaps.
"The (ICRC) took this decision back then to save the healthcare system from collapsing due to the financial crises that Afghanistan was experiencing and because many development agencies and other organizations left the country while the ICRC stayed," Alcantara said.
The ICRC hospital program had originally covered 33 hospitals, eight of which have already been phased out, paying for the salaries of over 10,000 health workers and some medical supplies. The hospitals provided thousands of beds and served areas encompassing more than 25 million people - over half the population.
Neighbouring Pakistain is closely watching the development, a senior government official told Rooters. Pakistain, a major destination for healthcare for Afghans, routinely has thousands of medical visa applications lodged with its embassy, officials said.
"We are concerned about a further influx of medical patients," said the Pak official, who declined to be identified to speak openly about sensitive diplomatic issues.
Pakistain's foreign office did not reply to request for comment.
There is growing alarm over cuts to aid to Afghanistan, where the U.N. humanitarian plan for 2023 is only 25% funded, even after requested budget was downgraded from $4.6 billion to $3.2 billion.
Diplomats and aid officials say concerns over Taliban restrictions on women alongside competing global humanitarian crises are causing donors to pull back on financial support. The Taliban has ordered most Afghan female aid staff not to work, though granted exemptions in health and education.
Almost three-quarters of Afghanistan's population are now in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the aid agencies.
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Surely Islamic charities will promptly and gladly take up the slack?
Or is it just those icky Christians who care about the sick and caring for them?
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The mooselimbs have the 'Red Crescent' that has sort of the same stated mission, so there's that.
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Red Crescent because their branch of the International Red Cross in 1929 refused to serve under a Christian sign, insisting on their own. When the Israeli branch of the organization tried to do the same, Magen David Adom (Red Jewish Star) was blackballed for their presumption until 2006.
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[Regnum] At a meeting in Accra, the capital of Ghana, the chiefs of general staff of the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) agreed to launch a military invasion of Niger, without naming a specific date. The corresponding statement of the organization's commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, Abdel Fatau Musakh, was broadcast on August 18 by the Al Jazeera TV channel.
ECOWAS DETERMINED BUT DID NOT DISCLOSE THE DATE OF THE INVASION OF NIGER
“We are ready to move at any time when the order is given. D-Day is also decided. We have already agreed and finalized what is required for the intervention,” Musakh said. "Shhhh. It's a secret"
The ECOWAS commissioner stressed that the organization is still preparing a mediation mission to Niger, so "not a single door has been closed."
Musah added that what is happening in Niger is part of a series of upheavals in the region, ECOWAS will try to put an end to this.
As reported by IA Regnum , earlier the head of the ruling in Niger after the coup d'état "National Council for the Defense of the Fatherland" General Abdurahman Tchiani agreed to start negotiations with the leaders of ECOWAS. He expressed his desire to diplomatically resolve the situation in the country that arose as a result of a coup d'état and the removal of Niger's President Mohamed Bazum from power.
On the night of July 27, a rebellion took place in Niger, organized by a group of military men. Its participants seized power in the country and overthrew the incumbent President Bazum.
On 30 July, ECOWAS held its first meeting on the situation in Niger. The organization gave the rebels a week to restore constitutional order in the country, otherwise ECOWAS promised to take the measures it deems necessary.
In turn, the rebels who seized power in Niger, at a meeting with the arrived in Niamey and. O. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland threatened to kill deposed President Mohamed Bazum if neighboring states invaded the country.
Burkina Faso and Mali deployed combat aircraft to respond to any aggression against Niger. This was reported in the publication of the RTN channel in the social network X.
"These two brotherly countries have deployed warplanes to respond to any form of aggression against Niger," the channel said on social media.
The exact location of the aircraft is not specified.
At the same time, according to the channel, the officers of the General Staffs of the three countries met in Niamey.
In late July, the military in Niger announced the removal of President Mohamed Bazum from power. The leaders of most Western countries and ECOWAS condemned the coup.
In early August, community members adopted a plan in case of military intervention in Niger. Last week, the bloc's heads of state called for an early invasion. This decision was supported by the USA and France.
At the same time, it was specified that the chiefs of the general staffs of the ECOWAS member countries would hold several more conferences to finalize the issues. Later it became known that the countries of the organization had already agreed on the date for the introduction of troops.
The Associated Press reported, citing sources, that rebels in Niger told Deputy State Department Secretary Victoria Nuland that they would kill Mohamed Bazum if they intervened.
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Oh good! World War Africa is about to kick off, with American and French troops and Russian mercenaries mixed in for good measure. What could possibly go wrong?
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s seek to privatize the Judiciary Council Higher Institute in Sanaa and limit the education to the group's supporters and members.
Local activists circulated documents issued by the Houthis, which included new conditions for applying to the Institute.
Judicial sources in Sanaa described these conditions as racially discriminatory and incapacitating to prevent all those wishing to get judicial studies from joining the Institute, limiting it to the group's supporters and members.
The documents included new conditions for applying to study at the Institute.
Applicants should be from a family with an active role in the war and confronting the legitimate government and the Arab coalition supporting it. They must have enrolled in the Houthi cultural and intellectual courses and participated in the fighting.
The Houthis also set conditions for new applicants wishing to study at the Department of Higher Specialized Studies and Diploma in Criminal Sciences that they pay for all study and training expenses if accepted.
The conditions were met with widespread student and societal rejection for violating the law stipulating free education and training at the Institute.
Applicants must also write a summary of their "jihadists history," asserting their readiness to join the fronts when summoned by the field commanders.
- Raids and threats
The application must also include the student's attestation to the information provided by the governor, the security and intelligence directors, the mobilization representative, and the general supervisor.
Several students who passed the entrance exams and have scientific and academic qualifications expressed dissatisfaction with these conditions, accusing the group of turning the institution into a profit-making organization.
Speaking to Asharq al-Awsat, the students explained that the Houthi terms aim to deprive them of the same status as their former colleagues, adding that the Institute's authority seeks to exclude them from limiting education to their followers.
- Unqualified students
In 2018, the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i government announced that it would not recognize the results of the Judiciary Council Higher Institute under Houthi control and transferred the Institute to the interim capital, Aden.
The legitimate authorities began facilitating students' enrollment and education.
The Houthi militia pushed large numbers of its members and the sons of its leaders to study at the Institute after it successively dispensed with the services of thousands of officers and workers in the Ministry of Interior and Intelligence.
Informed sources in Sanaa confirmed that many of the new members of the Judiciary Institute failed the admission tests, accusing the militias of recruiting unqualified students, in violation of the law, as part of their plan to control the judiciary.
The Houthi militia faced criticism, pressure, and protests by Yemeni students, activists, and lawyers against the backdrop of enrolling hundreds of its members yearly who lack the necessary qualifications.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, Dawah, and Guidance Dr. Abdullatif al-Sheikh said that the ministry was gradually applying a strategy to save the country from destructive ideas that nurture divisions in the homeland.
In an interview with Asharq al-Awsat, al-Sheikh noted that the ministry has been monitoring mosques and has exempted a small number of preachers from their duty, due to their deviant ideology.
A number of preachers have used social media platforms to spread bad boy ideas that contradict the values of moderation, the minister said, adding: "We do not care about those... They talk about ignorance and hatred and few people listen to them..."
Al-Sheikh stressed that 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... has long suffered from bad boy ideas, which resulted in the killing of innocent people in mosques and others.
"These actions used to take place in the name of religion, preaching and guidance. [Preachers] used these means to reach their goals, either to destroy the country or to steal donations and zakat... This was in the past, but now the citizens have become aware and conscious... The state is strong and the regulations are applied," he remarked.
There are about 90,000 mosques in Saudi Arabia, and this number is increasing day by day.
With this expansion, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs assumed an important role, al-Sheikh said, beginning with examining the situation in mosques and studying the conditions of all preachers without exception.
He added that more than 95 percent of preachers maintained their duties, while the rest of them were exempted due to their deviant ideology and teachings.
"All mosques are subject to follow-up and support, including the small ones," the minister underlined.
In this context, al-Sheikh confirmed that the ministry did a very great job and had a well-thought-out strategy that was gradually applied to save Saudi Arabia from those with destructive ideas that were feeding divisions and seeking to drag the country into hotbeds of strife.
In a step to end the exploitation of platforms and mosques, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs has developed a special program that does not allow any association or imam to employ any preacher or lecturer, except by referring to the regulations of program, which seeks to eliminate all ideas that contradict the Qur’an and the Islamic teachings.
He clarified that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has worked to uproot elements he described as "noxious and malignant."
"We continue to monitor, and these matters will hold no sway," the minister told Asharq al-Awsat.
Al-Sheikh’s remarks came in the wake of the conclusion of the international Islamic conference, which was held under the patronage of the King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques , King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians... bin Abdulaziz.
The conference, organized by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Makkah, saw the participation of 150 scholars and muftis from the heads of Islamic centers and associations in 85 countries around the globe.
According to al-Sheikh, this international gathering had many goals, which could be summarized in "strengthening links of communication and integration between the departments of religious affairs, ifta’s, and sheikhdoms in the world."
"This is an important and powerful factor in changing the conceived ideas about Islam, in addition to demonstrating the efforts of these sheikhdoms to achieve the principles of moderation and to promote the values of tolerance and coexistence among peoples," he told Asharq al-Awsat.
The minister also emphasized that the conference served noble objectives, by spreading true Islamic values grounded in the Koran and the Prophet’s teachings.
These values promote moderation, compassion, and reject violence, extremism, fanaticism, and terrorism, he emphasized.
Al-Sheikh added that the conference sought to promote Islamic unity among Moslems, while fighting bad boy ideas, and protecting societies from atheism and dissolution. He pointed out that all scholars unanimously agreed to unite in combating terrorism and spreading moderation and tolerance.
He went on to say that there was a collective awareness at the level of nations and societies to combat such extremism.
The Minister of Islamic Affairs affirmed that Saudi Arabia paid great attention to the affairs of Islam and Moslems around the world, by addressing their needs and aspirations, and providing them with support in various fields.
"Saudi Arabia is steadfast in its faith, proud of its values, and calls upon the entire world to embrace this approach that embodies goodness, mercy, advocacy, moderation, and the rejection of extremism, radicalism, and atheism," he added.
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No longer leaving religious matters in the hand of the Wahhabis, a partnership dating back to the mid-18th century, when ibn Saud was merely the emir of the town of Diriyah, near Riyadh? That’ll be helpful.
[IsraelTimes] Dutch man desecrates holy book outside Ottoman Turkish embassy in the Hague, infuriating counter-protesters, in the latest in a string of similar incidents in Europe
A Dutch far-right activist trampled on and tore up a copy of the Koran at a demonstration outside the Ottoman Turkish embassy in The Hague on Friday, infuriating dozens of counter-protesters.
The Dutch government had already condemned the holding of the demonstration ahead of the event, but said it had no legal powers to prevent it.
Edwin Wagensveld, who leads the Dutch branch of the far-right group Pegida, damaged a copy of the Koran, AFP correspondents witnessed. He was accompanied by two other people.
Police had sealed off access to the street where the Ottoman Turkish embassy is located and there were around fifty counter-protesters also present.
Some of them began throwing stones at Wagensveld when he tore up pages from the Koran, the holy book of Islam.
Around 20 police equipped with shields and batons intervened when some of the crowd tried to chase after him as he left.
On Friday morning Dilan Yesilgoz, the Netherlands’ Ottoman Turkish-born justice minister, described the plan to destroy the holy book as "fairly primitive and pathetic."
But the country’s laws authorized such a demonstration, she added.
Wagensveld nevertheless faces trial for comments he made during a similar demonstration in January, when he tore up a copy of the Koran outside parliament while likening the book to Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... ’s "Mein Kampf."
A T-shirt he wore at Friday’s demonstration made a similar claim.
Geert Wilders, the leader of another far-right party, the PVV, posted a message online supporting Friday’s demonstration by Pegida.
Similar attacks on the Koran have taken place in other European countries recently. In late July, two men set fire to a copy of the Koran in front of the Swedish parliament, and similar incidents have taken place in Denmark this year. Such demonstrations have provoked anger and sometimes unrest and violence in Moslem countries.
On Thursday, Sweden’s intelligence agency heightened its terror alert level to four on a scale of five in response to the angry reactions in the Moslem world to Koran burning ...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship.... s.
[IsraelTimes] Swedish police detained a woman Friday who sprayed an anti-Islam activist with a fire extinguisher as he staged a Koran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!... in Stockholm.
Video of the scene showed the woman rushing up to Salwan Momika and spraying white powder toward him before she was intercepted by plainclothes coppers who led her away. Momika, who appeared stunned but unhurt, then resumed his demonstration, which had been authorized by police.
Police spokeswoman Towe Hägg said the woman, who was not identified by police, was detained on suspicion of disturbing public order and violence against a police officer.
Momika, a refugee from Iraq, has desecrated the Koran in a series of anti-Islam protests that have caused anger in many Moslem countries. Swedish police have allowed his demonstrations, citing freedom of speech while filing preliminary hate speech charges against him.
Prosecutors are investigating whether his actions are permissible under Sweden’s hate speech law, which prohibits incitement of hatred against groups or individuals based on race, religion or sexual orientation. Momika says his protests target the religion of Islam, not Moslem people.
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[Regnum] Far-right Norwegian extremist Anders Breivik is dissatisfied with his imprisonment and has filed a lawsuit against the country's authorities, Reuters reported, citing the terrorist's lawyer.
According to the human rights activist, Breivik sued the Norwegian authorities because of the 11-year stay in "extreme" isolation, he does not contact anyone except his guards.
“Last year he was transferred to a new prison, and we hoped that there would be better conditions and that he would be able to meet other people,” the lawyer said.
Breivik in 2011 set off a powerful explosive device in the capital of Norway, the city of Oslo. Eight people were killed in the explosion, and hundreds more were injured. On the same day, he fired on the island of Utøya, where the participants of the rally of the youth wing of the Social Democratic Workers' Party gathered. Then he shot the participants of the youth forum on the island of Utøya. 77 people died. The terrorist was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
As IA Regnum reported, in the fall of 2020, the right-wing radical Anders Breivik, who committed the terrorist attack in 2011, filed a petition for parole, since in 2021 the minimum allowable period of his stay in prison expired according to the sentence received. Representatives of the Norwegian prosecutor's office stated that there were no prerequisites for the release of the terrorist.
Just because the sentence can be shortened by as much as half does not mean it must be shortened. And Norwegian law apparently allows for extensions beyond the original sentence for those deemed still dangerous to society. Mr. Breivik’s file goes back to early childhood interventions due to concerns that he was emotionally damaged by a hateful mother and an absent father, compounded by the time of crime by months of using anabolic steroids, ephedra, and caffeine.
State Attorney Hulda Karlsdottir said in January 2022 that Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, who was convicted of killing 77 people in 2011 and who wants to get out of jail on parole, could commit a new crime.
That, too. Though that argument could be made at any point before his body is dead and buried, suggesting that 21 years is not nearly long enough.
[Dawn] Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Friday that all damaged churches in Jaranwala will be restored by next week.
"Assessments are being made to gauge the extent of damage to destroyed homes, and financial assistance will be provided to affected families accordingly," Mr Naqvi said.
Mr Naqvi told a delegation of Christian leaders at the Chief Minister’s Office that the destroyed churches would be restored, latest by Tuesday, and compensation paid to those whose homes have been damaged.
"Assessments are being made to gauge the extent of damage to destroyed homes, and financial assistance will be provided to affected families accordingly," Mr Naqvi said. He said more arrests were being made and those involved in this heinous crime would not escape punishment. "We have video footages and other evidence to apprehend and bring the culprits of the tragedy to justice," he said.
The delegation of minority leaders — comprising Senator Kamran Michael, Bishop Azad Marshall, former MPA Shakeel Marcus Khokhar, Shahzad Gull, Pastor Jameel Nasir, Colonel McDonald Chandy, Pastor Anwar Fazal, Pastor Waseemullah Khokhar, Bishop Sebastian Shah — underscored the need to take swift action against the culprits to prevent such incidents in the future.
Doubts over blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... allegations
Also on Friday, two key officials cast doubt on the allegations of desecration of the Holy Koran, which became the basis for the mob’s rampage in Jaranwala.
In an interview with Rooters, Punjab police chief Usman Anwar said that pages of the Holy Koran were found in a street with derogatory comments written on them in red.
One attached extra page also carried the names, addresses and national identity card numbers of the accused. Police were investigating all angles as to why the names and addresses would be attached, he told Rooters.
That does indeed seem odd.
These concerns were echoed by caretaker Punjab information minister Amir Mir.
Speaking to Geo News anchorperson Shahzad Iqbal on Friday night, he said: "Initial investigation indicates that this was a conspiracy to provoke religious sentiments among the Moslem population and create a riot-like situation. The investigation is ongoing, and once completed, all findings will be made public".
He claimed there were currently two theories: "One suggests foreign involvement, while the other points to local religious elements. When a foreign force plans an activity, they employ their agents in the country to incite unrest. Then, sometimes, when individuals of different faiths, such as Christians and Moslems, are engaged in a dispute, a situation is fabricated to exploit religious sentiments for personal gain."
"Consider how it all began — just after the Fajr prayers, when some individuals exiting the mosque found pages of the Holy Koran with inappropriate words written on them. Interestingly, the names of a Christian man... and his two sons were written on the pages in red ink, along with their telephone numbers and addresses, and their photos were also attached," he said.
Later, the men were held responsible for desecrating the holy book, he said, asking: "Do you think anyone planning blasphemy would write their own name, address, and telephone number and leave the pages in front of a mosque?"
Human interest stories including of Muslim neighbours who hid fleeing Christians, finishing with this:
[Dawn] Azeem, the pastor’s son, said the miscreants burnt Catholic Church, then Salvation Army Church first, and later the UP and All Evangel Covenant Church. He claimed that about 25 big and small churches were attacked in Jaranwala tehsil, but many of the incidents remained unreported.
“Four churches were burnt in Noora Colony, three in Mohranwala, two in Aik Bees Wali Aabadi, five in Shehruanawala and Kamuana, one in village Dhebian in Chak 55.”
According to Azeem, the attacks continued throughout the day on Wednesday and the attackers burnt the church at Chakoo Morr at 8pm.
I visited three burnt churches in the close vicinity of Essa Nagri; six in total. A small church between the UP Church and All Evangel Covenant Church was completely destroyed.
According to the Punjab government, over 100 people, including activists of the krazed killer group Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP), have been taken into custody for attacking homes and churches of Christians over the alleged blasphemy.
A case has been registered against 600 suspects under terrorism and blasphemy charges," Punjab caretaker information minister Amir Mir said in a statement on Thursday. He said peace has been restored in the area and a heavy contingent of police and Rangers has been deployed outside churches and homes of the minority Christian community.
Mir said police foiled many attempts aimed at damaging various buildings. "The chief minister has ordered a high-level investigation into the matter and those involved in this heinous crime will not escape justice," he said. The district administration has imposed section 144 for seven days, prohibiting all kinds of assembly, except for events organised by the government in Jaranwala. All educational institutions, markets and business establishments remained closed in Jaranwala on Thursday.
Christian community leaders in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... on Thursday assessed the damage to their holy places and houses in Jaranwala. A total of 21 churches have either been torched or vandalised over false accusations of blasphemy, they said, adding that copies of hundreds of Bible were set on fire.
"Twenty-one churches and 35 houses of Christians including a pastor's residence were either burnt down completely or ransacked by the mob on Wednesday," Pak Centre for Law and Justice Napoleon Qayyum told PTI on Thursday. He said although peace has been restored in the area due to the heavy deployment of police, Christians fear that Islamists might strike again.
More than 3,000 coppers and two companies of Pakistain Rangers have been deployed in Jaranwala following Wednesday's riots. "Most of the Christians left the area on Wednesday to save their lives and they will return only once action is taken against those who are involved in attacks on churches and Christian houses," Qayyum said.
He said since Shaukat Masih, a Christian, was the Assistant Commissioner (AC) of Jaranwala, some local Moslems had an issue with it. "On the pretext of blasphemy, they first moved to the AC's office to attack him. Mr Masih was lucky to escape," he said. "Had the authorities in Pakistain brought those involved in attacks on Christians and their holy places to justice in the past, the Jaranwala incident might have been averted," Qayyum said, demanding the government rein in radical TLP members who are on the forefront to target minorities in Pakistain.
[IsraelTimes] July’s unrest in Jenin exposed Paleostinians’ seething resentment toward their semi-autonomous government and forced a reckoning for their beaten-down security forces
Last month, after the biggest Israeli military raid on a Paleostinian refugee camp in the West Bank in years, Paleostinians turned their wrath on their own security forces.
They unleashed gunfire, Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs at Paleostinian security buildings in an outpouring of rage against the Paleostinian Authority’s failure to protect them from the July 3 raid and a long-running, deeply unpopular security alliance with Israel.
"The horrible events of that night reminded us of the lead-up to the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", coup in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ," the head of police in Jenin, Brig. Gen. Azzam Jebara, said at a ceremony this week for officers who defended a cop shoppe from rampaging protesters. "It was a warning."
Scarred by the Hamas terror group’s violent mostly peaceful takeover of Gaza from Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... ’s forces in 2007, the PA has cooperated with Israel to suppress the Islamist movement and keep the secular nationalist Fatah party in power in the West Bank. Hamas is both a major threat to Israel and the biggest rival to Fatah.
The July unrest exposed Paleostinians’ seething resentment toward their semi-autonomous government and forced a reckoning for their beaten-down security forces, who in their blue camouflage uniforms have come to embody the tensions tearing at Paleostinian society. Widely derided for working with Israel, the forces remain a striking symbol of Paleostinian hopes for statehood.
Seeking to regain trust during a lull in Israeli military raids, Paleostinian police have launched a campaign to restore order in the city of Jenin, long a bastion of crime adjacent to the militarized refugee camp.
But the force’s efforts to seize cars, cash and drugs have also revealed their limits. As radical Jewish settler attacks and Israeli military raids surge under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, the law enforcement system in Jenin has teetered on the brink of collapse.
"If we think we’re establishing control now, we’re not fooling ourselves," said Ibrahim Abahre, deputy head of Preventive Security, a domestic intelligence agency, in Jenin. "At any moment, the Israeli army could enter and everything could explode."
Since the spring of last year, button men from the Jenin refugee camp, where Paleostinian forces are no longer in control, have carried out dozens of shooting attacks in the West Bank and Israel. Israeli soldiers have repeatedly raided the camp to kill and capture suspected assailants.
On July 3, Israeli special forces entered the camp under the cover of dronezaps, killing 12 Paleostinians, wounding dozens and causing massive damage amid the fighting.
According to the IDF, all of the slain Paleostinians were involved in the fighting, but there were some non-combatants among the maimed.
An Israeli soldier was also killed in the operation, which recalled one of the biggest battles of the second Paleostinian uprising over 20 years ago.
According to a tally by The Times of Israel, 172 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed across the West Bank in 2023 as a result of the conflict — most of them during festivities with security forces or while carrying out attacks, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed in unclear circumstances, including by armed Israeli settlers. It’s the territory’s highest corpse count in nearly two decades. Paleostinian attacks on Israelis have killed 27 people this year.
Israel says its incursions are counter-terrorism efforts prompted by the reluctance of Paleostinian security forces to intervene against terror operatives.
"There is a line drawn as to how many Israelis can be killed while the Paleostinians work out their internal struggles," said an Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because he was not authorized to talk to news hounds. "At some point, we just have to go in."
Paleostinians accuse Israel of trying to undermine their security efforts.
"They want to embarrass us," said acting Jenin governor Kamal Abu al-Rub. The Israeli raids, Paleostinian officials say, have inflamed tensions, stoked anger toward the Paleostinian Authority and inspired increased militancy.
"We understand the Paleostinian Authority has lost power," said Maj. Gen. Akram Rajoub, a longtime security commander and former Jenin governor. "But we are trying to control the chaos that erupts when Israel invades. Chaos is what undermines respect for the authority."
In the camp, independent fighters drawn from a new generation of Paleostinians have fortified the ranks of groups like Fatah, Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... . Fighters say they’ve seen the Paleostinian Authority, which promised them statehood, morph into a subcontractor for Israeli occupation that can barely pay salaries or provide municipal services.
"Abbas can have his politics. My specialty is resistance," said 32-year-old Abu Suleiman, who served as a major in the security forces before being suspended for his bully boy activity.
"Everything the Paleostinian Authority does is in Israel’s interest," he added from his living room, its shattered windows taped shut, walls pockmarked from July’s raid. He gave only his nom de guerre because he is wanted by the Israeli military.
At the funeral last month for those killed in the raid, jostling crowds shouted insults at bigwigs from the ruling Fatah party and chased them out of the camp. "Collaborators!" they chanted — a reference to Paleostinian intelligence coordination with Israel.
"It was a natural, collective response to say, ’Wake up. Your job is to defend and protect us here, and you have failed,’" said 51-year-old Nidal Naghnagheyeh, the head of a committee running projects in the camp.
A week after the raid, 87-year-old Abbas visited the camp for the first time in over a decade to display solidarity. Paleostinian security forces began to rebuild their presence in Jenin — a bid to show they can impose order without Israeli interference. Israel’s army scaled back its operations in the camp to allow for that, the Israeli military official said.
Paleostinian authorities have deployed 1,000 new security officers from Abbas’s presidential guard across the city of Jenin. They have set up checkpoints to catch criminals who have long taken refuge in the city. Terror operatives are lying low, officials say, rather than shooting in the air and showing off their M-16s in the streets.
In the weeks since, police say they’ve seized scores of stolen cars from the streets, confiscated hundreds of narcotic pills and arrested 364 criminals, including over a dozen wanted in cold murder cases. Authorities are preparing to inaugurate a local prison.
Vendors without permits have been expelled from Jenin’s outdoor market and sent outside the city center.
But the law-and-order campaign does not extend to the territory’s greatest source of instability — the Jenin refugee camp. Police say they won’t disarm button men wanted by Israel or make arrests in the camp, underscoring the complexity of the security situation.
But even the stepped-up police tactics have rankled button men, who drive stolen cars to commit shooting attacks, carry smuggled weapons and own unlicensed vegetable stands. Last month the mayor, who helped devise the Jenin market makeover, narrowly escaped when peddlers angry about losing their income opened fire on his car.
"At night we face the Israeli army and during the day the Paleostinian Authority is now after us," Abu Suleiman said, adding that he had been stopped this week by plainclothes Paleostinian police who almost opened fire, mistaking the men for undercover Israeli soldiers. "At some point, hell will break loose."
Jebara, the police chief, said authorities’ failure to dismantle gangs is tantamount to the failure of the Paleostinian national project, which officers like him had hoped they were building.
"I joined the police force 21 years ago because I wanted to be accountable to my people, to impose illusory sovereignty on our own land," he said. "Now Israeli settlements have killed our state. Where does that leave us?"
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Israel should announce that the Jenin camp will be closed in four months and all people moved to a new location. A camp built in the Negev. This will result in a huge response, and Israel can counter by closing a camp that has been a thorn in everyone's side for years.
[IsraelTimes] Hamza Abu Sneineh, 30, was hit by rubber bullet fired by police, causing him to lose eye and suffer multiple skull fractures; Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror groups hail ’martyr’
Attacks on Jews visiting the Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount are the pet project of the militant arm of Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, the so-called Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement...
A Paleostinian resident of East Jerusalem died Thursday from wounds sustained during a major clash with police at the flashpoint Temple Mount site in May 2021, days before an 11-day conflict broke out between Israel and Gazook terror groups, Paleostinian media reported.
Hamza Abu Sneineh, 30, a father of two girls, was hit by a rubber-tipped bullet causing him to lose his left eye and leading to multiple skull fractures.
He was treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem and then later released, but was in poor health ever since, reports said.
His condition deteriorated a few weeks ago, and he died Thursday evening. He was buried Friday morning near the Old City’s Lions’ Gate.
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups both issued statements calling Abu Sneineh a "martyr."
It backed "the steadfastness of our Jerusalemites in the face of Judaization and sacrilege attempts, which will remain the center of confrontation until freedom and salvation."
Abu Sneineh was injured on the night of May 7, 2021, when police burst into the al-Aqsa Mosque after Paleostinians threw rocks and bottles at officers, amid widespread festivities and spiraling tensions in Jerusalem during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan.
Tensions continued to skyrocket until Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Israel on the evening of May 10, 2021, prompting the Israel Defense Forces to launch Operation Guardian of the Walls in the enclave.
During the conflict, severe, unprecedented intercommunal violence spread to mixed Jewish-Arab cities across Israel.
[IranInternationalNews] The former chairman of Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee says one in every five Afghans now lives in Iran.
Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh told Faraz Daily website that "every day some 10,000 Afghans arrive in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... as illegal immigrants colonists and surprisingly, they get a job and a place to live within two days." He said it is as if there is a well-organized system that arranges this influx.
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