[Libya Herald] The row over a schoolbook on Islamic culture which approves suicide kabooms against those seen as enemies of Islam has taken a fresh turn with the head of the education ministry’s curriculum department denying responsibility for it.
The book, which has being circulated to school students, was issued by the ministry under the authority of the Presidency Council’s Government of National Accord. The controversial text says that jacket wallahs go to paradise while all other suicides ‐ those who are trying to escape their problems in life ‐ are doomed to hell.
The inclusion of the text has drawn massive criticism of the ministry on social media for spreading false doctrine and potentially radicalising young people.
Denying responsibility for it, the head of the curriculum centre, Taher al-Habib, is reported saying that it was first introduced into the book in 2005 but then dropped in 2007. It was then reintroduced by the pro-Islamist "National Salvation Government" of Khalifa Ghwell in 2015. As such, he suggests, his department was not responsible for coming up with it.
He has, however, agreed that in future, the text will be deleted.
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[ARABNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is to ask German authorities to extradite a top suspect in last year’s failed coup who still remains on the lam, state media said on Tuesday.
A request for Adil Oksuz to be extradited from Germany has been prepared following a demand from an Ankara criminal court, the Anadolu news agency said.
Berlin has never confirmed if Oksuz is in the country, but Turkey in August asked the German government to formally investigate reported sightings of him.
Ankara blames the doomed July 15, 2016, coup attempt to oust President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , and has implemented a ruthless crackdown on his suspected supporters.
Turkey has pressed Washington ‐ so far without success ‐ to extradite Gulen, who denies the allegations, from his Pennsylvania compound to face trial in Turkey.
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[IsraelTimes] PM Trudeau pledges to prosecute those returning button men who broke anti-terror laws, but also says his government will try to reintegrate them into society
Canada is concerned about the national security threat posed by citizens who joined 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.... group returning to this country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday.
In parliament, Trudeau pledged to prosecute those who broke Canada’s anti-terrorism laws by joining the IS group, but also said his government would try to reintegrate them into society.
"We recognize the return of even one individual (who joined the IS group) may have serious national security implications," Trudeau said.
"We are going to monitor them. We are also there to help them to let go of that terrorist ideology," he added.
Nearly 180 Canadians are known to have traveled overseas to join the IS group. About 60 have returned to Canada, according to government figures released in 2016.
Only two returnees have been prosecuted under Canada’s anti-terrorism act, so far.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale last week explained the difficulties of gathering evidence in war zones for successful criminal prosecutions.
He rejected, however, the use of extrajudicial killings used by allies to solve the problem, telling public broadcaster CBC: "Canada does not engage in death squads."
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[Circa] A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked President Trump’s executive order to cut funding from so called "sanctuary cities."
Trump’s order would have removed some federal funds from cities that limit their cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.
U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick Oh, him again.
rejected the Trump administration’s argument that the measure only applies to a relatively small pool of money.
Orrick also said that Trump cannot set fresh conditions on spending that Congress has previously approved. Next up: The Supremes!
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Just encourage private citizens victimized by illegals to sue their sanctuary authorities. And level business destroying fines on anybody caught employing illegals.
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he was bundling cash for Obama and Dems
"Public Citizen, a liberal group founded by Ralph Nader, reported that Judge Orrick raised $200,000 for Barack Obama as well as personally donating $30,000 to committees supporting his campaign. In 2004, Orrick also bundled $100,000 for John Kerry’s failed presidential campaign."
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Long past time to investigate this judge for corruption.
We are talking about CRIMINAL illegal aliens. That's who the feds want. And that's who this asshole is preventing punishment of - people that knowingly harbor and protect wanted federal criminals.
Congress can fix this. Pass a law explicitly revoking any form of immunity for local governments AND individual actors (officials, police officers, etc) in the case of failure to enforce federal immigration laws against criminal illegal aliens. And add a crime of deliberate failure (i.e. refusing to execute the law or interfereing with the law enforcement efforts) to enforce that allows a civil suit to be brought in federal court against not only the organizations but against the individuals.
Then sit back and watch "sanctuary" for criminal illegal aliens suddenly disappear when Councilwoman Libtard and Councilman ChamberofCommerceTool get sued and lose their homes and savings.
And before you go all 11th amendment, look at this case, its long-established precedent.
[DAWN] The Trump administration on Monday asked the United States Supreme Court to allow its latest travel ban to take full effect.
A federal appeals court ruling last week had allowed 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 newest version of the ban to take effect partially.
That ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the administration to ban people from six mostly Moslem countries unless they have a "bona fide" relationship with someone in the US.
Last month, a federal judge in Hawaii had blocked most of Trump's third travel ban just before it was due to take effect.
A judge in Maryland separately blocked it to a lesser degree, saying Trump could bar people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... as long as they did not have "bona fide" relationships with people or organizations already in the US.
The travel ban also applies to travellers from North Korea and to some Venezuelan government officials and their families, but the lawsuits did not challenge those restrictions.
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SCOTUS needs to start policing up some of their rogue partisan judges
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Congress needs to start policing up some rogue political judges.
[IsraelTimes] Sayfullo Saipov accused of supporting Islamic State, indicted on 8 counts of murder for October 31 rampage on Manhattan bike path.
A 22-count indictment was returned Tuesday against a New Jersey man in the slayings of eight people during a truck attack on a bike path in New York City.
Sayfullo Saipov, 29, of Paterson, was charged in Manhattan federal court with providing material support to the Islamic State
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What? Governor Cum-Oh the Lesser couldn't issue a cultural exemption certificate or something?
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[RefugeeResettlementWatch] We told you on Saturday that in order to hammer home the idea that Muslims are victims in the age of Trump, CAIR Minnesota held a public meeting at the St. Cloud library where they presented a panel of Japanese Americans and asked‐could this happen here?
Of course the ’this’ is the incarceration of tens of thousands of Muslims as the Roosevelt Administration did to the Japanese in WWII.
Their propaganda stunt backfired on CAIR when their leader in Minnesota, Jaylani Hussein, refused to answer a straightforward question about CAIR, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
He went one step further in demonstrating that instead of being helpless victims, they are actually the bullies when he said CAIR carried a big stick‐a statement that put no one at ease.
Here is Hohmann at World Net Daily:
The Minnesota leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations was asked during a community meeting Saturday if he would renounce the terrorist organization Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
He refused.
The event at the St. Cloud Public Library was part of CAIR’s ongoing "anti-Islamophobia" campaign that it launched in the wake of the election one year ago of President Donald Trump.
About 30 people attended the event Saturday, and they were told Muslims are on the verge of being rounded up and placed in internment camps, just like the Japanese were in 1942 under an executive order signed by President Franklin Roosevelt.
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Jaylani Hussein then presented the Somali refugee community in Minnesota as victims of the latest American racism, taking the form of anti-Muslim bigotry equal to that leveled against the Chinese and Japanese leading up to World War II.
One of the presenters suggested it might take only one trigger moment and the same could happen to Muslims. However....
Local resident Elizabeth Baklaich reminded the professor that America "already had that trigger moment."
"That trigger moment was 9/11. There were 3,000 people who died," she said. "... [T]hat was a direct attack that was followed up by war, and if we were going to make this same maneuver against Muslims, it would have happened. ... I just wanted to bring that up because I think that’s a fundamental flaw in your thesis," Baklaich said.
To Hussein, she directed another question.
"I heard you talk about fear Jaylani, and there’s one thing you could do very easily that would help alleviate a tremendous amount of fear in this community," Baklaich said.
She reminded him of the FBI evidence presented in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial of 2007 that showed CAIR is a front group for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
"If you want to be our friend, and you want to be part of the community, and want us to accept you more, and work with you and be less fearful of what’s coming in, and what’s going on, are you willing to condemn both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood?" she asked.
Not only did he not condemn Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, in a rambling and increasingly defensive answer he said that CAIR carried a big stick!
[DAWN] Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... , chief of his own faction of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... (JUI-S), has said that the electoral alliance with the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) will not be limited to Nowshera district, rather it will be on all constituencies across the country.
Quoting Maulana Haq, his personal assistant Ahmed Shah told Dawn that details of the alliance would be made public after the party’s Majlis-e-Shura meeting in Lahore on Nov 29.
He said the alliance would be on all seats across the country, adding that seats on which the JUI-S candidates would contest in the coming general elections would be announced after the Shura meeting.
He said the election manifesto, flag and symbol would be decided later. In reply to a question, he said the two parties had mutual understanding on all national and international issues, adding that the alliance was being made in the best interest of Pakistain and its people.
He said that ideologies of both parties had similarities and they were ready to work together.
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[DAWN] Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law retired captain Muhammad Safdar have arrived at an accountability court in Islamabad as trial resumes into the corruption references filed against them by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
A number of senior PML-N leaders were present at the court to welcome Sharif at the court.
The court had last week accepted the ousted premier's application for exemption from court hearings till November 27. However, Sharif has appeared before the court today due to a change in his plans.
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[DAWN] A US mother held hostage by Taliban ...Arabic for students... -linked holy warriors for five years has detailed the violence and sexual assault she said she endured in captivity, and regretted that her young son was also beaten.
"This was an intolerable situation for a child to be in," Caitlan Coleman Boyle, 31, told ABC News in a television interview broadcast on Monday.
Coleman Boyle gave birth to three children in captivity. She and her Canadian husband were kidnapped by the Haqqani network while travelling through a remote area of Afghanistan ‐ for reasons that remain unclear ‐ in 2012.
The family were released last month in Pakistain and are now trying to rebuild their lives in Canada.
She said their guards "could be very violent, even sometimes with the children," assaulting their now four-year-old son with a stick, and hitting her and her husband.
"I would get beaten or hit or thrown on the ground," she told ABC News. She broke a cheekbone and three fingers while intervening to protect the children, her husband, Joshua Boyle, 34, told ABC.
They made toys out of bottle caps and bits of cardboard, and fearing the family could be beheaded, they made up a game based on England’s Charles I, who was executed in 1649, and Oliver Cromwell, she said.
"Obviously with people like this, the idea of a beheading is always on the table, so he certainly knew that this type of thing could happen to his family but then we would come up with games to make it not seem so scary," she said.
"He had great fun pretending to be Oliver Cromwell and chasing Charles I around and trying to behead him," she said. "We made it a game so that he wasn’t afraid."
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[Ynet] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... said on Tuesday it had accepted a proposal from Iraq to pay 0.5 percent of its 2018 oil proceeds towards compensation for $4.6 billion owed to Kuwait for destruction of its oil facilities during the 1990-91 Gulf War occupation.
Payments from the fund, which were suspended since October 2014 due to security and budgetary challenges faced by Iraq, will escalate annually until the end of 2021, the UN Compensation Commission (UNCC) said in a statement, adding that Kuwait had accepted the proposal.
"Based on oil price and export projections, this would result in payment in full of the outstanding claim award," it said, referring to the claim by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, the largest approved by the Geneva-based UNCC.
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Saddam's savaging of his hated Kuwaiti neighbors and the disappearing of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens (whom I believe remain disappeared) is a seldom discussed media topic. It simply doesn't fit the anti Iraq war narrative.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... voiced his rejection of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... ’s statement that categorized Hezbollah as a terrorist militia following its extraordinary meeting on Sunday.
Aoun told the vaporous Arab League chief who is visiting Beirut that he rejects hints that the government is a partner in terrorist acts. He also adopted Hezbollah’s stance regarding its illegitimate weapons and justified their presence by citing Israeli threats.
This comes after Arab League foreign ministers held an extraordinary summit in Cairo upon 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... ’s request after Houthi ...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 Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. 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 ... rebels in 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... fired a ballistic missile towards Saudi territories.
Supporting terror
The summit’s final statement held Hezbollah, which is a "partner in the Lebanese government, responsible for supporting terrorist groups in Arab countries with advanced weapons and ballistic missiles."
It called on the Iranian-backed group "to stop spreading extremism and sectarianism, to stop interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs and to quit supporting terrorism and forces of Evil in its regional surrounding."
Leb, which participated in the meeting via Antoine Azzam, its permanent representative at the league, due to Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil’s absence voiced reservations over the part on Hezbollah’s role.
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"If I agreed publicly, I'd be a dead man"
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as prime minister on Nov. 4, returned to Beirut on Wednesday for the first time since he resigned from 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... Hariri’s sudden resignation thrust Leb to the forefront of regional tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, whose powerful Lebanese ally Hezbollah is part of the government.
Hariri was greeted by members of the security forces as he disembarked from a jet at Beirut airport, live footage of his arrival showed.
Hariri cited fear of liquidation and meddling by Iran and Hezbollah in the Arab world in his resignation speech.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... has refused to accept the resignation until Hariri returns to present it in person.
Earlier, Hariri met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Cairo, for talks in a brief Cairo stopover before a planned return to Leb, Egypt state media said on Tuesday.
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[DAWN] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has criticised the Arab League for supporting Saudi Arabia and its role in the war in Yemen.
Rouhani on Tuesday said it's unfortunate the organisation expressed regret that the Yemeni rebels known as Houthis launched a ballistic missile into Saudi Arabia earlier this month in response to “so much bombing” by the Saudi-led coalition.
He also called the regional organisation of Arab countries “old, worn-out, exhausted and ineffective.” State TV broadcast the remarks.
Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Sunday accused Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of destabilising the region.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] The Trump administration on Monday asked the United States Supreme Court to allow its latest travel ban to take full effect.
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