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Home Front: Politix
Obama Paying the Price For Insisting He's Right
Posted by: junkiron || 07/06/2014 07:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While it's doubtful Obama would ever listen to the public, there is the possibility that senior members of his party can persuade him to change his tactics.

Not a chance. Alien abduction stories have more legitimacy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2014 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  There is not a "smidgen" of humility about this man. He is strident, divisive, arrogant and imperial.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2014 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  A toxic narcissist groomed since childhood by radical handlers.

He really is a Manchurian Candidate. No one really knows who he is, where he came from, or what he is.

I believe he is the product of the fanatical leftists that took over the peace movement in the 60s and the Democratic party in the 70s.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 07/06/2014 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  From The Telegraph: "If Obama were a movie, he'd be Gigli."
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/06/2014 15:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Ouch.

But the first citizen, nah he will pay no price. We will. Favorable history books are already flooding the market, there is no real footage available with him at anything very icky. Maybe even take a shot at the UN presidency.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/06/2014 16:55 Comments || Top||

#6  We the People are the ones paying the price for being collectively stupid enough to vote this man of marxist past into office, along with his dem budddies and their tacit accomplices the repubs.

O is a symptom of a greater malaise of this country.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/06/2014 22:49 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Militant-run relief camps
[DAWN] ONCE again, bad boy organizations are filling a vacuum created by the government's torpor and lack of planning. This has been seen before in times of crisis, including natural disasters such as the earthquake in 2005, the floods in recent years, as well as the military operation in Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
in 2009, when internally displaced people were given succour by 'charities' run by bad boy organizations. This time it is the IDP crisis unfolding in the wake of the military operation in North Wazoo that has once again seen such groups leap into the fray. A report in Dawn on Friday detailed a visit to relief camps run by the Falah-e-Insaniyat
...the current false nose and mustache of Jamaat ud-Dawa, which was the false nose and mustache of Lashkar e-Taiba...
Foundation — the Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
's latest iteration — and supporters of Maulana Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be tossed in the clink at the border. The Pak government also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
, the firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
holy man who heads Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
, which is banned both internationally and in Pakistain. The report quoted the FIF camp's chief organiser lauding the army's "cooperative" attitude towards them. At the same time, local NGOs are being asked to apply for no-objection certificates to set up relief camps.

The bad boy threat to Pakistain is a deep-rooted one precisely because groups espousing dangerously obscurantist ideologies have been allowed to weave themselves into the warp and weft of society. They have been encouraged to fly the banner of patriotism while those with a secular approach have been marginalised and regarded with suspicion by the powers that be. The disastrous fallout from this attempt at social engineering is one reason the military finds itself fighting a battle in the mountains of North Waziristan today. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well...
to effect long-term reversal of Pakistain's slide into radicalisation, every strain of extremism will have to be painstakingly excised from the body politic. Moreover, until the establishment severs its ties with 'favoured' holy warriors, the country cannot truly change its trajectory. In times such as these, such groups must be denied the space to act as saviours of vulnerable people in terms of material assistance, while along the way making inroads into their minds in the guise of saving their souls.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Political Islam: Why militants now symbolise Muslims
[DAWN]
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Doesn't tell us much about, say, Boko Haram, or the militants coming out of European cities, sometimes third generation in those countries. Or why gays and Jews have such a hard time in, say, Amsterdam.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/06/2014 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  "Why militants now symbolise Muslims?"

Militant islam is so interwoven with political islam and religious islam that it is pointless to discuss one without the other. Jihad and Sharia Law, for example, do not separate out easily from religion. I choose to use lower case "i" for islam as a kind of non-recognition of this phony religion.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2014 9:13 Comments || Top||


Pakistan's 'war on terrorism'
[DAWN] FINALLY, Pakistain has declared its own 'war on terrorism'. The North Wazoo operation, the prime minister's pronouncements and the adoption of the Protection of Pakistain Bill by the National Assembly are significant signals of serious intent to rid the country of the terrorist menace.

To succeed, the government will have to plan and pursue a comprehensive strategy and utilise all relevant instruments of state power — military, police, intelligence, diplomatic and economic.

The North Waziristan operation was long in coming. The political reticence was overcome by the failure of the talks with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and its relentless acts of terrorism. The attack on the Bloody Karachi
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Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
For Hamas, It's All About The Money
[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian reconciliation deal between Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Fatah looks as though it is about to evaporate into thin air in the West Bank and Gazoo.

Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV reported Friday night that Hamas ministers will return to work as sole rulers of the Gazoo Strip by the 15th of Ramadan (July 13) if the Paleostinian Authority doesn't pay the salaries of roughly 40,000 Hamas government clerks. Those same 40,000 Paleostinians have been the focus of discord between Fatah and Hamas since the formation of the national unity government in April.

Hamas has demanded that the the government pay its workers, while Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
and his associates claimed that the reconciliation agreement had dictated that a special committee would decide which employees would continue to work for the PA government and receive salaries from it. Those decisions have yet to be made.

Qatar has already expressed willingness to front the funds, but there is no way to do so — banks refuse to transfer the money to Hamas members' accounts because of international laws restricting aid to terrorist groups, and Egypt refuses to let Qatar transfer cash overland into the Gazoo Strip. Abbas, for his part, is not prepared to pay the salaries, and certainly not after the kidnapping and murders of three Israeli teens last month.

For the time being the rocket fire from Gazoo into Israel continues. It appears as if Hamas is conveying a message to the various small factions that they're allowed to launch, and that it doesn't intend to stop them.

Israeli experts claim time and again that Hamas is in a state of unprecedented weakness because of the IDF crackdown in the West Bank, and that perhaps this is what's caused it to resort to rocket fire at Israel.

The true story is likely a little different, and the blow the organization has suffered in the West Bank is not as mortal as the IDF describes. It would appear as if Hamas's weakness in Gazoo and the renewal of rocket fire by the Islamist group stem from the salary crisis and the failure of the reconciliation deal with Fatah. At present the organization does not possess the means to pay its people's salaries. Its greatest concern is that public frustration in Gazoo will ultimately be directed at its members. Perhaps, then, Hamas feels it's better to create tension with Israel (not a full-scale escalation) in a bid to increase pressure on Egypt to permit the transfer of funds or salaries to the Gazoo Strip.

On Friday evening, an anonymous senior Hamas official spoke to the Paleostinian Sawa news agency. He said that "those who expect Hamas to stop the rocket fire (against Israel), should turn to (Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister) Rami Hamdallah." He added that the situation in the Gazoo Strip was the consequence of not paying Hamas clerks' salaries.

In other words: Salaries in exchange for calm.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


The Palestinian War On Children
[Ynet] Depraved exploitation and abuse of children as targets and weapons will not end so long as UN, members of international community and NGOs continue to enable these atrocities.

The Israeli public is in collective agony and mourning over the abduction and murder of teenagers Gil-Ad Shaer, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrah.

In contrast, the Palestinian public has widely celebrated the crime, adopting a three-fingered salute honoring the "heroic" perpetrators, mocking grieving family members on social media, and passing out candy.

Condemnations by Palestinian Authority officials were rare. As appalling as these responses are, they are emblematic of the Palestinian war strategy of which the targeting and exploitation of children is an integral part.

The Palestinian tactic of targeting children is not new, but there are unfortunately plenty of recent examples: In 2011, Hamas launched a heat seeking missile at an Israeli school bus, killing a 16-year old boy. In 2010, Palestinian terrorists associated with the PFLP murdered five members of the Fogel family, including stabbing to death two small children and decapitating a three-month old baby. In 2008, a Palestinian gunman walked into a Jerusalem school and open fired on children studying in the library, murdering eight. In 2004, Gazan terrorists affiliated with Islamic Jihad shot at point blank range and killed Tali Hatuel, eight-months pregnant, along with her four young daughters aged two to 10.

Palestinian terrorists have long made a point of detonating suicide bombers in pizza shops, buses, weddings, bar mitzvah celebrations and malls to inflict the most casualties as possible on the defenseless. Like the reaction to the June kidnappings, outrage from the Palestinian community for these atrocities was rare, if expressed at all.

The Palestinian assault on children, however, does not end with Israelis. The exploitation of Palestinian children as weapons of war begins from birth. Pictures abound of Palestinian babies dressed as suicide bombers and brandishing arms.

Children's TV programs, many sponsored by the Palestinian Authority itself, preach jihad, advocate genocide against Jews and infidels, and glorify martyrdom. A young girl on a program recently aired on Hamas TV was encouraged by the host to be in the police when she grew up so that she could "shoot Jews … all of them."

After years of being educated with incitement, Palestinian pre-teens are then pressed into service by "popular committees" to engage in riots and violent confrontations with Israeli soldiers. Older kids are sent to hurl firebombs and slingshot projectiles. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah's Martyrs Brigades enlist teens to be suicide bombers and to commit other atrocities on Israeli civilians. Even rock-throwing, which has often been deadly, puts Palestinian minors at risk for arrest and jail time.

UN looks the other way
In addition to turning them into combatants, Palestinians deliberately place children at risk from Israeli counter-terror measures by co-locating weapons and terror infrastructure inside schools, hospitals and mosques. Terrorists adorn civilian dress and launch rockets and other weapons from within civilian areas to maximize loss during retaliatory attacks, which will increase the propaganda effect.

Many children have been killed by these strategies, including, last week, when a three-year old girl was killed by a misfired Palestinian rocket that was aimed at Israeli population centers.

The most shocking aspect of this deliberate disregard for children's lives, however, is the blind eye turned to it by the UN, the EU, and so-called human rights organizations.

The perpetual dictator's club that is the UN, and officials there, look the other way, and even in some cases praise these abuses as "resistance."

Support from the EU and European governments funds TV programs and other media that perpetuate terrorist indoctrination and incitement. The EU also partners, through NGO projects, with the Palestinian Struggle Coordinating Committee, responsible for organizing protests that frequently turn violent.

According to media reports, European largesse has also been used by the PA to pay salaries to convicted terrorists serving their sentences in prison.

NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issue obscenely weak condemnations of these violations against children, generally burying them in lengthy publications accusing Israel of war crimes. Calls for accountability or an end to impunity for terror perpetrators are rarely made. Measures such as universal jurisdiction lawsuits and boycott campaigns (the NGOs' weapons of choice against Israel) are never wielded against Palestinians.

Such complicity only emboldens future acts and represents the total inversion of morality, human rights and law.

The depraved exploitation and abuse of children as targets and weapons by Palestinians must end. Yet, they will not end these abominable tactics so long as the UN, members of the international community, and NGOs continue to enable these atrocities.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not "Palestinian War". Palestinians are just psychotic attack dogs for the "Progressive Humanity".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2014 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Look for Palestinian children to be shipped to the U.S. and dumped at some Federal relocation center in your neighborhood. Probably, they are already being shipped and coming up to the U.S. via Mexico.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2014 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  the blind eye turned to it by the UN, the EU, and so-called human rights organizations


The tranzis are cynical enough to know that keeping them bottled up means that they won't be moving in next door.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/06/2014 14:08 Comments || Top||


Hamas In Gaza Preferable To ISIS In Gaza
[Ynet] This is probably the worst timing to talk about interests shared by Israel and Hamas. The heart says 'never,' but what does the mind say?

On the eve of the discovery of the three kidnapped teens' bodies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his political and security-related doctrine to the citizens of Israel and the world. No more moves of response tailored for the needs of the hour, but an organized doctrine pointing to an intention to implement a consistent policy, step by step.

His premise is that Israel will carry on its own the security responsibility for the entire area of the Land of Israel, as this is the only way to guarantee its citizens' safety. This situation will continue without an expiration date — and even if some day ways will be found to provide the Palestinians with a sort of state within these or other borders, it will be an entity lacking many characteristics of political independence.

The regional developments, according to Netanyahu, require the erection of an efficient and reliable security fence along the Jordan River, both in order to combat dangers from the east and northeast and in order to effectively control the movement of the Palestinian residents living between the western security fence and the new eastern one.

The premise indicated in his speech is that the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria will get accustomed to this situation, whether due to lack of choice or because of simultaneous efforts to provide them with improved living conditions, a thriving economy and a certain degree of self rule, subject to Israel's security needs.

Israel, according to Netanyahu, will continue its uncompromising battle against the terror led by Hamas and will claim prices which may be greater and harder, as long as it takes. At the same time, it will develop an initiated regional policy and team up with countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and will especially be loyal to Jordan.

In this framework, Netanyahu devoted a specific, unequivocal statement to Kurdistan, which is still a district in northern Iraq, and publicly declared his support for its political independence.

But there is no certainty whatsoever that this policy can be implemented. The Palestinian public in Judea and Samaria is starting to wake up, and the clashes developing between Jews and Arabs are multiplying and intensifying. Mahmoud Abbas' control of his people is growing weaker, both because of his own failures and because in the past few months Israel has been operating against him both publicly and in other ways to force him to take the road we are outlining.

In this state of affairs, individuals and groups may initiate acts of revenge, some of which will be thwarted while the others will inflame the situation even more.

As it is clear that the Palestinian side will not be able to receive the suggested outline, Abbas will be forced to fight it or get out of the arena. The Palestinian Authority's collapse will be an inevitable outcome.

On the regional level, the Kurdish move is filled with problems. Netanyahu made his comments shortly after US Secretary of State met with Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish district in northern Iraq, and begged him not to push for the region's independence. Netanyahu's declaration pushes Israel one step further away from its American friend and joins other moves of estrangement from its ally.

The Israeli move likely aims to encourage the establishment of a Kurdish state in territories where significant Kurdish publics live. We are talking about a future annexation of lands from northern Iran, Turkey and Syria to the new state. There is no idea which is further away even from Russia's policy on this issue.

In case of a strong regional opposition to the establishment of a Kurdish state, I doubt that Israel, with all its abilities, will be able to carry the responsibility for the move on its shoulders. Let us just mention that during the Yom Kippur War, Israel had hoped that the Kurds would open a front against the Arabs in northern Iraq, but that hope was shattered.

Netanyahu also spoke about the radical Islamic forces — ISIS — which are moving fast towards Baghdad. He likely wrapped them in the same bundle with Hamas, but that's not the case. Hamas is the most bitter and efficient rival of ISIS.

Khaled Mashaal declared Wednesday that Hamas was interested in maintaining its agreements with Israel which ended the two recent rounds — Operations Cast Lead and Pillar of Defense. Hamas in Gaza is preferable to ISIS in Gaza.

This is probably the worst timing to talk about the interests shared by Israel and Hamas, as we mourn the teens killed in a despicable murder. The heart says "never," but what does the mind say?

Efraim Halevy is a former head of the Mossad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  They all want to kill Jews. ISIS seems honest enough not to have a "Political Wing" - unlike the Hamas hypocrites.
Posted by: borgboy || 07/06/2014 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  The differences exist only in your (and your fellow "experts") mind, Efraim.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/06/2014 4:36 Comments || Top||


Why The Boys Were Kidnapped
[Jpost] The teens were taken because Israel itself, as a collective, has become a hostage to an illusory process that promotes only terror under the guise of seeking peace.

The tragic news reverberated throughout the country, as three kidnapped Israeli teens were found half-buried near Hebron, bound and shot to death by Hamas terrorists. Our hearts and minds are with the Shaer, Yifrah and Fraenkel families, as they struggle to cope with the unimaginable.

Many point to this outpouring of support as evidence of collective national will and strength; but the murder of Gil-Ad, Eyal and Naftali was, in fact, a by-product of weakness.

The teens were taken because Israel itself, as a collective, has become a hostage to an illusory process that promotes only terror under the guise of seeking peace. Through having succumbed to negotiating with terrorists, the Jewish state has legitimized terrorism against it.

The Oslo Accords were signed over 20 years ago with arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, who spurned peace at Camp David in 2000 in favor of the second intifada, in which hundreds of innocent Israelis were killed and maimed.

Arafat's deputy and successor, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel's current "partner for peace," financed the 1972 Munich Massacre, denies the Holocaust and presides over a Fatah party whose charter openly calls for the Jewish state's destruction and whose armed wing — the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades — is in step with Hamas by claiming responsibility for the kidnapping.

The PLO, the controlling faction of the PA, atop which Abbas is perched, is equally committed to Israel's annihilation.

Essentially, then, the Palestinian government is an amalgamation of factions, each with their own terrorist militia, dedicated to eradicating Jewish sovereignty from the region.

That Israel ever agreed to engage on any level with such an entity — whether it incorporates Hamas or not — is an abomination. That it continues to do so after two decades of broken promises, outright lies and thousands of casualties is an affront to reason and to our many fallen.

The kidnapping is the result, not of the fog of war, but rather of our denial that we are, indeed, currently engaged in one. Israel continues to treat an implacable enemy — including the rabidly anti-Semitic Palestinian civilian population — as everything other than what it is, leaving our people to incur ongoing tragedies until such time that cold, hard reality sinks in: There is no Palestinian peace camp.

The three youths were abducted in what should be considered enemy territory. If they felt safe, it was a sentiment borne of a delusional process premised on the false conviction that Palestinians are committed to coexistence. There is a reason Israelis are barred from entering adjacent areas in the West Bank under Palestinian jurisdiction — because they risk death there.

The belief that the Palestinians' genocidal hatred can be contained, within any borders, is the byproduct of wishful thinking endemic to the peace process. More perverse is that this warped worldview whitewashes the second major factor accounting for the boys' kidnapping: Islam.

In an interview with Channel 10 after the teens were found dead, the mother of Amar Abu Eisha, one of the suspected kidnappers, affirmed that, "if he truly did it — I'll be proud of him till my final day. I raised my children on the knees of the religion... and their goal is to bring the victory of Islam."

It is unsurprising, then, that Abu Eisha found a home in Hamas, a jihadist organization — and not a Palestinian national movement, although it sometimes assumes this posture when beneficial — whose goal is the eradication of Israel in favor of the establishment of a Muslim caliphate.

For Hamas, the conflict with the Jewish state is not territorial, but rather spiritual. No amount of land swaps can solve such a conflict.

Only bombs and bullets can.

As Israeli-American political commentator Daniel Greenfield explains, "Hamas' charter begins with the Koran's praise for Muslims 'as the best people' and damns Christians and Jews to be 'smitten with abasement' for having 'incurred the wrath of Allah.' "There is nothing negotiable about [this expression of] supremacism.

Supremacism cannot be appeased. Supremacism does not want a piece of the pie. It wants the whole pie."

As Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the slew of Salafist terror groups that inhabit the Palestinian territories continue to advance this goal, Israel foolishly attempts to negotiate away the problem by propping up an equally adversarial PA; all the while keeping the Gazan crocodile — and public opinion — at bay with an airstrike here or there on a half-empty weapons depot.

It is futile policy that has no chance of stemming either the rising tide of Islamic fanaticism that has promoted the murder of Jews for over 1,000 years, or the PA's phased approach to destroying the country.

Overall, the latest tragedy is further proof that Israel is in desperate need of a paradigm shift.

Jerusalem must begin relating to the Palestinians for who they are: our sworn enemies. It must also abandon a tired and futile peace process, the ramifications of which increasingly threaten the safety of all Israelis.

Only then can a clear-eyed public debate be held as how best to proceed.

And there are other options (which I and numerous others have repeatedly advanced in these very pages).

But Israel can only move forward by first coming to terms with why it has lost three sons: the Jewish state is at war with a radicalized Palestinian people that has no interest in peace.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No amount of land swaps can solve such a conflict.
Only bombs and bullets can.


The author is right about Israel. This will also be the case for the U.S. at some point too. In the U.S. in the meanwhile, kumbaya and the destruction of the U.S. goes on.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/06/2014 8:40 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
From London To ISIS: The Radicalization Riddle
[Ynet] What makes a young Western man commit mass murder against other Muslims shortly after arriving in Syria or Iraq?

They are amiable young people. Occasionally, an argument breaks out between Barcelona and Messi fans and Madrid and Ronaldo fans. Occasionally, they update their Twitter account with amazing landscape pictures. Sometimes it's a cute kitten, alongside weapons.

One of them was supposed to start computer studies at university, the other is about to complete his medicine studies, others are unemployed. They are all young men who have joined the jihad in Syria and Iraq.

The exact numbers are unknown. In 2013, the European Union counter-terrorism coordinator estimated their number at 500. According to a study by Richard Brent, in June 2014 we are talking about some 3,000 young men from Western countries — 2,500 from Western Europe, at least 700 of them from France, 400 from Britain and another 70 from the United States. An increase of hundreds of percentage points a year.

As part of its PR campaign, the ISIS organization releases videos presenting its adventures. Whoever hasn't seen it will find it difficult to understand the horror. A terrifying passion for murder.

For example, a fatal patrol of ISIS men passes on a road filled with cars and exterminates all the passengers with a submachine gun. Why? They include Sunni women wearing a burqa with their children. But the jihadists aim at them too.

A volunteer from Belgium gladly gave an interview while driving a vehicle dragging dozens of bodies of people who had been slaughtered minutes earlier. A volunteer from Germany, Philip Bergner, a Muslim convert, posted a picture of himself smiling alongside severed heads. According to reports from Syria, the British are the cruelest of them all.

It doesn't just happen in Syria and Iraq. Volunteers have arrived in Afghanistan in the past, and volunteers arrive in Somalia from the West. They don't kill Zionists or Americans. They kill Muslims. Most of the victims of the Boko Haram organization in Nigeria are Muslims too.

Several days ago, ISIS posted a video aimed at recruiting Western volunteers. One of its stars is a young British man named Ali Kalantar. His father, Rahim Kalantar, told the BBC that his son was radicalized by an imam at his local mosque in Coventry.

In as early as 2007, a study revealed that 600 of 1,350 mosques in Britain are run under the Deobandi school of thought, spreading hatred towards the West and anti-Semitic propaganda. The British intelligence leaked at the time that the Tablighi Jamaat movement, which is in charge of building a mega-mosque in London, is recruiting members to al-Qaeda.

Yet even Islamic preaching in mosques does not solve the big riddle: What turns a person who arrived in Syria and Iraq from Paris or London into an animal? Why, after just several weeks, or even days, in the capacity of a fighter, does he carry out a mass murder against other Muslims?

A study revealed that these people tend to join the most murderous groups. They left groups affiliated with al-Qaeda, like Jabhat al-Nusra, in favor of ISIS. The battle is not against a tyrant regime, not against heretics, and not even against Shiites — but between Sunnis and Sunnis.

We must remember one more thing: Most young Muslims in Europe have not joined the jihad, but those who have reflect radicalization processes which millions of young people are going through. The volunteers even come from places like Sweden and Denmark, and experts say one of the main reasons is an identity crisis. It's true.

Is that the explanation for why they become serial killers at an incomprehensible speed? There are millions of other young people and immigrants and foreigners in the world suffering from an identity crisis, but that doesn't turn them into animals.

Our progressive circles have the habit of blaming Israel's firm hand for young people's radicalization. That's an interesting argument, because the volunteers from Europe have not undergone any occupation experience. They have not been humiliated in any checkpoint. They have not developed hostility because of a night curfew. Many of them have been a symbol of integration and success.

These are Muslims who kill Muslims. These are the facts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1  They are yearning for the hope & changy thing...
Posted by: borgboy || 07/06/2014 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Biology is destiny.
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Government
Federal government email from the inside
Ouch. The writer's experience with regard to email policy while working at the EPA during George W. Bush's term in office.
Maybe my experience is why the latest polls are finding about 75 percent of the American people believe Congress should keep investigating what happened to Lerner's emails.
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