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Afghanistan
Saleh Calls for an End to Hizb ut-Tahrir Activity in Afghanistan
[ToloNews] First Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Sunday said Hizbut Tahrir
...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate...
is not registered with the Ministry of Justice in Afghanistan and it does not have the right to hold gatherings or spread propaganda.

Saleh said in a Facebook post that the Afghan government does not recognize Hizbut Tahrir, therefore any activity by the group is illegal.

He added that some activists from the group have a similar mindset to those in terrorist groups. He warns supporters of Hizbut Tahrir to stop anti-government activity and propaganda.

The move comes after an increase in anti-government slogans by members and supporters of Hizbut Tahrir in the country.

"The party will not have the right to hold gatherings or create propaganda. In other words, this party is not recognized by the government of Afghanistan," said Mohammad Baqir Kazimi, a member of the media office of the first vice president.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block...
the Justice Ministry said that the mindset of members of Hizbut Tahrir is similar to that of terrorist groups; therefore, they are deemed as a threat to the country.

"They have a tendency toward ISIS, they have a ISIS-like mindset as ISIS also insists on an Islamic caliphate. It is also not far from a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
mindset," said the deputy minister of justice for social affairs, Zakia Adeli.

Some supporters of Hizbut Tahrir recently urged like-minded Afghans to establish an Islamic caliphate in Afghanistan.

"Hizbut Tahrir is mostly focused on changing the mindset of youth to drive their attention toward murderous Moslem thoughts," Adeli said.

Sources said that Hizbut Tahrir operates in Kapisa, Panjshir, Baghlan, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
and Ghor provinces and is encouraging youth in religious education centers and universities to join the party.

"There are some who have not felt the reality of Islam and have decided immediately and think that killing is everything," said Mustafa Daud, a university lecturer in Baghlan.

"There is a fear that they might have entered the (Kabul) university through different groups to inform their members about what happens in the university as a spy," said Bahija Aman, a student.

"I found out that they are similar to some terrorist groups and that they might seek the collapse of the government; therefore, I decided not to join them," said Mohammad Masih, a student.

Hizbut Tahrir is an international pan-Islamist and fundamentalist political organization that was established in 1953 and its stated aim is the re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate to unite the Moslem community and implement Shariah.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Hizb-ut-Tahrir


Security Chiefs Visit Kandahar as Concerns Grow Over Insecurity
[ToloNews] The interior minister and the deputy defense minister went to Kandahar on Sunday amid growing concern over the deteriorating security situation in the southern province.

Clashes have been reported in parts of Arghandab district, which is close to the city of Kandahar. The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
has reached close to the centers of some districts in Kandahar in recent weeks.

Arghandab, Zherai, Dand and Pajwai districts have witnessed festivities between government forces and the Taliban in the last few months.

But Interior Affairs Minister Massoud Andarabi said the elements that threatened a collapse of the province have been removed.

"Arghandab district has its own issues. Here, the strength and capacity of Afghan forces were displayed. Over 650 Taliban have been killed in the operation to retake parts of Arghandab over the last two months. They lost many of their commanders," Andarabi said.

"The Taliban’s calculation to overrun Kandahar and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
was proved wrong and you know that many areas have been retaken by our security and defense forces," Deputy Defense Minister Shah Mahmoud Miakhil said.

Kandahar politicians recently said that they see a lack of coordination between security agencies in the province that has led to a fragile security situation in the southern province.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!...
local officials said that the number of recently displaced people in the province has increased to over 11,000 families.

According to the refugees and repatriation directorate of Kandahar, 11,500 families have been displaced due to conflicts in the province.

"The enemy is facing defeat compared to a few months ago when there were some problems. It cannot do anything other than planting some mines here," said Daud, an army soldier in Kandahar.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


One Year On, Govt Sees No Progress in US-Taliban Deal
[ToloNews] The deal signed between President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s administration and the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
marked a one-year anniversary on Sunday, with the Afghan government saying that the accord did not end up with the expected results as violence in the country has increased. But the Taliban says it is a practical step toward achieving peace and stability in the country.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban keeps ties with ‘international terrorism’, Peace hopes shattered
[KhaamaPress] Masoud Andarabi, Interior Minister says the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
have kept up a close relationship with "international terrorists" despite having promised to cut ties with terrorist groups including al-Qaeda.

Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi on Sunday said that the Taliban have not yet severed ties with "international terrorism" despite the US-Taliban agreement in Doha.
Reality intervenes
During his visit to Kandahar province where festivities have escalated in the recent months, Andarabi said that the Taliban have not fulfilled their promise and kept relation with al-Qaeda and other "terrorist groups".

He also added that imported muscle affiliated with the Taliban are fighting in the battlefields, in an operation in Arghandab of Kandahar commandos have witnessed imported muscle alongside the Taliban, and observed the tactics the Taliban used in digging tunnels, planting mines all indicate their relations with international terrorism.

This comes as parliament speaker, Mir Rahman Rahmani on his three-day visit to Tajikistan on Sunday said that extreme level of violence and Taliban arrangements and provisions for the battle in the upcoming warm seasons shattered hopes for peace.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
UN experts found that during the Tunisia talks, two participants “offered bribes of between $150,000 to $200,000
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Arabia
Examination of Israeli-owned ship indicates Gulf blast was caused by mines — TV
[IsraelTimes] An examination of damage to an Israeli-owned fat merchantman currently docked in Dubai indicates a kaboom that hit it in the Gulf of Oman was caused by mines covertly attached to the ship, according to a Sunday TV report.

Channel 13 news did not cite sources for the report, which contradicted earlier reported assessments in Israel that that blast was caused by missiles. An Israeli team is believed to be in Dubai to examine the ship following the suspected attack. The ship is undergoing repairs in Dubai.

Limpet mines are a type of naval explosive that attach to targets using magnets. The report speculated that the mines could have been attached to the ship’s hull during a stop at a port and later set off.

The network said that Israel increasingly believes a naval force from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind the attack. Channel 12 news raised the possibility that the earth-shattering kaboom was the work of a commando team in a fast boat that attached explosives to the ship.

As a result of the earth-shattering kaboom, Israeli ships were instructed to increase alertness and change their typical conduct in an attempt to evade potential problems, Channel 12 said. The exact instructions were not revealed for security reasons.

The MV Helios Ray, a vehicle carrier, was traveling from the Saudi port of Dammam to Singapore when the blast occurred on Thursday.

The crew was unharmed in the blast, but the vessel sustained two holes on its port side and two on its starboard side just above the waterline, according to American defense officials.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2021 00:46 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Home Front: WoT
CAIR Demands CPAC Cancel ‘Anti-Muslim’ Speaker Scott Presler
[PJMedia] The Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
(CAIR) is enraged that among the featured speakers at CPAC this year is Scott Presler, the noted gay pro-Trump activist, even though he isn’t speaking about jihad terrorism. For CAIR, as for the Left in general, it isn’t enough that Presler isn’t speaking about the religion no one is allowed to criticize; they believe that he has criticized it in the past, and so he must be canceled forever.

"Journalist" Matthew Moyer wrote in the Orlando Weekly Thursday that "another speaker on the lineup for the conservative mega-gathering CPAC is getting some unwelcome spotlight for anti-Moslem statements and activity, and this is only scratching the surface of the extreme ideologies being trotted out at this week’s event in Orlando."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  CAIR can just go cancel themselves.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 03/01/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#2  I call for the cancellation of islam altogether
Posted by: Chris || 03/01/2021 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3 
Given CAIR's documented connections to Terrorist groups, may be we should demand they be removed from Social Media as offensive.

Sorry what was I thinking... The Socialist-Democrat Left loves them. Because they HATE the USA. Despite the fact their Clerics OPENLY call for Death to America, Genocide, Christians and Murder of LGBT? persons. Not to mention keeping Women covered head to toe, treated as basically breeding stock and subject to HONOR KILLINGS at the whim of the men.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/01/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Treason by pagan pig moon goddess.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/01/2021 22:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, so they are "demanding". LOL. Uh, yeah, o.k.
Posted by: Clem || 03/01/2021 23:09 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran dismisses idea of talks with EU and US to revive 2015 nuclear deal
[AlAhram] 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Sunday ruled out holding an informal meeting with the United States and European powers to discuss ways to revive its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, insisting that Washington must lift all its unilateral sanctions.

"Considering the recent actions and statements by the United States and three European powers, Iran does not consider this the time to hold an informal meeting with these countries, which was proposed by the EU foreign policy chief," Foreign Ministry front man Saeed Khatibzadeh said, according to Iranian media.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I think that they realize what a pushover the current administration will be.

Posted by: Tom || 03/01/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||

#2  At this point, why would Iran want one?
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/01/2021 19:48 Comments || Top||


Fire kills 3 children in Syrian camp housing ISIS families
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A fire in a camp housing families of members of ISIS killed three children and injured 15 others in northeast Syria, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, said Sunday.

UNICEF called for the safe reintegration and repatriation of all children in al-Hol Camp and across the northeast of Syria following the fire the day before. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire that burnt several tents in the sprawling al-Hol camp, which has witnessed a sharp increase in crimes in recent weeks.

Al-Hol houses the wives, widows, children and other family members of ISIS bully boyz — more than 80 percent of its 62,000 residents are women and kiddies. The majority are Iraqis and Syrians, but it includes some 10,000 people from 57 other countries, housed in a highly secured separate area known as the Annex. Many of them remain die-hard ISIS supporters.

Hundreds of other teenagers are held in prisons for former membership in ISIS, which once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq. It lost its last sliver of territory, in eastern Syria, in March 2019.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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