[DAWN] The government apparently remains in a state of denial regarding a massive threat posed by the Middle Eastern terrorist group Daesh (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.... ), which recently announced its set-up for Pakistain and Afghanistan.
"Islamic State (IS) is not a major threat. It is not a serious problem for Pakistain," Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... said on Saturday in reply to a question on the sidelines of a seminar on US President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... 's recent visit to India.
Mr Aziz's assessment gave an insight into the government's thinking about the challenge from the group and its planning for dealing with the threat.
Daesh had earlier in January announced its organizational structure for "Khorasan" (Pakistain and Afghanistan) led by a former leader of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) from Orakzai, Hafez Saeed Khan. A former Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, was named his deputy.
With the group's leadership for the region going to a Pak and ex-TTP men getting a lion's share in the 12 top positions, it is clear that the IS plans to focus on the country as part of its 'expansion into Khorasan' strategy.
Besides the sectarian angle, Daesh appears attractive for young religious forces of Evil because of the territory it controls and the financial resources it possesses. Weakening of the TTP because of desertions and military action has also provided a conducive environment for the IS to establish a base here.
The group first made its presence felt across the country through a wall-chalking campaign and leaflets distribution. Its flags were also noticed at a few places, including some sensitive installations near Rawalpindi.
This was followed by some arrests, which led to a decline in wall chalking and other outreach activities, but the group began concentrating on organizational matters and recruiting.
The Commander of the US-led Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, Gen John Campbell, had in an interview mentioned Daesh's recruitment drive both in Afghanistan and Pakistain.
IS front man Abu Muhammad al Adnani As-Shami, while announcing the set-up in a recorded message released by the group's media wing, called on fighters who had sworn allegiance to the group's leader Abubakr Baghdadi to follow the orders of "the Khorasan governor and his deputy" and "prepare for the great tribulations they will face".
Daesh may not still have challenged the security situation here, but the statement emphasising organizational discipline and preparedness hints towards its planning to step up activities.
The IS chief had received a number of allegiances from this region in the past.
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"Islamic State (IS) is not a major threat. It is not a serious problem for Pakistain," Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz.
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They've already ceded territory to the Taliban -- both the Afghan Taliban and TTP -- and various other al Qaeda linked groups until recently unmolested except by American drones. Remember when they gave up the Swat Valley, then had to reconquer it? And no doubt someone said to someone else, "If they fight among themselves, there will be fewer for us to deal with later. Look at Syria and Iraq -- always best to take the long view on these things."
[Iran Press TV] The US relationship with Israel is similar to a "ticking time-bomb" that threatens the whole world and may cause it to "perish," an author and radio host in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... says.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a "ticking cluster-bomb, unleashing his lethal force bit by bit by bit, drop by drop by drop," Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Sunday.
Netanyahu imposed "a war of aggression on Gazoo, multiple daily examples of state terror across the West Bank and East Jerusalem (al-Quds), all sorts of crimes on a daily basis," Lendman said.
"As long as US-Israeli dominated Western relations continue, the world faces a choice, it will either find a way to change this or it will perish," he warned.
Lendman said despite the strained ties between Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person... , "US-Israeli relations seem to go along pretty seamlessly regardless."
On Sunday, Republican Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... blasted Obama for damaging Washington's ties with Tel Aviv, describing those ties as the "worst" he's ever seen them.
"It's the worst that I've ever seen in my lifetime," the 78-year-old McCain said, adding that no other president "has had such a difficult relationship with Israel."
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After six years, it is no surprise that the Obama administration does not see the Taliban as 'terrorists' or that it will not associate 'violent extremism' with radical Islam or just Islam.
After all, when Maj. Hasan murdered U.S. soldiers it was nothing more than 'workplace violence,' as if he were a disgruntled post office employee of the 1970s. Our two top intelligence chiefs assured us that the Muslim Brotherhood was 'largely secular' and that jihad 'was a legitimate tenet of Islam.' Add in 'workplace violence' and the old 'overseas contingency operations.' Do we remember that Ms. Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security warned us about right-wing returning veterans as the most likely to terrorize us? When someone blows up people at the Boston Marathon, beheads a woman in Oklahoma, or puts a hatchet in a NYPD officer's head, he is not a terrorist or proselytizer fueled by Islamic hatred of non-Muslims as much as mentally confused. (I suppose in a way that a Hitler or Stalin was not.)
The problem is not that the administration is just too fond of euphemisms. At times it can be quite candid. The Republican House has been characterized as 'terrorists' [1] in their efforts to stop more federal borrowing. The Tea Party was slurred as 'tea-baggers' [2] ' a derogative sexual term [3]. Mr. Netanyahu is variously a 'coward' or 'chickensh-t' [4] ' pejoratives not floated for even the vicious Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
So why the elaborate facade about the Islamic roots of global terrorism and spreading instability in the Middle East? There are a few possible explanations. Me, I just think it's an aspect of dealing with people who been trained to demonstrate their "superior intellect" by rejecting common sense.
That a person with Obama's political background is sympathetic to a totalitarian, primitivist and regressive ideology is no surprise.
But why is this political position so entrenched and consensual that even small deviations (like Romney's tame but common sense defense of free speech in 2012) are sharply rebuked and universally condemned?
Why doesn't any serious Western politician actually challenge the axioms of Islamic denial?
There's something deeply wrong with the West. And Obama isn't the cause, if anything he's a symptom.
...The word for when a person erects in his mind a false image of a group of people, and sees them only as that image, that false stereotype, and moreover it is a despicable stereotype, one that robs them not just of dignity, but of their very humanity⌠that word is bigot.
Something rotten, very rotten has happened to the Left just in my lifetime.
They used to be champions of free speech; and now they are its most vehement opponents.
They use to be able to give some sort of argument or logical reason for their position, even if an incorrect argument; now they have no argument, none of them, aside from wild and insincere accusations delivered in a mechanical fashion without any hope of being believed, phony as a three-dollar bill.
They used to be firmly on the side of the workingman; now they hate the workingman as a white racist oppressor.
They used to be in favor of free love and the sexual liberation; now they object to rocket scientists wearing shirts with cartoon women printed on them, they object to science fiction magazines showing a scantily clad warrior princess slaying a monster, and they call all sex rape, and demand strict segregation of women and men. On the same day as these protests, they appear in front of the Pope, writhing on the ground naked with crosses and crucifixes inserted into their vaginas. So the Puritan rules apply arbitrarily, without sense or order, to anyone or no one.
They used to be in favor of Blacks and other minorities; now their disgust for all the impoverished and dispossessed is plain to see. All they want is to keep the Blacks on the plantation, addicted to welfare, addicted to crack, their children aborted, their parents unwed.
They used to be in favor of the Jews, and other minorities; now they kneel to Islamic Jihad at every opportunity, vowing that those who slander the prophet of Islam will no be in the future, and ergo the Left now curse the Jews, and pray daily for the destruction of Israel, and a new Holocaust in the warhead of a Muslim nuke.
What? You say that his the not what the Left says? That they say they are creatures of purity, goodness, and sweetness, who live only to help others out of the depth of their hearts and the depth of your wallet? No, that was the old Left, back when the Left still had some scraps of sanity and intelligence.
They serve Sauron and have forgotten their own names.
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Great article. Should be required reading for anyone who doubts the ant-Christian bigotry of the NPR left.
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Its not lefty as much as it is good old fashioned progressivism, the sort that lead to the formation of the Fascist party in Italy and the Nazi party in Germany.
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[Iran Press TV] The US relationship with Israel is similar to a "ticking time-bomb" that threatens the whole world and may cause it to "perish," an author and radio host in 
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