[AlAhram] Signs of growing radicalisation within the Moslem Brüderbund, the oldest political Islamic group, offer a disturbing read on Egypt's near future
Not the first time this has happened, probably won't be the last.
It has been speculated, but this week it went from the assumed into the effectively announced: small factions of younger members of the Moslem Brüderbund are finding their way to join the most recent and harshest version of political Islamic Death Eater groups: 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.... (IS).
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"Informed legal sources with direct inroads into the Moslem Brüderbund speak of a mass exodus of the Moslem Brüderbund from Egypt to many countries."
Turkey, Qatar and the United Sates/Canada are the preferred asylums. This exodus from Egypt is a repetition of the nineteen sixties. The Brotherhood only revived in Egypt after the death of Nasser and thanks to Anwar Sadat -- a Brother while in the military, and a fellow-traveler thereafter. I do not think Sisi and his military will make that same mistake again.
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Co-president of the Association of Jewish Organizations of Ukraine Joseph Zissels was quoted as saying in an article about the Holocaust in the British newspaper "Daily Mail": "There are certain stereotypes about the participation of Ukrainian nationalists in the pogroms in the early years of the war, who were part of Soviet history. It is true that the local population collaborated with the German Nazis in the occupied territories, but most of them were ethnic Russian."
I know perfectly well who collaborated with the Nazis and destroyed my people in Ukraine. And there were also Bulgarians, Hungarians, Estonians, etc. But I am sure the killers and sadists have no nationality. The question itself seems to me so monstrous and insane.
Indeed, the local population in the occupied territories often participated in pogroms, without waiting for the Wehrmacht. The killings began immediately after the retreat of the Red Army. And in Ukraine, it was more likelyto happen in Ukraine than in Belarus or Russia. Sometimes the incredible happened: in Volodarsky-Volyn in the Zhytomyr region, advancing German troops stopped the mayhem. In his memoirs, a participant of those events, Bronislaw G. Grushko told that the Jews rescued from the local anti-Semites by a German officer. In Nalchik, the Jews in the ghetto survived because the local population (and Kabardin Balkaria Muslims) did not cooperate with the occupiers. And there are many other, often paradoxical facts, and they all belong to history. To modern Ukrainian, Russian, and even the German people, they do not belong.
At the household level, it is difficult to deal with prejudice, but officials need to understand that the speculation on the Holocaust unacceptable and is especially nationalist. Arguing that seventy years ago Russian killed more Jews than Ukrainians Zissels, first are lying and second are looking for cheap popularity among Ukrainian Russophobes, and thirdly, it does not call the main reason for the Holocaust - the Nazis, who have not beaten finally and who too often rears its snake head.
National identity is based on the acceptance of the culture and traditions of its people, to the involvement of the achievements, not in its crime, or the age-old grievances. We come together not against anyone, but to work together to make important good deeds. Especially Jews, survivors of a terrible tragedy must be scrupulous in determining the nationality of their persecutors, and to think a hundred times before they say it aloud.
We usually look for Jewish blood in great people to put them in the example of the children - even proud of their ancestors and contemporaries and try to be the same. And protest when someone's nationality becomes an occasion for a "collective responsibility"; this is the slippery slope that leads to genocide.
Let it be cursed by those who destroyed the Jews in the Holocaust, that they do not belong to any people, that they are not people, and their names should be erased from the memory of mankind. And the names of the victims, we carve on stone memorials so that they will be remembered forever. Yuri Kanner is president of the Russian Jewish Congress
Snip. The author of the law piece at SSRN has misrepresented his past involvement in the military and has claimed awards that he in fact has not received. Go there if you wish but be warned. Powerline apparently didn't know this, but it's been coming out in the comment at Instapundit.
[DAWN] THE suicide kaboom outside the offices of the political administrator in Jamrud, Khyber Agency
left... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though...
/> on Tuesday broke the relative calm in that particular tehsil of the agency this year.
Even otherwise, since the military quietly wrapped up Operation Khyber-II in mid-June, having ejected holy warriors from Bara tehsil and the Tirah subdivision and secured two of three passes linking the Tirah valley to Afghanistan, the agency has been fairly secure.
Yet, the suicide kaboom may be part of an emerging pattern that can be traced to an increase in IED attacks in the Mohmand and Bajaur agencies and an uptick in attacks on members of so-called pro-state peace committees.
The most likely candidate for orchestrating the recent attacks is the Ahrar faction of the banned TTP, which is believed to have found sanctuary on the Afghan side of the border. That the military operations in the upper reaches of Fata, and indeed in North Wazoo Agency too, have dislodged holy warriors and caused them to flee to Afghanistan is not really news.
The new aspect may be the effect that the deteriorating Pak-Afghan relationship is having on the ability of anti-Pakistain holy warriors to hide in Afghanistan and strike inside Pakistain.
Has the nosedive in Pak-Afghan relations, the increasing hawkishness on display in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... when it comes to Pakistain and a sense of pessimism that the bilateral relationship won't stabilise anytime soon contributed directly or indirectly to the uptick in myrmidon violence in parts of Fata?
Put simply, are the Afghan authorities either turning a blind eye to or possibly encouraging attacks in Fata to retaliate to the surge in bombings and attacks inside Afghan?
Tit-for-tat attacks are not unheard of in the region and it does appear that they may be at play once again. If that is indeed the case, great caution -- and an even greater degree of frank discussions -- will be needed to help stabilise the Pak-Afghan relationship and clamp down on cross-border myrmidon movements.
Caution is necessary because it is all too easy for another round of damaging accusations and recriminations to break out in public. Frank talk is needed if the two countries are going to be able to address their respective security concerns.
As the dust appears to settle around the collapse of talks between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul, it has become increasingly clear that fundamental issues between Pakistain and Afghanistan were not addressed, let alone resolved. That mistake must not be repeated going forward.
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[FrontPageMagazine] Next thing you know a Muslim will get a job as a bartender and sue because he refuses to touch alcohol.
So far we've had Muslim suing because their jobs involved scanning groceries customers bought that they didn't approve of. This was the logical next step. And the same left that howls that Christian pharmacists must fill prescriptions for medications they disapprove of has a completely different standard when it comes to their favorite theocracy. (via Religion of Peace)
Charee Stanley, a Muslim flight attendant has filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEO) claiming she was suspended from her job for not serving alcohol -- which is against her religious beliefs.
Then maybe she shouldn't have taken a job requiring her to serve alcohol.
And where exactly does this end? Then Charee Stanley refuses to serve customers who order a pork dish. Or non-Halal meat. Or have a seeing eye dog. Or are immodestly dressed. The list is endless.
Religious accommodation means that you can expect to have your job schedule adjusted to fit your religious needs. It doesn't mean that you can get a job that you refuse to do... and then sue when you're fired for not doing it.
If your religion prohibits you from flying and you get a job as a pilot, that's not a religious accommodation issue. Even assuming the company can find you a gig where you don't have to fly, refusing to perform a basic part of the job that you knew you would have to perform beforehand is just fraud.
But since the real endgame is enforcing Islamic law on Americans... CAIR is suing.
"I don't think that I should have to choose between practicing my religion properly or earning a living," Stanley said. "I shouldn't have to choose between one or the other, because they're both important."
Fortunately there are jobs in America that don't involve serving alcohol. In fact the vast majority of jobs in this country don't. Charee Stanley should find one of those.
But this isn't about earning a living. It's about taking away our rights by forcing companies to abide by same Islamic law. It's theocracy climbing through the backdoor of civil rights.
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You failed for taking a job where you break your own fake religion.
GO F yourself.
The world no longer changes because of a fake arab prophet from hell in arabia bent on killing everyone.
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Get a friggin job somewhere else then, put up with it and STFU or pay a fine. I recall the courts trying to force a baker to make a cake for a gay couple or pay a huge fine.
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John, you see, the difference is that gays have a constitutionally guaranteed right to get married and to force other people to support it. You do not have a constitutional right to buy alcohol. /sarcasm
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Had to laugh, in a way the Constitution does more to guarantee the legality of alcohol via 21st amendment.
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swksvoIFF, the 21st amendment only makes the sale of alcohol legal, it doesn't grant a constitutional right to alcohol. Remember, only the Supreme Court can grant new rights, like the right to kill your baby and marry anybody you want. /sarcasm
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I could be wrong but I suspect the Koran only says don't drink the stuff and the complaints about being near it are recent inventions.
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Rj, just like wearing the hijab/burqua, refusing to handle pork products, etc.
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One problem with all these such issues which SCOTUS ends up deciding is that their decisions are whimsical and not based on the Constitution. SCOTUS has strayed afar from their duties with their exercise of judicial activism. They are basically making up the law as they go along. Nazi Germany comes to mind. Nazi judges made new laws to suit a purpose; mostly to punish enemies of the State--that was whomever they deemed. The path we are headed down is a dangerous path.
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Absolutely. The 21st only overturns the 18th, it does not mean I can go into a dry establishment and demand a vodka tonic. I laughed because it was a topic covered twice in amendments. Income Tax was addressed. Universal health care, meh. (Sorry bit off topic, but paying bills and my insurance went from less than house payment to almost double, and to top it off two weeks after last rate increase letter, received letter stating my insurance is cancelled in Oct.)
Back to the topic - this airline's policy is to offer adult beverages to its customers. Muslima signed on after established policy. There is a job description.
And its things like this which actually create more work for the rest of the crew.
Like this - say you own a restaurant and you hired on a new dishwasher for the back. After hiring, dishwasher says he is lactose intolerant and will not wash any dishes with dairy on it. So now every time a cheeseburger plate comes back someone from the prep crew has to randomly stop what they are doing to go wash a plate
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] He who buys and keeps the dinar of 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is worthy of it because the group will be eliminated and the dinar will be evidence of contemporary history. Its price today is around $130, and its historical value on the market may be double. It will be an important souvenir of the most horrifying organization in this modern era.
For ISIS, the dinar is not a currency but a message, as issuing currency indicates a state's illusory sovereignty. It is part of a propaganda battle to convince people that ISIS is standing its ground, and to differentiate itself from its rivals. The Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) uses the Turkish lira in the zones it controls, while the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... prints its currency in Russia after other printing houses in Europe stopped printing it.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the ISIS dinar is more a souvenir than a currency. States issue souvenirs during special occasions, but no matter how many women ISIS kidnaps from Syria, how much gold it steals from Iraq or how much oil it tries to sell, it will not find enough pure gold to impose it as a currency or to trade it for other products in the market -- unless it looted the gold storages of the banks in the cities under its control.
ISIS supporters claim the gold dinars express the stability of its governance and capability to develop its state project, but this is a big exaggeration. ISIS is suffering from the most dangerous crisis since it emerged, and its dinars will not save it. The number of parties to the international alliance against ISIS has increased, so it is capable of restraining and perhaps even crushing the terrorist organization.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's involvement in the alliance makes the latter complete. Ankara's participation may not be significant at shelling ISIS, but its approval and involvement mean that a real siege is now imposed on the terrorist group as several military operations are now being launched from Turkey.
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Make sure that after you kill all of Da'esh, all this gold gets melted to become fillings or music devices - or to pay the victims back by ounce.
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this is a serious religious war we are in. a world war. as with all serious wars the outcome is not guaranteed. You should not assume that we will win. it is way past time we took this threat seriously as their supporters are a fifth column in all our countries. Our governments must name theocratic Islamis fascism the enemy and ban sharia. Treason charges for all who enact sharia in whole or in part. Clear western societies out of this scourge because if we allow support bases here then we will never dislodge them over there.
[NYPost] Coordinated multi-arrest raids in Spain and Morocco last week indicate that it's high time we do away with the "lone wolf" theory when fighting terror.
Madrid and Rabat coordinated their simultaneous raids, and I'm told they acted partially on information from Gay Paree. All in all, 14 men were tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on various charges related to recruitment of fighters for ISIS.
The raids followed last week's much-publicized train incident in La Belle France, which could have become one of Europe's bloodiest, but for the heroism of four Americans and several other train passengers who bravely disarmed the would-be terrorist.
Everything in that incident screamed "lone wolf," and indeed that's how it was initially reported.
The "wolf" in question was Ayoub El-Khazzani, a Moroccan-born 26-year-old who has lived in Spain and other European countries since 2007, where he was radicalized.
He first pumped himself up watching ISIS-produced propaganda in the bathroom of a high-speed train traveling in Europe. When he finally emerged from the lav, he was shirtless and brandished several weapons, including an AK-47, with 270 rounds of ammunition to assure a long fight on the defenseless train.
Khazzani's AK-47 jammed at first, counteracting whatever weapons training he'd apparently received from ISIS figures in Syria and Iraq, where he'd recently traveled.
And hence the instinct to brand him a lone wolf -- one of those crazies influenced, but not directed, by turbans who then decided to leave his home one morning and commit some heinous act of blind faith.
That theory essentially says, "Move along, not much to see here."
Yet, how did Khazzani obtain his AK-47 and other arms on a continent where weapons are more restricted than in the United States? And how does a drifter of poor means get his hands on 149 euros to finance first-class train travel, even forgoing an opportunity for a discount fare?
Maybe he wasn't all that lonely after all.
"We have to stop talking about the lone wolf," says Ben Hammou Mohammed, president of the Moroccan Center for Strategic Studies, a leading think tank on security issues. "I call it 'individual company,' " Mohammed told me. "Either in the virtual side or the real side, there's contact somewhere. I don't believe in individual act. Usually, there are other persons somewhere. We are facing groups, and not only individuals."
The authorities in Spain and Morocco apparently agree, discounting the "it's one man" thesis, and looking instead to the infrastructure behind the one gunman. Hence the last Tuesday arrests in a Madrid suburb and several cities in Morocco.
I'm told the security services learned a lot about the suspected ISIS recruiters from a deep dive into Khazzani's cellphone and from interrogating his family members.
Here's one lesson from this episode: We can no longer cop out by saying, Hey, you can't stop every crazy man out there, so we might as well resign to living with some lone wolves. After all, we're learning to live with people who shoot their former station co-workers on live TV.
This is different.
Attackers like Khazzani don't just watch a video and then suddenly decide to spray bullets on the bullet-train. They're more often than not just the tip of an iceberg, an infrastructure that's increasingly global in nature.
Some 800 Islamist turbans are reportedly ready to strike in Europe. Here, too, their number is growing.
We must intensify cooperation between national-security services. Countries like Spain and Morocco can share more of what they glean from human intelligence in Europe and the Arab world; we can contribute by giving them more of our signal intel.
The wolf is no longer lonely, if he ever was. It's the next stage in the war on terror, still very much global in scope, fueled by an extreme ideology and distant warlords.
Regrettably, we can't post can-do, on-leave American military personnel on every French train. Even if we could, it wouldn't suffice: This is war, and we'd better stop looking for excuses not to fight it.
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[FrontPageMagazine] Next thing you know a Muslim will get a job as a bartender and sue because he refuses to touch alcohol.
Fortunately there are jobs in America that don't involve serving alcohol. In fact the vast majority of jobs in this country don't. Charee Stanley should find one of those.
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