[X] Soooooo scary. Lookit the Israelis shaking in their shoes. Or not, whatever.
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Houthi fighter threatens Israel and the US:
“To the American and Israeli enemy: We swear to God, we will turn the Red Sea red with your blood, blacken the skies with the smoke of your planes, and set the earth ablaze with our missiles. You will find no rest—day or… pic.twitter.com/H8WXXAaC9V
Islamist chants are publicly broadcast across East London… White British are only 24% of the population in Tower Hamlets. This is what happens when indigenous White Brits become a minority in their own areas. Replace the politicians before they replace you. pic.twitter.com/sOICDArIJ8
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Couldn't help laughing at the crows (just watched some Pennyworth (Batman's butler Alfred's backstory: every Brit cliche shaken and stirred wokewise; principal baddies: Raven Society)).
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Embalmed all in linen and resin,
A toothless old lion. "It says in
The Book we should wash him,
But I say, just cosh him
Again, Mo, and call the muezzin."
[NYPost] The number of migrants colonists traversing the treacherous Darien Gap in the hopes of making it to the United States has plummeted as Panama’s right-wing President José Raúl Mulino cracks down on the major migration route.
Crossings through the 70-mile stretch of jungle — the only land bridge between South and Central America — dropped by 40% this year to about 300,000, the country’s Security Minister Frank Abrego told the Wall Street Journal.
Mulino, who took office in July, had vowed to curb illegal immigration, with his government quickly signing an agreement with the US to crack down on migration through the Darien Gap. Under the deal, the US agreed to "cover" the costs of repatriating migrants colonists who enter Panama illegally.
But despite the significant drop in crossings, Mulino stressed that the numbers could creep up again without ongoing US support.
"We want the Trump administration to realize that its border is actually here at the Darien Gap and to see how complicated that area is," Mulino told the Journal.
"We are still concerned," he said.
Last year alone, human smugglers helped more than 530,000 migrants colonists navigate the remote jungle route on their way through the country.
The notable decline is thanks in large part to the country beefing up their security measures to include biometric screening — which makes it easier for border agents to identify those with criminal histories.
These numbers are promising, but ex-border chiefs previously told The Post it came more than three years too late thanks to the disastrous "border czar" reign of Vice President Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been The Darien Gap has become a favorite smuggling route and helped facilitate multiple surges of migrants colonists entering the US illegally.
Abrego said some days as many as 25,000 people would take the route on a daily basis.
Migrants who made their way through the dense jungle were then whisked via bus through Panama and onto Costa Rica, where the cycle would repeat.
Many countries along the caravan route would even provide busing to migrants colonists in the interest of moving them along to the next country, the Journal reported.
Mulino has taken hardline steps to end the free-for-all, including deploying troops and installing razor wire fences to keep migrants colonists moving single-file through the wilderness, which makes them easier to track.
Trump and Mulino don’t see eye to eye on everything, however.
The incoming commander-in-chief has made overtures for the US to take control of the Panama Canal, which was given to the country via treaty nearly a quarter-century ago.
Mulino said in no uncertain terms that the canal changing hands is not in the offing.
#Turkey has decided to allow parliament’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party to hold face-to-face talks with militant leader Abdullah Ocalan on his island prison, the party says, setting up the first such visit in nearly a decade.https://t.co/vCAb9wjLtt
[JPost] Responding to a recent libel on X/Twitter that Jews eat human flesh, United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated that not all Jews should be blamed for Israel's actions. In another post, she wrote that it was important not to "invisibilize" the "few" Israelis who were against occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
In a post on X, Albanese referenced an opinion piece published in Haaretz, a left-wing Israeli newspaper, which cited an IDF veteran's anonymous report that he saw his commander break a 4-year-old Palestinian boy's arm and leg with his bare hands.
Albanese said that the report referenced in Haaretz proved that "not only the Israeli army is ROTTEN to the core, but so are all governments that allow these sickening crimes to be normalized."
Stories like the Israeli commander breaking the bones of a 4 year old Palestinian child with bare hands, are a confirmation that not only the Israeli army is ROTTEN to the core, but so are all governments that allow these sickening crimes to be normalized. https://t.co/O9DXb1Ye8bpic.twitter.com/spEiYdsLz8
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) December 24, 2024
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[Rudaw] Over 100 Iraqis, who had fled to Syria in the face of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) attack a decade ago, were repatriated through Kurdistan Region’s main border crossing with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... on Thursday. The process will continue in the coming days, spokesperson for Iraq’s migration ministry said.
"A total of 126 Iraqi citizens have been returned to Iraq from Tal Abyad [Gire Spi], Ral al-Ain [Sare Kani], Idlib and Azaz via the Iraqi-Ottoman Turkish border," Ali Abbas, spokesperson for Iraq’s migration and displaced ministry, told Rudaw, referring to Ibrahim Khalil border crossing in Duhok province.
The returnees are from the provinces of Salahaddin, Nineveh, Anbar, and Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Abbas explained, adding that in the coming two days, more people are expected to be repatriated.
"Many of our citizens have been displaced since 2014, and their return through Turkey and the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing in coordination with the Iraqi embassy in Turkey, the Iraqi consulate in Gaziantep, the ministry of transportation and our ministry branch in Duhok," he said.
Following the collapse of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... ’s regime on December 8, the ministry asked Iraqi citizens residing in Syria who wish to return, to contact the embassy and register their names.
[IsraelTimes] Repair of Deir al-Balah plant, connected to Israel’s power grid, seen as potential roadmap for Palestinian Authority’s involvement in postwar Gaza
The quiet resumption of operations at a desalination plant in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip last month marked a small but significant step toward restoring public services in the Paleostinian territory ravaged by more than 14 months of war.
The process of restarting the plant in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, involved both Israeli and Paleostinian stakeholders who could have a hand in the territory’s future, especially amid renewed hopes for a ceasefire-hostage deal in recent days.
While its reopening has had a limited tangible impact so far, diplomats close to the project suggest it could offer a tentative roadmap for Gaza’s postwar administration.
Since being reconnected to Israel’s electricity grid, the station has been producing approximately 16,000 cubic meters of water per day, according to UNICEF.
It serves more than 600,000 Gaza residents through tankers or the networks of Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis governorates in central and southern Gaza, respectively.
"Its production capacity remains limited in the face of immense needs," an official within the Paleostinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority (PENRA) told AFP.
Residents of the devastated Paleostinian territory have struggled since the early days of the war between Israel and the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group to secure even basic necessities, including food and clean water.
Human Rights Watch last week accused Israel of committing "acts of genocide" in Gaza by restricting water access — a claim denied by Israeli authorities.
The WASH Cluster, which brings together humanitarian organizations in the water sector, reports that distribution of water has become very complex in Gaza.
The pipelines transporting water have been damaged, leaving Gazooks — many of whom are living in makeshift shelters after being displaced by bombardments — without any means of storing the essential resource.
The plant is one of three such seawater processing facilities in the Gaza Strip, which before the war met around 15 percent of the 2 million-plus residents’ needs.
In the months following the outbreak of war, sparked by the shock Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which thousands of turbans killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251, the plant operated at minimal capacity, relying on solar panels and generators amid a persistent scarcity of fuel in Gaza.
It could fully resume operations only after reconnecting to one of the power lines supplied by Israel, which charges the Paleostinian Authority for the electricity.
PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS
UNICEF, which provides technical support for the Deir el-Balah plant, indicated in late June that it had reached an agreement with Israel to restore electricity to the plant.
Subsequently, the Israel Defense Forces’ Coordinated Office for Government Activity in the Territories (COGAT), overseeing civilian affairs in the Paleostinian territories, announced that the desalination plant had been reconnected to the Israeli grid.
But the line meant to supply the plant was heavily damaged.
"It took five months to repair the line from Kissufim" in Israel, said Mohammed Thabet, front man for Gaza’s electricity company. "These are emergency, temporary solutions."
Several diplomatic sources told AFP that the episode showed the Paleostinian Authority had proven it was in a position to have a hand in the future governance of Gaza, as its institutions were fixing the electricity line on the ground, coordinating with all actors.
The PA aims to play a central role in postwar Gaza, seeking to strengthen its influence in the territory after it was ousted when Hamas violent mostly peacefully took control in 2007.
An Israeli security source told AFP that the Israeli partners involved had acted on "instructions from the political echelons," and that the project was part of an effort to prevent an outbreak of disease, which could endanger the lives of hostages still held in Gaza.
Ninety-six of the people taken hostage by Hamas-led turbans last year are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel "facilitated the connection of the electric line specifically to the desalination plant," the source said, adding that a mechanism was in place to track usage to "prevent electricity from being stolen."
In October and November, Israel worked with a UN-led polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... vaccination drive in Gaza, pausing its bombing campaign against Hamas in areas where children were receiving the doses.
Israeli Deep State giving covert support to the protest cadres or Israeli intelligence surreptitiously building cases? What did his activist wife know, and when did she know it?
[IsraelTimes] ‘I have no intention of presenting myself for questioning,’ says Likud MK, amid investigation into her social media posts about protest leader Shikma Bressler’s partner
Likud MK Tally Gotliv cited parliamentary immunity on Thursday as she refused to present herself for police questioning over social media posts a year ago in which she revealed that a protest leader’s partner was a member of the Shin Bet security service.
"I have no intention of presenting myself for questioning," Gotliv wrote in an extensive post to X, which she said was the text of her response to the summons.
"I am entitled to substantive immunity, set down in clause 1 of the Immunity Law, according to which I am immune from any criminal liability as a result of any statement or expression of an opinion in the framework of performing my duties," she wrote.
Gotliv went on to defend her actions from last January when she outed the partner of Bressler, who in 2023 was a leader of protests against the government’s contentious judicial overhaul.
"Revealing the details of the dangerous Shikma Bressler’s partner was done for the sake of, and in the framework of, performing my duties," Gotliv claimed.
"A Shin Bet employee whose spouse leads a civil rebellion, encourages refusal to serve, and opposes the government in a way that is dangerous and endangers others, has an obligation to be fully transparent and to identify himself," she added.
Opposition to the judicial overhaul effort drew hundreds of thousands to the streets in 2023 and included calls by some IDF reservists not to volunteer for duty. The overhaul was shelved when the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... terror group attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, starting the ongoing war — though some in the government have repeatedly threatened to revive it.
Last January, Gotliv repeatedly circulated unfounded claims that connected Bressler and her partner to Hamas and its October 7 onslaught, including a conspiracy theory that US intelligence agencies had intercepted a conversation between Bressler’s partner and then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
The claims led Bressler to sue Gotliv for defamation, seeking NIS 2.6 million ($715,000) in damages.
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar at the time advised Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara to open an investigation into Gotliv over her posts identifying Bressler’s partner.
"The identities of past or present security service workers are confidential, and their publication is forbidden," Bar wrote at the time, in a letter to the attorney general citing the Shin Bet Law.
In her post to X on Thursday, Gotliv called her summons to questioning "an abuse of power, in order to silence me," and asserted that "an MK can only be arrested if they are about to carry out a crime that will harm security."
Last month, after Baharav-Miara approved the investigation into Gotliv, the Likud MK introduced a bill in the Knesset to ban any criminal investigation into a politician unless it was approved by a Knesset supermajority, of 90 out of 120 MKs.
Knesset legal adviser Sagit Afik said that Gotliv must publicly affirm in the Knesset plenum that the bill will not retroactively apply to civil litigation in which she is engaged, in order to prevent the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Gotliv also said on X Thursday that she would call for investigations into Bar and former top IDF intelligence official Aharon Haliva, both of whom she accused of having "carried out a military coup."
She also appeared to suggest that her summons came in retaliation for her comments on the Knesset floor earlier this week assailing left-wing MK Yair Golan, leader of the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... party.
[IsraelTimes] Haifa court judge says ‘no apparent evidence’ for terrorism accusations, warns of ‘dark results’ if such claims wielded too freely
The Haifa District Court on Thursday ordered four anti-government activists accused of firing flares at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea released to house arrest, after almost six weeks in detention.
Judge Zaid Falah wrote in his decision that he was unconvinced by the grave terror charges against the men, and gave warning that using such charges too lightly could lead to "dark results" with regards to freedom of expression and protest in the country.
The judge did, however, write that he believed charges of recklessness and negligence by the men were well founded.
Falah ruled that the four defendants could be transferred to house arrest in their own homes with electronic tagging.
Following the decision, the State Attorney’s Office initially said it was "considering it steps," implying it could appeal to the Supreme Court. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching... prosecutors decided Thursday to not take any further action, and the men were released on Thursday evening.
Rear Adm. (res.) Ofer Doron, 63, his son Gal Doron, 27, and two other longtime anti-government activists, Itay Yaffe, 62, and Amir Sadeh, 62, were indicted in the Haifa District Court earlier this month on charges of carrying out an act of terror through the reckless and negligent use of fire, and attempted arson.
The first two men were also charged with obstruction of justice for initially lying to Sherlocks about who had fired one of the flares.
The fact that the indictment leveled terrorism charges at the four men had lent justification to the state’s demand they be held in jug until the end of legal proceedings against them.
In his ruling on Thursday, the judge wrote that he did not believe the terror allegations could be justified.
He also noted that the four men had clean criminal records. In light of "the weakness of the evidence" for terrorism; "their full cooperation" under investigation; and the regret they had expressed, Falah determined that the danger they pose was low, and that they could be relied upon to comply with house arrest conditions.
On November 16, the four men made their way to an area several hundred meters (yards) west of the Netanyahu’s residence and fired two flares into the sky, one landed 150 meters from the prime minister’s home and scorched some leaves and the other landed at the entrance to the house’s courtyard and was immediately extinguished by a security guard.
No one was harmed in the incident, no damage was caused, and the Netanyahus were not home at the time.
The activists were arrested the same day and were kept in jug since then.
The terror charges against the four men, which carry hefty prison sentences upon conviction, were strongly criticized in some quarters as a politicized step which could have a chilling effect on anti-government protests.
And in his decision on Thursday, Falah made clear that he, too, was highly skeptical of the justification for terror charges.
"The requirement for fulfilling the conditions of an act of terror is [an act that] ’coerces the government’ and not ’an act that applies pressure on a government,’" wrote Falah.
"Otherwise any protest of any type... which is accompanied by an additional crime such as violence, is likely to be included under the cover of ’an act of terror,’" he continued.
"The slippery slope is likely to lead to dark results — and this is not what the legislature intended when it held an in-depth debate and chose the word ’coerce’ and not more complex language, in order to avoid the danger of broadening the incidents which could come under the definition of an act of terror."
Falah concluded that he did not believe there was enough evidence to convict the men on terror charges.
He did, however, write that there is apparent evidence that the defendants may be guilty of the recklessness and negligence charges since, he said, they fired the flares "in the general direction of the prime minister’s residence" and in the knowledge that there were security service personnel in that area and that the flares could endanger them.
He also said he did not accept their claim that they had sought to fire the flares over a nearby protest compound and not the prime minister’s home.
Falah noted that there was a "logical contradiction" in alleging a crime of recklessness and negligence with a deliberate arson attempt. He acknowledged that there was evidence with the potential to convict the defendants on the arson charge, but argued that evidence was not especially strong.
"The State Attorney’s Office will study the court’s decision and its treatment of the crimes attributed to the defendants and will weigh its position on the issue," the State Attorney’s Office said in response to the decision.
A beautiful example of Moslem muruna. (See definition of that and other types of Moslem untruths below.)
[IsraelTimes] Apparently speaking on behalf of al-Sharaa, official says they ‘don’t want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel’s security,’ and Jerusalem’s concern over new regime is ‘natural’
In an interview with the US public broadcaster NPR, apparently on behalf of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, the governor of Damascus said Thursday that the newly-installed government wants to have cordial relations with Israel.
"We have no fear toward Israel, and our problem is not with Israel," Maher Marwan told NPR, "There exists a people who want coexistence. They want peace. They don’t want disputes."
"And we don’t want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel’s security or any other country’s security," he said. "We want peace, and we cannot be an opponent to Israel or an opponent to anyone."
He added that Israel’s initial trepidation after the fall of former president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... was "natural."
"Israel may have felt fear," he said. "So it advanced a little, bombed a little, etc."
Earlier in December, after the rebels took control of Damascus in a lightning offensive, Israel launched a major operation to destroy Syria’s strategic military capabilities, including chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... sites, missiles, air defenses, air force and navy targets, in a bid to prevent them from falling into the hands of hostile elements.
In a move that drew some international condemnation, Israel also entered a United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... -patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights.
Israel has said it will not become involved in the conflict in Syria and that its seizure of the buffer zone established in 1974 was a defensive move and a temporary one until it can guarantee security along the frontier.
Israel has also signaled its desire to have "correct ties" with the new regime, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in early December, but "if this regime allows 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... to reestablish itself in Syria, or allows the transfer of Iranian weapons or any other weapons to Hezbollah, or attacks us, we will respond forcefully and we will exact a heavy price from it."
He warned the rebels that "whoever follows Assad’s footsteps will end up like Assad did. We won’t allow an krazed killer Islamic terror entity to act against Israel from beyond its borders... we will do anything to remove the threat."
Syria’s new de-facto leader al-Sharaa, also known by his nom de-guerre Abu Muhammad al-Julani, has said that his new regime is "committed to the 1974 agreement and we are prepared to return the UN [monitors]," referring to peacekeeping forces that manned the demilitarized zone alongside Syrian troops.
"We do not want any conflict whether with Israel or anyone else and we will not let Syria be used as a launchpad for attacks. The Syrian people need a break, and the strikes must end and Israel has to pull back to its previous positions," al-Sharaa told The Times of London earlier this month.
Al-Sharaa also reiterated his position that Israel had a right to target Iranian-backed forces prior to the government’s fall earlier this month, but has no legitimate basis to keep operating in Syria.
Israel and Syria do not have diplomatic relations and have formally been in a perpetual state of war since Israel declared independence in 1948.
Syria was one of a number of Arab countries that attacked the newly born Jewish state, and despite an armistice agreement signed in 1949 that demarcated a border between the two countries, Syria has never formally recognized Israel’s existence.
Syria also attacked during the 1967 Six Day War, before the IDF pounded Syrian forces and seized the Golan Heights, which Israel later annexed unilaterally. Syria attacked again in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War and was pushed back after a major advance into the Golan Heights, after which the 1974 disengagement agreement was signed between the states, marking the demilitarized zones on the Israel-Syrian border.
While the fall of the Assad regime, which stood for over five decades, could provide a historic opportunity for recognition between Israel and its neighbor, the potential power vacuum in Syria could also lead to further chaos and serve as a breeding ground for a resurgence of terror in the region.
[TheReligionOfPeace] The Hadith makes it clear that Muslims are allowed to lie to unbelievers in order to defeat them or protect themselves. There are several forms:
Taqiyya - Saying something that isn't true as it relates to Muslim identity (i.e whether one is a Muslim or what that means). This is a Shiite term: the Sunni counterpart is Muda'rat.
Kitman - Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills "it shall be as if he had killed all mankind") while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of "corruption" and "mischief."
Tawriya - Intentionally creating a false impression by saying something that is technically true, when knowing that the listener will interpret it in a different way. This practice has a broader application than taqiyya.
Muruna - 'Blending in' by setting aside some practices of Islam or Sharia in order to advance others.
Though not called taqiyya by name, Muhammad clearly used deception when he signed a 10-year treaty with the Meccans (known as Hudaibiya) which allowed him access to their city while he secretly prepared his own forces for a takeover. The unsuspecting residents were easily conquered when he broke the treaty two years later. Some of the people in the city who had trusted him at his word were executed.
Another example of lying is when Muhammad used deception to trick his personal enemies into letting down their guard by pretending to seek peace. This happened in the case of Ka'b bin al-Ashraf (as previously noted) and later against Usayr ibn Zarim, a surviving leader of the Banu Nadir tribe, which had been evicted from their home in Medina by the Muslims.
At the time, Usayr ibn Zarim was attempting to gather an armed force against the Muslims from among a tribe allied with the Quraish (against which Muhammad had already declared war). Muhammad's "emissaries" went to ibn Zarim and persuaded him to leave his safe haven on the pretext of meeting with the prophet of Islam in Medina to discuss peace. Once vulnerable, the leader and his thirty companions were easily massacred by the Muslims, probably because they were unarmed - having been given a guarantee of safe passage (Ibn Ishaq 981, Ibn Kathir v.4 p.300).
Such was the reputation of early Muslims for lying and killing that even those who "accepted Islam" did not feel entirely safe. Consider the fate of the Jadhima. When Muslim "missionaries" approached this tribe, one member insisted that they would be slaughtered even though they had already "converted" to Islam (to avoid just such a demise). However, the others insisted that they could trust the Muslim leader's promise that they would not be harmed if they simply offered no resistance. (After convincing the skeptic to lay down his arms, the unarmed men of the tribe were tied up and beheaded by the missionaries - Ibn Ishaq 834 & 837).
Today's apologists often rationalize Muhammad's murder of his critics at Medina by falsely claiming that they broke a treaty by their actions. Yet, these same apologists place little value on treaties broken by Muslims. From Muhammad himself to Saddam Hussein, promises made to non-Muslim are distinctly non-binding in the Muslim mindset.
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.
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[JPost] Responding to a recent libel on X/Twitter that Jews eat human flesh, United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated that not all Jews should be blamed for Israel's actions. In another post, she wrote that it was important not to "invisibilize" the "few" Israelis who were against occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
