[NBC] ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's air force has suffered its first-ever female pilot fatality after a fighter jet crashed during a training mission Tuesday, officials said.
Flying Officer Mariam Mukhtiar was killed after the Chinese-built F7-PG aircraft she was flying suffered a "serious in-flight emergency," according to a statement from the Pakistan Air Force.
Both 23-year-old Mukhtiar and Squadron Leader Saqib Abbasi -- who was also aboard the aircraft but survived -- were praised by the air force for their "professionalism and courage" after they "tried to save the ill-fated aircraft until the very last minute."
In case anyone wondered how the second round of Egypt's election was going.
Boy howdy, that one slipped right past me. Real earth-shattering news here...
[AlAhram] Preliminary reports from the second stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections suggest a second landslide victory for the pro-Sisi 'For the Love of Egypt' coalition
Initial figures from the second stage of Egypt's parliamentary elections suggest that the For the Love of Egypt coalition, widely believed to be loyal to President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, is likely to emerge victorious, trouncing two rival secular coalitions -- the Republican Alliance of Social Forces and the National Movement and Independence Current Alliance -- and one Islamist force, the ultraconservative Salafist Nour Party.
Observers and media news hounds attending the vote-count on Monday night confirmed that For the Love of Egypt has won the two constituencies reserved for party-based candidates in the second stage: Cairo and the Nile South and Middle Delta with 45 seats, and the Nile East Delta with 15 seats.
The above results mean that the coalition has won all 120 seats reserved for party lists in the two-stage poll. These form around 23 percent of seats in Egypt's new parliament.
Sameh Seif El-Yazal, the For the Love of Egypt coordinator, told news hounds Tuesday that the coalition's victory in the second stage was even larger than in the previous stage.
"We won 67 percent of the vote in Cairo and the Nile South and Middle Delta and 72 percent in the Nile East Delta," said El-Yazal, referring to the fact that his coalition's gain in the first stage did not exceed 60 per cent of the vote.
El-Yazal said that the For the Love of Egypt coalition, together with its allied political parties, has now become well placed to be the dominant bloc in Egypt's new parliament.
As in the first stage, the three secular political forces forming part of the For the Love of Egypt coalition -- the Wafd, the Free Egyptians Party and the Future of Homeland -- have shown strong performance in the second stage. Initial reports show that out of 326 candidates fielded by these parties as independents, 145 were able to qualify for the run-off stage, scheduled for next Tuesday and Wednesday.
In the first stage, held between 17 and 28 October, independent candidates affiliated with the three above-mentioned forces were able to win around 70 seats. If added to the 120 party-based seats the For the Love of Egypt coalition has won, they would make a total of 190 seats, or more than 30 percent.
Al-Yazal said last September that the coalition "aims to act as a back-up force for El-Sisi in the coming parliament".
[AlAhram] A hostage situation in the northern French town of Roubaix was apparently not linked to the Gay Paree attacks earlier this month and was drawing to a close with the hostages now safe, officials said on Tuesday.
Local authorities said the hostages were now in a "secure place" while a police source told Rooters that the operation would soon be over and that several suspects had been tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... .
La Belle France remains on high alert after the Nov. 13 attacks in and around Gay Paree in which 130 people were killed, and as a result of this, situations such as the one in Roubaix have taken on a greater significance than usual.
However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... police sources said the Roubaix incident most likely concerned a planned armed robbery.
"This is apparently not a terrorist attack, it's apparently a robbery," one police source said.
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Roubaxix? Don't even think of it! MaryAnne will arise and rip your ballz off, Eddie the Cannibal will have you with cashews and my olde friend Lucky will paint you into a corner, so don't try it!
A list of the group's demands, which has been posted to its Facebook page, also included a zero tolerance policy for Islamophobic rhetoric and actions on campus; mandatory bystander training for faculty, staff and students; more coursework on Islam in an effort to alleviate misconceptions toward Muslim students; and for administrators to "address, alleviate and eliminate systems of oppression that disproportionately target people of color, women and all marginalized students on campus."
More at the link including video.
So all you Rantburgers, can your Islamophobic rhetoric when you visit SDSU, don't gimme any crap about your First Amendment rights and don't ask who gets to define exactly what constitutes Islamophobic rhetoric. Yeah, and no bitching about your tax dollars being spent on Muslim propaganda being taught in our universities. Just shut up and drink your KoolAid.
You forgot the /sarcasm, Abu Uluque.
The demands read the same, virtually, as the demands at Mizzou, Duke, Yale, etc. Now maybe it's because of the internet. But these demands are about stuff that the snowflakes ordinarily wouldn't consider, like 'bystander training' and the like. So it makes me wonder who amongst the administrators, particularly the student affairs drones who majored in grievance studies, are in on this. And who the national coordinators are.
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Who ever suspected the Fascist takeover of USA to come from the campuses?
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People will believe anything that benefits them personally. USA "fellow travelers" has been rewarded with the best white collar jobs for two generations now.
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foreign powers including Islamists have long targeted university campuses to recruit and spread ideology
saudi money funds many things including the think tanks, lobby groups and organisations that collect and document instances of islamophobia which are so very useful
they also fund imams to go visit the prisons and find converts among the criminal classes
and the street dawah movement is big as well
all of this is used to turn democracy against itself, using the very freedoms you thought might protect minorities
Infiltrating and funding activity at universities is where the ideological war is fought and won.
This is where the next generation of policymakers, media professionals and leaders come from.
when Islamists control the university campuses then the thought leaders that graduate instil a culture that silences criticism of Islam.
news stories become biased for fear of inciting islamophobia. The truth is no longer reported.
criticism of islam is not allowed through self-censorship
this cripples the war effort
Think about it
how many news stories do you see that talk about the Caliphate as the enemy? none.
They all talk about Islamic State, the group
that is because all Islamists support the Caliphate no matter what acronym. But Islamic State is just one of those groups
So why does the media support islamist aims? it has been controlled by Islamist lobby groups and that includes thought leaders from the very university campuses where this crap is setting the agenda
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Zero tolerance for Islamophobia (Noun: Any discussion of Islam which does not acknowledge it's supremacy).
Yet discrimination against anything Jewish or Christian is fully encouraged.
And who the national coordinators are.
I think a comparison between the 'student' leaders (why do I doubt they are actual students?) and the leaders of the Democratic Party organized and supported 'Occupy Movement' might be interesting.
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I'm sure if we taught everyone about the robbing murderous mentally-ill desert dwelling paedophile who wrote the terrorist manual, we'd be accused of islamaphobia even if we only quoted from the koran.
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BP - I think that's already been done - hasn't someone (Wilders?) been convicted of a 'hate crime' and banned from visiting England because he produced a video which basically quoted the Crayon?
After reading the article it should be noted that the 'student group' is a Muslim Association group urged on by CAIR. Money Quote:
Sarah Al-Khaled agreed. “Because of our names, we're Muslim so everyone targets us as terrorists and that is wrong because Islam is all about peace!"
Sorry lady but reality is, once again, calling you a liar.
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CrazyFool, I think the kind of peace she's talking about is when all other religions have been eradicated and everyone on the planet bows to Mecca five times a day. Problem is, if and when that day ever comes, they will find a reason to kill each other.
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As a SDSU alumni they can kiss my white privileged Christian ass
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If at some level, they do not understand that they look like Sigfried and Roy trying to dress themselves in football gear for an eight yard post route from the slot, we have real problems.
Say what you will, at least meth heads and crack dealers are sure of themselves.
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It's time to go back and reevaluate the very idea of hate speech and hate crime -- by which I mean abolish these concepts altogether as inconsistent with the 1st Amendment and a healthy, functioning democracy.
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My guess is the only witnesses will be fellow Muslims. I think this is another hoax.
They had some kind of hoax there last year and almost shut down the fraternities. It's like they have an administration looking for excuses and some jerks trying to hoax up that excuse, with a passive student body easily riled up at each false alarm.
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[NBC] ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's air force has suffered its first-ever female pilot fatality after a fighter jet crashed during a training mission Tuesday, officials said.
