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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global jihad attacks labeled as "mental illness"
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/05/2017 11:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looooots of mental illness these days. Seems to gravitate towards Islam.
Posted by: gorb || 07/05/2017 14:01 Comments || Top||

#2  As the research shows, the tradition of close cousin marriage leads to a much higher rate of mental as well as physical disabilities in the population. And those with mental problems intrepret the thoughts that appear in their brains the way their culture teaches.

In the old days we locked such people up before they committed crimes; nowadays we say they have a right to their delusions if they don't want to be medicated, unless they are in the process of harming themselves or others.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2017 15:26 Comments || Top||

#3  intrepret

interpret. PIMF*!!!

* For Seeking sure: Proofing Is My Friend
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2017 21:04 Comments || Top||


Europe
German Intel Agency: Hundreds of Jihadis Entered Country Among Refugees, More Terror Attacks Coming
[TownHall] Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) acknowledged Tuesday that hundreds of jihadists were among the million-plus migrants that came to Germany over the last two years.

There were five Islamic terror attacks in the country last year, while at least seven other attempted attacks failed or were thwarted. This trend will likely continue, the agency argued.

"We have to assume that we can expect further attacks by individuals or terror commandos in Germany too," BfV chief Hans-Georg Maassen said at a press conference Tuesday. "Islamist terrorism is the biggest challenge facing the BfV and we see it as one of the biggest threats facing the internal security of Germany."
The agency's annual report for 2016 said there were 24,400 Islamists in Germany, including around 9,700 Salafists, and the number of Salafists had increased to 10,100 this year. The total also includes some 10,000 members of the Turkish Islamist Milliu Gorus movement, the report showed.

The total number of suspected Islamists marks a drop from the year earlier, but the report said that did not mean the threat had diminished.

"In fact the opposite is the case," the report said, citing a shift toward "a more violence-prone and terrorist spectrum ..." (Reuters)

According to Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, Germany has ramped up its efforts to combat Islamic terrorism, particularly over the last year when there was a record number of arrests, prosecutions and deportations.

Security officials are currently monitoring roughly 680 potential Islamic terror threats, he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2017 13:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Hundreds? I guess they're going to break the news to the peasants in stages.
Posted by: gorb || 07/05/2017 13:59 Comments || Top||

#2  and tens of thousands who'd actively aid the terrorists and probably a million who'd say nowt if they knew a terrorist.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/05/2017 16:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Falls under the, "No... Really?" category.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/05/2017 17:09 Comments || Top||


Austria to control Italy border, send armoured vehicles to block migrants: Ministry
[AlAhram] Austria has moved four armoured vehicles close to its border with Italia to guard against migrants colonists and will likely set up controls on a key trade crossing "very soon", defence ministry officials said on Tuesday.

The planned controls will include the busy Alpine Brenner pass, a defence ministry front man said - a move that Italia warned last year would break EU rules on free movement.

"I expect border controls will be introduced very soon," Defence Minister Peter Doskozil told daily newspaper Kronenzeitung in an interview published on Tuesday.

Both Italia and Austria are members of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
's Schengen open-border zone, but free movement has been jeopardised by the reimposition of controls at many crossings across the bloc since the surge in migrants colonists seen in 2015/16.

There was no immediate comment from Italia or EU officials.

Doskozil's front man said there was no concrete timetable for the new controls. "But we see how the situation in Italia is becoming more acute and we have to be prepared to avoid a situation comparable to summer 2015."

Italia has taken in more than 80,000 refugees and migrants colonists so far this year, most of whom arrived by boat from Africa, making Italia the main point of entry to Europe.

Austria has already moved heavy equipment to the province of Tyrol, which borders Italia, including four armoured vehicles to block roads, the front man said.

"These are not battle tanks. These are armoured vehicles without weapons which could block roads. These were already used during the refugee crisis 201/16 at the Spielfeld border crossing (with Slovenia)."

The army would also be able to send in 750 soldiers within 72 hours to deal with emergencies, the front man added.

Controls at the Brenner pass would be particularly sensitive as the border there cuts across two communities that feel closely connected - Austria's Tyrol and Italia's South Tyrol. South Tyrol was once part of the wider Austro-Hungarian empire but was annexed by Italia in 1918.

The European Commission plans to present a set of measures to reduce the migrant flow across the central Mediterranean later on Tuesday.

Italy Summons Austrian Ambassador over Plans to Block Migrants at Border
Some are becoming sensible.
[AnNahar] Italy's foreign ministry summoned Austria's ambassador on Tuesday after Vienna said it was considering introducing border controls to block migrants from passing between the two countries.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  someone still has balls in euroope
Posted by: 746 || 07/05/2017 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder what the Armoured vehicles will do?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/05/2017 10:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Muslim attackers of 5-year-old in Idaho unpunished
Can anyone confirm this? Seems like it would be a bad thing for Pamela if this turned out to be untrue.
The three Muslim refugee boys who plead guilty to the heinous sexual assault of a five-year-old girl in Idaho received no jail time in their sentencing yesterday (Tuesday), according to Pamela Geller, President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI). The judge barred everyone in the courtroom, including the victim’s own parents, from speaking about the case and threatened anyone with serious consequences if they violated his directive, Geller reported.

The rape occurred at Fawnbrook Apartments, in Twin Falls, when the three Muslims lured a 5-year-old girl into a laundry room and there committed upon her the most infamous acts of cruelty and barbarism, while the oldest boy filmed the entire incident.

Following a sentencing hearing Monday at the Snake River Juvenile Detention Center in Twin Falls, Judge Thomas Borresen of Idaho’s 5th Judicial District issued a gag order barring those present in the courtroom from discussing it.

Geller says that the victim’s lawyer is facing contempt charges because of a benign comment he made to the Idaho Statesman about the parents’ unhappiness with the verdict.

WorldNetDaily consulted with Mathew Staver, chairman and co-founder of the nonprofit legal assistance agency Liberty Counsel, about the legality of issuing such a gag order after the fact in a criminal case: "It’s unconstitutional for the judge to do that. There are gag orders that can be put on people during a jury trial, or if it’s a minor they can prohibit you from mentioning the name of the minor, but they can’t gag you after the fact," Staver said. "This is public at this point. This judge, it just seems like he’s forgotten about the First Amendment in this case. He has no authority to do this, he can’t hold someone in contempt to keep them from speaking out about their displeasure with the case after the fact."

Staver said case law is clear on the subject of gag orders.

"The travesty of justice in Idaho is now complete," wrote Geller. "In the summer of 2016, a 5-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and urinated upon by three Muslim migrant boys in Twin Falls, Idaho. Since then, instead of getting justice, the victim’s family has been abused by law enforcement and governing authorities as if they were the criminals ‐ because what happened to their little girl contradicts the politically correct narrative about Muslim migrants. On Monday, the perpetrators were sentenced, and the final injustice was done to this poor girl.

"The injustice began in the proceedings at the Snake River Juvenile Detention Center in Twin Falls when Judge Thomas Borreson of Idaho’s 5th Judicial District ordered the little victim’s parents to say nothing to anyone ‐ ever ‐ about what was said in the courtroom Monday, or to disclose the sentence he gave to the savage attackers. He did allow them to say that they were unhappy with the sentencing, but threatened to jail them for contempt of court if they disclosed why they were unhappy with it.

"But even though the victim’s parents were not allowed to talk to me, there were 12 to 15 people in the courtroom who saw and heard the whole sorry business. I was informed of what happened by an anonymous source inside the courtroom ‐ and the more I heard, the more I understood why this judge wanted to keep all the proceedings secret.

"Janice Kroeger, the senior deputy prosecuting attorney, who was supposed to be trying these boys for their crimes, defended the boys and repeatedly attacked Lacy, the victim’s mother. A therapist for the boys was present, as well as a parole officer and a detective. Everything that was said was designed to portray the perpetrators as victims. Throughout the proceedings, they were repeatedly called victims, and the youngest one was called ’the biggest victim of them all.’

"The court heard all about how the attackers are doing well in school, and about how smart they are. They were praised for the supposed ordeal they had to go through. It was claimed that all three are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from having to go through courtroom proceedings.


"After this lovefest, which lasted for five hours in the courtroom, all three boys were sentenced, one after the other. All three were given probation. They were not found guilty of rape, but of sexually lewd conduct.

"In the midst of this judicial mugging, every time Lacy’s lawyer tried to speak up, he was silenced. The little victim, Jayla, was never even mentioned once by Kroeger or the judge ‐ or by the police or anyone else. Only Lacy mentioned her, when she made her statement. Lacy detailed how the poor girl is still suffering the effects of this attack...

"Yet when Lacy completed her statement, Kroeger lashed out not at the perpetrators or their parents, but at Lacy. She viciously tongue-lashed Lacy for a full 15 minutes, until finally Judge Borreson had to stop her.

"Understandably, the parents of the victim were and are devastated. Back in April, when the attackers initially pleaded guilty, Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs said: ’I am pleased that we were able to resolve this case in a way that was approved and agreed to by the victim’s family. This continues to be a serious and sad case, but it was resolved properly.’

"Nothing could be further from the truth. The resolution of the case was not accepted by the victim’s family, and it was not resolved properly.

"From the beginning to the end, for Idaho officials this case was about one thing, and one thing only: not justice for this poor little girl who was brutalized and abused, but about making sure that Americans don’t start to realize what is happening and oppose the Muslim migrant influx. Idaho officials were willing to sacrifice this girl’s well-being for that goal ‐ to their everlasting shame," wrote Pamela Geller.
Posted by: gorb || 07/05/2017 11:44 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I had previously heard of this outcome. There's a lot in this article that needs to be unraveled. The gag order itself is a major red flag. Justice is blind - it is not mute. Something stinks here
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/05/2017 13:17 Comments || Top||

#2  The Idaho Statesman wrote about the sentencing on June 6 here. Key bits from the article:

With the proceedings sealed from the public, like most juvenile court records in Idaho, the specifics of the recent sentencing are unavailable.

Prosecutors and police said a sexual assault did occur at the Fawnbrook Apartments, but many of the details — the knife, that it was a rape, sharing the video, even the defendants’ ethnicities — were wrong.

Sealed cases are especially common in incidents involving minors who commit sexual assaults, said Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs, who handled the Fawnbrook case.

Some small updates have been released over time, and Loebs’ office announced in April that the boys had reached plea agreements and admitted their guilt.

Three boys, ages 14, 10, and 7, were charged in the case. The older boys, brothers, are from Eritrea, an African country, while the younger boy is from Iraq. The boys are from refugee families, but it is unclear how long they had been in the community.

What is known is that one of the boys touched the girl inappropriately inside the apartment complex’s laundry facilities. Another boy recorded the assault on a phone.

One boy pleaded guilty to felony exploitation of a child and misdemeanor battery. A second boy pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting felony lewd conduct and aiding and abetting misdemeanor battery. The third boy pleaded guilty to accessory to the commission of a felony.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2017 16:39 Comments || Top||

#3 
Even looks like a sodding closet islamophile.
Posted by: Dron66 || 07/05/2017 17:34 Comments || Top||


Minneapolis Installs Sharia Hotline to Report Non-Muslims Who Speak Against Islam
[CreepngSharia] The city of Minneapolis has set up a hotline for residents to report suspected hate crimes, including "speech and actions," according to statements on the city’s website.

The city, which will operate the "service" through its 3-1-1 helpline, is targeting any "harassing behaviors motivated by prejudice," according to a press release. Those wishing to report a hate crime from outside the city may dial 612-673-3000.

According to the local newspaper, the Star-Tribune, "the announcement comes amid signs of a recent surge of such incidents affecting Muslims and Jews across the country, many of which go unreported."

The city’s Department of Civil Rights clearly states on its website that it only enforces hate crimes against certain "protected classes."

A city official further indicated the impetus for the hate-crimes hotline was the election of President Trump and that the targets would be his supporters.

"Since the general election, many of us have experienced, witnessed firsthand or heard of actions of: racism, xenophobia, sexism and bigotry directed at people here and in cities across the United States," Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights Director Velma Korbel wrote in a statement posted on the city’s website. "In no uncertain terms, hate-motivated speech and actions have no place in Minneapolis nor will they be tolerated."

Korbel said the city’s tough stance on "hate" is reflected in the views of its mayor, Betsy Hodges. Korbel states on the city website:
Continues...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Happy Velma @ photo left:
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 07/05/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  powerline call your office
Posted by: lord garth || 07/05/2017 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  612-673-3000
Posted by: Frank G || 07/05/2017 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  It would be a shame if that telephone number were to begin spreading across bathroom walls all over this country.
Posted by: Crusader || 07/05/2017 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  The city’s Department of Civil Rights clearly states on its website that it only enforces hate crimes against certain "protected classes."

White males, amirite?
Posted by: Raj || 07/05/2017 10:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Robo-Call time
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/05/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#7  I think this should be put on the sign outside the headquarters of;

Advancement of Islamic
Agenda for America

In Dearborn, Michigan


Which in October of 2014 stated the following:

ALLAH BE PRAISED
AMERICA WE WILL KILL YOU ALL AND
NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT
ALLAH BE PRAISED
Posted by: David169 || 07/05/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#8  My new number to use when I sign up for telemarketing crap.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/05/2017 12:56 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm outa quatas!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/05/2017 22:47 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India has a right to defend itself against terrorism: Israeli official
[DAWN] Israel backs India's right to defend itself from terrorist attacks, said an Israeli foreign ministry official on Tuesday, the Press Trust of India reported.

"We are both suffering from the same scourge. I really don't see any difference between the Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
and the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",. I never did and I don't today. A terrorist is a terrorist," said Mark Sofer, the deputy director general of Israel's foreign ministry.

Sofer, who has also served as Israel's ambassador to India, said that Israel's "hook, line and sinker support on the subject of terrorism" for India was a fact never hidden by Israel.

"We are not asking for a quid pro quo. You have suffered from terrorism from inside India, and not just emanating from Pakistain, which has been seen in recent history," he said.

"We feel that India has a right to defend itself against Death Eaters in the same way Israel has a right to defend itself from terrorists," Sofer said in his statement.

"Killing people for some sort of spurious or inexplicable ideological aim is terrorism, however you look at it. And that is what is happening from outside into India and coming from outside into Israel as well," Sofer said, likening the situation in the two countries.

His statement comes ahead of a landmark visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Israel. It is going to be the first visit ever to the country by an Indian prime minister.

India has repeatedly accused Pakistain of promoting terror in India, an allegation Pakistain strongly denies.

Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


McCain calls for support of Pakistan to eliminate militancy in Afghanistan
[DAWN] The United States is counting on Pakistain’s support to eliminate militancy, in particular the Haqqani network, Senator John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
said during a visit to the Afghan capital on Tuesday.

"We have made it very clear that we expect they (Pakistain) will cooperate with us, particularly against the Haqqani network and against terrorist organizations," said McCain, chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, in Kabul.

"If they don’t change their behaviour, maybe we should change our behaviour towards Pakistain as a nation," he insisted.

The senator’s statement came one day after he led a bipartisan Senate delegation to Islamabad, where Pak officials said he had reaffirmed the country’s role in regional stability.

The senators’ visit to Islamabad and Kabul comes at a time when the US is gearing up to send more troops to Afghanistan to support Afghan forces straining to beat back the resurgent Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
.
Posted by: Fred || 07/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  John McCain - a man who never stops to think.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2017 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Looney old bugger.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/05/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Ditto #1 
Posted by: AlanC || 07/05/2017 7:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Okay I just typed ampersand and #2 in my reply #3 and it was replaced by a box. What's up with that?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/05/2017 7:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Rantburg gift box?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/05/2017 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Can we bundle McStain, Obumble and the rest of the bunch on a one way trip into the sun?
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/05/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#7  "But we'll only fly at night."
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/05/2017 13:24 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
With softened language UNESCO again condemns Israel’s presence in Jerusalem’s Old City
[IsraelTimes] UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee passes a vote condemning Israeli policies in Jerusalem’s Old City. Ten member states vote yes, three no, and three countries abstain.

The Jordanian-sponsored resolution on the "Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls" is much softer than last year’s text, but Israel has rejected any attempt to politicize the issue of the holy sites in its capital in international bodies.

This year’s resolution still calls Israel "the occupying power" in the Old City and reaffirms previous UN resolutions denying the country’s claims to East Jerusalem, echoing a resolution passed in May by UNESCO’s executive board. It also "regrets the failure of the Israeli occupying authorities to cease the persistent excavations, tunneling, works, projects and other illegal practices in East Jerusalem, particularly in and around the Old City of Jerusalem, which are illegal under international law."

However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
Decision 41 COM 7A.36, as it is technically known, stresses "the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls for the three monotheistic religions," language not found in last year’s text. It also does not refer to the Temple Mount compound solely by its Moslem names, "Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram al-Sharif," as the 2016 resolution did, calling it simply "a Moslem holy site of worship."
Ynet adds:
Israel’s Ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen said that two hours before the vote, the Arab states were convinced that they had a consensus on the phrasing of the resolution, but Israeli pressure ultimately proved heavy enough to sabotage their efforts.

According to Shama-Hacohen, despite the significant softening of the text, more nations are identifying with Israel who are no longer prepared to accept what Israel has often considered unquestionable hounding of the Jewish state, even if the resolutions have been diluted.

He also pointed out that for the first time, Israel gained what he described as a moral majority in the body’s cultural committee since eleven countries out of 21 either opposed the proposal or abstained.

The vote came just days after US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
sent a letter to the Director-General of UNESCO urging her to oppose a resolution to be voted on by the body next week which would recognize Hebron's Old City--and with it the Cave of the Patriarchs--as a Paleostinian World Heritage Site In Danger.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These stupid savages sure stick together.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/05/2017 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  ....And the horse you rode in on.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/05/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Prodding Hamas, Abbas fires 6,145 PA employees in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Prodding Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, Abbas fires 6,145 PA employees in GazooRamallah spokesperson says measure part of ’national strategy’ to force terror group to cede control of Strip.

The Paleostinian Authority on Tuesday "sent into early retirement" 6,145 employees in the Gazoo Strip, declaring the move part of a strategy to force the Hamas terror group to cede control of the Paleostinian enclave.

"This measure, previous measures, and any other measures that may be taken in this framework, are temporary, and are connected to Hamas abandoning [Paleostinian] division," the spokesperson for the government in Ramalllah, Yusuf al-Mahmoud, said in a statement to the official PA news site Wafa.

Since April, the PA has been carrying out a series of tough measures aimed at forcing Hamas to cede control of the coastal enclave, which it took over in a violent conflict with Fatah in 2007. The measures have included reducing the flow of electricity by 35 percent, and slashing government salaries and medical aid provided to the Strip.

Mahmoud said the firing of the employees was part of the "national strategy to end the division and implement President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
’s vision to dissolve the so-called Administrative Committee" and allow the Paleostinian government to assume its responsibilities in the Strip and prepare for general elections.

Hamas formed the Administrative Committee in March in order to widen its governance in the Strip.

The PA government spokesperson added that Hamas collects "hundreds of millions of shekels monthly, which it does not return to the government treasury, while at the same time, the PA allocates more than NIS 450 million per month" to Gazoo.

In early April, Abbas reduced by one-third the salaries of tens of thousands of employees of the pre-Hamas government in Gazoo who had been paid for the last decade on condition that they stay home.

In a statement Tuesday, Hamas lashed out at the decision to fire the employees, calling it "immoral, inhuman and having nothing to do with the division."

The terror group asserted the measure was part of a plan by Abbas to "purge the Paleostinian issue in line with the Zionist-American project."

The ongoing salary payments had been intended to ensure loyalty to Abbas, but inadvertently also propped up Hamas by injecting cash into Gazoo’s fragile economy.

The announcement of the decision to fire thousands of employees comes amid developments in Gazoo that point to a new government being formed between Hamas and Abbas’s rival in the Fatah party, Mohammad Dahlan.

Dahlan is a former Fatah leader and strongman in Gazoo, who was expelled from the Paleostinian territories by Abbas in 2011. He was also once considered persona non grata by Hamas and ousted in the coup that put the Islamist terror group in power in the Strip 10 years ago.

But according to Hamas leader Ahmad Yusuf, following meetings between Dahlan, Hamas leaders and Egyptian intelligence in early June, a reconciliation deal is in the works.

Yusuf, who spoke to the Jordanian daily al-Ghad on Monday, said the deal between Dahlan and Hamas would see the establishment of a new "management committee" of Gazoo.

Yusuf added that Samir Mashrawi -- considered Dahlan’s right-hand man -- is expected to return to the enclave in the coming days.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/05/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Southeast Asia
Supreme Court Backs Martial Law in Southern Philippines
[AnNahar] The Philippines' Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed President Rodrigo Duterte's enforcement of martial law across the southern third of the country, which he said was necessary to defeat 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....
group-backed Lion of Islams.

Duterte imposed military rule across the insurgency-wracked region of Mindanao on May 23, hours after hundreds of gunnies waving black IS flags occupied parts of Marawi city and triggered deadly festivities that are yet to end.

Opposition politicians questioned why a region of 20 million people had to go under military rule when fighters just struck Marawi, urging the Supreme Court to strike it down for its "utter lack of sufficient factual basis."

An overwhelming majority of the justices dismissed that petition, Supreme Court front man Theodore Te told news hounds, but he did not give reasons for their decision.

Duterte stressed Tuesday he had made the right decision, saying "martial law should have been declared a long time ago" when murderous Moslems began bombings, kidnappings and beheadings across Mindanao.

"For as long as there is one terrorist there in Marawi, this (threat) will not stop," he told news hounds, warning of a potential "spillover" to other areas.

Militants continue to occupy parts of Marawi, the Islamic heartland of the mainly Catholic country, despite a U.S.-backed military offensive there that has claimed more than 460 lives and displaced nearly 400,000 people.

Duterte said when he declared martial law the murderous Moslems had attacked Marawi as part of a plan to establish a province for IS in the southern Philippines, which has endured decades of deadly conflict involving communist and Moslem separatist rebels.

In their court petition, opposition politicians warned martial law would open the door to repression and atrocities seen during the 20-year rule of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos that ended with a "People Power" revolution in 1986.

During the Marcos dictatorship, thousands of suspected communist and Moslem myrmidons, as well as his critics, were tossed in the clink
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
, tortured or killed, according to historians.

- 'Invasion or rebellion' -
When Duterte announced martial law, he praised Marcos's version while vowing his own would be "harsh."

Duterte also warned martial law could be extended beyond 60 days and expanded across the country if he felt it necessary.

"I urge you to remain steadfast and alert as martial law in Mindanao will remain in effect to counter the persistent threat of terrorism and insurgency," he told troops.

As part of his martial law measures, Duterte allowed security forces to detain suspects for up to three days without prior court orders.

The government has detained 66 people using these powers for their links to the Marawi conflict, including the parents of brothers who are key Lion of Islam leaders.

Duterte had repeatedly threatened to ignore the findings of the court if it ruled against him, vowing only to listen to the recommendations of the military.

"They are not soldiers. They do not know what is happening on the ground," Duterte said of the Supreme Court justices, as he also threatened to put martial law critics in jail.

Under the constitution drawn up to prevent a repeat of Marcos-era abuses, the president is allowed to declare martial law only to prevent "invasion or rebellion."

It is limited initially to 60 days, and Duterte must get congressional approval to extend it.
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