[Breitbart] Mexican immigration agents allowed a Hungarian woman who had previously been flagged by U.S. authorities to enter the country in exchange for a cash bribe. The incident comes when Mexican immigration officials have been unable to shake a long list of corruption allegations.
The alleged bribe occurred in the Mexico City International Airport when a Hungarian woman approached an immigration booth for passengers arriving in Mexico. According to information exclusively leaked to Breitbart Texas by a director-level source within Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM), the woman presented her passport to the agent at the booth, and an initial scan showed a possible alert.
The agents took the woman to an office where they photographed her and performed a biometric scan. The scan revealed that the woman was named in an immigration alert filed by the U.S. government out of New York. The nature of the immigration alert or which agency it was filed on behalf of was not provided to Mexican authorities, and the Mexican authorities made no inquiries during the encounter.
The INM source revealed that as per the institute guidelines, they should have notified the U.S. government to gather more information and either detain the individual if they were wanted by a foreign agency or deny her entry and have her take the first flight out of Mexico.
The INM agents took the woman to another office to question her further. However, during that interview, the woman disclosed that she had $2,000 USD in cash and another $2,500 USD in a cash card.
The agents took the money and allowed the woman to go free, escorting her out of the facility. A search of the INM database revealed that the woman’s information was not put into the system as should have been done with any international traveler who enters the airport.
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[KavkazUzel] Security forces detained a group of Tyrnyauz residents suspected of participating in "Sharia patrols" and beating up residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, sources reported.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in April 2022, the Urvan District Court sentenced 11 residents of the village of Anzorey to suspended sentences, finding them guilty in the case of an extremist community.
According to the prosecution, the defendants, guided by Sharia norms, created two groups under the leadership of naibs in 2016 and used force against those who did not share their views. The indictment mentioned two cases of beatings and three cases of threats. The defendants' lawyers and relatives claimed that the reason for the case of the extremist community was ordinary domestic conflicts, according to the "Caucasian Knot" article "Anzorei patrols: from Sharia to extremism."
Eight residents of Tyrnyauz have been detained in connection with the "Sharia patrols" case, the anonymous Telegram channel "Sapa Kavkaz" reported today, citing its sources.
According to sources, the 39-year-old city resident is suspected of organizing an extremist community, while the others are suspected of participating in this community, which was created "no later than March 2017." Security officials believe that until November 2023, Sharia patrols were looking for people whose way of life differed from their beliefs, and at least 14 residents of Kabardino-Balkaria "were subjected to psychological pressure and inflicted bodily harm, including beating with sticks," the publication says.
Criminal cases under Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Organization of an extremist community) were opened on July 1, the anonymous Telegram channel Baza reported today. The publication names seven suspects - the alleged organizer of the "Sharia patrols" Askhat, as well as Damrai, Tamaz, Nazhmudin, Zeytun, Timur and Aslan.
"Six guys were detained in Kabardino-Balkaria, Askhat himself was detained in the Moscow region," the publication says.
"Caucasian Knot" does not yet have confirmation from reliable sources of information from anonymous Telegram channels. As of 13:50 Moscow time, the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Kabardino-Balkaria and the website of the republican department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation have not published any reports about the initiation of this criminal case.
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[Regnum] Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab do not have an obligation to cover the face and hands of women. This was reported on July 3 by the Supreme Mufti of Russia and Chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia Talgat Tadzhuddin, commenting on the advisability of wearing a niqab.
"We have not had any niqab for 14 centuries. The situation is different in the North Caucasus, where Muslims of the Shafi'i madhhab may consider covering the face obligatory, but, for example, in connection with the terrorist threat and ensuring state security, this problem can be solved by law. At one time, it was obligatory to take a passport photo only with an uncovered head, in recent years they have allowed taking photos in scarves and headdresses. This is solved by law. But Muslims of the Hanafi madhhab have no obligation to cover the face and hands of women," the Telegram channel BRIEF quotes him as saying.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said on June 29 that wearing niqabs in Russia should be banned. He pointed out that in Asian countries, unlike Russia, such a ban is in effect.
Earlier, presidential adviser and chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeyev proposed banning the wearing of the niqab in Russia to reduce the threat of extremism.
Deputy Mufti of the Republic Abdulla Salimov reported that wearing niqabs in Dagestan is temporarily banned in light of the Fatwa Department's conclusion issued the day before. He reported that the Mufti of Dagestan had decided on a temporary ban "until the identified threats are eliminated and a new theological conclusion is reached."
Salimov explained that one of the grounds was an appeal from the Ministry of National Policy and Religious Affairs of the Republic, which spoke of a threat to the security of the region's population. Another ground was the competent conclusion of the fatwa department, issued on July 2.
Caucasian muftis have ruled that wearing the niqab in the Russian Federation is harmful to Muslims.
The press service of the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus reported that wearing the niqab harms Muslims and threatens discord in interreligious and interethnic relations.
The author of the portal "Islam News" Aidar Bariyev reported that the niqab is not "Islamic clothing", therefore it is not regulated by the legal norms of Islam. We are talking about clothing that was worn by some southern tribes of pre-Islamic times. Bariyev emphasized that the discussion around wearing the niqab is a common occurrence in Islamic countries. In a number of these countries, the niqab is banned.
The niqab is a head covering that completely covers the face, leaving only a narrow slit for the eyes.
More from regnum.ru Caucasian Muftis Declare That Wearing Niqab in Russia Harms Muslims
Wearing the niqab harms Muslims and threatens discord in interreligious and interethnic relations. This was reported by the press service of the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus.
It is noted that the issue of the advisability of wearing a niqab is currently being actively discussed in Russia. The Islamic religion prescribes covering parts of the body except for the face, hands and feet, that is, it prescribes wearing the so-called hijab, where the face remains open.
The press service explained that wearing a hijab is not prohibited in Russia and the law allows one to be photographed in it to obtain a passport. A niqab is a headdress that completely covers the face, leaving only a narrow slit for the eyes.
It is clarified that the majority of Islamic scholars believe that an uncovered face and hands are not “awrah” (a part of the body that Muslims are obliged to cover in front of other people).
"We, Muslims of the North Caucasus, like our predecessors, theologians, support the opinion of the majority of Islamic scholars about the optionality of the "niqab". The assertion of some people that the face and hands in Islam are awrah is unreliable, unacceptable and even forbidden in Islam if it brings confusion and division into society. The niqab has never been a traditional form of clothing for the North Caucasus. Moreover, even in some countries where Islam is the state religion, wearing the niqab in public places is completely or partially prohibited," the statement says.
It is noted that in Russia, the texts of the Holy Quran and the Hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad are protected at the legislative level and cannot be recognized as extremist under any circumstances. Burning sacred texts in Russia is a criminal offense, which protects the Quran and Muslims from any attacks.
The Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus called on everyone to do only good deeds.
"For this reason, we decree: to consider, in the current conditions in Russia, wearing the niqab, burqa, and similar head coverings that hide the face as causing practical harm to Muslims, threatening discord in interreligious and interethnic relations. We call on everyone to perform good deeds, which our religion actually prescribes for us to perform," the statement says.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the deputy mufti of the republic, Abdulla Salimov, reported that wearing niqabs in Dagestan is temporarily banned, taking into account the conclusion of the fatwa department issued the day before. He reported that the mufti of Dagestan had decided on a temporary ban "until the identified threats are eliminated and a new theological conclusion is made."
Salimov explained that one of the grounds was an appeal from the Ministry of National Policy and Religious Affairs of the Republic, which spoke of a threat to the security of the region's population. Another ground was the competent conclusion of the fatwa department, issued on July 2.
The overwhelming majority of Russian Muslims supported the Dagestani mufti.
The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said on June 29 that wearing niqabs in Russia should be banned. He pointed out that in Asian countries, unlike Russia, such a ban is in effect.
Earlier, presidential adviser and chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeyev proposed banning the wearing of the niqab in Russia to reduce the threat of extremism.
The spiritual leader of Dagestan's Muslims, Akhmad Abdullayev, announced on June 1 that a theological and legal opinion, a fatwa, would soon be issued banning the niqab in the republic. The mufti stressed that a man who does not want to show his wife's face should keep her at home. The ban on wearing the niqab, which completely covers a woman's face, will remain in effect in the region until peace and tranquility return.
The niqab is a symbol not of Islam, but of radical Salafist movements that seek to penetrate and influence the Russian Muslim community. Political scientist Ilya Ukhov expressed this opinion on July 3 in his Telegram channel.
He noted that after the Dagestani muftis temporarily banned the wearing of the niqab, the process in a healthy Muslim environment began to develop. It became known that the authoritative Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus (CCMC) supported this decision and pointed out that wearing the niqab brings discord into interreligious and interethnic relations in Russia.
Ukhov noted that the KCMSC confirmed that niqab and hijab are different things. Hijab is indeed obligatory for Muslims, while niqab is not obligatory in the Koran or Hadith. Niqab is a local type and form of clothing that may vary depending on the region.
"The niqab is not a symbol of Islam, but rather of radical Salafi movements that are trying to penetrate the environment of Russian Muslims and radicalize it. And Russian Muslims themselves, who adhere to traditional interpretations of religion within the framework of the Hanafi madhhab (religious and legal school within Islam), which is characteristic of Russia, understand this very well. It is precisely they, ordinary Muslims, who are primarily affected by the export of Wahhabi ideology, which directly and extremely negatively affects the image of all Muslims.
For this reason, it is already clear that all sensible Russian Muslims support the position of the Dagestani Muftiate on niqabs, which was demonstrated by the KCMSC appeal. Moreover, the numerous attempts to inspire interreligious and interethnic discord from abroad and to tear Russia, our common home, into pieces, the patriots of which are the overwhelming majority of Russian Muslims, are all too memorable, especially in the North Caucasus," he emphasized.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Caucasian muftis have ruled that wearing the niqab in the Russian Federation is harmful to Muslims. The press service of the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus reported that wearing the niqab is harmful to Muslims and threatens discord in interreligious and interethnic relations.
It is clarified that the majority of Islamic scholars believe that an uncovered face and hands are not “awrah” (a part of the body that Muslims are obliged to cover in front of other people).
The Supreme Mufti of Russia and Chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia Talgat Tadzhuddin stated that there was no niqab in the country for 14 centuries.
The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said on June 29 that wearing niqabs in Russia should be banned. He pointed out that in Asian countries, unlike Russia, such a ban is in effect.
Deputy Mufti of the Republic Abdulla Salimov reported that wearing niqabs in Dagestan is temporarily banned in light of the Fatwa Department's conclusion issued the day before. He reported that the Mufti of Dagestan had decided on a temporary ban "until the identified threats are eliminated and a new theological conclusion is reached."
Salimov explained that one of the grounds was an appeal from the Ministry of National Policy and Religious Affairs of the Republic, which spoke of a threat to the security of the region's population. Another ground was the competent conclusion of the fatwa department, issued on July 2.
The overwhelming majority of Russian Muslims supported the Dagestani mufti.
The niqab is a head covering that completely covers the face, leaving only a narrow slit for the eyes.
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[REGNUM] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has expressed his readiness to take steps to improve relations between Syria and Turkey amid the Arab Republic's overall efforts to achieve regional reconciliation with its neighbors. The move has not gone unnoticed in Ankara. Assad "confirmed Syria's openness to all initiatives" to restore relations between Ankara and Damascus "based on Syria's sovereignty, its territorial integrity, the fight against terrorism and terrorist organizations," according to a statement published on the Syrian president's website. A message addressed to the Turkish leadership was also conveyed to the Russian special representative for Syria, Alexander Lavrentyev.
[An Nahar] The man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie has rejected a plea deal that would have shortened his state prison term but exposed him to a federal terrorism-related charge, the suspect's lawyer said.
Hadi Matar, 26, has been held without bail since the 2022 attack, in which he is accused of stabbing Rushdie more than a dozen times and blinding him in one eye as the acclaimed writer was onstage, about to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York.
Matar's attorney, Nathaniel Barone, confirmed that Matar, who lived in Fairview, New Jersey, rejected the agreement Tuesday in Mayville, New York.
The agreement would have had Matar plead guilty in Chautauqua County to attempted murder in exchange for a maximum state prison sentence of 20 years, down from 25 years. It would have also required him to plead guilty to a federal charge of attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization, which could result in an additional 20 years, attorneys said.
Rushdie, who detailed the attack and his recovery in a memoir, had spent years in hiding after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, in 1989 calling for his death over Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses," which some Muslims consider blasphemous. The author reemerged into the public the late 1990s and has traveled freely over the past two decades.
Matar was born in the U.S. but holds dual citizenship in Lebanon, where his parents were born. His mother has said that her son had become withdrawn and moody after visiting his father in Lebanon in 2018.
Rushdie wrote in his memoir that he saw a man running toward him in the amphitheater, where he was about to speak about the importance of keeping writers safe from harm. The author is on the witness list for Matar's upcoming trial.
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[REGNUM] At the end of last week, Spain submitted its formal application to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to join the case filed by South Africa against Israel.
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They've been antisemites ever since the Inquisition.
When the hell is Mossad going to get off its ass and get serious? These ICC cases are crippling Israel's international moral authority. The ex-head of Mossad already threatened the family of the ICC prosecutor, make a move already. Stop fucking around with these people.
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[JPost] Uh huh. 48 hr week rule
Hamas has dropped its demand for an upfront pledge that Israel ends the war, a move that prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a team led by Mossad Director David Barnea to participate in further negotiations for a deal, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The terror group is still expected to demand a permanent ceasefire, possibly even before the completion of phase one, but would allow that first phase of the three-phase deal — that would see the release of the remaining 120 hostages — to get underway without such a pledge.
It’s a key shift in the group’s position that has sparked cautious hope that the deadlock that greeted the proposal US President Joe Biden unveiled on May 31, may now finally have been broken, allowing for closure of the deal, or at least its first phase.
Multiple top defense officials call the new pending negotiations the closest Israel has been to achieving a hostage deal with Hamas, since the November agreement which saw the release of 105 of the 251 hostages seized during the Hamas-led invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023.
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[PJM] In yet another blow to CNN's credibility, a new report from the Jerusalem Post has exposed a disturbing connection between a CNN freelance journalist and Hamas.
Abdel Qader Sabbah, the journalist in question, allegedly shared selfies with senior Hamas officials and disseminated Hamas terrorist propaganda.
A report published by anti-Israel media bias watchdog HonestReporting alleges that a Gaza-based CNN freelance journalist was associated with a Hamas-run entity. Abdel Qader Sabbah appeared in photographs with senior Hamas leaders online and actively praised terrorists while also carrying out unnamed tasks for the terror organization, the report claims.
The report cites CNN's platforming of Sabbah's work. He has also worked for the Associated Press, and his platforming casts doubt on the journalistic integrity of the network and the Hamas terror group's ties to it. The report also raises concerns about journalistic standards and vetting practices of reporters for the media network, in addition to the story content published by the outlet.
The media watchdog identified evidence of Abdel Qader Sabbah’s Hamas affiliation on his personal Facebook page, where he identified himself as a freelance journalist, director, and photographer.
Throughout his profile, Sabbah's links himself to senior Hamas leaders, such as Mahmoud A-Zahar, in a 2018 post. A-Zahar called for "world domination with no Zionists," the report said.
Sabbah's selfie with A-Zahar included a caption referring to him as a teacher of literature. In 2023, he boasted about a promotional project he completed for the Directorate's academy, which MEMRI noted trains Hamas security systems. The video was later shared publicly on the Hamas-run interior ministry's official page.
The report also highlighted Sabbah's Facebook posts praising Hamas terrorists who carried out deadly terror attacks, such as Izz A-Din Al-Masri, who executed a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem restaurant in 2001, killing 16 people, including children. Sabbah consistently reshared Hamas armed wing propaganda videos and anti-Israel sentiments. His profile also featured content censoring media coverage of Hamas activities and fighters, revealing deep affiliations with members of the terrorist organization and their antisemitic propaganda.
After this troubling relationship came to light, CNN cut ties with Sabbah.
"This freelance journalist has provided material used in stories for us and other outlets over the past nine months, during which time our own journalists have been barred from entering Gaza independently," a CNN spokesman said in a statement to HonestReporting. "We have reviewed this material carefully and are comfortable that it meets our standards. However, we were not aware of this individual’s historical social posts and recognize that they are highly offensive. In light of this, we will no longer be using his material going forward."
While CNN claims that Sabbah's reports met their standards, a quick search on CNN finds several stories relating to the Israel-Hamas war that Sabbah contributed to that are heavily slanted against Israel, including a report from June 26, 2024, alleging that Palestinian children are "dying of starvation in their parents’ arms as famine spreads through Gaza," that mostly reads like Hamas propaganda.
…his American parents made aliyah to Israel; after completing his IDF service, he moved back and became an American, giving up his Israeli citizenship for the opportunity during the Obama and Biden administrations to alternate roles as special envoy for this-and-that with special advisor for that-and-this…
is visiting Paris Wednesday to meet with Macron's Lebanon envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian, after he visited Israel and Lebanon in June.
Hochstein discussed with Lebanese politicians a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border and requested via intermediaries that Hezbollah apply pressure on Hamas to accept a cease-fire and hostage-exchange proposal put forward by U.S. President Joe Biden. Hezbollah rejected the request.
Hochstein also urged Hezbollah to limit its attacks to the occupied Shebaa Farms, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported Wednesday. The calm along the border would allow the displaced Lebanese and Israelis to return to the border villages.
Hezbollah says the only sure path to a cease-fire on the Lebanon-Israel border is a full cease-fire in Gaza.
Talks of a cease-fire in Gaza have faltered in recent weeks, raising fears of an escalation on the Lebanon-Israel front. Hezbollah has traded near-daily strikes with Israeli forces along their border over the past nine months.
The low-level conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has displaced tens of thousands on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border. In northern Israel, 16 soldiers and 11 civilians have been killed; in Lebanon, more than 450 people — mostly fighters but also dozens of civilians — have been killed.
[An Nahar] Hezbollah and Speaker Nabih Berri told U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein during his latest Beirut visit that there might be “a new phase on the southern front if the Israelis stop the war and the assassinations,” describing such a phase as a “truce,” a senior Lebanese official said.
Hochstein considered this stance “encouraging, seeing as Hezbollah did not link pacification and the truce to the end of security operations in occupied Palestine, but rather to their end in Lebanon, specifically in the south,” the official told Kuwait’s al-Anbaa newspaper in remarks published Wednesday.
Asked about what Lebanon should expect should there be a truce in the south, the senior official said: “Hochstein will swiftly arrive in the region to kick off negotiations over finalizing the land border (between Lebanon and Israel) and upgrading the cessation of hostilities stipulated in U.N. resolution 1701 into a (permanent) ceasefire.”
But nobody is able to bell that particular cat no matter how hard they try, so…
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[Regnum] Moscow will not initiate any contacts with the United States of America after a series of incidents involving dangerous approaches of US drones to Russian aircraft in Syria, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov said on July 3.
"These were American drones that came dangerously close to our aircraft. If they had been somewhere closer to the state of Texas, these drones, then such close encounters would not have happened," the diplomat told journalists, answering a question on the matter.
True. Though the same could be said about the Russian aircraft involved, substituting only Dagestan for Texas.
He also added that Moscow will not initiate contacts with Washington along military lines after a series of incidents in Syria.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 29, the deputy head of the Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides (CROS) in Syria, Yuri Popov, stated that a dangerous approach of an American reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicle to a Su-35 fighter jet of the Russian Aerospace Forces occurred in the skies over the Arab country.
Popov specified that the incident occurred during a planned flight by a Russian fighter in Syrian airspace. The collision was avoided thanks to the actions of the Russian pilot, who took the necessary measures in a timely manner.
It was also emphasized that the coalition’s actions are aggravating the situation in the airspace of the Arab Republic.
Russia welcomes the readiness of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for dialogue with Syria, since the process of establishing peace in this country is truly important. This was reported to journalists by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.
"We welcome the process of establishing peace in Syria. Russia is making a lot of efforts towards this. And we can only welcome contacts with neighboring states, which will allow this process to continue to develop successfully," the press secretary emphasized.
He also noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Erdogan will most likely discuss the situation in Syria at one of their upcoming meetings.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 2, during a briefing, the Kremlin’s official representative Dmitry Peskov commented on possible negotiations between Syria and Turkey in Baghdad.
Earlier it became known that military delegations from Turkey and Syria held talks at the Syrian Khmeimim airbase, which is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. Thanks to the event, the dialogue between Turkey and Syria was resumed. Before that, it had been frozen for a long time.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan also noted that the Turkish president plans to hold talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the July summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Kazakhstan.
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[PJM] In yet another blow to CNN's credibility, a new report from the Jerusalem Post has exposed a disturbing connection between a CNN freelance journalist and Hamas.
The report also highlighted Sabbah's Facebook posts praising Hamas terrorists who carried out deadly terror attacks, such as Izz A-Din Al-Masri, who executed a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem restaurant in 2001, killing 16 people, including children. Sabbah consistently reshared Hamas armed wing propaganda videos and anti-Israel sentiments. His profile also featured content censoring media coverage of Hamas activities and fighters, revealing deep affiliations with members of the terrorist organization and their antisemitic propaganda.
