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Britain
Labour Party VAT hike threatens future of UK Islamic schools
[NEWARAB] As Britannia watched on with bated breath during this historic General Election, there was one conspicuously spotlighted demographic for whom Labour's win was met with rightful trepidation.

British Moslems, 6.5% of the population in England and Wales, have a long and checkered history with the Labour Party, made only more fraught following recent geopolitical and domestic events.

Labour's reluctance to court the disaffected Moslem vote, and their reticence on Moslem concerns throughout campaigning, was felt abjectly by the diverse group of communities that make up this segment of the electorate.

Overwhelmingly from ethnic minority and economically deprived backgrounds -- a fact which exemplifies this electoral neglect -- historically, Moslems had forged a kind of political home in a begrudging Labour party, that waned rapidly in recent months following domestic responses to the war on 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 an 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...
While much of Britannia was keen to see what ‘anyone but the Conservatives' had to offer the country, Moslems had expressed a jaded sense of anticipation for what the incumbent government would do for them.

Labour's flagship policy in education is, adverse to its stated aim, already proving to disadvantage less-privileged Moslem communities.

'UNFAIR TAX BREAK'
In a move welcomed by much of the British public, Labour will make all private school fees subject to VAT from January 2025, declaring the erstwhile exemption of a service used predominately by the rich an ‘unfair tax break'.

Designed to ensure those families at the top of the economic food chain are giving back to the country, and in particular an education sector beset with funding-related issues, the policy is projected to raise 1.6 billion a year in extra tax revenue, a net gain that would allow for more than 2% increase in state school funding.

Ostensibly, Labour's planned VAT inclusion makes economic and social sense. The hidden cost of this to a small subset of the sector, however, could be catastrophic.

Private, British Islamic schools would catch the sharp end of this blanket policy approach, with devastating consequences to the sector on the lam.

The average school fees charged by the 2,500 private schools in the UK %u2013 educating 6% of the British population %u2013 is 15,200 a year, with more exclusive schools such as Eton, Harrow and Winchester College charging closer to 50,000 a year.

Compare this to the minuscule private Islamic school sector, consisting of approximately 155 community schools across the country, the majority of which charge fees a fraction of the 10,000 a year bottom average within the wider sector, and which faces possible near-extinction due to these tax changes.

Islamic independent schools in the UK are entirely community-led and based %u2013 a tradition that carries through from the first Islamic schools established in the UK, Islamia Primary in North-West London and al-Furqan in Birmingham, in response to local needs.

They are a true anomaly within the broader independent school sector, both because of the economic make-up of the communities they serve, and the aims and objectives of their institutions.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I'm sure there will be a special arrangement for Islamic schools.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/18/2024 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 11:46 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Lawyer of Faizov, accused of terrorist attack in Crocus, asks to release him from pretrial detention
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The defense of Muhammadsobir Faizov, a participant in the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall(included by Rosfinmonitoring in the list of terrorists and extremists), asked the court to release him from the pre-trial detention center due to his poor health, Gazeta.Ru reports, citing a relevant document.
"NO"
“The court did not take into account the health condition of Faizov M.Z., did not take into account that Faizov uses a wheelchair and needs treatment,” the document says.

It is noted that the lawyer asked the court to cancel the preventive measure in the form of detention for another one that does not involve deprivation of liberty.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, occurred on the evening of March 22. Four armed terrorists broke into Crocus and opened fire on visitors, after which they set the place on fire. As a result, 145 people died, including six children. More than 500 people were injured. The court recognized more than 1,700 people as victims in the terrorist attack case. The alleged perpetrators of the terrorist attack were taken into custody on March 25. The accused are being held in solitary confinement for their own safety.

In May, it was reported that the alleged perpetrators of the terrorist attack – Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Saidakram Murodali Rachabalizoda, Shamsiddin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Faizov (all four are included in the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists) – did not appeal the court’s decision to extend their detention until August 22.

Posted by: badanov || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


The item they tried to take into a mosque in Moscow turned out to be a souvenir
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.



[Regnum] The object with which two unknown persons tried to enter the territory of the Muslim complex of the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow turned out to be a souvenir and does not pose a danger, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the capital's main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

“During the inspection it was established that this item is a souvenir and does not pose any danger,” the agency’s source said.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, security guards at the Moscow Cathedral Mosque detained two Turkish citizens with an object resembling a grenade on August 17. The detainees were handed over to law enforcement officers.
Testing?
In August, an 18-year-old attacker was detained in northwestern Turkey after he attacked people in the courtyard of the Eskisehir-Tepebashi mosque with a knife and an axe. He managed to injure five people before being captured and neutralized. The attacker broadcast his actions on social media. Two of the victims were in critical condition.

On June 16, 2023, two men who threw a grenade onto the police station grounds were detained in the city of Tynda in the Amur Region. One of the men threw the grenade over the fence, onto the police station grounds, and the second filmed the incident on video, which was then distributed on social media.

In November 2023, in Dzerzhinsky, Moscow Region, a man came to a Muslim prayer house with a fake grenade during prayer. The attacker was detained when he was about to pull out the ring. As noted in the reports, earlier that day, while intoxicated, the man stole the fake from a barber shop.

Posted by: badanov || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  security guards at the Moscow Cathedral Mosque detained two Turkish citizens with an object resembling a grenade

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2024 13:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Think Mother's (NO CBD sandwich shop turned tourist megadestination) had one like that. "Please take a number!" Up near the "Our credit manager is Helen Waite" sign?
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 08/18/2024 17:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Sirhan Sirhan, in Prison in San Diego, Again Denied Parole in Assassination of Sen. Kennedy
[ToSD] Sirhan Sirhan,
...more fully Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, he was born to a Christian family in Jerusalem, is legally a Jordanian citizen following Jordan’s annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1950. He murdered RFK because RFK supported of Israel (and possibly because of a race track head injury). His communism is extra. For a while Fatah’s Black September demanded his release every time they took hostages. Some of Aristotle Onassis’ relatives claim Mr. Onassis got him to do it...
the man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, has been denied release in a parole hearing held at a San Diego prison.

Sirhan, 80, will be eligible for another hearing in three years, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Friday’s hearing took place at the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Otay Mesa, where he is in prison.

It marks the 17th such hearing for Sirhan.

He was last denied parole in March 2023 for three years, with an administrative review of the denial resulting in his hearing date being advanced, according to corrections officials.

In 2021, a two-person state panel recommended that Sirhan be granted parole, but Gov. Gavin Newsom later reversed that decision, saying Sirhan "poses a current threat to public safety."
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2024 06:48 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's Gavin Newsome that poses a threat to public safety.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/18/2024 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  When your victim can rise from the grave.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2024 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Let Sirhan out. Period. What a joke. Even RFK, Jr., says let him out.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/18/2024 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4  He's a Paleostinian so send him to Gaza.
Posted by: alanc || 08/18/2024 8:10 Comments || Top||

#5  If he had killed a Republican maybe, but he killed a Kennedy, a Super (D)

So maybe, Gov. Gavin Newsom real reason for denying the parole is that Sirhan poses a current threat to public Democrat safety.


BTW: There is also a Palestine vs Israeli connection. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was born in Palestine and hated Israel. His parents immigrated here in 1956.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/18/2024 8:52 Comments || Top||

#6  How much does it cost to incarcerate an inmate?

2024-1968=56 years
56*"$106,131"~$6,000,000
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7  The lack of a death sentence is a Christian problem!
Posted by: Old Salty || 08/18/2024 14:23 Comments || Top||

#8  #3 Let Sirhan out. Period. What a joke. Even RFK, Jr., says let him out.
Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-08-18 07:36


Junior maybe, but the rest of the family wants him to rot.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 08/18/2024 15:11 Comments || Top||


Chicago mayor warns influx of illegal migrants could come to city before Democratic convention: report
[FOXNEWS] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to continue busing migrants out of his state's border towns until Biden and Harris 'do their jobs to secure the border'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  "All our problems are someone else's problems ..." Chicago Mayor's standard press release #27
Posted by: Glolugum Hupoluth8196 || 08/18/2024 8:35 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas condemns US-sponsored proposals as in line with Zionism
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] A leading source in the Islamic Resistance® Movement Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
said on Friday that ''the new American proposal responds to the conditions of the Israeli occupation and is in line with them, and does not include a commitment to what was agreed upon on July 2.''

The source added that the occupation continues to evade and obstruct and insist on adding new conditions to obstruct the agreement.

He also affirmed commitment to what the movement agreed to on July 2, which was based on the Biden declaration and the Security Council resolution, calling on the mediators to put pressure on the occupation and force it to implement what was agreed upon.

The source stated that ''any agreement must ensure the cessation of aggression against our people and the withdrawal from 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 an 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.''

He pointed out that any agreement must also include providing urgent relief and reaching a real deal to exchange prisoners.

The United States, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, and Egypt had issued a joint statement on Friday regarding the Doha talks and the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess the attack was postponed.

Antony Blinken heads to Israel for Gaza ceasefire talks
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 12:06 Comments || Top||


Hamas official dismisses 'illusion' that Gaze truce nearer
[GEO.TV] A senior Hamas official on Saturday dismissed optimistic talk by US President Joe Biden that a Gaza truce is nearer after negotiations in the Gulf emirate of Qatar.

"To say that we are getting close to a deal is an illusion," Hamas political bureau member Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP. "We are not facing a deal or real negotiations, but rather the imposing of American diktats."
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  They're getting 500+ trucks of free stuff every day - why would they want truce?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/18/2024 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm trying to find a corollary in the US. I think I can find one if I think long enough.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/18/2024 6:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Pretty close:

California thieves strike three 7-Eleven stores in under 20 minutes
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Biden is speaking to the US media and public, not anyone in the ME. Soon Harris will be repeating the same lines.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/18/2024 14:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Soon Harris will be repeating the same lines.

Harris ripped as 'inauthentic' for giving nearly identical speeches at separate rallies: 'Hillary Clinton 3.0'
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 17:19 Comments || Top||


Hamas planned to exhume UK soldiers' remains over embassy move
[NYPOST] Israeli soldiers inspecting an underground Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
compound earlier this year allegedly uncovered the terror group’s grisly plot to exhume British and Commonwealth World War I and II soldiers buried 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 an 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.

Hatched in 2022, the seven-page plan apparently called for Hamas to dig up the soldiers’ bodies and hold their remains hostage, the Telegraph reported.

The Israeli Defense Forces claims the plot was conceived as a way to keep the UK from moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move announced by then-British Prime Minister Liz Truss.

The Hamas plan, the IDF contends, was concocted by the terror group’s leader Yahya Sinwar and the its military commander, Muhammad Deif, who was killed in a July Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
A little more than 3,000 Christian and Jewish British soldiers are interred in a cemetery in central Gaza.

Many of the British soldiers laid to rest there died fighting the Ottomans in 1917.

The terror group also reportedly planned on demanding UK officials relocate the soldiers’ bodies, or pay them "lease fees" retroactive to 1917.

"If the British government does not meet the aforementioned demands, the Gaza Municipality will act to remove all the corpses from the cemeteries and collect them in a special location by judicial order, declaring that the corpses are considered captive until a solution or deal is found," read part of Hamas’ plan, which was shared with The Telegraph.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Algeria to immediately supply Lebanon with fuel to operate power stations
[JPost] Update to yesterday's story
Algeria will immediately supply Lebanon with fuel to operate power plants to ensure electricity supplies across the country, Algerian state radio said in a statement on Sunday.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2024 09:54 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  RETRO
Diesel tankers brought by Hezbollah from Iran heading towards Lebanon -Al Mayadeen TV

Hezbollah 'topping off' their vehicles?

The Coming Conflict with Hezbollah

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 11:37 Comments || Top||

#2  HISTORY
Lebanon diesel import leap points to Syria smuggling
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Why supply Lebanon with fuel to operate power stations? Did prophet Muhammad had electricity?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/18/2024 14:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Running out of petroleum in the Middle East is a bit ironic. I mean, the Juice had to wander in the desert for 40 years before they found a place without any oil.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/18/2024 17:34 Comments || Top||

#5  the Juice had to wander in the desert for 40 years before they found a place without any oil

Such a wonderful line. It turns out they had oil and gas all along — it’s just harder to find and to get to, so they only figured it out a few years ago. ;-) Lebanon has tried claiming it’s really theirs, but as they don’t have the technology…
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/18/2024 19:26 Comments || Top||



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  Top Hezbollah commander killed in Lebanon after IDF drone strike
Sat 2024-08-17
  Muslim leaders expect 100,000 pro-Hamas demonstrators for DNC
Fri 2024-08-16
  Over half of Hamas' forces have been wiped out as Israel's war goals are within reach
Thu 2024-08-15
  Mohammed bin Salman 'at risk of assassination' over Israel-Saudi normalisation
Wed 2024-08-14
  Sudan's Burhan rejects peace talks, demands RSF withdrawal
Tue 2024-08-13
  Hamas kills one hostage and wounds two
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  Taylor Swift terror plot suspect's lawyer downplays plan to carry out ISIS-inspired suicide attack: 'Playing with ideas'
Sun 2024-08-11
  Lebanon proposes additional LAF troops in south to restore calm
Sat 2024-08-10
  Israeli airstrike targeted the security chief of Hamas in the Ain al-Hilweh camp while he was in his car in the city of Sidon
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  The director of public prosecutions of England and Wales warns that sharing online material of riots could be an offence
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  Pakistani man with alleged ties to Iran arrested in political assassination plots including Trump
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  Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as chief
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  US, France call for 'utmost restraint' in Middle East. Utmost.
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  Hamas commander, eight other gunmen killed in two IDF drone strikes near Tulkarem


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