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-Land of the Free
Not asking who's a citizen in the 2020 census is 'totally ridiculous' says Trump as he asserts executive privilege to block Democrats from getting documents about why it's happening
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeh, get early results by Oct 2020. Then when more votes come in from districts than there are adult citizens, the whole fraud scheme is exposed. Can't have that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/13/2019 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  The sanctuary states/cities will continue to fight this tooth and nail. They get more electoral votes if the illegals are counted. I would bet if California really did a full citizen vs illegal inventory of its population, it would lose 10 electoral votes.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2019 9:51 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Migrants stranded in boat off Tunisia as authorities say centres overcrowded
[AlAhram] A rescue boat carrying around 75 migrants colonists, most of them from Bangladesh, has been stuck off Tunisia for 12 days after authorities refused to let them disembark, the Red Islamic Thingy said on Tuesday.

The Egyptian boat rescued the migrants colonists in Tunisian waters, but authorities in the governorate of Medinine say its migrant centres are too overcrowded to allow them to come ashore, leaving the vessel 25 km from the coastal city of Zarzis.

A government source said the migrants colonists had refused food and medical aid and were demanding that they be allowed to cross into Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
- their likely target, hoping to reach the chance of a better life, when they set off.

Red Islamic Thingy official Mongi Slim said doctors had reached the boat to provide some medical help, but others had repeatedly refused any aid.

"After 12 days at sea, the migrants colonists are in a bad condition," he told Rooters.

Among the group who set off from Libya, 64 are from Bangladesh and the rest are from Morocco, Sudan and Egypt, the Red Islamic Thingy said. The details of their rescue were not immediately clear.

Neighbouring Libya’s west coast is a main departure point for African migrants colonists hoping to reach Europe by paying human traffickers, though numbers have dropped due to an Italian-led effort to disrupt smuggling networks and support the Libyan coastguard.

At least 65 migrants colonists drowned last month when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to reach Europe.

In the first four months of 2019, 164 people are known to have died on the route, a smaller number but a higher death rate than in previous years, with one dying for every three who reach European shores, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Shouldn't Hank Johnson be holding hearings on whether Africa will tip over if the entire population of the continent is waiting on the Libyan and Algerian coasts to catch a boat to eurine land?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2019 4:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Should have made reservations.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2019 13:22 Comments || Top||


Britain
Altaf Hussain released on bail by police in London
[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of Urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM) founder the increasingly rotund Altaf Hussain
...The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him, he may be a Hutt...
was released on bail on Wednesday after remaining in the custody of the London Metropolitan Police for a day.

The Met Police announced Hussain's arrest on Tuesday, saying that an MQM-linked man in his 60s had been arrested in northwest London on suspicion of intentionally encouraging or assisting offences contrary to Section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007.

A statement by the Met Police today, without naming Hussain, said that "a man [...] associated with the MQM in Pakistain has today, Wednesday, 12 June been bailed to return to a cop shoppe in mid-July".

"As part of the investigation, officers carried out a search at the north west London address and at a separate commercial address in north west London. Both these searches are now complete," the Met police said in their statement.

"The investigation, which is being led by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, is focused on a speech broadcast in August 2016 by an individual associated with the MQM movement in Pakistain as well as other speeches previously broadcast by the same person," the statement added.

The Met Police also said that officers have been "liaising with Pak authorities in relation to [their] ongoing enquiries" and that the investigation shall continue.

Police officials told DawnNewsTV that Hussain had been released due to "insufficient evidence to charge him with a crime". Sources within the party also confirmed the development.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  He's actually not part of the MQM anymore. Having found the froth and spittle life of an islamic demagogue unrewarding compared to selling out state secrets and information on islamist allies, he resides in England a free man. Free from idiocy and free from poverty.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 4:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Why is he here? Boot him out.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/13/2019 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  The same reason these fuckers are.


The parliament is full of traitors.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 9:33 Comments || Top||


Europe
France’s Marine Le Pen to go on trial for tweets showing IS atrocities
[IsraelTimes] French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been ordered to stand trial over three Twitter posts from 2015 showing Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
atrocities, a judicial source tells AFP.

A judge in Nanterre, just west of Gay Paree, issued the ruling after Le Pen was charged last year with circulating "violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity" and that can be viewed by a minor.
In summary, showing the truth is more offensive than the offensive truth being shown.
The Daily Mail adds:
The charges carry a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($85,000).

Last year, an investigative magistrate called for Le Pen to undergo psychiatric tests in connection with the ISIS tweets.

The 50-year-old trained lawyer has denounced the case as a violation of her freedom of expression.

She tweeted the images after a French journalist drew a comparison between Islamic State group and her party.

One of the pictures showed the body of James Foley, an American journalist beheaded by the Sunni hard boys.

Another showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being run over by a tank, and the third a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.

'ISIS is this!' Le Pen wrote in a caption, using an Arabic acronym for IS.

The prospect of a trial is a further legal blow for Le Pen, who was ordered last month to reimburse the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Parliament nearly 300,000 euros in funds she was accused of defrauding the EU.

The parliament claimed she used funds destined for EU parliamentary assistants to pay an aide for work carried out in La Belle France.

Le Pen's defeated President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party at last month's European Parliament elections.

The narrow victory came two years after Le Pen lost out to Macron in the 2017 presidential election.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  The globalist NWO strikes back.

Can you imagine what they'd charge Pres. Trump with?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/13/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  So perpetrating atrocities is a lesser crime than reporting them. Ah, La Belle Frawnce. Toujours le meme.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/13/2019 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  The Ewww, coming after LePen anticipating Frexit ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 9:05 Comments || Top||


Anti-Semitic graffiti found at home of Muslim victim of Toulouse killer
In which h8ters hate stupidly.
[IsraelTimes] Mother of soldier murdered by terrorist Mohammed Merah before deadly shooting at Jewish school in 2012 finds ’Your time is coming soon, dirty Jew’ daubed on house.

The home of the mother of a Moslem victim of the jihadist killer Mohammed Merah
...the Algerian-French "lone wolf" who trained in Pakistan with Jund al-Khilafah (Army of the Caliph), linked to a Belgian jihadi network and Al Qaeda in North Africa. Quite possibly Md. was a French informant before going on an 8-day killing spree that ended with his dramatic death in a shootout with French police. His elder brother, Abdelkader Merah got 30 years in French prison for aiding and abetting, while sister Souad and her four lion cubs fled to ISIS in Syria after Md. got himself killed...
from Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
was spray painted with anti-Semitic threats.

Latifa Ibn Ziaten, whose son, Imad, was murdered in 2012, discovered the graffiti Monday, she wrote on Twitter.

One graffito, written in misspelled French, read: "Jew, soon dead." Another said: "Your time is coming soon, dirty Jew." A third read: "Long live Merah."

Merah murdered Imad Ibn Ziaten, a soldier in the French army, days before he killed a teacher, Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, and two of his children, Arie and Gabriel, ages 6 and 3, and Miriam Monsonego, 8, at the Otzar Hatorah school in Toulouse.

Latifa Ibn Ziaten has campaigned with French Jews against anti-Semitism.
A woman as brave as her son.
She has traveled to Israel in the framework of her activism against anti-Semitism and hatred, and spoke at a convention of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jews of her indignation when she hears young Moslems speak of Merah as a martyr.

"I can’t believe my ears and I tell myself this is simply not possible in the La Belle France I know," she said in 2014.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


India-Pakistan
Special court rejects Musharraf's plea to adjourn high treason case
[DAWN] A special court in Islamabad on Wednesday rejected former military dictator Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
's plea for adjournment of the hearing of a high treason case against him.

A three-judge bench headed by Justice Tahira Safdar also cancelled retired Gen Musharraf's right of defence due to his repeated non-appearance before the court.

Musharraf is facing a treason trial under Article 6 of the Constitution as well as Section 2 of the High Treason Act on a complaint moved by the federal government.

During the proceedings, Musharraf's lawyer Salman Safdar said that the former military dictator was "fighting for his life", adding that he was not physically or mentally capable of returning the country.

Musharraf's counsel said that he was embarrassed by repeatedly submitting requests to adjourn the case's hearing.

He said that his client was rapidly losing weight, adding that he was unable to walk and used a wheelchair.

Safdar asked for one more chance so that Musharraf could himself appear in court.

He said that the former military dictator was having "heart chemotherapy" because of which his health had deteriorated.
Sounds like fahsinosis of the blowhole. He might no be long for this world, maybe not for any other.
Justice Safdar remarked that the Supreme Court had given a verdict, to which the lawyer responded that he was aware of this and requested that the plea be accepted on the basis of compassion.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Ha ha ! He's in London too. It's like Narnia for Pakistainers.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 14:50 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Yazidi woman details her captivity, escape from ISIS
[Rudaw] A young Yazidi woman who was rescued on May 30 by joint Iraqi Special Forces- Coalition during air raids in Anbar desert, has given details on her capture and escape.

Hwayda Ilyas, now 19 years old, was held under the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) for five years, and sold into sexual slavery 12 times. Her captors moved her from Baaj, to djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, to Tel Afar, and Raqqah among other places, far from her homeland of Shingal.

Hwayda told Rudaw on June 8, that she had been brought to Anbar from Dashisha, in the southeast of Syria’s Hasakah province, trekking on foot through the vast desert.

"We remained there for nine months. Then there was an American and Federal Police air-borne raid," said Hwayda.

Hwayda was kidnapped alongside thousands of Yezidi women and kiddies as ISIS overran the Yezidi homeland in 2014.

Some 6,417 Yezidis were kidnapped by ISIS in 2014 as it swept across northern Iraq. Many Yezidi women endured years of sexual slavery.

Ministry of Interior spokesperson Saad Maan confirmed that Hwayda had been rescued by the Intelligence Directorate of the Federal Police in an interview conducted with her after her rescue.

Hwayda was captured by ISIS alongside her aunt, brothers and mother "while on the road to Duhok," Hwayda told Maan. They were then taken to Baaj, a small town in Nineveh close to the Syrian border.

For fear of being killed, she converted to Islam.

She was later taken to Mosul and placed in a room of unmarried girls.

She told that captor that she didn’t want to get married. He beat her and told her she would go with him.

She insisted on being taken back to her mother. Instead, she was taken to a family in Tel Afar, where she stay for four months.

There, she was raped by a member of the family, named Abu Jabir. "They raped me because I didn't want to be married into the family", Hwayda said.

She was last held captive by a man named Abu Obeida, who headed ISIS treks on foot into the Anbar desert.

Visible scars on her body trace the torture she endured under ISIS custody.

"They injured me here [on my forehead] after I did not accept them raping me. They tied my hands up," said Hwayda. Having forgotten her mother tongue of Kurdish, she spoke to Rudaw in Arabic.

Hwayda’s return has eased the pain of her mother, Shirin Khidir, three of whose sons are still missing.

She hadn’t seen her daughter for five years. She told Rudaw that news of Hwayda’s rescue "was like a dream".

"I had no news of her for five years and hadn’t seen her since then. We didn’t know where she had been taken to," Shirin told Rudaw.

According to the most recent data from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s Yezidi Affairs Office, the fate of 2,992 Yezidis is still unknown.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


US blacklists Iraqi firm accused of gunrunning for Iranian Guards
[IsraelTimes] South Wealth Resources and two of its agents added to State Department’s list of global terrorists, are also accused of helping move funds on behalf of IRGC.

The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on an Iraq-based affiliate of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, one more in a series of steps intended to pressure Tehran following President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s decision last year to withdraw from the landmark nuclear deal with the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

The Treasury Department said the penalties target the South Wealth Resources Company in Baghdad and two of its registered agents. It said the company and the two men are linked to the IRGC’s foreign wing, or Quds Force, and have trafficked hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Shiite militias in Iraq.

South Wealth Resources has also helped move millions of dollars to Iraq "for illicit financial activity benefiting" the IRGC and Iraqi militias it supports.

The company and the two Iraqis, Makki Kazim Abd Al Hamid Al Asadi and Muhammed Husayn Salih al-Hasani, were also placed on the US State Department’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

"The Iraqi financial sector and the broader international financial system must harden their defenses against the continued deceptive tactics emanating from Tehran in order to avoid complicity" in the IRGC’s "ongoing sanctions evasion schemes and other malign activities," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.

The administration last month designed the IRGC as a foreign terrorist organization, which makes providing it with material support illegal under US law.

The new actions freeze any assets that the targets may have in US jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with them.

The announcement came as Japan’s prime minister visited Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in an effort to lower tensions between Washington and Tehran.

Tehran is locked in a bitter standoff with Washington after Trump withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal in May last year.

Iran is threatening to resume enriching uranium closer to weapons-grade level on July 7 if Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an allies fail to offer new terms for the nuclear deal. While Trump says he wants to talk to Tehran, the US has piled on sanctions that have seen Iran’s currency, the rial, plummet along with Iran’s crucial oil exports.

The US also has sent an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the region, along with hundreds more troops to back up the tens of thousands already deployed across the Middle East. The US blames Iran for a mysterious attack on oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, while Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
continue to launch coordinated drone attacks on Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...

Rudaw adds:
Washington stated the SWRC and two individuals have "trafficked hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to IRGC-QF [Quds Force]-backed Iraqi militias." The Quds Force is a unit of the IRGC that carries out extraterritorial operations.

It claims Asadi, 61, and Hasani, 64, received "commission payments" for contracts with SWRC by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Both Asadi and Hasani are Iraqi nationals, according to the US government.

Muhandis is the deputy commander of the Hashd al-Shaabi and is known to be close to Iran's Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.

The US designated the IRGC a foreign terrorist organization in April, and targeted their assets under US jurisdiction, including their use of the US banking system.

SWRC, also called Manabea Tharwat al-Janoob General Trading Co., is based in the al-Jadriya district of eastern Baghdad. They are accused by the US of "facilitating the IRGC-QF’s weapons smuggling into Iraq".

"SWRC has moved millions of dollars to Iraq for illicit financial activity benefiting the IRGC-QF and its Iraq-based militia groups", read the Treasury’s statement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Sri Lanka
Easter bombers on Sri Lanka payroll: Muslim leader
[DAWN] The bully boyz behind Sri Lanka's deadly Easter bombings received funding from state intelligence services, a top Moslem leader told a parliamentary investigation.

The comments by Azath Salley, who quit last week as governor of Western Province, added to evidence of massive security failings before the April 21 attacks that killed 258 people.

The bombings were led by Zahran Hashim, a radical who broke from the Sri Lanka Thowheeth Jama'ath (SLTJ) to form an holy warrior group, the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ).

Salley told the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) that he repeatedly told President Maithripala Sirisena to take action against the group.

"The defence ministry paid the Thowheeth Jama'ath. The police worked closely with the Thowheeth Jama'ath," Salley said, according to a transcript of his remarks.

Salley said the former government of Mahinda Rajapakse in office until 2015 funded Thowheeth Jama'ath through military intelligence, a practice continued by the new administration.

Salley said that the funding was to spy on other groups.

Salley also said that a week before the attacks, he met with top defence officials to warn them about the activities of the Lions of Islam and impending dangers.

"If the police had taken action on the information I provided at the time, we would have been able to avoid this disaster," he said.

The PSC has already heard from several top defence and police officials that the authorities failed to implement an effective security plan even after receiving precise warnings of an impending attack.

Sirisena sacked his national intelligence chief Sisira Mendis after he told the PSC that the attacks could have been averted.

Mendis also said the president had failed to hold regular security meetings to assess the threat from such radicals.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  This is bullshit. The rogue islamist governor is so desperate,he's making up a retarded yarn. A number of his kind were booted out because they had links with the terror outfit.

Here's some context :

Mohamed Azath Sanoon Salley, 55, former mayor of colombo and disgraced ex-governor of western province. He is also the founder of the National Unity Front, an Islamic political party. He visited the UAE (!) frequently and worked with the UAE high commission for something to do with Ramadan. Again, a front for funding and recruitment activity.

Most interestingly, (Mohamed) Salley has aready been arrested in 2013 for... ding ! Inciting extremist activity among muslim youth. Jailed under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, he claimed that the State of Srilanka was hostile toward muslims, and muslims had the right to revolt.

Srisena made him Governor of the western province because he felt it would be good appeasement for the muslims living there. Salley repeatedly intervened in criminal proceedings against common muslim criminals and worked to have terrorists released without interrogation throughout his term. Most of his 'wards' were members of the Thowheeth Jama'ath. And there is one Jama'ath. Everywhere, one Jama'ath is all it takes. The splinter groups and factions with little nomenclature changes are just facades and mirror work. Remember, one Jama'ath, wherever you hear the term.

"There is only one." - Max von Sydow, Exorcist('73)


When Indian MI alerted their administration, the stupid Srisena refused to listen only because of the liberal left had created an image of the incumbent Indian govt. as a hindu extremist 'islamophobic' administration, seeking to convert neighboring countries to it's idealogy. Nepal too had distanced itself from India for the same reason. Besides, these nations are poor and the leadership is prone to bribes from China and the Gulf. I digress.

The defence ministry of SL is under the President himself. There is no way a President paid and supported a minority group that he foolishly appeases only to keep docile; to bomb churches, kill christians, wealthy foreigners, destroy tourism (their one bloody earner) and peace in his own fucking administration.

This issue identifies and clearly presents a likely scenario that is straight from the islamist expansion script. To infiltrate the administrations, legislatures and service departments of free nations and bring them to ruin. If anything, the people of the west should look upon it and decide if they want muslim appeasers in office, similar Jama'aths and CAIRs and Brotherhoods in their midst. Because hey, this is exactly what happens.

PS: Fred, you could also look at the The Diplomat if information untouched by moslem hands is what you want. Indian news like HT and the Times is just more liberal shit, most Indian journalists are muzzled copy-pasters of jingo rhetoric. I find The Diplomat is excellent for terse, analytical articles. As for news, Dawn does gives us a straight perspective from 'the bad-guy' itself. Besides, reading the DAWN sections curated here is a actually better than reading the depressing rag by itself, so thanks.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 4:20 Comments || Top||

#2  And thus we see that the article achieved it’s other purpose, to generate discussion by those who actually know what they’re talking about. Snark, contrary to the opinion in some quarters hereabouts, being only the third purpose. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2019 10:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Whoops! its I do apologize.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2019 10:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Wikipedia writes that Thowheeth Jama'ath is connected to Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen India as well as the pledge to ISIS, as is funded by Islamists in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. They also have it marked as inactive and dismantled, which I suspect is an exaggeration. Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh has its own Wikipedia page.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/13/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  I've a simple rule for deciding when a Muslim lies
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2019 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Here's more. The first Jamaath in Asia was the Tablighi Jamaat, seeking to restore 'virtue among muslims who had long been under rule of the white devils'. The Jamaat-e-Islami, a political statement of islam+statehood came in 1941, when Syed Abul Ala Maududi a particularly nasty, plodding individual first incited local clerics to froth at the mouth preaching for an Islamic State - what is known today as The 'Stain. From the JEM grew the idea of Pan-Islamism, headquartered in Islamabad(yeah !) The idea of the Hadiths as the constitution and unwashed syphilitic clerics as adjudicators of national issues and policymakers first originated with the JEM. Achieving an islamic state they said was the first step, next came the re-conquest of India and its transformation to Dar-e-Islam (abode of islam).

All the successive Jamaaths are descended from this wretched thing. In B'desh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc. They had to change their names so many times that it became impossible for new administrations and even interpol to keep track of who fights for who and what is based where. Resulting in the west's inability to successfully identify what exact part and faction of islam is the one posing the main dangers. In france, the US, britain - can you believe many legislators and even immigrant families would never have been allowed to step into countries if they knew what ideology they belonged to and who their allegiances lay with. Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Jordanian jihadis) under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which allied with Bin Laden, provided necessary training to units that came to be called Al-Qaeda. It's affiliates are a flourishing community in the middle of New Jersey. Islamberg in NY is alligned with the Jamaat al-Fuqraa , also calling themselves the Muslims of America (MOA) organization and under different nomenclatures in different places, it's members have been previously convicted of terror charges.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 11:45 Comments || Top||

#7  We’ve got some of that in the archives, Dron66046. Let me see what Fred’s cute little auto-translate provides, in no particular order:

Tablighi Jamaat
A peaceful group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms...


Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...


Jamaat ul Fuqra isn’t an auto-translate item, but the archives have articles in the subject going back to 2005 — see here.

But absolutely the one thing has become very clear over the years: regardless of sworn allegiance to this or that jihadi organization, individual and group loyalties are as easily changed as a triple-talaq divorce, even when personnel aren’t overtly loaned from one to the other.
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#8  individual and group loyalties are as easily changed as a triple-talaq divorce

Yupp. Nature of the moslem animal.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria parliament okays Russian lease of Tartus port: State media
[AlAhram] Syria's parliament on Wednesday ratified a bill handing management of the country's largest port to a Russian firm for 49 years, state media said.

A deal between Damascus and the Russian company Stroytransgaz for the management, expansion and operation of Tartus port was first signed in late April.

It is one of many lucrative contracts between Damascus and Moscow, which has a naval base in Tartus and has been a key ally of
Hammud said it would yield "profitable returns" and transform Tartus port into an "economic gateway" connecting Syria to the rest of the Mediterranean.

Under the terms of the deal, Damascus could accrue up to 35 percent of profits, he added.

In April, Hammud said the Russian firm could invest up to $500 million in the port's expansion.

On Wednesday, however, he said the figure was about $50 million.

Founded in 1991, Stroytransgaz is one of the largest construction companies in Russia. It is 80-percent owned by Kremlin-linked oligarch Gennady Tymchenko.

In 2018, Syria awarded the company a 50-year concession to invest and extract phosphate in the central region of Palmyra.

Backed by Russian air power since 2015, Assad has made great military gains against rebels and jihadists, and the regime now holds up to 60 percent of the country.

Even during the war, Russian companies have invested in Syria's oil, gas and mining sectors and won contracts to build flour mills and water-pumping stations." valign=top style='float:right;;padding:5px;border:1px solid silver;' />Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's regime.

The bill ratified on Wednesday, which still needs to be approved by the Syrian president, establishes a board of directors to oversee the management and operation of the port, the official SANA news agency said.

Under the agreement, the six directors would be split equally between Damascus and Stroytransgaz, but the board's leadership would reserved for the Russian company, SANA said.

It also exempts the firm from paying customs and tariffs on imports for the duration of the expansion work, which is expected to take six years.

Parliamentarians said the expansion would benefit Syria's ailing economy and represent an important step in support of the country's reconstruction drive, according to SANA.

Syrian Transport Minister Ali Hammud described the agreement as "ideal", according to SANA.

Hammud said it would yield "profitable returns" and transform Tartus port into an "economic gateway" connecting Syria to the rest of the Mediterranean.

Under the terms of the deal, Damascus could accrue up to 35 percent of profits, he added.

In April, Hammud said the Russian firm could invest up to $500 million in the port's expansion.

On Wednesday, however, he said the figure was about $50 million.

Founded in 1991, Stroytransgaz is one of the largest construction companies in Russia. It is 80-percent owned by Kremlin-linked oligarch Gennady Tymchenko.

In 2018, Syria awarded the company a 50-year concession to invest and extract phosphate in the central region of Palmyra.

Backed by Russian air power since 2015, Assad has made great military gains against rebels and jihadists, and the regime now holds up to 60 percent of the country.

Even during the war, Russian companies have invested in Syria's oil, gas and mining sectors and won contracts to build flour mills and water-pumping stations.
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US resident freed by Iran to Trump: ‘Get back your hostages’
[IsraelTimes] A Lebanese man and permanent US resident who was released after spending years in an Iranian prison calls on US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
and Western countries to "please get back your hostages from Iran."

In an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Nizar Zakka says he was subjected to "all kinds of torture," both physical and mental, during his detention in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, including standing on one leg for hours, extended periods of interrogation and lack of food.

"Nobody on earth deserves such suffering," he says.

Zakka, an information technology expert, was arrested in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in September 2015 while trying to fly out of Tehran. He had just attended a conference there at the invitation of one of the country’s vice presidents. The following year, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison after authorities accused him of being an American spy ‐ allegations he and his associates vigorously reject. He was released Tuesday and flew back to his native Leb.
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#1  Can you find a good pic of "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century"

Somehow it just seems more appropriate to me.
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#2  Would this work?
Posted by: 3dc || 06/13/2019 12:40 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Report: Hezbollah planned huge, game-changing attacks on Israel targets globally
[IsraelTimes] Israeli intel official says vast ammonium nitrate cache found in 2015 in London, as reported this week, was part of terror group’s planned ’Dire Revenge’ against Israel in case of war.

For three and a half years, Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency played a cat-and-mouse game with the Hezbollah terror group to stymie its efforts to establish explosives storehouses from Thailand to New York, an Israeli intelligence official confirmed this week.

The largest cache, containing some three tons of ammonium nitrate, a key ingredient for some types of explosives, was found at four locations in north London, sites raided by the Metropolitan Police in September 2015. Other caches planted by Hezbollah cells were discovered in Cyprus, Thailand and as-yet unnamed Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an countries, according to reports.

The Hezbollah plot to establish infrastructure in London in preparation for future attacks was revealed Sunday in the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.

That report, based on sources in Britannia, the US and Cyprus, noted that a foreign intelligence agency, unnamed, had tipped off Britannia’s MI5 and the Metropolitan Police about the explosives.

On Monday, an unnamed senior Israeli official told Israel’s Kan public broadcaster the warning had come from the Mossad.

On Wednesday, a report in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily expanded on the revelation, citing unnamed Israeli intelligence officials offering new details about the Israeli effort to stymie Hezbollah’s activities ‐ which police in London, Cyprus and Thailand have concluded were ultimately directed at Israeli assets in those countries.

"Hezbollah is preparing for a situation in which it will decide to seek Dire Revenge, whether for something taking place between Israel and Leb or for an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites, and has established a network of enormous caches of advanced kabooms" for that purpose, Yedioth quoted an Israeli intelligence official as saying.

The Mossad learned in 2014 of the plan by Hezbollah’s Unit 910, responsible for the group’s foreign operations, to develop the ability to launch massive terror attacks at will around the world.

Mossad information enabled Thai authorities to nab a cell in the country in early 2015, followed in April of that year by the arrest of Hezbollah operative Hussein Abdullah in Cyprus after his cellar was found to contain a ton of ammonium nitrate.

The Israeli source told Yedioth that the effort by the Lebanese terror group involved "long-term planning for immense, game-changing terror attacks. Luckily, someone was in the right place at the right time to issue a warning, to pass on the information and to prevent the establishment of this infrastructure."
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#1  immense, game-changing terror attacks. Luckily, someone was in the right place

"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper;" - Isaiah (somewhere)
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 9:36 Comments || Top||

#2  54:17

although I think this was about the good things that would happen returning from the Babylonian exile
Posted by: lord garth || 06/13/2019 16:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, I pray it always works for 'em.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 16:40 Comments || Top||

#4  ?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2019 18:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Isaiah chapter 54 verse 17, Frank:

JPS Tanakh 1917
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their due reward from Me, saith the LORD.
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