[VoxPopoli] ...It is astonishing that the American public want to send ground forces to Iraq and Syria when there are millions of Muslims laying the groundwork for the Caliphate in the West. This is why the West is presently losing the Third Great War of Islamic Expansion.
Any time your grand strategy is based on an idea as intrinsically idiotic as the notion that the magic of geographical translocation will somehow transform invading enemies into clones of yourself, you deserve to lose.
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Multiculturalism - another gift that keeps on giving.
Any time your grand strategy is based on an idea as intrinsically idiotic as the notion that the magic of geographical translocation will somehow transform invading enemies into clones of yourself, you deserve to lose.
Just as integrating a bellicose empires into your economic system will gentle their nature and induce them to turn from centuries of geographical and political aggrandizement. You deserve the consequence of enabling their next round of aggressions. (But what about Germany and Japan? We bombed the crap out of them, leveled them and rebuilt their institutions by sitting on them for over three generations)
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Consider the cultural context and history of both of those nations, as disparate as they were, neither was lacking the breadth and depth of culture. Consider the shallow death cults of the current proponents of the caliphate, and consider that the last actual cultural flowering was in the 12th century in Spain and perhaps the 13th century in Turkey. Since then, not so much?
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I prefer what a preacher said recently. There may be an America, a Britain, Germany, Australia, and that is nationalism. But as a Christian you are a part of a Greater Kingdom. When brothers and sisters of that Kingdom are being butchered, no matter where they are, you come to their aid. Because many believe they will have to face the King who will judge you as to whether or not you chose to be your brother's keeper when your brother needed you to be.
[DAWN] CLAIMS that a breakaway faction of the banned TTP, the Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... , led by Omar Khalid Khorasani, has rejoined the original umbrella organization, the TTP led by Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , and that a third turban outfit, Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... 's Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... , has also joined forces have come as no surprise. The new pact formalises what had been an informal working arrangement in place for a while, including the sharing of jacket wallahs for each others' operations. Neither is the timing of the announcement particularly surprising. All three groups have come under pressure in their hideouts on the Afghan side of the Pak-Afghan border and attempted to reassemble in the Tirah region of Khyber Agency -- the very region in which the Pakistain military has launched the next phase of the Khyber-I operation. This week, the military has claimed dozens of turban casualties in air strikes in the region and that is expected to be only the start of intense action against bandidosbully boyz there, following on from the push in the flatter terrain of the Bara region late last year.
As ever, in the opaque world that is the frontline fight against militancy, there are several big questions. To begin with, how much cooperation from the Afghan government and security forces -- to stop bandidosbully boyz from fleeing across the border again -- will the Pak state be able to expect? The recent improvement in ties between the Pak government and the security establishment on one side and the Afghan government and intelligence and security forces on the other is the key to obtaining and sustaining Afghan cooperation. It almost certainly includes the quid pro quo of urging the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table with the Afghan government. It remains to be seen how durable that new, untested compact is. The other question: is Khyber-I going according to plan? The military had always suggested there would a second phase starting this month, but the general experience in military operations here is that the ability to clear and hold is relatively easy as compared to being able to return an area to normality and keep the bandidosbully boyz out after the main phase of the operation is over. Finally, the bandidosbully boyz themselves have proved to be far more resilient and adaptable than is often assumed. Once again, in the face of intense pressure, they have banded together and may seek to survive in enough form to be able to bounce back at a later point. Is there a strategy to prevent that?
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[DAWN] MADRESSAHS have of late been back in the limelight, for discussion of what they produce and how, ever since a feeble expression of intent by the government to regulate them became part of the National Action Plan. (Some of the latest reports suggest the government has reneged on its plan now.)
While a few sane voices have appreciated the state's concern, suddenly the managing stakeholders of madressahs have come alive in defence of their 'estates'. The various wafaqs and their political patrons are all on their feet to protect their jealously guarded domains that bring them so much clout and even more largesse from within and without the country.
Op-ed pieces are being articulated regularly and news hounds have been busy conveying the angst of the madressah managers. Their patron institutions have taken affront to possible intrusion by the state into their protected privacy. Since madressahs provide the doctrinaire troops protecting the religious political parties their visible muscle, such parties are averse to any neutral, intellectual examination of their activities. Madressah curriculums are defended and the addition of computer literacy and English to their courses is offered as evidence of their 'modernisation'.
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[DAWN] Just as Lakhvi is being ushered out of his pen, the Afghan Taliban, we are told, are being herded towards the negotiating table. And in the middle of all of that the anti-state/anti-Pakistain Death Eaters are being pounded away at.
Try spinning a coherent narrative from that. Some point to good Taliban/bad Taliban still holding, but that doesn't quite explain the VIP treatment for the anti-India lot while the Afghan cohort is apparently being downgraded.
Just as Lakhvi is being ushered out of his pen, the Afghan Taliban, we are told, are being herded towards the negotiating table.
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[PJMedia] Over the past several days, Israeli sources report that some 500 members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... -- residents of the West Bank, which is under the control of the Paleostinian Authority (PA) -- have been tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! by PA security services.
An anonymous Hamas source acknowledged about 60 such detainees, including students and academics, to Agence La Belle France Presse. The Paleostinian Ma'an News Agency quotes an anonymous PA security official as acknowledging 40 detainees, without further details. Ma'an alleged (without citing a source) that the arrests were possibly in response to the detention of Fatah official Mamun Suweidan by Hamas security forces in Gazoo. PA security front man Adnan Dameiri claimed no political motivation for the arrests, and said simply that the detainees had broken the law.
Yet Israeli sources have claimed that this massive wave of arrests -- which began on Sunday -- was conducted on the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ' orders, and assert that a coup against Abbas orchestrated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad has been foiled.
The coup was supposed to begin with riots in the West Bank, beginning in the capital of Ramallah, and culminating in Abbas' liquidation and a complete takeover of the PA by the two terrorist groups which at present control the Gazoo Strip.
The same script that the Israelis foiled last summer when they arrested everyone in sight as they searched for the three kidnapped Haredi lads. Like digging a tunnel, once the path is set one just keeps digging in the same direction, I guess.
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