[Ynet] With soldier being murdered in London, Gay Paree; immigrants rioting in Stockholm, big question arises regarding western Europe's immigration policy, with some experts clearly stating 'it has backfired'
Last Wednesday, a British soldier was hacked to death in London by a Mohammedan convert of Nigerian decent. On Saturday, a French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Gay Paree.
In Sweden, riots continue to plague the capital, with cars being set ablaze and uprisings spreading out from mainly poor immigrant areas in Stockholm. All these are prompting experts, politicians and citizens to wonder whether the European immigration policy a failure.
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Never worked. Some cultures have adapted and roved over time while others remain savage. Pretending they are equal has always been incredibly stupid, insulting, and damaging.
Simple question. If x culture is so great why are folks emigrating away from it? If y culture is so bad why are folks migrating into it? Not rocket science. Marxists never could answer that one either.
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US worked best as a melting pot with everyone adding the good bits and taking on the good bits from others. Now they are told to stay the same as if their culture was totlly seperate from why their homeland is a hell hole.
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The collective "we" have essentially gone Donner Pass on our own society and culture. When birth rates start to decline due to, in this case "modern medicine" [copulating still appears to remain popular - in one form or another], and these birthing rates can no longer sustain big government, new citizen tax-payers [voters] are sought, regardless of culture, race, or beliefs. As immigrants begin to become political pawns the system starts to melt down [system referring to original, established culture and national sovereignty]. Of course the pockets and retirement perks of the government elite, having been safety secured, are last to feel the impact.
Nothing new in all of this, save the fact it's now us'ens suffering the decline and impacts. World history is replete with examples of population redistribution, both climate caused and political. The most common being political. Likely to turn around? No, we as a nation are mere infants and the infant mortality of new nations is very high.
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Can the 21st century and the Stone Age coexist?
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Yup, sure did.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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Why dont youall do like us in Canada...only thing these 'slimes understand is the whip...last we hired begged us to work for $3.00 an hour...we paid him $13...minimum current wage here...bugger was not worth ten cent an hour...we fired his ass...good riddance of bad rubbish!!!
[Telegraph] From its very earliest days fighting the Afghan government in the mid 1970s, the militia led by Jalaluddin Haqqani has been used as a proxy by Pakistain. Today it is known as the Haqqani network, allied to the Taliban and considered the most deadly threat to international forces in Afghanistan. It is behind many of the most spectacular attacks in the capital Kabul.
Yet Islamabad has so far failed to move against the outfit, which is based around Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... in North Wazoo. It continues to see the Haqqani network as "good Taliban", a useful conduit to other bully boy groups such as the Pakistain Taliban and a hedge against Indian interests in Afghanistan.
For Pakistain, staying in with the Haqqanis allows access to the nexus of terrorist and bully boy groups that has coalesced around them and an opportunity to try to redirect them against Islamabad's foes. And the costs have been manageable. The Haqqani network may have sheltered al-Qaeda figures -- based on personal ties or short-term financial considerations -- but at most its war aims have been to reclaim its old territory of Loya Paktia, those south-eastern provinces along the border with Pakistain where it mainly operates.
That at least is the accepted wisdom.
A compelling new book by Vahid Brown and Don Rassler, Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012 published by Hurst, suggests we will have to rethink our understanding of the Haqqani network, its motivation and its worldview at a crucial time, just as international forces withdraw and pressure for peace talks intensifies.
Drawing on primary sources, such as Manba' al-Jihad (from which the book takes its title) the Haqqani network's own magazine, the authors conclude that the Haqqanis are much more than mere hosts to al-Qaeda: the two are intimately entwined having co-evolved during the past three decades and with Jalaluddin Haqqani himself emerging as one of the key drivers behind the development of al-Qaeda's global war.
Jalaluddin was the first to declare the Jihad against the Soviets as a duty for Mohammedans around the world and the first to recruit Arabs. the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... built the first of his camps inside Haqqani territory and staffed it with Haqqani veterans.
In placing the Haqqani network not so much at the centre of the hard boy nexus but at its origin, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Afghan and Pak bully boy groups. And it has obvious implications for the terms of any eventual peace settlement, which could well see the Haqqanis taking control of its south-eastern heartland.
It is weaker in discussing the extent to which Pakistain and its ISI spy agency continue to run the Haqqanis, relying on historical accounts dating back to the anti-Soviet Jihad brought up to date with weakly sourced American allegations. To be fair, no one else has much of an insight into Pakistain's current attitude towards its long-standing allies.
But it sets out clearly what should be a key question facing Western officials scrabbling for a face-saving peace deal: Can the Taliban of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... sever its ties to al-Qaeda -- a red line in any negotiation -- when it is clear that the Haqqanis remain so close to bin Laden's terrorist outfit?
Technically the Haqqanis have sworn loyalty to Mullah Omar and say they will stand by his decision but this book makes clear that it might not be as simple as that, and to give up al-Qaeda would change the trajectory of decades of history.
"Ideological sympathy and shared support for the broader goals that al-Qaeda represents -- surely held by at least some within the group -- would be one important reason for not doing so, as would a desire to seek Dire RevengeĀ for the losses that both groups have suffered over the last ten years," it concludes.
It is difficult to conclude anything other than that prospects for peace remain dim.
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Ugh. Goddamn hipster douchebags, who seem to think of Buddhists as if they were fairies or elves or something unearthly, instead of people, and more specifically, men, with all the faults and ambitions of any other set of men. Ask the Warring States Era inhabitants of Kyoto and environs just how cute, cuddly and harmless Buddhist monks could be...
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Should I maybe cut and paste my usual rant on this subject?
[JPOST] The rocket attack on the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut marks a turning point in the Syrian war and the clearest signal yet that the conflict is likely to escalate and spread to Leb, already on a knife's edge due to sectarian divisions. Shi'ite- Sunni strife in Syria, Iraq, Leb and elsewhere is manifesting itself in the Syrian civil war, dragging neighboring countries into the conflict.
The rocket attack seems to be the opening salvo in Leb by Sunnis against the Iran/Hezbollah/Syria axis.
Further examples of this came on Sunday as Egyptian jihadist movements called on Mujahedeen from around the world to go to Leb and fight Hezbollah, according to a report on Now Leb's website. And Bahrain's foreign minister called Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a "terrorist" a day after his speech on Saturday, calling for staunch support to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... , according to a report on Al- Arabiya.
Also on Sunday, Hezbollah MP Hasan Fadlallah said that the resistance would "confront any attack against it from whatever side or place it comes," according to a report in the Lebanese Daily Star.
Meir Javedanfar, a lecturer on Iranian politics at the IDC in Herzliya, told The Jerusalem Post that the recent rocket attack on Beirut was most probably a consequence of Nasrallah's speech. "The Syrian opposition," he said, "is trying to create deterrence" against the advancing Hezbollah and Syrian forces.
Countries supporting the Syrian opposition most probably gave tacit approval for the attack as they would want Hezbollah to pay a price for its support of Assad, according to Javedanfar.
What is clear is that "the conflict has entered a new stage," where the Syrian crisis is threatening Lebanese stability.
But, adds Javedanfar, in the short term it is Iran which has the most to worry about from this development.
Perhaps Iran is concerned that bringing the battle to Hezbollah's home turf will diminish the group's ability to fight for Assad in Syria.
Charles Freilich, a senior fellow at the International Security Program at Harvard's Kennedy School's Belfer Center and the former deputy national security advisor in Israel, told the Post that the attack was a major escalation and that Israel should try to stay out of it as much as possible.
According to Freilich, the Israeli government's policy to refrain from intervention seems to be the correct one.
There are more negatives than positives when looking at the option to intervene.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... it has no choice to intervene if advanced weapons are being transferred to Hezbollah, he added.
Freilich believes that US President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... is doing everything he can to stay as far away from this as he can.
"There is a lot of room in the middle, between full intervention and a policy of no involvement," he said adding that a policy of nonintervention "is a form of involvement."
Freilich said that Syria is potentially coming apart and Obama should try to do something, at least minimally to try and shape events, but "now it is a bit late to get into the game.
"At what point to get involved? When Jordan's king is under threat? How bad does it have to get before getting involved?" For now Israel seems to be acting like a referee at a boxing match -- allowing each side to pummel the other, just as long as long as no red lines are crossed.
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There is a Sunni/Shiia war that stretches from the Med to the Indus.
Sunnis should come out on top, but its anyone's guess what borders will look like 20 years down the road.
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