[BREITBART] That's what happens when you don't echo the party line. I think Jenner became a eunoch too late in life to sing soprano, but I guess it does take a lot of "guts" to let somebody chop your doinker off. Of course, back in my younger days it would have been none of my business.
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Shapiro should have this twit arrested for assault and battery, making terroristic threats and whatever else he can legally charged with.
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Of course, back in my younger days it would have been none of my business.
Yeah. The man is sick. But that doesn't mean I want to hear about it. If he had cancer I wouldn't need daily updates either.
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Was there an obituary for Bruce Jenner and a birth announcement for Caitlyn Jenner? Isn't that what is done these days? Some things I'll prabably never understand. What Bruce Jenner chose to do is his/her own business as far as I'm concerned. I wish he'd pay more attention to his driving as that does affect others.
[TORONTOSUN] We may be tired of writing about them. You may be tired of reading about them. But the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... certainly isn't tired of continually increasingly their savagery.
In an editorial earlier this month, we wrote that ISIS had reached a new low. Looks like it's time to repeat that refrain.
At that time it had been reported that the terror group beheaded two Syrian women -- the first time women had been the targets of this cruel treatment.
Now they've moved on to push the boundaries of evil once again.
A new propaganda video released the other day shows a child soldier beheading a Syrian prisoner. The boy looks like he isn't any older than 12.
It's the first time such a recording as this has showed a child solider, which they fondly and disturbingly call "cubs of the caliphate."
And they released the video of the beheading to coincide with Eid al-Fitr, a celebration that marks the end of Ramadan. While most Moslems around the world are peacefully gathering with their families, ISIS is "celebrating" in its own sick way.
So let's not mistake ISIS' troubled antics for religious observance. Regardless of religion and nationality, practically every person in the global community is equally horrified by these actions.
As we wrote only several weeks ago: "If any still don't know who we are dealing with, no doubt should be left. ISIS engages in evil. It's their modus operandi."
The reality is this story has more to do with life in Canada than we'd like it to. In a Sun Media guest column last week, Sen. Daniel Lang, chair of the national security and defence committee, wrote: "The committee learned there are over 318 radicalized Canadians supporting the Lion of Islam jihadist movement or seeking to leave Canada to join it. This number is increasing."
The committee's latest report made recommendations on how policymakers and law enforcement can deal with this.
The coalition fighting ISIS has made a number of victories in recent months. But the fight continues.
As awful as the stories of beheading are, Canadians need to be aware of them to help understand exactly why we're in this fight.
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ISIS mistake is overkill. If they told the Christians to just pay the tax and self segregate, they'd be left alone and then actually practice that they'd be ahead of the Socialists who tax them and not leave them alone. It would make an interesting 'devils choice' to a big population.
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Mistakes from this point of view. Recruiting videos from their end.
Anyone catch the counter-ISJV video where anti-ISJV Team executed a number of ISJV captures, but themselves in the orange suits executing (alleged) ISJV?
[DAWN] EARLIER this month, Maharashtra's BJP government voted to derecognise schools that teach religion without also teaching the primary subjects: mathematics, science, and English. Although a few Vedic schools are likely to be classified as 'non-schools', this step is primarily directed towards the state's madressahs. To be eligible for state grants, they must now teach primary subjects in addition to traditional madressah subjects. By this decision any child, male or female, will officially be considered uneducated and out-of-school if enrolled in an institution that does not follow the state's formal school syllabus in these subjects.
Is this good or bad? Predictably, Indian Moslems have protested this as anti-Moslem. Indeed, given the BJP's Hindutva agenda, to be suspicious of underlying motives is reasonable. But let us set this aside and judge this new development at face value. It is a fact that children who do not know English, math, or science cannot compete in the job market or benefit from university-level education. They become the victim of conspiracy theories, pseudo-scientific nonsense, and various forms of illogic. Madressah graduates can become maulvis and qazis but not engineers, scientists, or doctors. India sees its madressahs as posing a serious education problem but not -- at least officially -- as a terrorism problem.
This view must be contrasted against Pakistain's which now sees its madressahs entirely through a security lens. From the 1980s, these institutions had been used to provide expendable warriors for use in Afghanistan and then later in Kashmire. Although government-sponsored radicalisation tapered off after 9/11, putting the genie back in the bottle has proved difficult. Dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of madressahs now generate militancy mostly directed against the Pakistain Army and ordinary Paks.
In an analysis of the profiles of jacket wallahs who have struck in Punjab, the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police said more than two-thirds had attended madressahs. There are many instances where accidental detonations inside madressah premises have killed would-be suicide kaboomers. Special Branch has identified dozens of madressahs that are linked to bad boy groups. Nevertheless a state of denial had persisted and the public was largely inclined towards seeing madressahs as peaceful religious institutions.
This changed, at least for a while, after the Army Public School massacre on Dec 16, 2014. Over the protestations of the JUI and 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... , parliament approved the National Action Plan (NAP) a month later. This plan included insistence upon madressah reform as a means of controlling religious extremism. Hitherto unregistered madressahs were to be registered, hate speech and bad boy activities stopped, and funding sources uncovered. But NAP did not call for a revamping of the content taught in madressahs, and did not insist upon the inclusion of primary subjects. This is a serious omission.
Even if by some miracle NAP's idea of madressah reform could be implemented, it would scarcely change the worldview that makes militancy attractive. Living in a primitive world where he is cut off from modern thought and almost all sources of authentic information, the madressah student can be made to believe anything. Unless horizons are broadened by including secular subjects, madressahs will remain a perennial danger to state and society. Paradoxically, the BJP's approach to madressah reform is the more enlightened one!
Nevertheless, I have no illusions on how difficult a task this will be. On the request of the-then minister for education, Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali, the five heads of Pakistain's wafaqs (madressah boards) and their deputies had gathered around a conference table. The wafaqs are divided along political and sectarian lines. I was charged with enthusing them into teaching science and math in their institutions. After expressing due deference to these powerful men who control what is taught to millions of students, I then proceeded to give a 20-minute lecture on how Moslem scientific achievements in the Golden Age had established Islam as a great world civilisation.
The bearded gentlemen were unimpressed. If you want to teach science and engineering in your universities that is your business, they said, but leave matters of faith to us. The head of one wafaq said his branch of madressahs already taught science and math, and was not interested in further changes. When the minister offered large sums of money if they modified their curricula, they unanimously said they would welcome the money -- but only if it was unconditional. The meeting was a failure.
So what is to be done? As it stands, although faced by NAP, madressah heads have flatly refused to discuss their funding sources or show accounts to the government, and there are probably more unregistered madressahs than registered ones. According to a report in this newspaper (July 16), law-enforcement officials are admitting helplessness in closing down even a single one of the 579 unregistered madressahs in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... because of their enormous street power, and the backing provided by religious political parties.
Curriculum reform may, therefore, appear even more difficult. But, in fact, unexploited opportunities are available to the authorities. In 1981 Gen Zia ul Haq ...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988... had ordered that various levels of madressah asnad (certificates) be equivalenced with regular certificates and degrees (bachelor's, master's, PhD), and the University Grants Commission (now called HEC) was empowered to determine equivalency requirements. This gives the HEC leverage over quality: if madressahs are to teach English, math, and science, they must be tested by the same standards as in public schools. More importantly, HEC can insist on curriculum changes and require that at least some mind-broadening subjects be taught.
Difficult or not, ultimately there is no alternative but for the Pak state to bring madressah and mosque under its control. Mere policing will not do. Instead, the content of instruction must be shifted away from a paranoid and destructive vision of the world towards an inclusive and reasoned one. Pakistain must do so even in the face of street power, as well as disapproval by Arab countries that fund those brands of madressahs which serve their narrow ideological interests. Therefore reform must be done incrementally and carefully, and without provoking a massive backlash. But it has to be done.
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I just saw a science fiction movie
"The Mist", A High point was when the religious fanatic (AKA Jim Jones") got shot,twice, By the good guys.
Yep, we don't need religious fanatics.
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[DAWN] IN extraordinary times will inevitably come extraordinary measures -- but the costs are piling up and perhaps now unacceptably from a civil rights perspective. That an ex-minister belonging to the MQM, Rauf Siddiqui, has to approach the Sindh High Court to obtain protective bail after the police booked him under anti-terrorism laws for listening to a speech by his party leader Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... is mind-boggling. So too are the arrests of senior MQM leaders for allegedly facilitating and arranging the broadcast of Mr Hussain's recent speech in which he lambasted the military leadership. Surely, inadvisable as Mr Hussain's tirade may have been, there is no justification for arresting and intimidating MQM leaders for having simply listened to or arranged a political speech by the leader of their party. The actions are being explained away on the grounds that what Mr Hussain said amounts to hate speech and an incitement to violence. But this is patently false.
Consider the extraordinary contrast between the repression of the MQM and the space once again being afforded to a banned group like the ASWJ, which is no stranger to hate speech and that yesterday held public rallies rather incredibly in defence of the military. It is truly alarming that the law-enforcement and criminal justice systems are being used to shut down vocal dissent by a mainstream political party, howsoever controversial its actions, while banned bad boy groups are being allowed to preach in favour of the state and military. Could there be a worse indictment of all that is wrong with the state's approach to fighting crime and terrorism in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and beyond? To be sure, Altaf Hussain is only attacking the military leadership because his own party is under siege by the security apparatus. It was only recently that his party still seemed to regard the military as a panacea and urged it to intervene in national politics.
Still, while there may be objections to the tone and tenor and some of the impolitic language used, what Mr Hussain has said now on several occasions against the military is no different to what politicians routinely say about each other or other institutions of the state, particularly the bureaucracy. It is troubling that such a blatant double standard is being enforced, one for what can be said about any political leader and most state institutions and another for what can be said about the military. Yet, the pressure on the MQM at least is not about to abate -- the extension of the Rangers' mandate in the province for a year suggests the PPP government in Sindh has also been convinced of the need to continue the Karachi operation. That a wide-ranging operation is needed in the province cannot be disputed. That it should focus on crime and terrorism, including atrocities committed by MQM bad boys, and be mindful of civil liberties is very clear too.
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The deal is brilliant in that the left can lay claim to peace and then Israel gets all the blame when the do what has to be done.
A better deal would have been pretty easy. Just spend four or five years fighting about the shape of the table and you'll eventually start to hear through back channels what they really want.
[Royal Danish Defense College] Why is Iran following a nuclear path that may further destabilise the fragile security situation in the Middle East? In a new paper from the Royal Danish Defence College, Iran's nuclear aspiration to destabilise power in the Middle East is analysed.
16-06-2015 - kl. 13:13
Iran is purportedly attempting to develop a nuclear energy program, and perhaps even a nuclear weapons program, despite assurances of the opposite. An Iranian nuclear weapon would be a game changer in the region and a lot of neighbouring countries fear such a development for security reasons.
But why is Iran following a nuclear path that may further destabilise the fragile security situation in the Middle East? In a new paper from the Royal Danish Defence College, Iran's nuclear aspiration to destabilise power in the Middle East is analysed.
According to the author Major Thomas G. Nielsen it has to do with Iran's own perception of security risks, its desire for greatness in the region, and domestic challenges, caused in part by United Nations' sanctions, lack of development and internal political power struggles. Iran balances cleverly on the edge of either further international isolation or becoming a significant local power. It uses the threat of developing nuclear weapons, in combination with its important strategic location by the Strait of Hormuz, and supports various political group-ings in and around Syria and Iraq to attract the attention of the United States of American in an at-tempt to become recognised as the most important player in the Middle East.
Should Iran succeed in its brinkmanship and the outcome could be the lifting of the UN sanctions, in-ternational recognition, improved security, and even a possible end to internal political power struggles due to likely economic reforms post-sanctions. Much is at stake for Iran, but, if it succeeds, it could shift the political path in Iran to a less confrontational one, which, in the long run, could enhance security in the region. This would, however, be at the cost of recognising Iran as a true power in the Middle East and ending the sanctions regime in order to support Iranian development. The closing paragraph appears to reflect the Obama regime goals and strategy. Download the paper for free
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I think Iran was clear when they said they wanted to nuke Israel and bring back some holy monkey they've been waiting for. I'm paraphrasing, I don't remember the Shia details.
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It is an old power game. You get a big I mean BIG club (nuke) and you intimidate, demanding respect. Local neighbors cower in fear. You interpret that as respect. So you go after your neighbors and you meet one that is not intimidated, so you go into a hissy fit, and you launch a nuke, and then your whole country turns into a glass Roentgen soupbowl and that is the end of your reign, and your people so excited about your nukes. And, ugly as that scenario is, problem solved itself.
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If the police in your neighborhood stopped policing I think it would be wise to get the biggest gun possible so if they never return to policing then you are safe. If they do return then you can out gun them.
Obama will not face a non-American threat to his power. He has backed out of the Middle East and support of Israel. He has welcomed the previous enemies of Iran and Cuba to accept his surrender. Iran is just taking full advantage of the worlds police force not policing. Obamaites have done the same in Detroit, Baltimore....
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[TORONTOSUN] We may be tired of writing about them. You may be tired of reading about them. But the 
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
