[DAWN] IN the recent past, Bangladesh has seen a notable rise in the number of grisly killings believed to have been carried out by krazed killer elements.
Police launched a crackdown on Tuesday after the murder of a Hindu priest in one of the country’s western districts.
Earlier on Sunday, the wife of a police officer tracing bandidosLions of Islam and a Christian businessman were killed in different incidents.
In fact, the list of targets is quite extensive, and seems to be expanding. Amongst those who have been killed so far are bloggers and academics, while religious minorities are also in the cross hairs.
Shia, Sufi, Ahmadi and Buddhist individuals or places of worship have all been targeted.
According to the Bangladeshi media, in the last 18 months at least 47 people have been killed. While the state says it is fighting back, critics and rights groups have claimed that the government in Dhaka is not doing enough. For example, Amnesia Amnesty International has said the killings have created "a climate of impunity", and has urged the authorities to deliver justice.
Pakistain knows the dangers of letting extremism and militancy go unchecked and Bangladesh would do well to address the problem before violence becomes uncontrollable.
Amongst the groups believed to be involved in the bloodshed are Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh as well as local affiliates of Al Qaeda and 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.... murderous Moslem group.
Though the state has largely rejected the presence of Al Qaeda and IS fighters, media reports indicate otherwise.
Some Bangladeshi papers have published extensive information on the murderous Moslems’ actions; it has been revealed that a number of Bangladeshi bandidosLions of Islam have fought for IS in Syria and have now returned home.
For the Bangladesh government to deny the existence of foreign-linked fighters will not make them go away.
Dhaka needs to redouble its counterterrorism efforts and break the networks of krazed killers, or else radical elements could seriously harm the fabric of society through their tactics of brutality and violence.
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[DAWN] THE issues raised by the Maulana Sheerani-led Council of Islamic Ideology’s keenness to ensure that wife-beating does not end in Pakistain will be solved neither by protests by women activists nor by the growing storm on social media. The real issue is whether the Moslems of Pakistain can afford to be led by the nose by a state institution determined to prevent their release from concepts unjustly described as Islamic.
No informed Pak should have been surprised by the CII’s latest broadside because the council has been proclaiming its love of retrogression quite regularly. Its liking for corporal punishment in schools and child marriage, its rejection of co-education in post-primary institutions and women’s working with men in offices and factories, and its closed mind on the rights of non-Moslem Paks have long confirmed it as the champion of narrow-minded conservatism. What it has done now is to sum up its case for denying women’s basic rights.
These efforts of the CII have off and on revived debates on the justification for its existence. It has often been pointed out that the CII opposes the Moslem people’s right to interpret Islam so as to enable them to face the challenges of the age and defreeze the Islamic fiqh, an objective for which Iqbal had called for a Moslem homeland in the subcontinent. Iqbal had also specifically opposed the creation of a body of Learned Elders of Islam to advise democratically elected representatives on religious issues on the grounds that parliaments alone were competent to rule on religious questions as well as on other issues.
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#1
A good enough read and makes some excellent observations. Yet, also makes the same painful mistake we see time and again with not laying full blame on the intentions of the Obama regime. They did not "choose to forget". They planned. They implemented.
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In theory, SOF from the United States and allied countries are supposed to enable locals to defeat ISIS, with assistance from Western airpower. However, that approach has never worked as advertised, despite the frequent killings of senior Islamic State officials by our airplanes and drones.
Yes, yes, yes! A fact, a recipe for failure that many posters have been harping on in this blog for fok'n years !
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How to defeat Islamic State? You won't get ANYWHERE without addressing the cultural failure within your intelligence community.
Ever since 9/11 they have been shoving the message "don't offend muslims, don't let the terrorists turn it into a war against all Muslims" so our polity and media have shut down all honest reporting of the issue to the point where terrorist attacks are reported with no mention of Islamist theocratic fascism as the motivating ideology.
You are losing and this is the reason why.
If you want to defeat IS you need to do this:
1) Recognise who your real enemy is. It's NOT Islamic State. Your enemy is Islamist theocratic fascism. It's an ideology not a criminal group.
2) Declare war on the "Caliphate". The geographical territory declared a Caliphate is your great gift - so use it. Recognise it as a state, and declare war on it - but do NOT actually fight it.
Declaring war triggers Treason legislation so you can go after those in the Five Eyes nations who push sharia.
Pushing sharia is treason. People who push sharia are Islamist theocrats.
3) Deport or lock up Islamist theocrats.
4) Give shelter to demonstrated Secular Muslims, gay Muslims, feminist Muslims who flee Islamist theocrats.
5) Ban Muslim immigration including anyone from OIC countries and known Muslims from non-OIC countries temporarily until IS are defeated.
6) Cut Saudi funding to any mosques, educational institutions, think tanks, or any other cultural institution in the Five Eyes alliance. Send their ambassadors back home to Riyadh. Cut all ties and trade. Get all your oil from Venezuela. BOYCOTT Saudi.
7) Shut down all mosques started or funded by Saudi Arabia in the Five Eyes. Saudi Arabia funded the spread of theocratic Islamist fascism.
8) Secure your own borders and root out the problem within.
9) Ignore the Caliphate. Let China and Russia deal with it.
10) all Migrants to Europe should be immediately iris scanned, fingerprinted and put into work camps for a period of 2 years. Any that don't want this arrangement are free to be deported back to Turkey. They will be trained for 1 year by the IDF: women and men. They will wear overalls. No hijabs. No religion. No korans. No praying. They will live on barracks and learn comparative religion, enlightenment principles and how to vote civilly along with a common language (suggest English) and how to rebuild infrastructure: roads, sewers, bridges, making a rubbish collection system.
They will live on barracks. Any committing violence or caught spreading religion or not obeying the rules get instant deportation to Turkey, never to return.
For the 2nd year of service they will be sent to Syria, even if they are from Africa, and they will rebuild areas that china/russia clear of Islamists.
The area cleared and rebuilt will be run by the Kurds as an occupying force. They will supervise elections.
Public religious worship will be banned from the occupied area for the next 50 years. No religion in schools other than comparative religion. No mosques.
But the really most important thing about defeating the Caliphate is to defeat its Muslim Brotherhood ideology At home IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY
#4
Operation Inherent Resolve should be renamed Operation Deliberate Indifference. A couple of rants:
- DoD lacks the ability to sustain a serious effort to defeat these folks...very few leaders stay on the task for more than 1 to 2 years before they move on with their careers. In the DoD careers come first! DoD careerists will ignore the bad news, pass the buck and move up...
- while the threat exploits our vulnerable supply lines, and our inability to identify and counter their funding streams... Its like feeling good about pulling the heads off dandelions...makes a good initial appearance tactically, but until we kill the strategic roots and the threat sustainment, the tactical leaders and soldiers will continue to replace themselves.
Hit them hard tactically while burning down the financiers' houses. Put fear into the perfumed princes that wittingly fund these folks.
#5
There will be no defeat unless and until the education industry, NPR's audience, and the Democratic party start believing that Islamic fundamentalism is an existential threat and ordinary Christians who go to church on Sunday are not.
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Nice missive Anon but it can never happen.
The rules of permissive behavior are against it.
Next would be Amish, Mormons, Baptists, TV evangelists of all types and other 'culty' fantasy clans.
#8
Lot of good points Anon1. Trumpt suggested curbing the influx of Muslims into this country for awhile until it could be determined who we are getting in the mix. Everyone in both parties and the press screamed bloody murder and yet he had a good point and a reasonable approach in an attempt to solving a problem an extant problem.
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anon1 comments sound a lot like the disengagement I've been known to advocate. I think the war against radical Islam should be fought in Europe and America because the Middle East is a lost cause and it's not our problem anyway. I think it should be very simple: We don't go there and they don't come here. If they try to come here we shoot them. Those who are already here get deported. Check back in a thousand years and see if they've become a bit more reasonable.
Sorry if that sounds isolationist but it seems pretty clear that our interventions in the Middle East have all gone badly both for the locals and us. Our policy should be to let them figure it out for themselves.
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Yes Grom - it needs to be recognised that we are up against a political ideology like communism and marxism.
Your enemy is NOT islamic state
If you defeat islamic state militarily you will just get another one. Just like al-Qaeda.
There are hundreds all spawned off the same root.
For 15 years the military have been fighting the symptoms and it is useless to do so without getting rid of the cause. All you do is waste money and lives.
Theocratic political Islamism = politics.
Secular Muslims = religious people who pray
SO - declaring war on the Caliphate (the entire concept of the Caliphate) so as to use treason laws against the pushers of sharia -- this would not violate religious freedom to an unconscionable degree because it is not a religion it is a political ideology.
Demanding sharia to replace secular laws passed by parliament is treason
It is no different to demanding German laws should rule over German migrants to Poland eg.
It is an invasion. It is loss of sovereignty over part of your population
It is treason pure and simple
SO start acting on it
This is what has been needed since 2001 but the intelligence community had a big brain fart.
They thought that to separate the secular Muslims (religion) from the Islamist theocratic fascists (politics) would mean we would turn 1.2 billion global muslims against us
This is wrong
Secular Muslims are in a struggle with theocratic fascists everywhere, across sects.
By extending help and refuge to the true reformers, to the Raif Badawis and the victims of theocracy you will demonstrate to them this is not true.
Our intelligence services have given the wrong intel to successive Five Eyes administrations and look at the results. FAILURE
It's time to try honestly naming the enemy and tackling it head on.
That means cutting off Saudi Arabia and tackling the cultural persuasion of the Muslim Brotherhood
Saudi Arabia was a cold war ally but it was not really an ally at all. It created this problem and guess what? The cold war is over.
That is why Trump is the best possible candidate. He gets this.
the difference between political Islamists and the amish etc, is that political Islamists seek to impose their supremacist system over everyone despite borders.
The amish just want to be left alone and cause no problem.
So in principle the two are different. One is a lifestyle based on a religion.
The other is a political system that seeks domination.
SO one is protected by "freedom of religion"
the other is a treasonous political movement that seeks to destroy and supplant the entire system we cherish.
We know how to crush international terrorism—we simply choose to forget what actually works
By John R. Schindler
Interesting take: drone zaps do work in the right situation. It helps if your opponent is paranoid and rat-shit crazy. Recommended.
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Yes, indeed. "We know how to crush" them. Operation Reindeer was a textbook example of a highly successful vertical insertion against terrorists. Attempting to solve the problem by picking the leadership one at a time is a fools errand.
Ironically, Operation Reindeer was largely modeled after successful U.S. counter-terr operations in Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
[US Defense Watch] The destruction of the US military keeps humming along at a breakneck pace.
According to the Pentagon and the Faustian Sellouts of the Round Table, aka the Joint Chiefs of Staff, things are going splendidly in the US military.
As the military reels from severe readiness, morale and social issues, you will consistently hear some bureaucratic clown like Secretary of Defense Ash Carter declare that this is the best military the US has ever fielded.
Hmm?..
In the screenwriting world, they call that "a beat," aka dead silence.
Let’s take a look at how well things are going these days:
Operation Kamikaze, the force fed integration of women into the combat arms and special operations is progressing gradually, like a slow IV drip of death in Doctor Kevorkian’s Ambulance of No Return. The Army and the Marines are as busy as Keebler Elves as they scramble to accommodate females in units that have been all male since Christ was a corporal. Latrines and showers are being modified and standards are being chain sawed into the abyss known as gender neutrality.
What kind of recruits will the new gender neutral combat arms have? A buddy of mine, a former US Army officer related a good story to me this week. He spoke of a conversation he had with a waitress in one of his local haunts. The young woman is out of shape, 40 pounds overweight and a lesbian. She told him she can’t wait to sign up for the Army and get into a tough combat arms unit.
Obviously, she’s been watching a lot of TV cops shows where the bulimic bimbo detective goes Steven Seagal on East LA gang bangers.
Obama’s Flying Circus is in town and it’s attracting every possible freak show performer: the gay soldier named Chad, the transgender Marine, Chastity; ÂÂthe delusional You Go Girl feminist with a hyphenated last name and the Millennial kid who’s only muscular development is in his texting thumbs and who thinks real war is like Call of Duty 5.0.
#1
Unless things have changed since 20 to 25 years ago, people in uniforms don't count for much at the five sided nut. Political appointees and career feather merchants are the ones who are actually in charge. The civilians are all assigned to.... "B Company."
"Be there when you get there, be there when you leave."
#2
No it's not normal society. It's not a civilian enterprise. Even the founder understood that. That is why the Constitution called for a separate set of laws governing land and naval forces. Any other job you can basically give two weeks notice and depart, not the military. It's the idiots and fools who every so often try to 'civilianize' the place, particularly those who have zero understand or even contact beyond Hollyweird of what its all about. There are no appeals, no judges, no public opinion in the most pure Darwinistic environment anyone has to face. The enemy doesn't care about how you feel or what you believe, they just want to kill you.
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The current administration is going full tilt in their efforts to dismantle our defense industry, both active military and the civilian defense industry. The freak show is the emotional smoke screen to the real damage. The fat chick and fags will go to basic, cry a lot, and then take their discharge and never see a combat unit. Who cares. What is going on behind the screen is the full dismantling of our readiness. Not based off of manpower but equipment based. The marine aviation fleet is at 30% combat ready. The Army and Navy are looking at the same numbers. Sec Def's number one priority is not to bring more dollars into DOD. His number one priority is to stop sequestration in 2018. We have yet to stop the bleeding, let alone fix it. And every time we start to talk readiness we are fixated with fags and fat chicks, number of bathrooms and feelings. We need to step away and refuse to discuss the fags and talk about what it takes to defend this nation get our combat readiness back up to standard. The gay thing will sort itself out, the readiness will not.
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There is enough money in DoD to increase readiness and keep enough ammo in stock to fight a real war. However, there is a deficit in moral courage to cut out the expensive contractors and "do nothing" civilians that are only there for a paycheck.
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