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Paktika Villages Collapse To The Taliban
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Britain
It’s culture, not religion
[Dhaka Tribune] This was at least 15 years ago: An East London theatre was about to stage a drama about conflict in the community, especially the dilemma of Bangladeshi youngsters. Without even knowing what was in the plot, the whole community stood against it.

Somehow, a rumour was spread that Bangladeshi youngsters were involved in drugs, and a lot of abortions were undertaken among Bangladeshi teenage girls. A renowned Bangladeshi playwright wrote the play, and I was among the actors who were cast in it. I personally knew that no such hint about Bangladeshi youth was part of the script.

However,
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Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not culture, it's religion

It's Islamist theocratic fascism used as a political movement.

Our best hope is Mr Trump becomes president and bans all Muslim migration to the USA. That will stop the problem getting any larger within the US.

Then we can start trying to help allies such as Britain, Canada and Australia also target Islamist theocratic fascism.

After that, Europe.
Posted by: anon1 || 09/05/2016 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  In this case it's both...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/05/2016 10:04 Comments || Top||

#3  It's the genes! The genes!!!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2016 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Islamist theocratic fascism used as a political movement

The two were one when Mo decided to band the desert nomads together under Allan.

But you knew that, right?
Posted by: Pappy || 09/05/2016 15:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Global Warmind.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/05/2016 21:28 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
OOPS! Standing man exposes staged "drowning Muslim refugees" photo op
[BareNakedIslam] The Leftist media whores for Islam cropped this photo to show just the Muslim so-called "refugees" floating in lifejackets but cutting out the man who was standing without a life jacket in the shallow water right next to them.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/05/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, I guess we know where "Green Helmet Man" is now, hmmmmm?
Posted by: AlanC || 09/05/2016 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm surprised you can get so many of them in the water for a staged photo. Isn't that kinda like...bathing?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/05/2016 13:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Funny how the left needs to stage, astroturf and alter videos to make their points. Ain't that right, Katie Couric?
Posted by: Raj || 09/05/2016 17:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump Surging in Iowa and Virginia
[Breitbart] Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is surging in battleground states Iowa and Virginia in newly released polls, consistent with the national trend reported this week by Reuters-Ipsos and other major polling operations.

A handful of swing states--experts always mention at least five, and no more than eleven--will determine the winner of the presidential race, mainly concentrated in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Southwest.

Polling numbers from two of those states seem to fit a larger trend over the past two weeks of improving chances for Donald Trump to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

An Emerson poll in Iowa has Trump up five points over Clinton, 44-39, in a sample of 600 likely voters. This brought the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls in the Hawkeye State to a +1 advantage for Trump, for the first time since the candidates held their respective conventions in mid-July.

Emerson also polled in Virginia and found Clinton with only a one-point lead over Trump, in a sample of 800 likely voters. The resulting RealClearPolitics average of +7.7 for Clinton is a significant departure from recent polls showing her with a double-digit advantage in the Old Dominion, which she has enjoyed since picking Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (who is also the state’s former governor) as her running mate.

The Iowa poll was conducted Aug. 31-Sept. 1 with a margin of error of 3.9 percent, and the Virginia poll was conducted Aug. 30-Sept. 1 with a margin of 3.4 percent. These were the first Emerson polls in those two battleground states in this election cycle.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/05/2016 01:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good. GO TRUMP
Posted by: anon1 || 09/05/2016 4:42 Comments || Top||

#2  GO TRUMP

And hire a private bodyguard firm --- don't trust SS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2016 5:59 Comments || Top||

#3  SS?
Posted by: anon1 || 09/05/2016 9:39 Comments || Top||

#4  secret service
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/05/2016 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I read awhile back that Trump does have his own security detail as well as SS. I wonder if he is "packing" on his travels?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/05/2016 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  And yet if you listen to CBS he's way in the heck behind in the swing state polls. Dunno who to believe. But then, I remember CBS predicting that BREXIT would fail.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/05/2016 13:17 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Has Pakistan's Zarb-e-Azb military operation failed?
[DW] A jacket wallah targeted a court in the northwestern city of Mardan, killing at least 12 people just hours after gunnies stormed a Christian neighborhood in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
- some 30 miles from the site of the second attack - leaving one member of the minority Christian community dead. Both attacks were claimed by the Jamaatul Ahrar
...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough...
(JA) organization, a splinter group of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
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Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon’s speaker shows his true colors
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Nabih Knobby Berri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
, head of Leb’s primarily Shiite Amal Movement who has served as Parliamentary Speaker since 1992, has finally confirmed what many Lebanese have long suspected. Rather than a bigwig representing all religious sects and a respected mediator between Iran’s radical proxy Hezbollah and the 14 March /Future Movement, he seems to have indelibly stamped Hezbollah’s flag on his forehead.

His speech, delivered before a crowd of thousands on Wednesday August 31 marking the disappearance of one of Amal’s founders Imam Musa Al Sadr and his lover companions in Libya 38 years ago, included the obligatory muscle-flexing against Israel and was so one-sided it could almost have been penned by Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.
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Posted by: Fred || 09/05/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  A happy system of government for Lebanon is hard to envision. The only sensible one I can think of is return to the old Millet system. Each religious or ethnic group rules itself as it pleases. The central government only deals with matters and difficulties between members of different groups.
This worked under the Ottomans for centuries, because they (Janissaries) were outsiders not biased toward any side, and they were horribly brutal, so nobody ever wanted to have to deal with them.The same system lasted a thousand years in Egypt, under the Mamluks, until the French overthrew them.
Posted by: Grins Snese4215 || 09/05/2016 12:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Daniel Greenfield: The Lie is Coming Apart (video)
[CounterJihadReport] Sultan Knish speaks on “Islam and Western Civilization: Can they Coexist?”
Impressive.

Posted by: Newc || 09/05/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you listen to this, you shall feel Freedom and Liberty flow in your Veins.
Greenfield made three inter-sectionals in this that were very important to understand.

He did this with cunning grace and humor.

He speaks as he writes and he has always been correct.
Always.

Posted by: newc || 09/05/2016 2:12 Comments || Top||

#2  And thanks for the line up whomever. This is my favorite piece this year. This man, and Daniel Pipes need full coverage.
They are so much on the game and on the shit, I do not understand why I do not see them when I tune into news "organizations".
Posted by: newc || 09/05/2016 2:23 Comments || Top||

#3  another brilliant one is Robert Spencer. If you have not done so yet, check out his excellent comments on sharia and what it means for us here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL6Sner5dlg
Posted by: anon1 || 09/05/2016 4:44 Comments || Top||

#4  And thanks for the line up whomever.

You are very welcome, dear newc. Or is it Newc now?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/05/2016 14:16 Comments || Top||

#5  That was great. Thanks Newc I'll pass that on.
Posted by: Dale || 09/05/2016 15:55 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2016-09-05
  Paktika Villages Collapse To The Taliban
Sun 2016-09-04
  Turkey Launches New Attack Against ISIS, Kurds In Syria
Sat 2016-09-03
  North Syria cleared of ISIS, Kurdish militia
Fri 2016-09-02
  Thailand announces peace talks with southern Muslim rebels
Thu 2016-09-01
  7 Al-Qaeda terrorists executed in Iraq by hanging
Wed 2016-08-31
  The ISIS 'Attack Dog' Abu Mohammed al-Adnani Reported Dead
Tue 2016-08-30
  Afghan court sentences senior Taliban leader Anas Haqqani to death
Mon 2016-08-29
  Iran arrests nuclear negotiator over spying
Sun 2016-08-28
  Taliban fighters overrun district in eastern Afghanistan
Sat 2016-08-27
  ISIS Kubs of the Kaliphate execute five Kurdish captives in Raqqa
Fri 2016-08-26
  Somalia: Al-Shabab gunmen attack beach restaurant
Thu 2016-08-25
  Afghan forces hunt gunmen after American University attack
Wed 2016-08-24
  Nigeria: Military Says Boko Haram Leader, Shekau, Wounded in Deadly Air Strike
Tue 2016-08-23
  Nigeria claims it killed Boko Haram's Shekau in raid
Mon 2016-08-22
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