[Tolo News] In an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's state-run broadcaster, Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. said on Friday that incident's such as the recent public lashing and stoning to death of girls in Ghor province are shameful and despicable.
"This is part of our shame, we have inherited situations that are shameful, that are absolutely despicable," he added.
Ghani also talked on the controversial housing scheme project involving former Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Bank CEO Khalilullah Frozi and said that some government officials who played a role in the deal were fired and that his own legal advisor had been suspended.
"The minute this became public, I ordered that he [Frozi] be placed in prison in solitary confinement. $20 million USD has been paid by him out of his assets, the property that allegedly he was using to partner on, is now under legal process or being confiscated," he said.
In a question regarding the role of his legal advisor in the deal, Ghani said: "The officials have been dismissed, my legal advisor was responsible for this, the legal advisor has been suspended, a full inquiry is underway to deal with this."
Ghani also talked on the issue of the refugee crisis and said the future of Afghan citizens was guaranteed in their own country, but not abroad.
"We have a complex diaspora. The privileged elite are part of the globalization moment that we live in. What is significant is to create opportunities for the generations to come and the point remains if the families of the privileged live abroad they aren't going to have careers abroad. The careers are back in Afghanistan," Ghani said.
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[DAWN] Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... said Pakistain will continue its support and cooperation for United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... (UN) sponsored endeavours towards bringing peace and stability in Yemen.
Aziz was talking to noble peace laureate Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman who called on him here at Foreign Office on Friday along with the Yemeni Ambassador Ahmed Qaid Al- Horary.
Aziz briefed Tawakkol Karman about the ongoing anti-terror operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... and its positive results which have eliminated terrorist networks in Pakistain.
He also highlighted about the economic gains achieved after improved security environment Pakistain.
"The focus of the present government was to strengthen good relations with our neighbouring countries and promote regional connectivity in transport, energy and trade," he added.
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The Russian spy beheaded by ISIS was an orphan who was recruited by secret service and sent to Syria after being caught with drugs, MailOnline can reveal. Magomed Khasiev confessed on video to being recruited by Russian intelligence before going to Syria and working undercover for the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The brutal execution was carried out by a Russian-speaking terrorist who addressed President Vladimir Putin directly and vowed to unleash murderous attacks on Moscow.
Now, MailOnline can reveal Khasiev was born in Chelyabinsk, in the Russian Urals mountains but orphaned aged nine and raised by adoptive parents in Chechnya. The following year he became a Muslim and went on to study law at Maykop Polytechnic college, in the small Russian region of Adygea.
Khasiev, born Yevgeny Yudin before taking the name of his adoptive mother, is said to have ended up in Syria after being recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service, the FSB. In February last year he was caught in possession of prescription medication, lyrica pills, and was known to have links to drug dealers. Khasiev is said to have done a deal with the FSB to avoid prosecution, it is claimed.
Mess with the bear, get the claws...
After Fred's little bear story that has an entirely different feel.
He was then sent to ISIS via Turkey and given the intelligence services information from behind enemy lines.
Anton Naumlyuk, a journalist from Radio Svoboda, said: 'In summer 2014 (he) was caught by FSB people having drugs on him.'
'Khasiev was sent to ISIS via Turkey. From there he was in touch with the FSB and passed information about those who were intended to go to Syria - and who had already got there,' said Naumlyuk on Facebook.
'The last time he passed information about a student of a medical college.'
It is thought Khasiev was suspected of being a spy by ISIS after Russian medical students were arrested and convicted for assisting ISIS.
On his execution video, Khasiev looked into the camera and said: 'During all this time I contacted FSB of Russia five times and passed information about six brothers.
'And when I contacted FSB the last time, I passed information about brother (name is bleeped out) who studied in a medical institute.
'During the last contact, Shamil [the fixer] told me to wait. And I understood that I had to wait for further instructions.
'But I couldn't wait or pass information any further because I was caught and completely exposed by officials of the security service of the caliphate.'
The beheading is believed to have been in Raqqa, ISIS de facto capital.
As Khasiev knelt beside a lake, his ISIS executioner, spoke in a Russian: 'Here today, on this blessed land, the battle [against Russia] begins.'
'We shall kill your children for every child you've killed here.'
The FSB has not yet commented on the claims -
Nor will they...
although a Russian intelligence source said ISIS has offered no evidence Khasiev was an FSB spy.
'Most probably, the executed man had nothing to do with our intelligence. A few factors prove that,' the source told Interfax.
'If the militants had really found a spy, they 'undoubtedly' would have used him as a negotiating pawn. It would have been more beneficial than simply killing him,' they added.
By your way of thinking, yes, but ISIS doesn't think like Russians think...
Pro-Kremlin site LifeNews today claimed Khasiev had been put on Russia's federal wanted list in February this year for 'participating in military actions on ISIS side'. In May, a criminal case was filed against him in absentia for 'participating in an armed group on the territory of a foreign state' contrary to the interests of the Russian state.
Meanwhile Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Putin, has vowed to avenge the execution. The Chechen leader said: 'Yes he is a Russian citizen, a Chechen, and he was beheaded.
'Chechens will remember. We know and won't forget it. Those who stabbed our citizen are a threat to the security of our state. They won't live long. We'll send them to the better world and will give them one way ticket.'
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[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders, the most popular politician in the Netherlands, has told Turks "you are not welcome here" in a video that takes aim at The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's hopes of joining the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Wilders, who is fiercely anti-Islam, has surged in public opinion polls with his call for the closing of national borders in the face of a migrant crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Muslims, fleeing to Europe this year to escape conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and beyond.
Turkey promised at an EU summit in Brussels last Sunday to help stem the flow of migrants in return for cash, an easing of visa restrictions for Turks visiting Europe and renewed talks on admitting Turkey as a member of the bloc.
In his English-language video posted online on Friday with Turkish subtitles, however, Wilders told Turks in typically blunt fashion: "Your government is fooling you into believing that one day you will become a member of the European Union. Well, forget it."
"You are no Europeans and you will never be. An Islamic state like Turkey does not belong to Europe," he said. "We do not want more but less Islam. So Turkey, stay away from us. You are not welcome here."
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte swiftly condemned the video.
"We have freedom of speech, but this sort of remark, in which a whole country and a whole population is deeply insulted, is totally unacceptable and contributes absolutely nothing to resolving the problem," Rutte told a news conference.
"And it totally lets the cat out of the bag,", he added softly...
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[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] A 26-year-old woman who says that Muslims cannot be French may be about to be elected president of a large region sprawling from Marseille to Nice and the Italian border.
A 47-year-old woman -- aunt of the first, and the leader of Europe's most powerful far-right party -- is likely to be the next president of another big chunk of La Belle France, starting a few miles from Kent and stretching almost to the northern suburbs of Gay Paree.
If opinion polls are to be trusted, the Front National will make a spectacular breakthrough in a two-round regional election on Saturday and next Sunday.
In the wake of the 13 November atrocities in Gay Paree, the polls predict an unprecedented surge of support for the xenophobic, anti-European and protectionist FN in all regions except, paradoxically, the Île-de-La Belle France around the capital.
Marine Le Pen, the party leader, seems almost certain to be elected president of a new super-region covering industrial northern La Belle France and Picardy -- for decades a fiefdom of the left. Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, her niece, is predicted to take Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur -- a traditional bastion of Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd President of the French Republic. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... 's centre-right.
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That will give europe something to think about and some defence against Islamism
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"But, look, here's what we know: 99.5 percent of scientists in the world say this is a really urgent problem," he said.
Another number he pulled out of his ... delusions.
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Depends on your definition of 'scientist'. It's like the word 'doctor'. You really want a proctologist to do brain surgery on you? (Well in O's case, you probably need to first for the second to reach the compromised organ).
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99.5% of welfare recipients say not being able to buy booze with an EBT card is an urgent problem. Do you see the equivalency?
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Denial does not abrogate the narrative. The real issue is blind observance by the 'climateer' masses. "It is, because we think it is!" Soon will begin the public fainting.
[FREEBEACON] Leading senators on Thursday evening demanded in a letter that the B.O. regime release the immigration records of the two suspected shooters who killed at least 14 people in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, this week.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) claimed the B.O. regime has failed to comply with a request for immigration records of 72 recent bully boyz found to be in the United States.
The attacks this week, they said, highlight the need for greater oversight on those entering the country.
Devout Muslim Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, who was born in Pakistain, are suspected of killing at least 14 people in an attack that some believe was motivated by the duo's potential ties to terrorists.
Cruz and Sessions are demanding to see their immigration records in order to shine more light on the case.
"We demand that you immediately provide the same detailed information requested in that letter for Farook and Malik, which would include the immigration history of their parents and any immigration documents related to their marriage and her subsequent travel to the U.S," the senators wrote.
It is critical that the B.O. regime is more transparent about information pertaining to recent immigrants, according to the senators.
"We are dealing with an enemy that has shown it is not only capable of bypassing U.S. screening, but of recruiting and radicalizing Muslim migrants after their entry to the United States," the two wrote to the secretaries of state and homeland security as well as the attorney general.
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Cruz and Sessions are demanding to see their immigration records in order to shine more light on the case.
Good luck with that. Cruz and Sessions smell something? Please share will you ?
How about 'demanding to see' the FBI forensics report(s) on the type of explosives used in the dozen or so pipe bombs? Yes, those are the ones, the Syed Farook pipe bombs we're hearing nothing about.
Please circle one or more: Nitroglycerin, TNT, Nitrocellulose, RDX, PETN, HMX, C4, Home Made, Chinese firecrackers, inert (well nothing went off did it) ?
Speaking of hearing nothing, is Jim Comey still employed at the FBI? Very little heard from him lately either. Plenty of background kak slinging and diversionary threat chatter from Lynch at DoJ, but little in the MSM from the head of the Bureau.
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......He said there were no other suspects under arrest, adding that an “acquaintance” who bought two guns on behalf of Farook was so far not under arrest.Link
A 'Straw Purchase' (someone buys firearm for you) of a firearm is a federal offense with rather severe penalties. Link
Name? Supplier? Anything? BTW, nice LE style 'single point' slings and bipods.
[Breitbart] The shocking sight of journalists storming into the apartment of the San Bernardino terrorists, less than 48 hours after the attack, was apparently allowed by the FBI, which handed the apartment back over to the landlord, who let the media in with a crowbar. Journalists were they? Well, ok, if you say so.
CNN had a reporter on the scene, but its own analyst Harry Houck was shocked, calling it a "screw-up."
While the journalists' behavior was disturbing, it fit a pattern: the Obama administration is careless about, or is reluctant to find, evidence of terrorism.
Good thing the perps are dead: hard to get a conviction in court if the crime scene has been spoiled...
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Deliberate contamination of the crime scene. Also, where is this 3rd shooter? There were reports by people at the venue that there was a 3rd shooter. Why has this disappeared down the memory hole?
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The FBI might have been trying to get the information out about the terrorists and they were prevented by their overlords. So maybe they hoped someone in the press is not so bought and sold that they will photograph the many ids, the bank account, and multiple items. Perhaps that was the only way to make them available.
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I cannot believe that the FBI morons left so much behind...shredded papers in a wastebasket, notebooks, papers, journals and books, etc. They should have taken everything up to and including the wallpaper. You can always give it back. This is a major investigation into terror with presumed unidentified suspects remaining at large, and they left all this behind? Incredible incompetence. Weeks or months later, someone is going to say "Hey. Wasn't there a ___ in the apartment?" Oops. Too late now.
Idiots. But then, the FBI has always been about PR rather than ability.
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The only stuff the FBI took out was the evidence pointing to the federal GIVERnment paving the yellow brick road to this families very fast immigration without vetting into America.
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It's possible the FBI found a treasure trove on the hard drives, figured the folks popped off early and didn't wipe it right as they would have been told.
Also it would be a nice way to dump red herrings into the story by having pre-shredded papers to replace with the existing onesLet the media find it and decipher it and spread the misinformation about the head of iSiS or whatever. . I'm not saying the happened but that's a missed opportunity.
Of course with our media they'd screw that up as well.
[DAWN] DEARBORN: Muslim Americans fear their religion will be demonised and Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... will spread after a young Muslim couple was accused of carrying out one of the bloodiest mass killings in the United States.
Across the country, Muslim Americans responded with shock and outrage after a shooting in which authorities said Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 21.
"I was at the gym yesterday while the shooting was taking place and all the TVs were showing that footage and all I could keep thinking to myself is 'God, I hope they don't have any Eastern descent, not just Middle Eastern, anything we'd associate with a Muslim'," said Adam Hashem, 32, in Dearborn, a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... suburb with one of the country's largest Muslim populations.
"We're all worried. We're all concerned," he said.
It was the deadliest US mass shooting since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre three years ago. While the motivation remained unclear as authorities investigated the attack, details of Farook and Malik began to emerge.
Farook was described as a second-generation American born in Illinois and raised by Pak parents. Malik was born in Pakistain and lived in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... until she was introduced to Farook.
San Bernardino police said they found pipe bombs and several thousands rounds of ammunition at the residence of the couple, who died in a shoot-out with police.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Attari Supermarket bustled on Thursday with customers shopping for Middle Eastern products.
"In every culture and in every religion there are bad apples that will spoil the rest of the apples. That has happened toward us," said Dawod Dawod, a 25-year-old Muslim American, who manages the store that his family has owned for a decade. When was the last time Rosicrucians shot anyplace up?
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They clean up their act or someone else will
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It's a gutter cult no matter how many billions of zombies join it.
There is no reconciliation. There is no Salvation.
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CAIR has reliably said some of the blame is on the U. S.
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In World War 2 Japanese Americans signed up in numbers to prove their loyalty despite a US government grabbing their stuff.
They are free to leave if their fear is to great. I'm tired of hearing about their fear of some future demonization (that never seems to happen) after each attack by their coreligionists (which happens with increasing frequency).
[DAILYWIRE] The day after a horrific shooting spree by a "radicalized" Muslim man and his partner in San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged to a group of Muslim activists that she would take aggressive action against anyone who used "anti-Muslim rhetoric" that "edges toward violence."
Speaking to the audience at the Muslim Advocate's 10th anniversary dinner Thursday, Lynch said her "greatest fear" is the "incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Jewish, anti-police, anti-Christian, anti-Muslim rhetoric" in America and vowed to prosecute any guilty of what she deemed violence-inspiring speech. She said:
The fear that you have just mentioned is in fact my greatest fear as a prosecutor, as someone who is sworn to the protection of all of the American people, which is that the rhetoric will be accompanied by acts of violence. My message to not just the Muslim community but to the entire American community is: we cannot give in to the common sense fear that these backlashes are really based on.
Assuring the pro-Muslim group that "we stand with you," Lynch said she would use her Justice Department to protect Muslims from "violence" and discrimination. We somehow always knew they were on the enemy's side and not on ours.
"When we talk about the First Amendment we [must] make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not American."
Claiming that violence against Muslims is on the rise and citing La Belle France's clamp down on potentially radicalized mosques, Lynch suggested the Constitution does not protect "actions predicated on violent talk" and pledged to prosecute those responsible for such actions.
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"Please, don't say a Muslim is crazy
Or stupid or mentally lazy!
Don't hit on his breeding
Or shit on his reading
Or shoot out his eye with a Daisy!"
[WASHINGTONPOST] Texas became the first state to sue the federal government to halt the settlement of Syrian refugees, citing security concerns following deadly attacks on Gay Paree on Nov. 13. Here is a timeline of events in Texas' battle with the U.S. government over refugee resettlement:
-- Nov. 16: Gov. Greg Abbott announces on Twitter that "Texas will not accept any Syrian refugees & I demand the U.S. act similarly." The same day, the governor reiterates that in a letter to President B.O., citing security concerns following the Gay Paree attacks three days earlier.
-- Nov. 17: Abbott asks the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Public Safety to implement his directive to stop accepting Syrian refugees and to notify nonprofit refugee aid agencies, such as the International Rescue Committee.
-- Nov. 19: The Texas Health and Human Services Commission, in a letter to IRC, demands information about the group's resettlement plans, instructs it to immediately discontinue any resettlement in Texas and informs it that the agency "will refuse to cooperate with the resettlement of any Syrian refugees in Texas."
-- Nov. 25: The Texas health agency again writes IRC, claiming it has "been unable to achieve cooperation with your agency" because "your agency insists on resettling certain refugees from Syria in the near future."
-- Nov. 30: IRC responds it is "committed to working in close cooperation with the highest levels of Texas State leadership" and notes it has worked in Texas for over 40 years "in a constructive partnership with state, local officials, and communities."
-- Dec.1: Texas sends a letter to IRC, demanding it "halt resettlement of any Syrians seeking refugee status in Texas," and confirm by the next day that it will comply.
-- Dec. 2: Texas Health and Human Services Commission seeks an injunction in federal court to stop IRC from settling six Syrians in the Dallas area, as scheduled for later in the week.
-- Dec. 3-4: Twelve Syrian refugees arrive in New York; six who are destined for Dallas and six for Houston.
-- Dec. 4: The federal government and the IRC respond in court to the Texas lawsuit, saying the state has no legal authority to block the resettlement of government-approved refugees. A Dallas IRC official said the group shared with Texas officials on Nov. 12 a spreadsheet noting that 200 to 250 Syrian resettlements were proposed for Texas for this fiscal year, disputing the state's claims it had not been consulted. The Texas attorney general later withdraws the state's request for a temporary restraining order.
Court documents also indicate that 21 Syrian refugees were expected to arrive next week, including six children to join relatives already living in Texas, a family of eight and a 26-year-old woman whose mother lives in the Houston area.
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Republicans on Friday called for a comprehensive review of the U.S. visa system after reports that the female attacker in the San Bernardino mass shooting pledged allegiance on Facebook to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The suspect, Tashfeen Malik, came to the U.S. on a special K-1 visa last year, raising new questions about potential vulnerabilities in the immigration system. That special K-1 visa allows foreigners to come to America to marry a U.S. citizen. Under the rules, a couple must wed within 90 days or face deportation of the foreign individual.
Lawmakers are pledging a close review of the K-1 visas, but time restraints could make it difficult for lawmakers to address potential K-1 security gaps before leaving Washington for the holidays.
“In light of the renewed terrorist threat, we need to take a look at our entire visa program to enhance our national security. This incident highlights the very real security threat throughout the system,” Rep. Luke Messer (R-Ind.), the GOP Policy Committee chairman and a member of leadership, told The Hill on Friday.
“Experts in the field now say that terrorists recognize that passports, visas and immigration documents are now weapons in the war on terror.”
But Messer said it would be difficult — though not impossible — to deal with K-1 visas in the visa-waivers bill that the House is expected to pass net week.
“We need to look at K-1 visas as part of the broader policy debate,” he added. “If it can’t be dealt with next week, it will need to be dealt with early next year.”
Or the year after, or the decade after. And you'll need 60 votes in the Senate because the Democrats won't do anything that restricts immigration, even if it puts national security at risk.
Malik and her American-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, are said to have carried out this week’s attack in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 and wounded 21. Born in Pakistan, Malik had traveled to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia in July 2014 on a K-1 visa, FBI officials said.
According to The New York Times, Farook applied for a permanent resident green card for Malik in September 2014. A conditional green card was granted earlier this summer but only after the couple proved their marriage was legitimate and after Malik passed criminal and national security background checks.
Shows the weakness in the system right there: she was clean, came to the country, and started building pipe bombs in her new love nest...
Some presidential contenders also have the K-1 visas on their radar. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Friday that he's been "worried ... for a long time" about terrorist groups arranging marriages with U.S. citizens in order to infiltrate the country.
"What you do is you try to think like the enemy. How can they penetrate the homeland? One of the concerns has been an arranged marriage where a terrorist organization will pick the mate to marry ... one already in the United States legally, and create a marriage of jihadist," Graham told Fox Business News.
And when they do that they'll be as professional as the KGB was. They'll have convincing cover stories, documents and records. Any usual inspection will show them to be "clean". It will take time and cost money but ISIS will do that.
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Perhaps they can start with the H1b visas?
You knew this article was coming. From WaPo. Way too long (and boring) so just the high points here. I'm only surprised that they beat the NYT to the punch...
American Muslims say they are living through an intensely painful moment and feel growing anti-Muslim sentiment after the recent Islamic State attacks in Paris and this week’s San Bernardino shootings, carried out by a Muslim husband and wife.
Does any of this anxiety cause you to turn in your crazy co-religionists to the police? No? How come?
The motivations of the California killers are still unclear,
No, WaPo reporters, the motivations were completely clear...
although authorities are investigating it as a potential act of terrorism. Muslims said they are bracing for an even more toxic climate in which Americans are increasingly suspicious of Muslims.
There are plenty of tolerant, decent, peaceful Muslims in the U.S. It sure would be great if they'd start ratting out the fools, crazies, and evil ones among them. We asked Irish-Americans to do the same during "The Troubles"...
Muslims say that Americans, like many in Europe, often do not draw a distinction between radical Islamist militants, such as those associated with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the religion of Islam and its followers who have no ties to extremism.
It would help if you could give us some reasons why we should...
Arsalan Iftikhar, a human rights lawyer who is working on a book on Islamophobia in the United States, said that headline was evidence of how people jump to conclusions about a suspect in a crime who is Muslim.
“When a Muslim American commits a murder, their religion is brought front and center,” he said. “With anyone else, [it’s] a crazy, kooky loner.”
You deliberately obfuscate, Mr. Iftikhar. The press was trying to blame this attack on anyone BUT Muslims, going so far as to point out that the attack occurred within a short commute to a Planned Parenthood center so that the press then could gratuitously attack conservative Christians.
Many Muslims said fear of Islam is being fueled by the heated rhetoric of Republican presidential candidates, particularly businessman Donald Trump, who has called for surveillance of some mosques and requiring Muslims to register with the government.
Did Trump say that or did reporters plant those words? We've seen the latter a couple times recently, haven't we...
That may be smart electoral politics: A 2014 survey by the Pew Research Center showed that 82 percent of Republicans said they were “very concerned” about the rise of Islamic extremism in the world, compared with 51 percent of Democrats.
So even Democrats are worried. Then again, even a flatworm can feel pain...
Estimates of the number of American Muslims vary from about 4 million to perhaps 12 million. The backlash against them has created a deepening sense of alienation. Talk of creating Muslim databases and noting Muslims’ religion on their IDs has echoes for many of the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Recall that the response of many, many young Japanese men in that situation was to join the U.S. Army. They fought for America in the European theater and were among the most heroic troops we had. If you want to ally concerns, have your young men join the U.S. Armed Forces -- and be similarly heroic in defending America...
Many mosques have asked local police for more security.
“There’s a constant climate of insinuation of terrorism and disloyalty that creates this pervasive sense of being an outsider,” said Haroon Moghul, a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington.
That Institute is, of course, your typical progressive NGO and is always good for a quote for a reporter looking for something from a progressive NGO that has a neutral-sounding name...
Pew studies show that since the 9/11 attacks, Americans have become far more likely to think that Islam encourages violence more than other religions might. A Pew survey in March 2002 found that 25 percent of Americans held that view, and the number reached 50 percent by September 2014.
Why could that be? 9/11? London? Paris? Bedlam? Madrid? All the car bombings throughout the Middle East and North Africa? How on earth did Americans come to believe that violent Islamicists were violent?
Research by Pew and CAIR shows that apprehension about Islam has increased sharply with the rise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, in the past two years, especially since the group’s highly publicized beheadings of foreign journalists and aid workers began in August 2014.
“After 2010, we had a few years where things seemed to be getting better,” said Corey Saylor, national legislative director at CAIR. But he said the beheadings “set us back down a darker path. . . . People of goodwill are trying to do work to bring people together, and it just takes a few moments of ISIS’s time to unravel all of that.”
Yes, beheadings do make people anxious, particularly when the hard boyz doing the beheadings wave the bloody scimitar at you and tell you that you're next...
Muslim leaders are also debating whether they need to apologize each time Islamic extremists carry out an attack, said Adem Carroll, a member of the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition in New York.
We don't need you to apologize. We do need you to clean out your communities. We'd ask that of any community that is sheltering crazies. So get on it.
Other Muslims think that moderate Muslims need to be more aggressive about denouncing acts of terror and rejecting the Islamic State’s call to establish a caliphate — a Muslim homeland ruled by sharia.
On Friday at the National Press Club in Washington, a group of American Muslims will announce the Muslim Reform Movement, calling on other American Muslims to reject the caliphate and advocate for the equality of men and women.
By jove, somebody's got it!
“We need to deal honestly with issues of extremism,” said Asra Nomani, an author and activist who is part of the group. “As long as Americans see denial and deflection, it feeds distrust.”
Muslims, Nomani says, need to directly address how extremist Muslims interpret the Koran and how that affects church-state relations.
“What we’re struggling with is on the far right, a lot of people who want to deal with Islam in a monolithic way, and on the far left, no one wants to acknowledge there’s a larger problem,” Nomani said. “The truth lies somewhere in the middle. There is an extremism problem. The majority of Muslims don’t live that way, and we have to reclaim a middle path.”
You need to put your words into action...
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Lying to the infidel is a matter of policy in Koran. So anything one tells you is suspect.
Islam is the circus and the violent are the Muslim's monkeys. If they don't control them, then we will and if it is hard for us to tell the difference that's too bad. If you expect Obama and the DOJ to protect you he'll do just about as good a job of that as he has the populace of the US. You'll be living in the hell you made.
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"Muslims say that Americans, like many in Europe, often do not draw a distinction between radical Islamist militants, such as those associated with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the religion of Islam and its followers who have no ties to extremism."
...Okay, then look at it from this point of view: almost without exception, the nice people who have attacked us on our own soil have been uniformly described as hard-working folks who for reasons apparently unclear (to their coreligionists, anyways) suddenly went all Jihadi. If the same thing was coming out of Catholic or Baptist churches, wouldn't the Muslims be just the tiniest fracking curious as to WHY, and be demanding some kind of action?
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So, they're feeling like any white male on America's campuses? Have they been forced to take reeducation diversity classes to face their privilege too?
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Islamophobia claims are the entire point of the violence
the violence means nothing unless the PR machine can benefit.
These are two-pronged attacks. The violence just gets your attention to enable the culture war.
Goal - to push the muslim grievance narrative
it can be about anything - cartoons of mohammad, bombing in syria, war in iraq, or being the wrong kind of muslim
This is deliberate. If you can persuade the victim to accept the blame you have won, because retaliation requires a sense of injustice. If the victim accepts the blame they will turn their hatred towards themselves.
Imagine you are a military commander. After you kill civilians, the host nation blames itself, keeps looking among its own citizens and institutions for who did wrong and how it can do better.
You have won. You can just keep attacking until they capitulate
This is why it is SO important to stop pretending we can win this war with guns and bombs or spies and cops
we cannot
this is an ideological war and the only thing that can win it is telling the truth about jihad and political Islamism.
Blame political Islamism. blame theocratic fascism. dont apologise for profiling muslims. Uphold the rule of secular law and deny the religious the ability to tread on the human rights of others. Ban sharia. Declare the caliphate the enemy and use treason laws against its fans and the pushers of sharia.
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Muslims say that Americans, like many in Europe, often do not draw a distinction between radical Islamist militants, such as those associated with the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the religion of Islam and its followers
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According to a recent poll of Muslims worldwide, fully one third support the jihadist agenda. Must suck to be in the two thirds who are "cafeteria" Muslims....
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Ebola and other viruses complained of a backlash against them after recent outbreaks.
[Rudaw] As cold weather sets in, the United State has started its winter supply campaign for refugees in the Kurdistan region, and promised more help to come, the US embassy in Baghdad announced in a statement.
The distributions sent to the region's capital Erbil aimed to help people who are directly affected by the country's ongoing war against 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.... , or ISIS.
Humanitarian support from US include: "winter clothing and coats for more than 500,000 children, warm blankets, hygiene kits, water storage containers, kerosene heaters and solar lights to help vulnerable internally displaced people and refugees cope with the cold winter weather." According to the statement.
Yesterday's distribution provided IDPs and Syrian refugees with plastic sheeting to protect their shelters from cold, rain and snow.
For those currently living in unfinished buildings, the US provide "adequate protection from winter weather elements," the statement said.
Refugees will also receive cash to buy necessary items to prepare for winter, but the amount of money each family will receive has not been specified.
The US has provided more than $603 million to refugees and IDPs in Iraq since the start of the crisis, which is one of the fastest growing humanitarian crises in the world.
More than 3.2 million people were forced from their homes after the Islamic State captured land in parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
[RFE/RL] Thai police have confirmed they are searching for Syrian terrorists following a tip from Moscow. A police memo was leaked earlier asking officers to follow up on information from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) that ten Syrians who may be linked to Daesh could stage attacks in Thailand on targets associated with Russia and other enemies of the militants. Police on Friday confirmed the memo was genuine and said that authorities were conducting searches to track down the suspects.
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Syrian activists have reacted with dismay at the news Britain is to begin targeting ISIS militants with air strikes inside the country. Many expressed concern that it would do little to hinder the jihadis while others suggested it would drive new recruits into the extremists' arms.
If I wrung my hands that much I'd need lotion...
'If the UK wants to help people then they should accept Syrian refugees in their country and not close the border.
'Just bombing ISIS in Raqqa from the sky will not defeat ISIS but it will make people suffer more.
'ISIS will use UK strikes to recruit new people in the West and new fighters, and maybe they will [carry out] terrorist attacks.
'In the end, nobody will liberate Raqqa except the people of Raqqa.'
Which the people won't do until ISIS is gob-smacked and the people armed...
According to the BBC, Robin Yassin-Kassab, a British-Syrian writer, stated the real issue was embattled president Bashar al-Assad.
'ISIS is a symptom of a larger problem and in Syria that is the Assad regime and the scorched earth policy it uses against anyone who opposes it, creating a space that jihadists from all over the world can come and exploit.'
He suggested citizens living in the country saw little distinction between the varying groups and countries bombing them instead of al-Assad.
'So it's very easy for jihadists to say it's the Shia Muslims, the Russian Orthodox Christians and the Western Christians all ganging up and bombing us because we are Sunni Muslims.'
And a statement issued by Rethink Rebuild Society, a Manchester-based Syrian advocacy group, expressed dismay. It claimed the bombing would not make Britain safer from the terrorists - instead it would 'fan the flames of radicalisation and therefore expose us to greater vulnerabilities'.
It added: 'We stress that any threat that [ISIS] poses to the UK is ultimately attributable to the Assad regime.
'Without first addressing the Assad regime’s indiscriminate use of force in Syria, which created the violence, chaos, and destruction that allowed for the emergence of terrorist groups in Syria, we cannot begin to tackle the threat posed by [ISIS].'
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A conference bringing together dozens of figures from Syria's political and armed opposition will be held next week in Riyadh, opposition members said on Friday.
How about the Iranian-supported opposition leaders?
According to Samir Nashar, a member of the opposition National Coalition, "the meeting will be in Riyadh on Tuesday and Wednesday, and maybe Thursday if necessary."
He said the Coalition would be represented by 20 people and that 10 other opposition figures were also invited.
Haytham Manaa, co-founder of the Cairo Conference group which includes domestic and exiled opposition figures, said 85 people would attend the meeting, including 15 from armed factions.
"We received some twenty invitations for the meeting that will be held on December 8 and 9," he said.
But the powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its affiliated People's Protection Units (YPG) have yet to be invited because of pressure from the Istanbul-based Coalition, Nashar said.
The YPG has been the most effective fighting force against the Daesh group in northern and northeastern Syria.
Which is why the Istanbul-based coalition is unhappy...
An opposition source said the armed factions invited are those "not considered terrorist groups," including the powerful Jaish Al Islam and the rebel Southern Front.
On November 21, UN peace envoy Staffan de Mistura announced that Saudi Arabia would host a broad opposition conference in mid-December. The meeting is part of an effort to close the gap between opposition groups ahead of potential future negotiations with Damascus.
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The meeting was originally scheduled for Raqqa, but had to be moved because of reasons.
The aircraft carrier at the heart of France's campaign of air strikes on Daesh will move from the eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf "in a few days", President Francois Hollande told its crew during a visit Friday.
"In a few days, you will go into a new zone, taking over command responsibilities from our allies in the coalition," Hollande said, after arriving by helicopter
The Charles de Gaulle will take over duties from a US carrier in the Gulf, coordinating strikes on Daesh targets in Iraq and, increasingly, in Syria.
"You will continue in another way the struggle that we have undertaken against terrorism," Hollande told the crew.
France began bombing jihadist targets in Syria in late September, with planes using bases in the region. The carrier was deployed last month after Hollande declared that France would respond "mercilessly" to Daesh in the wake of the November 13 militant attacks on Paris in which 130 people were killed.
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So they're moving the deGaulle from the eastern Med into the Arabian Gulf in order to better run missions into Syria?
Or is this in order to get more distance from the Russian Med Squadron, who is pissed and itchin' right now?
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I suspect the move was to avoid any accidental shootings by Russia air defense net.
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Cruz and Sessions are demanding to see their immigration records in order to shine more light on the case.
Republicans on Friday called for a comprehensive review of the U.S. visa system after reports that the female attacker in the San Bernardino mass shooting pledged allegiance on Facebook to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The aircraft carrier at the heart of France's campaign of air strikes on Daesh will move from the eastern Mediterranean to the Gulf "in a few days", President Francois Hollande told its crew during a visit Friday.
