[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... 's second deputy Mohammad Mohaqiq on Friday warned of more violence in the country during the coming year, calling on the people to be prepared for what he believes will be a lengthy war.
He called on the people to think about their contribution over maintaining security and defending the country against threats in different regions.
"We are committed to the peace negotiations and determined to take firm steps in this regard and do not chant war slogans, but this issue must be remembered that still our country is facing major crisis and turmoil, we will likely face more violence and major wars during the spring," he said.
Speaking at a gathering commemorating the anniversary of the death of Prophet Mohammad, Mohaqiq warned that violence will likely to see an upsurge in spring, calling on the people to cooperate with the government to maintain security.
"My request for the entire people of Afghanistan is to be prepared for a long term war," he added.
The remarks come hours before President Ashraf 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 peace talks with the Taliban will likely start within the next few weeks.
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[Tolo News] President Ashraf 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. .. strongly rejected rumors on Friday that the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) chief Rahmatullah Nabil was sacked at Pakistain's request.
Instead, Ghani said his resignation was routine.
Following speculation over Nabil's resignation, Ghani said those who believe that either the president of Afghanistan or the national security council would dismiss government officials at the request of others should be prepared for a hundred-year war.
"If someone believes that the president, security council or member of the government dismisses an official at the request of others should be prepared for a hundred-year war, because this is national treason, no foreign country will be allowed to meddle in appointments within the government of Afghanistan" he said.
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[Tolo News] A monthly security report by TOLOnews found security incidents in the country had dropped by 23 percent in November compared to October.
Civilian casualties dropped by two percent in November against October, the report said.
The Afghan cops launched several counterinsurgency operations in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province in November - widely seen as a response to murderous Moslem attacks - putting the province on top of the volatile provinces list in terms of security in November, the report added.
Based on the report, 190 counterinsurgency and murderous Moslem incidents were reported in November.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... an exact figure on human casualties, including that of turbans was not available, but security officials said more than 1,000 turbans had been killed in November and 215 security personnel, 86 civilians along with nine public order personnel died.
Based on the report the most insecure provinces were Nangarhar with 88 security incidents, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... with 85, and then Faryab with 39, Kunduz with 28, Kandahar with 21, Ghazni with 22 and Zabul with 25.
"Aside from that, the country also saw 352 military operations taking place, 14 air strikes, 102 attacks by murderous Moslems, 33 cases of mine kabooms, 92 arrests, 36 armed attempts, 26 cases of violence and kidnappings and 13 armed encounters among rival murderous Moslem factions," the report said.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... abduction cases increased by 27 percent in November compared to October, the report read.
The report stated that the beheading of seven hostages including three women and two children in Zabul and the killing of five children in Maidan Wardak and the stoning of Rukhshana were among the shocking security events in November.
"The operations rise and fall on the basis of the scale of threats. Military operations declined in areas where there was a decrease in murderous Moslem attacks. But military operations will continue in areas where there is a threat, even special operations were extended in areas under threat," Sediq Sediqqi, a front man for the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
According to the report, rival Taliban factions engaged in festivities eight times in November and rumors surfaced that Taliban's leader Mullah Akhter Mansour had been killed during one of the confrontations that happened between two rival groups in Pak city of Quetta.
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Four women suspected of being members of Al-Shabaab could face new terror related charges. The Director of Public Prosecutions made the application in a Mombasa court on Wednesday evening a few hours after the High Court declined to revise or cancel the Sh500,000 bond imposed on Ms Ummulkheir Sadri Abdalla, Ms Khadija Abubakar Abdulkadir, Ms Maryam Said Aboud and Ms Halima Adan.
The four appeared before Chief Magistrate Julius Nange’a for a plea that was deferred.
Defence lawyer Chacha Mwita questioned why the women were taken to court late in the evening yet the prosecution had time to file the case during the day.
Prosecution Counsel Lydia Kagori said the plea was a matter of urgency.
The magistrate directed that the women be remanded at Shimo la Tewa Maximum Prison.
One of the new charges says the women organised a meeting in Nairobi on March 26, 2015 to plan how to cross into Somalia to support the Al-Shabaab terror group.
The second charge says on the same day, the four and some foreigners outside Kenya, including a Tanzanian, Ms Abdalla, conspired to carry out terrorist attacks in the country. The women were arrested at El Wak border point in Mandera County on March 27 while allegedly trying to sneak into Somalia.
Earlier, the Mombasa High court declined to revoke their bond.
“Having deliberated on the reasons for the application to cancel the bond and the circumstances surrounding the case, I found nothing illegal, improper, irregular or incorrect in the orders by the trial court in which the accused were granted a Sh500,000 bond each with one surety of a similar amount,” Justice Dorah Chepkwony said.
“In dismissing the application to review the orders, I took cognisant of the nature and gravity of the offence and also the frequency with which these acts are occurring in the country,” she said.
Principal Magistrate Richard Odenyo had earlier released the four on bond but Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Alexander Muteti moved to the High Court to cancel it.
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State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted Friday that Libya “has struggled” since 2011, when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led the charge for U.S. military intervention in the Libyan civil war.
“After the intervention in 2011 … I think we’ve all seen that Libya has struggled since 2011,” Kirby said. He pointed to the power vacuum that dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster created as a source of instability, and said that since 2011, violent groups like the Islamic State have filled that vacuum.
“We know that groups like ISIL try to use ungoverned spaces there, as they have in Syria, to try to propagate their own twisted form of ideology and violence,” he said.
Kirby said that the international community is laboring to recover the security situation in Libya.
“There is a concerted effort by the international community to do what they can, to do what we must, to try to get at better security and stability there in Libya,” he said.
At some point the Libyans are going to beg us not to help them any further...
Clinton has been criticized for pushing President Obama
...at the request of Sid Blumenthal, remember...
to intervene in Libya without a concrete post-war plan. Others write that following the intervention, Congress “showed little interest” in Libya, until the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was attacked in 2012, resulting in the deaths of four Americans.
Clinton defended the intervention in the October 13 CNN debate, calling it “smart power at its best.”
And Sid make money!
She justified the intervention by telling viewers that as a result, the Libyan people “had a free election the first time since 1951,” and that “they voted with the hope of democracy.”
Turned out well, didn't it Hilarity...
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'Arab Spring'.... a continuing saga and thrilling success story which is frequently in the news. The Klingon's and their Foggy Bottom surrogates, what an amazing 'game changing' team.
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When did Congress authorize American involvement in the Libyan 'Arab' Spring? Answer - Never. So, this colossal political and military abortion is the product of one man. You Built That!(tm)
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Exactly. This was Hillary, Obama, R2P (Samantha Power, Rice, ValJar) trying to show some 'nads.
They can't pawn it off on somebody else. Just like ACA, they own it. BTW - that smarmy little ass-kisser Kirby needs a beatdown every time he lies
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Lay it on Hillary's doorstep and ultimately Obama's. Hopefully, it will not be like the 2012 election where Romney did not fire back with what he had. This should come up often and hard during this election in ads and debates.
[ARABNEWS] Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has commended the nation's soldiers for not only guarding the Saudi borders but also protecting the Islamic religion.
"The soldiers positioned at the Saudi borders are protecting religion, the country and the Ummah and fighting for the sake of Allah," Al-Asheikh said.
The grand mufti made the statement during a campaign organized by King Saud Medical City (KSMC) recently to donate blood for the soldiers.
The campaign was in cooperation with the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Ulema (Scholars) under the slogan "The valiant soldiers, we are all with you."
Al-Asheikh, also the head of the Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas, advised the troops "to fear Allah because you're a Mujahideen fighting on Allah's behalf."
For his part, Sheikh Dr. Abdullah Al-Mutlaq, adviser at the Royal Court and member of the High Council of Ulema, told the soldiers, "You, at the border areas, are better than the world we live in now."
On the other hand, Dr. Fahd Al-Majid, secretary general of the Council of Ulema, lauded the efforts of KSMC got organizing the blood donation drive.
"This blood donation campaign has two messages. One is for the whole country and its citizens regarding the importance of blood donation," he said. Dr. Al-Majid added that the other is "for the soldiers to know and understand that we are totally in support of them," adding that the blood donation drive has generated a lot of interest.
Dr. Haitham Al-Falah, KSMC executive director, added that the campaign "comes as a matter of national duty since it's for soldiers who care for our comfort and protection."
He thanked the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Ulema for their participation in the campaign.
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Nick Folkes does not understand the war on terror and thinks it is the West v Islam. It is not - it is the West and secular muslims against theocratic fascist Islamists. He was banned by the courts from organising a rally to mark the 10th anniversary of the Cronulla Riots.
so today, he held a halal-free compromise barbecue instead.
A bunch of violent leftard thugs turned up to attack them. The leftards do not understand the war on terror either. They think it is the Bigots versus Islam, and do not even register the existence of Islamist theocratic fascists.
This marks a turning point where the leftards have proven themselves to be violent and intimidating and worse than the bigots they claim to be fighting. meanwhile the Islamists are feeding the grievance narrative with collecting as many Islamophobia tales as they can to keep the leftards pumped.
This is what happened.... as reported by the Sydney morning herald People regarded as being anti-Islam protesters have been set upon by members of a large anti-racism crowd numbering in the hundreds that has gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the Cronulla riots.
The anti-racism protesters -- including a vocal minority called Antifa (anti-fascism) dressed in black with black face masks -- have been abusing police, using megaphones.
One middle-aged woman draped in an Australian flag caught in the crowd was surrounded by 20 to 30 Antifa members who shouted at her to "take that fascist flag off now".
A man in the crowd yelled "burn that flag and burn that woman".
There were other chants of "police protect the fascist filth" and "Muslims are welcome, fascists are not."
In a volatile and confusing situation, members of the Antifa crowd were being instructed to "mob up", running from one side of the park to the other in an apparent effort to confuse police about their intentions.
An Antifa member told Fairfax Media: "I believe we have more to fear from the bosses and the state and the police than from different cultures.
Asked about their confrontational tactics, he said "peaceful confrontation is not going to work with these people. We have tried that in the past. We will not tolerate any fascism in our country."
Antifa members carried red, black and white flags with the words Antifaschistische Aktion, the name of a German anti-fascist organisation that reportedly has its roots in the German communist party in 1932, was dissolved in 1933 by the Nazis and resurfaced in the 1980s in Europe. Russian Communists made alliance with Hitler - molotov-ribbentrop pact. The communists remained faithful to Hitler right until he invaded them. In fact one communist spy warned moscow to give them advance warning of Operation Barbarossa. Stalin didnt believe him. When he was captured in Japan the USSR would not save him via prisoner exchange. He was tortured and hanged. I recount this tiny bit of history to remind people of the true nature of the regressive Left.
Antifa Australia's Facebook page has as its most recent post on November 17: "These deranged far-right scum want to damage society and bring everyone down. If the Authorities won't stop hate speech, the leftist community will now need to implement their own authority via violent thuggery grassroots action."
Police have provided the anti-racism crowd with free transport at the train station and asked them to leave Cronulla.
At the other end of the beach, a crowd of 120 anti-Islam protesters were outnumbered by members of NSW Police, the Riot Squad and weekend joggers.
"I'm here to celebrate a free Australia and freedom of speech and to celebrate Australian culture with a halal-free barbecue of a pig on a spit," said Nick Folkes, chairman of the anti-Islam Party for Freedom. there is now no reason for satire. Comedians can hang up their hats. Leftard fascists violently beating up on a no-threat defiant little barbecue by a few idiots who hate Islam are the ones calling themselves antifascists. And in the end it is the racist idiot who is actually defending free speech. You couldnt make it up if it wasnt true already
Folkes had announced plans to hold a rally at Cronulla but was blocked by a Federal Court order on Friday. Holding the barbecue was "a compromise", he said, confirming that he would not be addressing the crowd but that he could talk to the media.
"Everyone in Australia should have the right of assembly," said Folkes, who claimed that the tyres on his car had been slashed overnight, "no doubt by the useful idiots on the left".
The Russian news agency FAN reported that a number of the AKs used in the November attacks in Paris were originally sent to the US.
A manager at a Yugoslavia weapons factory identified as Miloyko Brzakovich told the Associated Press that the serial numbers of the weapons matched those that were exported to the US in 2013 from Serbian factory "Zastava Arms".
The news report goes on to say that unidentified US officials refused to comment on the story.
The AKs used in the attacks were the Yugoslavian M92 and M70 AK-47, 7.62x39mm.
US law prohibits military grade rifles to be imported into the United States unless they have been de-militarized, usually by destroying the rifle's receiver and by disassembly. Those resulting kits are then taken and rebuilt as semiautomatic rifles for civilian use, either commercially or by individuals.
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The entire world is awash in the damn things. Obtaining converted semi-auto kits or models from a commercial U.S. shipment seems a bit unlikely. Possible, but unlikely.
Then of course you have the usually unreliable Russian media sourcing.
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Possibly offloaded from a container, checked, processed, and reloaded into another container for "re-export"?
I doubt they even cleared customs before being shipped back. That or they never made it here and were intercepted somewhere along the way, inbound or outbound.
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I doubt they even cleared customs before being shipped back. That or they never made it here and were intercepted somewhere along the way, inbound or outbound.
That would not surprise me. Though I'd use 'diverted' rather than intercepted.
Some of the arms believed to be used in last month's deadly Paris attacks, were manufactured in Serbia's arms factory, including one exported to U.S. in 2013, a company official said Friday.
"A semi-automatic pistol PV M92 was produced in our factory and legally exported to the (Florida-based) company Century International Arms in May 2013," Milojko Brzakovic, head of Zastava arms factory told AFP.
Following the November 13 attacks in Paris, Serbia's interior ministry was asked by French police and Interpol to check serial numbers of seven pieces of weapons believed to have been manufactured in Zastava, Brzakovic said.
"We were given numbers of weapons and confirmed that all had been manufactured in Zastava and we delivered information where these weapons ended up," he said.
All serial numbers, including the semi-automatic pistol and several automatic rifles, versions of AK-47 known as Kalashnikov, matched the weapons legally produced and sold by our factory, he said.
"We have strictly controlled trade of arms and military equipment, nothing goes out of the factory without the approval of the Serbian government and export licence," Brzakovic insisted.
He had no explanation how the legally sold weapons, including the pistol exported to the US, ended up in the hands of attackers in Paris.
According to Brzakovic, one rifle was delivered in 1983 to an army barrack in Bosnia, another to one in Macedonia in 1987, two were sent to army units in two Croatian towns and one in 1990 to a Slovenia's military office.
One pistol CZ99 was sold to a local arms dealer in 1993.
German newspaper Bild reported last month that four assault rifles used in the Paris attacks that left 130 people dead had been allegedly purchased from a trafficker in Germany.
Quoting documents from the Stuttgart prosecutor's office, the newspaper said two AK47s and two Zastava M70s were sold on November 7 by the arms dealer to a customer in Paris.
The Swiss public broadcaster RTS is reporting that two men of Syrian origin have been arrested in Geneva with traces of explosives found in their vehicle.
RTS says that it was not clear whether the two men had any connection with the four suspects with alleged ties to the extremist Islamic State group that Geneva authorities have been hunting in the region. The report, which did not cite a source, said police declined to indicate where the vehicle was stopped.
Geneva security department spokeswoman Emmanuelle Lo Verso declined to comment on the RTS report, deferring to judicial officials handling an investigation. A spokesman for the city prosecutor's office did not immediately respond to calls and a text seeking comment.
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ahhhh crap. It showed in Preview
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A strong commercial. Clicking on the headline will get one there until one of the moderators with better computer skills than mine can fix whatever isn't working.
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The phrase "leading from behind" has got to be one of the most annoying phrases to come out of Obama's lexicon and playbook of How to be a Complete Failure as a Leader."
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This drum major figurehead runt
Who leads his parade with a blunt
Has got the folks beggin'
For someone like Reagan
Who's willing to follow up front.
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (WXYZ) - Dozens of faith leaders, community activists and citizens came together in Hamtramck Friday afternoon to denounce ISIS and terrorism.
They gathered in front of city hall and began the rally with a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance before speakers one by one took to the podium.
"We do not support ISIS and we do not support terrorism," Imam Abdul Mutalib of the Al-Islah Islamic Center said.
Leaders said they want to be heard loud and clear, they're American citizens who support the U.S. Constitution and religious freedom, and that they are especially proud to call Hamtramck home.
Hamtramck made history in November when voters elected the first majority-Muslim city council.
"The world is watching, as they should, because we are like no other. We are the example to other cities who’ve blocked away and made others feel unwelcome. But not here," Hamtramck resident Susan Dunn said.
"As all the years I’ve lived here, I've never sensed any negativity among my Muslim friends or non-Muslim friends," Bill Meyer said. "Terrorism is not a religion. Terrorism is not even an ideology. It’s an emotion. It's a feeling. It’s an attitude. And religion is Islam, Christianity, Judaism, those are religions," he added.
I appreciate your stand. However, I gently correct you: terrorism frequently springs from an ideology. It's not about how you feel, it's about what you believe.
"We are brothers and human beings here and this is our country, United States of America. God bless America," Saleh Aljahim of the Iman Islam Complex said.
The FBI has taken heat for failing to immediately classify the San Bernardino shootings as terrorism, but a new report shows that FBI reluctance could have been due to external pressure from the White House.
A source told Jack Murphy of SOFREP that the FBI instantly believed the shooting, which left 14 dead, to be a clear act of terrorism. The White House, however, didn’t feel the same way and quickly moved in to squash the terror classification. This source added that as soon as the shooting took place, Obama convened a meeting with the National Security Council and the heads of other federal enforcement agencies to discuss a public relations strategy.
He discussed PR as opposed to discussing how to act, how to get to the bottom of it, how to retaliate against ISIS, etc. Rather tells you all you need to know about the man...
Part of the reason for trying to avoid the designation of the shootings as terrorism is because it threatens to upset the Obama administration’s strategy in Syria. A case of Islamic terrorism in the U.S. would put additional pressure on the administration to play a much more active role in the conflict.
So he didn't want events to force him into doing things, as he'd prefer to do nothing.
But in this case, because the preponderance evidence so pointed to terrorism, the FBI’s hand was forced, and the agency declared the existence of a terrorism investigation, going against top-down priorities from the White House.
So someone at the FBI still has some intellectual honesty...
In response, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the Department of Justice was ready and waiting to prosecute people engaging in “anti-Muslim” rhetoric.
...but not so much at the AG's office.
Michael Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said publicly that the Obama administration wants to completely sideline discussion of terrorism, because it contradicts the claim that al-Qaida is dwindling. Obama recently suffered major embarrassment after he claimed that ISIS was contained, only one day before the Paris attacks took place.
The Palace Guard at the networks and NYT did their best to bury that but there's only so much they can do.
In the end, Obama told the American people in a public address from the Oval Office that the attacks were an act of terrorism, though he hedged his admission by saying that the war is not on Islam, but against ISIS.
He added that sending boots on the ground into Syria and Iraq would be a huge mistake. Obama has already violated previous promises not to send boots on the ground by authorizing 50 special operations forces into northern Syria, where the Kurds hold sway.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest insisted that the troops didn’t really count because they are not part of a combat mission.
That's right, the special forces guys are there ... for the waters. That's it.
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I hate that photo RMN was about 50 times the man The Won is, smarter, braver, more thoughtful, shrewder, and most importantly ruthless in war. He would have Linebacker IIIed Mosul, Raqqa and possibly Damascus. The S-400 AA system would have been destroyed while landing, or perhaps it never would have arrived because of mines.
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Obama convened a meeting with the National Security Council and the heads of other federal enforcement agencies to discuss a public relations strategy.
This is SOP for the regime. After about the third or fourth serious incident, you could almost time the placement of the speed dial to various agencies.
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" Obama told the American people in a public address from the Oval Office that the attacks were an act of terrorism, though he hedged his admission by saying that the war is not on Islam, but against ISIS."
Not exactly right...he used ISIL and there is a difference. See posts earlier in the Burg. IIRC, Israel is contained as part of ISIL. Feckless bastard.
[DAWN] Maulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... , former khateeb of the Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... , has made no secret of his vision regarding the complete enforcement of Sharia in the country.
After failing to whip up a popular movement that would demand the imposition of Sharia law, the holy man turned to the Supreme Court on Thursday, submitting a petition asking the government to furnish reports listing the steps taken in this regard.
Maulana Aziz, who has a penchant for stirring up controversy, had also made an impassioned appeal before a Supreme Court bench headed by then-Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on March 27, 2012, asking him to invoke suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... jurisdiction and order parliament to enforce Sharia and shun English law.
"Otherwise, Allah Almighty will initiate a suo motu," Maulana Aziz had cautioned the court when he appeared before it during the hearing of petitions moved against the alleged extra-judicial killings of innocent people in the wake of the Lal Masjid operation in 2007.
The latest petition asks the top court to order the federal and provincial governments to take steps under the constitution that will enable Muslims to live in accordance with the teachings and the requirements of Islam, as set out in the Holy Koran and Sunnah.
The petition names President Mamnoon Hussain, the four governors, National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the federal government and the chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), as respondents.
The petition also asked the court to direct the president and the four governors to order that reports on the observance of Sharia be placed before the national and provincial assemblies, and that provisions be made in the rules of these legislatures to provide for discussion on such reports.
The petition also sought directions for the CII to make recommendations to parliament for adopting laws that would enable and encourage Muslims to bring their lives, individually as well as collectively, in accordance with the principles and concepts of Islam.
The petition contended that the court should direct respondents to take proper steps under Article 31(1, 2a and b) of the Constitution to make the teachings of the Holy Koran and Islamiat compulsory; enable and facilitate the learning of Arabic language; ensure the correct and exact printing and publication of the Holy Koran and promote unity and the observance of the Islamic moral standards in the country.
The petition also seek a declaration for the provision of free and compulsory education to all children aged five to sixteen, as well directions to obey Article 5 of the constitution and the their oath that asks for strive to preserve Islamic Ideology, which is the basis of the creation of Pakistain.
Maulana Abdul Aziz is not the official khabteeb of Lal Masjid, despite having been associated with the mosque for many years now. The title of khateeb was withdrawn by the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration in 2004.
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I'm almost looking forward to the nuclear incineration of this shithole.
Almost
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Frank, the hard part would be knowing when to stop......but the nuclear winter should shut up the warmies.
Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz told the National Assembly on Friday that talks with India on all issues including Kashmir, Siachan, Sir Creek, easing tension on borders and other matters will start next month for normalisation of relations.
While giving a policy statement, he said foreign secretaries of both Pakistan and India would meet next month to set priorities. Opinion from house committees will be solicited and their guidance will also be sought in this regard, Sartaj Aziz remarked.
Meanwhile, the decision to hold India-Pakistan comprehensive dialogue following Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's meetings during visit here this week has been largely welcomed by the media and analysts, though certain politicians and former diplomats believe the joint statement issued after these meetings tilted towards India.
Opposition in the National Assembly, in particular Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf of Imran Khan and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam's Maulana Fazlur Rehman demanded that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should brief the assembly about what transpired during talks with the Indian delegation and in the Heart of Asia conference.
Former senior diplomat Shamshad Ahmed who had authored the agenda of composite dialogue in 1998, acknowledged that resumption of talks was a happy development. However, he expression apprehensions over the expression "Comprehensive bilateral dialogue" used in the joint statement. "I believe this is a clear device introduced by India to exclude the Kashmiri representation in the process," he said.
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GENEVA – The United Nations in Syria and its partners have evacuated more than 300 fighters along with their families from the last rebel-held neighbourhood of the western city of Homs, as part of a local truce the UN Special Envoy for Syria has described as having “great value” toward demonstrating that a nationwide ceasefire is “doable.”
The Special Envoy, Staffan de Mistura, said “the UN’s clear goal is to reach, as soon as possible, a nationwide ceasefire,” Deputy UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq told the regular press briefing at UN Headquarters on Friday.
Meanwhile, “initiatives like this one bring relief to besieged or isolated communities and have great value,” Mr. Haq quoted the envoy as saying. “They help the perception that a nationwide ceasefire brokered by the members of the International Syria Support Group is doable and that the UN can and will do its part.” Technical preparatory talks for the next International Syria Support Group meeting are taking place today in Geneva, Switzerland.
The evacuation operation from Homs was carried out on Wednesday when a UN team and its partners moved about 700 people, including 30 wounded, from the Al Waer neighbourhood and transferred to Idlib governorate, as stipulated in a local ceasefire agreement.
The spokesperson said the evacuation, in addition to the previous entry of humanitarian assistance on 5 December, made a significant change in the lives of more than 60,000 people with limited access to such assistance living inside Al Waer and the wider geographic area of Homs, one of the most heavily damaged cities in the Syrian war that erupted in 2011.
[ARABNEWS] Syria’s main opposition groups agreed at unprecedented talks Thursday to negotiate with President Bashar Assad’s regime but insisted he must step down at the start of a political transition.
“The participants are ready to negotiate with representatives of the Syrian regime based on the Geneva 1 communique... within a specific time-frame that would be agreed on with the UN,” said a statement issued after two days of talks between a range of armed and political opposition groups.
But the opposition groups insisted that “Assad and his aides quit power with the start of the transition period” set out last month in Vienna by top diplomats from 17 countries.
The opposition groups in Riyadh also called on the United Nations and international community “to force the Syrian regime to implement goodwill measures before the negotiation process begins.”
The measures include the ending of regime sieges on towns and districts to allow the entry of humanitarian aid, a halt to executions, the release of political detainees and the creation of conditions to allow for the return of refugees. The regime should also end “the forced displacement” of citizens and the dropping of “barrel bombs on civilian gatherings,” it said.
Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said: “Our support to Syrian brothers continues and Assad is left with two choices: Either he leaves power as a result of negotiations which would be the most simple and fastest option for everyone involved or he leaves power as a result of continued fighting as the Syrian people refuse to keep him in office.”
Al-Jubeir lambasted the meddling of Iran in the affairs of the Gulf countries, saying that “Iran is playing a negative role in most regional issues.” He disclosed that he met only for “a few minutes” with his Iranian counterpart in Vienna last month on the sidelines of a meeting to discuss ways to end Syrian war, in which Iran is backing the militants.
He said that the Kingdom hopes for better relations with Iran, but added that Tehran’s intransigent policies have hindered diplomatic ties and hampered all peace efforts.
Under the agreement, opposition groups have formed a “supreme committee for negotiations” based in Riyadh which will act as a reference for their negotiating team, whose members the body itself will choose.
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They've been associating with Western "elites" too much?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters are afraid of girls and fear facing female soldiers, believing that they will be prevented to enter heaven if they are killed by a woman. What if they're hit by artillery and they don't know it was fired by women? Gonna be a real surprise when they arrive in not-Paradise. Same with tanks: who's in the driver's seat, who'se gunner, who's loader? What if it's a mixed crew? Two out of three, maybe only your feet go to heaven, so you go dancing through eternity...
A militia commander in the Kurdish women's unit dismissed the the ISIS fighters' bravery and said "They think they're fighting in the name of Islam." "Instead they're losing to a bunch of girls! We go home at night and make dinner for our husbands and then we clean house and crochet and clean weapons until bedtime. We go to bed and get what those fools ain't gonna get, then in the morning it's off to the old ammo dump for another day..."
The 21-year-old commander fighting under the nom-de-guerre Tehelden which is Kurdish for 'Dire Revenge' told CNN's Ben Wedeman "They believe if someone from Daesh [Islamic State] [ISIS] is killed by a girl, a Kurdish girl, they won't go to heaven. They're afraid of girls." "At least girls older than nine..."
A 20-year-old fighter Efelin who is fighting in Tehelden's unity said they will not even leave one of the ISIS fighters alive if they tried to attack Al-Houl again. Efilin is stationed along with several other female Kurd fighters in Tehelden's unity in Al-Houl which is about an hour drive to the south of Al-Hassakeh in north-east Syria.
The women are fighting under the Women's Protection Unit (YPJ), an all-female branch of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), fighting ISIS in the Kurdish areas of Iraq and Syria.
Mainly comprising Kurd fighters, the YPG has some 50,000 fighters including 20 per cent women. They have played a major role in fighting the ISIS fanatics in Syria and Iraq.
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MIDDLETOWN - Officials pulled a piece of art from this year’s “Artists Response to Human Rights” show at SUNY Orange after a student complained it was offensive to Muslims.
The work, which was submitted by a student from The Storm King School in Cornwall, includes two images. One pictures a woman in a head covering worn by some Muslim women, with the caption “Under Shariah law, men have the right to beat their wives for insubordination.” The other is a picture of a dog, and underneath it are the words: “In the United States, abuse of an animal is punishable by up to 10 years in a federal prison.”
This was the Orange County Human Rights Commission's fifth annual show. It features works from 224 students in 11 Orange County high schools. It runs through Dec. 16, with displays at both the Middletown and Newburgh campuses.
In their works, the students depict one of 30 articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For example, one work shows outstretched fingers protecting children from bullying. Another shows an assembly of deaf people spelling out the word “equal” in sign language.
SUNY Orange’s communications officer, Mike Albright, said the student complained to the college Wednesday, and the college passed on the complaint to the Human Rights Commission. Thursday, after the commission said the artist had requested that the piece be taken down, the college removed it.
The artist 'requested'? Who threatened the artist?
In an emailed statement, the chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Fred Cook, said the artist who had created the work “felt that their submission could be offensive to some and that was not their intention.” Cook also said the commission would have supported the artist’s position if the artist wanted the work to remain in the show.
But they were happy to be let off the hook...
Some SUNY Orange students said the removal of the work stands in stark contrast to the goals in the Declaration of Human Rights, which include freedom of expression. Second-year psychology student April Acker, who is active in the campus gay-straight alliance, visited the gallery Thursday with the "SUNY Orange” legend on her T-shirt covered in tape as a protest.
Acker said the student who complained is an acquaintance from class, and she had urged the student to attend the art show to promote cultural diversity. Instead, said Acker, “It went the polar opposite.”
Artists have always offended people. And have always paid dearly when they offended the wrong people.
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"the artist who had created the work “felt that their submission could be offensive to some and that was not their intention.”
"please don't hurt me"
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh
People regarded as being anti-Islam protesters have been set upon by members of a large anti-racism crowd numbering in the hundreds that has gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the Cronulla riots.
The FBI has taken heat for failing to immediately classify the San Bernardino shootings as terrorism, but a new report shows that FBI reluctance could have been due to external pressure from the White House.
