The State Department reversed visa cancellations for foreigners Saturday after a federal judge's ruling temporarily lifted a ban on travel to the U.S. from certain countries. The War on Trump continues.
The ruling triggered confusion in airports around the world as airlines began boarding flights bound for America and federal lawyers took steps to reinstate the ban. Now thousands shall not be inconvenienced, but millions feel threatened.
The White House said it would try to get a court to reinstate the ban that prompted the State Department to cancel visas for 60,000 or more people from the affected countries, causing widespread confusion at airports when some travelers were detained and others sent back.
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This ruling is an outlier. 2 very liberal judges have already help most of the EO to be lawful, which it is. The problem is that activists are very good at selecting the right judge to get a TRO, even though you aren't supposed to be able to. I suspect that even the left wing 9th Circus will overturn.
Looking at the larger picture, 3 Supreme Court justices are getting on in years: Ginsburg = 83, Kennedy = 80 and Breyer is 78. Should Trump win a second term, he has a pretty good shot at replacing all three. Thomas (68) might even decide to retire during a Trump presidency.
Assuming a second term, and that Trump continues to do the right thing in his appointments, many of us on this board could live the rest of our lives knowing nothing but a conservative court.
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Saw a pic of the judge at another site; the fluorescent green bowtie he wears as he sits on the bench should tell you all you need to know about this guy.
[AlAhram] A foreign affairs ministry official said that the EU should instead invest in more jobs in the southern Mediterranean region and African continent.
Egypt announced its rejection on Thursday of establishing camps for irregular immigrants colonists in Africa, following a recent meeting of European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) interior ministers who discussed the possibility of financing camps on the continent.
Hisham Badr, Egypt’s assistant foreign minister for multilateral affairs, called on Europe instead to increase investments to create more jobs in the southern Mediterranean region and African continent to curb irregular migration.
Badr’s statement came ahead of his visit to Geneva upon an official invitation from the International Organization For Migration (IOM) to present Egypt’s expertise in combating irregular migration.
In November 2016, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi signed into law a bill aimed at curbing illegal immigration and cracking down on human smuggling amid a hike in the number of migrants colonists departing from the country to Europe.
Last week, interior ministers from the EU discussed in a meeting the possibility of financing camps in Africa where the UN's refugee agency and aid groups would process migrants colonists to prevent them from trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
Nearly 210,000 irregular immigrants colonists arrived in Europe across the Mediterranean from January to June 2016.
Around 3000 irregular immigrants colonists drowned in the Mediterranean during the same period, according to the IOM.
[Iraq Sun] Close on the heels of Trump's controversial travel order, Kuwait has suspended the issuance of visitor, trade and tourism visas for nationals of five countries.
The Kuwait government informed those who want to migrate from Syria, Iraq, Pakistain, Afghanistan and Iran at present not to apply for visas.
Prior to Trump's executive order imposing a temporary ban on immigration from seven Moslem-majority countries - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... - Kuwait was the only country to ban the entry of Syrian nationals.
Kuwait first ordered "a blanket ban" on new visas for Syrians in 2011, but those Syrians who were already in the country were allowed to stay.
According to local media reports, the restrictions were in place due to the "instability" in the five countries.
Kuwait will allegedly lift the travel embargo once "the security situation improves."
Pakistain, has, however, rejected reports on a ban for its citizens who wish to travel to the Gulf country.
According to Pakistain-based Geo News, the country's ambassador to Kuwait Ghulam Dastagir news on social media about the ban was "baseless" and similar rumours were spread in 2011 as well.
Earlier, there were indications that Pakistain may be included in Trump's list of Moslem nations from where immigration to the U.S. has been banned by 90 days.
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The head of North Korea’s spy agency has become the most senior victim of another round of apparent purges ordered by the country’s leader, Fat Boy Kim Jong-un, South Korean officials have said.
Kim Won-hong, the state security minister and a close aide to the leader, was sacked in mid-January after being accused of corruption, abuse of power and human rights abuses, according to the unification ministry in Seoul, which handles cross-border issues.
Human rights abuses? In North Korea? The KCNA guy really reached into his bag of tricks for that one...
It is not clear whether he has been permanently banished or ordered to undergo “re-education” with a view to being brought back into Kim Jong-un’s inner circle. His removal has not been confirmed by North Korea.
Pudgy Kim Jong-un, 33, has presided over several high-profile purges since he became leader in late 2011 after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il. Officials considered a threat to Kim have faced punishments ranging from dismissal to execution. Little is ever revealed about the nature of their alleged crimes.
Estimates quoted by South Korean media put the number of military and government officials killed in the purges at more than 100.
Jeong Joon-hee, a unification ministry spokesman, said the sacked Kim, 72, had been instrumental in conducting North Korea’s “reign of terror” against its citizens, adding that his sacking could mark the start of a period of political uncertainty for the regime.
“There is always a possibility that purges continue as part of constantly strengthening power,” Jeong said, according to Yonhap. “Instability in the North Korean regime is likely to increase as the elite members may become agitated and the regime’s control over ordinary North Koreans could weaken.”
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I can't help thinking that sacked in DPRK might mean something like this
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Something like "witch dipping"?
I was thinking more of 'emasculation'.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] ONE of Germany’s most infamous Islamists has been accused of beating up a fellow extremist - in a row over who was the most radical.
Pierre Vogel is considered one of the country’s most prominent hate preachers.
The 38-year-old, who converted to Islam in 2001, has been linked with many ISIS supporters in the German Islamist scene.
The Salafist preacher, who insists on being called Abu Hamza, is a former professional boxer with an undefeated record.
However, his latest fight has taken place outside the ring, when he attacked fellow ISIS supporter Sabri ben-Abda in a car.
The fight began after ben-Abda claimed that he was a ‘true devotee’ and his former best friend Vogel was no longer radical enough.
The accusation is said to have enraged Vogel and a violent scuffle broke out.
While ben-Abda filed a report for GBH and vandalism, Vogel vehemently denied attacking the fellow extremist.
Vogel once appeared in a video with a young girl known as ’Safia S’, who was recently jailed for six years after stabbing a policeman in Hanover.
She had been stopped from travelling to Syria with the intention of becoming a martyr.
The 16-year-old, known as ‘The ISIS girl’ in Germany, attacked the officer when he asked to see her ID as part of a routine check, stabbing him with her fruit knife as he walked away.
Following the teenager’s arrest, it was discovered that she had been indoctrinated by radical hate preachers from an early age.
Police found video evidence of links between her and Salafist hate preacher Vogel from as far back at 2008, when he described the then 7-year-old Safia as ‘our little sister in Islam’.
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[DeutscheWelle] The program "StartHilfe Plus," which loosely translates to "start help plus," began on Wednesday.
Administered by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the initiative aims to financially reward asylum applicants if they are willing to return to their homelands. About 40 million euros ($43 million) has been set aside for payments.
"In the year 2016 about 55,000 people voluntarily returned to their homelands - that's an increase compared to the year before [about 35,000 in 2015]. We have good conditions [for another increase on voluntary returns] with our additional budget," Jutta Cordt, who officially took over the leadership of BAMF on Wednesday, told DW.
BAMF is dealing with a backlog of some 430,000 unprocessed applications for asylum, something Cordt described as a "challenge."
Incentives to leave quickly
Under the multi-tier system of "StartHilfe Plus," people with little chance of being granted asylum in Germany would be rewarded for leaving, especially if they do so before their asylum application procedure has been completed.
People older than 12 who withdraw their asylum applications before their case is decided would receive 1,200 euros. People whose applications are rejected would receive 800 euros if they agreed not to appeal the decision and instead leave Germany before the end of a given time limit. Extra payments would apply for families and children under 12; there is also provision for migrants colonists who have a "Duldung" or temporary permission to stay in Germany.
The program has several restrictions in place that aim to reduce the risk of the program being abused. People from certain countries or regions, including the western Balkans, are not eligible and applicants also have to be without their own funds. Syrian citizens cannot apply.
Cheaper than deportations
More than a million refugees and migrants colonists arrived in Germany in the past two years. According to the results of a BAMF survey, a refugee's travel to Germany cost about 7,100 euros and took 35 days on average.
While many who arrived following the perilous journey are entitled to refugee status because they fled war or persecution, those who came for economic or other reasons face having their asylum applications rejected and being sent back. Germany has also named a number of countries "safe countries of origin," including Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
"For all those who have no prospect of staying in Germany, voluntarily departure represents a better way than deportation," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.
For the government, paying migrants colonists and refugees to return of their own accord pays off because deporting them is much more expensive. Other financial incentive programs for voluntarily returning migrants colonists have long been in effect in Germany on a national and state level, as well programs at the EU level.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The ousted and jailed co-mayor of the southeastern province of Mardin, Ahmet Türk, has been released from prison after a Mardin Criminal Court of Peace received an application against his arrest.
Members of the public as well as politicians from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have called for the veteran politician to be tried without arrest, considering his severe health condition.
Earlier in on Feb. 3, the Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute issued its report on the health of Türk, stating that he could remain arrested. According to the forensics institute, “there is no problem in [Türk] remaining arrested in terms of his health.” It also said he would undergo medical checks every six months.
After the report Türk’s lawyer, Zeynep Ceren Boztoprak, said they would apply to court for Türk’s release. The report was later sent to the Mardin court.
The Mardin Criminal Court of Peace evaluated the release demand and ordered Türk to be freed from a jail in the eastern province of Elazığ.
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Istanbul lawmaker Sezgin Tanrıkulu praised the court’s decision.
“Finally, a wrong verdict that contradicts justice and conscience has been rectified. Ahmet Türk was released – hope the rest will come,” he tweeted.
Türk was ousted from office on Nov. 17, 2016, and arrested as part of a terrorism investigation on Nov. 24, 2016.
After being arrested, Türk was held in Silivri Prison until he was transferred to Elazığ.
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[DAILYCALLER] A Colorado state representative announced a bill Monday that would allow victims of certain crimes committed by illegal immigrants colonists to sue state and local politicians who defy federal immigration authorities seeking to enforce the law, multiple news outlets are reporting.
Republican state Rep. Dave Williams, who is Hispanic, said he wants to strip the "immunity" from Democratic politicians who "place Coloradans in danger because of the sanctuary city policies that they created and continue to implement," the Denver Post reported.
"As the first Latino elected to Colorado House District 15, I think it’s important that we do all we can to uphold the rule of law and ensure all communities, regardless of race or ethnicity, are protected from dangerous policies that are forced on us by radical, out-of-touch politicians who continually sell out to an unlawful agenda that increases the number of criminals, and needless deaths among our fellow citizens," Williams said, according to The Colorado Statesman.
Williams called out by name Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who said on Friday that he would "welcome" the sanctuary city label for Denver.
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[JPOST] The White House warned Israel on Thursday to cease settlement announcements that are “unilateral” and “undermining” of President Donald Trump’s effort to forge Middle East peace, a senior administration official told The Jerusalem Post.
For the first time, the administration confirmed that Trump is committed to a comprehensive two-state solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict negotiated between the parties.
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#'1 & 4 - you read correctly between the lines. Israeli's should stop making a 'Broadway Production Number' out of building news apts. and homes on their soil.
[AA.TR] President Rodrigo Duterte announced the end to a cease-fire with communist rebels on Friday, ordering troops to ready themselves for action, local media reported.
The unilateral truce was terminated two days after the New People’s Army (NPA) announced its withdrawal from the cease-fire from Feb. 10.
Since then, seven soldiers have been killed and three captured by the NPA.
"There'll be no peace in this land with them," Duterte said in a widely-broadcast speech in Mlang town, North Cotabato province. "They said they're ending it on Feb. 10 but many of my soldiers have already died."
The president said that it was "pointless to continue with the ceasefire... it will not produce anything."
He added: "I am asking the soldiers: Go back to your camps, clean your rifles and be ready to fight."
Duterte said the truce, which he announced in his first State of the Nation address last year, would end Friday evening.
Peace advocates expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... at the lifting of cease-fire, saying it threatened the grinding of the peace processor between the government and the communists. Talks aimed at ending decades of bloodshed were held in Italia last week but ended with no deal on a permanent peace. They are due to resume in Oslo in April.
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Many Iranians who dreamt of quiet, comfortable lives after a nuclear deal with world powers in 2015 are starting to worry for the first time in decades they might be bombed in their own homes.
Since taking office last month, US President Donald Trump has pledged to get tough with Iran, warning the Islamic Republic after its ballistic missile test on Sunday that it was playing with fire and all US options were on the table.
Analysts say those options could range from diplomacy to military action and some scared Iranians are even preparing escape plans, just as they did in the eight-year war with Iraq when Saddam Hussein's jets pounded Iranian towns and cities.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Tension persists in Idlib and Aleppo provinces following the festivities between Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... brigade and the newly-formed Haya't Tahrir al-Sham (al-Sham Liberation Committee). Each side accuses the other of committing transgressions on a daily basis especially in Idlib’s northern countryside and the Jabal a-Zawiya area.
Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq al-Mahdi, a member of the al-Sham Tahrir Haya’t admitted that there is superficial tension between al-Sham Tahrir Haya’t and the Ahrar al-Sham Movement. He pointed out that some mistakes caused the tense relations.
Al-Mahdi joined Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham on Saturday along with several other Sharia jurists including al-Mohasni and al-Alayani who were considered jurists for independent factions before the emergence of this new formation.
According to al-Mahdi, by joining the new alliance, they aim to unify the scene and review several suspended issues that face the factions joining the new formation. The most prominent issues being "persons locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! and detained for extended periods without trial," as well as addressing the transgressions of the security branches of the factions that form Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham.
Ahmad Qar Ali, the official Ahrar al-Sham front man, had previously accused al-Sham Tahrir Haya’t of committing several violations. The most recent violation was their seizing two Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... cars in the border village of Qah after Jaish al-Islam recently joined the Movement’s ranks.
Idlib’s northern countryside has witnessed a series of security tensions between the two sides. The most significant incidents occurred close to the border town of Bab al-Hawa and the village of Darat Izza in Aleppo’s western countryside. The intervention of several jurists, including Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq al-Mahdi, in al-Sham Tahrir Haya’t, ended the confrontations.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... it does not appear that Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham Movement are moving towards finding a final solution despite the active ongoing negotiation between the two sides. The negotiations are happening at various levels. Top commanders from are meeting, and different factions, forming the two entities, are also meeting.
In a related context, the city of Darrat Izza in western Aleppo countryside witnessed calm after the security tension of recent days. Ahrar al-Sham Movement and Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham clashed in the city resulting in the Haya’t gaining control of the Movement’s headquarters and checkpoints. The Sharia Committee subsequently intervened and returned the situation to its status before the festivities according to the media activist Ahmad Rachid.
The establishment of Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham was announced in late January. The Haya’t includes Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... , Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, Jaish al-Sunna, Liwa al-Haqq, and Jabhat Ansar al-Din.
The new formation managed to attract several other commanders and jurists from Ahrar al-Sham Movement and other factions. Those joining have stressed the Tahrir al-Sham potential to unify the struggle against the regime.
The continuing tension in Idlib marks the attempt within the jihadist section of the resistance fighting the al-Assad regime for those involved to consolidate power in the province and Aleppo’s western countryside.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A British housewife who fled to Syria with her jihadi husband appears to have penned a hate-filled diary describing life as a housewife under ISIS's barbaric regime.
Under the nom de guerre Umm Ibrahim al-Brit, she tells how the bodies of women and kiddies lay piled on the dusty streets following Arclight airstrikes by 'kuffar' (non believers) - and how her husband recruits others to wage jihad against the West.
She also describes how she listens to an audiobook of the Koran through earphones to drown out the sound of falling Russian bombing raids at night.
'The Russian kuffar bombed - killing 100 people and injuring many,' she wrote on encrypted messaging service Telegram.
In posts seen by MailOnline, Umm Ibrahim spews bully boy propaganda and encourages other families to join her family in Syria and wage jihad against the West.
'Every breath I take my hatred for them [non believers] increases,' she wrote on New Year's Eve.
'We just missed an Arclight airstrike today. Kuffar going crazy. May Allah destroy them,' she said a few weeks earlier.
Her first post appeared on December 7 and she claims her diary, which has not been independently verified, is 'so anybody thinking of making hijrah [journey] can benefit from it'.
Umm Ibrahim claims to have enjoyed a comfortable middle-class life in the UK before her husband was brainwashed by former al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... , who was killed in a US dronezap in 2011.
'After many years of a well settled life, me being a housewife and him doing a very nice job, kids going in a private (so called Islamic school), owning a house at a very young age, cars, every type of luxury and comfort one can imagine Allah being the best of planners had planned something for us we had not even thought of.'
While plotting to join ISIS, she says her husband travelled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... several times to establish the best route to Syria.
His last visit to Turkey before the family fled the UK is believed to have come in June 2014, shortly before ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... announced the so called caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
'Soon after this visit the [caliphate] was announced and now there was no option for us to stay back,' according to her posts which have been monitored by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
'We had given bayah [loyalty] to the Khalifah straight away without any doubts in our hearts and wanted to live under the shade of Shariah as soon as we could.'
Umm Ibrahim is believed to have taken her sick mother-in-law to Pakistain before the pair returned back to the UK to make final preparations to travel to Syria. The family lived in Turkey for four months before getting the 'green light' to enter the country.
Although the family's identity is unknown, several British families have left the safety of Britannia to join the terror group in the last few years.
Among them in 2015 was a Moslem couple from Bradford who fled to Syria with their five young children, a family of 12 and a mother who took her five young children to join her brother fighting for Isis.
Umm Ibrahim claims crossing the border was 'the happiest moment of our lives' but even her propaganda-heavy posts reveal the true horror of living in ISIS territory, where families go days without water and locals are executed in public squares in front of baying mobs.
In a chilling post on December 31, she wrote: 'Me and my husband were about to leave for the market. The Russian kuffar bombed it killing 100 people and injuring many.
'We sat there with heavy hearts and hatred for these filthy kuffar. Every breath I take my hatred for them increases.
'Dead bodies were placed in a car park. Only two mins away from our house. Six days later people were still taking out the bodies of deaders from the rubble.
'Mostly killed were women and kiddies.Ya Rab [oh Allah] destroy them and make their lives miserable with the most harshest of your punishments.'
She also describes the journey to the so-called 'caliphate' in a white van crammed with other families - and how she was shocked to see so many refugees heading in the opposite direction.
Umm Ibrahim says she met many other Moslem families from different nations travelling to join ISIS, including a Russian single mother whom she describes as 'being close to her heart'.
She says she was very happy to meet jihadi fighters for the first time, saying: 'Four men were accompanying us in the van with their weapons. The feeling of seeing the first mujahids and the first weapons was amazing.'
Eventually the family was taken to a large house which they shared with several other families, where her husband was chosen as the head of the household and Umm Ibrahim was put in charge of cooking for the fighters.
'My husband being the ameer of the house had to make lists of everything and stick them on walls, she wrote. 'He divided duties of all the house work between the women.
'I used to tell my husband how I wish to cook for mujahideen. And here I was cooking for muhajireen and mujahideen,' she wrote on January 5.
Ten days later she described the house as 'very spacious', claiming it had 'four big bedrooms, a big hall room, a very big kitchen, two bathrooms and a big balcony'.
Umm Ibrahim added: 'The glass from most of the windows and doors were broken and some walls had bullet holes in them.
'The first night in such a big house wasn't easy. On the top most floor of the building [you could hear] sounds of planes and a lot of noise of the wind. I had never witnessed such winds. I couldn't sleep properly.
'The next day was better, but the night was even more tough. May Allah reward my husband who gave me ear phones to listen to the Koran all night. I was saved from listening to the sounds of the planes and the screaming of the winds.'
In her posts she has also told how the man who lured them to Syria was tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Turkey - and how her husband was working as an ISIS recruiter.
She wrote: 'My husband worked really hard day and night to help people come to Shaam [Greater Syria]. After hard work and lots of duas, Allah helped in bringing the first group of muhajireen.
'They came to stay with us in our house. From 17 we became 28! Alhamdulilah [thank God] the house wasn't that small so we managed to accommodate them all.
Umm Ibrahim says that, before her husband was brainwashed by al-Awlaki's sermons, she did not really understand Islam because she was raised by a single mother in Britannia.
She explained: 'Though being born in a Moslem household I wasn't taught anything about true Islam. All I knew was we had to pray five times a day and recite the Koran.
'After meeting the most precious person of my life [my husband] my life changed completely Alhamdulilah [praise be to God].'
She adds: 'Alhamdulilah [thank God] for the lectures from Imam Anwar al Awlaqi.
'They changed my husband's ways. Over a small period of time things became really clear in front of us.
'Life is a test from Allah. Either we fail and are thrown in the dreaded fire or we pass and are entered in the best of places.'
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Looks like they used to have a lot of money for travel. Now they don't need to travel anymore. They can die right there.
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audiobook of the Koran
that's Haram. Kill yourself
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I wonder if the audiobook encoding scheme was invented by a Juice. Tricksy as hobbits, they are.
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When braying, "Alhamdulillah"
(Mohammedan way to say, "Ta!"),
The phrase may taste hateful,
At least by the plateful,
But grateful ain't nice, it's the law!
[RUDAW.NET] One of the final exchanges between former US President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... and current President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... was reportedly about Obama’s plan for Raqqa ‐ increase support, including arms, for the Kurds. The B.O. regime spent months drawing up the plan to defeat ISIS in its Syrian stronghold, but left the final decision to Trump.
After a quick review of the plan, Trump’s team scrapped it, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
"They provided the information, but we found huge gaps in it," a bigwig from Trump’s administration told the Washington Post. "It was poor staff work."
The Obama plan included providing Kurds in northern Syria with armoured vehicles, anti-tank weapons, machine guns, and mine-clearing equipment, as well as training the forces in using the new arms and urban conflict tactics.
The coalition of forces currently moving in on Raqqa under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is predominantly Kurdish with a growing Arab contingent. Antony Blinken, Obama’s deputy secretary of state, described them as the "only fighters capable of seizing Raqqa," in a recent column in the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . But, he noted, the SDF can only succeed if they are properly armed.
This was actually plan B. Plan A had been to rely on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to follow through on its promise to supply a force capable of taking Raqqa. The force that never materialized was dubbed "Erdogan’s ghosts" within the Pentagon, according to the Washington Post.
Turkey opposes any support given to the Kurdish forces, who Ankara deems extensions of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
To mollify Turkey, Blinken advocated providing just enough mission-specific support to the SDF under the condition that the weapons provided are not used against Turkey.
This suggestion was dismissed by David L. Phillips, director of the Program of Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. "Syrian Kurds cannot defeat ISIS with one hand tied behind their back. They need heavy and offensive equipment to take Raqqa. If Turkey is concerned about US weapons falling into the wrong hands, the US can monitor supplies so weapons are not transferred to the PKK." Phillips made his comments writing in the Huffington Post on Thursday.
Trump has advocated for hitting ISIS hard to "crush them." He has given the Pentagon and his Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to devise an aggressive plan to do just that. The plan could include American artillery on the ground in Syria and using attack helicopters in an assault on Raqqa, the New York Times reported, citing official sources.
Rex Tillerson, Trump’s secretary of state, has described Syrian Kurds as "our greatest allies."
Speaking at the senate confirmation hearing assessing his nomination to the post, Tillers said the US must "recommit to the Syrian Kurds that we intend to continue to support you with the capability to continue the advance on Raqqa and then build coalition forces that can contain ISIS if it attempts to move into other parts of the country."
The Pentagon will present its plan to defeat ISIS to Trump by the end of February. How Trump’s team will handle the Turkey issue is unknown, though Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told journalists on Thursday that "there is no need to be pessimistic."
Yildirim expects Trump will "correct mistakes staged by the previous administration in efforts to fight terror and defeat ISIS in Syria. What are these mistakes? PYD is an affiliation of the PKK and now the SDF. They are all the same," he said, referring to the Democratic Union Party (PYD), the ruling Kurdish political party in northern Syria.
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[Iran Press TV] The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed ...Tut tut, my good man!... as hackneyed and groundless the recent claims by 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... against the Islamic Theocratic Republic, saying the heavy blows Riyadh has suffered in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... are the reason for such allegations.
"Fictitious claims by the Saudi foreign minister are a result of [Riyadh's] major and successive setbacks in Yemen," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Friday.
He added that Saudi Arabia's ceaseless diversionary moves and blame games would not "change the existing realities," and emphasized that the "Yemeni army and popular forces have not and will no need any foreign aid."
The Iranian spokesperson said the Saudi rulers must be held accountable sooner or later for their "inhumane crimes" committed in Yemen over the past two years and added, "Leveling such allegations will not reduce their international responsibility for the war crimes committed in Yemen."
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[Iran Press TV] Iran has slammed as illegal the recent US sanctions over Tehran’s defensive missile program and spiritual support for Yemen's Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... fighters, saying that the Islamic Theocratic Republic will deliver a "proportionate and reciprocal" response to the move.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran with the backing of the wise participation and support of the great Iranian nation, will respond proportionately and reciprocally to any move that targets the interests of the Iranian people," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
It added that Iran’s missile power is only aimed at defensive purposes and meant to carry conventional weapons and would never be used other than in legitimate defense.
The foreign ministry said Iran’s missile program is the undeniable and inalienable right of the land of the Medes and the Persians according to international law and the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... Charter.
The statement added that any foreign interference in this regard is a violation of international law and outside the jurisdiction of any country or organization.
The ministry said the recent US sanctions are also inconsistent with US commitments and at odds with the spirit and text of UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
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[GP] Hundreds of Muslims held a mass prayer demonstration today at JFK International Airport in New York City.
The Muslim protesters pulled out their prayer rugs and gave speeches in the parking lot of terminal 4.
They effectively shut down the traffic in the area for their protest.
The Muslims have a speaker system to blast their Friday prayers at the New York airport. One Muslim speaker threaten "biggest uprising" and "resistance" if things don’t change.
Last week President Trump issued a temporary refugee travel ban from seven terrorist states.
[AlAhram] A decade-old program to resettle a fixed quota of refugees arriving in the small, southern EU nation of Malta to the United States is another casualty of President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's executive order on immigration.
U.S. Ambassador G. Kathleen Hill told Maltese media this week that the refugee resettlement program has been suspended for 120 days under the order.
It isn't clear what will happen after the four months have elapsed. Hill said that the U.S. government is "reviewing the program" and the embassy is awaiting "further guidance" at the end of the 120 days.
More than 3,110 refugees have been resettled in the U.S. since 2007 to help ease pressure on Malta from the influx of migrants colonists arriving by boat from northern Africa.
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.
The head of North Korea’s spy agency has become the most senior victim of another round of apparent purges ordered by the country’s leader, 
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Tension persists in Idlib and Aleppo provinces following the 
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
