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Turkish artillery shells missile launchers, kills 11 ISIL militants
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Bangladesh
These targeted killings are a crisis. Please treat them as such
[Dhaka Tribune] Will the government now start taking seriously its duty to protect citizens with the urgency it requires?

And will it forthrightly declare that there will be zero tolerance for hate crimes, and that those who are guilty of such wanton murder will be hunted down and brought to justice with the full force of the state?

Let us make no mistake: Monday’s brutal murders of Roopbaan editor Xulhaz Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar in Kalabagan were hate crimes, and they were targeted for their brave championing of LGBT rights.

Whether you support LGBT rights or you do not, the one thing that we must all agree on is that there can never be any justification for murder, and that those who are guilty of such savage slaughter are enemies of the state and of everything that is decent in humanity.

The government must understand that first and foremost this is a law and order issue, and that it cannot tolerate gangs of murderous fanatics killing with impunity.

The government’s first responsibility is to keep all of us safe and secure, and it is failing signally in this task.

This failure is only compounded by the government’s risible claims to have matters under control or that these kinds of assassination'>assassination
s are isolated incidents.

Nor is it helpful to point the finger at its political enemies before any kind of investigation has taken place.

Worst of all, when the government feeds the mind-set that people need to watch what they say and write, by questioning what victims wrote or believed, it only emboldens and encourages the killers.

When the police refuse to take action on threats made against LGBT activists, and discriminate against, harass and threaten them themselves, and when they have been utterly unable to bring those who committed such crimes previously to justice, is it any wonder that killers feel safe to target the community with impunity?

The government must uphold the rule of law and safeguard the public.

These killings must stop, and the government cannot rest until they do. No effort can be spared to ensure that all of us are safe from slaughter in our own homes.
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Ansarullah Bangla Team


Caribbean-Latin America
The Suicide of Venezuela
Powerful pre-obituary. HT AOSHQ Morning Newslinks
Posted by: Frank G || 04/27/2016 15:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  They felt the Bern.
Posted by: Thrimp Snamble3455 || 04/27/2016 22:41 Comments || Top||


Europe
Islamophobia must first be criminalized
[AA.TR] Islamophobia
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
or anti-Muslim racism is still not even acknowledged as a crime or a motivation for hate-crime in most European countries. In fact we still face a continuing absence of reliable and nation- as well as European-wide data on Islamophobic incidents.
It's only fair -- so often Islam is not acknowledged as a motivation for crime and hate crimes. And so in both cases the actions themselves are judged on their innate criminality.
In 2014, only five states of the 57 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) member states officially reported on hate crimes against Muslims, whereas civil society reported in 21 countries.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How many deaths are caused by Islamophobia? How may deaths are caused by Infidelophobia by Moslems?
It appears that the latter number greatly exceeds the former. If so outlawing teaching the latter should take precedence over outlawing Islamophobia. No?
Posted by: Grins Snese4215 || 04/27/2016 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Islamophobia is a good thing.

Europe is lost. For now.
Posted by: jvalentour || 04/27/2016 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  No.
Islam needs to be criminalized, and you should never be able to re-produce. Your kind is too ignorant to walk this planet in civilization.
We should deport all people like you that defend that disgusting piece of shit fake religion to Islamic countries so you may try your hand with being universally stupid there.

Universal stupidity
Posted by: newc || 04/27/2016 1:16 Comments || Top||

#4  After all, we have criminalized racial prejudice, right?

Actually, no. We have legislated against discrimination - basing your actions on your prejudices.

You can hate all you want, just don't let it affect anyone else!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/27/2016 11:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Reminds one of the unilateral disarmament crowd during the Cold War.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/27/2016 14:30 Comments || Top||

#6  or anti-Muslim racism

So... exactly what race is Islam?

Personally I feel that religion (or Political ideology as Islam appears to be) is a CHOICE. Thus should not be protected from criticism, ridicule, or discrimination. Be it Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Athieism, Jedi, or that spaghetti monster religion.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/27/2016 15:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Admiral William McRaven and the Greatest of Special Ops: Saving America
[Observer] In an essay in The Wall Street Journal recently, Thomas C. Reed proposed that, to "stiffen the collective spines of our allies in this time of troubles," American conservatives might think of advancing a military leader for president.

"It’s Eisenhower Time for Republicans" read the headline of Mr. Reed’s essay, in which the former U.S. Air Force secretary described the desperation of the anyone-but-Trump element in the GOP this way: "Republicans, contemplating an avalanche of Donald-detonated losses in the fall, dream of a savior emerging from the Cleveland convention."

These murmurings and hopes might have begun with a small group of conservatives who have become enchanted by the idea of James Mattis, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who last served as commander of U.S. Central Command, running for president. He is known as the "warrior monk" and is said to have carried with him during deployments a copy of Meditations, a classic tome of stoicism written by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Mr. Mattis has routinely batted down the idea of running for the White House, and said last week he believes that calls for him to do so are symptomatic of a nation that has lost its way. "No, I haven’t given any thought to it," Mr. Mattis remarked during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It’s like America’s lost confidence and lost faith and rational thought."
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Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah
That must be where I gout the idea McRaven was close to the Mao suit wearing hag.
Posted by: newc || 04/27/2016 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  His presence on the ticket would neutralize many of the unfavorable perceptions surrounding the former first lady and Secretary of State.

Men like the Hildebeest do not partner with men like the Admiral.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 1:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Burg janitors appear to be very busy this morning with spills. Shoppers, please mind your carts and baskets.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  His presence on the ticket would neutralize many of the unfavorable perceptions surrounding the former first lady and Secretary of State.

No, it would not. She would listen to him even less than the current president listens to Joe Biden... though she would parade him in front of the television lights a good deal more -- it's the hot new fashion accessory, donchaknow.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2016 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  I suspect McRaven would rather cell ceggies and condoms in a Dupont Circle gaye bar than work for the Beest.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 8:47 Comments || Top||

#6  4 His presence on the ticket would neutralize many of the unfavorable perceptions surrounding the former first lady and Secretary of State.

More likely it would make people think less of McRaven.
Posted by: charger || 04/27/2016 9:41 Comments || Top||

#7  His presence on the ticket would neutralize many of the unfavorable perceptions surrounding the former first lady and Secretary of State.

You mean like Messrs. Petreaus, Gates and Hagel did for the current occupant of the White House?
Posted by: Pappy || 04/27/2016 10:53 Comments || Top||

#8  "She was a terrific colleague and a highly valued one--not least for her sense of humor,"

Heh
Ha ha ha
Whooo hoo who ha ha.

I got one: 'She is a motivating leader, known to command a room with her laughter and off-the-cuff comments.'

American conservatives might think of advancing a military leader for president.

Yeah, whatever happened to Allen West? Oh yeah.

Any rate, seems Bernie Quigley, if that is his real name, is making mud pies out of Reed's night soil.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/27/2016 11:24 Comments || Top||

#9  His presence on the ticket would neutralize many of the unfavorable perceptions surrounding the former first lady and Secretary of State.

I dunno. A McRaven/Clinton ticket wouldn't be the worst thing. But I doubt Hillary would be happy in the VP slot.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/27/2016 11:39 Comments || Top||

#10  You mean like Messrs. Petreaus, Gates and Hagel did for the current occupant of the White House?
Posted by Pappy


Whaahaha! Digital bitch slap.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2016 12:25 Comments || Top||

#11  after reading former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’ Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.

...The same SECDEF Gates who relates in the same book how badly let down he was by his boss' antics but never seemed to find the courage to stand up and tell the nation how bad it was until AFTER he retired?

That Robert M. Gates?

Thanks, but no.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/27/2016 19:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Trump-Mattis?
Clinton-Mattis?

Who gets him gets the saving grace and my vote
Posted by: Shipman || 04/27/2016 22:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Smug Alert
An excerpt:
That’s not a knock against Rensin but an observation that it’s remarkable Vox would publish what Smith calls “a precision-guided missile of perspicacity that rose high into the air and scored a direct hit on its own deck.”

Rensin observes that “the smug style has always existed in American liberalism, but it wasn’t always so totalizing.” That’s because liberalism’s appeal has become more selective in recent decades. Sixty years ago, “the smug style belonged to real elites, knowing in their cocktail parties, far from the ears of rubes.” In the ensuing decades, the “rubes” have increasingly voted Republican:
Posted by: badanov || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This article is blocked by a paywall.
Posted by: Elmavish Panda1401 || 04/27/2016 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  It can be bypassed by going through Google News first. That works for a lot of (but not all) articles blocked by a paywall.
Posted by: Raj || 04/27/2016 0:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I was able to read it both in the google app and doing a google search in my browser for the headline. James Taranto is always a pleasure.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2016 9:19 Comments || Top||

#4  So why not post that link to begin with? Sheesh! We all funny subscribe to the WSJ.
Posted by: Elmavish Panda1401 || 04/27/2016 9:52 Comments || Top||

#5  So why not post that link to begin with?

Google is not a link, it's a process, and does not work in the URL box provided here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2016 11:29 Comments || Top||


Book Review: To sabotage the future, lie about the past
[FrontPageMagazine] I am in awe of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain. Author Dario Fernandez-Morera, a Northwestern University Professor and Harvard PhD, argues that elite scholars are peddling a myth – that Islamic Spain, c. 711 AD -1492 AD, was a paradise. Fernandez-Morera's job is to expose historical realities. The main text is 240 pages. There are 95 pages of notes, a bibliography and an index. It was published in February, 2016 by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

This book is an intellectual boxing match. The author shreds not just one opponent, but a series of intellectual bigots, prostitutes and manipulators of the common man. Fernandez-Morera's biceps gleam as his lightning footwork and peerless preparedness dazzle. Our hero risks much, from hate mail to non-person status.

The reader is plunged into vast landscapes, international intrigue, arcane customs, and timeless heroism. One envisions veiled women and bejeweled slave girls, the smoking ruins of churches, enslaved, whipped Christians forced to carry their cathedral bells to be melted down to embellish mosques, heartbreaking suffering and eventual victory.

Fernandez-Morera allows the propagandists enough rope to hang themselves. All he has to do is quote them. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, The University of Chicago, Boston University, Sarah Lawrence, Rutgers, Indiana University, Cambridge, Oxford, The University of London, NYU, Norton, Penguin, Routledge, Houghton Mifflin, the Pulitzer Committee, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Carly Fiorina, children's textbooks, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, PBS, The New York Review of Books, First Things all are in the dock, tripped up in their own false testimony. The inclusion of First Things might surprise; it is a Catholic publication. In it Christian C. Sahner praises Muslims who "exhibited a surprising degree of religious flexibility" because they waited a few decades before razing the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Damascus, rather than destroying it immediately upon arrival. Really.
Much more at the link
...and every word is scathing.
Posted by: badanov || 04/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And yet, not one word of it will make the slightest difference.
Our "Cultural Elites" (read: Eloi) Will die before admitting to their cultural treason. They will get their wish, sooner and much nastier than they expect.

My only regret is that we will get dragged down with them.
Posted by: Nguard || 04/27/2016 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  My only regret is that we will get dragged down with them.

It's all up to you.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2016 5:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Take ten and go read the write up.

I'll take a look at it; seems to parallel another book I read - I will try to pair the two TWIBs.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/27/2016 11:56 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2016-04-27
  Turkish artillery shells missile launchers, kills 11 ISIL militants
Tue 2016-04-26
  Islamist militants behead Canadian man in Philippines
Mon 2016-04-25
  Top Taliban leader killed in a special military operation in north of Afghanistan
Sun 2016-04-24
  Islamist militants suspected in slaying of professor in Bangladesh
Sat 2016-04-23
  Mali arrests suspected criminal mastermind of hotel terror attack
Fri 2016-04-22
  U.S. Ups Pressure on IS with first B-52 Bomber Strike
Thu 2016-04-21
  Taliban military commission chief killed in Afghan intelligence operatives raid
Wed 2016-04-20
  Chotoo gang surrenders to Army, releases hostages
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  Hundreds wounded in Kabul suicide attack
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  Ivory Coast Attacks 'Number Two' Arrested in Mali
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  Dozens of Hezbollah militants 'accidentally' killed in chemical attack
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