[ARABNEWS] The United States 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... top the list of gun ownership worldwide. There are about 113 guns for every 100 Americans, according to a Congressional Research Service report. There are no reliable comparable statistics for Yemen, but estimates vary at between 55 and 300 guns for every 100 people. In both nations, there is a deeply ingrained culture of pride in owning weapons and great reluctance to regulate that ownership, let alone ban it altogether.
In many parts of the US, purchasing a pistol or an assault rifle is not much more complicated than buying a fridge or a TV set. This laissez-faire gun culture was made plain in the recent massacre of 14 teenagers and three staff members at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The assailant, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, appeared to have purchased his weapons legally, despite the fact questions had been raised about his mental stability.
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I hadn’t thought about it much....
But it does take a long time to purchase a frig at Lowe’s especially if you want it delivered.
Quit reading after third paragraph.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] I find the English proverb "slow and steady" the best way to describe the decisive course the war 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... is taking, with the crisis coming to an end along with the restoration of hope.
A continuous collapse of the Iran-backed 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 ... militia is obvious from the outcome of battles, with the advance of the national armies supported by the coalition forces that uphold legitimacy.
One of the most recent important trends is the growing dissent within Houthi ranks over the decision to assassinate former President former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and the liquidation of important people in the General People's Congress after the death of Saleh.
The selection of many leaders and members in the congress of politicians and snuffies that seek to delegitimize Houthi militia has led to the collapse of Houthis on almost all fronts. This points to the direction of the war and its final outcome against the Houthis.
Petty parochialism
The major problem facing Yemen is that many leaders and movements in the country want to settle their scores and secure their petty interests before the war lays down its burden. Each party has set its agenda in accordance with its current needs and priorities on the basis of their own parochial interests, not according to the interests of Yemen. Only Yemenis are capable of resolving their issues.
To achieve very narrow objectives, Houthis took control of Yemen. Their petty calculations could not resolve the issues, but it seems cleansing Yemen of this militia might take time. Does this mean that the Yemen issue is the result of an internal problem?
Of course not! Yemeni crisis has led to several wars between various militia and the Yemeni state, but over the years it has evolved regionally with Iran making long term investment in the Houthi militia. This happened in the wake of the B.O. regime’s retreat and withdrawal from action, causing the eventual coup in Yemen that supported the Iranian agenda with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s unstinted support.
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[DAWN] EITHER the PTI is completely blind to the optics or its political ambitions have trumped all other considerations.
At a time when Pakistain is regarded with suspicion for allegedly not having done enough to stop terror financing, KP’s PTI-led government is set to approve a grant of Rs277m for Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... ’s Darul Aloom Haqqania, otherwise known as the ’jihad university’.
The sobriquet is well-deserved, for the seminary ‐ located in KP ‐ has churned out thousands of holy warriors since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
In fact, so many Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leaders have studied here that the maulana, who also heads his own faction of the JUI, is often dubbed the ’father of the Taliban’.
These are dubious credentials, and the PTI ought not to dismiss them lightly.
Indeed, this is not the first but the second time that the madressah is to be the recipient of such largesse.
The provincial government in its 2016-2017 budget allocated it a grant of Rs300m.
The flimsy pretext offered by the PTI then was that the money would go towards implementation of reforms by the Darul Aloom Haqqania to bring it into the educational mainstream.
No doubt there is an urgent need for changes to seminary curriculums in order to curb radical ideologies.
Nevertheless, in the two years since the first grant, it is far from clear what reforms, if any, have been carried out at a madressah whose chief holy man was, not too long ago, unabashedly vocal in his support for the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... as well as the banned TTP.
There has, however, been a significant political development in the interim, with the JUI-S and PTI declaring their intention to form a ’joint strategy’ in the coming election, an alliance presumably designed to counter the JUI-F, their nemesis in KP.
In the run-up to elections, incumbent governments do take steps to shore up their chances at the hustings, but the PTI’s move is a cynical one, and deeply troubling in its disregard for the consequences.
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Moslem customs. Mullah Sandwich is a revered follower of the Prophet who possibly invented the sandwich. ( PBUH ).
Sura 17 ( the Cow ) scripture says "The secret is in the tongue ." or words to that effect , it suffers somewhat in the translation. Not to be confused with Sura 9 ( Yo Mama ) in which the Prophet says."The secret is in the false teeth." But that is another Moslem story.
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Not generally big on lengua, but there is (or was) a house taqueria in New Orleans with a positively pentecostal tongue taco, kissed with actual flame, which was unheard of thereabouts in those days, at least at the low end. The local seafood community should have erected a monument to the place.
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The Mohammedan ants in his pants
Look askance at his blasphemous rants.
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On the sand, seven towels --
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