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Battle rages for the region of Donbas
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Africa North
Egyptian court sentences 4 to life, woman to 3 years in Islamic State Espionage Case
[ALAHRAM] A Cairo criminal court sentenced on Sunday four people to life and a woman to three years in prison that were convicted in the

Life in prison carries a sentence of 25 years in jail in Egypt.

The court also acquitted three from charges of espionage in the same case.

The verdicts are not final and can be appealed.
*sigh* Ten years from now they’ll finally have wended their way through the entire appeals process to the final verdict, whoever they are. But in the meantime they’ll be put on trial for other things, and so still be wending through. Still, they’ll be living in jail the entire time, so it’s like having been sentenced to life imprisonment...
The prosecution accused the defendants of spying for the terrorist group Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) from 2012 to 2018.

The defendants allegedly agreed to supply ISIS’ members within the country with necessary funding and information about vital institutions — specifically Gargoub Maritime Port, and Ramses and Sidi Gaber Train Stations — in order to attack them.

These communications were conducted through Telegram — a messaging application — the prosecution explained.

The prosecution also charged the defendants with financing a terrorist group to commit an act of terrorism, the statement said, as they collected, received, possessed, supplied, transferred, and provided money and information to ISIS with the intention of using them to commit terrorist crimes.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336085 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  I agree with the lesser sentence for the woman as there is probably little difference between living in Egypt and a prison sentence for her. Three years and then she has to cook her own meals and live with ISIS symps for the rest of her natural life. No more welfare. Three years of supporting her is enough.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Deborah's Murder: Prophet Muhammad Was Insulted While Alive But Never Killed Anyone For It


Islamic holy man, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has said that Prophet Muhammad (SAW), was on several occasions during his lifetime insulted by non-Moslems, yet he refused to attack or even kill persons who assassinated his characters.

Gumi made this known while conducting a religious teaching class in his Kaduna Juma'at mosque.

The Kaduna-based scholar, in a video clip obtained and translated by PRNigeria, said the prophet's refusal to retaliate when insulted by non-Moslems was because he did not want to be regarded or tagged a killer.

Sheikh Gumi spoke while reacting to the lynching of a female Christian student at Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, over allegedly blasphemous statements against Prophet Muhammad.

He observed that the best way Moslems can show that they love Prophet Muhammad (SAW) is by adhering to his religious teaching, and obeying him, instead of killing people over trivial issues.
"But, but, we're Muslim? Isn't that our thing?"
According to him, both Nigerian Moslems and Christians have agreed to live harmoniously together, hence no religious law is applied in the country, being a secular state.

"Hence, anyone who kills a non-Moslem who they have agreed to live peacefully with, will not smell the fragrance of Paradise for 40 years," he said.

Sheikh Gumi, while noting that no one is allowed to take the law into their hands in Islam, called on his fellow Islamic holy mans to impart sound religious tenets to their adherents instead of instigating them to perpetrate 'reprehensible' acts.

"If we think by killing Deborah, people who are not of the same faith with us will stop insulting our prophet, then we are in delusion," he concluded.

PRNigeria reports that Sheikh Gumi a medical doctor and a retired military officer is the current Mufti and mufassir at the Kaduna Sultan Bello Central mosque.

He is the eldest son of late Shaykh Abubakar Gumi, the first Grand Khadi of the old Northern Region who was instrumental to the propagation of Islam in Northern Nigeria.



Zahra Buhari-Indimi, daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari has shared a video of Saudi Islamic scholar, Sheikh Assim al-Hakeem, teaching Moslems how to react to people who insult the Prophet.

In the video, Sheikh al-Hakeem advised Moslems to desist from taking matters into their own hands when there is a case of blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
against the Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

Zahra reposted a few seconds of the video on her Instagram stories on Sunday, in response to the gruesome murder of a female Christian student in Sokoto, Deborah Samuel, for alleged blasphemy on Thursday.

She was killed by her fellow students who are Moslems, and her body was also burnt.

Her remains were laid to rest in her hometown, Tunga Magajiya, in the Rijau local government area of Niger State on Saturday

Sheikh al-Hakeem is said to be one of the prominent propagators of Islam in English in Saudi 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. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
The Imam said, "This depends if you are in a Moslem country. This is a major offence that requires the intervention of the Moslem ruler. You simply report these individuals to the court or to the Moslem ruler.

"It’s the duty of the Moslem ruler to execute after going through the legislative processes and going in front of a panel of judges."

"You must not take matters into your own hands because this will turn the community into a jungle," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336131 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  "Mohammed, I've given you stuff,
So, dammit, don't ever play rough
With writers of verse...
Except those you might curse
For lampooning you. Them you can snuff."

Totally not Fred, by the way, so slay him not, s'il vous plais.
Posted by: Croluper Lumumba9613 || 05/16/2022 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Well, he's dead meat.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/16/2022 1:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't Ol' Mo order a poet murdered for some verse that wasn't friendly?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/16/2022 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Rob,

You are correct. Muhammad did this on several occasions. The first of these, in about 624 was the assassination of Asma Bint Marwan. This is described in the Sariyyah of Umar ibn Adi. The killed was because Asma recited poetry that Mohammad didn't like.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/16/2022 8:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, so mimes are safe?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#6  So maybe we all got this wrong from the translations. Perhaps Mo was fine with the whole violence, and world conversion by force thingy, but he was vegan, wanted a plant-based, centered life, and urged his followers to create a Religion of Peas, it just gor mixed up in translation?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/16/2022 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  it just got mixed up in translation

Say it with me: succotash...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/16/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||

#8  "There rose from far-eastern Sahara
A wholely leguminous aura,
Mohammed's miasma--"
"Somebody kill Asma!"
"Aieeeee... Beanbud!"
Fantasmas dance flatulent hora.
Posted by: Croluper Lumumba9613 || 05/16/2022 21:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Also, lampooning offending. Sheesh.
Posted by: Croluper Lumumba9613 || 05/16/2022 21:23 Comments || Top||

#10  it just got mixed up in translation?

And that thing about virgins or raisins? It is clear that Mo had a strong vegetable focus.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/16/2022 21:35 Comments || Top||

#11  The vegetative principle, eh? Fertility versus futility and all that? [cubic Jap watermelon surrounded by swirl of Sunkist raisins]
Posted by: Croluper Lumumba9613 || 05/16/2022 21:56 Comments || Top||

#12  *happy sigh*
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/16/2022 23:50 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi-led authorities planning to lease Socotra Island to UAE
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Local sources have revealed the objectives of a visit conducted by officials of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries that are loyal to the Saudi-led coalition, to the occupied island of Socotra, 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...
Press Agency reported, citing local source.

According to the source, minister Salem Abdullah al-Soqotri is seeking to activate the so-called "Dixam Agreement" and activate it under the direction of the Riyadh-backed Presidential Council, planning to lease Socotra island to the United Arab Emirates.

The sources confirmed that al-Soqotri carried out a campaign to collect the signatures of sheikhs and dignitaries on the island in coordination with UAE intelligence representative Khalfan al-Mazroui, in addition to taking approval from government offices under the control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia.

The sources explained that he provided huge amounts of money to all those who agree to separate Socotra island from Yemen.

The sources attributed the raid on the house of Sheikh Saad Abdullah al-Farajhi last week in the district of Qulansiyah on the occupation forces, saying it was due to his positions in rejecting the removal of the Yemeni island from the motherland.

The UAE took control of Socotra island at the end of October 2016 under the guise of providing humanitarian aid, under the Dixam Reserve Agreement that was signed by Salem Abdullah al-Soqotri, governor of Socotra, and the UAE intelligence, in the presence of Khaled Bahah, planning to lease the island and turn it into the "jewel of the Middle East", according to UAE claims at the time.

Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336109 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Yemeni Defence Ministry: Armed Forces have advanced weapons of deterrence
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] 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...
’s minister of Defence in Sana’a, Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi, affirmed that "the Yemeni Armed Forces have advanced strategic deterrent weapons, with high-precision technologies and high combat capabilities and expertise, to deter the enemy."

The minister affirmed, during his visit on Sunday to the army and popular forces stationed on the fronts of Jizan, that "the Armed Forces are keen to keep pace with the overall developments required by the battle of modern weapons in the field despite the siege and the aggressive war on Yemen."

"We in Yemen are keen on the just and honourable peace, as much as we are ready to confront the worst possibilities," he said.

The minister went on to say: "One of the most important goals of the declared and undeclared coalition countries in Yemen is to subject the Yemeni people in order to make them give up their illusory sovereignty, freedom, decision, unity, wealth and strategic location in the service of the Zionist entity."

Al-Atifi added: "It is time to stop the farce of aggression, lift the siege and leave from Yemen."

The Minister of Defence conveyed to the fighters on the fronts of Jizan the congratulations and of the Leader of the Revolution, Abdul-Malik al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...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 legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. 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 They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
, and the Supreme Political Council on the occasion of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  advanced strategic deterrent weapons

Army Demonstrates a Weapon That Shoots Laser-Guided Lightning Bolts
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2022 10:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US set to remove Kahane’s ‘Kach’ group from foreign terrorism blacklist
The groups: Aum Shinrikyo, ETA, Kach, Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, and Gama’a al-Islamiyya.
[IsraelTimes] State Department notifies Congress that five defunct groups, including the Jewish bad boy movement, to have designation dropped; Paleostinian jihadist group also to be delisted

The United States is poised to remove five bad boy groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including several that once posed significant threats, killing hundreds, if not thousands, of people across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Although the groups are inactive, the decision is politically sensitive for the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
and the countries in which the organizations operated, and could draw criticism from victims and their families still dealing with the losses of loved ones.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/16/2022 04:32 || Comments || Link || [336095 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I guess that will allow some people in the State Dept to finally get their security clearance paperwork jammed through.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2022 13:49 Comments || Top||


Iraq
US provided $219 million military aid to Iraq, Syria in 2022
[Rudaw] The US Central Command on Saturday announced that they had provided around $219 million in the first quarter of the 2022 fiscal year in aid to their allies in Iraq and Syria through the Global Coalition against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).

"Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve provided approximately $219 million in assistance to Iraq partner forces and vetted Syrian partner forces in the first quarter of the fiscal year 2022 through the Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund, or CTEF," read the statement from the US Central Command.

The statement added that since its inception in 2014, the CTEF has provided over $8.9 billion in assistance to its allies in Iraq in Syria, and the aid has included military vehicles, forklifts, ambulances, wreckers, fuel and water tankers, and communication assets ranging from radios to air traffic control systems and weapons packages.

The global coalition against ISIS was formally established in October 2014, after ISIS took control of vast swathes of territories in Iraq and Syria. Consisting of 79 nations and five international organizations, the US-led coalition’s mission has been "degrading and ensuring ISIS’s enduring defeat," it says on its website, using the Arabic acronym for the Death Eater group.

The terror group was territorially defeated in 2017, but it remains a serious security threat, especially in areas where there is a security vacuum between Erbil and Baghdad.

The mission has over the years aided the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces, the Iraqi army, and their Kurdish-led Syrian ally, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The combat mission of the coalition ended in Iraq at the end of the last year but it continues in Syria. The coalition continues advising Iraqi forces and Peshmerga.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/16/2022 02:02 || Comments || Link || [336134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We’re printing most of our money for our new friends now.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/16/2022 13:52 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
On 'Nakba,' Abbas vows to continue payments to prisoners and 'martyrs'
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2022 06:44 || Comments || Link || [336090 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority



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3Houthis
2Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
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2Commies
2Palestinian Authority
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1Govt of Saudi Arabia
1Govt of Syria
1Fatah
1Devout Moslems
1Mob Rule
1Narcos
1Pak Taliban (TTP)
1al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent
1Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)

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Mon 2022-05-16
  Battle rages for the region of Donbas
Sun 2022-05-15
  Ten die in Buffalo, NY supermarket shooting
Sat 2022-05-14
  Cairo sentences 25 to 15 years in prison, acquits 12 in Rabaa dispersal case
Fri 2022-05-13
  Violent protests all over Iran sparked by massive price increases.
Thu 2022-05-12
  Ukraine thwarts Russian battalion's river-crossing and destroys at least 58 vehicles
Wed 2022-05-11
  Camps Discovered in Russia House Thousands of Ukrainians Forcibly Removed From Homeland
Tue 2022-05-10
  Sri Lanka PM quits as violence kills 3, injures 150
Mon 2022-05-09
  At least 11 Egyptian soldiers killed in armed attack in Sinai
Sun 2022-05-08
  Islamic Emirate Announces Rules for Women’s Covering
Sat 2022-05-07
  Taiwan’s air force scrambled to warn away 18 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defense zone
Fri 2022-05-06
  Russia's Admiral Makarov warship 'on fire after being hit by Ukrainian missile'
Thu 2022-05-05
  ISWAP Terrorists Kill Three In Borno As @UN Chief Visits Maiduguri
Wed 2022-05-04
  Oil depot on fire in occupied Makiivka
Tue 2022-05-03
  Russian Army’s Chief Of Staff Wounded In Ukraine, Other Officers Feared Killed
Mon 2022-05-02
  Russia's offensive along a broad front in Ukraine’s east has been stalling

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