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Iran Guards warn EU terror label would be 'mistake'
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Europe
Sweden grants permission to burn the KORAN outside Turkish embassy - as Erdogan continues to block country's NATO bid
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Far-right leader Rasmus Paludan, 41 has received permission to burn the Koran

  • Plans to burn the Muslim holy book last year during a rally led to riots in Orebro

  • Permit comes amid conflict between Turkey and Sweden over NATO ascension
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  That's gonna be some fun!
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2023 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Gee...if only Sweden had some real world experience with the Muzzies. Can't fathom what's driving their desire to rid the country of the Religion of Peace.
Posted by: Warthog || 01/22/2023 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Do they have an actual form that is required for Swedish Koran burning? Does it include a check sheet like a confined space entry form?
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2023 10:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like Sweden will have another record year of bombings.
Posted by: Chris || 01/22/2023 13:18 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canada will repatriate twenty-three citizens who have been detained in northeast Syria in camps for family members of ISIS fighters
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  In our case, I'm all for re-patriating these upstanding members of society on American soil or at least within 6 feet of the surface.
Posted by: Warthog || 01/22/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Does any of the various ISIS ombudsman that we have in Congress have a statement for us?
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2023 9:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Aruna Miller takes oath on Bhagwad Gita and radicals in US are unhappy
[OneIndia] Aruna Miller, a 58-year old Indian-American bevame the first Indian-American to be elected as the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Maryland, United States.

Aruna who took her oath of office on the Bhagwad Gita, a sacred Hindu scripture.

This has however not gone down well with radical Islamist groups such as the Indian American Moslem Council.
Known until 2010 as the Indian Muslim Council - USA, they claim to be the biggest organization of Indian Muslims in the U.S., committed to promoting peace, pluralism and social justice for all. But this is their first entry in our archives under either name. The founder of the IAMC, Sheik Ubaid, and member Abdul Malik Mujahid — appearing once in our archives as Iman Malik Mujahid, whoch I suspect contains a typo — have been heads of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) which is the US front of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami. ICNA also has links to Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
@iamwesmoore and Lt. Governor @arunamiller. The protestors are demanding that Lt. Gov. Miller apologise for her ties to Hindutva and donate the Hindutva money received during the campaign to charities, IAMC said in a tweet.

Aruna Miller's open acceptance of the Hindu faith also did not go down too well with other radical Islamists.

The Lions of Islam had earlier attacked Tulsi Gabbard, a former Congresswoman for following her Hindu faith. She had criticised the Islamist ideology and said that this had inspired terror attacks and the declaration of war against America after the 9/11 attack.

Tulsi Gabbard also said that it is the Islamist ideology which fuelled terrorist attacks around the world and is also the foundation for the so-called Islamic countries, such as Pakistain, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, Iran
...They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and 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...
for their discriminatory politicise against Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Atheists.

Elected representatives in the United States take oath on the Bible.

Aruna Miller had said that Hinduism is not just a religion. According to her, it is more of a culture. We are the seekers of peace and making sure that good things happen in the world and others as well.

The IAMC on the other hand has been drumming up an anti-Hindu sentiment for long. There have been instances when it has rewarded journalists for drumming yup an anti-India sentiment.



Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies

#1  The Muslim Student Association (MSA) of North America should be seen as the founder of a number of satellite institutions: MSA activity was behind the founding of the Islamic Circle of North America, noted above; The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Islamic Medical Association (IMA), Muslim American Youth Association (MAYA), Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA), and the Islamic Book Service (IBS). Its satellite, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), created the first ever Muslim financial trust company in the continent. The ISNA annual convention became the largest gathering of Muslims in the Western world often attracting more than 25,000 people.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 01/22/2023 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  That "freedom of religion" thing here in the USA is like all other laws - subjectively applied, depending on your place in the Approved Victim Hierarchy™.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2023 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  So were the moslems 'happy' before? Oh wait...
Posted by: Cesare || 01/22/2023 14:07 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Days after being designated terrorist by UNSC, Makki denies links with Al-Qaeda
[OneIndia] China has often used its technical hold to block proposals by India to designated several persons as global terrorists. Off late, Beijing finds itself isolated at the UNSC.

Global terrorist, Abdul Rehman Makki released a video on Thursday from the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore in which he denies any links with the al-Qaeda or 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....
The UN Security Council's 1267 ISIS (Da'esh) and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee on Monday designated Makki brother in law of Lashkar-e-Tayiba Chief Hafiz Saeed
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Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran’s troubled currency falls to a record low against the US dollar
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  about 45,000 tomen to 1 Dollar
Posted by: lord garth || 01/22/2023 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ I had to look up Toman:
The Iranian toman is a superunit of the official currency of Iran, the rial. One toman is equivalent to ten rials. Although the rial is the official currency, Iranians use the toman in everyday life

Thanks, LG!
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2023 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Not exactly gold-pressed latinum.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2023 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  I would demand that my wages be paid in Funko Pop figurines of highest quality.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2023 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  This does surprise me a bit in light of the news that Iranian oil exports reached their highest level in years last year. They are earning more foreign currency thanks to the fecklessness of the Biden administration both on oil prices and on Iranian sanctions. So their currency should be strengthening, I would think?
Posted by: Tom || 01/22/2023 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Supporting proxy wars across the Ummah and developing nuclear bombs are both expensive, Tom.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2023 23:41 Comments || Top||


Iran Guards warn EU terror label would be 'mistake'
[An Nahar] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Saturday warned the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
against making a "mistake" by listing it as a terror group, after the bloc's parliament called for the measure.
Thereby confirming the diagnosis.
Members of the European Parliament voted on Wednesday to include the IRGC on the 27-nation bloc's terror list in "light of its terrorist activity, the repression of protesters and its supplying of drones to Russia".

The vote is non-binding but comes with EU foreign ministers already due to discuss tightening sanctions on the Islamic republic next week.

"If the Europeans make a mistake, they must accept the consequences," IRGC chief Major General Hossein Salami said, according to the Guards' Sepah News website, in his first remarks on the EU move.

The European Union "thinks that with such statements it can shake this huge army," Salami said.

"We are never worried about such threats or even acting on them, because as much as our enemies give us a chance to act, we act stronger," he added.

The Guards oversee the volunteer Basij paramilitary force, which has been deployed against protests since mid-September triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest for allegedly violating Iran's dress code for women.

Authorities in Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
say hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed and thousands arrested in the unrest.

The Guards, formed shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, answer to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
and boast their own ground, naval and air forces.

The United States has already placed both the IRGC and its foreign arm, the Quds Force, on its list of "foreign terrorist organizations."

Salami's comments came as he received Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a former commander of the Guards air force.

"We in the parliament are ready to deal firmly with any action that tries to harm the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and distort the truth," Ghalibaf was quoted as saying by Sepah News.
Posted by: Fred || 01/22/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  We threaten you non-specifically if you designate us as terrorists which we most certainly are not.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2023 10:04 Comments || Top||



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