When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Sunday, January 13, 2019
JOHN DALE DUNN - 1,400 YEARS OF JIHAD AND ISLAMIC TERROR AS TOLD BY ROBERT SPENCER
A radical muslim wants to cut your head off. A peaceful muslim is praying that a radical muslim cuts your head off.
THE KORAN
BIBLE OF THE MUSLIM TERRORIST:
“The Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs
throughout the world where young boys are brainwashed into becoming fanatical
foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush Saudis and other emirs of the Persian
Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
Koran 2:191
"slay the unbelievers wherever you find them"
Koran 3:21 "Muslims must not take the infidels as friends"
Koran 5:33 "Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam"
Koran 8:12 "Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other
than the Koran"
Koran 8:60 " Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the
infidels"
Koran 8:65 "The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight
them"
Koran 9:5 "When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you
find them"
Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood"
Koran 22:19 "Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron
rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies"
Koran 47:4 "Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when
you catch them".
1,400 Years of Jihad and Islamic Terror, Well Told by Robert Spencer
This book documents the history of horrors, violence, brutality, oppression, conquests by the sword, beheadings of hundreds of thousands (probably millions), destruction of civilizations and cultures, corruption, deception, and lies that are part of the Islamist culture, and every other evil that you can imagine that one group of humans could impose on others in the name of an ideology or, in this case, a pseudo-religion. The book is a comprehensive history of the role of war and terror in the spread of Islam, and the book details 1,400 years of sheer evil with no relief, imposed on the Middle East, Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, India, and Asia. The only let-up in these killings that ever came was when some of the cultures and civilizations successfully repulsed the monsters, or else were conquered and then violently and rapidly subdued.
Spencer briskly traces the 1,400-year war of Islamic jihadis against the rest of the world, detailing the jihad against Europe, including the 700-year struggle to conquer Constantinople; the jihad in Spain, where non-Muslims fought for another 700 years to get the jihadi invaders out of the country; and the jihad against India, where Muslim warriors and conquerors wrought unparalleled and unfathomable devastation in the name of their religion.
Spencer adds to the drama and impact by telling much of the tale in the words of contemporary chroniclers themselves, both Muslim and non-Muslim. The History of Jihad shows that jihad warfare has been a constant of Islam from its very beginning, its major focus. In fact, in reading the stories and considering the historical realities, it is safe to say that the Islamists were constantly on the hunt and constantly bloodthirsty – thirsty for conquest and focused on plunder. That is what proves that the history of Islamism is consistent with present-day jihad terrorism, and that present-day jihad proceeds along exactly the same ideological and theological foundations as did the great Islamic warrior-states and jihadi commanders of the past.
The book is worthwhile now as a lesson in history in an age when Islamic jihadis are more assertive in Western countries than they have been for centuries, and propaganda and deception are tools well developed in a culture that approves of deception and promotes conquest. Taqiyya is the Muslim word for approved deception of the non-believer, which raises the question for today: at which point can a non-Muslim trust the promise of a jihadi or any Muslim?
Read this book and understand that faithful and observant Muslims are part of the jihad, as commanded by Islam and Allah, whether armed or not, and thus cannot be assumed to be "peaceful" since Islam is all about conquest at any cost and oppression or destruction of the kafir non-believer (infidel). Consider the attitude of Islamists for the non-believer in this 1,300-plus-year saga that extends all the way into the early 21st century – the Muslim philosophy that is nothing but hair-on-fire murderous when directed at non-believers. That is why beheading is so common among their jihadis. They hate, and they want to strike terror in the hearts of their enemies. Their enemies are anyone who is not a Muslim.
With this logic, an easy argument to make is that there is no place for national loyalties in the mind of a Muslim – and in fact, one of the internal conflicts in Islam itself is its rejection of secular, or less than sharia law, nations. However, a method for conquest that includes some deception is approved by Islam, and when a Muslim swears an oath to the United States, for example, it is a deception for the benefit of the conquest, and that certainly that would be approved by Allah. Muhammad himself broke treaties and lied to advance his cause, and he clearly taught that deception to advance the cause of Islam is not immoral, but to be promoted and utilized for jihad.
This brings us to today.
This book is indispensable to understanding the geopolitical situation of the twenty-first century and ultimately to formulating strategies to deal with the Islamist threat and defeating radical Islamist terror.
It's critical to know and understand this for context, yet that's not being done. It's certainly not being done by the wimpy Western intellectuals and politicians, intimidated by the well-developed Islamic propaganda machine.
Knowing the enemy is essential to survival and victory. To underestimate a threat and the nature of the enemy is suicide. Spencer has long been the leading historian of the nature of Islamic violence and conquest, and now he's telling the story of the monstrous movement that is Islam. His grasp of the history of, and the important events and figures within, Islam from the beginnings to the present is unexcelled. In reading this book, it's obvious he is the go-to guy for scholarship on the theology, or what is more properly the ideology dressed up like theology, of Islam as we can see it.
It's also important that he be listened to. These days, it is taken for granted, even among many Washington policymakers, that Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that Islamic jihad terrorism is something relatively new, a product of the economic and political ferment of the twentieth century. It's not true. In The History of Jihad, Spencer proves definitively that Islamic terror is as old as Islam itself, as old as Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, who said: "I have been made victorious through terror." He had been a highwayman and terrorist for years before he founded his religion, dying in 632.
Reading the details of the killings is not only alarming, but exhausting. I learned that some Islamist leaders spent all their time killing and torturing people and taking woman and children as slaves, both sex slaves and house slaves.
I also learned that Islam had a limited economic base – effectively confined to conquest and slavery. Muslims were effectively a criminal enterprise, and anything they acquired of value came from the end of a sword or the threat of death or torture.
The book is a long serial of bloodbaths and terrorist outrages.
I challenge any reader to keep track of the killers and the magnitude of the killing (millions died) in places such as North Africa and the Asian subcontinent, or the number of churches, shrines, temples of the non-believers destroyed and replaced with mosques. Civilizations decimated – it is a disgusting thing, Islam, and to keep track of the appalling conduct requires copious note-taking and remains difficult to grasp. Spencer tells a terrible tale, indeed, yet all Western intellectuals can do is talk about the conduct of the crusaders.
The Spencer book will cure the reader of that silly nonsense. One reads too many stories in the book of Muslim victors doing mass executions of enemies to have any fury left for crusaders. Muslim conquerors were positively steeped in violence and bloodshed – stacking the heads of their enemies high and raping all of their women, executing hundreds of thousands, and far more than can be accurately counted.
I spent uncomfortable hours reading the of the horrors of Islam and sometimes had to take a break from the bloodletting – it is and was a movement of prodigious killing and torture – but then one must remember that it is an ideology and a movement built on terror. If you hang in and wade through the gore and the blood, which is the main story for more than 400 pages, you will realize that the Islamist conquest was rivaled only by communism in the number of people annihilated and the civilizations destroyed, by terror, torture, oppression. Only a fanatic ideology can produce killing and evil on this prodigious scale.
Most important, Spencer is our ally in the war against the evil and treacherous phony "religion" that is nothing more than a corrupt ideology of conquest, xenophobia, and misanthropy. What is unfortunate is that people don't pay attention to Spencer, who can, in a wink, extinguish the idea that Islam is a religion, and with certainty demonstrates that it has no place in any credible vision of peace, as the Western politicians and intellectuals have claimed and as so many leftists continue to babble on about. To try to make a case for Islam as a religion of peace after reading what Islamists did for the last 1,400 years is nonsense. Spencer underlines that Islam, and its practitioners, above all, are all about conquest.
‘I Will Kill You and Eat Your Corpses’: Deported Radical Imam Told Prison Guards
Tunisian radical imam Mahmoud Jebali, who is set for deportation after coming to Italy as an illegal immigrant, threatened to kill prison officers.
The 31-year-old imam came to Italy illegally through the port in Lampedusa and was well-known to police having committed several violent crimes in the past. Italian authorities initially jailed him on a conviction for robbery but were finally able to expel him to Tunisia this week, Il Giornalereports.
While in a prison in Padua, the Tunisian is said to have become a leader among the radical Muslims with an officer from the Central Investigation Unit of the Penitentiary Police (NIC) saying, “He had never had a quiet attitude, he was controversial and arrogant with the agents, he had begun to intensify his religious practice so much that he became a charismatic leader for other Muslim prisoners.”
The officer also explained that Jebali had made threats against prison officers telling them, “Sooner or later you will all die, we will go into your houses and kill you and eat your corpses.”
“We began to keep an eye on him after he threatened an officer,” the NIC officer said and noted that the Tunisian had also liked a video on Facebook celebrating the death of Christians. Following the investigation against the 31-year-old, they established he could pose a terror threat and could deport him.
Jebadi joins a long list of deported radical Islamists deported from Italy under Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who has set the record for the most radicals deported from a European Union member state in 2018, with the country deporting around ten radicals per month.
Islamic terrorists are a “tiny minority of extremists”. That’s the
message we’ve been hearing ever since 9/11. They’re only a handful of “guys in
a cave” or a few “lone wolves” radicalized over the internet.
How tiny is that tiny minority?
According to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, there
are 230,000 Jihadists.
Put this tiny minority of extremists together in a city and you
would have Boise, Idaho, or Richmond, Virginia, or Des Moines, Iowa. But that’s
not a roster of Muslim civilians who support Islamic terrorism, just active
members of terrorist groups. And so a better point of comparison is to national
armies.
At 230,000, Sunni Islamic Jihadists outnumber the British Armed
Forces (149,000), the French Armed Forces (117,000), and Germany's Bundeswehr
(179,753). That should be troubling since those are some of the militaries and
countries on the front lines of Europe’s reluctant fight against Islamic
incursions.
The list of Sunni fighters has a lot of questions marks and is
incomplete. Sunnis outnumber Shiites, but under the Iranian umbrella, Shiites
have fielded sizable terror forces in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.
Hezbollah in Lebanon boasts between 25,000 to 65,000 Jihadists.
The Houthis in Yemen, currently the beneficiaries of a massive propaganda
campaign in the media, have around 25,000 to 30,000 Jihadists. Iraqi PMU’s add
another 90,000 to 150,000 Jihadists to these numbers. And finally there’s
Iran’s own Revolutionary Guard, a regional terror hub with another 120,000
members.
These numbers add between 260,000 and 365,000 Jihadists on the
Shiite side for a total of over half a million Sunni and Shiite Jihadists
making Islamic terrorists the world’s eighth largest military.
That’s not a tiny minority of extremists and it’s not a few guys
in a chat room or a cave.
This dark army of terror grew by leaps and bounds under the Obama
administration which fractured Sunni countries by overthrowing their
governments in and bringing Islamists to power in the Arab Spring, while the
Iran nuke deal fed and freed up billions for Iran to invest in Shiite
expansionism.
The CSIS report notes that the number of Salafi Jihadists and allied terror groups more
than doubled between 2008 and 2016. Despite the Iraq War, during Bush’s second
term, the increase was fairly light. The stratospheric increase, from the
thirties to the sixties, took place during the Obama years.
The estimated number of Jihadist fighters rose from a high of
100,000 in 2008 to 250,000 in 2016.
The mass deaths in Syria, Libya and Yemen (to name some of the
worst Arab Spring trouble spots) are a direct result of the policies and, in
Libya of the military intervention, of the Obama administration.
Lefty twitter brims with propagandas photos of supposed Yemeni
children starving to death. The media has tried to blame the religious war
between Sunnis and Shiites (and their Saudi and Iranian backers) on President
Trump. But dead children in Yemen are the wages of the foreign policy of Hope
and Change.
As the Democrats and the Republican foreign policy establishment
advocate for Jamal Khashoggi, intervention in Syria and support for the
Palestinian Authority, it is urgent to remember that these are the same old
failed policies that led to a 150% increase in Jihadists and killed over
500,000 people in Syria, and cost the lives of tens of thousands more in Yemen
and Libya. And elsewhere in the region.
“Democratization” is a poisoned Islamist chalice. At its cloudy
bottom lie terror and death.
The media has accused President Trump of a callous indifference to
human life for putting American national interests ahead of Khashoggi, an
Islamist pal of Osama bin Laden. But it’s the media radicals whose horrid
idealism put half a million people into the ground in the service of the
region’s Islamists.
Khashoggi’s Islamist political agenda killed enough people to
qualify as its own genocide.
Half a million dead and half a million Jihadists rampaging around
the world are the outcome of an idealistic foreign policy in which chattering
class lefties allowed Islamists like Khashoggi to call the shots. The tiny
minority of extremists was never that tiny, but it grew to a monstrous size
with massive infusions of cash and military interventions plotted by Islamists
and implemented by Washington D.C.
Many of the 70,000 Jihadists in Syria were directly or indirectly
funded by the Obama administration. As were many of the 5,000 Jihadists in
Libya, where Obama’s illegal military intervention led to everything from a
near Al Qaeda takeover of Mali to the flow of surface-to-air missiles to Hamas
terrorists.
Major terror groups and state sponsors of terror from Pakistan to
Iran to the Palestinian Authority also saw huge cash transfers from American
taxpayers to Islamic terrorists.
In his first year in office, Obama signed off on a $7.5 billion
aid package for Pakistan. The Islamic terror state repaid us by harboring Osama
bin Laden and aiding Islamic terrorists killing American soldiers.
This year, President Trump made drastic cuts to foreign aid to
Pakistan after tweeting, “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more
than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us
nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.”
We’re still foolishly funding Jihadists, including the tens of
thousands of members of the Palestinian Authority’s security forces, even after
their leader, Abbas, called for the destruction of the White House.
CSIS doesn’t list the Islamic terror militias in the Terrorist
Occupied Territories in Israel. That leaves the tens of thousands of Jihadists
in Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian Authority TOT terror groups out of the
calculations. These groups are not just a threat to Israel. Hamas is an arm of
the Muslim Brotherhood and is backed by Iran. Its skills and resources are at
the disposal of allied terror groups.
That’s how Iran’s Hezbollah assisted Al Qaeda in its preparations
for 9/11. It’s why Iran is aiding the Taliban today. An Islamic terror group or
terrorist anywhere is a link in a global terror network.
That is the understanding that made ISIS so deadly, striking from
Iraq to Paris to New York.
Islamic terrorists are not a tiny minority of half a million. They
are not an aberration. They are everywhere. And the failed foreign
establishment funded and aided many of them.
Military interventions spread them, democratization brought them
to power and immigration transplanted them from war zones into our countries.
Their numbers have more than doubled in a decade. If the Left gets to set
foreign policy again, in another generation there will be millions.
If we want to avert that outcome, our interventions, regime change
and immigration policies must all objectively meet the test of making
societies, including our own, less Islamist, not more so. Foreign aid should be
barred by law from going to any country or militia whose goal is to establish
Islamic theocracy by force. Any intervention must be objectively shown to make
a society less bound to Islamic law. And immigration policy must be aimed at
reducing the percentage of Islamists in the United States.
Otherwise the next Islamic civil war won’t be fought in Syria, but
in the United States of America.
The
West, particularly the left, not only believes the enemy’s big lie that “Islam
means peace”, but we propagate the lie ourselves. And we do this while blaming
ourselves for the Islamic enemy’s jihad on us. This corrupt state of ours began
with our pretending that inferior cultures aren’t inferior and superior
cultures aren’t superior. It began when we told nice lies about rotten cultures
and rotten lies about great cultures. It began with the double poison of
political correctness and multiculturalism, which spawned Islamic correctness.
This self-destructive rot in the West allows the enemy to remain undefeated 17
years after 9/11, and it allows many of us to utter “Islam means peace” no
matter what Islam preaches, no matter what Muslims do, no matter what horrors
we witness with our own eyes.
And
our refusal to challenge the enemy’s big lie, besides a number of disparate
individuals across the West, and a handful of organizations like The Freedom
Center and others, has corrupted the West on all levels, from art, to politics,
to news, to media, to academia, to think tanks. According to some reports,
Saudi Arabia is considering buying Legendary Entertainment, which produces
comic books and movies. And if that goes through, (other reports say Legendary
isn’t interested in selling to Saudi Arabia) it is guaranteed to produce more
Islam-friendly entertainment. But looking at how Islam-friendly 99% of our
entertainment is, why is the Saudi government bothering? They used to have to
buy people to kiss Islam’s ass, but now it’s done for free.
In
comic books, Muslim superheroes are being shoved down reader’s throats, without
demand, and without much interest even from Muslims. In TV, there’s always that
kind, wise Muslim teaching Westerners the errors of their ways. And this goes
for movies as well, where Muslims are only portrayed as victims or heroes.
Just
today, the illiberal New York Times celebrated Mohammad, the warlord founder of
Islam whose religion motivates the Islamic enemy’s war on the West. They
published a piece of enemy propaganda by a Muslim, Haroon Moghul, called “Happy Birthday, Muhammad.” This
is disgraceful. The civilized world’s newspapers shouldn’t be celebrating a
warlord whose war continues to murder innocents over a thousand years after his
death. A newspaper located in the same city of the worst attack against
non-Muslims ever perpetrated by Mohammad’s followers.
And
yet only a minority will find this to be intolerable, as most people have
become inured to it, thanks to Islam’s rabid propagandists, coupled with the
left’s rabid propagandists. I still get shocked at how much undeserved praise
Islam gets, and how much it gets away with murder. And I’m glad I still have
the capacity to get shocked, as I’ve never made peace with this intolerable
state of ours, and I never will. But the truth does break out from time to
time, even in unexpected places, and millions are exposed to it, in a
surprising way.
The
BBC TV series, Bodyguard,
was such a big hit in the UK, and now on Netflix, not only because it’s well
done, with great writing, acting and production quality, but because it tells
the truth, in the end. In the end, it shows us a truth that nearly no
entertainment does today, regarding the Islamic enemy and our willful blindness
about it. That’s why the UK went crazy over it. Westerners are dying to hear
the truth. We’re sick and tired of being lied to every single day about what
we’re facing in the Islamic threat.
SPOILER:
The
show saved the best for last, as it revealed a truth about us and the Islamic
enemy. Seeing the hero of the story, who fought the Islamic enemy overseas as a
British soldier, and who should be wise to it, get fooled by a Muslim who
played victim in the premiere, only to reveal herself as a cold-blooded
jihadist in the finale, speaks to the West’s refusal to see the enemy for what
it is. This enemy is as brutal as it is deceitful. Everything is a weapon to
it, including words and emotions. And the Islamic enemy, through this show,
reveals itself in a way I don’t recall seeing in post-9/11 shows that deal with
terrorism. And yes, I’ve seen nearly all the ones that have been offered in TV
and movies, and I’ve enjoyed some, particularly 24, but these shows always push
the lie that jihadists are perverters of Islam, or that they’re noble in their
own way, or that they’re mere dupes to some evil politicians and businessmen,
etc., and we’re so used to those lies, that when the truth is told, it lifts a
good show to great heights.
A radical muslim wants to cut your head off. A peaceful muslim
is praying that a radical muslim cuts your head off.
ISLAM: FROM THE DELUSIONAL TO THE
DANGEROUS
A 1,400-year-old primeval testimony of indoctrination and conquest.
It has been widely asserted by many
psychologists that human beings act upon their beliefs. Well, if this is true, we can deduce that beliefs direct people
in life, and while some beliefs are harmless, some are the motivating force for
good, others are delusional, misguided, and even outright dangerous.
In my opinion, every version of the belief
called “Islam” ranges from the delusional to the dangerous.
Islam is a fantasy, birthed by Muhammad’s
delusion that he relayed to his first wife and employer, Khadija. Greatly
frightened, he told Khadija that he was visited by a jinn (devil) in the Hira
cave. Khadija comforted the distraught man by assuring him that the episode was
Allah’s way of choosing him as his messenger.
Muhammad believed his rich wife/employer,
who was 15 years his senior and the delusion became a belief: Islam. Remarkably
enough, under the early tutelage of Khadija, Muhammad succeeded in attracting
influential followers. Before long, the movement gathered more and more power
through violent campaigns, and the faith was taken to new people and foreign
lands.
This impressive delusion, Islam, presently
has in its stranglehold in over a billion humans, posing an existential threat
to all non-Muslims.
Islam is rooted in the primitive tribal
mentality of “Us against Them,” “We the righteous against the heathens,” “We
the servants submissive to the Great Allah against the rebellious enemies of
Allah.” Islam is a polarizer. Islam is an enemy-maker. To Islam, a non-Muslim
is a combatant against Allah, and he is fair game to be subjugated and killed.
When some billion and a half people adhere to the pathological belief of Islam
and use it as their marching orders for life, the rest of humanity can ignore
the threat only at its own peril.
After 1400 years, Islam is still on a
campaign of conquest throughout the known world. Hordes of life-in-hand
foot-soldier fanatical Muslims are striving to kill and get killed. All they
want is the opportunity to discharge their homicidal-suicidal impulse, on their
way to Allah’s promised glorious afterlife. And in the background, granting the
foot-soldiers’ wishes, are their handlers, the puppeteers, who pull the strings
and detonate these human bombs.
Those who cherish life must recognize these
emissaries of death, what makes them, what motivates them, and how best to
defend against them. The campaign of death waged by these Islamic jihadists, be
he a puppet or a puppeteer, is energized by the belief of delectable rewards
that await the faithful implementer of Allah’s dictates.
Through a highly effective indoctrination,
the jihadist has come to believe firmly in Islam’s absolute delusion. He
believes that Allah is the one and only supreme creator of the heavens and the
Earth; that it is his duty and privilege, to abide by Allah’s will and carry
out his plans at all costs. He believes firmly in a gloriously wonderful
immortal afterlife in paradise, for which a martyr’s death is the surest
quickest admission. Although the dominating theme of the delusion is
quasi-spiritual, the promised rewards of the afterlife awaiting the martyr are
sensual and material.
All the things and activities that the
jihadist desires and cannot attain or practice, and rejects in his earthly
life, will be purified and proffered to him in the paradise of the next life.
Thus goes the delusion.
As I have asserted in my previous articles,
it is important to understand that the human mind is not a perfect discerner of
objective reality. Reality is in the eye of the beholder. The outside world
only supplies bits and pieces of raw material that the mind puts together to
form its reality. Depending on the type and number of bits and pieces that a
given mind receives, its reality can be very different from that of another
mind. The more prescribed and homogeneous a group, the greater is the group’s
consensual reality, since the members share much in common, experiential input
and reinforce each other’s’ mindset.
Thus members of a given religious order,
for instance, tend to think much more similarly to one another than to members
of other groups with different experiential histories. Various approximations
of the objective reality, therefore, rule the mind. The degree to which these
approximations deviate from the larger group’s consensual reality determines
its delusional extent and severity.
A methamphetamine user’s reality
is often distorted in a different way. Under the influence of the drug, an
intense paranoia overtakes him. His reality is dominated by the belief that one
or more people are lurking about to harm or kill him. He may wield a deadly
weapon, going from room to room, from closet to closet, in search of the
assailants.
If you believe that a bug is camping deeply
inside your body, then you might go ahead and try to dig the non-existent bug
out. If you believe that people are lurking around the house to harm or kill
you, you go after them before they get to you. If you believe that all the
troubles of the world are due to the evil-doings of the non-Muslims who war
against Allah, then you do all you can to fight and kill them, particularly
since Allah tells you to do so in the Quran. The drug-induced delusions are
hallucinations.
They are dramatic and usually transitory,
while religiously-based implantation of ideas program the mind with lasting
delusions. Delusions, even when they are at great variance from the objective
reality, can rule the mind without the need for drugs, or because of
neurological dysfunctions or other factors. The young and the less-educated are
most vulnerable to believe the claims of charlatans, con artists, and cunning
clerics, as truth and reality.
The repeated intense indoctrination of the
children even changed the perception of some of the charlatan mullahs or the
imams, who believed their own lies and rushed to their own death clinging to
trinkets. Hence some of the puppeteers, in this instance, became puppets
themselves. Such are the folly and fallibility of the human mind.
It is, therefore, understandable that many
of the higher-up Islamic puppeteers, who are usually brainwashed from early
childhood, devote their fortunes and persons to the implementation of their
deeply ingrained delusions. Deluded by the threats and promises of Islam,
Muslims, rich or poor, vie with one another in furthering the violent cause of
Allah.
Many non-Muslims are also victims of a
different, yet just as deadly, delusion. They believe that Islam is a religion
of peace, that only a small minority of Muslims are jihadists, and that Muslims
can be reasoned with to abandon the Quran-mandated elimination of non-believers.
These well-meaning simpletons are just as deluded as the fanatic jihadists by
refusing to acknowledge the fact that one cannot be a Muslim and not abide by
the dictates of the Quran.
How Many Americans Are Still Fighting As Jihadists?
This week we learned that an old problem that gained a lot of media traction during the heyday of ISIS is still plaguing us. We’re talking about Americans deciding to leave the country and head to Iraq or Syria, not to defend our allies, but to fight with the terrorists. These “American jihadists” (as they came to be known) were broadly reviled but seemed to provide some positive PR for the terrorists and assist in their recruiting efforts. Now, with ISIS having lost almost all of their caliphate and being largely on the run, what became of those American traitors?
Kurdish Democratic Forces in Syria report the arrest of two Americans allegedly fighting with or aiding the Islamic State terrorist organization in Syria. The two men are identified as Warren Christopher Clark, 34, of Texas and Zaid Abed al-Hamed, 35.
They were captured by the Kurds during a counter-terrorism raid near the Iraq border in the vicinity of one of the few remaining holds of ISIS in Syria. Prior to their capture, the two, along with a Pakistani National and a male reportedly from Ireland, were preparing an attack against civilians fleeing the battlefields.
The Kurds made the announcement last Sunday and U.S. Army Colonel Scott Rawlinson reports the incident is under investigation.
Details are a bit thin on Zaid Abed al-Hamed, but Warren Christopher Clark has been on our radar for some time. Clark sent in an application to join ISIS and assist them as an English teacher in Mosul a few years back. (Language skills are apparently prized among groups seeking to burn down the entire world.) Now both of these characters are in custody.
This story prompted me to wonder just how many more of these traitors are still out there and operating with our enemies. We were still receiving warnings from Homeland Security last February highlighting this threat. At that time, a study commissioned by George Washington University estimated that “nearly half of the 64 Americans who fought with those groups are believed to have survived the conflict.” This raised the prospect that they might still be in country fighting or, even worse, could be heading back to the United States to launch terror attacks here.
Not all of them fared very well. One of the more famous traitors was Eric Harroun, who left home to go fight with ISIS over a decade ago. He did eventually wind up returning home but died of an overdose in Arizona in 2014. (A fate that was far too good for him if you ask me.)
The bottom line is that it’s clearly possible that we still have dozens of American Jihadists out there. They deserve a lot more “justice” than the native ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria. Remember that Dante said the fourth and deepest, frozen round in the Ninth Circle of Hell was reserved for traitors. Now we have two more in custody who should be heading for a frozen eternity of punishment. It’s just disturbing to think that we still haven’t tracked them all down.
Police
in Muslim Chechnya Torture Two to Death, Arrest Dozens for ‘Homosexuality’
Police in Chechnya, a
majority-Muslim region of Russia, have relaunched a campaign to arrest
suspected gay and lesbian Russians, killing two and arresting over 40 others in
the past month according to a report published
Monday.
According
to Russia’s LGBT Network, which seeks to protect LGBT people from repression
and violence in Chechnya, the arrests of suspected homosexuals began last
month. The group has documented at least two people killed while tortured in
police custody.
“We can already say that the
torture being suffered by those detained is savage, much worse than for those
detained in 2017,” the LGBT Network’s programme director, Igor
Kochetkov, told the Telegraph. “We know of two
dead, but probably more have been killed.”
The
individuals are reportedly being held at an infamous prison in the town of
Argun, where they have had their documents seized to prevent them fleeing the
region. Authorities have also used the threat of violence against relatives and
family members should they speak out about the crackdown.
The arrests are the latest
case of an anti-homosexual crackdown in the Muslim majority region, where
Putin-backed strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov has led repressive campaigns
in an effort to “purify” the blood of the Chechnyan
people.
The most prominent case took
place in 2017 when over 100 gay men were rounded up and tortured. Some were handed over to
relatives with the expectation they would carry out an “honor killing,” while
others were forced to sign blank criminal charges for possible future
detainment.
On Monday, a spokesperson
for Kadyrov denounced the reports as “complete lies [that] don’t have an
ounce of truth in them.” Kadyrov has repeatedly denied all allegations of human
rights violations and widespread persecution of LGBT Russians and has previously claimed that gay people “don’t exist” in Chechnya
because their own relatives would have banished them from the region.
“You
cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,” Kadyrov
said at the time. “If such people existed in Chechnya, law enforcement would
not have to worry about them since their own relatives would have sent them to
where they could never return.”
In an interview with the BBC last January, Kadyrov
also said the allegations were mainly from people looking to make money.
“That’s
all an invention by foreign agents who are paid a few kopecks” he said.
“So-called human rights activists make up all sorts of nonsense for money.”
Kadyrov’s claims have
not suppressed evidence of a sustained campaign of repression in Chechnya;
former U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley was among the many figures to publicly condemn the reports.
“Widespread
detentions, torture, and killings of gay people have resumed in Chechnya,”
Kochetkov added. “Persecution of men and women suspected of being gay never
stopped. It’s only that its scale has been changing.”
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