THESE FUCKERS INVADED US 9-11 AND HAVE BANKROLLED THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES OF BUSH, CLINTON AND MUSLIM OBAMA AS WELL AS THE PHONY CLINTON SLUSH FUND FOUNDATION
But the Clinton Foundation, to which donations declined dramatically after Clinton’s 2016 defeat, has taken multi-million dollar contributions from Saudi Arabia in the past and isn’t ruling out continuing to accept them.
The Clinton Foundation accepted between $10 and $25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with donations coming as late as 2014. A now-defunct group named “Friends of Saudi Arabia,” which was reportedly co-founded by a Saudi Prince and often worked as a PR front for the kingdom, also donated between $1 and $5 million.
In the Qur'an, itself, Allah gives these fellows their mandate: cleanse the Earth of all kefir (infidels), and help usher in the Golden Rule of Islam over a corrupt world. This high-purpose strategic goal of Islamization legitimizes any and all tactics.
Qur'an 8:39: "Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah." Allah, in his kindness, leaves a bit of wiggle room for the unbelievers. Those who refuse to convert or whose life is spared may live under the rule of Islam by paying poll taxes (jizya)."
However during a 'Real Time' panel discussion, Maher said Clooney’s call for a boycott 'really bothered' him.
'It’s chickenshit tokenism,' Maher said.
ISLAM: THE SCOURGE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
A radical Muslim wants to cut your head off. A peaceful Muslim is praying that a radical Muslim cuts your head off.
Why are we defended the borders of these Muslim dictators when we can’t defend our own borders against NARCOMEX?
“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
Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is an amazing book, extraordinary in its detail and riveting in its narratives and analysis. 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.
Radical Islamic Terrorism
Accounts for 91 Percent of
European Terror Victims
Islam: The West's 'Most Formidable and
Persistent Enemy' By Raymond Ibrahim
Amid mass beheadings, Wall Street scrambles for Saudi profits
The hideous public beheadings of 37 men in a single day in Saudi Arabia last Tuesday have provoked scant protest from Western governments and the corporate media.
The same newspapers and broadcast networks that have summoned up their moral outrage over abuses, both manufactured and real, by governments in Russia, China, Iran, Syria or Venezuela, are clearly unmoved by these criminal executions. They maintain their stony silence even as those who were decapitated with swords included three young men who were arrested as minors, tortured into signing confessions and convicted of “terrorism” for daring to join protests against the country’s monarchical dictatorship.
One of those beheaded was Abdulkarem al-Hawaj, arrested when he was just 16 by Saudi security forces for attending a protest in the country’s Eastern Province, home to most of Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority population. Beginning in 2011, the oil-rich province has seen protests over the systematic discrimination and oppression against Shias at the hands of a monarchy whose rule is bound up with the official, state-sponsored religious doctrine of Wahhabism, an ultra-conservative Sunni sect.
Abdulkarem’s real “crime” was apparently that of using social media to encourage participation in a demonstration. He was held in solitary confinement, beaten, tortured with electric cables and hung in chains by his wrists until he submitted to signing a false confession.
Also murdered in the barbaric execution
spree was Mujtaba al-Sweikat, who was 17
when he was arrested at an airport as he
was about to board a plane to the United
States, where he was to become a student
at Western Michigan University. His crime
was also that of daring to demonstrate
against the Saudi royal dictatorship.
spree was Mujtaba al-Sweikat, who was 17
when he was arrested at an airport as he
was about to board a plane to the United
States, where he was to become a student
at Western Michigan University. His crime
was also that of daring to demonstrate
against the Saudi royal dictatorship.
His father, who represented him in a sham trial, accused the state of creating the “illusion” of a “terrorist cell”, where none existed. “He was subjected to psychological and physical abuse which drained his strength,” Sweikat’s father told the court. “The interrogator dictated the confession to Sweikat and forced him to sign it so that the torture would stop. He signed it.”
As in all the other cases, the court ignored the evidence of torture and forced confession and imposed the sentence of death by decapitation already dictated by the House of Saud.
The US government has said next to nothing about these atrocities. A State Department spokesman issued a boilerplate statement allowing that “We have seen these reports. We urge the government of Saudi Arabia, and all governments, to ensure trial guarantees, freedom from arbitrary and extrajudicial detention, transparency, rule of law, and freedom of religion and belief.”
During the same two days after the Saudi public beheadings, which included the crucifixion of one of the victims and the display of a severed head on a pike to intimidate anyone thinking of opposing the kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the same State Department managed to churn out statements condemning Russia for “gross human rights violations” in Chechnya, Venezuela for use of “intimidation and imprisonment” against the US-funded right-wing opposition and Havana for acting to “suppress the human rights of the Cuban people”.
Washington’s patent indifference to the mass executions in Saudi Arabia exposes the unmitigated cynicism and hypocrisy of all of US imperialism’s “human rights” pretensions and feigned outrage over alleged crimes carried out by governments that it views as strategic rivals or that it is seeking to overthrow. The United States has long counted Saudi Arabia as a pillar of imperialist domination and reaction in the Middle East, and the Obama administration exhibited a similar reaction to the mass execution of 47 men in January 2016.
But just as blatant as the complicity of the US government with the crimes of the Saudi regime, is the embrace of the bloody monarchical dictatorship by Wall Street and global finance capital.
In October of last year, a significant number of Wall Street moguls and chiefs of international finance houses canceled their trips to an annual Saudi investment conference known as “Davos in the Desert.” The gathering—which was attended by lower ranking operatives of their firms—came just weeks after the brutal murder and dismemberment of the well-known Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul.
A regime insider who had served as an aide to the Saudi intelligence chief and a semi-official interlocutor between the House of Saud and the Western media before falling out with Riyadh, Khashoggi’s grim fate at the hands of a Saudi military and intelligence death squad was traced by the CIA and other intelligence agencies directly to an order given by Crown Prince bin Salman.
While the death of the well-placed journalist, who had been given a column in the Washington Post after going into self-exile in the US, elicited a brief period of attention and protests from the US media and politicians, six months have passed, and the crime has largely been forgotten. US officials speak vaguely about the need for “accountability”, while studiously ignoring that the author of the grisly and brazen assassination is none other than their closest ally, bin Salman.
Six months was more than enough time for Wall Street to cast aside any inhibitions and jump with both feet into the latest Saudi “Financial Sector Conference,” which convened at the King Abdul Azziz International Conference Center. While its opening came in the immediate wake of the mass executions, the conference center is miles away from Riyadh’s Deera Square where the executioners hack off heads with swords, so the Wall Street CEOs did not have to worry about staining their Prada shoes with blood.
The mood at the conference was a reprise of the giddy reception that bin Salman received when he visited the US just a year ago, when he was embraced as a visionary and “reformer” by billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah Winfrey.
HSBC’s John Flint
“We are excited about the role that we can play here,” HSBC CEO John Flint told this week’s Riyadh conference. “This is an economy we have a lot of confidence in. I think the future is bright.”
He boasted that a number of former HSBC bankers had joined the head-chopping Saudi regime. “That’s been a privilege of ours, to see so many of our ex-colleagues actually in the audience and serving their country now.”
Among the others attending at the conference were BlackRock Inc’s CEO Larry Fink, JPMorgan’s chief executive officer Daniel Pinto, the World Bank’s vice president for development finance Akihiko Nishio, as well as representatives of various other banks and hedge funds.
BlackRock’s Fink was among the most effusive. He brushed aside any qualms about the hideous crimes of the Saudi regime, which include not only this week’s mass executions and the assassination of Khashoggi, but the near-genocidal US-backed war that has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis and brought millions to the brink of starvation.
“The fact that there are issues in the press does not tell me I must run away from a place. In many cases, it tells me I should run to and invest because what we are most frightened of are things that we don’t talk about,” he stated, uttering not a word more about the “things we don’t talk about.”
The magnet pulling in all of the finance
capitalist parasites is Saudi Arabia’s state-run
oil company, Aramco, whose income equals
that of the five biggest energy conglomerates
in the world and tops the combined net
profits of Apple and Google.
capitalist parasites is Saudi Arabia’s state-run
oil company, Aramco, whose income equals
that of the five biggest energy conglomerates
in the world and tops the combined net
profits of Apple and Google.
Many of the banks and finance houses represented in Riyadh, including JPMorgan, HSBC, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs participated this month in Aramco’s floating of $12 billion worth of bonds.
Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih told the conference in Riyadh that Aramco’s bond sale was “only the beginning”, holding out the prospect that the oil giant may go for an initial public offering (IPO) as early as next year.
“There will be more,” he added. “I won’t tell you what and when, and it wo’'t be bonds only. Aramco sooner than you think will be accessing equity markets.”
Blackrock’s Larry Fink
Blackrock’s Fink, who described “reforms” by the Saudi monarchy as “amazing”, said he saw “very large opportunities” across the Middle East, insisting that the region is “becoming more secure”.
To describe the Middle East,
after a quarter century of US
imperialist wars, whose
victims number in the millions,
and which have shattered entire societies, as
“more secure” is delusional.
after a quarter century of US
imperialist wars, whose
victims number in the millions,
and which have shattered entire societies, as
“more secure” is delusional.
No doubt for Fink and his fellow financial oligarchs the mass beheadings of “terrorists” – a synonym for agitators, troublemakers and dissidents – is not a problem, but rather an attraction. They feel that the defense of their vast wealth under conditions of unprecedented social inequality and an increasingly combative working class will require similar measures at home and abroad.
Jihad and the Media in an Age of Delusion
On
Sunday the BBC
reported about another horrible news story from London: a
knifeman went on a stabbing spree of “defenceless” people in London. The story
revealed less about the incident it was purporting to report on than it did
about our age of anti-reality and delusion.
In
this age, it is not difficult to step back and observe almost indiscernible but
seismic historical shifts in the making -- not in the big-bang news events, but
in the nitty-gritty details of the social fabric of our daily lives, where life happens. It is usually not so easy to detect such subtleties, let alone
observe the silent measures a nation or a civilization takes when it quietly
but most decidedly has… given up. One need not be an anthropologist to detect
seismic changes in human behavior or societies.
First,
it’s language. Language is key. Subtle and not-so-subtle restrictions are
placed on what would offend the invading force with its hair-trigger sensibilities.These
restrictions are rigorously enforced by quisling societal institutions --
media, academia, and so forth. So, for example, “Muslim” is replaced with
“South Asian” or “Asian,” with no fear that the “South Asians” or “Asians” will
bomb a pop concert, mow down scores of families on a national holiday such as
Bastille day or Halloween or Christmas, shoot up a gay nightclub, and so forth.
Actual South Asians and Asians have held demos against the media using
them to cover for jihadis, but no media reported on them, of course.
Only the small, sagacious group of readers who follow websites such as the
Geller Report were aware of the South Asian community’s opposition to the
wrongful blame.
Every
time there is an attack by a jihadi, all apologies are extended by the host
Western country, with admonitions of impending “phobia” of Islam and backlash,
and so the cycle of self-flagellation begins and builds with each ensuing
attack (all 34,800
since 9/11).
The
root cause, above all, is never to be spoken of. Verboten.
Anyone who dares cross that line will be ultimately destroyed -- a pariah, his or her good name murdered, unable to make a living. You will submit or you will cease to exist, literally or figuratively. There is no motive, we are told; the motive, we are told, is “mental illness.”
Anyone who dares cross that line will be ultimately destroyed -- a pariah, his or her good name murdered, unable to make a living. You will submit or you will cease to exist, literally or figuratively. There is no motive, we are told; the motive, we are told, is “mental illness.”
There
is almost nothing in Sunday’s BBC article about the London stabbings that is
correct, save for the reporting that four people were stabbed. After that it is
all… editorial and subtle propaganda. This has all the earmarks of jihad, but
it would be a horror, blasphemous (Islamophobic) to dare say it. When there is
an incident that isn’t jihad, it is immediately cast in the media as
right-wing, white-supremacy bullocks. Absolutely. But jihad is quite different.
You can never surmise, let alone speculate about whether some attack or
incident might be jihad. And when it is jihad, you still cannot say it. If you
use the word Muslim -- as in, “Devout
Muslim shouting allahu akbar stabs…”
no one will publish it, and social media platforms will block the link. You
will land in Facebook jail. Your first infraction gets you three days
suspension. Your next “violation” will land you in FB jail for a week, then a
month, and eventually, you are terminated.
The
BBC headline states that the stabbings were “random attacks.” But they were not
random if the knifemen wanted to kill unbelievers. Then they were not random at
all. There is a reason these folks were targeted.
The
article goes on to say, “The Metropolitan Police said the motive ‘appears to be
solely to inflict harm’ as none of the victims were robbed or engaged in
conversation before they were attacked.” That, too, screams jihad. It is the
very essence of a jihad terror attack. Instead, the BBC tells us, “mental
health issues may be a factor.” That they can say; that is accepted language in
the age of jihad. The mental health community is not going to blow up
Buckingham Palace.
There’s
a lot of fluff in the piece, but what the article does not tell you is that
Edmonton is home to London’s largest Turkish community. Or that a widow
and grandmother described as “such a sweet lady” was beheaded
in her own backyard by a devout Muslim in Edmonton not that long ago.
The
attack is referred to as “GBH.” Note the obscure terms. One might say thatgrievous bodily harm is
too harsh, but the media is shielding the perp, not the reader.
This
act of sheer terror is getting no press. And why would it?
Pamela
Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI),
publisher of The
Geller Report and
author of the bestselling book,FATWA:
Hunted in America,
as well as The
Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop
the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her onTwitter or Facebook.
'It's
chickens**t tokenism:' Bill Maher slams George Clooney's call for a boycott of
hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei after nation announced it would stone to
death any Muslims engaging in gay sex
·
Real Time host Bill Maher blasted
George Clooney's call for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei as
'chicken s**t tokenism.'
·
Show panelist S.E. Cupp
criticized Clooney' stance and called him 'hypocritical'
·
George Clooney condemned Brunei's
cruel anti-gay laws in an opinion piece
·
The actor called on the public to
boycott Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's nine hotels
·
Hotels
include: The Beverly Hills Hotel,
The Hotel Bel-Air, The Dorchester in London, Hotel Eden in Rome, Le Meurice in Paris
and Coworth Park in the UK
The Hotel Bel-Air, The Dorchester in London, Hotel Eden in Rome, Le Meurice in Paris
and Coworth Park in the UK
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Clooney's piece was written in
response to Brunei's strict Sharia law that would see any Muslims engaging in
gay sex be stoned to death beginning April 3
PUBLISHED: 13:50 EDT, 30 March 2019 | UPDATED: 16:14 EDT, 30 March
2019
Real Time host Bill
Maher blasted George
Clooney's call for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan
of Brunei as 'chicken s**t tokenism.'
Clooney called for
a boycott of nine hotels in the U.S. and Europe with ties to the sultan of
Brunei, which next month will implement Islamic criminal laws to punish gay sex
by stoning offenders to death.
The Hollywood actor
wrote Thursday in Deadline Hollywood: 'Are we really going to
help fund the murder of innocent citizens?'
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Real
Time host Bill Maher, (right), blasted George Clooney, (left), for
calling for a boycott of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, calling
the move 'chicken s**t tokenism'
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Sultan
Hassanal Bolkiah, (pictured), rules Brunei and owns nine hotels in the
U.S. and Europe
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He wrote that 'you can’t shame murderous regimes,' but you can shame 'the banks, the financiers and the institutions that do business
with them.'
However during a 'Real Time' panel discussion, Maher said Clooney’s call for a boycott 'really bothered' him.
'It’s chickens**t tokenism,' Maher said.
'What about Saudi Arabia? If you really want to get back to them, stop driving, don’t use oil.
'What about Saudi Arabia? If you really want to get back to them, stop driving, don’t use oil.
'It’s Sharia Law, which is some version of the
law in most Muslim-majority countries,' Maher
continued.
'And if you want to
be against that, you know, speak openly and honestly about standing up for
liberal principles.'
The HBO star added
that liberal activist Clooney is a 'really smart guy' who knows about problems
in the Middle East,
However he added
that the Oscar-winner’s 'virtue signaling' ultimately won’t make an impact.
'This idea that the
Sultan of Brunei is going over the receipts from the Polo Lounge. ‘Oh no,
we only sold two soups today,’ Maher claimed.
Panelist S.E. Cupp,
a CNN host, called Clooney 'hypocritical' and claimed that Hollywood does 'a
ton of business' with the United Arab Emirates, whose regime has been
criticized in the past.
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In his piece
Clooney said: 'On this particular April 3rd the nation of Brunei will begin
stoning and whipping to death any of its citizens that are proved to be gay.
'Let that sink in.
In the onslaught of news where we see the world backsliding into
authoritarianism this stands alone,' he added.
Clooney went on to
say that at 'the head of it all is the Sultan of Brunei who is one of the
richest men in the world'.
Clooney admitted
that he's stayed at most of the nine hotels, but noted it was 'because I hadn't
done my homework and didn't know who owned them'.
'They're nice
hotels. The people who work there are kind and helpful and have no part in the
ownership of these properties.
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Clooney
admitted that he's stayed at most of the nine hotels, but noted it was 'because
I hadn't done my homework.' The sultan owns The Hotel Bel-Air in Los
Angeles (pictured)
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The
sultan also owns The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles (pictured) and is
extremely rich
'But let's be
clear, every single time we stay at or take meetings at or dine at any of these
nine hotels we are putting money directly into the pockets of men who choose to
stone and whip to death their own citizens for being gay or accused of
adultery.
Clooney wrote that
he's 'learned over years of dealing with murderous regimes that you can't shame
them'.
Sultan Hassanal
Bolkiah rules the oil-rich monarchy with full executive authority, and the
hotels are owned by the Brunei Investment Agency. An email seeking comment was
sent to the agency Friday.
The hotels are The
Dorchester and Coworth Park in the U.K.; Beverly Hills Hotel and Hotel Bel-Air
in Los Angeles; Le Meurice and Hotel Plaza Athenee in Paris; Hotel Eden in
Rome; and Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan.
The Beverly Hills
Hotel and the Hotel Bel-Air are part of the Dorchester Collection, owned by a
wing of the Brunei government referred to as the Brunei Investment
Agency.
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·
Clooney
said that 'every single time we stay at or take meetings at or dine at any of
these nine hotels we are putting money directly into the pockets of men who
choose to stone and whip to death their own citizens for being gay'. The
Coworth Park hotel (pictured) is located in the UK
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·
Clooney
said he's 'learned over years of dealing with murderous regimes that you can't
shame them'. 'But you can shame the banks, the financiers and the institutions
that do business with them and choose to look the other way.' Pictured is the
Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan
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Le
Meurice in Paris (pictured) is also owned by the sultan of Brunei
They owned nine
high-end hotels worldwide.
A representative
for the hotel told Fox News: 'Dorchester Collection’s Code
emphasizes equality, respect, and integrity in all areas of our operation, and
strongly values people and cultural diversity amongst our guests and
employees.'
Brunei has defended
its right to implement Islamic laws that would allow death by stoning for
adultery and homosexuality against growing global criticism.
Brunei, a
Muslim-majority former British protectorate with a population of around
400,000, will implement the Sharia laws from April 3, punishing sodomy,
adultery and rape with the death penalty, including by stoning, and theft with
amputation.
Sultan Hassanal
Bolkiah, 72, is the world's second-longest reigning monarch and is prime
minister of the oil-rich country. He ranks as one of the world's wealthiest
people.
Brunei, which
neighbours two Malaysian states on Borneo island, already enforces Islamic
teachings more strictly than Malaysia and Indonesia, the other majority Muslim
countries in southeast Asia. The sale of alcohol is banned and evangelism by
other religions is forbidden.
The country does
not hold elections, but any discontent is assuaged with generous government
polices including zero taxes, subsidized housing, and free healthcare and
education.
The expected
implementation of the strict Islamic laws has drawn widespread criticism.
Politicians in Europe and the United States have attacked the plans and raised
concerns with Brunei.
'Stoning people to
death for homosexuality or adultery is appalling and immoral,' former U.S. vice
president Joe Biden said in a Twitter post on Friday.
'There is no excuse
- not culture, not tradition - for this kind of hate and inhumanity.'
MUSLIMS ARE NOTHING MORE
THAN A
PARASITIC CULT OF HATE, RAPE, MURDER,
CHILD ABUSE AND WOMEN ABUSE... THEY'RE
ALL SICK DOGS!
PARASITIC CULT OF HATE, RAPE, MURDER,
CHILD ABUSE AND WOMEN ABUSE... THEY'RE
ALL SICK DOGS!
ISLAM: THE SCOURGE OF WESTERN
CIVILIZATION
A
radical Muslim wants to cut your head off. A peaceful Muslim is praying that a
radical Muslim cuts your head off.
*
Why are we defended the borders of
these Muslim dictators when we can’t defend our own borders against NARCOMEX?
*
*
“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
Robert Spencer’s The History of
Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is an amazing book, extraordinary
in its detail and riveting in its narratives and analysis. 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.
Brunei Imposes Sharia Law:
Homosexuals May Be
Imprisoned, Tortured, and
Executed
Brunei’s already strict Islamic criminal code will enter an even
tougher new stage next week with the introductions of laws mandating lengthy
prison terms, whipping, and even execution for homosexual behavior. Brunei is
set to become the first Asian country to punish homosexuality with the death
penalty, as several Arab countries do.
Brunei
began imposing sharia law with a three-stage process in 2014.
The first stage criminalized Christmas celebrations, getting pregnant out of
wedlock, and failing to attend Muslim prayer services. Homosexuality was also
criminalized, but the penalty in Stage One of the sharia revolution
was merely 10 years in prison.
The
sultanate disregarded five years of criticism from international human rights
groups and quietly issued court orders
to proceed with Stage Two on April 3. Gays will be whipped, imprisoned for much longer sentences, and could be executed by stoning, although Brunei has recently been lax about actually carrying out death sentences.
to proceed with Stage Two on April 3. Gays will be whipped, imprisoned for much longer sentences, and could be executed by stoning, although Brunei has recently been lax about actually carrying out death sentences.
Another
perennial sharia favorite, cutting of the hands of thieves, is
included in the upgraded legal code. According to Amnesty International,
many of these harsh penalties with be applicable to children.
“Brunei
must immediately halt its plans to implement these vicious punishments and revise
its Penal Code in compliance with its human rights obligations. The
international community must urgently condemn Brunei’s move to put these cruel
penalties into practice,” Amnesty International researcher Rachel Chhoa-Howard
said on Wednesday.
Reuters reported on
Monday that the new laws are being “fast-tracked” after a period of hesitation
on the part of the sultanate. There has been little in the way of a formal
announcement, and the prime minister’s office has not responded to media
inquiries. This week’s outraged responses from human rights groups were based
largely on researchers uncovering government documents ordering implementation
of the new punishments to begin in April.
“We
are trying to get pressure placed on the government of Brunei but realize there
is a very short time frame until the laws take effect. It took us by surprise
that the government has now given a date and is rushing through
implementation,” said Australian activist Matthew Woolfe of The Brunei Project.
His reaction suggests the fast track was chosen so that critics would be caught
off guard.
Channel
News Asia suggested on
Wednesday that Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah might be embracing hard line sharia law
as an exercise in virtue-signaling, shoring up his Islamic bona fides after a
lifetime of conspicuous consumption and some family scandals:
Brunei’s
Sultan is no stranger to controversy at home – the monarchy was deeply
embarrassed by a family feud with his brother Jefri over the latter’s alleged
embezzlement of US$15 billion during his tenure as finance minister in the
1990s.
Court
battles and investigations revealed salacious details of Jefri’s jetset
lifestyle, including claims of a high-priced harem of foreign women and a
luxury yacht he owned called “Tits”.
Human
Rights Campaign director Ty Cobb called on the
Trump administration to take a public stand against Brunei’s legal code:
We
are facing a dangerous crisis as Brunei is close to implementing laws that
impose state-sponsored torture and murder of LGBTQ people. It’s absolutely
crucial that the international community speak out now and demand that the
Sultan of Brunei stop these barbaric changes that threaten the lives of Brunei
citizens. The Trump-Pence Administration must also immediately make clear that
these outrageous human rights abuses will not be tolerated.
The Trump State Department expressed
concerns about the direction of Brunei’s legal system in 2017,
noting the laws criticized as anti-gay could technically impose death by
stoning against heterosexual couples for engaging in “carnal intercourse
against the order of nature.” The State Department noted numerous reports of
discrimination from gays and lesbians in Brunei, including intimidation by the
police.
Nigerian Muslim Militants Kill
120 Christians in Three
Weeks
120 Christians in Three
Weeks
16
Mar 201943,058
2:37
The recent death toll
of Christians in Nigeria has reached 120 with this week’s slaughter of more
than 50 by Fulani Muslim militants in the Kaduna state of Nigeria, the Christian Postreported.
The
Fulani jihadists, who have become a greater threat to
Nigerian Christians than the Islamist terror group Boko Haram, stormed the
villages of Inkirimi, Dogonnoma, and Ungwan Gora in the Kajuru Local Government
Area last Monday, destroying 143 homes, killing 52 people, and wounding dozens
more.
The
assailants reportedly split into three groups, the first of which fired upon
the people, the second set fire to buildings, and the third chased down people
fleeing from the scene. Victims of the assault included women and children.
Monday’s
incident followed an attack the day before in the Ungwan Barde village in
Kajuru, where 17 Christians were killed and dozens of homes were burned.
In
the first week of March, Muslim extremists massacred more
than 30 Christians in Karamar village, setting fire to several houses and a
church. The terrorists reportedly shot at families trying to escape the fire,
killing 32.
The
spate of recent attacks against communities has taken place within the
predominantly Christian Adara chiefdom of southern Kaduna.
The
governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on
the Kajuru Local Government Area to try to contain the violence.
In
late February, militants attacked the Maro village, killing 38 Christians and
torching homes as well as a Christian church.
The Christian Post reported that Fulani militants
killed thousands of Christians in 2018 alone in what many are calling a
Christian genocide in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.
Last
December, a leading Anglican bishop in Nigeria, Dr. Benjamin Argak Kwashi, said
that the Muslim Fulani militants represent the number one terrorist threat facing
Christians in Nigeria.
“The
government is able to provide protection [to the Christians], but what’s
obvious to everybody is that the government is unwilling,” Kwashi told
Breitbart News.
“The
Fulani herdsmen are a bigger threat,” Kwashi added. “Boko Haram operates in the
northeast and scantily moves into other areas, but the Fulani herdsmen are
widespread. They’re everywhere now. So the Fulani are a bigger threat.”
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Islamic Scholar: No Western
Country Has Successfully
Integrated Muslims
Country Has Successfully
Integrated Muslims
Dutch author and
sociologist Ruud Koopmans said this week that Muslims are more difficult to
integrate into Western society than other migrant groups because of a literal
interpretation of the Quran prevalent among Muslims.
Ruud
Koopmans, professor at the Berlin Social Science Center and author of several
books including Contested
Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe, told the
Danish newspaper Berlingske that
whereas most groups of migrants integrate relatively quickly, especially from
one generation to the next, Islam stands out as an exception.
“Although
it’s not completely absent in Muslims, the change is much slower,” he said,
noting that a literal interpretation of the Quran prevents them from
integrating into Western countries.
In
an earlier published study titled
“Fundamentalism and out-group hostility,” Koopmans compared Muslim radicalism
with Christian radicalism to better understand why Islam stands out for its
isolationism.
“Almost
60 percent agree that Muslims should return to the roots of Islam,” he wrote,
while “75 percent think there is only one interpretation of the Qur’an possible
to which every Muslim should stick.”
Koopmans,
who has been studying Islam for over twenty years, also found that “65 percent
say that religious rules are more important to them than the laws of the
country in which they live.”
Regarding
Christian citizens on the other hand, Koopmans found that fewer than 4 percent
“can be characterized as consistent fundamentalists.”
“I
conclude that the Islamic world is lagging behind rest of the world when it
comes to democracy, human rights, and political and economic development,”
Koopmans told Berlingske in his
interview this week.
“The
main problem is how many Muslims and, globally, how many Muslim countries
interpret Islam. Namely, in a way that basically claims that the Qur’an and the
Sunna must be taken literally, and that the way the Prophet lived in the 7th
century must be the yardstick for how Muslims should live in the 21st century,”
he said.
“Such
a brand of Islam is, firstly, a threat to world peace. Secondly, it prevents
integration,” Koopmans concluded.
Although
it is politically taboo to draw distinctions between ethnic groups when it
comes to immigration, some scholars, including Pope Benedict XVI, have urged
the West not to assume that all cultures share its basic suppositions about the
human person and society.
Prior
to his election as pope, Joseph Ratzinger wrote that
“the interplay of society, politics, and religion has a completely different
structure in Islam” than it does in the West.
Unfortunately,
he added, much of today’s discussion in the West regarding Islam “presupposes
that all religions have basically the same structure, that they all fit into a
democratic system with its regulations and the possibilities provided by these
regulations.”
“The
Koran is a total religious law, which regulates the whole of political and
social life and insists that the whole order of life be Islamic,” Ratzinger
wrote. “Sharia shapes society from beginning to end. In this sense, it can
exploit such partial freedoms as our constitution gives, but it can’t be its
final goal to say: Yes, now we too area body with rights, now we are present
just like the Catholics and the Protestants.”
“In
such a situation, it would not achieve a status consistent with its inner
nature; it would be in alienation from itself,” he said.
Merkel Ally Predicts Muslim
German Chancellor by 2030
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Mar 20191,495
2:22
Faction head of
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union
(CDU) Ralph Brinkhaus has predicted the country could see a Muslim
chancellor by as early as 2030.
Despite
being named the Christian Democratic Union, Brinkhaus said the party sees
opportunities for non-Christians to rise in the ranks and possibly even become
the leader of the party and chancellor, Bild reports.
“In
some regions, only a fraction of the population belongs to a church. That
is why Muslims who share our values — human dignity, personal responsibility,
solidarity — and the Basic Law are welcome to join the CDU,” Brinkhaus said.
“For
me, it is not decisive to which religion a person belongs, but what values he
has. The CDU is not a religious community — that sets us apart from the
Catholic Church in which I am a member,” he added.
While
Christianity is on a downward trend in Germany, not everyone approves of
Brinkhaus’s comments including a poll taken by Bild which revealed that while 730 people were could imagine a
Muslim CDU Chancellor, 11,745 could not.
Saxony CDU
deputy Veronika Bellmann also disagrees with Brinkhaus saying that the Islamic
faith itself was incompatible with the CDU and its values.
No Place in 21st Century for Closing
Borders – German Bundestag President
Radical Islamic Terrorism
Accounts for 91 Percent of
European Terror Victims
7
Mar 2019320
2:31
The newly released Black and White Book of Terrorism in Europe has revealed
radical Islamic terrorists have accounted for 91 percent of the
total terror victims since the year 2000.
The
book is an initiative of Spanish MEP Maité Pagazaurtundua, president of
the Foundation for Victims of Terrorism, listing the 753 people killed in
terror attacks in the European Union between 2000 and 2018, Le Figaro reports.
The
report also examines European victims of terror globally, revealing that a
further 1,115 people including tourists and military personnel had also
been victims of terrorism during the same period.
In
total, 91 percent of the victims were killed by radical
Islamic extremists, 20 percent of whom were murdered by suicide bombers.
U.S. Commander: ‘Violent Extremists Present
a Clear and Present Threat’ to Europe'
a Clear and Present Threat’ to Europe'
Political
terror casualties have been far lower, with far-left extremists and far-right
extremists each murdering 13 people.
Far-left
extremism has been on the rise in several European countries in recent years,
with the German domestic intelligence agency BfV warning that violent far-left
extremist numbers rose from 7,100 to 9,000 between 2012
and 2017.
The
number of far-left extremist crimes also grew by a massive 88
percent during the same period.
In
terms of EU countries, Spain has seen the most terror-related deaths, with 268
victims, closely followed by France with 263.
Germany Sees Fourfold Rise in
Terrorism-Related Cases
Elisabeth
Pelsez, French interministerial delegate for terror victim support, said that
the book was not just one of statistics but also one of remembrance for the
victims of attacks.
“Forgetfulness
is the worst thing,” she said, going on to add, “let’s not forget the
physically or psychically injured, about 10 to 20 people for one death.”
More Than 1,000 Europeans Murdered, Maimed
in Attacks by Islamist Asylum Seekers Since 2014 http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/17/1000-murdered-islamist-migrants-eu/ …
The
number of terror threats in Europe has also remained high since the height
of the migrant crisis in 2015 with French authorities saying last summer that
they had prevented at least 5 serious terror
attacks that year.
In
2017, Europe faced an estimated 205 separate terror plots according
to Europol with 107 of the plots being reported by the United Kingdom.
Former Jihadist Reveals Network Smuggling
Islamic Radicals to Europe as Illegal Migrants
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Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email
at ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com
Islam: The West's 'Most Formidable and
Persistent Enemy'
At
the height of Western dominance over Islam in the early twentieth century, the
European historian Hilaire Belloc (b. 1870) made a remarkably prescient
observation that may have seemed exaggerated at the time:
Millions
of modern people of the white civilization -- that is, the civilization of
Europe and America -- have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in
contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway,
it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a
fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at
any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past”
(from Belloc’s The Great Heresies, emphasis added).
Anyone
who doubts that Islam has been “the most formidable and persistent enemy which
our civilization has had,” should familiarize themselves with that
civilization’s long militant history vis-Ã -vis the West.
According
to Islamic history, in 628, Muhammed, the Arabic founder of Islam, called on
the Byzantine Emperor, Heraclius -- the symbolic head of Christendom -- to
recant Christianity and embrace Islam. The emperor refused, jihad was
declared, and the Arabs invaded Christian Syria, defeating the imperial army at
the pivotal Battle of Yarmuk in 636 (see my MA thesis on this battle, which one
prominent historian described as the world’s “most consequential”).
This
victory enabled the Muslims to swarm in all directions, so that, less than a
century later, they had conquered the greater, older, and richer part of
Christendom, including Syria, Egypt, and North Africa.
Their
drive into Europe from the east was repeatedly frustrated by the Walls of
Constantinople; after the spectacularly failed siege of 717-718, many centuries would pass
before any Muslim power thought to capture the imperial city. The Arabs did
manage to invade Europe proper and conquered Spain but were stopped at
the Battle of Tours in 732 and eventually driven
back south of the Pyrenees.
For
more than two centuries thereafter, Europe continued to be pummeled by land and
sea -- untold thousands of Christians were enslaved and every Mediterranean
island sacked -- in the ongoing Muslim quest for booty and slaves, as what
historians have dubbed “the Dark Ages” descended on the continent.
The
vicissitudes of war ebbed and flowed -- the Eastern Roman Empire (“Byzantium”)
made a major comeback against Islam in the tenth century -- though the border
largely remained the same. This changed when the Turks, under the
leadership of the Seljuk tribe, became the new standard bearers of jihad.
They nearly annihilated eastern Anatolia, along with Armenia and Georgia, in
the eleventh century and, after the Battle of Manzikert, 1071, overran Asia
Minor.
By
now, however, Western Europe’s military might had so matured that when the Pope
called on the knights of Christendom to come to the aid of the Christian East,
the First Crusade was born. Western Christians, led by the Franks,
marched into the beast’s lair, defeated their adversaries in several encounters
and managed to establish a firm presence in the Levant, including in Jerusalem,
which they recaptured in 1099 -- only to lose it less than one hundred years
later, in 1187, after the fateful Battle of Hattin. By 1297, the Crusader presence
was eliminated from the Middle East.
But
if it failed in the East, the Crusade succeeded in the West. A handful of
years after the Muslim invasion and conquest of Spain around
711, fugitive Christians holed in the northern mountains of Asturia began the
Reconquista; by 1085 it had proven effective enough to prompt two new Muslim
invasions from Africa to counter it. Again, the ebb and flow of war
dominated the landscape, but by 1212, at Las Navas de Tolosa, Spain’s indigenous
Christians gave Islam its death-stroke, so that by 1252 it was confined to
Granada at the southernmost tip of Iberia.
Around
that same time, a violent but relatively short-lived Mongolian storm
overwhelmed much of the east; both Christians (notably Russians) and Muslims
were pummeled. A new Turkish dynasty arose from the Seljuk ashes; the
Ottomans -- whose identity revolved around the concept of jihad more their
predecessors -- renewed Islam’s perennial war on Christendom. They
managed to enter Eastern Europe, defeated a combined army of Crusaders at
Nicopolis in 1396, took much of the Balkans, and crowned their achievement by
fulfilling Muhammad’s desire of conquering Constantinople -- and enslaving and
raping thousands of its inhabitants in ways that ISIS tries to mimic -- in 1453.
But
mourning was soon tempered by joy: to the west, Spain finally conquered Granada
in 1492, thereby snuffing out Islam as a political power; to the east, the most
overlooked chapter of Muslim-Christian conflict was also coming to an
end. The Russians, who had lived under distinctly Islamic rule for nearly
two centuries, finally cast off the “Tatar Yoke” in 1480.
Even
so, the Ottomans continued to be the scourge of Christendom; they continued
making inroads into Europe -- reaching but failing to capture Vienna in 1529 --
and sponsored the seaborne jihad originating from North Africa. While the
Muslims largely failed to capture new European lands, Barbary pirates and
Crimean slavers captured and sold approximately five million Europeans.
In
1683, over 200,000 Ottoman jihadis attempted to take Vienna again. Even
though their failure marked the Ottoman Empire’s slow decline, Muslim slavers
of the so-called Barbary States of North Africa continued to wreak havoc all
along the coasts of Europe -- reaching even Iceland. The United States of
America’s first war -- which it fought before it
could even elect its first president -- was against these Islamic
slavers. When Thomas Jefferson and John Adams asked Barbary’s ambassador
why his countrymen were enslaving American sailors, the “ambassador answered us
that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their
Koran, that… it was their right and duty to make war upon them [non-Muslims]
wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as
prisoners...”
Finally
the Colonial Era came with Europe’s triumph over the Barbary States in the
early 1800s. By 1900, most of the Muslim world was under European
control; by 1924, the more than 600-year-old Ottoman caliphate was abolished --
not by Europeans but Muslim Turks, as the latter sought to emulate the
successful ways of the former. Islam was viewed as a spent force and
virtually forgotten, until recent times when it reemerged again.
Such
has been the true and most “general” history between the Islamic and Western
worlds.
From
a macrocosmic perspective, the consequences of the historic jihad are even more
profound than first appears. After writing, “For almost a thousand years,
from the first Moorish landing in Spain [711] to the second Turkish siege of
Vienna [1683], Europe was under constant threat from Islam,” Bernard Lewis
elaborates:
All
but the easternmost provinces of the Islamic realm had been taken from
Christian rulers… North Africa, Egypt, Syria, even Persian-ruled Iraq, had been
Christian countries, in which Christianity was older and more deeply rooted
than in most of Europe. Their loss was sorely felt and heightened the
fear that a similar fate was in store for Europe.
The
“loss” of North Africa and the Middle East “was sorely felt” by premodern
Europeans because they thought more along religious and civilizational lines
than nationalist ones. And before Islam burst onto the scene, most of
Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East were part of the same
religio-civilizational bloc. As such, Islam did not merely invade and
eventually get repulsed from Europe; rather, “Muslim armies conquered
three-quarters [or 75 percent] of the Christian world,” to quote historian
Thomas Madden.
Thus
what is now called “the West” is actually the westernmost remnant
of what was a much more extensive civilizational block that Islam permanently
severed, thereby altering the course of “Western” history. And once
Muslims overran Africa and the Middle East, most of its Christian subjects, to
evade fiscal and social oppression and join the winning team, converted to
Islam, thereby perpetuating the cycle, as they became the new standard bearers
of jihad against their former coreligionists north and west of the Mediterranean.
Such
are the rarely noted ironies of history.
Returning
to Hilaire Belloc, one can also see how an accurate understanding oftrue history
-- as opposed to an indoctrination in mainstream pseudo-histories -- leads to
an accurate prognosis of the future. For Belloc was not only
correct about the past but the future as well:
It
[Islam] is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our
civilization has had, and may at any moment become as
large a menace in the future as it has been in the past… The
whole spiritual strength of Islam is still present in the masses of Syria and
Anatolia, of the East Asian mountains, of Arabia, Egypt and North
Africa. The final fruit of this tenacity, the second
period of Islamic power, may be delayed -- but I doubt whether it can be
permanently postponed (emphasis added).
Note: The historical portion of this article follows the outline of my
recent book,Sword and Scimitar, which, in 352 pages copiously
documents -- including from little known or previously untranslated primary
sources -- the long and bloody history between Islam and the West, in the
context of their eight most landmark battles. American
Thinker reviews of the book can be read here and here.
Islam's Ambitious Mission
By Amil Imani
Every
organization has a mission or a mission statement with a goal in mind. It
works day and night to reach its ultimate target. Think of Islam as an
organization (not just another religion) with an ambitious mission. What is that ambition? you might ask.
While our
fellow Americans are snoozing, or at least not as active or proactive as their
counterparts, Muslims never deviate and never stop pursuing their goal of world
domination. They place their primary focus on non-Islamic lands – in this
case, Europe and the United States.
Knowing
Islam intimately, please allow me to assure you that to Muslims, the goal is
everything. Let's call it "religious fascism." Islam
condones any and all means to achieve its goal. The ultimate objective of
Islam is the rule of the entire world under the Islamic Ummah – never mind that these life-in-hand soldiers of Allah
disagree with one another regarding the Ummah itself
and who is to reign over it. That's a "family dispute" that
they will resolve by their usual favorite method: brute force.
Like any
organization and sub-organization, conflict exists within Islam. Muslims
do disagree with one another on several issues. Each Islamic sect
believes that it has the Prophet and Allah on its side and will prevail over
the other. For now, they should work diligently to achieve the
intermediary goal of defeating all non-believers. There are countless
instances that substantiate Muslims' "ends justifies the means"
guiding principle. This policy dates to Muhammad himself.
Muhammad
repeatedly made peace covenants with his adversaries, only to violate them as
soon as he was in an advantageous position. Betrayal, deception, and
outright lies are fully condoned in furthering the work of Islam. In the
present-day world, the work of Islam is defined by an entrenched and
influential clergy who issue fatwas – rulings – that become directives and laws
to the faithful.
As an
example, Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Iranian Islamic state, made
extensive use of the fatwa. Widely known in the west is Khomeini's fatwa
condemning Salman Rushdie to death for his book The Satanic Verses. A less known fatwa of Khomeini
during the last Iran-Iraq War led to the slaughter of thousands of Iranian
children.
Children, nearly all under 15 years of age, were given plastic "keys to paradise" as they were commanded by the fatwa of Khomeini to rush forward to clear minefields for the tanks to follow. The Islamic murderers, in obedience to the fatwa of a bloodthirsty man of Allah, had no problem in deceiving the clueless lads with made-in-China plastic keys to paradise.
Children, nearly all under 15 years of age, were given plastic "keys to paradise" as they were commanded by the fatwa of Khomeini to rush forward to clear minefields for the tanks to follow. The Islamic murderers, in obedience to the fatwa of a bloodthirsty man of Allah, had no problem in deceiving the clueless lads with made-in-China plastic keys to paradise.
Such is the
existential threat of Islam. It is a rigid Stone-Age controlling system
with a stranglehold over many of nearly one and a half billion people under its
command.
A dangerous
feature of the fascistic personality is the relative lack of independent
thought. This deficiency makes the person highly amenable to
manipulation. Islam, by its rigidly authoritarian makeup, robs a Muslim
of independent thought to the extent the believer blindly adopts it as his
infallible system of belief. Hence, the ideology of Islam is guilty of
conditioning masses of people as easily manipulated instruments in the hands of
influential figures.
One of the
greatest subtle, yet important differences between the Muslim's thinking and
that of the people in the West is the extent to which Muslims are fatalistic.
There is hardly a statement that a Muslim makes without being conditional
– conditional on the will of Allah. "I shall see you tomorrow, Allah
willing"; "You will make it home, Allah willing"; "Things
will work out, Allah willing"; and on and on and on. To the Muslim,
Allah is on the job – on every job. Allah, with his invisible mighty
hand, literally does run everything. "Allah's hand is above all
other hands" adorns every imaginable space in Islamic lands – a telling
point about the Muslim's fatalism and submission to the omnipotent, omnipresent
hand. If something happens, it is Allah's will. If it doesn't, it
is Allah's will. The rank-and-file Muslim has little will of his own.
It absolves him of any and all responsibility. This mentality is in
stark contrast with the "take charge" and "can do" mental
characteristics of Americans and others.
In the
Qur'an, itself, Allah gives these fellows their mandate: cleanse the Earth of
all kefir (infidels), and help usher in the Golden Rule of Islam over a corrupt
world. This high-purpose strategic goal of Islamization legitimizes any
and all tactics.
Qur'an
8:39: "Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah."
Allah, in his kindness, leaves a bit of wiggle room for the unbelievers. Those
who refuse to convert or whose life is spared may live under the rule of Islam
by paying poll taxes (jizya)."
Conclusion
While many
Muslims work around the clock for their cause – i.e., to infiltrate our
schools, our law enforcement agencies, our health care system – they also run
for office with the help of our Democrats and some GOP officials, who provide them with necessary tools.
Regrettably, only a small number of Americans understand the real threat.
There is no
doubt that Islam's goal is to religiously dominate the world, which involves
complete control over all phases of society through the brutal means of sharia,
with no distinction between mosque and state, between religion and liberties.
As Muslim
organizations march through with their own crusade here in the United States, under
our nose, I have not seen anyone stopping them.
GREEN BOOK AUTHOR ATTACKED FOR TELLING
TRUTH ABOUT MUSLIM 9/11
CELEBRATIONS
January 22, 2019
First of all, despite the insistence of this hit piece, and
various other media outlets, Muslims did celebrate after
9/11.
"When I saw they were happy, I was pissed," said Ron
Knight, 56, a Tonnele Avenue resident who said he heard cries of "Allahu
Akbar" as he shouldered his way through a crowd of 15 to 20 people on John
F. Kennedy Boulevard that morning.
Collectively, the gatherings amounted to dozens of people at the
two locations, the witnesses said. Callers also flooded the 911 system with
accounts of jubilant Muslims on a rooftop at a third location, three police
officers said, but a reporter was unable to find witnesses there 14 years later.
A retired police captain, Peter Gallagher, said he cleared a
rooftop celebration of 20 to 30 people at 6 Tonnele Ave., a four-story
apartment building with an unobstructed view of Lower Manhattan, in the hours
after the second tower fell.
"Some men were dancing, some held kids on their
shoulders," said Gallagher, then a sergeant. "The women were shouting
in Arabic and keening in the high-pitched wail of Arabic fashion. They were
told to go back to their apartments since a crowd of non-Muslims was gathering
on the sidewalk below and we feared for their safety."
FBI agents took several residents of the building into custody
days later, according to neighbors and an account in The Star-Ledger. It is
unclear why they were detained.
Knight was one of two Tonnele Avenue residents who said
they witnessed a crowd celebrating on John F. Kennedy Boulevard not far from
Masjid Al-Salam, the mosque where Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the "blind
sheikh," preached before the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Carlos Ferran, 60, who lives in the same building as Knight,
said he was on his way to a liquor store to buy beer when he came across the
gathering on the sidewalk.
"Some of them had their hands in the air," Ferran
said. "They were happy."
Three additional officers who remain on the Jersey City force
said they witnessed small groups of Muslim celebrants on Sept. 11, but they
would not speak for attribution, citing a department policy that prohibits
media interviews.
"I saw it with my own eyes," the ranking officer said.
"In the end, police officers are professionals, so we just observed that
stuff and sucked it up."
Eleven other officers claimed to have been witnesses to
celebrations in postings on Facebook after Trump resurrected the issue, but
they either declined to speak for attribution or did not return calls seeking
comment.
That, by the way, comes from a local paper. So not a myth, not a
lie, not a right-wing hoax, no matter how often the media lies about it.
The Greek Book author pointed out that it
happened. And so now he's being forced to apologize for telling the truth.
The writer of Green Book has apologised for a 2015
tweet that saw him making derogatory remarks about Muslims in the US.
Nick Vallelonga, who is the son of the film’s subject Tony
Vallelonga, sparked controversy after it emerged that he supported Donald
Trump’s previous claims that Muslims were seen celebrating the 9/11 attacks in
New Jersey.
Vallelonga tweeted that he had seen it. That's the truth. He
was made to apologize for... telling the truth.
Because the truth is now Islamophobic.
The tweet was brought to light by La La Land writer
Jordan Horowitz, who explained: “Nick Vallelonga wrote Green Book. My
industry just gave him a Golden Globe for writing. This remains on his
timeline."
So why was Jordan digging through another writer's timeline going
back years?
Question answers itself.
GEORGE
BUSH’S PARTNERSHIP WITH NARCOMEX FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS
The
perilous ramifications of the September 11 attacks on the United States are
only now beginning to unfold. They will undoubtedly be felt for generations to
come. This is one of many sad conclusions readers will draw from Craig Unger's
exceptional book House of Bush House of Saud: The Secret
Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties. As Unger claims in this incisive
study, the seeds for the "Age of Terrorism" and September 11 were planted
nearly 30 years ago in what, at the time, appeared to be savvy business
transactions that subsequently translated into political currency and the union
between the Saudi royal family and the extended political family of George H.
W. Bush.
THE JIHADIST
PSYCHOPATH’S
PLANTATION
Jamie Glazov's new book reveals how the Jihadist
Psychopath keeps us enslaved in his prison – and
how we can escape.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/272592/greek-book-author-attacked-telling-truth-about-daniel-greenfield
January 24, 2019
President Trump's National Security Adviser, John Bolton, has also
given glowing praise. As Dr. Glazov discusses in his video, John Bolton says
about Jihadist
Psychopath:
Hard as it is to believe, many in the West simply will not take
the time and trouble to understand the threat posed by radical Islamicist
terrorism. James Burnham once wrote of a similar problem with international
Communism in his masterful Suicide of the West. Now,
Jamie Glazov has written this century's counterpart to Burnham's classic work
and will doubtless upset those determined not to analyze for themselves the
nature of the underlying phenomenon.
With a Foreword written by Michael Ledeen, advance praise also comes
from Geert Wilders,
Robert Spencer, Steve Emerson and many other titans and
scholars in the international arena. (See
Amazon page for many of the blurbs).
Jew-Hatred in the Democratic Party
It is
really time for the liberal American Jewish Democrat to acknowledge that
blatant anti-Semitism has infected the Democratic Party.
Nancy
Pelosi has appointed Ilhan
Omar to the House Foreign Relations Committee. Omar
is viciously anti-Israel and is in favor of the anti-Israel Boycott,
Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Omar has long been a harsh critic of
Israel. In fact, in 2012 – just "a few days after Gaza-based
Hamas terrorists had launched more than 150 deadly rockets into the Jewish
state, prompting an Israeli military response – she tweeted that 'the apartheid
Israeli regime' had 'hypnotized the world' in order to conceal its own 'evil
doings.'"
In fact,
the only apartheid in the Middle East comes from Arab countries and is clearly
documented by Muslim reporter Khaled Abu Toameh, who regularly highlights
the Arab apartheid against Palestinians.
Furthermore,
"in 2016, Omar stated that she was in favor of completely divesting the
University of Minnesota of its Israel bonds. The following year, she
opposed a bill designed to counter economic boycotts targeting the Jewish
state." In addition, "in 2018, Omar ran for the U.S.
House of Representatives seat formerly held by Keith Ellison. Her
campaign was supported by ... the Hamas-linked Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which held three fundraising events on
Omar's behalf[.]"
Minority
Leader Kevin McCarthy asserts that "the Democratic Party is increasingly
anti-Israel and flirts, to be charitable, with anti-Semitism. Today we see the
latest evidence of the character of what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls the
'New party.'"
Omar is
not an anomaly. To wit, the Palestinian Rashida Tlaib is another newly elected Democrat
who harbors intense hatred for Jews and Israel. Like Omar, Tlaib
supports the BDS movement. Moreover,
[S]upporters of Tlaib's congressional bid
included J Street, Michael Moore, and Linda Sarsour[.] By August
2018, Tlaib had raised more than $30,000 from Islamists affiliated
with CAIR, MPAC, MSA, and MAS [all offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood].
After
Tlaib narrowly won the Democratic primary on August 7, she draped herself in a
Palestinian flag while celebrating with her supporters. In her
victory speech, she promised to 'fight back against every racist and oppressive
structure that needs to be dismantled.'
This is
code for dismembering America and Israel and any Western country that wants to
maintain basic freedoms.
If she is
to be judged by the company she keeps, it should be noted that "CAIR
founder and CEO Nihad
Awad congratulated Tlaib on her historic victory of becoming
the first Muslim and Palestinian woman in the U.S.
Congress." Moreover, "[a] notable attendee at Tlaib's
swearing-in ceremony was the executive director and co-founder of Al-Awda, Abbas Hamideh, who has repeatedly: (a)
stated his belief that 'Israel does not have a right to exist'; (b) equated
Zionism with Nazism and the genocidal ideology of ISIS; and (c) voiced support
for Hezbollah and its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, whom he regards as 'the most
honorable Arab-Muslim leader of our lifetime.' Following the
swearing-in ceremony, Hamideh posted to his Twitter account a photo of himself
and Tlaib holding up a large painting of the newly elected
congresswoman. He also attended a private dinner with Tlaib, her
family, and a number of her friends and activists."
Not
surprisingly, "[t]he press ... has not showed much interest
in reporting on the attitude of either [woman] toward
Jews." David Harsanyi writes, "Tlaib ... wants to cut
aid to the Jewish state because supporting it 'doesn't fit the values of our
country.'"
Let's be
frank. It doesn't support the values of a jihadist-loving individual
who seeks to demolish fundamental American values. Harsanyi further
explains:
The
writer David Steinberg identified 105 news stories written in the immediate
aftermath of Omar's victory, and not a single one mentioned her belief that
Jewry possessed mind-control abilities or that Israel was 'evil.' No
one called on the Democratic party to distance itself from this rhetoric.
Now, it
isn't inherently anti-Semitic to be critical of Israeli political leadership or
policies. ... But Omar used a well-worn anti-Semitic trope about the
preternatural ability of a nefarious Jewish cabal to deceive the world. ...
Omar had a chance to retract, or at least refine, her
statement. Instead, she doubled down. 'These accusations
[of anti-Semitism] are without merit,' she claimed, blaming Jewish Islamophobia
for the backlash. Omar even wants the U.S. to normalize relations
with the Holocaust-denying terror-state of Iran[.] ... Omar's defenders will
claim she's anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish. 'Anti-Zionism has been the
preferred justification for hatred of Jews in institutions of education and
within progressive activism for a long time. Now it's coming for politics.
Democrats can either [refuse to accept it], or they can remain silent.'
It has
become clear that many American Jews have substituted liberalism for their
religion, and, as Raymond Domanico writes, "American Jews are
fervent proselytizers for every "ism" – feminism, environmentalism,
pacifism, redistributionism[.] It's not just that Jews can't
distinguish their political friends from their enemies, or that Jews
consistently promote non-Jewish values. Far worse, this reflex
liberalism compels them to take positions adverse to their best interests."
But the
handwriting has been on the wall, unconcealed and unashamed. There
are Congressional representatives who are working to undermine the country and
in the process use the powerful and dangerous prejudice of
anti-Semitism. There is no disputing this; their words and their
associations speak for themselves.
Ari Lieberman asks, "[W]hy have Democrats
remained silent? Why have they not issued a full-throated
condemnation of Tlaib's vile comments?" He maintains:
First,
many Democrats suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, which prevents them from
assessing serious matters, such as anti-Semitism, in rational
terms. Tlaib is anti-Semitic to her core but because she is a Trump
hater, she's given a free pass.
Second,
fear is a powerful motivator and is effective at curbing
dissent. Many within the Democratic Party are fearful of speaking
their minds and challenging the new up and coming but still relatively small
socialist contingent within the Democratic Party. The fascist left
has been successful in drowning out voices of moderation.
Finally,
the Democratic Party itself is metastasizing into an anti-Semitic body much the
same way that Britain's Labour Party has. The British Labour Party,
taking its cues from its party boss, Jeremy Corbyn, is rife with Judeophobia
and hatred of Israel.
Daniel
Jonah Goldhagen in The Devil
that Never Dies wrote
that "anti-Semitic expression has exploded in volume and
intensity. It has done so with classical tropes and with new ones,
in long familiar forums and in recently invented ones."
So a
shift has begun that does not bode well. Until the rank and file
among Jewish Americans calls out the anti-Semitism of the Democratic Party,
things will not improve, since clearly, the Democratic Party leadership remains
mute and indifferent.
Jews of
all stripes should recall that in April of
2014, Investor's Business Daily described how
the "radical Muslim Brotherhood has built the
framework for a political party in America that
seeks to turn Muslims into an Islamist voting
bloc." Consequently, "'Muslim voters have
the potential to be swing voters in 2016,' said Nihad Awad in launching the benign-sounding U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, (USCMO) whose membership reads like a Who's Who of Brotherhood front groups. USCMO also aims to elect Islamists in Washington, with the ultimate objective of 'institutionalizing policies' favorable to Islamists – that is, Shariah law."
2014, Investor's Business Daily described how
the "radical Muslim Brotherhood has built the
framework for a political party in America that
seeks to turn Muslims into an Islamist voting
bloc." Consequently, "'Muslim voters have
the potential to be swing voters in 2016,' said Nihad Awad in launching the benign-sounding U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, (USCMO) whose membership reads like a Who's Who of Brotherhood front groups. USCMO also aims to elect Islamists in Washington, with the ultimate objective of 'institutionalizing policies' favorable to Islamists – that is, Shariah law."
Ilhan
Omar and Rashid Tlaib's elections are no mere happenstance. Their
success results from carefully coordinated steps "to wage a 'civilization
jihad' against America" that explicitly calls for infiltrating the U.S.
political system and "destroying [it] from within."
Eileen
can be reached at middlemarch18@gmail.com.
Valley Ranch Islamic Center's Lesser Known Side
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/valley_ranch_islamic_centers_lesser_known_side.html
On the surface, Valley
Ranch Islamic Center appears to be a liberal, modern Islamic center in Irving,
Texas. Their website has a slick minimalist
design. Their logo is an elegant series of colorful
rounded squares meant “to capture the essence of a dignified and unified
resource for Muslims in the Valley Ranch area.” On the home page, a photograph of their masjid members
shows a smiling, prosperous-looking community, male members posing in the
front, covered female members positioned in the back.
Their resident scholar
Omar Suleiman bills himself on his Twitter page as a “Muslim for Humanity. Lover
of Justice. Bridge Builder. Scholar. Activist.” In December 2018, he and 32
others were arrested at the Tijuana -- San Diego Border as part of the “Love
Knows No Borders” movement in support of immigrants and asylum seekers. On
February 1, 2017, D
Magazine wrote a
glowing profile of Imam Suleiman titled, “Omar Suleiman is the
Religious Leader Dallas Needs Right Now.”
But is he really?
While popular in the
press, particularly while working to promote progressive causes, there is a
lesser known side to the popular shaykh. For example,Suleiman
has posted without
any explanation an image of the Rabia, a four-finger hand gesture used to
demonstrate support for the Muslim Brotherhood. And while it was covered by the
online publication The Algemeiner, there was little media coverage on
Suleiman when he repeatedly called for another Palestinian “intifada.”
How befitting that the
third Intifada starts on the 27th night of Ramadan as worshippers are
denied prayer in Masjid Al Aqsa… May Allah help us overcome this monster,
protect the innocent of the world, and accept the murdered as martyrs. ameen
But beyond the questionable politics of their resident scholar,
an equally unsettling aspect of Valley Ranch Islamic Center is its ownership by
North America Islamic Trust (NAIT).
Based in Plainville,
Indiana, NAIT was founded in 1973 in by members of the Muslim Student
Association of the United States and Canada. Evidence submitted into
the record during
the Holy Land Foundation trial in the early 2000s showed that NAIT shared a
bank account with the Holy Land Foundation, deposited checks made
payable to
“the Palestinian Mujahedeen”, and provided funds to Hamas leader Musa Abu
Marzook. This led Federal Judge Jorge Jolis to write that the U.S. government
provided “ample evidence” to associate NAIT with Hamas.
Despite its role in the
Holy Land Foundation case, NAIT was never charged and remains a tax-exempt
non-profit endowment that subsidizes the construction of new mosques in the
United States. This financial control allows it to exercise authority over the
teachings and activities at the various Islamic institutions that it owns.
According to The Investigative
Project on Terrorism,
a recently declassified FBI memo from 1988 “advised that the IIIT,
NAIT (North American Islamic Trust) and all the subsidiary and sponsoring
Muslim organizations under the control of the IIIT and the SAAR Foundation are
in fact IKHWAN organizations,” “Ikhwan” being another name for the Muslim
Brotherhood. NAIT was also named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood
document, called “An Explanatory
Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” as an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood.
That document was entered into evidence during the Holy Land Foundation Trial
as “Elbarasse
Search-3”.
Other organizations
named in that memo as affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood include Muslim
Student Association (MAS), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Islamic
Circle of North America (ICNA). Omar Suleiman’s connections to these three
organizations are also easy to find. Suleiman is a member of ICNA’s Shura
Council. He is a confirmed speaker at this year’s ICNA-MAS Convention
in Washington D.C. on April 19-21, 2019, Easter weekend. He was a speaker at
the 40th annual ICNA-MAS Convention along with CAIR Executive Director
Nihad Awad and known-Islamist Siraj Wahhaj. Omar Suleiman also studied under
two Salafist clerics who now head the radical Assembly of Muslim Jurists of
America, Salah As-Sawy and Dr. Hatem Al Haj. That organization has called on Muslims in America
not to participate in America’s legal system and to “hate it in their hearts.”
Its ownership by NAIT, its Islamist resident scholar, and its
tight connections to other Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations such as
MAS and ISNA make the Valley Ranch Islamic Center more than just a Potemkin
Village, for a Potemkin Village has nothing behind it, but Valley Ranch has its
global and national connections, its Salafi-Muslim Brotherhood ideology, and
its title deed, which makes it the property of North American Islamic Trust.
Despite the facade of peace, brotherhood and justice, Valley Ranch Islamic
Center cannot properly cover up what it truly is.
Police in
Muslim Chechnya Torture Two to Death, Arrest Dozens for ‘Homosexuality’
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/01/14/police-muslim-chechnya-torture-two-death-arrest-dozens-homosexuality/
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Jan 201922
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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.”
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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.”
Why was a Muslim doctor who vowed to poison Jewish
patients working at the famed Cleveland Clinic?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/why_was_a_muslim_doctor_who_vowed_to_poison_jewish_patients_working_at_the_famed_cleveland_clinic.html
Is
there any profession that merits the esteem that doctors
have? I don't think so.
What
doctors do not only requires significant brains, but
requires professionalism, because patient trust is so
critical. Without that trust, how would a doctor be able to get a
patient to take his or her clothes off, bend over for an exam, or
accept a medical treatment with bad side effects? Trust is what
makes the whole profession work.
Medical
resident at Cleveland Clinic Lara Kollab, who published antisemitic statements
on Twitter regarding her Jewish patients at the hospital, was dismissed from
the hospital, the Cleveland Clinic reported on Monday.
Both
Canary Mission and StopAntisemitism.org called attention to Kollab's tweet from
2012, in which she wrote "ill purposely give all the yahood the wrong
meds..."
What
was she doing working at the Cleveland Clinic? She shouldn't have
even been allowed to scrub toilets there. This person is really a
doctor?
This
suggests something awful going on. It's not just that the
prestigious Cleveland Clinic should have vetted her before they hired her, or
gotten some competent vetters who understand that a doctor who threatens to
kill is not a doctor a patient will trust. It's also sign of
decline in the medical profession. How on Earth did this person get
a medical license, and why hasn't it been pulled? Did no one check
her ethics? She has a long history of vile anti-Semitic tweets,
loaded with homicidal ravings and musings, which are there
for all to see on Twitter. This wasn't someone who
just whispered her anti-Semitism, she broadcast it. This person
shouldn't just be fired; she should be de-licensed, and maybe jailed
for such vile threats, which not only bring great dishonor to the medical
profession, but erode the trust that patients must have in doctors.
After
reading a story like this, Jewish patients (and Cleveland has 80,000 Jewish
residents) will now have to start wondering if they've got another one like
her, and that will extend to other patients, too.
It's
sad and shocking, because doctors are such amazing people. They not
only cure the sick – sometimes, the very, very sick, through medical
miracles performed daily – but they also are fanatical
about their devotion to the Hippocratic Oath, which begins with "first, do
no harm." They care for all people, even unworthy people,
from injured bank-robbers to people who sponge off the
system, putting the saving of human life above all other
considerations. What's more, the heroism of doctors and other
medical professionals was there for all to see during the Paradise fires, where
we got stories such as this (Google, take note), with doctors racing through flames
on all sides of them to save lives. Doctors are absolutely amazing
people, showing every day that their work is a calling, not a job.
So
it's important to get answers on this, because Democrats are angling hard to
have the government take over medical care, and with their "Medicare for
All" plans, it's a certainty that patients will no longer be allowed to
choose their doctors. If you were Jewish, how'd you like to get
assigned someone like that? You don't even have to be Jewish to
start to worry about this one. This person threatened to poison
medical patients because they are Jewish. What she did was poison
medicine.
Jihad:
Islam's Engine
By Amil
Imani
Right
from the start, violent jihad served as the engine of Islam under the command
and supervision of Muhammad himself. To understand how quickly Islam
spread around the world, we must see the timeline
of Islam.
After
Muhammad's death in 632 A.D., his friend Abu Bakr was named caliph and
ruler of the Islamic community, or Ummah. Muhammad's followers in a
short time occupied a vast geographic area; conversion to Islam was
heightened by Islamic missionaries, who intermingled with local
populations to promulgate the Islamic teachings. It
resulted in Islam's spread outward from Mecca toward both
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the creation of the
Muslim world.
In
no time at all, Islam spread like a pandemic. Once it attacked the
mind of its victims, this debilitating disease was capable of transforming them
into helpless pawns that had no choice but to execute what they were directed
to do.
Here
is the truth, as bitter as it may be. Islam is the culprit. Islam
is anything but a religion of peace. Violence is at the core of
Islam. Violence is institutionalized in the Muslim's holy book,
the Qur'an, in many verses:
Qur'an:
9:5: "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them
captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war."
Qur'an:
9:112: "The Believers fight in Allah's cause; they slay and are slain,
kill and are killed."
Qur'an:
8:39: "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief
[non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole
world)."
Qur'an:
8:65: "O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are
twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there
are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels
are a people devoid of understanding."
Qur'an:
9:38: "Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to
go forth and fight in Allah's Cause you cling to the earth? Do you
prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? Unless you go forth,
He will afflict and punish you with a painful doom, and put others in your
place."
That's
what the Qur'an commands the believer repeatedly – to make jihad on even the people of the book, Jews and Christians. Islam essentially
invented the idea that Christians, Jews, and pagans are an abomination and
offensive to Allah and that their very existence represents an attack upon the
self-defined Islamic right to reign over the world. Allah thus
enlists Muslim believers to eradicate by force those who offend him and, by
disbelieving, prevent his rule. True Muslim believers therefore
become the enforcers, hit men and mercenaries for their god, in order to
establish a global caliphate for their parasitic clergy. Their
targets are artificially constructed adversaries.
Muslim
believers hence are instructed to fear the "great Satan" and are told
that if they do not live up to Allah's calls to jihad, they themselves are
offensive to Allah and to their families.
Now,
the only question that remains is the extent of a Muslim's obedience to the
Qur'an and the Sunna, the life examples of Muhammad. To be sure, a
great many Muslims are not following the dictates of the Qur'an verbatim, as
they should, since they consider it to be the literal immutable perfect words
of Allah.
Furthermore,
nowhere do I say all Muslims believe in shedding the blood of
others. Yet the commandments of the Qur'an to believers are clear
and emphatic. It is for this reason that an innumerable number of
Muslims do engage in jihad and suicide volunteers vie with one another to offer
their services to their handler leaders.
A
true Muslim does not and cannot believe in freedom of choice. In the
religion of Islam – Submission – everything is up to Allah, as clearly and
repeatedly stipulated in the Qur'an. The raison
d'être for the Muslim is to be unconditionally submissive to the will and
dictates of Allah. Everything a "good" Muslim does is
contingent upon the will and decree of Allah, he is indoctrinated to believe.
To
cut to the chase, we need to eliminate some disinformation and myths about the
"war on terror." We are not fighting
terrorism. We are engaging in an ideological battle between freedom,
conservatism, democracy, individual rights, capitalism, and
"Christian" ethics and Islamofascism, communism-socialism, theocracy,
and tyranny.
There
are also internationalist, dictatorial, globalist forces that seek to use the
conflict to create an international government and the unification of all
religions by the destruction of nationalism, patriotism, individual rights, and
sectarianism.
It
is not "fanatical," "radical," or "extreme" Islam
that we are fighting, but normal, orthodox, canonical, typical, accepted,
traditional Islam, straight from the mouth of Muhammad. Islam is
violent in direct proportion to its mission and scripture. The so-called
fanatics and terrorists are only upholding the truth of their principles.
In
short: We must begin to declare Islam evil, not from a sectarian perspective,
but from a universal, humanist one. Every encroachment of Islam as a
religion must be rejected and discouraged by all people
everywhere. Any leftist who attempts to give aid and comfort to this
religion of hate must be denounced and frustrated at every
turn. Otherwise, get used to your radioactive suit and your fallout
shelter, a standard of living – and a level of freedom – one tenth of what you
have today.
The Islamist Terrorist as
Psychopath
There
are basic interrelated questions that any student of human history must ask.
Why is human history filled with so much evil, and why do good people so often
do nothing in the face of evil?
Jamie
Glazov’s new book, Jihadist Psychopath: How He Is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring
Us, addresses that troubling question.
Jihadist Psychopath is a compelling look at the
process by which the West is losing its life and its soul.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom
Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left
and Islamic terrorism.
Muslim
Brotherhood, Islamists Have ‘Infiltrated’ Swedish Political Parties Since
1980s, Claims Academic
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Academic Sameh
Egyptson has claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups have
been systematically infiltrating Sweden’s political system since the 1980s.
Penning
an opinion piece for Swedish newspaper Expressen, Mr Egyptson, a
researcher in interreligous relationships at Lund University, believes that the Egypt-founded Muslim
Brotherhood is attempting to bring forward an Islamic agenda in the West by
using democratic systems, in Sweden specifically through the Islamic League in
Sweden (IFiS) and Sweden’s Muslim Council (SMR).
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Sweden Election: Prosecutor Considers
Alleged Votes For Building Permits Mosque https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/14/swedish-prosecutor-considers-investigating-mosque-offered-votes-building-permits/ …
Sweden Election: Prosecutor
Considers Alleged Votes For Building Permits Mosque
“In
my studies and research documents, I found that Islamists already negotiated
with political parties in the 1980s about voting in elections. A
report in Arabic written by Sweden’s Muslim Council (SMR) 2001 described a
historical chapter that not many people know about,” he wrote, quoting the
document as saying:
SMR
collaborates with IFiS to establish an Islamic political group to co-operate
and coordinate with the Swedish parties to educate political cadres. These
cadres will mingle with the parties and fight for the Muslim minority’s rights
through these parties.
Mr
Egyptson, who was born into a Coptic Christian family in Egypt, adds: “For us
who come from the Middle East this is not a surprise. In Egypt, the Muslim
Brotherhood managed to infiltrate two of the three parties that are the
inheritors of [former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel] Nasser’s Arab Social
Union, both the Liberals and Social Democrats.”
Sweden Election: Social Democrat Candidate
Claims Islamic Law More Important than Swedish Law https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/08/sweden-social-democrat-candidate-claims-islamic-law-more-important-than-swedish-law/ …
Sweden: Social Democrat
Candidate Says Islamic Law Trumps Swedish Law
In
an interview with Dagen on
Wednesday, Mr Egyptson said that Islamism had begun to influence the
country’s political agenda, noting that “there are special laws for Muslims,
Muslim schools, gender separation, and more.”
He
then claimed to have been in contact with members of the Muslim Brotherhood who
told him how they had influenced politics in Sweden through “our brother in the
defence committee” — referencing a “moderate” member of the Rikstag.
“They
could say this to me because they thought I was a Muslim,” he explained.
One
of the examples the academic gives of “political Islam” placing candidates
into Swedish politics is of the former minister for housing and urban
development, Green Party member Mehmet Kaplan, who resigned from
the government’s cabinet in 2016 after photographs of him dining with members
of Turkish ultranationalists, including the neo-fascist Grey Wolves, exposed his
links to extremism.
Another
is Omar Mustafa, the former chairman of the IFiS, who was elected to the
left-wing Social Democrats’ party board but was forced to resign seven days later in April 2013 after
disclosure of his alleged relationship to the Muslim Brotherhood, as
well as for inviting known anti-Semites to a conference and for his views on
women and gay people.
Swedish Left-Wing Party Takes Action over
‘Islamised’ Youth Winghttps://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/01/sweden-social-democrats-islamised-youth/ …
Swedish Social Democrats
Take Action over ‘Islamised’ Youth Wing
Asked
by Dagen how it
was possible for the MB to have “infiltrated” Swedish politics, when the
fundamentalist Islamic group claims not to have contacts in Sweden, the author,
who recently published the book Holy White Lies: Muslim Brotherhood in the West – Case Sweden, said, “It’s white lies,” explaining how he discovered in 1999 that Muslim representatives in Egypt
claiming to engage in ‘religious dialogue’ spoke differently to Western
visitors than they did to the Christian Egyptians.
“There
was no religious dialogue, it was white lies,” said Mr Egyptson said.
The
author and academic warned Swedish parties to “investigate the infiltration of
Islamists and return to their ideological values. For each new disclosure,
the parties lose confidence. Among the losers we find, in particular, the
Muslim voters who do not agree with the Islamists.”
In
September. Breitbart London reported that a
candidate for the Social Democrats was removed from the national list ahead of
Sweden’s federal elections for saying that Islamic law was more important than
Swedish law.
The
Social Democrats had also been warned to
take action over its “Islamised” youth wing after it emerged that members from
its migrant-populated no-go zones expressed views on LGBT matters that
conflicted with the party’s progressive position.
‘Justice
Democrat’ Ilhan Omar Argued Against Bill on Female Genital Mutilation
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/21/justice-democrat-ilhan-omar-opposed-law-to-ban-female-genital-mutilation/
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Ilhan Omar, the
newly-elected U.S. representative from Minnesota’s 5th congressional district,
and a member of the left-wing “Justice Democrats,” argued against a 2017 bill
in her state that increased penalties for female genital mutilation.
Omar
is being celebrated as one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress,
and a member of a new cohort of young, “progressive” and “diverse”
representatives who purportedly represent the future of the Democratic Party.
welcome to the future of the democratic
party
Yet Omar’s stance on female genital mutilation (FGM) is anything
but “progressive.”
In 2017, she questioned a bill in the Minnesota State House
against the practice, making it “a felony for parents to subject their
daughters to the procedure and calls for loss of custody and prison terms from
five to 20 years, depending on the extent of the injuries,” as well as
“increas[ing] penalties for those who perform the procedure,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
While she agreed that the practice was “heinous,” and ultimately voted for the bill — contrary to at
least one report — Omar claimed that FGM should not be
singled out by a new law, and that parents should be charged under existing
laws. She was quoted in local news as arguing: “I don’t want us
to create laws because we want to get into the media and because we want a
flashy headline.” She also reportedly opposed removing victims from their
parents’ custody, according to Alpha News.
The issue came to the fore Tuesday after a federal judge in
Michigan tossed out federal
criminal charges against a group of Muslim defendants who had carried out FGM
on young girls, ruling the federal ban unconstitutional. The state laws against
the practice are valid, but the federal law overstepped constitutional
boundaries, the judge ruled.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He
is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also
the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which
is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Update: While she argued against the bill, Omar ultimately voted
for it. The article has been updated to reflect that fact.
MUSLIMS ARE THE GODLESS CULT OF
MURDER, RAPE AND HATE
MURDER, RAPE AND HATE
When Muslims Rape European White
Women, Whose Fault Is It?
European
women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men. Such is the latest
position – the latest apologia – being offered by those dedicated to
exonerating undesirable Muslim behavior, particularly in the context of
accepting more Muslim migrants into the West.
On
October 14, seven Muslim migrants raped a teenage German girl in a park,
after drugging her at a disco in Freiburg. (At least she survived;
in a similar case that occurred a week earlier in Italy, the drugged rape
victim was left murdered.) Bernhard Rotzinger, the
police chief of Freiburg, responded bysaying, "We cannot offer citizens an
all-risk insurance [against crime], but I can advise this: Don't make yourself
vulnerable by using alcohol or drugs."
Similarly,
after mobs of Muslim migrants sexually assaulted as many as one thousand women on New Year's Eve 2016 in Cologne,
Germany, the city's mayor, Henriette Reker, called on the women, the victims – not
their male rapists – to make changes: "The women and young girls have to
be more protected in the future so these things don't happen
again. This means they should go out and have fun, but they need to
be better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming
up. For this, we will publish online guidelines that these young
women can read through to prepare themselves."
Such
advice against alcohol, drugs, and reckless behavior would be more respectable
had it not been made under duress. As it is, it is a
cop-out. Or, as a November 8 report discussing the aforementioned rape
in Freiburg puts it, "[t]he focus on prevention is a good thing, but also
shows how German authorities and media barely hold the migrant crisis
responsible for the disaster that is unfolding in Germany. Political
correctness has caused officials to put the blame for the criminal acts on the
women instead of Merkel's guests."
These are
hardly the first times officials "put the blame for the criminal acts [of
Muslim men] on the women." Nor is this phenomenon limited to
Germany. For instance, after a 20-year-old Austrian woman waiting at
a bus stop in Vienna was attacked, beaten, and
robbed by four Muslim men – including one who "started [by] putting his hands
through my hair and made it clear that in his cultural background there were
hardly any blonde women" – police responded by telling the victim to dye
her hair:
At first
I was scared, but now I'm more angry than anything. After the attack
they told me that women shouldn't be alone on the streets
after 8pm. And they also gave me other advice, telling me I
should dye my hair dark and also not dress in such a provocative
way. Indirectly that means I was partly to blame for what happened
to me. That is a massive insult.
Likewise,
Unni Wikan, a female professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo
in Norway, insists that "'Norwegian women must
take their share of responsibility for these rapes,' because Muslim men found
their manner of dress provocative. The professor's conclusion was
not that Muslim men living in the West needed to adjust to Western norms, but
the exact opposite: 'Norwegian women must realize that we live in a Multicultural
society and adapt themselves to it.'"
So much
for the feminist claim that women are free to dress and behave as promiscuously
and provocatively as they want – and woe to any man who dares cite this as
justifying his sexual aggression. Apparently, this feminist refrain
does not apply to Muslim men.
But
perhaps the greater irony of all these excuses is that, from the very start of
Islam 14 centuries ago, European women – even chaste nuns – have always been portrayed by Muslims as sexually promiscuous by nature.
This is
easily discerned by examining medieval Muslim perceptions – and subsequent
treatment – of European women, as documented throughout Sword and Scimitar:
Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (see American Thinker review here). Consider Muslim views
concerning neighboring Byzantine women, who came to represent all European or
Christian women to Islam.
As one
Western academic of Muslim origin (rather euphemistically) explains:
The
Byzantines as a people were considered fine examples of physical beauty, and
youthful slaves and slave-girls of Byzantine origins were highly valued. ...
The Arabs' appreciation of the Byzantine female has a long history
indeed. For the Islamic period, the earliest literary evidence we
have is a hadith (saying of the Prophet). Muhammad is said to have
addressed a newly converted Arab: "Would you like the girls of Banu
al-Asfar [the yellow (haired?) or pale people]?"
Muhammad's
question was meant to entice the man to join the Tabuk campaign against the
Romans and reap its rewards – in this case, the sexual enslavement of
attractive women. In other words, as "white-complexioned blondes, with
straight hair and blue eyes," to quote another academic, Byzantine women
were not so much "appreciated" or "highly valued" as they
were lusted after. (All quotes in this article are sourced from and
documented in Sword and Scimitar.)
Any sense
of compliment ends there. Muslims habitually portrayed Europe's
Christian women, as contemptible and corrupt infidels, beginning with those
they first encountered in neighboring Byzantium, as sexually promiscuous by
nature – perhaps simply to support the fantasy that they were eager to be
sexually enslaved. Thus, for Abu Uthman al-Jahiz (b. 776), a
prolific court scholar, the females of Constantinople were the "most
shameless women in the whole world"; "they find sex more
enjoyable" and "are prone to adultery." Abd al-Jabbar
(b. 935), another prominent scholar, claimed that "adultery is commonplace
in the cities and markets of Byzantium" – so much so that even "the
nuns from the convents went out to the fortresses to offer themselves to monks."
For all
these reasons and more, European women, typified by neighboring Eastern Roman
women, became Islam's "beautiful femme fatale who makes men lose their
self-control," as Nadia Maria el-Cheikh, author of Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, explains:
Our
[Arab-Muslim] sources show not Byzantine women but writers' images of these
women, who served as symbols of the eternal female – constantly a potential
threat, particularly due to blatant exaggerations of their sexual
promiscuity. In our texts, Byzantine women are strongly associated
with sexual immorality[.] ... While the one quality that our [Muslim] sources
never deny is the beauty of Byzantine women, the image that they create in
describing these women is anything but beautiful. Their depictions are,
occasionally, excessive, virtually caricatures, overwhelmingly negative.
Such
fevered fantasies – which "are clearly far from Byzantine reality" –
existed only in the minds of Muslim men and "must be recognized for what
they are: attempts to denigrate and defame a rival culture. ... In fact, in
Byzantium, women were expected to be retiring, shy, modest, and devoted to
their families and religious observances. ... The behavior of most women in
Byzantium was a far cry from the depictions that appear in Arabic sources."
Clearly,
little has changed some 1,400 years after the founding of Islam: European women
continue to be seen as naturally promiscuous and thus provoking Muslim men into
raping them.
Thus, in
the United Kingdom, a Muslim man explained to a British woman why he was raping
her: "you white women are
good at it." Another
Muslim man called a 13-year-old virgin "a little white slag" – British slang for "loose,
promiscuous woman" – before raping her.
In
Germany, a group of Muslim "refugees" stalked a 25-year-old woman,
hurled "filthy" insults at her, and taunted her for
sex. They too explained their logic to her – "German girls are just
there for sex"
– before reaching into her blouse and groping her. A Muslim man who
almost killed his 25-year-old German victim while raping her – and shouting
"Allah!" – asked afterward if she enjoyed it.
In
Austria, an "Arabic-looking man" approached a 27-year-old woman at a
bus stop, pulled down his pants, and "all he could say was sex,
sex, sex," prompting the woman to scream and flee.
In
Australia, a Muslim cabbie groped and insulted his female passengers, including
by saying, "All Australian women
are sluts and deserve to be raped."
In short,
the ancient Islamic motif concerning the alleged promiscuity of European women
is alive and well – irrespective of the latter's behavior – and continues
justifying the Muslim rape of Western women.
Yet, even
in this, Islam can turn to those "progressive," godless elements that
dominate Western society for cover. For, just as "the
Left" has worked long and hard to portray Islamic intolerance, violence,
and terrorism as the West's fault – because of the crusades, because of
colonialism, because of cartoons, because of Israel, because of freedom of
speech – it now adds "because of Western promiscuity" to the list of
reasons that "provoke" Muslims to behave like Muslims.
(For many
more examples of Muslims sexually objectifying Western women throughout
history, see the author's new book, Sword and Scimitar.)
Reports: Saudi Authorities Tortured and Sexually Abused Human
Rights Activists
21
Nov 2018203
4:12
Human rights
organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accused
authorities in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of torturing and sexually abusing some
of the country’s most high-profile dissidents and human rights activists.
According to detailed testimony published
by Amnesty International, “activists were repeatedly tortured by electrocution
and flogging, leaving some unable to walk or stand properly,” leading to one of
the victims repeatedly trying to take her own life:
In one reported instance, one of the activists was made to hang
from the ceiling, and according to another testimony, one of the detained women
was reportedly subjected to sexual harassment, by interrogators wearing face
masks.
According to the testimonies obtained, the human rights defenders
were unable to walk or stand properly, had uncontrolled shaking of the hands,
and marks on the body. One of the activists reportedly attempted to take her
own life repeatedly inside the prison. Prison authorities in Dhahban Prison
have also reportedly warned detained activists against disclosing any accounts
of torture or prison procedures to family members.
This testimony was also corroborated by
“informed sources” who spoke with Human Rights Watch, who reported on similar
cases of torture and sexual abuse:
The reports allege that torture by Saudi authorities included
administering electric shocks, whipping the women on their thighs, and forcible
hugging and kissing, Human Rights Watch said today. The sources were concerned
that they and the activists would suffer reprisals if the women were identified
publicly.
The sources say that masked Saudi interrogators tortured the
women during the initial stages of interrogation, but it was unclear whether
they were seeking to force the women to sign confessions or merely to punish
them for their peaceful advocacy. Following the interrogations, sources said,
the women showed physical signs of torture, including difficulty walking,
uncontrolled shaking of the hands, and red marks and scratches on their faces
and necks. At least one of the women attempted to commit suicide multiple
times, the sources said.
The Saudi government has held the activists in the Dhahban
prison on the western Red Sea coast since May, following a crackdown on
women’s rights campaigners charged with trying to “destabilize” the
Kingdom and supposed links with “suspicious” entities working outside the
country.
The women were principally campaigning for the establishment of
equal women’s rights in the face of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s reforms
to various aspects of Saudi’s religious law, which include allowing women
to drive cars.
On Wednesday, the Saudi government strongly denied all
allegations of torture, claiming the activists were subject to the “standard
judiciary process.”
“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s judiciary system does not
condone, promote, or allow the use of torture. Anyone, whether male or female,
being investigated is going through the standard judiciary process led by the
public prosecution while being held for questioning, which does not in any way
rely on torture either physical, sexual, or psychological,” a Saudi official
said.
The Islamic kingdom has come under growing international
condemnation in recent weeks following the murder of
Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi in the country’s embassy in Istanbul last month. Principal
suspects in the case include members of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman’s inner circle, although he has denied any connection to the killing.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump confirmed that
the U.S. would not pursue the allegations against the country involving
Khashoggi further for fear of jeopardizing business and security relationship,
despite growing criticism of the country’s appalling human rights record.
“It’s a very simple equation for me. I’m about making America
great again and I’m about America first,” Trump said in his statement. “We may
never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi. In
any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They have been
a great ally in our very important fight against Iran.”
“QURAN SAYS KILL PEOPLE LIKE YOU. WE WILL KILL
YOU.”
The likes of Osama Saeed and Hamza Yousaf are the
SNP's new defenders of Scottish values. Osama Saeed was also a Scottish
National Party candidate and an adviser to Prime Minister Salmond.
Osama Saeed, named one of Scotland's Top 100 thinkers and
opinion formers, wrote an article for The Guardian championing the
return of the Caliphate. "A restored caliphate," Osama explained,
"is entirely compatible with democratically accountable
institutions." It would be just like the EU, except its leader would be
called a Caliph, its law would be Sharia and if the US and Britain are really
sincere about helping Muslims, they should support the restoration of the Caliphate.
In an astoundingly short time, the Scottish National Party has
gone from collaborating with Nazis, to collaborating with Islamists. Its talk
of Scottish values has become a farce. SNP candidate Humza Yousaf took his oath
of allegiance in the Scottish Parliament in Urdu. Jahangir Hanif became
known as the Kalashnikov Councilor over a video of him firing an
AK-47 in an armed camp in Pakistan. And the SNP has funneled hundreds of
thousands of pounds to the Scottish Islamic Foundation
And this now is just the sort of thing that will happen.
Paigham Mustafa and his family have been offered protection
by police after several fundamentalists branded him a
"Kafir", which means disbeliever, and issued death threats.
Mustafa claims to be living under a fatwa issued in 2001 by 15
imams in Glasgow after he published a series of articles questioning
mosque teachings. The married father of three later published his book The
Quran: God's Message to Mankind, his interpretation of the central religious
text of Islam.
Last week, a letter written by Mustafa questioning the practice
of fasting during Ramadan was published and subsequently posted on Facebook.
In a series of threatening messages under the post, one critic
said: “Shut up or else you will get your head chopped off … shut up or else you
will be beheaded … shut up you Kafir dog … you will get beheaded … we will kill
you kafir.”
A separate message sent privately by another critic said: “Quran
says kill people like you. You deserve to be killed. We will kill you.”
Another post by a third critic warned: “Don’t talk about Islam
you Kafir. Remove this post Kafir. Or else you will get killed like Rashad
Khalifa.”
Mustafa fears he will be targeted by fundamentalists in the UK
and compared himself to Asad Shah, who was stabbed to death in a
religiously-motivated murder in Glasgow in 2016. Shah’s killer, Tanveer Ahmed,
said Shah had “disrespected the messenger of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad”.
No place is safe. No place is immune. Not when the doors to
migration are open.
I Will
Kill You and Eat Your Corpses’: Deported Radical Imam Told Prison Guards
13
Jan 2019149
1:59
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 Giornale reports.
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.”
Breitbart TV
“The
Friday prayer ceremony was held in his cell and he dressed in the typical
tunic of an imam,” they added.
Italy’s Salvini Deports Islamic Extremist
Who Wanted to Kill ‘White Tourists’ and ‘Christians’ https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/10/13/italys-salvini-deports-islamic-extremist-who-wanted-to-kill-white-tourists-and-christians/ …
Italy's Salvini Deports
Islamist Wanting to Kill ‘White Tourists,’ ‘Christians’
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.
Former Jihadist Reveals Network Smuggling
Islamic Radicals to Europe as Illegal Migrants https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/01/10/former-jihadist-reveals-islamic-radicals-coming-italy-illegal-migrants/ …
Italy Uncovers Network
Smuggling Islamic Radicals as Illegal Migrants
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Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email
at ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com
TRUMP AND HIS SAUDIS
The Saudi Challenge
Jamal
Khashoggi's murder -- and no one now questions whether the Washington Post
contributor was killed by Saudi agents in the kingdom's consulate in Turkey --
has far-reaching implications for the Trump administration. President Donald
Trump appears to want to help sweep the incident under the rug, providing cover
for the Saudis' ludicrous suggestion that the killing was a rogue operation or
an interrogation gone awry. And he's enmeshed the highest officials of his
administration in the mess by sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Riyadh,
where the secretary was photographed, all smiles, sitting with Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman, who most likely ordered Khashoggi's murder. The
administration is giving itself little leeway to take serious measures to
protest the killing, signaling to the world that the U.S. cannot be counted on
to stand up against bloodthirsty autocrats, even when a U.S. resident and
member of the American press is the victim.
I doubt that Trump understands -- or cares about -- what message
he's sending. Wealthy Saudis, including members of the extended royal family,
have been his patrons for years, buying his distressed properties when he
needed money. In the early 1990s, a Saudi prince purchased Trump's flashy yacht
so that the then-struggling businessman could come up with cash to stave off
personal bankruptcy, and later, the prince bought a share of the Plaza Hotel,
one of Trump's many business deals gone bad. Trump also sold an entire floor of
his landmark Trump Tower condominium to the Saudi government in 2001. During
the campaign, the Trump Organization registered more than a half-dozen limited
liability companies in the kingdom, in anticipation of cashing in on Trump's
enhanced renown. When Trump actually won (which apparently he didn't think he
would at the time), someone must have explained he couldn't move ahead with new
business there as president, because he withdrew the registrations. Of course,
a little thing like benefiting from the office of the presidency hasn't stopped
the Trump Organization, run by the president's two eldest sons, from accepting
Saudi largesse since the election. With many Trump properties and brands losing
customers in today's highly polarized political atmosphere, Saudis are spending
lavishly on Trump properties in Washington, New York and even Chicago as many
others avoid them.
But
if Trump doesn't get why looking the other way when an American journalist is
tortured, beheaded and hacked to pieces by a team of Saudi government
operatives is bad, surely national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary
Pompeo do. Autocrats are stepping up their game around the world. Russian
President Vladimir Putin didn't hesitate to order a hit on British soil of an
ex-KGB agent and his daughter earlier this year. But the United Kingdom
responded quickly, kicking out Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions. The
United States followed suit, but only because Congress, not Trump, knew that to
do otherwise would have let down an ally and encouraged a despot. When asked in
a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday whether he believes that Putin was
involved in the poisoning and other assassinations, Trump's response was:
"Probably he is, yeah. ... But I rely on them. It's not in our
country."
The
Trump administration relies on Saudi Arabia, too. It is the enemy of our enemy
Iran, which, in political calculus, makes Saudis our "friends." But
even friends require reining in at times. And these friends need us more than
we need them. We are no longer dependent on oil imports; our oil reserves
surpass those of Saudi Arabia. Although Trump worries about losing that
promised $110 billion Saudi arms purchase he keeps touting (but which has yet
to materialize), the Saudis don't have anywhere else to go if they want to keep
their airplanes in the air. They are locked in by past purchases; no one else
can deliver the spare parts for U.S.-built weapons. As for the help in
challenging Iran, they have no choice there, either. Iran is far more a direct
threat to the kingdom than it is to the U.S. And as for their most crucial role
-- the war on Islamic terrorism -- the Saudis claim to fight terrorism but are
also a major source of funding for radical Islamic schools and mosques that
recruit terrorists around the world.
The
administration has only a short time to come up with a proper and proportionate
response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The president thinks Americans will
move on -- but his inaction makes the world a more dangerous place. And next
time, the attack just might be on American soil.
Trump
scrambles to cover for Saudi regime as crisis over Khashoggi murder mounts
By Barry
Grey
19 October 2018
Following US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s emergency talks in
Riyadh and Ankara, and amid mounting reports implicating Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi, the Trump administration is scrambling to shield Washington’s closest
ally in the Arab World.
On Thursday, Trump continued to suggest that Prince Mohammed and
his father, King Salman, may have had nothing to do with the disappearance and
evident torture and murder of Khashoggi on October 2 in the Saudi consulate in
Istanbul. However, after being debriefed by Pompeo following the latter’s talks
with Prince Mohammed and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump told
reporters it appeared that Khashoggi was dead.
The official line is that Pompeo secured a pledge from the Saudi
leadership to hold accountable anyone found in the course of the regime’s own
investigation to have played a role in Khashoggi’s disappearance. On that
fraudulent basis, Pompeo advised Trump to give Riyadh several more days to
provide an accounting, after which the White House will decide its response.
Meanwhile, unnamed Turkish officials and the pro-Erdogan
newspaper Yeni
Safak reported Wednesday on the contents of what they claim is
an audio recording of the events that transpired in the Istanbul consulate
following Khashoggi’s entering the building on the afternoon of October 2. The
60-year-old self-exiled Saudi national and resident of Virginia in the US, who
went from being a regime insider to a Washington
Post columnist and critic of the new crown prince, ostensibly
went to the consulate to obtain documents in advance of his impending wedding
to a Turkish national. He never emerged from the consulate.
According to the Turkish accounts, he was almost immediately
attacked by a team of 15 men who had flown that day to Istanbul from Saudi
Arabia, brutally tortured, drugged, murdered, beheaded and dismembered. These
sources say his fingers were cut off, but do not stipulate whether that
occurred before or after he had expired. One of those reported to have been in
the group is a forensic doctor who carried a bone saw.
The Washington
Post on Wednesday published a detailed profile of the 15 men,
complete with photos and scans of travel documents. It reported that at least
nine of the men have ties to Saudi security. The New York Times reported
Wednesday that at least four are directly linked to the crown prince, having
traveled with him as part of his personal security detail.
The claim of Crown Prince Mohammed that he had no foreknowledge
of a plan to kill the former regime loyalist-turned critic is absurd on its
face. He is an absolute ruler in a brutal totalitarian dictatorship, and is
known to closely oversee the activities of his security apparatus and to be
personally extremely cruel.
Pompeo’s meetings on Tuesday with King Salman and Crown Prince
Mohammed were aimed at signaling continued US support while making a pretense
of seeking a full accounting of Khashoggi’s disappearance. The same is true of
his meeting the following day with Erdogan, at which he evidently did not ask
for a copy of the audio recording of the events inside the consulate.
For his part, the Turkish president has yet to publicly make any
accusation against the Saudi leadership or endorse the reports being leaked by
Turkish officials and the media. At odds with Riyadh over the Saudi regime’s
support for US-allied Kurdish forces in Syria, its backing for the el-Sisi
dictatorship in Egypt, and its lineup with Washington over Iran, Erdogan
appears nevertheless to be reluctant to sever relations with the oil-rich
Saudis and may be seeking to use Riyadh’s crisis as leverage in obtaining
concessions.
On Wednesday after meeting with Erdogan, Pompeo told reporters
on his plane back to the US: “I do think it’s important that everyone keep in
their mind that we have lots of important relations, financial relationships
between US and Saudi companies, government relationships, things that we work
on all across the world. The efforts to reduce the risk to the United States of
America from the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, Iran.
“We just need to make sure that we are mindful of that as we
approach decisions that the United States government will take when we learn
all of the facts.”
This amounts to an unwitting admission of the outright
criminality of both governments.
As the former CIA director and current secretary of state,
Pompeo’s reference to the “things we work on all across the world” includes
conspiring to strangle, destabilize and potentially wage war against Iran, in
alliance with Israel and most of the other Gulf oil sheikdoms.
These “things” also include the near-genocidal Saudi-led war in
Yemen, which has already killed some 50,000 men, women and children and
threatens another 14 million with starvation and deadly epidemics of cholera
and diphtheria. The Saudis could not carry out their relentless bombing and de
facto blockade of the Arab world’s poorest country without US arms, its mid-air
refueling of Saudi bombers, its provision of intelligence and help in selecting
targets and the assistance to its naval forces.
It is notable that in all of the US press commentary critical of
Trump and the Saudi crown prince, there is virtually no mention of the US role
in the slaughter in Yemen.
There is as well the collaboration between Washington and Riyadh
in suppressing the Palestinians and propping up Israel, and their joint support
for Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist terrorists in the war for regime-change in Syria.
The US is particularly reliant on the Saudi monarchy at the
present moment, in advance of its November 5 deadline for imposing sanctions
against all Iranian exports. It is counting on Riyadh to open its oil spigot to
prevent a spike in oil prices as a result of a sharp reduction in Iranian oil
exports.
At the same time, the administration is coming under increasing
pressure, both internationally and at home, to distance itself from the crown
prince. It made a reluctant concession to this pressure on Thursday with the
announcement that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin would join the swelling
ranks of Western officials, bankers and media organizations that have announced
they will not attend next week’s international investors’ conference in Riyadh,
to be hosted by Crown Prince Mohammed.
Dubbed “Davos in the Desert,” the event is on the brink of
collapse. On Wednesday, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine
Lagarde pulled out. Businesses that have made similar announcements include
Uber, JPMorgan Chase, Viacom, BlackRock and Blackstone Group. CNN, the Financial Times, CNBC,
Nikkei and the New York
Times are among the media organizations that have withdrawn as
media sponsors.
The likely debacle of the investors’ conference will intensify
an already acute crisis facing the Saudi monarchy. The Wall Street Journal reported
Thursday that global investors are growing increasingly alarmed at what the
newspaper called Saudi Arabia’s “debt binge” in recent months. In the
two-and-a-half years since May 2016, the country has floated $68 billion in
dollar-denominated bonds and syndicated loans—up from zero.
In addition, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund took out its
first-ever bank loan last month, raising $11 billion. And the national oil
company Saudi Aramco plans to raise up to $50 billion.
Reflecting declining confidence in the regime, the cost of
insuring against Saudi default has risen by 30 percent since the disappearance
of Khashoggi, and even before the Khashoggi allegations, foreign direct
investment had fallen to historically low levels.
Also on Thursday, the Washington
Post published Khashoggi’s final column for the newspaper.
Introducing the piece, Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah explained that
the Post had
received the column one day after Khashoggi’s disappearance, but had decided to
hold it in the hope that he would reemerge. In publishing the piece, the
newspaper acknowledged that the author had died.
The content of the column points to Khashoggi’s likely links to
sections of the US state and intelligence apparatus. A former aide to the Saudi
chief of intelligence and one-time ambassador to the US, Khashoggi had long
been known as an interlocutor between the Saudi regime and Western media and
government officials. He also had close ties to Osama bin Laden.
In his final column he compares the suppression of speech and
expression in the Arab world to the Soviet “Iron Curtain,” and calls for the
development of an “independent” news source in the Middle East modeled after
the cold war-era propaganda organ Radio Free Europe.
This would in part explain the furious reaction of Trump critics
in both political parties, the media and the intelligence establishment to the
administration’s efforts to alibi for the Saudi leadership. Obama’s CIA chief
John Brennan, for example, has repeatedly denounced Trump’s attempts to cover
for the regime and insisted that the crown prince personally ordered the murder
of Khashoggi
Bill And Hillary Tour Underwhelms In
Ticket Sales, Attendance
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Bill
and Hillary Clinton have taken their show on the road. Ticket sales for “An
Evening with the Clintons” are not what they once might have been, according to
all reports. With stops deliberately booked in what are assumed to be
Clinton-friendly cities, the aging power couple seems to be having trouble
filling seats.
It’s
not exactly a whirlwind tour. The schedule is downright lethargic in the
beginning. The first stop on November 27 was in Toronto, Canada with a stop the
next night in Montreal. The next stop on the schedule is Houston on December 4. In light of the passing of
former President George H.W. Bush, that date may be canceled or changed. But,
that’s all there is to the tour until 2019. They start back up in April 2019 in
New York City and continue through May, ending in Las Vegas on May 5. Does
anyone else think it’s odd that a former U.S. president and a former
Secretary of State began a self-promoting tour in Canada? Maybe it’s just me.
The
venue in Toronto only sold 3,300 tickets. Whole sections of the arena were
empty. I checked the website for ticket prices and for
the Houston stop, the cheap seats go for $15.00 and the most expensive ticket
price I could find was $1146.00. That’s a real bargain, especially
compared to the book tour events (it’s not just a book tour, they are events)
scheduled for former First Lady Michelle Obama. The high-end prices for the Michelle tour go for $10,000. That is
what I found and it’s not a stop in Houston but in Dallas at the American
Airlines Center. The Clinton venue in Houston is smaller.
Anyway,
you won’t be surprised to read that a good bit of the Clinton question and
answer conversation centers around her bitterness toward President Trump. He
lives rent-free in her head.
And
the former secretary of state was prepared to mock Trump’s
interview with the Washington Post just hours after it published, shaking her head at Trump
telling the paper “my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can
ever tell me.”
You “literally you can’t make
this stuff up,” she said. “A dozen times a day your head is spinning.”< And
near the end of the event, Hillary Clinton returned to Trump's gut, criticizing
him for saying he does not "believe" a recently released dire
government report on climate change. "It just riles me up," she said.
"If you won't listen to people who actually spend time over decades
studying problems, my goodness, your gut is not the answer to everything that
is important in the world, I'm sorry."
The
tour comes at a time when speculation is strong on whether or not Hillary will
actually make another attempt at a presidential run. She joked about standing
for Parliament in Canada when asked about any plans to run but you know she’s
thinking about. I don’t think she ever stops thinking about it. She’s consumed
with anger that Donald Trump won. While the next generation of Democrats is
ready to move up, the Clintons (especially Hillary) refuse to leave the stage.
It’s no wonder ticket sales are slow. Why would anyone pay money to listen to
them when almost any day an interview or quote is available in print or on
television? It’s not like either of them are saying anything new.
Also,
there’s the re-emergence of Monica Lewinsky. She’s been telling her story after
all these years. Don’t expect either Clinton to be asked about that whole
scandal, though. It’s not happening. The former horndog-in-chief
still gets a pass on the difficult questions.
But the kickoff comes at a
tenuous time for the Clintons: Not only is their standing in the Democratic
Party in question after neither was particularly prolific during the midterms,
but the event comes amid a renewed focus on Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica
Lewinsky, a moment in history that has gained more attention recently because
of a multi-part series on the affair on A&E and other retrospectives. The
Lewinsky affair and other allegations against of sexual impropriety Bill
Clinton are also being re-examined in the light of the #MeToo era.
One topic that Hillary is quick
to criticize President Trump on is his relationship with Saudia Arabia. It’s
ironic given the Clinton Foundation’s refusal to state that they will no longer
accept financial
donations from The Kingdom as others
have.
“We
have a president who is part of the cover-up as to what happened in that
consulate or embassy when Mr. Khashoggi was murdered,” Clinton said. “And we
have a president and those closest to him who have their own personal
commercial interests.”
But the Clinton Foundation, to
which donations declined dramatically after Clinton’s 2016 defeat, has taken
multi-million dollar contributions from Saudi Arabia in the past and isn’t
ruling out continuing to accept them.
The
Clinton Foundation accepted between
$10 and $25 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with donations coming as
late as 2014. A now-defunct group named “Friends of Saudi Arabia,” which was
reportedly co-founded by a Saudi Prince and often worked as a PR front for the
kingdom, also donated between $1 and $5 million.
Implying
corruption about the sitting president in business dealings is probably not the
best idea. She and her husband have a legacy
of corruption. She
should just sit that conversation out.
Images of 9/11: A Visual Remembrance
The whole world experienced the attacks of September 11, 2001, in real time. Videos, photos, and audio captured the horror wreaked that day by Islamic jihadists and the heroism of ordinary Americans. In our effort to never forget, Breitbart News provides you a visual remembrance of that fateful day when the world changed.
Just six days before — the view of the New York skyline with the World Trade Center at sunset taken on September 5, 2001. (Jamie Squire /Allsport)
The Islamic hijackers on American Airlines Flight 11 crash it into the north tower of the World Trade Center (1 WTC) at 8:46am.
The first five minutes of cable coverage.
United Airlines Flight 175 approaches the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/ William Kratzke)
At 9:03am, the Islamic hijackers of United Airlines Flight 175 crash it into the south tower of the World Trade Center (2 WTC). (AP Photo/Carmen Taylor/File)
A fireball explodes from the south tower. (AP Photo/Carmen Taylor)
Smoke billows from the north tower of the World Trade Center and flames and debris explode from the south tower. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong)
(AP Photo/Todd Hollis)
(AP Photo/ABC via APTN)
Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)
President Bush’s Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into his ear: “A second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack.” Bush was visiting Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
(Photo by Fabina Sbina/ Hugh Zareasky/Getty Images)
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Debris fall from one of the burning twin towers (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Smoke pours from the World Trade Center after both planes strike. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images)
People watching the burning towers from the street below. (Getty Images)
People hang out of broken windows of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Richard Pecorella has spent years searching for an image he says will bring him peace: a photograph that proves his fiancee, whom he believes could be in this photo, jumped to her death from the burning World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
A man leaps to his death from a fire and smoke filled Tower One of the World Trade Center. (Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
A person jumps from smoke and flames at the World Trade Center. (Robert Giroux/Getty Images)
People in front of New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral react with horror as they look down Fifth Ave towards the World Trade Center towers. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
A man jumps from the north tower. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A person falls headfirst from the north tower. This image inspired a documentary. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
A woman cries watching the World Trade Center go up in flames. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
At 9:37am, the Islamic hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77 crashed it into the Pentagon. In this photo, a helicopter flies over the Pentagon the crash site. (AP Photo/Heesoon Yim)
A helicopter flies over the burning Pentagon. The Washington Monument can be seen at right, through the smoke. The White House roof is visible in the trees of Washington at left. (AP Photo/Tom Horan)
Vehicles are seen traveling on Interstate 395, leaving Washington, in front of the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Tom Horan)
Rescue workers look over damage at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Kamneko Pajic)
At 9:45am, the FAA ordered the United States airspace shut down. No civilian flight was allowed to take off and all aircraft in the air were ordered to land at the nearest airport. In this photo a screen at the American Airlines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport shows that all flights have been canceled as the airport is shutdown. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
A board at the Los Angeles Airport announces the closing of the airport. (GERARD BURKHART/AFP/Getty Images)
At 9:58am, the south tower of the World Trade Center begins to collapse. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
The south tower collapsing. The Millenium Hilton hotel is in foreground. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
The south tower collapses. (AP Photo/Jim Collins)
(Photo by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images)
(AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The south tower collapses. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
People flee the falling south tower. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
At 10:03am, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In this photo, officials examine the crater at the crash site. Were it not for the heroism of the passengers who stormed the cockpit, the Islamic hijackers would have crashed the plane into either the United States Capitol dome or the White House. (DAVID MAXWELL/AFP/Getty Images)
This photo of the north tower of the World Trade Center shows the building 30 seconds before its collapse at 10:28am. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
People run from the collapse of one of the twin towers. (AP Photo/FILE/Suzanne Plunkett)
This is a view of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn after the World Trade Center towers collapsed. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
Smoke rises from the New York skyline. (JOHN MOTTERN/AFP/Getty Images)
(AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)
(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Flags fly at half-staff at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J. as a large cloud of smoke billows from the fire at the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)
Thick smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty where the World Trade Center towers stood. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)
The Statue of Liberty stands as smoke rises from the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
The remains of the World Trade Center stands amid the debris. (AP Photo/Alexandre Fuchs)
People run from the debris of the collapsed towers. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
Pedestrians on Beekman St. flee the area of the collapsed World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta,FILE)
Survivors make their way through smoke, dust and debris on Fulton St., about a block from the collapsed towers. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova,FILE)
Marcy Borders covered in dust as she takes refuge in an office building after one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed in New York. Borders was caught outside on the street as the cloud of smoke and dust enveloped the area. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
A police officer helps a woman to a bus after she fled the area near the World Trade Center towers. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
People flee the collapsing World Trade Center. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Dust swirls around south Manhattan moments after a tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Police escort a civilian from the scene. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
People walk in the street in the area where the World Trade Center buildings collapsed. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
People evacuate the area around the World Trade Center. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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A car sits on its side amid rubble at the World Trade Center. (Photo by Ron Agam/Getty Images)
Cars are covered in rubble after the collapse of one of towers. (DOUG KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)
The debris and wreckage. (Getty Images)
A man walks through the rubble. (DOUG KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)
Edward Fine covering his mouth as he walks through the debris after the collapse of one of the World Trade Center Towers. Fine was on the 78th floor of 1 World Trade Center when it was hit. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
A man helps evacuate a woman through rubble and debris. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
An unidentified New York City firefighter walks away from Ground Zero after the collapse of the Twin Towers. (Photo by Anthony Correia/Getty Images)
People cover their faces as they move across the Brooklyn Bridge out of the smoke and dust in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)
People flee lower Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge. (AP Photo/Daniel Shanken)
Pedestrians crossing the Brooklyn Bridge as they flee Manhattan after the collapse of the south tower. (DOUG KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)
Traffic in Washington, DC, gets gridlocked, as US government workers are released and the city is shutdown following the attacks. (TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)
President Bush watches television as he talks on the phone with New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and New York Gov. George Pataki aboard Air Force One. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
President Bush talks with Chief of Staff Andrew Card aboard Air Force One during a flight to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
An F-16 fighter flies just off the wing of Air Force One on a flight back to Washington. (DOUG MILLS/AFP/Getty Images)
A trader outside the London Stock Exchange reads the evening paper with “Terror war on USA” on the front page. (NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)
Newspaper vendor Carlos Mercado sells the “Extra” edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. (SCOTT OLSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Deputy U.S. marshal Dominic Guadagnoli helps a women after she was injured in the attack on the World Trade Center. (AP Photo/Gulnara Samoilova)
A shell of what was once part of the facade of one of the twin towers rises above the rubble that remains after both towers collapsed. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)
New York City firefighters rest during rescue operations at the World Trade Center. (Ron Agam/Getty Images)
New York City firefighters’ search and rescue efforts at the World Trade Center. (Ron Agam/Getty Images)
New York City firefighters take a rest from rescue operations. (Photo by Ron Agam/Getty Images)
An unidentified New York City firefighter walks away from Ground Zero after the collapse of the Twin Towers. (Anthony Correia/Getty Images)
Rescue workers make their way through the rubble of the World Trade Center. (DOUG KANTER/AFP/Getty Images)
An exhausted police officer rests on a car covered in dust near the World Trade Center. (STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
Late afternoon, smoke rises in the distance before the Long Island and the Throgs Neck Bridge between the Bronx and Queens, NY, following the destruction of the Twin Towers (MATT CAMPBELL/AFP/Getty Images)
Smoke billows from where the World Trade Center Twin Towers once stood, as evening descends on the City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
Patricia Petrowitz falls to her knees in prayer in Seattle’s St. James Cathedral during a prayer service on September 11, 2001. The Cathedral was filled to standing room only. (Tim Matsui/Getty Images)
Kellog Metcalf closes his eyes during the prayer service in Seattle’s St. James Cathedral. (Tim Matsui/Getty Images)
From front left: Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., Senate Majority Leader, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., Rep. Richard Gephardt, House Minority Leader, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and other Congressional members stand together on the steps of the Capitol to show unity on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, in Washington. They sang “God Bless America.” (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert)
President George W. Bush walks down the steps of Air Force One as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. (DOUG MILLS/AFP/Getty Images)
President Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office on the evening of September 11. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
Volunteers donate blood at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, at a blood donation station set up to help victims of the World Trade Center attack. Sadly, the donations were largely unnecessary because there were so few survivors rescued from the collapsed towers. (Tim Boyle/Getty Images)
In the days that followed, people returned to Ground Zero with photos of their loved ones, searching for any news of their whereabouts. In this September 13, 2001 photograph, a woman poses with a picture of a missing loved one who was last seen at the World Trade Center.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
In this September 15, 2001 photograph, a woman poses with a picture of a missing loved one who was last seen at the World Trade Center.(AP Photo/Charlie Krupa)
A woman is comforted as she holds a picture of a missing loved one who was last seen at the World Trade Center.(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
(AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
A woman looks at missing person posters of victims from the World Trade Center attacks.(AP Photo/Robert Spencer)
During 9/11, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani became America’s mayor. In this photo, he consoles Anita Deblase, of New York, whose son, James Deblase, 44, was missing, at the site of the World Trade Center disaster. “He’s at the bottom of the rubble,” she said. James Deblase worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Military and fire personnel get set to unfurl a large American flag on the roof of the Pentagon, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Firefighters unfurl an American flag from the roof of the Pentagon Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
A makeshift altar, constructed for a worship service, overlooks the the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001, in Shanksville, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
An American flag is posted in the rubble of the World Trade Center on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)
The massive clean-up efforts at Ground Zero spanned months. Among the rubble, a cast iron cross was found rising out of the destruction at the World Trade Center. The cross fell intact from Tower One into nearby Building Six on Sept. 11. (AP Photo/Pool)
On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2001, rescue and construction workers gathered around Father Brian Jordan, second from left, who blessed the cross of steel beams found amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center by a laborer two days after the collapse of the Twin Towers. (AP Photo/Pool, Kathy Willens)
And over the years, the country rebuilt and the memorials arose…
On July 23, 2011, Father Brian Jordan and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani look on during a blessing of the World Trade Center cross before it was moved into its permanent home at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
On May 15, 2014, President Barack Obama speaks during the dedication ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
On May 15, 2014, the South reflecting pool is viewed at the Ground Zero memorial site during the dedication ceremony of the National September 11 Memorial Museum. The museum spans seven stories, mostly underground, and contains artifacts from the attack on the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001 that include the 80 ft high tridents, the so-called “Ground Zero Cross,” the destroyed remains of Company 21’s New York Fire Department Engine as well as smaller items such as a letter that fell from a hijacked plane and posters of missing loved ones projected onto the wall of the museum. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
On May 15, 2014, a rose is placed on a name engraved along the South reflecting pool at the Ground Zero memorial site during the dedication ceremony. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
On May 15, 2014, a quote from Virgil fills a wall of the museum prior to the dedication ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial Museum. (John Munson-Pool/Getty Images)
On May 21, 2015, the National 9/11 Flag is displayed for the first time at the National September 11 Memorial Museum. The flag was recovered nearly destroyed from Ground Zero and was restored in “stitching ceremonies” held across the country. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
On October 29, 2014, One Word Trade Center as seen from the 9/11 Memorial grounds where the fallen towers once stood. (Diane Bondareff/Invision/AP Images)
On September 11, 2016, people visit the Pentagon’s 9/11 Memorial Park in Arlington, Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
On September 9, 2018, people attend the dedication stand around the 93-foot tall Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the tower contains 40 wind chimes representing the 40 people that perished in the crash of Flight 93. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
On September 10, 2018, this is the Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where thousands of victims’ relatives, survivors, rescuers and others are expected at Tuesday’s September 11 Anniversary ceremony. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump plan to join an observance there tower honoring victims. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Five of the 37 'terrorists' tortured and beheaded by Saudi Arabia were gay lovers, say confessions 'extracted by Bin Salman's torturers' in nation where homosexuality is punishable by death
- Saudi Arabia's interior ministry announced Tuesday it had executed 37 nationals
- One allegedly confessed to having gay relationships with four of his co-accused
- Court documents have revealed how many disputed their 'confessions' at trial
- After the executions one of the condemned was crucified and put on display
Five victims of a Saudi mass execution were gay lovers, according to a confession which appeared at their Sharia court trial.
One of the 37 men beheaded on Tuesday allegedly admitted to having sex with four of his co-accused 'terrorists,' but many complained at trial their confessions were obtained through torture.
The Shia man's homosexual relationships appeared in lines alleging he confessed to hating the state and the Sunni sect, the court documents obtained by CNN showed.
Homosexuality is punishable by death in the Gulf state which adheres to Sharia law.
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman (pictured) is the subject of scrutiny over alleged human rights abuses - court documents revealed the condemned pledged their allegiance to the royal family in desperation
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Saudi Arabia's interior ministry announced on Tuesday that 37 Saudi nationals had been executed [file photo]
The court document obtained by CNN stated: 'He said that he did all this because he belonged to the Shia sect and because he was against the Sunni sect, and because of his hate for the state and its men and its security forces.'
But the man denied the charges against him and his lawyer claimed the confession was totally fabricated.
He was among fourteen convicted of forming a 'terror cell' in the city of Awamiya after anti-government demonstrations in 2011 and 2012.
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One of the condemned - Munir al-Adam - is recorded as saying: 'Those aren't my words. I didn't write a letter. This is defamation written by the interrogator with his own hand.'
Al-Adam was just 23 when he was arrested at a government checkpoint in April 2012.
Mujtaba al-Sweikat was 17 when he was detained at King Fahd International Airport in 2012 - he had been planning on studying in Michigan
He was beaten on the soles of his feet and had to crawl on his hands and knees for days.
As a five-year-old boy he had lost his hearing in one ear following an accident, but after torture he lost hearing in the other and was left totally deaf. The 27-year-old was executed on Tuesday.
Two of those beheaded were just 16 and 17 when they were arrested - including one who was set to start a new life in the US at Western Michigan University.
Mujtaba al-Sweikat, then 17, was severely beaten all over his body, including on the soles of his feet, before 'confessing' to crimes including attending protests in 2012.
In 2017, staff at the university said the English language and pre-finance studies student showed 'great promise' and called for him to be released.
Abdulkarim al-Hawaj, 21, was the youngest executed, four years after being arrested in the country's Shia-majority Eastern province for spreading information about protests on WhatsApp.
At the time of his arrest, staff at Western Michigan University said the English language and pre-finance studies student, Mujtaba al-Sweikat, showed 'great promise' and called for him to be released
Under international law, putting to death anyone who was under 18 at the time of the crime is strictly prohibited.
Human rights charity Reprieve said al-Hawaj was beaten, tortured with electricity and chained with his hands above his head until he 'confessed' to his crimes.
Reprieve said both men were sentenced to death at the end of 'sham trials' when they were denied access to lawyers.
It claimed they were held for months in solitary confinement and their convictions were solely based on their 'confessions' which were extracted under torture.
At his trial, al-Hawaj was convicted on cyber crime charges including spreading information on WhatsApp 'as proscribed by the cyber crime bill' and sentenced to death.
Abdulkarim al-Hawaj was beheaded in Saudi Arabia after being arrested as a teenager for spreading details about peaceful protests on WhatsApp
Another victim, Hussein Mohammed al-Musallam, said in court: 'Nothing in these confessions is correct and I cannot prove that I was forced to do it. But medical reports ... show the effects of torture on my body.'
State-run media said on Tuesday those executed had 'adopted extremist ideologies and formed terrorist cells with the aim of spreading chaos and provoking sectarian strife'.
The U.N. human rights chief condemned the beheadings, saying most were minority Shi'ite Muslims who may not have had fair trials and at least three were minors when sentenced.
The sentences were carried out in Riyadh, the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, central Qassim province and Eastern Province, home to the country's Shiite minority.
Three other prisoners who were under 18 at the time of their alleged crimes, Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher, remain on death row.
Al-Marhoon told Reprieve he was tortured and made to sign a blank document, to which Saudi officials then added his 'confession'.
Executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom are usually carried out by beheading.
At least 100 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the year, according to a count based on official data released by SPA.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (pictured) slammed Mohammed Bin Salman on Tuesday over the execution of al-Sweikat
Abdullah al-Zaher (left) and Dawood al-Marhoon (right) were also sentenced to death for crimes they allegedly committed under the age of 18. Under international law, this is strictly prohibited and they remain on death row
Last year, the oil-rich Gulf state carried out the death sentences of 149 people, according to Amnesty International, which said only Iran was known to have executed more people.
Rights experts have repeatedly raised concerns about the fairness of trials in Saudi Arabia, governed under a strict form of Islamic law.
People convicted of terrorism, homicide, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking face the death penalty, which the government says is a deterrent for further crime.
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