WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY?
I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. TULSI GABBARD
Denmark Charges Islamic State Women for Promoting Terrorism
Danish prosecutors have charged three women, all in their thirties, for promoting terrorism after travelling to Syria where they joined the Islamic State and married members of the jihadist terror organisation.
The three women, aged 33,35, and 38, have been charged by Danish prosecutors after being in custody since arriving back in Denmark in October 2021 after they were repatriated from the al-Hol prison camp in northern Syria along with their 14 children.
“It is our opinion that women have been an important part of ISIS in terms of family and practical support of the terrorist organization, which contributed to isis activities in the occupied territories,” said Jakob Berger Nielsen, public prosecutor in Viborg, the newspaper Berlingske reports.
Two of the women are said to have Danish citizenship, while another has dual citizenship and, as a result, could be stripped of her Danish passport and deported — a move the prosecution wishes to take in the case.
Two of the women are expected to be brought before juries as prosecutors are seeking at least four years in prison for each, while the other case is expected to be brought before a hearing.
The first case is scheduled to take place in November, with the second taking place in April of next year. No date has yet been confirmed for the third case.
Several countries have arrested and prosecuted returning Islamic State women who were repatriated from the al-Hol camp, including Denmark’s neighbour Sweden, which arrested a woman last year who allegedly forced her own son to become a child soldier for the terror group.
Earlier this year, the daughter of an Islamic State woman arrested for forced marriages, human trafficking, and helping an Islamic State member rape a child, was also arrested in Denmark after she was accused of trying to ship off a four-year-old girl to Qatar against the wishes of the mother of the child.
Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at @TomlinsonCJ or email at ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.
A Tale of Two Islamic States
One is liberalizing, the other is massacring its people. Can you guess which one Biden is aiding - and the one he's pushing away?
Biden and the woke Democrats have enthralled themselves in a bizarre love affair with the Mullahs in Iran, while repelling energy and capital giant Saudi Arabia.
The strategic imbecility of this position amounts to geopolitical malpractice. It has emboldened the Iranian regime to murder Americans around the world, including threatened attacks against our former president and members of his administration, and to ruthlessly suppress dissent at home.
It also has driven the Saudis into the arms of Russia and Communist China, a consequence so avoidable to be simply idiotic.
Scratch your head all you wish: you will not find a rational explanation for such a policy because there is none.
Such is the World According to Joe.
Where are the feminists and the Woke Left when Iranian women and girls throw off their head-scarves and taunt the Islamo-fascist storm troopers linking elbows in the streets? Where are Joy Reid, Kamala Harris, or Sandy “AOC” Cortez? Instead of supporting the Iranian Revolution of 2022, they are shrieking at “Mega Maga Republicans” as the enemies of –uh– people-kind.
But the Woke Left doesn’t just tacitly support the murdering mullahs of Tehran. Before Elon Musk walked into Twitter headquarters last Thursday with his kitchen sink, the faceless brown-shirted “moderators” at Twitter suspended the account of an Iranian hactivist group called “Black Reward,” while maintaining the anti-Semitic hate-America rants of the Supreme Turban, phony ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
What was Black_Reward’s cardinal sin? They hacked into the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and posted on-line 50 GB of data, including internal emails detailing how the Iranian regime was lying to international nuclear inspectors as it secretly developed nuclear weapons.
Exposing the Mullahs’ marathon crawl to nuclear weapons must be hate speech. Just ask Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.
Neddy Price, the State Department spokesman, still refuses to close the door on a new Iran nuclear “deal,” even though it’s crystal clear to anyone paying attention that showering a murderous regime with tens of billions of dollars and allowing them to continue their nuclear projects with the help of Western technology will lead to war – a real war, not a liberal war of words.
Since taking office on January 20, 2021, Biden and his B-Team of deep state imbeciles have twisted themselves into pretzels to cajole the Mullahs into a new nuclear deal, even offering at one point to remove the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and its leaders from the State Department terrorist list (a bridge too far even for Congressional Democrats and quickly walked back).
They waived Trump-era sanctions on the Iranian oil sector in July 2021, allowing the regime to profit from higher oil prices brought about by Team Biden’s war on fossil fuels. Former Trump administration national security director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction, Richard Goldberg, called the waiver “a bailout, plain and simple.”
Contrast this love affair with the Iranian regime — and apparent disdain for the wishes and aspirations of the Iranian people — with B-Team Biden’s war on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, MBS.
By now, every American knows Salman’s cardinal sin, because the Woke Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) drum it into us whenever they report on the Saudis. MBS ordered the gruesome October 2018 murder of heroic dissident journalist Jamal Kashoggi. How do we know this? Why, Biden’s CIA told us so.
The problem, of course, is that Biden’s CIA dearly wanted to make the case that MBS ordered the Khashoggi murder, but even they couldn’t go that far, saying instead that they “assessed” that MBS ordered the murder because it was “highly unlikely” anyone would carry out such an operation without his authorization.
In other words, they kinda felt MBS must be guilty, because they really really didn’t like him, but didn’t have any evidence or even whispered lies to prove it.
Don’t get me wrong: Mohammad bin Salman is no angel, let alone a Thomas Jefferson. But neither was Khashoggi. A self-avowed devotee of the Muslim Brotherhood and admirer of Osama bin Laden, he became beloved of the chattering class because he put his name on opinion pieces in the Bezos Post dreamed up and heavily edited by an unregistered lobbyist for the Government of Qatar.
That isn’t my opinion, but information revealed by New York Times scribe Ben Hubbard, whose 2020 book-length attack named after MBS was remarkably candid about Khashoggi’s (and the WAPO’s) corrupt behavior. The lobbyist, Maggie Mitchell Salem, “was serving as [Khashoggi’s] de facto agent, advisor, and editor while on the payroll of a country the Saudis consider an enemy,” he writes on page 205.
And yet, even his detractors begrudingly award Mohammad bin Salman a reputation for being a reformer. “His lifestyle changes have been a smash-hit with the under-30s generation of Saudi Arabia, some 70% of the kingdom’s citizens, and his ambition to transform the country into a modern technological leader has ignited the imagination of youth,” former British diplomat John Dobson writes in the Guardian newspaper.
In November 2017, less than five months after he was named Crown Prince, MBS had the royal palace summon hundreds of the wealthiest men in the Kingdom for private meetings with the King, including such powerful luminaries as Al-Waleed bin Talal, partial owner of Fox News. Thinking they were about to receive some royal favor, they all accepted the invitation – and were immediately escorted to the Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh where they were kept under house arrest in luxury suites for weeks.
According to Hubbard’s account, they were interrogated “about corrupt deals they were accused of having been part of or privy to and confront[ed] with documents said to show their complicity.” (p195). MBS then robbed them of hundreds of billions of dollars they had plundered from the Saudi state.
He also fired the head of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, the Minister of Economy and Planning, and the commander of the Royal Navy. This was after he defanged the Kingdom’s Wahhabi clerics and made clear they could no longer dictate social policy or preach political Islam in the mosque.
Imagine if Donald Trump had done something similar in, say, June 2017, summoning the heads of the CIA, the FBI, the Directorate of National Intelligence, the NSA, the State Department, the CDC, and yes, even Dr. Fauci’s National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and then locked them up in private rooms in the Trump International Hotel while he proceeded to strip them of their security clearances and their Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards?
Once word leaked out of the arrests, the US media and their allies in the Deep State turned viciously on the Crown Prince. A former U.S. diplomat, quoted anonymously by NBC News, called it “a shakedown operation and a power consolidation operation.”
MBS had succeeded in defanging his own version of the Deep State – apparently, forever. And now he is focused on what he calls Vision 2030, his plan to reform the Saudi economy, weaning it away from all oil and government domination.
Just think of it: while Iran’s Mullahs are murdering women and girls for doffing their head-scarves, MBS is encouraging Saudi women to drive cars and become money-managers.
MBS has also signaled his desire to eventually join the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the Abraham Accords, making peace officially with the State of Israel. Already, he has removed restrictions on Israeli commercial aircraft so they can overfly the Kingdom en route to the Gulf sheikdoms.
Ayatollah Khamenei would probably die of heart failure the day Israeli planes flew over Tehran.
I think I know which potentate I would cultivate, and it’s not Khamenei — but then, I’m not a Democrat.
Ken Timmerman’s 12th book of non-fiction, And the Rest is History: Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies, was recently released by Post Hill Press. Timmerman was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 and has covered the Middle East for 40 years.
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In Iran, stonings and beatings create a necropolis for the living
In 2007, a very disturbing video was smuggled out of the Islamic Republic in Iran, recording the stoning of a number of Iranians.
Watching the video is extremely upsetting.
The disturbing video begins with a lashing of one person. After that, Hojjatoleslam Ali Razini, who was the head of Tehran's judiciary at the time, announced the verdict for the accused men on the amplifier. They were brought to the center of an arena like lambs to the slaughter, surrounded by a baying crowd of fanatics, who had scavenged rocks to use as weapons, and drooled like bloodthirsty wolves for their first kill. The condemned men were covered in white shrouds, as men with spades dug and filled their death pits around them.
Half buried in the pits, Razini threw the first stone at the accused – as if he were giving the Roman thumbs down. The four men, who were buried up to their waists, could only aimlessly try and attempt to somehow avoid the avalanche of rocks, but like prey caught in a trap, they could not avoid the inevitable. Soon their white shrouds were broken open and reddened with the color that symbolizes the character of the Islamic regime occupying Iran.
Stoning is an age-old ancient punishment, but who would ever think that today, in this new Millennium that there are still people on the planet who are forced to live under such barbaric and brutal laws?
However, cases of stoning to death, prescribed in Islamic canons for certain offenses, are in widespread practice. In October 2004, a 13-year-old child was stoned to death in Marivan, Iran. She had been accused of a “moral sin” by falling pregnant.
The video featured male victims, but this outrage is indicative of a second problem well beyond the barbaric punishment itself: That women and girls are more often targets.
This is not as widely publicized as it should be. Even though the practice is applied to both men and women, because stoning is usually a punishment implemented against offenses such as adultery, women are more likely to be blamed and accused of such social misbehavior offenses.
Thirteen-year-old Jila’s horrific murder follows the death of 16-year-old Atabeh Rajabi, who was executed on August 15, 2004, for “engaging in acts incompatible with chastity.” Atabeh was refused a defense attorney in court. During an appearance in court, Atabeh bravely defied the adjudicator who sat in judgment of her and in doing so, the sociopathic judge sentenced her to death by hanging and personally volunteered to help with the noose. The free world stood by in silence and did nothing.
Fast forward to Sept. 16, 2022, the unjust arrest of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for the "crime" of improper hijab attire.
Mahsa was so brutally abused and beaten while in custody, that she eventually died while in a coma.
In its sixth consecutive week, Mahsa’s death has unleashed the anger of the Iranian people in what can only be defined as an uprising against the clerical regime such as has never been seen before, as well as the first ever female-led revolution.
Fearless Iranian women and teenage girls are disobeying the clerics by removing and burning their headscarves while courageous Iranian men proudly stand defiantly strong by their side against the brutal regime’s forces with the slogan: “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi,” meaning, “Woman, Life, Freedom.”
This grassroots movement has taken the world by surprise is the antithesis of the Islamic Republic’s ethos.
Now teenage girls are burning posters of the so-called supreme leader Ali Khamenei and shouting “Death to Khamenei” and “We want regime change,” while risking their lives to do so.
Countless people have been killed, including children in these protests.
Never before in the history of women, anywhere, in any timeline has there ever been a female-led revolution, where the women have faced such a dangerous and brutal enemy. Not even the women’s suffrage movement had to endure such threats. It cannot be denied this is historic and unprecedented.
So, this begs a question as to why the Western world is not demanding those responsible to be tried for crimes against humanity?
The Islamic Republic in Iran is a signatory of Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
To add insult to injury, the regime's minions are sitting members of the United Nations Commission on Women’s Rights. It is debatable as to whether this is more a reflection of the Western world’s lack of integrity or the audacity of the clerical regime. The world's democratic leaders must surely give thought as to whether they can rightly carry on "business as usual" with the Islamic Republic, given Iran's clear desecrations of human rights.
Contrary to what is frequently said, dialogue with the Islamic Republic has not improved the human rights situation – quite the reverse.
But nobody can ignore the demands of the Iranian people.
In reality, today’s human rights abuses are the cause of tomorrow’s conflicts.
Facing a collapsing economy and social uprising, the ruling mullahs have always responded with intensified oppression. A government that collaborates with such a regime is neither ethical nor principled. They should have no business cooperating with such a regime and no business interests can justify such involvement. No resolution, however diplomatically it is drafted, can deny the fact that the people of Iran live in terror.
Under the standards of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, can one argue that the Iranian people are not entitled to them? In the wonderful civilization that we enjoy in the West, it is difficult to understand how any civilized government can have dealings with an illegitimate regime that executes its own defenseless people, including women and children who effectively live in a necropolis for the living. Ignoring such crimes is a stain on the free world.
Nicole Sadighi is President of the non-profit Angels in Blue and also the Director of the award-winning movie I Am Neda.
Hamas-Linked CAIR Calls for Hate Crime Charges in Marion, Iowa
About something that has nothing to do with Islam.
The arrest of two young men in Marion, Iowa for vandalism has caught the attention of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
ABC affiliate KCRG showed images of swastikas spray-painted on several windows. The letters “KKK” were also reported to have been spray-painted. Despite this, there seems to have been no ideological motive for the two 19-year-olds’ actions. Indeed, the Marion police are not charging the two with any kind of hate crime, and made the following statement.
While hate speech and racist graffiti are vile and despicable, they do not constitute a [hate] crime unless other factors are present. That includes targeting a specific person or group.
News anchor Nicole Agee tells us that “the nation’s largest civil rights organization” (yes, you read that correctly) is “not buying that.”
We then CAIR’s Deputy Director, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, saying:
If vandalizing property and causing thousands of dollars in damage while spray-painting Nazi swastikas does not constitute a hate crime under Iowa law, Iowa law needs to change.
Besides telling us that CAIR is “the nation’s largest civil rights organization,” KCRG gives no explanation of who this group is or on what basis it can dictate terms to the state of Iowa. In fact, one has the impression that KCRG considers reporting CAIR’s statement to be a righteous act.
But here yet again, there is no explanation of why CAIR is getting involved in something that has nothing to do with Muslims or Islam. However, to those paying attention to the broader context of CAIR’s nationwide TV news appearances, the answer is clear.
CAIR is getting involved because the vandals are white. And CAIR has taken it upon themselves to be the scourge of white people in America.
One more time:
- CAIR hates white people.
- CAIR reps talk about how much they hate them.
- Well over 90% of the people CAIR attacks on TV are white.
- There are over 100 examples of their televised attacks, which have been going on for almost six years.
TV stations are complicit in all this.
- Here is KCRG giving voice to CAIR’s nominal executive director, Miriam Amir. I say nominal because the CAIR’s Iowa branch doesn’t seem to have a website. But Ms. Amir is also an official of the Muslim American Society, the chief arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.
- Here is CAIR’s National Communications Director defending the virulently anti-white, anti-American 1619 Project on a KCRG broadcast.
If the targeting of an individual or a group constitutes a hate crime, then CAIR must be considered a serial hate criminal which is given support by the mainstream media.
This is the first CAIR TV attack this month and the 29th of the year.
In time for Halloween, the message is that CAIR will continue to gain social capital, prestige, and legitimacy until it succeeds in changing the laws of Iowa and the country. CAIR will achieve their goal unless people begin to oppose its efforts.
“Third teen arrested, charged in July burglary, vandalism case in Marion,” KCRG, October 28, 2022:
MARION, Iowa (KCRG) – A third teen has been arrested and charged for his alleged participation in a series of burglaries and vandalism in July.
Police on Friday said they arrested 18-year-old Koda Holst, from Cedar Rapids….
Police also arrested Gary Jacobsen III, 19, of Cedar Rapids, and Zane Wilcox-Thomas, 19, of Marion, on Wednesday in connection to the crimes….
In a press release, police said some of the graffiti included swastika symbols, the words “I am a Nazi,” and “KKK.” The total damage is estimated at more than $10,000….
“This matter was thoroughly investigated to determine if a hate crime was committed but no evidence was uncovered to support hate crime allegations or warrant the filing of additional charges,” police said in a press release.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization urged prosecutors to review the case again to determine whether hate crime charges can be brought against the suspects.
Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Attack on Iranian Shiite Shrine
Islamic State terrorists on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a gun attack on Shiite Muslim pilgrims at a shrine in the southern city of Shiraz.
The Iranian regime vowed revenge for the massacre, which killed at least 15 and wounded 19 others. The regime linked the ISIS attack to the massive protests that have swept Iran over the past two months, sparked by the killing of a young woman for allegedly violating the oppressive hijab law.
According to conflicting accounts from local media and the Iranian judiciary, between one and three gunmen opened fire during Wednesday evening prayers at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum, a mosque constructed in the 12th century that contains the tombs of two fabled Shiite martyrs. The mosque, whose name translates to “King of the Light,” is a spectacular example of architecture and a major tourist attraction, in addition to being a center of worship.
Iranian media stated the attacker or attackers entered the shrine and “fired indiscriminately on worshipers” until they were captured by police. The reports implied at least one assailant is alive, in custody, and apparently resisting interrogation efforts.
Eyewitnesses said they heard women screaming during the attack, and media photos showed the bodies of two children and a woman among the dead.
The National on Thursday provided an account of the attack based on security camera footage:
CCTV footage broadcast on state TV on Thursday showed the attacker entering the shrine after hiding an assault rifle in a bag and shooting as worshippers tried to flee and hide in corridors. The semi-official Tasnim news agency said the attacker shot an employee at the shrine entrance before his rifle jammed and he was chased by bystanders.
He managed to unjam his weapon and opened fire on his pursuers, before entering a courtyard and shooting worshippers. Women and children were among the dead, according to the agency. “I heard sounds of gunfire after we prayed,” a witness told state TV. “We went to a room next to the shrine. This lowlife came and fired a barrage of shots.
“Then [the bullet] hit my arm and leg, it hit my wife’s back, but thank God my child was not hit. He is seven years old.”
Iranian officials quickly blamed the attack on “takfiri terrorists.” Takfiri, which essentially means “fake Muslim,” is a term the Iranian government frequently uses for Sunni Muslim militants, especially those belonging to ISIS.
A message posted on the Telegram encrypted messaging platform on Thursday by an account linked to Islamic State operatives claimed responsibility for the attack. The message credited an ISIS gunman with “killing at least 20 Shias and wounding dozens of others.”
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised a “severe response” to the attack, while President Ebrahim Raisi said the crime would “definitely not go unanswered.”
“The security and law enforcement forces will teach a lesson to those who designed and carried out the attack,” Raisi vowed.
Raisi condemned the “enemies of Iran” who use “violence and terror” to “divide the united ranks of the nation,” which is disturbingly close to how his government talks about the Mahsa Amini protests.
Wednesday was the 40th day after Amini’s death at the hands of Iranian “morality police” for allegedly violating the hijab law. Day 40 is traditionally when a death is most strongly grieved and remembered under Shiite tradition, so thousands of protesters were on the streets doing just that, particularly in the Kurdish region from which Amini hailed.
Some Iranian officials went further in linking the Shiraz massacre to the Amini uprising, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who said the time has come for Tehran to act against “terrorists and foreign meddlers.” The regime claims foreign powers are orchestrating the anti-hijab protests.
“This crime made the sinister intentions of the promoters of terror and violence in Iran completely clear. There is reliable information that the enemies have drawn up a multilayered project to make Iran insecure,” Abdollahian said.
Iranian police reportedly used tear gas and live ammunition to fire on protesters in Amini’s home city of Saqqez on Wednesday, after thousands of mourners held a procession to the graveyard where the 22-year-old woman was buried. The mourners chanted, “Woman, Life, Freedom,” the semi-official slogan of the Amini uprising, “Down with traitors,” “Kurdistan will be the graveyard of fascists,” and “Death to the dictator,” meaning Ayatollah Khamenei.
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Defenders of the West, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom
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