ONCE A MUSLIM, ALWAYS A MURDERER - Houthi Leader Threatens More Red Sea ‘Surprises’ in Chilling Address

 

Houthi Leader Threatens More Red Sea ‘Surprises’ in Chilling Address

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FRANCES MARTEL

1 Mar 202423

6:28

The leader of the Yemeni terrorist organization Ansarallah, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, ominously promised “surprises” in a speech on Thursday for American and allied forces attempting to contain his group’s campaign to disrupt global commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

The Houthis, as Ansarallah is commonly known, declared war on Israel in October as a gesture of solidarity with the Sunni jihadist organization Hamas in the aftermath of Hamas’s mass murder spree in Israel that month, killing an estimated 1,200 and destroying entire residential communities. In November, the Houthis announced they would begin striking commercial ships transiting through the nearby Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, vowing only to persecute ships facilitating business with Israel.

They expanded their targets to include American and British ships following the announcement that the two militaries would engage in airstrikes in Yemen to degrade the Houthis’ ability to disrupt shipping. In reality, however, the Houthis have bombed a growing number of ships with no clear relationship to Israel, Britain, or America, resulting in skyrocketing shipping rates and several major shipping companies avoiding the region altogether.

Houthi, the leader of the Shiite Houthi terror gang, claimed in his address to Yemen on Thursday that his group had “launched 384 missiles and drones at the ships that were moving towards the occupying regime [Israel],” attacking 54 ships.

He boasted that the attacks would continue and airstrikes by U.S. and U.K. forces had done nothing to prevent them, according to a translation of his remarks by the Iranian state propaganda outlet PressTV.

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“The American and British attacks have not affected our military power in any way. On the contrary, the process of increasing and expanding our attacks continues,” Houthi said. “The Americans are now admitting their failure to achieve their aggressive goals against our country and are surprised by our strength.”

Houthi appeared to be referring to comments by leftist President Joe Biden in which he openly admitted that poorly planned strikes on alleged Houthi targets in Yemen had not materially improved the situation in the Red Sea. Asked by reporters on January 18 if the strikes were working, the president replied, “Well, when you say ‘working,’ are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.”

“Our military operations will continue and advance and we have surprises that our enemies will not expect at all,” Houthi promised on Thursday.

Elsewhere in his speech, the Houthi leader complained that he considered the response of the Muslim world to the Israeli self-defense operations against Hamas meager, demanding other nations organize bolder attacks to expedite the destruction of the Israeli state.

A Yemeni protestor lifts his dagger with a poster depicting the picture of the Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi as he takes part in a rally on February 23, 2024, in Sana’a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

“Genocide and heinous crimes in Palestine reveal the truth of Zionists’ hatred of Muslims, especially Arabs. The Arabs are the first to be targeted by the Zionist Jews and they should act quickly… unfortunately, among the Arabs, they are very indifferent to the conspiracies against them,” PressTV quoted Houthi as saying.

“Why is the Islamic Ummah‘s [community] level of support for the Palestinian people not the same as that of the United States and the West for the Zionist enemy?” he asked.

Houthi addressed world leaders from the position of self-proclaimed head of the Yemeni government. The Houthis, a Shiite terrorist organization, stormed the capital, Sana’a, and ousted the legitimate government of Yemen to the southern port city of Aden, where it has remained since 2014. The Houthis have never been the internationally recognized government of Yemen, however, and remain entrenched in a civil war against the legitimate government in which neighboring powers, most prominently Saudi Arabia, have backed the true government of the state.

Contrary to Houthi’s claims, however, Saudi Arabia and other neighboring Muslim states have taken a stridently anti-Israel stance since October 7, the day Hamas invaded the country and committed the worst terrorist siege in its modern history. In November, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – who had previously entertained normalization with Israel – demanded Israel give up part of its capital, East Jerusalem, to the creation of a Palestinian state.

The establishment of “Palestine” is a core demand of Hamas, though Hamas also calls for the full destruction of Israel to make room for the hypothetical Palestinian country. Other Muslim nations have condemned Israel’s attempts to protect itself from Hamas in multiple international venues, such as the United Nations and the Arab League.

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Abdul Malik al-Houthi’s comments on Thursday appeared to be meant to keep the morale of his terrorist henchmen high. A week ago, Houthi delivered a similar address in which he celebrated that the group’s disruption of global shipping was “continuing, escalating, and effective,” and reiterated his false claims that the Houthis would not target ships unrelated to Israel, America, or Britain.

The latest episode of conflict in the Red Sea was reported on Tuesday, in which the Houthis reportedly attacked a Marshall Islands-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier off the coast of Yemen, but failed to significantly damage it. That attack followed a flurry of bombings in mid-February targeting a variety of commercial cargo ships. The most severely affected, the British-owned MV Rubymar, was abandoned on February 22 as it took on water, left to sink in the Gulf of Aden.

The attacks have continued despite the establishment by the Biden Pentagon of “Operation Prosperity Guardian” in December, which allegedly brought together nearly two dozen nations to protect free shipping in the Middle East. The Biden administration never fully revealed the list of participants in “Operation Prosperity Guardian” or how they would participate, and the operation has yet to document any major victories in protecting shipping from the Houthis. Many of the most effective airstrikes against the Houthis on Yemeni soil are joint American-British operations that the military distinctly identifies as not part of “Operation Prosperity Guardian.

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This Palestinian School Hosts Hamas Military Parades. It Also Hosts Webinars With Professors From Top US Universities.

Birzeit University’s Right to Education Campaign seeks to build ‘tactics of focused resistance’

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Alec Schemmel

February 26, 2024

In the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel, professors and students from prominent U.S. universities have participated in virtual discussions on the Jewish state's retaliatory war organized by a Palestinian university that hosts campus military parades honoring Hamas.

Birzeit University, which is located in the West Bank and bills itself as "a thorn in the side of the occupation," operates the Right to Education Campaign, a self-described "grassroots Palestinian movement" aimed at documenting "academic institutions under Israeli military operation." The campaign has held a number of virtual events featuring U.S. professors and students.

Last month, for example, it held a webinar titled, "Gaza Genocide: An Israeli Crime Against Humanity" that featured Princeton University international law professor Richard Falk, San Francisco State University ethnic studies professor Rabab Abdulhadi, and University of California, Los Angeles, history professor Robin D.G. Kelley. Those academics, along with representatives from Birzeit and other activists, discussed "the rising repression under Israeli rule" as well as "the US role in enabling the Israeli genocide as well as our capacity to respond and make change." At one point in the webinar, Palestinian attorney Ahmed Abofoul justified Oct. 7 as "the result of 75 years of colonialism and apartheid imposed on the Palestinian people."

The event came roughly two years after Birzeit students held a pair of military parades celebrating the 34th and 54th founding anniversaries of Hamas and fellow terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, respectively. Mask-clad activists wore the two terror group's uniforms and carried flags and portraits of the group's founders. Hamas student leaders at Birzeit pledged to "remain loyal to the path of resistance," according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, and other participants saluted Hamas for carrying out suicide bombings in Israeli cities.

The professors' willingness to associate with Birzeit reflects the wave of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activism seen on American college campuses since Oct. 7.

At Princeton, an Israeli-designated terror group that is banned by PayPal and other payment platforms, Samidoun, cosponsored a December rally urging "divestment from Israel." Days before the event took place, more than a dozen Princeton faculty members signed a letter accusing the Jewish state of a "genocidal assault on Gaza, of apartheid in the occupied West Bank, and of structural racism and discrimination inside the state of Israel."

Falk, Abdulhadi, and Kelley did not respond to requests for comment.

In addition to the three professors, Birzeit through its Right to Education Campaign has organized "virtual teach-ins" with a student group from the University of Southern California, Trojans for Palestine. On Jan. 24, it held an online event titled, "Confronting Genocide in Palestine," which included Rice University history professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti as a speaker. During that event, Samia Al-Botmeh, a Birzeit professor and Right to Education Campaign steering committee member, said "Israel's colonialism" was the "root cause" of Oct. 7.

Last year, meanwhile, the campaign brought students to Birzeit's campus from Harvard University, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, and New York University. Right to Education Campaign organizer Sundos Hammad spoke to the students about "Israeli violations."

Birzeit's Right to Education Campaign did not respond to a request for comment. The school launched the campaign, which seeks to "expose the systematic obstruction of Palestinian higher education in the West Bank and Gaza Strip," in 1988, according to its website. The campaign also developed "tactics of focused resistance" against Israeli military checkpoints in the early 2000s, its site says, and in late November, it called on American universities to "support in dismantling" Israel's "settler colonial and apartheid system."

"The world must recognize Zionism for what it is: a genocidal settler project built on false mythology and sustained through perpetual violence against Indigenous Palestinians," Birzeit's Right to Education Campaign said in a statement.

Beyond the Right to Education Campaign, Birzeit and its student body has long displayed an affinity for Hamas.

In a May 2022 student government vote, more than half of Birzeit's students backed the campus group associated with Hamas, known as "the Islamic Bloc." The group campaigned under the slogan, "Give voice to the resistance" and distributed stickers emblazoned with rifles.

More than a year later, following Hamas's Oct. 7 attack, Birzeit proclaimed "glory for martyrs" in an Oct. 10 social media post. One week later, the school falsely accused Israel of bombing the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, which was actually struck by a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.

"Birzeit University calls on the international community to put an end to the genocide and war crimes of the Israeli occupation against Palestinians," the school wrote in response to the incident. "The latest and worst of which is the massacre in Ahli Arab Hospital (Baptist) in Gaza, resulting in more than 500 martyrs."

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He Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Then He Landed a Professorship at Columbia University.

Mohamed Abdou said he was 'with Hamas' just days before joining Ivy League school

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Jessica Costescu

February 27, 2024

During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and "the resistance." The terror group's "dedicated few," he said admiringly, worked in "stealth mode" on Oct. 7 to defeat a "larger enemy" in Israel.

Just days later, on Jan. 16, Columbia University's Middle East Institute extended a "warm welcome" to Abdou, the Ivy League school's latest visiting professor in modern Arab studies.

As part of that role, Abdou teaches a weekly class on "Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition," where his students discuss "transnational feminist discourses" and "queer of color critiques." The self-described "Muslim anarchist" has also emerged as a friend to Columbia's anti-Israel community. In a Feb. 11 social media post, Abdou revealed that he organized a protest in which Columbia students interrupted a panel featuring Hillary Clinton. One demonstrator called the former secretary of state a "war criminal" who "will burn" before chanting, "Free, free Palestine."

"Really proud of these students & deeply honoured to have been a part of organising this," Abdou wrote.

Columbia's embrace of Abdou reflects what some Jewish students have described as a "severe and pervasive antisemitic hostile educational environment" seen on the school's campus in the wake of Oct. 7.

At Columbia Law School, for example, administrators stood by in November as anti-Israel protesters took over the school's lobby in an unauthorized protest that disrupted classes for hours. Roughly one month later, a Columbia student group announced an event honoring the "significance of the Oct. 7 Palestinian counteroffensive." Similar demonstrations have plagued the school's ongoing spring semester—last month, students chanted for an "intifada" against Jews during a campus rally.

Those incidents and others sparked a congressional investigation into Columbia's handling of campus anti-Semitism. The school's decision to bring Abdou to campus, however, suggests that Columbia administrators are in no hurry to change course.

Abdou, a former Cornell University research fellow whose website identifies him as an "interdisciplinary scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies," has a long history of praising Hamas and its Oct. 7 attack.

During a November interview on "Islam and Anarchism," Abdou praised Hamas terrorists for being "really … organized" on Oct. 7, calling on anti-Israel activists around the world to adopt their tactics.

"The warriors, the resistance fighters that were in Hamas, numbered less than 1,500 and look how they flipped the table—not only on an entire settler colonial state with no definable borders, but rather on the whole world," he said. "You don't need mass movements to change the world. You need a dedicated thousand, 1,500, a few thousand, that really are organized and know what it is that they're doing, what they're fighting for."

Abdou echoed that rhetoric days later during a "round table conversation" titled "Palestine 1492: Settler-Colonialism, Solidarity, & Resistance."

"Look what 1,500 warriors were able to do, to whatever extent that we agree or disagree or partially accept, or whatever, Hamas or not," he said. "But ultimately, I support the resistance."

Abdou offered a more explicit endorsement of Hamas four days after the terrorist group's attack on Israel. "Yes, I'm with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad," he wrote in an Oct. 11 Facebook post, which also lamented "false reports accusing Arabs and Muslims of decapitating the heads of children and being rapists." Months later, Abdou's assessment remained the same.

"I might be with Hamas and support the resistance, absolutely," the Columbia professor told Revolutionary Left Radio in January. "Look what 1,500 did … they were organized and they worked in stealth mode and they divested."

"And nobody expected that this was the direction that Hamas and the Hamas leadership, or at least the political leadership, was going to take," Abdou continued. "But look what the dedicated few [did] … how much a small group have defeated a larger enemy."

Neither Columbia nor Abdou responded to requests for comment. Abdou's role as a visiting professor will keep the Islamic scholar on Columbia's campus through the spring 2024 semester. Abdou on his website acknowledges that the campus sits "on the ancestral and traditional homelands of the Lenni-Lenape and Wappinger peoples."

While Abdou has already worked to organize anti-Israel protests at Columbia, he encourages those who oppose the Jewish state to go further.

"DON'T just go to Pro-Palestinian rallies DON'T just post on social media," he wrote in November. "ORGANIZE revolutionary alternatives to capitalism & the state ON THE LAND you live alongside BIPOC kin who share similar anti-imperialist & anti-settler-colonial ETHICAL-POLITICAL commitments as YOU."

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Radical Islamist Imam Deported From France in Just 12 Hours… Vows to Return

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OLIVER JJ LANE

24 Feb 2024171

3:20

France used a new immigration law to deport a radical Imam in just 12 hours, but the target insisted that he is the victim of a misunderstanding and vowed to return.

French interior minister Gérald Darmanin hailed the nation’s new immigration law passed last year for making it easier for the government to deport undesirable foreigners after it was used on Thursday against a radical preacher. Tunisian-origin Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi went from detention to being put on a plane in just 12 hours.

Darmanin said: “Instructions were given to issue a ministerial expulsion order against this radical ‘imam’ who made unacceptable remarks and he was the subject of a home visit and an arrest.

“Without the immigration law, this would not have been possible. Firmness is the rule.”

Per the expulsion order seen by the conservative newspaper Le Figaro, Imam Mahjoubi was accused of advocating for a panoply of extremist causes. The state accused him of promoting terrorism, and advocating a “literal, retrograde, intolerant and violent conception of Islam”. The Imam is also alleged to have discriminated against women and fermented tensions with the Jewish community.

Offences against the symbols of the state are a reasonably serious offence in France, as they are in several European nations where post-war work to prevent the resurgence of fascism treats deviance from democratic norms severely. In this category, Imam Mahjoubi is said to have called the French flag “satanic” that has “no value to Allah”. The comments came to light after a video of one of the Imam’s sermons went viral on French social media earlier this week.

Imam Mahjoubi, on the other hand, insists these accusations boil down to a misunderstanding — claiming that he was actually talking about football in his sermon and suffered a “slip of the tongue”, he claims — and that in any case, he has rights that should be respected. The government’s order under the new law is “arbitrary” and he said he was being made an example of by the Interior Minister to promote the new law.

The Imam’s lawyer said the expulsion would be contested in court.

BFMTV reports some of Imam Mahjoubi’s complaints as he vowed to return to France. He said: “I will do everything to find my loved ones, to find my job, in the coming days or weeks… My place is not here [in Tunisia], even if it is my country. [My family] are on the other side of the Mediterranean… I lived for forty years in this country, the country of human and citizen rights. I will do everything to assert my rights.”

France’s immigration bill, passed by the Emmanuel Macron government in December, proved deeply controversial and needed the support of Marine Le Pen’s populist anti-mass migration group to become law. Le Pen called the law, passed by the otherwise globalist-centrist Macron an “ideological victory” for her party. Critics said the law erodes the rights of migrants.

Using the tough law to dramatic effect and linking it so clearly to his leadership may also be part of Interior Minister Darmanin’s not-so-secret campaign to set himself up as a successor to Macron, who will reach his Presidential term limit in 2027.

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The Islamists Are in Charge in Britain Now, Laments Braverman in Wake of Gaza Vote Shambles

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OLIVER JJ LANE

23 Feb 2024669

4:15

Britain’s institutions are being bullied into submission by “Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites” while politicians hide behind the lie of a “successful multicultural society”, Britain’s former Home Secretary Suella Braverman writes in the wake of a miniature constitutional crisis in Britain’s Parliament this week.

The Speaker of Britain’s House of Commons broke with convention this week to change the normal business of the house to, he claims, reduce the risk of its members and servants being murdered by terrorists. While an ostensibly laudable notion, the admission that the business of a Western democracy is being steered by the threats of radical extremists from without has triggered alarmed responses from several political figures, not least among them former Home Secretary (interior Minister) Suella Braverman, who has been one of the more forthright voices on migration and security in recent years before she was unceremoniously removed from post by her more progressively-minded master.

Serving her take on the week’s events, in which the Speaker said he acted because he wanted to avoid another member of parliament being murdered by a terrorist, or another terror attack on the parliament itself, Braverman said the problem of antisemitism and Islamism in Britain had been ignored and allowed to fester, to disastrous effect. Now, she remarked those issues had grown sufficiently strong that: “we see their influence in our judiciary, our legal profession and our universities… The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now.”

Politics, institutions, and the country itself is being “bullied” by Islamists, she said, and politicians remain too afraid of accusations of racism to do anything about it. In all, Britain is “sleep-walking into: a ghettoised society where free expression and British values are diluted. Where sharia law, the Islamist mob and anti-Semites take over communities. We need to overcome the fear of being labelled Islamophobic and speak truthfully.”

Braverman’s comments in an opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph come not only after the revelation that a Parliamentary vote was, in effect, spiked due to a combination of concerns about terror attacks on members of the house and party political considerations but as the counter-extremism system supposed to protect the UK comes under fresh criticism. Sir William Shawcross, a British government commissioner who conducted a review into the ‘Prevent’ counter-terrorism strategy and found it wanting warned this week his recommendations for improvement hadn’t been acted upon and the public remains “at risk”.

Sir William said: “The government has published a report saying that they have made some of those changes that I asked for, that I proposed – but not enough” and that some of his key findings had not been acted upon. He also pointed out the heightened terror threat to Britain in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel, and said the UK’s counter-terror apparatus should “pay much more attention to the Hamas support network… There are unfortunately quite a lot of Hamas sympathisers and some operatives in this country”, reports the BBC.

Braverman also remarked on these failings, pointing out that again, accusations of racism had been used to destabilise the Prevent programme from protecting the British people. She said of the system, which is intended to identify potential future radicals and then deradicalise them, that: “It has been labelled “Islamophobic” and “racist” because, in the main, it is set up to tackle the most dangerous terrorist ideology facing our country: Islamism… We need to get over our cultural timidity to refer budding Islamists, where they are a threat, into the programme.”

The Conservative Party has, both in coalition and alone, now governed the United Kingdom for approaching 14 years. While many of the issues now being urgently discussed by right-wing politicians have their roots long before this long period in power, they have generally been neglected, if not outright promoted, by the Conservatives during the past decade, leaving criticism in many cases ringing hollow.