Friday, May 01, 2015
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Isis Leader Incapacitated with Suspected Spinal Injuries after Air Strike
Jeb Bush Thinks Islam Has Been 'Hijacked' by 'Barbarians'
Jeb Bush, the potential Republican presidential candidate, said in an appearance in Washington on Thursday afternoon that the religion of Islam had been “hijacked” by “barbarians” – and that peaceful practitioners of the religion should not be offended by his saying so.
Bush made the comments at a conservative conference during a one-on-one interview with the National Review Institute’s Rich Lowry.
Lowry asked: “Is Islam a religion of peace?”
Bush’s reply, in full, ran:
“I’m sure for some of the practitioners, but it’s been hijacked by people who have a [sic] ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they’re barbarians. And so that part, which is the part that we need to confront head-on, is clearly not a religion of peace.
“And I think it’s – you’re not offending the sensibilities of people that are peaceful in the adherence to their faith when you say what I just said.” » | Tom McCarthy in New York | Thursday, April 30, 2015
Islam is Nazism with a God
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Welcome to Liberland, the Tiny Patch of Woodland Claiming to Be the World's Newest Country
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| Liberland, a tiny patch of woodland and fields on the sandy banks of the River Danube |
The first citizens will arrive on Friday to populate the world's newest self-declared country – Liberland, a tiny patch of woodland and fields on the sandy banks of the River Danube.
The establishment of the pocket-sized nation was declared earlier this month on land wedged between Croatia and Serbia which, its founders argue, was never properly claimed by either country.
Liberland has its own flag, which features an eagle and a sun, a constitution, and a motto – "To live and let live".
Its self-appointed ruler is Vit Jedlicka, a conservative, anti-EU Czech politician and admirer of Britain's Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP.
Known officially as the Free Republic of Liberland, the country's independence was formally declared on April 13. » | Nick Squires, Rome | Thursday, April 30, 2015
Free Republic of Liberland webpage
Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist 'Fed Up' of Caricaturing Prophet Mohammed
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| Rénald Luzier has rejected claims that the terrorists had won |
The Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who drew a controversial front-page picture of Prophet Mohammed after the satirical magazine's staff were massacred says he will stop caricaturing the prophet.
Rénald Luzier, known as Luz, claims his decision is unrelated to the attack on January 7 and rejected claims that the terrorists had won.
"I will no longer draw the figure of Mohammed. He no longer interests me," he told Les Inrockuptibles magazine. "I'm fed up with him, just as I'm fed up with Sarkozy. I'm not going to spend my life drawing them."
However, commentators were sceptical that Charlie Hebdo's leading cartoonist, who has contributed to the magazine for two decades, would never draw Nicolas Sarkozy again as the former president is expected to be a candidate in the next election in 2017. » | David Chazan, Paris | Thursday, April 30, 2015
'Islamist Attack' Thwarted in Germany, Official Says; 2 Arrested
The official didn't provide details about the alleged plot, but German media are reporting that a man and a woman were arrested on suspicion of planning a bomb attack on a bicycle road race that is scheduled to run near Frankfurt on Friday. » | Paul Cruickshank and Jason Hanna, CNN | Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Dismissed
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| Prince Moqren bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has been removed as heir to the Saudi throne and the country's deputy prime minister. |
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has dismissed the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Moqren bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud, and replaced him with the interior minister, Mohammed bin Nayef.
A statement from the royal court, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, added that Moqren was also relieved of his position as deputy prime minister.
The decree named Prince Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince, as well as deputy prime minister, and said he would continue to hold his position of interior minister and head of the political and security council, a co-ordinating body. » | Agence France-Presse in Riyadh | Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Foreign Funds Promoting ‘Extreme Islamic Jihadist’ Views in Canada, National Security Advisor Says
Asked by Senate national security committee chairman Daniel Lang about millions of dollars allegedly coming from Gulf states “in respect to the extreme Islamic jihadist interpretation of the Qur’an,” Richard Fadden said it was a problem.
“I think it’s fair to say, without commenting on the particular country of origin, there are monies coming into this country which are advocating this kind of approach to life,” responded Fadden, who works in the Privy Council Office. » | Stewart Bell | Monday, April 27, 2015
HT: Robert Spencer @ Jihad Watch »
Muslim Congressmen Want To Block ‘Islamophobic’ Dutch Lawmaker Geert Wilders From Entering US
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison and Indiana Democratic Rep. Andre Carson penned a joint letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson last Thursday. Foreign Policy reported it on Tuesday.
“We write to raise our deep concern regarding the visit of Mr. Geert Wilders, a Dutch lawmaker known for perpetuating Islamophobia,” the Democratic lawmakers wrote, citing a 1998 law, the International Religious Freedom Act. The law allows the State Department to deny foreign leaders guilty of “severe violations of religious freedom” from entering the U.S. » | Chuck Ross | Tuesday, April 28, 2015
HT: Robert Spencer @ Jihad Watch »
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Our World: Iran's Sex Change Solution BBC Documentary 2014
Why Iran Spends $35 Billion a Year to Prop Up Assad
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| Bashar al-Assad |
Experts and Syrian officials revealed why exactly Iran, which is financially saddled by international sanctions, continues to spend fortunes and deploy thousands of troops to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, even as the fight turns against him.
A detailed report in Christian Science Monitor revealed that the UN's Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura disclosed to a private meeting in Washington DC recently that Iran funnels no less than $35 billion annually to its Syrian ally, according to a source who was present at the meeting.
Despite the massive aid, Assad this past month has suffered major losses, putting him on the brink of losing the bloody civil war that has stretched over four years and cost over 220,000 lives, and leading Syria's Defense Minister General Fahd al-Freij to head for a visit to Iran on Tuesday.
Explaining why Iran is willing to invest such massive resources even while staggering under sanctions, Hezbollah expert and director at the Washington-based Middle East Institute Randa Slim told the paper how Iran's larger regional aspirations fuel the move.
"Iran has always considered Syria its gateway to the Arab region. I don’t think that assessment has changed," said Slim. » | Ari Yashar | Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Swastikas Graffitied on Stanford University Fraternity House
The fraternity house of the Stanford University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chapter was vandalized last weekend with swastikas, as well as various other anti-Semitic slurs and epithets.
Members of the fraternity discovered the graffiti as they returned to the house on Saturday night, the California university's Stanford Daily reported.
“We discovered a number of offensive symbols and messages spray-painted on the SAE house,” the president of Stanford’s SAE chapter said, declining to give his name so as not to be associated with "such hateful symbolism."
Also condemning the anti-Semitic graffiti was University President John Hennessy. » | Cynthia Blank | Monday, April 27, 2015
Saudi Arabia 'Arrests 93 Members of Islamic State Cells'
The official Saudi Press Agency reported that the arrests had taken place since December and that the suspects included 77 Saudi nationals.
The group had set up training sites in a remote area of the al-Qassim region and planned suicide bombings, it added. Among the alleged targets was the US embassy in the capital, Riyadh.
The Gulf kingdom is part of a US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against IS militants, who control a large swath of Syria and Iraq. » | Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Breaking News: Iran Forces 'Seize US Cargo Ship'
Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said an Iranian "force" seized a US cargo ship after opening fire on it in the Gulf on Tuesday and directed it to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
A Pentagon spokesman said Iranian forces had boarded a Marshall Island-flagged vessel, the MV Maersk Tigris, in the Gulf. He said the boarding occurred after Iranian patrol boats fired shots across the vessel's bow and ordered it deeper into Iranian waters. » | David Lawler, Washington and Reuters | Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Saudi's Ultra-strict Religious Police Join Twitter – Despite JAILING Others for Using Site
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| The religious police have more than 65,000 followers |
The notorious group, tasked with enforcing sharia law in the country, have already racked up more than 65,000 followers.
Their first tweet asked "Allah to benefit everyone" and was retweeted 20,000 times.
In 2014 they closed over 10,000 Twitter accounts because "users were committing religious and ethical violations".
A spokesman claimed that IT-related crimes could see people jailed for five years and fined £500,000.
In 2013 the head of the police claimed that anyone using social media "has lost this world and the afterlife".
Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh has also blasted the site as "a source of lies and falsehood". » | Tom Parfitt | Tuesday, April 28, 2015
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