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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Gay sex causes earthquakes and ‘disgusts’ Allah, says Muslim cleric in Ghana

Senior Saudi cleric bans people from taking pictures with cats

Saudi Arabian man ‘shoots doctor for assisting wife in labour’

Pakistani woman left with horrific burns after acid attack for rejecting marriage proposal

Elderly Christian woman stripped naked and paraded through streets by mob. Egypt.

Sharia courts in UK face Government inquiry over treatment of women

Indian women sold for £4,000 in Saudia Arabia and Bahrain, minister claims

An Iranian woman explains why she cut her hair short to bypass morality police. Ah, but can she use the men’s bathroom?

Muslim schoolboys told to shake hands with female teacher or face £3,500 fine in Switzerland. That seems excessive.

British special forces ‘blow up Isis suicide truck in Libya’

Somalia: One Thing Everyone Can Agree On

British Muslim women face ‘double bind’ of gender and religious discrimination, report warns. Sorry — ODF.

Isis in Iraq: Citizens trapped in Fallujah fear destruction of the city as government forces advance

Isis falsely claiming they have carried out series of executions, claims Bangladesh

Taliban in Afghanistan appoint new leader after death of Mullah Akhtar Mansour in US drone strike

Portland State Students Donate Money to Hamas for the Destruction of Israel

Hamas Diverts Most of the Civilian Cement Sent Into Gaza

The Brutal Murder of Niklas P. Was Not an Isolated Incident

Egypt deports French journalist in latest crackdown on press. Mind you, I don’t blame them.

Canada Home to Islamic Radicals

Iraqi government forces clearing booby traps set up by ISIS outside of Fallujah

Terrorists likely ‘stockpiling explosives in Europe’, says EU security official

Isis in Raqqa: Syrian and Kurdish rebels announce military campaign against militants north of stronghold

Isis ‘destroys’ Syrian airbase and four Russian helicopters

Prison for British Muslim convert who planned to bring up her children under Isis

El Shafee Elsheikh: Fourth member of ‘The Beatles’ Isis death squad named

Isis in Iraq: Jihadists unleash death squads as Iraqi forces advance on key stronghold of Fallujah

How British citizen El Shafee Elsheikh became one of the most notorious members of Isis

School bomb scare: Thousands of UK pupils evacuated as caller threatens to ‘behead children’. Okay, but I get to pick the children….

Blind acid attack survivor gang raped by three men in Pakistan

Syria: Isis attacks kill more than 120 people in Assad’s coastal heartlands

Yemen suicide bombings: Isis claim responsibility for attack which killed at least 40 people in Aden

Fallujah: Iraq says it has begun major assault on Isis-held city

Isis threatens attacks in India and urges Muslims to travel to the ‘Caliphate’

ISIS Testing Chemical Weapons In Iraq

At least 60,000 have died in Assad regime’s jails during Syrian war, monitoring group says

Iraqi forces prepare offensive on Isis-held Fallujah, warning residents to flee

Only 1 in 8 British jihadists returning to UK from Iraq and Syria prosecuted

Suicide bomber attacks military convoy in Afghanistan, no US troops hurt

Western fighters joining the Kurds to fight Isis in Iraq and Syria

Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour ‘likely killed’ by US air strike

Calais crisis: First ever quantitative survey in the Jungle reveals thousands of refugees still trying to reach the UK

Two Girls Molested at Multicultural Street Festival in Berlin

Iranian women cut their hair off and dress as men to avoid morality police. Same here, without the police excuse.

Doctor hacked to death with machete in brutal Isis attack in Bangladesh

Protesters storm Iraqi Prime Minister’s office

Rights of women in Libya severely restricted under oppressive Isis regime

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Tomorrow, at a church in Hamburg, a Protestant pastor and an imam will officiate at a service to commemorate a young man who joined the jihad and died in Syria last year.

I am not making this up.

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For such a nondescript city in Iraq, Fallujah has name recognition beyond its importance. In Western military circles at least the name is synonymous with the 2004 battle that turned into the bloodiest urban assault undertaken by the US military since Vietnam.

This time around, though the circumstances are different, it is once again a fight against Sunni insurgents who have had the benefit of long periods to establish defensive positions above and below ground. Regardless of the number of fighters inside the city, the urban environment offers the defenders many advantages, and diminishes the effectiveness of some of the attackers’ advantages, particularly air power.

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Masalha went on a stabbing spree which killed U.S. citizen Taylor Force and injured 11 others, before being killed by Israeli police.

After the attack, Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction and the PA glorified Masalha as “the heroic Martyr.”

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If Mohammed is the perfect Muslim that all Muslims are to emulate, and an imam in a mosque preaches jihad and a worshipper then commits jihad, is the imam’s speech protected religious speech or speech that incites violence which may not be protected by our constitution?

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Whenever supposedly non-denominational prayer rooms are established in public buildings, they are rapidly co-opted by Muslims and turned into de facto mosques. Non-Muslim religious symbols are excluded from the rooms, women are forcibly segregated from the men, and openly expressed practices of other religions are forbidden. This occurs not just in Germany, but throughout Western Europe, North America, and Australia.

The following video is the second post in a series on the controversies surrounding the closure of “prayer rooms” at German universities. It shows a TV panel discussion featuring an attractively hijabbed young woman named Hatice Durmaz of the Council of Muslim Students and Academics.

Pay attention to the taqiyya-dance executed by Ms. Durmaz in this clip. When confronted with facts that she has previously denied, she skillfully changes direction, diverts her interviewer’s attention, and takes a different tack to reach her goal: the assertion that Muslims are blameless, that they are not responsible for the discrimination against women and infidels that is so blatantly manifested in the “silent rooms”.

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As opposed to the rest of the time, when they wouldn’t dream of it.

I guess the all-day fast makes them a little testy.

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It appears that one of the secret codicils to the immigration agreement between the EU and Turkey granted the latter the right to choose which “refugees” to send on to Europe, and which to retain in the Turkish migrant camps. In practice, Turkey — surprise, surprise! — lets only the riff-raff go through — the most problematic cases — and keeps well-educated, useful, and productive people for itself. Most notably, Syrian academics are not being allowed to travel on to Europe.

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Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store.

The mosque is one of scores built here with Saudi government money and blamed for spreading Wahhabism — the conservative ideology dominant in Saudi Arabia — in the 17 years since an American-led intervention wrested tiny Kosovo from Serbian oppression.

Since then — much of that time under the watch of American officials — Saudi money and influence have transformed this once-tolerant Muslim society at the hem of Europe into a font of Islamic extremism and a pipeline for jihadists.

It’s in the New York Times so it MUST be true, right?

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The Ten Words are: dawah, dhimmi, hijra, jizya, kafir, shaheed, shariah, takfir, taqiyya, ummah

If you don’t know what the mean, you really need to find out.

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A house visit by a daughter of a prominent ayatollah to a female leader of the persecuted Bahai religious minority touched off a debate this week in Iran about the harsh treatment of a group deemed pagans and impure by the country’s dominant clerics.

‘Forgive Isis’: Girl’s dying request to mother after she is burnt alive by militants in her own home.

Iran accuses Kim Kardashian of working with Instagram CEO to corrupt Iranian women

Wife faces deportation for looking at her husband’s phone in UAE

US drone strike reportedly kills senior Al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan

Woman who wanted to join Isis and marry ‘Jihadi John’ is jailed for four and a half years

Finland says Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq are ‘safe’ for refugees to return to

Syrian army ‘kills over 200 Isis militants’ in three-day Deir ez-Zor offensive

U.S. Special Forces take the fight to ISIS in Libya

Is Iran’s Iraq Policy Coming Apart?

Chibok girl ‘found’ in Nigeria two years after Boko Haram kidnap of 276 schoolgirls

We need to acknowledge the link between joining ISIS and supporting an Islamic state

Isis in Libya: Executions and ‘unbearable’ atrocities in group’s biggest stronghold outside Iraq and Syria

After bombings in Baghdad kill 77, Sadr’s forces deploy in some areas

Rights group report details ‘scenes of horror’ in ISIS-held Libyan city

Australian NGO worker killed while defusing Isis bomb in Iraq. Let that be a lesson to us all.

Former al-Qaida Terrorist Sought Asylum in Norway

Baghdad attacks: At least 58 killed by female suicide bomber and car bombing in Iraq capital

Isis terror suspect from Birmingham arrested over ‘plans to travel to Syria’

Iranian women arrested for posting ‘vulgar’ photos on Instagram without wearing headscarves

Isis in Libya: West takes first steps towards military engagement to counter jihadi threat

Iranian judge tells man: ‘If you’re innocent you’ll go to heaven after you’re hanged’. So he’s got that going for him.

Turkey Rushes Armed Drones after Increased ISIS Threat

Syrian civil war: Turkish and coalition forces kill 27 Isis fighters ‘on verge of firing rockets into Turkey’

Al Qaeda Magazine Calls For Targeting American Business Leaders. So they are Democrats after all.

The Jihad on Christian Church Tents

Malala Yousafzai pens open letter to parents of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram

Paris attacks Isis suspect Salah Abdeslam had nuclear files stashed in his flat

Missing Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram shown alive in video. Yeah, Michelle’s hashtag really worked, didn’t it?

Yemen bombing: Isis claims responsibility after suicide attack kills 25 in Mukalla

What the killing of Mustafa Badreddine means for Hezbollah and the future of the Middle East

Isis claims responsibility for deadly suicide attack on Baghdad gas plant

Suspected Islamist militant arrested for murder of Bangladesh gay rights activists

Hebrew University campus gate firebombed; no injuries reported

Majority of Germans think Islam does not ‘belong’ in their country

Saudi Arabia: Women face flogging and jail for checking husband’s phone

Isis kills at least 13 Real Madrid supporters in attack on cafe in Iraq

Turkey’s Parliament Speaker Calls for a ‘Religious Constitution’

In blow to Hezbollah, senior commander killed in Syria

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Into somebody’s pocket, of course.

Iraq, with lamentably high corruption, can be a litmus test for revived effort. Iraq also desperately needs to recover stolen assets, because it is running out of money for both fighting ISIS and rebuilding Iraq, in order to prevent ISIS 2.0.

Luckily, the United States is leading the way with the formation of the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative (KARI), but far more global coordination is needed. In Iraq, financial assistance should be put into ministries to train people in spotting and preventing corruption.

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A minor witness testifying briefly yesterday made for a highly symbolic moment during the trial of the “Minnesota men” charged with conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS. In mid-afternoon The prosecution called Bashi Ibrahim to the stand. Ibrhaim required a Somali translator for his testimony. Though he arrived in Minnesota with the first wave of Somali immigrants almost 25 years ago, in 1992, he was unable to understand the questions, or give his answers, in English.

‘Sure, go ahead, let ’em in! They’ll assimilate just like the Italians and the Poles and all those other immigrants.’

Through the translator, Ibrahim testified that Yusuf Jama was one of his sons. Jama graduated from Minneapolis Public Schools in August 2012. After high school Jama worked as a teacher at an Islamic school.

Jama was determined to join the jihad with ISIS in Syria. He tried unsuccessfully to leave in May 2014 along with defendant Guled Omar and a friend who later turned and became a confidential source for the government. (The confidential source has now been identified as Abdhirahman Bashiir; Bashir took the stand at the end of the afternoon.)

Trump’s program is looking better and better.

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Let’s hear it for the Religion of Peace[tm].

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As European governments slam the gates shut on illegal Middle Eastern immigrants, where can Syrians and others go to, not far from their homelands, for safety and employment? The answer is obvious but surprisingly neglected: to Saudi Arabia and the other rich Arab sheikhdoms.

Yeah, well….

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The following investigative report from the German public broadcaster ARD exposes the deliberate mistranslation by Muslim interpreters of the Arabic words spoken by non-Muslims. The rate of influx of Arabic-speakers into Germany is such that the authorities are unable to find enough translators who are both fluent and reliable. When acting as interpreters, Muslim translators take the opportunity to suppress the complaints and calls for help by non-Muslim refugees.

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Eliminate the middle-man, so to speak.

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Of course they do.

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The professional journalists covering the trial of the “Minnesota men” before Judge Michael Davis include the Star Tribune’s Stephen Montemayor. I rely on his work, as well as that of MPR’s Mukhtar Ibrahim and Laura Yuen, even when I am sitting next to him in court. Montemayor is a good and indefatigable reporter. If you want to know what’s going on during the day at trial, follow him on Twitter. He tweets everything of interest. He misses almost nothing.

Today, however, Montemayor presents as a case study in overlooking the obvious. He is unduly concerned by the racial composition of the jury. He thinks it’s a big deal that, while the three defendants are all black, the jury is all white. He has thus produced today’s Star Tribune story on the trial with Randy Furst: “Black defendants, white jurors: Does race make a difference in the courtroom?”

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Thousands of Christians in German refugee shelters are being persecuted by Muslims, sometimes even by their security guards, according to a new report, which asserts that in most cases German authorities have done nothing to protect the victims.

The study alleges that German authorities and police have deliberately downplayed and even covered up the “taboo issue” of Muslim attacks on Christian refugees, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.

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An Austrian woman attacked by four migrants from Afghanistan in a train station says when she reported the crime police officers told her she should not have been using public transportation after 8 p.m. and told her to dye her blonde hair another color.

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The latest essay by Anestos Canelides looks at the massacre and expulsion of the Greeks from Turkey as part of the larger picture of the Great Jihad.

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A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission’s leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.

The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Syriac Catholic Patriarch: West Is an Accomplice to Syria’s Genocide

Suspected car bombing in Istanbul injures at least eight people, reports say

Baghdad bombings: Isis kills more than 100 people in 24 hours of suicide attacks and car bombings in Iraq capital

Isis ‘sets up office to manage relations with foreign fighters’ to stop infighting and defections in Syria

Female politician disqualified from entering Iran’s parliament over photos ‘showing her not wearing headscarf’

Ohio restaurant owner says he was machete-wielding terrorist’s target

Germany doubles number of suspected Islamist militants under investigation after entering during refugee crisis

Saudi family therapist gives advice on how to ‘beat your wife’

Refugee crisis: Three-year-old child among Syrian asylum seekers ‘shot by Turkish border guards’

ISIS-claimed car bomb targets Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, 45 dead

‘Life is horrible’: Syria’s Christians fear total genocide

Saudis take to social media with campaign supporting womens’ right to drive in the kingdom

Refugee crisis: For 350,000 Syrians, the move across the Turkish border has not brought the threat of violence to an end

Isis suspects arrested by Italian police over ‘Canary Wharf terror attack’ plot

Brothers who raped 14-year-old girl in Pakistan go free after paying 1200kg of wheat

Syrian refugee shot by border guards trying to enter Slovakia from Hungary

Iraq’s Kurds urge Jews, other religious minorities to come, practice faith

US airstrike kills ISIS ‘Emir of Anbar Province’ in Iraq

ISIS reportedly executes 7-year-old boy for cursing while playing with friends

One dead, 3 hurt after suspected Islamist stabbing spree at Germany train station

A War Like No Other: With the Peshmerga on the Front Lines Against ISIS

Poland refuses to take a single refugee because of ‘security’ fears

Isis stab man in the heart and then shoot him for being a spy. Apparently the stab was just to get his attention.

Turkey kills dozens of Isis fighters in a revenge attack

Pakistani activist murdered after praising London for electing first Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan

At least 52 killed after two buses collide with fuel tanker in Afghanistan

Gunmen kill 8 police officers in Egypt

Two Nato soldiers killed in Afghan ‘insider attack’

UN envoy says more than 50 mass graves found in parts of Iraq re-taken from ISIS

After presiding over bin Laden raid, CIA chief in Pakistan came home suspecting he was poisoned by ISI

Islamic State using homing pigeons to deliver messages to operatives outside its ‘caliphate’

Australia’s most wanted jihadist ‘killed in US air strike’ in Iraq. Happy to help.

Syrian civil war: Clashes between Assad troops and jihadist alliance near Aleppo leave 73 dead

Fundamentalist interpretations of Islam that restrict women’s rights are rising, says former leading imam

Pakistani teenage girl burned alive in ‘honour killing’ after helping friend elope

London Elects a Muslim Mayor Who Defended 9/11 Terrorists

10 die as suicide bomber targets crowd trying to help car bomb victims in Syria

Syrian prisoners take over prison, claiming President Assad is about to start torturing and executing them

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Today, the rise of Iran is less of a political topic to debate and more of a reality to recognize. Compared to its Middle Eastern neighbors, Iran has made impressive strides in space technology in the past few years, putting the first satellite into orbit in February 2009; has emerged as a cyber power on the level of China or Russia; and has achieved significant advances in military hardware production, including sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, main battle tanks, and medium and long-range ballistic missiles. The Iranian defense industry is making gradual inroads into global armament markets, with Iraq, Syria and Lebanon already receiving regular arms shipments to fight Islamic State and other rebel forces. The Iranian state is capable of projecting force in the Gulf and the Levant, and has often challenged the United States—successfully or not—to stay out of the Gulf region, showing a high degree of foreign-policy independence.

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The case below is reminiscent not just of the one against Susanne Winter, but also the charge on which Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was convicted. In Austria, you absolutely are not allowed to refer to Mohammed as a pedophile or a child molester. It doesn’t matter that any other man who has sex with a 9-year-old would be so designated. If you call Big Mo a pedophile, you can end up in trouble with the state.

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Sykes-Picot (official name: the Asia Minor Agreement) bears recalling because its profound two mistakes are in danger of being repeated: one concerned form and the other substance.

Negotiated in secret by three European imperial powers, it became the great symbol of European perfidy. Not surprisingly, the Allied Powers secretly carving up the central Middle East without consulting its inhabitants prompted an outraged response (George Antonius, writing in 1938: “a shocking document … the product of greed at its worst … a startling piece of double-dealing”). Sykes-Picot set the stage for the proliferation of a deeply consequential conspiracy-mentality that ever since has afflicted the region.

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Among the many minority groups to suffer heavy losses in the Syrian civil war are the Palestinians. Nearly one percent of the Syrian Palestinians have been killed so far, most of them civilians. Overall nearly two percent of all Syrians have died in the war so far. What is odd about this is that the Syrian Palestinians are not citizens of Syria but long-term refugees. Many of these Palestinian families have been in Syria since the 1950s. This is the result of an odd aspect of UN rules concerning refugees that only applies to Palestinians. This began in 1949 when Arab nations refused to accept and absorb Moslems who fled (mostly) from what is now Israel on the promise of the Arab nations would soon mobilize sufficient military strength to destroy Israel, drive the Jews out and allow the refugees to return home. That never happened and it was quickly recognized that there was a serious refugee problem. The UN established a program to take care of these refugees but in a very unusual move the 750,000 original Palestinian refugees were allowed to pass on their refugee status to their children. No other refugee group was allowed to do that by the UN. About the same number of Jews were driven out of Moslem countries after 1948 and they were all accepted and absorbed by other nations, mainly Israel and the U.S. Since 1947 the number of “Palestinian refugees” has grown to five million and Arab states continue to refuse to absorb them. A nasty side effect of this UN policy was to make Palestinian refugees unwelcome and untrusted in the countries they did settle in. Many Moslem nations have had serious problems in the past with Moslem refugees that were given sanctuary, but not citizenship.

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Back in 2009, when the Department of Defense had but one problem on its mind, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Air Force had the idea of developing a light air support (LAS) aircraft for the close air support (CAS) mission for counterinsurgency operations. The focus was on a non-developmental platform, one that was cheap and easy to operate and maintain, intended primarily for foreign militaries with limited budgets, infrastructure and trained personnel. Initially, the Air Force thought it might acquire some number of this aircraft for its own use, but the decision was made to focus entirely on exporting them to allies and partners. At present a total of 15 aircraft are being provided to the Afghan National Air Force.

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It seems that the Islamic Council of Norway (IRN), like so many other Islamic organizations around the world, is running a halal-certification racket, and using Mafia-style methods to persuade businesses to participate. The IRN, in effect, makes them an offer they can’t refuse.

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Because they’re Muslims. Duh.

The Pakistani Taliban’s brutal attack at an Army Public School in 2014, which killed more than 140 children, forced the country’s powerful military into launching a massive military operation against militants based in the tribal regions along the Afghan border. While for years, the Pakistani leadership is known to have patronized and sheltered various militant groups for different security related reasons, to everyone’s surprise, this operation promised to decimate all terrorist groups:  “All foreign fighters and local terrorists will be wiped out without any exception,” including the Haqqani network, said the military.

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However this apparent major doctrinal shift in Pakistan’s strategic security and defense policy has proved another hoax. Before the operation, Pakistan Army’s media wing in a statement said that this will be an indiscriminate operation and when the soldiers “go there, they will eliminate everyone,” and by that the spokesperson meant “any terrorist who is on the soil of Pakistan right now within the area of operation.”

The military operation named Zarb-e-Azb, as announced has targeted all foreign or local militant groups except those who had left the region before the operation. Reportedly, the Haqqani network was tipped off before the start of the operation and moved its assets across the Durand Line, border dividing Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Lying to the kaffir is not objectionable under Islam.

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In recent days, violence out of Gaza has indeed escalated significantly, and the trigger has been a succession of breakthroughs in the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) ability to detect cross-border assault tunnels that threaten Israel’s south.

On Thursday morning, the IDF announced that it had found a tunnel 30 meters (98 feet) underground that reached into southern Israel, not far from where the IDF used new breakthrough technology to locate another tunnel in April.

Realizing it is about to lose its most prized offensive weapon against Israel – the ability to inject murder squads in Israeli territory though tunnels – Hamas’s military wing decided to do something it has not done in almost two years. It began a succession of cross-border mortar attacks in the vicinity, with a view to disrupting the detection work, and more importantly, to signal to Israel that Hamas is willing to risk war over its tunnel program.

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The Russian intelligence services discovered a bomb-making factory when they raided a secret mosque in the city of Samara. The explosives they found in the building were so unstable that they had to be detonated on the spot, leaving the mosque a little worse for the wear and tear.

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Speaking in parliament on Monday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Hungary’s new constitution, Viktor Orban said the document’s primary aim was to secure Hungarian language and culture.

The premier said the constitution meant the Hungarian government had to oppose any kind of mass migration that would imperil those principles.

He said: “We have the right to choose whom we wish to live together with and whom we do not wish to live together with.

“To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.

The former Soviet client states of Eastern Europe, having experienced ‘progressive’ oppression first-hand, are more resistant to Political Correctness than most.

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In a scene straight out of a Hollywood film, a Taliban fighter detonated his suicide vest by mistake, killing himself and his eight colleagues without a single civilian casualty.

It is so hard to get good help these days.

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Angela Merkel says that Islam belongs to Germany, but she may have reversed the relationship involved: based on the report below, Turkey is rapidly Islamizing Germany through the funding of mosques, imams, and other employees. The process is being done quite openly — Germany is becoming a province of Greater Turkey, and no one is trying to hide the fact.

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This is absurd. Why not just kick their asses out? Or, better yet, put them on a boat and dump their asses on the Libyan shore somewhere.

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Yeah, the name ‘Ebru Umar’ sure says ‘Dutch’ to me….

A Dutch journalist has been detained for questioning in Turkey after allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Ebru Umar, a columnist for the Dutch Metro newspaper was arrested on Saturday soon after posting a tweet saying police were at her door at around 11pm Turkish time.

She later tweeted that she was being taken to a police station in Kusadasi.

Freedom of speech is not a Muslim value.

Isis documents leak reveals profile of average militant as young, well-educated but with only ‘basic’ knowledge of Islamic law

Video Captures Palestinians Hailing Jerusalem Bomber

Isis increasing co-operation with Boko Haram – the ‘world’s most horrific terrorist group’

Boko Haram ‘strapping bombs to birds’ as Isis-affiliated group continues bloody insurgency in Africa

Islamic face veil to be banned in Latvia despite being worn by just three women in entire country

Terror victims win Supreme Court judgment against Iran

Family of Benghazi victim to receive $400G after CIA expands benefit program

Syria opposition figure says Assad has ‘buried’ cease-fire

The Arab Spring reported and misreported: foreign intervention in Libya and the last days of Gaddafi

Syria conflict: 500 wounded people in need of ‘life-saving medical treatment’ evacuated from besieged towns

Report: German Refugee Program Money Given to Hizballah Operatives. My, what a surprise.

‘Up to 500 dead’ in refugee boat sinking, survivors tell UN investigators

Kabul attack: Death toll from Taliban bombing rises to 64 as terrorist group threatens more attacks on ‘invaders’

Report: Terrorists plotting summer attack on European tourist beaches

Roman arch destroyed by ISIS in Syria was recreated using 3D technology

Mass graves discovered in former Isis-controlled Iraqi city of Ramadi. My, what a surprise.

NATO believes there is ‘justified concern’ Isis will carry out nuclear attack in Europe. They would if they could.

UK prisons chief backs conservative Muslim sect who call non-Muslim women ‘repulsive’

British jets could bomb Isis fighters in Libya, UK Government says

Isis and Italy’s mafia ‘working together’ to smuggle cannabis through North Africa into Europe

Syrian girl campaigns against child marriage from her refugee camp in Jordan

Kabul bombing: At least 28 people killed and more than 300 injured in Taliban suicide attack on security agency

Muslim prison chaplains ‘encouraging murder of non-believers’. My, what a surprise.

Jerusalem bus bombing wounds more than 20; police call it terror

South Sudan attackers kill more than 140 at Ethiopia border, official says

Once seen as White House triumph, new nation of South Sudan descends into war, misery

Palestinians Praise Jerusalem Bus Bombing Targeting Israelis. Of course they do.

Underground Hamas Tunnels Continue to Threaten Israeli Civilians

Two Turkish youths detained after accosting US soldier at air base

ISIS revenue down 30 percent as its territory shrinks, report claims

In Wake Of Increasing Anti-Semitic Attacks, More Jews Flee France

Anti-Isis coalition ‘preparing to launch final assault on Raqqa stronghold’, US official says

Syria conflict: Turkish ultra-nationalist suspected of killing Russian pilot may have ties to his country’s ‘deep state’

South Sudan attackers kill more than 140 at Ethiopia border, official says

Chaos in Libya: The Rising ISIS Threat to Europe

Turkish border forces ‘fire live rounds at Syrian refugees’ fleeing Isis fighting

Peshmerga troops running on empty in fight against ISIS

At least 12 killed in joint US-Afghan raid targeting suspected Al Qaeda member

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On March 22, for example, the Nafir al Aqsa (Mobilizing for Al-Aqsa) Campaign “to equip the mujahidin of Beit al Maqdis [Jerusalem],” posted (and suspended in the past day) a solicitation for funding under the Twitter handle @Nafeer_aqsa100. It cites a hadith – a saying attributed to Islam’s prophet Muhammad – that giving money to those waging jihad is as good as doing it yourself.

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Hamed Abdel-Samad is an Egyptian-German author and an apostate from Islam who lives under a death fatwa for his criticism of his former faith. Rembrandt Clancy has translated and subtitled an interview with Mr. Abdel-Samad that aired yesterday in Germany. The translator includes an introduction, and also a transcript of the video.

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Switzerland has suspended the citizenship applications for the family of two Muslim teenagers, after they refused to shake hands with their female teachers.

Raymond Ibrahim lays out some inconvenient truth.

In the ongoing struggle between Islam and the West, one civilization has the will to triumph, but not the way; the other has the way to triumph, but not the will.

Some who dread Islam do not seem to understand this. They think that Islam is an irresistible force to be reckoned with; they see Muslim migrants as hordes of violent men invading Europe; they call on Western men to make a stand, resist the onslaught, save their women and children.

When only one side in a war is actually fighting, guess who wins?

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The US and Britain consistently promote a One Iraq policy. They are understandably wary that changing the status quo would weaken the fight against Daesh. But the One Iraq policy is running out of steam and credibility. Such positions are held in public while debate about their viability proceeds in private, and then an apparently sudden change is enunciated. Political scientist Arezu Yilmaz told the Kurdish Rudaw newspaper, for which I write a weekly column, about “over 100 diplomatic meetings in Erbil last year with [the] international community directly speaking to Kurdish political actors, which is unprecedented”.

Speed the day.

Raymond Ibrahim lays out some inconvenient truth.

A lie conceals the truth. And ugly but hidden truths never have a chance of being acknowledged, addressed, and ultimately ameliorated.

Because of this simple truism, one of the greatest lies of our age—that violence committed in the name of Islam has nothing to do with Islam—has made an intrinsically weak Islam the scourge of the modern world, with no signs of relief on the horizon.

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There was a time when most people believed that honor killings – if they had even heard of them – took place far away, in places like Afghanistan and Algeria and Iran.

These days, we know otherwise. They happen here in the West as well: in Texas, in Toronto, in Paris and Amsterdam.

Now Phyllis Chesler, the pre-eminent authority on the phenomenon and author of the most comprehensive study on honor killings, has found something else we didn’t know before: that many of these killings (and other honor violence) are perpetrated by women. “Women play a very active role in honor-based femicide,” she writes in her latest report, “both by spreading the gossip underlying such murders and by acting as conspirator accomplices and/or hands-on killers in the honor killing of female relatives.”