London.
Waiting for the “mentally unstable” label or that “we’ll never know the motive”.
The Rituals of Post-Terror Management
h/t Larry
Operation Russian Bear
CNBC: Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Friday it had killed the Islamic State leader, Ibrahim abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as up to 330 other fighters with an air strike on Raqqa at the end of May.
Those Moderate Refugees!
A “Fredricton” man.
h/t Sask Watch
Those Moderate Muslims!
Premier Daniel Andrews says he’s “very troubled” by the Islamic Council of Victoria’s suggestion for safe spaces where Muslim youth “could be radical”.
The council made a submission asking for taxpayer-funded “safe spaces” where young Muslims can express themselves openly, even if those views are “inflammatory”.
Mr Andrews says he is very concerned about their proposal and the council’s state funding will be reviewed.
“There is no safe way to rail against the West. There is no safe way to rail against the values that we hold dear,” Mr Andrews told reporters.
“I am very troubled by the suggestion that we might have a space where people could be radical as part of a deradicalisation program. That makes no sense to me whatsoever.”
That’s ok. It makes sense to them.
It’s Their Nature
He’s not heavy, he’s my scorpion.
Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iran’s parliament and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran on Wednesday morning, killing at least 12 people in a twin assault at the heart of the Islamic Republic, Iranian officials and media said.
Islamic State claimed responsibility and released a video purporting to show gunmen inside the parliament building and one body, apparently dead, on the floor.
Diversity Is Our Strength
Sources told the Toronto Sun that a woman, wearing an ISIS bandana, allegedly entered Cedarbrae Mall in Scarborough Saturday afternoon and then the Canadian Tire store, where she walked to the paint section.
She allegedly ranted “Allahu Akbar” — God (Allah) is greater — before swinging a golf club at employees — at the same time of bloody terrorist attacks in London, sources said.
The woman was restrained by several employees, after she pulled out a large knife from under her clothing, according to police. The knife was pried from her hand and an employee suffered non-life-threatening injuries, said a police release.
More Candles And Teddy Bears At Folkfest
“There is no reason to be alarmed by this.”
The sad truth, and getting sadder with every attack, is that the political class has little interest in doing what would really be necessary to combat Islamist terrorism, let alone talk about it. They don’t want to talk about how Britain’s lax immigration policies over decades led to hundreds of thousands of immigrants entering the country with varying degrees of willingness to assimilate and adopt Western values. They don’t want to openly criticize the blatant problems with the multiculturalism the UK has pursued for years and the obvious impact it has had on the immigrant population.
Oh no. This would cost them too much. It would shatter the façade of political correctness that’s been constructed over our “civilized” western world, and destroy the illusion, so vital to the political class, that Western values are universal.
The politicians are only willing to give speeches about how united we are and how terrorists cannot tear us apart. But the truth–so clear and obvious–is that with every attack the West becomes more and more divided. We are not united, not by a long shot. Before the bodies of the poor souls who were killed Saturday by radical Islamists were even identified, the Left and Right were at one another’s throats. On that score, the terrorists emerge victorious every time.
Happy Ramadan
A holy and respected Muslim celebration of the Quran being revealed to Muhammad.
You can’t eat while the sun is up and you’re to refrain from violence.
God help you if you’re caught…eating…in Muslim countries like Iran, Yemen and France.
#ReligionOfPeace
Losers
What kinds of people join the Losers? Mostly young males. And you know what brand young males do not want on them? Right: Losers.
If you call them monsters, they like it. If you call them ISIS or ISIL they put it on a flag and wave it around. If you call them non-Muslim, it just rolls off their backs because they have Korans and stuff. Almost any other “brand” you can imagine is either inert or beneficial to Loser recruitment.
Loser is different. No one joins the Loser movement.
Islamic State Of Great Britain
Business Insider: 8 arrested in Manchester attack as a ‘significant’ connection emerges between bomber and ISIS recruiter.
“This morning (Thursday 25 May 2017) we have been carrying out searches at an address in the Withington area and a man has been arrested.
“These searches are connected to Monday’s attack on the Manchester Arena, but this is a fast-moving investigation and we are keeping an open mind at this stage.
“Another man has also been arrested in the Manchester area this morning in connection with the investigation, bringing the total number of men in custody to eight.
“A woman who was arrested in Blackley on Wednesday evening has since been released without charge.”
More at Fox News: Manchester bomber Salman Abedi’s father and brothers arrested, linked to ISIS, Al Qaeda
In another victory for ISIS, the Obama cells in US intelligence are now fully activated;
Police hunting the terror network behind the Manchester Arena bombing have stopped passing information to the US on the investigation as a major transatlantic row erupted over leaks of key evidence in the US.
The police, Downing Street and the Home Office refused to comment on the BBC report, but Theresa May will confront Donald Trump about the leaks – including crime scene photographs – when she meets him at a Nato summit in Brussels on Thursday.
The Tolerant Leftjavik
Robert Spencer Poisoned After Giving Anti-Jihad Speech in Iceland
h/t Ken (Kulak)
Boots In The Air
Those Moderate Muslims!
No different than Christianity.
An Indonesian court has sentenced the minority Christian governor of Jakarta to two years in prison for blaspheming the Koran
Except for that.
More Pavilions At Volkfest
The President of Austria has called for all women to wear headscarves in solidarity with Muslims to fight “rampant Islamophobia”.
Can’t wait to hear his ideas on curing homophobia.
(h/t Warren K Smith)
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Submission journalism – New York Times refuses To Use Term ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ Because It’s ‘Culturally Loaded’
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
U.N. Elects Saudi Arabia to Women’s Rights Commission, For 2018-2022 Term.
Was There Nothing That Obama Couldn’t Do?
He wasn’t anti-nuke. He was on the other side.
When federal prosecutors and agents learned the true extent of the releases, many were shocked and angry. Some had spent years, if not decades, working to penetrate the global proliferation networks that allowed Iranian arms traders both to obtain crucial materials for Tehran’s illicit nuclear and ballistic missile programs and, in some cases, to provide dangerous materials to other countries.
“They didn’t just dismiss a bunch of innocent business guys,” said one former federal law enforcement supervisor centrally involved in the hunt for Iranian arms traffickers and nuclear smugglers. “And then they didn’t give a full story of it.”
In its determination to win support for the nuclear deal and prisoner swap from Tehran — and from Congress and the American people — the Obama administration did a lot more than just downplay the threats posed by the men it let off the hook, according to POLITICO’s findings.
Through action in some cases and inaction in others, the White House derailed its own much-touted National Counterproliferation Initiative at a time when it was making unprecedented headway in thwarting Iran’s proliferation networks. In addition, the POLITICO investigation found that Justice and State Department officials denied or delayed requests from prosecutors and agents to lure some key Iranian fugitives to friendly countries so they could be arrested. Similarly, Justice and State, at times in consultation with the White House, slowed down efforts to extradite some suspects already in custody overseas, according to current and former officials and others involved in the counterproliferation effort.
And as far back as the fall of 2014, Obama administration officials began slow-walking some significant investigations and prosecutions of Iranian procurement networks operating in the U.S. These previously undisclosed findings are based on interviews with key participants at all levels of government and an extensive review of court records and other documents.
“Clearly, there was an embargo on any Iranian cases,” according to the former federal supervisor.
“Of course it pissed people off, but it’s more significant that these guys were freed, and that people were killed because of the actions of one of them,” the supervisor added, in reference to Ravan and the IED network.
Unreal. We had a president openly colluding with America's enemies and brazenly lying about it. https://t.co/Pl2areVM46
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) April 24, 2017
There Goes The Narrative!
Azhar Hussain, an assistant professor at ISU has been arrested on charges alleging he made false reports of anti-Islamic threats against him and even reported an attack authorities say did not happen.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is a member of the anti-fascist Facebook group, By Any Means Necessary, which orchestrated the riots that occurred ahead of a scheduled lecture by Milo Yiannopoulos.
Not sure why he calls them “anti-fascist”.