Saturday, September 1, 2018

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Muslim Doctors Without Borders nurse shoots at Israeli troops on Gaza border

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Terrorism Without Borders indeed. These medics are supposed to be politically neutral. But nowadays everything is politicized. Doctors Without Borders, itself viciously anti-Israel, was probably happy that Hani Mohammed Almajdalawi was so very woke.
“Israel: Doctors Without Borders nurse shot at troops on Gaza border,” AFP, August 24, 2018:
JERUSALEM: Israel said an MSF nurse shot at troops on the Gaza border this week, a charge the medical charity said Friday it was investigating as it confirmed the death of an employee.
“Doctors Without Borders (MSF) confirms that one of its employees, Hani Mohammed Almajdalawi, was killed in Gaza on Monday, August 20, 2018,” the organization said in a statement.
“MSF is working to verify and understand the circumstances regarding this extremely serious incident, and is not able to comment further at this stage,” it added.
COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body responsible for activities in the Palestinian territories, issued a statement late Thursday slamming MSF as “Terrorism Without Borders.”
“Hani Al-Almajdalawi, who tried to infiltrate through the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip while he was armed with a rifle, opened fire toward military forces and even threw an explosive device at them,” it said.
COGAT said Almajdalawi was “a nurse who worked for the international organization Doctors Without Borders.”
MSF has around 200 local and foreign staff in Gaza and in May the charity condemned Israel’s use of force in border protests as “unacceptable and inhuman.”…
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Egypt: Muslim mobs force closure of 8 Christian churches seeking official recognition (Do You Hear The Sound Of Angles Weeping?)

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“We haven’t heard that a mosque was closed down or the prayer was stopped in it because it was unlicensed. Is that justice? Where is the equality? Where is the religious freedom? Where is the law? Where are the state’ institutions?”
Good questions.
“Egypt: Muslim mobs force closure of 8 Coptic churches seeking ‘official’ recognition,” World Watch Monitor, August 29, 2018:
A Coptic diocese in Upper Egypt last week saw its eighth church closed following attacks by villagers protesting against the church building being legally recognised.
Across Egypt, there are thousands of churches informally acknowledged as ‘churches’.
Exactly two years ago, the government introduced a new common law granting church buildings the same rights as mosques. About 3500 pre-existing ‘churches’ were waiting to be legalised at the time: some had been waiting for over 20 years. Discussions to redress the imbalance had fruitlessly been going on since the 1970s.
In January this year, Egypt’s Ministry of Housing announced that Christians are allowed to continue to meet in unlicensed churches, pending the legalisation process.
But in Luxor governorate alone, eight churches have had to be closed while seeking legalization, Gamil Ayed, a Christian lawyer in the city of Esna, told World Watch Monitor.
“We haven’t heard that a mosque was closed down or the prayer was stopped in it because it was unlicensed. Is that justice? Where is the equality? Where is the religious freedom? Where is the law? Where are the state’ institutions?” he added.
Coptic political researcher Karim Kamal said in January, “The issue of unlicensed churches is not a problem from the state, governors, the Ministry of Interior or housing. The real problem lies in the ultra-conservative Islamists in some villages in rural and Upper Egyptian governorates, who fuel tensions over small unlicensed churches to pressure security officials into closing these churches to prevent sectarian strife,” he told the Egyptian news site AhramOnline….
The Virgin Mary and St. Mohrael Coptic Orthodox church in El-Zeniqa, 60 kms south of the city of Luxor, had to close its doors on 22 August, while Copts were celebrating the Feast of the Assumption of Mary.
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Hugh Fitzgerald: Jeremy Corbyn, Or Degringolade at Downing Street?

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Jeremy Corbyn, who has done everything he can to deny both his own antisemitism, and the antisemitism of many members of the Labor Party that he now heads, has lately been having a tough time of it.
He does, of course, have his admirers:
In a Twitter post, Hamas wrote: “We salute Jeremy Corbyn’s supportive positions to the Palestinians.”
When first accused of having honored dead terrorists at a graveside ceremony in Tunisia in October 2014, Corbyn denied that he had been anywhere near the graves of any terrorists, and he certainly had “no memory” of any wreath laying. Then some photographs surfaced. One of them shows Corbyn holding — with others — a large wreath. And the grave they are standing over turns out to have been that of one of those who planned the murder of the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Another photo of Jeremy Corbyn shows him posing in the same graveyard next to a convicted terrorist, Fatima Bernawi, who was given a life sentence for trying to blow up a Israeli cinema in 1967. While the attempted terror attack did not come off, Bernawi boasted that  it was successful because it “generated fear.” Bernawi was later freed in a prisoner swap, and was thus able to attend the same terrorist-honoring graveside ceremony as Jeremy Corbyn.
Asked to explain what he was doing next to a convicted terrorist, Mr Corbyn’s spokesman said: “Jeremy has a long and principled record of solidarity with the Palestinian people and engaging with actors in the conflict to support peace and justice in the Middle East.”
Notice that Corbyn, though his spokesman, did not claim that he did not know who Bernawi was, or what she had been convicted of. She was the only woman in the graveside group, and both that and her appearance (Bernawi was an Afro-Palestinian) would almost certainly have led Corbyn to ask who she was.
In the same group photo is another important terrorist, Maher al-Taher, the exiled head of a Palestinian terror group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. It was his group that the very next month, November 2014, would murder seven rabbis at a synagogue in Jerusalem during morning prayers.
Both Corbyn and Al-Taher were invited by the official Palestinian Authority delegation to the cemetery in the Tunisian capital.
After attending a “peace conference” in a five-star hotel, they laid wreaths to the men buried there – including those who masterminded the 1972 Olympics massacre.
Nothing says “peace” like laying wreaths at the graves of terrorists, especially of those who planned the 1972 murders of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
The Labour leader has since said he was “unaware” he was sharing a platform with a senior member of a terror group (as well as a convicted terrorist standing right next to him) and he told Channel 4 News that he laid his wreath “on the graves of all those that have died,” adding: “I’m not apologising for being there at all.” Even now he has yet to apologize for saying a prayer, and laying a wreath, at the graves of terrorists.
Then there is the controversy over a blatantly antisemitic mural on a London building. It shows a group of recognizably Jewish men — to judge by the dollars on the table, they are bankers — seated  around a tabletop which is revealed to be a monopoly board, held up by the bent bodies of the oppressed poor. The local government in 2012 wanted the mural removed. Corbyn, in a Facebook comment, instead defended the mural; he, practically alone, could not see what was wrong with it. What was all the  fuss about?, asked Corbyn dismissively. You can judge for yourself here.
The discovery of Corbyn’s 2012 Facebook post in which he found the mural unobjectionable has added to the longstanding criticism of the Labour leader: he frequently turns a blind eye to antisemitism, whether it is his own (which he is incapable of recognizing), or that of others, especially if they are in his party. When Ken Livingstone compared Israeli soldiers to Nazi concentration camp guards, he was not expelled from the party, and even when he claimed that Hitler had supported Zionism in the 1930s, he was not expelled, but only temporarily suspended. When Livingstone, who has continued to be unapologetic about that remark, resigned from the party in May, 2018, it was not due to any pressure from Corbyn. The Labour MP Margaret Hodge, a longtime member of Labour Friends of Israel, has described Corbyn as an “antisemite and racist.” Joan Ryan, the current head of Labour Friends of Israel, has made the same charge, at greater length, in a series of open letters to Corbyn, as here and here. Ryan accuses Corbyn of peddling “grotesque” antisemitic conspiracy theories, including his claiming on Iranian state TV in 2012 that the “hand of Israel” was behind a jihad terror attack in Egypt that year. Ms. Ryan said: “Mr Corbyn’s claim is ludicrous, ­grotesque and entirely unfounded in fact. It evokes a sinister anti-Semitic ­conspiracy theory alleging Israeli origins in terrorism.”
Corbyn, of course, finds nothing wrong with his having helped lay a wreath at the grave of Black September members, the group that was behind the Munich murders. Those in the Tunisian graveyard may not have actually taken part in the murders — those killers were buried in Libya — but they certainly helped to plan the Munich attack. That is why, having first claimed that he had no idea who was being honored at the graveyard in Tunisia, Corbyb  then said that he had not laid a wreath at the grave of anyone who “took part” in the Munich massacre, which was true only technically, but false in its essence. He not only laid a wreath at the grave of a Black September member, but in other pictures, he is seen standing close to where another terrorist, Atef Bseiso, the intelligence chief of the Palestine Liberation Organisation who has also been  linked to the Munich massacre, is buried.
The photos, taken a year before he became leader of the party, clearly show him with his hands, palms up an  properly cupped, taking part in an Islamic prayer at the burial site.
Corbyn still sees nothing wrong with his having invited his “friends” in Hamas and Hezbollah to address Parliament in 2009. He is especially fond of Hamas. Corbyn spoke at a conference in Doha in 2012 alongside Hamas terrorists and called their speeches “fascinating and electrifying.” And he enjoyed a takeaway dinner in 2010 with Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, a remarkable choice of dining companion, considering that Mashal is on Britain’s terror sanctions list. He has dismissed the many accusations of antisemitism in the Labor Party’s ranks. The latest example is Peter Willsman, who is standing for re-election to the party’s National Executive Committee, and who blamed allegations of antisemitism on Jewish “Trump fanatics” in a recording released by the Jewish Chronicle. Luciana Berger, one of the Labour moderates who tried to oust Corbyn in 2016, called the recording “sickening.” Another of the former rebels, Wes Streeting, said in a tweet it was “depressing” that “the Party’s leadership have only ever been shamed into action on antisemitism.” Corbyn has done nothing to discipline Williamson. Nor has he taken issue with the campaign to have Israel labelled as a “racist endeavor.”
Jeremy Corbyn, the self-described “friend” of Hamas and Hezbollah whose representatives he invited to speak in Parliament, who at a graveyard in Tunisia stood right beside one convicted terrorist and a few feet away from a second terrorist (a leader of Black September), while intoning an Islamic prayer over the gravesite of still a third (one of the masterminds of the Munich killings), is an appalling creature. His refusal to visit Israel, even if only to visit Yad Vashem (or would that be, in Corbyn’s view, unwise because it might create too much  sympathy for the Jews?) also rankles. But that’s not the worst of the Corbyn saga.
No, the worst of it is that, because of the whole Brexit business that Teresa May has yet to untangle and resolve, Corbyn is leading in the polls. Jeremy Corbyn, the farthest-left candidate in the modern history of the Labour Party, now has a good chance of becoming the next resident of 10 Downing Street. With Merkel in Berlin and Macron in Paris and Corbyn in London, the next chapter in Europe’s unfolding encounter with Islam already has its title: Degringolade.
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French President Macron: “No such thing as a true Dane, true Frenchman” (What he is saying could start a true civil war) The French people are very Patriotic! God & Country

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Back in March, legendary Hollywood actress Brigitte Bardot did not mince words about the Islamization of France when she declared: “I did not fight against French Algeria to accept an Algerian France, I do not touch the culture, the identity and the customs of others, let’s not touch mine.”
Her words about culture and national identity were in stark contrast to those of French President Emmanuel Macron, who enraged his own country’s politicians when he asserted that “’true’ Frenchmen and Danes ‘do not exist’, and attacked the people he rules over as stubbornly resistant to change while on an official visit to Denmark.” Macron also believes that “he has succeeded in provoking ‘cultural change’ in the native since his election last year.”
Macron is an open borders globalist whose country has flagged “more than 78,000 people” as jihadist security threats in 2017, even more than there are in Germany and the UK. Christine Tasin, the President of “the French anti-Islamization movement,” Résistance Républicaine, gave three reasons: “there are more Muslims, more criminal Muslims and the Muslim Brotherhood has more influence in France than in any other EU state.” This is thanks to Macron, who, like other globalist leaders, pays no attention to these warnings and exposes his citizens to danger.
“Macron Tells Denmark ‘No Such Thing as a True Dane, True Frenchman’”, Virginia Hale, Breitbart, August 30, 2018:
French politicians have reacted with anger after Emmanuel Macron asserted that “true” Frenchmen and Danes “do not exist”, and attacked the people he rules over as stubbornly resistant to change while on an official visit to Denmark.
The French president made the remarks while on a three-day tour of Denmark and Finland, where he is hoping to establish a “progressive arc” of nations supporting his vision of a globalised EU superstate, which would revolve around a liberal conception of human rights, ahead of European Parliament elections next year.
Speaking before a gala lobster dinner on Wednesday, at which Denmark’s Queen Margaret was in attendance, Macron praised the Scandinavian nation as one which is “completely open to the rest of the world” compared with a France whose people he said showed a “Gaulish stubborn resistance to change”.
France has a “deep and complex identity, which has always been thought of as universalism”, the former investment banker said, before stating he believes he has succeeded in provoking “cultural change” in the native since his election last year.
“People are changing their minds, they are much more open to risk,” he told the event, which was broadcast on Danish television.
“You will see France transformed by its people.”
Asked by a Danish student about the future of national identities in Europe, Macron said that “the ‘true Dane’ does not exist…..
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Geert Wilders cancels “Draw Muhammad” contest amid massive protests, threats of violence

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Geert Wilders has cancelled his planned “Draw Muhammad” contest, following death threats and large-scale protests in Pakistan. Wilders stated:
To avoid the risk of victims of Islamic violence, I have decided not to let the cartoon contest go ahead….It’s not just about me…. Opponents of the event see not only me, but the entire Netherlands as a target.
10,000 Muslims rallied in Pakistan, chanting “we will die for the Prophet” over Wilders’ contest, while Pakistan’s new Prime Minister, Imran Khan, announced that he was going to the UN to stop all Muhammad cartoon contests, including Wilders’ contest. “Khan vowed to take the matter [of blasphemy] to the United Nations, saying that few in the West understand the pain caused to Muslims by such activities.”
As Islamic supremacists become more emboldened, they also become more aggressive. 10,000 enraged Muslims chanting in Pakistan about an event that is supposedly insulting to Islam taking place in their own country is one thing, but they did it over an event in the Netherlands.
In Islamic doctrine, it is considered “Islamophobic” to insult Muhammad or Islam. No one is allowed to do it, wherever they are. It is not tolerated. If such blasphemy laws take root globally, it will herald the ultimate victory of the House of Islam over the House of War — and the House of Islam is gaining in long strides. Freedom of speech (and expression) is the cornerstone of a free society; this includes freedom to offend. If Islamic states choose to live by Sharia, it is their business, but Islamic supremacists have spread this Sharia doctrine all over the West via the “Islamophobia” canard, with aid from their socialist-leftist enablers.
Prime minister Mark Rutte last week questioned Wilders’ motives. “His aim is not to have a debate about Islam,” he said. “His aim is to be provocative.
One wonders where Rutte has been hiding out. Debates, conversations, questions, facts about Islam are vehemently opposed by Muslim Brotherhood operatives in Western countries, as well as by Islamic supremacists internationally. To discuss and point out the abuses committed in the name of Islam is deemed to be “Islamophobic,” “racist,” and the like, and is increasingly followed by punitive action.
“Far-right Dutch MP cancels Muhammad cartoon competition,” Associated Press, August 30, 2018:
Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has cancelled a planned contest inviting people to submit a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad following death threats and large-scale protests in Pakistan.
“To avoid the risk of victims of Islamic violence, I have decided not to let the cartoon contest go ahead,” the far-right opposition politician said in a written statement on Thursday night.
Wilders, who for years has lived under round-the-clock protection because of death threats sparked by his fierce anti-Islam rhetoric, said he does not want others put in danger by the contest he planned for November.
News of the competition sparked angry protests in Pakistan and an alleged death threat against Wilders this week from a 26-year-old man, reportedly a Pakistani, who was arrested on Tuesday in The Hague.
Physical depictions of the prophet are forbidden in Islam and are deeply offensive to Muslims.
“It’s not just about me,” Wilders said in the statement. Opponents of the event “see not only me, but the entire Netherlands as a target”.
The contest was to have been held at the tightly guarded offices of his Party for Freedom in the Dutch parliament building. The Dutch government had been at pains to distance itself from the contest.
Prime minister Mark Rutte last week questioned Wilders’ motives. “His aim is not to have a debate about Islam,” he said. “His aim is to be provocative.”
However, Rutte added that people in the Netherlands have far-reaching freedom of speech rights and the government did not intend to seek the contest’s cancellation….
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