Category Archives: Fundamentalist terror

Bullshit Artist Donald Trump’s 9/11 Cheering “Evidence” Immediately Debunked: Gothamist

Donald Trump took a break from demanding that America kill children, mistreating people with disabilities, and re-arranging photos of himself on his desk to continue pushing a fourth-hand 9/11 NJ “cheering” narrative that has now been debunked and refuted multiple times. But because Trump is a dangerous snake oil salesman who remains on top of the Republican presidential nominee tire fire, it’s important to make it abundantly clear when Trump’s particular brand of bigoted racism lapses into outright fantasy.

Source: Bullshit Artist Donald Trump’s 9/11 Cheering “Evidence” Immediately Debunked: Gothamist

The world’s failed war on terrorism | Nervana

Unlike what many Muslims and the liberal western elite emphasize, contemporary terrorism undoubtedly has a religious element to it. It is frankly disingenuous to deny this reality. It is also futile, however, to judge Islam. Islam is not an entity, a specific institution, or a state.Like other religions, Islam is not what is written in texts, but what people opt to apply in their life.Radicals have simply resurrected older interpretations of Islamic texts and twisted such concepts in cynical farcical ways to validate their gruesome actions. Their behavior is actually a reflection of the broader cultural suicide of the Muslim world, and not on the Muslim faith per se.

Source: The world’s failed war on terrorism | Nervana

Former DIA Intelligence Chief Discusses Development of IS – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Flynn: First we went to Afghanistan, where al-Qaida was based. Then we went into Iraq. Instead of asking ourselves why the phenomenon of terror occurred, we were looking for locations. This is a major lesson we must learn in order not to make the same mistakes again.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: The Islamic State wouldn’t be where it is now without the fall of Baghdad. Do you regret …

Flynn: … yes, absolutely …

SPIEGEL ONLINE: … the Iraq war?

Flynn: It was huge error. As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that decision.

Source: Former US Intelligence Chief Discusses Development of IS – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Duty of state govts to ban cow slaughter: Union minister Jyoti – The Times of India

“Intolerance is a issue that was created with political motive to malign us ahead of the Bihar poll. It was pre- planned and that is why you can’t see any protest after the results are out,” Jyoti told PTI. Jyoti, who is Union minister of state for food processing industries, said that it was the neutral votes that made all the difference in the Bihar poll. “It is the 5-10 per cent neutral votes that made the difference in Bihar. After coming to power at the Centre, we have won several states. I give my best wishes to Nitish Kumarji,” Jyoti said. On writers returning their awards in protest against ‘intolerance’, she said, “I have immense respect for the writers, but awards should not have been returned.” “Awards are not just a token of honour. But it is an honour from the entire country. So if you are returning the award then you are dishonouring the country. “If it is due to an issue, then it was there earlier too during the Sikh riots and Bhagalpur riots. Politics should not have been brought into it. There has been politics regarding this thing (returning of awards),” she said. Jyoti said that the Dadri lynching was a case of law and order failure on the part of the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh. “This incident should not have happened. It is a law and order problem, which is a state subject. If the state had taken action, then such situation wouldn’t have happened. Instead of taking action, they are blaming us,” she said.

Source: Duty of state govts to ban cow slaughter: Union minister Jyoti – The Times of India

Top Kurdish rights defender in Turkey shot and killed | News | DW.COM | 28.11.2015

A prominent Kurdish lawyer and human rights defender has been killed in Turkey after making a pro-peace press statement in the city of Diyarbakir. It is unclear who was behind the attack.

Source: Top Kurdish rights defender in Turkey shot and killed | News | DW.COM | 28.11.2015

During Planned Parenthood Shooting, Fear and Chaos at Shopping Center – The New York Times

After arrest: “People poured out. Among them was Ms. Schilter, the woman at the grocery store. Her boyfriend, Jackson Ricker, 18, placed his arms around her waist and his chin on her shoulder and noted that Ms. Schilter had witnessed a different shooting a few weeks earlier when a heavily armed man shot and killed a bicyclist and two women in the downtown. “The first time she cried,” said Mr. Ricker, looking at his dry-eyed girlfriend. “She’s a veteran now.”

Source: During Planned Parenthood Shooting, Fear and Chaos at Shopping Center – The New York Times

Garrett Swasey, Officer Killed in Colorado, Is Recalled for Courage and Faith – The New York Times

Garrett Swasey, 44, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs police officer who was shot and killed while responding to a shooting at a Planned Parenthood office, was described by his fellow church members and friends as a courageous man and loving father who drew strength and inspiration from his Christian faith.Continue reading the main storyRELATED COVERAGE3 Are Dead in Colorado Springs Shootout at Planned Parenthood CenterNOV. 27, 2015video Gunfire Exchange in Colorado SpringsNOV. 27, 2015slideshow Gunfire at a Colorado Planned Parenthood ClinicNOV. 27, 2015He was married, with two young children, and had been on the campus police force for six years. He also spent seven years as a co-pastor at Hope Chapel in Colorado Springs. “Here’s a guy who worked full time as a police officer, and then gave a great amount of time to his local church and didn’t get a dime for it,” said Scott Dontanville, a co-pastor who knew Officer Swasey for 15 years. “He did it because it was the thing that he felt he needed to do.”

Source: Garrett Swasey, Officer Killed in Colorado, Is Recalled for Courage and Faith – The New York Times

Once in Guantánamo, Afghan Now Leads War Against Taliban and ISIS – The New York Times

At 54, Mr. Ghalib’s face is creased, and his eyes are both exhausted and watchful, as though all they really expect to see is the next bad turn that will befall his life. There have been many, including the death of both wives, his daughters, a sister and a grandchild at the hands of the Taliban.“I don’t have good memories of life, to be honest,” Mr. Ghalib said.In a recent interview in Kabul, he cataloged the enemies he has fought during a life of struggle — first the Soviets, during the jihad of the 1980s; then the Taliban over the next three decades; and now the Islamic State.More slowly, he recounted the long list of relatives he lost over these decades of calamity, from a brother who died in the war against the Soviets in the 1980s to his 70-year-old brother-in-law, who was beheaded this month. The Taliban killed more than 19 relatives in all.“Everything has been fighting and killing,” he lamented.Now, his latest fight has even pitted him against a man he once considered a close friend: a poet named Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, whom he lived alongside in Guantánamo.

Source: Once in Guantánamo, Afghan Now Leads War Against Taliban and ISIS – The New York Times

Turkey jails two journalists over claims Ankara supplied arms to Syrian jihadis | News | DW.COM | 26.11.2015

A court in Istanbul accused Can Dündar (pictured above) and Erdem Gül, two journalists with the opposition daily “Cumhuriyet,” of “divulging state secrets” and “spying in aid of terrorist organizations.”In May 2015, the two journalists had published a video on the newspaper’s website dating back to January 2014 that allegedly showed Turkish police open Syria-bound crates of weapons and ammunition on trucks belonging to Turkey’s intelligence agency, MIT.Dündar, 54, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief and a well-known veteran journalist in Turkey, and Gül, the paper’s Ankara bureau chief, have both been taken into custody, as social media users across Turkey voiced their criticism at the recently-elected government’s tough stance on journalists.

Source: Turkey jails two journalists over claims Ankara supplied arms to Syrian jihadis | News | DW.COM | 26.11.2015

Godfather of terror: Saudi Arabia and ′IS′ | World | DW.COM | 25.11.2015

Saudi Arabia exports its version of Sunni Islam with the utmost consequence. In the last 25 years a former US ambassador estimated in a published study in 2007 that the kingdom had invested at least 87 billion dollars in religious propaganda worldwide. This sum, he thinks, may even have increased further due to the high price of oil over an extended period. The funds went towards the construction of mosques, Madrassa Koran schools and religious institutions, and helped finance the training of Imams, publishing houses and Wahhabi text books.A large part of the funds go to economically weak, but populous Islamic countries in south and southeast Asia, such as Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, or Malaysia. Proselytizing for Wahhabism is also done in parts of Africa. For many people in these parts of the world it is the only possibility of getting a school education. There they learn how to read and write and are also given access to the Wahhabi teachings. But there are also Saudi Arabian financed institutions in the West.

Source: Godfather of terror: Saudi Arabia and ′IS′ | World | DW.COM | 25.11.2015