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World’s deadliest jihadists are not in Iraq or Syria — they’re in Mali. Again will we blame a religion or the history of politics in the region?

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2012 file photo, fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu...

World’s deadliest jihadists are not in Iraq or Syria — they’re in Mali

  • 1 hour ago October 15, 2014 1:46PM
Relatives gather by the coffins of nine UN soldiers from Niger killed in Mali this month.

Relatives gather by the coffins of nine UN soldiers from Niger killed in Mali this month. Source: AFP

THIS is the world’s most dangerous place to be right now.

It’s a region overrun by Islamic militants baying for blood — but it is not Iraq or Syria.

It’s northern Mali in West Africa.

Malian foreign affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop begged the UN to take urgent action.

Malian foreign affairs minister Abdoulaye Diop begged the UN to take urgent action. Source: AFP

French forces won back the territory from al-Qaeda in early 2013 with more than 4500 soldiers in the region, according to Foreign Policy.

But now that France has withdrawn most of its troops, Mali has become the deadliest place on the planet.

In the past 15 months alone, a floundering UN peacekeeping mission has suffered 31 deaths and 91 injuries.

Now the United Nations’ Mali envoy Bert Koenders is leaving after less than a year in the role to become the Netherlands’ foreign minister.

 

As well as rebellion and corruption, Mali faces the looming threat of Ebola.

As well as rebellion and corruption, Mali faces the looming threat of Ebola. Source: AP

He warned that the region ran “the risk of becoming the destination of hordes of terrorists”.

UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous promised that combat helicopters and drones would be sent to Mali in the coming months as it faces ambushes, rockets, mortar shells and suicide attacks.

But in the meantime, the neglected area is descending into chaos, with the spectre of Ebola also looming large in the country, which borders the epicentre of the viral epidemic, Guinea.

The UN mission’s website says Mali “has been confronted by a profound crisis with serious political, security, socio-economic, humanitarian and human rights consequences.”

Thousands marched in Malian capital Bamako last month to demand peace and protest calls f

Thousands marched in Malian capital Bamako last month to demand peace and protest calls for independence in the north by Touareg rebels. Source: AFP

It attributed the problem to years of weak infrastructure and governance, fragile social cohesion and deep-seated feelings among communities in the north of being neglected, marginalised and unfairly treated.

Mali has also faced problems with environmental degradation, climate change and economic shocks.

“These conditions were exacerbated by more recent factors of instability, including corruption, nepotism, abuse of power, internal strife and deteriorating capacity of the national army,” the UN reports.

Malian troops working with French forces to battle radical Islamic rebels in the northern

Malian troops working with French forces to battle radical Islamic rebels in the northern city of Gao in February 2013. Source: AP

Al-Qaeda took control of northern Mali in 2012 after a coup sparked by Tuareg rebels in the country’s vast desert.

The extremists sidelined the Tuaregs and had begun to advance on the capital, Bamako, when French and African troops intervened in January 2013.

Minusma, a 9000-strong UN peacekeeping mission, took over in July 2013, but has faced continuing insurgent attacks.

With French forces leaving the area, the UN is struggling to cope.

Will the world take notice of Mali’s predicament?

Andrew Bolt, Faith, Islam

Andrew Bolt claims to be faithless, doesn’t have much belief in history except for WA-CC. Islam holds no values he aspires to because it’s an ideology of death.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XlvpGshhTrI

Bolt says he is faithless a humanist, a scientist who only believes in Western Anglo- Christian Civilization there in itself is more twists an turns than a freakish carnival ride.

The Oxford Union, the university was the Alma Mater of his mate Tony Abbott who left with a blue in boxing and has been bluing ever since. Given that imaginary great minds are never individuals and are usually moderated by the likes of Peta Credlin. I thought I’d throw this in, as it contradicts Andrew Bolt’s being, and might hurry forward his existential death.

Islam, Israel

Crime-fighting London Jews help protect Muslim community

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Crime-fighting London Jews help protect Muslim community

A 25-strong haredi group has joined forces with local police to catch criminals, as well as protect mosques amid spike in anti-Muslim hate; ‘We are both sons of Abraham after al

LONDON – The unusual sight of crime-fighting Orthodox Jews pounding the streets of a tough London neighbourhood after dark has captured the attention of grateful locals, but their ongoing protection of local Muslims has seen their profile go global
The work of the 25-strong “Shomrim” even caught the eye of US Secretary of State John Kerry, who praised the neighbourhood patrol group’s “remarkable courage”.
Members of the Haredi Jewish community in Stamford Hill formed the group – named after the Yiddish word for guards – in 2008 in response to high crime levels.

Police initially feared vigilantism but now cooperate closely with the volunteers, who helped in 197 arrests last year and even apprehending the area’s “most wanted burglar”.

It is Shomrim’s role in helping protect the area’s large Muslim population, however, that has secured its place in the community and garnered international praise.
The group was called upon by local councillors in Hackney, north London, following the murder of soldier Lee Rigby by Islamic extremists in the British capital in 2013.
“There was a spike in anti-Muslim hate crime. All over England, mosques were being firebombed,” explained Shulem Stern, a young man sporting the “payot” haircurls and “kippah” skullcap associated with the Haredi faith.
“The councillors thought: ‘We’ve got Shomrim in the local area, who don’t we utilize them’?”
They continue to protect local mosques as Muslim communities across Britain are back in the spotlight following the rise of the Islamic State organization in Syria and Iraq.

“In many ways they’re a really well organized neighbourhood watch,” explained police Superintendent Andy Walker. “They are very much the eyes and ears of the police.”

From his car parked outside a warehouse owned by one of the group, Shomrim volunteer Chaim Hochhauser shows off the stab vests provided by police, highlighting the everyday danger faced every day by these unlikely crime fighters.
Shomrim also receive regular advice sessions from local officers, and use their new knowledge to help to defend the main local mosque.

“Their doors are open all the time, so anyone who wants can walk and do what they want, chuck in a firebomb,” explained Hochhauser
The arrangement was lauded by Kerry when he launched the annual US report on International Religious Freedom in July.
“Their courage goes unremarked, but that makes it all the more remarkable. Believe me, that’s the definition of courage,” the top US diplomat said.
However, Stern insisted there was nothing remarkable about their work.
“The local Muslims and local Jewish people do so much business together. In religious aspects as well there are loads of similarities,” he said.

“Also, because we’re visible and suffered a long history of hate crime, we’re very alert to anything unusual.”

“The (Haredi) community is not known for being too inclusive, but where necessary they will help the wider community,” said Michael Desmond, the leader of the local council who recently hosted an event honoring the group.
“We are both sons of Abraham after all,” added Ian Sharer, an Orthodox Jewish councillor.
Local Muslim councillor Dawood Akhoon, who worked with Sharer to bring the two communities together, said the Muslim response had been “really good and positive”.
“It’s part and parcel of each of our faiths, we have to take care of our environment and out neighbors,” he told AFP.
Ties between the two communities came under renewed scrutiny in July, when anger at Israel’s operation in Gaza led to a spike in anti-Semitic incidents across Britain.
But Shomrim insist that any problems, such as the recent appearance of swastikas graffitied on local walls, originate from outside the area.
“I want to make this clear, none of the suspects that we’ve dealt with have been local Muslims,” said Stern.
Councillor Sharer added: “To the incredible credit of the Muslim community, there has not been one incident in this area. That’s down to one word: respect.”

Islam, Syria/iraq

Is it fair to blame the West for trouble in the Middle East? For at least a decade, attempts to understand why some young Muslims living in Western countries turn to violence in the name of religion have raised questions about Western foreign policy in the Middle…

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  1. Anne Aly

    Research Fellow in extremism, radicalisation and online extremism at Curtin University

For at least a decade, attempts to understand why some young Muslims living in Western countries turn to violence in the name of religion have raised questions about Western foreign policy in the Middle East. Many blame the United States’ foreign policy. The Islamic State uses anger and grievance against Western intervention as a powerful recruiting to

But is it really fair to blame Western foreign policy for the state of affairs in the Middle East?

There is some truth to the argument that anger at foreign policy and the West’s engagement with the Arab world is at the heart of Muslim anger, as well as a driver of radicalisation among Muslim youth.The “war on terror” – a phrase first used by US President George W. Bush just after the September 11 attacks in 2001 – was arguably a dismal failure.

American and British intelligence agencies have both reported that the US-led invasion of Iraq has actually increased the number of Islamist terrorists. The belief that the war on terror was a thinly disguised attempt to attack Islam was no longer limited to conspiracy theorists and 9/11 “truth seekers”. Instead, it became popularised among Muslims around the world.

However, to solely lay blame for the rise of a global and increasingly violent Jihadi movement on Western intervention ignores other crucial factors that allow extremism to take root and spread.

The origins of extremism

In his book A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the emergence of Islamism, Dr S. Sayyid describes five arguments that explain the spread of what is commonly called Islamic fundamentalism, Islamism or militant Islamism.

  • Islamism is a response to the failure of Arab leaders to deliver meaningful outcomes to their people.
  • Lacking opportunities for political participation, Arab citizens turned to mosques as public spaces for political discussion. As a result religion became the language of politics and of political change.
  • Post-colonialism also failed the Arab middle class, as the ruling elite continued to hold power and wealth.
  • Rapid economic growth in the emerging Gulf States increased the influence of conservative Muslim governments. At the same time, the expansion of the oil-based Gulf economy brought about uneven economic development, the response to which was growing support for Islamism as a mode of expression for internal grievances.
  • Finally, the spread of Islamism has also been due to the effects of cultural erosion and globalisation contributing to a Muslim identity crisis.

So the current state of affairs in the Middle East is not simply an outcome of Western intervention and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Western foreign policy in the region has no doubt influenced the current situation. But the conditions for the spread of militant Islamism have come from attempts to deal with the crisis within: a crisis that is as much political in nature as it is religious.

Filling a power vacuum

In terms of politics, the traditional seats of power in the Arab world have been toppled, creating a void and opening opportunities for other Arab nations to vie for power.

With the decline of Egyptian power and ongoing chaos in Syria and Iraq, the Gulf states have emerged as the most economically and politically stable influences in the region.

Gulf state competition, particularly between Abu Dhabi and Doha, has become one of the defining features of the Middle East. While Doha supports the Syrian revolution as well as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, Abu Dhabi stands guarded against a foreign policy approach that strengthens Islamists.

Qatar, on the other hand, has been known to provide significant financial assistance to violent Islamist groups, including groups linked to Al Qaeda. It has also failed to act on wealthy citizens accused of financing terrorist organisations to the tune of millions of dollars.

Angered by its support for extremist groups, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia all withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar in March this year.

The political struggle for power has also played out as a struggle for religious space in the Arab world. Here, the declining role of Saudi Arabia as the traditional seat of religious authority and knowledge has contributed, as Saudi Arabia also struggles to contain extremist Islamist elements within its own brand of Islam.

Links have been made between Wahhabi Islam that originated in Saudi Arabia and the ideological frame of the jihadist movement. Such accusations have prompted Saudi Arabia to examine the Wahhabi Jihadist connection, leading to a review of religious programs and school curricular in the kingdom.
It may be tempting to oversimplify the conflict as a battle of the West against Islam, just as it is tempting to overstate its origins in the history of Western intervention and foreign policy.

 

Andrew Bolt, ISIS, Islam, Islamic hate, Ultra Racist

Christianity, is the foundation of our freedoms according to Andrew Bolt the man who maintains I’m not a Christian. 6/10/2014

 

 

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/islams-violent-tendencies/story-fni0ffxg-1227080641770

The man with bilge for  brain gives yet another one of his interpretations of the history of the world. A thumbnail sketch that wouldn’t fit on the back of a stamp. Freedom had nothing to do with Christianity the concept of citizen was Greek the separation of  church and state had a much greater impact. Bolt seems to have overlooked the influence of the French Revolution.

The idiot says the “the names of organizations  tell the story” is he for real? Does the KKK spell Christian Racists? Did the Branch Davidians  tell their stories? Did Jones Town represent Bolt’s Christian ‘s ideal of freedom? They and many others like them made claims to the true Christianity. Where was the freedom in any of it? The Church of Scientology according to Bolt it’s in the name. The Boers in South Africa justified the lack of freedom  in their version of Christ message. So a mix Sunni radicals calling themselves Daesh, IS whatever they  aren’t representative of Islam.

Oh ISIL claiming to have a mandate means fuck all crazies throughout history claim mandates shit Tony Abbott claims a mandate for all sorts of things strange who amongst the Islamic world believe IS has a mandate ” Some non-Muslims might believe they  have a mandate and have converted. Some Muslims might as well however the majority don’t. Sunni and Shia  in India aren’t slaughtering each other. In Indonesia homosexuals, transvestites and transgender persons aren’t killed or stoned to death. Women are educated run for the highest office in the land and run businesses more so than here.

Again Bolt’s fact three  is totally meaningless. It’s strange that Bolt a professed non-Christian believes in  and quotes the bible as fact. The fact of  Christs  life. He sounds like a Dutch Calvinist a Reformationist. The bible is the word. That book has been interpreted and reinterpreted over the years so much it has people dancing with snakes in the name of god. Speaking in tongues in the name of god. Justifying violence against the state in the name of god ( Timothy Mcveigh).  Christians have slaughtered apostates throughout history and found it biblically justified. Here we have Bolt a declared non believer telling us the word. What a bullshit artist the man is and such a bad one at that

The Nazi’s had an ideology maybe not god at the centre. Social Darwinism the natural order the evolution of things. It was an Ideology nevertheless  to justify their existence. Eugenics was their proof. God wasn’t a central tenet  so it had no guilt breaking any agreements it made with the Catholic church. Science ,Eugenics were nominated as their god

“Islam’s violent tendencies” is Bolt’s unsophisticated figment and simplistic justification for his Ultra Racism

 

Islam, Islamophobia

Pakistani Taliban declare allegiance to Islamic State and global jihad Do we have enough planes Mr Abbott??

IS flags have also been seen at street rallies in Indian-administered Kashmir. The trend has been of growing concern to global powers struggling to keep up with the fast-changing nature of the international Islamist insurgency.

The Pakistani Taliban have been beset by bitter internal rivalries over the past year, with the influential Mehsud tribal faction of the group refusing to accept the authority of Mullah Fazlullah, who came to power in late 2013.

IS, in an effort to extend its global reach, could exploit these rivalries to its advantage, wading into a region ripe with fierce anti-Western ideology and full of young unemployed men ready to take up guns and fight for Islam.

 

Islam, Sharia Law, USA

90,000 Dearborn Michigan 30% Muslim voted 4-3 to adopt Sharia Law. Test yourself are you predjudiced?

City in Michigan First to Fully Implement Sharia Law


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<NationalReport>In a surprise weekend vote, the city council of Dearborn, Michigan voted 4-3 to became the first US city to officially implement all aspects of Sharia Law.  The tough new law, slated to go into effect January 1st, addresses secular law including crime, politics and economics as well as personal matters such as sexual intercourse, fasting, prayer, diet and hygiene.

The new law could see citizens stoned for adultery or having a limb amputated for theft. Lesser offenses, such as drinking alcohol or abortion, could result in flogging and/or caning. In addition, the law imposes harsh laws with regards to women and allows for child marriage.

Some in town seem to welcome the new legislation while others have denounced the move as “abhorrent”, a threat to freedom and incompatible with the Constitution.  When asked by National Report about the need for such a law, local resident Jeremy Ahmed stated:

“It is because of our need that Allah the Almighty, in all his generosity, has created laws for us, so that we can utilize them to obtain justice. We hope to see other cities taking this action in the face of the governments inaction of passing such legislation”.

Other local residents have taken to social media sites with comments ranging from “praise be to Allah” and “long live Islam” to “RIP Dearborn” and “Only in Obama’s America would an American city consider Sharia Law”.

The city of Dearborn is a well-known safe haven for Muslims and Muslim sympathizers. With a population of around 98 thousand people, roughly 30% of its residence are Muslims making them the largest concentration of Muslims in the United States.

The dangers of Sharia Law in America were first outlined in a 2010 study produced by the Center for Security Policy (CSP) titled “Sharia: The Threat to America“, a 352-page book based on authoritative sources of Islamic law. While sharia includes strict rules for prayer and fasting, it is also an all-encompassing legal and political code that covers all aspects of life including those that have nothing to do with religion.

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My name is John Abdul. It must be hard for Sunnis at the moment mate. How can we help?

The fight against Islamic State is a battle for young minds

Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with the fact that their nationals – and young people in particular – are leaving to join extremist groups such as Islamic State.

The battleground against radicalisation is waged in the mind. It is here that persuasive arguments and passionate discussion appeal to the hero inside us to rise up and do something, be someone or make history.Foreign policy often provides a fertile bed of manure in which the seeds of radicalisation can grow.

What is the Australia’s foreign policy on Iraq? Those seeking to radicalise others will be able to summarise it in a single sentence. The more negative the policy is perceived to be, the less human the government or even the Australian people are perceived to be. Abbot is insisting it’s humanitarian. 6 Hornet fighters are hardly gonig to drop aid. 600 SAS troops ,our top killers, to load these fighter planes and train locals hardly seems believeable.

Radicalisation involves getting us to focus on the negative experiences we have had and the negative experiences of those we love or feel we  should love.These things happen to us because some enemy wants them to, chooses them to and allows them to.It focuses on the difference between us and them and emphasises the wrongs that they do. Australia is going to help kill Sunnis no matter who they are. They don’t care, want to distinguish or want to understand anything about the history of what’s occurred on the ground. Yesterdays raids reinforced that perception. What’s more with lazy media frenzy . Was there anyone report from the families of the raided?

Isis recruiters  lay the blame for each of the killings squarely with British and American foreign policy. The more human we can make the enemy, the less we will feel separated from them to us IS is the ‘devil cult’. Only when we stop seeing the opposition as completely different to us, can we start to be reconciled with them.The British government, on behalf of the taxpayer, donated £11.4bn in aid  with £600m set aside for the Syrian crisis alone. These kinds of figures provide useful ammunition in the battle of the mind. The apparent enemy becomes less hostile and more human. What has Australia done other than offer war cries  and identify our selves as the enemies. Does Abbott understand over 100,000 Sunnis were killed since Bush ousted Saddam. Mothers , fathers children families he created a bitter sectarian power vacuum and gave birth to ISIS. It can’t be stopped with bombs.

Some young people see no opportunity to get involved and make a difference other than by joining the jihad. It’s positive that young people are passionate about inequality, just not that they see violence as the only way to address it.  We need ways ways to counteract the messages being sent to young people by those who wish to indoctrinate them.

“If, in order to defeat the beast, we become the beast; then the beast has won”.

It’s not easy to rid people of firmly held prejudices but a consistent and reasonable argument is a better way to start than threats about removing passports or prison sentences. Todays effort just pushes young people away. 800 to lay alleged charges on one 22 year old is farcical. Why with all the media didn’t we hear the other side of the story? The families side how lazy and complicit was the media.

ISIS, Islam, Tony Abbott

How quickly it begins. Holiday Departures

Why didn’t it make the front page news that the Federal Government paid for new airline tickets for a young Melbourne couple travelling to Malaysia on holiday? Why was the husband  removed from the flight and questioned for five hours before being released? Is this too going to be a matter of secrecy ‘an on land matter’? Or is this mornings report in The Age fantasy?It does however highlight a number of issues but mainly our Intelligence.

Thousands of Australian Muslims will be going on annual pilgrimage to Mecca next month. Thousands how will security deal with this without looking like  unintelligent fools. Double pay  all their airline tickets or just pick someone at random? If anybody is caught carrying a newspaper  reporting  Middle East news will they be stopped even worse if the paper is in Arabic a language border patrol can’t read.

Intelligence doesn’t have enough room  or personnel to hold the 1000’s of Australian Muslim suspects even 100 would be difficult. Intelligence could ferry them to  detention centres or Team Australia recruiting offices. After all it’s what we did with German and Japanese Australians during WW2. However we don’t have the Intelligence to question these would be travelers as officers aren’t sufficiently qualified yet.

Scott Morrison assured radio listeners that those with legitimate reasons for traveling should not be concerned. Well going on holiday to Malaysia it seems an  insufficient reason to be stopped. Maybe the young man looked a little pissed at the untrained official asking why he was going and that’s why he was questioned for 5 hours.

“I would expect my agencies to be acting with sensitivity and common sense regardless of who they are,where they are from,and where they are travelling” Scott Morrison

Five people have been stopped recently and prevented from leaving the country. Do we know on what grounds of course not. If I was leaving Australia and had reports about ISIS on my ipad in order to get a better understanding of what was going on would I be stopped and questioned ?

Instead of hassling Australian citizens wouldn’t ASIO, Border Protection make better use of their Intelligence gathering for National Security   by taking in for questioning the  Andrew Bolts of this world who are stirring up a hornets nest of ethnic and religious hatred. for political support. Maybe it was time the media was examined on the front page about its constant scare-mongering and the dividing the people of this country. How is Andrew Bolt’s anti Muslim stance supporting the notion of  a united Australia it stands juxtaposed  to being the ‘most livable’ and ‘most friendly’ country. I certainly see no Intelligence in questioning citizens in and out of this country. It’s going to fuck airline profits, and worse threaten our 3rd or 4th largest export education both employment and fee wise. Now that’s Intelligence

ISIS, Islam, Tony Abbott

Hallmarks of a Force Lead by Saddam’s Men. ISIS a Sunni Caliphate in a Shia Sea Will They Try to Build?

ISIS has consolidated it’s position across Syria and Iraq even eliminating opposition groups with the same goals such as the FSA in Syria. With the fog of confusion lifted the reality remains whether any rapprochement is possible with Assad and the new Iraq Government. ISIS is now calling for professionals to help consolidate their Sunni caliphate. Unlike previous rebel groups ISIS has the hallmarks of Saddam’s military invasion with it’s specific goals,targets and logistics & bringing together a growing coalition of support.

 “It really is all guesswork at this stage,” said Sakhr al-Makhadhi, a British-Arab journalist and Syria analyst. “The Islamic State recently called for professionals – doctors, engineers and such – to move to its territory, so it’s clear that they view this as a long-term state building project. What this shows is that they’re lacking certain skills. They may have the manpower to fight, but not to build a state.”

It is Muslims in the Middle East who have most to worry about from the Islamic State. The decapitation of the journalist James Foley doesn’t change anything – the number of Iraqis executed by Islamic State fighters is far, far more. In a very short time the Islamic State has become the most compelling and attractive organisation for Muslim fighters around the world, more so than AL-Qaeda ever was.

For countries where Muslims are a minority like Australia paranoia has developed. The impact of this phenomenon on community relations – in Australia, Canada, India, the US, and Europe – could be devastating. Abbott for his own political advantage is calling for National Unity in the hope of restoring flagging polls. Once again, suspicions will easily be raised by Islamophobes like Andrew Bolt about Islamic State sympathisers in the west and whether they pose a threat. The news media will undoubtedly report on Australian, American or European Muslims joining the group or calling for violence in videos, further raising tensions and besmirch the Muslim faith. These very actions help recruit sympathizers amongst Australians being disparaged.

The group has prompted bomb blasts and fighting in Lebanon, and in Jordan and Kuwait the governments are worried that sleeper cells may attack at any moment. But it is Saudi Arabia that is on high alert, worried that the Islamic State group will come after them with force. In a recent interview, a senior Islamic State defector said their next stop would be Saudi Arabia, which includes Mecca and Medina. Its rulers are now in full panic, sending money to the Lebanese army, funding UN counter-terrorism efforts, and even getting senior Muftis to condemn the group. And there is  reason for this panic. However for the moment their focus is firmly on the Middle East states.

The Islamic State is a direct descendant of AL-Qaeda, but there is one key difference: Its leaders believe fighting “apostates” is more important than fighting non-Muslims for now. They want to unite the Middle East under their banner before truly turning their sights on the US and Europe. In the eyes of many jihadis, the Islamic State has established the most successful and feared caliphate in recent history.

President Obama calls the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant a “cancer.” Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, describes ISIL as a “monster.” Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, ranks al-Qaeda and ISIL, also known as ISIS, as “Enemy No. 1″ of Islam. And President Hassan Rouhani of Iran warns Muslim states to beware of “these savage terrorists,” for “tomorrow you will be targeted,” too, by ISIL.

The unanimity of hatred and fear toward the ISIL militants rampaging through Syria and Iraq is testament both to the threat they pose and to an unusual opportunity. Not since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait 24 years ago have the region’s most powerful players expressed such animus toward a common enemy. That’s because ISIL’s goal of replacing national boundaries in the Middle East with a Sunni Muslim caliphate threatens not just the usual “infidels”—Christians, Jews, Shiites, and other non-Sunni Muslim minorities—but the nation-states themselves.

 But make no mistake: The real threat from the Islamic State is to other Muslims in the Middle East. Sooner or later people across the Middle East will have to face up to this threat.

Andrew Bolt, Australia, Islam

Martin Flanagan’s Saturday Reflection in the Age shows Andrew Bolt in true light

 ANDREW BOLT AUSTRALIA’S COMMUNITY COACH

Andrew Bolt ever the optimist:

” I don’t believe Australia has been greatly enriched on the whole by immigration from Lebanon, despite many obvious success stories:”

‘Hanging with an Islamic Dipper’ is a must read by Andrew Bolt not that anything could change his bigotry. Read Martin Flanagan Saturday Reflection in The Age 26/7/14 if you feel the need to shake off the continuous misery that is known as Boltism which is akin to botulism in the press.

Ali Faraj and his mates are true blue Lebanese Australians as is his whole community of friends.

After Cronulla Ali and his mate Wozza not only played for but turned Damo’s North Shore AFL Club Thursday pie night into a Lebanese feast of hummous,tabouli and kebabs.

Currently Ali and Emad work for the GWS Giants and belong to the half-Israeli, half- Palestinian AFL Peace Team. Ali coaches the NSW intellectually disabled team in the AFL Participation Cup.

What does Andrew Bolt 2nd generation Dutch migrant  do? He highlights alleged often uninvestigated factless stories to bolster hate.

Ali and Emad picked Flanagan up on a Friday  and took the Irish Australian for  arvo prayers at their local mosque. What a surprise a non political English sermon in Bolt’s den of terrorism. It was Ramadan like Catholic Lent a time of fasting. However they took Flanagan to a cafe and got him a burger to tide him over till sunset after all the infidel was entitled to a last meal.

Then at sunset a long table, a hilarious group, story telling and all round laughter accompanied an evening meal  in an area and suburb which had burst into life Lakemba was rocking.

Much to Bolt’s disappointment  Flanagan didn’t encounter any hostility. Everybody agreed  Mr Andrew Bolt,  ” Muslim Christian or Jew it’s whether or not your a person of goodwill. Furthermore you don’t know a person until you’ve travelled with them.”

Andrew Bolt crowed to a journalist how the Dutch have a responsibility to hospitality as they sat alone to the lunch he’d prepared. One things for certain you will never find Andrew Bolt on the streets of Lakemba, Coburg or even setting astride a long table seat sharing joy and laughter with any large group he doesn’t know. He sits at home dictating how life should be writing at the expense of the Australian Lebanese  and Afghan communities

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For Bolt’s edification.

Data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that Lebanese make up the fifth largest ethnic group in Australian prisons after Australians, New Zealanders, Vietnamese and British and Irish, with 226 Lebanese prisoners last year accounting for 0.75 per cent of all detainees held for serious crimes. That Andrew Bolt is less than 1

Per head of population, Lebanese-born people had the seventh highest rate of imprisonment (after Samoans, Tongans, Sudanese, Vietnamese, Romanians and Indonesians).

 Sinclair Davidson is a professor in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. “Right now, however, I haven’t seen any evidence to support the argument that migration, or the refugee intake, be reduced due to an enhanced criminality of new-comers.”

There is nothing in the statistics to support Bolt’s fanatical and continuous condemnation other than his illogical anecdotes which tend to be if true exceptions that prove the rule in favour of multiculturalism and not disprove it.

Andrew Bolt, crime, Islam, migration

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANDREW BOLT AND TRUE BLUE

 ANDREW BOLT AUSTRALIA’S COMMUNITY COACH

 

Andrew Bolt ever the optimist:

” I don’t believe Australia has been greatly enriched on the whole by immigration from Lebanon, despite many obvious success stories:”

‘Hanging with an Islamic Dipper’ is a must read by Andrew Bolt not that anything could change his bigotry. Read Martin Flanagan Saturday Reflection in The Age 26/7/14 if you feel the need to shake off the continuous misery that is known as Boltism which is akin to botulism in the press.

Ali Faraj and his mates are true blue Lebanese Australians as is his whole community of friends.
After Cronulla Ali and his mate Wozza not only played for but turned Damo’s North Shore AFL Club Thursday pie night into a Lebanese feast of hummous,tabouli and kebabs.
Currently Ali and Emad work for the GWS Giants and belong to the half-Israeli, half- Palestinian AFL Peace Team. Ali coaches the NSW intellectually disabled team in the AFL Participation Cup.
What does Andrew Bolt 2nd generation Dutch migrant  do? He highlights alleged often uninvestigated factless stories to bolster hate.

Ali and Emad picked Flanagan up on a Friday  and took the Irish Australian for  arvo prayers at their local mosque. What a surprise a non political English sermon in Bolt’s den of terrorism. It was Ramadan like Catholic Lent a time of fasting. However they took Flanagan to a cafe and got him a burger to tide him over till sunset after all the infidel was entitled to a last meal.
Then at sunset a long table, a hilarious group, story telling and all round laughter accompanied an evening meal  in an area and suburb which had burst into life Lakemba was rocking.

Much to Bolt’s disappointment  Flanagan didn’t encounter any hostility. Everybody agreed  Mr Andrew Bolt,  ” Muslim Christian or Jew it’s whether or not your a person of goodwill. Furthermore you don’t know a person until you’ve travelled with them.”
Andrew Bolt crowed to a journalist how the Dutch have a responsibility to hospitality as they sat alone to the lunch he’d prepared. One things for certain you will never find Andrew Bolt on the streets of Lakemba, Coburg or even setting astride a long table seat sharing joy and laughter with any large group he doesn’t know. He sits at home dictating how life should be writing at the expense of the Australian Lebanese  and Afghan communities
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For Bolt’s edification.
 Data collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that Lebanese make up the fifth largest ethnic group in Australian prisons after Australians, New Zealanders, Vietnamese and British and Irish, with 226 Lebanese prisoners last year accounting for 0.75 per cent of all detainees held for serious crimes. That Andrew Bolt is less than 1
Per head of population, Lebanese-born people had the seventh highest rate of imprisonment (after Samoans, Tongans, Sudanese, Vietnamese, Romanians and Indonesians).

 Sinclair Davidson is a professor in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. “Right now, however, I haven’t seen any evidence to support the argument that migration, or the refugee intake, be reduced due to an enhanced criminality of new-comers.”

There is nothing in the statistics to support Bolt’s fanatical and continuous condemnation other than his illogical anecdotes which tend to be if true exceptions that prove the rule in favour of multiculturalism and not disprove it.

Andrew Bolt, Islam, Newscorp, Vilification

ANDREW BOLT DENIES ANY OBLIGATION TO ADF LOCAL SUPPORT TEAMS IN AFGHANISTAN QUOTING CULTURAL INCOMPATIBILITY

 Andrew Bolt one eyed preacher in the church of Newscorp blogged:

One of our largest humanitarian intakes has been from Afghanistan. How compatible exactly is that culture?:


It was bad enough that the alleged rape took place in the sanctity of a mosque [in Afghanistan] and that the accused man was a mullah who invoked the familiar defense that it had been consensual sex.
But the victim was only 10 years old. And there was more: The authorities said her family members openly planned to carry out an honor killing in the case – against the young girl. The mullah offered to marry his victim instead.
This past week, the awful matter became even worse. On Tuesday, local policemen removed the girl from the shelter that had given her refuge and returned her to her family, despite complaints from women’s activists that she was likely to be killed.

How real is this man Andrew Bolt? He looks for extreme events then tars everybody with the same brush to make his point  that being: I hate Muslims keep them out of this country. There was a huge number of local Afghans who risked their lives daily in support of the ADF interpreters,intelligence gatherers etc. These men and women’s lives are  now at risk should the Taliban regain power. But that’s not compatible enough for you is it Andrew Bolt. You seem to believe the above anecdote is sufficient reason for us to abandon these people in Afghanistan and tar those already here. You are a f***ing bigot, vilifier and a reflection of coalition thought.
Some Catholic priests tried and had extreme experiences in any place they could and they did as a cultural obligation.They like Clinton didn’t have sex with women & remained celibate. There’s no hue & cry to dismantle the institution of the church. Priests of all nationalities with  only two things  in common Catholicism and carnal lust. The whole institution unlike all of Islam  blamed the victim for the crime and  treated those victims with physical and psychological violence. Some cases of Islam  are extreme all cases of Catholic paedophilia by priests were hidden.
 The village of Aalsmere and it’s  elected  council was the capital of Nazi sympathy in Holland during WW2. It’s were your family came from and voted Andrew Bolt. Holland wasn’t tarred with one brush and it’s why you are a bigot.
Mosques are not churches  Bolt they are community centers where people come to pray amongst other things yes, but their significance is not one of ‘sanctity’. They are more like a synagogues where all manner of things are discussed. Sunni Mullahs like Rabbis are respected for their Koranic  knowledge but aren’t the community or tribal leaders or even heads of any monolithic institutional structure like the Catholic church. Mullahs are as different as as the 5 fingers on your hand they  have differing interpretations of the Koran and are invited to and gain respect & support of their varying communities. The communities appoint Rabbi’s and Mullah’s who make their living from their followers’ benefaction.
  Andrew Bolt, Bishop’s appoint priests not the community much the same as Murdoch and  Newscorp  have appointed you. You are part of a far less democratic institution. When an organisation  like yours has 65% ownership of our press and other media we need section 18c. You Bolt  are far more dangerous preacher than any Mullah. Your audience isn’t provided with information  but only your repetitive commentary. Your blog is so moderated it disallows any alternative to your message other than a chorus of alleluias  to support your right wing chant .