XPOFAN
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Giuliani puts potential 2016 GOPers in a tough spot
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/giuliani-puts-potential-2016-gopers-tough-spot
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/giuliani-puts-potential-2016-gopers-tough-spot
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A friendly overseas non islamic terrorist organization plans on giving out $100 bills at malls in Canada/US/UK - wrong - the towel head jihadis issue terrorist warning. If you are heading to the mall to get your wife some Victoria Secret lingerie anytime soon, you better look out for any sketchy looking achmuds.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/21/us/al-shabaab-calls-for-mall-attacks/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/21/us/al-shabaab-calls-for-mall-attacks/index.html
northernlou
Idi Admin
It is a recruiting tool like the report says. It's a motivational piece of propaganda as well....and you have to know it can only encourage some of these 7th century thinkers to act. And while it's frustrating to see us clumsily respond to the incremental ratcheting up of deeds and tensions by these Jihadi groups....I am confident that we'll eventually see political unity and a much more robust commitment from the West to crush this barbaric and backward movement.
Until then we'll have to endure more distracting news like how all Italians must be racist because of Giuliani's comments about Obama the other day. Oh wait, that's Republicans, or is it Italian American Republicans, to be more specific as I try to understand the science of stereotypical blame attachment so often practiced by smarter non discriminatory Progs.
Until then we'll have to endure more distracting news like how all Italians must be racist because of Giuliani's comments about Obama the other day. Oh wait, that's Republicans, or is it Italian American Republicans, to be more specific as I try to understand the science of stereotypical blame attachment so often practiced by smarter non discriminatory Progs.
towel head jihadis? Tsk tsk, someone from a religious group that has been crapped on for thousands of years like the jews have been should not be making such comments
Imagine your reaction if someone referred to jews as beanie wearing hebes
northernlou
Idi Admin
you just did
I'm talking about the terrorists, and somehow they all do have towels on their head. Probably just a coincidence? Just because my people have been shat on for thousands of years, doesn't mean I can't call a spade a spade.
They aren't wearing towels.
Well maybe if they did, they wouldn't be as angry with the world. Cleanliness is next to godliness.
northernlou
Idi Admin
Long, deep and highly informative, is how to sum up the following well researched article from The Atlantic on ISIS and competing jihadi groups. There's much more here than you'll ever get out of an idiot box CNN or FOX type report.
Some excerpts only. It's a long one, grab a bottle for company.
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What ISIS Really Wants
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,” statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
The group seized Mosul, Iraq, last June, and already rules an area larger than the United Kingdom. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader since May 2010, but until last summer, his most recent known appearance on film was a grainy mug shot from a stay in U.S. captivity at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq. Then, on July 5 of last year, he stepped into the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, to deliver a Ramadan sermon as the first caliph in generations—upgrading his resolution from grainy to high-definition, and his position from hunted guerrilla to commander of all Muslims. The inflow of jihadists that followed, from around the world, was unprecedented in its pace and volume, and is continuing.
Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. But his address, and the Islamic State’s countless other propaganda videos and encyclicals, are online, and the caliphate’s supporters have toiled mightily to make their project knowable. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world.
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.
We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al‑Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. The Islamic State supporters I spoke with still refer to Osama bin Laden as “Sheikh Osama,” a title of honor. But jihadism has evolved since al-Qaeda’s heyday, from about 1998 to 2003, and many jihadists disdain the group’s priorities and current leadership.
Bin Laden viewed his terrorism as a prologue to a caliphate he did not expect to see in his lifetime. His organization was flexible, operating as a geographically diffuse network of autonomous cells. The Islamic State, by contrast, requires territory to remain legitimate, and a top-down structure to rule it. (Its bureaucracy is divided into civil and military arms, and its territory into provinces.)
We are misled in a second way, by a well-intentioned but dishonest campaign to deny the Islamic State’s medieval religious nature. Peter Bergen, who produced the first interview with bin Laden in 1997, titled his first book Holy War, Inc. in part to acknowledge bin Laden as a creature of the modern secular world. Bin Laden corporatized terror and franchised it out. He requested specific political concessions, such as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia. His foot soldiers navigated the modern world confidently. On Mohammad Atta’s last full day of life, he shopped at Walmart and ate dinner at Pizza Hut.....(continued)
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
Some excerpts only. It's a long one, grab a bottle for company.
*************************************************************
What ISIS Really Wants
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,” statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
The group seized Mosul, Iraq, last June, and already rules an area larger than the United Kingdom. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader since May 2010, but until last summer, his most recent known appearance on film was a grainy mug shot from a stay in U.S. captivity at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq. Then, on July 5 of last year, he stepped into the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, to deliver a Ramadan sermon as the first caliph in generations—upgrading his resolution from grainy to high-definition, and his position from hunted guerrilla to commander of all Muslims. The inflow of jihadists that followed, from around the world, was unprecedented in its pace and volume, and is continuing.
Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. But his address, and the Islamic State’s countless other propaganda videos and encyclicals, are online, and the caliphate’s supporters have toiled mightily to make their project knowable. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world.
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.
We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al‑Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. The Islamic State supporters I spoke with still refer to Osama bin Laden as “Sheikh Osama,” a title of honor. But jihadism has evolved since al-Qaeda’s heyday, from about 1998 to 2003, and many jihadists disdain the group’s priorities and current leadership.
Bin Laden viewed his terrorism as a prologue to a caliphate he did not expect to see in his lifetime. His organization was flexible, operating as a geographically diffuse network of autonomous cells. The Islamic State, by contrast, requires territory to remain legitimate, and a top-down structure to rule it. (Its bureaucracy is divided into civil and military arms, and its territory into provinces.)
We are misled in a second way, by a well-intentioned but dishonest campaign to deny the Islamic State’s medieval religious nature. Peter Bergen, who produced the first interview with bin Laden in 1997, titled his first book Holy War, Inc. in part to acknowledge bin Laden as a creature of the modern secular world. Bin Laden corporatized terror and franchised it out. He requested specific political concessions, such as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia. His foot soldiers navigated the modern world confidently. On Mohammad Atta’s last full day of life, he shopped at Walmart and ate dinner at Pizza Hut.....(continued)
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
northernlou
Idi Admin
Did the NHLPA stand with the "working families" in the other 25 odd US 'right work' States, too?
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northernlou
Idi Admin
Why did he do that?
lecoqsportif
Well-known member
Rouah, how do you feel about this, woman told by Judge to remove Hijab in court:
http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news/2015/...uses-to-hear-hijab-wearing-muslim-womans-case
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My opinion is that the courtroom should remain entirely secular, religion neutral. Kippah, head scarf, hat, hijab, none of that should be allowed when facing a judge. There are already laws on 'suitable attire' and I think the judge was right. What if someone invents a religion where part of it is wearing a giant dildo on your head? Then they claim the religious reasons BS excuse that they must be allowed under the charter of rights and freedoms. Anyways, I kind of side with the PQ on the whole charter of values issues, I know it is shocking to hear that coming from my mouth Rouah, but I think part of it is necessary.
http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news/2015/...uses-to-hear-hijab-wearing-muslim-womans-case
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My opinion is that the courtroom should remain entirely secular, religion neutral. Kippah, head scarf, hat, hijab, none of that should be allowed when facing a judge. There are already laws on 'suitable attire' and I think the judge was right. What if someone invents a religion where part of it is wearing a giant dildo on your head? Then they claim the religious reasons BS excuse that they must be allowed under the charter of rights and freedoms. Anyways, I kind of side with the PQ on the whole charter of values issues, I know it is shocking to hear that coming from my mouth Rouah, but I think part of it is necessary.
I like this story more Bradley although I didn't think jewish chicks looked this good and had such nice tits
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/02...ent-shouldnt-serve-because-shes-jewish-181971
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2015/02...ent-shouldnt-serve-because-shes-jewish-181971
northernlou
Idi Admin
Inhoff was protesting Obama's fixation with global warming over responding to the terrorist threat. After all it was Obama himself that recently said global warming is American's #1 threat to national security. Unfortunately certain far left devotees would like to report that this is all about being a climate change denier....rather than what's obvious. Obama almost daily downplaying the threat of the growing political Islam problem.
but hey, when you're stuck on climate change and carbon credits to save the world, you're stuck on Obama.