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POPSSomali Islamists vs. Pirates You will not see this report on ABC, nor along side headlines that Blackwater is beginning to get into the counter-pirate business. This is a public perception breaker, which shatters the carefully created mythology that somehow Islamic terrorists are involved with the pirates.
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POPS Somali Fighters Hunt Pirate Crew Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow, reporting from the Kenyan port of Mombasa, said that more Somalis were becoming involved in piracy every day because of the money that can be made from the huge ransoms paid by ship owners. "They are being joined by former fishermen, former officials of the Somali navy and even students," he said. Efthimios Mitropoulos, the head of the International Maritime Organisation, spoke of "a series of negative repercussions" if ships had to reroute. Mitropoulos said the UN Security Council needed to strengthen the mandate of anti-piracy forces with "clear rules of engagement" and to make states bring to justice pirates they captured. "Piracy, as well as the recent terrorist attacks against international targets, are only symptoms of the fundamental problem which is the state of anarchy in Somalia," Raisuddin Zenenga, UN assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping, said in New York.
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POPS31 of 47 from Clinton Change? 31 of the 47 choices for Obama's new team are from the adminstration of former President Clinton.
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POPSA Giddy Sense of Boosterism Wake up airheads. Obama is a mongrel, leftist, Marxist, Islamist enemy of what was once the late great U.S. of A. He will be the ruination of everything this country has ever stood for. Behold.The trojan horse you fools have wheeled inside the citidel.
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POPSThe Islamist Role in the 2008 Canadian Elections Hashmi runs an Islamic school for girls. Hashmi wears a full niqab (face covering) and encourages young girls to emulate her. She is known for promoting a very conservative Islamic ideology that is based on Wahhabism. She, like other Islamists is in favor of Sharia in Canada. The results of the Canadian election were an eye-opener because all Muslim candidates from all parties lost, with the exception of Yasmin Ratansi, who for some time has been trying to distance herself from her Muslim identity Most ordinary Canadians, well-meaning and decent folks, are fed up with demands for unreasonable accommodation and are no longer willing to put up with politics disguised as religion in the public sphere. Of course, the usual suspects are already screaming Islamophobia - again. There is no rampant Islamophobia in Canada - only an attempt at gradual Islamization.
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POPSGimme That Ole Tyme Religion At another site this barbaric act was compared symbolically to the passing of proposition 8 in California. No one was stoned in California yet both acts were the result of breaking religious sexual taboos.
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POPSU.S.Treasury Submits To Shariah-Compliant Finance While in Riyadh, Mr. Kimmitt announced: "The U.S. government is currently studying the salient features of Islamic banking to ascertain how far it could be useful in fighting the ongoing world economic crisis." "Islamic banking" is a euphemism for a practice better known as "Shariah-Compliant Finance (SFC)." And it turns out that this week the Treasury will be taking officials from various federal agencies literally to school on SFC. The department is hosting a half-day course entitled "Islamic Finance 101" on Thursday at its headquarters building. Treasury's self-described "seminar for the policy community" is co-sponsored with the leading academic promoters of Shariah and SCF in the United States: Harvard University Law School's Project on Islamic Finance. At the very least, the U.S. government evidently hopes to emulate Harvard's success in securing immense amounts of Wahhabi money in exchange for conforming to the Islamists' agenda.
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POPSStoning victim "begged for mercy" The witness said people crowding round to see the execution said it was "awful". "People were saying this was not good for Sharia law, this was not good for human rights, this was not good for anything." But no-one tried to stop the Islamist officials, who were armed, the witness said. He said one boy was shot in the confusion. According to Amnesty International, nurses were sent to check during the stoning whether the victim was still alive. They removed her from the ground and declared that she was, before she was replaced so the stoning could continue.
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POPS"I'm The One They've Been Waiting For" Obama Added To Mt Rushmore video http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNoseOnYourFace?ob=1 The Top Ten Reasons Conservatives Should Vote For Obama ~ Hard-core Obama Convert & propaganda minister or whatever andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 27 Oct 2008 09:33 pm Here's "the daily dish" nine months since that previous post: Those conservatives who remain convinced, as I do, that Islamist terror remains the greatest threat to the West cannot risk a perpetuation of the failed Manichean worldview of the past eight years, and cannot risk the possibility of McCain making rash decisions in the middle of a potentially catastrophic global conflict. If you are serious about the war on terror and believe it is a war we have to win, the only serious candidate is Barack Obama. And last but not least, number three on that list 3. Two words: President Palin.
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POPSThe Endorsement From Hell Yet the endorsement of Mr. McCain by a Qaeda-affiliated Web site isn’t a surprise to security specialists. Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism director, and Joseph Nye, the former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, have both suggested that Al Qaeda prefers Mr. McCain and might even try to use terror attacks in the coming days to tip the election to him.
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POPSSomali govt troops seize town held by Islamist rebels Somalia is the most pressing humanitarian emergency in the world — even worse than Darfur — the country representative for the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, said in 2008. Aid workers say Somalia has more than 1 million internally displaced people and their numbers are swelled by an exodus of thousands of civilians each month from the capital, Mogadishu, under attack from Islamists fighting to take control of it. Relief agencies say that the 15km between the capital and the town of Afgoye is probably the largest concentration of displaced people on the planet. In March 2008 an estimated 250,000 people were camped along the side of the road.
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POPSIranian official calls for attack on UK Jeeezz....the UK is weak against the local Islamic movements. They are an easy target. It remains to be seen how strong an Obama Administration will be against this advancing throng of militant Iranians.
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POPSDelay in highly anticipated trial of Turkish Ultra-nationalists The court adjourned the trial until October 23 to work out the logistics of accommodating such a large number of defendants, along with their attorneys, and cope with the swelling desire of the press and general public to observe the proceedings. The Ergenekon case came to light last June, when 27 hand grenades matching those used in a 2006 attack on the Istanbul office of the independent daily newspaper Cumhuriyet were discovered in the home of a retired Turkish army officer. The subsequent investigation led to the detention and interrogation of scores of journalists, military officers, politicians, alleged gang leaders, and security officials.
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POPSAssad accuses extremists of targeting Syria As-Safir newspaper reported that Abed al-Ghani Jawhar, the leader of the recently-arrested “terrorist cell,” has not left the Akkar area of North Lebanon in the last 48 hours. One of the arrested members said that Jawhar had made calls to Syrian people during the last month and was in Damascus three days before the explosion on September 27, the paper said. The paper added that he came back to the North few hours after the explosion, which, it said, should encourage the two countries to increase their security coordination. http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=63112
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POPSTaliban in secret peace talks with Afghan government Last week, the French Prime Minister, Franois Fillon, referred indirectly to the talks during a parliamentary debate on Afghanistan. “We must explore ways of separating the international Jihadists from those who are acting more for nationalist or tribal motives. Efforts in this direction are being led by Sunni countries such as Saudi Arabia,î he said. Late last year Karzai said he would welcome the chance to speak directly to Hikmatyar and to Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban’s leader and one of the most wanted men in the world, promising that if the Taliban demanded a ìdepartment in this or in that ministry or a position as deputy ministerî in exchange for ending violence, he would give them the posts. Previously, Taliban spokesmen have said that only the departure of foreign troops, the institution of a fiercely rigorous interpretation of Sharia law and a share of government would be acceptable to them as the basis for any deal.
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POPS"Democratic Iraq" promoting Islamic deathsquads against gays Reporter Peter Tatchell- Saddam Hussein was a bloody tyrant. I campaigned against his blood-stained misrule for nearly 30 years. But while Saddam was president, there was certainly no danger of gay people being assassinated in their homes and in the street by religious fanatics. Since his overthrow, the violent persecution of lesbians and gays is much worse. Even children suspected of being gay are abducted and later found shot in the head.
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POPSGunfire exchanged by Pakistani and US troops What the hell is going on with our allies? Pakistan is supposedly fighting with us against Taliban and extremist Islamist. If we are both on the same side why not allow US troops to cross the border to help? Do Pakistanis want to do it alone? Are they harboring terrorist and protecting them from being discovered? Do they think the U.S. tactics are too reckless and imprecise? Pakistani students are burning American flags. If the Pakistanis have become our enemy why are we not treating them as such?
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POPSMystery swirls around hijacked Iranian ship Within days, pirates who had boarded the ship developed strange health complications, skin burns and loss of hair. Independent sources tell The Long War Journal that a number of pirates have also died. In a strange twist, the Iranian press claims that the U.S. has offered to pay a $7 million bribe to the pirates to "receive entry permission and search the vessel." Officials in the Pentagon and the Department of State approached for this story refused to comment on the situation.
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POPSThousands flee fighting in Somalia David Shinn, a former US diplomat who teaches at the George Washington University, said fighters from the hardline al-Shabab militia were trying to assert their authority in order to force the Ethiopians out. They are trying "to show that they are in a position to perhaps even take control of Mogadishu if the Ethiopian forces were to leave", he told the BBC.
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