Israel prepares as war clouds gather: Russia’s determination to supply S-300 missiles to Assad’s Syrian regime raises fears of arming Hezbollah
Despite its protestations, Israel has attacked targets inside Syria, both last month and in February. It will not admit to the action, but officials have lined up to argue that Israel has the right to prevent sophisticated weaponry reaching Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon.
It is a calculated risk. Hezbollah – [...]
That’s a roundabout way of saying they are importing Muslims to the U.S. via US aims to engage Muslim world via higher education
http://muslimvillage.com/2013/03/03/36162/us-aims-to-engage-muslim-world-via-higher-education/
The idea of “education diplomacy” has “really arrived” at the highest levels of American foreign policy, a US State Department official has told an international higher education conference.
Meghann Curtis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Academic Programs at the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, said [...]
A Council on American-Islamic Relations leader told a crowd at a rally for Islam that members of the faith should not be bound by American law.
“If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land,” said Mustafa Carroll, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch.
“You shouldn’t be filing legislation against Islam, when you look at Texas, Islam is not the problem. Islam is the solution. Allah Akbar.”
Clearly when we [...]
Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
Nov 16, 2012
The Western allied, funded, armed, and directed sectarian extremist organizations, namely Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and their subsidiaries of Hamas and the so-called “Free Syrian Army,” were created and to this day are backed specifically to counter real opposition to Western designs of hegemony across the Muslim World.
The West has also created and continues to perpetuate Israel as it exists in its current state, a purposefully provocative militant nation [...]
From FT:
At the tail end of the first Obama administration, Pakistan has shifted from strategic ally of the US to pariah state and Syrians are fighting the bloodiest war ever in the Middle East against the foulest of dictators with no support. The Arab Spring has, by and large, succeeded in slowly changing the attitudes of societies that had lived under one man rule for so long. But there has [...]
Mac Slavo
October 2nd, 2012
SHTFplan.com
In the following video commentary Russian General Konstantin P. Petrov (Ret.) asks some interesting questions and includes his own thoughts (perhaps the non-official Russian position) about a variety of topics that include the end of US dollar hegemony, the orchestration of the 9-11 attacks to engage America in a mid-east war, the puppeteers behind the politicians and the coming premeditated collapse of the United States of America [...]
THE divide in world opinion over what constitutes free speech will be on display again this week at the United Nations, where arguments over a proposed blasphemy law were an annual feature for a decade.
This time it is the global reaction to a YouTube video that disparages Islam’s prophet Muhammad that is sure to roil the meeting of the UN General Assembly.
Muslim leaders have vowed to discuss the offensive video [...]
Gus Lubin
September 21,2012
French interior minister Manuel Valls just confirmed that no protests would be allowed over the Mohammed cartoons, according to Reuters.
“There will be strictly no exceptions. Demonstrations will be banned and broken up,” he said.
Think that’ll pacify the 10 percent of France who are Muslims?
France has already closed 20 embassies around the world in fear of backlash. Too bad it cannot outlaw protests in these countries.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com …
Pakistani [...]
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum is unveiling a new wing and galleries dedicated to the arts of Islam, culminating a nearly €100 million ($130 million), decade-long project coming to fruition amid tensions between the Muslim world and the West.
The new dragonfly-shaped building marks the famed Paris museum’s greatest development since its iconic glass pyramid constructed 20 years ago. The Department of Islamic Art will exhibit much of the Louvre’s 18,000 works, hoping also to [...]
The US embassy in the Pakisani capital has become the latest target of protesters angry at an anti-Islam video that triggered protests in the Arab and Muslim world.
Hundreds of students from various colleges and educational institutions in Islamabad clashed with police on Thursday as they were being blocked from reaching the embassy.
Students pelted the police with stones, and the police retaliated by firing tear gas shells.
Several students were injured when policemen hurled the stones back at the crowd.
According [...]
France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film that has left dozens dead.
The French foreign ministry announced Wednesday that France will close 20 of its embassies in Muslim countries this Friday following the publication of controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoons by satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Major [...]
Further evidence of the power of the Islamic nations is seen at the UN
The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), a group of 57 Muslim majority nations, holds the largest voting bloc in the UN. The OIC Secretary General, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, is the one who congratulated Obama on his inauguration, and appealed for the new president’s help to work out problems that face the Muslim world.
In 1990, the OIC adopted the Cairo [...]
Guy Adams
independent.co.uk
September 17, 2012
Conceding that angry protests are likely to continue for days, the US defence department has sent extra troops to protect “personnel and property” at America’s diplomatic outposts across the Muslim world.
The deployment was revealed as the Obama administration ordered an evacuation of all but emergency staff from Tunisia and Sudan. It advised citizens not to visit either country until anger over a controversial video mocking the Prophet [...]
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Tiny article on CNN…BBC and Al Jazeera have the details if you want it:
The US defence secretary has warned territorial disputes in East Asia have the potential to become wider conflicts if provocations are not reduced.
“A misjudgement on one side or the other could result in violence, and could result in conflict,” Leon Panetta said at the start of an Asian tour.
His comments came as anti-Japanese protests continue to [...]
WASHINGTON — After days of anti-American violence across the Muslim world, the White House is girding itself for an extended period of turmoil that will test the security of American diplomatic missions and President Obama’s ability to shape the forces of change in the Middle East.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/world/middleeast/us-is-preparing-for-a-long-siege-of-arab-unrest.html?_r=0
CAIRO –Central Cairo had been cleared Saturday of stone-throwing protesters after several days of clashes with police over a video that insulted the Muslim prophet Mohammed and [...]
A religious foundation in Iran added another $500,000 to a $2.8 million reward for anyone who kills British-Indian author Salman Rushdie.
Rushdie’s 1988 novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ published enraged the Muslim world, and prompted a death sentence fatwa by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/wanted-iran-reward-writers-265/
Iran ups bounty on Salman Rushdie to $3.3M
Tehran-based religious foundation increases reward promised to whoever kills author of ‘Satanic Verses’; says book inspired ‘Muslim Innocence’ creators
According to [...]
1 killed as anti-US protesters rally near US consulate in Karachi – reports
One person was reportedly killed and six others injured by police fire when anti-US protesters clashed with security forces outside the US consulate in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.
Police deployed water cannons, and fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse crowds of angry protesters, who threw rocks at the US consulate and set fire to a nearby police [...]
Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Muslim world.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies escorted a man believed to be Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to an awaiting car. The man declined to answer questions on his way out and wore a hat and a scarf over his face. [...]
alarab.co.uk
September 15, 2012
US President Barack Obama urged Americans Saturday not to be disheartened by images of anti-American violence in the Islamic world, expressing confidence that the ideals of freedom America stands for will ultimately prevail.
“I know the images on our televisions are disturbing,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. “But let us never forget that for every angry mob, there are millions who yearn for the freedom, [...]
Anti-US protests sweeping across the entire Muslim world (which are continuing today), besieging, attacking and burning down US embassies, are not the only thing that the central banker policy vehicle known as “the markets” have to ignore in the coming days and weeks. Cause here comes China: “Thousands besiege Japan’s embassy in Beijing over Tokyo’s assertion of control over disputed islands in East China Sea.” And China is not happy: [...]
President Obama has said that elevating the image of the United States around the world was one of his proudest foreign policy accomplishments, but those remarks could boomerang and hamper his reelection bid.
The violence and anti-American protests throughout the Middle East are bringing fresh attacks on the president’s foreign policies as Muslim rage is intensifying in the region.
The protests that have spread could undercut one of the key tenants of [...]
Saman Mohammadi
The Excavator
Saturday, September 15, 2012
By now it is common knowledge that U.S. and Western intelligence agencies stoked the fires of Islamic fanaticism and sectarianism in Libya, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East to achieve their geopolitical goals.
The same radical Jihadists that NATO backed in Libya are now threatening to consume the region in chaos and blood, all to the benefit of the corrupt military-industrial complex, Western neo-imperialist interventionists, and the [...]
From Spiegel
S embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film. Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks. Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama’s Middle East policies have failed.
After days of protests over an anti-Islam film, American diplomatic missions in the Middle East and North Africa were braced for further violence after Friday prayers. The [...]
Mob turns on American fast food chains as anger spreads over anti-Islam film made in U.S.
One protester killed as security forces open fire
U.S. embassy in Tunisia also under attack
In scenes reminiscent of the violent clashes that ravaged the Cairo’s streets during the Arab uprising last year, thousands of protesters advance on the US embassy near Tahrir Square
10,000 Muslims stage a noisy protest in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, burning and trampling American [...]
US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film. Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks. Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama’s Middle East policies have failed.
After days of protests over an anti-Islam film, American diplomatic missions in the Middle East and North Africa were braced for further violence after Friday prayers. The [...]
http://www.twitter.com/BreakingNews
The protests that started in Cairo have spread across the world raising havoc in more than a dozen countries in the Muslim world.
TUNISIA:
Protestors break trees, set fires inside US Embassy.
Protestors have climbed atop the walls of the U.S. Embassy.
INDIA:
The Associated Press is reporting that about 15,000 protestors have gathered in the city of Kashmir to protest the video, in what’s being called the largest showing yet of any Muslim country. The protestors [...]
The wave of anti-American protests is gathering strength as it sweeps across the Muslim world. Police in Yemen have reportedly fired warning shots at another mob of protesters heading for the US embassy, while similar clashes rage in the Egyptian capital. RT’s Paula Slier reports from Cairo.
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The United States government has put all of its embassies and consulates around the world on high alert amid fears that demonstrations against a film mocking Islam could escalate in the Muslim world.
“Innocence of Muslims”, an excerpt of which was posted on YouTube, has triggered both small and mass protests in many countries including Egypt, Yemen and even Bangladesh.
On Tuesday, the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an [...]
Krauthammer on Mideast Turmoil: “What We Are Seeing Is the Meltdown, Collapse of Obama Policy in Muslim World” (Video)
Charles Krauthammer nails it. The smoke bombs and molotov cocktails in the background are his exclamation point.
When asked his thoughts on today’s turmoil in the Mideast Charles responded,
“What we’re seeing there on the screen is the meltdown, the collapse of Obama policy in the Muslim World…. What we’re seeing now is an [...]
From Zero Hedge:
Anti-American violence and hatred is spreading: first Egypt, then Libya, with very tragic consequences, and now Yemen.
… “Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and security guards tried to hold them off by firing into the air.
“The attack followed Tuesday night’s storming of the United States Consulate in Benghazi, where the ambassador and [...]
USS Laboon and USS McFaul, which are both armed with Tomahawk missiles, sent to the coast of Libya on the day after the massacre at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi
Attack came amid protests following film The Innocence of Muslims which ‘insults Prophet Mohammed’
Attackers could have been staging revenge attack for death of al Qaeda official in June
Officials noted the staged attack came on 11th anniversary of 9/11
US ambassador Christopher Stevens [...]
TUNIS, Tunisia – About 50 protesters burned American flags outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia’s capital as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
An Associated Press photographer present Wednesday witnessed demonstrators burning and trampling a number of American flags. Protesters were kept back from the embassy by reinforced security.
http://news.yahoo.com/protesters-burn-us-flags-outside-embassy-tunisia-protest-162152888.html?
Tunisia
https://twitter.com/BDHAOU/status/245844726207619073/photo/1
Morrocco
https://twitter.com/IamDiijah/status/245910764064501760/photo/1
Sudan
https://twitter.com/TravelGov/status/245899074799271937
Kuwait
http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/
Algeria
https://twitter.com/JonRHansen
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Richard Silverstein
Aug 7, 2012
Former Labor party minister, Uzi Baram, wrote a column in Yisrael HaYom today that urges Israel’s leadership to tell the people clearly what lies in store when they execute an expected attack on Iran. What is most striking about the article is this:
Recently, I’ve come to believe that the leaders of the State have decided to act [attack Iran].
A trusted Israeli source tells me that Baram learned this from [...]
President Obama Speech to Muslim World in Cairo
This is BIG… and the PRESS will NOT COVER ANY OF IT.. Obama said ” I AM ONE OF You” in Aramaic
Obama declares he’s Muslim! at 25 / 30
The White House did not deny rumors that President Barack Hussein Obama will officially revert to Islam just prior to his second imaculation. In Egypt, the President recited fictitious achievements of Islam, like a seasoned [...]
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Russian General: “The USSR Collapsed and the Same Fate Has Been Prepared for the USA”
Mac Slavo
October 2nd, 2012
SHTFplan.com
In the following video commentary Russian General Konstantin P. Petrov (Ret.) asks some interesting questions and includes his own thoughts (perhaps the non-official Russian position) about a variety of topics that include the end of US dollar hegemony, the orchestration of the 9-11 attacks to engage America in a mid-east war, the puppeteers behind the politicians and the coming premeditated collapse of the United States of America [...]