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Showing posts with label Radical Islam. Show all posts
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Friday, July 5, 2019

Homelands by Katie Hopkins

Published on Jun 16, 2019
 
"No videos found" is that persistent message from the "Ministry of Truth".  So the Ministry is showing its true colors of pro radical Islam, anti-semitism, and a full suppression of the truth.  There is a vast conspiracy to destroy the nation state, and each and every culture of them.
 
 
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Thursday, August 24, 2017

Two New Totalitarian Movements: Radical Islam And Political Correctness

"The attempt in the West to impose a strict set of rules about what one is allowed to think and express in academia and in the media - to the point that anyone who disobeys is discredited, demonized, intimidated and in danger of losing his or her livelihood - is just as toxic and just as reminiscent of Orwell's diseased society."

Source:  zerohedge.com


Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Casualties of War:

In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 file photo, Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias, hold a demonstration against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi

Global Jihadism Linked to More Than Half of War Deaths

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Today, conflicts arising out of jihadism account for the majority of war casualties, whereas hostilities are increasingly concentrated in the Middle East. However, Daesh itself is no longer the biggest threat to world peace, Swedish researchers say.

More than half of the world's direct casualties of war are now harvested in conflicts linked to militant Islamism and jihadism, a new compilation from the world's leading conflict researchers at Uppsala University showed.

According to the Swedish researchers, almost all great conflicts since 2006 have been classified as jihadism, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter wrote. Daesh has been the focus of the media coverage of violent Islamism ever since the terrorists spectacular advance in Iraq and Syria a couple of years ago. Although the jihadism category is still largely dominated by the war in Syria, Daesh proper is no longer the biggest player, as a constellation of Islamic groups has been mushrooming worldwide.
Of late, Daesh has opened "subdivisions" in countries such as Libya and Lebanon. At the same time, previously independent jihadists have been joining in, the most infamous being the Nigerian Boko Haram, which last year pledged allegiance to the "caliphate" in the Middle East.
According to Isak Svensson, professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, the increase also depends on several rebel movements having switched their rhetoric from nationalist to outright Islamist. The spread of Islamism has led to a dramatic increase in the proportion of Jihad-related causalities in the statistics, whereas the death rate in other conflicts has decreased.

Despite jihadism bearing clear links to Islam, the connection is not as obvious, as India and Indonesia, the two countries with the world's largest Muslim population, are still strictly-speaking free from the violent manifestations of Islamism. Radical Islam is strangely absent in Southeast Asia, which is home to a number of Muslim groups. In the early 2000s, analysts believed the region would turn into a hotbed of terrorism, yet the hypothesis has since been put to shame.
The survey on the geographical development of conflicts over time also showed that the hostilities are accumulating "towards the middle." Today, the majority of the world's conflicts unfold in the vast stretch of land across the Muslim world from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Northern Africa.

Remarkably, most of the sub-Saharan Africa, which was previously tormented by decade-long liberation wars, is peaceful today, as is East Asia, which between 1946 and 1979 stood for 80 percent of the world's war deaths. Today, the percentage amounts to only 4 percent.
Lastly the survey pointed out a change in the nature of conflicts. Since WWII, civil war became the "normal" form of conflict. Today, the borders between armed conflicts, terrorism or even organized crime have been erased.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Evasive Victory:

Smoke rises from Islamic State group positions after an airstrike by U.S.-led coalition warplanes in Fallujah, as Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces and Sunni tribal fighters, take combat positions outside Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 23, 2016

Why Baghdad's Future Depends on Retaking Fallujah

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The operation to free the second largest Iraqi city under Daesh control, Fallujah, is currently underway and Baghdad's future both literally and figuratively depends on the outcome. The victory could pave the way for an offensive on Mosul, protect the capital from terrorist attacks and help bolster Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

Fallujah, located less than 70 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad, was the first city to fall, when Daesh decided to extends its control from Syria to Iraq in January 2014.  It could now become the latest success story for the Iraqi security forces and their allies, who have been on a roll for the last seven months.

Daesh has been steadily retreating both in Iraq and Syria, thanks in no small part to Russia's counterterrorism efforts. Baghdad-led forces and Peshmerga pushed Daesh out of the cities of Sinjar, Ramadi and al-Hit, while the Syrian Arab Army and Kurdish militias drove the militants out of Palmyra and al-Shaddadi.
 
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​The victory in Fallujah will reinforce this trend at a time when Daesh's revenues and ranks are shrinking, but it will not come easily.
"Defeat in Fallujah should be inevitable, and if the cordon built up over the past few weeks and months has been even partially effective it should have made [Daesh's] ability to move fighters in or out difficult but not impossible," Associate Professor Rodger Shanahan of the Lowy Institute observed.
The operation meant to liberate the city was announced at a time when Baghdad has experienced the worst wave of violence in a year. More than 150 people were killed in the capital in a series of terrorist attacks earlier this month. Daesh targeted both Shia districts of Shaab and Sadr City, as well as a Sunni neighborhood of Tarmiya.
Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr flee the smoke grenades fired by security forces during clashes after demonstrators broke into Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on May 20, 2016
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Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr flee the smoke grenades fired by security forces during clashes after demonstrators broke into Baghdad's fortified "Green Zone" on May 20, 2016
The assaults "likely accelerated the antigovernment protests over corruption and mismanagement that have already been at a boiling point since last summer," making steps aimed at "preventing further mass casualty attacks" in the capital a priority for the government "whose popularity is at a nadir among the Iraqi populace," Daniel R. DePetris of the Raddington Group wrote for the National Interest.
If Iraqi security forces, assisted by US warplanes and the Popular Mobilization Units, push Daesh out of Fallujah, al-Abadi will receive the boost he desperately needs to push through the cabinet reshuffle that he has long advocated and maintain his grip on power. The Iraqi prime minister has tried to appoint technocrats to his government, but the initiative was blocked by main parties.

Surprisingly, regardless of how the offensive on Fallujah goes, it could both speed up and delay the operation to free Mosul, Iraq's second largest city and the key Daesh stronghold in the country.
"If the offensive to clear and hold Fallujah takes longer than anticipated, Baghdad may need to redeploy troops designated for Mosul towards Fallujah to ensure that the city is adequately protected from [Daesh] counterattacks," DePetris explained.
Yet, even if Iraqi army succeeds and even if Fallujah receives enough protection, Daesh is likely to employ its once successful strategy of wreaking havoc in the country through indiscriminate bombing campaigns.
​The terrorist group "may well see strategic utility in suffering a defeat while imposing an enormous cost in civilian lives and damaged infrastructure. This could breed ongoing ill-well among the Sunni Iraqi population, laying the groundwork for a sympathetic Sunni environment into which some of its Iraqi members could continue to operate after IS loses its territory," Shanahan explained.
This is precisely the strategy that helped Daesh take large territories in Iraq under control in the first place.


Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160530/1040476593/iraq-fallujah-offensive-daesh.html#ixzz4A8snlDCE

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Bin Laden's Home Country Faces Growing Daesh and Al-Qaeda 'Menace'

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The home country of Osama bin Laden has largely remained secure at a time when al-Qaeda and Daesh have wreaked havoc in the Middle East and beyond, but recent developments indicate that radical groups will become more active in Saudi Arabia, fueling fears that authorities will not be able to contain the terrorist threat.

"Aside from a failed 2006 assault on the Abqaiq oil collection and processing facility, an amateurish attack in 2007 that killed three French citizens, and a foiled assassination attempt against Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in 2009, Saudi Arabia has been eerily quiet," Texas-based think tank Stratfor detailed.
It all changed in 2015 when terrorists affiliated with Daesh launched a bombing campaign in the kingdom's Eastern Province, mostly populated by the Shia. Since then, attacks have become more frequent and their geography is expanding, with many taking place in the capital and Sunni-populated areas.
The terrorist threat will likely become even worse as Daesh and al-Qaeda's affiliates lose ground in Syria. Seasoned fighters, many of whom hail from Saudi Arabia, could return home.

Like al-Qaeda militants, Daesh "fighters could use their honed skills to conduct more complex and strategic attacks. Both groups have a history of attacking tourist attractions in Egypt and Tunisia to undermine those nations' economies. A more sophisticated Islamic State campaign might echo previous al-Qaeda initiatives, targeting expatriates to impair the Saudi economy," the analysts warned.
Daesh presents a "growing menace" to Saudi Arabia, but there is an additional challenge – al-Qaeda's deadliest offshoot, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). This is the group that claimed responsibility for the January 2015 attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
AQAP and Riyadh declared an unofficial truce when the Saudis launched a campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. The terrorist group "benefited greatly from this arrangement, seizing the opportunity afforded by the chaos to snatch up large quantities of money, weapons and manpower," Stratfor explained.

The truce between Riyadh and AQAP collapsed in late April, fueling concerns that the group that is primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia could launch a terrorist attack in the oil kingdom.
AQAP, according to the analysts, "could draw on its increased might to relaunch efforts to export terrorism to Saudi Arabia. Since Saudis have always constituted an important component of AQAP, the group could try to use its ties in the kingdom to facilitate new attacks."


Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160522/1040045121/saudi-arabia-terrorism.html#ixzz49O5dkneW

Thursday, December 17, 2015

By The Numbers: Untold Story of Muslim Opinions & Demographics proves radical Islam is a bigger problem most politically correct will admit