Posted on 08/22/2014 10:05:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
German Development Minister Gerd Mueller accused Qatar on Wednesday of financing Islamic State militants who have seized wide areas of northern Iraq and have posted a video of a captive American journalist being beheaded.
“This kind of conflict, this kind of a crisis always has a history … The ISIS troops, the weapons – these are lost sons, with some of them from Iraq,” Mueller told German public broadcaster ZDF.
“You have to ask who is arming, who is financing ISIS troops. The keyword there is Qatar – and how do we deal with these people and states politically?” said Mueller, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the centre-right Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.
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In a world that was serious about stopping terrorism, U.S. would not sell $11B of weapons to Qatar.
Either there should be bars in the window of that coach, or the U.S. is implicitly calmly and willingly going to its beheading like a sheep.
This other Müller should take a clue...
I believe he hated being called that because of the war-like connotations.
I got to see him play when he was with The Strikers.
Qatar ,where Obama stores his Retirement Fund
seen the Gitmo boys around Qatar lately? How are they doing?
Yup. Qatar is ISIS’ bank, and this puerile administration’s notion of ‘Moderate’ Islam.
You are right, it is really disconcerting, but there is another reading into the message of this cartoon.
Islamofascist terrorists are merely the cattle driven by Saudis, an U.S. lackey. Cattle has no will of its own, goes where the Uncle Sam says. That's why there are no bars on the coach.
Lackey (Saudis) provide intel and logistics to destabilize regimes in ME. U.S. sells arms and provide support to Qatar, a transit point in arming cattle driving the coach.
There is an ample evidence to justify such reading. In Libya, U.S. managed to topple Ghadaffi's secular regime and bring islamofascists to power.Ghadaffi was the foe of AQ, and even worse, a foe of American plan to support islamofascists in the region.
In Egypt, U.S. almost succeeded in bringing islamofascists to permanent power. (Egyptians saved themselves from the jaws of the beast)
In Syria, U.S. sided with ISIL/ISIS in hope to topple Assad, but was not able to topple his secular regime.
Never heard about that sentiment, but then I don't follow sports biographies too closely (but the "Bomber" nickname was ubiquitous enough back in the day to not know).
Saw Beckenbauer and Pelé play for Cosmos in NYC round about '80, so there. ;-)
Well we had Georgie Best, so there! ;)
“Maradona good; Pelé better; George Best.”
Sad early end though. (I had to look up the above quote - and fate - on wiki.)
Yep, he had it all and p’d it all away. Darn shame because when he was on, he was the best ever, just amazing balance, speed and skill.
Absurd. I suggest a neutron bomb and then we ship our illegals over. Let them live the lives they always deserved.
No tinfoil required. The opportunities for graft only rise with the office.
If one actually reads the article (I realize that’s a violation of ancient FR tradition), the Minister provides no evidence that Qatar is supporting ISIS.
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What about this from the article?:
In March, David Cohen, the U.S. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, cited reports of Qatari backing for Islamist fighters in Syria and described this as a “permissive jurisdiction” for donors funding militants.
Qatar has also strongly backed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, outlawed since the Egyptian military overthrew an elected Islamist president in 2013, and has given refuge to many foreign Islamists including from Hamas and the Taliban.
Sorry, ISIS is not all Islamists.
Al Quaeda actually kicked them out for being too violent.
ISIS has recently apparently become the dominant Islamist force in Syria, but that’s pretty new. Nobody had ever heard of them just a few months ago.
IOW, not all Muslims are Islamists, and not all Islamists are ISIS.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious.
You're way behind the curve on this. It's like saying that de Blasio is a different kind of Democrat because he's from New York and Obama's from Chicago or Stalin is a different kind of Communist than Mao. Islamism is a continuum of destructiveness centered around the most extreme, but largely accepted interpretations of Islam.
The world would be a much better place if all three were gone.
So ISIS is a subset of large group called Islamists (estimated to be 25% of all Muslims). Al Qaeda kicked them out because of style, not because of degree. Kicking them out is too strong a word, because they're reconciling as expected. AQ just wants to be on top, but they'll take worldwide jihad no matter what.
The MB and AQ also share the same goals, just different style and circumstances. The attempts to split them are naïve and purely academic. They're all Islamic Supremacists and wouldn't hesitate to take your head over it.
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