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Al Jazeera Bemoans the Celebration, in Italy, of Oriana Fallaci (Part 1)
JIHAD WATCH ^ | AUG 20, 2019 10:00 AM | HUGH FITZGERALD

Posted on 08/20/2019 7:46:14 AM PDT by robowombat

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Wish this woman were still alive and functioning. Hillabt lives, Oriana has been dead since 2006. Ugh.
1 posted on 08/20/2019 7:46:14 AM PDT by robowombat
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Aug 20, 2019 at 10:22 am
She was a brave, principled woman who was not afraid to speak out. She had a backbone and stood up for western values.

Recently I have been reading ‘The Strange Death of Europe’ (2017) by Douglas Murray. I highly recommend it.

One key thing he says about Europe is that as a culture and civilisation it is tired and clapped-out. This creates a kind of cultural vacuum which can be filled by Muslims.

He notes, for example, the way that Europeans feel guilty about their history and are always apologising for it. This lack of cultural self-confidence can take bizarre forms.

Here’s a quote of one example of this cultural and personal self-flagellation. I could barely believe my eyes when I read it.

QQ/”Mr Hawkins is a [British] theatre director who discovered in mid-life that he was a descendant of a sixteenth-century slave-trader called John Hawkins. In 2006 he was invited by a charity called ‘Lifeline Expedition’ (which organises trips to ‘heal the past’) to go on a ‘sorry’ trip to Gambia.

‘The upshot was that Hawkins joined 26 other slaver descendants in June of that year who paraded through the streets of the capital, Banjul, with chains around their hands and yokes about their necks. As they walked to the 25,000-seater sports stadium Hawkins and the other participants also wore T-shirts with the words ‘So Sorry’ on them.

‘Weeping and on their knees the group apologised in English, French and German to about 18,000 people in the stadium before being ceremonially ‘freed’ of their chains by the Gambian Vice-President, Isatou Njie-Saidy.”/QQ

What nonsense! The slave trade wasn’t good, but what is this mawkish melodrama supposed to achieve?

Murray goes on to note that such guilt trips can be used by savvy political operators.

QQ/”Many years ago, during one of the not-infrequent breakdowns in peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, a journalist was interviewing Yasser Arafat in his offices in Ramallah. Towards the end of the interview one of Arafat’s male assistants came into the Chairman’s office to announce that the American delegation was here.

‘Wondering whether he had stumbled upon a scoop, the journalist asked the Chairman who the Americans in the next room were. ‘They are an American delegation who are doing a tour of the region to apologise for the crusades,’ said Arafat.

‘Then he, and his guest, burst out laughing. They both knew that America had little or no involvement in the wars of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. But Arafat, at any rate, was happy to indulge the affliction of anyone who believed they had and use it to his own political advantage.”/QQ


2 posted on 08/20/2019 7:48:25 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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who paraded through the streets of the capital, Banjul, with chains around their hands and yokes about their necks.

####ing faggots.

If they felt THAT bad, then death was the only real apology.

Next time remember.


3 posted on 08/20/2019 7:59:59 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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Oriana Fallaci warned the world about the mess m*slims were making. Most didn’t listen to her and are now blaming the rapes and murders on islamophobia.


4 posted on 08/20/2019 8:01:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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“For many Italians, she is both prophetess and patron Saint”

She should be formally canonized.


5 posted on 08/20/2019 8:02:08 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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FReepers who haven't read her The Rage and The Pride should do so right away. It was written in reaction to the Muslim Attack on September 11, 2001. Here's a favorite paragraph of mine:
I don’t go to raise tents in Mecca. I don’t go to sing Our Fathers and Hail Marys at the tomb of Muhammad. I don’t go to pee on the marble of their mosques, I don’t go to make caca at the feet of their minarets. When I find myself in their countries (something I never derive pleasure from), I never forget I’m a stranger and a guest. I’m careful not to offend them with clothes or gestures or behavior which for us are normal and for them inadmissible. I treat them with dutiful respect, dutiful courtesy. I apologize if through carelessness or ignorance I infringe one of their rules or superstitions. And this cry of pain and indignation I have written you not always with the apocalyptic scenes with which I began my piece before my eyes. At times instead of those I saw an image that for me is symbolic (and therefore infuriating), of the great tent with which for three months a summer ago the Somali Moslems disfigured, defiled, and outraged the Piazza del Duomo in Florence. My city. It was a tent raised to blame, condemn and insult the Italian government that played host to them but didn’t grant them the necessary papers to run around Europe and didn’t let them bring hordes of their relatives into the country Mammas, daddies, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles, pregnant sisters-in-law and even relatives of relatives. It was a tent situated near the beautiful Archbishop’s Palace and on the sidewalk outside it they put the shoes or the slippers that in their countries they line up outside the mosques. And together with shoes or slippers, empty water bottles they used to wash their feet before prayer. A tent set up in front of the cathedral with the dome by Brunelleschi, beside the baptistery with the golden doors of Ghiberti. A tent, in fine, furnished like a sloppy flat: chairs, tables, sofas, mattresses to sleep or to fuck on, cook stoves to prepare food and befoul the square with smoke and stinking smells. And thanks to the usual insensitivity of the ENEL, which cares about as much about our works of art as it cares about our landscape, it was furnished with electric light. Thanks to a radio-tape player, it was enriched by the tortured voice of a muezzin who regularly exhorted the faithful, deafened the infidels, and drowned out the sound of the church bells. And together with all that, the yellow lines of urine that profaned the marbles of the baptistery. (Good God! They have a long stream, these sons of Allah. How do they manage to hit a target separated from the protective railing and therefore almost two meters away from their urinary organ?) With the yellow lines of urine was the stink of their shit which blocked the gate of San Salvatore al Vescovo: the exquisite Romanesque church (A.D. 1000) which sits on the shoulders of the Piazza del Duomo and which the sons of Allah had turned into a shithouse. You know it well. You know it well because it was I who called you, begging you to speak of it in Il Corriere, remember? I also called the mayor who, I must concede, kindly came to my house. He listened to me, he said I was right. “You’re right, you’re really right…” But the tent wasn’t removed. He forgot about it or couldn’t manage. I also called the Foreign Minister, who was a Florentine, indeed one of those Florentines who speak with a very Florentine accent, not that he was involved in the matter. And he too, I concede, listened to me. He said I was right: “Ah, yes, You’re right. Yes.” But he didn’t raise a finger to remove the tent and as for the sons of Allah who urinated on the Baptistery and shat upon San Salvatore al Vescovo, he soon made them happy. (As far as I know the daddies and mammas and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins and pregnant sisters-in-law now are wherever they want to be.) That is, in Florence or other cities in Europe. Then I changed my strategy. I called a friendly cop who runs the security office and said, “Dear officer, I’m not a politician. When I say I’m going to do something, I do it. Moreover I have war experience and I’m wise to certain things. If you don’t remove that frigging tent tomorrow, I’ll burn it. I swear on my honor that I’ll burn it, not even a regiment of carabinieri will be able to stop me, and I want to be arrested for this. Handcuffed and carried off to jail. I’ll wind up in all the papers as a result.” Well, being smarter than the others, in the course of a few hours he took it away. Where the tent had been there was nothing left but a huge disgusting pile of garbage. It was a Pyrrhic Victory. In fact it didn’t in the least influence the creeps who for years have been wounding and humiliating what was the capital of art and culture and beauty. It didn’t in the least discourage the other very arrogant guests of the city: Albanians, Sudanese, Bengalese, Tunisians, Algerians, Pakistani, Nigerians who with such fervor contribute to the drug trade and prostitution, apparently not prohibited by the Koran. Oh, yes: they’re all still where they were before my cop took away the tent. In the courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery, at the foot of Giotto’s tower. In front of the Loggia dell’Orcagna, around the Loggie del Porcellino. In front of the national library, at the entrance of the museums. On the Ponte Vecchio, where every so often they stab or shoot each other. Along the Arno, where they’ve sought and been granted financial support from the municipal government (yes, ladies and gentlemen, financial support). On San Lorenzo’s church square where they get drunk on beer, wine, and liquor, race of hypocrites that they are, and where they utter obscenities to women. (Last summer, on that church square, they did that to me, who am by now an old woman. It goes without saying they brought more harm upon themselves. Oh, they brought more harm on themselves! One is still there moaning over his genitals.) In the historic streets where they bivouac with the pretense of selling “goods.” By “goods” you must understand pocketbooks and suitcases copied from models protected by patents, and therefore illegal, and carvings, pens, African statuettes which ignorant tourists think are sculptures by Bernini, and “stuff to smell.” (“Je connais mes droits,” “I know my rights,” he hissed at me, on the Ponte Vecchio, one I’d seen with his “stuff to smell.”) And too bad if a citizen protests, too bad if he responds with “go exercise those rights at home.” “Racist! Racist!” Too bad if by walking between the goods blocking a passage way a pedestrian damages a so- called Bernini sculpture. “Racist! Racist!” Too bad if a city policeman approaches and attempts an “Honorable son of Allah, sir, would you very much mind moving aside just a hair so people can get by?” They eat him alive. They menace him with a knife. At the very least they insult his mamma and his progenitors. “Racist! Racist!” And people endure with resignation. It has no effect even if you yell at them what my dad shouted during Fascism: “Doesn’t dignity mean anything to you? Don’t you have a little pride, pigs?”
ML/NJ
6 posted on 08/20/2019 8:06:17 AM PDT by ml/nj
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Great, great woman. She was in NYC on 9/11. And she’s the one who confronted the Atatollah Khameini and ripped off her stupid head scarf in front of him. She wrote a brilliant book on islamic fundamentalist terrorism.


7 posted on 08/20/2019 8:09:51 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Interesting life.


8 posted on 08/20/2019 8:10:36 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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India plans huge detention camps for illegal migrants; mostly Muslims

FR posted——AUGUST 19, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM

More than 4 million people in India, mostly Muslims, are at risk of being declared foreign migrants as the government pushes a hard-line Hindu nationalist agenda that has challenged the country’s pluralist traditions and aims to redefine what it means to be Indian.

NY Times (h/t SBS) The hunt for migrants is unfolding in Assam, near the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh. State authorities are rapidly expanding foreigner tribunals and planning to build huge new detention camps.

Hundreds of people have been arrested on suspicion of being a foreign migrant — including a Muslim veteran of the Indian army.

Local activists and lawyers say the pain of being left off a preliminary list of citizens and the prospect of being thrown into jail have driven dozens to suicide. But the governing party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not backing down.

Instead, it is vowing to bring this campaign to force people to prove they are citizens to other parts of India, part of a far-reaching Hindu nationalist program fueled by Modi’s sweeping reelection victory in May and his stratospheric popularity.


9 posted on 08/20/2019 8:14:43 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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BTTT
Thank you for the information, and introduction to this true journalist.

Tatt


10 posted on 08/20/2019 8:26:38 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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“It’s time for America to recognize that Muslim terrorist groups have no place in making rules for Americans......
they are highly political, collusive entities, conspiring to displace/supplant our precious American constitution with the evils of Sharia.”
Everything in Islam is antithetical to American liberty rights and freedom.
Would America allow Hitler youth groups to set up camps clear across the US at the height of WW2?


This sub-human raghead Omar is a very evil and devious person.....she parked herslf in Congress and serves as the Front for Radical Terrorism. Her job is to
<><>(a) condition Americas to accept the evil of Muslim terrorism,
<><> (b) to usher them into our culture, and......
<><> (c) to give the signal when its time to lead Christians to slaughter.

That is NEVER going to happen.

NOTE WELL: Omar’s moving fast——she’s got the Muslim Terrorism Caucus mobilized. It’s (gag) “Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy 2019” will collude
to overthrow the US government w/ the despised Omar, Trump-hater Khizr Khan and Sharia Law facilitator,
Keith Ellison, current Minnesota AG.

Rag-headed evil Omar is the face of Islam’s invasion of Amerca....which began on 9/11.
To advance the invasion, she made several calculated moves upon landing on our precious American soil:

<><> She became a citizen AND an eternal victim.
<><> She joined the Democrat party,
<><> She learned to speak the language of oppression.

She thoroughly understands our system (which she holds in complete contempt).

She was coached, colluding with the Muslim umlauts to whom she is in obeisance
(all of them lying in wait to make us submit to Sharia law).

She’s evil——and studied our system well——and is adept at the identity politics game.

She is using it......not for the intended purposes.....but for the Muslim terroism invasion’s nefarious purposes.

According to her Washington Post profile, Omar wasted no time....
she “felt betrayal” immediately upon setting foot in America.


To our advantage, Muslin terrorists like Omar are inherently stupid. They never “get it.” They are not wanted here. We got their “letter of Introduction” on 9/11.
Americans DO NOT NEED NOR DO WE WANT a “Muslim Terrorist Collective” screwing around our government.

Just GTH out of our country, pronto


11 posted on 08/20/2019 8:27:46 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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A Force Ten hurricane is blowing in. I just cant wait til the Democraps find out (if ever) that they have NO partners in their stupid globalism.

It’s happening so fast, it’s difficult to compose a definitive thread.......but the overwrought global push for open borders has turned the globe into Trumpland. They are Trump-wannabes——candidates swept to victories in the UK, France, Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands. The new EU political stars are Salvini, Le Pen, Farage and Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban. All are in talks to form a team of international nationalist leaders....and Trump is the acknowledged world leader..

<><> Mette Frederiksen: the anti-immigration left leader set to win power in Denmark. Under her leadership, the SD have called for a cap on “non-western immigrants”, for asylum seekers to be expelled to a reception centre in North Africa, and for all immigrants to be forced to work 37 hours a week in exchange for benefits.

<><>In France, President Emmanuel Macron’s party suffered a humiliating defeat to Marine Le Pen.

<><>In the U.K., Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage won a landslide victory in the EU Parliament,
leading a Trump-like party that was established just six weeks ago.

<><>Boris Johnson, the Trump-like former mayor of London, emerged, against all odds, as the new prime minister of Britain.

<><>In Italy, Matteo Salvini’s nationalist party became one of the leaders
of the EU Parliament, winning an astounding 28 seats.

<><> Opposition conservatives prevail in Greek local election runoffs Reuters. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist Syriza party suffered its first major defeat in years to the conservative New Democracy party in last Sunday’s European Parliament vote, prompting him to say he would call an early election. The snap election is expected to take place on July 7. On Sunday, the seats of the mayor of Athens and the district governor for the wider Athens area were the top prizes up for grabs in the runoffs of local elections. Results showed New Democracy candidates winning both seats, handing the conservatives another boost before Greeks return to vote in the expected election next month.

<><> Austrian Vice Chancellor vows to fight the Islamic “population exchange” JIHAD WATCH ^ | MAY 4, 2019 1:00 PM | CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS Posted on 5/5/2019, 4:57:18 AM by robowombat——Austrian Vice Chancellor vows to fight the Islamic “population exchange” “Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache alluded to the impact of mass migration and demographic changes on the country, saying his party would fight against ‘population exchange’”.

<><>Australia Election Results: Prime Minister Scott Morrison Seizes a Stunning Win The Failing New York Times ^ | 5/18/2019 | Damien Cave Posted on 5/18/2019, 7:05:23 PM by Beave Meister SYDNEY, Australia — Scott Morrison, Australia’s conservative prime minister, scored a surprise victory in federal elections on Saturday, propelled by a populist wave — the “quiet Australians,” he termed it — resembling the force that has upended politics in the United States, Britain and beyond.

<><>Elections in India - Voters Reject Handouts! Indian News Sources ^ | 5/19/2019 | Me Posted on 5/19/2019, 9:29:06 AM by Republic_Venom If any of you are watching the end of the elections in India (https://www.republicworld.com/livetv) ......and looking at the exit polls, looks like the voters have re-elected the incumbent PM. He, like Trump, was hounded by the media and liberal elite. The surprising results from the exit polls is that the poor and destitute in India voted for him and not the parties that were offering hand-outs and uber-socialist sops. Australia rejected the liberals, now India has...so has Brazil.

<><>Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival’s 46,656. The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday. Boris wasted no time-——he appointed pro-life conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg to his all-star cabinet alongside Patel, Leadsom and Raab. In victory, Johnson promised to energise the country. “We are once again going to believe in ourselves.”

<><> The governing party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is vowing to force people to prove they are citizens to other parts of India, part of a far-reaching Hindu nationalist program fueled by Modi’s sweeping reelection victory in May and his stratospheric popularity. Members of India’s Muslim minority are growing more fearful by the day. Less than two weeks ago, Modi unilaterally wiped out the statehood of India’s only Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir, removing its special autonomy and turning it into a federal territory without any consultation with local leaders — many of whom have since been arrested.

<><> This will drive the Christian-hating Muslim hordes berserk. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law declaring Sept. 8 of every year, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic Church, a “national special working holiday.” Assumption Day is a public holiday in countries such as Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, France, parts of Germany, Guatemala, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland (the holiday may be regional or limited to certain groups in Switzerland).

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India plans huge detention camps for illegal migrants; Muslims are main target
BARENAKEDISLAM ^ | AUGUST 19, 2019
FR Posted on 08/19/2019 1:53:13 AM PDT by robowombat

More than 4 million people in India, mostly Muslims, are at risk of being declared foreign migrants as the government pushes a hard-line Hindu nationalist agenda that has challenged the country’s pluralist traditions and aims to redefine what it means to be Indian.

NY Times (h/t SBS) The hunt for migrants is unfolding in Assam, near the borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh. State authorities are rapidly expanding foreigner tribunals and planning to build huge new detention camps.

Hundreds of people have been arrested on suspicion of being a foreign migrant — including a Muslim veteran of the Indian army.Local activists and lawyers say the pain of being left off a preliminary list of citizens and the prospect of being thrown into jail have driven dozens to suicide. But the governing party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not backing down....to force people to prove they are citizens to other parts of India, part of a far-reaching Hindu nationalist program fueled by Modi’s sweeping reelection victory in May and his stratospheric popularity.

Members of India’s Muslim minority are growing more fearful by the day.Less than two weeks ago, Modi unilaterally wiped out the statehood of India’s only Muslim-majority state, Jammu and Kashmir, removing its special autonomy and turning it into a federal territory without any consultation with local leaders — many of whom have since been arrested.


12 posted on 08/20/2019 8:32:17 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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The revival of Oriana Fallaci’s memory and her warnings to the West, and the rise of Matteo Salvini, along with the sudden resignation of the Italian PM, could just be the moment when Italy halts, turns about, and takes an attitude toward Muslim invaders more like that of Poland and Hungary.

Forza Italia!!


13 posted on 08/20/2019 8:35:29 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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"who paraded through the streets of the capital, Banjul, with chains around their hands and yokes about their necks."


14 posted on 08/20/2019 8:39:58 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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MUSLIMS RAMP UP THE INVASION:
Muslim Caucus to hold first conference (featuring Ihlan Omar)
Aljeezera ^ | 7/23/19 | Martin de Bourmont / FR Posted by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Washington, DC - Muslim political leaders and academics are set to gather in Washington, DC, on Tuesday for what is being billed as the first national gathering of Muslims in politics in United States history. The historic moment comes as President Donald Trump and his supporters ramp up attacks on Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first two Muslim women in Congress.

Organised by the Muslim Caucus, the Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy 2019 will feature appearances by representatives Omar, as well as a host of other prominent Muslim American figures, including Gold Star father Khizr Khan and Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress and current Minnesota attorney general.
But the organisers are disappointed in the low turnout from major Democratic presidential candidates. “We reached out to every single Democratic candidate as well as Republican, the one Republican candidate who is running against Trump,” said Ghazala Salam, president and founder of the Muslim Caucus Education Collective.

“But we did not have any response from their offices. Everyone declined, or responded that they have scheduling conflicts,” she told Al Jazeera. Bernie Sanders will submit a pre-recorded message for the conference, but Salam said that actually taking the time to meet and speak with Muslim voters would send a much stronger message of support. “It’s important for candidates who want to be president to have a plan to speak to every community,” said Salam. “Whether minority or majority ... Muslims, even though we’re a minority right now, we’re facing such discrimination, especially from this administration.”

‘Not a small sideshow in US politics’ The conference comes at a time when rights groups have documented an increase in Islamophobic attacks on Muslim communities and individuals. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) recorded a 17 percent increase in anti-Muslim bias incidents in 2017.
It also documented 300 hate crimes against Muslim Americans in 2017, a 15 percent increase from the previous year.

“Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric, both prior to and during the course of his presidency, emboldened those who sought to express their anti-Muslim bias and provided a veneer of legitimacy to bigotry in the public sphere,” CAIR said in its 2018 Civil Rights Report. In 2016, Trump campaigned on banning Muslims from entering the US. He acted on that promise once in office, issuing a travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries.


15 posted on 08/20/2019 8:40:55 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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bookmarked...


16 posted on 08/20/2019 8:43:30 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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Prominent terrorists plot the overthrow of the US govt will be attending the muslim conference.

Islamist Candidate Khurrum Wahid Comes in Third at Florida Elections
Frontpage Mag ^ | 06/24/2019 | Joe Kauffman / FR Posted by SeekAndFind

On June 18th, over 7300 voters in Coral Springs, Florida went to the polls in a Special Election to cast their votes for the individual they wanted as their new City Commissioner. The former Commissioner, Dan Daley, left the seat vacant, after he won his own Special Election, for Florida State House. Out of the six candidates in the Commission race, one, Khurrum Wahid, raised far more money than any of the others. But for many voters, Wahid, a terror-linked lawyer, represented a danger to society, and therefore, he was soundly rejected.

Khurrum Basir Wahid, a South Florida attorney, has made a name for himself by representing high-profile terrorists, including the most violent of al-Qaeda operatives. And while Wahid has every right to act as legal counsel to such miscreants, when viewing the rest of his terror-related and disturbing activity, it would be a grave error not to view Wahid as a threat as well.

One of Wahid’s former clients is Hafiz Khan, a Miami imam who received a 25-year prison sentence, in August 2013, for his role in shipping $50 thousand to the Pakistani Taliban for the specific goal of murdering American troops overseas. Khan was not the only individual charged in the crime. His son, Izhar, spent 20 months in a Miami federal detention center for his alleged participation in the terror financing scheme. As stated by the US Justice Department, “Izhar is a Pakistani Taliban sympathizer who worked with [his father Hafiz] and others to collect and deliver money for the Pakistani Taliban… Izhar… provided and attempted to provide material support and resources… knowing and intending that they be used in preparation for and in carrying out… a conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim persons in a foreign country.”

While using his law firm to actively raise money for Izhar and his father, Wahid went out of his way to label Izhar a “rising star.” Also, according to the Miami New Times, Wahid said of Izhar that he was a “sweet kid who did his father’s bidding.” In this same New Times piece, it is reported that Wahid, himself, was placed on the federal terrorist watch list, in 2011. Besides his work as an attorney, Wahid is the National Co-Chairman of Emgage Action (formerly Emerge USA), an Islamist group he founded in 2006 that attempts to pass its extremist agenda off as political advocacy. The group is part of the South Florida Muslim Federation, a consortium of South Florida’s radical Islamic organizations and terror-related mosques. Emgage tends to attract leaders of the Democratic Party, who see Emgage as an opportunity to pander for Muslim votes and close their eyes to the extreme nature of the group.

Under Wahid’s authority sits Ammar Ahmed, the South Florida Director of Emgage. In February 2010, following a debate he participated in at a school, Ahmed wrote on Facebook, “I hate white people” and joked that he “should have threatened to blow up the school.” Prior to creating Emgage, Wahid served as a legal advisor for the national office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a director of CAIR’s Florida chapter. According to the US government, CAIR has both financial and foundational ties to Hamas. Various CAIR representatives have served prison time and/or have been deported from the US for terrorist-related activity. In November 2014, CAIR was designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government.

The mosque Wahid attends is the Islamic Foundation of South Florida (IFSF). Wahid is also the Registered Agent for IFSF’s corporation. Up until recently, the Youth Group leader for IFSF was Abdur Rahman al-Ghani, an individual who says on his Facebook page that Jews are “demonic” and Islam “will over-take the World.” In June 2013, IFSF hosted a Ramadan Prep Youth Night featuring Izhar Khan, and in April 2014, IFSF hosted a talk by Mazen Mokhtar, a former administrator for the al-Qaeda recruitment site, qoqaz.net (Jihad in Chechnya), and who has called Hamas acts “heroic” and suicide bombings “an effective method of attacking the enemy.”

It is through Wahid’s engagement in politics, via his Emgage organization, that Wahid probably believed that he had a shot to win the vacant Commission seat. However, any voter looking into Wahid’s extremist and terror-tied background would surely have questions about Wahid’s true intentions in running for such an office – in running for any office. What is indeed concerning, though, is that just short of 1400 Coral Springs voters thought highly enough of Wahid to give him their votes, putting him squarely in third place. That was well behind the 2553 votes the winner, Sean Cerra, received, but it was 1400 votes nonetheless. Either those voters were ignorant of Wahid’s sordid history or they disturbingly chose to ignore it. Beyond Wahid and his fellow Islamists, any vote for him would be aiding and abetting extremist activity. A vote for Wahid was and is a vote for terror.

Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.

17 posted on 08/20/2019 8:45:41 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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18 posted on 08/20/2019 8:49:43 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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Good article ping.


19 posted on 08/20/2019 9:14:02 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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There’s also Jair Balsonaro in Brazil.

There’s definitely a backlash going on, however a lot of damage has been done that may be difficult to reverse. The millions of invaders that now occupy a lot of western countries will gain political clout (like Omar here) and will continue to destroy our culture and turn whites into a minority.


20 posted on 08/20/2019 9:28:10 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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