The lessons we refuse to learn from September 11, 2001 could fill a million libraries.

No, we didn't do it.

No, we didn't deserve it.

No, the Masons, the Jews, and the Trilateral Commission didn't conspire to do it.

No, it did not unite us.

Finally, no it did not change AmeriKKKa one bit. We STILL haven't won a war since 1945. (And it looks like commie Korea is going to have the last laugh at our expense.)

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

The UN and other left-fascists put the cart before the goat about to be raped.

Let me lay some reality on the blue-helmeted child-raping justice warriors at the UN and their useful idiots in the ChristLast press: False religion makes you stupid, angry, frustrated and violent.

Fyodor's forecast is for many more generations of unchecked goat-raping.

UN study: Extremist fighters lack good education and jobs - Washington's other other newspaper-


 A U.N. study of 43 people who left their countries to become “foreign terrorist fighters” in Syria has found that most came from disadvantaged backgrounds, lacked good education and decent jobs — and saw their Muslim religion “in terms of justice and injustice rather than in terms of piety and spirituality.”

The study for the U.N. Counter-Terrorism Center released Thursday said that based on interviews with the 42 men and one woman, a typical “foreign terrorist fighter,” or FTF, is most likely to be young, male and feel “their life lacked meaning.”

But Professor Hamed el-Said of Manchester Metropolitan University and British terrorism expert Richard Barrett, who conducted the study, said beyond that it’s difficult to generalize why they wanted to go to Syria.

They cited “a mix of factors,” saying “social networks often seem to play a key role” and “equally important is the role and identity of the recruiters, who are not necessarily members of armed groups” but are more likely to be sympathizers.

Almost 40 percent of the sample said they were motivated to go to Syria by “an obligation to defend their fellow Sunnis from the Syrian government and its allies by force,” the report said. “This confirms that many Muslim youth, regardless of where they come from, perceive the conflict in Syria in community more than in religious terms.”

The authors said this perception of a duty to defend their group during a war “is an important element in understanding what may motivate an individual to become an FTF.”

Other responses confirmed “the lack of ideology” as a motivating factor, they said, noting for example that “very few of this sample believe in the idea of an Islamic State or of establishing a caliphate in the Levant.”

According to a U.N. estimate in March 2015, there were more than 25,000 FTFs from over 100 countries.

The authors said that while the issue of FTFs has risen to the top of the political agenda in many countries, there is a lack of detailed knowledge about why people choose to join terrorist organizations — and why some return home.

The authors stressed that their study is not a random sample, but they said it is one of the largest samples of face-to-face interviews conducted with FTFs, and therefore they believe the report “adds significantly to current research.”

Of the 43 people interviewed representing 12 nationalities, 33, or 77 percent, reached Syria but subsequently decided to leave, the report said. The other 10 were either intercepted by authorities in their own country or stopped en route to Syria by authorities in a transit country.

The authors said 26 were interviewed in prison, and the remaining 17 in official premises or public places arranged by security officials from the host country, though generally not in their presence.
Despite an appeal to all U.N. member states, the authors expressed regret that only seven countries agreed to participate in the study — three from the European Union and four from the Middle East and North Africa.

The report said the participants “claimed they did not go to Syria with the intention of becoming a terrorist, nor did they return with that purpose in mind.” In Syria, most said the only military experience they received was a simple course on how to shoot with no bullets, “as shooting draws the attention of the enemy.” Only five of the 43 admitted to participating in fighting in Syria, the report said.

The authors said families had “a powerful influence” in convincing those interviewed to leave Syria, as well as their own “disillusionment” and “disappointment.”

El-Said and Barrett expressed hope that the study “will assist member states to design and implement policies and programs that discourage those who are about to or are thinking of going to Syria, and reintegrate those who have already returned, or who are about to do so,” with minimum risk to public safety.

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The Great Cartoon War of 2006* continues apace. Or, non-moderate mohammedans never forgive or forget.

Why Are These Iranians 'Really, Really Happy With Trump'?

Mocking presidents of the Great Satan, the United States, has long been standard practice during state-backed rallies in Iran, where anti-Americanism is ingrained in state ideology.

For decades, Iranian revolutionary families would work late into the night to make sock puppets, cartoons and effigies of every American president since Jimmy Carter, then proudly parade them around during an anti-American protest and burn them in a bonfire.

Some would dress up with Uncle Sam top hats, Bill Clinton imitators would always have a big cigar hanging from his puppet mouth, and George W. Bush would be decorated with stars of David, to highlight the special relationship with Israel.

But as even the staunchest hard-liners would admit, the number of zealous protesters had dwindled over the years. In recent times, most people have been content just to pick up posters given to them by the authorities. Barack Obama’s outreach to Iran, brokering a nuclear agreement and giving up on regime change, was not good for the local sock puppet and effigy industry.

But in President Trump the United States has a new, colorful president (Well, orange is a color...- F.G.) who denounces Iran, and Iranian hard-line groups cannot believe their good luck. This Monday, at a cartoon and caricature contest where the only goal was to make fun of President Trump, the zealots were back in force.

Several winners received cash prizes in dollars for showing the president in the white robes of the Ku Klux Klan, sharing a Time magazine cover with Adolf Hitler, or as Captain America wielding the Statue of Liberty as a bludgeon.

Some of the cartoons were also hung across Tehran. One poster, featured prominently at a busy intersection, showed Mr. Trump doing something to the rear of an elephant, symbol of the Republican Party, while also wearing a swastika armband and with the decapitated head of Lady Liberty at its feet.

The winning caricature, worth a $1,500 cash prize, showed Mr. Trump in a suit made of $100 bills, his hair on fire and drool dripping from his mouth. Winning artists also received an abstract statue topped with a golden swoosh of Mr. Trump’s signature hairdo.

The date of the exhibition, July 3, is the anniversary of the downing of an Iranian passenger plane by the United States Navy in 1988 that killed all 290 people on board. While the Pentagon has always insisted the incident was a tragic mistake, many Iranians are convinced the plane was shot down to pressure Iran into ending its eight-year war with Iraq.

“We are really, really happy with Trump,” said Resalat Bouzari, a speaker at the event. “He shows the real face of the so-called United States democracy.” Everybody clapped, and when Iran’s national anthem played, stood up from their chairs to see a video of happy Iranians cheering for their country. Visitors were given books with the logo of the exhibition, a black-circled “T” on a white and red background, suggestive of the swastika that was present in several of the cartoons.

“Trump is the symbol of fascism and Nazism, and many investigated his statements and concluded they are similar to those made by Adolf Hitler,” said the organizer of the event, Masoud Shojaei-Tabataei. He has been organizing — or told to organize — cartoon contests for several years now.

He started after European newspapers began publishing cartoons depicting the prophet of Islam, Muhammad. In retaliation, Iran organized a Holocaust cartoon contest.

*The Great Cartoon War of '06 Update.

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Have you noticed how the terrorists never turn out to be Shintoists?

London Bridge attack: 2 of 3 killers identified - CNN.com

British police have identified two of the three men behind Saturday night's terror attack in London as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane.

Who are the victims of the London terror attack? - The Telegraph

A Canadian woman killed in the London terror attack was the first victim to be identified on Sunday. Seven people were killed and 48 injured when three ...

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Does that arch-imbecile Bill Maher still think these goat-raping vermin are brave?

From the UK Telegraph:

Manchester Arena attack: 22 killed at Ariana Grande gig by bomber ...


TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Hey, how about that? The Orange Pansy hasn't killed the goat rapists.

I don't want to hear the mantra of the Clumpskyites and the Fake Conservatives. We could put an avocado in the Oval Office and it would do better than Badcock Insane Okhrana. What does A Cockjerk Orange want, a cookie?


Iraqi boys' harrowing tale of captivity, training by Daesh | Arab News

KABARTO CAMP, Iraq: They made the captive children, malnourished and weak from hunger, fight over a single tomato. Then the Daesh group militants told them, “In paradise, you’ll be able to eat whatever you want. But first you have to get to paradise, and you do that by blowing yourself up.”

The lesson was part of the indoctrination inflicted by the militants on boys from Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority after the extremist group overran the community’s towns and villages in northern Iraq. The group forced hundreds of boys, some as young as 7 or 8, into training to become fighters and suicide bombers, infusing them with its murderous ideology.

Now boys who escaped captivity are struggling to regain some normalcy, living in camps for the displaced along with what is left of their families. After surviving beatings, watching horrific atrocities, being held for months or years apart from their parents, losing loved ones and narrowly escaping death themselves, they are plagued by nightmares, anxiety and outbursts of violence.

“Even here I’m still very afraid,” said 17-year-old Ahmed Ameen Koro, who spoke to The Associated Press in the sprawling Esyan Camp in northern Iraq, where he now lives with his mother, sister and a brother, the only surviving members of his family. “I can’t sleep properly because I see them in my dreams.”

Ahmed was 14 when the militants stormed into the Yazidi heartland around the northern town of Sinjar in the summer of 2014.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis were killed in the assault on Sinjar and neighboring towns and the militants kidnapped thousands of women and girls as sex slaves. The Yazidi minority, whose ancient faith combines aspects of Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Judaism, is considered heretical by the Islamic extremists. US-backed Kurdish forces drove Daesh out of Sinjar in November 2015, but few Yazidis have returned, and an estimated 3,500 remain in Daesh captivity, scattered around its territory in Iraq and Syria, according to Human Rights Watch.

“They looked like monsters”

It was the morning of Aug. 3, 2014, when the Daesh fighters descended on Ahmed’s village of Hardan. The family tried to flee, but their car couldn’t hold everyone. So Ahmed, his 13-year-old brother Amin, and four cousins set off on foot while his father drove the others to the nearby village of Khader Amin. The boys were to wait for Ahmed’s father to pick them up at a roadway intersection outside of Hardan.

But his father never came: The militants seized him and the rest of the family, and his father was never seen again. Daesh fighters then captured Ahmed and the other boys at the intersection.

VIDEO: Iraqi boys recount horrors of captivity by Daesh 

The boys were taken to the Daesh-held town of Tal Afar, some 30 miles away, where they were kept in a boys’ school along with dozens of other boys and teens. The adult men were taken away, leaving the women and girls.

“They chose and took the girls they liked,” Ahmed recalled. “I remember the girls were crying, as well as the mothers. They were dragging these girls from the arms of their mothers.”

“I was very scared. I’ve never seen such a thing. They were all very big bearded men, they looked like monsters,” he said. “My parents weren’t with me and I was thinking about them, wondering what happened to them.”

Ahmed and the other boys were then moved to Badoush Prison outside the Daesh stronghold of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, where they were kept for 15 days. It was here that Ahmed noticed that every time the militants brought food, the boys would fall asleep immediately after they ate. There were, Ahmed believes, sleeping pills in the food.

The militants taught the boys Islamic prayers, instructed them in their hard-line interpretation of the Qur’an and forced them to say they had become Muslims.

“We were scared of saying that we were not Muslims because they would kill us,” he said.

Ahmed was among some 200 Yazidi boys sent to a two-month training camp in Tal Afar. Their days began with early morning prayer and military training exercises, followed by study of the Qur’an. They learned to shoot Kalashnikovs and pistols. On a large screen, they watched videos on how to use a suicide belt, throw a grenade, or behead a person.

“They were telling us if we were in a fight against the infidels ... we had to blow ourselves up and kill them all,” he said.

There was talk of sending the boys, who spoke a northern Kurdish dialect and knew little Arabic, to other Arabic-speaking countries to learn Arabic, study Islam and forget about their Yazidi parents.
“They were telling us, ‘You are not Yazidis anymore. You are one of us,’” Ahmed said.

“When you grow up, you will blow yourself up”

Akram Rasho Khalaf was only 7 when his town of Khidir Sheikh Sipa was overrun by the militants on Aug. 23, 2014. His family tried to flee, but the militants opened fire and Akram suffered shrapnel and bullet wounds to his abdomen and hand.

“They started to shoot at us. My mother fell and I was hit. These are the bullet marks,” he said, raising his T-shirt to show two large scars on his stomach. Akram was taken by ambulance to Mosul, seized earlier that summer by Daesh, where he underwent surgery.

“They separated me from my mother, my sister, my brother and my father,” he said, adding that he never heard from his parents again, though his mother is believed trapped in the western sector of Mosul still held by Daesh.

Akram fidgeted as he talked about the overwhelming hunger he felt while in captivity. Asked if he was scared, the boy, now 10, said he was too hungry to be afraid.

Eventually, he was brought to Raqqa, the Daesh group’s self-declared capital in Syria. There the militants would throw balls at the children’s heads, Akram said. If anyone cried, they were beaten. Those who didn’t cry were praised for being tough and told they would one day be suicide bombers.

“They were saying they are our friends, but the kids were scared to death,” Akram said, speaking to the AP in Kabarto Camp, near Dahuk, where he now lives with his uncle, two siblings and other relatives some 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of their home village.

“They were telling us, ‘When you grow up, you will blow yourself up, God willing,’ and some of the kids said, ‘We will not blow ourselves up,’” Akram said. “Then they asked us, ‘Which one of you wants to go to paradise?’ And the kids didn’t know what to say.”

“But they wanted all of us to blow ourselves up. They were saying, ‘You have to blow yourself up!’“
Training included sliding on their bellies through barricades of burning tires, jumping over obstacles and off roofs, the child said. Small for even his young age, Akram wasn’t strong enough to handle a gun, so he was forced to be a servant and was sold to various fighters.

Escape

Two years after Akram was taken captive, the boy’s uncle, Hasar Haji Hasan, received a photo on his Facebook page of his nephew dressed in black Islamic garb, along with an offer to smuggle him out of Raqqa for $10,500 — an increasingly common practice as Daesh militants seek to earn cash by returning the youngest of their captives for a price. The family borrowed the money from a relative in Germany, where there is a large Yazidi refugee community. Eventually the boy was smuggled out and taken by motorcycle to a Kurdish peshmerga checkpoint. He was reunited with what remains of his family on Nov. 29 — two years and three months after he was seized by the militants.

For Ahmed, escape came sooner. On May 4, 2015, nine months after their capture, Ahmed, his brother Amin and a cousin managed to slip from the militants’ sight at the military training camp in Tal Afar. Their cousin was soon recaptured, but the brothers hid in a mosque until nightfall, then fled with a small group of other escapees on foot.

“We were following the movement of the sun and continued walking at night,” he said. “We were very thirsty because we ran out of water and we could not find the safe road. We ran out of everything. We were almost dying.”

But fear of Daesh kept them going, and after a nine-day 55-mile (90-kilometer) trek they reached the Sinjar mountains, where Kurdish peshmerga forces rescued them.

“Hide the knives”

Akram’s uncle says his nephew has been deeply affected by his time in captivity, suffering nightmares, anxiety, sleeplessness and bedwetting. The boy’s brother, 8-year-old Raiid, and 5-year-old sister Jumana, rescued separately after ransom was paid, have similar problems.

“Sometimes they become very aggressive and they beat up other children or our children. They are not like other normal children. Their mental health is very bad,” he said.

Akram’s sleep is interrupted by the militants, who menace him in his dreams, the boy said.

“When I go to sleep I see Daesh in my dreams and they say, ‘Come,’” he said. “And I get very scared and I wake up and I can’t go back to sleep.”

Carl Gaede, an American clinical social worker and executive director of Tutapona, a US-based nonprofit specializing in war trauma, says these reactions are common among survivors of the horrors that people have experienced under Daesh rule.

“We’ve seen a number of the children acting out in violent ways and family members needing to hide the knives, hide dangerous items out of fear of how the children might use them because of what they’ve seen and participated in,” said Gaede, who along with his staff works with survivors of Daesh brutality in Esyan camp, where Ahmed lives with his family.

Ahmed sees a counselor, like many of the Yazidis living there. “He tries to restore my mind, to bring me back to how it was before Daesh,” the teen said of his counselor. “He tries to get this fear out of me. He tries his best.”

Ahmed fills his days now with school — English is his favorite subject — and running a small shop at the camp selling women’s and girls’ clothing and shoes.

Asked about his dreams for the future, Ahmed answers immediately. “When I grow up I will take my revenge against Daesh, against those infidels,” he said.

Akram, now a ball of energy on a tiny frame with an easy smile and a killer dimple, also has a ready response. Asked what he wants to do when he grows up, he declared: “Fight Daesh.”

Amen to that, brother, and good hunting.

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Cal, I know one thing. The Orangecompoop will never learn a damn thing.

Cal Thomas column: Extreme Islam: Will we ever learn? | Richmond Times-Dispatch...


President Trump is about to score a religious trifecta, visiting Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rome, the “homes” of three monotheistic religions. The president has said he wants to make the ultimate deal and achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

If the Messiahdent gets into the Vatican, I wouldn't want to be standing too close to it, if you catch my drift.

While the goal is similar to a high school kid attempting to hit a curve ball from an all-star pitcher, the scenario cannot end well for Israel. How do I know this? One has only to look at history. There has never — never — been a time when an American president has sought to lessen tensions in the region that Israel has not been smeared as the main impediment and required to “do more” to make peace happen. Israel is not an impediment to peace. Her enemies are.

Here’s the danger for President Trump. The Quran allows Muslims to lie to “nonbelievers” in pursuit of Islam’s goal of an earthly kingdom ruled by their religion.

An example occurred last week when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met at the White House with President Trump. Abbas said, “Mr. President, I affirm to you that we are raising our youth, our children and grandchildren, in a culture of peace.”

That is a flat-out lie, as even a cursory Google search or visit to the Palestinian Media Watch website proves.

President Trump correctly saw the problem in a campaign speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: “In Palestinian textbooks and mosques, you’ve got a culture of hatred that has been fomenting there for years. And if we want to achieve peace, they’ve got to go out and they’ve got to start this educational process. They have to end education of hatred.”

Which country promotes the most extreme form of Islam in children’s textbooks, mosques and their media? It is Saudi Arabia. If a person, or nation, believes they have a mandate from their god to lie to achieve their goals, how likely is it that even a president is not regarded as an “infidel” whose desire for peace can be used to damage Israel’s best interests?

As Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick correctly noted last week: “Israel is the most immediate casualty of Trump’s decision to embrace Abbas and the PLO, because the PLO is Israel’s enemy. Abbas is an anti-Semite. His doctoral dissertation, which he later published as a book, is a Holocaust denying screed.

“Abbas engages in anti-Semitic incitement on a daily basis, both directly and indirectly. It was Abbas who called for his people to kill Jews claiming that we pollute Judaism’s most sacred site, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with our ‘filthy feet.’ The Palestinian media and school system which he controls with an iron fist both regularly portray Jews as evil monsters, deserving of physical annihilation.”

This is not the attitude of one with whom a president or prime minister of Israel can make peace. A virus of hatred toward Israel and Jews is epidemic throughout the region.

One is as likely to change the minds of such people as persuade a serious Christian to deny the resurrection of Jesus, or an Orthodox Jew to accept him as Messiah.

The difference is that Christians and Jews do not have world domination as their goal and violence as their method.

The president should re-read his AIPAC speech, because he was right to say what he said then. Abbas lied to the president during his visit. Trump can expect more lies on his trip to Saudi Arabia, whose leaders may promise all sorts of things and tell the president what he wants to hear, but won’t mean it. The proof is in their interpretation of their religion.

As always, the West must pay less attention to what the enemies of Israel say and more attention to what they do.

Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Third World shitheads hate girls! [See, I'm not biased against mohammedans, although quite a few of them do hate girls.]

This ain't circumcision, kiddies.

From Disclose.tv:

FBI Arrested Doctor For Female Genital Mutilation Of Girls Across US Midwest ...


A doctor in Michigan is charged with cutting the genitals of many young girls, working out of her office in Livonia Michigan. As young girls scream in pain, their families tell them the procedures, now illegal under a new federal law, are performed “to get the germs out.” Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) refers to the removal of parts of the victim’s vulva, with extreme cases involving “Infibulation,” where the victim’s external genitalia are completely sewn closed. While FGM is a frequent occurrence in Islamic parts of the world, it has a particularly high occurrence in Africa.

On Thursday, the FBI arrested Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and charged her with multiple counts of female genital mutilation (FGM) against young girls aged six to eight years old. The mutilations were performed in her office, located in Livonia, Michigan.

One victim states that she screamed from the pain of being cut and afterward was barely able to walk. She was told by per parents not to tell anyone what occurred

.The arrest of Dr. Nagarwala is the first prosecution of FGM in the United States, resulting from a new law targeting FGM, according to a Department of Justice press release. In the 11-page complaint which accompanied Dr. Nagarwala’s arrest, mention of “members of a particular religious and cultural community” are made.

Dr. Nagarwala works in the emergency room of Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital. Detroit is home to the largest population of Somali immigrants in America, a group among whom FGM is prevalent. The complaint against Dr. Nagarwala charges her with the genital mutilation of the daughters of two separate families, which allegedly occurred at her office in Livonia, Michigan. Many other girls in the community allege that Dr. Nagarwala mutilated their genitals, in occurrences going as far back as 2005-2007, before the new federal law.

The Department of Justice has issued several statements concerning the prosecution of this type of crime stating their commitment to stopping FGM in the United States.


From Twincities.com:

MI doctor charged with genital mutilation of MN girls, age 7

"First, do no harm" apparently is Western Crusader imperialism in some communities.

A Detroit emergency room doctor is accused of performing genital mutilation on two 7-year-old Minneapolis-area girls.

Dr. Jumana Nagarwala

Dr. Jumana Nagarwala is charged with performing the procedure out of a clinic in Livonia, Mich., in February, according to charges filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday.

Somebody should sew this ghoul up in a pig carcass...

What? I'm the bad guy?

It’s believed to be the first case to be brought under the federal law criminalizing female genital mutilation of girls. The investigation suggests there are “multiple” other child victims of Nagarwala.
“According to the complaint, despite her oath to care for her patients, Dr. Nagarwala is alleged to have performed horrifying acts of brutality on the most vulnerable victims,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

Nagarwala heard the allegations during a brief hearing in U.S. District Court and was returned to jail to await another hearing Monday. Federal prosecutors want to keep her locked up without bond.

Nagarwala denied to the FBI ever having performed female genital mutilation. Defense attorney Shannon Smith declined to comment outside court.

The girls’ mothers were with them during the procedure, according to the FBI, which conducted the investigation.

Female genital mutilation is considered criminal sexual activity. It involves circumcising, excising or infibulating all or part of the labia majora, labia minora or clitoris. One purpose of the procedure, the complaint notes, is to curb girls’ or women’s sexuality by making sex painful.

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Proof that allah hates goat rapists too.

Wild boars overrun Islamic State position, kill 3 militants - MSN.com

This story may be the new definition of irony.

BTW, have you noticed even the left-fascists have dropped "ISIL" from their lexicon? What a legacy The Community Organizer From The High Yellow Lagoon left the world!

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Nope. Lots of folks refuse to listen to the best of news.

NJ teen admits assassination plot against Pope Francis during Philly visit ...


LINDENWOLD, NJ — A teenager from Camden County has admitted to trying to have Pope Francis assassinated during the pontiff’s 2015 visit to Philadelphia.

Santos Colon Jr., a 17-year-old borough resident, pleaded guilty as an adult to a charge of attempting to provide material support to terrorists. Colon also goes by the name Ahmad Shakoor, federal courts records show.

Federal prosecutors say Colon plotted to get a sniper to shoot the pope and set off explosives.

Colon tried to hire a sniper who in fact was an FBI agent. Colon engaged in “target reconnaissance” with an FBI informant, and instructed him to buy bomb-making materials, officials revealed Monday.

People cheer as they gather along Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Sept. 27, 2015 in Philadelphia. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Colon was arrested in 2015.

The arrest appears to be the incident referenced by a Texas congressman in 2015. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul told reporters that authorities had “disrupted one particular case” of potential terrorism before the pope’s visit.

Colon faces up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced.

Colon was represented by federal public defender Richard Coughlin, did not immediately return a request for comment.

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Pope Francis is trying, God bless him, but is anyone listening?

Pope Francis praises British Muslim leaders | world-news | Hindustan Times...

www.hindustantimes.com/.../pope-francis.../story-lFbjW4nYFsXpKr96YUetzI.html

Pope Francis met briefly Wednesday with a delegation of four British ... an imam who heads the British Muslim Forum, Ibrahim Mogra of the ...

Dialogue is essential, Pope Francis tells British Muslim leaders ...

www.catholicnewsagency.com › News › Vatican

Pope Francis met Wednesday with a delegation of Muslim leaders from ... Shahid Raza, chairman of the British Muslim Forum; Ali Raza Rizvi, ...

Pope Francis to meet British imams at the Vatican | CatholicHerald.co.uk

www.catholicherald.co.uk › Latest News

Pope Francis is scheduled to meet with four British imams on ... The head of the British Muslim Forum, Muhammad Shahid Raza, said in an ...

Imams say meeting the pope is “one of the most powerful messages ...

www.romereports.com/.../imams-say-meeting-the-pope-is-one-of-the-most-powerful-...

Chairman, British Muslim Forum. "We will be thanking him [Pope Francis] for his great support that has always been received by the Muslim ...

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

DRUGS BOOZE MOHAMMEDISM DEATH

If only the French can prove this son of a whore went to a strip club to administer his chemical courage, he would have hit the non-moderate mohammedan gargantufecta!


Paris airport gunman had drugs and alcohol in his system | New York Post ...

If there are any non-moderate mohammedan "scholars" reading this, could you please tell us if this apostate still gets seventy-two virgins?

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

False Religion is also death.

Of all the people mentioned in this horrific story, Ella is the only one assured of eternal life.

By the way, kiddies, I reserve the right to use my labels here ironically.



Fundamentalist pastor charged in toddler's pneumonia death - Times Union.

The pastor of a church that shuns modern medicine was charged with a felony Thursday in his toddler granddaughter's death from pneumonia, joining his son and daughter-in-law as defendants in the latest criminal case involving the Christian fundamentalist sect.

The Rev. Rowland Foster, pastor of a Faith Tabernacle Congregation church district in eastern Pennsylvania, was charged with failing to report a suspected case of child abuse. As a pastor, Foster is legally required to report those cases.

Foster's 2-year-old granddaughter, Ella, died in November after her parents refused to seek medical treatment. Authorities say Foster anointed Ella with oil in a failed attempt to heal her.

The ironic [? Pathetic is a better word choice.] thing is these ignorant morons actually were given the power to save little Ella by God Himself. [The One True God, of course.] Us [more or less] normals know this power as the reason, love and free will that only creatures created in His image could possibly possess. We then use this power to try, however feebly, to make our sorry, sinful lot in this life better.

God actually enjoys watching us use His gifts for good. Even if that good is a tiny one like Ella. There is a particularly nasty place in Hell reserved for all who squander His great gifts...and another one for those who preach falsely in His name.

He didn't immediately return a message seeking comment on the charge.

Foster, who turns 72 on Saturday, explained to state police that the church "does not believe in medical care and that he had not been to a doctor in his 70 years," an affidavit said.

The Wrong Reverend is one lucky son of a bitch. For now.

A forensic pathologist told investigators Ella would have had a 95 percent chance of surviving if she had been given a routine course of antibiotics.

At least 27 Faith Tabernacle children since 1971 have died of preventable or treatable illnesses, according to a running tally kept by Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty, an advocacy group that opposes faith-based medical neglect. Several church members have been prosecuted for failing to seek medical care for their children.

Like most states, Pennsylvania offers a civil exemption to parents who fail to seek medical treatment for their children on religious grounds. The law does not shield parents from criminal prosecution.

Rowland Foster, who was released Thursday on his own recognizance, is due in court next week for a preliminary hearing.

One more thing. Much of the screeching you here over stories like this comes from the left-fascists, who want people like Ella chopped up and thrown in the trash. Hypocrites much?

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Meanwhile, in the formerly Christian [?] and European nation of Denmark, fascist insanity rules.

Do you think the following stats have been updated in the last year or so?

4 in 10 Danish Muslims want Koran to be used in Denmark's ... - Infowars

Oct 20, 2015 - Nearly 50% of Muslims in Denmark want the Quran to be a part of the constitution. ... “If this was an Islamic country, it should be the Koran. .... a side in the war against muslims and heretics of what it believes who Jesus is.

Of course, but not for the better...

From JihadWatch:

Denmark: Man who burned Qur'an charged with blasphemy

4 days ago - “Danish man who burned Quran charged with blasphemy,” The Local, ... by a blaspheming heretic who abducted & raped defensless little girls, ...


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Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of god himself here on earth, other hate-filled fascists abuse girls who play chess.

No one this beautiful should cover her face unless she wants to. BTW, Dorsa and her brother are braver than you and I kiddies.




Above: Dorsa and her brother, who dared to be true to themselves.


Anyone, and I do mean anyone, want to argue that the Iranian people were worse off under the shah? The fetid heretical mohammedan murderers who enslave once-proud Persia should be butchered and their corpses left in the streets to be devoured by dogs.

From the Washington Times:

[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/25/dorsa-derakhshani-iranian-chess-master-booted-from/]

The Iranian national chess team has banned grand master Dorsa Derakhshani for not wearing a hijab during a recent competition, as well as her younger brother, Borna, for playing against an Israeli opponent.

Ms. Derakhshani, 18, competed in last month’s Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival wearing her hair down with only a pink headband, in defiance of Iranian law requiring all women to wear a headscarf in public.

On Monday, the head of the Iranian Chess Federation, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, announced that Ms. Derakhshani would be kicked off the national team, The Washington Post reported.

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SEE ALSO: Champion U.S. chess player protests Iran World Championship over hijab

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Borna, 15, was also booted from the team after agreeing to play against an opponent from Israel, a country Iran has not recognized since the 1979 Revolution.

“Unfortunately, what shouldn’t have happened has happened,” said Mr. Pahlevanzadeh, The Post reported. “Our national interests have priority over everything.”

Fuck you, you boot-licking toady. Is it really in your nation's interest to bully children who merely want to rejoice in their God-given talents and share them with the whole world?

The One True God will not be mocked. Certainly not by heretics who claim to be the most pious of all.

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Levi Shirley, Jordan MacTaggart, and William Savage, Requiescat in pace.

From denverpost.com:

Remains of two Colorado men killed in Syria arrive at Union Station ...

In every generation, there are heroes who clearly see the madness that threatens peace, freedom, and love. These are three such heroes.

Once upon a time, children, men like Levi, Jordan, and William were plentiful in America. You could find them almost anywhere. They were mechanics, students, butchers, and barbers. They knew that sometimes a man must fight to protect the innocent and the helpless, even if they died doing it. Even if they never knew those they saved.

Once upon a time was a long, long time ago. Thank almighty God there are still a few left who might serve as examples to the cowards, pansies, and criminals that plague us. Pray that He will raise up another generation of heroes who will destroy the enemies of freedom, both foreign and domestic, and send them straight to Hell where they belong.

The bodies of two Colorado men who gave their lives in the fight against the Islamic State arrived at around 7:40 am at Union Station on Friday morning. They were greeted by a small group of family and friends who traveled there from around Colorado.

Jordan MacTaggart of Castle Rock and Levi “Jack” Shirley of Arvada were killed this summer during the fight to liberate Manbij, a Syrian city that was occupied by the Islamic State. Their families have been waiting to be reunited with their remains for months.

The caskets arrived on the California Zephyr, a passenger train coming from Chicago. The office of Congressmen Ed Perlmutter helped coordinate between the families, several different government agencies including the White House, United States Embassies and the Kurdish militia the two young men were fighting with.

Both men traveled to Syria to fight with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units after connecting with recruiters on social media. They were both motivated by a strong impulse to help others and moral outrage at massacres committed by the Islamic State, their families said.

Kurdish soldiers guided the bodies through battlefields and across borders. The remains traveled thousands of miles, through war zones, across four countries and two continents to arrive in Denver.

MacTaggart and Shirley were transported with the remains of William Savage, another American fighter killed during the offensive, whose remains were sent to Raleigh, N.C.

“It’s been a long journey to get them home,” Perlmutter said, “both of these men did something very dangerous, obviously not part of our military, but we honor them.”

Perlmutter presented both families with a framed U.S. flag that had flown over the Capitol building.


“We waited for nine weeks for this day,” said Russell Shirley, Levi’s father, “but the last thing I wanted to see my son’s casket.”

Levi’s sister Kate Shirley wept while she embraced the casket containing her brother before it was loaded into a hearse bound for Arvada.

The somber moment helped bring closure to the deaths of MacTaggart and Shirley, their families said.

“Look at what he’s brought,” said Robert MacTaggart, Jordan’s father, “maybe somebody else will learn what is going on over there because of him.”

MacTaggart and Shirley only met briefly during their separate tours with the Kurdish militia, but through death, they brought their families close together.

“Once I heard about Jordan, I immediately found his sister online and reached out,” said Kate Shirley, Levi’s sister. Since then, they’ve helped guide the MacTaggarts through the process, she said.

“From what I hear, Jordan and Levi would have been friends,” Kate Shirley added.

The case of Father Jacques Hamel: Is the Pope a coward, a left-fascist, or is he ignoring the Holy Ghost?

From Ross Douthat of the Old Gray Whore:


The Meaning of a Martyrdom

Have you noticed how often Pope Francis is in the news? Why does the ChristLast media care what he thinks? Something smells a lot like sulfur...

    

                 

IN the days since Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old French priest, was slaughtered at the altar by two jihadists, his murder has become a contested symbol in his country, continent and church.

To many conservative Catholics, Father Hamel is an archetypal Christian martyr — killed in a sacred space by men motivated by hatred of his faith, dying with the words, “Go away, Satan!” on his lips. To cultural conservatives more broadly, he’s a potent symbol of the jihadi threat to Europe’s peace.

May God have mercy on his brave soul.

But within Catholicism there is also strong resistance to this interpretation. It starts at the very top, with Pope Francis, who has deliberately steered clear of the language of martyrdom — first describing the priest’s murder as “absurd,” and then using one of his in-flight press conferences to suggest that the killers were no more religiously-motivated than a random Catholic murderer in Italy.

Huh?

Meanwhile, amid calls of “Santo subito!” — “Sainthood now!” – two of the pope’s biographers, Austen Ivereigh and (in these pages) Paul Vallely, wrote essays warning against doing anything that might inflame interreligious tensions or otherwise play into the Islamic State’s bloodied hands.

In this narrative, which is also the narrative that many secular Europeans reached for, Father Hamel’s murder belongs not to the old iconography of a church militant under siege by unbelievers, but to the modern vision of a multicultural, multireligious society threatened primarily by ignorance and fear. So the appropriate response is to reassert the importance of religious tolerance, to highlight commonalities between French Muslims and their Catholic neighbors, to create a broad category of “peaceful religion” and cast jihadists outside it.

These dueling interpretations need not be mutually exclusive. In theory, it should be possible (for a pope, especially!) to plainly call Father Hamel’s death a martyrdom while also rejecting sweeping narratives about Islamic violence or religious war.

But there is clearly a point of tension here, a problem synthesizing old and new. An old-fashioned Catholic martyrdom may be possible in a multicultural, late-modern society. But there is still a sense in which it is not supposed to happen here.

This is wishful thinking, kiddies, not reality. War is not coming. War is here and I'm afraid tens of thousands will have to be martyred like Father Hamel [or even more horrifically] before we awaken to that fact. Europe has already been lost.

Yes, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church” — but that was in the premodern, not-yet-disenchanted world, in which superstition bred zealotry and privation made every civilizational encounter zero-sum. Now we have supposedly advanced beyond those divisions, and if violence or fanaticism still intrudes it’s because of technical and political failures — insufficient education, the misallocation of resources, insufficient dialogue, ideological manipulation — rather than deep theological divides. (Thus the pope’s insistence that the present jihadist wave has economic motivations but not genuinely religious ones.)

Such is the implicit perspective of post-Vatican II Catholicism — the church in which both Pope Francis and the murdered Father Hamel came of age. It assumes that liberal modernity represents a permanent change in human affairs, a kind of “coming of age” in which religion must come of age as well — putting away exclusivist ideas in order to flourish in community with all mankind. To talk too noisily about martyrdom in this context is to mistake today for yesterday, to risk a slippage back into the fruitless religious struggles of the past.

We Catholics are supposed to know better. Human nature cannot change. We are all fallen creatures and it is about time the leaders of the Church start acting like they know it.

But our today is not actually quite what 1960s-era Catholicism imagined. The come-of-age church is, in the West, literally a dying church: As the French philosopher Pierre Manent noted, the scene of Father Hamel’s murder — “an almost empty church, two parishioners, three nuns, a very old priest” — vividly illustrates the condition of the faith in Western Europe.

As I said, Europe is lost. It is time to consolidate the forces of reason and faith and prepare for a war which will last for generations.

The broader liberal order is also showing signs of strain. The European Union, a great dream when Father Hamel was ordained a priest in 1958, is now a creaking and unpopular bureaucracy, threatened by nationalism from within and struggling to assimilate immigrants from cultures that never made the liberal leap.

The Islam of many of these immigrants is likely to be Europe’s most potent religious force across the next generation, bringing with it an “Islamic exceptionalism” (to borrow the title of Shadi Hamid’s fine new book) that may not fit the existing secular-liberal experiment at all.

Meanwhile the French Catholic future seems like it may belong to a combination of African immigrants and Latin-Mass traditionalists — or else to a religious revival that would likely be nationalist, not liberal, with Joan of Arc as its model, not a modern Jesuit.

We know Joan is a Saint, while Francis' fate still hangs in the balance. If you hesitate while trying to decide which example you'll follow, you are a fool.

This future, God willing, will preserve the late-modern peace. But it promises something more complicated and more dangerous than the liberal imagination, secular and Catholic, envisioned 50 years ago.

"Late-modern peace"? Wake up! Look around you! That's not peace you are experiencing in your elitist enclave. It is a war you ignore at your peril.

Some of the nervousness about calling Father Hamel a holy martyr reflects the limits of that imagination. After all, it would have seemed all but impossible, in the bright optimism of the 1960s, that a young priest of the church of Vatican II should, in his old age, die a martyr’s death in the very heart of Europe.

Bright optimism? Hah! The left-fascists who twisted Vatican II into a masturbatory fantasy of their disordered desires will never see reality...even as it slits their throats.

But it wasn’t, and he did.