New Islamic State of Iraq

It says what it says .... areas of infiltration and services will be identified soon

Free world caught in misconceptions about Muslim world
Y-Net News, September 15, 2014

In past few decades, West has been trying to appease Muslim Brotherhood, hoping it would develop a moderate Islam. The result is thousands of European and American recruits joining jihad.

The pullout of forces from both Iraq and Afghanistan was meant to disconnect the United States, as part of the free world, from the Muslim world. No more occupation, no more American and other military casualties, no more justifications for terror. This was a short-term illusion.

The Muslim world has a presence in the free world. It challenges the most basic values the free world is built on. It threatens. It pays. It disrupts free thought. It defies. No escape will help: It's a bit difficult escaping something that is within you.

The jihad is not the paramount expression of the Muslim world, but it has become the greatest threat. The Islamic State is only one characteristic.

An "Islamic state" has been established in Nigeria in recent weeks and is slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people. As we speak, there are reports that Maiduguri, the capital and the largest city of Borno State in northeastern Nigeria, is being encircled by Boko Haram members. We are talking about a city with more than one million residents, mostly Muslims.

That won't help them. The jihadists, and not only in Nigeria, kill mostly Muslims. The residents are scared to death. Why is the world protesting for the Yazidis but ignoring the Nigerians? Is there no need to save them too? Why they are the victims of the same jihad.

Well, in the Maiduguri area there is not a single foreign reporter. The foreign reporters are busy elsewhere. In Libya, the Islamic militias are taking over more and more chunks of the crumbling state. Similar processes are taking place in Afghanistan, the Pakistan, in Somalia and in Yemen, on one level or another.

John Kerry, the most prominent representative of the awakening West, clarified several days ago in the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia that he sees the Arab media networks, Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera, as important partners in the battle against Islamic extremism. Is he serious?

Al-Jazeera is the main form of expression for spreading Islamic extremism. Why Yusuf Qaradawi, Sunni Islam's leading scholar in the current era, has a weekly one-hour program on the station. That same Qaradawi, who is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood movement, Hamas' clear supporter, clarified in the past that the Muslims should complete Hitler's job.

Qaradawi isn't settling for Jews. In the past, he permitted the killing of Americans in Iraq. The killers were the same jihad members who founded ISIS. So is Qaradawi part of the coalition? Has the American administration completely lost its wisdom?

One could claim of course that this is a difficult time for the free world, and that at such a time partners should not be scrutinized. This claim suffers from the exact same blindness which has been leading the West in the past few decades, and the results are known in advance.

In the past few decades, the West has been trying to appease the Muslim Brotherhood with the hopes that it would develop a moderate Islam. The result is thousands of recruits from Europe and the US joining the ranks of jihad.

In order to fight global jihad, the free world must free itself from the false consciousness. This is the same consciousness led by Obama when he ordered the removal of the phrase "Muslim terror" from the discourse. And he goes on.

Obama clarified recently that the Islamic State organization is not Muslim. Instead of waking up the hundreds of millions of Muslims, who are jihad's main victims, Obama continues telling them that there is no problem. It's not Islam at all. The Taliban is actually Buddhist, and Boko Haram is evangelical.

There is only one place where an attempt is being made, not always successfully, to combat that same radical Islam. But the free world is taking to the streets to turn Hamas into a liberation movement and Israel into an oppressing force.

As long as the free world refuses to understand that Hamas and Qaradawi are part of the problem rather than part of the solution, radical jihad will continue its victory campaign. We must pray that Obama and Kerry's coalition succeeds in doing something. The chances, we must admit, are very slim.

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The little horn's 6th smaller kingdom and 7th larger kingdom are both kingdoms of the beast ... one first, and the other next

Times of Israel
September 15, 2014

UN evacuates all troops from Golan as Syria fighting worsens.

Peacekeepers cross into Israel to get away from border-area battles between rebel groups and regime forces in what UN calls ‘deteriorating situation’

A UN spokesperson said all the troops posted on the Syrian side had been ordered to pull back into Israel.

The Syrian armed groups posed “a direct threat to the safety and security” of the troops from the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), said UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.

“All the UN personnel in these positions have thus been relocated to the Alpha side,” said Dujarric, referring to the Israeli side.

The UN spokesperson said that the situation on the Syrian side of the Golan “has deteriorated severely over the last several days” and that “armed groups have made advances in the area of UNDOF positions.”

A source with the UN said soldiers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force evacuated from Camp Faouar — their main headquarters in Syria — into Israel, out of concern for their safety, CNN reported.

The withdrawal came as rebels reportedly gained control of almost the entire Syrian border with Israel.

Earlier Monday, UN troops were seen bringing their gear over the border via special gates opened for them by the IDF, according to an Israel Radio report, and not through the rebel-controlled Quneitra crossing.

On Thursday, 45 Fijian peacekeepers previously held captive by an al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group were released in Syria’s Golan Heights.

Fighters from the Nusra Front group captured the Fijian troops late last month in the Golan Heights, where a 1,200-strong UN force had monitored the buffer zone between Syria and Israel.

It was unclear whether the Nusra Front received anything in exchange for the release of the Fijian troops.

In exchange for the Fijians’ release, Nusra Front had demanded removal of the group from the UN terrorist list, the delivery of humanitarian aid to parts of the Syrian capital of Damascus, and compensation for three of its fighters who, it claims, were killed in a shootout with UN officers.

The capture of the 45 came during heavy fighting between rebels groups and Syrian regulars around the Quneitra crossing, the sole transfer point between Israel and Syria. Dozens of other peacekeepers from the Philippines managed to escape the group during a firefight.

The Nusra Front has accused the UN of doing nothing to help the Syrian people since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011.

It said the Fijians were seized in retaliation for the UN’s ignoring “the daily shedding of the Muslims’ blood in Syria” and even colluding with Assad’s army “to facilitate its movement to strike the vulnerable Muslims” through a buffer zone in the Golan Heights.

Fighting from Syria again spilled over into Israel again on Monday morning as a mortar shell struck near the Israeli side of the Quneitra crossing in the Golan Heights, the army said.

There were no injuries or damage reported.

Artillery from Syria has landed frequently on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights for the past few weeks.

On Friday night, a mortar shell exploded on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights, in what authorities believe was errant fire from fighting across the border. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

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No need to respond .... I will not pay much attention to what you write ... if at all

Some dogs bark at the wind .... and some listen to it

If you know what I mean

The Times Of Israel, September 15, 2014

BAGHDAD (AP) — The extremist-held Iraqi city of Mosul is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been “permanently annulled.”

The Islamic State group has declared patriotic songs blasphemous and ordered that certain pictures be torn out of textbooks.

But instead of compliance, Iraq’s second largest city has — at least so far — responded to the Sunni fighters’ demands with silence. Although the extremists stipulated that the school year would begin September 9, pupils have uniformly not shown up for class, according to residents who spoke anonymously because of safety concerns. They said families were keeping their children home out of mixed feelings of fear, resistance and uncertainty.

“What’s important to us now is that the children continue receiving knowledge correctly, even if they lose a whole academic year and an official certification,” a Mosul resident who identified himself as Abu Hassan told The Associated Press, giving only his nickname for fear of reprisals. He and his wife have opted for home schooling, picking up the required readings at the local market.

ders disappeared. Pleas for more ammunition went unanswered. In some cases, soldiers stripped off their uniforms and ran.

The city would come to represent the expanding power and influence of the extremist group, which was born in Iraq but spread to Syria, where it grew exponentially in the chaos of the country’s civil war. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group’s reclusive leader, made his first video appearance in Mosul in July to announce his vision for a self-styled caliphate — an Islamic state — of which he would be the caliph, or leader.

Part of the Islamic State group’s core strategy is to establish administration over lands that it controls to project an image of itself as a ruler and not just a fighting force. In parts of Syria under its control, the group now administers courts, fixes roads and even polices traffic. It recently imposed a curriculum in schools in its Syrian stronghold, Raqqa, scrapping subjects such as philosophy and chemistry, and fine-tuning the sciences to fit with its ideology.

In Mosul, schools have been presented with a new set of rules, advertised in a two-page bulletin posted on mosques, in markets and on electricity poles. The statement, dated Sept. 5, cheered “good news of the establishment of the Islamic State Education Diwan by the caliph who seeks to eliminate ignorance, to spread religious sciences and to fight the decayed curriculum.”

People inspect the destroyed old Mosque of The Prophet Jirjis in central Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2014. The revered Muslim shrine was destroyed by extremists who overran the city in June and imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law (photo credit: AP)

People inspect the destroyed old Mosque of The Prophet Jirjis in central Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, July 27, 2014. The revered Muslim shrine was destroyed by extremists who overran the city in June and imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law

The new Mosul curriculum, allegedly issued by al-Baghdadi himself, stresses that any reference to the republics of Iraq or Syria must be replaced with “Islamic State.”

Pictures that violate its ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam will be ripped out of books. Anthems and lyrics that encourage love of country are now viewed as a show of “polytheism and blasphemy,” and are strictly banned.

The new curriculum even went so far as to explicitly ban Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution — although it was not previously taught in Iraqi schools.

Abu Hassan and his fellow residents acknowledge the risks involved in keeping the children at home, but say that protecting their minds is equally important. “They will brainwash them and contaminate their thoughts,” he said.

This past weekend, some families said that a new statement from the Islamic State group began circulating through the city, demanding that students show up for class on Tuesday. Others said they never received the notice.

Since the earliest days of the onslaught on Mosul, some residents who have remained have welcomed the insurgents wholeheartedly, while others have risked death to protect their city and assert their defiance.

In July, extremists threatened to blow up its most prominent landmark, the 840-year old Crooked Minaret that leans like Italy’s Tower of Pisa. Residents sat on the ground and linked arms to form a human chain, protecting the ancient structure from sharing the fate of more than half a dozen mosques and shrines flattened by the extremists who declared them dens of apostasy.

Even as foreign intervention, led by US airstrikes, begins to take form and make headway, the group’s tight grip on Mosul appears, for now, unrelenting, with many of the extremists burying themselves in heavily populated city centers.

It was unclear whether teachers and school administrators have also stayed home rather than show up for work.

In the Sept. 5 statement posted across Mosul, the “caliph,” al- Baghdadi, calls upon professionals in Iraq and abroad “to teach and serve the Muslims in order to improve the people of the Islamic state in the fields of all religious and other sciences.”

Gender-segregated schools are not new to Iraq, which legally prohibits co-ed classes beyond age 12, with some segregating from a much younger age. However, in Mosul, the new guidelines declared that teachers must also be segregated, with men teaching at boys’ schools, and women teaching girls.

The Education Ministry in Baghdad says it has virtually no contact with Mosul and other towns and cities in nearly one-third of the country ruled to some degree by the Islamic State group. “The situation in Mosul is so difficult because it is far too dangerous for us to know exactly what is happening,” said Salama al-Hassan, a spokeswoman for ministry.

Students also face hardships elsewhere across Iraq amid growing pressure to cater to more than 1.8 million people people displaced by the extremists’ advance. Nationwide, the school year has been delayed by a month, because many schools have been converted into makeshift shelters for displaced people from regions seized by the Islamic State group. In Baghdad alone, 76 schools are occupied by displaced Iraqis, al-Hassan said.

“All of this has a serious impact on the psychology of the students,” she added. “We want to approach this subject in a way that boosts the confidence and spirit of the students and helps them to understand what is happening in the country without instilling them with fear.”

For residents in Mosul and other areas now ruled by the extremists group, fear is unavoidable.

The education statement put out by the extremists in Mosul ends with a chilling reminder of its willingness to use brutal force. “This announcement is binding,” it concludes. “Anyone who acts against it will face punishment.”

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The Times of Israel, September 16, 2014

The UN commission investigating war crimes in Syria blamed President Bashar Assad’s government for committing the bulk of atrocities inside the war-torn country, exceeding the toll from the horrific massacres perpetrated by Islamic State fighters.

The head of the UN commission, Brazilian diplomat and scholar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, described the Islamic State extremist group and anti-government armed groups capturing the world’s attention as “agents of death and destruction,” but emphasized the government’s sieges and attacks in Syria’s civil war which has killed over 190,000 people and destabilized the region.

“The Syrian government remains responsible for the majority of the civilian casualties, killing and maiming scores of civilians daily, both from a distance using shelling and aerial bombardment and up close, at its checkpoints and in its interrogation rooms,” Pinheiro told the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

He lamented the regime’s “starvation or submission” strategy through drawn-out sieges and indiscriminate attacks.

Checkpoints meanwhile “are often the starting point of a horrific journey of disappearance, torture, sexual abuse and, for many, death,” he said, calling the barriers “a source of terror to the civilians they encircle.”

Pinheiro strssed that the Syrian government and mainstream opposition must seek compromise to end three and half years of bloody civil war and block the rise of murderous jihadists.

“The rise of (Islamic State fighters) has emphasized the need for the government and mainstream opposition to find common ground and to commit to making compromises,” he said.

‘We have charted the descent of the conflict into the madness where it now resides’
Presenting the commission’s latest report on the situation in the war-ravaged country to the UN Human Rights Council, Pinheiro said he had grown weary of standing before world diplomats and begging for action that never came.

“This inaction has allowed the warring parties to operate with impunity and nourished the violence that has consumed Syria,” he said.

“Its most recent beneficiary is ISIS,” the jihadist group calling itself Islamic State, Pinheiro added.

While the widespread abuses — including what rights organizations say amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity — carried out by Assad’s regime and opposition groups have not subsided, the parties and the international community should find common ground in ending the “terror” delivered by IS, he said.

In its report, the commission detailed a litany of horrors committed by Islamic State, the group that has declared an Islamic “caliphate” in an area spanning northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

Massacres, beheading boys as young as 15 and amputations and lashings in public squares as residents, including children, are forced to watch, figure on the list, as does the widespread use of child soldiers and stoning women to death for suspected adultery.

Referring to the group’s recent beheadings of two US journalists and a British aid worker, Pinheiro stressed that IS “has continued to subject scores of Syrians to the same fate in public squares in the north and east of the country.”

Outrage over the group’s actions spurred US President Barack Obama last week to order expanded airstrikes against the militant group in Iraq and threaten the same on the Syrian side of the border.

Pinheiro reiterated Tuesday the commission’s stance that the Syrian conflict “will not be resolved on the battlefield,” insisting dialogue was the only way forward.

“As military action on ISIS positions seems increasingly likely, we remind all parties that they must abide by the laws of war,” he said, demanding that “serious efforts must be made to preserve civilian life.”

Pinheiro also stressed that the jihadists were not “the sole agents of death and destruction” in Syria, where the UN says nearly 200,000 people have died since the conflict erupted in March 2011.

“I have run out of words to depict the gravity of the crimes committed inside Syria,” Pinheiro said.


My comment:

So now Obama and Kerry want Assad as a part of their "coalition" to fight against ISIL?

This is madness and totally unrealistic to even consider

The Us should stay out of the conflict and let the Muslims settle their own differences

If a winner emerges that then threatens the US, there will have to be much tougher measures taken to stave them off .... measures of extreme design

However, I would say ..... not going to happen that way, and this is a no win game for the west

If we are approaching the end of this present age, then one can find the story already written in the pages of the Bible prophets

A/P, Washington Post, September 16, 2014

WASHINGTON — Gen. Martin Dempsey, the military's top officer, told a Senate panel Tuesday he will recommend having U.S.advisers fight with Iraqi troops against the militant Islamic State group if the situation requires it.

"To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the president," said Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

U.S. advisers could be called on to get closer to the fight, Dempsey said, if Iraqi security forces undertake a complex operation such as retaking the city of Mosul.

The United States is at war the militant Islamic State group, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said, and the fight "will not be an easy or brief effort. It is complicated."

"We are at war with ISIL, as we are with al-Qaeda," Hagel said. "But destroying ISIL will require more than military efforts alone. It will require political progress in the region, and effective partners on the ground in Iraq and Syria."

Dempsey and Hagel appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to outline President Obama's plan to fight the Islamic State, which is also referred to as ISIL or ISIS.

Hagel said, if unchecked, the Islamic State "will directly threaten our homeland and our allies." However, U.S. intelligence agencies have not detected specific plots by IS against targets in the U.S., Hagel said.

The offensive, led by U.S. airstrikes, includes bolstering Iraqi security forces and training moderate Syrian opposition forces.

"The new, broader air campaign will include strikes against all ISIL targets and enable the Iraqi security forces – including Kurdish forces – to continue to stay on the offensive and recapture territory from ISIL and hold it," Hagel said.

Committee chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., branded IS's ideology "hostile not only to the region but to the world, and there is a real risk that the area it controls could become a launching pad for future terrorist attacks against the United States and its allies."

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking member of the committee, said Obama had downplayed the threat from IS to the U.S. homeland. The strategy is "fundamentally detached" from the dire situation, he said.

"It will take an army to beat an army," Inhofe said.

A key part of the Pentagon's $500 million plan would train, equip and resupply 5,400 fighters in Syria per year, Hagel said.

The equipment would initially include small arms, vehicles and other equipment, Hagel said. If the forces prove to be effective fighters, they will be provided increasingly sophisticated weaponry. The opposition forces would be carefully vetted before they receive training and weapons.

Sen. John McCain, R.-Ariz, pressed Hagel and Dempsey on the U.S. response if President Bashar Assad's air forces attacked moderate Syrian moderate forces. Hagel and Dempsey replied that it was premature to consider that.

McCain accused Dempsey of "fundamental misunderstanding" of the motivation of the Free Syrian Army to fight against the Syrian regime.

On Monday, the Pentagon launched the initial attack of the expanded air war that President Obama ordered last week. In that strike, a single IS fighting position was destroyed by a U.S. warplane.

The Pentagon has bolstered its own forces in Iraq in recent weeks. In all, there are about 1,600 U.S. personnel there. Obama ordered 475 of them last week, including advisers, a headquarters group and more troops to support spy plane missions.