Jerusalem News
Contents:
1. The Peace of Islam: Coming Soon to Your CityÂ
Pakistan Reels With Violence Against Shiites by Declan Walsh/The New York Times
2. Muslim Persecution of Christians: October, 2012
3. Hard Evidence Psychiatric Drugs Trigger Mass Shootings
4. Chemical Weapon Stockpile of Syria Endangered
5. 'Pollard sought intel on Arab countries, not US'
1. The Peace of Islam: Coming Soon to Your CityÂ
This is what they do to their own kind. What Chance would we have?
Pakistan Reels With Violence Against Shiites
Declan Walsh/The New York Times
By DECLAN WALSH
Published: December 3, 2012
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QUETTA, Pakistan - Calligraphers linger at the gates of an ancient graveyard in this brooding city in western Pakistan, charged with a macabre and increasingly in-demand task: inscribing the tombstones of the latest victims of the sectarian death squads that openly roam these streets.
For at least a year now, Sunni extremist gunmen have been methodically attacking members of the Hazara community, a Persian-speaking Shiite minority that emigrated here from Afghanistan more than a century ago. The killers strike with chilling abandon, apparently fearless of the law: shop owners are gunned down at their counters, students as they play cricket, pilgrims dragged from buses and executed on the roadside.
The bloodshed is part of a wider surge in sectarian violence across Pakistan in which at least 375 Shiites have died this year , the worst toll since the 1990s, human rights workers say. But as their graveyard fills, Hazaras say the mystery lies not in the identity of their attackers, who are well known, but in a simpler question: why the Pakistani state cannot , or will not , protect them.
The government, already battling Taliban insurgents, insists it is taking the threat seriously. During the recent Mourning of Muhurram, when Shiites parade through the streets over 10 days, the Interior Ministry imposed stringent security measures such as blocking cellphone signals for up to 12 hours,to try to prevent remote bomb detonations, and banning doubled-up motorcycle riding. Even so, Sunni bombers struck at least five times, killing at least 50 Shiites and wounding several hundred. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the biggest attacks, highlighting an emerging link between that group and traditional sectarian militants that has worried many.
In Quetta, his followers are similarly unfettered. In targeting the Hazara, who, with their distinctive Central Asian features, are easy to pick out, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants block busy highways as they search vehicles for Hazaras and daub walls with hate slogans. 'The face is the target,' said Major Nadir Ali, a senior Hazara leader and retired army officer. 'They see the face, then they shoot.'
In the worst killing this year, militants dragged 26 Hazara men from a bus headed for a religious pilgrimage site in Iran, and executed them in front of their wives. The episode occurred near Mastung.
Foreigners are no longer safe, either treated as Western spies by suspicious officials or abducted as part of a soaring trade in kidnapping. Last April the decapitated body of Khalil Dale, a British Red Cross doctor, was found near Quetta, three months after suspected militants abducted him for ransom.
With such a dizzy array of threats, it is perhaps unsurprising that the security forces have failed to stem sectarian violence. But many analysts see a more disturbing cause: a fatal ambivalence inside the police and military toward jihadi groups.
Regional politics also plays a role. Iran and Saudi Arabia financed rival Shiite and Sunni militant groups in the 1990s, as part of a proxy war for influence. Experts say that, while the Iranian financing has slowed dramatically, private Saudi funds continue to pour in.
In a State Department cable dated December 2009 and published by WikiLeaks, Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton noted that 'donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide.'
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2. Muslim Persecution of Christians: October, 2012
by Raymond Ibrahim
December 7, 2012
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Church Attacks
Egypt: A Muslim mob, consisting mostly of Salafis, surrounded St. George Church in the Beni Suef Governorate. Armed with batons, they assaulted Christians as they exited the church after Sunday mass; five were hospitalized with broken limbs.Â
Indonesia: ... two law enforcement agents who were investigating a recent attack on the Christian community were kidnapped; their murdered bodies were later found dumped near an "extremist Muslim" group's training ground. Because Poso has a large Christian presence, Muslim attacks are frequent, including the 2005 beheading of three Christian girls going to school... the province of Aceh is the only one "which is subject to Sharia. Compliance is ensured by the 'morality police,' a special force that punishes violations in dress and behaviour."
Iran: Security forces dismantled a network of four underground house churches and arrested seven Christians on a Sunday night. Iranian propaganda media described the churches as a "network of criminals" affiliated with "Zionist propaganda." Sunday's arrests are the latest in a wave of detentions in Shiraz. In the past few weeks, Iranian Intelligence Ministry agents in the city have arrested around 30 Christian converts and transferred them to detention centers. ...
Kazakhstan: Two Protestant churches were raided, according to members, under the ruse of a criminal case launched 15 months ago.
Kenya: A grenade was thrown into the Sunday school building of St. Polycarp Anglican Church; it blew off the roof, killing one boy and injuring eight other children who were attending Sunday school; some required surgery. ...
Nigeria: After a renewed spate of church attacks, thousands of Christians continue to flee northern areas of Nigeria, which are predominantly Muslim, and where the jihadi organization Boko Haram holds sway. An Islamic suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into St. Rita Catholic Church holding Sunday Mass; he killed eight people and wounded more than 100. ...
Syria: Two churches were attacked. One bomb was detonated near the historical gate of Bab Touma ("Thomas' Doorway") which is largely populated by the nation's Christian minority. The bomb exploded as people were going to their churches for Sunday Mass; up to 10 people were killed.
Tanzania: Muslim mobs burned several church buildings in various parts of the nation after an argument by two children concerning the supernatural powers of the Quran allegedly led a Christian boy to defile Islam's holy book: two church buildings were set ablaze, while the roof of another one was destroyed. On the island of Zanzibar, Muslim rioters also demolished a building belonging to the Evangelical Assemblies of God; and in Dar es Salaam, three more church buildings were set on fire and another destroyed. "We shall continue attacking the churches until they are no more in Tanzania" was echoed in several mosques in Tanzania," said one source.
Rape and Murder of Christians
Egypt: Ali Hussein, a Muslim gang leader accompanied with his two ex-coonvict brothers broke into the home of a Christian familly on a Sunday morning, demanding that Hiyam Zaki, a mother of two children, to "come and live with him." ... Because the family had refused his demands, the gang opened fire indiscriminately, killing one of her relatives and her father. ... Similarly, although the abduction and forced Islamization of Christian minor girls is common in Egypt, especially with the ascendancy of Muslim Brotherhood, the case of 14-year old Sarah, who was kidnapped on her way to school by the son of a Salafi leader, actually caused a stir....
Nigeria: Up to 30 Christian college students were shot or had their throats slit at a university in the Muslim-majority north. ...
Pakistan: A 14 year-old Christian girl, Timar Shahzadi, was kidnapped by Muslim men as she was returning from school.... And 24 year-old Shumaila Bibi, another Christian woman, was "seized at dawn, forced to endure sexual abuse and to marry the young Muslim man who abducted her with the help of his family" and forced the woman to convert to Islam.... Kidnapping and forcing girls to convert to Islam and/or be sex-slaves sold to wealthy Muslims is a common occurrence in Pakistan.
Sudan: .. "President Omar al-Bashir's forces have been targeting the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state, which has one of the largest Christian populations in Sudan, since June 2011. The Islamic regime is trying to 'cleanse' the region of non-Arabs and non-Muslims as Khartoum pushes forward its plans for a '100% Islamic"' constitution."
Syria: A Greek Orthodox priest, Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, was kidnapped by armed groups from among the opposition. Days later, his body, which was "horribly tortured and his eyes gouged out," was found dumped near the place he was abducted.
Dhimmitude
[General Abuse and Suppression of Non-Muslims as "Tolerated" Citizens]
Bosnia: According to a new report, Christians are leaving the Muslim majority nation in mass "amid mounting discrimination and Islamization." ...
Iran: Many reports more than usual, are appearing of Christian men and women, especially Evangelical Protestants and Muslim apostates, being "dragged to prisons".
Saudi Arabia: Despite promises to reform school textbooks, the Saudi education system continues to indoctrinate children with hatred and incitement, especially against Christians and Jews. ..
Turkey: A history textbook used in 10th grade classrooms portrays the nation's oldest most indigenous inhabitants, the Christian Assyrians, as traitors. Although objections were raised back in 2011 and the Turkish Ministry of Education eventually issued a statement promising to revise the texts in the next printing of the book in 2012, the books were reprinted without any changes. "In fact, the negative and slanderous portrayal of Assyrians has increased in the new edition. The book now not only portrays Assyrians as traitors in the past but says the Assyrians continue their betrayal of Turkey today."
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3. Hard Evidence Psychiatric Drugs Trigger Mass Shootings
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SSRI's: Turning People Into Monsters
[SSRIs are Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor i.e. anti-depressants.]
The massacre of 20 children and 7 adults at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT on Dec 14, 2012 has the nation and the world reeling in shock and horror.
It has revived the debate about gun control, but a growing chorus of voices that have been desperately trying to cut through the media censorship for over a decade document the real cause of these unfathomable events: Psychiatric drugs, especially SSRIs, serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, such as Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox and more.
In an estimated 5% of people taking these drugs, which are freely prescribed to children and adolescents, a condition known as "akasthisia," occurs. This is a build up of electrical impulses that causes the brain to disassociate, causing the victim to erupt in sudden, extreme violence, often: murder, mass murder, suicide, arson and more. Characteristics of SSRI violence include hallucinations, and amnesia so powerful that all memory of the event is absent, in those who survive.
This website documents over 4,800 cases of such extreme violence, including 66 school shootings, in which SSRI drugs, often more than one, had been prescribed.
www.ssristories.com (The list ends in 2010)
--Celia Farber
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4. Chemical Weapon Stockpile of Syria Endangered
18-Dec-12: Not Hollywood: the authentic doomsday scenario just across our border
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In case there was any doubt about this - from today's Al Arabiya
Syria's chemical arms match Israel's nuclear arsenal: defected general
The Syrian regime has a large arsenal of chemical weapons, which matches up to Israel's nuclear arsenal, the defected former head of Syria's chemical warfare program told Al Arabiya on Monday.
Major-General Adnan Sillu, who defected from the regime earlier this year, was party to top-levels talks about the use of chemical weapons on both rebel fighters and civilians.
He told Al Arabiya where the Syrian regime has stored its chemical weapons in specific cities across the war-torn country, highlighting chemical warehouses in the city of Homs and weapons stored also in scientific research center in Aleppo.
Sillu, who once led the army's chemical weapons training program, said in June that the main storage sites for mustard gas and nerve agents are supposed to be guarded by thousands of Syrian troops but that they would be easily overrun. “Probably anyone from the Free Syrian Army or any Islamic extremist group could take them over, he said.
Meanwhile Syria's UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari points to the real threat, saying:
"We have repeatedly stated publicly and through diplomatic channels that Syria will not under any circumstances use any chemical weapons that it may have, because it is defending its people from terrorists backed by well-known states, at the forefront of which is the United States of America.
If this were happening in your neighbourhood, what steps would you be taking?
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5. 'Pollard sought intel on Arab countries, not US'
By GIL HOFFMAN The Jerusalem Post 12/15/2012 22:58
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=296052
Extracts:
Jonathan Pollard delivered nuclear, military and technical information to
his handlers on Israel's Arab adversaries and their Soviet benefactors , not
on the United States , when he spied for Israel from June 1984 to November
1995, according to the newly declassified CIA 1987 damage assessment of the
Pollard case, published on Friday by the National Security Archive at George
Washington University.
The damage assessment includes new details on the specific subjects and
documents sought by Pollard's Israeli handlers, such as Syrian drones and
central communications, Egyptian missile programs and Soviet air defenses.
The Israelis asked for a signals intelligence manual that they needed to
listen in on Soviet advisers in Syria.
They wanted to know about Arab and Pakistani nuclear intelligence, Arab
chemical and biological weapons, Arab military readiness, and Soviet
aircraft, missiles and air defenses.
Under the heading 'What the Israelis Did Not Ask For,' the document said
Israel 'did not request or receive from Pollard intelligence concerning some
of the most sensitive US national security resources' and did not express
interest in US military activities, plans, capabilities or equipment.
The documents describe a dispute among Pollard's handlers, Rafi Eitan and
Yosef Yagur, in which Eitan asked Pollard for 'dirt' on senior Israeli
officials who were providing information to the US, but Yagur told him to
ignore the request and said that gathering such information would terminate
the operation.
Pollard's wife, Esther, said the documents proved that her husband should
not have to spend a second longer in prison.