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Russian air strikes slowed down over Syria by weather and maintenance

January 11, 2016

Russian air strikes slowed down over Syria by weather and maintenance, DEBKAfile, January 11, 2016

Air_Strike_Maps_1.16Russian air strike map in January 2016

Russian air raids over Syria were seen to have tapered off in the first 10 days of the New Year to their lowest level since the onset of Moscow’s major intervention in Syria in late September, intelligence sources report. The slowdown was not officially reported or explained. But our sources point to three likely causes:

1.  The Russian Air Force conducted an exceptionally intensive series of aerial strikes over northern and southern Syria in the course of December. This may have caused too many technical problems for the overtaxed ground crews to keep up with the necessary maintenance work.

2.  Winter conditions in the region are subject to extreme and rapid change, often swinging between snow storms and warm air currents in the space of a few hours. Russian air and ground crews alike are finding it hard to adjust to Middle East weather.

3.  The first days of January are Russia’s traditional holiday season. The Eastern churches celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7. Air crews may have decided to take a break from combat missions.

In case the slowdown was misinterpreted in the West, the Russian high command published a set of statistics Monday, Jan. 11 that painted a picture of intense activity.

In the first ten days of 2016, the Russian Air Force was said to have conducted 311 air strikes against 1097 targets.

The communiqué also noted that the first Syrian Air Force MidG-23 fighter plane was able to land at Hama air base. This central Syrian facility had been inactive for months because it was under rebel artillery fire and was now restored to full operation, thanks to Russian air bombardments of rebel forces.

From Hama, the Syrian army is now back in command of the Rte 5 highway linking Aleppo to Damascus, opening up for Syrian, Hizballah and pro-Iranian militia armies their only road link and supply route between central and northern Syria.

The recovery of Hama also provides a shield for defending Latakia, President Bashar Assad’s main power base.

Western intelligence experts estimate that the air strike statistics offered by Moscow are exaggerated. They tie the operation for the relief of the Hama air base with a project about to be launched by the Russian command from its base outside Latakia, namely, the transfer of Russian air force and special operations officers and forces teams to the Palmyra area, in readiness for an offensive to seize all the Syrian air facilities to the west of the town from ISIS control.

Western intelligence experts estimate that the air strike statistics offered by Moscow are exaggerated. They tie the operation for the relief of the Hama air base with a project about to be launched by the Russian command from its base outside Latakia, namely, the transfer of Russian air force and special operations officers and forces teams to the Palmyra area, in readiness for an offensive to seize all the Syrian air facilities to the west of the town from ISIS control.

Russian tacticians in Syria appear to be focusing now on pushing rebel and Islamic State forces out of all the airfields they have captured, in order to get the Syrian Air Force flying and bombing again, and so ease the burden on the Russian flight crews in Syria.

Clinton mulled secret plan to spark Palestinian unrest

January 11, 2016

Clinton mulled secret plan to spark Palestinian unrest, Israel National News, Gil Ronen, January 11, 2016

Hillary and IsraelHillary Clinton

Four years ago, then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created by her advisers to clandestinely foment unrest among Arabs in Judea and Samaria, in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table.

The revelation arises from emails released as part of the investigation into the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s private email server.

The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that in a December 18, 2011, email, former US ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering suggested that Clinton consider restarting peace negotiations by stirring up Palestinian demonstrations against Israel.

Pickering described the idea as a potential “game changer in the region.” Clinton reportedly asked that his email be printed.

“What will change the situation is a major effort to use non-violent protests and demonstrations to put peace back in the center of people’s aspirations as well as their thoughts, and use that to influence the political leadership,” Pickering wrote.

“This is far from a sure thing, but far, in my humble view, from hopeless,” he added, and suggested that the protests be led by women, because they are less likely to turn to violence.

“It must be all and only women. Why? On the Palestinian side the male culture is to use force,” Pickering wrote. “Palestinian men will not for long patiently demonstrate – they will be inclined over time and much too soon to be frustrated and use force. Their male culture comes close to requiring it.”

Pickering added that the US must keep its role in the demonstrations secret.

“Most of all the United States, in my view, cannot be seen to have stimulated, encouraged or be the power behind it for reasons you will understand better than anyone,” he wrote, suggesting that the government enlist leftist non-profit groups in Israel. “I believe third parties and a number (of) NGOs on both sides would help.”

Another Clinton confidant, Anne Marie Slaughter, sent an email to Clinton staffers recommending that they undertake a “Pledge for Palestine” campaign to convince US millionaires and billionaires to donate significant portions of their wealth to the Palestinian cause.

Slaughter wrote in the September 2010 email that the campaign would include “a certain shaming effect re Israelis, who would be building settlements in the face of a pledge for peace.”

As in other, previously leaked emails from Clinton’s server, the ideas discussed are largely broached by Clinton’s confidants, and she usually does not respond to them, either positively or negatively. However, the emails do appear to indicate the atmosphere that surrounds Clinton, and the way the people closest to her regard the Jewish state.

Germany Just Can’t Get It Right

January 11, 2016

Germany Just Can’t Get It Right, Gatestone InstituteDouglas Murray, January 11, 2016

♦ How can you explain why Germany, which in the 20th century had such a gigantic anti-Semitism problem, would import so many people from those areas of the world which now have the same gigantic anti-Semitism problem?

♦ The police water cannons were not in evidence on New Year’s Eve to break up the migrant gangs committing violent crimes against women. Instead they were used to break up a lawful demonstration of people opposed to such violent attacks on women.

The late Robert Conquest once laid out a set of three political rules, the last of which read, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.” This rule comes in handy when trying to understand the otherwise clearly insane and suicidal policies of Chancellor Merkel’s government in Germany. These policies only make sense if the German government has in fact been taken over by a cabal of people intent not on holding Germany together but on pulling it entirely apart. Consider the evidence.

There can be few other explanations for why Chancellor Merkel’s government last year let in more than one million people (about 1.5% of the current German population) without having any idea of who they were, where they came from or what they think. No democratic leader could possibly push through such a startling measure. How else can you explain why a country that in the 20th century had such a gigantic anti-Semitism problem, would import so many people from those areas of the world which, in the 21st century, now have the same gigantic anti-Semitism problem?

A document that was leaked late last year from the German intelligence service warned that the country is “importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples…” How to explain a government and security service policy which allowed this to happen? Or a Chancellor who, when asked a very lightly critical question about all of this by a concerned German citizen, responded with a long disquisition that failed to answer even one part of the pertinent point?

More up-to-date, it is worth considering events since New Year’s Eve. As the world now knows, that was when around 100 women were subjected to rape, harassment and sexual molestation by a huge crowd of migrants in the centre of the city of Cologne. It has now emerged that the first response of the Cologne police to this major incident was to hold back information about the identity of the attackers. Whether the police thought they could get away with that or not, this lie has now poured fuel onto the flames of public anger by demonstrating that the police, like the government and much of the media, are intent on misinforming the public about what is going on in their country, rather than keeping them truthfully briefed about it.

The next German police response to suggest that they, too, must have been taken over by a cabal of their enemies — intent on whipping up rather than dampening public concern — came a week after this attempted cover-up. At protests this past weekend, the Cologne police wheeled out water-cannons to hose down protestors and disperse them. Of course, these water cannons were not in evidence on New Year’s Eve to break up the migrant gangs committing violent crimes against German women. Instead, they were used to break up a lawful demonstration of German people opposed to such violent attacks on women. Unless you take Conquest’s rule into account, there is no explanation for the deployment of water-cannon by the German police against people protesting the rapes, rather than deploying them against the rapists.

Then there is the “too late” response. This is the declaration by officials, after the rapes have taken place and once the government realizes that it has to say something, that the German authorities will not tolerate and do not want people in their country who do not hold contemporary, enlightened European views on women. As at least 75% of the migrants who arrived in Europe last year were young men from the Middle East and Africa, it might be noted that this point could have been more constructive had it been made somewhat earlier. But, as those people are now here in such vast numbers, a government intent on causing as much societal damage as possible would, of course, allow them in and then complain about something that they will now be able to do nothing about. All such “hardball” pronouncements by German politicians can now be seen for the puff-balls they really are.

1360 (1)German Chancellor Angela Merkel doubled down on her open-door asylum policy in a November 13, 2015 television interview, saying: “The Chancellor has the situation under control. I have my vision. I will fight for it.” Mere insanity, incompetence or duplicity could not possibly explain the behaviour of a German government so obviously dedicated to its own pathetic end.

The conundrum for the rest of Europe now is what to do with the unwelcome knowledge of what is really going on. The realization that the most powerful and significant political and economic country in Europe has clearly been taken over by a cabal of its own enemies, intent on destroying the German nation rather than on protecting its citizens, will strike different Europeans in different ways.

From the British point of view, one striking opportunity to respond will be presented in the referendum over Britain’s membership (or not) in the European Union, slated to take place at some point next year. That Union – which has dissolved the continent’s external and internal borders as a central pillar of its policy — may now be seen by British voters for what it is. And so perhaps the best explanation of the behaviour of the German government is that it has been taken over some time ago by British Euro-sceptics, intent on finally bringing the EU to this dismal end. That is clearly the most likely explanation. Mere insanity, incompetence or duplicity could not possibly explain the behaviour of a German government so obviously dedicated to its own pathetic end.

Pakistan Cautiously Backs Saudi Arabia

January 11, 2016

Pakistan Cautiously Backs Saudi Arabia, Clarion Project, Elliot Friedland, January 11, 2016

(But please see also, Pakistan threatens to wipe Iran off the map if Saudi harmed. — DM)

Pakistan-air-force-display-640The Pakistani Air Force on display. (Photo: © Reuters)

Pakistan’s military has pledged to defend Saudi Arabia as tensions between the Sunni Gulf Kingdom and the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran soar.

“Any threat to Saudi Arabia’s territorial integrity would evoke a strong response from Pakistan” Pakistani army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif told reporters on Sunday, following a visit from Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed Salman.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif also confirmed his support for Saudi Arabia and made a statement welcoming Saudi Arabia’s anti-terrorist coalition initiative.

The Arab League has already backed Saudi Arabia in its spat with Iran, which was triggered by the execution of Shiite cleric SheikhNimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia and a subsequent attack against the Saudi Embassy in Tehran.

A joint statement by Arab League foreign ministers condemned “hostile acts and provocations of Iran.”

Sunni majority Pakistan has long been a close ally of Saudi Arabia. Many Pakistanis work in Saudi Arabia and send remittances back to their families. Saudi Arabia has also given money to Pakistan in the past to help ease budgetary crises.

Yet Pakistan also has a large Shiite population and has remained on mostly good terms with Iran until now. It is also currently engaged elsewhere. On January 11 it will begin hosting four power talks with the US, China and Afghanistan to try and strike a deal with the Taliban.

It is no wonder then that Pakistan offered it’s “good offices” to try and broker a peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

“Pakistan has also always expressed its readiness to offer its good offices to brotherly Muslim countries for resolution of their differences through peaceful dialogue and reconciliation,” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in a statement.

Pakistan does not want to become embroiled in an all-out sectarian war, but it also has obligations to back its ally Saudi Arabia.

Op-Ed: The hidden dangers in Obama’s final year

January 11, 2016

Op-Ed: The hidden dangers in Obama’s final year, Israel National News, Dr. Joe Tuzara, January 11, 2012

Barack Obama is entering a twilight of maybes, his presidency still driven by high ambitions but the power to achieve his warped radical ideology of systematically emasculating the United States is running out.  

Even as national security and the threat of terrorism have risen as the top concerns of the American public, our elected and appointed officials have developed a mindset that avoids reality.

Despite serious threats to our homeland, our increasingly feckless president gives more attention to ‘petty squabbles’ than to our nation’s security.

Obama has insidiously and deliberately caused much damage by his ‘destabilizing policies.’ His inaction and hesitation acts to embolden our enemies, endanger our allies, and undermine U.S. strategic interests anywhere in the world.

To an astonishing extent, Obama has shown that he abhors ‘American exceptionalism,’ despises traditional Judeo-Christian values and has displayed a foreign loyalty antithetical to America. He has consistently shown nothing but scorn for Israel, the U.S military, the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Is it because the God affirmed in the foundational documents is none other than the God of Israel?  Perhaps.

Either way, as should by now be apparent, America’s president is a determined enabler of America’s enemies, and an equally determined betrayer of her friends.

It must be said to those people who can’t face the truth about Obama: the first anti-Americanmost anti-Israel president in history is a pseudo-Christian and Islamic sympathizer with a Marxist agenda, who will not sit idly by without a vindictive adieu in his final year in power.

The antecedents of Obama’s hatred of America are now well understood: Obama is not transforming the nation but terminating it.

The more contrarian he becomes, and the more he opposes the wishes of the vast majority of the American people, all the more Obama envisions himself speaking truth to power and becoming iconic for something, while the reality is that he is becoming proof of nothing.

Heralding hidden dangers in a tumultuous election year, government insiders say Obama is preparing to go all out against the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Notwithstanding, Obama is doubling down to the “unfinished business” of his presidency– and maybe “planning a huge surprise for the 2016 election.”

Amidst widespread disenchantment with the Obama administration, the fear of a rigged electoral system is palpable. If history is any guide, there will be no wholesale revolution at the ballot box in 2016. But this year may well mark the beginning of the end for the era of government largesse.

Can you imagine the anarchy when Obama takes away your Medicaid, food stamps, free housing, and other federally funded benefits?

To ensure public order in a country threatened with anarchy, in addition to false flag Islamic State (ISIS) attacks on American soil, this can be a prelude to declaring martial law.

More than likely, Obama will use his final State of the Union address for another interracial melodrama, “meaningless” executive actions on ‘gun control,’ amnesty to another million illegal aliens, gay rights – and the release of thousands more felons, murderers, rapists and Al- Qaeda terrorists, as well as closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp the top issues of his final year.

But in truth, it is possible there will be mass shootings in America in 2016 – and, Obama will use that to make a last-ditch attempt to change his nation’s controversial gun laws.

According to Claude Arnold, retired special agent in charge for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Los Angeles bureau of Homeland Security Investigations, the student visa program’s many vulnerabilities raise spying and terror fears.

Recent attention has been focused on refugee programs and illegal border crossings but “the Achilles heel in America’s immigration system may be the program that invites 1.2 million foreigners into the U.S. each year,” Arnold said.

Iran, in particular, has sent scientists to the U.S., ostensibly to study weapons technology at America’s top schools, but really to gain knowledge to benefit Iran’s weapons program. Whether it is potentially ISIS, Al-Qaeda or Iran, he asks “Why are we allowing dangerous enemies into the country to learn technical skills to use against us?”

Another proposed new regulation, dramatically upping the annual inflow of foreign college-grads allowed to take jobs in the United States —reflects Obama’s preference for foreigners over Americans.

Many Americans still do not realize that this is one of the many reasons Obama continues pushing a well planned invasion, advancing jihad on U.S. campuses and enabling its plan to overthrow America and the West.

By allowing terrorists ‘sleeper cells’ to flood into the countries of Europe and America, we are being set up for our ultimate takedown of borders, language and culture.

Again, the lack of U.S. leadership will define 2016  and the Middle East will never be the same again.

From Europe, Africa and the Middle East to the island-building dispute in the South China Sea – increasing tensions, conflicts and crises will be the mainstay of Obama’s dangerous final year.

For the most part, the absurd Obama doctrine of ‘leading from behind’ promotes growing anti-Semitism, genocide against Christians and a global rise of terror.

Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the intervention in Syria, expansion of ISIS and the rise of newly energized Iran as a regional power on the verge of nuclear weapons represents a clear and present danger to Israel, America and our Arab allies in the most volatile and dangerous part of the world.

Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) acting director Michael Morell predicts that Afghanistan will reemerge as a pivotal foreign policy issue in 2016.

For this reason, Obama’s finale is shaping up to be a deliberately violent year where the Taliban has surged in Afghanistan and ISIS is moving in on its turf.

According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), homegrown terrorists seeking to carry out violent jihadi attacks continue to headline the most critical threats to U.S. security. Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen says, “There is every reason to expect that the threat of terrorism here in the U.S. will increase in 2016.”

While Obama lashed out at requests that more Christian refugees be brought into America, why does the world do almost nothing about ISIS persecution and genocide of Christians? Instead of stopping the slaughter of Christians, Obama, who ironically claims to be Christian, is doing nothing except blaming America while vastly expanding the influx of Muslim migrants.

Presidential wannabe Donald Trump warns Syrian refugees could be one of the biggest Trojan horse in history and the assembling of a potential 200,000 man terrorist army in America.

Now we know that Obama’s promised transparency and open government is a fraud: he has prosecuted more government whistleblowers than any other president — and the list is growing as he ramps up his war on dissent. The big revelations may still have to come – and by the end of his term we will understand that Obama’s plans, made in secret behind closed doors ,cannot be hidden forever.

It is a shame Obama has done much damage to America because the entire world believed his lies and deception about hope and change.

And last but not least, the Obama era will be remembered for its obnoxious lists of questionable accomplishments, as well as, the expanding global Islamic terrorism, chaos and confusion unprecedented in modern history.

The writer was clinical research-physician-general surgeon for Saudi Arabian, Philippine and American healthcare systems and is currently an American freelance writer as well as op-ed contributor. 

 

Jibril Rajoub to Israelis: You Sons of Bitches, We Will Accept Nothing Less than a Palestinian State

January 11, 2016

Jibril Rajoub to Israelis: You Sons of Bitches, We Will Accept Nothing Less than a Palestinian State, MEMRI-TV via You Tube, January 11, 2016

 

 

According to the blurb following the video,

At a ceremony marking the 51st anniversary of the establishment of Fatah, the movement’s Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub, former head of the Preventive Security force, addressed the Israelis, saying: “You sons of bitches, we will accept nothing less than a Palestinian state. We own this place, we are its people, while you are alien here.” Rajoub, who serves as the head of the Palestinian football association and the head of the Palestine Olympic committee, further said: “To this day, resistance has remained a genetic code among all Fatah members.” The ceremony, held at Burqin, near Jenin, was broadcast on the Palestinian Awdeh TV channel on January 6, 2016.

Iran’s President Promises “Year of Economic Boom”

January 11, 2016

Iran’s President Promises “Year of Economic Boom” Tasnim News Agency, January 11, 2016

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday vowed that the next Iranian calendar year (starts on March 21) would be a year of economic prosperity for the nation with the upcoming termination of anti-Tehran sanctions based on a nuclear deal with world powers.

Within a few days, the cruel sanctions against the Iranian nation would be lifted, Rouhani said, addressing a ceremony to inaugurate two new phases of the giant South Pars Gas Field in the southern Iranian city of Assaluyeh.

The president predicted positive economic growth for this year despite all the hardships, vowing that the next year will be a “Year of Economic Boom” given the lifting of anti-Iran sanctions.

He also referred to the inauguration of new phases of the gas field, and highlighted the fulfillment of his government’s promises in the fields of energy, oil, gas, and petrochemical industry.

In the next solar year of 1396, all phases of the South Pars Gas Field will be completed, he promised.

His remarks came one day after Iran and six world powers wrapped up expert-level talks in Geneva on Sunday after they studied the ways to put into practice the landmark deal on the country’s nuclear program.

During the two-day meeting, the two sides’ experts tried to finalize measures prior to the implementation of the deal, dubbed as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

“The countdown has begun for the implementation day and the removal of (anti-Iran) sanctions,” Foreign Ministry’s Director General for International and Political Affairs Hamid Baeedinejad said in a message shared on his Instagram page of the Iran nuclear deal.

Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany – also known as the P5+1 or E3+3) on July 14 reached a conclusion on a 159-page nuclear agreement that would terminate all sanctions imposed on Tehran over its nuclear energy program after coming into force.

Experts believe that Iran’s economic growth would rise remarkably after the deal takes effect.

Are Western Leaders Sellouts To Islam?

January 11, 2016

Are Western Leaders Sellouts To Islam? PamelaGeller.com, Nonie Darwish, January 10, 2016

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Is someone holding a gun to the heads of Western politicians, forcing them to state immediately after every Muslim terror attack that “Islam has nothing whatsoever to do with terror”? Who cares about whether Islam has or has not something to do with terror? The only people who care about Islam’s reputation are the so-called “moderate” Muslims who have been making excuses for jihad terror, and covering up for Islamic atrocities for centuries, while blaming Western foreign policy for their jihad.

As for all the jihadist groups themselves, they couldn’t care less about associating terrorism with Islam. In fact, jihadists have no problem with expressing pride in their terrorism, and love to see us disappointed and confused in our Western dilemma over what is or what is not Islam.

But now Western leaders are joining the ranks of “moderate” Muslims to cover up the real agenda of Islam. While their statements defending Islam are getting more and more outrageous and even sickening in the eyes of the informed Western citizen, they continue to mislead people as they blame Western thinking for not being tolerant enough.

It is not the job of Western leaders to defend Islam’s reputation from being connected with terror, especially if major Muslim institutions have consistently refused any condemnation of ISIS as un-Islamic. In fact, not one major Islamic university or leader in the Muslim world has condemned ISIS as un-Islamic. Usama bin Laden continues to be called Sheikh and held in high regard by many Muslims, even by the Arab media itself. The leaders of Al-Azhar University in Cairo keep telling the world over and over again that if Al-Azhar condemned ISIS, it would mean they are condemning themselves and their own teaching as un-Islamic.

So why do President Obama and the embarrassed moderate Muslims keep hammering us with defending Islam? The only explanation for this defense of Islam as having nothing to do with terror is that it is really not intended to please Muslims, as many might think. But in fact, it is intended to shame the uninformed American citizen into respecting Islam and capitulating to its agenda.

The head of the cheerleading team for Islam, President Obama, has inspired many other American politicians and world leaders to do the same thing, disciplining their own citizens to put up with Islamic tyranny to the point of insanity. In that process, Western leaders have no problem with using twisted logic, such as the idea that whatever negativity is done in the name of Allah must be tolerated because it has nothing to do with Islam.

The virus of this defective logic has penetrated the minds of almost all Western political leaders and the media, including the very people who are supposed to inform and protect us, such as the mayor of Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They are all echoing the same thing in order to silence their citizens into accepting the dawn of a new multicultural era in which lawlessness, rape, and terror are to be tolerated and excused, lest we speak ill of Islam.

Western leaders are acting like hostages of the Islamic State, and are seriously expecting the obedient Western citizens to believe them. Nothing seems to work to remind those leaders as to who they are actually working for. They are not only defending Islam, but are also covering up for it and minimizing its danger to Western freedom, stability and law and order.

Even the mainstream media seems unshaken by all that is going on, and is cooperating with the political leaders into the shaming the side that supports freedom and the truth.

Discontent and fear are now brewing among the average Western citizen, who feels defenseless and scared to death of the Islamic agenda, and of loosing life in an orderly society. But instead of getting the message, Western leaders are doubling down on their assault on their own citizens, in order to force them into respecting anything and everything Islamic and never ever criticizing it.

It is now obvious that the 9/11 terror attack has achieved its Islamic goal, and has worked wonders on the psyche of the West. Terrorism is an old Arabian trick and tool for submission, and has always achieved wonders for Muslims. Even Mohammed was quoted saying, “I have been made victorious through terror.” Now that most Western leaders have capitulated, and instead of fighting back against Islam’s declaration of war, they have chosen to fight their own citizens.

Who could have ever imagined that this would have happened a little over a decade after 9/11? That Islamic rape, terror and violence would be running wild daily all over Europe and America, and Sharia blasphemy laws which go against all Western constitutions are being illegally enforced on Western citizens.

The defense of Islam by Western leaders has become pathological and extremely offensive to the majority of Americans, especially families and friends of victims of terrorism. And thus the only logical explanation for it is that Western leaders are selling out to Islam.

The abuse of the Western citizen, not only by Islam, but also by Western political leaders and its mainstream media, must end, because this is a recipe for disaster and a guarantee of future violent confrontations between the forces of freedom and forces of dhimmitude to Islam.

AFDI Geller Fellow Nonie Darwish is the author “The Devil We Don’t Know” and president of “Former Muslims United,” a program of the American Freedom Defense Initiative.