US President Donald Trump raises his hands as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left background, listens during a press conference after a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 12, 2018. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)
BRUSSELS (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Thursday forecast an unspecified “escalation” between the United States and Iran following his withdrawal from a landmark deal that provided sanctions relief for Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.
Trump’s remarks came as his administration pressed European nations at a NATO summit to cut off all funding that Iran may use to foment instability in the Middle East and beyond.
Trump asserted that Iran was now treating the US with more respect, and predicted Tehran will seek negotiations as reimposed sanctions bite.
“I would say there might be an escalation between us and the Iranians,” Trump said at a news conference in Brussels.
“They’re treating us with much more respect right now than they did in the past and I know they’re having a lot of problems and their economy is collapsing. But I will tell you this, at a certain point, they’re going to call me and they’re going to say ‘Let’s make a deal,’ and we’ll make a deal.’ But they’re feeling a lot of pain right now,” he said.
Over the opposition of European allies, the president in May pulled out from the 2015 nuclear deal involving Iran, the US and other world powers. Washington’s reinstating of economic penalties has worsened Iran’s already-hobbled economy.
US President Donald Trump, right, listens to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during press conference after a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 12, 2018. (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)
After the NATO summit ended Thursday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with European officials to make the case for clamping down on Iranian “terrorism and proxy wars.”
“We ask our allies and partners to join our economic pressure campaign against Iran’s regime,” Pompeo said in a tweet before the talks.
“We must cut off all funding the regime uses to fund terrorism and proxy wars. There’s no telling when Iran may try to foment terrorism, violence & instability in one of our countries next.” The tweet was accompanied by a map accusing Iran of sponsoring at least 11 terrorist attacks in Europe since 1978.
In another post, Pompeo said “Iran continues to send weapons across the Middle East, in blatant violation of UN Security Council resolutions. Iran’s regime wants to start trouble wherever it can. It’s our responsibility to stop it.”
Other US officials have fanned out around the globe to warn foreign governments to stop buying oil from Iran or face sanctions. Pompeo also has accused Iran of using its embassies to plot terrorist attacks in Europe.
We ask our allies & partners to join our economic pressure campaign against #Iran’s regime. We must cut off all funding the regime uses to fund terrorism & proxy wars. There’s no telling when Iran may try to foment terrorism, violence & instability in one of our countries next. pic.twitter.com/XHxd3EPaBP
“Just this past week there were Iranians arrested in Europe who were preparing to conduct a terror plot in Paris, France. We have seen this malign behavior in Europe,” Pompeo said in an interview on Tuesday with Sky News Arabia in Abu Dhabi.
He was referring to the arrest of an Iranian diplomat posted to Vienna who allegedly was involved in the plot to bomb an Iranian opposition group rally in France on June 30. The envoy’s arrest in Germany came after a couple with Iranian roots was stopped in Belgium and authorities reported finding powerful explosives in their car.
Iran denies involvement and contends the allegations against its diplomat are intended to damage its relations with the European Union.
The diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, was charged in Germany on Wednesday with activity as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit murder.
He is suspected of contracting a couple in Belgium to attack an annual meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in Villepinte, near Paris, German prosecutors said. He allegedly gave the Antwerp-based couple a device containing 500 grams of the explosive TATP during a meeting in Luxembourg in late June, prosecutors said in a written statement.
Belgian authorities also accuse Assadi of being part of the alleged plot reportedly aimed at setting off explosives at a huge annual rally of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq group, or MEK, in neighboring France. They want him extradited.
The MEK is an exiled Iranian opposition group based near Paris with some members in Albania. The formerly armed group was removed from EU and US terrorism lists several years ago after denouncing violence and getting Western politicians to lobby on its behalf.
Elbit Systems commences global marketing of the HermesTM 900 StarLiner, a powerful and trend setting Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) that features adverse weather capabilities and is fully compliant with NATO’s Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 4671, qualifying it to be safely integrated into civilian airspace and fly in the same environment with manned aircraft. Concluding an extensive year-long flying schedule, the Hermes 900 StarLiner has been performing Civil Aviation Authority certified flights in Masada National Park, Israel.
A series of the Hermes 900 StarLiner (known as Hermes 900 HFE in the Swiss program) is currently being assembled for the Swiss Armed Forces and is scheduled to be delivered and integrated into Switzerland NAS during 2019.
Security events, such as the dismantling of ISIS and diverse geo-political tensions, have caused European countries to re-orient defense efforts from involvement in far-away conflicts to coping with intensifying homeland and border security challenges.
This shift has resulted in a growing demand for advanced yet mature UAS that can be safely integrated into civilian airspace and provide the technological capabilities that are required to effectively and safely perform complex homeland and border security missions. Drawing on the legacy of the widely operational Hermes 900 and Hermes 450 and their proven technologies, Elbit Systems has conducted an extensive multi-year R&D effort focusing on producing a mature UAS that complies with civilian airspace regulations and can be safely integrated into European NAS.
Meeting the strict safety and certification requirements of non-segregated airspace regulations required all the components of Hermes 900 StarLiner to be designed in full compliance with STANAG 4671 and to incorporate the most advanced aviation technologies, including: cooperative and non-cooperative Detect & Avoid Systems, Train Avoidance Warning System, Automatic Take-off and Landing in near zero visibility, redundant broad bandwidth line-of-sight (LOS) and beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) data link and adverse weather capabilities such as de-icing and direct lightning strike sustainment. These technological enhancements allow the aircraft to operate in both visual and instrument meteorological conditions, and its powerful heavy fuel engine provides improved climb rate, extended endurance and higher ceiling and maximum speed.
Elad Aharonson, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Elbit Systems ISTAR Division, commented: “Anticipating the rising security need for operating unmanned aircraft in the same environment with civilian manned aircraft enabled us to achieve this breakthrough. We are committed to maintain our approach of technological innovation based on an extensive operational experience and provide our customers with advanced yet mature systems that enhance effectiveness and safety when coping with the evolving national security needs”.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with US President Donald Trump at the Oval Office . (photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO)
Israel is completely coordinated with the US regarding the situation in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters on Thursday, hours after US Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted that Israel should be “very careful making agreements with Russia re Syria that affect US interests.”
To our friends in Israel – be very careful making agreements with Russia re Syria that affect U.S. interests.
I don’t trust Russia to police Iran or anyone else in Syria. U.S. must maintain presence in Syria to ensure ISIS doesn’t come back and to counter Russia/Iran influence. — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 11, 2018
Graham is one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in the senate. Netanyahu, in his comments, chose to highlight the second part of Graham’s tweet, which was that he does not trust “Russia to police Iran or anyone else in Syria.”
The US, Graham said, must “maintain presence in Syria to ensure ISIS doesn’t come back and to counter Russia/Iran influence.”
Asked about US President Donald Trump’s comments a few months ago that he wanted to withdraw US troops from Syria, Netanyahu said in response that he heard US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo say recently that the US troops should remain in Syria until Iran exits.
While repeating that Israel’s demand was for Iran to leave Syria, he said that there were three immediate priorities: that Iranian and Hezbollah forces be distanced from the border with Israel, that the Iranian long range missiles in Syria be removed, and that people are not “slaughtered” in the buffer zone with Israel.
Netanyahu said Israel has attacked Islamic State “all over the world.”
Netanyahu said that the Russians have distanced Iran dozens of kilometers from the border, and that there has only been some isolated cases of Iranian or Shia militias coming back to the border disguised as Syrian President Bashar Assad forces.
Regarding other issues, Netanyahu – asked if the country was on the cusp on few elections – said that he hoped that they would be held close to their scheduled time, but that the matter was not only in his hand, a reference to Agudat Yisrael threat to leave the coalition over the haredi enlistment law.
At the end of the briefing, when no one had asked about the investigations, Netanyahu himself brought up the issue. “Isn’t anyone going to ask about the investigations.”
“It is nothing,” he said, answering his own question, and changing his standard mantra of “there will be nothing , because there is nothing.”
“It is nothing,: he said. “With a capital ‘N.’” The prime minister revealed that he has a busy travelling month in August, that will likely include a meeting with the leaders of the Balkan countries in Croatia, a meeting with the leaders of the Baltic states, and a likely trip to Colombia for the inaguration of the new presdient there — an event that will be attended by many Latin American leaders.
No. The declaration of war comes when the “Palestinians” murder Israeli civilians who are peacefully gathering for Shabbat dinner. The declaration of war comes when “Palestinians” pass out candy on the street to celebrate the brutal murders of Israeli civilians. The declaration of war comes from “Palestinians” paint swastikas on kites and place molotov cocktails on them, and send them over the Israeli border. The declaration of war comes when “Palestinian” TV routinely carries incitement to hatred and genocide of the Jews. Neither the Australians nor anyone else should be funding any of this.
“Palestinians: Australian Decision to Withhold Funds ‘Declaration of War,’” by Chris Mitchell, CBN, July 6, 2018:
JERUSALEM, Israel – The Palestinian Authority accused Australia of making a declaration of war following its decision to withhold financial aid to the PA if it continues to reward terrorists and their families. It’s one more nation pressuring the PA to stop a policy many call “pay to slay.”
The controversial policy provides money to convicted Palestinian terrorists and their families for attacks on Israelis. The payments coming from this fund add up to more than $330 million each year.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop objected to the policy saying, “I am concerned that in providing funds for this aspect of the PA’s operation, there is an opportunity for it to use its own budget to [fund] activities that Australia would never support.”
Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi called Bishop’s statement “extremely insulting.”
“Australia now is just doing the bidding of the US unfortunately and Julie Bishop’s statement is extremely insulting and it shows the utmost ignorance of the realities of Palestinians living under a cruel and brutal and illegal Israeli occupation,” she said.
Australia’s decision follows America’s lead in passing the Taylor Force Act that also withholds aid until the PA ends the terror payments. Congress named the law after Taylor Force, an American citizen killed in a 2016 terror attack in Israel….
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are renewing a years-long push to designate the international Muslim Brotherhood organization as a terrorist organization due to its support for terror organizations that threaten U.S. security interests across the globe, according to conversations with U.S. officials spearheading the effort.
The congressional effort to target the Muslim Brotherhood will kick off early Wednesday, when lawmakers on the House’s Subcommittee on National Security gather for a hearing to “examine the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates pose to the United States and its interests and how to most effectively counter it, including potential next steps for U.S. policy,” according to the committee.
The hearing is expected to set the stage for Congress to follow through on efforts that begun in 2015 to convince the Obama administration to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror group following its violent, and eventually failed, takeover in Egypt.
The State Department has opposed formal designation of the Brotherhood for some time due to efforts by the Obama administration to make diplomatic overtures to the group, particularly during its coup in Egypt. Although the Trump administration has designated various offshoots of the Brotherhood as global terror groups, the organization as a whole has escaped U.S. scrutiny.
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), the National Security Subcommittee’s chair, told the Washington Free Beacon that U.S. policy has failed to address the Brotherhood’s radical behavior and support for terror groups. Multiple countries, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, have already designated the Brotherhood as a terror group.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a malevolent force, and American policy needs to reflect this truth,” DeSantis told the Free Beacon. “Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization is overdue.”
Key U.S. allies such as Turkey and Qatar continue to work alongside the Muslim Brotherhood, sparking concern among lawmakers such as DeSantis who view these countries as working at a crossroads with the Trump administration as it works to eradicate radical forces in the Middle East.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Islamist organization that has generated a network of affiliates in over 70 countries,” the House committee notes on its website promoting the upcoming hearing.
In addition to hearing from Muslim Brotherhood experts on the group’s ongoing support for radical terror groups, lawmakers participating in the hearing will keep a close eye on exposing the roles that both Qatar and Turkey play in bolstering the group’s radical ideology, according to those briefed on the hearing.
While the Trump administration, as early as January 2017, indicated that it was considering a terror designation for the entire Muslim Brotherhood, little action has been taken, motivating Congress to lead the charge.
Past efforts to designate the Muslim Brotherhood failed to gain traction during the Obama administration due to its explicit policy of working with the group in Egypt, a policy that was met with much protest in the region.
U.S. Muslim advocacy organizations such as the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, have galvanized their supporters to oppose a Muslim Brotherhood designation.
In early 2017, groups affiliated with CAIR and its supporters launched a series of attacks on Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), who, at the time, was pushing his own effort to formally designate the Brotherhood as a terror entity.
The Muslim religious leader of Jerusalem has issued a decree banning the sale of property to Jews, or “enemies,” as he referred to them.
The Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, on Tuesday issued a fatwa, an Islamic religious decree, banning Muslims from “facilitating the transfer of ownership of any part of Jerusalem or the land of Palestine to the enemies,” TheJerusalem Post reported.
The fatwa, according to Palestinian sources quoted in the report, came in response to a proposed Israeli bill that eases the purchase of land by Jews in Area C of Judea and Samaria, which is under full Israeli sovereignty, as stipulated by the Oslo Accords.
The fatwa decreed that the “land of Palestine” was Waqf, an absolute religious endowment in Islamic law, and therefore cannot be sold in any way to non-Muslims.
“Anyone who sells his land to the enemies or accepts compensation for it will commit a sin,” said Hussein in his fatwa.
He also warned that anyone who violates the fatwa will be considered an infidel, an apostate and a traitor to God, Islam and his homeland, the report said.
The fatwa additionally demands that Muslims boycott anyone who violates the ruling and should therefore refuse to do business with the transgressors, marry them, attend their funerals or bury them in Muslim cemeteries.
Palestinian law also prohibits Palestinians from selling land to “any man or judicial body corporation of Israeli citizenship, living in Israel or acting on its behalf.”
Land sales to Israelis are considered treason by the Palestinians because they supposedly threaten the founding of a future state.
Palestinians who sell land to Israelis can be sentenced to death.
And people still believe Israel is a pariah state?
‘Give me an atom bomb and I’ll wipe Holland off the face of the earth,’ vows leader of Pakistani Islamist group in response to Prophet Muhammad cartoon competition
Khadim Hussain Rizvi issued the warning at an event in Pakistan last week
Rizvi is the leader of the hardline Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan political party
His comments were in response to a cartoon competition to be held this year
Anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders announced the contest last month
The leader of a Pakistani Islamist group vowed to ‘wipe Holland off the face of the earth’ with a nuclear attack in response to a Prophet Muhammad cartoon competition being held in the country.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the leader of Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), issued the warning at an event organised by the Karachi Press Club last week.
‘If they give me the atom bomb, I would remove Holland from the face of the earth before they can hold a competition of caricatures,’ he said, according to the Times of India.
‘I will wipe them off the face of this earth.’
Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the leader of the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), vowed to ‘wipe Holland off the face of the earth’ with a nuclear attack
He was referencing a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad announced by The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders last month.
The party said the plan to hold the competition in the party’s secure offices in Dutch Parliament had been approved by the Dutch Counter-terrorism Agency NCTV.
Wilders’ Freedom Party is the leading opposition party in parliament after coming in second place in elections last March
He has called for the Koran to be banned, and says Islam is a totalitarian faith.
‘Freedom of speech is threatened, especially for Islam critics,’ Wilders said in a statement.
‘We should never accept that. Freedom of speech is our most important freedom.’
The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders (pictured) announced the competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in June
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The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders (pictured) announced the competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in June
American cartoonist Bosch Fawstin, winner of a similar contest in Garland, Texas, in May 2015, has been asked to judge the Dutch contest, which will be held later this year.
Earlier in 2015, Islamist gunmen killed 12 people at the Paris offices of the French secularist satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had printed cartoons of the Prophet.
In 2005, the publication in a Danish newspaper of a dozen cartoons depicting the Prophet led to violent protests across the Muslim world.
Meanwhile, the TLP is a political party known for its vehement opposition to changes in Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
Last November, more than 2,000 TLP members staged a three-week long sit in at Faizabad – the intersection of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi – protesting a small change to the oath taken by parliamentary candidates.
It would have seen them say ‘I believe’ instead of ‘I solemnly swear’ that Prophet Muhammad is the final prophet.
The government ultimately rolled back the change in the Election Act, claiming it had been a clerical error.
Israel is a miracle. The little engine that could.
Israeli spacecraft aims for historic moon landing… within months
SpaceIL’s unmanned probe will blast off before year’s end; touchdown scheduled for February 13, 2019, when it will unfurl national flag, conduct experiments
Israeli billionaire and investor Morris Kahn (L) speaks to journalists in front of a Israeli Aerospace Industries spacecraft during a press conference to announce its launch to the moon, in Yehud, near Tel Aviv, on July 10, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
Save the date. On February 13, 2019, an Israeli-built unmanned spacecraft is expected to land on the moon, having blasted off from Earth two months earlier, project managers said at a news conference Tuesday.
If all goes well, the SpaceIL spider-like craft will give Israel entry into the exclusive club of just three nations that have so far achieved a controlled landing on the moon’s surface.
The probe will be launched sometime in December from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, officials said during the media event, held at an Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) space technology site in Yehud. It is scheduled to land on February 13, 2019.
The project, begun seven years ago as part of a Google technology contest to land a small probe on the moon, was conducted together with IAI.
SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) hope to have their spacecraft land on the Moon on Feb. 13, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon)
“We will put the Israeli flag on the moon,” said Ido Anteby, CEO of SpaceIL.
“As soon as the spacecraft reaches the landing point it will be completely autonomous,” Anteby said. “The motor will brake the craft and it will reach the ground at zero speed for a soft landing.”
An artist’s rendering of Israel’s SpaceIL lunar spacecraft. (Screen capture/Google Lunar XPRIZE)
“In the first stage the Israeli flag will be put on the moon,” he said. “During the landing the craft will photograph the landing area with stills and video and even record itself.”
Screen capture from video of a press conference displaying the SpaceIL moon craft, July 10, 2018. (Facebook)
The spacecraft will carry out a Weizmann Institute of Science experiment to measure the moon’s magnetic field, finishing its mission within two days.
SpaceIL’s vehicle is just two meters in diameter and 1.5 meters tall standing on its four legs. It weighs 600 kilograms, making it the smallest craft to touchdown on the moon.
Journalists prepare to attend a press conference by Israeli Aerospace Industries’ space division to announce the launch of a spacecraft to the moon, July 10, 2019 (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
Israeli billionaire philanthropist and SpaceIL President Morris Kahn, who donated some $27 million to the project, told a gathering of journalists: “We are making history.”
The idea, he said, is to inspire youth in Israel to take up science studies and to have the impact the Apollo lunar mission had in 1969, when astronauts landed on the moon, with people remembering forever where they were on that day.
“This is a tremendous project,” Khan said. “When the rocket is launched into space, we will all remember where we were when Israel landed on the moon.”
SpaceIL’s President Morris Kahn donated some $27 million to a project that aims to put Israel’s first spacecraft onto the moon; July 10, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
The Israeli government has promised to fund 10% of the project, he said, but the money still has to come. “The government should recognize that space is very important for the future,” he said.
“This is national history,” said IAI director Yossi Weiss. “The path to the moon is not easy. It is a very complicated route.”
“The cooperation between SpaceIL and IAI is an example of the amazing abilities that can be reached in civil space activities — activities that combine education, technology, industry, knowledge and a lot of initiative.”
The SpaceIL moon landing craft. (SpaceIL)
Whereas other previous moonshot spacecraft have taken just days to reach their target, SpaceIL will be fired into an elliptical orbit to gradually bring it closer to the moon, a journey that will take two months but will save on carrying the fuel needed for a quicker passage.
Even so, the craft will travel at a speed that is 13 times faster than the maximal speed of an F-15 fighter jet, steering itself to the moon, which is some 384,000 kilometers (239,000 miles) from Earth, about 10 times the distance between Earth and communication satellites orbiting it. Through its elliptical journey, the Israeli spacecraft will cover some 9 million kilometers, the project managers said.
The Falcon 9 launch rocket’s primary load will be a much a larger communications satellite.
The craft itself — the very same one that will land on the moon — was displayed in a so-called “clean room” on site. Journalists and visitors had to don white robes and hats and cover their shoes before accessing the space. Shiny gold insulating paper covered its spiderlike legs. The gold paper will cover the whole of the craft once it is finally ready, the creators said.
The Israeli spacecraft that is scheduled to land on the Moon in Feb. 2019, was displayed at (IAI)’s MBT Space facility in Yehud. The craft was developed in Israel and is a joint project with SpaceIL (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
The spacecraft’s design and development is all Israeli, the organizers explained.
The fuel is contained in balloon-like devices within the lightweight metal frame of the craft, with one engine at its center, and smaller engines on the side. The craft is equipped with solar panels, avionics, electronics and a control system – all of which were developed in Israel. It is also equipped with cameras and communication equipment so it can continuously be in touch with its operators on Earth.
The project is making “the moon reachable, which it never was before,” said IAI’s Weiss at the event. “Going to the moon was a hugely expensive government-run mission. And this is going to be the first privately run mission to the moon.”
This is the first time an enterprise, not a country, has gone to the moon at a reasonable cost, and it is “going to show the way for the rest of the world on how space is much more than just satellites.”
Humanity is looking for ways to make it easier to get to the moon and other planets, he said, and this mission paves the way for that.
In the coming months the spacecraft will undergo a series of intensive checks and tests at IAI, including with the use of simulators, to prove that it will withstand the launch, flight and landing conditions, said SpaceIL’s Anteby at the event. In November the spacecraft will be sent to Cape Canaveral to ready it for the launch in December.
SpaceIL began in 2011 when engineers Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari and Yonatan Winetraub decided to compete in the Google Lunar XPRIZE, an international contest with a $20 million prize for the first privately funded team that puts a small, mobile craft on the moon.
The Israeli spacecraft that is scheduled to land on the Moon in Feb. 2019, was displayed at (IAI)’s MBT Space facility in Yehud. The craft was developed in Israel and is a joint project with SpaceIL (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
Although the Google contest was eventually scrapped in March 2018 after none of the teams managed to launch their probes before the deadline, the SpaceIL group kept going with its project, gaining funding from various donors including Kahn and the Adelson family.
In total the project has cost some $95 million.
Only three countries have made soft landings of craft on the moon — Russia, the US, and China. The Russians were first in February 1966 with their Luna 9 probe followed by the US in June the same year with Surveyor 1, and then the Chinese with the Chang’e 3 craft in 2013. Other countries have succeeded in crashing scientific probes into the surface.
Only the US has landed people on the moon, with the first human steps on the surface taken by Neil Armstrong on July 21, 1969, when he famously declared, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
After the ruling class, the highest respect and wealth is given to the jihadist class or military leadership class. Otherwise, the jihadist or military class might turn against the leadership and Islamic system itself. That is one reason why the highest pensions in most Muslim countries, as in Gaza and the West Bank, go to widows, parents and children of jihadists and military retirees.
“We [the Muslim world], don’t work and if we work, we don’t do it professionally. We do not produce . . . and we import everything from the needle to missiles… Muhammad ordered us to excel in everything ‘if you kill, do it properly, and if you slaughter, do it properly…’ How come the Zionist gang has managed to be superior to us? They have become superior through knowledge and technology and work ethics.” — Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.
Today, as Muslims are escaping their vast, poverty-stricken Islamic territories in 54 Islamic nations for the greener lands of Europe and America, Westerners seem to think they are rescuing refugees. Many times they are, but other times this is just the latest version of a story that has been repeating itself for 1,400 years.
Recently, the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, dismissed President Trump as just a “tradesman” who lacked the qualifications to handle political and international affairs. At face value, the criticism might sound similar to that of an opposition party alleging that Trump lacks political experience. Coming from an Islamic leader, however, it reflects a much deeper meaning: on how differently the Islamic culture views the work ethic and the means of acquiring wealth.
Although there are many Muslims who work tirelessly and are immensely successful, Islamic culture in general has little respect for manual labor and even for business owners. People who engage in legitimate “trade” for a living are often viewed with scorn or as “having” to labor for a living.
Historically, Islamic society has given the highest respect and wealth not to the innovators or hardest workers; rather, is usually been bestowed on the ruling class, their families and associates. After the ruling class, the highest respect and wealth is given to the jihadist class, or military leadership class.
According to the Koran and the example of Muhammad, the spoils of war (acquired wealth through jihad) is to be given to the jihadists. Jihadists need to be kept busy against the outside world at all times to expand or maintain the power of Islam. Otherwise, the jihadist or military class might turn against the leadership and Islamic system itself. Congress recently pulled more than $300 million a year from the Palestinian Authority that the US was paying in a “pay to slay” arrangement that incentivized murder — a “jobs program”.
Muhammad rewarded Muslim fighters who died with Paradise; these are the only people guaranteed admittance. Those who survived jihad were given wealth:
“Allah guarantees that He will admit the ‘mujahid’ in His cause into Paradise if he is killed, otherwise He will return him to his home safety with rewards and war booty” (Bukhari 4:52:46).
The example of Muhammad and his Muslim fighters rests in stark contrast to the example of the pre-Islamized Meccan merchants who rejected Muhammad, and to the Jews who lived in Medina, who engaged in trade and earned their living from hard labor.
The contrast between the lifestyle of Muhammad and his fighters and that of the Jewish tribes probably alarmed the Jews — with good reason. Muhammad’s eyes were set on taking the power, wealth and control from the Jews and from the Arab leaders of Mecca — and he succeeded.
“Spoils of war” — also the name of a chapter in the Koran, Al-Anfāl, mostly about the Badr war — became the lure used to attract more and more fighters to the side of Islam against wealthy Jews and the merchants of Mecca.
Spoils of war or booty, or taking the wealth of Muhammad’s enemies after killing them became a big business. Anyone who was caught stealing booty was punished by Muhammad gave his fighters four-fifths of the spoils and one fifth was given to Muhammad and Allah. Anyone caught stealing booty was punished by Muhammad
Capturing wealth from others, rather than creating wealth, became an Islamic value, established as an honorable and holy legal right of Muslims. As Muhammad said in the hadith, “Booty has been made legal for me” (Bukhari 53:351).
This has been, in general, the Muslim economic model, set by the example of Muhammad, for building wealth. The most prestigious and privileged position in society for any Muslim man is the position of the jihadist. Islam became an ever-expanding machine of conquest that could not stop — or else it would run out of money. It took as the spoils of conquest the wealth of many great civilizations including Persia, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Coptic Christian Egypt, and the Biblical lands in and around Jerusalem — demonstrating why manual labor and those who work in both farming and trade are looked down upon in Muslim culture as not putting jihad as number one to earn a living.
Today, as Muslims are escaping their vast, poverty-stricken Islamic territories in 54 Islamic nations for the greener lands of Europe and America, Westerners seem to think they are rescuing refugees. Many times they are, but other times this is just the latest version of a story that has been repeating itself for 1,400 years.
Muslim clerics today are still advocating jihad for the acquisition of wealth. For example, the prominent Egyptian Sheikh, Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni, is still lecturing at Al Azhar University on how Muslims’ financial difficulties are due to the fact that they have abandoned jihad and the wealth and slaves that could be acquired from it.
At least one Muslim leader — the Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — has noticed the lack of a work ethic in Islamic society. He tried to recommend a solution to the lack of a work ethic in Muslim society, but he could not find one quote in the Quran regarding the subject except in doing jihad well. Referring to the Muslim world, he said: “We don’t work and if we work, we don’t do it professionally. We do not produce… and we import everything from the needle to missiles.” He gave the only Islamic reference he could find regarding proper work ethic:
“Muhammad ordered us to excel in everything ‘if you kill, do it properly, and if you slaughter, do it properly…’ How come the Zionist gang has managed to be superior to us? They have become superior through knowledge and technology and work ethics.”
The lack of a proper work ethic in Islamic culture is possibly a large cause behind the refugee movement and helps to explain why Muslims’ eyes are always focused on the outside, non-Muslim world, the greener pastures, for more and more to conquer or expand into.
Islam’s long history of wealth creation through acquisition continues today. In 2013, the British Muslim cleric, Anjem Choudary, who was sentenced prison for “urging support” for ISIS, called it a “Jihadi allowance,” as if it were, or should be, an entitlement. By the age of 45, and with four children, Choudary said that according to Islamic law, this is the way it is supposed to work.
Reported by both the U.K. Sun and Telegraph, Choudary said:
“We are on Jihad Seekers Allowance, we take the Jizya [protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims] which is ours anyway.”
“The normal situation is to take money from the [non-Muslims] isn’t it? So this is the normal situation.”
“They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money. Hopefully there is no one from the DSS [Department of Social Security] listening.”
“Ah, but you see people will say you are not working. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar [non-believers]. So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”
Only the West, still in denial, seems to have trouble believing it.
British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, who was sentenced prison for “urging support” for ISIS, called unemployment and welfare benefits for Muslims a “Jihadi allowance,” as if it were, or should be, an entitlement. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Nonie Darwish, born and raised in Egypt, is author of “Wholly Different; Why I Chose Biblical Values Over Islamic Values”.
The famous Israeli undercover journalist Zvi Yehezkeli slips for his reports to other identities. The Arabian powerful, allowing him deep insight into the Muslim world. For his five-part series “wrong identities” he was touring Germany. he meets German extremism experts, government employees and Muslims under the title “The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany and Turkey”. They all confirm that Islam had already deeply taken root in Germany – The Muslim Brotherhood should be even in the highest government circles penetrated and sit with Angela Merkel at a table.
“Islam will return and rule over Europe and the West. Does the conquest take place by the sword? No, that’s not necessary. There are something like the silent conquest “these are the words of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. He is regarded as the most influential Muslim clerics and his message is public to hear worldwide. Still, distributed in the underground, the Islamic Caliphate is growing by the soft jihad in the West. The Objective: The introduction of Sharia laws throughout the world.
His army is the Muslim Brotherhood, which has an enormous impact in the West. The relations between it and Turkey are currently the greatest threat to the Western world. “In order to reveal the hidden power, you can not work with the usual journalistic means. I have to cross borders. I have to stop Zvi Yehezkeli be. I have to be to Abu Hamza. I change my identity, become a Muslim Sheik Abu Hamza, “says Israeli journalist. With the help of the secret service he gets false papers that make him the Syrians for his trip to Turkey.
“In Turkey, the gentle Jihad has already won. The country, once a secular state, enduring the silent revolution by political Islam. It took a few decades, but today Islam is engaged in all areas of life. The construction of mosques that face veiling of women, to eliminate the secular state founded by Turkey Ataürk. For all this is is a man responsible. He calls himself sultan or caliph: Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As president, he ruled Turkey in line with the Muslim Brotherhood. He greets with the message of brotherhood, the “Fabia” – a hand einkrümmt the thumb and four fingers showing. Erdoğan million refugees in the country. He controls who continue to travel to Europe and who is not. And it is he who sends them Islam to Europe, and they show him their gratitude. I’ll take you to Europe and you behave loyal to me. Here I design the country after the Islam of the Muslim Brotherhood and you take these rules to Europe and verbreitest them there – that’s the deal. The refugees and in particular the Turkish population in Germany are useful tools against the EU. The cooperation of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) with Turkey is currently the largest threat to the West …. “.
The Syrian Pass is the ticket to Europe, who owns it, is recognized as a refugee in Germany and gets political asylum. Zvi Yehezkeli goes to Istanbul to search for a Syrian passport. He is not there as an Israeli, but as Jordanian traders and enters one of the many mobile phone shops of the city, known for the pass trade.
The seller told him about his good life in Turkey enthusiastic: “In Germany, the women separated because of quarrels of their men. They think they have rights. There, you can not beat your wife. If you raise the voice against them, they will coincide with the police … Here in Turkey, you can do it all. Here the man is protected, in Germany the woman, “says the pass dealer.
For a sum of around $ 1,000 he gets his new identity three days later after a little back and forth. He is now the Syrians “Abdullah Alatrash” born 1958th
Asylum in Germany – a matter of minutes
Shortly after landing the 47-year-old Yehezkeli alias Abdullah Alatrash in Berlin-Tempelhof, a former airport, now the largest initial reception of the German capital. He was to report in “Hangar 1”, told him the security guard at the entrance. There, waiting in a small cabin, a government official at him. “The first time here?” The older man asks him wearing glasses. “Yes, the first time”, “Abdullah” confirmed. “Do you have a passport?”. He hands the man over his fake identity card. From now on, it goes fast. Yet the message, “Abdullah” a short five-minute medical examination would have to undergo some papers to be filled out, “Abdullah” has another question. What about my family? My wife and children are still in Syria … “replica” You must live in Germany three years before you are entitled to family reunification “replies the man in the blue shirt. “But if I want to get them now,” the Arabic-speaking staff knows what to do: “There is the possibility to smuggle ago. You may come across Greece. Smuggling them over Greece, “said the officials. “With a bit of coordination can arrange that,” he is sure. The German officials, paid by German taxpayers, says the alleged Syrian, as he does it to deceive the German system. “With a bit of coordination can arrange that,” he is sure. The German officials, paid by German taxpayers, says the alleged Syrian, as he does it to deceive the German system. “With a bit of coordination can arrange that,” he is sure. The German officials, paid by German taxpayers, says the alleged Syrian, as he does it to deceive the German system.
former Tempelhof airport -now known as focal point for Refugees (Photo: From Mozo Productions / Shutterstock)
One last signature, a quick photo with the phone for identification, the authority staff handed out the documents. His asylum application is being processed and he has “ok” with the authorities immediately access to any government support. The new Islamic life can beginnen.Ab now running “Abdullah” as Syrian refugees through Berlin without anyone knows who he really is.
The employees come from Gaza, “Abdullah” experiences. Little jokes are made, there is agreement. “Abdullah” leaves happy smiling space – the reporter Zvi Yehezkeli, however, is noticeably shocked at how easy it make the Germans with the review of identities.
Neukölln – Arab district of Berlin
Zvi Yehezkeli then goes to Berlin in the footsteps of the Muslim Brotherhood. He meets with two Syrian refugees. Ahmed and Yusuf came last year via Turkey-Greece route. Now they live in Neukölln, the Arabic center of the city. “We got help from a Muslim British organization.” Most of the members were Muslims, they tell willingly.
The two left Syria as a secular Muslim and did not show much interest in their religion. On their way to Berlin they lived for a year in a warehouse in Pristina in Kosovo. There, the MB are active, they formed to pious Muslims. When they arrive in Berlin, they pray five times a day and fast course in Ramadan. “Do you think that Islam will rule here? All Germans are Christians? “Asks the” Syrians “. “I’m going to make me one by one. I start with those around me. You will listen to me. If any Muslim makes it so is the go equipped with no problems, “is the convincing answer.
Sonnenallee in Berlin Neukölln is now called “Arab street” (Screenshot: YouTube)
“? Do you think there is a violent reaction by the Germans against the Muslims give” The Refugee replies: “You pray but with them, you do not compel yes. You do not confront with force. You’re doing so slowly. I tell you, it will happen. There will be clashes, but will subside, and people will accept the reality. There is no way out. Each change brings clashes with them. What is the dream of every Muslim? This is the Islamic state. An Islamic society. Muslims prefer Sharia law. The goal is that in 20 years, the Sharia will be a part of Germany. That Sharia has become part of the state … We build a good Islamic society. ”
Ahmed and Yusuf are not the only ones who dream to establish a Sharia state in Germany, says the Israeli reporters after a visit to Neukölln: “Do you want a Muslim rather live under European law or the Sharia,” he asks Men in a Neuköllner main road that gives the impression of long, she would lie in the Middle East and not in the former working-class district of Berlin. “Sharia, we are Muslims … This street is called not in vain Arab street. Here are not only Germans, no more blond people, only Muslims … Sharia – what I have to do with their laws? Which is better Da’wah or violence? – Da’wah … We want to live without meddle by our rules. We will be their teacher. We will carry out our religion, that they may lay joy ” are the clear announcements of the “German” Muslims. (N. D. Red .: Da’wah is a popular phrase of the Muslim Brotherhood and means “call to Islam”. )
Extremism expert: “There is not a meeting with Merkel without the Muslim Brotherhood”
It goes to Schöneberg, a popular especially with gay district in the old West Berlin. On the metro station of the idyllic Auguste-Viktoria Square waiting for a Extremism expert who wishes to remain anonymous.
“Why do we meet here. There are death threats against you? ”
“Unfortunately, yes. I have dealt for years with Islamic extremism. For different media in Germany and Europe. Of course I have criticized elements of Islam that lead to radicalization. That’s why I was threatened with death. “The threats come from all sides, so the informant.
“But you live in a free society?”
“Free for those who keep his mouth shut … Daesh here (IS) … Ikhawan (MB), al Qaeda are here … Ikhawan says,” we do not need explosives to introduce Islam in Europe. No, they are aimed at the media and try to propagate the acceptance of religion. “The mass media, the Internet and the political system they gain influence, the man claimed.
“There is not a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel, where the Muslim Brotherhood is not participating and sitting in the front row. We are talking about people who have studied in the past four years in the world’s largest campaign in order to convince European society that violence that takes place in the name of religion has nothing to do with religion, “said the controversial statement of experts.
“Daesh will eventually cease to exist. But the greatest threat to Germany represent people whose approach is the political attitude in Islam. They identify with Mursi, with Erdogan and Qatar. They are busy every day in order to spread the Islamic faith on the Internet and in the mosques. This is the greatest danger. Not in the next one to two years, but in the next 20, 30, 40 years. In the next generation there will be a growing number of young German, who were born in Germany, but oppose all that is German, as the political approach, rules, laws. That is the danger. This is initiated by Qatar and Erdoğan process that takes place in Germany under the surface instead. ”
To look into the future, it is necessary to direct a look at Turkey.
“The quiet revolution taking place in Turkey under Erdogan, goes into its active phase. Erdogan is on the home straight. He goes against the political opposition before, cleans the media, and eliminates other distracting elements. It is an ongoing, strategic and slow march … But in this country, the dream of the Muslim Brotherhood met. The targeted Islamic Caliphate we find here in Chershamba, a district in Istanbul. An old and growing district in the heart of the city, where only the law of Islam prevails. Here, everyone knows everyone, “said the undercover journalist.
“In this place, the rules and restrictions prevail under the laws of Sharia. The sale of alcohol is prohibited. Earlier swarmed here by tourists from all over Europe. Today, this road looks like a the Middle East. Without alcohol and with many Arab signs … The new tourists come from Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Egypt, Lebanon, etc. The Arab booming. Across the country, Arab Islamic schools open. It is a return to Islamic culture … The Turkish state promotes Islamic physical education … Erdoğan has built soccer fields in poor areas. The coaches are all Islamic and attract a new generation approach. ”
Turkish President waving the “Fabia-hand” the symbolic greeting of the Muslim Brotherhood (screenshot YouTube)
“We do not teach just football. If I train them, then they also respect me and my way of life. How to follow the laws and fast … For us, this is a mission “, the football coach says proudly.
The observance of Islamic laws and rules, the return to the Arabic language, the sport as an entry to the “true” Islam, the prohibition of alcohol. All this belongs to the classical methods of the Muslim Brotherhood, white Zvi Yehezkeli.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a nest of extremists. Not Qatar, but Ankara is now centered. The cooperation of the Muslim Brotherhood with Turkey is currently the greatest threat to the Western world, because the Muslim Brotherhood “to gain through Turkey legitimacy, provides an informant clear with blackened face.
“Because they have failed in the Middle East, they are now trying the great experiment, this land that lies between the Middle East and Europe, slowly turning into a Islamic state,” Zvi Yehezkeli notes at the end of his nearly one-hour documentary.
With the help of a determined leader like Erdogan, who likes to present itself to the greeting of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Fabia, succeeds the Muslim Brotherhood to spread their Islamic faith not only in the East but in the West, in Europe. This was the conclusion of the journalist.
British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, who was sentenced prison for “urging support” for ISIS, called unemployment and welfare benefits for Muslims a “Jihadi allowance,” as if it were, or should be, an entitlement. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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