Pakistan says that it wants to rid it's country of 'terrorists' and it does not want the US drones doing it, they can do it themselves. The so called 'terrorists' are not leaving their homeland, they discuss their differences among themselves and form groups united under the beliefs they hold as true.

The world likes to think there are just one group of Taliban. Then it admitted there were Afghan and Pakistani Taliban. The Pakistani military launched their offensive beginning in June 2014 Darb e Azb, killing Taliban in Wazirstan. They have 500 people in custody they seek to kill in a couple of weeks, and for that reason they set up 77 military courts.

http://paktribune.com/news/77-military-courts-in-Punjab-and-6-in-the-federal-capital-to-be-established-272906.html

http://paktribune.com/news/US-to-provide-financial-assistance-to-Pakistan-272907.html

Tehrik i Taliban is now two distinct (ideologically) groups. One headed by Maulana Fazulllah who has given support to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi's Islamic State, but not his oath of allegiance. The second group is Tehrik i Taliban Jamaat ur Ahrar led by Omar Khalid Khorasani (who was a first deputy to Hakimullah Mehsud, legendary Emir of TTP and successor to Nek Mohammad). Ehsanullah Ehsan, long time media spokesman for TTP remains a spokesman for the Khorasani group. The groups formerly divided in November 2014 after differences. The Khorasani group's allegiance is to Mullah Mohammad Omar, Afghan Amir.

http://newsweekpakistan.com/jamaat-ul-ahrar-welcomes-new-al-qaeda-branch/

http://www.dawn.com/news/1156376/ex-ttp-members-pledge-allegiance-to-islamic-state

http://www.dawn.com/news/1137908

It is easy to blame the recent attack on the school for Pakistani Military officer training in Pakistan on all Taliban, but many have disavowed the attacks as un-Islamic, including Mullah Omar, and the Pakistani TTP Khorasani group.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1155717/report-cites-lal-masjid-jamia-hafsa-waging-war-against-state

http://www.dawn.com/news/1155014

What is common to all the groups is they do not want secular law. They do want an Islamic state, as the Islamic State amasses more supporters and territory, smaller groups may join them. Islamic Prophecy says there is a group that will have supernatural assistance and not be able to be taken down, some believe it is Baghdadi's group. Others find their methods too brutal to embrace. What the US war has done is to bring the groups closer together, defining their beliefs and becoming more focused, they are not scattering terrified of the big bad US and their drones and bunker buster bombs, those things just reinforce their beliefs that there is a Holy War going on, and their faith becomes stronger. During the time of the Prophet of Islam, there were times it was only him and a few of his closest confidants, but he never gave up, even when it was just him and Abu Bakr in the cave trying to preserve the religion he was willing to die for. There are others in mud hut villages all over the world who know nothing about the comforts of modern society, their most precious possession is their faith. And that is why the war will not stop, until Jesus fights that ultimate battle.

[Edited on 1/11/2015 by gina]

US/AL QA'IDAH

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/abu-hamza-radical-preacher-jailed-for-life-9968359.html

Abu Hamza, former cleric at the Finsbury masjid in London has been sent to jail for life by a Manhattan court amid reports one of his senior aides had links to a suspect in the Charlie Hebdo attacks. The US had been readying for the sentencing of Hamza, accused of waging a “global war of jihad against those he considered infidels” and who was convicted last year of trying to establish an al-Qaeda training camp within the US. Cherif Kouachi, 32, is said to be a follower of alleged al-Qaeda organiser Djamel Beghal, who was a regular presence at the London mosque in the late 1990s.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2014/04/17/NY-trial-of-British-radical-hears-opening-arguments-.html

Remarks: A NY court convicts and sentences a Muslim cleric from London, David Cameron and others participated in the march of 3 million French citizens supporting the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo after the recent attacks in Paris launched because of the cartoons. Remember in 2005 when the Danish published the cartoons mocking Muhammad, peace be upon him, the Prophet of Islam? Al Qaida basically asked the Danish not to publish the cartoons, they also asked the French. Now here we are 7 years later and the Prophet is still being mocked, clerics are being jailed. These are not policies that will create peace in the world.

Does Free Speech permit hate speech, creating division among religions, peoples?

Update on Pakistan for 1.11.14

http://paktribune.com/news/Fazlur-Rehman-threatened-Govt-to-launch-a-D-Chowk-like-protest-272912.html

Jamaat I Islami Chief Fazlur Rehman on Thursday 8,January,2015 threatened the government he would launch a "D-Chowk like protest". He wants to unite the groups including madrassas against the government Military Courts implementation. Meeting at his house, in Islamabad, Thrusday, 1/15/14 11 am.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/07-Jan-2015/fazl-trying-to-convince-religious-leaders-to-unite-against-military-courts

And Tehrik I Taliban, Jamaat ur Arar or what I will call TTP Khorasani claims responsibility for attack on a Shiite gathering celebrating the birthday of the Prophet, peace be upon him. [Muslims do not celebrate the Prophet's birthday, as that is an innovation in the religion, or bidah which is not permissible].

http://paktribune.com/news/TTP-claimed-responsibility-for-the-suicide-attack-of-an-imambargah-in-Rawalpindi-272923.html

Comments: The Quran says not to fight people by the masjids unless they initiate fighting against you, and then you can defend yourself. The Quran also says that when you meet people who do not worship as you do, tell them :Oh you unbelievers, I do not worship what you worship, nor do you worship who I worship, Nor will I worship what you worship, nor will you worship who I worship. to you your way, to me my way". Al Kafiroun (The Disbelievers) 109:1-6.
It doesn't say to bomb them. Al Kafiroun is the entire chapter, it does not give other advice for jihad. The other ayats that mention fighting are in other Surahs (Chapters).

The Quran is very clear, God will allow some to be misguided, all a believer can do is bring a message, they cannot demand conversion as the Islamic State does, with the offer of convert or be beheaded. If they have their own holidays, that is up to them. A believer should only follow what has been given to him which he knows as truth. I think the bombing is wrong because it prevents people from Repentence, it denies them that right, if they are dead, they cannot repent.

[Edited on 1/12/2015 by gina]

PAKISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA, US, Al QAIDAH, ISLAMIC STATE, TALIBAN

PAKISTAN
One of the main points right now, is there are two groups of Taliban in Pakistan. One has given their oath to the Islamic State. They have already recently beheaded a Pakistani Military soldier. Mullah Fazlullah heads this group, and has appointed Saeed Khan as the Islamic State Chief for Pakistan.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1054801

Declaring their loyalty to the Islamic State creates more than a divide with the other Pakistani Taliban who are still loyal to Mullah Omar, whose beliefs are different than Baghdadi's. It can create civil war which destabilizes Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is a pivotal moment.

[please not that Fazlur Rehman is NOT Mullah Fazlullah. Fazlur Rehman is the Chief of Jammat I Islami.

http://www.dawn.com/news/800487/maulana-fazlur-rehman
http://www.dawn.com/news/1025752/maulana-fazlur-rehman-3

Ehsanullah Ehsan is spokesman and Commander for Jamaat ul Ahrar (the Khorasani group).
http://nation.com.pk/national/10-Jan-2015/ehsanullah-ehsan-claims-attack-on-imambargah

SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi has been staunchly opposed to the Islamic State, but they are opening an Embassy and Consulate in Iraq within two months. The Embassy in Baghdad, the consulate in Irbil. The Islamic State Chief, Al Baghdadi is from Samarra, Iraq, but Saudi is not worried about opening an Embassy and consulte in Iraq.

http://www.rferl.org/content/saudi-arabia-iraq-embassy/26774955.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/03/us-saudi-iraq-idUSKBN0KC06S20150103

US
The head of the MI-5 (Military Intelligence) from Britain says the US can expect mass casualty attacks in the US from Al Qaida. “A group of core Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West,” Andrew Parker said in a rare Thursday press conference at MI5 headquarters in the British capital, London. Parker added that the militants aim to "cause large-scale loss of life, often by attacking transport systems or iconic targets” in the West.

http://www.albawaba.com/news/british-mi5-chief-al-qaeda-syria-planning-mass-attacks-west-642318

Remarks: If our foreign policy is to continue to try to kill large groups of Muslims, their response will be to initiate attacks against the US and it's allies. Cause and Effect. If we kill clerics, then decisions are made by Commanders. The US cannot fight wars in all the Muslim countries plus keep our own country secure. Osama made it very clear long ago when he said "pack your luggage and leave our lands" if we wanted to live in security here. Our foreign policies will determine our fate here. (whether we live in fear or peace).

FRANCE/ALGIERS SAUDIA ARABIA and HAGEL's Departure

http://www.arabnews.com/news/690241

ALGIERS: The body of French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was beheaded in Algeria by militants in September, has been found by the army, security sources told AFP Thursday.
The body was found buried without the head in Akbil, where Gourdel was abducted by the Jund Al-Khilafa group, the sources said.

KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

King Abdullah has been in the hospital, but is doing much better. He developed a slight case of pneumonia. He may be released at the end of this week or sometime next week.
http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-king-abdullah-pneumonia-royal-court-160433773.html
http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-king-needed-help-breathing-due-lung-infection-155929741.html

Iran will have to answer for it's remarks which were insulting.
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-summons-newspaper-over-saudi-king-death-headline-170125758.html
Vatan-e-Emrooz, a conservative daily, has been summoned over a front page story on January 6 headlined with a Persian expression often interpreted as "may I hear the news of his death". Use of the expression -- Khabar-e-Margesh -- is usually regarded as an insult.

The Saudis are concerned with safety of their lands. So much so they are building a fence to cut off people coming there from Iraq. The Saudis are building a 600-mile-long “Great Wall” — a combined fence and ditch — to separate the country from Iraq to the north. Plans for the 600-mile wall and ditch Saudi Arabia will build with Iraq in an effort to insulate itself from the chaos engulfing its neighbors.

http://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-is-building-a-600-mile-great-wall-to-shield-from-isis-2015-1

REMARKS: They asked for the US to contain ISIS, but since the US has not been able to, they keep amassing more territory, the Saudis are not waiting. But wire fences? I would expect a wall like in Palestine. However, there is prophecy that an army will come to invade Saudi and will be swallowed up by the earth, a ditch and an earthquake will await the anti-Christ and his army.

CHUCK HAGEL
Before he leaves office, he is trying to do something quite noble, that no one else has been able to achieve. Hagel ordered the reorganization earlier last year as the U.S. Congress pressured the Defense Department to boost its accounting for some 83,000 missing troops - about 73,000 from World War Two and 10,000 from other conflicts, mainly Korea.

Of the total number of missing American military personnel, some 25,000 are considered recoverable while about 43,000 are thought to be unrecoverable without additional information or the discovery of new technologies.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hagel-reorganizes-effort-to-find-us-troops-missing-in-combat/ar-AA7YS3p

Comment: Since they don’t want to give him credit for his years of service, he wants to try to leave an ongoing legacy that will do the most for the most people. It’s not just the MIA’s who were done wrong. (in my opinion).

[Edited on 1/16/2015 by gina]

RAIF BADAWI

Raif Badawi is a journalist, in Saudi Arabia who was arrested and sentenced for insulting the Prophet. He was originally sentenced to ten years in prison term and 1,000 lashes, but that was reduced on humanitarian grounds with other countries pleading for mercy for him. He received his first round of 50 lashes last week, and his wounds have not healed, yet he is scheduled to be whipped 50 times on each Friday for twenty weeks. The Untied Nations, Amnesty International have all pleaded and now there is a petition that 14,000 people have signed asking Saudi King Abdullah to grant mercy to Mr. Badawi. The prison Dr. who saw him this morning said he cannot endure more lashes today. Wounds and soft tissue injury such as this would normally take two to four weeks to fully recover depending on the size and depth of the affected area.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/saudi-arabia-postpones-flogging-liberal-blogger-2015116114918119212.html

Twitter: @AmnestyOnline

https://theconversation.com/repeated-floggings-will-put-raif-badawis-life-at-risk-36317
He may be relatively young and fit, but the human body is not designed to take this kind of regular and sustained punishment and 20 weeks of this treatment risks doing Badawi permanent damage if not eventually killing him.

What can you be flogged for in Saudi Arabia?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30849977

Comments: Which is more humane, Al Qaida's way (shoot, bomb) those who mock the Prophet, or Saudis way, beat a person to death? Or is there another way? The world community needs to look at these things.

[Edited on 1/16/2015 by gina]

Update 1.23.14

US, NIGER, YEMEN, SAUDI, PAKISTAN, ISIS AND IRAQ (Saddam's daughter helping them out?)

US

President Obama delivered the State of the Union address, surprisingly all the Members of Congress were there, as was the Cabinet, except for the Transportation Secretary who volunteered to stay home. Every time the entire govt. meets, someone has to stay home in case there is a disaster, then the one remaining member will provide continuity of government. Anyway, the President spoke more about goals then actual policies he planned to implement. One thing that happened later was the revelation that the Speaker of the House invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address and meet with Congress on February 11, unbeknownst to President Obama. Obama did not appreciate this and said that the invitation was not following normal protocol, Boehner said Congress had no legal responsility to tell Obama in advance. The issue revolve around sanctions and Iran's nuclear abilities. The jousting continues.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/56834554/ns/politics/t/boehner-invites-israeli-leader-address-congress-iran/#.VMBDZ2d0wdV

http://www.speaker.gov/press-release/speaker-boehner-invites-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-address-congress

NIGER
http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/691841

45 churches in Niger burned over Charlie Hebdo cartoons. The Charlie Hebdo issue is not settled among many Muslim states and fundamentalists.

YEMEN – protesters surrounded the Presidential Palace with demands. President Hadi’s personal residence on Al-Siteen Street remains occupied by armed Houthis. All entry points to ports in Aden, Sanaa have been closed. The Houthis were also occupying missile installations. SANA’A, Jan. 21–President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi has agreed to implement demands made during Abdulmalik Al-Houthi’s televised speech on Tuesday in order to prevent further escalations. Media offices were seized, so information coming out is rather limited.

http://www.yementimes.com/en/1853/news/4822/President-approves-Houthi-demands.htm

http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/01/21/video-shows-explosion-at-yemen-president?videoId=362366025

There are unconfirmed reports that Houthis have seized weapons stored at the Presidential Palace, an allegation Al-Junaid has denied. “Our men have not taken any weapons, we have only prevented soldiers and officers from doing so,” he told the Yemen Times. Mohammad Mahmoud Ibrahim, who is a bodyguard for former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and who meets weekly with officers at the Presidential Palace, told the Yemen Times the following weapons were as of Wednesday being held at the palace: 300 tanks, 122 rocket launchers, almost 500 vehicles equipped with 12.7 caliber machine guns, 400 automatic assault rifles, 23 anti-aircraft artillery, 125 armored vehicles, 5,000 Glock, Perita, and Caracal handguns, and almost 10,000 sniper rifles. The Yemen Times was unable to independently verify these claims.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/21/us-yemen-security-idUSKBN0KU2HH20150121
He said the Houthis agreed to withdraw fighters from areas overlooking his palace, his private home and the official residence of the prime minister, as well as a missile base, and had promised to free immediately his chief of staff, whom they have held captive since Saturday.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30912326
Yemen as a failed state.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/yemen-president-abed-mansour-hadi-yields-houthi-rebels
Pretty good coverage of the situation in Yemen. He agreed to a power sharing deal, and Oil production in Yemen’s most strategic oil province of Shabwa was halted on Saturday and fuel shortages are leading to long queues outside of petrol stations across the country. Who will be in charge of those?

Who are the Houthis? Shiites.

In the Yemen Post it was claimed, however, that the Houthi Movement had over 100,000 fighters.[30] According to Houthi Expert Ahmed Al-Bahri the Houthis had a total of 100,000-120,000 followers, including both armed fighters and unarmed loyalists. The also known as the Partisans of God (Ansar Allah) or Believing Youth (BY; ash-Shab?b al-M?‘min) are a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. The Houthi brothers' father Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group.[14] Houthis belong to the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam, also known as Fivers, a sect of Islam almost exclusively present in Yemen. They are distinct from the Shi'ite majority, the Twelvers found in mainly in Iraq, Lebanon and Iran and are known for being most similar to Sunni Muslims in matters of religious law and rulings. They do however, believe in the concept of an Imamate as being essential to their religion, which makes them distinct from Sunnis. The Houthis are reported to be The Houthis have external backers, in Iran. They accuse the Yemeni govt. of being beholden to Al Qaida and the Saudi government.

SAUDI ARABIA
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/21/-sp-saudi-blogger-wife-raid-badawi-lashes
Mrs Badawi, Ensaf Haider, given refugee asylum with her children in Sherbrooke, (93 miles from Montreal).

PAKISTAN
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/punjab/22-Jan-2015/islamic-state-commander-held-in-lahore
Islamic State Commander being held in Lahore. Three intelligence sources, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said the man, Yousaf al-Salafi, was arrested in Lahore and confessed during interrogation that he represented IS in Pakistan. “Al-Salafi is a Pakistani Syrian who reached Pakistan through Turkey five months ago,” said one source. “He crossed into Turkey from Syria and was caught there. Somehow he managed to escape and reached Pakistan to establish ISIS (IS).” The account could not be independently verified.

Remarks: Considering that Pakistan has 500 people it seeks to execute on the basis that they believe they are terrorists, this can have far reaching implications, since one segment of TTP pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Sectarian war on the horizon for Pakistan?

ISIS AND IRAQ
IRAQ – Saddam’s daughter supports ISIS
http://nypost.com/2015/01/21/saddams-daughter-shilling-butcher-of-baghdad-baubles/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2918956/Saddam-Hussein-s-daughter-designs-jewellery-inspired-evil-dictator-dad-husband-killed.html

I started putting some info. in the Weather thread but really it should be somewhere else. There should probably be a Prophecy Thread, and World Financial Collapse and Oil updates thread, but that's a lot to maintain and right now I'm already maintaining the Boston Marathon, the NYPD Eric Garner, Torture, threads, and the Pakistani School Massacre and related events (500 people slated to die shortly). Syria and the Middle East do encompass foreign policy, so I'll intersperse this here in this thread.

The war in Syria seems like it came out of nowhere, but it has far reaching consequences, and Turkey will be invaded and destabilized, there are prophetic reasons for it.

TURKEY - people have been confused as to who Gog and Magog are. My Quran indicates they are actually tribes from China in Mongolia area, but there is a man who says others think it refers to Russia, but the location of these tribes is actually North of Jerusalem in Ankara, Turkey.

Tiger Dan GOG and MAGOG It’s not Russia

Asteroid to hit Baghdad

EZEKIEL 38:15 mentions the conflict when Gog and Magog are set loose upon the world. This guy named Dan said it is about Turkey, Iran, Libya and the Sudan.

1) The seven churches mentioned in Revelations 2 are in Turkey.
2) Satan's seat of power was in Turkey. Revelations 2:13
3) Ankara is directly North of Jerusalem Ezekiel 88:15, 39:2
4) Noah's boat, the Ark landed in Ararat - Euphrates Genesis 8:4
5) Persia - is the border with Turkey Ezekiel 38:15
6) Fountains of Waters feed the Euphrates Revelations 16:12
7) Gog - Chief Prince of Meshech and Tubal (cities) Ezekiel 38:3
8) Army of horseman numbers 200 million Revelations 9:16

The populations of the the Countries :
Persia (Iran) 75 Million
Sudan 45 Million
Libya 6 Million
Turkey 75 million
Add the numbers the populations of those countries equal 201 Million, exactly what is written in Revelations.

Turkey, Iran, Libya, Sudan - If Damascus is attacked by Israel, then all the other countries will band together to invade Turkey and get nuked. Isaiah 17:17 says Damascus will be a ruinous heap. There are 135 miles between Damascus and Jerusalem. A meteor striking 50 miles east of Jerusalem would kill 2 million people. There have been NASA photos of small meteors already coming down on Syria.

That concerns Turkey. Right now you have fighters already coming over the border from Turkey to join Isis. No secret. But I want to tell about Jesus, and there is Islamic Prophecy he will seek and find refuge in Syria just prior to fighting the anti-Christ (who has not yet revealed himself to the world - he will do so after the war with Israel begins. That war will last seven years.)

At the time of Eashoa Msheekha, (Jesus) the Disciples spoke Galilean Aramaic, but the High Priests of Jerusalem spoke Hebrew Aramaic. Ancient Aramaic comes from the Ashurit cuneiform of Nineveh (ca. 800 BC). Ninevah is in modern day Iraq (called Mesoptamia back in those days).

Abraham spoke this language fifteen centuries before the time of Eashoa. All languages evolve. Ancient Aramaic is the first language of the Scriptures. It is the Sacred Scribal language or the Leeshana Ateeqah of the Ancient Church of the East, in which all Scriptures are preserved intact.
The war that has erupted in Iraq is going to reveal the destiny of the faith in Eashoa Msheekha (Jesus) At one time there were millions of the followers of Eashoa (Jesus) living in Iraq; now there are a few thousand left, and they're being driven out and murdered. This is all the work of Satan and God knows about it.

Churches are being destroyed in the Province of Nineveh today.

The invasion of Iraq is carried out by the Syrians who were armed to fight against the Assad government. These foreigners decided to use their weapons against the Christians of Northern Iraq. They have killed and robbed every Christian household in the Province of Nineveh and declared North Iraq an Islamic State. The UN is completely silent on this issue. The houses of the Christians have been painted with the Arabic words 'Nassrani' or 'Nazarene.' In other words, 'the followers of Jesus the Nazarene.'

They don't call them Christians. The inhabitants of Mosul (2nd largest city of Iraq) are not 'Christians' in the same sense as Americans or Europeans are Christians; they call themselves 'Msheekhai' or 'Of the Messiah' in Aramaic. This is why nobody cares about how many millions of these followers of the Msheekha are murdered, robbed and driven out of their homes and their country. These Msheekhai are the last descendants of the Men of Nineveh who were still living in their homeland for ten thousand years.

Now they are all finally gone, without even a voice raised on their behalf by the United Nations.

COMMENTS:

Isis killing original followers of Jesus.

Congress wants to meet with the Israeli Prime Minister regarding Iran and it's nukes.

You have Persian/Shiites who have taken over Yemen one step away from Saudi Arabia ready to go to battle with Al Qaida in the Arabian Pensinsula and the Maghreb,

You have an Isis faction versus the Sunni faction of Taliban in Pakistan (nuclear armed country - and there is prophecy that Pakistan will attack India and be successful).

I think that both, the anti-Christ and Jesus are already back here on earth, neither has revealed himself yet. The entire Middle East will become destabilized, but they will NOT become balkanized states as some desired [Operation Clean Break] in the long term. All of these things are reasons you need to pay attention to what is going on in the world, because the End Times will come whether you are ready for it or not.

[Edited on 1/22/2015 by gina]

January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. Russian President Putn will send a delegate to the event. The presidents of Germany, France, Poland and Ukraine are among the statesmen expected to attend the commemoration.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/putin-sends-chief-of-staff-to-attend-auschwitz-ceremony/514668.html

Heads of state will gather at the site of the Nazi camp near Krakow in southern Poland on Jan. 27 to remember the estimated 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, who perished there during World War II.

For anyone who questions if the holocaust happened, there are tours to the camps, you can see it for yourselves if you disbelieve. Photos in this link.

http://www.viator.com/tours/Krakow/Auschwitz-Birkenau-Museum-Half-Day-Trip-from-Krakow/d529-2145IT3?pref=204&aid=m1239

http://news.yahoo.com/decades-auschwitz-past-horrors-haunt-polish-town-114141581.html;_ylt=AwrBJSApY8FUiCoAyObQtDMD

Comments: Death camps should have stopped after the Holocaust, but nowadays we have Fema Camps with the train tracks leading to them, barb wire fencing facing in, and they too can become death camps. Built by Halliburton under the stated reason of 'national emergency' situations, ie. like needing to quarantine large amounts of people, or if revolution breaks out etc. One could also say the black site rendition camps are not much better than the death camps, they may in fact be worse because of the torture.

SAUDI ARABIA Prince Abdullah has just died., his brother Salman will succeed him.

http://www.arabnews.com/breaking-news/news/693731

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/saudi-arabia-king-abdullah-dies

http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Jan-23/285050-king-abdullah-passes-away-official-saudi-tv.ashx

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/01/23/Prince-Salman-declared-Saudi-Arabia-s-king.html

Abdullah has always been seen and regarded as progressive towards women and the Kingdom. On the world stage he was known as a peacemaker and an accessible world leader. In 2002 he parented the pathbreaking Arab Peace Initiative, which offered Israel blanket recognition from 22 Arab states in return for an independent state for the Palestinians – And he took over for King Fahd when Fahd had a stroke in 1995 leaving him unable to serve. Everybody always knew what he was working on, he gave back to the Saudi people, increased their wages when it became known to him people wanted to protest, etc. He also did not agree to allow his country to be used for rendition sites after 9/11.

Salman bin Abdulaziz has become Saudi Arabia’s king and Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz was declared the Crown Prince.

Salman has big shoes to fill, but he is no newbie to governance. This will be a smooth transition for him, and yes he is well versed in geopolitics. He helped to fund the mujahideen back during the Afghan Soviet war in the 1980's.

[Edited on 1/23/2015 by gina]

Updates 1/23/15

LIBYA, YEMEN, IRAQ

LIBYA
Militants have seized the central bank in Benghazi, Libya.
Militants took over the bank, where nearly USD 100 billion in foreign currency reserves are being held, on Thursday. “We are the youth of the naval base, and we are here to guard the bank,” the New York Times quoted one of the militants as claiming in an online video showing the bank’s interior and its flooded basement. In a statement on Thursday, the bank confirmed that “armed gangs” had taken control of its Benghazi facility. Libya has two rival governments vying for control of the country, with one faction controlling Tripoli, and the other, Libya’s internationally recognized government, governing the cities of Bayda and Tobruk.

YEMEN –
The Yemeni President has resigned reportedly after rebels did not adhere to the deal that was agreed to on Wednesday. What's next? You will have the Houthis vs. the regular Sunnis and the Al Qaidah Sunnis vying for complete control over the region.

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemeni-president-abd-rabbo-mansour-hadi-resigns-as-al-houthis-fail-to-honour-deal-1.1445446

IRAQ – 2,000 airstrikes have reportedly taken out half of the Islamic State’s leadership in Nineveh and provinces in the north. The Iraqi military is not rooting out ISIS, it is the US bombing campaign.

http://khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2015/January/international_January562.xml§ion=international

[Edited on 1/24/2015 by gina]

Updates 1.24.15

UK, SYRIA/JAPAN, YEMEN

UK - Tony Blair and Moammar Qaddafi collaborated?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jan/23/-sp-blair-gaddafi-letter-thanks-spy-cooperation-libya-uk-dissidents

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/iraq-war-inquiry

SYRIA & JAPAN

Yes ISIS has done it again, they killed one of the Japanese hostages and want a prisoner exchange for the other one. The prisoner they want is being held in Jordan.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/24/Japan-investigating-reports-hostage-killed.html

The video, published online, reportedly shows the killing of Haruna Yukawa, a private military contractor who was kidnapped in Syria last August. The group reportedly wants to trade Goto for an ISIL member held in Jordanian custody. Goto, a freelance Japanese journalist, was abducted while reporting on Syria's civil war last year.

US troops going to Syria on a training mission. One hundred in the next few weeks, more later. They want to train 5,000 troops in three years.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/troops-heading-middle-east-train-syria-rebels-150124203412583.html

The first advance detachment of US troops responsible for training moderate Syrian opposition forces will begin arriving in the Middle East in the next few days, a US Department of Defence official has said. Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the troops, mostly special operations forces, were authorised last week and would begin arriving in countries outside Syria in the coming days, (about 100) with a subsequent wave of several hundred military trainers following in the weeks thereafter. Officials plan to train 5,000 Syrian fighters a year for three years.

YEMEN
The Southern Movement has declared a separation between the North and South Yemen. They want no part of the Houthis or Al Qaida. Ten thousand protesters took to the streets. They have secured the port of Aden. The group, which demands a return to the full independence of the southern region enjoyed from 1967 to 1990, had earlier raised the former flag of South Yemen over Aden's airport and a security headquarters building.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2015/01/yemen-southern-province-severe-ties-sanaa-150124083636348.html

Comments: Look at the photo in the article, looks like the future in America when people want to go back to the state originally in place with our Constitution. No one world order, one world army, one world anything. Just a country free of oppression within it's own borders, and as a foreign policy.

Short Update 1.29.15

AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, US SURVEILLANCE STATE

AFGHA – Bowe Bergdahl
He will be charged with desertion. Would he have been better off staying in Afghanistan with the Taliban? What does his future here hold for him languishing in an American prison? While it is true he walked off his base there, why should people have to fight in a war they really do not believe in? From all the reports released, he just did not want to kill any longer, but there was no way out for him other than to leave his post. But even with that, he did not sneak off in the middle of the night leaving bunched up clothes in his bunk to make it look like he was still there sleeping. He was captured while answering the call of nature. It isn't even clear that he had decided to leave the military at that point. His squad just left without him, and he did not catch up before he was taken captive. How is that desertion?

http://news.yahoo.com/u-armys-bergdahl-face-desertion-charges-nbc-153701502.html

IRAQ
Gen. John Allen, President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS), met with a group of Sunni leaders led by Sheikh Ahmed Abu Risha, the president of the Iraqi Awakening Council. Shortly after that Abu Risha learned that his home had been was attacked by Sunni militants.

Their message was: . “This was a message to the United States — that you cannot protect anyone. … We are able to reach anywhere,” Abu Risha told Yahoo News.

http://news.yahoo.com/in-battle-against-islamic-state--iraqi-tribal-chiefs-plead-for-more-u-s--aid-155913315.html

Meanwhile in Iraq while we faced a fierce snowstorm here, Islamic State forces were shelling Peshmargas and used 3 Katuysha missiles, and 50 mortars in Aski Mosul, Tel Al-Dhahab. They destroyed 2 Safavid Humvees at Sajariyah and were motivated because the US funded Iraqi forces were reportedly using Chlorine gas against them in Mosul. The Islamic State (I like to call them Isis) have said their children are cubs of the Caliphate and the Commanders of the future. This is an all hands on deck war, with participation not limited to just veteran Soviet War mujahideen.

USA

It is not all that surprising to learn that the US has been using license plate readers to track targeted people/groups. This disclosure comes out with the justification being they are tracking people who go to gun shows. Well here in metro NY I can tell you those red light cameras are doing more than just catching (and in some cases entrapping) people who go thru red lights. I have seen the cameras flash on certain cars who go thru intersections while the light is green and I don't mean that it just turned green, after it has been green and several cars have went thru the intersection.

The PROOF that they have other plans besides those going thru red lights is when you look at those cameras on highways where there are no lights. It is just surveillance plain and simple. Fema camps built by Halliburton. The anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz should be a sobering reminder to all that YES these things can happen, and will happen, unless people wake up.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-plan-to-track-drivers-went-much-wider-new-documents-reveal/ar-AA8J9kW

[Edited on 1/29/2015 by gina]

Expanded report

ISIS IRAN/ISRAEL AND EGYPT

EGYPT
The new government in place does not enjoy the security the world thinks it does. Right now, Muslim Brotherhod clerics are calling for an assassination of the current President, along with any other state Presidents. Muslim Brotherhood Cleric Salama Abd al Qawi on Rabea TV, calls on Muslims to kill Egyptian President Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi, cleric Wagdi Ghoneim told Misr Alan TV and any other national leaders that they can.

http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4752.htm

IRAN/ISRAEL
IRCG Deputy Commander Hossein Salami explains that Israel and the US are considered one entity which is basically at odds with the entire Muslim world and though he says that the US must get out of the Muslim world and acknowledge peaceful co-existence, he also says that the collapse of Israel is crucial to the Islamic world and more important than resolving the nuclear issue, because even if the nuclear issue is resolved, Israel’s existence will not be accepted by Muslims. He says we are in a proxy war with Iran because of global arrogance.

Comment: Muslims will not accept Israel’s existence in the long term because of the beliefs of who should hold territories in Jerusalem. So what is our end goal for all the wars we are participating in over there?

http://www.memri.org/clip_transcript/en/4749.htm

ISIS
They have made threats against Obama, they want to behead him, and the Kurdish President as they have others.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-obama-cut-off-head-184200336.html

IRAN/ISIS/SYRIA war

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8402.htm

Imad Mugniyeh’s son is martyred. If it was just martyrdom that is one thing, but when you read about what is going on in Syria, and that Jabhat al Nusra (an al Qaida affiliated group) being funded (according to Hezbollah) by Israel, the war does not seem like it is just Muslim extremists trying to take down all the states there. There is something larger going on. Hezbollah, [from Lebanon], Iran and Russia are reportedly volleying for power in Syria. The revelations come after a battle in Quneitra. According to Al-Hamdan, the airstrike in which the Hizbullah and IRGC operatives were killed took place in the town Mazari' Al-Amal in the rural area north of Quneitra, and also targeted a military patrol base. Hezbollah vows retaliation and revenge for this attack.

Al-Hamdan provided a detailed list of the most important Hizbullah and IRGC bases in the Quneitra area, as follows:

Tel Al-Sha'er regional [base] in the rural area north of Quneitra, in Ayoub. - Assad, Russian and Iranian forces.

Division 90 base, located in the northern Al-Koum - Iranian, Lebanese and Russian military experts.

Vanguard and infantry bases, both located near Mazari' Al-Amal, considered to be spy bases managed by military experts.

Tel Al-Ahmar, located in the town 'Ain Al-Nouriyya east of Mazari' Al-Amal - Hezbollah, Iranian and Russians.

Patrol unit camp, located in the town of Al-Shuhada - Hezbollah and Iranian units.

COMMENTS: SO you thought it was just the Islamic State versus Assad and the Free Syrian Army. Well it isn't. You already have Lebanese resistance fighters, Iranians, and Russians supporting Assad's regime. If the US had to go to war against Iran, and Russia to defeat Assad, are we willing to do that? AND, why was Imad Mugniyeh's son going to an American University for an education in Lebanon, Imad worked for Al Qaida and was a thorn in the side of US military officials. AND why is Jabhat al Nusra being funded by Israel?

Beyond all that, Isis is not going down if you kill most of them. The children of the fighters already go to training camps.

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8312.htm

[Edited on 1/29/2015 by gina]

ISIS/JAPAN Hostages

Kenji Goto has been executed by beheading by the Islamic State.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/islamic-state-says-beheads-japanese-hostage-monitoring-group/ar-AA8P7s3

REMARKS: Taking hostages by any group is NOT ISLAMIC unless the group has completely subdued the country where the hostages are taken, and then they are taken as a spoil of war. This snatching and demanding ramson is wrong.

Al Quran: Al Anfal (The Spoils of War)

8:67 No apostle should take captives until he has battled and subdued the country. You desire the vanities of this world, but God wills for you the reward of the world to come; an God is almighty and all-wise.

Furthermore, harassing those Nazareans in Syria is also wrong per the noble Quran.

Al Maidah (The Feast)

5:69 All those who believe, and the Jews and the Sabians and the Christians, in fact any one who believes in God and the Last Days and performs good deeds, will having nothing to fear or regret.

While we are at it, regarding convert or die, that policy is flawed too.

Al Baqarah (The Cow)

2:256 There is no compulsion in the matter of faith. Distinct is the way of guidance now from error. He who turns away from the forces of evil and believes in God will surely hold fast to a handle that is strong and unbreakable, for God hears all and knows every thing.

Siratul al Kursi is one of the most powerful verses in the Quran and that is the surah just before 2:256, so there is no way they are not aware of these things.

2:62 Surely the believers and the Jews, Nazareans, and the Sabians, whoever believes in God and The Last Day, and whosoever does right, shall have his reward with his Lord, and will neither have fear or regret.

Want peace, want an end to war? Educate those who are involved in it. Bombs do not educate, they just escalate the conflict. The war is not against Islam, it is against those who have not read their book in it'e entirety or who chose to just use certain surahs for their own reasons. This is one reason Mullah Omar and those who have given their oath to him will NOT change their minds. The Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him, found himself with just Abu Bakr and nobody else at his side to continue the true Islam when they were in the cave, and there is a chapter about that too, called The Cave. Isis may recruit most of the fighters, but it does not make some of the things they are doing correct. Killing journalists only serves to hide what is going on there.

May Allah preserve and protect his true guidance with those he has chosen to receive it.

[Edited on 1/31/2015 by gina]

ISIS has killed the Jordanian Pilot recently captured in a brutal way.

http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-supporters-post-photos-purportedly-showing-jordanian-170209043.html

AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage, a killing that shocked the world and prompted Jordan to promise an "earth-shaking" response.

In the Islamic State video, Muath Kasaesbeh is interviewed, describing the mission he was due to carry out before his jet crashed. The video also showed footage of the aftermath of air strikes, with people trying to remove civilians from debris.

A man resembling Muath Kasaesbeh is shown inside the cage with his clothes dampened, apparently with flammable liquid, and one of the masked fighters holds a torch, setting alight a line of fuel which leads into the cage. The man is set ablaze and kneels to the ground. Fighters then pour debris, including broken masonry, over the cage which a bulldozer subsequently flattens, with the body still inside. The video shows a desert setting similar to previous videos of killings.

Jordan had sought to swap the pilot for Sajida al-Rishawi, the Iraqi woman militant who was sentenced to death for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing in Amman that killed 60 people.

Comments: Even worse than the manner of death the pilot suffered was that the Jordanian govt. was considering doing the prisoner swap requested for his release. They wanted proof that the pilot was alive, and their intelligence did not give them that. After this video, Jordan is executing the woman and several others they are holding in retaliation.

[Edited on 2/4/2015 by gina]

Jordan's Response to ISIS killing of their pilot, Muath al Kaseasbeh.

Jordan is going to start sending sorties in retaliation to Isis. They said that they had military information indicating the pilot had been killed on January 3rd, which is why the prisoner swap did not happen. Others have also disavowed ISIS actions as un-Islamic. [The King Abdullah II referred to is the Jordanian king].

"U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr., a California Republican, said after a meeting with the king that Abdullah had been visibly angry and promised to retaliate against the militants. "They're starting more sorties tomorrow than they've ever had. They're starting tomorrow," Hunter told the Washington Examiner in an interview published online Tuesday night. Hunter added the king also said: "The only problem we're going to have is running out of fuel and bullets."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jordan-shaken-by-islamic-state-killing-executes-2-inmates/ar-AA8XDuS

The pilot, Muath's father, Moaz was opposed to his son flying in the missions to Syria.
After his son was captured, Mr Kasaesbeh's father told NPR said he had been against his son participating in the attacks, on the grounds the country should not be assisting attacks on fellow Sunni Muslims.

"I wasn't OK with it at all. And all Jordanians strongly condemn our participation in the coalition," he said. "Our army is for defending Jordan. It's not supposed to spread throughout the world like American forces."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/jordan/11387982/Moaz-al-Kasaesbeh-profile-of-Jordanian-pilot-burned-alive-by-Isil.html

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/04/Profile-of-Jordan-s-patriotic-pilot.html
The pilot was a Muslim, and made his pilgrimage to Makkah, (in the photo where he is in white, that is customary when Muslims make their Hajj).

Remarks: The two prisoners Ziad al-Karbouly, an associate of Abu Musab al Zarqawi or the original Al Qaida Iraqi resistance movement, and Sajida al-Rishawi, were executed by hanging at their death penalty prison in Swaqa. They will be buried in Jordan. The Father of the slain pilot, pleaded for the Jordanian govt. to avenge his son's death in an interview with al Arabiya, transcript here.

http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=27891#.VNJNymd0wdU

I think Muath's Father has it right, countries should just protect their own sovereign borders and not get involved with the wars in other countries. Because when you get involved in wars of other countries, then more countries get involved to fight against your forces which is what the situation in Syria is now, with Lebanese, Iranian, Russians, US, Jordanian, British forces all fighting. It only escalates into regional or world war.

[Edited on 2/4/2015 by gina]

A French journalist who was a prisoner of Isis says he never witnessed any religious discussions amongst them, he did not even think they owned a Quran.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/04/ISIS-captors-didn-t-have-a-Quran-says-former-hostage.html

Speaking to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Francois said he did not witness any “religious discussion” between the militants.

"There was never really discussion about texts or -- it was not a religious discussion. It was a political discussion. It was more hammering what they were believing than teaching us about the Quran. Because it has nothing to do with the Quran. They didn't even have the Quran; they didn't want even to give us a Quran."

Remarks: If this is true, the world needs to ask, who are they, and who is keeping them in power with money, weapons.

justify the treatment of Asia Bibi by Muslim WOMEN...

Two segments today.

ISIS and JORDAN

ISIS
An ISIS cleric, Rami Abdel Rahman. who objected to the group’s decision to burn to death a captive Jordanian pilot has been removed from his post and will be put on trial, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. He now faces execution by ISIS.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/06/ISIS-punishes-cleric-who-objected-to-pilot-s-killing.html
http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/700471

Isis has reportedly burned 3 more people in Dulab area of Heet, Western Anbar province, Iraq. They were accused of cooperating with Iraqi security forces.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931117000308

Isis says that an American hostage, Kayla Mueller was killed by a coalition airstrike in Raqaa.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/06/SITE-ISIS-claims-U-S-hostage-killed-in-airstike-by-Jordan.html

JORDAN

Jordanian King Abdullah references Clint Eastwood’s movie Unforgiven, “He said there is going to be retribution like ISIS hasn’t seen,” said the Marine Corps veteran. Jordanian bombing of Isis targets continues for a second day today.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/05/Jordan-king-cites-Clint-Eastwood-when-expressing-wrath-.html

From the photos, he is heavily bombing them.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23JordanAirStrikes&src ="hash&mode=photos"

Jordan’s First Lady, Queen Rania joined in a protest March supporting Jordan’s murdered pilot.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/06/Jordan-s-Queen-Rania-joins-march-for-murdered-pilot-.html

[Edited on 2/6/2015 by gina]

[Edited on 2/6/2015 by gina]

YEMEN, KSA, IRAN

YEMEN

The Houthi Movement issued a constitutional declaration on Transitional National Council from the Republican Palace in Sanaa dissolving the Parliament and creating a new Presidential council that would rule for two years. The constitutional declaration further said that a "transitional national council of 551 members," which will replace the parliament, will be set up to elect the five-member “presidential council.”

Except for the Salafist Islah party, all other parties attending the negotiations in the capital agreed that a five-member presidential council handle the affairs in the crisis-hit country, Reuters reported. They want UN recognition of their ruling status, which has not occurred.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/06/396446/Houthis-release-const-declaration

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/06/Yemen-s-Houthi-to-issue-constitutional-decree.html

Al-Qaeda said Thursday that one of its top militants, Harith al-Nadhari who threatened more attacks on France after the Charlie Hebdo killings, died in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen. Nadhari and three other militants were killed in a January 31 "crusader American drone strike against their car" in Shabwa province of southern Yemen, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said on Twitter. AQAP named the three others as Said Bafaraj, Abdelsamie al-Haddaa and Azzam al-Hadrami.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/02/05/Top-al-Qaeda-militant-in-Yemen-dead-in-U-S-drone-strike-AQAP.html

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

King Salman is winning the hearts of his people. The King announced after being crowned the successor King, the Saudi government will provide two months of salary for all public servants and defence personnel and two months of scholarships for every Saudi student, at home and abroad. Likewise, two months’ stipend is to be paid to people with special needs and the beneficiaries of social security, and all this would add up to $30bn.

In his tweet, the Saudi ruler told his people: “You kind people, you deserve much more and whatever I did will not be able to give you what is your right. I hope Allah will be with me and with you to help us serve our religion and our country. And don’t forget me in your prayers.”

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/319381/king-s-tweet-wins-hearts-of-saudis

Raif Badawi’s flogging was deferred another week. Remarks: Since the Kingdom does not want him there organizing a democratic secular movement, let him join his wife in Canada where he can have political asylum, because it is the political system he seeks to change in his country. I hope the new King grants a pardon to Mr. Badawi and allows him to leave the country to join his wife. It is clear Mr. Badawi does not want to live under the laws of the Kingdom, so punishing him by flogging serves little purpose to reform him. Let him go with dignity.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/06/396466/Saudi-blogger-flogging-postponed-again

IRAN

Khaled Meshaal, Political Chief of Hamas is going to Iran next month for talks regarding Palestine.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13931117000777

Comments: Saudi wants to make the transition of power in their own country, a peaceful one, which is honorable. They also need to have their own people support them due to the unrest in Yemen. The Houthis put themselves in power, there are still other factions of people, the Southern Movement, Al Qaida and middle of the road Yemenis who do not agree with this. They seek UN recognition of their newly formed government, the UN has not granted this yet. Since the Houthis are Shias, long term stability in Yemen with them controlling the government doesn't seem likely. If the UN does grant them recognition, will the US have to provide support to them to defeat Al Qaida (Sunnis Muslims) aligning itself with Iran against the whole Sunni population? It will be interesting.

There is also something else looming and that is the situation in the Ukraine, the US is contemplating supporting one of the groups there. I think we need to stay out of it, let Russia handle their own affairs. (but you know we won't).

[Edited on 2/6/2015 by gina]

justify the treatment of Asia Bibi by Muslim WOMEN...

I cannot justify the acts of people who take actions on someone else. From the news articles we know that Aasia is a Christian woman, her troubles in Punjab, Pakistan began when she went to get some water from a well, and Muslim women said the water was unpure/unusable because a Christian woman touched it. An argument ensued and then Aasia was charged with blasphemy, most likely because they debated about what the Prophet would think about the matter.

I have said this before, it was the Prophet himself, peace be upon him, who let non Muslims pray in the masjid, he offered them conversion to Islam, they declined. He then sent one man, with them back to Yemen, and it was Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah (son of Abdullah al Jarrah) who converted the nation of Yemen to Islam.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31092447

Many Muslims do not read their Quran in it's entirety, otherwise they would read the parts that say Christians, Jews, Sabians as long as they do good, believe in the Lord and the last day will have no fear or regret. Islam believes in all the prophets, including Moses, who was sent to the Jews, Eashou (Jesus) who was sent to help the Jews and is a Prophet for Chrisitians, Noah etc.

The Quran itself tells you there will be more than 70 false sects of Judaism, 71 false sects of Christianity and 72 false sects of Islam. Yes it says this. But there will be one true sect of each of those religions. Those Nazarenes in Northern Syria who are being persecuted by ISIS are being wrongly persecuted, they have followed Jesus's original teachings down to this day. The Pope and the pedophiles that he refuses to at least disavow are not following true Christianity. How can he as a leader of that religion of Roman Catholics allow that? Why do they wear black when the Bible commands priests to wear blue robes? Haven't they read that? Women are supposed to have their heads covered when they pray, that is in the Bible also, do you notice any priest in any of these churches asking women to do that?

What I can tell you is that all the religions have deviated from the true path, but the end times war will be the Muslims against the Christians/Catholics/Jews. If people would get an education and practice their religions correctly it would not be as bad as it will be.

Updates 2.7.15

YEMEN, ISRAEL/US and ISIS

YEMEN
The Southern Movement speaks. The Yemen Times discussed this question and others with Radfan Al-Dubais, the spokesperson for protesters in Al-Arood Square. He was selected for the role by the Supervisory Committee of Al-Arood Square, which is composed of representatives from all southern governorates. Accordingly, the idea of forming this body took shape following several meetings headed by [leader of the body] Abdulrahman Al-Jifri and Sheikh Ahmed Bamualem, the deputy head.

http://www.yementimes.com/en/1857/intreview/4868/Al-Arood-Square-spokesperson-to-the-Yemen-Times--“We-are-telling-the-entire-world-that-the-southern-people-want--to-regain-their-state”.htm

ISRAEL/US
The Vice President's office expects that the Vice President will be traveling abroad during the joint session of Congress," an official said. Obama has said he will not meet Netanyahu during his visit, which comes a few weeks before the prime minister seeks re-election. The speech before Congress is expected on March 3. It is a "matter of long-standing practice and principle" that the president does not meet foreign leaders engaged in an electoral campaign, the White House has said.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/166503-biden-will-not-attend-netanyahu-speech-to-u-s-congress

HAMAS co-founder Mahmoud al Zahar called for the formation of Palestinian groups in the refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria to help launch attacks on Israel. Ein al Hilweh ha 70,000 people living in it, now has 120,000 due to Syrian refugees. Khaled Meshaal from the Hamas political bureau does not have the same ideology as Mahmoud al Zahar, when he meets with the Iranian leadership, we shall see what is decided upon.

http://yalibnan.com/2015/02/05/hamas-cofounder-calls-for-branches-in-lebanon-syria-to-fight-israel/

ISIS
Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said it would take 100,000 ground troops in Iraq and Syria to push back ISIS. President Obama is expected to try to garner support from the American people before increasing US involvement in the conflict in Syria and Iraq against Isis.

from Ya Libnan 2/5/15 (Lebanon)

Everything ISIS is doing now, the [Syrian] regime has done before and is still doing,” Syrian activist Ahmed al-Ahmad said. “But the world protects Assad and only cares about ISIS crimes.”

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Feb-07/286734-hundreds-die-in-relentless-syrian-regime-strikes.ashx#sthash.BOATv3bv.dpuf

Remarks: With all the countries involved in Syria, Lebanon, Russia, Iran (with military bases actually in the country), Britain, the US, Jordan running air strikes, and the US govt. saying we will need to be there for three more years, this is reminiscent of the Gulf War where you don't win, you just leave for awhile and then come back to try some more. If we won in Iraq, why are we still there? The Iraqi National Army cannot adequately defend their country from being taken over that's why. And on top of that there will soon be discussions about helping those freedom fighters in the Ukraine. It won't matter what we do or don't do to help out Pakistan, they WILL go to war with India because of the Indus River.

It's time to let other countries solve their own internal and regional problems. We just agreed to provide Jordan 3 billion dollars in aid, for our strategic partnership(s).

Why can't we just stay home?

[Edited on 2/7/2015 by gina]

Updates 2.8.15

ISIS

Jordan has been launching airstrikes on Isis since the killing of their pilot, Muath Kaseasbeh. They have launched 56 airstrikes since Thursday and vow to continue until Isis is destroyed. They hit 19 targets on the first day, 18 on the second, and 19 on the third. The US have launched 15 in Iraq and 11 in Syria since Friday. The United Arab Emirates said it will send F-16's (which they buy from America) to fight alongside Jordan's planes. The US is sending 25 million weapons to Lebanon for them to use to secure their borders, we have given 100 million US dollars to them in the last year to buy weapons. . In November, France and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement for Paris to provide the Lebanese army with $3bn-worth of weapons paid for by Riyadh. The first shipment of those weapons is expected to arrive in April.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2015/February/middleeast_February86.xml§ion=middleeast

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/07/us-launches-26-air-strikes-against-isis-syria-iraq

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/07/uae-f16-fighter-jets-jordan-air-strikes-isis

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/08/us-25m-weapons-lebanon-islamic-extremists

What is ISIS doing?

ISIL has burned 16 people to death in Mosul for refusing to give an oath of allegiance (bayat) to the Islamic State leader, Abu Al Baghdadi. Local official Mowaffaq Hamid al-Azawi said on Friday that the ISIL members executed the victims in the western al-Islah neighborhood of the city, located some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad. The development came on the same day as the ISIL militants immolated three civilians in the town of Hit, located about 140 kilometers (85 miles) west of Baghdad, after accusing them of collaborating with the Iraqi security forces.

They executed 15 people in Fallujah in the past week. On Saturday, ISIL also captured 170 members of al-Jubur tribe in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk, and took them to a detention facility in Hawija District, situated about 48 kilometers (30 miles) south of the city.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/02/07/396596/ISIL-burns-16-Iraqis-to-death-in-Mosul

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/03/391425/ISIL-terrorists-executes-15-in-Fallujah

Remarks: The US is sending millions in aid and weapons to other countries for the purpose of fighting the Islamic State. What can their response be to the US? Logically to bring the war to the US in the US. This is not just a few planes bombing a few fighters in a few villages. When we took out Saddam, we knew there would not be an Iraqi uprising here, but IS is part of al Qaida. Al Qaida is not afraid to send people here. With the funding of other countries onslaught on the Islamic State we have made their successes against the Islamic State possible, therefore we are responsible. Does anyone really think there will not be retaliation here on our shores? DO you remember what they told their fighters 9.23.14 when France sent war planes, they did a video, you've seen it.

"If you cannot obtain a bomb or bullets target the infidel directly whether American , French or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, slit his throat with a knife, run him over with your car, throw him to his death from a great height, strangle him, or poison him. If you cannot do that, burn down his house, car or business or destroy his crops. If you cannot do even that, spit in his face. "

We are funding the war against them even if we did not send any planes, but we are sending war planes also. What do you think they will send to us?

[Edited on 2/8/2015 by gina]

an ISIL dude spits in my face and he's going to pick up his teeth before he leaves.

ISLAM THEN AND NOW

Did you know that the so called Islamic State is not the first group to call itself that? Well it's true. The Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him tried to create one long ago. Being persecuted in Mecca as you call it, he migrated to Medina. He wrote something called The Constitution of Medina. It created a free state not just for Muslims, but also for the Jews and Christians living there. No I am not stoned watching Moogis re-runs. This is true. It was designed to establish peace among not just the twelve clans living in Medina but others also.

There were rights for Non Muslims specified.

1. Security for all groups equal

2. Non Muslims had the same political, cultural rights as Muslims AND Freedom of Religion.

3. There would be no treachery between Muslims and Non Muslims.

4. Non Muslims would NOT have to take part in religious wars between Muslims and any other group.

The other things the Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him put in The Constitution of Medina included things found in the Bible describing what was expected of the people there in terms of daily living (which later became known as the Sunnah).

1. Be Faithful and obedient to God.
2. Do not steal.
3. Do not commit adultery.
4. Do not kill.
5. Do not make false allegations against someone.
6. Do not backbite (slander other people behind their back).
7. Practice every good deed and refrain from evil.
8. Be truthful.
9. Love everyone in society.
10. Keep your promises and honor your commitments.
11. Differentiate between lawful and unlawful.
12. Behave with good manners.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=945458

That's right, that's the Islamic State he wanted, and what he risked his life to create. His masjid (a mosque is a whiskey house, a masjid is a house of prayer) served many functions, more than the masjids today. His masjid in Medina served these functions:

Was a shelter for the poor, a special place was made for them there.
Was a refuge for women.
It was a place for education.
It was a place where prisoners were kept, not tortured, but kept and offered opportunity to repent.
It was a place for medical treatment for wounded fighters.
It was a place to meet foreign delegates or dignitaries from other places.
It was a place for military planning.
It was a place for people to visit with their leader who was guiding them.

https://prophetictimeline.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/migration-to-madinah-1ah/

“No Believer shall oppose the client of another Believer. Whosoever is rebellious, or seeks to spread injustice, enmity or sedition among the Believers, the hand of every man shall be against him, even if he be a son of one of them. A Believer shall not kill a Believer in retaliation of an unbeliever, nor shall he help an unbeliever against a Believer.

“Whosoever among the Jews follows us shall have help and equality; they shall not be injured nor shall any enemy be aided against them.... No separate peace will be made when the Believers are fighting in the way of Allah.... The Believers shall avenge the blood of one another shed in the way of Allah ....Whosoever kills a Believer wrongfully shall be liable to retaliation; all the Believers shall be against him as one man and they are bound to take action against him.

“The Jews shall contribute (to the cost of war) with the Believers so long as they are at war with a common enemy. The Jews of Banu Najjar, Banu al-Harith, Banu Sa'idah, Banu Jusham, Banu al-Aws, Banu Tha'labah, Jafnah, and Banu al-Shutaybah enjoy the same rights and privileges as the Jews of Banu Aws.

“The Jews shall maintain their own religion and the Muslims theirs. Loyalty is a protection against treachery. The close friends of Jews are as themselves. None of them shall go out on a military expedition except with the permission of Muhammad, but he shall not be prevented from taking revenge for a wound.

“The Jews shall be responsible for their expenses and the Believers for theirs. Each, if attacked, shall come to the assistance of the other.

“The valley of Yathrib (Medina) shall be sacred and inviolable for all that join this Treaty. Strangers, under protection, shall be treated on the same ground as their protectors; but no stranger shall be taken under protection except with consent of his tribe....No woman shall be taken under protection without the consent of her family.

Whatever difference or dispute between the parties to this covenant remains unsolved shall be referred to Allah and to Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah. Allah is the Guarantor of the piety and goodness that is embodied in this covenant. Neither the Quraysh nor their allies shall be given any protection.

“The contracting parties are bound to help one another against any attack on Yathrib. If they are called to cease hostilities and to enter into peace, they shall be bound to do so in the interest of peace; and if they make a similar demand on Muslims it must be carried out except when the war is against their religion.

“Allah approves the truth and goodwill of this covenant. This treaty shall not protect the unjust or the criminal. Whoever goes out to fight as well as whoever stays at home shall be safe and secure in this city unless he has perpetrated an injustice or committed a crime.... Allah is the protector of the good and God-fearing people.”

That was the first Islamic State established by Muhammad, peace be upon him, the Prophet of Islam. There were wars, there was martyrdom, there was jihad. Those who want peace need to go back and look at the intent of the man who received guidance from Archangel Gabriel to purify the religion that had fallen into corruption and idolatry in Makkah. He did not set out planning to kill all the Jews or Christians, our current state of affairs is due to all religions deviating from the path of peace. Go back to what was given to you before crooked rabbis, deviant priests, and ill informed imams started mis-educating people. The guidance was left for you, seek it, find it and become a student of knowledge.

[Edited on 2/10/2015 by gina]

Interesting article below.

What ISIS Really Wants

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-isis-really-wants/ar-BBhFUKq

ISRAEL/PALESTINE

Short Update: Leonard Nimoy's Final Wishes "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield"

While fans and Hollywood actors and actresses alike mourn the death of Leonard Nimoy, Dr. Spock from Star Trek, many people might not know the last thing he left in his legacy, and yes it needs to be up here in this thread. His last wishes were for a two state solution to the Palestinian/Israeli impasse. He also relates to a Star Trek episode Let This Be Your Last Battlefield.

http://www.juancole.com/2015/02/leonard-israel-palestine.html

“I reach out to you as someone who is troubled to see the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians continue apparently without an end in sight.

“In fact, there is an end in sight. It’s known as the two-state solution–a secure, democratic Israel as the Jewish State alongside an independent Palestinian state. Even Israel’s nationalist Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, has come to see this as the shape of the future. The problem is how to reach that end point. It’s something we should be concerned about–not only as world citizens, but as Americans.

“You might recall the episode in the original Star Trek series called, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. Two men, half black, half white, are the last survivors of their peoples who have been at war with each other for thousands of years, yet the Enterprise crew could find no differences separating these two raging men.

“But the antagonists were keenly aware of their differences–one man was white on the right side, the other was black on the right side. And they were prepared to battle to the death to defend the memory of their people who died from the atrocities committed by the other.

“The story was a myth, of course, and by invoking it I don’t mean to belittle the very real issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians. What I do mean to suggest is that the time for recriminations is over. Assigning blame over all other priorities is self-defeating. Myth can be a snare. The two sides need our help to evade the snare and search for a way to compromise.

“The Middle East is only getting more tumultuous. The upheavals throughout the region show that what happens in the Middle East can’t help but affect us in the United States. This year, we’ve seen oil prices rise sharply and America become involved militarily in Libya. The cost to American lives and our economy continues to rise at a time when unemployment and deficits are sapping our country’s strength.” ‘

Congress will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday March 3rd. While Obama and Biden will NOT meet with him, maybe Congress can do something to help wage peace. However, as much as we all want peace in Palestine God himself did not want a two state solution. He wanted Israelis to live in peace with everyone. He forbid the two state solution.

Ezekiel 37:15

Read it and find out. The world changes, god does not change, and he is one God for all peoples, Muslims do not have a different God than Jews or Christians.

[Edited on 3/1/2015 by gina]

Short Update

(from last week)

North Korea

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/north-korea-angered-by-drills-fires-short-range-missiles-off-coast/ar-BBi7LpM

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/02/25/tsr-dnt-todd-north-korea-nuclear-weapons.cnn/video/playlists/inside-north-korea/

They could have 100 nukes by 2020.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/02/19/tsr-dnt-todd-north-korea-kim-jong-un-new-power-haircut.cnn/video/playlists/inside-north-korea/

Remarks: They have no qualms about launching nukes if they have to do so as a retaliatory response, if they do, their maps indicate they will target US interests including Hawaii and California.

NIGERIA

Boko Haram pledges allegiance to the Islamic State.

http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-leader-pledges-allegiance-islamic-state-group-210202677.html

Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - The leader of Nigeria's Boko Haram militants, Abubakar Shekau, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group in an audio recording released Saturday.
"We announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims, Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim al-Husseini al-Qurashi," said the voice on the message, which was believed to be that of Shekau and was released through Boko Haram's Twitter account.

Remarks: Group by group, country by country Isis is recruiting. The number of groups that have joined them is quite large and largely unreported by the press here. People who feel oppressed in their own lands are willing to join a group that promises to take down the regimes they feel are repressive in their own lands.