DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — US President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening economic protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America joined Israel in bombing Iranian nuclear sites in June.

Trump initially wrote on his Truth Social platform, warning Iran that if it “violently kills peaceful protesters,” the United States “will come to their rescue.” At least seven people have been killed so far in violence surrounding the demonstrations, sparked in part by the collapse of Iran’s rial currency.

“We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” Trump wrote, without elaborating.

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The stock market is down today and it’s all Trump’s fault. That’s what the media would have you believe anyway. As soon as something doesn’t go up, it’s because of Trump. The mainstream is getting kind of hard to watch, because they blame everything on you-know-who. They’ve apparently even removed him from the impeachment exhibit at the Smithsonian. I know the stock market is down today, but they’re trying to hang it around our necks. I have a feeling everything’s going to be ok.

Trump is promising sanctions on Russia. They’re talking about shock and awe in the mainstream. I have a feeling our leaders know what they’re doing (for a change) and America is the beneficiary.

You can hardly watch or read the mainstream media, they’re all out to get our President. Bad news is his fault and good news is in spite of him.

Now they’ve discovered the shroud of Turin is not what they claimed it to be. Apparently it was produced, and then “found.” They’ve been at this a long time. I could have told them it wasn’t legit. The Catholics repeat something over and over, and it becomes true! This is not a modern phenomena, but it still goes on.

They’ve been carrying on about Ghislaine Maxwell, but aren’t prepared to give her immunity. I’ve never known whether to believe all the stories. At this point who knows what to believe? Most believe the media’s take on the whole Epstein saga. But when haven’t they lied to us? They can’t even mention anyone’s name without saying their peace. I don’t believe them anymore.

We’ve had to live through some bad times, with the bad guys being in charge. I’ll bet they’re scared to death right now. The President wants to stay out of it and let nature take it’s course. I for one am going to hate to see us bogged down in old news. But these people have it coming. I just wish we didn’t have to live through it. Apparently Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were awarded a large sum ($2,000,000) from the Justice Department. They better spend it quick because the nonsense that occurred under Biden is about to hit the fan.

Tulsi Gabbard has been alluding to trouble up ahead, and it goes to the legitimacy of the 2020 election. What if they find out it was stolen? What do we do, go on like it didn’t happen? At this point we don’t know what will happen. Evidence is coming out that Joe Biden was not capable of being on the job. People we never heard of were running our country, and we’re going to have to be front and center as it gets set right.

Britain has imported hordes of Islamic types, and they’ll never be the same. I’m aware that makes some people mad, but read the news. They have so much compassion that the most popular baby name is Islamic. That can’t be good news for the future. They’ve got problems that they created for themselves by being “woke.” America is not about to become Islamic, whatever have been the policies of the past.

Thank goodness we’ve got a president who loves the country, can’t be bribed, and we’re looking forward to a boom. But the media isn’t having it. They put forth wrong projections and a bust is just around the corner to hear them tell it. I think they’re talking out their hat, but we’ll see.

Suddenly things have taken off. I have to dodge the commercial vehicles on my way to work. Things seem to be going well, but you’d never know it by listening to the mainstream. Right now we’ve got a lot to be thankful for, and we’d better give thanks.

Mark

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Temperatures in Mecca have soared to 125 degrees Fahrenheit in June. Saudi officials said on Sunday that more than 2,000 pilgrims have been treated for heat stress, but they did not mention any fatalities and have not provided updated information since Sunday.

AFP’s tally of deaths, based on local media sources, stood at 645 on Wednesday. The Arab diplomats who spoke to AFP said 550 bodies were being held at the largest morgue in Mecca.

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/06/19/at-least-550-muslims-have-died-on-hajj-pilgrimage-as-temperatures-hit-125of-in-mecca/

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French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reportedly told TF1 television on Sunday that the country was “durably under threat from Islamist terrorism” after a prosecutor identified the French 26-year-old born to Iranian parents accused of fatally stabbing a German tourist and injuring two others steps away from the Eiffel Tower in Paris over the weekend.

At a news conference on Sunday, France’s top anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said suspect Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a French national, recorded a video speaking in Arabic before the attack in which he swore allegiance to the Islamic State group, used a name to introduce himself that referred to the Islamic State in Afghanistan and expressed support for Islamic extremists and jihadists operating in various areas around the world, including in Africa, Iraq, Syria, Egypt’s Sinai, Yemen, Iran and Pakistan.

Ricard said Rajabpour-Miyandoab and three others, including family members and associates, were taken into police custody for questions after the attack.

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Source: https://www.foxnews.com/world/french-minister-warns-country-durably-under-threat-islamist-terrorism-paris-stabbing-suspect-idd

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Mega-rich Asif Aziz, 56, known as Mr West End, will take over the Trocadero in the centre of the capital, The Sun reports.

He had applied to build a 1000-person capacity mosque but plans were withdrawn because of backlash from residents.

But now Westminster Council has approved a three-storey mosque for 390 worshippers, The Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

It’s thought it will be called “Piccadilly Prayer Space” and could be open within months.

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Source: https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/muslim-billionaire-asif-aziz-granted-permission-to-turn-london-landmark-trocadero-into-mosque/news-story/4facac7d8b900c393b6a6a2e557e8192

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Iran on Monday executed two men convicted of blasphemy, the country’s judiciary announced, carrying out a rare death sentence for such a crime.

The judiciary’s Mizan news agency said in a report that Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare were hanged in Arak prison in central Iran over crimes including insulting the religion of Islam and the prophet and promoting atheism. According to the report, the duo ran several anti-religious social media accounts and both men had “clearly confessed to their crimes.”

Mehrad and Zare were arrested in May 2020 after authorities accused them of running a Telegram channel called “Criticism of Superstition and Religion,” which, according to the authorities, spread ideas deemed insulting to Islam. In 2021, a court in Arak convicted the two men of blasphemy charges and sentenced them to death.

Rights groups say the two faced months of solitary confinement and were denied access to a lawyer and family visits. Their alleged confession to their crimes is also believed to have been extracted under torture.

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Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/05/iran-executes-two-men-accused-blasphemy-insulting-islam#ixzz819tEftuQ

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So they caught the guy responsible for publicizing highly classified documents. Everyone’s concerned that this young (21 yr. old) guy would have access to such ruinous documents But they got him. The news media is all over it. They want to know what they can do to help see that government secrets remain secret! Never mind that the release reveals we’ve been, uh, misled by the spokespeople of various departments and agencies. We are apparently deeper into the Ukraine war than we were given to understand. They’re talking about the agencies and spokesmen being “embarrassed.” We’re worried that government officials may be embarrassed?

It seems we may have more to worry about than the embarrassment of government officials. The news is so gruesome as it is, and we knew these buffoons weren’t to be trusted. We’ve been lied to so routinely that we no longer trust official statements anyway. But the news agencies aren’t worried about what the documents revealed, they’re wondering instead how they can help make sure this doesn’t happen again.

The Catholics are all torn up about crying statues again. This isn’t the first time, by a long shot, that statues have been caught crying blood. But now the Vatican is going to send out scientists to verify what’s going on. Like we care. They ought to be sending out plumbers.

Everybody who’s visited the Middle East is familiar with the call the Muslim prayer, blared over outdoor loud speakers to your hurting ears. Now it’s big news that you only need to go to Minneapolis to hear the phenomenon. Assuming you want to. Obama called it the sweetest sound he ever heard, or words to that effect.

The pretender has been visiting Ireland, exploring his roots, or whatever. It’s almost more that we can stand, seeing that vacant look in his eyes while being directed which way to go. Hunter is now much in evidence, to the point that we suspect that there must be some motivating factor.

When has the United States projected such weakness? We see our former allies seemingly betting on China. Even Macron went to kiss the ring. Nations that weren’t particularly friendly are making deals with the presumptive leading superpower, and it’s not the U. S. anymore. It’s hard to remember a time when everything internationally went against us. Jimmy Carter comes to mind, but he wasn’t even in the same league.

Bud Light has a tranny on the can, and they can’t figure out why their beer isn’t selling. Must be us bigots. We just don’t understand! Hopefully the board of directors realizes that they’re running a business. You don’t just insult your core audience and expect to thrive. But that’s not the only corporation that’s decided we need a push. Cruise lines, rental properties, prescription drugs… The television has become an instrument of indoctrination and you can hardly escape it. Big corporations have decided that they’re going with the clap trap, and we’ll either be drug along or they’ll call us the names they’ve made up. We’re getting used to it.

You wonder what HWA would say, thirty seven years later. He wouldn’t believe how far society has fallen. We’ve got every aberrant intellectual explaining, in kindergarten terms, why all this is good. My Dad would be denouncing our society in the most glaring terms. That’s just exactly what we intend to do. Somebody has to stand up and say, “NO!”. Nobody else dares for fear of being canceled. We will continue to slaughter their sacred cows.

Mark

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The purported CCTV footage of the mayhem last weekend only added to the mystery of what happened the night of the blaze at the detention facility. Evin Prison is known for holding political prisoners, including protesters from the demonstrations that have convulsed the country over the past five weeks. Rights groups estimate that thousands have been swept up since the unrest began over the Sept. 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman in police custody for allegedly not adhering to the country’s strict Islamic dress code.

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Source: https://apnews.com/article/iran-technology-dubai-middle-east-business-944d99079fca61439d64054db6bde941

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January 26, 2020 / JNS) Whether one considers the masses of Muslims who have been flowing into Europe as (primarily) economic refugees, proud hijra colonists “quietly” Islamizing the continent, or both, these newly arrived votaries of Islam express an unabashed Islamic Jew-hatred.

Their virulently anti-Jewish attitudes are consistent with the disproportionate, approximately three-fold increased rate of extreme anti-Semitism among Western European Muslims, in general, relative to non-Muslims, just reported Nov. 21, 2019 in the latest comprehensive Anti-Defamation League survey findings. Germany’s failed attempt to mollify this new Muslim immigrant animus toward Jews by “sensitivity” visits to Nazi-era concentration camp memorials demonstrates its deep-seated intractability.

The depressing failure to lessen Muslim immigrant Jew-hatred has garnered little attention. Contrast that with the much-ballyhooed pilgrimage to Auschwitz by what was characterized as “the most senior Islamic leadership delegation” to visit the location of a Nazi German death camp. This interfaith junket, spearheaded by Saudi “reformist” secretary-general of the Muslim World League (MWL), Mohammad bin Abdulkarim al-Issa, and the CEO of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), David Harris, took place four days before the 75th anniversary of the camp’s Jan. 27, 1945 liberation.

Far less widely reported was that al-Issa’s Muslim delegation was on a broader tour to “several sites of injustice,” including Srebrenica, Bosnia. There, during 1995, a tit for tat massacre of Bosnian Muslims—bearing no relationship in either scale or single-target, monomaniacal hatred to the Nazi Holocaust destruction of European Jewry–took place during a bloody civil war between the region’s Serbs and Muslims.

Here is the al-Issa/MWL tour’s stated purpose, as described in London-based Arabic daily Asharq al-Awsat:

“The visit of the Islamic delegation confirms the Islamic values and asserts that Muslims condemn every criminal act. The Islamic leaders will visit the sites and affirm that Islam is a religion of mercy and fairness and that it is against all malicious practices, adding that this is not limited to Muslims, but involves everyone. A large number of senior scholars of the MWL participated in various efforts to explain Islamic justice in its related positions, during several visits, meetings, initiatives, and declarations. This was reflected in the positive image of Islam and Muslims against all forms of extremism and radicalization.”

Moreover, in Saudi Arabia, al-Issa, despite being dubbed the so-called “new face of Saudi Wahhabism,” is viewed with understandable skepticism by genuine Saudi reformers. Political scientist Stephane Lacroix, who studies Islamic authoritarianism within Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, has noted, “As one Saudi intellectual said: ‘How can one take Mohammed al-Issa’s statements seriously when religious bookstores in Riyadh are full of books advocating the exact opposite?’”

To which Lacroix added: “Interview with a now-jailed Saudi intellectual, January 2018.”

Other imprisonments of dissident reformers by al-Issa’s powerful patron Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), Lacroix concludes, “…makes MBS’s [and al-Issa’s] religious reforms look more like a public relations stunt than a genuine transformation. No such transformation can happen without an open and frank debate about the Wahhabi tradition—and this is precisely what MBS is not willing to have.”

Returning to al-Issa’s Auschwitz junket, and unpacking his statements about the Holocaust since 2018, demonstrates his rather odious expropriation of the Holocaust’s legacy for Muslim propaganda purposes.

Al-Issa’s putatively “landmark” Jan. 25, 2018, letter to the director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Sara Bloomfield, although decrying the Holocaust as “among the worst crimes ever,” was devoid of any reference to Jews as the victims, yet managed to emphasize, “True Islam is against these crimes.” Al-Issa added, mendaciously and contrary to Islam’s Sharia mandates for all non-Muslims and their historical application across 14 centuries, that “Islam has, through long centuries, coexisted with all religions, and respected the dignity of its followers.”

On April 30, in a “memorandum of understanding” with the AJC unveiling the planned visit to Auschwitz, al-Issa denounced the “heinous attacks in Pittsburgh​, Pennsylvania, in Christchurch, New Zealand, and most recently in Sri Lanka.” Al-Issa’s comments, however, ignored the endless paroxysms of violence by Muslims directed at the Jews of Israel, and the excessive, if more sporadic, ongoing Muslim attacks on European and American Jews. He also refused to acknowledge, let alone condemn, mainstream, institutional Islam’s continuous espousal of canonical Islamic Jew-hatred, and the resulting grossly disproportionate rates of extreme Muslim anti-Semitism, and Muslim anti-Jewish violence, worldwide.

There has been a longstanding refusal of Muslim leaders such as al-Issa to recognize the World War II-era Nazi collaboration—punctuated with overt calls for Jew-annihilation, by jihad—of arguably the most influential Muslim of that era: the jihadist, Caliphate-championing “godfather” of the Palestinian Muslim movement, Hajj Amin el-Husseini.

Contemporary Muslim leaders of al-Issa’s ilk have proven equally incapable of acknowledging how Muslim leaders such former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat admired Hitler even after World War II, or how after the war escaped Nazis—many of whom converted to Islam (most notably Johannes “Omar Amin” von Leers, whose conversion Husseini himself oversaw!)—were granted asylum, particularly in Egypt, and contributed to the incessant Muslim jihad campaigns to destroy Israel, and annihilate its Jews, from 1948 through (at least) 1973.

That reprehensible legacy of Muslim denial continues and now has been extended to ignoring the current global pandemic of Muslim Jew-hatred and anti-Jewish violence. This Muslim caricature of “Holocaust remembrance” further cynically equates the systematic Nazi annihilation of six million Jews during the Shoah with the Srebrenica murders of perhaps 7,000 Muslims during the 1990s Muslim-Serb civil war in Bosnia, a conflict rife with reprisal killings.

What ordinary, sensible Jews should “Never Forget” is that what passes for “Jewish leadership” proudly orchestrated this hideous spectacle of mutual Jewish-Muslim denial.

Andrew G. Bostom, M.D., M.S., is a Brown University academic physician who has been studying Islamic doctrine and history for the past 18 years. He is the author of “The Legacy of Jihad,” “The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,” “Sharia Versus Freedom,” “The Mufti’s Islamic Jew-Hatred” and “Iran’s Final Solution for Israel.” He has published numerous articles and commentaries on Islam in print and online publications.

Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-muslim-holocaust-remembrance-farce/

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Temple Mount

The Hamas terrorist organization on Thursday accused Israel of deliberately damaging the holy sites of Islam.

Officials in the organization claimed that Israel was trying to change the nature of the Temple Mount and “impose facts on the ground.”

“The Israelis will not succeed because it is a Muslim holy site and its character cannot be changed, even if they really want to do so,” the Hamas officials added.

“The path of resistance, steadfastness, adherence to fundamental rights and principles, and consolidating the ranks on the national level as part of a strategy of resistance, is the way to deal with the occupation, the damage to Jerusalem and the mosques on the Temple Mount,” according to Hamas.

Palestinian Arabs continuously falsely claim that Israel is “Judaizing” Jerusalem, which they claim is their capital, in an attempt to erase the Muslim connection to the city.

The officials often claim that Israel plans to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and replace it with a Holy Temple. Israel has also been accused of using chemicals to erode the foundations of the mosque in order to cause it to collapse.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/267793

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