Shaking faith: How ISIS is causing Muslims to abandon Islam in millions

http://www.aquila-style.com/…/spiritua…/shaking-faith/77587/ via @aquilastyle

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*GRAPHIC* Islamic State (ISIS) behead children and women after stripping them naked - See more at:

Here is a must-read piece from Satya D, a prominent Hindu thinker and activist:

From the advent of Islam, it is the brutality that was used to conquer. Will Durant and other authors have translated Arabs own memoirs on how the Islamic invaders have destroyed cultures and swathes of land with utmost brutality and inhumanity with mountains of Kafir’s heads and rivers of blood. Durant quotes how a Sultan of Delhi becomes restless if he does not see mountains of Kafir’s heads every day morning. Steven Knapp quotes Arab memoirs of literally rivers of blood and the number of men and women sold in Arab markets as slaves (women as sex slaves).
But what is more important is not who did it, but what drives them to do it. That is the point lost in the struggle between Muslims and other communities. A Muslim child is raised with Koranic verses such as below from childhood and Prophet as the model. What does child assimilate when he was told the hate speech such as a Kafir is same as Urine, Feces, Semen, Dead Body, Blood, Dog, Pig, sweat of an animal who eats impure (najis) and alcoholic beverages. This is recited as sacred verse. When people say that is a matter of interpretation, how much is there to interpret here and Mosques themselves are not making it a secret. In the pictures below, when you see ISIS slaughtering a Christian Kid or stripping a Chritian woman naked and beheading her, they are doing what is preached, that a Kafir is same as animal that can be slaughtered. Just watch how an animal is slaughtered and how a Kafir is. In fact, a Saudi Wahaabi cleric in this link gives a lesson on proper way of beheading (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHt-eqrLEOY ).
There is a Hindu Kush (Hindu slaughter) mountains in now Afghanistan and Pakistan region where just on one day they headed 100,000 Hindus. But that is history and why we worry. Because it is repeating again and again and we live in our own world, rather not see to it. On Direct Action Day in 1946 hundreds of thousands were slaughtered that resulted in one million people killed and many beheaded and paraded in the streets like today. Most of the reduction of Hindus/Sikhs from 25% to 1.8% in Pakistan happened in the first few months. This is not to say there were no retaliations and in places like Calcutta Muslims were slaughtered after Hindus realized they could go to East Pakistan if they kept quiet. In Bangla Desh ongoing genocide that reduced Hindus from 30% to 10%, Mosques encourage rape of Hindu Kafir women with words like Hindu women pubic hair smells very pleasant. Love Jihad, where Mosques encourage Muslim boys to seduce and marry Kafir girls for conversions is rampant not just in India but also in UK (BBC has a series on it). The boys task is to marry, produce children and move on to another girl. 1400 UK minor girls were raped by Muslim men and threatened to douse with fire if they mention about it to parents and adults, in a small town in UK!! In 1989, Mosques blared in Kashmir asking Hindu men to leave after leaving behind Hindu women that resulted in half millions still living as refugees in their own country. In Delhi Nirbhaya rape case, it is Muslim juvenile who inserted rod in Nirbhaya’s vagina and pulled out her uterus and intestines. Same with the middle aged Hindu woman by Muslim men in UP inserted a big rusted rod into her vagina and killed her.
Aurangzeb alone destroyed 10,000 Hindu temples (see Fact India exhibition from Aurangzeb’s own diktats). Taj Mahal is Hindu Palace/Temple. Durant notes how Ghazni could not find enough carts to carry the enormous wealth of just one Somanth temple after slaughtering 50,000 Hindu priests. The once great country with 25% world GDP was brought to its feet, a country of skeletons as Vivekananda put it in 1890s by Islamic and European conquests. The estimate is Islam killed 80 million in Indian Sub continent and 220 million worldwide. The UK rapper Muslim convert who beheaded American Journalist Foley was brainwashed by Indian UK Muslim Anjem Chowdhary.
India is the most affectd by Islamic terrorism after Middle East, but Islam is doing its job where 150,000 were killed since 9/11 itself in Kafir lands, of course half million slaughtered in Middle East itself where one Muslim sect considers other as Kafir!! World is slowly recognizing the only way to destroy destructive people is to turn them on themselves (like the Hindu mythological story of Mohini Bhasmasura).
Those Muslims who do not perform the brutalities either become immune or indifferent because deep in their psyche, a Kafir is less than animal. Many are in a denial phase and have little courage to face the truth. When Muslims pray in Mosque, with all men standing in rows and fiery sermons, it is nothing but a call for conquest. Why do Muslims want to create Mosques on the destroyed places of Kafirs, it is symbol of conquest. In Andhra, one Muslim MP Owaisi roared, give 24 hours without police and 20 crores of Muslims will slaughter 100 crores of Hindus in India. Yes, there are retaliations against Muslims to many provocations, but look at any Muslims groups, they talk about the retaliations made to their community encouraging more hatred, but never about what is causing it. It is never ending cycle of brainwashing and violence. A miniscule world population of Jews has the most Nobel prize winners and one Billion+ Muslims only produced terrorists and suicide bombers. A brutal religion only can produce the brutes that are ISIS. While one is using its abilities to shield its people, the other is using every opportunity to use its people as shields. Half of Muslims, women are forced to wear burkha and hijab so that she will not arouse passions for man while man can have four wives (at least in Sunni sect). This is Islam for the world.
But reading this stuff and putting our heads in the sand will not help. We all have to take personal responsibility to stop Islam hate preachings. How many of us checked on where Mosques are coming up and what they are teaching to little Muslim kids? How many of us have contemplated taking up Koran, Sira and Hadith as really a dangerous and brutal political ideology, an ideology of a brutal warlord, who has little respect for womanhood, who cleverly masqueraded it as a religion? Islam as it is today, does not belong to humanity or in any civilization. How many of us questioned why Saudi Arabians, the prime sponsor of terrorism allowed to fund Mosques in US and Europe to radicalize Muslims in the West and endanger our lives and civilization, while they do not allow any other religion (or even worship at home)? How many of us took up with our congressmen and senators to address why America is allowing immigration of those who consider this hate ideology as a religion into our nation and potentially destroy us from within eventually? How many of us took time to expose shady Muslims Organizations like CAIR? How many of us take on oil companies that forces us to pay the very money that are used by Islamic worlds to destroy our civilizations (see how oil companies killed battery cars so effectively in documentary ‘who killed the electric car’!!). How many of us are taking on the Islam embracing perverted leftists or ‘politically correct’ pundits/politicians who are dragging our civilization into a hell hole. Name one country, just one, where Islamic countries give equal rights to non-Muslims.
We worry for children, but we will possibly be leaving a living hell for our descendants starting with Europe. The demographic changes in Europe and India where many Muslims are using women as breeding machines combined with others reducing their populations, is a dangerous and direct threat to democracies and it is literally a matter of survival. From Michigan to Meeankshipuram, we are heading towards a disaster for all humanity if we do not take responsibility? /blockquote>
“Slaughter of Middle East Christians Children and women,” Catholic.org
Islamic State terrorists have begun their promised killing of Christians in Mosul, and they have started with the children. According to a report via CNN, a Chaldean-American businessman has said that killings have started in Mosul and children’s heads are being erected on poles in a city park.

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The nihilistic militia that calls itself Islamic State has been slaughtering, enslaving, raping and ethnically cleansing its way across Syria and Iraq for months- Muslim nations- u need 2 clean house of ur mass evil- ur innocents matter- democratic nations with Christian values are getting tired of this crap- 2 much poverty needs fixing now... please

MUSLIM MILITARIES ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICAS AND ASIA NATIONS MUST GATHER AND TAKE CARE OF THEIR MONSTERS..... Islam is a beautiful faith and deserves better.... and civilized and democratic Nations with Christian values are sick of cleaning up these messes..... come on and UN - get ur sheeeeet 2gether.... or like League of Nations- u need disbanding - United Nations salaries are $42 BILLION A YEAR...

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In the year 2014 little iddy biddy Christian girls are stolen forced Muslim and married off at 10, 11, and 12 2 drunken old men.... ???

Boko Haram says kidnapped girls are married off

219 girls remain missing after the extremist group’s mass kidnapping in April

Haruna Umar And Michelle Faul, the Associated Press

November 1, 2014

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremists claimed in a new video message.

The leader of Boko Haram also denied he had agreed to any cease-fire with the government.

Abubakar Shekau dashed hopes for a prisoner exchange to get the girls released in the new video released late Friday night.

“The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off,” he said, laughing.

Boko Haram’s kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls taking exams at a boarding school in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April prompted international outrage and criticism of Nigeria’s government for not acting quickly to free them. Dozens of the girls escaped on their own in the first couple of days, but 219 remain missing.

Unconfirmed reports have indicated that the girls have been broken up into several groups and that some may have been carried across borders into Cameroon and Chad.

The government had said it had negotiated with two Boko Haram leaders in Chad, with talks hosted by President Idriss Deby, and that it was confident the girls would be freed soon. But Boko Haram has many factions.

Shekau also threatened to kill an unidentified German hostage in the video, which was received by The Associated Press through the same channels as previous messages.

“If we want to, we will hack him or slaughter him or shoot him,” he taunted.

A German development worker was kidnapped at gunpoint in northeast Gombi town in July.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier last week told reporters in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, that he had no new information about the abductee.

A previous video in October showed the beheading of a man whom friends identified as the pilot of a missing fighter jet that Boko Haram claims to have shot down.

Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, on Oct. 17 announced that Boko Haram had agreed to an immediate cease-fire to end a 5-year-old insurgency that has killed thousands of people and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes in northeast Nigeria.

But attacks and abductions have continued unabated. This week the rebels seized Mubi, a city of more than 200,000 people. Fighting also continued Friday in Vimtin, the nearby village where Badeh was born.

Shekau in August announced that Boko Haram wanted to establish an Islamic caliphate, along the lines of the IS group in Syria and Iraq. Fleeing residents have reported that hundreds of people are being detained for infractions of the extremists’ version of strict Shariah law in several towns and villages under their control.

Shekau’s announcement further discredits the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, who on Thursday formally announced his candidacy for elections on Feb. 14, 2015 in Africa’s most populous nation. Nigeria, with some 160 million people, is divided almost equally between Muslims who dominate the north and Christians in the south. The West African nation is the biggest oil producer on the continent and has its biggest economy.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/leader-of-nigeria-extremists-says-kidnapped-girls-are-all-married-off/

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FULL 60 Minutes: Kurdish Female Fighters against ISIS - FEMALE STATE (extended un-aired footage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lro62AJ6e7M

One Billion Rising (Short Film)

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THIS IS UR ISIS- HAMAS-HEZBOLLAH-ALQAEDA-BOKO-TALIBAN- MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ETC. ETC. ETC.....this is what is happening 2 girls and women in Arab and Persian nations….. ONE BILLION RISING- no more excuses…. any politician that ignores – shames all women and girls and mothers and sisters and cousins… and gays….

Yazidi girl in Iraq (file)

‘I’ve been raped 30 times and it’s not even lunchtime': Desperate plight of Yazidi woman who begged West to bomb her brothel after ISIS militants sold her into sex slavery

Yazidi woman contacted Iraqi peshmerga fighters to ask for their help

She pleaded for prison to be bombed to end misery of constant rapes

Had been sexually assaulted so often she could no longer use the toilet

Said ordeal is so harrowing she plans to commit suicide even if freed

Details emerged from group of Kurdish anti-ISIS activists based in London

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2801353/i-ve-raped-30-times-s-not-lunchtime-desperate-plight-yazidi-woman-begged-west-bomb-brothel-isis-militants-sold-sex-slavery.html#ixzz3H50n7ybe

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In the Middle East, an ancient war is new again

A bitter, violent clash between Islam’s two major sects is dividing and, increasingly, defining the region

Michael Petrou January 3, 2014 Follow @michaelpetrou

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Of the various slurs and insults that opposing sides in Syria’s civil war fling at each other, there are some so archaic, they seem not to belong in a modern conflict. Among them is the Arabic and Persian term Majous, used by Sunni Muslim rebels against supporters of President Bashar al-Assad. Those familiar with the Christmas story might recognize its similarity to magi, as in the three wise men who came from the East with gifts for the baby Jesus.

The term originally referred to followers of Zoroastrianism, a now all-but-vanished religion that predates Islam. Rebels employ it today to deny the shared Islamic faith of their adversaries. Assad’s family and many of his supporters are Alawite Muslims, followers of an offshoot of Shia Islam. “It means they’re not Muslims, because they’re still these weirdo Zoroastrians,” says Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. “And they’re not even Arabs. They’re crypto-Iranians.”

It is language that speaks to the deepening sectarian fault lines running through Syria and, increasingly, throughout the Islamic Middle East. In Iraq, for example, al-Qaeda leaders boasting about prison breaks near Baghdad last summer said they had damaged the country’s “Safavid” government. The Safavids were a Persian dynasty that brought Shia Islam to what is now Iraq some 400 years ago.

Divisions between the Sunni and Shia interpretations of Islam are almost as old as the faith itself. But what’s happening now is a particularly bitter and often violent clash, and one that is intensified by a geopolitical power struggle between the two dominant nations in the region, Shia-ruled Iran and Sunni-led Saudi Arabia, each acting as standard-bearers for Islam’s two major sects. Some have likened the struggle to a Middle Eastern version of the Cold War, with Iran and Saudi Arabia playing the roles of America and the Soviet Union, and other states in the region lining up behind them.

For the Sunni-ruled countries of the Arabian Peninsula, any sign that Iran is becoming stronger—by improving its nuclear capabilities, or even by moving toward normalizing its relations with Washington—stokes anxiety. They fear Iran itself, and the possibility that a more powerful Iran might embolden and stir up dissent among their own Shia populations. Repercussions of the struggle within Islam are not limited to the Muslim world, either. America and Israel, motivated by their own standoff with Iran, side with the Sunni camp. Russia, seeing an opportunity to counter Western influence in the region, backs Shia Iran and Alawite-led Syria.

The Shia-Sunni conflict “is not just a hoary religious dispute, a fossilized set piece from the early years of Islam’s unfolding, but a contemporary clash of identities,” Vali Nasr writes in The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future. “Theological and historical disagreements fuel it, but so do today’s concerns with power, subjugation, freedom and equality, not to mention regional conflicts and foreign intrigues. It is, paradoxically, a very old, very modern conflict.”

The Middle East’s sectarian divide sharpened following the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Until then, Sunnis dominated the region, with Shia strength concentrated in Iran. When America toppled Saddam Hussein and brought democracy to Iraq, it also liberated the country’s Shias, who had long been suppressed by Saddam and his mostly Sunni power base, despite forming a majority of Iraq’s population.

“This was a tremendous earthquake in the regional balance of power,” says Landis. “It strengthened Iran tremendously. It made the Sunni powers extremely fearful of this growing Shia menace—at least what they saw as a menace.”

The Shia’s ascendency in Iraq was neither smooth nor peaceful. Sunni extremists resisted with suicide bombings and attacks on Shia religious processions and mosques. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was clear about his movement’s goals. The Shia, he wrote in a 2004 letter, are “the insurmountable obstacle, the lurking snake, the crafty and malicious scorpion, the spying enemy and the penetrating venom.

“If we succeed in dragging them into the arena of sectarian war, it will become possible to waken the inattentive Sunnis, as they feel imminent danger and annihilating death at the hands of Sabeans.”

Zarqawi, like Syrian rebel commanders today, reached far into history for an anti-Shia slur. The Sabeans were pagans of southwest Arabia. The Shia of today, he implied, are similarly godless. Zarqawi succeeded, to some degree, in provoking a sectarian war in Iraq whose bloody reverberations continue today. He also pulled Iran deeper into the conflict. In 2005, a cleric there described Sunni suicide bombers in Iraq as “wolves without pity,” and vowed, “Sooner, rather than later, Iran will have to put them down.”

Since then, Shia prime ministers with close ties to Iran have governed Iraq. A once Sunni-ruled state has shifted into Iran’s sphere of influence. It was this reality that prompted King Abdullah of Jordan in 2004 to warn of a Shia “crescent” stretching from Iran to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon that would alter the Sunni-Shia balance of power and risk destabilizing the region.

At the time, Abdullah’s comments sounded alarmist, says Matteo Legrenzi, an associate professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Today, they seem prescient. “Sectarianism is now one of the defining characteristics of the current moment in Middle East politics.”

The hot centre of this divide is Syria, where Sunnis form a majority, but where the Alawite Assad family has ruled for more than 40 years. It might have been possible, early in the uprising, for the country to avoid the religious animosity now tearing it apart. The popular movement against Assad was not initially a rebellion against the Alawites and, for a time, Assad’s regime maintained the loyalty of many of his Sunni soldiers.

Assad’s decision to arm Alawite civilian militias helped shape the conflict as a religious one, creating the perception among Alawites that the uprising was against them and not just Assad’s regime, says Frederic Wehrey, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Clerics and media outlets in the Gulf augmented the war’s sectarian nature by “demonizing” Alawites and focusing on Iran’s support for the Assad regime, says Wehrey, who is the author of Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprising. “The Gulf [states] and the Saudis see this as a pivotal moment in checking Iran’s regional influence. This is the strategic prize. The rest of the Arab world’s position hinges on what happens in Syria.”

This belief has pushed Sunni governments and private donors in the region to support Sunni rebel militias in Syria—some of whom subscribe to an extremist version of Islam and include foreign fighters in their ranks. Iran, for its part, has sent advisers from the Revolutionary Guards to fight for Assad, along with the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia, Hezbollah.

“It’s a regional war. All the militias in Syria have become proxies for a much broader Sunni-Shia struggle,” says Landis. “You could look at this like Central Europe during the Thirty Years War between Protestants and Catholics, because, in many ways, the Middle East is in the pre-Enlightenment world. Sunnis and Shias have not accepted each other as equal partners in Islam.”

By the time the Thirty Years War was over in 1648, millions were dead. The death toll from ongoing Sunni-Shia disputes—even in the charnel house of Syria—is much smaller. And while religious differences are an accelerant, the clashes are also about power and wealth.

“The grievances always stem from actual situations of disempowerment and of the nature of authoritarian systems of government,” says Legrenzi, citing as an example Bahrain, where a Sunni minority that includes the king dominates a Shia majority. Public demonstrations in 2011 were put down with help from Saudi troops and armour, and police from the United Arab Emirates.

Despite attempts by some commentators at the time—including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—to frame the unrest as an Iran-backed plot, Legrenzi and Wehrey both describe the uprising as an indigenous one fuelled by a genuine desire for a more just and equitable society.

Sunni and Shia powers have also co-operated when it suited them. Saudi Arabia and Iran were allies against Communism prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. More recently, Iran backed the Palestinian Sunni militia Hamas against Israel—though this partnership has unravelled because of Iran’s support for Assad.

The Muslim world, in other words, is not condemned to unending antagonism between its major sects. But the divide today is deep and violent, even at street level. Faith-driven lynchings have claimed victims from Egypt to Pakistan. There is little reason to believe this acrimony will soften soon.

http://www.macleans.ca/authors/michael-petrou/an-ancient-war-is-new-again/

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The best read on the war in Iraq - 'THERE ARE MASS GRAVES, SEXUALLY ENSLAVED WOMEN AND HEADLESS CORPSES." CANADA'S CONTRIBUTION 2 THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE IS SMALL.... BUT IT WILL ALSO BRING A MEASURE OF JUSTICE 2 A BAD OF RAPISTS AND MURDERERS... AND PROVIDE COMFORT AND PROTECTION 2 INNOCENTS WHO ASK 4 BOTH."- "Humanitarian assistance is NO GOOD WITHOUT FREEDOM AND PEACE FIRST.... Islamic state is like Assad... Assad is like the Islamaic State- very little difference"

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Yazidis cross the river Tigris between Syria and Iraq; they came from Mount Sinjar, where the first U.S. air strikes struck Islamic State militants

This week’s Maclean’s has a must-read feature on Iraq from Mike Petrou, who reports on the devastating impact of Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq. After a 10-year absence, Western military (including Canada) is back in Iraq to address the serious global threat posed by the jihadist group. The future of the Iraqi state is at risk, and civilians have suffered widespread violence, sexual enslavement and mass displacement at the hands of Islamic State.

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There is also a great video with Mike Petrou on the ground in Iraq that gives an overview of the situation.

http://newsandbusiness.rogersdigitalmedia.com.edgesuite.net/videos/13639244001/201410/1016/13639244001_3852935452001_Maclean-s---Inside-Iraq---Michael-Petrou-reports-on-Canada-s-new-war-v1.mp4

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Safer Haven: Tens of thousands of Yazidis, a religious minority targeted by Islamic State, have relocated to refugee camps in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq & Syria

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Yasidi girl in front of a run-down house shared by 14 families. The families came here when there was no room in refugee camps. While it doesn’t have the infrastructure or access to healthcare that the camps have, they prefer it to the overcrowded camps.

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Rights group accuses Islamic State of torturing children

Human Rights Watch said Kurdish boys from Kobani abducted in late May had faced torture and abuse by militants.

The Associated Press

November 4, 2014

BEIRUT – Islamic State militants tortured and abused Kurdish children captured earlier this year near the northern Syrian town of Kobani, an international rights group said Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch based its conclusions on interviews with several children who were among more than 150 Kurdish boys from Kobani abducted in late May as they were returning home after taking school exams in the city of Aleppo. It said around 50 of the Kurds escaped early in their captivity, while the rest were released in batches – the last coming on Oct. 29.

“Since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, children have suffered the horrors of detention and torture, first by the Assad government and now by ISIS,” said Human Rights Watch’s Fred Abrahams.

“This evidence of torture and abuse of children by ISIS underlines why no one should support their criminal enterprise.”

Four of the children who were released told Human Rights Watch that they were held by the extremists in the northern Syrian town of Manbij. They described frequent abuse at the hands of the militants, who used a hose and electric cable to administer beatings.

The boys said that some of the worst abuse was reserved for captives who had family members in the Kurdish militia known as the YPG, which has been locked in heavy fighting with Islamic State militants for control of Kobani since mid-September.

The children said the Islamic State group did not say why they were being released, other than that they had completed their religious training, the Human Rights Watch report said.

Islamic State militants have taken hundreds of Kurds captive over the past year as part of the group’s brutal campaign to take over predominantly Kurdish areas of northern and eastern Syria.

On Tuesday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the extremists had released dozens of Kurds taken captive in February. It was not immediately clear why the Islamic State group would release the captives now, nor whether a deal had been made with the Kurds for a prisoner exchange.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/rights-group-accuses-islamic-state-of-torturing-children-in-syria/

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Editorial: In the fight against ISIS, it’s worth getting our hands dirty

In joining the coalition, Canada is properly fulfilling its global obligations to promote peace and security in a difficult part of the world

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October 8, 2014

Sean Kilpatrick/CP

“No plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy,” observed 19th-century Prussian strategist Helmuth von Moltke. Risk, loss and uncertainty are fundamental to every military endeavour. Canada’s six-month mission against Islamic State, as approved by Parliament this week, will be no exception.

In sending six CF-18 fighters, two surveillance aircraft and a refuelling tanker to participate in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, it is possible Canada’s contingent of pilots, advisers and support crew will suffer casualties. There will be an obvious financial cost to be borne as well, although the exact size cannot be known with certainty. Participating in such a direct fashion may also make our country a target in the future for other radical Islamic terrorists.

There are many other important, but equally unanswerable questions, about Canada’s mission to the Middle East. Will Islamic State prove as difficult to dislodge from Syria and Iraq as the Taliban were in Afghanistan? Will it be possible to replace its putative caliphate with stable and coherent governments? How many civilians will die as a result of Islamic State targets being bombed? Is airpower sufficient to eliminate the threat of radical Islam? Will the mission need to be extended six months hence? The proper response to all such queries: We simply don’t know.

But does this lack of certainty mean we should disengage from the battle against radical Islamic terrorism and leave our CF-18s at home? On this score the answer is clear: absolutely not.

In this week’s parliamentary debate on the Harper government’s motion to authorize Canadian airstrikes in Iraq, and possibly Syria, both opposition parties chose to dwell at great length on the many uncertainties of the plan. The six-month mission could turn into a “quagmire,” warned NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. Despite the fact he supports supplying arms to factions fighting Islamic State on the ground, Mulcair fretted about the possibility of civilian casualties caused by coalition airstrikes. “Canada’s first contribution should be to use every diplomatic, humanitarian and financial resource at our disposal,” he concluded. All safe strategies, to be sure. And utterly useless at this point in the Islamic State conflagration.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau demonstrated his own foreign policy naïveté by claiming Canada enjoys a comparative advantage over its allies in airlift capacity and that we should to stick to moving things around for others. “We think there is a role for Canada to be involved in the fight,” he told the House of Commons. But only in a “non-combat” way. Anything else would be too risky and unpleasant.

While readily accepting the loathsomeness of Islamic State, which has engaged in public beheadings, rape, slavery, mass murder and numerous other repugnancies, the opposition leaders argued strongly against a Canadian combat mission. They’d rather someone else got their hands dirty. But shirking isn’t strategy. In joining the coalition that includes familiar allies such as the U.S., Britain, Australia, Denmark and France, as well as Arab states such as Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Canada is properly fulfilling its global obligations to promote peace and security in a difficult part of the world. That said, the strongest claim on risking Canadian lives and resources against Islamic State rests entirely on self-interest.

The main lesson to be gleaned from 9/11 is the broad threat posed by power vacuums in volatile parts of the world. When the Taliban took over Afghanistan after the fall of the Russian-backed government in the 1990s, it offered its terrorist partners a sympathetic home base from which to operate. From this distant location, they were able to deliver destruction direct to North America. A cross-border caliphate in the Middle East presents an even greater danger to world stability. Not only is it located much closer to travel routes and major population centres, but it seeks a violent theological war with its Islamic neighbours in addition to Western nations. The potential flashpoints are far more numerous this time around. Canada’s first interest in this fight is to keep its own citizens safe.

Of course our experience in Afghanistan, not to mention more recently in Libya where Canada participated in the 2011 bombing campaign that ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi, also emphasizes that more than just airstrikes are required to achieve long-lasting success. With Libya now riven by tribal violence and Afghanistan still painfully underdeveloped, Canada and the rest of the nations participating in the fight against Islamic State must think carefully about what they want to leave behind once the mission is over. Real stability is difficult to achieve. What Iraq or Syria will look like in a year’s time is still uncertain.

The only thing we can know for sure: the world will be better off without Islamic State.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/editorial-in-the-critical-fight-against-islamic-state-its-worth-getting-our-hands-dirty/

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U Are a Child of the Universe u Matter- Desiderata- Max Ehrmann- 1927
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

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Privacy has never been an absolute right': U.K. electronic spy agency urges Facebook, Twitter, to help stop terrorists

Steven Swinford, The Telegraph | November 4, 2014 8:27 AM ET

Facebook, Twitter and other internet services have become “the command and control networks of choice” for terrorists and criminals, but the companies are “in denial,” the new head of the U.K Government Communications Headquarters has said.

ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq have “embraced the web” to intimidate enemies and inspire “would-be jihadis” from all over the world to join them, said Robert Hannigan.

RCAF commander’s ‘inappropriate’ taunt to ISIS, sent from soldier’s funeral, removed from Twitter

The cloak of secrecy the government has thrown over Canada’s first bombing runs in Iraq is set to lift at a briefing Tuesday, but the commander of the air force appears to be injecting a new element into their objective: revenge.

A photograph was posted to Lt.-Gen. Yvan Blondin’s Twitter account Saturday from the funeral of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, killed in October by a known jihadist.

Along with the photo, Blondin wrote: “Dear ISIL, thinking of you. Some of my colleagues are in your area. Hopefully, they’ll have a chance to drop by.”

The tweet was removed on Monday afternoon.

“GCHQ is happy to be part of a mature debate on privacy in the digital age. But privacy has never been an absolute right and the debate about this should not become a reason for postponing urgent and difficult decisions,” he said.

He urged U.S. technology companies to work with the security services, arguing that it is time they confronted “some uncomfortable truths” and helped stop their services from being used to “facilitate murder or child abuse.”

He suggested that unless they co-operate, new laws will be needed to ensure that intelligence agencies can track and pursue terrorists.

His comments are among the most outspoken yet by the security services. Tensions between them and technology companies have been growing since leaks by Edward Snowden, a former U.S. security contractor turned whistle blower.

In an article for the Financial Times, Mr. Hannigan said: “I understand why they [U.S. technology companies] have an uneasy relationship with governments. They aspire to be neutral conduits of data and to sit outside or above politics.

“But increasingly their services not only host the material of violent extremism or child exploitation, but are the routes for the facilitation of crime and terrorism. However much they may dislike it, they have become the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals, who find their services as transformational as the rest of us.”

Mr. Hannigan became director of GCHQ last month after a distinguished career as a senior diplomat.

He was appointed to help bolster the public profile of the Government’s communications interception agency and take a more active role in the debate about its work.

He highlighted an eruption of extremist jihadi material online on websites such as Twitter, Facebook and Whatsapp, and said that terrorists can now hide their identities using encryption that was once the preserve of nation states.

He said that in the past, Al-Qaeda and its terrorists have used the internet to distribute material anonymously or “meet in dark spaces.”

AP Photo / Alastair Grant)A page of the British GCHQ official website, the government electronic and communications spy agency.

ISIS, however, has taken a more direct approach, using social networks to promote their messages in a “language their peers understand.” He highlighted videos in which they attack towns, fire weapons and detonate explosives, saying that they have a “self-conscious online gaming quality.”

Even their grotesque videos of beheadings highlight their sophistication. “This time the ’production values’ were high and the videos stopped short of showing the actual beheading,” he said.

“They have realized that too much graphic violence can be counterproductive in their target audience and that by self-censoring they can stay just the right side of the rules of social media sites, capitalizing on western freedom of expression.”

During the advance on Mosul in Iraq the jihadists were sending 40,000 tweets a day, he said.

Their cause has been helped by Mr. Snowden as they copy his high-level encryption, with some apps even advertised as “Snowden approved,” he said: “There is no doubt that young foreign fighters have learned and benefited from the leaks of the past two years.”

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Mr. Hannigan said that families have “strong views” about the ethics of companies and do not expect the social networks they use to “facilitate murder or child abuse.”

In Britain, the Conservatives are pushing for a communications data bill to give the security services greater access to internet communications. The move has been blocked by the Liberal Democrats.

Mr. Hannigan said: “For our part, intelligence agencies such as GCHQ need to enter the public debate about privacy. I think we have a good story to tell. As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the spectacular creation that is the world wide web, we need a new deal between democratic governments and the technology companies in the area of protecting our citizens.

“It should be a deal rooted in the democratic values we share. That means addressing some uncomfortable truths. Better to do it now than in the aftermath of greater violence.”

U.S. internet companies including Google, Facebook Twitter and Microsoft declined to comment.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/11/04/privacy-was-never-an-absolute-right-u-k-electronic-spy-agency-urges-facebook-twitter-to-help-stop-terrorists/

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