http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=sykes Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:09:19 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=sykes Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:28:41 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c1_1371151475 golem Britain is in denial. If population trends continue, by the year 2050, Britain will be a majority Muslim nation Britain is in denial. There is no real public debate on a historic event that is transforming the country. Mention of it occasionally surfaces in the media, but the mainstream political class never openly discuss it. What is that historic event? By the year 2050, in a mere 37 years, Britain will be a majority Muslim nation. This projection is based on reasonably good data. Between 2004 and 2008, the Muslim population of the UK grew at an annual rate of 6.7 percent, making Muslims 4 percent of the population in 2008. Extrapolating from those figures would mean that the Muslim population in 2020 would be 8 percent, 15 percent in 2030, 28 percent in 2040 and finally, in 2050, the Muslim population of the UK would exceed 50 percent of the total population. Contrast those Muslim birth rates with the non-replacement birth rates of native Europeans, the so called deathbed demography of Europe. For a society to remain the same size, the average female has to have 2.1 children (total fertility rate). For some time now, all European countries, including Britain, have been well below that rate. The exception is Muslim Albania. For native Europeans, it seems, the consumer culture has replaced having children as life's main goal. These startling demographic facts have been available for some time (see 'Muslim Population "Rising 10 Times Faster than Rest of Society"', The Times , 30 January 2009. Also the work of the Oxford demographer David Coleman). But on this historic transformation of the country there is silence from the political establishment. Not everyone agrees with these demographic figures. Population projection, some say, is not an exact science. Perhaps the Muslim birth rate will drop to European levels. But this seems to be wishful thinking. For years it was believed that Muslims would enter what is known as "demographic transition", with European Muslim birth rates falling to native European levels. But that demographic transition has not happened. In Britain, for example, the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities continue to have significantly higher birth rates than the national average, even after more than 50 years in the country. Over the short term (a few generations) demographic forecasting is as scientific as any social science can be. Britain and the rest of Europe are in native population decline and European Muslim birth rates are up. If that trend continues, then the projection of a majority Muslim population in Britain is sound. Even the highly respected economist and historian Niall Ferguson accepts the figures. Many British people find it hard to believe their country could become majority Muslim. After all, it was never what they wanted so why, in a democracy, should it be happening? But we've had such disbelief before. Back in the 60s and 70s, many people scoffed at the notion that London could ever be majority non-white. But today it is. The fact is that the deathbed demography of native Britons has come up against increasing Muslim birth rates and the result is a classic Malthusian geometric increase in the Muslim population. As Malthus emphasised, populations increase geometrically, not arithmetically. Given two populations, one declining one increasing, within a few generations the geometric increase of one over the other can be substantial. Why has the Muslim birth rate not fallen to native levels? Just as there may be consumerist-cultural reasons for the low birth rates of native Britons, there may be strong cultural reasons for higher Muslim birth rates. As the journalist Christopher Caldwell puts it: "Muslim culture is full of messages laying out the practical advantages of procreation. As the hadith saying has it: 'Marry, for I will outnumber peoples by you.'" Yassir Arafat understood the political power of high birth rates. The Palestinian population increased sevenfold in one generation from 450,000 in 1967 to 3.3 million in 2002. The wombs of Palestinian women, Arafat said, were the "secret weapon" in his cause. The Israeli government is very much aware of Palestinian demographics. Population projections over the long term can be wrong. But for Britain, over the short term, whatever way you do the numbers, they all point in one direction: Britain will be a majority Muslim state by the year 2050. The political and social consequences of all this will be significant. Britain's traditional foreign policy, particularly regarding the US and Israel, would very likely change. In fact the US and Israel are already anticipating the consequences of a majority Muslim Western Europe. Britain's social landscape would also be changed. The Adhan , the Muslim call to prayer, would very likely be heard throughout most of Britain. The traditional iconic sights and sounds of the country would also change from church bell-towers to minarets. Very likely all of this would happen gradually but there can be little doubt that it will happen, and it would be perfectly democratic. Given that such a historic change is taking place, the silence of the political class is curious, to say the least. Britain, until the 1950s, could trace its ethnic and cultural ancestry back thousands of years. In 1903, in Cheddar Gorge Somerset, the remains of a pre-historic man were found. Known as Cheddar Man, DNA tests on this almost 9000 years old skeleton showed that he has living descendents today, still in Somerset. In fact, genetic studies show that the populations of the British Isles (and Western Europe) have been stable for millennia, giving the lie to the oft quoted liberal comment that "Britain has always been a country of immigrants." That's false. Until the mass immigration of the 1950s, Britain was ethnically homogeneous. (See Bryan Sykes's Blood of the Isles . ) The long stretch of Britain's exclusively European identity is now coming to an end, yet the political class refuse publicly to discuss such a culturally transforming event. Why the silence from the politicians? Are they not proud of their achievement? The answer is that the demographic projections of a majority Muslim Britain show the British political class to have been catastrophically wrong on multiculturalism and immigration, and they are genuinely afraid to admit it. The British political establishment cannot give the full truth about immigration. The former Conservative MP George Walden, considering the fears of his fellow MPs in discussing particularly Muslim immigration, wrote: "I'd be so alarmed by the situation I'd do everything possible to suggest it was under control. It's up to politicians to play mood music in a crisis, and up to the people to understand that there's little else governments can do. The last thing they can say is that we face a threat to which we can see no end because it's based on a clash of cultures. On the IRA we told the truth; on the Islamic problem, we lie." (Walden, Time to Emigrate ? p.120) Back in the 60s and 70s, the British political establishment united in condemning Enoch Powell, not just as a racist but as being factually incorrect in his demographic predictions. Since then, the subject of immigration has split British politics between the truth-denying, but morally superior, political mainstream and the truth-telling legacy of the bogeyman Enoch Powell. For good or bad, the history of the last 40 years has vindicated Powell on many issues and shown the political establishment to have been wrong. Some major figures on the liberal-left now acknowledge this fact. David Goodhart, the founder of Prospect magazine, in his new book The British Dream , argues convincingly that he and others on the liberal-left got it wrong on immigration. But they also got it wrong on democracy. The projection of a Muslim majority by the year 2050, coupled with the fact that the vast majority of the British people have consistently opposed large-scale immigration, post-war British politics must represent the greatest ever failure in democracy. If ever the "Iron Law of Oligarchy" were proved right, then it is post-war British politics that has done it. http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3770/the_islamic_future_of_britain http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5c1_1371151475 golem The Islamic future of Britain Britain U.K sharia law muslim islam eurabia europe E.U EDL English Defense League Sun, 02 Jun 2013 04:37:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=94d_1370161958 english-patriot33 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wakefield-murders-teen-victim-elisa-1926177 Wakefield murders: Victim haunted after ex boyfriend Ahmad Otak killed her sister and best friend Elisa Frank speaks for the first time about how the violent murders of Kimberly Frank and Samantha Sykes left her traumatised and blaming herself for their deaths WITH an evil smirk Ahmad Otak licked blood from the blade of his knife and then spat on 17-year-old Kimberly Frank's mutilated body. He'd tied her sister Elisa to the sofa, shackling her ankles and wrists. Elisa trembled with fear as the evil killer then held the knife to her throat and forced her to lure his next victim to the horrific scene. Half-an-hour later, as Otak left the body of her best friend Samantha Sykes, 18, lying at her feet, Elisa was certain she was next. But incredibly he spared her... yet more than a year on she says she still wishes he hadn't. Brave Elisa, 20, has spoken for the first time about the terrible murders last March, and why she still blames herself for the deaths of the two people she loved most. TERRIFIED "Not a single day passes when I don't think about Kim and Sammy," she says. "What I have had since then isn't a life. I can't go out on my own because I'm terrified all the time. "I dream about them every night and have flashbacks in the day. I will never be rid of the image of them both lying there covered in blood, gasping for their last breaths. "Every day I wish he had taken my life instead of theirs and I'll never forgive myself for bringing him into their lives. The only thing that stops me from killing myself now is that I can't allow him to get three out of three." Elisa was so traumatised by her violent ex's dreadful crimes that she was sectioned under the mental health act last year after taking a cocktail of drugs. "Kim was all I had," says Elisa. "Dad left when I was a baby and we were taken into care when I was 14 and she was 13 because Mum couldn't cope. "We used to sing The Calling's song Wherever You Will Go every night and say it was about us. No matter what happened, we would be there for each other." But when Elisa was 15, Kim was sent to a foster family in Wales while she stayed on at their children's home in Wakefield. Otak, now 21, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, was also in the home after lying about his age. And as Elisa spiralled into depression following the separation from her sister, he became a shoulder to cry on. DISTURBED "He said his parents were dead and that he'd seen a lot of murders in his home country," says Elisa. "He sounded really disturbed by it. I felt sorry for him." The pair soon became more than friends and when Elisa left care at 17 they moved in together. But it wasn't long before Otak became violent and controlling. "He started making up weird rules," she recalls. "One day he told me I wasn't allowed to talk to men any more. I wasn't allowed to drink either because it wasn't allowed in his culture. "Then he stopped me from seeing certain girls he said were a 'bad influence'." Elisa's best friend Samantha, who had started a modelling career, fell into that bracket. "Ahmad said she was flaunting her looks for money and that made her cheap and dirty," says Elisa. "He'd only met Kim a couple of times but he said she was dirty too because she'd had more than one boyfriend. "I hated hearing him speak about them like that but if I disagreed he would hit me. "Tiny things would set him off. If he caught me watching soaps he would beat me because he thought the way women behaved in them was disgusting. "I realised he was crazy and I wanted to leave him but I had nowhere to go. I was trapped. Instead I did as he said. I stopped seeing Sammy and wouldn't tell him when I'd spoken to Kim." Otak's views became ever more extreme. He'd make Elisa walk a few steps behind him and forbade her from having any flesh on show. She reached breaking point last February. "The night before an argument had started from nowhere," she says. "Ahmad held a kitchen knife to my throat while he forced me down on the bed to have sex with him. I tried to scream but he took a needle and thread out and told me if I made another noise he would stitch my mouth up. I was terrified that one day he was going to kill me, and knew I had to go." The next morning Elisa moved in with Kim, who had moved back to Wakefield two weeks earlier. Elisa was also reunited with Sam, and they became a solid threesome. "Ahmad kept calling and texting me to go back but there was no way," she says. "I'd had a taste of freedom and remembered what it was like to be happy. "A month later he finally got the message and agreed to bring my stuff over. I was so relieved he'd finally accepted it was over. When he arrived he seemed calm but as Kim went to show him out he suddenly turned on her and she fell against me. At first I thought he'd punched her but when he pulled his arm back he had a knife in his hand. "There was blood splattered all up the wall and Kim was screaming. I was frozen in fear as he dragged her into the living room and stabbed her in the stomach and chest again and again. "Then he plunged the knife into her neck and she fell to the floor. "I could hear Kim gurgling and gasping for breath. Then the gurgling stopped and I realised it was too late. He stood over her body smirking, and licked her blood from the knife like an animal. Then he spat on her body. I was certain I was next." Otak cut the cable from the CD player and tied Elisa's wrists and ankles together. He held her at knifepoint as he dialled Samantha's number. "He said I had to tell her to come over or he'd kill me. "I was shaking with fear and praying she'd tell from my voice that something was wrong and raise the alarm, but 10 minutes later there was a knock at the door. Ahmad went to meet her. I'll never forget the sound of her screams as he plunged the knife into her. She called my name but I couldn'tget to her. Then he dragged her bleeding body into the living room and dumped her at my feet next to Kim. "Her throat was slit and as I heard those gurgling noises again I knew she was dying too. I had nothing left to live for. I just wanted him to kill me too." FROGMARCHED But Otak, who is in his early 20s, untied her and marched her at knifepoint to Samantha's car. "He said he was taking me to Afghanistan so I could see how women were supposed to behave. As we sped down the motorway, I kept picturing their bodies lying there." Otak drove Elisa 300 miles to Dover, where he dumped the car and frog-marched her towards the port. "He managed to break into a lorry, then forced me into the back," she says. Amazingly another stowaway in the truck managed to get hold of Otak's knife and told Elisa to make a run for it. They ran to a nearby house and hammered on a door. "I begged the woman to call the police," says Elisa. But shockingly her ordeal wasn't over. because police arrested her on suspicion of the murders. However her description of Otak soon led to his arrest and she was released three days later. A post-mortem examination showed that Kim had been stabbed 15 times and Sam had 32 stab wounds. Otak pleaded guilty to murder at Leeds Crown Court and was sentenced last November to a minimum of 34 years in jail. But for Elisa, now living with her dad after they reunited, the sentence is one of life. She has just spent another two months in a psychiatric ward, and says: "I don't know if I'll ever feel normal again.For a long time all I could think about was how to end my life but now I'm trying to keep going for Kim and Sammy. "I wish I could go back in time and kill that man. Instead I have to try and make my life count". http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=94d_1370161958 english-patriot33 Wakefield murders: Victim haunted after ex boyfriend Ahmad Otak killed her sister and best friend Wakefield murders islam, muslims, Wed, 29 May 2013 00:13:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f7_1369800605 burn_khameneis_beard Follow and like us on facebook! Kurdish suffering under Arab, Turkish and Iranian rule infuses them with a natural affinity for Jews and Israel. Syria's fragmentation along religious and ethnic lines exposes the apparent rupture of what has been known as the Arab Muslim Middle East. Sunni imperial rule - under the guise of what has been known as pan Arabism - may now be broken beyond repair. The Arab "sacred cow" - the so-called "Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine" - has failed to unify the Arab world and may now have "two hoofs" in the slaughter house. While regional realignments may result in a Middle East more amenable to Israel, dangers are still proliferating. Dore Gold's prescient analysis, "The Demise of the Middle East's Borders" (Israel Hayom, May 25) illustrates the geographic and cartographic uncertainty toward which the region appears to be heading. The often violent competition for power and control among Islamic groups in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, among other states, that house Sunnis and Shi'ites, Alawites, Kurds, Druse, Christians and others continue to cut through and across the random boundaries' that were established by the British and French empires as a result of the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916. Mashari al-Zaydi, of the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat noted in his May 25 column that, "There is great danger in what is happening in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon and may soon also happen on Turkey's southern border....Egypt and North Africa, in a different way - are about to enter a terrifying era of religious terrorism, sectarian war and civil strife that will harm everyone." What stands behind most of the violence in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and other areas is Arab Sunni fundamentalism in its various forms - whether Salafi, Wahhabi, or Muslim Brotherhood. All forms of radical Islam threaten the existence of the Alawites, Kurds, Lebanese Shi'ites, Christians, and other members of the non-Sunni ethnic and religious groups, including non-fundamentalist Sunnis. This Arab Muslim "zero-sum game" culture defines their view of Kurds and other minorities, including Israel. Just as the Arab Sunni Muslims in general relentlessly "hunt" Israel, they would only accept a permanent solution in the Middle East by which they conquer and control the region, and - according to classical Islamic dogma - eventually the entire world. But tectonic shifts triggered by the Islamic revolutions over the past few years may succeed in liberating the region from Sunni Arab imperialism and create a better future for the region's minorities. The Kurds, while overwhelmingly Sunni, see the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wahhabis by and large as Arab imperialists trying to force them to abandon their Kurdish identity and become Arabs - probably the reason most Kurds loathe the Muslim Brotherhood. For the Brotherhood, being Sunni is not enough. In their view, only Arabs can be true Muslims. Non-Arabs must abandon their languages and cultures and adopt an Arab identity - the same attitude which explains how most of the Middle East became Arab and Muslim during the first century of Islam. The shifts are important to the Kurdish future. The Kurdish self-governing authority in Northern Iraq, Syria's unraveling into geographical units comprised of Alawites, Kurds, Arab Sunnis and other ethnic groups, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent outreach to Turkey's Kurds could result in a more pluralistic governing structure for a new Middle East whose centers of power are more dispersed. In this context, the legitimacy and success of the Kurdish national project across the region could blaze a new path for other minorities. It could also help Israel. For example, Iraqi Kurdistan's success as an autonomous area or a potentially independent state may influence a process of self-determination for other sects, tribes, ethnic and religious groups. Shared challenges make Kurds and the Jewish state good potential allies. Like Jews, the Kurdish people have lived under foreign domination for millennia. Kurdish suffering under Arab, Turkish and Iranian rule infuses them with a natural affinity for Jews and Israel. There are an estimated 35 to 45 million Kurds in the Middle East, many of whom have been secretly sympathetic to Israel for years and have even been labeled "Zionist agents" in Iraq, Syria and Iran. The addition of millions of potential Kurdish friends, for micro-sized Israel with a mere eight million inhabitants, could enhance the Jewish state's security and regional position. While Jews were always considered politically and socially inferior in the Arab Middle East, Kurds generally did not discriminate against Jews, nor have they demonized Israel. In short, geography, history and destiny create natural affinities and interests between Kurds and Israelis. Strategically, a large Kurdish state or autonomous area combining Northern Iraq and Syria and the millions of Turkish Kurds - who could be attracted to such independence in the heart of the Middle East could serve various important roles for Israel. Syria's disintegration, then, may have a silver lining. The northern part of the country could become a Kurdish federal autonomous area - either within a loosely federated national entity or possibly even as an independent Kurdish state, which appears to be the direction for Iraqi Kurdistan. Iraqi Kurds, who have provided political counsel to their Syrian brethren, could also form an alliance with Syria's Arabized Kurds and Alawites west of Aleppo, that lies close to the Mediterranean Sea, and is an important strategic asset. Alawites, as fellow non-Sunni Arabs, may well be open to new alliances as well. These new alliances could be a major step towards the establishment of a physically strong and economically stable Syrian Kurdistan that together with Iraqi Kurdistan could become - at least quietly if not overtly - Israel's first regional ally since the reestablishment of the Jewish state in 1948. Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/The-World-from-Here-Kurds-Jews-and-a-new-Mideast-314650 Picture: Kurdish Nationalists in Baghdad (Arab capital of the Arab part of Iraq) rally against the regime of the dictator and Iranian Puppet Nuri-Al Maliki. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f7_1369800605 burn_khameneis_beard The World from Here: Kurds, Jews and a new Mideast kurd, kurdish, kurdistan, ypg, pkk, ypd, puk, kdp, kdp-i, barzani, talabani, war, middle east, terrorist, peshmerga, iraq, iran, turkey, syria, fsa, saa, assad, erdogan, khamenei, maliki, israel, netanyahu, terrorist made up palestinian nation Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:10:42 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=60f_1365546996 Baldrick If you like this sort of vintage British Entertainment from years past let me know below Curry and Chips Ep1 The first London Weekend Television situation comedy to be broadcast in colour In the same genre as 'Luv Thy Neighbour' it attempted to tackle prejudice attitudes at a time of increasing immigration. Starring Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Kenny Lynch, Norman Rossington Review courtesy of IMDB I had heard of the title of this sitcom but knew little else about it until I came across an episode on You Tube quite by accident. It appears to be episode 2, the one where Kenny wins the pools. I watched the whole episode and wow, they don't make them like that anymore! From doing a little digging it turns out that the idea behind this sitcom was to highlight and ridicule racial bigotry, but the number of complaints the show got for being racist meant it never went beyond 6 episodes. On a first glance it does appear to poke fun at the 'non white' people but on a more thorough watch I would say there is a bit more to it than meets the eye. Does it hit the mark in highlighting race issues? To be honest I'm not sure if it does successfully. The name calling is too blatant and in your face whereas the message behind it is more subtle and requires more work from the average viewer. I would suggest that the 'average' TV viewer sitting down for an half hour of laughs would see the obvious bits first and may have already made up there mind about the show before they have been able to look any further. Nonetheless, it's another comedy I have discovered from yesteryear. In our modern PC times where we are so used to sugar coating everything that we do so as not to offend, Curry &amp; Chips is like a thunderbolt through the system. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=60f_1365546996 Baldrick Curry &amp; Chips - British comedy 1969 - Spike Milligan, Eric <span class="highlight">Sykes</span> Curry &amp; Chips,British,comedy,1969,Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes Sun, 12 May 2013 17:34:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=742_1368393530 Setright Posted by: Arabi Souri May 12, 2013 in Syria At the age of 59 and after 19 years in politics, the Muslim Brotherhood Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Commits Suicide, politically. He ended his political life by shooting his feet excessively until he succumbed to his wounds. The Islamic world would remember the Caliph wannabe for his play act at The World Economic Forum in 2009 in front of his close friend the Israeli president Shimon Peres when he felt disappointed after opening Turkey's doors widely to him and his Zionist state, Erdogan invited Peres to address the Turkish parliament in 2007, an opportunity the Turkish juntas before Erdogan never accepted. The Muslim Brotherhood organization ties with the Zionism movement are no secrets, both share the same ideology of extremism, built on hate speech and sponsored by the same western powers. Replacing the current sovereign states in the region with only 2 was the old renewed goal of the international coalition of evil, led by the British empire with local tools, one would be the 'Jewish' state Israel under the leadership of Zionists, and the other would be a Wahhabi Caliphate under the, well they didn't decide yet as there are 3 contenders: Turkish Erdogan, any Saudi monarch survivor or the Emperor of Qatar Hamad. While the 'Jewish' state of Israel will be a single coherent 'pure' of non-Jewish people one central government state, the other Wahhabi caliphate would be enclaves of small emirates, sheikhdoms and fiefdoms separated with hate, based on sectarian lines. Each one of these three is working hard to prove to his enablers in the west he's more worthy of the throne in a repetition to a similar situation when the Arabian Sherif Hussein of Hijaz was competing with Al Saud from Najd, the Arabian desert, to serve the British bigger Sykes-Picot Agreement to divide the Arab world in the Levant. Al Saud won for being more brutal. A rare shot of Turkish prime minister. Turkey, a member of NATO and under the duo Erdogan &amp;amp; Abdullah G"ul tried their best to enter the EU and failed because Turkey is seen as a Muslim country by the 'secular' European countries. When totally failed and in order to help the Turkish people boost their potentials and gain them to where they belong, the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad opened the East gates to the Turks, leading to a huge presence of Turkish firms throughout the region, boosting Turkish economy and befriending the people where they belong. The Muslim Brotherhood government in Turkey led by the same duo rewarded the Syrian president and the Syrian people by getting deeply involved with the major plan to establish the Wahhabi Caliphate and the Jewish state on the account of all the people who helped them, including their own. Turkey hosted, trained, financed, armed, sponsored and smuggled into Syria thousands of Alqaeda terrorists labeled 'Free Syrian Army' to conceal their real identity, the identity exposed by the UN envoy 2 years after the crisis started in Syria when he said: 40,000 foreign fighters are fighting the Syrian state. We believe there were more than 125,000 foreign fighters and thousands were killed already by the Syrian Arab Army. It's worth noting that the Turkish Muslim Brotherhood government led by the duo Erdogan - G"ul tried to pressure the Syrian president at the very start of the Syrian crisis to form a new government in Syria where it would be led by a majority of banned Syrian Muslim Brotherhood members in exchange to stop the crisis, they dispatched the Turkish minister of foreign affairs Mr. Zero Problems aka Davutoglu to get a Syrian response and that was at a time mainstream media was claiming that the central Syrian city Hama has come out of the Syrian state control. Of course the reply from the Syrians was 'get lost' or something worse as some officials put it in private talks, taking note the already involvement of the Turkish intelligence in facilitating an attack against a Syrian security post by hundreds of terrorists killing 82 Syrian security and policemen in the infamous Jisr Shoghour massacre. Then hell gates were opened against Syria from the Turkish side. After opening hell gates a large number of Turkish army, navy, air force, intelligence and chiefs of staffs resigned in large numbers protesting the involvement of their country in a Zionist plan and entering a useless criminal war against neighboring Syria. Few days ago witnessed clashes between members of the Jihadist terrorists in the same Reyhanieh town with local residents and tensions escalated when members of the FSA burned Turkish flags in a show of 'who controls the land' . The same city voted 68% in favor of the Erdogan AKP party in the last elections before having their town turned into a base for these Mujahideen in their holy war against the 'Kuffar', the infidels. Economic and social tensions also increased as families of the Jihadists opened shops in the town selling stolen goods from Aleppo at very low prices. Yesterday, May 11, 2013 the city of Reyhanieh was the scene of bombings of at least 2 cars killing at least 43 and wounding over 100, of course we cannot get further and reliable information as the Turkish government has enforced a total media blackout on the events where ironically for over 2 years it was criticizing the Syrian state for not opening up sensitive locations for western media..! Using this media blackout the Turkish state is able, or think it's able, to market its version of the events which was immediately conveyed by a swift accusation against the Syrian state involvement in the events, though Erdogan tried to add an option that it might be people opposing the recent peace deal between PKK and Turkish government in addition to accusing the Syrian state.. Fast accusations have become a trend throughout the Syrian crisis, but seems the people on the ground who know better than the Caliph wannabe and expressed a different point of view accusing Erdogan and his government for the bombings. Excuse the nasty language but what do you expect from people victims of continuous terror by a NATO member state: In the same context, this report by Al-Jazeera, the Qatari ministry of foreign affairs mouthpiece was significant to show what Turks really want and who they support, such reports made the Turkish PM Erdogan edgy and imbalanced seeing his personal foe more popular than him despite billions of dollars spent on a systematic international media campaign to demonize the latter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;v=wMwYk1pxaYI Obviously, the Turkish PM has lost politically all what he has gained by the open borders Syria has provided him after he faced shut doors to Europe. He's now losing on the streets and unless NATO jumps to his rescue, he has no more political future, he killed his own political future and that of his party and that of the entire anti-Islamic 'Islamist Spring' duped Arab Spring. Committing such suicide proves not only to be short-sighted, disconnected and easily manipulated but also a criminal. Arab 'Spring' Found NATO, the evil organization based in Brussels and responsible for tens of atrocities worldwide and millions of victims, stated it's waiting for an official Turkish information regarding the bombings, a diplomat in Brussels put it, hinting to an option of further NATO intervention in the Syrian conflict. Meanwhile Turkish officials are busy trying to give a sectarian dimension to the bombings in case NATO only shows solidarity as usual and rejects to have troops invading Syria, remember the biggest goal of sectarian based enclaves? We can't ignore the link between these bombings, the Israeli raid against chicken hens and a weapons depot near Damascus last week and the mass defeats their Alqaeda Nusra Front Jihadists are facing all over Syria at the hands of SAA, AlQussayr battle is one major battle, and the total collapse at Khirbet Ghazaleh in the south is another, in addition to other gains throughout the country. Syrian official response to Turkish accusations in regards with the Reyhaniyeh bombing was by the Syrian minister of information Mr. Omran Zo'bi who reminded Turkey of its role in turning border areas into centers for international terrorism. In other words: you reap what you sow. Mr. Zo'bi's comments were during a press conference in Damascus today Sunday 12 May 2013. Reyhanli old woman cries at the site of explosions personally call on the Turkish government if it really seeks to find who was behind these bombings to call on the UNSC to condemn these bombings, and hopefully the USA will not ban such condemnation as it usually does with similar bombings in Syria, and ask for an international investigation committee with unlimited authority. Anything less than this would prove the Turkish government involvement in this and hundreds of other terror acts. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=742_1368393530 Setright Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Commits Political Suicide WORLD NEWS, MIDDLE EAST, SYRIA Wed, 08 May 2013 22:45:03 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84f_1368067352 Detroit Iron By Tom Kertscher Published on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 at 1:52 p.m. If the buildup doesn't disappoint, you can expect plenty of news out of the U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing on May 8, 2013. The panel, which includes freshman U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, will review how President Barack Obama's administration -- including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- handled the Sept. 11, 2012 bombing at the U.S. consulate in Benghzai, Libya. The attack killed four Americans -- and set off administration critics such as U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. A few days before the hearing, it was disclosed that a top U.S. diplomat had said "everyone" at the consulate thought "from the beginning" that the attack was an act of terror. And even before that, Johnson had reminded citizens at least twice of what Clinton told him about the attack during a Senate committee hearing in January 2013. "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they'd go kill some Americans," Clinton said. "What difference - at this point, what difference does it make?" So that was the punch-line quote. But what was the context? With Benghazi back in the news and renewed attention being paid to Clinton's comment, we thought this would be a good time for In Context, an occasional feature that gives context to statements that get widespread notice. Based on a C-SPAN video of their six-minute exchange, here is a transcript of what Johnson and Clinton said during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Jan. 23, 2013: Johnson: Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Madam Secretary. I'd like to join my colleagues in thanking you for your service sincerely, and also appreciate the fact that you're here testifying and glad that you're looking in good health. Clinton: Thank you. Johnson: Were you fully aware in real time -- and again, I realize how big your job is and everything is erupting in the Middle East at this time -- were you fully aware of these 20 incidents that were reported in the ARB in real time? Clinton: I was aware of the ones that were brought to my attention. They were part of our ongoing discussion about the deteriorating threat environment in eastern Libya. We certainly were very conscious of them. I was assured by our security professionals that repairs were under way, additional security upgrades had taken place. Johnson: Thank you. Did you see personally the cable on -- I believe it was August 12th -- specifically asking for, basically, reinforcements for the security detail that was going to be evacuating or leaving in August? Did you see that personally? Clinton: No, sir. Johnson: OK. When you read the ARB, it strikes me as how certain the people were that the attacks started at 9:40 Benghazi time. When was the first time you spoke to -- or have you ever spoken to -- the returnees, the evacuees? Did you personally speak to those folks? Clinton: I've spoken to one of them, but I waited until after the ARB had done its investigation because I did not want there to be anybody raising any issue that I had spoken to anyone before the ARB conducted its investigation. Johnson: How many people were evacuated from Libya? Clinton: Well, the numbers are a little bit hard to pin down because of our other friends -- Johnson: Approximately? Clinton: Approximately, 25 to 30. Johnson: Did anybody in the State Department talk to those folks very shortly afterwards? Clinton: There was discussion going on afterwards, but once the investigation started, the FBI spoke to them before we spoke to them, and so other than our people in Tripoli -- which, I think you're talking about Washington, right? Johnson: The point I'm making is, a very simple phone call to these individuals, I think, would've ascertained immediately that there was no protest prior to this. This attack started at 9:40 p.m. Benghazi time and it was an assault. I appreciate the fact that you called it an assault. But I'm going back to then-Ambassador Rice five days later going on the Sunday shows and, what I would say, is purposefully misleading the American public. Why wasn't that known? And again, I appreciate the fact that the transparency of this hearing, but why weren't we transparent to that point in time? Clinton: Well, first of all, Senator, I would say that once the assault happened, and once we got our people rescued and out, our most immediate concern was, number one, taking care of their injuries. As I said, I still have a DS agent at Walter Reed seriously injured -- getting them into Frankfurt, Ramstein to get taken care of, the FBI going over immediately to start talking to them. We did not think it was appropriate for us to talk to them before the FBI conducted their interviews. And we did not -- I think this is accurate, sir -- I certainly did not know of any reports that contradicted the IC talking points at the time that Ambassador Rice went on the TV shows. And you know I just want to say that people have accused Ambassador Rice and the administration of misleading Americans. I can say trying to be in the middle of this and understanding what was going on, nothing could be further from the truth. Was information developing? Was the situation fluid? Would we reach conclusions later that weren't reached initially? And I appreciate the -- Johnson: But, Madame Secretary, do you disagree with me that a simple phone call to those evacuees to determine what happened wouldn't have ascertained immediately that there was no protest? That was a piece of information that could have been easily, easily obtained? Clinton: But, Senator, again- Johnson: Within hours, if not days? Clinton: Senator, you know, when you're in these positions, the last thing you want to do is interfere with any other process going on, number one- Johnson: I realize that's a good excuse. Clinton: Well, no, it's the fact. Number two, I would recommend highly you read both what the ARB said about it and the classified ARB because, even today, there are questions being raised. Now, we have no doubt they were terrorists, they were militants, they attacked us, they killed our people. But what was going on and why they were doing what they were doing is still unknown -- Johnson: No, again, we were misled that there were supposedly protests and that something sprang out of that -- an assault sprang out of that -- and that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact, and the American people could have known that within days and they didn't know that. Clinton: With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they'd they go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. Now, honestly, I will do my best to answer your questions about this, but the fact is that people were trying in real time to get to the best information. The IC has a process, I understand, going with the other committees to explain how these talking points came out. But you know, to be clear, it is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime. Johnson: OK. Thank you, Madame Secretary. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=84f_1368067352 Detroit Iron In Context: Hillary Clinton's 'What difference does it make' comment then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wed, 01 May 2013 14:22:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98e_1367432247 Setright Death stalks the Syrian regime just as it does the rebels. But on the front line of the war, the regime's army is in no mood to surrender - and claims it doesn't need chemical weapons Robert Fisk Friday 26 April 2013 Clouds hang oppressively low over the Syrian army's front-line mountain-top in the far north of Syria. Rain has only just replaced snow, turning this heavily protected fortress into a swamp of mud and stagnant ponds where soldiers man their lookout posts with the wind in their faces, their elderly T-55 tanks - the old Warsaw Pact battlehorses of the 1950s - dripping under the showers, their tracks in the mud, used now only as artillery pieces. They are "rubbish tanks" - debeba khurda - I say to Colonel Mohamed, commander of the Syrian army's Special Forces unit across this bleak landscape, and he grins at me. "We use them for static defence," he says frankly. 'They do not move.'" Before the war - or "the crisis" as President Bashar al-Assad's soldiers are constrained to call it - Jebel al-Kawaniah was a television transmission station. But when the anti-government rebels captured it, they blew up the towers, cut down the forest of fir trees around it to create a free-fire zone and built ramparts of earth to protect them from government gunfire. The Syrian army fought their way back up the hillsides last October, through the village of Qastal Maaf - which now lies pancaked and broken on the old road to the Turkish border at Kassab - and stormed on to the plateau which is now their front line. On their maps, the Syrian army codenamed "Kawaniah Mountain" according to their own military co-ordinates. It became "Point 45" - Point 40 lies east through the mountain gloom - and they spread their troops in tents under the trees of two neighbouring hills. I climb on to one of the T-55s and can see them through the downpour. There are dull explosions across the valley and the occasional "pop" of small arms fire and, rather disconcertingly, Col Mohamed points out that the nearest forest is still in the hands of his enemies, scarcely 800 metres away. The soldier sitting in the tank turret with a heavy machine-gun doesn't take his eyes off the trees. It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers. These are the "bad guys" of the regime, according to the rest of the world - although in truth the country's secret police deserve that title - and I'm well aware that these men have been told that a Western journalist is coming to their dug-outs and basement headquarters. They ask me to use only their first names for fear that their families may be killed; they allow me to take any photographs I wish, but not to picture their faces - a rule that the rebels sometimes ask of journalists for the same reason - but every soldier and officer to whom I spoke, including a Brigadier General, gave their full names and IDs to me. Such access to the Syrian army was almost unimaginable just a few months ago and there are good reasons why. The army believe they are at last winning back ground from the Free Syrian Army and the al-Nusra Islamist fighters and the various al-Qa'ida satellites that now rule much of the Syrian countryside. From Point 45 they are scarcely a mile and a half from the Turkish frontier and intend to take the ground in between. Outside Damascus they have battled their way bloodily into two rebel-held suburbs. While I was prowling through the mountaintop positions, the rebels were in danger of losing the town of Qusayr outside Homs amid opposition accusations of the widespread killing of civilians. The main road from Damascus to Latakia on the Mediterranean coast has been reopened by the army. And the line troops I met at Point 45 were a different breed of men from those soldiers who became corrupted after 29 years of semi-occupation in Lebanon, who fell back to Syria without a war to fight in 2005, the discipline of the soldiers around Damascus a joke rather than a threat to anyone. Bashar's Special Forces now appear confident, ruthless, politically motivated, a danger to their enemies, their uniforms smart, their weapons clean. Syrians have long grown used to the claims by Israel - inevitably followed by the Washington echo machine - that chemical weapons have been used by Bashar's forces; as an intelligence officer remarked caustically in Damascus: "Why should we use chemical weapons when our Mig aircraft and their bombs cause infinitely more destruction?" The soldiers up at Point 45 admitted the defections to the Free Syrian Army, the huge losses of their own men - inevitably referred to as "martyrs" - and made no secret of their own body counts for battles lost and won. Their last "martyr" at Point 45 was shot by a rebel sniper two weeks ago, 22 year-old Special Forces Private Kamal Aboud from Homs. He at least died as a soldier. Colonel Mohamed spoke ruefully of the troopers on family leave who, he said, were executed with knives when they entered enemy territory. I remind myself that the UN is bringing war crimes charges against this army and I remind Colonel Mohamed - who has four bullet wounds in his arms to show that he leads his soldiers from the front, not from a bunker - that his soldiers were surely meant to be liberating the Golan Heights from Israel. Israel is to the south, I say, and here he is fighting his way north towards Turkey. Why? "I know, but we are fighting Israel. I joined the army to fight Israel. And now I am fighting Israel's tools. And the tools of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, so in this way we are fighting for Golan. This is a conspiracy and the West is helping the foreign terrorists who arrived in Syria, the same terrorists you are trying to kill in Mali." I have heard this before, of course. The "moamarer", the conspiracy, sits beside me at all interviews in Syria. But the colonel admits that the two Syrian T-55s which fire shells at Point 45 every morning - the very same vintage war-carts as his own tanks - are sets of twins, that his enemies have taken their artillery from the government army and that his opponents include men from Bashar al-Assad's original army. On the road to Qastel Maaf, a general tells me that on the highway to the Turkish border, the army have just killed 10 Saudis, two Egyptians and a Tunisian - I am shown no papers to prove this - but the soldiers at Point 45 produce for me three handset radios they have captured from their enemies. One is marked "HXT Commercial Terminal", the other two are made by Hongda and the instructions are in Turkish. I ask them if they listen to the rebel communications. "Yes, but we don't understand them," a major says. "They are speaking in Turkish and we don't understand Turkish." So are they Turks or Turkmen Syrians from the villages to the east? The soldiers shrug. They say they have also heard Arabic voices speaking with Libyan and Yemeni accents. And given that the great and the good of Nato are now obsessed with "foreign jihadis" in Syria, I suspect these Syrian soldiers may well be telling the truth. The laneways of this beautiful northern countryside conceal the viciousness of the fighting. Clusters of red and white roses smother the walls of abandoned homes. A few men tend the mass of orange orchards that glow around us, a woman combs her long hair on a roof. The lake of Balloran glistens in the spring sunshine between mountains still topped with a powder of snow. It reminds me, chillingly, of Bosnia. For several miles the villages are still occupied, a Christian Greek Orthodox township of 10 families with a church dedicated to the appearance of the Virgin to a woman called Salma; a Muslim Alawite village, then a Muslim Sunni village close to the front lines but still co-existing; a ghost of the old secular, non-sectarian Syria which both sides promise - with ever decreasing credibility - will return once the war is over. Then I am in a smashed village called Beit Fares where hundreds of Syrian soldiers can be seen patrolling the surrounding forests, and another general fishes into his pocket and produces an army mobile phone video of dead fighters. "All are foreign," he says. I watch closely as the camera lingers over bearded faces, some contorted in fear, others in the dreamless sleep of death. They have been heaped together. And, most sinister of all, I observe a military boot which descends twice on the heads of the dead men. On the wall of the dugout, someone has written: "We are soldiers of Assad - to hell with you dogs of the armed groups of Jabel al-Aswad and Beit Shrouk." These are the names of a string of tiny villages still in rebel hands - you can see the roofs of their houses from Point 45 - and Col Mohamed, a 45-year-old veteran of the Lebanese war between 1993 and 1995, lists the others: Khadra, Jebel Saouda, Zahiyeh, al-Kabir, Rabia... Their fate awaits them. When I ask the soldiers how many prisoners they took in their battles, they say "None" with a loud voice. What, I ask, even when they claim to have killed 700 "terrorists" in one engagement? "None," they reply again. Opposite a bullet-riddled school building is a pulverised house. "A local terrorist leader died there with all his men," the colonel states. "They did not surrender." I doubt if they had the chance. But at Beit Fares, some rebels did escape earlier this year, along - so says General Wasif from Latakia - with their own local leader, a Syrian businessman. We clump into the man's ruined villa on the hills of this abandoned Turkmen village - the inhabitants are now in Turkish refugee camps, the general tells me - and it seems that the businessman was wealthy. The villa is surrounded by irrigated orchards of lemon and pistachio and fig trees. There is a basketball court, an empty swimming pool, children's swings, a broken marble fountain - in which there are still Turkish-labelled tins of stuffed vine leaves - and marble-walled living rooms and kitchens and a delicate plaque in Arabic above the front door saying: "God Bless This House." It seems He did not. I pluck some figs from the absentee businessman's orchard. The soldiers do the same. But they taste sharp and too sour and the soldiers spit them out, preferring the oranges that hang by the roadside. General Fawaz is talking to a colleague and lifts up an exploded rocket for inspection. It is locally manufactured, the welding unprofessional - but identical to all the Qassam missiles which the Palestinian Hamas movement fires into Israel from the Gaza Strip. "Someone from Palestine told the terrorists how to make this," General Fawaz says. Colonel Mohamed remarks quietly that when they stormed into the village, they found cars and trucks with Turkish military plates - but no Turkish soldiers. There is an odd relationship with Turkey up here. Recep Tayyip Erdogan may condemn Assad but the nearest Turkish frontier station a mile and a half away stays open, the only border post still linking Turkey and government-controlled Syrian territory. One of the officers refers to an old story about the Umayyad Caliph Muawiya who said that he kept a thin piece of his own hair "to connect me to my enemies". "The Turks have left this one frontier open with us," the officer says, "so as not to cut the hair of Muawiya." He is not smiling and I understand what he is saying. The Turks still want to maintain a physical connection with the Assad regime. Erdogan cannot be certain that Bashar al-Assad will lose this war. Many of the soldiers show their wounds; more valuable to them, I suspect, than medals or badges of rank. Besides, the officers have already removed their gold insignia on the front lines - unlike Admiral Nelson, they do not wish to be picked off by the rebels' early morning snipers. Dawn seems to be the killing time. On a roadway, a second lieutenant shows me his own wounds. There is a bullet's entry below his left ear. On the other side of his head, a cruel purple scar runs upwards towards his right ear. He was shot right through the neck and survived. He was lucky. So were the Special Forces soldiers who patrolled towards a hidden land-mine, an IED in Western parlance. A young Syrian explosives ordnance officer in Qastal Maaf shows me the two iron-cased shells that were buried under the road. One of them is almost too heavy for me to lift. The fuse is labeled in Turkish. An antenna connected to the explosives was strung from the top of an electricity pole for a line-of-sight rebel bomber to detonate. A technical mine-detector - "all our equipment is Russian," the soldiers boasted - alerted the patrol to the explosives before the soldiers walked over them. But death hovers over the Syrian army, just as it haunts their enemies. The airport at Latakia is now a place of permanent lamentation. No sooner do I arrive than I find families crying and tearing their faces in front of the terminal, waiting for the bodies of their soldier sons and brothers and husbands, Christians for the most part but Muslims too, for the Mediterranean coast is the heartland of Christians and Shia Alawites and a minority of Sunni Muslims. One Christian woman is restrained by an old man as she tries to lie down on the road, tears streaming down her face. A truck by the departure hall is piled with wreaths. A general in charge of the army's bereaved families tells me that the airport is too small for this mass mourning. "The helicopters bring our dead here from all over northern Syria," he says. "We have to look after all these families and find them housing, but sometimes I go to homes to tell them of the death of a son and find that they have already lost three other sons as martyrs. It is too much." Forget Private Ryan. I see beside the control tower a wounded soldier hobbling along on one foot, a bandage partly covering his face, his arm around a comrade as he limps towards the terminal. Military statistics I was shown suggest that 1,900 soldiers from Latakia have been killed in this awful war, another 1,500 from Tartus. But you must add up the statistics of the Alawite and Christian mixed villages in the hills above Latakia to understand the individual cost. In Hayalin, for example, the village of 2,000 souls has lost 22 soldiers with another 16 listed as missing. In real terms that's 38 dead. Many were killed in Jisr al-Shughur back in June of 2011 when the Syrian army lost 89 dead in a rebel ambush. A villager called Fouad explains that there was one survivor who came from a neighbouring village. "I telephoned him to ask what happened to the other men," he said. "He said: 'I don't know because they cut out my eyes.' He said that someone led him away and he thought he would be executed but found himself in an ambulance and was taken to hospital in Latakia." One of the Jisr al-Shughur dead was returned to Hayalin, but relatives found that his coffin contained only his legs. "The latest martyr from Hayalin was killed only two days ago," Fouad told me. "He was a soldier called Ali Hassan. He had just got married. They couldn't even return his body." The 24 Syrian helicopter gunships that throb on the apron beyond the terminal project the power of the government's hardware. But soldiers tell their own stories of fear and intimidation. That rebel forces threaten the families of government soldiers is a long-established fact. But one private told me bleakly of how his elder brother was ordered to persuade him to desert the army. "When I refused, they broke my brother's legs," he said. When I asked if others had shared this experience, an 18-year old private was brought to me. The officers offered to leave the room when I spoke to him. He was an intelligent young man but his story was told simply and untutored. His was no set propaganda speech. "I come from Idlib Province and they came to my father and said they needed me there," he said. "But my father refused and said, 'If you want my son, go and bring him here - and if you do, you will not find me here to greet him.' Then my father sent most of his family to Lebanon. My father and mother are still there and they are still being threatened." I tell the officers later that I do not believe every Syrian defector left because of threats to his family, that some soldiers must have profoundly disagreed with the regime. They agree but insist that the army remains strong. Colonel Mohamed, who mixes military strategy with politics, says he regards the foreign "plot" against Syria as a repeat version of the Sykes-Picot Agreement of the First World War, when Britain and France secretly decided to divide up the Middle East - including Syria - between them. "Now they want to do the same," he says. "Britain and France want to give weapons to the terrorists to divide us, but we want to have a united Syria in which all our people live together, democratically, caring not about their religion but living peacefully..." And then came the crunch. "...under the leadership of our champion Dr Bashar al-Assad." But it is not that simple. The word "democracy" and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria. And I rather think that the soldiers of what is officially called the Syrian Arab Army are fighting for Syria rather than Assad. But fighting they are and maybe, for now, they are winning an unwinnable war. At Beit Fares, I peak over the parapet once more and the mist is rising off the mountains. This could be Bosnia. The country is breathtaking, the grey-green hills rolling into blue velvet mountains. A little heaven. But the fruits along this front line are bitter indeed. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98e_1367432247 Setright They may be fighting for Syria, not Assad. They may also be winning: Robert Fisk reports from inside Syria WORLD NEWS, MIDDLE EAST,SYRIA Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:34:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca4_1363930072 binladenisurdaddy Ottoman Caliphate, which continued the Radiant Islamic state established by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in Medina, despite weakness infected as a result of its ignoring the role of the Arabic language and ceasing Jihad, remained a guardian of Islam and Muslim territories. The abolition of the Caliphate, which gathered Muslims under a united leadership, notwithstanding their ethnic or racial background, was the primary aim sought by the Crusades of colonizers. With a view to impairing and attenuating the Islamic identity - as part of ideological attacks - the Western states spread fallacious, dangerous and destructive to Islamdom ideas of nationalism and patriotism. One of the first Islamic countries, where nationalism made its way, was Turkey, and the first who persistently fanned the flames of Turkish nationalism, was the orientalist Arthur Lumley, David, who lived in the first half of 19th century. During his journey to Turkey, he wrote a book "Preliminary considerations," which attempted to show Turks as a prominent and independent race, superior to the Arabs and other Oriental peoples. It was one of the earliest works to put forward nationalism, a totally unknown phenomenon in the Ottoman Caliphate. In his work "Islam in history," the most famous and influential contemporary Orientalist Bernard Lewis writes: "The book by a British Jews encouraged Turks to view themselves as a prominent and independent nation." Before the spread of Western ideas and propaganda in the Ottoman Caliphate no signs of nationalism had existed. Muslims, who observed the Sharia, until the beginning of 20th century had viewed each other as brothers, culling by a degree of piety. While professing the same religion, they lived a satisfying life under the rule of the Ottoman Caliphate, recognizing their common responsibility for it. Nevertheless, a book by the above-mentioned Orientalist inspired some cocky and superficial intellectuals and politicians with an idea about the superiority of the Turkish race. First, they translated most of David's writings into Turkish. But later, some of them imitated his arguments claiming the glorious past of the "Turkish race", to publish their own treatises. As Bernard Lewis notes: "Thus, the Turks discovered their nationality stimulated by the Occident and by works by Western authors." Speaking of other people who helped promote the ideas of Turkish nationalism, it is essential to mention a French writer David Leon Cohen. His book, "General introduction to the history of Asia" (1899) also discusses the racial superiority of the Turks and their great contribution to history. Bernard Lewis argues that it was this work, translated into Turkish and published in a large issue in early 20th century, that gave rise to Pan-Turkism of Young Turks movement and triggered the revolution in 1908. Aside from the above book Cohen published several works on the glorious past of the Turks. Needless to say, the primary idea of this orientalist, extolled with enthusiastic praise by Turks, was to incite racial prejudice and weaken the link between the Turks and other Muslim nations. It should be noted that Cohen was not content with merely writing his own papers, but he also founded in Paris the society for the Turkish and Egyptian refugees, and was trying to lay the groundwork for the nationalist movements in their respective countries. Creating a secret revolutionary society named "Unity and Progress" was the most significant and awful outcome of work made with his participation. The founders of this society originated from the Turkish youth who aligned with French republican ideas of and took a careful insight into French Revolution. A well-organized structure, with its own extremist agenda and strong and durable channels of propaganda, this society ran its chapters in Berlin, Thessaloniki and Istanbul. Masonic organizations, including the largest organization of Italian Masons in Thessaloniki, supported "Unity and Progress" and helped them conduct publishing work, as well as provided their venues to lodge the meetings of its members, many of whom were also affiliated with masons. Underground printed material of the organization reached Istanbul via European diplomatic missions, to be secretly distributed by its members in Turkey. Apparently the key role in sparking both the Turkish and Arab nationalism was played by an Orientalist Arminius Vambery - son of a rabbi from Hungary who published a number of papers on the need to revive the Turkish nation, language and literature. His work attracted the attention of the pro-Western, or the so-called "enlightened" Turks, and awoke their patriotism. Vambery kept close liaisons with Turkish statesmen and politicians of the highest rank. Already during the life of this "traveler" his links were revealed with British intelligence. The impact of this orientalist on the Islamic views of some Turks was so significant, that they even advised Turkish as a language of the Holy Qur'an and worship instead of Arabic. After the caliph Abd al-Hamid II firmly and finely rejected claims by Zionists (represented by Theodor Herzl) to purchase a part of the Palestinian territories for huge amounts of money, these coordinated their efforts with the states of the Entente, actuated their agents in the environment of the Turkish nationalists. The conspiracy of colonialism and Zionism spawned the development of Young Turks, the revolution of 1908 and a coup d'etat whereby Abdul-Hamid II was deposed. The Young Turks, carrying out the Zionist plan, adopted a pan-Turkic stance in their policy, assuming superiority of the Turkish race. After taking an anti-Arab bias, the Turks closed down all Arab cultural organization and actively discriminated against Arabs and non-Turks, thus adopting a policy in concert with the plans of British colonialism to stimulate the development of Arab nationalism. Arab youth nurtured the idea that "Turkey had colonized your country. It's now right time to get rid of colonial rule". This soaked their hearts and minds with a sense of nationalism, and made them form political parties with the aim to uniting the Arabs and liberating them from Turkish influence. Thus, Zionism and imperialism and discrimination against Arabs, on the one hand, coincided with the incitement of Arab nationalism and the opposition to the Turks, on the other hand. Before that date, Arabs had viewed themselves as a common nation. But as soon as the Turks had proclaimed the superiority of Turkish culture over other cultures, Arabs also began to insist on acknowledging their own national identity. While sparking the trends of nationalism and dissent in the Muslim lands, by backing up the call for secession from the Ottoman Caliphate, the Europeans trumpeted that Ottoman Caliphate should implement a European model of citizenship, and impose this framework onto the so-called young nation-states. This was the first step to disband the Ottoman Caliphate from within and share it into individual States that would split from Islam, adopt the European model of citizenship as a substitute, thereby gradually alienating Islam from the people and their Islamic feelings replacing with nationalistic and patriotic jingoism. All this was openly revealed, for example, by a famous British spy, Thomas Edward Lawrence. He entered the territory of the Middle East in the Oriental archaeological expedition that was used as a cover for British military intelligence. Once, while crossing the distance between military camps of the sons of the main Arab traitor - the sheriff of Mecca Husayn ibn Ali, he said, in particular: "All the way I have been thinking of Syria ... During the Hajj, I wondered: will ever nationalism replace religion? Will a patriotic belief prevail over religious beliefs? Whether Syria will ever replace its religious ideal with patriotism? " Organizer and actual leader of the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Caliphate, Lawrence, in his book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" wrote: "I deeply believed in the Arab movement. Even before arriving in Hijaz, I was convinced that it is this idea that would crush Turkey for good. " In a report "The Politics of Mecca," sent in January 1916 to the directors of British intelligence, he says: "If we manage to convince Arabs to suddenly and by force enforce their rights vis-`a-vis Turkey, it will put an end to the threat of Islam and will push Muslims for an internecine war that will dissent them from the inside. There will be a Caliph in Turkey and there will be another one in the Arab world. Then they will rage a religious war between each other. After this, Islam will no longer bother us. Our main goal - to disrupt Islamic unity, to win over the Ottoman Empire and push it in into disintegration. If we understand how we should work with the Arabs, they will be in constant political anarchy, in small warring with each other states that will not be able to unite with each other. " After the revolution of 1908, the Young Turks began to enforce the power of Turkish nationalism and propaganda through the media. Racial and nationalistic policies of the Young Turks, educated in Masonic lodges across Europe, has fueled the flames of Arab nationalism - the phenomenon which, in turn, was openly supported by the British. Counter-attacks inflicted on Turks by Arab rebels, along with the expansion of Western education and training of students in Europe further stirred up the Turkish nationalist frenzy. In an attempt to protect at least some rudiments of Islam in the people, some Muslim thinkers have attempted to blend Islam with nationalism. But whereas these two concepts are incompatible, their idea from the start was doomed to failure. The increasing promotion of nationalism and colonization, eventually led to the rise of Mustafa Kemal, known as Ataturk, obsessed with hatred for Islam and everything associated with it. The fact that European governments took under their wing the advocates of nationalism in the Islamic world, had the greatest impact on the buoyancy of nationalism. By implementing the ideas of nationalism and patriotism they caused destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate and the division of Muslim nations. These ideas were implemented, not only among Arabs and Turks, but also among other peoples who lived under the shadow of the Caliphate. Bernard Lewis, briefly setting out this tragedy, which served as a motive for Schadenfreude of the West against Muslims, said: "In that Empire, the main devotion of Muslims aligns with Islam and the state embodies a concrete form of reality of Islam - the Caliphate, which has acquired a legal nature over centuries, and administers public affairs. The opposition, the rebels and the insurgents sought to change ministers, governors and even the whole of the Caliphate, who ruled at the time, though never trying to change the basis of loyalty to the State of Islam and the unity of its essence. This situation in the Middle East had prevailed until 19th century and may have lasted into 20th century. The idea of http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca4_1363930072 binladenisurdaddy How the ottoman caliphate was defeated turkey, turkiye, istanbul, ottoman, osmanli, zionism, zionists, lebanon, syria, kosovo, bosnia, albania, iraq, arabia, jerusalem Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:11:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=366_1341403667 anglosaxonwarlord Eric sykes died Today age 89 RIP eric http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=366_1341403667 anglosaxonwarlord The Plank Starring Eric <span class="highlight">Sykes</span> and Tommy Cooper and many Brit Comedy Greats the Plank,eric sykes,tommy cooper Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:59:26 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7c2_1323071839 LostSomewhereInSpace comedian Wanda Sykes telling it as it is .. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7c2_1323071839 LostSomewhereInSpace Wanda <span class="highlight">Sykes</span> comments on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity Wanda Sykes, Rush Limbaugh, Obama, Hannity Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:48:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dfe_1287884676 Deep_thinker *Los Angeles - To coincide with National Coming Out Day, the web series NoMoreDownLow.TV launches its premiere episode today featuring interviews with Wanda Sykes, Wilson Cruz, photographer Duane Cramer, among other members of the African American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Co-hosted by Jonathan Plummer and Janora McDuffie, NoMoreDownLow.TV is a groundbreaking, one-of a-kind lifestyle and entertainment series dedicated to dispelling myths and stereotypes about same gender-loving people in the African American community. Watch the episode at http://www.NoMoreDownLow.tv. Interestingly, on Thursday Oprah interviewed J. L. King, who wrote the best-selling book "On the Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of 'Straight' Black Men Who Sleep With Men." He originally introduced the term, the "down low," to mainstream America on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004. Executive producer of NoMoreDownLow.TV, Earnest Winborne said he named the series "No More Down Low" as a response to the negative implications King's book had on the black gay community. "Our show will put a real face on same gender loving people who are traditionally overlooked by the mainstream media. We'll feature people who are open and honest about who they are and those who are contributing to their communities in the fields of entertainment, sports, politics, health, music, and social activism." NoMoreDownLow.TV segments are told from an African American LGBT point of view. It will show that you can live a successful life - out of the closet - at work, at home and even in a church. Fresh off his second appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show," Plummer is known for his romance and marriage to author, Terry McMillan. Their relationship was the inspiration for the movie, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." In 2005, Plummer made headlines with the revelation that he's gay. NoMoreDownLow.TV is a production of Winborne Entertainment Group headed by Earnest Winborne, a 32-year veteran television producer and director. He has worked as an associate producer with "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and as producer and field director for "The View." For the last 15-years, Winborne has covered the red-carpets events for "Extra," "Access Hollywood" and "E! News." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dfe_1287884676 Deep_thinker Wanda <span class="highlight">Sykes</span> on African American Gay &amp; Lesbian Web Series Wanda Sykes,Deep thinker,African-American AIDS,Wanda Sykes ,African American, African American Down Low,Down Low,Gay &amp; Lesbian Web Series Tue, 19 May 2009 11:24:15 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f9_1242746048 Songun This parody video was made because we almost fell off our chairs when the MSM reported that Sykes made "dangerous" Palin jokes. And "edgy" Limbaugh jokes. Uh huh. She's really out on that limb. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f9_1242746048 Songun Wanda <span class="highlight">Sykes</span> roasts Obama parody,Kneepad Media,MSM.WHCD,Parody,Wanda Sykes