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Sunday, October 14, 2018

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ARE NOW JIHAD HOTSPOTS

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ARE NOW JIHAD HOTSPOTS 
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/trinidad-and-tobago-is-now-a-jihad-hotspotrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
According to the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Tourism: “The islands offer rich history, culture, biodiversity, and lodging with views ‘to die for,’” but there are other unappealing features that have come to characterize the nation. It has the highest Islamic State recruitment in the Western Hemisphere, was the site of the only jihadist uprising in the Western Hemisphere, and is only three miles off the coast of Venezuela.
Shia groups like Hezbollah, along with its sponsor the government of Iran, have long held criminal and intelligence footholds throughout South America….This has included Venezuela
With Trinidad being a breeding ground for jihadists so close to the US, Donald Trump called the Trinidad Prime Minister in February 2017 to discuss terrorism, returning Islamic State jihadis and other security challenges.
Some positive news, if Trinidad authorities are serious beyond the customary posturing of political leaders:
In November 2017, the Trinidad and Tobago National Security Council approved a national counterterrorism strategy, and has shared intelligence with the United States.
“Terror in Paradise: Trinidad and Tobago Is Now a Jihad Hotspot,” by Todd Bensman, PJ Media, October 8, 2018:
The Ministry of Tourism for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago hosts a website extolling the many exquisite charms of the “true Caribbean” to be found there. The islands offer rich history, culture, biodiversity, and lodging with views “to die for.”
Of late, though, a diaspora of Trinidad and Tobago emigres have preferred the views in Syria and Iraq, and the company of Islamic terrorist group ISIS. At least 130 of T&T’s 1.2 million citizens left their white and turquoise shorelines to fight with vicious Islamists half a world away. How did that happen? “Entire families went,” including at least 42 children, according to findings in a recent study by UK professor Simon Cottee of Kent University.
While the answer to how this pocket of Islamic terror developed is complex, now that ISIS is territorially defeated and its thousands of surviving foreign terrorist fighters are dispersing to all points, a more pressing question has arisen. What will T&T returnees and their sympathizing community do next without a pressing, defined cause like promulgating an ISIS caliphate?
The United Kingdom, which governed the tourist-heavy islands until their independence in 1976, has this to say on its “Foreign travel advice” website:
Terrorists are very likely to try to carry out attacks in Trinidad & Tobago. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in crowded spaces and places visited by foreigners.
Closer to American interests and overland smuggling lanes to the U.S. Southern border, the United States and some of its allies in Latin America are worried about T&T, too.
Shia groups like Hezbollah, along with its sponsor the government of Iran, have long held criminal and intelligence footholds throughout South America, as I explained in a recent update on the subject. This has included Venezuela and its offshore island of Marguerite, about 150 nautical miles from Trinidad.
But Sunni extremists like ISIS? That’s a newer upward trend, as I wrote recently when recounting a suspected plot by local ISIS sympathizers in Suriname, just around the coastal bend, to kill the U.S. ambassador in the former Dutch colony. Sizeable communities of South and Southeast Asian Muslim communities live in Suriname, Guyana, and Panama. A steady stream of migration from the Middle East dates to the early 2000s, attracted by free-trade zones in the region, according to the Jamestown Foundation and other sources. Visa-free travel is allowed throughout the Caribbean.
Trinidad & Tobago is a hotspot fitting the profile. Only about five percent of its population is Muslim, according to the CIA’s World Factbook. But this five percent are causing outsized global security concern. A hardline Sunni Islamist mosque and its imams have been accused of ginning up all kinds of trouble for decades. In 1990, a Muslim organization known as Jamaat al Muslimeen attempted a coup against the government. More than 40 Islamist insurgents stormed Parliament, taking the prime minister and most of his cabinet hostage for six days. In 2007, members of Jamaat al Muslimeen were tied to a plot to bomb New York’s JFK airport; one of its members was sentenced to life in prison.
The dark cloud has persisted, but U.S. security appears to be on top of the situation.
Earlier this year, troops with the U.S. Army’s Southern Command participated in anti-terror raids helping to capture four “high value targets” allegedly plotting to attack the annual “Carnival” celebrations. In 2017, Southern Command’s Admiral Kurt Tidd said: “Some of the individuals who left Trinidad-Tobago” have shown up “on film engaged in terrorist acts” and have committed murders in Syria. Even the New York Times couldn’t ignore the developing threat from T&T’s jihadists, posting a story in 2017 citing American officials who fear “that Trinidadian fighters could return from the Middle East and attack American diplomatic and oil installations in Trinidad, or even take a three-and-a-half hour flight to Miami.”….

PAKISTAN: MUSLIMS WARN OF "TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES" IF CHRISTIAN WOMAN "BLASPHEMER" IS SHOWN ANY "SOFTNESS"

PAKISTAN: MUSLIMS WARN OF 
"TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES" IF CHRISTIAN WOMAN "BLASPHEMER" IS SHOWN ANY "SOFTNESS" 
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/pakistan-muslims-warn-of-terrible-consequences-if-christian-blasphemer-is-shown-any-softness;  republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Asia Bibi is back in the news. The “mother of four, in 2010 became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws.” Her recent appeal hearing was postponed. Now, a so-called “hard-line Islamist group” has warned of “terrible consequences” if she is shown any mercy:
The ultra-religious Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party, which makes punishing blasphemy its main campaign rallying cry and lionizes the bodyguard who killed Taseer, warned the court against any “concession or softness” for Bibi.
Meanwhile, as Christians in Pakistan call for prayer for Asia Bibi, “Muslims are calling for riots.”
Pakistan tries to give the impression that “ultra-religious” groups are an exception, when in fact, such groups are a welcome part of the landscape in that country. Its new prime minister Imran Khan has vowed to “take the matter of blasphemy to the United Nations, saying that few in the West understand the pain caused to Muslims by such activities.”
Also in Pakistan, its blasphemy law is used as a weapon to persecute Christians. Asia Bibi is one such victim, and has suffered for eight years in prison under the threat of death.
“Pakistan Islamists warn of ‘terrible consequences’ of blasphemy appeal”, by Saad Sayeed and Drazen Jorgic, Reuters, October 8, 2018:
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A hardline Pakistani Islamist group has warned of “terrible consequences” if a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy is granted leniency in an appeal heard on Monday, a case that has drawn global headlines and indignation.
Asia Bibi, a mother of four, in 2010 became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws.
She appealed to the Supreme Court which concluded proceedings on Monday but reserved its judgment. The court did not specify when it would announce a ruling.
Her case has outraged Christians worldwide and been a source of division within Pakistan, where two politicians who sought to help Bibi were assassinated, including Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who was shot by his own bodyguard.
The ultra-religious Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party, which makes punishing blasphemy its main campaign rallying cry and lionizes the bodyguard who killed Taseer, warned the court against any “concession or softness” for Bibi.
“If there is any attempt to hand her over to a foreign country, there will be terrible consequences,” TLP said in a statement.
Insulting Islam’s prophet is punishable by death under Pakistani law, and blasphemy accusations stir such emotions that they are almost impossible to defend against. Dozens have been killed following blasphemy claims, sometimes by mobs of men.
TLP won more than two million votes in the July 25 elections, though it has no parliamentarians in the National Assembly and only holds two provincial seats. But it wields outsized influence due to street power of its die-hard supporters.
In November, TLP staged a crippling blockade of the capital after a tweak to a religious oath, which it claims was tantamount to blasphemy. Seven people were killed and more than 200 wounded in clashes with the police and TLP’s supporters only dispersed after striking a deal with the military.
In May, an extremist linked to TLP shot and wounded Pakistan’s then-Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal.
Bibi was sentenced to death for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbors objected to her drinking water from their glass because she was not Muslim.
Bibi has always denied blaspheming and her representatives have claimed she was involved in a dispute with her neighbors and that her accusers had contradicted themselves….
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SEE ALSO:

Pakistan: Thousands of Muslims rally to demand death for Christian woman accused of blasphemy

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/pakistan-thousands-of-muslims-rally-to-demand-death-for-christian-woman-accused-of-blasphemy
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Glazov Moment: Asia Bibi and #MeToo’s Callous Betrayal

In this new Jamie Glazov Moment, Jamie focuses on Asia Bibi and #MeToo’s Callous Betrayal, and as he unveils how Islam is viciously targeting a Christian woman’s life, he asks: Where are the feminists?

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PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MEETING WITH PASTOR BRUNSON AT OVAL OFFICE AFTER RELEASE FROM TURKISH IMPRISONMENT~"YOU REALLY FOUGHT FOR US"

PASTOR BRUNSON FINALLY FREED FROM TURKEY AFTER TWO YEAR IMPRISONMENT ON FALSE CHARGES
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KISSES THE AMERICAN FLAG 
AT RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, GERMANY
Freed US Pastor Lands in Germany, Greets Ambassador ...
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PRAYS WITH TRUMP

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MEETING WITH PASTOR BRUNSON AT OVAL OFFICE AFTER RELEASE FROM TURKISH IMPRISONMENT~"YOU REALLY FOUGHT FOR US" 
President Trump and Pastor Andrew Brunson at White House. Pastor Andrew Brunson meets with President Trump in the Oval Office a day after he was released by Turkish officials.

Pastor Andrew Bruson was freed from prison after two years and this afternoon he sat down in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump.The President made some remarks first, but when Brunson spoke he offered his thanks to the Trump administration and members of Congress advocating for him:

“We especially want to thank the administration. You really fought for us, unusually so, from the time you took office. I know that you’ve been engaged, and Secretary of State Pompeo also was very engaged and fought for us, and Vice President Pence, we are very grateful. Mr. Bolton. There are a number of people in the Senate, and I can’t mention everyone, but I know that Senator Tillis visited me in prison, so did Senator Shaheen and Senator Graham, and Senator Lankford has been involved from the very beginning. So we’re so grateful to so many people in Congress who stood with us, and who prayed for us, and who fought for us. So we want to thank you all very much.”
During his Oval Office meeting with freed pastor Andrew Brunson, President Donald Trump faced a number of questions about the disappearance and likely kg of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
When asked about the timing of Pastor Brunson’s release from Turkey following the disappearance of Khashoggi, the President said it’s a “total coincidence.”


PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MAGA RALLY IN LEBANON, OHIO

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MAGA RALLY IN LEBANON, OHIO


THE TRUTH ABOUT KEITH ELLISON & THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

THE TRUTH ABOUT KEITH ELLISON & 
THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
The rise of Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the House. Has served 7 terms in the House and was made Deputy Chair of the DNC. These days, the Democratic Party and Ellison are doing everything they can to bury the assault allegations plaguing his campaign for Minnesota Attorney General. But that is just the first layer of the skeletons in Ellison's closet. Ellison's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas fit the same trajectory as those of former President Obama, Huma Abedin and the Clinton Foundation.
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