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TIJUANA MAYOR DECLARES MIGRANT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, REQUESTS URGENT U.N. HELP
TUCSON, ARIZONA BORDER PATROL SPOKESWOMAN SPEAKS
The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border
city and said Friday that he has asked the United Nations for aid to
deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have
arrived.
Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum said that the Mexican federal government has
provided little assistance and he is not going to commit the city’s
public resources to dealing with the situation. He said 4,976 migrants
had come to the city.
“We don’t have sufficient and necessary infrastructure to adequately
attend to these people, to give them a decent space,” he said on Grupo
Formula radio.
On Thursday, his government issued a statement saying that it was
requesting help from the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs. ________________________________________________________
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British politician Nigel Farage once helped convince Britons to vote
for Brexit and separate from the European Union, but British
establishment politicians have done everything they could to sabotage
that vote since then. Now Farage has apparently decided that if he can’t
beat them, he’ll join them — if not on Brexit, then in their stance of
denial and appeasement regarding the global jihad threat.’ At a dinner some time ago of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which he formerly headed, Farage said:
“If dealing with Islamic fundamentalism becomes a battle between us and
the entire religion, I’ll tell you the result: we’ll lose. We will
simply lose….We absolutely have to get that Muslim majority living in
many of our towns and cities on our side, more attuned to Western values
than some pretty hardline interpretations of the Qur’an.” Sure. Now how does Farage propose to do that? His warning against
making the resistance to jihad a “battle between us and the entire
religion” is odd. No sane person is saying that the West should go to
war with the entire Islamic world. The likeliest interpretation of his
statement is that he is saying that we must not speak about how jihadis
find justification for their actions in the Qur’an and Sunnah, as that
will alienate the “moderates.”
But if we don’t speak about such facts, how will we ever convince
Muslims not to follow “hardline interpretations of the Qur’an”? Another problem with Farage’s statement is that it manifests a
remarkable ignorance of history.While he is deeply concerned that
British people not begin to think that resisting jihad terror means that
they are in a “battle” with the “entire religion” of Islam, he appears
unaware of the fact that many Muslims throughout history have considered
their entire religion to be at war with the entire non-Muslim world.
I document this abundantly in my book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. To
take one of innumerable examples, Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, a
fifteenth-century Persian who wrote a biography of the Mongol Muslim
warrior Tamerlane, observed that “the Qur’an says the highest dignity
man can attain is that of making war in person against the enemies of
his religion. Muhammad advises the same thing, according to the
tradition of the Muslim doctors: wherefore the great Temur always strove
to exterminate the infidels, as much to acquire that glory, as to
signalise himself by the greatness of his conquests.”
After conquest came dhimmitude, the subjugated status that the Qur’an
mandates for “the People of the Book” (primarily Jews and Christians).
In the early twelfth century, the Fatimid caliph Al-Amir bi-Ahkamillah
issued this edict:
Now, the prior degradation of the infidels in this world
before the life to come—where it is their lot—is considered an act of
piety; and the imposition of their poll tax [jizya], “until they pay the
tribute out of hand and have been humbled” (Koran 9:29) is a divinely
ordained obligation….The dhimmi’s payment of his dues by a bill drawn on
a Muslim, or by delegating a real believer to pay it in his name will
not be tolerated. It must be exacted from him directly in order to
vilify and humiliate him, so that Islam and its people may be exalted
and the race of infidels brought low. The jizya is to be imposed on all
of them in full, without exception.
Underlying this subjugation is a deep contempt for non-Muslims. In
the year 718, the Umayyad caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz sent out a message
to the governors of the various Islamic provinces:
O you who believe! The non-Muslims are nothing but dirt.
Allah has created them to be partisans of Satan; most treacherous in
regard to all they do; whose whole endeavor in this nether life is
useless, though they themselves imagine that they are doing fine work.
Upon them rests the curse of Allah, of the Angels and of man
collectively
We must not think that we are at war with the entire religion. But
what, Mr. Farage, are we to think about the Muslims who consider
themselves and their religion to be at war with us? Nigel Farage has become just another mainstream hack politician.
Don’t become another Nigel Farage. Inform yourself:
“Nigel Farage bids to topple UKIP leader Gerard Batten over Tommy Robinson role,” by Aubrey Allegretti and Greg Heffer, Sky News, November 23, 2018:
Nigel Farage will launch an effort to oust UKIP leader
Gerard Batten following his appointment of far-right figure Tommy
Robinson.
Mr Farage, who previously led UKIP in three different spells,
condemned Mr Batten for dragging the party in a “shameful direction”.
Since becoming leader in February, Mr Batten has seen a series of
high-profile figures quit UKIP amid criticism of the party’s anti-Islam
messages.
He has now prompted a new row by controversially naming English
Defence League founder Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon,
as his adviser on rape gangs and prison reform.
Mr Farage described himself as “appalled” by the appointment and
revealed he will be lobbying UKIP officials in a bid to remove Mr
Batten.
“I will be writing to the National Executive Committee of the party
today and urging that we have a vote of no confidence in Gerard Batten
as leader, that we get rid of him,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today
programme.
“We can have one last go at getting rid of somebody who, as leader, is dragging us in a shameful direction.”
Mr Farage has previously criticised Mr Batten for marching alongside
the Democratic Football Lads Alliance at an anti-Muslim rally.
He accused Mr Batten of having a “fixation with Tommy Robinson and
discussing Islam, and dragging UKIP into a direction of effectively
being a, sort of, street activist party”.
Mr Farage added: “It goes against all the things I did as leader to
say we will talk about immigration, we will talk about the extreme forms
of Islam.
“But, we will do it as a non-racist, non-sectarian party. This blows a hole in all of that.”…
