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In this mailing: Giulio Meotti: Christians in Africa: "You have three days to go or you will be killed!" Amir Taheri: The 'Cat-And-Mouse' World of the Ayatollah Christians in Africa: "You have three days to go or you will be killed!" by Giulio Meotti  •  June 30, 2019 at 5:00 am         "Christianity originated in the Middle East. Thus, the displacement or evacuation of Christians from the Middle East is very dangerous for the safety of the region... also in the Mediterranean Sea region. Europe is affected by this." — Egyptian Coptic Pope Tawadros II, in Germany, where he was inaugurating a new Coptic church for his exiled community. Deutsche Welle, May 14, 2019. Regrettably, the tragedy of these Christian massacres is directly proportional to the neglect with which they are reported in the West. "'Islamophobia' looms large; talk of 'Christophobia' is almost nonexistent". — Ross Douthat, "Are Christians Privileged or Persecuted?", The New York Times, April 23, 2019. Algeria -- the country of origin of some of the Christian fathers such as Augustine of Hippo -- has become a country... where officially there are "no native Christians". How many other countries will meet the same fate? And will the West ever come to the help of their Christian brethren? Christian families recently fled the city of Diffa, in Niger, after Boko Haram delivered the message: "You have three days to go or you will be killed!" Pictured: The gate of a school in Diffa. (Image source: Roland Hunziker/Wikimedia Commons) Persecution of Christians in the Middle East is now close to "genocide", a UK-commissioned report just revealed. The same threat has also become critical for Christian communities in Africa. Some say it began in Algeria in the 1990s, when 19 monks, bishops, nuns and other Catholics were killed during the civil war. Since then, in Nigeria, Christian faithful have been massacred in their churches; in Kenya, Christians have been killed in universities; in Libya, Christians have been beheaded on beaches; in Yemen, nuns have been assassinated and in Egypt, massive anti-Christian violence is prompting an exodus. It is the new African archipelago of persecution. Distressingly, these Christians have been finding themselves in the blind spot of the West: they are "too Christian" to get the Left's attention, but too far away for the Right. Africa's Christians are orphans. They have no "allies", John O'Sullivan writes. Continue Reading Article The 'Cat-And-Mouse' World of the Ayatollah by Amir Taheri  •  June 30, 2019 at 4:00 am         ....sanctions are working not by wrecking the lives of ordinary Iranians, who do suffer nevertheless, but by denying the mullahs the means to indulge in their deadly Tom-and-Jerry shenanigans. Each time the US imposed sanctions, the mullahs took a bite of humble pie and briefly modified aspects of their behavior as if playing a Tom-and-Jerry script. However, once sanctions were eased, their Jerry lost no time to revert to its old tricks. The key question here is whether Trump... will want or be able... to sit back and let time do its chastising work on the... Khomeinist regime. Contrary to claims by Khomeinist lobbyists in the West, Iran is not facing any shortage of food or medications, items not affected by sanctions. Pictured: A fruit store in Tehran. (Image source: Ninara /Flickr) A few weeks ago, the Islamic Republic's "Supreme Guide" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described his regime's decades-long conflict with the United States as a real-life re-enactment of the Tom and Jerry cartoons from Hollywood, in which a crafty little mouse provokes the clumsy big cat into all manner of threatening gestures but always ends up emerging safe and sound. In Khamenei's bizarre depiction, the Islamic Republic is the little mouse (Jerry) and the United States the big cat (Tom). Why should Khamenei make a conflict that has done so much damage to Iran as a nation the subject of so frivolous a depiction is something beyond the scope of this article. Continue Reading Article

Europe's Missing Islamic State Fighters by Soeren Kern  •  June 29, 2019 at 5:00 am         Swedish Television surveyed officials in the five Swedish municipalities — Gothenburg, Stockholm, Örebro, Malmö and Borås — that are home to most of the 150 IS returnees and found that those municipalities combined only have knowledge of the whereabouts of a maximum of 16 adults and 10 children. "The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial... The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them..." — U.S. President Donald Trump, Twitter, February 16, 2019. The Wall Street Journal, in a recent editorial, "The West's Foreign Fighter Problem," noted that European governments face a "Catch-22" situation: either repatriate and prosecute their jihadis, or risk that they disappear off the radar and carry out new attacks in Europe. "[I]t is particularly worrying that the [German] federal government appears to have taken no further measures to prevent the uncontrolled re-entry of underground IS [Islamic State] fighters," says Linda Teuteberg, Secretary General of Germany's Free Democratic Party. She added that the government "still has no concept for dealing with former IS fighters from Germany," including "Germans detained in the war zone as well as the more than 200 former IS supporters who are now back in Germany." (Image source: Olaf Kosinsky / CC BY-SA 3.0-de via Wikimedia Commons) The German government has lost track of scores of Germans who travelled to Iraq and Syria in recent years to join the Islamic State (IS). The revelation comes amid growing fears that some of these fighters are returning to Germany undetected by authorities. The German Interior Ministry, in response to a question from the Secretary General of the classical liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), Linda Teuteberg, revealed that German authorities lack information on the whereabouts of at least 160 Germans who left to fight with the IS, according to Welt am Sonntag. The ministry said that while some had probably been killed in combat, others have gone into hiding and may be trying to resettle in Germany. Continue Reading Article

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• Indian forces kill spokesman for al Qaeda group in Kashmir
• Islamic State claims twin suicide bombings in Tunis
• Jihadists in the Caucasus, Philippines renew allegiance to Baghdadi

Indian forces kill spokesman for al Qaeda group in Kashmir Posted: 28 Jun 2019 01:24 PM PDT Shabir Ahmad Malik (also known as Abu Ubaidah) was killed on June 26 in Kashmir. He was the spokesman for Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an al Qaeda group. Prior to joining AGH, Abu Ubaidah was a member of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.

Islamic State claims twin suicide bombings in Tunis Posted: 27 Jun 2019 06:15 PM PDT Today's suicide bombings demonstrate the Islamic State's residual threat to the North African country.

Jihadists in the Caucasus, Philippines renew allegiance to Baghdadi Posted: 27 Jun 2019 04:15 PM PDT As part of its "And the End Is Best for the Righteous” series, the Islamic State has released videos of jihadists from the Caucasus and the Philippines renewing their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism June 28, 2019 Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas: No Peace as Long as Israel Exists by John Rossomando IPT News June 28, 2019 https://www.investigativeproject.org/7968/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-no-peace-as-long-as Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Israel's Arab neighbors increasingly are looking to bury the hatchet after decades of a technical state of war, but not the Muslim Brotherhood. Bahrain knows Israel is here to stay and wants peace, Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa told the Times of Israel on Wednesday. His comments came as the parties debate the pros and cons of President Trump's "Deal of the Century" in Manama, Bahrain. The Brotherhood made it clear the details didn't matter. "The Muslim Brotherhood condemns all forms of normalization with the Zionist enemy, and all the actions leading up to the Zionist-American deal, and confirms that all Arab regimes involved in the "Deal of the Century" are anti-Arab peoples, and traitors to the Palestinian cause," the Muslim Brotherhood said on its Facebook page Tuesday. "The Arab and Islamic people's position will remain firm in support of the Palestinian cause, not recognized by the Zionist entity, and is alien to all forms of normalization." The U.S. proposal would devote $27.5 billion to building up the West Bank and Gaza, including a $5 billion transportation corridor to connect the territories. It is part of a proposed $50 billion economic investment in the region akin to the post-World War II Marshall Plan. Saudi Arabia contends the plan leads to a fully independent Palestinian state. The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which for years was led by Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, joined the Muslim Brotherhood in condemning the Manama conference and the "Deal of the Century," vowing that compromise was impossible. "The land of Palestine is all Islamic and not one inch of it can be given up, nor its inheritance sold," IUMS Trustee Sheikh Hassan Ould Aldo said in statement on the Muslim scholars' group's website. "This is not a deal." Aldo and the Brotherhood use language similar to what Hamas used in its original charter. It rejected any peaceful coexistence. To them, Palestine is part of a waqf, a holy Islamic trust, that no person can negotiate away. The IUMS used similar language to the Muslim Brotherhood's most recent statement in prior fatwas forbidding the normalization of relations with Israel. "All political, economic, and cultural dealings and all forms of normalization with the Zionist entity are considered to be a form of supporting and sustaining the occupier in its occupation of land and holy places," a 2009 IUMS fatwa said, echoing the Muslim Brotherhood's condemnation of the "Deal of the Century." On Monday, in an Arabic press release, Hamas, the Brotherhood's Palestinian offshoot, described all of Israel as "territories occupied in 1948" . The English version of that statement omitted the reference but described the U.S. plan as "dead letters, as the Palestinian people, who have been fighting for their freedom for more than 100 years, will not be lured into waving their claim to their homeland in return for the world's wealth." The statements make it clear that, to the Brotherhood and to Hamas, the problem is not Israeli government actions or policies. It is the country's existence that can never be accepted in a negotiation. They believe that Jews are the enemies of Allah, as countless videos on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV show. "Killing the occupiers [Israelis] is worship that Allah made into law," a 2012 propaganda music video produced by Hamas' military wing, the Qassam Brigades, and translated by Palestine Media Watch, says. "Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah," Arabic text on a sign in the video said. The Hamas charter quotes Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." These anti-Semitic views predate Israel's establishment. Al-Banna called Jews and Zionists "the enemies of Allah" in his book Fee Qaafilatil-Ikhwaan al-Muslimeen. He reached out to Sheikh Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, then the grand mufti of Jerusalem, in 1935 with the aim of helping him fight Jewish migration. Brotherhood leaders launched a fundraising campaign for Palestinian jihadists and sent weapons to use against the Jews. The Brotherhood took a strong pro-Nazi stance and sent al-Husseini to Germany to meet with Adolf Hitler. He told Hitler that Jews were the common enemy of Islam and the Nazis. Al-Husseini shared al-Banna's ideas with Hitler and served as an intermediary between the Brotherhood founder and the Nazi dictator. Al-Husseini helped recruit Muslims from the Balkans, Egypt and elsewhere to fight for the Nazis and became an SS general. France later arrested al-Husseini as a war criminal, but the British persuaded France to release him to Egypt to prevent further violence in the Muslim world. Al-Husseini and the Brotherhood rejected the post-war 1947 United Nations partition plan that would have created two states, one Israeli and one Palestinian. Instead, the Muslim Brotherhood chose the path of violence. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Special Apparatus entered Palestine in March 1948, two months before the proclamation of the State of Israel. The Brotherhood rejected repeated U.N. truce resolutions and vowed to fight until "we shoot the last Zionist soldier to the sea." Although many in the Middle East are currently reconciling with Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian offshoots remain firm in their belief that there can be no peace as long as Israel exists. Related Topics: John Rossomando, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Deal of the Century, peace plans, Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa, IUMS, Palestinian rejectionism, waqf, Hassan Ould Aldo, Palestinian incitement, Hasan al-Banna, Amin al-Husseini, U.N. partition plan To subscribe: http://www.investigativeproject.org/list_subscribe.php The Investigative Project on Terrorism