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April 30, 2015
Canadian government sacks Islamist who had infiltrated its Security and Intelligence Advisory committee
Highly placed Muslim ‘security advisor’ to the Canadian government had links with ‘questionable’ organizations and was passing himself off to the bleeding heart white liberal media as a ‘moderate Muslim’.
Now watch this expose on him by the Canadian French TV network TVA (with English subtitles).
April 29, 2015
Pakistan’s Mekaal Hasan Band pays tribute to India’s Amrita Pritam
Mekaal Hasan Band’s tribute to Amrita Pritam’s ‘Waris Shah’, written by her as she fled her city of Lahore to the other side of the border and while her Punjab burned all around her to satisfy the ego of one man who had no stake in the aftermath of Partition that caused a million people to die and a historic land to be split into two.
http://tarekfatah.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Mekaal-Hasan-Band-Waris-Shah.mp4
Did Pakistan’s Military Intelligence ISI assassinate a Human Rights Activist for her work on Balochistan?
April 29, 2015
Tarek Fatah
The Toronto Sun
Sabeen Mahmud joked on her Twitter profile she was willing to “die for Hugh Laurie”.
Instead, she was assassinated last Friday night, a martyr for Balochistan’s war of independence from Pakistan.
Mahmud, 40, was not your typical human rights activist.
She flaunted her love of Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen on social media, even as she hosted lectures in her Karachi cafe-cum-library on the “forced disappearances” of Balochistan’s rag-tag nationalist rebels.
After being warned not to play host to Balochistan activists and refusing to back down, she was shot dead by “unknown gunmen”, according to reports.
But to informed observers, the prime suspects were obvious.
Declan Walsh, the London-based Pakistan bureau chief for the New York Times, who was expelled in May 2013, tweeted:
“Pakistani military, facing accusations of involvement in killing of @Sabeen, says it will assist investigators.”
A prominent female opposition member in Pakistan’s parliament tweeted, “You speak you die. ISI’s message to all those speaking up for Balochistan.” Within hours, she had deleted her tweet.
(The ISI is Pakistan’s military intelligence agency.)
Pakistan’s military denied any involvement, tweeting that its, “Int(elligence) agencies (have) been tasked 2 render all possible assistance 2 investigating agencies 4 apprehension of perpetrators & (to) bring them to justice.”
Few paid heed to these hollow words.
To suppress challenges to its authority in the past, the Pakistani military has routinely intervened directly, or used its “non-state” Islamist militias, to do its dirty work.
The army is trying to portray Mahmud’s killing as the act of Islamist jihadis, upset by her liberal views. However, the words of the murdered activist recorded last year, suggest otherwise.
In 2014 while visiting London, Mahmud told the BBC she was facing death threats from unidentified individuals and harassment from Pakistan’s military intelligence agencies, upset about her human rights work for Balochistan.
She said at the time:
“We’ve done a lecture series on Balochistan that resulted in some visits by the (intelligence) agencies. They have come and taken all our information, our bank statements, lists of our employees. They wanted everyone’s home address and telephone numbers. Not quite sure what triggered the visits, but we think it is the Balochistan work we did.”
Despite what the military says, the killing of Mahmud may turn out to be a difficult crime to cover up.
No less a figure than the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, has expressed her outrage.
She tweeted: “Devastating news of brutal murder of #SabeenMahmud, a bright symbol of tolerance & nonviolence. Pakistan must hold her killers to acct.”
In London, Burzine Waghmar of The Centre for the Study of Pakistan at the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) told Lyse Doucette of the BBC, he had no hesitation in placing responsibility for Mahmud’s murder “squarely and emphatically … at the doorstep of the ISI.”
If Pakistan was just any developing nation, the significance of Mahmud’s assassination, while tragic and outrageous, would not matter to the extent it now does.
That’s because Pakistan is a nuclear power run by a cabal of power-hungry generals in partnership with death-cult jihadi terrorists.
Too much is at stake for the rest of the world to allow Sabeen Mahmud to die in vain.
The mullah-military nexus of terror in Islamabad needs to be roped in. For a start, we need to work towards helping Balochistan end the occupation.
April 26, 2015
“Islam is a system that Allah revealed to dominate all other religions” – Threat made in London in 1994
This is a video from 1994 at a time when hardly anyone watched what Islamists were doing as they spread their poison ivy across the Muslim diaspora in the West.
http://tarekfatah.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Archival-Hizb-Al-Tahrir-in-Chicago-Founder-Calls-for-Caliphate-Islam-Wont-Coexist-with-Democracy.mp4
Here, Dr. Mohammed Malkawi, a.k.a. “Abu Talha,” is speaking at the International Muslim Khilafah (Caliphate) Conference, held at Wembley Arena in London in August 1994.
He says, “Islam is a “supreme system” that “will not coexist in the same place as democracy.” “Islam is a system that Allah revealed to dominate all other religions,” he said.
March 31, 2015
Saudi Arabia fools the West, again – Toronto Sun op-ed on the Yemen War
April 1, 2015
Tarek Fatah
The Toronto Sun
Yet another war has broken out within Islam. The richest nations of the Arab world are pummeling one of the poorest people on earth – the Yemenis.
As the deaths of helpless civilians mount, a lie of Goebellian scale is being perpetuated on the rest of us, who seem to have learned little from the propaganda that gave us Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction”.
This time the bogeyman is Iran’s tentacles choking the sea lanes of Bab-el-Mandeb that separate Yemen from the African coast.
While the vast majority of Islamic terror attacks on the West, Middle East and South Asia have been conducted by Sunni Muslim jihadis, Saudi Arabia has somehow convinced us it is Shiite Islam and Iran that are to blame.
Now the Saudis have taken on the task of restoring democracy in Yemen by backing President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who was ousted in a popular insurgency by the Ansar Allah Party, better known as the Houthis.
The only problem is that none of the countries in the Saudi-led coalition of oil-rich Gulf Arab sheikhdoms that purportedly seek to restore democracy in Yemen have ever faced their own electorates.
In addition, they are the very countries that have been the source of funding for the world’s worst jihadi terrorist organizations, nations that have funded tens of thousands of Islamic madrassahs that churn out jihadis willing to die for Islam’s victory over the kufaar, the hated non-Muslim infidel.
The lie that has been floated and gobbled up by western analysts and politicians is that the Yemeni Houthis are a product of Iranian intervention in Yemen and thus pose a threat to western interests as well as the security of Israel.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Finnish anthropologist Susanne Dahlgren, who has lived in Yemen, points out in the Middle East Research and Information Project this week that the Shiite and Iranian links being slapped on to the Houthis have little substance.
She writes: “The Western media shorthand designating the Houthis as ‘Iran-backed’ and ‘Shiite’ is misleading at best, since Houthi grievances are home grown and the Zaydi sect to which the Houthis belong is a distant cousin of the Twelver Shi’ism championed by the Islamic Republic in Tehran.”
Dahlgren goes on to say, “Much huffing and puffing by Gulf (Arab) media notwithstanding, there was little evidence that Iran aided the Houthis in the intermittent fighting of 2004-2010, certainly not to the extent of Saudi Arabia’s military intervention against the Houthis in 2009.”
For the United States and, unfortunately, Canada to throw their weight behind this coalition of medieval dictators is not only unprincipled, but also suggests Middle East petro dollars and possible defence contracts are shaping Western foreign policy.
The Saudis have been very successful in convincing the West that it is not they who pose a threat to our liberties, but Iran.
This notwithstanding the fact that as early as November, 2013, the BBC’s diplomatic editor, Mark Urban, broke the news that Saudi Arabia had invested in Pakistan’s nuclear weapons projects for its own needs.
Urban reported, “several nuclear weapons made in Pakistan for Saudi Arabia are sitting, waiting for delivery.”
Canada should resist the temptations offered by Saudi Arabia, a regime accused of buying nukes off the shelf from a potentially hostile nuclear power – Pakistan, not Iran.
March 29, 2015
Saudi Arabia has Made-in-Pakistan nuclear weapons, “sitting there, waiting for delivery” – BBC Report
November 2013 – BBC Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban reports, Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will. He reports that “several nuclear weapons made in Pakistan for Saudi Arabia are sitting, waiting for delivery,
“While the kingdom’s quest has often been set in the context of countering Iran’s atomic programme, it is now possible that the Saudis might be able to deploy such devices more quickly than the Islamic republic [of Iran],” he added.
March 28, 2015
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March 22, 2015
India should “Disengage with Pakistan completely. No Talks, No Visits, No Trade … Shutdown ‘Aman ki Aasha’ … And help Balochistan become Free”
Bhaiyo or Behno, Namaskar, Adaab aur Salaam Alaikum.
Happy New Year. Aap sub ko Gudhee Paadavaa aur Naroze Mubarik ki Badhaeean aur Naya Saal Mubarak Ho.
Seventy years ago today, the Red Army was knocking on the doors of Berlin and on May 5, 1945 it captured the German capital to bring to an end to the five year war in Europe.
In those five years, the USSR and its western allies that included tens of thousands of troops from our India destroyed the largest army ever mobilised. When the guns went silent, 50 million men and women were dead including six million in the Death Camps of Auschwitz where Hitler tried to exterminate the Jewish people.
Ladies and gentlemen, we were able to destroy the might of the German Wehrmacht in a mere five years, yet today, 14years after the United States declared a war on terrorism, we have not only failed in defeating the forces of international jihadi terrorism, we have ended up strengthening the very enemy we sought out to destroy.
We should ask ‘Why?’ We don’t.
When Osama was killed, Obama declared Al-Qaeda had been decimated. When Saddam was dethroned, Bush landed a plane on an aircraft carries declaring “mission accomplished”.
Despite the Bush and Obama declarations years ago, we are today meeting here in Jaipur because the United States has failed dismally in defeating and army led once by men in caves. Men who had noPanzer divisions, no V1 and V2 rockets, no Messerschmitt fighters, no Stuka bombers, no Tiger tanks, no Rommel, no Hess, No Goering and no Goebbels.
As India’s NSA Ajit Doval disclosed on Thursday, the United States alone has spent 5.1 Trillion dollars on this war. For every dollar the Jihadi terrorists spend, the USA has to match that dollar with $75,000 dollars. Imagine that.Over a million men and women have died, yet we are nowhere close to “Mission Accomplished”.
The question to be asked is why such a spectacular failure.
Let me put it succinctly. To fight Malaria you need to drain the swamps, not kill individual mosquitoes. We have let the drains stagnant and sent missiles to shoot down mosquitoes. The result has been for every mosquito killed, a 1000 are ready to replace it and spread the disease. Instead of draining the swamps, we are shooting down individual mosquitoes, one mosquito at a time.
But to drain the swamp, we need to identify it.
During the Second World war we not only knew who the enemy was, we were able to name him, without any guilt or hesitation.
In contrast, in this 21st21st century fourth world war, there are no Churchills, no Roosevelts, no Marshall Zhukov and no Chiang kai Shek. All we have today are midgets that celebrate mediocrity and practise appeasement. Appeasement that would make Chamberlain look like a courageous man.
Imagine a scenario during World War Two ifthe US in 1942 would consider Italy as an ally. Impossible, right?
But, today the same United States considers Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — the sworn enemies of everything that liberal secular democracies stand for — as allies of the USA.
But wait a minute. There’s more. The one country, the elephant in the room that no one wishes to speak about is the original “Islamic State of Pakistan” the mother lode of International terrorism, yet the beneficiary of billions of dollars of American largesse.
In addition, before and during the SecondWorld War, the motivating ideology behind Germans seeking world domination was the Nazi doctrine of Aryan supremacy , and all of us had absolutely no problem saying so.
In a similar manner the motivating ideology behind the Warsaw Pact during the Third World War aka the Cold War, was Communism that sought the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ and no one, not even Mr. Dange or Mr Namboodripad (leaders of the Communist Party of India) had any hesitation saying so.
This begs the question. What is thei deology of the jihadi terrorists seeking world domination to hasten the End of Times?
It is Islamofascism, the 20th century doctrine of Islamism, which is the use of Islam as a political tool to establish Islamic supremacy on the rest of the globe.
However, it seems we are too scared to dare mention the word ISLAMISM. Our American friends call it “Violent Extremism”.
What is this “Violent Extremism”? Why beat around the bush and call it for what it is, i.e. Islamic Extremism?
Let me show you a graphic clip that best illustrates our Islamic Extremism. It’s graphic, so pardon my indiscretion. Itis from Afghanistan and the tragic event happened just yesterday.
http://tarekfatah.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Afghan-crowd-beats-to-death-a-mentally-challenged-woman.mp4
A Muslim mob beating to death a 27-year old mentally challenged Muslim women on charges, she had burnt pages of the Quran. After beating her senseless, the crowd then sets her on fire and watches her burn to death. In interviews people justify her murder.
What have we become that we would beat and burn a young woman alive, even if she had deliberately set the Quran on fire?
Now the question is, What is to be done.
I’ll make one general policy proposal and four specific recommendations:
Definition of Terrorism under Resolution 1373
On 28 September 2001 in the wake of the9/11-jihadi terrorist attacks on the United States, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1373.
The resolution was a counter-terrorism measure adopted under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, and is therefore binding on all UN member states. It marked a shift in international law. Until then, international law was presumed to be valid only if the concerned state had voluntarily signed the international treaty; whereas after 1373, the Security Council imposed the resolution on all member states.
Following 1373, India made a call for a global convention on defining terrorism and finding commonly accepted means tocombat it.
Guess who obstructed the Indian initiative?Our good friends of the Islamic State, not in Rakka, but in Islamabad.
Pakistan, the epitome of state terrorism scuttled the effort by raising issues about “causative factors”,arguing that those who are “freedom fighters” cannot be labelled as terrorists.
It is unfortunate that the powers that matter in today’s world should only look at the tactics and methods used by such actors to define terrorism. To this day UN resolution 1373 exists only paper. Its not too late. Let there be a comprehensive convention against terrorism under the United Nations, which has been pending since 2001, when India first proposed it.
I say let us define Terrorism and then fight the state that feeds it.
Four Recommendations
But until then I have four recommendations for the Indian government:
Disengage with Pakistan completely. No talks, no visits, no trade.
Since Pakistan itches for parity with India, please shut down the silly March of the Roosters at the Wagah border cross point. This is the single most spectacular circus that puts the rogue state of Pakistan at par with the democratic, secular and dignified Republic of India.
End the ridiculous “Aman ki Aasha” that is a one-way traffic of ISI aunties coming to India and running circles around Indians, and even cause the fall of one of India’s brightest sons. ‘Aman ki Aasha’ is nothing but a shameful exercise by Pakistan’s upper class Hindu-hating, pan-Islamist Jinnah’s Orphans who benefit enormously. An entire industry has been created that is milking Indian goodwill to do the Pakistan military-civilian establishment’s bidding and propaganda.
Finally. Please don’t wait for a second Mumbai to create a Balochistan. Please start assisting the brave men and women of Balochistan today.
Help the young men of Dr. Allah Nazar in the hills and Baloch exiles like Mehran Marri and Brahamdagh Bugti. Plan and work towards the policy goal, unwritten and unsaid, for the disintegration of the so-called rump state that refers to itself the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
I say so-called state, not only because there is nothing ‘Paak’ about Pakistan, but because of the fact is Pakistan in 1971 changed its name to Bangladesh and what we call Pakistan today is Pakistan’s leftovers.-
Thank you for inviting me as a speaker to this conference. Jai Hind.
March 17, 2015
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