Wednesday, August 7, 2019

“Socially Allied Elements” on the March


“Socially Allied Elements” on the March




Western elites have mastered the Soviet arsenal of repressions perfectly

The report stating that Tommy Robinson was transferred to a special closed prison, Belmarsh in the South of London, which was described as “jihadi training camp,” has brought an ominous deja-vu to me.

…In the 1990s, we learned a gloomy story about N. In the USSR, he was a dedicated Zionist, and together with other Zionists and religious Jews, he was trying to immigrate to Israel. However, unlike many others who were pressured into cooperation with KGB (in no way we can blame them for that), N. stood steadfastly and uncompromisingly. And as a result, the KGB sent him not to a solitary cell in which N. was detained, but to a common one – together with criminals. Day by day he was subject to violence – physical, verbal and sexual. He survived unprecedented humiliation and even many years after that in Israel, he could not recover completely from the horror he had experienced. “The System” knew how to break a man.

Modern pseudo-democratic regimes have learned the post-Stalinist Soviet arsenal of repressions perfectly. The first and foremost of these lessons is simple: it is not necessary to murder a person, especially in the name of the law. Murder would give him or her a halo of martyrdom. One should only deprive them of their will and instill fear in the hearts of their followers. This practice has been widely used against dissidents, nationalists, etc.

The second fundamental lesson is that the regime itself should not be implicated. The “dirty work,” wrote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, should be done by “socially allied elements.” In the USSR, these were criminals who collaborated with the authorities and got privileged positions as a result of this. In case of Tommy Robinson, such a role was assigned to “jihadists” in prisons. Thus, the authorities are not only relieved of any responsibility, but they can assert that any violence against “an enemy of the democracy” (“fascist,” “racist” etc.) is a spontaneous manifestation of indignation. Even if the person is not subject to violence, the very fact of being involved in such an environment is an unambiguous hint to him and his supporters.

Anyway, nobody knows or will ever know… As we remember, the “far-right extremist” 35-year-old Kevin Crehan, who made a joke by having left uncooked bacon on the threshold of the mosque of Bristol in 2016, died in prison under suspicious circumstances from a so-called “drug overdose” in 2018. These “mysterious deaths” are very well known to everybody who lived in the USSR.
Prison may have different functions. It can be a repressive apparatus in relation to some people, and a place of training of “future cadres” in relation to others. And as Stalin liked to say, “Cadres decide everything.”

Modern “socially allied elements” are detained in privileged conditions — not only in England, but throughout the Western world, including Israel, where Palestinian terrorists live in the luxury of a four-star hotel, with plenty of food, libraries and television, surrounded by their comrades, having the right to study through distance learning, entitled to regular visits of their relatives, etc. They can study the Quran, preach jihad sermons, and maintain contact with the outside world. For “enemies of the nation” (once again, the term was widely used by Stalin), there are completely different conditions: obscurity, lack of any comfort, and life in perpetual fear.

Use of prisons as a means of intimidating dissidents is not the only thing that the Western establishment has adopted from the Soviet repressive apparatus. Another powerful lever are the informal social groups used to fight against “enemies of the nation” (today’s “fascists,” “racists,” “supremacists,” and so on).

In my youth, in the mid-1980s, the so-called “Lyubertsy Squads” (named after the city of Lyubertsy from which they originated, near Moscow) appeared in Moscow. These were well-organized groups of young men going in for hand-to-hand combat, boxing and martial arts. Well-coordinated and disciplined like wolf packs, they scoured the streets and public transport, tracking down representatives of the informal youth culture — hippies, heavy metal music fans, punks, etc. Having found them, they beat them brutally. They had their own anthem, songs and uniform — wide plaid pants and leather jackets. In a short time, they reached far beyond the boundaries of Lyubertsy and Moscow in general. Everybody knew that they were supervised by KGB, which used them to fight against “aliens to Soviet cultural elements.”

Today, in almost all Western countries you can discover militant “informal” groups that systematically engage in intimidation of opponents. In the USA these are, first of all, Antifa and Black Lives Matter. The mass violence at Berkeley was just a beginning. This was followed by a series of actions of intimidation. During the events in Charlottesville, even a reporter for the New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, admitted that she saw “club-wielding ‘antifa’ beating white nationalists being led out of the park.”

In August last year, they even beat a supporter of Bernie Sanders, who came out to demonstrate against fascism with an American flag. The reason? “The US flag is a symbol of fascism.”
In October 2018, their victim was John David Rice-Cameron — the conservative son of Susan Rice. The incident happened at a Brett Kavanaugh rally in Stanford University.

Then on June 30, 2019, the conservative journalist and editor of Quillette Andy Ngo and three civilians were assaulted with weapons by Antifa’s activists in Portland. It is not surprising that Ted Cruz requested that Antifa be added to the list of terrorist organizations.

In Germany, local militants of Antifa organize periodic pogroms of the “enemies of progress.” Their last object was the Drei Kastanien restaurant in Leipzig in January of this year, where AfD (“Alternative For Germany”) activists liked to gather.

There are Muslim “Sharia patrols” in almost every Western country. They detain, search and demean everybody of whom they don’t approve, as did the Lyubertsy. And also like the Lyubertsy, they receive poorly disguised support from the authorities and the establishment.

The streets of German cities are patrolled by Muslim bikers led by Marcel Kunst (now Mahmud Saddam), who converted to Islam. Practically everywhere you can learn and hear about “Sharia police”: in Germany, Great Britain, New York City, France, Sweden. They are presented by the media as an innocent and even praiseworthy initiative aimed at, firstly, strengthening people’s sense of security (oh my God!) and secondly, promoting cultural enrichment. In the Soviet ideology, this is called the “strengthening of the ideals of communist society.” Socially allied elements have become an integral part of the “Apparatus.”

Can the people of the West change the situation? Yes, they can. There is still a window of opportunity. They can vote for the truly right-wing parties, go to demonstrations, as courageous people in Eastern Europe and the USSR did (and continue do it today in Russia); they can publish open letters, like dissidents did. But first of all, one should understand and recognize the main thing: the current political system in the West is not democracy in general, and of course, not “liberal democracy” in Alexis de Tocqueville’s terms. This is a perverted cultural totalitarianism of a new type, wrapped in beautiful slogans, using pseudo-Soviet rhetoric and Soviet repression tools to intimidate anyone who dissents and doubts, in order to turn them into “consumer plankton.” The ideas of freedom, liberal values and democracy are entrusted to the militants of Antifa, BLM, “Sharia patrols” and the “jihadists” of Belmarsh prison. Welcome to anti-utopia.

Alexander Maistrovoy is the author of Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger), available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Iran-Al Qaeda Alliance Enabled 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings



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August 7, 2019

Iran-Al Qaeda Alliance Enabled 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings

(New York, N.Y.) - On August 7, 1998 suicide bombers blew up their pick-up trucks in front of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Among the 224 people killed were 12 Americans. In 2011, a U.S. district court judge found that Iran was culpable for the bombings, providing "material support" to al Qaeda essential for the execution of the attacks.
Iran's alliance with al Qaeda took place while then-President Mohammad Khatami was promoting his "dialogue among civilizations," an attempt to portray the regime as being moderate. This myth of moderation continues to the present day despite Iran's 40-year history of terror and turmoil.

UANI's report Al Qaeda Alliance Against the US, documents the development of the Iran-al Qaeda relationship.





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Posted: 07 Aug 2019 11:01 AM PDT
According to a new report released by the Pentagon's inspector general, ISIS has devised a three-part "overarching strategy" for its "desert-based insurgency" in Iraq and Syria. The three parts are: "sahara" (desert), "sahwat" (meaning awakenings -- a derogatory reference to any Sunni Muslims who oppose the group), and "sawlat" ("hit-and-run operations").
Posted: 07 Aug 2019 10:52 AM PDT
Beginning last year, the Houthis have launched dozens of drone strikes inside Saudi Arabia and Yemen. FDD's Long War Journal has mapped these strikes.
Posted: 07 Aug 2019 02:44 AM PDT
The bombing, which leveled a police station and killed and wounded scores of people, is the latest in a series of terror attacks in the capital. The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation continues to claim the Taliban can be an "effective counterterrorism partner"despite the Taliban's repeated use of terror tactics.

Toxic media pushing "white supremacist" hoax in effort to spark violent civil war


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The toxic mainstream media is now desperately pushing a massive psyop media hoax, falsely claiming America is being overrun by white supremacists.
Their solution? They want all Trump supporters placed in death camps, and Joe Biden is now calling for armed federal agents to go door to door, confiscating all guns from law-abiding Americans (at gunpoint, no less).
According to the media, all white people are bad, all Trump supporters are terrorists and all Americans must give up their liberties and surrender to tyranny. It's getting insane. And the media wants to see America burn to the ground.

Blind Hate Drives Campaign to Fire Jake Tapper



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August 7, 2019

Blind Hate Drives Campaign to Fire Jake Tapper

by Steven Emerson
IPT News
August 7, 2019
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If Saturday's horrifying terrorist attack in an El Paso Walmart had taken place in Jerusalem, leaving 22 Israelis dead, the killer would rot in jail knowing his family would be taken care of, paid every month by his government.
He might one day have a park, or a school, or a street named in his honor. He would be held up as a hero and used to inspire more killing. Children would be encouraged to follow his lead.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of how the Palestinian Authority and others incite violence against Israeli civilians. But it's why, in the wake of discussions about the role political rhetoric plays in attacks like the El Paso massacre, CNN anchor Jake Tapper made a passing reference to Palestinian incitement.
For the sin of invoking a real thing, Israel-haters are demanding Tapper be fired.
It seems to have started with Sana Saeed, a host and producer with Al-Jazeera's online arm, AJ+.



"Collect your man, CNN," she wrote Sunday after calling Tapper's remarks "the height of unethical journalism." That's a charge on a scale with plagiarizing, lying or stealing information. What, exactly, did Tapper say to generate such an accusation?
"You hear conservatives talk all the time—rightly, in my view—about the tone set by, well, the Arab world," Tapper said. "The Palestinians and the way they talk about Israelis, justifying ... no direct link between what the leader says and the violence to some poor Israeli girl in a pizzeria—but the idea you're validating this hatred."
"You can't compare the ideology of Hamas with anything else," Tapper said, "but at the same time, either tone matters or it doesn't."
Sober viewers might note that Tapper is using the example of Palestinian incitement to ask whether people are being inconsistent in minimizing political rhetoric in the El Paso shooting. But Palestinian advocates blinded by a hatred for Israel are not sober viewers.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., accused Tapper of "[c]omparing Palestinian human rights activists to terrorist white nationalists," and dismissing it as a lie. It is a lie, Tapper replied, because that's not at all what he said.



He invoked a dead Israeli girl in a pizzeria – if Tlaib wants to argue the suicide bomber was a "human rights advocate," let her do it on the House floor.
MPower Change, run by Tlaib ally and Israel-basher Linda Sarsour, then launched a campaign demanding Tapper's firing. In addition to rejecting the very idea of a Jewish state as "creepy," Sarsour spreads a blood libel that holds American Jews liable for police shootings of unarmed black people.
"Tapper distorted the violence in El Paso by invoking occupied Palestinians and Arabs out of nowhere and comparing them to the white nationalist shooter," an MPower Change statement said. "... By inserting Palestinians and Arabs in a conversation about white supremacist violence, Tapper pushed the Islamophobic 'terrorist' narrative about Muslims and Arabs that's been mainstreamed over the past few decades."
People can debate whether Tapper had a point about rhetoric inciting Saturday's bloodshed. But MPower Change's description misrepresents the entire exchange. That didn't stop the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) from joining MPower Change's campaign.
It's not the first misguided run Sarsour has made at Tapper. When he criticized her and others in the national Women's March for praising fugitive cop-killer Assata Shakur in 2017, Sarsour accused Tapper of being part of the "alt-right."
Again, Tapper's question after El Paso challenged the Trump administration and its supporters – those Sarsour, Tlaib, JVP all oppose – to consider whether their rhetoric might have been a factor in a self-professed white nationalist's terrorist attack. But they couldn't see that because he dared mention Palestinian incitement.
We have taken note of the blind hate Islamists and their allies have for Israel, showing how it drives them to make insane comparisons between Israel's army and ISIS and blacklisting Muslims who support Palestinian nationalism but aren't sufficiently rabid in their criticism of Israel.
This campaign isn't going anywhere. But it's another clear example of how those who claim to combat hate have plenty of their own demons to wrestle.
Research Analyst Teri Blumenfeld contributed to this report.
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Iran-Al Qaeda Alliance Enabled 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings



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Iran-Al Qaeda Alliance Enabled 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings

(New York, N.Y.) - On August 7, 1998 suicide bombers blew up their pick-up trucks in front of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Among the 224 people killed were 12 Americans. In 2011, a U.S. district court judge found that Iran was culpable for the bombings, providing "material support" to al Qaeda essential for the execution of the attacks.
Iran's alliance with al Qaeda took place while then-President Mohammad Khatami was promoting his "dialogue among civilizations," an attempt to portray the regime as being moderate. This myth of moderation continues to the present day despite Iran's 40-year history of terror and turmoil.

UANI's report Al Qaeda Alliance Against the US, documents the development of the Iran-al Qaeda relationship.





United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a non-partisan, broad-based coalition that is united in a commitment to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons.  UANI is an issue-based coalition in which each coalition member will have its own interests as well as the collective goal of advancing an Iran free of nuclear weapons. 

Forty Years of Iranian Intolerance


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  • Denis MacEoin: Forty Years of Iranian Intolerance
  • Uzay Bulut: Pakistan: Abduction, Forced Conversion of Non-Muslim Girls

Forty Years of Iranian Intolerance

by Denis MacEoin  •  August 7, 2019 at 5:00 am
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  • What, one has to ask, does Iran's Islamic regime have to fear from the country's Christians, Baha'is, Zoroastrians, Sufis, Sunni Muslims, or Jews? Yet its treatment of these minorities is so repressive that it seems not unreasonable to ask if the clerics might be afraid of what they consider challenges to their fantasy of pure Islamic identity.
  • So why this persecution? Because they represent a challenge to the radical shari'a law doctrines of the clergy, who impose Ayatollah Khomeini's religio-politico system of Velayat-e Faqih (rule by the theocratic Islamic government).
  • "If they [Muslims] had gotten rid of the punishment for apostasy, Islam would not exist today." – Islamic leader Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
  • The Iranian people who have been fighting for their freedom all these years deserve our immediate help.
What does Iran's Islamic regime have to fear from the country's Christians, Baha'is, Zoroastrians, Sufis, Sunni Muslims, or Jews? Yet its treatment of these minorities is so repressive that it seems not unreasonable to ask if the clerics might be afraid of what they consider challenges to their fantasy of pure Islamic identity. Pictured: The destruction of a historic Baha'i cemetery in Shiraz, Iran, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp. (Image source: Baha'i World News Service)
The regime that currently rules Iran was set up after a revolution in early 1979, and after forty years remains in power. It will have escaped no one's attention that relations between Iran and the West, notably the United States, have never been healthy and in recent months have deteriorated further.

Pakistan: Abduction, Forced Conversion of Non-Muslim Girls

by Uzay Bulut  •  August 7, 2019 at 4:00 am
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  • "The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reports that the police often turn a blind eye to reports of abduction and forced conversions thereby creating impunity for perpetrators. The police will often either refuse to record a First Information Report or falsify the information, thereby denying families the chance to take their case any further." — Report conducted in 2018 by the University of Birmingham's Commonwealth Initiative for Freedom of Religion or Belief, United Kingdom, 2018.
  • "Local police and political leaders... are often accused of being complicit in forced marriage and conversion cases by failing to properly investigate them. If such cases are investigated or adjudicated, the young woman is reportedly questioned in front of the man she was forced to marry, which creates pressure on her to deny any coercion." — Annual Report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, 2019.
  • "The most important reason for this [abduction and conversion] is the desire to increase Pakistan's Muslim population, which stems from the Islamic teaching that that a person who converts one non-Muslim to Islam will be granted a place in paradise." — Sardar Mushtaq Gill, Pakistani human rights lawyer and head of the Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD-Pakistan).
  • "The judiciary are often subject to fear of reprisal from extremist elements, in other cases the judicial officers' personal beliefs influence them into accepting the claims made that the woman/girl converted on her own free will." — Report conducted in 2018 by the University of Birmingham's Commonwealth Initiative for Freedom of Religion or Belief, United Kingdom, 2018.
  • "Higher authorities also have done little to nothing to pass legislation specifically criminalizing this issue....International pressure on Pakistan is an important element of seeking to end this abuse. Without motivation coming from outside the country, it is very unlikely the Pakistani government will listen to minority leaders and civil society to pass laws combating this issue." — William Stark, South Asia regional manager at the International Christian Concern.
On July 12, Hindus and Sikhs gathered in Pakistan's Sindh province to protest the kidnapping of young girls, their forced conversion to Islam and subsequent marriage to their abductors. Pictured: Karachi, capital of Sindh province, Pakistan. (Image source: Srsly/Wikimedia Commons)
On July 12, Hindus and Sikhs gathered in the Sindh province of Pakistan to protest the kidnapping of young girls, their forced conversion to Islam and subsequent marriage to their abductors. Demonstrators at the rally also railed against the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan for not safeguarding minority rights in the Muslim-majority country.
According a report conducted in 2018 by the University of Birmingham's Commonwealth Initiative for Freedom of Religion or Belief:
"Evidence provided by numerous NGOs, journalists and academics have shown that abductions and forced conversions are one of the most serious problems facing Hindu and Christian women and girls.
"Minorities often do not receive the protection required from state institutions and lack access to justice.
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