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		<title>French Arrest Muslim Murderer of US Diplomat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mohamed shot Bultemeier in the chest]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/muslim-fugitive-wanted-in-u-s-diplomats-killing-arrested-in-mali/">French are still doing the work that Obama</a> <a href="http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/18/20563169-escaped-killer-sought-in-murder-of-us-diplomat">won&#8217;t do</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Federal prosecutors have filed murder charges against a convicted killer who allegedly shot an American diplomat to death in Africa just hours before the American was to board a plane and head home to North Carolina for Christmas.</p>
<p>On the night of Dec. 22, 2000, a group of Americans took William Bultemeier, a 51-year-old Department of Defense employee assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Niamey, Niger, out for a farewell dinner at a local French restaurant called La Cloche.</p>
<p>At about 1 a.m., Bultemeier left the restaurant. Before he could get into a white Toyota SUV with diplomatic plates, a gunman identified as Mohamed demanded the keys.</p>
<p>According to prosecutors, Mohamed shot Bultemeier in the chest with a pistol and grabbed his keys.</p>
<p>An accomplice shot Marine Staff Sgt. Christopher McNeeley with an AK-47 as he tried to help Bultemeier. McNeeley was flown to Ramstein Air Base in Germany for medical treatment and survived.</p>
<p>Bultemeier, a retired Army master sergeant, had been deployed to Niger in July 2000. He served as the defense attache systems coordinator. McNeely arrived in Niger in October 2000 to serve as Marine detachment commander.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now Mo has been arrested or re-arrested in Mali.</p>
<blockquote><p>A fugitive wanted by the FBI in the killing of a U.S. diplomat in 2000 has been arrested by French forces in Mali, a source familiar with the case told CNN on Thursday.</p>
<p>Alhassane Ould Mohamed, also known as “Cheibani,” a 43-year-old Malian citizen, was named in an indictment unsealed in a federal court in New York in September.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>“Under the Islamists, Blacks were Exploited Even More&#8221;: Ex-Slaves Speak Out About Muslim Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“They told them, ‘We are with the Islamists. We are in power. We are the masters and you are our slaves. We will do what we want.’ ”]]></description>
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<p>Muslims have sold a lot of African-Americans on the myth that Islam is an &#8220;African&#8221; religion and that Arabic words are African. In fact, Islam is the religion of Arab slavemasters. And recent events in Mali serve as a reminder of that.</p>
<p>Islam incorporates not only religious supremacism through theocracy, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/timbuktus-slaves-liberated-as-islamic-supremacists-flee.html">but also ethnic supremacism that privileges </a>the descendants of Mohammed.</p>
<blockquote><p>Her light-skinned master no longer beats her with a camel whip. He no longer makes her work from dawn to night without pay. He fled with his family four months ago, along with the Islamists who briefly ruled this historic city.</p>
<p>“I am free,” said Aminaya Traore, a 50-year-old woman who was born into slavery. “I can do whatever I want.”</p>
<p>Across this sand-swept city, hundreds of modern-day slaves are experiencing a sense of liberation, many for the first time. Nearly all the lighter-skinned Tuaregs and Arab Moors who for generations exploited them have fled the city, fearing reprisal attacks for supporting supporting the Islamists or the Tuareg separatists whose rebellion helped ignite the Islamist takeover of Mali’s north last year.</p>
<p>“Under the Islamists, blacks were exploited even more by the pink-skinned people,” said Roukiatou Cisse, a social worker with Temedt, a human rights group, referring to the Tuaregs and Arab Moors. “They told them, ‘We are with the Islamists. We are in power. We are the masters and you are our slaves. We will do what we want.’ ”</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/black-slavery-and-islamic-racism/">Slavery remains a major problem in the Muslim world due to the religion&#8217;s racist undertones</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. By contrast, Saudi Arabia only abolished slavery in 1962. That same year Yemen abolished slavery and the United Arab Emirates abolished slavery a year later.</p>
<p>Al-Tabari wrote that, “Noah prayed that the hair of Ham’s descendants would not grow beyond their ears, and that whenever his descendants met Shem’s, the latter would enslave them.”  This theological justification provided a religious manifest destiny for the Arab conquests and acts of ethnic cleansing in Africa.</p>
<p>The great Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun justified slavery by relegating black people to the rank of animals, writing, “The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Arab Hypocrisy in Mali</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But an opportunity is open for Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-puder/arab-hypocrisy-in-mali/mali-islamists-neurope/" rel="attachment wp-att-178871"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-178871" title="Mali-Islamists-Neurope-" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mali-Islamists-Neurope-.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="228" /></a>Dioncounda Traoré, 70, the interim President of Mali, harshly criticized Arab members of the African Union at its last organizational summit in Addis Ababa on January 27, 2013.</p>
<p>Traoré lashed out at the hypocrisy of the Arab member states of the Union, Egypt and Tunisia in particular, for condemning the French air attack against the al-Qaeda Islamists while at the same time refusing to condemn the brutal atrocities committed by the Islamists on the people of Mali.</p>
<p>According to Abdel Bari Atwan, editor-in-Chief of the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi Newspaper, “<a href="http://www.bariatwan.com/english/?p=1365">Traoré</a> spoke of his sense of betrayal that the Arab nations had not joined Mali’s fight against the Islamists but had condemned France instead.  This was then taken up by the Malian press and several editorials critical of Arab countries ensued.”</p>
<p>Mali is a former French colony and a landlocked West African (Sahel region bordering the Sahara desert) nation that had often been cited as a democratic model.  In March 2012, mutinous soldiers in Bamako, the capital, rose up in a coup and overthrew the government of President Amadou Toumani Toure.  The troops responded to the government’s mishandling of the rebellion by the nomadic Tuareg tribesmen who seized much of Mali’s northern desert.  The Tuareg tribesmen were then pushed out by Islamists associated with al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>The foothold gained by al-Qaeda in Mali’s north worried Western policymakers that Mali might become a safe haven for Islamist terrorists.  The Malian government was unable to take on the Islamists, and appealed to the French government for help. It prompted the French government to send its military to intervene, and push al-Qaeda out to the northern mountains last January.  When French air strikes did not succeed in dislodging the al-Qaeda Islamists, the French deployed ground troops.  Now, the French are concerned about being bogged down in Mali and hope that an African force will be formed that will tackle the Islamists in the vast desert and mountains of Northern Mali.</p>
<p>France intervened in Mali to protect its vital interests.  For years, al-Qaeda has been trying to penetrate the countries of the Sahel region, and Mali is its main target.  Without the French military intervention, Mali would have become the first Islamic state of the Sahel region, followed by neighboring Niger, a country on which France heavily depends for its uranium imports.</p>
<p>USA Today reported (2/14/2013) that “In their hurry to flee last month, al-Qaeda fighters left behind a <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/14/in-timbuktu-al-qaida-left-behind-a-manifesto/1919831/">crucial document</a>…spelling out the terror network’s strategy for conquering northern Mali and reflecting internal discord over how to rule the region&#8230;It moreover leaves no doubt that despite the temporary withdrawal into the desert (driven out by French forces), al-Qaeda plans to operate in the region over the long haul.”</p>
<p>Mali, recently, much like other black-African states in the past, felt betrayed by and disappointed with the Arab-Muslim world.  In the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Arab League urged the black-African states to sever their ties with Israel and threatened them with an oil embargo.  The rich oil-producing Arab states of Saudi Arabia and Libya used financial incentives to bribe the African states.  As a result, most of the Sub-Saharan African states cut their diplomatic relations with Israel.  Soon enough, the African states discovered the Arabs&#8217; empty promises, and while the Arabs wanted Africa to join them in isolating Israel, they did not, however, want to share with the Africans their oil.</p>
<p>In the 1980s and 1990s Israel invested serious efforts in restoring relations with the African states.  It paid off when most black-African states renewed their diplomatic ties with Israel in those decades.  In the following decade, however, as a result of the Second Intifada (2000-2004), Niger severed its relations with Israel in 2000, and Mauritania (a member of the Arab League) in 2009, following Israel’s Iron Cast operation in Gaza.</p>
<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran, too, is seeking to develop close ties with the Continent’s states, and gain political influence.  Under the guise of providing economic and military aid, and backed by a large and wealthy Shiite-Lebanese diaspora in such African states as the Congo, Guinea, and Senegal, who send large sums in contributions to Hezbollah, Iran hopes to garner UN support from African states and thus break its regional and international isolation.</p>
<p>According to the Afri Commons Blog (2/2/2011), quoting Meir Javedanfar, an Iranian-born Middle East analyst at the Tel Aviv-based Meepas risk-analysis group, Iran’s goal in Africa is “to <a href="http://africommons.com/2011/02/02/new-developments-on-irans-geopolitical-efforts-in-africa-another-challenge-for-democracy/">win votes</a> in the UN and increase the number of countries that support them there, to win economic points, to increase Iran’s economic clout in the region and in the world…The Iranian leadership sees Iran as a superpower, and superpowers build alliances.”</p>
<p>The triumph of Islamist parties in Egypt and Tunisia and the near takeover of Mali by al-Qaeda terrorists had increased the African states&#8217; apprehensions over Iran and its allies meddling in Africa.  Countries such as Ethiopia and Kenya, both confronted by Islamist rebels, have indicated their interest in strengthening their military ties with Israel.  From 2006 to 2010 Israel delivered major weapons to nine sub-Saharan states: Cameroon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Lesotho, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, and Uganda.  Nigeria signed deals with Israel worth $<a href="http://books.sipri.org/files/misc/SIPRIBP1110.pdf">500 million</a>.</p>
<p>Increasingly, African leaders and political pundits have become critical of Arab hypocrisy, and worried about Iran and its Islamist allies.  They have charged the Arabs of racism, reminding them of their past slave trading in Africa.  They were also concerned by Muammar Gaddafi’s expansionist and destabilizing policies in the African Continent.</p>
<p>Mali’s daily Le Matin has recently excoriated Palestinian ambassador Abu Rabah, the influential dean of the diplomatic corps, for not coming out against the Islamists.  The newspaper claimed that the Islamists are backed by Arab and Muslim countries. Le Matin argued that “since Mali has been <a href="http://www.tv7israelnews.com/category/opinions/">duped</a> by its so-called Muslim brethren, it should change its foreign policy.”</p>
<p>Abdel Bari Atwan writes that “[t]he French military intervention in Mali is designed not only to protect its own interests in the region but to benefit Israel.  The Mali <a href="http://www.bariatwan.com/english/?p=1365">adventure</a> has opened new doors for Israel in terms of diplomacy and its expansionist plans in the African continent as a whole.” In the end, it is Arab and Muslim extremism that affords Israel an opportunity in Mali and in sub-Saharan Africa.</p>
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		<title>What Comes Next in the Mali War?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rapid attacks and campaigns of destruction, followed by equally rapid withdrawals may be an effective means of destroying Islamist ambitions by crushing them at their moment of victory, when they have overeached just enough to be truly vulnerable.]]></description>
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<p>The French have won their battle, taking cities and towns out of the hands of Islamists. But taking sizable dense areas away from Islamists has never been very hard. Cities and towns in disordered areas are difficult to hold. It&#8217;s why Islamists were able to conquer them to begin with. But attempting to hold them will turn into a messy occupation as the Islamists regroup, terrorize the roads and begin recruiting native terrorists to carry out attacks inside Gao and Timbuktu.</p>
<p>The French government understands its military vulnerability. Its forces have smashed the Islamists, but the scenario is still the same as in Afghanistan. The Islamists pull back to the open spaces and mountains  to begin the long push back. Casualties mount, the war begins looking senseless and then the troops pull out and the Islamists take over.</p>
<p>But the French solution appears to be the opposite of the usual nation building program. <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/02/06/us-mali-rebels-idUSBRE9150LR20130206">France has made a quick deal </a>with the Mali government and the rebel Tuareg MNLA, which is bound to keep the country divided, but does shut out the Islamists.  And France would like the African nations to send in their peacekeeping troops as soon as possible, though that is less realistic.</p>
<p>Hollande scored a political victory with the Mali intervention at a time when his domestic economic policy was flailing badly and his approval ratings were in the gutter. The approval improvement he gained from Mali is rather limited, but crucially it fights the perception of his ineptness and gives him ammo for his campaign against marriage and French traditionalists, not to mention France&#8217;s business community.</p>
<p>All of this however depends on a rapid withdrawal. Hollande knows it and so do the Islamists. Faced with the collapse of his domestic policy, Hollande explored his inner Sarkozy, talking tough and even threatening to deport Islamist Imams, a threat that he is as unlikely to carry out as Sarkozy.</p>
<p>If Hollande can&#8217;t get the infrastructure in place and the withdrawal looks like a collapse, his only achievement in office will be undone. And if he leaves with French hostages in enemy hands, the whole action will appear to have been for nothing.</p>
<p>Hollande doesn&#8217;t want to do any nation building, but he leaves a wounded Mali with the Mali military and the Tuaregs likely to resume fighting soon enough. And the fragmenting Islamists will find their way back into the Tuareg rebel ranks to repeat the same process all over again.</p>
<p>Still if the French maneuver works sufficiently well, then it may be worth using as a template. That type of rapid intervention, with a heavy reliance on special forces and rapid mobility, was what initially worked about the US takedown of the Taliban in Afghanistan. And it appeared to be the Rumsfeld model, until it was sabotaged in Iraq. Such rapid attacks and campaigns of destruction, followed by equally rapid withdrawals may be an effective means of destroying Islamist ambitions by crushing them at their moment of victory, when they have overeached just enough to be truly vulnerable.</p>
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		<title>Mali Islamists Beat Little Girls, Forced 1-Year-Olds to Wear Burqas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We don't want the army to catch him. It's the women who want to arrest him so that we can kill him ourselves."]]></description>
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<p>Timbuktu and Gao have been liberated from the Jihadists in Mali, but the Jihadists are predictably beginning a campaign of terror with mines and IEDs.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/french-defense-minister-mali-operation-success-18362763">little girls of Timbuktu </a>however are still afraid that the shadow of Islamist misogyny and oppression will return.</p>
<blockquote><p>A leaflet listing the regulations for women under Islamist rule now lies in dirt here at the tribunal in Timbuktu. Rule No. 1: The veil should cover the entire body. Rule No. 4: The veil cannot be colored. And Rule No. 8: The woman should not perfume herself after putting on the all-enveloping fabric.</p>
<p>Several days after French special forces parachuted in and liberated this storied city, there is a growing sense of freedom. Though in the houses immediately facing the Islamic tribunal, many of the 8- and 9-year-old girls are still wearing the head covering.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is out of fear of the Islamists that they still wear this, says Diahara Adjanga, the mother of one girl said Thursday.&#8221;They hit everyone — even children.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>While there is some of the expected clucking about the retaliations carried by the oppressed people of Mali against the Jihadists and their Arab supporters, the anger among Mali&#8217;s women runs deep and with good reason.</p>
<blockquote><p>Fatouma Traore, 21, said that there was one commander who was especially brutal to the women in Timbuktu.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want the army to catch him. It&#8217;s the women who want to arrest him so that we can kill him ourselves. &#8230; Even if you&#8217;re talking to your own blood brother on the stoop of your house, they hit you. Even if you are wearing the veil, and it happens to slip off, they hit you. This man, Ahmed Moussa, he made life miserable for women. Even an old grandmother if she&#8217;s not covered up, he would hit her.&#8221;</p>
<p>She picks up her 1-year-old niece and hoists her on one hip, saying: &#8220;We even bought a veil for this baby.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a bit much even by Mohammed&#8217;s standards. The Prophet of Islam only went as low as six-year-olds.</p>
<blockquote><p>Moussa Traore, a 26-year-old teacher in Timbuktu, said the sense of freedom already is overwhelming despite the uncertainty and security fears.</p>
<p>&#8220;We were totally deprived of our liberty. We couldn&#8217;t listen to music, we couldn&#8217;t play soccer. We couldn&#8217;t wear the clothes we wanted. We couldn&#8217;t hang out with the girls we liked,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now we can do everything — we can listen to music, we can kick a ball, we can flirt. All I can do is say: Thank you God.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Islamic Jihadists Implemented Racist Sharia Law in Mali Targeting Blacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The French liberation of Gao has given us look into life under Islam. The system that the Jihadis had implemented in Mali looks a good deal like the same Islamic colonialism that scarred Africa and produced the slave trade.</p>
<p>There was a tier with black Malians on the bottom and <a href="http://blogs.channel4.com/lindsey-hilsum-on-international-affairs/what-justice-was-like-under-the-jihadis-in-mali/1644">lighter skinned Arab and Pakistani Jihadists on top</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Over the last two days, I’ve had something of a tour of the justice system the Mujao, which is Movements for Jihad and Unity, installed in Gao, Mali, during their nine months of rule. They took over what used to be the mayor’s office and turned it into the  “justice” centre.</p>
<p>Two men, accused of homosexuality, who were supposed to be executed last Friday, showed me the room they were taken to be tried and beaten. On the floor I found a file with lists of names – these were the women who had been whipped for failing to wear the veil, and the men punished for smoking.</p>
<p>A large airless room in the back of the compound became the Sharia court. Here they and other prisoners were brought to sit in front of two or three Islamic judges who they call marabouts.</p>
<p>They said that the judges were mainly Pakistanis and some Tunisians and the whole proceedings were overseen by the Moroccan jihadi in charge of the town, known as Abdel Karim</p>
<p>As the judges passed sentence, a crowd of jihadi supporters behind them watched. Some of the women were flogged right there in the court house. A black patch in front marks the place where cigarettes were ground into the sand and smokers whipped. A few yards away is the stadium where the residents of Gao once watched football and were now forced to come to watch amputations.</p>
<p>One of the most disturbing things I’ve learnt is that those condemned to these harsh punishments were all black Malians – Sonrai, Peul, Bamba, and Della, traditionally the slaves of the Tuareg. The jihadis were a mixture of Malian Arabs and Tuaregs as well as many foreign jihadis.</p>
<p>“They would never do this to one of their own,” said Issa.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Islamic Jihad isn&#8217;t just about religion, it&#8217;s also about race. It&#8217;s an imperialistic movement by Arab-speaking peoples who built an empire around the world, exporting their language, culture and religion as supremacism. Their current Jihad, whether in Africa or in Europe, is more of the same.</p>
<p>The Jihad divides by ethnicity and group, even within Africa. The Tuaregs were traditional slave owners and slave ownership is clearly one of the privileges that they still desire.</p>
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		<title>Islamophobic Women of Mali Celebrate French Liberation and End of Islamic Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a truly shocking display of Islamophobia, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/27/thousands-celebrate-the-liberation-of-gao-and-freedom-from-jihadis-and-sharia-law/">the streets of Gao were full of Malians celebrating</a> the defeat of Islamic Jihadists at the hands of the French. Women went out into the streets unveiled, men smoked, played drums and rode on motorbikes with unfurled flags, celebrating the return of their freedom and the end of Islamic rule.</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>One woman in <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Gao">#Gao</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Mali">#Mali</a> showed me how she wore hijab. Then she tore it off.</p>
<p>— Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) <a href="https://twitter.com/lindseyhilsum/status/295893171848749056">January 28, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/world/africa/timbuktu-mali-france-conflict.html?_r=0">SÉVARÉ, Mali</a> — Residents of Gao, northern Mali’s largest city, poured out of their homes to celebrate the expulsion of Islamist fighters who had held their town for months, playing the music that had been forbidden under the militants’ harsh interpretation of Islamic rule and dancing in the streets.</p>
<p>“Everyone is in the streets,” a Gao resident, Ibrahim Touré, said in a telephone interview. “It is like a party. There is music. There are drums. It’s freedom.”</p></blockquote>
<p>When Islamists lose there is freedom. When they win, there is horror as in Egypt, Mali and Tunisia.</p>
<p>And the Islamophobes of Gao are happy to see the end of <a href="http://blogs.channel4.com/lindsey-hilsum-on-international-affairs/gao-reclaims-the-freedoms-it-lost-under-jihadi-rule/1604">Islamic rule and to see</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Everywhere we go in Gao, people cheer and clap. They haven’t seen white people in a long time. In fact, the women haven’t seen very much for a long time because the jihadis would not let them wear glasses.</p>
<p>Hamchat Dicko, who has only one eye, told me that she was not allowed to buy a replacement pair. “They didn’t want women to see the world,” she said.</p>
<p>She was among a group of women who pulled us into their sandy compound to chat. Her friend, Malama al-Zouma, a tiny woman in a yellow skirt and blouse, insisted on showing me all her favourite dresses that she had hidden in a pillowcase from the jihadis. Then she proudly put on a blue uniform and badge, which she used to wear in her job as an orderly at the hospital.</p>
<p>All around Gao we can see the damage the jihadis have wrought. They fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Baji nightclub, which is now full of rubble. One of their first acts was to climb the earthen turret of the Catholic cathedral and destroy the cross.</p>
<p>Now I’m watching two young women drive by on a motor bike with a baby. They’ve got a Malian flag at the front, and they’ve pinned ribbons in the Malian green, red and yellow and the French red, white and blue, all over their head dresses.</p>
<p>They’re enjoying the freedom to dress as they please, ride on a motor bike to see their friends, and wear glasses to see the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>Only Islamophobes want women to have glasses and be able to see the world. Real Muslims want women to be Noglassabis.</p>
<blockquote><p>In Gao, people who had been under occupation for nearly a year by Islamist fighters flooded the streets in jubilation, weeping and shouting to welcome the Malian and French troops who arrived in force on Sunday, residents said.</p>
<p>Fatou Cissé, a Gao resident reached by telephone, said crowds were chanting “Vive la France!” and singing the Malian national anthem.</p>
<p>“I was out there with them,” said Ms. Cissé, who said she was wearing bright wax-print fabric with short sleeves, the kind of clothing that was banned when the city was under militant control.</p>
<p>“My head is not covered,” she said. “Girls are out of the house, and they are dancing.”</p>
<p>Adiarratou Sanogo, a 30-year-old teacher from Niafounké, stepped off a ferry that arrived in the riverside town of Mopti on Sunday morning. As a schoolteacher she was used to a certain amount of respect, but the Islamist militants who took control of her town demanded that she cover her hair. One afternoon they came upon her talking with her brothers outside her front door, her neatly braided hair brazenly showing.</p>
<p>“They shook a stick at me and said I must cover up or they would beat me,” she said. “I ran inside to find a scarf.”</p>
<p>For many residents of towns under Islamist control, it was the little things about their previous lives that they missed most.</p>
<p>“No smoking, no music, no girlfriends,” said Amadou Kané, a 26-year-old history student from Niafounké. “We couldn’t do anything fun.”</p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>At Douentza I spoke to a local school teacher sitting on her motorbike: &#8220;The jihadists closed the school. They hate everything nice&#8221;. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Mali">#Mali</a></p>
<p>— Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) <a href="https://twitter.com/lindseyhilsum/status/295161370935164928">January 26, 2013</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>CAIR and other Islamist lobbies have yet to respond to this display of Islamophobia. Obama has yet to make a statement about it, but it is worth noting that the French campaign in Mali is the first Western military campaign against Islamists since Obama took office, in contrast to the War in Libya on behalf of Islamists.</p>
<blockquote><p>Youths in the city said there were still some rebels and rebel sympathizers around, but they were being found. &#8220;Yesterday, even, we found one hiding in a house. We cut his throat,&#8221; one man said, asking not to be named. &#8220;Today we found another and we brought him to the army.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>See the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/27/us-mali-rebels-idUSBRE90O0C720130127">Islamophobic hate crimes</a> are already beginning.</p>
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		<title>Mali&#8217;s Liberation From Islamist Colonial Occupation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[France saves Malians from Sharia tyranny.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/malis-liberation-from-islamist-colonial-occupation/hi-mali-france-3882504/" rel="attachment wp-att-175172"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-175172" title="hi-mali-france-3882504" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/hi-mali-france-3882504.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="172" /></a>The liberator of Mali appears to be its former colonizer, France. Today&#8217;s colonizers are the Islamist jihadists, many of whom are Arabs. They invaded and occupied the northern portion of Mali and were aggressively extending the territory under their control until France intervened at the Malian government&#8217;s request with air strikes and ground forces. Vive la France!</p>
<p>Although France may have acted outside the technical bounds of the United Nations Security Council resolution passed last December that had authorized the deployment of an African-led regional military force to take on the Islamists when the Africans were ready to do so, France&#8217;s bold decision to strike now was applauded by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a press conference last week. It has also received unanimous support from the members of the Security Council.</p>
<p>The current President of the Council, the Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Masood Khan, told reporters on January 25th that there were &#8220;no reservations&#8221; from any members of the Council in voicing their support for the French military action. Unlike the case of Syria, where Russia and China vetoed resolutions containing mild condemnations of the Assad regime and warned against a repeat of NATO&#8217;s military action in Libya, Russia and China were on board with France&#8217;s unilateral military intervention in Malia.</p>
<p>Thus, the Islamist occupiers who have imposed their fundamentalist code of Sharia law against the will of the Malian people have managed to accomplish something that is very rare these days. Their evil acts have united the West, Russia, China, many African countries, including France&#8217;s former colonies, and the UN&#8217;s top leader under circumstances where there are absolutely no shades of gray in justifying a strong and immediate military response.</p>
<p>The Islamist occupiers are oppressing the Malian people with executions including by stoning, amputations, sexual violence, recruiting of child soldiers, kidnappings and intimidation. Malians have seen their holy Sufi shrines smashed in the ancient city of Timbuktu. Churches in the north of Mali have also been destroyed. Over 400,000 people have been displaced from their homes.</p>
<p>“The fact that we are building a new country on the base of Shariah is just something the people living here will have to accept,” said the Islamist police commissioner in the town of Gao last summer.</p>
<p>In her op-ed article in the New York Times on January 24th that quoted this Islamist police commissioner, Karima Bennoune, a professor of international law at the University of California, Davis, and the author of the forthcoming book “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories From the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism,” wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Since the jihadist takeover, Gao’s economy has come to a standstill. Every Thursday, there are theocratic show trials in Arabic, a language many residents do not speak. The fundamentalists focus on teaching the predominantly Muslim population of Gao &#8216;how to be Muslim.&#8217; Like Al Shabab in Somalia and the Taliban in Afghanistan, they have a morality brigade that patrols the city, checking who is not wearing a sufficient veil and whose telephone sins with a musical ringtone. Speaking to a woman in public is an offense; this ban has caused such terror that some men flee in fear if they simply see a woman on the street.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mali&#8217;s citizens by and large support France&#8217;s military involvement to get rid of the jihadist occupiers. &#8220;We must give thanks loudly to President Francois Hollande,&#8221; said Amadou Cisse, a local resident of Bamako, the capital of Mali. &#8220;We are delighted and proud of the French troops and the Malian soldiers who die every day on the front lines for our freedom.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I decided to hang a French flag next to the Malian flag to show I&#8217;m in favor of the military intervention by France,&#8221; said another resident. &#8220;It&#8217;s a way to support the French troops. God answered our prayers by sending French troops.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even so, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-backed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi stated last week his opposition to France&#8217;s action. His rationale, as reported by the Associated Press, was that it &#8220;would create a &#8216;new conflict hotspot&#8217; that separates the Arab north from its African neighbors to the south.&#8221;</p>
<p>To the contrary, France did not create a new conflict hotspot. Arab and other Islamist intruders seeking to expand the jihadists&#8217; control of vast expanses of the African continent have planted the seeds of destruction and chaos. Islamists from various al Qaeda-affiliated and other jihadist groups, such as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, Ansar Dine, Nigeria’s Boko Haram and Somalia’s al Shabab are exploiting instability and a vacuum of power wherever they find them in order to spread the boundaries of the 21st century caliphate they have in mind for the entire region.</p>
<p>Who else has come out against France&#8217;s intervention? The Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s terrorist progeny, has been tweeting messages of support for the Al Qaeda terrorists of Mali and against the French intervention. &#8220;We feel pain about what is happening in #Mali #Gaza #Palestine #France #French #StopFrenchTerrorism #Terror #WarAgainstIslam #Hamas,&#8221; the tweet said.</p>
<p>Qatar is also displeased with France&#8217;s action. &#8220;I don’t think that power will solve the problem,” Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani told reporters. He called instead for &#8220;political dialogue.&#8221;</p>
<p>Political dialogue with whom? Is Qatar&#8217;s prime minister suggesting that the Islamist jihadist occupiers in Mali, whom Qatar is reportedly funding, want genuine dialogue?  Are they any different than the Mujahideen of Syria whom Qatar is also funding and arming? These fanatics, who are highjacking the opposition to the Assad regime, declared in a message in support to their Islamic brethren in Mali that &#8220;A Mujahid fights so that the word of Allah may reign supreme.&#8221; They called upon Muslims worldwide to &#8220;blow them [the French] up wherever they are, and slaughter them.&#8221;</p>
<p>The jihadists, whether in Syria, Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mali or anywhere else in the world, are not interested in dialogue or in understanding the will of the people. They are all linked together in a common cause to forcibly impose their notion of Allah&#8217;s will. As Ms. Bennoune wrote in her New York Times op-ed article, with respect to Mali, &#8220;negotiating with groups who believe they are God’s agents and whose imposed mode of governance is utterly alien to the people of northern Mali is unlikely to succeed, especially while the north remains occupied.&#8221;</p>
<p>France has taken the first bold move to roll back the jihadist occupation and provide more time for the African-led multi-national force and Malian army to prepare for the complete liberation of the Malian people. The supremacist, racist, colonialist face of the jihadists and their supporters is exposed for all willing to face evil and defeat it.</p>
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		<title>North Africa Is the New Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real war is just beginning.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/north-africa-is-the-new-afghanistan/aqim_afp-4/" rel="attachment wp-att-174236"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-174236" title="AQIM_AFP" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AQIM_AFP3-450x339.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="203" /></a>When Obama took office four years ago, North Africa wasn’t keeping CIA analysts up at night. There were known trouble spots in the region, but no one thought that it was likely to turn into the next Afghanistan. Then along came the Arab Spring.</p>
<p>Egypt, the great regional power, has since fallen into the hands of the Islamists and has become part of the pipeline for Islamist fighters moving weapons from Libya into Gaza and Syria. Islamists have won elections in Tunisia and Morocco. With the Muslim Brotherhood in ascendance in Libya, Algeria is the only large North African country to have beaten back the Islamists. Now it’s also under attack.</p>
<p>Islamist ambitions had led to a brutal civil war in Algeria that the country is still recovering from. With Libya and Egypt to the West and Mali to the south, it is now more vulnerable than ever. And if Algeria sinks into another civil war, then North Africa really will be reduced to the level of another Afghanistan. And that may be exactly what the Gulf oil tyrants behind the Arab Spring really want.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron is already speaking of a North African conflict that could last for decades. It is a more sober assessment than the earlier claim by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that the fighting in Mali would be over in a matter of weeks.</p>
<p>By the time French President François Hollande got around to naming a timeline, it was the familiar one to most people from Afghanistan and Iraq. &#8220;We have one goal. To ensure that when we leave, when we end our intervention, Mali is safe, has legitimate authorities, an electoral process and there are no more terrorists threatening its territory.&#8221; It was the Afghanistan timeline all over again.</p>
<p>When Mitt Romney brought up Mali in the presidential debate, the reference was met with sneers from the left and bewilderment from the media. “Despite Romney Claims, Mali is No Afghanistan, Expert Says,” is how US News and World Report headlined the rebuttal. Three months later, it’s become increasingly clear that not only is Mali turning into Afghanistan, but North Africa is sliding down the same muddy slope.</p>
<p>It took French military intervention to keep a local Al Qaeda franchise from threatening Mali’s capital. And that was followed by a hostage crisis in Algeria. The common denominator for the violence in both Mali and Algeria is Libya.</p>
<p>The Algerian attackers reportedly came out of terrorist camps in Southern Libya. While the Libyan government claims that there are no terrorist camps in Southern Libya, it has almost no authority or power outside Tripoli, and it is heavily infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists.</p>
<p>While Gaddafi could promise the United States that he would end the sponsorship of terrorists and had the authority to be held to it, the new Libyan government is a fragile arrangement of factions that can offer nothing and will offer nothing. It has already disavowed French intervention in Mali. And it is likely that elements in the Libyan government were aware of the impending attack in Algeria, just as they were reportedly aware of the attack on the Benghazi mission.</p>
<p>The new Libyan government is the Karzai government all over again; a collection of shifting factions that offers no support to the West, instead undermining it at every turn.</p>
<p>The only thing that Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy had learned from the wars fought in Afghanistan and Iraq was to avoid the public turning on them by minimizing their casualty footprint. By avoiding troops on the ground, the trio thought that they had dodged all the problems that Bush and Blair had with Iraq. It never occurred to them that the reason Bush and Blair opted for occupation and reconstruction was to try and tamp down the resulting chaos. Despite their best efforts, their own people are coming back in body bags from Libya and Mali. And the killing has only begun.</p>
<p>The new war in Mali began when Tuareg nationalists fighting in Libya teamed up with Islamists to refight an old civil war in Mali. The new civil war would have ended like the old one did if not for the ridiculous amount of weapons that Qatar and France had shipped to the Libyan Jihadists which made it possible for them to rampage across Mali.</p>
<p>The good news in Mali is that the Jihadists are not particularly popular with the native population. But then neither were the Taliban. The Judo trick of occupation is that once there are enough foreign troops within reach; the Jihadists can make way for local fighters looking to make some money or expand their influence with a few attacks here and there. And this isn’t a non-profit enterprise.</p>
<p>Building Islamist Emirates in North Africa is about more than just being able to chop off the hands of thieves or flog women for not wearing the Burqa. It’s about the flow of money and drugs from the east to the west and all parts in between. Before Al Qaeda put in its bid for Mali, the country’s lawless reaches had already become a mecca for Latin American drug cartels moving their product to Europe.</p>
<p>The intersection between drugs and Jihad in Afghanistan and Mali are no coincidence. There are two substances that fund Islamic terrorism: oil and drugs. The alliance between Islam and the Left is built on the interlinked drug networks of Marxist regimes and guerrilla groups in Latin America and their Islamist counterparts in Asia and the Middle East.</p>
<p>Bosnia gave the Islamists access to the lucrative European markets for human trafficking and Afghanistan cut the Islamist groups in on a piece of the Golden Triangle. North Africa gives them something even better, the interface between Europe and Africa with a Latin American connection. Fracking may be on the verge of turning the oil market upside down, but drugs aren’t going anywhere and the Islamists are betting on drugs to keep them going when the oil money trickles away.</p>
<p>North Africa’s close connections to Europe make it the ideal stepping stone for the conquest of Europe that the Islamists look forward to. With the carnage growing in North Africa, it remains to be seen whether Obama, Cameron and Hollande will be able to succeed in North Africa where they failed in Afghanistan.</p>
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		<title>Obama Refusing to Provide Support for France&#8217;s Fight Against Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Yes, I know they&#8217;re &#8220;cheese-eating surrender monkeys&#8221;,<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578253824061131556.html"> but in this case they have a point.</a> Three things to consider.</p>
<p>1. Obama was one of the three players in the Libyan War which led to Mali. He is responsible for Al Qaeda overrunning Mali and has a clear responsibility to clean up the mess. The French bear more responsibility, and they&#8217;re doing more.</p>
<p>2. France is not asking Americans to fight. They&#8217;re asking for refueling and other technical assistance that will not endanger Americans, and will cost money, but less money than Obama pisses away on funding unions in Brazil or rum factories in the Virgin Islands. And the cost of this is a lot lower than what it would cost us to send thousands of troops to Mali.</p>
<p>3. You might be tempted to go Rand Paul on this, but if Al Qaeda gains an entire country to play with, we are going to end up having to go in sooner or later. Terrorist groups don&#8217;t just stay in place or expand horizontally and vertically, they score points with spectacular terrorist attacks against Western targets. Those attacks bring them cash from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar.</p>
<blockquote><p>France is increasingly upset by what it sees as limited Obama administration support for the war it is waging in Mali against al Qaeda militants, including an initial U.S. demand, since dropped, that Paris foot the bill for any Air Force transport flights, French officials said.</p>
<p>After the French went public with their complaints over the weekend, the Pentagon yielded on one of them, saying Sunday night that it would not seek reimbursement from Paris for the flights.</p>
<p>However, the unusually harsh criticism from Paris underscored the longtime U.S. ally&#8217;s growing frustration with the U.S. commitment to the Mali mission.</p></blockquote>
<p>Considering the murderous cuts that Obama is making to America&#8217;s military, you can&#8217;t blame the Pentagon for trying to protect every penny. That money can mean the difference between having a viable Marine Corps and being reduced to Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Horses and Bayonets&#8221; vision of national defense.</p>
<p>But the Obama Administration should be stepping up and allocating money for the operation in Mali.</p>
<blockquote><p>The U.S. is providing &#8220;invaluable&#8221; intelligence-gathering help for the Mali campaign, the French officials said. But the U.S. has yet to decide on whether to agree to France&#8217;s request for U.S. planes to refuel French fighters in flight, they said. France has a small fleet of aging refueling tankers and says more are needed to maintain the tempo of air operations in remote Mali.</p>
<p>France also has asked the U.S. to send additional manned and unmanned surveillance planes to spy on rebel communications, but the White House so far hasn&#8217;t responded to that request either.</p>
<p>Obama administration officials have said they support the French campaign but want to get a clear picture of the mission and the rebels being targeted in French strikes before providing more assistance.</p></blockquote>
<p>What clearer picture does Obama Inc. want? The Al Qaeda occupation of Mali has been underway for a while already. Even the CIA should be able to provide talking points that no one will edit and that even Susan Rice can grasp.</p>
<p>Clearer picture is code for an unwillingness to take action, because Obama Inc. is fixated on winning over Islamists by fighting secular governments. And protecting the Mali government by fighting the Islamists is the opposite of Barack Hussein Obama&#8217;s foreign policy agenda.</p>
<blockquote><p>The French officials said they were particularly &#8220;perplexed&#8221; last week when the U.S. agreed to provide limited airlift assistance but insisted on getting reimbursed for the costs. U.S. and French officials said the U.S. estimated the bill for up to 30 cargo flights would come to between $17 million and $19 million.</p>
<p>Other countries including Canada have offered to transport French military equipment and troops to Mali free of charge, according to French, European and Canadian officials. As a result, France is considering not using the U.S. proposal for flights between Europe and Africa, the French officials said.</p></blockquote>
<p>17-19 million is money, but it&#8217;s not that much by the standard of a military operation. And it&#8217;s about what an Obama vacation costs. Kicking in that much to get Al Qaeda out of Mali is a bargain, considering what it will end up costing if Al Qaeda takes Mali.</p>
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		<title>Morsi Comes Out Against French Fight Against Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi has broken ranks with the international community at large over France’s intervention in Mali.]]></description>
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<p>This isn&#8217;t exactly surprising considering that Morsi&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood has a lot more in common with the Mali Jihadists than it does with France. Mubarak would have seen the intervention as being in Egypt&#8217;s interest because those Jihadists are not just going to stay in Mali.</p>
<p>Morsi <a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/214910.php">however has a different view</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi has broken ranks with the international community at large over France’s intervention in Mali, saying he was opposed to the action out of fear it would sow seeds of unrest in the region.</p>
<p>Speaking at the opening session of an Arab economic summit in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Monday, Morsi said he had hoped for a more “peaceful and developmental” approach to the crisis in Mali.</p>
<p>“We do not accept at all the military intervention in Mali because it will fuel conflict in the region,” Morsi said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The invasion of Mali by Islamist Jihadists, many of them foreign, already sowed seeds of unrest and fueled conflict in the region. Stopping them is about the only chance for tamping down the conflict and unrest, but Morsi, like so many Muslim leaders, knows that &#8220;Stability&#8221; is the magic key to the opinions of Western policy leaders. Most of them support him, just like they once supported Hitler, in the name of stability. So that&#8217;s the argument he makes.</p>
<p>Silly Western infidels want peaceful resolutions. So that&#8217;s the argument that the candidate of a violently ruthless group makes.</p>
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		<title>Slave Labor From Auschwitz to Mali</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why it is time for Volkswagen to do the right thing and change the name of its luxury SUV.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/howard-rotberg/slave-labor-from-auschwitz-to-mali/sl/" rel="attachment wp-att-174293"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-174293" title="sl" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sl-450x337.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="202" /></a>There is yet another Islamist-backed war going on, this time in Mali.  While it has a faction seeking to impose Sharia law, and whose leader is a cousin of the head of Al Qaeda in the region, it also is dominated by a long secessionist dispute by the nomadic lighter skinned Tuareg (also spelled Touareg), who have used political instability to push for independence in an area of northern Mali and parts of Niger and other neighbouring countries, they call Azawad.</p>
<p>The Tuaregs have long been the facilitators of trade, including the historical salt trade, through the Sahara desert on their vast herds of camels.  They have a rich culture and while many were nomadic, others settled for the purpose of agriculture and trade.</p>
<p>Ten years ago, Volkswagen, the German auto manufacturer, started production of a high end Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), which for some bizarre reason it named the “Touareg” after the nomadic Tuaregs centred in Northern Mali and Niger.</p>
<p>The reason for this choice of name, according to the Volkswagen enthusiasts’ website <a href="http://www.vwvortex.com">www.vwvortex.com</a>, writing at the time, is that Touareg translates as “Free Folks” and:   “A proud people of the desert, the Touareg embody the ideal of man’s ability to triumph over the obstacles of a harsh terrain.  To this day, they have maintained their strong character and self reliance.”</p>
<p>There are two major problems arising from this description:</p>
<p>The first is that, like the Germans, this proud people have a society that has made extensive use of slave labour.  And the second, is that this supposedly self-reliant people have, in the recent past, made a serious of potentially disastrous alliances, first with Libya, and now with Islamist-Jihadists.</p>
<p>The Tuareg society has a caste system and a long tradition of using slaves.   Until the mid-eighteenth century, perhaps half the value of Saharan trade, dominated by the Tuaregs, was in slavery, and the attrition rate for the slaves marched across the desert was horrible.</p>
<p>The Tuaregs’ use of slaves is well documented.  Although it gradually had reduced by the time of the government’s abolition of slavery in 1968, a cynic in Timbuktu said in 1998, &#8220;Yes, they freed the slaves in 1968, but not all of them have been told yet.&#8221;</p>
<p>Canadian writers Marq De Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, in their 2002 book, <em>Sahara: A Natural History,</em> state:   “That there are still slaves in the Sahara is not even a secret. The Sudanese government has been using slave labor in its campaign against the pagan south. In Niger and Mali and Mauritania, the Moors and the northern Tuareg have never given up their ways, and while they seldom use the word <em>slave</em> openly, the practice remains.”</p>
<p>They continue:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Tuareg in the desert towns of Agadez or Timbuktu (Mali) will point out the round huts of the slaves as casually as though they were pointing out the mayor&#8217;s house, or the post office. These round huts, usually made of reed mats hung on bent poles, can be found in every vacant space, tucked up against the town walls, lining the road to town rubbish dumps.”</p></blockquote>
<p>From the vantage point of an increasingly isolationist America, the war in Mali seems to hold little interest, but there is a reason why France deployed ground troops and planes in what has increasingly looked like an Islamist war to take over control of the northern part of the country under the cover of Tuareg nationalist concerns.  Islamist gunmen cited the French intervention in Mali as a reason for its attack and hostage taking at the Algerian gas plant last week.</p>
<p>The Tuareg have had a series of rebellions stretching back to 1916, with ones in 1990 and 2007 before the biggest rebellion that started in early 2012.  The problem for the West, and the rest of Africa, is that the main Tuareg-backed organization, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, is composed of many Libyan trained Tuareg fighters using arms taken from Libya after their ally Gaddafi was deposed with Western help.   With their military and territorial goals, it was not long before an Islamist group, Ansar Dine, joined with them, to implement their Islamist goal of an imposition of Sharia law.</p>
<p>The leader of the Ansar Dine is believed to be a cousin of the leader of Al-Qaeda in the region. It is too soon to tell how the alliances between the main Tuareg-backed organization MNLA and their more Islamist and Jihadist friends, who aim for much more than a secular northern independent country, will turn out.  In any event, Volkswagen’s supposed Tuareg attributes of being self-reliant and overcoming the obstacles of a harsh terrain are no longer even the romanticized myth they once were.</p>
<p>Europeans, especially the French and the English, but also Germans, have often manifested a romantic notion of the Arab desert dweller, with his camels racing across the desert terrain.   From Lawrence of Arabia to the Volkswagen Tuareg, and to the notion of “oppressed” Palestinians, whose sole attribute is its genocidal hatred of a Jewish presence in the Middle East, we see a tendency in European to romanticize the noble savage in the guise of Arab marauder.</p>
<p>Does this explain Volkswagen’s decision to so name its new luxury SUV? At any rate, the company is faced with the awful coincidence that an auto company which in its infancy used some 15,000 slaves has named one of its premier products after a slave-owning and slave-trading people of the Sahara.</p>
<p>Volkswagen was far from alone in its immoral use of slaves. By the end of the war, some 35 German companies, including such giants as IG Farben, Siemens, and AEG, had established an industrial zone adjacent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.   Jews and other inmates would work until they were no longer able to, and then would be disposed of in the gas chambers.</p>
<p>For 50 years, the German companies and their banks who helped launder the money resisted the claims for lump sum and pension compensation by their former slave-workers.  For years, Volkswagen vigorously maintain that it had only used slave laborers on government orders;  however, by 1998 Volkswagen joined a number of other companies who decided to settle class action lawsuits by setting up compensation funds.   It is thought that a big push for VW to make the settlement was that the company was 20% owned by the government of the region of Lower Saxony, where German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder had previously served as Governor.  In addition, the company’s reluctance to pay its slave workers looked increasingly immoral when it was seen to pay large sums of money to buy Rolls Royce and Lamborghini.</p>
<p>By February, 1999, the German Government persuaded major German companies to contribute along with the Government to a fund to pay reparations and pensions to former slave laborers.  This was induced by the growing number of class action law suits that were beginning to pose a problem for international commerce, particularly for the merger of German companies with foreign companies.</p>
<p>A five year study by German historians disclosed that 80% of VW’s wartime workforce of 15,000 were slaves.  Professor Hans Mommsen who headed the study, also was the one to disclose that Ferdinand Porsche was in touch with the notorious SS leader Heinrich Himmler to request slaves from Auschwitz.   Altogether, German companies used more than 2 million slave laborers during the Nazi era.</p>
<p>I am appalled that nothwithstanding the passage of 10 years from the manufacture of the first VW Touareg, and notwithstanding the increasing knowledge of the Toureg people as a result of the war in Mali, there is still no serious concern about a company that used slave labour naming a vehicle after a people that still use slave labour.</p>
<p>Why am I so concerned?   There are several reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li>In my book, <em>Tolerism:  The Ideology Revealed </em>(Mantua Books), I have argued that the West is infected with a naive and dangerous tolerance of the intolerants who seek to overthrow our tolerant liberal democracy with its separation of church and state and its constitutional protections.  Tolerating culture symbols that give respect to illiberal and slave-owning peoples is a cultural blunder that helps legitimize those who, at the very least, should be shunned.</li>
<li>The West must understand that there is a world war being waged by radical Islamists, and nothing should be done that helps the morale of the enemy, including naming cars after allies of that enemy.</li>
<li>Most of the Nazis are deceased and so are most of the slave laborers (my father, 92, a former slave laborer at Auschwitz, who lost his parents and sister to the gas chambers there, is thankfully still alive) but I am embarrassed that there are Germans around who see nothing wrong with this choice of vehicle name.   I do not blame current Germans for the sins of their fathers and grandfathers, but the moral issue is clear:   We all have a responsibility to make sure the Holocaust doesn’t happen again, but the Germans have a special responsibility to make sure it doesn’t happen again – because it happened there once.    Accordingly the Germans must lead the way when it comes to cultural symbols that are morally questionable.  And they must lead the way when it comes to actions and words against those, like the Iranians and most Arabs and Palestinians who advocate the destruction of the Jewish homeland and the genocide of the Jews living there.</li>
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<p>I fully realize that not that many people even know what the name means.  (Car and Driver magazine in January, 2003, thought the name was “something apparently from the legume family”.)   VW produces some 8 million cars per year.  In November, Volkswagen Middle East celebrated in Abu Dhabi its most successful year ever in the Muslim Middle East announcing that its January to October sales were up 22% from the same period in 2011, making VW the fastest growing volume manufacturer in the region.  But that should have nothing to do with the matter.  Volkswagen should do the right thing and change the name.</p>
<p><em>Howard Rotberg is a Canadian author and publisher.  He is the author of The Second Catastrophe:  A Novel about a Book and its Author</em> and <em>Tolerism:  The Ideology Revealed.  He has written for Pajamas Media, Frontpage Magazine, Scragged.com, the Vancouver Sun, the Kitchener Record, and Canada Free Press and is the founding publisher of Mantua Books, publishing works by such authors as Jamie Glazov, David Solway, Salim Mansur, Paul Merkley, Stephen Schecter and Pamela Peled.   From 1995 to 1998 he anonymously wrote and maintained the web site entitled Boycott DaimlerChrysler.com, documenting Daimler’s wartime use of slave labour and Chrysler’s failure to divulge same in its prospectus documents at the time of its merger. </em></p>
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		<title>Algeria: Obama’s Chickens Come Home to Roost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest jihad attack a harbinger of much more -- and much worse -- to come. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/algeria-obamas-chickens-come-home-to-roost/obama-articlelarge/" rel="attachment wp-att-174242"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-174242" title="OBAMA-articleLarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OBAMA-articleLarge-450x326.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="196" /></a>Jeremiah Wright was right after all. The Algeria jihad attack proves it.</p>
<p>Not long after the 9/11 jihad attacks, Barack Obama’s mentor and friend, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preached a sermon in which he uttered the now-notorious words: “America&#8217;s chickens are coming home to roost.”</p>
<p>Wright meant, of course, that the U.S. had brought the attack upon itself by its own acts of violence against others: “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye&#8230; and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards.”</p>
<p>In a certain sense Wright was right: the U.S. did bring 9/11 on itself – but not in the way that he thought. The jihadists who destroyed the Twin Towers and damaged the Pentagon had not been brooding about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and no action by the U.S. did or could have justified the mass murder those jihadists perpetrated. If it could be truly said that the U.S. brought 9/11 on itself in any way, it was only by failing to recognize the implications of and to confront the ideology behind the jihad attacks that immediately preceded it.</p>
<p>There was an abundance of indicators of what was coming. In December 1988, an Islamic jihadist murdered 259 people, including 189 Americans, by bringing down Pam Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. In February 1993, Islamic jihadists murdered six people and wounded over a thousand in their first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center towers. In June 1996, Islamic jihadists murdered nineteen people and wounded 515, including 240 Americans, in a bombing at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. In August 1998, Islamic jihadists bombed the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, murdering 291, including 12 Americans, in Nairobi, and murdering ten more and wounding 77 in Dar es Salaam. In October 2000, Islamic jihadists bombed the USS Cole in port at Aden, Yemen, murdering seventeen sailors and wounding 39.</p>
<p>In response to all this, the U.S. lobbed a few cruise missiles into Afghanistan and took out a chemical weapons factory (or aspirin factory, depending on one’s source) in Sudan, and did little more. No serious attempt was made to come to grips with the full nature and magnitude of the ideology that inspired those jihad attacks, and to work to neutralize its violent potential. And so it would have been more surprising if the 9/11 attacks hadn’t happened than that they did.</p>
<p>So it is today. Barack Obama has overseen the installation of Sharia regimes in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. While paying lip service to the importance of distinguishing jihadists from genuine democratic forces in Syria and elsewhere, the Obama administration has offered no criteria for doing this. And now al-Qaeda jihadists in Algeria have carried out a brazen assault on BP’s natural gas plant in that country, killing at least eighty-one people and demonstrating anew the falsehood of <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/12/us-obama-afghanistan-idUSBRE90A0ZT20130112">Barack Obama’s recent claim</a> that in Afghanistan “we achieved our central goal … or have come very close to achieving our central goal, which is to de-capacitate al-Qaeda, to dismantle them, to make sure that they can’t attack us again.”</p>
<p>Al-Qaeda is not “de-capacitated” or dismantled in Afghanistan or Algeria. Barack Obama’s warm support for Islamic supremacist authoritarian regimes has resulted in direct aid for Islamic jihadists, as Libyan jihadists gave weapons they received from the U.S. and its allies to their brethren in Mali, who used them to establish a brutal and bloody Sharia autocracy in the northern part of the country, and have surprised the French with the tenacity and ferocity of their resistance.</p>
<p>Obama has made it abundantly clear that he has no objection, on human rights grounds or any others, to Sharia regimes. Consequently, Islamic supremacists worldwide are considerably emboldened, as they see that the United States will offer no significant counterweight to their advance. One of the hostages taken captive at the Algerian gas plant recounted that the kidnappers had said, “We’ve come in the name of Islam, to teach the Americans what Islam is.” Obama has made it abundantly clear that there is no sense in which he objects to that statement; he maintains, on the contrary, that despite such statements from the jihadists themselves, their actions actually have nothing whatsoever to do with Islam. He has made this counter-factual proposition the official position of his administration.</p>
<p>These chickens are going to come home to roost no less unmistakably than did the chickens of America’s indifference to jihad mass murder attacks before 9/11. Unreality can be enforced at the point of a gun or a trip to the camps, as in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, but the truth can never be wholly effaced from the human mind. Reality has a tendency to break through even the most skillful and subtle propaganda. Unfortunately, in this case reality is very likely to take the form of another catastrophic, high-casualty jihad mass murder on American soil – one that could have been prevented had Barack Obama not instead been encouraging and embracing those who share the jihadists’ goal of imposing Sharia, differing from them only in methods.</p>
<p>The Algeria jihad attack was just the latest harbinger of the things that are inevitably to come.</p>
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		<title>Newly Liberated Libya Rejects Attack on Mali Islamists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zaidan said Saturday that Libya rejects military attacks on Mali, calling for solving the Malian crisis through dialogue, the state TV reported.]]></description>
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<p>France took the lead in pushing for military intervention to overthrow Gaddafi. Now it&#8217;s fighting Islamists, many of them from Libya, armed with weapons that France airdropped to them, that Qatar smuggled to them or weapons from Gaddafi&#8217;s stockpiles,  and the Libyan government is opposing any action against the Jihadists who have overrun much of Mali.</p>
<blockquote><p>Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zaidan said Saturday that Libya rejects military attacks on Mali, calling for solving the Malian crisis through dialogue, the state TV reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;We reject the attacks on Mali, and Libya&#8217;s position was clear, so we asked to give an opportunity for dialogue,&#8221; Zaidan said.</p>
<p>Libya will not be a base to launch attacks on Mali, Zaidan said, denying rumors of using Lawiig, a Libyan far south town, as a military base for the French forces&#8217; operation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Solving the crisis through dialogue wasn&#8217;t what the Libyan rebels were calling for with Gaddafi. Or with Assad. But some crises are solved with dialogue. Others with bombs. Islamist crises can&#8217;t be solved with bombs. But crises involving dictators that Islamists want to overthrow can always be solved with bombs.</p>
<p>Libya however <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obamas-war-turned-libya-into-another-afghanistan/">has already served as a base for the attack </a>on Algeria. Islamists are deeply embedded in the new Libyan government and in its military and security services. That state of affairs contributed to the Benghazi attack and likely to the <a href="http://www.libyaherald.com/2013/01/19/libya-favoured-more-talks-not-a-rush-to-military-action-in-mali-prime-minister-zeidan/">Algerian attack as well</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Zeidan then went on to say that there were “no terrorist groups in Southern Libya”.</p></blockquote>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<blockquote><p>The terrorists who attacked the In Amenas gas complex in eastern Algeria appear to have been of several nationalities, and may have trained in jihadist camps across the border in southern Libya.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2695446/posts">None whatsoever.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi might see the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic terrorist groups filling up the void, US analysts have said.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) that was branded by the US as a terrorist organisation in May 2010 has been operating from its base in Algeria, and has now extended its reach to the borders of Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Chad and Libya, Fox News reports.</p>
<p>Gaddafi had earlier not only provided intelligence on the terrorists’ operations to the US, but has also publicly spoken out against them.</p>
<p>Branding the group members as ‘bad Muslims’, Gaddafi said: “The security forces found a mosque in al-Zawiya. In a mosque! Weapons, alcohol, and their corpses – all mixed up together.”</p>
<p>Now that the Libyan dictator has gone into hiding, many analysts have raised concerns whether southern Libya will become a magnet for jihadist groups.</p>
<p>Cully Stimson, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense who is now a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said that the al-Qaeda affiliate might turn out to be an adaptive enemy.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well that Obama policy worked out great. Maybe next he can stop relying on half-measures and just give the terrorists all our nuclear codes.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s War Turned Libya into Another Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 21:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's illegal Libyan War is escalating into a greater disaster with over a thousand French troops fighting the Al Qaeda linked terrorists who have taken over Northern Mali and a hostage crisis in Algeria involving Americans and Europeans carried out by Islamist terrorists who came out of Libya.]]></description>
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<p>Obama&#8217;s illegal Libyan War is escalating into a greater disaster with over a thousand French troops fighting the Al Qaeda linked terrorists who have taken over Northern Mali and a hostage crisis in Algeria involving Americans and Europeans carried out by <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/world/africa/algeria-attackers/index.html">Islamist terrorists who came out of Libya</a>.</p>
<p>Not only has Obama lost the War in Afghanistan, but he has managed to turn North Africa into the new Afghanistan.</p>
<blockquote><p>The terrorists who attacked the In Amenas gas complex in eastern Algeria appear to have been of several nationalities, and may have trained in jihadist camps across the border in southern Libya, according to sources familiar with the situation there.</p>
<p>A former head of intelligence for the Transitional National Council in Libya also confirmed to CNN that he was aware of three camps in the area. Rami El Obeidi said the camps had been operational for about a year and confirmed that foreign fighters had been among the militants training there.</p>
<p>The former intelligence chief said the Libyan army had little capability in this vast area of desert and there was a fear of confronting the extremists.</p>
<p>El Obeidi also said that extremist militia in Libya were financing militant groups in Mali and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb as well as providing them with logistical support.</p></blockquote>
<p>Thanks to Obama&#8217;s Libyan War, parts of Libya are now the new Afghanistan.</p>
<blockquote><p>Algerian security sources told Reuters late Thursday that the militants whose bodies had been recovered from the complex so far included three Egyptians, two Tunisians, two Libyans, a Malian and a French citizen.</p></blockquote>
<p>The common denominator here is that aside from France, the terrorists came from two Arab Spring countries taken over by Islamists, and from Mali, taken over by Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a coincidence. Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt and Ennahda rule in Tunisia has untied the hands of the Salafis in those countries who have escalated the violence against Christians and women, as well as their plans to take over the region.</p>
<p>All these events are dividends of Obama&#8217;s Arab Spring. And Obama piled on with an illegal regime change operation in Libya.</p>
<p>On the BBC, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21070947">Kofi Annan said that Mali was collateral damage</a> from Libya. Annan, who was widely quoted during the Bush era by the American media when he criticized the Iraq War is being ignored now that he&#8217;s talking about Libya, which was a genuinely illegal war, a regime change operation conducted under the guise of a No Fly Zone.</p>
<p>Between Egypt, Libya, Mali and Tunisia; Obama&#8217;s foreign policy has turned formerly stable and even friendly countries into hostile danger zones and terrorist training camps.</p>
<p>And the media refuses to hold him accountable for it.</p>
<p>Oh and no story about Libya would be complete without word from Benghazi, the city whose welfare Obama used as justification for beginning his illegal war.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Salafist group in eastern Libya has called for protests after Friday prayers in Benghazi in response to the French intervention in Mali &#8212; posting on its Facebook page that &#8220;Mali is bleeding&#8221; because of the French involvement.</p></blockquote>
<p>It sure would have been terrible if Gaddafi would have recaptured Benghazi.</p>
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		<title>Algeria in Jihadi Flames</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A region awash in Libyan weapons explodes in al-Qaeda madness. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/algeria-in-flames/algeria-1_2454515b/" rel="attachment wp-att-174011"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-174011" title="algeria-1_2454515b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/algeria-1_2454515b-450x334.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="200" /></a>Emboldened by America&#8217;s projection of weakness abroad, Islamists apparently linked to al-Qaeda reportedly continue to hold about 40 foreign hostages including seven Americans seized Wednesday at a natural gas field in Algeria.</p>
<p>At press time, conflicting media reports had been emerging from the region. Some claimed that the hostages have been freed; others, that several hostages have been killed.</p>
<p>The mass kidnapping at a BP (formerly British Petroleum) gas site near the Libyan border, which may very well have been accomplished with U.S.-supplied weapons left over from the ouster of the late Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, seems to be a spillover from a failed French drive to remove Islamist militants from nearby Mali.</p>
<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, France&#8217;s target in Mali was Algeria-based Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, which has &#8220;claimed responsibility for the Algeria kidnappings, calling it retaliation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The northern portion of Mali is important to the Islamofascists because it is one of their recently acquired strongholds that serves as a showcase for the reimposition of Shariah law in the region. It is a beachhead for Islamist world revolution.</p>
<p>Al-Qaeda forces, working with Qaddafi&#8217;s former mercenaries, previously took over northern Mali, an area about the size of Texas. Africa, writes FrontPage Magazine&#8217;s Daniel Greenfield, is now &#8220;to Islamic Colonialism in the 21st Century what it was to European Colonialism in the 19th Century.&#8221;</p>
<p>The kidnapping episode also undercuts President Obama’s spurious claim that al-Qaeda is somehow on the run and virtually irrelevant thanks to his policies. During the past election cycle Obama bragged over and over that “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat and Osama bin Laden is dead.” That path now seems to be long and winding.</p>
<p>Each passing day it becomes increasingly clear that the Obama administration, which spends much of its time apologizing for past U.S. policies, isn’t serious about combating Islamism. The fact that the administration itself is a hotbed of Islamist activity, according to various investigative reports, no doubt has something to do with it.</p>
<p>With his laissez-faire approach to fighting Islamism, Obama is beginning to make President Jimmy Carter, reviled by many American conservatives, look like a serious statesman. Carter, more so than Obama, at least appeared at times to have some kind of a plan for dealing with problems in the Muslim world when he occupied the White House.</p>
<p>Under Obama, the United States is now benched in a self-imposed penalty box, playing no particular role in halting al-Qaeda&#8217;s progress in dangerous parts of the world. U.S.-supplied war material from Obama&#8217;s feel-good adventure in Libya may very well be fueling the advance of America&#8217;s terrorist enemies in Africa.</p>
<p>While the 44th president has focused on photo opportunities, bowing before dictators, coverups, vacations, and golf, Islamism has been on the march, asserting itself throughout the Ummah. Slavery, long extinct in the civilized world, is being reestablished and cruel Shariah law ruthlessly enforced.</p>
<p>Fundamentalist Muslim regimes are taking over country after country across North Africa and the Middle East. Thieves&#8217; hands are being chopped off in Mali; accused spies crucified in Yemen. Rape <em>victims</em> are publicly flogged in the Maldives and elsewhere for &#8220;fornication,&#8221; while gays and dissidents of all stripes continue to be put to death by the murderous mullahs of Iran. In Sudan, Nigeria, and Ethiopia fanatical adherents of the so-called religion of peace persecute and slaughter Christians and church leaders.</p>
<p>Open Doors, an international Christian charity, estimated in a recent report that 100 million Christians are persecuted worldwide. Of the 50 worst-offending countries it tracks, only one is outside Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.</p>
<p>Egypt, for decades a key U.S. ally, is now in the hands of President Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood thanks to Obama&#8217;s meddling. The Arab Republic is suddenly threatening Israel, a nation with which it has had a Carter-engineered peace treaty since 1979.</p>
<p>The Obama-backed Morsi calls Jews “bloodsuckers” and “the descendants of apes and pigs.” Egyptians should “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred for them: for Zionists, for Jews,” Morsi rants. He is leading the way as Egypt transforms itself into another Iran after Obama abandoned the now-deposed president Hosni Mubarak.</p>
<p>Of course Morsi is just one Islamist tyrant in what promises to be a long series of theocratic totalitarians that President Obama has unleashed on the world.</p>
<p>Chances are many more will follow.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Counterterrorism Strategy in Mali Collapsed After Libyan War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last four years, the United States has spent between $520 million and $600 million in a sweeping effort to combat Islamist militancy in the region without fighting the kind of wars it has waged in the Middle East... But all that deliberate planning collapsed swiftly when heavily armed, battle-hardened Islamist fighters returned from combat in Libya. ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s another success for soft power. Bin Laden is dead, Chrysler is building Jeeps in China and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/world/africa/french-jets-strike-deep-inside-islamist-held-mali.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1">Al Qaeda is on the verge of taking over the country of Mali using US trained soldiers</a>.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s all a consequence of Obama&#8217;s illegal and disastrous Libyan War.</p>
<blockquote><p>Over the last four years, the United States has spent between $520 million and $600 million in a sweeping effort to combat Islamist militancy in the region without fighting the kind of wars it has waged in the Middle East&#8230; But all that deliberate planning collapsed swiftly when heavily armed, battle-hardened Islamist fighters returned from combat in Libya. They teamed up with jihadists like Ansar Dine, routed poorly equipped Malian forces and demoralized them so thoroughly that it set off a mutiny against the government in the capital, Bamako.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>For years, the United States tried to stem the spread of Islamic militancy in the region by conducting its most ambitious counterterrorism program ever across these vast, turbulent stretches of the Sahara.</p>
<p>But as insurgents swept through the desert last year, commanders of this nation’s elite army units, the fruit of years of careful American training, defected when they were needed most — taking troops, guns, trucks and their newfound skills to the enemy in the heat of battle, according to senior Malian military officials.</p>
<p>“It was a disaster,” said one of several senior Malian officers to confirm the defections.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>“The aid of the Americans turned out not to be useful,” said another ranking Malian officer, now engaged in combat. “They made the wrong choice,” he said of relying on commanders from a group that had been conducting a 50-year rebellion against the Malian state.</p>
<p>An accident, I&#8217;m sure.</p></blockquote>
<p>Though those accidents seem to be happening a lot in Obama Inc.</p>
<p>Now Obama could give the order to start taking out Ansar Al-Dine commanders using drones. He could also place Boko Haram in Nigeria on the FTO list, but he deliberately isn&#8217;t doing any of those things.</p>
<blockquote><p>Some Defense Department officials, notably officers at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command, have pushed for a lethal campaign to kill senior operatives of two of the extremists groups holding northern Mali, Ansar Dine and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Killing the leadership, they argued, could lead to an internal collapse.</p>
<p>But with its attention and resources so focused on other conflicts in places like Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya, the Obama administration has rejected such strikes in favor of a more cautious, step-back strategy</p></blockquote>
<p>Oddly there was no cautious strategy when Gaddafi was suppressing Islamists. Then he had to go in guns blazing. But when Islamists linked to Al Qaeda are on the verge of taking over a country, suddenly the bold decider goes all cautious and step-backy.</p>
<p>Just one of those strange accidents and coincidences that only a crazy conspiracy theorist who believes that Islamists are setting the country&#8217;s foreign policy would assign any meaning to.</p>
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		<title>France Armed Libyan Islamists, Now Fighting Islamists Armed With Its Own Weapons</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[...the shipment included rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, along with Milan anti-tank missiles.]]></description>
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<p>The opening round of France&#8217;s offensive in Mali is proving to be more difficult than expected. The Islamists fighters always expected and counted on foreign intervention, and had used the time given to them to fortify and prepare for an extended campaign. There are signs already that the African country may be another Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The Islamists have proven to be better armed than expected leading to the loss of a French helicopter. Where did they get all that firepower?</p>
<p>Some of it came from Qatar, the sugar daddy of Al Qaeda whose news channel, Al Jazeera America will be coming into 40 million American homes thanks to Al Gore. But <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8606541/France-supplying-weapons-to-Libyan-rebels.html">some of it came from France</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A French military spokesman, Colonel Thierry Burkhard, said it had provided &#8220;light arms such as assault rifles&#8221; for civilian communities to &#8220;protect themselves against Col Gaddafi&#8221;.</p>
<p>Le Figaro, the French newspaper which first reported the air drops, said the shipment included rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, along with Milan anti-tank missiles.</p></blockquote>
<p>Le Figaro&#8217;s claim is probably closer to the truth, which means that it&#8217;s quite possible that a French helicopter was shot down with a French weapon.</p>
<p>This may be the shortest interval in history between arming a group and then being shot at by them.</p>
<p>The sheer level of French irresponsibility can be seen in the admission that<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/world/europe/30france.html?_r=0"> France was basically dropping RPGs from the sky</a> like some demented weapons parade.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The U.N. request never actually took effect,” Colonel Burkhard said. “So we airdropped water, food and medical supplies” to Misurata and to the Nafusah Mountains south of Tripoli.</p>
<p>“During this operation, troops also airdropped arms and ammunition several times, including assault rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades and launchers,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Food, water, RPGs, who can tell the difference?</p>
<p>The African Union Commission warned that <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13970412">dropping a lot of firepower out of a plane</a> is a really bad idea.</p>
<blockquote><p>African Union Commission chief Jean Ping says France&#8217;s decision to air-drop weapons to Libyan rebels is dangerous and puts the whole region at risk.</p>
<p>&#8220;The risk of civil war, risk of partition of the country, the risk of &#8216;Somalia-sation&#8217; of the country, risk of having arms everywhere&#8230; with terrorism&#8230;. These risks will concern the neighbouring countries.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And oddly enough, that&#8217;s exactly what happened. But at least France has gun control for its own people, even as it hands out assault rifles to terrorists.</p>
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		<title>Welcome to Africa&#8217;s Alqaedastan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s Libyan war breeds horror in Mali.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obamas-libyan-war-breeds-horror-in-mali/mali-islamist-via-afp-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-172523"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-172523" title="Mali-Islamist-via-AFP" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mali-Islamist-via-AFP1.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="206" /></a>&#8220;When it was my turn, they took me blindfolded,”  the thief said. “Suddenly I felt a pain in my right hand that was out of this world. My hand had just been chopped off.”</p>
<p>This is Gao, once the seat of an empire, and then a glorified village, and now a city the size of Scranton under the boot of its Islamist conquerors. Gao has become a place where thieves have their hands cut off, where women are forced to wear the stifling Hijab in 113 degree heat or be lashed and where unmarried couples are stoned to death.</p>
<p>Borders are an illusion in Africa. No more than paper mirages that cannot be seen from the air or the roads where a thousand ethnic groups with dreams of glory move back and forth, striving and feuding, until the blood begins to flow.</p>
<p>The Tuaregs were one of them. Like so many others they wanted their own country. Like so many others they were a minority that felt aggrieved and persecuted by the majority. Like so many others they found neighborhood patrons willing to give them money and a sanctuary in exchange for more fighting. After their uprising failed, the Tuaregs set up shop in Libya under Gaddafi who was always looking for a few more African mercenaries to remake the continent into his hashish-fueled visions. And when Gaddafi fell, the Tuareg separatist militias still dreaming of glory, took his weapons and went west to carve out a state in Mali.</p>
<p>For the last hundred years there have been two kinds of movements in the Muslim world. Nationalist and Islamist. Some Tuareg dreamed of a nation. But others dreamed of merging into a Caliphate that would impose Islamic law on thieves and little girls, on Gao and Timbuktu and then on the whole world. Both sets of Tuaregs had stockpiles of Libyan weapons. But the Islamists had a lot more money and support from the dark heart of the Middle East where the oil wells pump and the preachers scream the call to prayer. And the Nationalists didn’t have a prayer.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda now has its own Alqaedastan in Northern Mali, a territory the size of Texas. Al Qaeda began its true war against the West in Africa. The continent which wavers between a Christian and Muslim majority is to Islamic Colonialism in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century what it was to European Colonialism in the 19<sup>th</sup> Century. But the Muslim colonizers were here first, ferrying cargos of slaves into caves and then selling them in the slave markets of Gao.</p>
<p>The Tuaregs are among the few in Northern Mali to still keep slaves, but now that the Islamists have taken Mali, it is uncertain who the masters and the slaves are. Many of the Islamist fighters wandering around Gao are foreigners, from North Africa and beyond, dedicated Salafis and mercenaries drawn by Gulf oil money, aspiring drug dealers looking to protect smuggling routes and rapists and thieves plying their trade with the authority of the Koran.</p>
<p>Around the core of Koranic students who memorize verses and preach death, is a larger outer ring that consists of sociopaths, stray killers, hustlers, junkies and young men looking for adventure and a group that is organized enough to feed them and provide them with a spot on the ground floor of a shiny new Emirate where women have no rights and their weapons are the only law that counts. That is what Al Qaeda really looks like: a ball of dung gathering speed and growing in size as it rolls downhill. A gang of sadists building their own forts in the cliffs and fighting to hang on to the new kingdom that opened up for them when Libya fell.</p>
<p>Nations are oases of order in the desert. As cruel and ugly as they might be, they provide some structure to the eternal feuds and grudges that are only ever truly settled with slavery or death.</p>
<p>Obama toppled Gaddafi without considering or caring for the consequences. An Alqaedastan in Mali is one of those consequences. Weapons from Libya have gone west and east carried by old militias looking for a new fight. Gaddafi’s weapons stockpiles are in Gaza and Aleppo now, they will soon find their way to Afghanistan, if they haven’t already, and tens of thousands more will die.</p>
<p>Mali remains under an arms embargo, but the embargo is no handicap for Al Qaeda, glutted with weapons liberated from Obama’s overthrow of Gaddafi.</p>
<p>George W. Bush stepped in when Al Qaeda tried to seize Somalia but Obama has been out to lunch when it comes to Mali. The African Union is struggling to assemble a fighting force to take back the land, but they are getting little to no help from the United States. Unlike Europe, Obama has refused to send trainers to help the Mali government rebuild its military. And the word out of the State Department is the familiar one that the Taliban have grown used to. Appeasement.</p>
<p>“Negotiations need to go on before, during and after,” <em>Time</em> quotes an American diplomat as saying. As in Afghanistan and Egypt, Barack Hussein Obama is still seeking his moderate Islamists. The negotiations with the Taliban have gone nowhere, but Obama will be happy to spend years negotiating with Ansar Al-Dine in Mali while little girls grow up in prisons of cloth under the rule of a new African Taliban.</p>
<p>The women of Northern Mali want help. Obama wants new elections first. Mali is full of Al Qaeda leaders with cell phones, but not a single drone can be found to take them out. The same man who eagerly rushed into Libya, unleashing the chaos and bloodshed that splattered the walls of the US mission in Benghazi and the public square in Gao, plays the delaying game when it comes to stopping Islamists in their tracks.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve told my friends that we must have the courage to march with our heads uncovered to protest all this. But we are afraid,&#8221; a woman in Northern Mali tells a reporter. Obama has even less courage. While child soldiers are trained, fortresses are built and girls are turned into slaves, the man responsible for all this smiles and practices his swing for the camera.</p>
<p>While an Alqaedastan grows in Africa, Obama vacations in Hawaii.</p>
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		<title>Former Al Qaeda in Mali Member Accuses Terrorist Group of Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Killing thousands of  Americans didn&#8217;t convince the left to turn against Arab Islamic terrorism, <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/they-do-everything-that-is-contrary-to.html">maybe something more serious like racism</a> will do it?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Racism is one of the main factors that motivate many young Africans from non-Arab to defect and resume their normal lives in their country of origin.</p>
<p>&#8230;One of the main jihadist have defected in terrorist groups in the Sahel due to racism was Hisham Bilal. Bilal was the only Black commanding a brigade in the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), the group that controls the city of Gao.</p>
<p>He left the movement in early November and returned to Niger, the country of origin. In an interview with AFP in Niamey at the time, he spoke about racism in the ranks of jihadist groups in Mali.</p>
<p>&#8220;These fools of MUJAO are not children of God, they are drug traffickers. They are all that is contrary to Islam, and for them, a Black man is less than an Arab or a white man,&#8221; he had said.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is a serious subject and if Islamic terrorists fail to take immediate action they risk losing the support of the left which could impact the number of pro bono lawyers available to them and the number of media columnists willing to write flattering profiles of them and urge an immediate surrender by Israel and America to their demands.</p>
<p>Diversity training is the first step. Every terrorist cell must have a member who is responsible for diversity enhancement to create a terrorist group that is as diverse as the world.</p>
<p>Sensitivity training is also important. The Muslim world is rather racist, but there are acceptable and unacceptable forms of racism. Anti-Jewish racism is acceptable because Jews generally do not join Al Qaeda. However if Al Qaeda wants to fully tap into African Islamic terrorist groups it will need to be more open.</p>
<p>America has a black man in the White House. Why not have a black man as the next leader of Al Qaeda? That will properly impress the left.</p>
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