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Showing posts with label Muslim Hypocrisy. Show all posts
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Friday, July 14, 2023

Intro to Shamim Mehmood Opinion of Pakistan Mobilizing Muslim Protests Over Sweden and France

Shamim Mehmood (Photo from Daily Parliament Times 3/22/21)

 

Intro by John R. Houk, Blog Editor

Opinion by Shamim Mehmood

© July 14, 2023

 

These days as an American concerned about the Globalist/Marxist path the USA has openly hurdled toward since Barack Obama gained the reins of power, I have focused on American Liberty and resisting the despotism seeping into American government and resisting the Marxist Critical Race Theory transforming America away from its Christian moral roots.

 

THERE WAS A TIME my focus was on Islam as an anti-Christian threat to the American heritage of Liberty and Christianity. During those days I focused much time on persecuted Christians in Muslim dominated nations. A huge source of information came from Shamim Mehmood – a Christian-Pakistani national. In those early days I knew him more as Shamim Masih and later (I don’t recall how) as Shamim Mahmood. I suspect much of the names are cultural thing for Christians trying to live and survive in an openly Islamic State. A few days ago, he contacted me on Telegram under the name Shamim Mehmood.

 

Shamim sent a brief journalistic opinion on how his homeland – Pakistan – is officially fomenting hostile protest of the actions on non-Muslims in France and Sweden.

 

Since many in my circles ignore the press these days recognizing it more as a propaganda mouthpiece for Globalist-Marxist transformation, I am convinced many are unaware that massive Muslim immigration to Europe has began wake up ethnic Europeans that Islam exists to force conversions or submit to the rules of Islamic Supremacy or else.

 

As such, those who demonstrate a dislike of Islam’s cultural impositions on the various European cultures of independent nations have been labeled by governments and the international press as Islamophobic racists (though I don’t fear Islam in a phobic manner, I do resist its culture as abhorrent to my Christian faith. THAT MEANS, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT I’M LABELED AN Islamophobic racist).

 

I don’t want to take too much away from Shamim’s July 10 opinion he sent to me to share, but many who think as I do and those ridiculed awakened Europeans have either read the hate in Islamic revered writings (Quran, Hadith & Sira) or have experienced the violence of Islamic Supremacism.  

 

For context on Shamim’s opinion on Pakistan government actions over occurrences in France and Sweden. France exploded into George Floyd-style rioting by Muslim youths over French Police shooting 17 year old Nahel Merzouk after fleeing in his car. If you listen to the Press and Globalist-Marxists, the shooting was the result of pervasive anti-Muslim racism in France. My guess is the shooting resulted closer to the Muslim Immigrant reputation for violence against non-Muslims. The kid may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and may have fled due to French Police beginning to become aggressive to Muslim Immigrants which are now becoming generationally indigenous. Opinions on the French situation which you might have to sift through the Left-Wing view: HERE, HERE & HERE.

 

The incident in Sweden that really chap the hide of Muslims causing massive protests and Muslim outrage – particularly in Muslim dominated nations – when a Christian from Iraq (Salwan Momika) living as a refugee in Sweden torched a Quran outside a Stockholm Mosque and actually got Swedish government permission to do so. AGAIN, you may have to sift through the Left-Wing perspective: HERE, HERE & HERE.

Salwan Momika torching Quran in Sweden 6/28/23 (Photo from Free Press Journal)

 

After the Shamim Mehmood opinion piece I’m going to share some videos relevant to Pakistan Muslim persecution of Christians which I pray enlightens readers to the hypocrisy of Muslim going nuts when they believe their faith has been blasphemed according to their so-called revered writings. The first video is a Facebook video interview I placed on my Bitchute Channel from March 2021 of Shamim describing his abduction, interrogation and torture by four Pakistani-Muslims.

 

JRH 7/14/23

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Anti-Islam Events in France & Sweden Displeases Pakistan

 

By Shamim Mehmood

Sent July 10, 2023

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Pakistan officially declared to arrange protests against the anti-Islam events happening in France and Sweden in the past few days led by the Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. [Blog Editor: Wikipedia Profile, Recent speech of political double-speak at Pro-CCP SCO Council Meeting – 7/4/23]

 

The state officially condemned the incident and said any anti-Islam move can't be tolerated in any shape of the freedom of speech/expression.

 

Different religious groups (some of them are called or declared militant by the government from time to time) have taken part in aggressively and have arranged protest rallies against the burning of the Quran in Sweden and France. [Blog Editor: I have not been able to locate recent Quran-burning in France. HOWEVER, Growing dislike for Muslim immigrants (some of which now can claim generational habitation) undoubted led to a police shooting resulting in the death of 17 year-old Nahel Merzouk sparked Muslim youth rioting in France a la George Floyd style. The Pakistan-government rabble rousing of its Muslim population is so full of hypocrisy since Pakistan is one of world’s biggest perpetrators of violence against its own Christian population.] The protesters raised slogans demanding the action should be taken against those involved in that incident and have expressed their anger by chanting anti-Christians' slogans and desecrating the sign of the cross at various places.

 

Reportedly, some Christians' religious leadership in Gujranwala (city of Punjab province) have been part of these rallies as well.

 

Principally I am not in favor of such actions, the reason behind that is that people living in the developed countries are neither aware nor can imagine the problems of the Christians people living in the Muslim dominated countries. And by such acts, their lives can become hell there. (A video clip can be seen in which the followers of Islam are recording their protest by desecrating the sign of the cross [Blog Editor: I attempted to locate a recent video clip of Pakistani-Muslims desecrating a Christian Cross with no luck. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist because Pakistani-Christians have experienced decades of Muslim violence over the most trivial perceptions of insults against Islam. AND it doesn’t take much to insult Islam because Islamic revered writings call for abhorrent violence against non-Muslim resistance to submission. You can do a Youtube search of your choice of wording and find decades of Muslim violence against Pakistani-Christians that had zero World mass protests against Western located Mosques or Muslim Embassies. Here is one news article example from 2005 under the title, “Christians hold open-air mass after Muslims torch churches”.]) Well, let me try to present an overview and practical steps can be taken by the state or people in large against such kind of incidents rather than this show.

 

It is to remember that the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) [Blog Editor: Of possible information Interest: OIC organization in relation to India (2/16/22); Video on OIC censorship Jihad (4:51-minutes 7/8/15) & 65 page PDF dated 6/5/15 entitled – “THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION’S JIHAD ON FREE SPEECH”] emergency meeting was called in and displeasure showed there as well. It can be considered that OIC members agreed and were settled-down by just issuing a statement.

 

Pakistan being an OIC member did not raise any question there though Pakistan [Pakistan to OIC 7/7/23: “Pakistan asks OIC to chalk out strategy against rising Islamophobic incidents”] can do that, but they staged protest rallies across the country and to show more love than others. Realistically it looks just formalities, because Pakistan can take some practical steps to show their love for Islam for example: Pakistan can officially call off its diplomatic relations with both European countries France and Sweden. And can demand to [not] restore its relations until they punish those individuals under blasphemy [of insulting Islam].

 

But it will not happen because Pakistan cannot face the damages taking such steps.

 

Secondly all those Pakistani [nationals] wanting to show their love for Islam, they can right away leave French and Swedish nations and move to their respective homelands. But I am sure neither state nor individuals will do so due to their personal benefits.

 

If this is not the case, should it be understood that the love and contempt of Islam is exhibited only when poor Asia Bibi  [SlantRight 2.0 & CPCR] or Sawan Masih or Zafar Masih [Blog Editor: After conducting a search on Duck Duck Go, I found a Christian Post story of the brother Zafar Masih telling the story of his sister Shazia Imran being kidnapped and gang raped then murdered by four Pakistani-Muslims: Christian woman abducted, killed for refusing to convert to Islam in Pakistan; By Morning Star News; The Christian Post; 7/4/23] [are] accused.

 

In fact, it is called hypocrisy! Isn't it?

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: INTERVIEW SHERAZ KHAN WITH SHAMIM MEHMOOD – DESCRIBES ABDUCTION, INTERROGATION & TORTURE IN PAKISTAN

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published July 14th, 2023 16:42 UTC

 

“A Pakistani Christian journalist was allegedly abducted and tortured by unidentified people in Islamabad on March 19.” The quote is from the original Facebook Video title in 2021: https://fb.watch/lNaikACTVA/

 

I’ve noticed in this interview there was polite but a little incredulity by the interviewer. You can decide. Notice in Sheraz Khan frame there is a Barack Obama photo. ANYWAY, Shamim relays his version of abduction, interrogation and torture in March 2021 in Pakistan. THANKFULLY, I’ve discovered Shamim now lives in the USA.

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Blog Editor: Below are links to a couple of posts on Shamim’s abduction by Muslims. The second post is a PDF from Persecution.org that implies a 3-month government Muslim crackdown against Christians perceived maybe embarking on breaking Pakistan’s stringent Blasphemy Laws:

 

o   Assaulted for hours after being kidnapped, Shamim Mehmood; By Staff Reporter; Daily Parliament Times; 3/22/21

 

o   Factsheet: Christian Persecution in Pakistan; Persecution.org; Quarter January 2021 PDF (8 pgs.)

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: 5 REASONS CHRISTIANS SUFFER IN PAKISTAN

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published July 13th, 2023 18:53 UTC

 

Original video from Youtube Channel Global Christian Relief (https://www.youtube.com/@globalchristianrelief/videos). Youtube video under shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mvy32E7Fy_4
Date posted: 6/16/23.

 

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Blog Editor: Here is a 3 and half minute of hypocritical support for Muslims protesting the burning of their Quran in Pakistan:

 

Youtube VIDEO: Pakistan Protests Against Quran Burning Despite Sweden's U-Turn As Outrage Envelopes Muslim Nations


 
Posted by TIMES NOW

Posted on Jul 5, 2023

 

MORE DESCRIPTION

 

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Blog Editor: AND NOW the actual face of Muslims in Pakistan toward Christians displaying their FULL hypocrisy when it comes to desecration and blasphemy:

 

Youtube VIDEO: 'Forced Conversion' Row: Mob Vandalises Church, Damages Statues in Chhattisgarh | The Quint


 
Posted by The Quint

Posted on Jan 3, 2023

 

On Monday, 2 January 2023, a protest organised by a group of tribals, led by right wing leaders, in Narayanpur district over alleged ‘forced ‘conversion of members of tribal community into Christianity turned violent, leaving a church vandalised.

 

An FIR has been lodged against 40+ people, and 9 others, including BJP's Narayanpur district president Roop Sai Salam, have been arrested so far.

 

A video of the incident captured a man vandalising a statue of Virgin Mary installed on the premises of the church. Another statue of Jesus Christ was damaged in the incident, too.

 

MORE TO READ

 

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Youtube VIDEO: Christian in Pakistan Given Death Penalty Over Blasphemy as Persecution Expert Reveals Awful Details


 
Posted by CBN News

Posted on Jun 15, 2023

 

A persecution watchdog is voicing profound concern about a Pakistani man who was reportedly given the death penalty after being accused of blasphemy. David Curry, CEO of Global Christian Relief, told CBN's Faithwire "Pakistan has some of the most difficult and stringent blasphemy laws in the world."

 

He described these regulations as "vigilante-type laws" that open the door to false accusations against Christians and other groups — claims that can lead to the death penalty. "[It] allows anybody to accuse somebody else of blasphemy within the Islamic law," he said. "And the reason why it's so problematic is because of the court system and the way these are adjudicated. You have somebody who's making a claim that, in most cases, can't be substantiated."

 

Beyond that, Curry said the definition of "blasphemy" is overly broad, meaning any offense deemed problematic by the accuser is all that's needed to wage a charge. Being a Christian, alone, could spark problems for some in places like Pakistan, with false claims also being perpetuated. "Punishment in Pakistan is the death penalty, so there's no proportionality to a particular situation," he said. "Anybody can make a charge that can't be validated."

 

Curry said blasphemy charges unfold "regularly" in Pakistan. As CBN's Faithwire previously reported, the most recent case involves Noman Masih, 22, who was recently handed the death penalty by a court in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, after being found guilty of blasphemy. Listen to Curry discuss his story and blasphemy more broadly.

 

MORE TO READ

 

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Youtube VIDEO: Gravitas: The Abysmal state of Christians in Pakistan


Posted by WION

Posted on Apr 10, 2023

 

Pakistan's Christian community is increasingly coming under attack. The Pak mission at the UN is facing calls to take concrete action. Molly Gambhir reports.

 

MORE TO READ

 

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Blog Editor: AND I RAN into this Jihad Watch post as I was preparing this today:

 

Germany: Qur’an burned, thrown out window of moving vehicle outside mosque

 

By CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

July 14, 2023 9:00 AM

Jihad Watch

 

The intense reaction of multitudes across the Muslim world (including the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) demonstrates the expectation that free societies can and will be pressured into conforming to Islamic blasphemy laws. Most recently, the UN Human Rights Council passed a Pakistani resolution calling for action against “hatred of religion” (a.k.a. offense to Islam). Now it’s backfiring. More specifically:

 

The resolution calls for the “review” of Western laws and calls on Western nations to “plug gaps that may ‘impede the prevention and prosecution of acts and advocacy of religious hatred.’”

 

Islamic leaders globally continue to condemn a Qur’an burning while turning a blind eye to the widespread persecution of Christians in Islamic countries. But how well is this strategy working, as the Muslim world and the West stand at a crossroads?

 

Many people recognize the danger of submitting to Sharia blasphemy tenets, and so the pressure that is being put on Western societies may well backfire.

Mosque-Germany

 

“Quran burnt, thrown from moving vehicle outside mosque in Germany,” Anadolu Agency, July 10, 2023:

 

Quran was burned and thrown from a moving vehicle in front of a mosque in southwestern Germany, the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) confirmed Monday.

 

The incident happened in front of the Mimar Sinan Mosque in the town of Maulbronn, located in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, from a moving vehicle.

 

Osman Adıbelli, director of the mosque association, said the incident took place on the night of Saturday, July 8.

 

“After the incident, when we reviewed surveillance footage of our mosque, we saw that an object was thrown in front of the mosque from a vehicle on the main street. Around 4:45 a.m. (0245GMT), our congregation members who came for morning prayers noticed a burned Quran at the entrance of the mosque,” he explained.

 

Adıbelli said they have filed a criminal complaint over the incident and added: “Due to the reflection of the headlights of the vehicle approaching the front of the mosque we do not know the license plate number or how many individuals were involved in the attack.”…

 

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Friday, July 22, 2016

Again for Nice


[I hace a feeling Ari Bussel would not approve of the above image. This is this Blog Editor's emotion about Islamic terrorism.]

Cataract surgery has placed me a bit behind in reading my email. The result being I am also a bit behind in catching writer submissions.

In this submission Ari Bussel writes about the threat of Islamic terrorism to the USA, Europe and Israel. Bussel rightly examines how Muslim Arabs that call themselves Palestinians are taught from the cradle to grave to hate Jews and destroy Israel AND how the West castigates Israel for their response to this Muslim hatred of Jews.

Bussel’s thoughts are inspired by an email exchange with a Japanese friend who queried him about the Islamic terrorist attack in Nice.

JRH 7/22/16
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Again for Nice

By Ari Bussel
Sent Sun 7/17/2016 1:22 AM

Dear John,

A family friend from Japan shared with us an e-mail he wrote to a friend in Nice.  I bring this e-mail in its entirety.

[Blog Editor: I performed just a little editing to the correspondence but for the most part the email tone is untouched ---

Before end of World 2nd War, anybody in France/Germany or in Algeria were unable to judge who belonged to Nazi or who were only shamming as Nazi...

Then 70 years passed, again terrible thoughts of IS is getting infiltrated into many of EU countries by some portion of immigrated people from middle east, and infiltrated into many of south/east Asian places also.

Now nobody of well-meaning persons are getting unable to judge who are brainwashed IS members, who are infiltrated as IS, or who are nothing concerned among their neighborhood...

It regrets to say to what a new difficult stage we are facing now, how we should judge my neighboring persons or persons enjoy in down towns after every evening as common friends or as such dangerous persons?   

And what we are able to act to get a peace again?

Always,



Ari Bussel

USA +1 (310) ***-****

On Jul 16, 2016, at 7:39 PM, wrote:

Dear Ari san,

Only for your guidance, I sent following message to one friend liv[ing] in south France.

My Best,




送信日時: 2016716 23:46
件名: again for Nice

Dear Jean-Remi san,


Very sorry, this is only my monologue  private words after drank this evening, 

but if you have anything, hope to hear your comment... 
Of course OK to be disregarded.

After I sent you a message of sympathy to tragedy in Nice, I just remembered one novel story "La Peste" which I had read often around 50 years ago at my university age, & was written in 1947 by famous French novelist "Albert Camus" what was taken place at Oran city in Algeria.

In such novel, Albert Camus probably regarded that a terrible black death disease Pesto as Nazism. Before end of World 2nd War, anybody in France/Germany or in Algeria were unable to judge who belonged to Nazi or who were only shamming as Nazi...

Then 70 years passed, again terrible thoughts of IS is getting infiltrated into many of EU countries by some portion of immigrated people from middle east, and infiltrated into many of south/east Asian places also.

Now nobody of well-meaning persons are getting unable to judge who are brainwashed IS members, who are infiltrated as IS, or who are nothing concerned among their neighborhood...

It regrets to say to what a new difficult stage we are facing now, how we should judge my neighboring persons or persons enjoy in down towns after every evening as common friends or as such dangerous persons?   

And what we are able to act to get a peace again?

Probably you are surprised to read this e-mail what I have never sent before to any of my friends but I was in Nice very often and enjoyed a very beautiful sea view on Promenade des Anglais and I still got excited at Nice tragedy...

My Best Regards,



Have you read that novel?]

Here is my reply:

Your e-mail is the least expected and most thought provoking and insightful writing I have received lately.  Thank you very much for sharing, and for exposing me to Camus’ La Peste.

There will be peace again, but first, we must fight and conclude WWIII, in which midst we are now.

A Global Islamic Caliphate

You refer to IS (Islamic State, in Arabic Daesh), but its ideology is not new, just its methods more widely “appreciated.”  

Wahhabism (Saudi Arabi, the most common ideology to be found in “cultural centers” and mosques throughout the USA courtesy of Saudi money) and Muslim Brotherhood (primarily to be found in Egypt and Gaza, but here in the USA shared by the “spokespeople” known as CAIR-the Council on American-Islamic Relations) are not different from Daesh or the Mullahs in Iran.  Each wants to establish a global Islamic caliphate and to subjugate all to its doctrine and way of living.  [I, for one, do not want to live as a Dhimmitude (second class citizen) according to Sharia Law.]

Each slightly “different” version of Islam is just a different flavor of the same, and all are expected to experience the same fate:  convert and become a devout Muslim following the particular manner of Islam being advocated, be a second class citizen (by paying a “protection” tax) or die.  It is true about non-Muslims (non-believers) and about Muslims who do not subscribe to the exact same interpretation of Islam by the particular “flavor of the moment.”

Lately, Daesh has managed to attract followers the world over.  Its methods are gruesome, the exact meaning of “terrorism”:  instilling fear in us.  Murdering en mass, setting people on fire (like the Jordanian pilot inside a metal cage).  Raping and selling to slavery women and children.

Non-Muslims are at Peril

Minorities throughout Arab states are at great peril.  The Yazidis in Iraq.  The Coptic in Egypt.  The Christians throughout Africa.  The Jews in Israel.

Israel has proven to be one safe haven for all.  Minorities are guaranteed the same freedoms as Israelis.  They are respected - as it is a major tenet in the Bible.  For the Muslims, Israel is a problem, for it refuses point blank to go away.  It is the only source of light in an otherwise growing darkness engulfing the world.  It is a refuge where sanity rules.  It is a spring of innovation and goodness.  And - it is a laboratory where the forces of darkness and the cults of death unleash their wares - from homicide bombings to cars plowing at civilians.

In short, Israel is an obstacle in the way of the ever-spreading Islamic forces.  At one point it was Iran, more recently Daesh.  But they all aspire for the same end-result, and to achieve that, Israel must be “wiped off the map of the earth” and the Jews must be exterminated.  (Same doctrine as that of the Nazis.)

WWIII is that of Islam trying to rule the world, except the various versions have not agreed yet among themselves which is the dominant one, which will prevail.  In the meantime, the Islamists have declared “Europe has Fallen!  America is Next!”

A Culture of Death

You mention people who are “brainwashed.”  Once it was believed that the destitute become “martyrs” (or as we call them “terrorists”).  Except, it was established long ago that this is not the case, and there are numerous examples.  I often cite the doctors (MDs) who drove with a car full of explosives into the Glasgow airport.  Not only were they not impoverished, they had taken an oath to protect and save human lives.  None had mattered.  They became part of a death cult.

Brainwashing is what takes place in the “Palestinian” areas.  From age zero, their kids are taught to hate non-Muslims (“Pigs and Apes” we are called - reference to Jews and Christians).  They watch children’s programs and cartoons, video games and music videos that glorify “martyrdom” for the sake of 72 virgins in heaven and to avenge some wrongdoing (the audacity of existing).  They go through summer camps and training camps how to murder, how to use a knife and a gun, how to explode themselves (and add to the explosives contaminated blood, rat poison or sharp metal objects to add to the devastation).  The textbooks in schools teach them hatred.  Classrooms, soccer fields and major intersections and city squares are named after terrorists as are stamps and other collectibles.

A mother swears her son is a good “kid.”  That he ate her amazing cooking and was at home the all night.  It turns out it was all a lie, he went with a friend, butchered a Jewish family - two parents and three of their children, the youngest just an infant - and then went back home to sleep.

They went back home to sleep, and continued to live as if they just executed the most peaceful, most beloved and most admirable act in the world.

When arrested, they knew that their families will be well taken care.  Japanese, European and American aid money is used to pay very generous monthly stipends to their families.  The more people one murders or maims, the higher the stipend.

Stopping the flow of money will not stop the lunacy, but it is absolutely necessary to send a message:  We are not part of this insanity.  But the money keeps flowing, and some of the teachings and indoctrination take place inside UNRWA schools (again, the United Nations playing a major role, exact opposite to the reason it was created).

Moreover, the young terrorists became heroes, their acts exalted, their families worshiped.  They did the right thing!  (Let us forget not that the mother went on TV and vowed the son was at home and would never do something like that - it is “against how he was raised,” it is “against the teachings of Islam” she said.)  There are public celebrations and days of worship and exaltation of such devout and devoted “heroes."

This is in Israel, but what is effective in Israel is also effective elsewhere.

Except, when it happens in Israel, the world does not call it “terrorism.”  Instead, the world points a blaming finger right at Israel.  This is nothing new, just pure old anti-Semitism.  When it happens days, weeks or months later elsewhere, it is abhorred.  Thus, hundreds of homicide bombings (when a person comes into a crowded location and detonates an explosive belt he or she wears, shouting “Allah-U-Akbar”) in Israel - not a single objection.  When the same happened at a Jordanian (Muslim) wedding, the top Islamic clergy issued Fatwas (edicts) this is contrary to the teachings of Islam (it is, if the victims are Muslims).

When Muslim spokespeople go out to say “We Condemn Terrorism,” they cite some very known “incidents.”  They never include any of the exact same attacks in Israel, or in Israel’s capital - Jerusalem.  There it cannot be terrorism, for Jewish blood is allowed, because Jews deserve what they get.

Exporting Terrorism

Since the first day of October, 2015, to today, Israel has experienced what is called the Third (or Youth) Intifada (Uprising).  Primarily young people (age 13, 17, sometimes younger even) take a knife or scissors and go out to murder Jews - a 13yo, an 86yo, and more.  

Others drive into crowds standing at a bus station.  (Does that sound familiar?  Nice was not invented two days ago, rather, the practice was well rehearsed repeatedly in Israel.)

The head of the “Palestinian Authority” calls it a “Symphony of Blood” and calls to quench the thirsty earth.  On official radio, TV and newspapers.  Repeatedly they call to do more of the same.  Glorification of death in this culture or cult of death.

Is there any wonder, then, that the same is then “exported” elsewhere?  It is very difficult to fight a non-conventional war, and Israel has become the laboratory.  This cancer must be eradicated.  We are told it is not “organized,” that individuals are rising up (thus the reason that the Third or Youth Intifada is also called the Individual Intifada.  But this is not the case).

Lessons of WWII

You went back to the Nazi era.  Humanity promised not to forget, to internalize the lessons and that such madness would happen “Never Again!”  Seven decades have passed, and we are experiencing exactly the same.  The last remnants of the Holocaust are still here, some survivors (primarily in their nineties) and child-survivors (like both my parents).

Let us remember (as you had indirectly highlighted) two lessons from the Holocaust and WWII:

First, more Christians died in the hands of Christian in WWII.  The systematic extermination of the Jews - six million murdered, 20% children - paled in comparison to the ten-fold number of Christians that died.

In WWIII, more Muslims will die in the hands of a Muslim [or Muslims].

Thus, anyone following that lesson from long ago must ask:  Why are the Muslims not speaking out?  Why are they not rising to protect themselves, not for our sake, for they too would not want to revert to the 7th Century way of living?

The answer is simple:  Many are afraid.  Some agree with what is taking place (even if a very small percentage, it still translates to many tens of millions of people [Bold text from Editor]). The remainder do not have anyone to follow, so they fall in place as well, lost to the ever increasing feeling of dominance and power. 

And to them I suggest to ponder a poem by one Pastor Martin Niemoller: “First they came.”

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
-- Fighting from Within

You asked about how does one differentiate the innocent from the culprit.  The answer is simple.  It is not you or I who need to do so.  The Muslim communities must act to reform themselves.  They can identify those within them who are getting ready to perpetrate atrocities, but they close their eyes, they cover their ears.  They refuse to do anything.  And so, the work continues uninterrupted.  And help is always given to those who seek it.

In theory it sounds commonsensical for the Muslim communities to be on the alert, again - for their own sake.  But in practice here in the USA, the Muslim community at large is taught by its assumed leaders (like CAIR and MPAC - Muslim Public Affairs Council) not to cooperate with authorities, to cry foul every time there is an investigation and to point a blaming finger to us, the non-Muslims.  There is even a manual what to do when questioned, for immediately, automatically and by default, their “civil rights” have been attacked.

Even in other matters, such as travel.  We are all subjected to searches at airports - Muslims and non-Muslims alike - except all the terror attacks that used airports or airplanes have been perpetrated by yes, you guessed it!  We cannot go to the gate if we do not have a ticket.  We must remove our belt and shoes, we must open our computer.  We cannot take any liquids if more than a tiny container.  And the list of restrictions goes on and on.  

Everyone is subjected to the same rules, but Muslims complain:  We “target” them.  We accuse them.  We persecute them.  We hate them.

The truth is different, but they prefer to sound the “victim” cry-of-war.

They are the victims and we are at fault.  That has been what we, Americans, have been hearing also from our President for the past seven and a half years.  

Tell a lie often enough, and people will start believing it.  So in the USA, there are no “terror” attacks and no “terrorists.”  We only have “work-place violence.”  We are told that “Islam is a peaceful religion” and we are so politically correct that we are made to repeat it ad nauseam.

For Humanity to Prevail

For WWIII to end, Islam - a geopolitical movement (often mistaken to be a monotheistic religion) - must reform itself.  This will have to happen from within, for I - a Jewish person - cannot reform Islam, nor can any other person of any other faith outside Islam.

For WWIII to end, Islam will have to be defeated and crushed, in the same manner that Nazism was crushed allowing for WWII to end. [Bold text from Editor] And a better Germany rose out of the ashes, reminding the entire world that humanity matters.  (Interestingly, the Bible teaches us that this is exactly what God expects from us, to be good human beings, to treat the other as we want to be treated ourselves, to do good and to be kind.)

We, human beings, have a tendency to easily forget and to a practice of not knowing our own history.  Seven decades have passed from the most horrific period we have known in modern times, and here we are repeating the very same mistakes once again.

I am attaching something I wrote recently, “Everything but Terrorism."  Yesterday there is a continuation, “The Lighthouse of Humanity.”  I will forward the latter as soon as it is published.

Thank you again for a thought-provoking reaction to Nice.
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Edited by John R. Houk


Blog Editor: I found a very good bio for Mr. Bussel that reveals more than I had previous known of pertaining to his history. The bio is from BeverlyHills.com in pdf format which I am converting to a Word format to make it easier to share here.


Ari Bussel is Vice President of Operations at Saybrex International, a privately held family business specializing in the distribution of fine wines and spirits. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company and has held various positions in the company since 1993.

Prior to joining Saybrex, Mr. Bussel served as First Lieutenant in the Center for Systems Analysis at General Headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces, where he led the implementation of the Logistics War Doctrine in the Computerized Wargame Program.

Mr. Bussel is involved in a variety of philanthropic and civic activities. Mr. Bussel completed the Team Beverly Hills Leadership Program and served on the Environmental Sustainability Topic Committee of the City of Beverly Hills. He was a member of the Steering Committees of former Beverly Hills Mayor MeraLee Goldman and the current Beverly Hills City Treasurer, the Hon. Eliot Finkel. Mr. Bussel also completed and participated in the Community Emergency Response Training Program of the City of Beverly Hills as well as the Crisis Response Team of the Maple Counseling Center.

Mr. Bussel was among the founding members and served on the boards of Gen. Shimon Erem’s Israel Christian Nexus, the Western Region of Friends of Israel Firefighters and the Israel Institute for Alternative Energy Advancement. He completed the Salvin Leadership Program of the Anti-Defamation League.

Mr. Bussel writes regularly. For the past decade, his weekly columns appeared in print in Israel Jewish Life, Shalom LA, Muslim World Today and Israeli Week. Mr. Bussel’s articles appear on numerous websites, including Canada Free Press, Free Republic, NewsBlaze, SlantRight [That’s me J] and OpEdNews. He is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club.

Mr. Bussel received a Master of Science in Operations Research from Stanford University and Bachelor’s degrees from UCLA in Applied Mathematics and in Economics with a specialization in Computing.

Mr. Bussel was an avid runner who completed the 2005 and 2006 Los Angeles Marathon.

Mr. Bussel divides his time between Israel and the United States, writing about the social, political, military and foreign policy fabrics of the two countries. Mr. Bussel is a member of the foreign press corps in Israel. Since 2008, Mr. Bussel has cooperated with award-winning investigative journalist and author in a series of essays “Postcards from America


– Postcards from Israel,” and since 2011 in a series of radio broadcasts “Conversations Eye to Eye.”

Monday, June 13, 2016

Everything But Terrorism



This is an extraordinary essay by Ari Bussel. I typically like to provide some kind of summary of a submitted essay, report or exposé. To do so here would turn into another essay.

I’ll try a few words though. Ari tackles Western political correctness in relation to being blind toward Islamic terrorism AND this blindness extends to Israel which tackles Islamic terrorism with a higher intensity than the West. The Western blindness tends to criticize Israel as the perpetrator and giving a pass to Palestinian Islamic terrorists due to the lie that Arab-Muslims are the true indigenous people of some mythical Palestine. A Palestine that really never existed until after WWI. A Palestine that the West viewed as much as a land of Jews as a land of Arabs (of which a majority of those Arabs immigrated to get jobs by repatriated Western Jews). Here’s as good an essay teaser as any:

A day will come when we all – Muslims and non-Muslims alike – see that there is no difference between Daesh, Muslim Brotherhood, Wahhabism and the Iranian Supreme Global Caliphate.  They all want to establish the same rule where non-Muslims are subjugated to Muslims–Ari Bussel

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Everything But Terrorism

By Ari Bussel
Sent: 6/12/2016 10:24 PM

Early Sunday morning in Los Angeles, the news broke about 20 dead in Orlando. Hours later it would turn out to be 50 dead in a gay club, perpetrator happens to have a Muslim name.  Speculations range, “is it a hate crime?”  Clearly it cannot be a “Terrorist attack;” this we know to be an absolute truth, and facts must not confuse us.

Since we are practically forbidden from using the word “Terrorism” in the same context as “Islam,” we normally revert to “workplace violence,” the term favored by US President Obama.  To make the term more suitable to the location, let us replace it with “drinking-place violence” (those inside just happened not to be “straight,” thus the entire episode is more comprehensible, open to more suggestions) and continue with our daily lives.

President Obama believes that every act of terrorism, when the perpetrators shout “Allah u Akbar” (God is Great), is simply carried out by a deranged individual and there is no overlap between it and the great religion of peace spreading its tentacles, aiming to reach global domination.

Just days earlier, at the center of Tel Aviv, at a location somewhat like the Grove in Los Angeles, two cousins sat at a restaurant chain to drink coffee.  Two attractive young men, they were very well dressed, some say “disguised,” indistinguishable from any other Israeli there.

“Drinking-place violence” happens everywhere it seems.  Apparently the two cousins did not want to pay, for instead they took out guns and started shooting, murdering four, wounding six others.

Perpetrators:  Muslim. 

Victims:  Jewish/Israelis.  Score (in casualties):  0:10. Real score (Islam: West):  1:0 (enemies of the West having the upper hand).  But clearly this has nothing to do with the act.  Or does it?

It will be later learned the two cousins planned something much bigger, the ten casualties being negligible in comparison to the actual forecast.

How are the two instances connected?  They both happened during the holy-to-Muslims month of Ramadan.  Also, they both targeted the most hated:  Jews in Israel and gays in America.

In mosques the world over, including in Israel and the USA, Islamic clergies call to cleanse the world and promise 72 virgins in heaven to anyone bold enough to carry the act.  In Gaza and Judea and Samaria, young Muslims are trained at summer camps how to bring death and mayhem (stubbing, using rifles, exploding themselves and other like heroic tasks).

In the internet, young Western disciples are recruited en masse.  They go via Turkey to Syria and Iraq for training, and if they do not die there, they return to their home countries to carry out “courageous” acts against the Infidels (non-believers).  During Ramadan, such acts get an extra significance of Jihad (holy-war), filled with utter and pure devotion, adorned with splashing red, hot human blood sacrifice.

In Iran gays are hung on trees or tall poles.  In Gaza they are executed or thrown off rooftops.  In the Palestinian Authority, children were brought to Arafat to fulfill his every craving and desire.  Prohibited (like liquor), but consumed nonetheless.

Old Faithful

Now, let us turn to the way the script is played.  In Israel, Israelis gather around, burying the dead the same day or the next (Jews must bury their dead immediately), and as painful as it might be, normalcy is restored.

Many go out to the same restaurant, to show support, to show we are not afraid – that life must not be interrupted or corrupted by Muslim terrorists who are influenced by Daesh or Palestinian ideology.

The world immediately warns Israel to show restraint, not to over-react (any reaction by Israel other than licking its wounds and retracting out of sight is considered by the world an “over-reaction”).  Moreover, when Israel decides that the extended family of the terrorists has forfeited its privileges to go to work in Israel, the world went berserk.  How dares Israel?  She must be (and thus is) immediately condemned for “collective punishment.”  Plans are formulated to sue Israel in the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

The privilege of being treated with respect and trust is not a right-by-virtue.  Why would Israel allow those who plot to murder her citizens to come and work in Israel?  It is clearly not an obligation; rather it – and participation in civilized society – must be earned.

Thus, Israel is hit by a terrorist attack, then the world stands around and spits at the wounded victim, kicks her, shouts vulgarities and threats, enjoying her misery, stubbing Israel again and again, exactly where it hurts. 

For instance, France, itself the target of repeated “civilized” attacks and constant “discourse” with the Islamists and Daesh, is applying pressure on Israel to come to peace with her enemies – the brainwashed terrorists – by giving land and numerous other concessions.  The French see it as a quest for peace.  Israel knows it is a definite way to commit suicide.

The same should work very well if applied toward France:  Just accept what the Islamists want – Sharia law in France; women covered from head to toe; women as second class citizens, whose husbands are allowed and taught how to maltreat them, use them as a punching bag and blame them for their own indiscretions; the utter elimination of Christ and Christianity and the obliteration of any history (from books to Churches, forts to museums, archeology to artwork). 

To the world, there is no terrorism ever happening in Israel, for Jewish blood is of no consequence or concern.  Whatever happens and however it happens, Israel is always found guilty in the court of international opinion.

The American Version

In the United States, there is a different script, yet no less familiar.  Even before all the facts are known, CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations – calling itself “the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization” – immediately “condemned the deadly shooting spree at a nightclub that left at least 20 people dead.”

It has become a standard reaction to quickly “hold a news conference with leaders of the Muslim community and interfaith representatives to condemn the deadly shooting spree.”  A Jewish Rabbi, Christian Father and other clergy people are kept on standby for that exact purpose. 

In short, a photo-op and hollow lip service, even before all the facts are known.  Facts that turn out to indicate with absolute certainty that the terrorism act was perpetrated in the name of Islam; but let us not be confused with facts.

So quick CAIR is at organizing these “We Condemn” conferences that something smells rotten.  Why would CAIR be so quick to preempt, every time, and why is it that the perpetrators in these instances always turn out to be Muslim who invoked Allah’s name as they went on a murdering spree?

The “We Condemn” conferences are sprinkled-to-saturation with lots of “no one is listening to us” and “we do not get enough news coverage which we rightfully deserve” and mixed with pointing the finger at society at large: “We are unfairly and unjustly targeted because we are Muslim!”  “Americans so easily hate us!”  “So many people are Islamophobes!”  And then the best follows with haste: “We must be protected!  The Federal Government should immediately step up protection!”

While CAIR has become accustomed at immediately convening news conferences and pointing the finger at non-Muslims, the Administration usually waits a short while longer, say another twenty minutes to an hour, and then a grim face President Obama tells the nation that Muslims are persecuted, unjustly targeted and suffer immensely for no fault of their own.

The President warns, “let us not rush to judgment,” apologizes to the Muslims, defending their motives and blaming America and Americans.  His other favorite excuse: “there are too many weapons,” leaving us thinking: “Maybe we should scrap the Second Amendment!”  He is, before all, a legal expert, a professor of law and a self-proclaimed “Constitutional-law professor.”

Following Obama’s logic, the perpetrators become the victims, and the victims soon will have a known complex (Stockholm Syndrome) of identifying with the terrorists, justifying their actions, understanding their motives, feeling sorry for them; blaming ourselves for what we have just endured.

How Can We Tell?

The two back-to-back incidents highlight a growing threat to the Western World: homegrown terrorism.

In Israel, due to the “popular so-called ‘non-violent’ uprising” of those determined to destroy Israel, Israelis are now accustomed to extra security: Entering a bank, restaurant, night club, major shopping center or university necessitates going through security (likely better than our own TSA at the airports, shown time and again to be less than effective).

For the past nine months, the Israeli laboratory has been trying to comprehend and offer solutions to a new phenomenon:  The so-called “individualist-terrorist.”  A 14 year old.  A 21 year old.  Male.  Female.  Children on a mission.  Two cousins like last week’s terror attack.  All supposedly unrelated, uncoordinated and seemingly justified as a no-other-choice-reaction to great grievances. 

Except there is a very clear common denominator:  All perpetrated by Muslims who have been brainwashed that murdering Jews would warrant their afterlife in heaven with 72 virgins.  Promised an eternal glory for them and their families.  Taught at summer camps, soccer fields and classrooms this is the way to go, a life worth living.  A small sacrifice relative to the immense injustice done to their “people.”

Israel still has not formulated the manner by which to respond to this terrorism.  The solution stares in Israel’s face, yet she refuses to take the necessary steps.  Perpetrators are not the victims, and terrorism in not a “non-violent uprising.”   Even in the US of A, we understand the difference between “free speech” and “hate speech” and have laws in place designed to protect us against the latter.

When Muslim leaders in Israel call to “quench the land’s thirst with Jewish blood,” they must be silenced.  Free speech that has long turned into hate speech, yet is allowed from the loudspeakers of mosques (including Al Aqsa in Al Quds – i.e. from the top of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel), from the podium of the Knesset (Israel’s Parliament), via official radio, TV, internet and print journalism, must be stopped. 

For Israel to regain its calm and her enemies their human sanity, the hate fire must be put out.  Until it is done, the “Intifada by Individuals” (“Blood Symphony”) will continue unabated.  12 year olds will use knives to stab 80 year old women or kids their own age, Israel will be blamed and the so-called “Palestinians” will glorify these acts of madness and cowardliness as “Holy Jihad!”

Outside the Laboratory

Outside of Israel, the problem is two-fold: First, there is no security other than at the airports.  Profiling is prohibited.  Terminology is convoluted not to offend the touchy souls of Muslims.  We are simply not used to face constant terrorism or set up to fight it.

Second, the terrorists are more and more of the “homegrown” type.  They look like any other person, speak without any accent, travel freely, claim rights they do not deserve and go out on the attack.

So were the doctors in Glasgow.  Belgian, French, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, German and so many others.  Homegrown Muslim Terrorists.  Even in Israel, the two terrorists were not only dressed up nicely – they looked like two attractive young men in their early 20s, not much different than any other Middle-Eastern Israeli!

Israel is the laboratory where everything is being tried and experimented.  From Israel, it is then exported the world over, and the world awaits Israel’s solutions and medicine to stop the spread.

CAIR and MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council), so quick to proclaim Islamic terrorism having nothing to do with Islam, are mysteriously silent in condemning and as usual very quick at pointing a blaming hand when it comes to terrorism against Israel.  This was the case, for instance, when MPAC’s president Salam Al-Marayati, spoke earlier this year in Los Angeles about “the struggle against global terrorism,” “from San Bernardino to Brussels, Israel excluded.”

Like CAIR and MPAC, during the Second Intifada, Muslim clergy in the West and throughout the Arab world said not a word about the constant terrorist attacks in Israel.  Until the same “homicide bombing” (strapping oneself with explosives mixed with bolts, tainted blood, etc., and exploding in the midst of people while shouting in deepest reverence: “Allah u Akbar!”) was carried out in Jordan at a wedding.  Then the entire Islamic clergy woke up to speak against it.

How capable are the Muslim loudmouths, how sleek and appeasing?  They are “against Terrorism,” but “terrorism” against Jews is not “Terrorism!”  Alas, what is good in a Jewish wedding is equally as effective in a Muslim wedding.  After all, the Jewish forefathers are still believed to be Muslim prophets.

In a Minefield

This, indeed, brings us to the true essence of fighting terrorism.  Often, one is warned not to write about Muslims and Islam.  I am often told, as if I do not know: “You cannot – must not – generalize.”  “There are many good Muslims.”  “You have Muslim friends who are good people!”

Beyond just “political correctness,” there is the issue of danger.  Write, draw a lame cartoon or talk about Islam in a manner not acceptable to Muslims, and you bring great danger to your life.

Non-Muslims, as a general rule, are not allowed to talk about Islam other than with the utmost reverence.  Anything short of that is blasphemy and is punishable by death.  There are some very famous examples, from the Danish Cartoons to Charlie Hebdo in Paris.  Salman Rushdie, Theo van Gogh, Geert Wilders, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  Meir Kahane, Rehavam Ze’evi.

And in between political correctness and beheading or death-by-some-other-gruesome-manner, there is being called “Islamophobe,” “Extremist” and other such pearls of modern-day-wisdom.

The Future

Thus we return to the back-to-back terrorist attacks in Israel and the USA.  Both perpetrated by Muslims.  In both instances, the perpetrators subscribe to an Islamic-Global-Caliphate ideology – a geopolitical movement on the rise, not a religion, or maybe a death-cult masquerading as a religion.

If Israel and the USA try to find internal blame, the terror has succeeded twice:  Once for planting fear in our minds and daily lives, bringing them to a stop.  And again for shaping our future behavior, conditioning us to accept Islam as being superior and untouchable and to fear being critical as we are with any other religion.

Fear is highly contagious.  For those not understanding its grip, try to answer how is Daesh so successful controlling vast populations of people.  Look at the Yazikis, the Iraqis, Egyptians, Iranians and Gazans.  Fear’s hold is gripping-to-stand still, it freezes the person, preventing any action.

A day will come when Muslims in droves will stand and speak out.  They will be silent no more.  They will do so equally whether the victims are Jewish, gay, American, Saudi or Jordanian. 

The day is still far, far away, for at present, nothing that happens to Jews in Israel, France, South America or elsewhere in the world amounts to “terrorism,” and so none of these attacks is ever included in the long list of terrorist attacks – from the UK to France to Spain, Malaysia and Indonesia and onward around the world – all in the name of “Allah u Akbar.”

A day will come when those speaking for American Muslims will stop blaming everyone else and treating themselves as victims.  They do not cooperate when the authorities come to investigate.  Quite on the contrary, they have lawyers ready to sue for “violations of their civil rights.”  Buy they tell us they will freely report any “odd behavior” that leads to terrorism.

They constantly cry foul to the Administration and demand that doctors and others on “humanitarian” missions via Turkey to Syria and beyond not be stopped or questioned.  (Daesh is quite “humanitarian,” when burning live people, executing, raping or mutilating and definitely when selling children and women for slavery.)

A day will come when we all – Muslims and non-Muslims alike – see that there is no difference between Daesh, Muslim Brotherhood, Wahhabism and the Iranian Supreme Global Caliphate.  They all want to establish the same rule where non-Muslims are subjugated to Muslims. 

Rise, my Muslim friends, rise and take action.  Speaking out selectively radiates insincerity.  For terrorism is one and the same, whether applied toward a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim or any other person.  Rise and be true to your words, so that we can start believing what you say.  Overlapping faith and action will offer you protection as well, for else, you may find yourselves in Pastor Martin Niemöller’s poem – dead too.

Why should Muslims care?  Because if they do not subscribe the particular version that sees itself superior and happens to be most gruesome, thus having the upper hand, they will find their fate is the same as that of the “Pigs and Apes” (Jews and Christians and all other non-believers) “People of the Book.” 

Hamas, for instance, that exists to bring about the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel (as is prominently featured in its Charter and daily actions) has agreed for a temporary cessation of hostilities due to the real threat of Daesh.  (Apparently Israel has some uses after all.)

For those that supreme ideologies and races sound familiar, there is a reason.  All that is necessary is to look at our history books at what happened some 75 years ago.  And for those who are skeptical at the comparison, be assured that in addition to six million Jews who were methodologically exterminated (including more than a million children), there were many other non-desirables (gays, gypsies, political opponents and tens of millions others who did not subscribe to the Arian race, the Japanese superiority, etc.).

And a day will come when common sense will return to govern.  Muslims will be treated with respect rather than suspicion, like any other minority, because they deserve it, because they had removed the cancer from within.  And respect and trust will have to be earned, not demanded and taken at will.

Until such time, we had another work-place violence.  The perpetrator’s Muslim name has nothing to do with the act of crime.  Muslims must be protected, for they are just the victims.  We are all at fault, for we hate Muslims with a vengeance.  And in condemning what took place, we must equate it with everything else that takes place around the world (first and foremost:  Israel is guilty!).

People are murdered, and life goes on.  Paris.  Tel Aviv.  Orlando.  It will continue until Israel finds a cure.  Then a new cycle-of-violence will be unleashed, more horrible than before.

At least we can rest assured that the world’s laboratory is hard at work, never sleeping nor slumbering.  Israel is the guard on the walls protecting the world, although at the moment, these walls seem to be ready to fall down.

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Ari Bussel wrote for Muslim World Today, during the life of the publication, and served as the paper’s foreign correspondent in Israel.

© Israel Monitor, June, 2016

First Published June 12, 2016

Contact:  bussel@me.com