Quote:Poll: 13% Of Syrian Refugees Support IS

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[photo caption:] Migrants line up to receive aid packages at a refugee registration camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday. AP





Immigration: A first-of-its-kind survey of the hordes of Syrian refugees entering Europe found 13% support the Islamic State. The poll should raise alarms about the risks posed by the resettlement of 10,000 refugees in the U.S.

(So exactly how are these 13% "refugees" when they're supporters of IS?)



The poll of 900 Syrian refugees by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies also found that another 10% of the displaced Syrians have a lukewarm, but not entirely negative, view of the terror group. That means 23% — or almost 1 in 4 — could be susceptible to ISIS recruitment.



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Quote:Curiously, the “Prophecy of Popes” stops at the 112th pope and ends with a cryptic warning of doomsday.



In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit … Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations: and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the terrible judge will judge his people. The End.

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[Photo Caption:] The depraved terror group released a chilling map of the countries it wants to dominate by 2020

Quote:Tajikistan shaves 13,000 beards in 'radicalism' battle

Police says more than 160 shops selling headscarves are also closed as part of a fight against "foreign" influences.



21 Jan 2016 08:11 GMT | Tajikistan, Asia, Religion



Tajikistan has struggled with poverty and instability since independence more than two decades ago [File: Igor Kovalenko/EPA]



Police in Tajikistan have shaved nearly 13,000 people's beards and closed more than 160 shops selling traditional Muslim clothing last year as part of the country's fight against what it calls "foreign" influences.



Bahrom Sharifzoda, the head of the south-west Khathlon region's police, said at a press conference on Wednesday that the law enforcement services convinced more than 1,700 women and girls to stop wearing headscarves in the Muslim-majority Central Asian country.



The move is seen as part of efforts to battle what authorities deem "radicalism".



Tajikistan's secular leadership has long sought to prevent an overspill of what it sees as unwelcome traditions from neighbouring Afghanistan.



Last week, the country's parliament voted to ban Arabic-sounding "foreign" names as well as marriages between first cousins.



The legislation is expected to be approved by President Emomali Rahmon, who has taken steps to promote secularism and discourage beliefs and practices that he sees as foreign or a threat to the stability of Tajikistan, Radio Liberty said.



READ MORE: Tajikistan poised to slide back towards war



In September, Tajikistan's Supreme Court banned the country's only registered Islamic political party, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan.



Rahmon has ruled Tajikistan since 1994 and his current presidential term is expected to end in 2020.



In December, the parliament granted the president and his family life-long immunity from prosecution, giving Rahmon the title "Leader of the nation" and officially designating him "the founder of peace and national unity of Tajikistan".



The country of 7.1 million people has struggled with poverty and instability since independence from the Soviet Union more than two decades ago. It remains heavily dependent on Russia, where the majority of Tajik people go for work.



According to unofficial estimates, there are more than 2,000 Tajiks fighting in Syria.



Source: Al Jazeera And DPA

Quote:Tajikistan's battle against beards to 'fight radicalisation ...

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35372754

2 days ago - In Tajikistan, countering radicalisation involves banning beards, hijabs, and Arabic-sounding names, as the BBC's Anora Sarkorova reports.

Quote:The men evading Tajikistan's de-facto beard ban



Reports indicate the government is clamping down on facial hair on religious grounds, but the rules don’t seem to apply to all. Global Voices Online reports

Monday 7 September 2015 10.38 BST

Quote:Tajikistan: No Hajj, No Hijab, and Shave Your Beard

(Meanwhile, India has Hindu temples subsidise muslims' hajj.

Tajikistan's rulers are more Hindu nationalist than those in India...)



In a Muslim-majority country, state control of religious expression tightens.

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By Catherine Putz

April 17, 2015





Technically, freedom of religion is enshrined in the constitution of Tajikistan. But in reality, religious practice–at least for members of the country’s Muslim majority–is tightly controlled by the state. In recent months, Tajikistan has further steadied its grip on the practice of Islam with the president commenting on proper attire, reports of forced beard-shavings, and new regulations on who can travel to Mecca on hajj.



Until last month’s parliamentary elections, Tajikistan was the only Central Asian state in which political Islam had representation. The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) is widely touted as the only legally registered religious party in the region. While true, in the March election (unsurprisingly flawed) the IRPT lost, and for the first time since its legalization following the civil war will be out of government entirely. To add insult to injury the country’s official religious bodies have called for the IRPT to be banned, and some have suggested it should be labeled a terrorist organization.



The tightening grip of the state on Islam extends beyond politics. The State Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) is responsible for overseeing and implementing laws relating to religion–including registration of religious groups, regulation of imports of religious materials, and oversight of mosques and churches. The Council of Ulema guides the Tajik Muslim community and while nominally independent, presents a state-approved version of Islam.



There are laws on the books banning female students from wearing hijabs, prohibiting those under the age of 18 from from participating in public religious activities, except funerals, which are regulated anyway. According to the U.S. Department of State’s 2013 International Religious Freedom Report:



The law regulates private celebrations and funeral services, including weddings and Mavludi Payghambar (the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday). The law limits the number of guests, eliminates engagement parties, and controls ceremonial gift presentations and other rituals. The religion law reiterates these principles, mandating that “mass worship, religious traditions, and ceremonies should be carried out according to the procedure of holding meetings, rallies, demonstrations, and peaceful processions prescribed by law.”



State control of religious expression extends to personal dress and grooming. In January 2014, Tajik Imams were issued new uniforms, and Abdulfattoh Shafiev wrote recently for Global Voices about several incidents of forced beard-shaving.



On March 31 a visitor to Khujand lost his way, and asked a local policeman how to find it again. The 38-year-old man, who grew a beard after a pilgrimage to the Kaaba five years ago, soon regretted his question.



He claims he was taken to a police station, beaten, and forcefully shaved.



As in the other former Soviet republics of Central Asia, the government of Tajikistan is fiercely secular while the people are mostly Muslim. The influence of Soviet communism on religion in the region should not be discounted, and fundamentally influences the relationship between people, their religion, and politics. In a paper published by Chatham House last November, John Heathershaw, and David W. Montgomery identify the claim that political Islam opposes the secular state as one of the six myths of post-Soviet Muslim radicalization in Central Asia. Myth or not, the worry that political Islam could challenge the establishment, persists.



This week, Interfax reported that the CRA said in a press conference that only people over the age of 35 would be among those permitted to perform the annual pilgrimage (hajj) to the Islamic holy sites at Medina and Mecca this year. CRA is responsible for registering those who wish to travel for hajj. Saudi Arabia, which establishes national quotas in order to regulate the overwhelming flood of faithful each year, has reportedly lowered Tajikistan’s quota from 8,000 to 6,300 people.



One way to view the Tajik government’s age restriction is practicality–this is an easy way to trim the applicant pool. But in light of other trends, and the government’s overwhelming fear of youth radicalization, the dictum feeds into a larger narrative chronicling Tajikistan’s crackdown on Islam.

Quote:Note that, as indicated in 2 posts up, the prophecy is independent from the map: the prophecy is from a European source (some Baba Vanga), while the map was released by ISIS itself. The two have nothing to do with each other and were merely mentioned in one and the same news report in one source (not the others).



The map is what is of importance to Hindoos and other nationalists. The prophecy is irrelevant and the only reason for mentioning it was to wonder at the strange obsession with dubious supernaturalism/superstition among so-called rational modern Europe.

Quote:(1) Scans are from book 'Ultimate Time machine' by Joseph McMoneagle, written in 1997.

(2) Author worked for American government, in some project ('Star Gate') where members were asked to see the future.* Now retired.

(3) He says future is not set, but that present events can change them.

(4) Pages scanned contain events he has seen in the future. (See also 3).

(5) Certain 'predictions' he has made are simply false, others have turned out false.

Quote:More recently came across conspiracy theorists' sites (especially of the UFO/alien intelligence kind) that seemed to imply - with paranoid indirect references to McMoneagle - that McMoneagle was deliberately planted by the US govt for disinformation/to mislead. But their accusation was something or other to do about the US govt covering for aliens or covering up aliens or something, which really isn't my cup of tea.

Still, if misleading is what the US govt was after, don't know why the western media has to propagate the more obviously dubious Baba Vanga types.

Quote:The Islamic extremists taking over UK prisons: Muslims make up just one in 20 Britons - but one in SEVEN inmates. As Levi Bellfield embraces Islam, we reveal how fanatics recruit behind bars in 'jihadi jails'



In recent years, the number of Muslim prisoners increased dramatically

Ministry of Justice figures show a rise from 6,571 in 2004 to 12,255 in 2014

This means that Muslims now account for almost 15 per cent of all inmates

In high security jails, the figure is one in five; while in one half are Muslims

Quote:One man is stabbed to death and three others are injured in latest mass brawl between gangs at Swedish migrant centre



One man killed and three injured in fight at asylum centre in Sweden

Two groups of asylum seekers clashed while resolving an argument

One man, in his 20s, has been arrested on suspicion of murder

Up to 15 people were involved in the fight, all from the same country



By Sara Malm for MailOnline



Published: 09:30 GMT, 15 February 2016 | Updated: 11:10 GMT, 15 February 2016



The men reportedly hail from Afghanistan, with one group living at an asylum centre in Soderhamn, and the other in Ljusne, less than ten miles apart.



'...they were prepared with knives - in the end they had eight or nine knives,' the unnamed victim told the paper.



(When aren't the "poor" islamaniacs prepared with knives? Or scimitars. And IIRC even sniper weapons in Muzaffarnagar?)



...





Police were called to the scene and arrested one man after carrying out a raid on one of the flats in the asylum centre, and three more were brought in for questioning and later released.



According to Soderhamn Police, up to 15 people were involved in the brawl, all men believed to be in their 20s.



This is the latest in a number of violent incidents to take place at asylum seeker centres in Sweden this year.



One incident last month saw police run for their lives after being attacked by a mob of asylum seekers at a refugee centre in Vasteras, central Sweden.



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Police had been called in to help with the relocation of a ten-year-old boy who had reportedly been 'raped repeatedly'by other asylum seekers at the centre.



(Islamic practice in Afghanistan. Please do not let Afghans into India. Actually Pakis are into this too. Muslims are quite into raping little boys, quite like their christian clerical equivalents.)



It came just days after followed the murder of social worker Alexandra Mezher, 22, who was stabbed to death at a refugee centre in Molndal, near Gothenburg when she stepped in to stop a fight.



Swedish police have demanded more resources to stem rising violence linked to the migrant crisis.



Police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg said last month: ‘These kinds of calls are becoming more and more common.



‘We’re dealing with more incidents like these since the arrival of so many more refugees from abroad.’



Sweden took in more than 160,000 refugees and migrants in 2015, more than any other EU country per capita.



However, the number of newcomers has dropped dramatically after compulsory border-control ID checks were introduced last month.

Quote:1 down 3 billion to go