Interview With a Former IS Jihadist

The House has affirmed Obama's long - covertly - implemented plan to arm the 'moderate' (define!) Syrian rebels. The following is an interview with a man who thought he'd joined the FSA, but instead found himself a member of the Islamic State.

Obama's plan to arm 'moderate' Syrian rebels regarded by CIA as effort doomed to failure, http://t.co/4Pq0tHOek6
— ★Kassandra (@Kassandra_Troy) September 18, 2014

"The CIA also believes that its previous assignment to accomplish [arming rebels] was basically a fool’s errand"  

Islamic State (IS) member "Sherko Omer" would now be a dead jihadist hadn’t he surrendered to the pro-Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in northeast Syria earlier this year. Journalist Rozh Ahmad met him to learn more about the experience. In this interview "Omer" explains how he left his hometown in Iraqi Kurdistan to join the Syrian opposition and eventually became an IS member, what he witnessed and the reasons for which he risked his life to exit the extremist Islamic organisation. "Sherko Omer" is a pseudonym. His real identity has been kept secret for security reasons. The views expressed are his own.

First published on YourMiddleEast.com

Muslim Show: Alone or the Group? (Cartoon)

Individualism is a threat to Islam. The community of the faithful has a name: the Ummah. Islam would not be able to keep it together without social pressure. The tribe prevents individuals from wandering off the village grounds under threat of death and worse. This cartoon tells the story.

Islam's anti individualism at a glance. This is one of the reasons Islam is entirely antithetical to Liberty and Western liberal democracy which is oriented on the sovereignty of the individual. H/t @BasimaFaysal

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Islam At the Crossroads: War or Peace?

Islam stands at a crossroads. The Islamic State presents Muslims with an opportunity to put Islam on a peaceful footing, denounce Jihad, establishing the long awaited Reformation. The trend however is going the other way. Silent consent. They have no choice.

Sep 2, 2014: Brother Rachid addresses President Obama about the Islamic State and Islam; he explains how IS is imitating the prophet Muhammed in every detail. The Islamic State represents Islam.

Amidst all the carnage caused by Al Qaeda and Islamic State related terrorist groups, Muslims actually have the unique opportunity to cleanse their religion of all the connotations and associations with violence and cruelty. All they have to do is denounce the Islamic State and forsake the legitimacy of Jihad as a path to further the causes of the world Caliphate. The shoe however appears to be on the other foot.

Atlas Shrugged Part III & Sean Hannity

Atlas Shrugged Part III is a film based on the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, a sequel to the 2012 film Atlas Shrugged: Part II, continuing the story where its predecessor left off. The release date for part III of the series is now set for September 12th 2014.

Aug 12, 2014: Trailer  Atlas Shrugged Part 3: "Who is John Galt?" hits theaters September 12th, 2014. 

UPDATE: The actress Laura Regan (in the role of Dagny Taggart) is guest tonight at the Sean Hannity Show. Sean, Rand Paul and Glenn Beck all have small roles in the movie.

Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt? is now in theaters.

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The Premiere

Transcript and audio files on Reason.com.  (Source)



Sep 11, 2014: Atlas Shrugged Part III premiered at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 7, 2014.

The Islamic State: Know Thy Enemy

Today, September 11, and the day after President Obama's speech on his strategy for the destruction of the evil Islamic State, we present you with two long reads of major importance, both assigned reading for who wants to understand the historical and ideological implications.

Senator Marco Rubio commenting on Barack Obama's speech. The President's isolationism has made the world a much more dangerous place.

The first article presents an excellent analysis of the political and ideological situation. The second article is interesting from the historical perspective.

• "The Jihad against America and How to End It"

by Craig Biddle 

While Islamic terrorist groups multiply and expand throughout the Middle East—beheading U.S. citizens, attacking Israelis, crucifying Christians, raping children, seizing commercial jetliners, and promising Americans, “see you in New York”—now is a good time to recount the essential nature of the problem with respect to America and to specify what the United States should do about it. (Source) 

Happy Atlas Shrugged Day Everyone!

Atlas Shrugged, the novel by Ayn Rand was published in 1957. September 2 is the day that Atlas Shrugged begins. The date recurs several times throughout the book.

Happy #AtlasShruggedDay from everyone at ARI! Art by @BoschFawstin. pic.twitter.com/BesCAmrYHq
— AynRand.Org (@AynRandOrg) September 2, 2014

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The Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest Is Still Open For Submission Until Oct. 24 (Source)

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Terror Group Goes Wild in US Embassy Pool in Tripoli

The Islamist terror group known as Dawn of Libya seized control of Tripoli last week. They stormed the embassy the day after taking the capital and transformed the US Embassy into a Mideast version of "Animal House".

Terrorists of the Dawn of Libya cheering each as they took turns diving off a balcony into a swimming pool.

(Source)

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European Union Bans Incorrect Kitchen Appliances

The European Union is a postmodern monstrosity oriented towards top down power politics, rules and regulations, collectivism, and ever expanding statism. After the wine lakes and EU compliant cucumbers, the kitchen tyranny.

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the glorious EU, are banning effective kettles, hairdryers and vacuum cleaners. Nero is fiddling. #Ukraine

— Tovarishch Toy (@WelshToy) August 29, 2014

The EU bans high-power vacuum-cleaners, dishwashers, toasters. Never mind the bedroom; I want the government out of my bloody kitchen.

— Daniel Hannan (@DanHannanMEP) September 1, 2014

The Cloward-Piven End Game Explained

Obama's foreign policy has been so successful, the Middle East has now been entirely destabilized. Sunni and Shia terror states, Jihadists and a reconstituting Russian Empire are stepping into the vacuum of the retreating Pax Americana. At home the Cloward-Piven strategy is gathering steam



Former Border Patrol agent Zack Taylor says the immigrant surge has all the hallmarks of asymmetrical warfare, which seeks to destroy the infrastructure of a nation from within. (Source)

UPDATE:

The Cloward-Piven End Game http://t.co/hW4pl9mDMj #tcot #ocra pic.twitter.com/Ncbqgky1vf
— Paul Revere (@PaulReverePress) August 30, 2014

Does Anyone Know Obama's Grand Strategy on IS?

Obama's leadership on the Islamic State is in a worse shambles than usual with this administration. Over the weekend the position went from 'IS as a regional menace', to 'an imminent international threat that requires war in Syria', and back again. This is not a strategy for dealing with IS.

Over the weekend Gen. Martin Dempsey did a shocking U-turn, saying ISIS is not currently plotting or planning attacks against the U.S. or Europe.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria cannot be defeated unless the United States or its partners take on the Sunni militants in Syria, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said last Thursday. 

“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated. Can they be defeated without addressing that part of the organization that resides in Syria? The answer is no.” (Source) 

But on Monday Dempsey made a U-turn and said IS is no immediate threat. (Source) Actually the idea to attack IS in Syria was a major departure from the awkward contradiction of supporting IS in Syria while fighting it in Iraq. The Obama regime now appears to have returned to that position. So what is going on?