The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-28T15:15:00Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollingshttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/110495735?profile=original&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://4freedoms.com/group/Africa/forum/topic/listForContributor?groupUrl=Africa&user=1mak4a3dbkila&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWinnie Mandelatag:4freedoms.com,2021-07-12:3766518:Topic:2724852021-07-12T15:29:06.921Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
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<h3 id="DailyNewsHeadline">Winnie and the necklace</h3>
<div class="article-date">John Kane-Berman |<span> </span></div>
<div class="article-date">08 April 2018</div>
<div class="teaser">John Kane-Berman says Madikizela-Mandela was both the victim and perpetrator of cruelty</div>
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<p><strong>Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: mother of exactly what?</strong></p>
<p>Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who died last week, was both the victim and the perpetrator of…</p>
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<h3 id="DailyNewsHeadline">Winnie and the necklace</h3>
<div class="article-date">John Kane-Berman |<span> </span></div>
<div class="article-date">08 April 2018</div>
<div class="teaser">John Kane-Berman says Madikizela-Mandela was both the victim and perpetrator of cruelty</div>
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<p><strong>Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: mother of exactly what?</strong></p>
<p>Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who died last week, was both the victim and the perpetrator of cruelty. Once victimised by the police, she later became untouchable.</p>
<p>In 1969 the National Party (NP) regime subjected her to the cruelty of solitary confinement in detention without trial for almost 18 months. In 1977 it banished her to Brandfort in the Orange Free State and kept her there for eight years. The security police also subjected her to many other forms of intimidation and abuse. </p>
<p>More than 20 years later, the tables had been turned. When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was conducting hearings into the activities of Mrs Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards in the Mandela United Football Club in the late 1980s, two police generals stated that the police had handled her with kid gloves. The security branch in Soweto had come to regard her as "untouchable".</p>
<p>By then secret talks between the NP government and the African National Congress (ANC) were under way. Mrs Madikizela-Mandela's earlier treatment by the NP government turned out to have been as futile as it was callous. And although her bodyguards in the so-called football club were much feared in Soweto, the police evidently feared her as well.</p>
<p>Although Mrs Madikizela-Mandela was convicted in 1991 of kidnapping 14-year-old Stompie Seipei, a suspected police informant who was murdered by her bodyguards, her six-year prison sentence was replaced on appeal with a fine and a suspended sentence. The TRC claimed that club members were responsible for various other killings and criminal activities, but little was done to probe any of this much further.</p>
<p>Tributes to Mrs Madikizela-Mandela have focused on her role in the anti-apartheid resistance movement. Some have mentioned the notorious football club. But they have largely ignored her endorsement of killings using the "necklace" method, whereby a tyre is thrown over the victim, who is then doused with petrol, set alight, and burnt alive.</p>
<p>Speaking in Munsieville on the West Rand in 1986, she said, "With our matchboxes and our necklaces, we will liberate our country." Although she later denied that she had said this, several journalists heard her say it and reported her words around the world. Helen Suzman, who was a close friend, described it as "reckless and highly irresponsible".</p>
<p>Necklacings first occurred in 1985. By 1992, more than 500 people, almost all of them black, had been put to death by this method. The victims were often suspected informers or other alleged collaborators. Sometimes they were schoolboys who tried to write exams in defiance of boycotts which the ANC called in the name of "no education before liberation". Other victims included members of rival political organisations.</p>
<p>The necklace played an important role in the reign of terror that the ANC, along with its allies in the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the South African Communist Party, the United Democratic Front, and Umkhonto we Sizwe, inflicted in Soweto and other townships as part of the "people's war" from the mid-1980s until the change of government in 1994. The objectives were to make the black townships ungovernable, while at the same time (successfully) using skilful propaganda to blame the NP government for all the violence.</p>
<p>In public, the ANC was equivocal about necklacings. One official told a London newspaper that "collaborators" had to be eliminated and if "the people decided to use necklacings to eliminate enemy elements, we support it". Confronted at a conference in London in 1987 by a direct question on necklacing, the organisation's president, Oliver Tambo, said the ANC "disapproves of this but understands how it came about". He added, "We will try to dissuade people but the police had been burning people to smear the ANC. I hope it will one day be something of the past, but when it goes the regime will have lost a very powerful weapon against the ANC."</p>
<p>Typically, of course, Mrs Madikizela-Mandela seldom indulged in such mealy-mouthed equivocations. She also had great influence among the youth in Soweto and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Her encouragement of the necklace should not be overlooked amidst all the eulogies which have greeted her death.</p>
<p><i>* John Kane-Berman is a policy fellow at the IRR, a think-tank that promotes political and economic freedom. </i><a href="https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/winnie-and-the-necklace">https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/winnie-and-the-necklace</a></p> Libya - Obama and Hilary's messtag:4freedoms.com,2019-05-24:3766518:Topic:2035132019-05-24T02:56:16.683Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>How the West's War in Libya Spurred Terrorism in 14 Countries</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>How the West's War in Libya Spurred Terrorism in 14 Countries</strong></span></p>
<div class="submitted-username">by<span> </span><span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden">Tyler Durden</a></span><span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"> Tue, 05/21/2019 - 23:25</span></div>
<div class="node__content"><div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/21/how-the-wests-war-in-libya-spurred-terrorism-in-14-countries/"><em>Authored by Mark Curtis via ConsortiumNews.com,</em></a></p>
<p><strong><em>The first to suffer was Syria and since then the gruesome effects have been spreading to Africans and Europeans...</em></strong></p>
<p>Eight years on from NATO’s war in Libya in 2011, as the country enters a new phase in its conflict, I have taken stock of the<span> </span><strong>number of countries to which terrorism has spread as a direct product of that war. The number is at least 14.<span> </span></strong>The legacy of the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi - pursued by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama - has been gruesomely felt by Europeans and Africans. Yet holding these leaders accountable for their decision to go to war is as distant as ever.</p>
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<p><em>Portrait of Gaddafi in Ghadames, Libya, 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)</em></p>
<p>The 2011 conflict, in which NATO <a href="http://markcurtis.info/2016/08/30/overthrowing-qadafi-in-libya-britains-islamist-boots-on-the-ground/">worked alongside</a> Islamist forces on the ground to remove Gaddafi,<span> </span><strong>produced an ungoverned space in Libya and a country awash with weapons, ideal for terrorist groups to thrive.</strong> But it was Syria that suffered first.</p>
<p>After civil war broke out there in early 2011, at the same time as in Libya, the latter became a facilitation and <a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/the-islamic-states-libyan-external-operations-hub-the-picture-so-far/">training hub </a>for around 3,000 fighters on their way to Syria, many of whom joined Al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State-affiliated Katibat al-Battar al-Libi (KBL), which was founded by militants from Libya.</p>
<p><strong>In Libya itself, a rebranding of existing Al-Qaeda-linked groups in the north-eastern area of Derna produced<a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/islamic-states-revitalization-libya-post-2016-war-attrition/"> Islamic State’s first official</a> branch in the country in mid-2014, incorporating members of the KBL.</strong> During 2015, IS Libya conducted car bombings and beheadings and established <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2017/06/libya-shifting-sands-derna-170613115119424.html">territorial control </a>and governance over parts of Derna and Benghazi in the east and Sabratha in the west. It also became the sole governing body in the north-central city of Sirte, with as many as 5,000 fighters occupying the city.</p>
<p>By late 2016, IS in Libya was <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36104728">forced out</a> of these areas, largely due to U.S. air strikes, but withdrew to the desert areas south of Sirte, continuing low-level attacks. In the last two years, the group has re-emerged as a formidable insurgent force and is again waging high-profile attacks on state institutions and conducting regular hit-and-run operations in the southwestern desert. Last September, UN Special Representative to Libya Ghassan Salame <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/the-islamic-state-in-libya-operational-revival-geographic-dispersal-and-changing-paradigms/">told</a> the UN Security Council that the IS “presence and operations in Libya are only spreading.”</p>
<h3><u><strong>Terror in Europe</strong></u></h3>
<p>After the fall of Gaddafi, IS Libya established training camps near Sabratha, which are<a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/the-islamic-states-libyan-external-operations-hub-the-picture-so-far/"> linked</a> to a series of terrorist attacks and plots.<em><strong> “Most of the blood spilled in Europe in the more spectacular attacks, using guns and bombs, really all began at the time when Katibat al-Battar went back to Libya,” </strong></em>Cameron Colquhoun, a former counterterrorism analyst for Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/middleeast/manchester-bombing-salman-abedi-islamic-state-libya.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0">told </a><em>The New York Times</em>. “That is where the threat trajectory to Europe began – when these men returned to Libya and had breathing space.”</p>
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<p><em>Floral tributes to the victims of the attack in St Ann’s Square in Manchester city center. (Tomasz “odder” Kozlowski via Wikimedia Commons)</em></p>
<p>Salman Abedi, who blew up 22 people at a pop concert in Manchester in 2017, <a href="http://markcurtis.info/2018/07/05/murder-on-the-beach-british-backed-wars-helped-create-tunisian-killer/">met with members</a> of the Katibat al-Battar al-Libi, a faction of IS, several times in Sabratha, where he was probably trained. <a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/the-islamic-states-libyan-external-operations-hub-the-picture-so-far/">Other members </a>of the KBL were <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34867615">Abdelhamid Abaaoud</a>, the ringleader of the 2015 Paris attacks on the Bataclan nightclub and sports stadium, which killed 130 people, and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-attacks-verviers-idUSKCN0ZL1L8">the militants involved</a> in the Verviers plot to attack Belgium in 2015. <strong>The perpetrator of the 2016 Berlin truck attack, which left 12 people dead, also had<a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/the-islamic-states-libyan-external-operations-hub-the-picture-so-far/"> contacts with Libyans </a>linked to IS. </strong>So too in Italy, where terrorist activity has been linked to IS Libya, with several individuals based in Italy involved in the attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis in 2015, which killed 22 people.</p>
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<p><em>Memorial to victims of the attack on Bardo National Museum in Tunisia. (Yamen via Wikimedia Commons)</em></p>
<h3><u><strong>Libya’s Neighbors</strong></u></h3>
<p><strong>Tunisia suffered its <a href="http://markcurtis.info/2018/07/05/murder-on-the-beach-british-backed-wars-helped-create-tunisian-killer/">deadliest terrorist attack </a>in 2015</strong><span> </span>when a 23-year-old Tunisian armed with a machine gun mowed down 38 tourists, mainly Britons, at a beach hotel in the resort of Port El Kantaoui. The perpetrator was reportedly <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33304897">an adherent of IS</a> and, like Salman Abedi, had been trained in the camp complex at Sabratha from where the attack was staged.</p>
<p><strong>Libya’s eastern neighbor, Egypt, has also been struck by terrorism emanating from the country.</strong><span> </span>IS officials in Libya have been <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/libyas-political-turmoil-allows-islamic-state-to-thrive/">linked to</a>, and may have directed, the activities of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/three-ways-defeat-sinai">Wilayat Sinai</a>, the terrorist group formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which has carried out several deadly attacks in Egypt. After the fall of Gaddafi, the Western Desert became <a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/crossing-the-canal-why-egypt-faces-a-creeping-insurgency/">a corridor for the smuggling of weapons</a> and operatives on their way to the Sinai. Egypt conducted air strikes against militant camps in Libya in 2015, 2016 and again in 2017, the latter following <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/27/egypt-hits-libyan-terror-camps-again-after-attack-kills-29-copts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other">the killing of 29 Coptic Christians </a>near Cairo</p>
<h3><u><strong>Into the Sahel</strong></u></h3>
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<p><strong>But Libya has also become a hub for jihadist networks stretching south into the Sahel, the geographical transition zone in Africa between the Sahara desertto the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. </strong></p>
<p>Libya’s 2011 uprising opened a flow of weapons into northern Mali, which helped revive an ethno-tribal conflict that had been brewing since the 1960s. By 2012, local allies of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had taken control of day-to-day governance in the northern Mali towns of Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu. After France intervened in Mali, the ongoing lack of governance in Libya precipitated several groups to relocate their <a href="https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/10/30/the-sahel-libya-and-the-crime-terror-nexus/">operational centers to Libya</a>, including both AQIM and its offshoot, Al-Mourabitoun, from where these groups could <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/16/world/burkina-faso-attack-al-qaeda/index.html">acquire weapons</a> more easily.</p>
<p>With Libya as its rear base, Al-Mourabitoun under its leader <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-21061480">Mokhtar Belmokhtar</a> was behind the attack on the Amenas hydrocarbon complex in eastern Algeria in January 2013, which left 40 foreign workers dead; the<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/20/mali-attack-highlights-global-spread-extremist-violence"> gun attack</a> on the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali in November 2015, which killed 22 people; and for the attack on Hotel Splendid in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, which killed 20 people in January 2016. <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/16/world/burkina-faso-attack-al-qaeda/index.html">Al-Mourabitoun has also attacked</a> a military academy and French-owned uranium mine in Niger.</p>
<h3><u><strong>Disastrous Foreign Policy</strong></u></h3>
<p><strong>The fall-out from Libya spreads even wider, however.<span> </span></strong>By 2016, U.S. officials <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-security-usa/boko-haram-may-be-sending-fighters-to-islamic-state-in-libya-u-s-officials-idUSKCN0Y41QH">reported signs </a>that Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadists, responsible for numerous gruesome attacks and kidnappings, were sending fighters to join IS in Libya, and that there was increased cooperation between the two groups. The International Crisis Group <a href="https://www.crisisgroup.org/global/exploiting-disorder-al-qaeda-and-islamic-state">notes</a> that it was the arrival of weapons and expertise from Libya and the Sahel that enabled Boko Haram to fashion the insurgency that plagues north-western Nigeria today. There have even been <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/libyas-political-turmoil-allows-islamic-state-to-thrive/">claims</a> that Boko Haram answers to IS commanders in Libya.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Boko_Haram_hostages_released_VOA.jpg?itok=IIkK-Br-" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/Boko_Haram_hostages_released_VOA.jpg?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="400" class="align-right"/></a></p>
<p><em>After months of captivity by suspected Boko Haram militants, ex-hostages arrive at Cameroon’s Yaounde Nsimalen International Airport. (VOA via Wikimedia Commons)</em></p>
<p><strong>In addition to these 14 countries, fighters from several other states have joined IS militants in Libya in recent years.</strong><span> </span>Indeed, it is<a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/islamic-states-revitalization-libya-post-2016-war-attrition/"> estimated </a>that almost 80 percent of IS membership in Libya is non-Libyan, including from countries such as Kenya, Chad, Senegal and Sudan. These foreign fighters are potentially available to return to their own countries after receiving training.</p>
<p><u><em><strong>The true extent of the fall-out from the Libya war is remarkable</strong></em></u>: it has spurred terrorism in Europe, Syria, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Islamic State, although now nearly defeated in Syria and Iraq, is far from dead. Indeed, while Western leaders seek to defeat terrorism militarily in some places,<span> </span><strong>their disastrous foreign policy choices have stimulated it in others.</strong></p>
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<p>Above are two photos showing the Church Street bombing. As mentioned, in his so-called book,” Long Walk to Freedom”, Mandela says that he “signed off” with this act of terrorism. People should take a look at what Mandela “signed…</p>
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<p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1">Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial marriage bill legalising polygamy.</p>
<p>It brings civil law, where a man was only allowed one wife, into line with customary law, where some cultures allow multiple partners.</p>
<p>Controversy surrounded an amendment to the bill, supported by many male MPs, allowing men to take more wives without consulting existing spouses.</p>
<p>Traditionally, first wives are supposed to give prior approval.</p>
<p><span class="cross-head">'Demeaning'</span></p>
<div class="story-feature wide"><a class="hidden" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27206590#story_continues_2">Continue reading the main story</a><h2>Kenya's marriage bill</h2>
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<li>Bans marriage for those under 18</li>
<li>All marriages - even customary unions - must be registered</li>
<li>Legalises polygamy, allowing men to marry as many partner as they wish without consulting other spouses</li>
<li>A woman is entitled to 50% of property acquired during marriage</li>
<li>Specifies that marriage is between a man and a woman, but does not explicitly ban custom of an infertile woman marrying a younger woman</li>
<li>Proposals dropped: Banning bride price payments, recognising cohabiting, or "come-we-stay", relationships</li>
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<p id="story_continues_2">Last month, female MPs walked out of parliament in disgust after their male counterparts voted through the amendment.</p>
<p>They argued that a decision to take on another wife would affect the whole family, including the financial position of other spouses.</p>
<p>The bill was also opposed by Christian leaders who urged the president not to sign it into law, saying it undermined Christian principles of marriage and family.</p>
<p>"The tone of that bill, if it becomes law, would be demeaning to women since it does not respect the principle of equality of spouses in the institution of marriage," Archbishop Timothy Ndambuki, from the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), was quoted by Kenya's Standard newspaper as saying.</p>
<p>The marriage legislation has been under discussion for several years and some initial proposals were scrapped at committee stages.</p>
<p>It has abolished the practice of unofficial traditional marriages which were never registered and could be ended without any legal divorce proceedings.</p>
<p>But plans to ban the payment of bride prices were dropped - although a person must be 18 to marry and this now applies to all cultures.</p>
<p><span class="cross-head">Inheritance chaos?</span></p>
<p>MPs did reject the committee amendment which said a woman should only be entitled to 30% of matrimonial property after death or divorce.</p>
<div class="caption full-width"><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73723000/jpg/_73723633_64033767.jpg" width="624" height="351" alt="Young women from Kenya's Samburu ethnic group which has the tradition of bride prices to seal marriages"/><span>Kenyans now have to be 18 to marry and this applies to all cultures</span></div>
<p>The law now allows for equal property and inheritance rights - previously a woman had to prove her contribution to the couple's wealth.</p>
<p>However, the BBC's Frenny Jowi in the capital, Nairobi, says this aspect of the legislation could create chaos in polygamous marriages.</p>
<p>The law stipulates that a wife is entitled to an equal share of whatever the couple acquired during their marriage but in the case of multiple partners it is going to be difficult to determine what each spouse is entitled to if one of them divorces or their husband dies, she says.</p>
<p>There had also been a proposal to recognise co-habiting couples, known in Kenya as "come-we-stay" relationships, after six months, but this too was dropped.</p>
<p>It would have allowed a woman to seek maintenance for herself and any children of the union, had the man left.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27206590">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27206590</a></p> Kenyan police find 'trove' of evidence in Fascists' headquarterstag:4freedoms.com,2014-02-13:3766518:Topic:1450142014-02-13T11:03:29.555Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<h2>Kenyan police find 'trove' of evidence in Mombasa mosque raid</h2>
<p class="date">February 05, 2014</p>
<div class=" fb_reset" id="fb-root">Kenyan police have recovered a trove of documents and other evidence from <a href="http://sabahionline.com/en_GB/articles/hoa/articles/features/2014/02/03/feature-01" target="_self">Mombasa's Masjid Mussa</a>, which they estimate will take two months or more to review, Kenya's The Standard reported Tuesday (February 4th).…</div>
<h2>Kenyan police find 'trove' of evidence in Mombasa mosque raid</h2>
<p class="date">February 05, 2014</p>
<div id="fb-root" class=" fb_reset">Kenyan police have recovered a trove of documents and other evidence from <a href="http://sabahionline.com/en_GB/articles/hoa/articles/features/2014/02/03/feature-01" target="_self">Mombasa's Masjid Mussa</a>, which they estimate will take two months or more to review, Kenya's The Standard reported Tuesday (February 4th).</div>
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<p>Items recovered include an AK-47 rifle, machetes and other iron implements, jihadist flags, stun guns, hundreds of textbooks, maps, registers, pictures, information on alleged spies and "Muslim traitors", and terrorist training manuals.</p>
<p>One recovered document reportedly lists the names of militants across East Africa, with references as far as Burundi.</p>
<p>Police also found an audio recording calling for Muslim volunteers to carry out attacks on countries oppressing Somali Muslims, understood to mean countries contributing troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia, and they seized more than 200 compact-discs and memory cards with pictures of jihadist training camps in Somalia and Syria and audio instructions on light weapons use, combat and doctrine.</p>
<p>"We will need two months to go through these CDs and documents," said Mombasa County Police Commander Robert Kitur.</p>
<p>Also among the items recovered were three laptops, which have been sent to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Cybercrime Unit for analysis.</p>
<p>Mombasa CID Commander Henry Ondiek defended the <a href="http://sabahionline.com/en_GB/articles/hoa/articles/newsbriefs/2014/02/04/newsbrief-01" target="_self">raid on Masjid Mussa</a>, which some Muslim leaders decried as desecration of a holy site.</p>
<p>"If you look at the penal code and all other legal literature in Kenya, there is nowhere [that says] police are barred from entering a place where crimes like terrorism are being committed," he said. "We shall continue storming mosques and anywhere where serious crimes such as planning mass attacks on innocent people are being planned."</p>
</div> Seleca Islamic Fascists massacre Christians in Central African Republictag:4freedoms.com,2013-12-03:3766518:Topic:1416882013-12-03T03:49:06.764Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p>The United Nations is demanding immediate support for the Central African Republic (CAR) during a very difficult period. Apparently over<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25104335">450,000 people have fled</a> their homes after the Muslim dominated Seleka took power and began persecuting Christians irrespective of the alleged government of national unity during the transitional period. Not surprisingly, Christians are trying to protect themselves against Muslim forces within…</p>
<p>The United Nations is demanding immediate support for the Central African Republic (CAR) during a very difficult period. Apparently over<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25104335">450,000 people have fled</a> their homes after the Muslim dominated Seleka took power and began persecuting Christians irrespective of the alleged government of national unity during the transitional period. Not surprisingly, Christians are trying to protect themselves against Muslim forces within Seleka which are clearly out of control. Therefore, bloodletting is sowing the seeds of distrust and clearly the international community needs to do something before the crisis reaches a point of no return.</p>
<p>Unlike Christian communities in Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, and in other nations, whereby various sects are persecuted, it is clear that in the CAR -- just like in South Sudan -- that Christians will not just sit back and wait to be slaughtered or become trapped in ghettoes. It is hoped that the international community will be fair in pointing out the real factors behind communal violence. After all, it is clear that religious tensions erupted after Seleka troops began to ransack Christian areas. However, the same media which always points out the "Buddhist" angle in Myanmar (more Christians have been killed in Myanmar than any other non-Buddhist religion in the last few decades) in relation to the persecution of Muslims in this country; they appear to loathe to point out massacres by Muslims forces in the CAR against Christians; just like the persecution of Buddhists and others in the Chittagong Hill Tracts is barely mentioned in Bangladesh.</p>
<p>In must be remembered that when less than two thousand people had been killed in Kosovo the West intervened rapidly and took this part of Serbia away from the indigenous Orthodox Christians. Yet when northern Cyprus was occupied by Turkey and Orthodox Christians were cleansed then Western nations did zilch apart from sell more military arms to Turkey. Similarly, when millions of black African Christians and Animists were massacred in Sudan (many forced into slavery and forcibly converted to Islam) you never had the threat of Western intervention. Likewise, the mainly Christians of West Papua are currently facing Javanization and Islamization in Indonesia but the world is turning a blind eye once more just like they did when the Catholic Timorese were massacred in vast numbers by the same forces.</p>
<p>Elizabeth Kendal reports in Christian Today that the "Central African Republic is French-speaking and its population is around 76 per cent Christian. On Sunday 24 March 2013, Seleka -- a coalition of local and foreign Arabic-speaking Islamic militias -- seized control of the capital, Bangui, in an orgy of violence and looting."</p>
<p>"But Seleka does not rape, loot and kill indiscriminately. Rather, Seleka attacks Christians and spares Muslims, causing traditional community trust to evaporate, and creating a sectarian tinderbox."</p>
<p>The same author reports that Christian militias are now retaliating and massacres against Muslims are happening based on the actions of Muslim forces within Seleka. Indeed, just like you have countless militias in Libya then it is difficult to define Seleka because many are mere rogue elements which are focused on economic goals alongside anti-Christian persecution. However, while religious agitation wasn't enforced by the usual Christian leaders of the CAR, it is abundantly clear that you have an Islamist cause within all the chaos and common criminality of forces within Seleka and clearly the so-called government of national unity isn't in control of the situation.</p>
<p>Christian Bishop Albert Vanbuel stated "a rebellion of religious extremism with evil intentions, characterized by profanation and planned destruction of religious buildings, especially Catholic and Protestant churches" is now in power. In other words, the new government under Djotodia is based on an agenda which threatens the religious mosaic of the CAR because elements within Seleka clearly have a religious angle.</p>
<p>The International Crisis Group reported "The new government of national unity is fragile and faces considerable challenges. Securing the country, organizing elections, restoring public services and implementing judicial, economic and social reforms, were agreed to in Libreville and remain on the agenda. But dissension within Seleka, the proliferation of weapons in Bangui and the deterioration of the social environment could jeopardize the very fragile transition. The humanitarian situation is deteriorating: the population is suffering from deprivation, which will be compounded by the rainy season, and there are some 150,000-180,000 internally displaced people. Faced with multiple problems, the new government will have to define security, humanitarian, budgetary and political priorities. To secure the peace and stability that previous governments failed to achieve, it must develop a new disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) program and rethink security sector reform (SSR). Restoring security and promoting innovative approaches tailored to the country's needs are key to ensuring the success of the transition."</p>
<p>Of great concern is who is behind the funding of Muslim forces which are spreading sectarianism in the CAR? It isn't difficult to point the finger at Gulf petrodollars and similarly Sudan may have ambitions? However, currently you have no substantial findings in this regard because various specialists have provided different answers to this important question. Despite this, it is clear that Seleka is well armed (despite being disbanded this movement continues to kill and ransack) and the sectarian agenda also points to sinister outside forces.</p>
<p>France announced that they will send approximately 1,000 military personnel to the CAR which will top up the current 400 plus soldiers which are stationed in this nation. The Defense Minister of France, Jean-Yves Le Drian, made it clear that France would send 1,000 troops to the CAR in order to boost security. However, unlike in Mali the role of France isn't clear because will France take sides or work with the tainted self-proclaimed leader of this nation? After all, in Mali the mainly black African Muslim ethnic groups welcomed France after a mixture of al-Qaeda affiliated forces began to attack indigenous Islam in this nation alongside genuine grievances felt by the Tuareg. Yet in the CAR it is clear that Christians in many areas lack faith in the current self-proclaimed leadership which is blamed for the bloodletting and setting the fire of sectarianism.</p>
<p>Le Drian said "France will support this African mission with about 1,000 soldiers…We will do this in support, not as the first ones in, as we have done for Mali, and for a short period, in the range of about six months."</p>
<p>France 24 reports "…Le Drian said the soldiers would act as support to a 2,500-strong regional peacekeeping force deployed by the Economic Community of Central African States. The African Union will take charge of the force in December and boost its size to around 3,600 troops."</p>
<p>The Security Council was urged by Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN and highly respected diplomat from Sweden, to turn the CAR into an operation for the UN. He stated that "The CAR is becoming a breeding ground for extremists and armed groups in a region that is already suffering from conflict and instability…If this situation is left to fester, it may develop into a religious and ethnic conflict with long-standing consequences, even a civil war that could spread into neighboring countries."</p>
<p>If action isn't taken then the spiral of violence will only get worse and sectarianism will hang over the CAR. Yet, who will France, the UN and AU work with given the tainted self declared leader of this nation who clearly isn't trusted by many within the Christian community?</p>
<p>By Pierre Leblanc and Lee Jay Walker<br/><a href="http://moderntokyotimes.com/2013/11/27/christians-persecuted-in-the-central-african-republic-france-to-send-troops-but-role-is-foggy/">http://moderntokyotimes.com/2013/11/27/christians-persecuted-in-the-central-african-republic-france-to-send-troops-but-role-is-foggy/</a></p> Angolatag:4freedoms.com,2013-11-25:3766518:Topic:1416452013-11-25T20:26:54.079Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p>Seems like the whole CJM is bubbling over with joy</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Angola bans Islam, begins tearing down mosques</strong></span></p>
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<p>In an apparent attempt to prevent the spread of Islamic extremism,…</p>
<p>Seems like the whole CJM is bubbling over with joy</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Angola bans Islam, begins tearing down mosques</strong></span></p>
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<p>In an apparent attempt to prevent the spread of Islamic extremism, the African nation of Angola has banned Islam and is in the process of tearing down mosques, according to multiple media reports.</p>
<p>On November 24, Angola President José Eduardo dos Santos said the country is working toward putting an end to Islamic influence in Angola once and for all.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/angola-bans-islam-begins-tearing-down-mosques">http://www.examiner.com/article/angola-bans-islam-begins-tearing-down-mosques</a></p>
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<p>Then we have</p>
<h2 class="contentheading clearfix" style="text-align: center;">Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques</h2>
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<p>LUANDA – According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country.</p>
<p>“The process of legalization of Islam has not been approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, their mosques would be closed until further notice,” Rosa Cruz e Silva, the Angolan Minister of Culture, was quoted by Agence Ecofin on Friday, November 22.</p>
<p>Problem is neither of these mosque are anywhere near Angola, the first was in the Negrev Israel. and the second was in Rafah, Gaza</p>
<p> Maybe a bit to early to rejoice</p> South Africa : People Against Gangsterism and Drugstag:4freedoms.com,2013-07-01:3766518:Topic:1283492013-07-01T05:07:31.200Zpaul collingshttp://4freedoms.com/profile/paulcollings
<p>Now this seems great until you start reading carefully</p>
<p>People Against Gangsterism and Drugs</p>
<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia</p>
<p>People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) was a vigilante group formed in 1996 in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa.</p>
<p>Origins</p>
<p>PAGAD was originally initiated by a handful of neighbourhood watch members from a few coloured Cape Town townships who decided to organize public demonstrations to pressure the government…</p>
<p>Now this seems great until you start reading carefully</p>
<p>People Against Gangsterism and Drugs</p>
<p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia</p>
<p>People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) was a vigilante group formed in 1996 in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa.</p>
<p>Origins</p>
<p>PAGAD was originally initiated by a handful of neighbourhood watch members from a few coloured Cape Town townships who decided to organize public demonstrations to pressure the government to fight the illegal drug trade and gangsterism more effectively. However, PAGAD increasingly took matters into their own hands, believing the police were not taking enough action against gangs. Initially the community and police were hesitant to act against PAGAD activities, recognising the need for community action against crime in the gang-ridden communities of the Cape Flats.</p>
<p>Notorious gangsters were initially asked by PAGAD members to stop their criminal activities or be subject to 'popular justice'. A common PAGAD modus operandi was to set fire to drug dealers houses and kill gangsters.</p>
<p>PAGAD's campaign came to prominence in 1996 when a local gang leader, Rashaad Staggie, was beaten and burnt to death by a mob during a march to his home in Salt River. South Africa's police quickly came to regard PAGAD as part of the problem, rather than a partner in the fight against crime and they were eventually designated a terrorist organization by the South African government.</p>
<p>The threat of growing vigilantism in 2000 led the Western Cape provincial government to declare a 'war on gangs' that became a key priority of the ANC provincial government at the time.</p>
<p>Cape Town bombings</p>
<p>Although PAGAD's leadership denied involvement, PAGAD's G-Force, operating in small cells, was believed responsible for killing a large number of gang leaders, and also for a bout of urban terrorism — particularly bombings — in Cape Town. The bombings started in 1998, and included nine bombings in 2000. I</p>
<p>n addition to targeting gang leaders, bombing targets included South African authorities, moderate Muslims, synagogues, gay nightclubs, tourist attractions, and Western-associated restaurants. The most prominent attack during this time was the bombing on 25 August 1998 of the Cape Town Planet Hollywood.</p>
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<p>In September 2000, magistrate Pieter Theron, who was presiding in a case involving PAGAD members, was murdered in a drive-by shooting.</p>
<p>PAGAD's leaders have become known for making anti-semitic statements. A 1997 incendiary bomb attack on a Jewish bookshop owner was found by police to have been committed with the same material PAGAD has used in other attacks.</p>
<p>In 1998, Ebrahim Moosa, a University of Cape Town academic who had been critical of PAGAD, decided to take a post in the United States after his home was bombed.</p>
<p>Violent acts such as bombings and vigilantism in Cape Town subsided in 2002, and the police have not attributed any such acts to PAGAD since the November 2002 bombing of the Bishop Lavis offices of the Serious Crimes Unit in the Western Cape.</p>
<p>(So far, we are left in the dark as to who are behind this group, it is only in the next paragraph we get a clue)</p>
<p>In 2002, PAGAD leader Abdus Salaam Ebrahim was convicted of public violence and imprisoned for seven years. Although a number of other PAGAD members were arrested and convicted of related crimes, none were convicted of the Cape Town bombings.</p>
<p>Current activities</p>
<p>Today, PAGAD maintains a small and less visible presence in the Cape Town Muslim community.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Against_Gangsterism_and_Drugs">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Against_Gangsterism_and_Drugs</a></p>