“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My Name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
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Soeren Kern—Germany: Migrant Rape Crisis Worsens:
A mob of asylum seekers from Afghanistan assaulted three teenage girls at a shopping center in the northern German city of Kiel. The attack — which occurred over two-hours on the evening of February 25, and mirrored the mass assaults of German women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve — shows, once again, that public spaces in Germany are becoming increasingly perilous for women and children.
Police reports show that sexual violence in Germany has skyrocketed since Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into the country. But the crimes are being played down by German authorities, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.
Police in Kiel say the assault began at around 5:30 pm, when two Afghan males (aged 19 and 26) began stalking and photographing three girls (aged 15, 16 and 17) at a food court in the Sophienhof, a large shopping center near the city’s central train station.
After posting photographs of the girls on social media, the two men were quickly joined by at least 30 other migrants who began collectively to harass the girls in a Muslim “rape game” known in Arabic as “taharrush” (al-taharrush al-jinsi, Arabic for “sexual harassment”).
When police arrived, the migrants, rather than running way, began verbally and physically abusing the officers, some of whom were injured. It took police two hours to restore order. The initial two perpetrators, asylum seekers from Afghanistan, were arrested; the other migrants involved in the incident remain at large.
At a news conference on February 27, police spokesman Oliver Pohl revealed that more women are now coming forward to report similar experiences at the Sophienhof.
The owner of a restaurant at the mall said:
“Groups of young men gather at the Sophienhof every evening. What they do here is unacceptable. The moment they see a young woman wearing a skirt or any type of loose clothing, they believe they have a free pass. It is about time migrants are made to understand: things in Germany function differently than in their home countries.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: When some thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did.
Actually, those who didn’t see this coming are blind to reality. They live in a dream world. Their dream is our nightmare.
People who do stupid things should expect dangerous consequences. When leaders of nations do idiotic things, everybody suffers.
As I have said, I think we should consider carving out a nation for those folks. We can send them to it when they demonstrate that they don’t possess the ability to comprehend obvious threats.
We should call it Dumbassistan. Over time, we can fill it up with ignoramuses who threaten the rest of us because of their lack of common sense. While they are there, they can spout forth all the nonsense they want.
We’ll send them some refugees to keep them company. They’ll like that, for awhile.
When those who still have their heads decide that they want to return to civilization, they can apply for asylum. After proper vetting, we may or may not accept them back.
I like that idea, but I’m biased.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.
To see videos that explain the importance of God’s Name, click here.
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1: Los Angeles Times—Riot police raid Turkey’s largest newspaper with volleys of tear gas and water cannons:
A law enforcement raid on a prominent media company and takeover of the nation’s largest-circulation newspaper have raised new fears of a press under assault by the administration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Police late Friday forced their way into the offices of Zaman newspaper and its English-language sister publication, Today’s Zaman, after an Istanbul court ordered the seizure of Feza Media Group, which owns the two dailies.
SnyderTalk Comment: This is what dictatorships look like.
2: CNN—Taliban reject invite to Afghanistan peace talks:
The Taliban are invited to the negotiating table, but they aren’t coming.
The Islamist militant group made that clear Saturday, refuting reports that it would send representatives to upcoming talks involving the Afghan government, Pakistan, the United States and China in the Pakistani city of Islamabad.
“We reject all such rumors and unequivocally state that the esteemed leader of the Islamic Emirate has not authorized anyone to participate in this meeting, and neither has the Leadership Council of Islamic Emirate decided to partake in it,” the Taliban said, using another name for itself.
SnyderTalk Comment: The Taliban is one of many Islamist groups that we need to destroy. They are at war with us. We aren’t taking them seriously enough.
3: Jerusalem Post—UN raps Israel for ‘wide-scale demolitions’ of Palestinian homes:
The UN said that the Civil Administration, the Defense Ministry agency responsible for the West Bank, ordered the razing of 41 structures in the area.
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“On last Wednesday, the 2nd of March, enforcement measures were taken against six buildings, five tents that were used as pens, five pens and four tents that were built illegally without permits in a firing zone which is a life danger,” a spokesperson for the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.
“The enforcement measures were taken after completing the supervision process and issuing demolishing orders,” COGAT said.
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SnyderTalk Comment: And that’s the rest of the story.
4: Newsweek—Israel To Vote on Banning Mosques From Using PAs For Call to Prayer:
Israeli lawmakers are to vote on Sunday on a bill that proposes banning mosques from using public announcement systems to issue the call to prayer for their Muslim followers.
The call to prayer is traditionally announced five times a day through loudspeakers, including once in the early morning. Right-wing sections of Israeli society complain about the noise bellowing into the everyday lives of Jewish communities.
The bill, which will be voted on by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, seeks to end the announcements as well as “conveying religious or nationalist messages, or even words of incitement” through broadcasts. It is aiming to ban sound systems from all houses of prayer in Israel, but the current and future Israeli Interior Minister would be able to exempt certain houses of prayer from the ban at his or her discretion.
SnyderTalk Comment: Yahweh, please influence the Ministerial Committee on Legislation to vote in favor of the ban on loud calls to prayer, especially in Jerusalem.
5: Jerusalem Post—SodaStream: Case study in Middle East insanity:
Even after living in this country for over 32 years, I am still amazed about the lack of logic that causes serious financial harm to both Israelis and Palestinians. SodaStream is a classic example.
If you are not familiar with the company, they are an Israeli-based firm that produces soda-making machines for the home. They have been eminently successful worldwide in redefining the flavored soft drink industry and providing a tasty but less costly alternative to buying similar commercially bottled products.
Their Israeli plant operated in the Mishor Adumim area of what the press calls the West Bank (and what many of us call by its more biblical names of Judea and Samaria), 10 minutes from Jerusalem but easily accessible for many Palestinian workers. The company employed close to 600 such workers, who were paid wages significantly higher than their brethren working in Palestinian-owned businesses (when such jobs were available), and who had better physical working conditions as well. There has been some discussion about whether the Palestinian workers were being paid less than their Israeli counterparts but, even if that were true, they were definitely being paid much more than what they could have earned in their local communities and seemed quite satisfied with the opportunity to provide a better life for their families.
But in late 2014 and early 2015 the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement began digging its rotting teeth into SodaStream. The movement cared little about what might happen to all the people working in the plant. Its greater goal of hurting Israel was important enough to justify making the employees financial martyrs for the cause.
SnyderTalk Comment: If you don’t have a SodaStream, you should get one. They are fantastic. Thanks Noam.
If do-gooders would shut up, SodaStream would grow its Palestinian workforce. That’s what needs to happen.
6: Middle East Eye—Islamic State: The enemy that refuses to die:
It is losing territory in Iraq and Syria, is wracked with internal paranoia, faces financial crisis and is beset by enemies from above and on all sides. Everything points, its enemies say, to an implosion and the eventual demise of the Islamic State group.
This week, reports said IS had killed its Mosul finance minister for “treachery” and that foreign volunteers were being executed for desertion. These and the recent imprisonment of 11 regional leaders have been interpreted by some as indicators of paranoia within the group.
Air forces are queuing up to bomb IS-held territory, US military officials describe it as adopting a “defensive crouch,” and even IS’s shocking propaganda videos are now being dismissed as evidence of decline and desperation.
“I think it is absolutely desperate tactics from an organisation that is clearly now on the backfoot,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this year after IS issued a video threatening attacks on the UK.
But for all the proclamations, is the self-styled caliphate really facing its downfall?
SnyderTalk Comment: ISIS won’t die a natural death, not yet anyway. It needs an assist.
7: Algemeiner—As Another Emerging Terror Tunnel Collapses, Hamas Members Refuse to Dig:
Members of Hamas’s Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades are starting to refuse orders to dig underground tunnels, which have mysteriously collapsed one after the other in recent months as the Palestinian terror group attempts to rebuild the network of cross-border attack tunnels that Israel destroyed during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
In an open field east of Khan Younis on Thursday, a tunnel being dug by the al-Qassam Brigades collapsed, killing 31-year-old Muhammad Musa al Astal, Hamas said. Palestinian media quoted senior Hamas officials who confirmed that an additional five tunnel diggers were missing. Thursday’s tunnel collapse was the seventh such incident in recent months.
Following the latest collapse, photographs of “advanced technological equipment for the detection of tunnels” began appearing on Palestinian websites, with one Hamas website claiming that the “Zionists are worried there are tunnels underneath their communities near the border fence.” But the terrorist group has never officially said that Israel is responsible for the collapses.
SnyderTalk Comment: Yahweh works in mysterious ways.
8: Arutz Sheva—Again, PA warns it’ll end security coordination:
For the umpteenth time, Ramallah threatens to end its security coordination with Israel. This time, ‘officially.’
A delegation from the Palestinian Authority (PA) “officially warned Israeli authorities” several days ago that the Palestinian government would end its security coordination with Israel if the state did not “commit to past agreements,” a member of the PLO executive committee told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency Thursday.
9: Elliott Abrams: The status of Egypt’s Christians:
There are a lot of fans of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi nowadays in Washington who argue that he is fighting terrorism and deserves American support.
Those fans ought to be aware of the ongoing persecution of Christians, which el-Sissi could act strongly to prevent — but does not. A very good example is the case of four Christian teenagers who have just been convicted under Egypt’s “blasphemy” laws — and sentenced to five years in prison, the maximum penalty.
Their crime? They made a 30-second video, never meant to become public, mocking ISIS. The video satirizes a group saying (Muslim) prayers and then going off to behead people — and was made soon after ISIS beheaded a group of Copts. The full details are available at a good summary article published by the Atlantic Council. Apparently the video was taken to be an insult to Islam, and rioting and destruction of Christian property and homes followed. No one was ever punished for those crimes, of course.
In fact, blasphemy laws in Egypt as elsewhere are used mostly against Christians. The daily insults of Christianity, mocking Christian beliefs and calling Christians “infidels” continue in Egypt. It is possible for el-Sissi to tell the prosecutor general to appeal these sentences, or to pardon these four teens himself. That is exactly what supporters of el-Sissi in Congress and the Obama administration should be asking him to do. And if he will not, they ought to be asking themselves what kind of Egypt he is creating, and why we want to support him in those efforts.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
