NO EVIDENCE AT ALL, EXCEPT FOR ALL THE EVIDENCE

Islamic terrorists are not Islamic terrorists because they arrived here pretending to be refugees. They are Islamic terrorists because of Islam.

We got to get far left tosspots like Duncan Lewis out of positions of influence.

ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis kicked things off with a preposterous and easily-refuted claim: “I have abso­lutely no evidence to suggest there is a connection between refugees and terrorism.”

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ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis kicked things off with a preposterous and easily-refuted claim: “I have abso­lutely no evidence to suggest there is a connection between refugees and terrorism.”

Numerous commentators then presented case after case of refugees who had committed acts of terrorism.

ASIO boss Lewis responded with an argument quickly demolished by Chris Kenny:

After being called out on his statement, Mr Lewis initially chose silence but this morning took to the friendly space of Radio National to try to explain himself. “There are without question — and I don’t resile from that — there are members of the former refugee or the sons and daughters of refugees who are in the group that have resorted to radicalisation,” he said, in a concession to the bleeding obvious.

“But I think it is very wrong to say that it is because of their refugee status,” he went on, arguing with a point that as far as I am aware no one has made. Certainly no sane person would make such a claim — that terrorists are radicalised because they are refugees — but this somehow is the clarification the ASIO chief has decided to make.

You may have thought the whole issue had reached critical idiot mass when the ABC’s Jonathan Green wrote that Lewis was “attempting to lead a nuanced conversation”, but even Green would not have dared take the next step. Just observe as Waleed Aly sets new global records for obfuscation and semantic evasion:

Terror plots hatched by migrants on refugee visas

Eight terror incidents committed by jihadis in Australia on humanitarian visas

Mohammad Ali Baryalei travelled from Sydney to Syria in April 2013 to fight for Jabhat al-Nusra Front before joining Islamic State.

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Jihad in Manila

Islam again and again

UPDATE: The Filipino police say that the perpetrator was a lone robber, not Islamic State jihadis. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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A Taliban spokesman recently explained: “Our fight is Jihad and an obligatory worship. And every obligatory act of worship has 70 times more reward in Ramadan.”

The Islamic State no doubt believes that as well.

“Tourists shot in ISIS hotel attack: Terrified guests jump from second-floor windows and dozens are injured as Islamists storm Philippines resort popular with Westerners,” by Rachael Burford, Mailonline, via Jihad Watch

A terrorist attack is perpetrated against Resorts World Manila in the Philippines, targeting guests and employees. – Breitbart

Jihad in Manila

“Don’t panic, this is not a cause for alarm. We cannot attribute this to terrorism,”
Masked Gunmen Attack Luxury Resort in Manila, Islamic State Claims Responsibility

A terrorist attack appears underway at Resorts World Manila, in the Philippine capital, with reports of masked gunmen firing at guests and hotel employees alike. The government has dispatched rescue workers and SWAT teams to the site. The hotel has reported itself to be on lockdown.

Update, 17:30 PM EST: “Don’t panic, this is not a cause for alarm. We cannot attribute this to terrorism,” said Chief Dela Rosa in a radio interview. “We are looking into a robbery angle because he did not hurt any people and went straight to the casino chips storage room. He parked at the second floor and barged into the casino, shooting large TV screens and poured gasoline on a table setting it on fire.”

He described the suspect as “foreign-looking, a Caucasian, about six feet tall,” and said a bag full of stolen casino chips taken by the gunman has been recovered.

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The missing link: Sunni Islam blamed for terror plots downunder

AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin.
Sunni Islam blamed for terror plots
National security chiefs have identified “radical Sunni Islam” and its impact on first and second-generation families as the source of Australia’s terror threat, in a bid to shut down a bruising political row over the danger posed by ­refugees fleeing the Middle East.
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The show of unity came after Coalition MPs, led by Tony ­Abbott, heaped pressure on ASIO chief Duncan Lewis, who had told a Senate estimates hearing last week there was “absolutely no evidence” to suggest a link ­between the refugee intake and terrorism.

We have a problem with Islam & Muslims. To blame “refugees” per se is nothing but deflection. If we import Muslims,whether they claim to be refugees or not,  we end up with Islamic terrorists. It is that simple.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin and Deakin University terrorism ­expert Greg Barton yesterday backed Mr Lewis in saying that “sons and daughters” of refugees were at risk of radicalisation.

“The challenge that we are dealing with is, by and large, a radical interpretation of Sunni Islam,” Mr Colvin said.

Islam is Islam. It has to be taken straight up, undiluted. It is not to be interpreted.

Mr Lewis, who will brief ­Coalition MPs as to why radical Sunni Islamic group Hizb ut-­Tahrir has not been listed as a terrorist organisation — yesterday modified his claim there was no link between refugees and terrorism, admitting that “a very few of them” had been persons of interest to ASIO. “I’ve not said that there are no terrorists who have not been refugees or who have not been the sons and daughters of refugees born in this country,” Mr Lewis said.

However, the spy chief added it was “very wrong” to suggest children of migrants had resorted to radicalisation because their families had arrived as refugees.

It is very wrong  for the spy chief to put up straw men just to knock them over. Muslims are religiously obliged to make the world Islamic. They will kill and die for that.  What part of that is it you don’t understand? That, and nothing else, is their purpose in life.

GRAPHIC: The refugee-terror cases

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A$$hole of the Month: ASIO Boss Duncan Lewis

Duncan Lewis, ASIO’s Director-General of Security. Photo: Kym Smith 

The hashtag #NTDWI — the ironic abbreviation for ‘Nothing to do with Islam’ — pops up with monotonous regularity on social media, usually in response to the latest terrorist atrocity.

It derides those who insist that the so-called ‘religion of peace’ has no links with fundamentalist terrorism. As former PM Tony Abbott bluntly observed this week: “Nearly all of the terrorist incidents are associated with people yelling out Allahu Akbar as they kill”.

One might also quip the abbreviation stands for ‘Nothing to do with immigration’ following the appearance by ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis at Senate estimates last week. Lewis insisted there was “abso­lutely no evidence to suggest there is a connection between refugees and terrorism.” With the exception of at least two murders by terrorist Islamists who came to Australia as asylum seekers, and the conviction of at least twelve other first and second generation Muslim migrants for terror-related offences, that is. Lewis’s dismissive rejection is what you’d expect to hear on Q&A or at a writers’ festival, but not from the highest intelligence official in the country.

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Britain Welcomes Radical Headbangers, Spencer & Geller Still Banned….

Amazing stuff. Robert Spencer & Pamela Geller are banned from visiting the UK by orders of Theresa May, but Islamic savages from around the world are free to come and go.

Islamists Radical Headbangers from Across Europe Moving to UK for ‘Freedom’ to Practice Radical Islam

“Hijra is the call to emigrate to a land that’s welcoming to Muslims,” Hussein told the French weekly. “For us, it is.”

Islam

A growing number of radical Muslims are flocking to move from France to Britain, where generous welfare payments, lack of scrutiny from the authorities, and the ease with which families can practice strict Islam have earned the UK a reputation as a halal paradise for Salafists who are unable to secure visas for Saudi Arabia.

French newspaper L’Obs reports that Small Heath, a neighbourhood of Birmingham where 95 per cent of residents practise Islam, is one of the most popular spots for French Muslims seeking a new home where women can wear the full face veil. The garment has been banned since 2010 in France.

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Australian Health Lobby Tries To Disconnect The Dots Between Islam & Terrorism

CORRECT MOVE

Nothing to do with Islam

The WSJ reports: “The U.S. has switched to ‘annihilation tactics’ against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, surrounding fighters instead of moving them from one spot to another, the defense secretary said Sunday.”

Given Islamic State’s imported soldiers basically die at the same rate they arrive, this represents an enhancement of current battlefield practice. Meanwhile, in Australia, our “nothing to do with Islam” crowd issues another directive:

An outspoken health lobby group has weighed into the divisive ­debate on terror, dismissing ­“inherent links” between Islam and terrorism and calling on an ­influential parliamentary committee to do the same.

The Public Health Association of Australia, comprising doctors, researchers and health academics, has asked the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to take a stand on the issue when it releases its much-anticipated report into the status of religious freedom later in the year.

“The PHAA urges the committee to include a recommendation in its report that disavows the ­notion there is any inherent link between Islam and terror,” the submission says.

Submission. Interesting word. Happy Ramadan, everybody.

Public Health Association of Australia: No “inherent link between Islam and terrorism”

“The PHAA urges the Committee to include a recommendation in its report that disavows the notion that there is any inherent link between Islam and terrorism….The Committee should condemn any politician who refers divisively (expressly or implied) to any religious or ethnic group for the purpose of political gain.”

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Killer Zombies: Islamic State Jihadis in Philippines as Young as 13 Years Old

Civilians who have escaped the besieged city of Marawi in the southern Philippines say the Islamic State-affiliated jihadis fighting to establish a caliphate there are largely teenaged, with some as young as thirteen participating in the killing.

“They are just barely out of teenage life. And they take command from boys in their early to mid-20s,” a woman identified as Norma told the Philippine Inquirer, following her escape from the city. “That is why I addressed most of them as orak (boy) when I conversed with them while me and my family walked out of Marawi the day after the siege started.”

One might almost get the idea that this had something to do with Islam, if we didn’t have learned imams such as H. R. McMaster and Theresa May to explain to us otherwise.

“ISIS teenage fighters are ‘shooting people dead for failing to quote the Koran’ in besieged Philippines city as Duterte’s military warns jihadis to ‘surrender or die,’” by Gareth Davies, Mailonline, May 30, 2017:

Teenage ISIS fighters are said to be shooting people dead for failing to quote the Koran in a besieged Philippines city.

Norma described the boys as “playing,” apparently enjoying the fear of civilians at the sound of gunfire and taking the time to enjoy the loot they robbed from local groceries.

“The boldness and daring that are inherent in the youth are being exploited to advance aims that these boys do not understand,” another woman, Faridah, told the newspaper, asking, “I really wonder if they ever realize the implications of what they are doing.”

The Inquirer says the witnesses estimated children as young as 13 were participating in the violence.

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Astounding that political leaders do not understand the desire of Muslims to live under Islamic law …

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Former Labor minister Gary Johns doesn’t care much for the “terrorism is nothing to do with Islam” crowd.

He prefers to consider the facts:

The biggest threat from Islam is not to life and limb but to liberty. There is any number of particularities of Islam that makes it so: religiosity, and the extraordinary attachment to the Koran as a guide to life; associated illiberal attitudes to apostasy and blasphemy; paranoia about the West and especially Jews; and the mistreatment of women.

A poll last year for Policy Exchange in the UK revealed that British Muslims are a more religiously devout subset of the British population. Seventy-one per cent identify with their mosque and see it as representing their views. There are high levels of support for gender segregation in education as well as traditional religious clothing in schools. Neither trend is apparent in the remainder of Britain, outside heavily Muslim districts.

Forty-three per cent support the introduction of aspects of sharia into Britain. Only 22 per cent oppose it. Which aspects of sharia were not made explicit, although mention was made of laws of marriage and divorce. When asked who was responsible for the 9/11 attack on New York, 31 per cent of Muslim respondents said the US government was behind it. More people said “the Jews” were responsible (7 per cent) than said al-Qa’ida or some other analogous group (4 per cent).

It is astounding that political leaders do not understand the desire of many Muslims to live under Islamic law …

Islam is a problem.

Yes. Yes, it is.

In other news:
Sunni Islam blamed for terror plots
The Australian 

National security chiefs have identified “radical Sunni Islam” and its impact on first and second-generation families as the source of …

ASIO boss Duncan Lewis stands by comments refugees not to blame for terrorism
ABC Online 

Of the 12 terrorist attacks thwarted, he said 11 were being planned by young men who were radicalised in the spirit of this “Sunni Islamist …

ASIO head again denies refugee, terrorism link
SBS

Instead, they blame what they call a violent interpretation of Sunni Islam. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she was “gobsmacked” …

USA: Muslim “refugees” – 91.4% on food stamps, 68.3% on Cash Welfare

From the website of US senator for Alabama Jeff Sessions.

They forgot to mention that these figures tend to remain more or less permanent with Muslim migrants. A very small minority  integrate themselves into the job market or make efforts to educate themselves and get out of the welfare system, as many European figures show. Prophet Mohammed was orphaned, illiterate and jobless, sustaining himself on crimes. So education and employment is not an important factor. In addition, the Koran encourage Muslims to collect jizya – blood tax – from kafirs, the non-Muslims, and welfare is looked upon as jizya. Collecting money from non-Muslims is considered a legal entitlement since the kafir is not entitled to any land or laws of their own anywhere, meaning their presence on a land or country of their own is a “theft” of “occupation” of what should be Muslim land.

CHART: More Than 90% Of Recent Middle Eastern Refugees On Food Stamps, Almost 70% On Cash Welfare

USA Muslim refugees 91.4% on food stamps, 68.3% on Cash WelfareImmigration Subcommittee Background:

The statistics in the chart are provided by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The ORR figures defined refugees from the “Middle East” as being from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.

During the time period referenced in the chart (FY2008 to FY2013), the United States admitted 115,617 refugees from the Middle East and granted asylum to another 10,026.  Also during this 5-year time frame, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the United States granted permanent admission to a total of 308,805 individuals from these same 10 Middle Eastern countries (designated as refugee-sending nations) through the issuance of green cards.

Those with green cards are Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) of the United States who may apply for citizenship after 5 years and bring their foreign relatives into the U.S. on green cards as well.  Refugees are required to apply to adjust to LPR status within 1 year of their admission to the United States.  The DHS 2013 report on Refugees and Asylees list the top ten countries, numerically, for refugee admission into the United States as: Iraq, Burma, Bhutan, Somalia, Cuba, Iran, Congo, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia.  More broadly, concerning all immigration, the Migration Policy Institute notes that the U.S. has taken in “about 20 percent of the world’s international migrants, even as it represents less than 5 percent of the global population,” and that 1 in 4 U.S. residents is now either an immigrant or born to immigrant parents.

The Census projects that another 14 million immigrants will arrive in the United States between now and 2025, easily eclipsing the highest previous historical watermark for foreign-born population share.

Wally rubs it

It irks me that Price doesn’t put Wally in his place. Its not ‘refugees’, ‘criminals’ or just ‘men’ that are blowing us up, it is devout Muslims who are waging jihad in the name of allah. What is it that stops him from saying it?

Waleed the apologist
Waleed the apologist

WALEED ALY IN FULL DENIAL ON REFUGEES AND TERRORISM

I have long warned that Waleed Aly, despite his charm (not evident here), is an apologist for Islam who attacks critics of Islamist extremists, thus providing cover for them. Watch his latest astonishing performance.

The panel and @StevePriceMedia discuss the head of ASIO’s comments regarding refugees and terrorism.

Mosque Calls for the Death of All Jews and Christians

Memo to Wally: Islamic terrorism is not caused by refugees, criminals or just “men”, it is caused by devout Muslims.

Tony Abbott says we should stop ‘making excuses’ for Muslims
The former Prime Minister wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph.