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Devil’s Command issued narcocomunicado: accept truce with conditions Guerrero
After the holder of the Attorney General of the State of Guerrero, Alberto Lopez Rosas, called for a truce with organized crime groups, has already received a response.
Devil’s Command, belonging to the sweeper, the Sinaloa Cartel cell, issued a narcocomunicado during the day, where they accept a truce for three months, of course with some conditions.
Members of The Devil’s Command asked the governor of Guerrero, Angel Aguirre Rivero to provide a press conference to deny or accept the criminal who is familiar Garzón Victor Aguirre.
Executed five people in Nuevo Leon |
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Minutes after 15:00 pm today, five men who were outside a house in Colonia Noria Norte, the municipality of Apodaca, were attacked by an armed commando.
The violent incident occurred just down the street Acatlan strangers down a red pickup truck and shot five people, among whom was a minor 17 years.
The Mexican Army were the first to arrive and protect the place, then you were present Municipal Police and the State Agency for Investigations.
Narcobanners in Michoacan: The Knights Templar offer reward for Los Zetas |
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Narcobanners signed by the group of Knights Templar appeared during the day in various locations in the state of Michoacán, where reward offered for information leading to several members of Los Zetas, who are called traitors.
Some narcobanners were seen in Michoacan, Patzcuaro, Santa Clara del Cobre, Quiroga, Zirahuén among other locations. In the last mentioned was a clash between gunmen and the Mexican Army appeared shortly after the narcomensaje.
Reports indicate that the military were able to observe the gunmen when they were on a soccer field. In the event data are from a dead person and the assurance of a truck, in addition to weapons, among other things.
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Rise to a journalist in Sinaloa |
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During the morning, journalistHumberto Millan, was intercepted by armed men who were aboard two trucks, that when he went to the premises of Radio Formula in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
The journalist did not work, so I immediately began his search, without so far aware of where you are. Family, friends and work, went to the authorities to make the complaint of levantones.
Humberto is now in possession of more news on Radio Formula, is also director of the online journal to talk, and it was once press secretary Renato Vega Alvarado while ruling.
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Another man was found dismembered at a point called La Cima, Acapulco, Guerrero. Human remains were found inside the trunk of a vehicle Tsuru in white license plates GZB-3384.
The gunmen put human remains in bags they put in the trunk, just trickled streams of blood, that alerted the locals that they told the authorities.
EXCELLENT! New York Civil Liberties Union concerned over rise in anti-Muslim sentiment and anti-mosque activities in NY State
Posted: August 25, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islam in America | 8 Comments »
The briefing paper, Religious Freedom Under Attack: the Rise of Anti-Mosque Activities in New York State, explores the legal and cultural background against which mosque controversies have unfolded across the state over the past year.
NYCLU It calls on public officials to promote intercultural understanding of Muslim New Yorkers while respecting the First Amendment rights of those who oppose mosque projects.
“When we violate one group’s freedom, everybody’s liberty is at stake,” said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman. “While opponents of mosque projects have a constitutional right to express their views, our public officials must work to ensure that New York remains a welcoming place for all who want to live and worship here, and that the rights and freedoms of those who wish to build mosques are also protected.”
The paper provides nine examples of incidents across the state in which Muslim communities were targeted for their beliefs and practices by their neighbors and/or local governments.
It chronicles the fierce opposition to the proposed Park51 Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, and details heated opposition to mosques and proposed mosque projects in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; Midland beach, Staten Island; and three communities in Long 
Island. It also covers three incidents in upstate New York in which mosques were subjected to harassment and attacks.
The paper examines the role that federal national security policies, law enforcement agencies and politicians have played in inflaming anti-Muslim s
entiment and anti-mosque activities.
“Government policies that cast blanket suspicion on all Muslim residents are misguided and divisive,” said NYCLU Advocacy Director Udi Ofer, an author of the paper. “Religious profiling was unconstitutional before 9/11, and it’s unconstitutional after 9/11. Our elected officials must stand up for religious freedom and ensure that New Yorkers treat each other with respect and understanding.”
The NYCLU offers the following recommendations to federal, state and local public officials to protect religious liberty while also respecting the First Amendment rights of those who oppose mosque projects.
* Elected officials should play an active role in protecting the rights of Muslim New Yorkers and fostering cross-cultural understandings.
* New York should prepare for another backlash against Muslims leading up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, and during next year’s presidential and congressional elections.
* The NYPD should reject trainings based on its flawed radicalization theory, include information about New York’s diverse cultures and religious communities in its training materials and be transparent about how it trains its police officers about Islam and Muslim New Yorkers.
* New York’s schools must take the lead in creating cultural understanding and combating bigotry.
* Government officials must vigorously enforce laws that defend religious worship.
REP. ALLEN WEST (R-FL) to Israel: “You don’t owe Turkey an apology over the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident””
Posted: August 25, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Allen West | 10 Comments »
West received ‘Defender of Israel’ award
“Not only that, but I think the fact that [Israeli Defense Minister] Ehud Barak apologized for the [killing of] three Egyptian soldiers before we knew the circumstances of their deaths are the types of things that get played out in the international media that end up making you being castigated as the bad guy,” West said.
J POST West, 50, a Tea Party-associated freshman congressman from South Florida already being touted as a possible presidential candidate in the future, is in the country with a delegation of 27 Republican congressmen. He spent 22 years in the US military, including fighting in the First Gulf War and in Iraq, and retired with the rank of lieutenant- colonel.
“You have to be very careful with words, and how words are used in the international arena,” he said.
Israel need not issue “any type of apology to Egypt. When these terrorists [who carried out Thursday’s attack] transferred through Egypt, they obviously felt safe and secure doing that. And then they launched a very well-coordinated ambush – this was not just a bunch of guys getting lucky in the middle of the night, this was a well-coordinated event – that meant the routes were wellplanned out as well,” West said.
He said if you take that incident, coupled with Iranian war ships transiting the Suez Canal since the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the repeated attacks on the natural gas pipeline to Israel, “I think Israel has every right to be concerned about what they are seeing in Egypt.”
Regarding Turkey, West said Israel had the “right to uphold that blockade [of Gaza], which is very important, and you shouldn’t have to apologize when your military has been attacked.”
Asked whether it might not be wise for Israel to swallow its “national pride” for the long-term strategic benefit of good ties with Turkey, West said, “It does come back to your national pride and your stature. Because if someone is going to look at you in a negative light anyhow, you don’t need to throw more dirt upon yourself. Turkey knows you had every right to do what you did, and I think you need to be able to express that to Turkey.”
Regarding the Mavi Marmara incident, West said that the fact that the IDF commandos landed on the ship 
carrying paint guns showed that the country did everything necessary to try and have “less of a confrontation, but yet you were attacked. What I told people in America is that they should think about what if America was participating in a sanction-led blockade, and all of a sudden we boarded a ship, and our Navy SEALs were attacked. What would you expect our Navy SEALs to do? We should allow Israel to do the exact same thing.”
The congressman also said that “for us to believe that there can be a return to pre-’67 lines is not a viable alternative for the security of Israel.”
One of West’s speeches about Israel:
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Faced with constant threats of war and extermination, ONLY ISRAEL…
Posted: August 24, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islam and the Jews | 12 Comments »
SELF-HATING JEW BASTARDS AGAINST ISRAEL
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Schmucks like these are the reason the rest of us need the Second Amendment.
LIBYAN LIBERATION: Islamic extremists,’ Barack Obama’s, and left wing Western journalists’ wet dream
Posted: August 24, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Jihad this! | 10 Comments »
As Tripoli fell to anti-Gaddafi rebel forces, the euphoria that erupted in some parts of the city was matched only by that which broke out among Middle East pundits in the West. The fall of the Libyan capital represents a clear victory for freedom over tyranny, they tell us, and a new country — defined by an enthusiastic embrace of democracy, pluralism and representative government — will emerge.
UK DAILY MAIL However, we have been here twice before in the Middle East in recent months. First, when Tunisia’s strongman, Zine El-Abidene Ben Ali, fled Tunis, and then when Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak vacated the presidential palace in Cairo.
Seven months on, both countries are as authoritarian as ever. The Islamists have hijacked the popular uprisings there. And little evidence of a popular thirst for democracy can be found. If the Arab Spring has so miserably failed to blossom into an enthusiasm for democracy in these two relatively modern and unified Arab states, what chance is there of it doing so in a desert backwater such as Libya?
Other events in the Middle East also bode ill for Libya’s future. A decade after the American-led invasions, Afghanistan and Iraq — also deeply tribal countries — are, despite regular elections, just as far in social terms from Western notions of liberalism and pluralism. Instead, their populations are busy tearing each other apart along tribal and sectarian lines, and the liberals are so marginalised they barely manage to get a word in.
Now, more suddenly than any of us imagined, we are confronted with the same question that has caused us so many problems in those countries: what happens next? Several months ago, as the West became ever more deeply embroiled in its Libyan misadventure, it became increasingly clear that it did not have the faintest idea who the ‘Eastern Rebels’ they were defending and arming actually were.
Yet the coalition forces have gone to dramatic lengths to assist this ragtag army in its attempt to unseat Gaddafi, with Nato flying 2,000 sorties, which (to put it charitably) pushed to the limit its UN mandate giving authorisation only to protect civilians.
Only in the weeks and months to come will we discover if the West has repeated the deadly mistake it made in Afghanistan and Iraq: arming fanatical jihadists and tribesmen who will, 
sooner or later, turn against their paymaster.
For not all the rebels are chaotic. One of their commanders, Abdel-Hakim Al-Hasidi, has been a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) since the Nineties. This is a violent jihadist outfit that, for decades, had been waging a holy war against the Gaddafi regime with an aim of creating an Islamic state. It was banned worldwide after the 9/11 attacks, when Al-Hasidi fled to Afghanistan.
Now he admits he recruited dozens of Al Qaeda members to the insurgent cause in Iraq, 
where the LIFG made up the second largest group of foreign fighters; and, worse, that many of his jihadists have joined the rebellion in Libya. Al-Hasidi said his fighters in Libya ‘are patriots and good Muslims’, but added that Al Qaeda men ‘are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader’ in Iraq.
Even as the rebels continue to pour into Tripoli, the numerous Islamist militias, who have been fighting independently, are still refusing officially to join their ranks.
Rebel leader Abdul Jalil says his opposition forces had chosen to start their first attack on Tripoli on the 20th day of Ramadan, which marks the ancient Islamic Battle of Badr, when Muslims fought for the holy city of Mecca in AD 624. That hardly inspires confidence in a secular, liberal future for Libya.
The fiercely independent Islamists, moreover, will not relent on their demands for an Islamist state. In the transitional council’s draft constitution it is clearly stated that Islamic law will be ‘the principal source of legislation’.
Nato, then, can at best achieve replacing the Gaddafi regime with an Islamist-infiltrated tribal council. And that means Libya is as far as ever from being a Western-style democracy. Indeed, it is more likely to turn into the West’s worst nightmare.
Euphoric British journalist in Libya (sounding like Anderson Cooper in Egypt)
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Muslims demand shari’a student loans because paying interest goes against Islamic law
Posted: August 24, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam | Filed under: Islamic Britain | 8 Comments »
ALL TOGETHER NOW: “Pay cash or get the Hell out of Britain, you ungrateful muslim freeloaders.”
UK DAILY MAIL Muslim groups are calling for a separate student loan system because the interest due to be charged will conflict with rules of Sharia law. (England is ruled by British law, NOT Shari’a law. Yet)
The changes to tuition fees, which come into force next year, will see students charged higher rates of interest 
on the loans they take out to pay for university. Until now they have paid the market rate of inflation but the reforms mean students who go on to earn more than £21,000 will have to pay interest of up to 3 per cent.
But in some interpretations of Sharia law, which is Islam’s legal system and governs every aspect of Muslim life, loans are forbidden. (Who cares? Go study in Pakistan)
The National Union of Students has said it could be two years before an alternative system is worked out, leaving some Muslims fearing they cannot go on to further education.
The Federation of Student Islamic Societies told The Independent that the rate increase was a ‘pressing issue’. A spokesman said: ‘Because the rate of interest is above the rate of inflation, it is quite blatant usury.’ Usury means the practice of lending money and charging the borrower interest, possibly at a very high rate.
Mohammed Ahmed-Sheikh, 17, says the changes will discourage him from applying to university next year. (Good!) ‘The fees are the reason I’m having doubts. I’m Muslim and loans are against my religion,’ he told The Independent. (Then go live in a muslim hellhole, there are 57 of them)
Ahmad Mitoubsi, 21, who graduated this year, added: ‘We’ve just had to adapt to the British system or else I couldn’t have gone to uni.’ (Well, DUH!)
The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills says discussions are ongoing with student groups about a solution. But it is thought an alternative, such as already happens with mortgages in which education could be ‘rented’ instead, may not be agreed until the 2013/14 academic year.
Sharia law is Islam’s legal system. It was derived from the Koran, as the word of God, the example of the life of the prophet Muhammad and fatwas – the rulings of Islamic scholars. (You are in England, not yet a muslim country…but close)
It is different to the legal traditions of the Western world because it governs – or informs – everything about how a Muslim lives. (Again, WHO cares?)
How British Muslim students see things:
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1 dead, 5 wounded in Mexico border school shooting
Thursday, August 25, 2011 | 
Borderland Beat Reporter Chamuko
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen attacked a group of parents waiting for their children outside an elementary school Wednesday, killing one man and wounding five other people in a dangerous part of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
The Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office said two cars drove up to the school around noon, and two men got out and started shooting, apparently with assault rifles.
The gunfire wounded one man and four women, prosecutors’ spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.
Teachers locked down the school, not allowing students to leave until the situation calmed down. Frightened parents rushed to the school to search for their children.
No information on the motive for the attack was released, but schools in Ciudad Juarez have reported receiving threats and extortion demands in the past.
The federal Interior Ministry condemned the shootings. “This is precisely the irrational violence that should be combatted equally by all three levels of government,” its statement said.
Mexico’s federal government has been urging state and local authorities to improve their police forces with better training for their officers and by investigating officers for possible ties to crime organizations.
The Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels have been fighting for control of Ciudad Juarez, which neighbors El Paso, Texas. More than 6,000 people have been killed in the city since 2008.
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Mexican Journalist Kidnapped
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 | Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs
Humberto Millan, who also anchored a news program on Radio Formula, was abducted at around 6:00 a.m. while driving to the studios to do the broadcast, a source of the state Attorney General’s Office said.
The journalist “was intercepted by a unit” carrying four or five armed men, the source said.
Millan’s publication has not commented on the abduction, which bore the hallmarks of organized crime.
More than 70 news professionals have been killed in Mexico since 2000, according to figures compiled by the independent National Human Rights Commission.
Sinaloa is the bastion of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel, whose fugitive boss, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, appears on the Forbes magazine list of the world’s richest people.
Source: EFE
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Mexico’s Drug War Culture Jumps from Streets to Web
| Borderland Beat Reporter BuggsBy Juan David Leal
Several Web sites and blogs post news reports culled from traditional media outlets, photos of bodies and commentaries.
Other types of blogs, however, publish content provided by criminals, turning into sites for heated debates involving people who claim to belong to one or another drug cartel and threaten purported rivals.
At least three Web sites call themselves “Blog del Narco,” having URLs featuring different types of registrations, and others housed on blogging sites like Blogger or WordPress, with one offering a “narco chat.”
These Web sites post videos of supposed interrogations of rival drug traffickers, torture sessions, shootouts, photographs featuring explicit images and even footage of the beheadings of suspected criminals.
Purported cartel members often make threats on the Web sites, vowing to hunt down and kill those who post comments critical of their criminal organizations.
“I come here because it’s an open forum, where I hear about what nobody wants to talk about,” a user calling himself “Manitas” said in a posting on one of the Web sites that also congratulated the site’s operator for not being a “sellout.”
Some people claim to be drug traffickers and sign with the name of a cartel.
“We are not against the people, we protect the people from those types of people who want to harm them, that’s why we need you to support us too,” a posting by CDG (the Spanish acronym for the Gulf cartel) said, referring to Los Zetas.
Los Zetas, the former armed wing of the Gulf cartel, is now locked in a war with its ex-employer in several parts of Mexico.
About 40,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006.
Some traditional media outlets used to publish daily tallies of killings and kept monthly and quarterly counts of violent crimes.
Media outlets, moreover, often published messages left by gangs with the bodies of rivals, and reporters used criminal slang in stories.
Around 50 media outlets, out of the more than 700 operating in Mexico, agreed in March to follow common guidelines in covering the war on drugs in an effort to avoid becoming “involuntary spokesmen” for criminals.
The media companies agreed to “act professionally,” stick to the facts, properly cast reports, not prejudge the guilty, protect victims and minors, protect journalists and urge citizens to play a role in fighting crime, among other measures.
The blogs, meanwhile, have mushroomed, with operators vowing to present information without an editorial filter and in its crude form.
Efe tried to contact the administrators of several Web sites without any success.
Some Web sites have posted mission statements.
“Reporting on what’s really going on in Mexico, a country that is tied up and which many think lacks a memory, while some of us do have one,” one Web site’s mission statement says.
The founders of the Web site, created on March 2, 2010, describe themselves as “two young men who are fighting to objectively let people know what is going on” and are specialists “in the fields of computers and journalism, respectively.”
“We make known the acts of violence that have made Mexican society live a reality that until recently was found in the shadows,” the Web site’s founders said, adding that their “principal source of information has been people who work with facts and materials.”
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