ISIS outdoes itself (again) video link

Once again ISIS spreads its Brand of Horror....

Does averting our eyes from the horror make it less of an outrage?

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Austria Takes actions against extremism

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann has expressed public outrage over the refusal of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue to speak out against the flogging of Raif Badawi, a Saudi human rights activist and blogger who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for "insulting Islam." "Saudi Arabia practices a form of Sharia law that is one of the most brutal systems in the world... Does the Austrian Foreign Ministry really want to give such a state the opportunity to build an international propaganda center in Austria?" — Editorial, Die Presse. "An inter-religious dialogue center that remains silent when it is time to speak out clearly for human rights is not worthy of being called a dialogue center. It is a silence center." — Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann. "If the center wants to remain only an economic center with a religious fig leaf, then Austria should no longer be a part of it. In any event, Austria will not allow itself to be threatened or blackmailed." — Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann. The Austrian government has threatened to close a controversial Saudi-sponsored religious dialogue center because of the latter's failure to condemn the flogging of a Saudi human rights activist and blogger. Saudi Arabia has responded to the threat by issuing a counter-threat to move the permanent headquarters of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries [OPEC] out of the Austrian capital of Vienna. The dust-up began in mid-January, when Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann expressed public outrage over the refusal of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue [KAICIID] to speak out against the flogging of Raif Badawi, a Saudi human rights activist and blogger who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for "insulting Islam." That KAICIID, which is headquartered at the Palais Sturany in the heart of Vienna and has the status of an international organization, is ostensibly dedicated to "serving humanity" by "fostering dialogue" between the world's major religions, in order to "prevent conflict." The KAICIID says that while it condemns all forms of violence, it has not spoken out specifically about Badawi because it does not want to get involved in the internal affairs of other countries. The center was inaugurated in November 2012 in an elaborate ceremony attended by more than 650 high-profile guests from around the world, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and the foreign ministers of the center's three founding states, Austria, Spain and Saudi Arabia. Riyadh, which is financing the KAICIID for the first three years at an annual budget of 10-15 million euros ($11-17 million), has promised that there will be "zero politics, zero influence in the center." But the primary focus of the King Abdullah Center has been to promote a program called "The Image of the Other," which examines "stereotypes and misconceptions" about Islam in education, the media and the Internet. The KAICIID has been mired in controversy from the very beginning, largely because of Saudi Arabia's dismal record on human rights. Some critics have charged that the center is an attempt by Riyadh to establish a permanent "propaganda center" in central Europe from which to spread the conservative Wahhabi sect of Islam. Others say the Saudis deliberately chose Vienna to serve as the headquarters for the new organization because of the city's historic role in preventing Islam from overrunning Christian Europe during the Siege of Vienna in 1529 and the Battle of Vienna in 1683. The Saudis, they say, are simply fighting a new phase of a very old conflict. The center-left Green Party, which governs Vienna in a coalition, has said that the KAICIID glorifies a country "where freedom of religion and opinion are foreign words." In a statement, the party advised: "Austria should not allow itself to be misused in this way, to allow itself to be involved in whitewash by a repressive Saudi regime which is using this center as a fig leaf for its dishonorable human rights situation." The center-right newspaper Die Presse, in an editorial published in October 2011, warned: "The Austrian government needs to ask itself whether it knows what it is doing: Is it not known that as the state religion of Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism is fiercely opposed to other religions and uses 'intercultural dialogue' as a means for aggressive proselytizing? "To clarify: Wahhabism is the only officially recognized and allowed religion in Saudi Arabia. Other forms of Islam and other religions are banned and persecuted by the state. Saudi Arabia is the only Islamic state in which there is no church, no synagogue and no other place of worship of any other religion. Shiite Muslims have been systematically discriminated against for decades. Jews are even forbidden to enter the Kingdom. "Saudi Arabia practices a form of Sharia law that is one of the most brutal systems in the world. Saudi Arabia has at all times rejected the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Women may not drive a car and can be punished by flogging. Corporal punishment, including amputations and executions, are part of everyday life in the country. Just two weeks ago a Sudanese immigrant in Saudi Arabia was publicly beheaded for 'sorcery.' Saudi Arabia is one of the few countries in the world in which the death penalty is enforced even on teenagers. "Does the Austrian Foreign Ministry really want to give such a state the opportunity to build an international propaganda center in Austria?" Chancellor Faymann is the most senior Austrian politician to suggest that the KAICIID should be closed. In a January 16 interview with the newspaper Der Standard, Faymann said: "This center does not fulfill at all the mandate of dialogue and is silent about basic issues of human rights. We will not tolerate this. It is clear to me from today's perspective that we should get out." In a January 20 interview with public radio Oe1, Faymann said: "An inter-religious dialogue center that remains silent when it is time to speak out clearly for human rights is not worthy of being called a dialogue center. It is a silence center. "It cannot possibly be that we have a center in Austria with the title 'inter-religious dialogue' while at the same time someone who actually engages in this is in prison and fearing for his life." Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, however, is urging restraint. In a 22-page report published on January 27, he argues that closing the KAICIID completely could have a litany of unintended economic, diplomatic and political repercussions, including causing major damage to Vienna's image as a host city for many international organizations. Kurz is especially concerned that Saudi Arabia might make good on threats, made to the Austrian Ambassador to Riyadh, to relocate the headquarters of OPEC away from Vienna, where it has been based since 1965. Saudi Arabia is OPEC's biggest oil producer and its most influential member. In any event, the report concludes: "Closing the center would do nothing to improve the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia." The report, which states that there are "deficiencies in the center's structure, working methods and communication policy," proposes an alternative course of action: the KAICIID should be fundamentally reformed. The first step in this reform apparently involves the removal of KAICIID's deputy director, former Austrian Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner, who has been criticized for downplaying Saudi Arabia's human rights record. In an interview with the newsmagazine Profil in October 2014, for example, Bandion-Ortner defended the desert kingdom. "Beheadings do not occur there every Friday," she said. "That is nonsense." Faymann has agreed — for now — to consider proposals for a "substantive, structural reorganization" of the KAICIID which, at a minimum, would require the center to "make a clear commitment to religious freedom" and a "strong commitment to human rights." If the center cannot be reformed along these lines, however, Faymann says Austria should initiate an "orderly retreat." Faymann remains skeptical that the KAICIID can be reformed. In a January 28 interview with the Wiener Zeitung, he said: "For me, I see no basis [for reform] either now or in the future. If this center says it stands for interreligious dialogue, then it must do so. But if it wants to remain only an economic center with a religious fig leaf, then Austria should no longer be a part of it. In any event, Austria will not allow itself to be threatened or blackmailed." In the meanwhile, Kurz plans to travel to Riyadh during the second half of February to de-escalate the crisis in bilateral relations. It remains unclear whether he will ask Saudi authorities for the release of prisoners.

Bosnian Teens Get Busted

Six Bosnian immigrants have been charged in the U.S. for allegedly supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Department of Justice said Friday.

The suspects, five of whom were arrested in the U.S., are all charged with providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to provide material support and resources to terrorists, the DOJ said in a statement.

They were identified as Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 40, his wife Sedina Unkic Hodzic, 35, and Armin Harcevic, 37, who live in St. Louis County, Missouri; Nihad Rosic, 26, of Utica, New York; Mediha Medy Salkicevic, 34 of Schiller Park, Illinois; and Jasminka Ramic, 42, of Rockford, Illinois.

The suspects immigrated from Bosnia, the Justice Department said. Three of them became naturalized U.S. citizens and the others have legal resident of refugee status.

According to an indictment unsealed Friday, the defendants sent weapons, U.S. military uniforms and tactical equipment to a man named Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a Bosnian who traveled from St. Louis to Syria in 2013 to join ISIS. They also used Western Union and PayPal to transfer money to Turkey and Saudi Arabia, where third parties sent it to Syria and Iraq. Some of the equipment was also transferred through intermediaries.

Pazara was not charged because it is believed that he was killed last year. He communicated with the defendants through social media, according to the FBI and DOJ, and bragged online about killing and kidnapping several people.

Ramiz Zijad Hodzic and Rosic face the additional charge of conspiring to kill and main persons in a foreign country.

Hodzic allegedly provided tactical advice to Pazara and other foreign fighters, the indictment said, and sent rifle scopes and range finders to Pazara, intending that they be used on sniper rifles. Rosic attempted to travel to Syria, according to the indictment.

"Today's charges and arrests underscore our resolve to identify, thwart, and hold accountable individuals within the United States who seek to provide material support to terrorists and terrorist organizations operating in Syria and Iraq," Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin said in a statement. "Preventing the provision of supplies, money, and personnel to foreign terrorist organizations like ISIL remains a top priority of the National Security Division and our partners in the law enforcement and intelligence communities."

The suspects face up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each count if convicted. Hodzic and Rosic could be sentenced to life in prison if they are convicted on the additional conspiracy charge.

ISIS and teen Women

A manifesto for women published by the Islamic State (IS) group has criticized Western attitudes to women, saying that this so-called "Western model" has failed, that a woman's place is in the home, and that Western women's fashions, like earrings, are the work of the devil. The manifesto, titled Women of the Islamic State, was shared on the Internet on January 23 by the IS group's all-women unit, the Al-Khanssa Brigade. An English version of the manifesto was shared on February 5 by the Britain-based antiextremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation. It focuses on women's daily lives and the role of women in an Islamic society and in the "caliphate" (the name given by the IS group to the areas under its control). The overarching message of the manifesto is that women should be "sedentary" while men are characterized by "movement and flux." Women of the Islamic State does not beat around the bush, but states unequivocally that a woman's "fundamental function" is "in the house with her husband and children." According to the manifesto, the Western idea that women should be "liberated" from the home has been a failure. This model, which is "preferred by infidels in the West" is a falsehood, according to the IS group, because the Islamic "Prophetic tradition" says that women should not leave the home even for prayer. "Verily God has ordained this sedentary existence for women, and it cannot be better in any way," the manifesto insists. The manifesto offers some explanations as to why it is very difficult for women to work outside the home. "They have 'monthly complications' and pregnancies and so on," the manifesto explains, adding that women also have "responsibilities to their husbands, sons and religion." Women, Know Your Limits! Women of the Islamic State also -- unsurprisingly -- criticizes what it says is the Western idea that women should obtain "worldly knowledge" with the aim of trying to "prove that her intelligence is greater than a man's." However, the manifesto does not say that women should be illiterate, but that God intended them to learn to "read and write about their religion and fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence]." Studying for university degrees in such useless disciplines as science and other "Western" inventions is clearly a step too far for women, according to the Islamic State treatise, which is scathing about women who "flit here and there to get degrees and so on" and who "study the brain cells of crows, grains of sand, and the arteries of fish!" Earrings and hair "shaved in some places and not others" are the Devil's work The Islamic State's manifesto on women also covers the important issue of women's fashion which, unsurprisingly, it condemns as the work of "Iblis" or the devil. The manifesto conflates jewelry such as earrings with plastic surgery, claiming that the devil encourages vulnerable women to "spend huge amounts of money to change God's creation" including via surgery to alter "the nose, ear, chin and nails." The devil, according to the manifesto, preys on women in "fashion shops and beauty salons," encouraging them to have "things dangling from ears" and "hair shaved in some places and not others." Unseen And Unheard The IS women's manifesto insists that women should not leave the home except in "exceptional circumstances" but says that women can wage jihad in cases where an enemy is attacking her country and there are not enough men to fight. Women are also allowed to work as doctors or teachers, but only if they observe strict Shari'a Law. Although women are permitted to go outside in these extreme cases, the manifesto reiterates that, under normal circumstances, women should be unseen and unheard. "It is always preferable for a woman to remain hidden and veiled, to maintain society from behind this veil," the manifesto says. It is "legitimate" for girls to be married at the age of nine, the manifesto adds, noting that their husbands should "not be more than twenty years old." Even if they fail to attract a husband at nine, the manifesto points out that "most pure girls will be married by sixteen or seventeen." The manifesto ends by detailing some of the horrors that women are forced to endure in Saudi Arabia, where "women are able to work alongside men in shops like banks, where they are not separated by even a thin sheet of paper." Saudi women are also "allowed to appear in ID photographs," while in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, "males and females are able to mingle in the hallways as if they were in an infidel country in Europe." - See more at: http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_310_36867.php#sthash.Z3RhZcNq.dpuf

ISIS Must be STOPPED!

All Muslims should fear the damage being done to their faith by ISIS....

LInk to Brutal Isis Jordanian Video

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LInk to Brutal Isis Jordanian Video

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Heather Coffman (200/2-50+25-3=72.....her IQ)

RICHMOND, Va. —  Heather Coffman, 29, of Henrico County, entered a plea when she appeared in court Monday afternoon on charges she lied to federal agents about her involvement with the terrorist group ISIS.

She pleaded guilty to making false statements involving international terrorism. She will be sentenced on May 11, and faces up to eight years.

Meanwhile, she is being held by U.S. Marshals. Coffman entered the courtroom in shackles Monday.

She was arrested in November after police raided her western Henrico home. Police said they monitored Coffman for seven months before the arrest. Investigators said Coffman’s social media posts raised red flags about a possible connection to the terrorist group.

Heather Coffman, 29, of Henrico County, is charged with making a materially false statement or representation regarding an offense involving international and domestic terrorism.

Coffman first caught the attention of the FBI through her Facebook activity, according to a criminal complaint filed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The complaint detailed many of Coffman’s controversial Facebook posts and interactions.

Investigators said that on June 23, using the name Ubeida Ametova (one of her many online aliases), Coffman listed her “work and education” on her Facebook account as “jihad for Allah’s sake.” Per the charges, she posted an image with the captions “We are all ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Sham” and also posted a picture of armed men and the black flag of ISIS, emblazoned with the words “Virtues of the Mujahideen.”

On July 8, using a second Facebook account, Coffman reposted the same images from her first account in addition to a picture of the ISIS flag surrounded by praying men armed with AK-47s. Her Facebook activity prompted the FBI to obtain a search warrant for the account on August 4. That lead investigators to discover a history of correspondence about ISIS. The criminal complaint detailed some of these exchanges, in which Coffman allegedly defended ISIS and rebuked those who criticized the terrorist group.

Coffman had multiple Facebook accounts with a variety of user names, according to investigators. Those names included Heather Coffman, Heather La’ahad, Heather Obeida La’ahad, Heather Ametova, and Ubeida Ametova. Authorities said the names displayed varying degrees of radicalization. As of October 2, 2014, Coffman had set her location on one of the accounts to Hafsarjah, Idlib, Syria.

Coffman’s social media behavior presented a number of red flags to authorities, but officials said the information gathered by an undercover FBI agent from a series of interviews helped lead to the charges. Starting in July, an agent posing as an ISIS sympathizer routinely met with Coffman and began to investigate her recruitment network. After establishing a relationship, the undercover agent told Coffman about an associate who shared their views on Islam and was prepared to join the fight with ISIS in Syria. Per the complaint, Coffman revealed that she had experience connecting potential recruits with ISIS facilitators. She had begun to arrange travel to Syria for her “husband,” the online associate investigators had discovered, but their relationship ended and he had decided not to follow through.

According to the criminal complaint, Coffman explained her frustration to the agent, saying, “I set him up with the brothers who gave him a contact name and number in Turkey to get him across the border when it was time for training…I spoke to another brother about it who said he was shocked he is sitting around waiting in Macedonia and he is going to call the emir and fix that and get him to Turkey…but my account was disabled so I couldn’t follow through with that. But I think he was just joking us about going.”

On October 19, the undercover agent told Coffman about plans to travel overseas, search for routes into Syria, and find an ISIS contact, to which Coffman replied, suggesting she could help find a contact and facilitate travel.

The undercover agent met with Coffman three times, on November 5, 6 and 7, according to the charges. During a recorded meeting in a hotel room on November 5, Coffman again offered to help find a contact and facilitate travel into Syria. After locating and vetting what she considered to be a legitimate facilitator, Coffman told the agent she would reach out and initiate the plans.

But on November 6, Coffman told the agent her contact had gone dark and that she was still waiting for a response.

Then on November 7, Coffman met again with the agent, this time with a third unidentified associate, and asked the agent to propose a list of questions that she would relay to the facilitator, because, as Coffman explained, she wanted all communication with the facilitator to go through her. In this meeting, Coffman, the agent, and the unidentified third associate created a code language to discuss plans without tipping off law enforcement.

On November 13, two FBI agents met with Coffman at her work and conducted an interview, throughout which, according to investigators, Coffman “provided false, material information to the federal agents.” Coffman said “we don’t talk about things like that” when asked about their conversations regarding ISIS and al Qaeda, and denied that the undercover agent ever expressed support for ISIS or similar terrorist groups. The FBI agents told Coffman that lying to a federal agent is a crime, though Coffman said her account was truthful.

Coffman could be looking at doing eight years behind bars and paying thousands of dollars in fines. This post will be updated following Coffman’s court appearance.