4-18-18, Washington (AFP) – A 47-year-old Syrian, Nasif Barakat, who also goes by the name Abu Tarif and lists two dates of birth in 1970 and 1971, was based in Homs, Syria. The US Dept of Treasury has accused him of illegally operating a “global network” of human trafficking; bringing scores of Muslim migrants from the Middle East to the USA. The USA imposed sanctions on the gang that has smuggled migrants through Mexico to the southern US border. Reportedly the migrants pay Barakat an average of $20,000 for transporting them to the USA. They are provided with fraudulently-obtained documents, including European passports.
The sanctions will freeze their assets by the Treasury Department, the Justice Dept Jeff Sessions said: “The day I was sworn in as attorney general, President Trump sent me an Executive Order to dismantle transnational criminal organizations. Many of these organizations use human smugglers to bring people across our southern border..."
More here and here and here

• How is one people’s appropriation of another peoples heritage supposed to help the two peoples get along?
• Why don’t those who ascribe to the “three Abrahamic Faiths” theory ever mention, or bother to learn, that Islam does not treat biblical characters the way Christianity does? Christians accept the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, as it is. They do not add, take away, or distort the accounts of the patriarchs that Jews also rely on. Conversely, Islam completely recasts them to fit its own agenda.

Facts of Abraham is the proof: Jews and Christians focus on different aspects of Abraham—the former see him as their patriarch in the flesh, the latter as their patriarch in faith or in spirit (e.g., Galatians 3:6)—but they both rely on the same verbatim account of Abraham found in Genesis especially the importance of the covenant child Isaac and his Jewish mother, Sarah. Genesis 17:15-19.
In the Muslim account, however, not only does Abraham leave his country on God’s promise that he will make him “a great nation” (Genesis 12:2), but he exemplifies the hate Muslims are obligated to have for non-Muslims: Koran 60:4 [1] “There is certainly a good exemplar for you in Abraham and those who were with him, when they said to their own people, ‘Indeed we repudiate you and whatever you worship besides Allah. We disavow you, and between you and us there has appeared enmity and hate forever, unless you come to have faith in Allah alone,’” This passage is the cornerstone verse that all “radical” Muslims—from al-Qaeda to the Islamic State—cite as proof that all Muslims must be hostile to the infidel [aka non Muslim].

Islam’s view of their inheritance because of Abraham has led to other, more concrete problems, of the sort one can expect when a stranger appears and says that the home you live in was actually bequeathed to him by your  “shared” forefather. Although the Jews claimed the Holy Land as their birthright for at least a millennium before Islam was born by Mohammad in about 600AD, now Jerusalem has become special to Muslims although it appears nowhere in their book.

Followup: 4-10-18, VeteransToday.com, ​Another false flag in Syria?

1-23-18, Jonas E. Alexis -- There has been another "chemical attack" in Syria, and the United States already knows who the culprit is: the Syrian government. We are told that "the Trump administration is trying to rally international condemnation of the regime and increase pressure on Russia to rein in its ally. The interesting thing is that no one can tell us why Assad would be involved in using chemical weapons when he already won the war in the first place. https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/0

Note: I just 'googled' Syria News and a source from Syria popped up and was quicked taken down. I tried three different search engines news from Syria is being blocked. Apparently only US, UK and Aljazeera News permitted. Also this report stems from belief that Israel is the cause of the lies. I don't believe that. I did however find this from RT.com:

• UNSC fails to pass 3 resolutions on Syria 'chem attack' as Russia calls for restraint
• ‘We hope you come to your senses’: Russia warns US against illegal Syria strike

Three Ways Obama Caused the Syrian Disaster
 
4-9-18, Daniel Greenfield* -- Obama owns the disaster in Syria in a way that no one else does. Three of his policies intersected to cause the bloodshed, devastation and horrors there:

1. The Iraq Withdrawal
2. The Arab Spring
3. The Iran Deal

 
His Arab Spring empowered the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sunni forces to seize power in countries around the region. Unlike Egypt and Tunisia, whose governments fell under White House pressure, and Libya, which Obama bombed and invaded, the Iranians and Russians didn’t cut their Syrian allies loose.
 
Iraq’s civil war spread to Syria. Obama didn’t just support one monster. He backed two. The bloodshed in Syria is entirely a product of the decisions that he made. But he wasn’t satisfied with supporting just one bunch of genocidal Islamic fanatics in a holy war. In one of the most extraordinary crimes, he backed both. And he closed his eyes and allowed a third, ISIS, to rise.
 
Obama wanted [stated reason-Ed.] to overthrow the dictators who were our allies. And he turned to the terror group the Muslim Brotherhood to do the job. When the Brotherhood couldn’t stand up to Iran or ISIS, he turned to Iran. He violated the law numerous times, providing weapons to Sunni Jihadists and cash to Shiite Jihadists [and Rebels in Syria-Ed.], launching one illegal war and threatening to launch another, and it all ended in a miserable disaster that he ran away from. [He wanted to overthrow Syria's al-Assad and would have if not for Russia who has warm water port in Syria and Ukraine home to Russian naval bases—in Tartus and Sevastopol, respectively.-Ed.]

​Initially Obama backed the Sunni Brotherhood militias. These groups represented themselves as free, secular and democratic. They were actually nothing of the kind. But as Libya and Yemen turned into disasters, and the Syrian militias clamored for direct military intervention, Obama instead turned to Iran. The Sunni Islamists hadn’t worked out so he cut a deal with the Shiites.
 
Obama’s new deal with Iran was sealed with a fortune in illegal foreign currency shipments flown in on unmarked cargo planes, a virtual blank check for Iran’s nuclear program, the collapse of sanctions and the withdrawal of support for the Sunni militias in Syria. And that gave Iran a free hand in Syria.

[..snip] The alliance between the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar and the Obama regime toppled friendly governments and replaced them with terror states across the Middle East. But popular uprisings against Islamist rule in Tunisia and Egypt [Mubarak was jailed-Ed.] forced out Obama allies: Mohammed Morsi and Rashid Ghannouchi. Obama’s illegal invasion of Libya [Gaddafi was murdered-Ed.] led to everything from the return of slave markets to ISIS cities. Libya’s Brotherhood allied with Al Qaeda influenced terror militias leading to the Benghazi attack [9/11/2012].
 
* Excerpted and adapted full original message here: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269828/three-ways-obama-caused-syrian-disaster-daniel-greenfield

10-21-12, Ian Black, Middle East editor, Guardian* -- Only six months in office, on 4 June 2009 Pres Barack Obama appeared at Cairo University delivering a speech promising to seek "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world". 

Obama sought to move beyond the toxic legacy of the 9/11 attacks, the US-led invasion of Iraq, the "war on terror" and the long and occasionally bloody impasse on the Palestinian issue. Expectations were enormous. Even at the time it was hard to imagine that this young African-American president with Muslim roots could meet them all.

Obama had opposed George Bush on Iraq and chided him for not doing enough to promote a just peace for the Palestinians [Muslims in Israel-Ed.] Now, [2012] as the end of his term nears,  we see an extraordinary chain of unforeseen events – a hazard for any leader – has created new circumstances and new dilemmas:

1. Palestinians: Obama called the situation of the Palestinians "intolerable" hoping for a two-state solution to the world's most intractable conflict
2. From the start, Obama reached out to Iran with a friendly message to its people and hints at flexibility in negotiations with its government. 
3. US troops have now left Iraq, but the country is racked by sectarianism and is not a reliable friend, its post-Saddam leaders in thrall to Tehran.
4. On another post-9/11 front, US forces are beginning to wind down the war in Afghanistan.
5. Obama has escalated drone strikes against al-Qaida from Pakistan to Yemen.
6. The [reported killing] of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was a national security triumph. [Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated - she claimed Osama was killed ten years before Obama claimed Navy Seals did it - video here.]
7. [All but one Navy Seal who supposedly killed Osama were killed in a copter crash.-Ed.]

Eighteen months after Obama’s Cairo speech, the uprisings of the Arab spring began in Dec 2010. From the short and mostly peaceful revolution in Tunisia, murder of Gaddafi in Libya, imprisonment of Mubarak in Egypt to Syria.

Egypt's revolution provided the first hurdle; Obama was criticized for backing stability as the drama of Tahrir Square unfolded. But on 1 February 2011 came his call for Mubarak to step down "now". As the New York Times wrote: "Obama upended three decades of American relations with its most stalwart ally in the Arab world, putting the weight of the United States squarely on the side of the Arab street."

So when Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader [supported by Obama-Ed.] who succeeded Mubarak became Egypt's first democratically elected president, visited Washington last month [Sep 2012] – after demonstrations in Cairo and far beyond over a crude Islamophobic film — the tension was as obvious as the change was palpable. [Ambassador Stephens murdered in Benghazi, Libya Sep 11, 2012] The US hope is that engagement, combined with the responsibility of exercising power, will encourage Islamist-led governments toward pragmatism.

Syria, the bloodiest front of the Arab spring, has been the biggest challenge. On Aug 18, 2011, Obama demanded Bashar al-Assad's departure, but resisted pressures to arm the opposition or impose a no-fly zone. 
 
*Excerpted and adapted full original report here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/21/barack-obama-arab-spring-cairo-speech
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More likely the chemical weapons were from al-Qaeda, ISIS and/or other anti-Assad factions. A case can be made that the attack was coordinated by the so call humanitarian Muslim organization calling themselves the White Helmets. Much evidence of faked injuries photos from 2017:

Source of new reports of Syrian leader Assad gassing his own people ... TURKEY! Clearly Turkey cannot be trusted!
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TURKEY SAYS: 'strong suspicion' Syrian regime behind Douma chemical attack4-8-18, ANKARA: Turkey strongly condemned what it said was a chemical weapons attack in the Syrian city of Douma, saying there was a suspected chemical attack by Syria's regime sparked international outrage, after rescue workers [White Helmets] reported dozens killed by poison gas on "rebel"...
Turkey says autopsies prove chemical attack in Syria - CBS News4-8-18, CBS, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley suggests the Trump administration will take action if the international community fails to respond to the apparent chemical attack in Syria. Holding up photos of victims, Haley blamed Russia for protecting the Assad government. Holly Williams reports from along the Turkey-Syria border.
Fox News - GAZIANTEP, Turkey Says ...
4-8-18, "Survivors described it as something akin to a horror movie: babies foaming at the mouth, children choking and victims wailing as their eyes burned." Reports from Ahmed Saleh, a 26-year-old volunteer with the Syrian Civil Defense -- also known as the White Helmets from the rebel-held Syrian enclave of Douma say they immediately knew their region had again been assaulted by chemical weapons -- and something stronger than just chlorine. And Bilal Abu Salah, a 22-year-old media and humanitarian activist in Douma City, said the attack was met with an eerie quiet as bodies lay motionless on the decimated ground. “I ran out and saw one body there choking to death.” 
And a local Syrian journalist Hadi Abdullah said that the majority of victims are women and children, with hundreds said to be suffering the side effects. Other activists are still coming to terms with the painful event.

FAKE  news Syria chemical attacks staged:
Assad and Russia's Slaughter in Syria Baloney ...
4-8-18, 21st Century * -- Who are Syria's White Helmets? Who funds them? Are they really the 'first responders' that the western mainstream claim they are? They are the main source of all Syrian atrocities. See over 150 White Helmet-related articles and research on what might be one the biggest war-time frauds in history...

One MSM Fake News in Syria. ... had a hospital that, contrary to ... happened to be there know who was bombing & what was being bombed as it was happening. Fake. I was told by people I spoke with, in Erbin, that the terrorist factions had carried out the attacks on civilians in that district in order to blame it on the Syrian government, army and Russia.
While there is no way to fully verify these on the ground reports, it must raise the question – why do western media repeat the narrative fed to them by western backed & financed groups like the White Helmets who are proven to be closely affiliated to extremist groups including Al Qaeda and who consistently produce questionable videos and accounts of events that serve in the main to protect the terrorist factions and reinforce the regime change narrative for their sponsor states.
Why is there never any context to the chemical weapon reports that intensify  in line with SAA military advances. So just at the point of victory, we are led to believe that they will use ineffectual chemical weapons against the civilians they are tasked to liberate and whose lives they always attempt to preserve even if it means delaying their final attacks on terrorist centres.
The use of chemical weapons and the subsequent corporate media hysteria and sensationalism serves only the imperialist West and their assets on the ground in Syria, the terrorist factions.   More here and here

* 21st Century Wire is News for the Waking Generation™ founded in 2009, North American and Europe-based, grass-roots, independent hyper blog offering bold news, views and media analysis, working with a core team of writers, researchers, and an array of volunteer contributors who write and help to analyze news and provide a diverse perspective and opinions from around the world. 21st Century Wire writers have appeared internationally on TV, radio and in print, as well as keynote speakers at leading alternative conferences and events.

Syria: False Reports From Washington & Media
2-18-16, Boston Globe -- COVERAGE OF the Syrian war will be remembered as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the American press. Reporting about carnage in the ancient city of Aleppo is the latest reason why.

4-7-18, Fourteen people were killed Friday, 4-6-18 when the bus they were in — carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team [ages 16-21]  — was hit by a semi truck trailer unit north of Tisdale. President of the Hawks team, Darren Opp said, 'the semi tee boned the bus.'

The team was on way to compete in game 5 of the playoffs with the Hawks in Saskatchewan Canada.
​Fourteen others on the bus were injured, three critically. The identity of the victims including whether the deceased are players or coaches has not been released. There was no immediate word on the driver of the semi truck. More here

4-7-18, Muenster, Germany - Three people have been killed in German after a van deliberatly drove into pedestrians and people dining outside a popular restaurants. 

The driver of the vehicle died after shooting himself, police said. Authorities are not looking for more suspects; and haven't released information of his identity of motive.

Approximately thirty people have been injured in the incident that occurred near the Kiepenkerl statue. Six are said to be in a serious condition.

Exodus 12:21-28; ​1 Corinthians 5:7 

3-29-18, Free Beacon -- According to regional and US officials, the Muslim terrorist group in Gaza called 'Hamas' is planning a mass demonstration or a new war with the Jewish state of Israel ahead of the Passover holiday that begins on March 31, 2018 through April 6, 2018. On the heels of a recent military exercise that observers described as "unprecedented," Hamas leaders have called for some 100,000 Gaza Strip resident to engage in six weeks of mass demonstrations along the Israeli border as Jewish families gear up for the Passover holiday.
 
Managing editor of the Israel Project, Omri Ceren said: "Hamas is preparing thousands of civilians to rush Israel's border, tear down the defensive fence and provide cover as Hamas fighters flood into Israel. While Israeli military officials have planned to use as little force as possible to control any violent eruption. The Israelis will do everything possible to prevent escalation and avoid casualties, but this is the kind of thing that could go really bad really quickly."

In a recent report Tzippe Barrow, Jerusalem based correspondent for CBN News said: "The plan is to build to a crescendo day by day until May 15, the day after Israel's Independence Day, when Hamas hopes tens of thousands of Gazan civilians, interspersed with some military folks, will storm the security barrier, an action that could provoke a forceful response from Israeli security."


Officials with the U.N. Relief Works Agency, or UNRWA, a body routinely cited for its anti-Israel bias, have already endorsed the demonstrations, stoking further concerns the U.N. is setting the stage to blame Israel for any violence that could erupt. UNRWA has offered medical facilities to any Palestinian who may be injured during the weeks of protest. More here

Christian pastors are being arrested in the UK for preaching the word of God… while UK tyrants protect Islamic radicals
3-29-18, (Natural News) -- According to reports, freedom of speech in the United Kingdom is under attack after a Christian preacher, David Lynn was arrested for sharing his faith in the public square. David was forcibly removed from a train station in Barking after a lesbian woman accused him of being sinful. More here

3-25-18, * -- The God Delusion author [Richard Dawkins] tweeted to his 2.74 million followers earlier this week said: “Before we rejoice at the death throes of the relatively benign Christian religion, let’s not forget Hilaire Belloc’s menacing rhyme: ‘Always keep a-hold of nurse For fear of finding something worse.'”  

Previously, Dawkins, who was famously canned from a Berkeley, California campus appearance last year after organizers learned about his criticisms of Islam, admitted he has some concern about the decline of Christianity, “in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse. There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings. I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death,” he said. [..snip]

Above all else, Europe’s rise to prominence was enabled by Christian Values. It is not a coincidence that the rise of the West occurred just as Asian societies turned inward and “suddenly became immobile… [They cut themselves off from a changing external world just when European expansion was beginning” (Geoffrey Barraclough, Turning Points in World History, p. 24). Once the West started to rise in the sixteenth century, “it seemed that nothing could hold it back” (Historians Debate the Rise of the West, p. 23). But why did one civilization rise and the others decline—almost at the same time?

These values did help us and we could be an example and a help to all the peoples of the world.

Though we cast aside many of those ways and concepts as the centuries passed, some of those ways, concepts and ideas survived to become a part of the foundation of Western civilization that has transformed the world over the last five hundred years. The dramatic rise of the West—one of the most important turning points in the history of the world--illustrates the effectiveness of those ways. There are such “social values” today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years.

The Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do – that is, to beat back the Moslem invader. More here

History of the Beast of Islam, Ottoman Hordes, Moslems, et al
6-4-15, Ralph Sidway -- On May 29, 2015 was the anniversary of the conquering and desolation of the great Christian city of Constantinople by the forces of Islam in 1453. The historical descriptions of the pillaging and destruction by the Muslim invaders is remarkable for its similarity to the actions of the Islamic State and other jihadi groups today, and vividly illustrates the historical continuity of Islam’s treatment of Christians and other non-Muslims. More here http://www.truthandgrace.com/muslimhistory.htm

Paris: 85-year-old woman French-Jewish Holocaust survivor
MARCH 26, 2018, Mireille Kanol was set on fire Friday night. Her charred body also had at least 11 stab wounds. Police have a suspect in custody identified as her 35-year-old Muslim neighbor who the victim apparently had known since childhood. 
​Apparently the killer tried to cover his murder with arson as investigators found at least five points of ignition in the apartment. Over the past few years the number of attacks against Jewish citizens of Paris – even by their neighbors – has been on the steady rise. More here

Islamist in Florida at Sleepover Seventeen Yr Old, Corey Johnson Kills One Stabs Many
A3-14-18, Fox News -- Seventeen yr old at a birthday sleepover fatally stabbed one and several more attempts ... he admitted to the attack citing his study of Islam ... The killer Corey Johnson told police he woke up at 4 a.m. at Kyle Bancroft’s home and had an urge to kill Kyle’s mother, Elaine Simon, brother 13-year-old Dane Bancroft and Dane’s friend 13-year-old Jovanni Sierra. He tried as they were asleep - he succeeded in killing Jovanni Sierra ...

Muslim Terrorists are seen as a threat Worldwide – but the Florida shooter ...Feb 25, 2018 ... Students protested against gun violence after 17 were killed in the latest mass school shooting. However, internationally, Muslim terrorist are the killers we should be concerned about. Why aren't we?

Apparently the argument for the continued terror by Muslim killers is that THEY are being persecuted .... hmm? Here's a report from a NATO website:
Terror, coercion and foreign policy - NATO - I am directly responsible for protecting and avenging my Muslim brothers and sisters. Until we feel security, you will be our targets and until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at war ...

So stabbing a sleeping teenager in America and an 85 yr old Grandma in Paris is avenging the the persecution of Muslims? No it isn't ... they are brutal murderers of innocent people.

3-16-18, Debbie Schlussel -- I had mixed feelings about screening this movie '7 Days Entebbe.' The trailers made it look promising, but I know that Hollywood hates Israel and is filled with self-hating Jews. This movie makes the Islamic terrorists and their counterparts from the Baader Meinhof Gang into humanitarians who want to be nice to the Jews. The Baader Meinhof terrorists are riddled with guilt about the Holocaust and don’t want to discriminate against Jews . . . which is exactly why they helped hijack a plane from Israel, right?

I was especially repulsed when the movie portrays a woman waking up sick in the middle of the night, thinking she is back in Auschwitz concentration camp. She has numbers inked onto her arm and the sympathetic German terrorist comforts and takes care of her. Awww. This never happened! In real life, a male Holocaust survivor was yelled at and threatened after he showed his numbers on his arm to the German hijacker. ​More here

Events summary from Wikipedia:
Operation Entebbe, or Operation Thunderbolt, was a successful counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. The flight, which had originated in Tel Aviv with the destination of Paris, was diverted after a stopover in Athens via Benghazi to Entebbe, the main airport of Uganda.

On 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Muslim members of Palestinian support groups under orders of Wadie Haddad and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells. The hijackers stated objective to free 40 Muslims aka "Palestinians" and affiliated militants imprisoned in Israel and 13 prisoners in four other countries in exchange for the hostages.

The Ugandan government supported the Muslim hijackers, and dictator Idi Amin personally welcomed them. Amin had been fully informed of the planned hijacking.

After moving all hostages from the aircraft to a unused airport building, the hijackers separated all Israelis and several non-Israeli Jews from the larger group and forced them into a separate room.

Within the next two days, the 148 non Jews were released and flown out to Paris.

Ninety-four, passengers along with the 12-member Air France crew, remained as hostages and were threatened with death [..] one Israeli was killed. All the terrorists were killed. More here

​Turkey Leader Tayyip Erdogan Regime Considers Christians, Jews 'Enemies ...
3-12-18, Breitbart -- "The religious minorities in Turkey: Christians and Jews are considered enemies of the state; association with them has become a crime. So those religious minorities, those citizens themselves, are pushed into enemy status. 
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Turkey: Effectively Calls Sharing the Gospel an Act of Terrorism

​3/22/2018, American Center for Law & Justice -- American Pastor Andrew Brunson has now been officially charged, facing what amounts to life in prison, as his trial begins in just weeks. Pastor Andrew has his first court date set for April 16, 2018. The case file is now finally open; the 62-page indictment, wholly lacking merit, provides no evidence regarding criminal action by Pastor Andrew. He has lived in Turkey for 23 years, serving as Pastor of the Izmir Resurrection Church, has maintained his innocence and has reiterated that he has been in Turkey for only one reason, to tell about Jesus Christ. Incredibly, the indictment now admits that Turkey considers sharing the Gospel an “act of terrorism.”
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​Arizona: 2 Women Get Felony Burglary Charges Ridiculing Islam taking Mosque pamphletsF - Aren't pamphlets and brochures set out in 'religious' places of worship FREE FOR THE TAKING? Why was Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer jailed - accused of burglary??

• thewashingtonstandard.com › US News -- So what was the actual crime? Taking brochures? ... “Two women took kids to a mosque and filmed ... they have been arrested and charged with felony burglary ...
• ABC News, Joy Behar on the TV Show 'THE VIEW' Scoffed and Ridiculed Christians & VP Pence - [Jail??]
• Feb 15, 2018 · The women of “The View” took a shot at Pence’s Christian faith on Tuesday, mocking the former governor of Indiana for talking to Jesus and even calling it a “mental illness.” Sunny Hostin said it’s “interesting” that former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman recently said that Pence talks to Jesus and believes …
• Obama angers midwest voters with guns and religion remark ...
• Apr 14, 2008 · Obama scoffed Christians with his remark: "they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like ..."

Mark 6:14-29; Acts 7:54-60

Democratic Dementia: Americans 'Mistreat' Muslims More than Muslims Mistreat Christians?

3-2-18, A February Rasmussen report sheds light on just how divorced from reality are millions of American liberal voters. After pointing out that "Democrats are more likely to think Muslims are mistreated in America than to think Christians are persecuted in the Islamic world."

Open Doors, an international human rights organization that publishes annual reports concerning the global persecution of Christians, noted in its most recent report: "215 million Christians experience high levels of persecution." During 2017, a reported 3,066 Christians were killed, 1,252 abducted, and 1,020 raped or sexually harassed on account of their faith. And 793 churches were attacked or destroyed. The overwhelming majority of this slaughter and destruction occurred in 50 nations — 38 of which are Muslim-majority.

Compare all this to the supposedly worse -- in liberal minds — "mistreatment" Muslims suffer in America. According to a November 2017 Pew report: "In 2016, there were 127 reported [Muslim] victims of aggravated or simple assault." In the preceding decades, assaults on Muslims averaged around 50 a year. Even if this number were accurate, it pales in comparison to what millions of Christians — not 127 — are experiencing under Islam. But the fact is many of these anti-Muslim hate crimes are later found to have been fabricated or grossly exaggerated. More here: www.meforum.org/7237/liberals-ignore-persecuted-middle-east-christians

Documented Armenian Genocide of 1915 here

2-21-18, Until 1974 Cyprus always had a Greek majority; then it wa invaded by Turkey claimed it was bringing “peace” to Cyprus, which it invaded with a brutal military assault that it calls the “Cyprus peace operation.” Turkey deployed around 40,000 of its soldiers in the northern part of the island, which has turned Cyprus into the most militarized turf in the world. Since the invasion, some 37 percent of Cypriot territory has been under Turkish occupation. The campaign was accompanied by mass murder, abduction, and rape of Greek Cypriots by Turkish troops. The European Commission on Human Rights has documented the rape of women and children aged 12 to 71. More here

• Showdown in Afrin Syria: Turkey’s Attack on Syria’s Kurds https://www.thenation.com/article/showdown-in-afrin-turkeys-attack...

​2-26-18, Afrin borders Turkey on the north and is surrounded on its other sides by Syrian government forces and rebel forces. Like other parts of Rojava, Afrin is run democratically, with an emphasis on religious and ethnic pluralism.
Approximately on January 19, 2018 Turkey opened a new front in the Syrian war by using its air force against the Syrian Kurdish canton of Afrin -- who had done absolutely nothing to provoke this attack — even while the battle against ISIS continues in Deir Ezzor, where the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Kurdish YPG-YPJ, are fighting with US support. Turkey’s attack on the Syrian Kurds has opened up a new front in the war, jeopardized its already fragile relationship with the USA and given a green light to Islamic jihadis to attack the Kurds. ... Rather than soothing the Turkish dictator, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, the United States should induce him to stop persecuting the Kurds in Syria and Turkey and reopen negotiations with the PKK, as well as return Turkey to a condition approaching democracy.  More here

Turkey and Erdogan: Here comes the (real) caliphate
7-21-16,  Fox News - If today's Western leaders possess one general trait, it's a genius for self-deception; insisting that Islamist terror has nothing to do with Islam.  Timur Dynasty here

2-12-18, Clarion Project -- TURKEY: Abdullah Bozkurt, president of the Stockholm Center for Freedom, has reported that the Turkish Interior Minister has threatened to escalate the refugee crisis. The Islamist government of Turkey — a NATO “ally” — is claiming it holds the fate of Germany’s elected politicians in its hands. The apparent method to force people to leave Turkey? It would stop hosting actual refugees and facilitate a massive movement ... migration by invasion 'Hijra' [1] ... into the West by overwhelming the non Muslim nations with people. [See Bible Revelation 17:15]

IRAN: Senior Iranian officials are likewise threatening to escalate the refugee crisis in Europe if the U.S. leaves the nuclear deal. [It’s very possible that the Iran regime always intended for the nuclear deal to be canceled, in a way that enables it to blame the U.S. for “forcing” it to leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and build nukes.] Officials have also warned that in this case, Iran will “follow North Korea,” the closest the regime has come to openly saying they will build nuclear weapons. More here: clarionproject.org/turkey-iran-threaten-overwhelm-west-refugees/ and here www.politicalislam.com/migration-as-jihad/

[1] ​The Hijra [Migration] -- Myth: Muslims Fled Mecca under Persecution (the Hijra)
Refuting the myth that Muslims were forced to flee to Medina because of persecution. Muslim biographers provide the names of other Muslims who continued to live in Mecca following Muhammad’s departure and there is no record that they were persecuted.  It is important to note that Muhammad justified his own eviction at the hands of the Meccans by his subsequent actions in Medina, where he began evicting the native Jewish tribes within just a few months of arriving.  Apologists are fond of claiming that the eviction (and outright execution) of the Jews on the direct order of Muhammad was necessary because of their “enmity” towards him.  Unfortunately for the Jews, the Muslims were far less patient and far more severe with them than the Meccans had been with Muhammad – but this is just one of the many grand hypocrisies of Islam.  

Muhammad was first and foremost a revolutionary, a fiery religious guerrilla leader who created and led the first genuine national insurgency in antiquity that is comprehensible in modern terms, a fact not lost on the jihadis of the present day, who often cite the Koran and Muhammad’s use of violence as justification for their own insurgencies. Unlike conventional generals, Muhammad did not seek the defeat of a foreign enemy or invader; rather, he sought to replace the existing Arabian social order with a new one based upon a radically different ideological worldview. More here