Pro-Rape Books at U.K.’s 1st State-Funded Muslim School

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England’s first state-funded Muslim secondary schools – that segregated boys and girls and had books promoting domestic violence and marital rape – is to be taken over by the Government.

The Al-Hijrah School in Birmingham, which became state-funded in 2001, was put into special measures last summer after the pro-rape texts were found in the institution’s library and a child died from an allergic reaction.

In a report published in May, the inspector Ofsted also identified bullying, said the playground was chaotic, teaching was poor, pupils were not safe and some staff did not know what to do in medical emergencies. The school was given an “inadequate” judgment, the lowest ranking.

The damning report also criticised the school’s policy of segregating boys and girls, sparking a lengthy legal battle, which is still ongoing. The school attempted to suppress the report’s findings with funding from Birmingham city council.

The appeal court judges were asked last week to make a definitive ruling in the case. If Ofsted wins, up to 20 faith schools that teach boys and girls separately will be reinspected and may have to change their arrangements. (Read more from “Pro-Rape Books at U.K.’s 1st State-Funded Muslim School” HERE)

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Glacier in Swiss Alps Melts, Revealing Couple Who Disappeared 70 Years Ago

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More than 70 years ago, a couple left their home in the Swiss Alps to milk their cows. They were never seen again.

Last week, a melting glacier led to the discovery of two bodies near a ski lift on the Tsanfleuron glacier, by a worker for a resort company.

“The bodies were lying near each other. It was a man and a woman wearing clothing dating from the period of World War II,” Glacier 3000 director Bernhard Tschannen told local media, according to Reuters. “They were perfectly preserved in the glacier and their belongings were intact.”

Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin left their home in Switzerland’s Valais canton on Aug. 15, 1942, according to Reuters. They were heading to their cows on a meadow above, but never returned home. (Read more from “Glacier in Swiss Alps Melts, Revealing Couple Who Disappeared 70 Years Ago” HERE)

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He’s Alive? Kurds Say ISIS ‘Caliph’ Not Dead, Contrary to Claims

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A top Kurdish official believes with 99 percent certainty that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and well, following another round of reports from around the world claiming the demise of the terrorist “caliph.”

“Baghdadi is definitely alive. He is not dead. We have information that he is alive. We believe 99 percent he is alive,” Kurdish counterterror official Lahur Talabany told Reuters Monday.

The Kurdish official said that Baghdadi is an expert at absconding from the reach of advanced intelligence services.

“Don’t forget his roots go back to al Qaeda days in Iraq,” Talabany explained. “He was hiding from security services. He knows what he is doing.”

Talabany added that reports about the Islamic State’s demise were also greatly exaggerated. The Kurdish official argued that ISIS does not need to hold masses of territory to be successful. He predicted that it would take three or four years to eliminate the global jihadist entity. Even after defeat, the group could morph into an al-Qaida on “steroids,” he explained.

The ISIS leader’s whereabouts remain a complete mystery. But Talabany guessed that Baghdadi remained somewhere in the eastern part of Raqqa, Syria.

Countless past reports claiming Baghdadi’s death have not turned up any verifiable proof. In June, Russia claimed with a “high degree of certainty” that Baghdadi was killed in a late May air strike. Following the claim, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights supposedly “confirmed information” that Baghdadi was killed.

Baghdadi last released an audio recording on November 3, 2016, asking members of ISIS to continue to fight for the city of Mosul, Iraq, which was recently liberated from the grip of ISIS by U.S. and coalition forces.

Baghdadi was arrested by U.S. forces in Iraq in 2004 but later released as a “low-level prisoner.” He declared himself the “caliph” of ISIS. In 2010, he became the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI). Then in 2013, he announced the formation of what is now known as the Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL, IS, or DAESH. In 2014, Baghdadi declared the establishment of an Islamic State, with himself as the “caliph” of the group.

The U.S. government continues to offer a $25 million reward for information that brings Baghdadi to justice. (For more from the author of “He’s Alive? Kurds Say ISIS ‘Caliph’ Not Dead, Contrary to Claims” please click HERE)

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Russia and China Declare All out War on US Petrodollar — Prepare for Exclusive Trade in Gold

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The formation of a BRICS gold marketplace, which could bypass the U.S. Petrodollar in bilateral trade, continues to take shape as Russia’s largest bank, state-owned Sberbank, announced this week that its Swiss subsidiary had begun trading in gold on the Shanghai Gold Exchange.

Russian officials have repeatedly signaled that they plan to conduct transactions with China using gold as a means of marginalizing the power of the dollar in bilateral trade between the geopolitically powerful nations. This latest movement is quite simply the manifestation of a larger geopolitical game afoot between great powers.

According to a report published by Reuters:

Sberbank was granted international membership of the Shanghai exchange in September last year and in July completed a pilot transaction with 200 kg of gold kilobars sold to local financial institutions, the bank said.

Sberbank plans to expand its presence on the Chinese precious metals market and anticipates total delivery of 5-6 tonnes of gold to China in the remaining months of 2017.

Gold bars will be delivered directly to the official importers in China as well as through the exchange, Sberbank said.

Russia’s second-largest bank VTB is also a member of the Shanghai Gold Exchange.

To be clear, there is a revolutionary transformation of the entire global monetary system currently underway, being driven by an almost perfect storm. The implications of this transformation are extremely profound for U.S. policy in the Middle East, which for nearly the past half century has been underpinned by its strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia.

THE RISE & FALL OF THE PETRODOLLAR

The dollar was established as the global reserve currency in 1944 with the Bretton Woods agreement, commonly referred to as the gold standard. The U.S. leveraged itself into this power position by holding the largest reserve of gold in the world. The dollar was pegged at $35 an ounce — and freely exchangeable into gold.

By the 1960s, a surplus of U.S. dollars caused by foreign aid, military spending, and foreign investment threatened this system, as the U.S. did not have enough gold to cover the volume of dollars in worldwide circulation at the rate of $35 per ounce; as a result, the dollar was overvalued.

America temporarily embraced a new paradigm in 1971, as the dollar became a pure fiat currency (decoupled from any physical store of value), until the petrodollar agreement was concluded by President Nixon in 1973.

The quid pro quo was that Saudi Arabia would denominate all oil trades in U.S. dollars, and in return, the U.S. would agree to sell Saudi Arabia military hardware and guarantee the defense of the Kingdom.

A report by the Centre for Research on Globalization clarifies the implications of these most recent moves by the Russians and the Chinese in an ongoing drive to replace the US petrodollar as the global reserve currency:

Fast forward to March 2017; the Russian Central Bank opened its first overseas office in Beijing as an early step in phasing in a gold-backed standard of trade. This would be done by finalizing the issuance of the first federal loan bonds denominated in Chinese yuan and to allow gold imports from Russia.

The Chinese government wishes to internationalize the yuan, and conduct trade in yuan as it has been doing, and is beginning to increase trade with Russia. They’ve been taking these steps with bilateral trading, native trading systems and so on. However, when Russia and China agreed on their bilateral US$400 billion pipeline deal, China wished to, and did, pay for the pipeline with yuan treasury bonds, and then later for Russian oil in yuan.

This evasion of, and unprecedented breakaway from, the reign of the US dollar monetary system is taking many forms, but one of the most threatening is the Russians trading Chinese yuan for gold. The Russians are already taking Chinese yuan, made from the sales of their oil to China, back to the Shanghai Gold Exchange to then buy gold with yuan-denominated gold futures contracts – basically a barter system or trade.

The Chinese are hoping that by starting to assimilate the yuan futures contract for oil, facilitating the payment of oil in yuan, the hedging of which will be done in Shanghai, it will allow the yuan to be perceived as a primary currency for trading oil. The world’s top importer (China) and exporter (Russia) are taking steps to convert payments into gold. This is known. So, who would be the greatest asset to lure into trading oil for yuan? The Saudis, of course.

All the Chinese need is for the Saudis to sell China oil in exchange for yuan. If the House of Saud decides to pursue that exchange, the Gulf petro-monarchies will follow suit, and then Nigeria, and so on. This will fundamentally threaten the petrodollar.

According to a report by the Russian government media, significant progress has been made in promoting bilateral trade in yuan, between the two nations, as the first step towards an even more ambitious plan—using gold to make transactions:

One measure under consideration is the joint organization of trade in gold. In recent years, China and Russia have been the world’s most active buyers of the precious metal.

On a visit to China last year, deputy head of the Russian Central Bank Sergey Shvetsov said that the two countries want to facilitate more transactions in gold between the two countries.

In April, Sberbank expressed interest in financing the direct import of gold to India—also a BRICS member. Make no mistake that a BRICS gold marketplace could be used to bypass the dollar in bilateral trade, and undermine the hegemonic control enjoyed by the US petrodollar as the global reserve currency.

“In 2014 Russia and China signed two mammoth 30-year contracts for Russian gas to China. The contracts specified that the exchange would be done in Renminbi [yuan] and Russian rubles, not in dollars. That was the beginning of an accelerating process of de-dollarization that is underway today,” according to strategic risk consultant F. William Engdahl.

Russia and China are now creating a new paradigm for the world economy and paving the way for a global de-dollarization.

“A Russian-Chinese alternative to the dollar in the form of a gold-backed ruble and gold-backed Renminbi or yuan, could start a snowball exit from the US dollar, and with it, a severe decline in America’s ability to use the reserve dollar role to finance her wars with other peoples’ money,” Engdahl concludes. (For more from the author of “Russia and China Declare All out War on US Petrodollar — Prepare for Exclusive Trade in Gold” please click HERE)

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Enemy of the State: Hungarian Gov’t Calls Campaign Against George Soros ‘a Matter of National Security’

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After a two-year battle to keep migrants out of the country, Hungary has directed its full attention toward one of its own: billionaire investor George Soros.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrapped up a six-week anti-Soros campaign Saturday. The streets of Budapest have been filled with posters and billboards of the Hungarian-born billionaire with the caption “Don’t let Soros get the last laugh!”

The campaign follows a series of moves to halt Soros’ operations in the country. The government argues that Soros is pushing for a one million migrant influx to Europe per year. It is now trying to impose legislation that would force NGOs in the country to reveal where their funding originates and the purpose for which the money was received.

“In Hungarian public life there is a single important element which is not transparent: Soros’s mafia-style network and its agent organizations,” Orban’s spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “This is why the government insisted that [the] parliament decide on making these organizations transparent, as the Hungarian people have the right to know who represents what and for what purpose.” (Read more from “Enemy of the State: Hungarian Gov’t Calls Campaign Against George Soros ‘a Matter of National Security'” HERE)

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Cuba’s Castro Rebuts Trump at National Assembly

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Cuban President Raul Castro on Friday denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s partial rollback of the U.S.-Cuban detente, saying it ignored broad public support for better relations and would satisfy only a few Cuban-American hard-liners.

In his first public riposte to Trump since the latter unveiled his new Cuba policy last month, Castro told the national assembly that any attempt to topple the revolution would fail, as it had under 11 previous U.S. presidents.

“We reject the manipulation of the topic of human rights against Cuba, that can be proud of much in this area, and does not need to receive lessons from the United States nor anyone,” Castro was quoted as saying by state-run media Cubadebate.

Foreign media does not have access to the twice-yearly meetings of the national assembly.

Trump said last month he was canceling former President Barack Obama’s “terrible and misguided deal” with Communist-run Cuba. In reality, he left in place many of Obama’s changes, including the reopened U.S. embassy in Havana. (Read more from “Cuba’s Castro Rebuts Trump at National Assembly” HERE)

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New Batch of Al-Qaida Terrorists Meet US Special Operators, Allah

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Several al-Qaida affiliated Al-Shabaab members were killed in a joint U.S.-Somalian raid Thursday, the Associated Press reports.

U.S. Africa Command confirmed an “advise and assist” mission took place but offered no details to the AP. The raid is the latest in a series of escalating actions against the terrorist group under new authorities provided by President Donald Trump.

Trump declared Somalia an “area of active hostilities” in late March, giving the U.S. military greater autonomy in green-lighting airstrikes.

A U.S. Navy SEAL was killed in Somalia in May during a similar raid, marking the first U.S. combat death in the country since the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident that killed 18 service-members. Pentagon Spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters July 5 the U.S. keeps approximately 50 troops in Somalia to advise and assist the Somalian army. (Read more from “New Batch of Al-Qaida Terrorists Meet US Special Operators, Allah” HERE)

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CNN Hires Top Al-Qaeda Propagandist for Documentary, Fails Miserably Trying to Cover It Up

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Bilal Abdul Kareem, of On the Ground News, was contracted by CNN to film a documentary called Undercover in Syria. Kareem is a self-proclaimed media activist living in rebel-held Syria and is considered “one of the top English-language propagandists for al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Jabat al-Nusra,” according to an Alternet exposé on Abdul Kareem and his connections to terrorism and CNN.

On June 16 Abdul Kareem went public with his intimate connection to CNN, and its documentary Undercover in Syria. He relayed his frustration with the network, having essentially whitewashed him out of his credit for a documentary he had a large hand in creating for CNN, which won a prestigious Peabody Award.

Abdul Kareem explained how CNN contracted him and his online news outlet, On the Ground News, to film the award-winning documentary.

“This was with CNN and their correspondent Clarissa Ward, which I have big-time respect for, big-time respect as a journalist, as a person,” Abdul Kareem said.

This Undercover in Syria, you can Google it — it won the prestigious Peabody Award, and it won the prestigious Overseas Press Club Award, which are basically the highest awards in journalism for international reporting. Now, [CNN] barely mentioned my name! I’m telling you, somehow CNN must have forgotten that I was the one that filmed it, I guess they forgot that.

Contrary to Abdul Kareem’s statement that “CNN must have forgotten,” the reality is likely much closer to the fact that they intentionally minimized the credit Abdul Kareem received, due to his connections to terrorism – thus becoming a mere footnote in the Peabody Awards press release.

While the Peabody organization praised CNN host Clarissa Ward for “[going] undercover into northern Syria to document Russian influence on the fighting and to navigate the ongoing devastation,” Abdul Kareem was only given credit in small print, despite him being responsible for filming and providing CNN with the documentary footage of Syria.

CNN President Jeff Zucker delivered a keynote address at an April 17 ceremony where the network had won the Overseas Press Club Award for the Undercover in Syria documentary. In a press release, the network celebrated the access Ward had been granted to Islamist insurgent-held eastern Aleppo, but failed to credit Abdul Kareem for being the facilitator of these events, or even mention his name.

While Abdul Kareem denies involvement with terrorist organizations, the Saudi news outlet Al Arabiya reported on June 7 that Abdul Kareem officially joined Jabat al-Nusra in 2012.

Abdul Kareem took to Facebook to dispute the allegation in a video response. “I am not, nor have I ever been, nor do I need to be a part of al-Qaeda. I don’t have any need for that,” he said.

According to a report from Alternet:

However, one of Abdul Kareem’s closest colleagues has also been accused of membership in Syria’s al-Qaeda franchise. Akif Razaq, an employee of Abdul Kareem’s online media group, On the Ground News, was recently stripped of British citizenship for his alleged involvement with al-Nusra. A notice presented by British authorities to Razaq’s family in Birmingham accused him of being “aligned with an al-Qaeda-aligned group” and declared that he “presents a risk to the national security of the United Kingdom.”During Abdul Kareem’s Facebook video response to the Al Arabiya report, he was seated beside Razap. Razaq has also co-hosted On the Ground News segments with him.While Abdul Kareem insisted there was “no proof” of his membership in the Salafi-jihadist organization, rebels inside Syria tell a different story…Last December, AlterNet’s Grayzone Project exposed Bilal Abdul Kareem’s involvement with some of Syria’s most notorious jihadist figures and his open propagation of their sectarian ideology. Most prominent among the clerics granted a friendly audience by Abdul Kareem was Abdullah al-Muhaysini, the Saudi Arabian hate preacher and warlord praised by Abdul Kareem as “probably the most loved cleric in the Syrian territories today.”Muhaysini is indeed popular among the Al Qaeda-allied rebels of Syria, and holds considerable sway over the entire region of Idlib. He has appeared in refugee camps to recruit child soldiers, raised millions of dollars for jihadist offensives and granted his blessing to the mass executions of captured Syrian soldiers on the grounds that the captives were kuffar, or blasphemers. The cleric’s goal, like that of ISIS, has been to establish an exclusively Sunni state purged of Shia, Druze and Christian citizens of Syria, and run according to a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

Others, such as Abdullah Abu Azzam, an activist affiliated with the rebel group Kataib Thawar al-Sham, using a pseudonym to protect his identity due to threat of retaliation from al-Nusra, have come forward to proclaim that Abdul Kareem was not only a propagandist for al-Nusra, but well known as a member of the group.

In an interview with Alternet, done over WhatsApp, Abdullah Abu Azzam said that rebel fighters/jihadis “refer to Abdul Kareem as the “American mujahid” (mujahid is Arabic for jihadist).”

Abu Azzam said that Abdul Kareem had even made a series of YouTube videos for the official account of Jaish al-Fatah, the jihadi coalition led by al-Nusra — al-Qaeda’s affiliate army in Syria. He intimated that Abdul Kareem directly worked with the late public relations director for Jaish al-Fateh, Ammar Abu al-Majid, using the alias, Abu Osama.

Additionally, Abu Azzam claimed that he had knowledge of Abdul Kareem collaborating directly with Salafi cleric Abdul Razzaq al-Mahdi, one of the ideological leaders of the Islamist jihadis in Syria. In fact, Al-Mahdi, one of the most popular guests on Abdul Kareem’s videos, was a co-founder of Syrian al-Qaeda’s most recent rebranding as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. He later defected to the competing Salafist militia Ahrar al-Sham.

Alternet attempted to get answers from CNN regarding their hiring of a reputed terrorist by contacting the senior press manager for CNN International, along with CNN’s Middle East press officer and public relations coordinator — requesting comment on Abdul Kareem’s relationship to the network. “We asked for details about Abdul Kareem’s contractual obligations with CNN and whether the network felt his well-documented relationship with al-Qaeda compromised the reporting it carried out in Syria,” according to Alternet.

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Tillerson Commits US to Secret Deal With Terror-Friendly Qatar

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has entered the United States into a secret agreement with the Islamic supremacist nation of Qatar, refusing to reveal its contents to the American people.

The State Department chief is attempting “shuttle diplomacy” in the Middle East this week in an attempt to resolve tensions between Doha and its Gulf neighbors, which unanimously accuse the rogue state of attempting to sow discord throughout the region.

Conservative Review has attempted to acquire a copy of the Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Qatar. However, the State Department has rejected multiple requests to deliver the text of the agreement. Instead, a State spokesperson referred CR to Tuesday’s State Department briefing.

During the briefing, a reporter asked spokesperson Heather Nauert when the public will be getting “the details of what was in this memorandum.” In response, Nauert does not directly answer the question, telling reporters:

“Well, this is all fresh. It’s all new. The president had asked the secretary to go over there and personally handle this. So we’re just going to keep an eye on it, keep an eye on the situation. Because it’s still developing.”

“Together, the United States and Qatar will do more to track down funding sources, will do more to collaborate and share information, and will do more to keep the region and our homeland safe,” Tillerson said upon signing the agreement.

Al Jazeera, a media outlet controlled and run by the state of Qatar, analyzed that the agreement will “make the U.S. and Qatar closer.”

The mechanisms for aligning the United States with terror-friendly Qatar remains a complete mystery. By withholding the text of the agreement, Tillerson has put the American people in the dark about a crucial aspect of America’s national security.

“Qatar and the United States have signed a memorandum of understanding between the two counties outlining future efforts Qatar can take to fortify its fight against terrorism and actively address terrorism funding issues,” State Department official R.C. Hammond told reporters Tuesday.

But immediately following the “anti-terror” agreement, a defiant Qatar pledged to continue supporting the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas.

Qatar has frequently dedicated state resources toward efforts supporting — sometimes quite openly — prominent international terrorist organizations. Doha has long been accused of supporting al-Qaida, the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, and even ISIS. According to the UAE government, some 43 al-Qaida operatives live openly and freely in Qatar.

Throughout the process, Tillerson has directed his efforts toward propping up the Qatari position. A list of 13 mandates needed for Qatar to normalize relations with its neighbors — which included cutting off terror financing and collusion with the Iranian regime and Muslim Brotherhood — was categorized by Tillerson’s State Department as unreasonable and dishonest.

Described by allies as “a man born with oil in his veins,” the former ExxonMobil CEO has become very cozy with energy-rich Qatar over the years. The secretary of state has a close relationship with the ruling emir – the two have met countless times over the past few years. Tillerson has, in the past, described the human-rights violating Qatar as a country of “visionary leadership” and “an example to the world.”

Sec. Tillerson’s position consistently contradicts that of President Trump, who often reminds allies that Qatar is a pariah state that cozies up to jihadis. The president has singled out Qatar on multiple occasions in past months, urging Doha to stop terrorist financing. (For more from the author of “Tillerson Commits US to Secret Deal With Terror-Friendly Qatar” please click HERE)

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‘Bloodiest Ramadan in Recent History’

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Ramadan, the month of fasting that forms one of the five “pillars” of Islam, in recent years frequently drew mention from President Obama.

Attacks and threats against Muslims have been reported during the most recent holiday, including a threat of violence at a Manhattan mosque, an assault of a woman on a Boston train, pellet gun vandalism at a New York mosque, hateful phone calls at Denver mosques and harassment of girls wearing hijabs in Chicago.

The Christian ministry Barnabas Fund, however, highlighted another statistic.

It noted 1,629 people were killed by Muslims during their holy month this year.

“On 26 May, just as Ramadan was about to start, jihadists attacked buses carrying Egyptian Christians to a monastery, killing 29 – some of them young children,” the worldwide ministry to persecuted Christians reported. (Read more from “‘Bloodiest Ramadan in Recent History'” HERE)

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