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To: Brumar89 who wrote (939536)6/12/2016 5:53:39 PM
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Can you explain why immigrant Jews who proclaim Christ as Messiah are not allowed Israeli citizenship?



To: Brumar89 who wrote (939536)6/12/2016 6:39:19 PM
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Omar Mateen Worked For Company That Provides Security to Federal Buildings
Power Line by John Hinderaker

Ponder this: G4S, a major, nationally known security firm, has confirmed that Omar Mateen had been employed by them since 2007.

G4S’s web site says:

For more than 50 years, G4S has partnered with government agencies – from the Department of State to the Department of Homeland Security among several others – in many capacities that include:

* Systems integration services that deliver world-class electronic and physical security solutions for critical infrastructure and government facilities

* Security management products, including access control, video management and facility management software
State-of-the-art security software, risk management, incident reporting and facility management technology

* Security personnel who are consistently ranked the best in the security business

Mateen had a security license, and I take it that he was one of those “security personnel.” Then there is this:

Ensuring the safety of travelers and the efficiency of the international transport system

In the global economy, international trade and travel is reliant upon the security of our vast network of ports and airports.

At G4S, we know that the key to releasing wider benefits for our clients is to always look at the overall picture to consider solutions that transform performance.

G4S works with clients to understand the specific security issues they face. We design solutions to meet those issues, bringing together our expertise in logistics, technology, project management and managing the world’s biggest security personnel work force.

Our solutions and capabilities include:

* Design and build automated video surveillance systems to improve security and enable facility operators to detect and monitor threats

* Perimeter security enhancements that include lighting, thermal imaging cameras, CCTV and motion-detecting systems

* Video analytics, wireless communications links and vessel traffic monitoring systems

And this:

Nuclear Facility Security

High-risk facilities need a partner with the experience and capability to deliver comprehensive security solutions

As the security solutions pioneer for the high-level critical infrastructure industry, G4S has an outstanding reputation, strong historical commitment and unsurpassed expertise for our clients.

* G4S has partnered with more than 90 percent of U.S. nuclear facilities

* Our force-on-force prep has sites earning a 100 percent passing rate

* Our engineering team has performed design work for more than 80 percent of U.S. nuclear facilities

* Our technology has systems in more than 70 percent of U.S. nuclear facilities

In the wake of Mateen’s terrorist attack, liberals have already begun blathering about guns. Bernie Sanders, for example:

I gotta tell you over 25 years ago, I believed that in this country we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people. We have got to do everything that we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them, criminals, people who are mentally ill. So that struggle continues.

Mateen didn’t use an automatic weapon. He used a semiautomatic rifle and a handgun that presumably was also semiautomatic. A large majority of the handguns sold in the U.S. are semiautomatics, and, while I haven’t seen statistics on rifles, the most popular rifle in the U.S. is the AR-15. Many millions have been sold, and many other rifles are also semiautomatics. And, news flash, Bernie: every firearm is “designed to kill people.”

Everyone would agree that it is desirable to keep guns out of “the hands of people who should not have them.” In fact, that is tautological. But Omar Mateen wasn’t mentally ill, and until yesterday he wasn’t a criminal. He evidently passed whatever background check was necessary to work for a well-respected security firm. While we don’t yet know where he obtained his firearms, it is reasonable to assume that he bought them legally, and would have been able to buy them legally under any regime that liberals have proposed, other than a ban on semiautomatic rifles.

Rather than talking about keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, how about a narrower focus on how we can insure that jihadists are not hired to provide security at federal buildings, airports and nuclear power plants?



To: Brumar89 who wrote (939536)6/13/2016 8:35:23 AM
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  • Soeren Kern: A Month of Islam in Britain: May 2016
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  • A Month of Islam in Britain: May 2016

    Child Sex Grooming, Prison Brainwashing and "Allah Knows Best"

    by Soeren Kern • June 13, 2016 at 5:00 am

    "A Muslim man with way too many extremist links to be entirely coincidental is now the Mayor of London. ... In a couple more decades Britain may well have its first Muslim Prime Minister. ... Reality cannot argue with demographics, so the realistic future for Britain is Islamic." — Paul Weston, British politician.

    One-third of Muslim adults in Britain do not feel "part of British culture," according to a new report on British multiculturalism. Nearly half (47%) of Muslims consider their Islamic faith to be the most important part of their identity.

    The government was accused of burying a report on prison extremism which warns that staff have been reluctant to tackle Islamist behavior for fear of being labelled "racist," according to the Sunday Times. Belmarsh, a maximum-security prison in London, has become "like a jihadi training camp," according to testimony from a former inmate. There are more than 12,000 Muslims in prisons across England and Wales.

    Former MP Ann Cryer suffered verbal abuse and was accused of "demonizing" the Asian community when she began a campaign more than a decade ago to get the authorities to tackle child sex grooming in Keighley.


    "At the end of the assault, when Mr. Zimmerman was lying motionless and defenseless on the floor of the ticket hall, the defendant crouched over him and quite deliberately began to cut Mr. Zimmerman's throat with a knife blade." — Prosecutor in the attempted murder trial of Somalia-born Muhiddin Mire, who attacked a random stranger in the London Underground.



    Left: Muhiddin Mire, a Somalia-born Muslim, tried to behead musician Lyle Zimmerman at a London Underground station with a knife while yelling "this is for my Syrian brothers." Right: Belmarsh maximum-security prison in London has become "like a jihadi training camp," according to testimony from a former inmate.

    May 1. Mubashir Jamil, a 21-year-old man from Luton, was arrested on suspicion of attempting to travel to Syria and engage in "violent jihad" with the Islamic State. He was charged with "engaging in conduct in preparation for committing acts of terrorism."

    May 2. A senior British jihadi who boasted of recruiting hundreds of Britons for the Islamic State was killed in a drone strike in Syria, according to the Independent. Raphael Hostey, also known as Abu Qaqa al-Britani, left Manchester to join the Islamic State in 2013. The 23-year-old graphic designer became a key recruiter of British fighters and jihadi brides for the terror group and was also heavily involved in its propaganda. At least 700 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria.

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