Showing posts with label Arab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arab. Show all posts

Monday, January 20, 2025

Islamism☪️ - Militant Islam

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25-12-28 Backlash Against Islam Has Finally Arrived In The West - Dingo > .


Conflict | Sabotage Hybrid Proxy Hot - Oriēns >> .
CRINKS & Terrorism ☪️- Tam O >> .Iran * HHH * AXIS * Islamist Terrorism ☪️- Tam O >> .Pluralism, Multiculturalism, Factions - Blue Gray >> .
☪️ Radicalized Islamists AGAINST Open West - Tam O >> .

Iran's Proxy Terrorists


[AI - politically-tentative information] 

Sociopolitical and Critical Terms

Islamization: A term used both neutrally and critically to describe the perceived or intentional process of a society shifting toward Islamic social, political, or legal systems.
 
Eurabia: A controversial term often associated with a conspiracy theory. It refers to the idea that there is a deliberate plan (through immigration and birth rates) to transform Europe into a Muslim-dominated continent.
 
Hijrah (Migration): While traditionally referring to the Prophet's migration to Medina, some contemporary Islamist thinkers interpret modern Muslim migration to the West as a "modern hijrah" ordained to plant Islam in new parts of the world.
 
Taqiyya: Frequently cited by critics of Islam, this term refers to "pious dissimulation" or concealing one's faith under threat. While historically a defensive mechanism for minority sects (like the Shia), some critics claim it is used to hide long-term conversion goals in the West.
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Muslim immigration to the West is not just about war. It’s not just about “seeking a better life.”And it’s definitely not some spontaneous act of cultural blending. 

It’s Hijrah. And it’s commanded. Hijrah is not just a word for “migration.” In Islam, it is a religious obligation to migrate to non-Muslim lands with the purpose of spreading Islam and establishing it as the dominant system

This idea goes straight back to Muhammad himself, who fled Mecca to Medina in 622 AD, not to escape war, but to strategically build power. That migration, known as the original Hijrah, marks the official beginning of the Islamic calendar, that’s how central and celebrated it is in Islam. From that moment on, Hijrah became a model for Islamic conquest

•Move into non-Muslim lands
•Form insular Muslim communities
•Build mosques and religious institutions
•Gain legal and political footholds
•Slowly implement Islamic norms and law (Sharia)
Ultimately, replace host culture with Islamic supremacy 

Don’t take my word for it. Take Muhammad’s: 

“I have been commanded to fight the people until they say ‘There is no god but Allah.’” — Sahih al-Bukhari 385 

This isn’t just religious language. It’s a battle plan. 

The Quran itself praises those who leave their homes for the cause of Allah: 
“Those who migrated for the cause of Allah after being wronged, We will surely settle them in this world in a good place.” - Quran 16:41 
“And whoever emigrates for the cause of Allah will find many locations and abundance.” — Quran 4:100 

Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Yusuf al-Qaradawi was blunt about it: 

“We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America, not through the sword, but through Da’wah (proselytizing) and Hijrah.” 

This isn’t about bombs falling. It’s about a command to spread Islam. Always. Everywhere. No matter the conditions. And until Western nations understands Hijrah as a weapon of conquest, we will keep losing ground - politically, legally, demographically, and culturally.
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Dar al-Harb (Abode of War): Territories ruled by non-Muslims where Islamic law was not dominant. The term "war" indicated that these lands lacked the security and order of the Sharia and implied the possibility or necessity for armed conflict (jihad) to expand the Islamic state's jurisdiction, not necessarily to force individual conversions.
Extremist groups, however, sometimes still use the classical, rigid interpretation to justify perpetual conflict and violence, applying the term Dar al-Harb to any non-Muslim land that must be conquered or from which they must withdraw.

Enemy Caliphate Within ..
Islamists☪️ vs West ..

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Terrorists LIE

23-10-18 Investigating Gaza Al Ahli Hospital [IJ Rocket] Strike - Ryan McBeth > .
25-1-8 How Hezbollah Took Over Lebanon | Explained > .
24-10-7 Konstantin Kisin Off the Fence About Israel’s War - Triggernometry > .
24-9-4 Iran and Israel's Long and Complicated History | Quillette > .
24-4-19 Inside the Mossad: Israel's Elite Secret Service | TBN > .
24-3-6 Could the Mossad Have Stopped Iran? | Unpacked > .
24-3-3 Is ISIS raising its [vicious] head again? | TBN > .
24-2-20 Roots of Iran’s Anger Against America - Context Matters > .
24-2-8 The Hezbollah-Iran Alliance - IDF > .
24-2-8 Israel: High-Tech Military; Intelligence Failure - Caspian > .
24-2-4 Iran would lose a war with the United States | Michael Clarke - Times > .
24-2-1 Why [despite weakist antisemitism] US Supports and Funds Israel | WSJ > .
23-12-20 What Happens in Gaza Does Not Stay in Gaza - Preston Stewart > .
23-12-20 Why Weakness Empowers P00tin | Konstantin Kisin | John Anderson > .
23-11-30 "We have let a lot of people into our countries who hate us" | Kisin > .
23-11-29 Mosab Hassan Yousef - Hamas' 'Holy War' to Wipe Out Jews - CBN N > .
23-11-8 Life During Wartime: Israel’s Resolve; Ukraine's Victory? | Hoover > .
23-11-5 [XIR] Corrupt, Sanctioned Iran's Military & Power Projection - Perun > .
> Hezbollah >>  > Iran - Allies, Enemies >>
Ruscia - Terrorist State 
XIR Evil - αλλο >> .

ICD 203 Analytic Standards.pdf .

2023 ..

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Arabian Peninsula

23-8-11 Saudi Arabia's Challenging Geography - Real > .
24-1-26 Saudi Arabia's Catastrophic "Iran" Problem - Hindsight > .

The Arabian Peninsula ("Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. At 3,237,500 km2 (1,250,000 sq mi), the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world.

Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula includes BahrainKuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The largest of these is Saudi Arabia. In the classical era the Sinai Peninsula was also considered a part of Arabia.

The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and southwest, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the northeast, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean to the southeast. The peninsula plays a critical geopolitical role in the Arab world and globally due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas.

Before the modern era, the region was divided into primarily four distinct regions: the Central Plateau (Najd and Al-Yamama), South Arabia (Yemen, Hadhramaut and Oman), Al-Bahrain (Eastern Arabia or Al-Hassa), and the Hejaz (Tihamah for the western coast), as described by Ibn al-Faqih.

Arabian-Nubian Shield - Mineral Resources ..

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Arab Spring & Winter

23-7-21 LIBYA | A Foreign Policy Disaster? - J K-L > .
23-6-3 Iraq, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah - Invasion +20 Years - gtbt > .
22-10-3 War in Yemen. Is Peace On The Horizon? [no] - gtbt > .


Corrections: Hafez al-Assad took power in 1970, it was the Ba'ath Party that seized power in 1963. At 4:35 the flags for Egypt and Syria are mixed up with the photos of the leaders. The internationally-recognized gov was in Tripoli, and the self-declared one headed by Haftar was in Tobruk. Also, it seems like the most recent developments for Tunisia were completely skipped over with Kais Saied taking power in July 2021 and suspending parliament.

The Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in response to corruption and economic stagnation and was influenced by the Tunisian Revolution. From Tunisia, the protests then spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and Bahrain, where either the ruler was deposed (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, and Ali Abdullah Saleh) or major uprisings and social violence occurred including riots, civil wars, or insurgencies. Sustained street demonstrations took place in Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Iranian Khuzestan,[citation needed] Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, and Sudan. Minor protests took place in Djibouti, Mauritania, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world is ash-shaʻb yurīd isqāṭ an-niẓām! ("the people want to bring down the regime").

The importance of external factors versus internal factors to the protests' spread and success is contested. Social media is one way governments try to inhibit protests. In many countries, governments shut down certain sites or blocked Internet service entirely, especially in the times preceding a major rally. Governments also accused content creators of unrelated crimes or shutting down communication on specific sites or groups, such as Facebook. In the news, social media has been heralded as the driving force behind the swift spread of revolution throughout the world, as new protests appear in response to success stories shared from those taking place in other countries.

The wave of initial revolutions and protests faded by mid-2012, as many Arab Spring demonstrations met with violent responses from authorities, as well as from pro-government militias, counter-demonstrators, and militaries. These attacks were answered with violence from protesters in some cases. Large-scale conflicts resulted: the Syrian Civil War; the rise of ISIL, insurgency in Iraq and the following civil war; the Egyptian Crisis, coup, and subsequent unrest and insurgency; the Libyan Civil War; and the Yemeni Crisis and following civil war. Regimes that lacked major oil wealth and hereditary succession arrangements were more likely to undergo regime change.

A power struggle continued after the immediate response to the Arab Spring. While leadership changed and regimes were held accountable, power vacuums opened across the Arab world. Ultimately, it resulted in a contentious battle between a consolidation of power by religious elites and the growing support for democracy in many Muslim-majority states. The early hopes that these popular movements would end corruption, increase political participation, and bring about greater economic equity quickly collapsed in the wake of the counter-revolutionary moves by foreign state actors in Yemen, the regional and international military interventions in Bahrain and Yemen, and the destructive civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen.

[2021] Some have referred to the succeeding and still ongoing conflicts as the Arab Winter. As of May 2018, only the uprising in Tunisia has resulted in a transition to constitutional democratic governance. Recent uprisings in Sudan and Algeria show that the conditions that started the Arab Spring have not faded and political movements against authoritarianism and exploitation are still occurring. In 2019, multiple uprisings and protest movements in Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt have been seen as a continuation of the Arab Spring.

In 2021, multiple conflicts are still continuing that might be seen as a result of the Arab Spring. The Syrian Civil War has caused massive political instability and economic hardship in Syria, with the Syrian pound plunging to new lows. In Libya, a major civil war recently concluded, with Western powers and Russia sending in proxy fighters. In Yemen, a civil war continues to affect the country. In Lebanon, a major banking crisis is threatening the country's economy as well as that of neighboring Syria.

The Arab Winter is a term for the resurgence of authoritarianism and Islamic extremism evolving in the aftermath of the Arab Spring protests in Arab countries. The term "Arab Winter" refers to the events across Arab League countries in the Middle East and North Africa, including the Syrian Civil War, the Iraqi insurgency and the subsequent War in Iraq, the Egyptian Crisis, the First Libyan Civil War and the subsequent Second Libyan Civil War, and the Yemeni Civil War. Events referred to as the Arab Winter include those in Egypt that led to the removal of Mohamed Morsi and the seizure of power by General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.

The term was first coined by Chinese political scientist Zhang Weiwei during a debate with American political scientist Francis Fukuyama on June 27, 2011. Fukuyama believed the Arab Spring movement would inevitably spread to China [wrongly as of 2021], while Zhang predicted the Arab Spring will soon turn into an Arab Winter [correctly as of 2021].

According to scholars of the University of Warsaw, the Arab Spring fully devolved into the Arab Winter four years after its onset, in 2014. The Arab Winter is characterized by the emergence of multiple regional wars, mounting regional instability, economic and demographic decline of Arab countries, and ethno-religious sectarian strife. According to a study by the American University of Beirut, by the summer of 2014, the Arab Winter had resulted in nearly a quarter of a million deaths and millions of refugees. Perhaps the most significant event in the Arab Winter was the rise of the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which controlled swathes of land in the region from 2014 to 2019.

In 2021, multiple armed conflicts are still continuing that might be seen as a result of the Arab Spring. The Syrian Civil War has caused massive political instability and economic hardship in Syria, with the Syrian currency plunging to new lows. In Yemen, a civil war and subsequent intervention by Saudi Arabia continues to affect the country. In Lebanon, a major banking crisis is threatening the economy of neighboring Syria.


Saturday, February 15, 2020

NSO - Pegasus

2021 Invisible surveillance: How spyware is secretly hacking smartphones - WaPo > .
23-9-14 Kill or capture? Morality of assassination in war | DiD - Tele > .
23-9-5 Israel's Everlasting [Internal & External] War - gtbt > .
23-1-10 Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus 2/2 (doc) | PBS > .
22-9-29 Is Your Laptop's Microphone Spying On You? - Seytonic > .
22-9-29 Pegasus: The Most Dangerous Virus In The World - Tech > .
22-8-6 Pegasus Spyware Leaks - Seytonic > .
22-6-21 Understanding R-U War (16) - Technology c Lucia Velasco > .
22-4-25 Ronan Farrow: How Democracies Spy on their Citizens | A&Co > .
22-4-19 How Cyberwarfare Actually Works (Stuxnet +) - Wendover > .

A consortium of news outlets from around the world, including Frontline, has been investigating the use of the spyware called Pegasus and the Israeli company, NSO Group, that sells it to foreign governments. Pegasus has been used by NSO clients to spy on journalists, human rights activists and others. One target: Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée.

NSO Group Technologies (NSO standing for Niv, Shalev and Omri, the names of the company's founders) is an Israeli technology firm whose spyware called Pegasus enables the remote surveillance of smartphonesPegasus spyware can be installed on devices running some versions of iOS, Apple's mobile operating system, and Android

The Israeli cyberarms firm NSO Group was founded in 2010 by Niv Carmi, Omri Lavie, and Shalev Hulio. NSO's founders are ex-members of Unit 8200, the Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signals intelligence. The company's start-up funding came from a group of investors headed by Eddy Shalev, a partner in venture capital fund Genesis Partners. The group invested a total of $1.8 million for a 30% stake. NSO employed almost 500 people as of 2017, and is based in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, Israel.

NSO claims that it provides authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime. According to several reports, software created by NSO Group was used in targeted attacks against human rights activists and journalists in various countries, was used in state espionage against Pakistan, and played a role in the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Kashoggi by agents of the Saudi government. In October 2019, instant messaging company WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook sued NSO under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

The Pegasus spyware is classified as a weapon by Israel and any export of the technology must be approved by the government.

Annual revenues were around US$40 million in 2013 and $150 million in 2015. In June 2017, the company was put up for sale for $1 billion by Francisco Partners. Founders Lavie and Hulio, partnering with European private equity fund Novalpina Capital, purchased a majority stake in NSO in February 2019.

21-12-16 Facebook has banned seven “surveillance-for-hire” companies from its platforms and will send warning notices to 48,000 people who the company believes were targeted by malicious activity, following a months-long investigation into the “cyber mercenary” industry.
  • Black Cube, an Israeli company that gained notoriety after it emerged that the disgraced media mogul and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein had hired them to target women who had accused him of abuse. Black Cube rejected Facebook’s claims about its activities.
  • Cobwebs, another Israeli company that Facebook said enabled its clients to use public websites and dark web sites to trick targets into revealing personal information. The company also reportedly works for US clients, including a local police department in Hartford, Connecticut.
  • Cytrox (Predator spyware), a North Macedonian company that Facebook said enabled its clients to infect targets with malware following phishing campaigns. Cytrox is reportedly part of Intellexa, the “Star Alliance” of spyware which was formed to compete with NSO and describes itself on its website as being EU-based and regulated. Intellexa did not respond to a request for comment.
  • Other entities banned by Facebook include: Cognyte, Bluehawk CI, BellTroX and what was described as an “unknown entity” in China, which it said was responsible for malicious targeting and appears to have been used for domestic law enforcement in China. The malware deployed by the group was used against minority groups in Xinjiang, Myanmar and Hong Kong.
Facebook is facing intense scrutiny in Washington and around the world following accusations by a whistleblower, Frances Haugen, that it enabled the spread of hate speech and disinformation.

This Facebook investigation is significant, however, because it reveals new details about the way parts of the surveillance industry use social media – from Facebook to Instagram – to create fake accounts to deceive their targets and conceal their own activities. While many of the companies claim that they are hired to target criminals and terrorists, Facebook said the industry “regularly” enabled its clients to target journalists, dissidents, critics of authoritarian regimes and human rights activists and their families.

It also pointed to recent and intense media focus on NSO Group, the Israeli spyware maker that was at the heart of the Pegasus Project, an investigation by the Guardian and other media outlets, and was recently blacklisted by the Biden administration. WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, sued NSO in 2019 and has been a leading critic of the company. NSO is not among the companies banned on Thursday.

As Facebook announced its investigation, leading researchers at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto released a new report that zeroed in on one entity – Cytrox – whose spyware, called Predator, is alleged to have been used by an unknown client to hack the devices of two individuals.

Saturday, December 28, 2019

47-11-29 UN partition plan - Palestine

23-10-12 Free Palestine? No thanks! (The Israeli perspective) - travel > .
24-2-1 Why [despite weakist antisemitism] US Supports and Funds Israel | WSJ > .

The UN partition plan for Palestine was adopted on November 29th, 1947 by the UN General Assembly Resolution 181. The plan divided Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. Greater Jerusalem should be under international control. Palestine was divided in such a way that within the various areas either of the two groups constituted the majority of the population. In addition, areas of economic interest should be shared as equally as possible. (original sound bite) The majority of Jews accepted the plan, but the radical nationalists felt it did not go far enough. The Arab leaders rejected it outright. On May 14th, 1948 the Jews moved forward and founded the State of Israel. The next day the Arab League declared war on Israel.


∞ Against Judaeiphobia 

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Drones (UAVs)

21-11-30 US vs China: Design & Technology Behind Military Drones | WSJ > .
2021- 5 Demand For Armed-Drones (UAVs) Is Surging - CNBC > . 20-8-28 UAE implicated in lethal drone strike in Libya: The BBC has uncovered new evidence that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 unarmed cadets at a military academy in Libya's capital Tripoli in January 2020. Evidence indicates the cadets were hit by a Chinese Blue Arrow 7 missile, fired by a drone called the Wing Loong II. The investigation ... also found evidence that, at the time of the strike, Wing Loong II drones were only operating from one Libyan air base - al-Khadim - and that the UAE supplied and operated the drones that were stationed there.
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The Chengdu Pterodactyl I, also known as Wing Loong, is a Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group in the People's Republic of China. Intended for use as a surveillance and aerial reconnaissance platform, the Pterodactyl I is capable of being fitted with air-to-surface weapons for use in an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) role. Based on official marketing material released by CADI, the Pterodactyl can carry the BA-7 air-to-ground missile, YZ-212 laser-guided bomb, YZ-102A anti-personnel bomb and 50-kilogram LS-6 miniature guided bomb.

Designed and developed [stolen and adapted] by the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute (CADI), a division of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the Pterodactyl I bears a distinct similarity in appearance to the Predator/Reaper family of drones developed by the United States. The drone is capable of being fitted with a variety of sensors, including a forward looking infrared turret and synthetic aperture radar. In addition, the aircraft is capable of carrying weapons. The Pterodactyl I's total payload capacity for sensors and weapons is 200 kilograms (440 lb).

Wing Loong II: An upgraded variant of the Wing Loong, with provisions for up to twelve air-to-surface missiles. Officially entered service with the PLAAF in November 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAIG_Wing_Loong .
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The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (sometimes called Predator B) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF). The MQ-9 and other UAVs are referred to as Remotely Piloted Vehicles/Aircraft (RPV/RPA) by the USAF to indicate their human ground controllers.

The MQ-9 is the first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance. In 2006, the then–Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force General T. Michael Moseley said: "We've moved from using UAVs primarily in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance roles before Operation Iraqi Freedom, to a true hunter-killer role with the Reaper."

The MQ-9 is a larger, heavier, and more capable aircraft than the earlier General Atomics MQ-1 Predator; it can be controlled by the same ground systems used to control MQ-1s. The Reaper has a 950-shaft-horsepower (712 kW) turboprop engine (compared to the Predator's 115 hp (86 kW) piston engine). The greater power allows the Reaper to carry 15 times more ordnance payload and cruise at about three times the speed of the MQ-1. The aircraft is monitored and controlled by aircrew in the Ground Control Station (GCS), including weapons employment.

In 2008, the New York Air National Guard 174th Attack Wing began the transition from F-16 piloted fighters to MQ-9A Reapers, becoming the first fighter unit to convert entirely to unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) use. In March 2011, the U.S. Air Force was training more pilots for advanced unmanned aerial vehicles than for any other single weapons system. The Reaper is also used by the United States Navy, the CIA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, NASA, and the militaries of several other countries.

The USAF operated 195 MQ-9 Reapers as of September 2016, and plans to keep the MQ-9 in service into the 2030s.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper .

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) (or uncrewed aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone) is an aircraft without a human pilot on board and a type of unmanned vehicle. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS); which include a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two. The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator or autonomously by onboard computers.

Compared to crewed aircraft, UAVs were originally used for missions too "dull, dirty or dangerous" for humans. While they originated mostly in military applications, their use is rapidly expanding to commercial, scientific, recreational, agricultural, and other applications, such as policing and surveillance, product deliveries, aerial photography, smuggling, and drone racing. Civilian UAVs now vastly outnumber military UAVs, with estimates of over a million sold by 2015.


sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...