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U.N.: Taliban defy 'general amnesty' with 800 extrajudicial killings,
arrests in Afghanistan
By Clyde Hughes
The United Nations said the Taliban in Afghanistan has broken its promise of general amnesty for
former government workers and security forces. File Photo by John Minchillo/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The United Nations accused the Taliban in Afghanistan of being involved in at least 800 extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detention of members of its former government that was supported by the United States, according to a report released Tuesday.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, said it recorded credible reports of serious human rights violations by Taliban authorities against hundreds of former government officials and former armed forces members.
The instances also include torture, ill-treatment and enforced disappearance carried out against individuals affiliated with the former government and its security forces. The actions are happening despite the Taliban's promise to give "general amnesty" to former government officials and former members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
"UNAMA's report presents a sobering picture of the treatment of individuals affiliated with the former government and security forces of Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover of the country," said Volker Turk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement.
"Even more so, given they were assured that they would be not targeted, it is a betrayal of the people's trust. I urge the de facto authorities to carefully consider the findings of this report and to uphold their obligations under international human rights law by preventing further violations and holding perpetrators to account."
Muslims are under no compulsion to tell the truth to non-Muslims, according to the Quran.
The report said former government officials and security members have suffered beatings with pipes, cables, verbal threats and abuse. It said their relatives have also been arrested or gone missing, with their bodies being found days and months later.
The report said that the former leader of the Herat Women's Prison, Alia Azizi, has been missing since October 2021.
"To date, efforts by the de facto authorities to investigate and hold perpetrators accountable for the incidents described in the UNAMA report have been extremely limited," the report said. "Even in the few, isolated cases where an investigation was announced by the de facto authorities, progress lacks transparency and accountability; impunity prevails."
Roza Otunbayeva, the secretary-general's special representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, said the initial Taliban announcement of a general amnesty in August 2021 was welcomed but has not materialized.
"The de facto authorities must demonstrate a genuine commitment to the general amnesty," she said. "This is a crucial step in ensuring real prospects for justice, reconciliation and lasting peace in Afghanistan."
Roza, Roza, Roza, do you really think such a thing is possible under the Taliban?
GP to be monitored by a ‘responsible officer’ after asking
Muslim woman to remove veil
by Jack Walters, GB News, August 21, 2023:
A General Practitioner is being forced to be monitored by a “responsible officer” after asking a Muslim woman to remove her veil.
Dr Keith Wolverson was suspended for nine months after being found guilty of or admitting to a total of 17 charges of misconduct relating to incidents between January and May 2018.
The incidents involving the GP, who was working as a locum at a walk-in centre at Royal Stoke University Hospital, concern urgent care centres in both Derby and Stoke.
Dr Wolverson asked a patient to take off her niqab three times as he could not hear her describing her daughter’s symptoms.
The woman’s husband put forward a complaint following the incident.
She also told last year’s hearing that she felt “victimised and racially discriminated” against during the consultation.
It's understandable, invisible women are uncomfortable at the thought of being visible, especially if their husband is in the room.
He told a review hearing he “deeply regretted” the incident and stressed he learned from his mistakes.
Does that mean he's prepared to treat children without knowing what their mother is saying?
The Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service (MPTS) decided to follow his suspension with sanctions for a further year after ruling he had not shown sufficient “insight” into his actions nor taken a course in “cultural diversity”
Dr Wolverson told the tribunal: “It would be completely wrong to maintain the suspension and prohibit a doctor further from doing his duty to his patients when there are such grave shortages within the NHS currently.”
Did the MPTS offer a solution to the doctor's problem of not being able to hear the niqab wearer? It seems like they are willing to sacrifice good medical care for the mother's feelings. But then, the other 14 charges were not explained.
In Sadiq Khan’s London, Is Diversity Really Our Strength?
AUG 24, 2023 10:00 AM BY HUGH FITZGERALD
For Sadiq Khan, the defense and promotion of “diversity” has become an obsession. Last summer, Sadiq Khan earned the outrage of many Londoners for his expensive focus on this “diversity”; they discovered he now spends annually close to $2 million on”diversity” bosses for London Transport, far more than he does on employees devoted to keeping fares down, or on improving safety in the system.
Here’s some of Khan’s praise of “diversity” from 2019:
London mayor Sadiq Khan told reporters that diversity is one of the British capital’s strengths in the wake of the London Bridge attack, and that all great cities are targets for terrorists.
Not “all great cities” are targets of terrorists. Only those cities where there are significant populations of Muslims are such targets. Such cities as Shanghai, Moscow, Rio De Janeiro, Canberra have very few Muslims, and almost no terrorism. Sadiq Khan is hoping that no one will dare to investigate his claim that “all great cities are targets for terrorists.”
And after the London Bridge attack, Khan had the effrontery to claim that “diversity” is “one of [London’s] great strengths,” when the attack was merely further proof that the “diversity” provided by Muslims in Great Britain had led to more terrorism, from the 7/7/2005 metro and bus bombings, to the macabre murder by two machete-wielding Muslims of Drummer Rigby, to the killing of MP David Arness while he was meeting with constituents, by Islamic State supporter Ali Harbi Ali. Such “diversity” is also responsible for the grooming gangs of Pakistanis who have seduced, drugged, and passed around like candy for the sexual pleasure of their friends, tens of thousands of young British girls, whose lives have been ruined. “Diversity” has brought a world of woe to the people of Great Britain.
“Look, I’m mayor of the greatest city in the world, and one of our strengths is our diversity,”
had been freed from prison on a tag after serving less than half of a 16-year term, which left two dead and three injured.
This insistence that “diversity is our strength” is the byword not just of Sadiq Khan, but of many European politicians, and above all, of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who in just one year — 2015 — allowed one million Muslims into Germany. It is stated as a given; no evidence need be offered. But why should we accept this assertion? Is all “diversity” a “source of strength”? What kind of “strength”? Start asking these questions, and you will not get a coherent answer, but merely self-satisfied and bullying repetition of the mantra — “diversity is our strength” — that brooks of no disagreement. It needs no proof, for there is none. In Seoul, in Beijing, in Tokyo, in Warsaw, in Budapest, there is precious little diversity, and no one in those cities appears to be longing for it to arrive, so that those capitals can be more like the London of Sadiq Khan. London’s “diversity” finds its expression not just in the terrorist attacks that fill Londoners with anxiety, but in the crime wave of stabbings by Muslim criminals, in the “greatest city in the world.” The “diversity” that the 3.5 million Muslims have brought to Great Britain includes, as well, the Pakistani rooming gangs in a dozen of its cities that have destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of English girls, the victims of “diversity” whom Sadiq Khan appears not to have noticed.
“But we do know there are people out there who hate our diversity, hate what we stand for,
and are trying to seek to divide us”, he added — although his grounds for appearing to
suggest that terrorists despise Britain for being diverse were unclear.
Muslim terrorists don’t hate an abstraction called “diversity.” They hate Infidels not for their views (“what they stand for”), but simply because they are Infidels. No other reason need be given. Muslim terrorists are not killing people because they “hate diversity,” but because they hate all non-Muslims, as instructed by the Qur’an and hadith. The Qur’an teaches Muslims that they are the “best of peoples” and non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings.” Given that, why would any Muslim want to integrate into a society created by Infidels? Even in an overwhelmingly Muslim country such as Pakistan, where there is no “diversity” to speak of, Muslims still have been guilty of terrorizing, and murdering, members of the tiny communities of Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, and Ahmadis.
Who are the people who are taught to “hate our diversity”? Sadiq Khan thinks it is the British. But the British are the ones who opened their doors to immigrants from all over. They were prepared to embrace “diversity,” and for a time did so. But by now they have been mugged by the reality of Muslim crime, Muslim grifters on the government dole, Muslim hatred of Infidels. The British do not object to other immigrants — Hindus, Chinese, Andean Indians, Filipinos, black Christians from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. The British now understand the havoc Muslim migrants wreak on government finances, because of the billions of dollars spent on them annually, have noticed the steep rise both in property crimes, and in crimes of violence, including rapes, and murders, for which Muslims have been responsible. They also feel the physical insecurity created by young Muslim men who find it great fun to attack non-Muslims on the streets; it’s even more fun if the victims are Jews or women who are dressed “inappropriately.” Why should Muslims, the “best of peoples,” want to have anything to do with Infidels, “the most vile of created beings”? After all, the Qur’an tells Muslims not to take Christians or Jews as friends, “for they are friends only with each other.” The doctrine of Al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ (Arabic: الولاء والبراء) is a concept in Islam, literally “loyalty and disavowal,” which signifies loving and hating for the sake of Allah. This type of love requires Muslims to love those who are obedient to Allah and to defend and assist them, and to hate those who are disobedient, which means all non-Muslims.
Muslims are thus taught not to integrate into a non-Muslim society but, instead, are instructed in many dozens of Qur’anic verses to fight, to kill, to smite at the necks of, to strike terror in the hearts of, non-Muslims. Is such a population a source of “strength” for British society, or is it, rather, a source of physical danger and societal disarray? We know the answer to this: look at the London that Sadiq Khan has helped create, and what his cherished “diversity” has meant to the social fabric, and to the physical safety, of Londoners.
Sadiq Khan had posted on his mayoral website an official guide on how to portray the “brand” of the mayor and the Greater London Authority. It included a a photograph of a young white family with the words: “’Doesn’t represent real Londoners.”
This nastiness appeared despite the fact that the guide opened with the words: “A City For All Londoners,” and a promise to appeal to “everyone, no matter their age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, disability or family make up.” Apparently the Mayor’s attempt at inclusivity did not include one group of people — white people in London — whom he claimed are not “real Londoners,” unlike, say, those of Pakistani descent, such as Sadiq Khan himself.
After the fury broke, Sadiq Khan offered as his excuse that he had no idea what appeared as his official guide to London, a guide that he had offered as his own work; he claimed that someone else in his office, without his knowledge, had added the remark “doesn’t represent real Londoners.” I think Sadiq Khan knew exactly what was in the caption; either he wrote it himself, or if an aide wrote it, Khan — famously known to micromanage — would certainly have gone through every word in that guide before posting it on his official website. Of course he knew what words appeared over that photograph.
That is the pass to which the U.K. has now come, thanks to the millions of Muslims who are now in the country, and voting their fellow Muslims – such as Sadiq Khan — into high office, where they have already begun the process of marginalizing the native English by describing them, if they live in London, as “not representing real Londoners.”
When will the voters in London send the intolerable Sadiq Khan packing? What more must Khan do to be unseated as mayor by those he describes as “not real Londoners”?
France: Muslim leads cops on dangerous car chase, screams
‘Allahu akbar! I’m going to blow them all up’
AUG 24, 2023 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
File S is France’s terror watch list. It is just as effective as terror watch lists in other countries, which is not at all. Frédéric later explained that he screamed “Allahu akbar” because “We scare each other with that.”
Yes, that’s the idea, although it’s not actually a matter of scaring “each other”; the scaring is all done by the jihadis. 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta reminded himself to “shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.”
Manon Noël, deputy public prosecutor, noted that “it is clear that everything that has been put in place has failed.”
Yes, and everything that has been put in place will continue to fail, because everything that has been put in place is based on false assumptions and wishful thinking rather than reality regarding Islam.
"Everything that has been put in place is based on false assumptions
and wishful thinking rather than reality regarding Islam."
INFO LA DEPECHE. Tarn-et-Garonne: one year in prison for the instigator of the crazy chase, file S
Translated from “INFO LA DEPECHE. Tarn-et-Garonne : un an de prison ferme pour l’auteur de la course folle, fiché S,”
by Thierry Dupuy, La Depeche, August 16, 2023
A 39-year-old motorist was sentenced, this Wednesday, August 16, in immediate appearance at the Montauban court. After his refusal to comply, five days earlier, a chase began with the municipal police, who ended up immobilizing him by shooting him with an electric pulse gun.
It may not be a record in this area, but it is what we call, all the same, having a good criminal record. At 39, this man who has already spent seventeen years of his life in prison, has nineteen entries on his document listing his court convictions. A record on which is found a large number of offenses punishable by law: theft of all kinds, degradation, drug trafficking, insults, rebellion, complicity in assassination, trickery, destruction of property… In short, a human breviary of the Penal Code.
This time, Frédéric, on file S after his radicalization in prison, was “hooked” for refusing to comply. Which therefore earned him to be presented, this Wednesday, August 16, in immediate appearance before the judicial court of Montauban.
“Allah akbar! I will blow them all up”
Shortly before 3 p.m. on Friday August 11, a Montauban municipal police crew spotted a gray Volkswagen Golf with three men on board in the city center. According to the conclusions of the investigation which will be entrusted to the police station, the trio was, at that time, doing some somewhat special shopping: purchases of cocaine and ecstasy in town.
Suddenly, the car made a U-turn on the Mortarieu alleys, before engaging in a chase in the Consul Dupuy alleys. The driver headed at high speed towards the districts of Sapiac, then Villebourbon. In passing, he ripped off the rearview mirror of a car, then burned a red light. And he ended up stopping, in the district of Villebourbon, abandoning his car and his fellow chasers not far from Pont-Vieux.
Still as determined, Frédéric continued his escape on foot, while the two passengers were quickly arrested by the police. Almost at the same time, the younger of the two men then received a call from Frédéric on his phone: “Allah akbar! I’m going to put on my explosive belt and I’m going to blow them all up.” The tension went up a notch.
Warned that they were dealing with an S file, the police were more and more worried. Around 7 p.m., when the suspect was located on the public highway, in the Villebourbon district, the municipal police officers prepared to arrest him. When the suspect slips a hand under his shirt and raises his head to the sky, officers fear the worst. They do not hesitate to shoot him with their electric pulse gun. He is neutralized.
“I panicked, I didn’t want to hurt anyone”
During the hearing, there was never any question of the reasons why this native of Figeac was on file S for terrorism, nor of his radicalization in detention. On the other hand, the court asked the defendant, of course, for explanations on the “Allah akbar” launched on the telephone. “There was no intention on my part to hurt anyone. We scare each other with that. That’s all,” he simply replied to the president of the court Virginie Lagarrigue.
So, running from the police, he decided it was a good time to scare his friend? That makes sense, right?
And why did you refuse to comply? “I panicked. I had a broken headlight, and a problem on my gray card which was not up to date. I would have done better to stop. I would have been fined and my life would have continued normally. I had found a job. I had to pick apples from Monday.”
Manon Noël, deputy public prosecutor, estimated “that we are coming to the end of the race with Mr…. It is clear that everything that has been put in place has failed.” According to her, “he behaved in a very disturbing way.” The public prosecutor requested fifteen months in prison with continued detention.
Julie Emilie Rodriguez, Frédéric’s lawyer, felt “that we do not condemn on a profile, but on facts.” She asked for a mixed sentence, “so that she can do everything possible when he gets out of prison so that he can reintegrate.
Pfft! Reintegrate? 17 years in prison, radicalization, and 19 charges; where was the integration?
