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MESOP TODAYS QUOTATION : ISLAM THE RELIGION OF PEACE HUMANITY

6 Sept 2015 – The Kuwaiti politician Fahed al- Shelaimi, who heads the Gulf Forum on Peace and Security, provided an answer that shocked millions in the Arab world. “Gulf states are expensive and aside from being laborers, these people are not suitable for life here,” he said. “At the end of the day, people from a different environment who suffer from emotional problems cannot be received in your society,” he added. www.mesop.de

 

MESOP TODAYS FOCAL POINT : WESTERN DEVELOPMENT NGO’S LEAVE YOUR PROJECTS IN MIDDLE EAST – GO HOME AND FOLLOW THE MIGRATING PEOPLE

Iraqi Kurds’ mass migration is cause for alarm: Kurdistan parliament speaker

ERBIL-Hewler, nrtvv.com – 6 Sept 2015 – Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s Parliament Speaker says the current migration of refugees and asylum seekers to Europe, especially Kurds, is a cause for alarm. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64304

 

MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS

MESOP: CONFUSED DONALD T.

Trump stumped: confuses Kurds with Quds Force http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/050920151 … via @RudawEnglish

Donalds Trump : Very low ratings radio host Hugh Hewitt asked me about Suleiman, Abu Bake al-Baghdad, Hassan Nasrallah and more – typical “gotcha” questions – https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

 

MESOP : DRUZE CONTRA ASSAD

Protesters in Sweida smash a statue of Hafez al-Assad after Druze sheikh assassinated: http://www.syriahr.com/en/2015/09/31121/ … #Syria #Asad

Aymenn J Al-Tamimi ‏@ajaltamimi 40m40 minutes ago

My latest on assassination of Druze Sheikh Abu Fahad al-Bal’ous in Suwayda province, incl. context & analysis http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/the-assassination-of-sheikh-abu-fahad-al-balous-context-and-analysis/ … #Syria

 

MESOP : QASEM SOLEIMANI – IRANIAN AGENT IN IRAQ & SYRIA

The Economist ‏@TheEconomist 50m50 minutes ago – Major-General “Supermani” has his cape clipped http://econ.st/1O1KGwk

 

MESOP : CHILLING PUK

Serko Şîvarmenî ‏@enlightenedkurd 1h1 hour ago – #TweetLikeSlemaniTimes PUK doesn’t share intelligence, resulting in Pêşmerga being killed, meanwhile Lahour Talabani chillin in Tooymalik

 

MESOP : FIN DE PARTIE

Great piece by @bentaub91 for @NewYorker: “What Happens to Former ISIS Fighters?”

 

MESOP WLADIMIR THE TROUBLE MAKER

Russian Moves in Syria Pose Concerns for U.S. –http://nyti.ms/1Uy2jDW

Collection of photos showing #Russia|n forces in #Syria providing support to Assad’s regime.

 

MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY : Who is to Blame for the Drowning of Alan Kurdi?

by Tarek Fatah – The Toronto Sun – September 3, 2015 – A single photograph of a three-year old boy named Alan Kurdi, lying dead on a Turkish beach, has rocked the conscience of the world.The picture will remain seared in our collective memory forever, just as the image of a nine-year-old girl running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back in a napalm bomb attack shook us up on June 8, 1972. That was Phan Thi Kim Phuc, who later settled down in Canada.Despite what was initially reported by Canadian media, Alan Kurdi was never headed to Canada. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64271

MESOP: TODAYS QUOTATION BY BASHAR AL ASSAD

Syrian Presidency – ‏@Presidency_Sy

President al-Assad: Terrorism will not stop here, it will export itself through illegal immigration into Europe. https://twitter.com/Presidency_Sy/status/346700451087015937

 

MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY BY THE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT ANALYST ANNE APPLEBAUM / REFUGEE CRISIS ? IT’S NOT AN EMERGENCY CASE FOR THE MOMENT – IT’S THE BEGINNING OF EUROPEAN’S TOTAL CONVERSION

Europe’s Deadly Denial – By Anne Applebaum (SLATE) – Pulitzer Price winner

LONDON—(…) As so often, crocodile tears are falling. The Sun, a British tabloid, has spent a decade railing against immigrants of all kinds. Not long ago, it told the British prime minister to “Draw a Red Line on Immigration—or Else.” Now, after the publication of photographs of a dead Syrian toddler who washed up on a Turkish beach, it wants the prime minister to “Deal With the Worst Crisis Facing Europe Since WW2.” Having just declared that there was no point accepting “more and more refugees,” poor David Cameron has now declared that, actually, Britain would accept more and more refugees. His aides hurriedly explained that “he had not seen the photographs” when he made the original statement. For years, Europeans have pretended that wars taking place in Syria and Libya were somebody else’s problem. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64294

 

SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)

MESOP Kürdistan – Barzani: Alan, Kürt milletinin sembolü

Erbil (Rûdaw) – 4 Sept 2015 – Başkan Barzani, cesedi Bodrum’da kıyıya vuran 3 yaşındaki Alan için, “O çocuğun cesedi, Kürt milletinin dünyadaki mazlumiyetinin bir başka sembolüdür” dedi. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64269

 

MESOP : A RELAUNCH OF THE BAATH PART ? – The Doha Congress: Negotiating a Return of the Iraqi Baath Party?

by Aron Lund, editor of Syria in Crisis – 5 Sept 2015 – Although little noticed in the international media, Iraqi politics have been unusally stormy these past days, ever since it was revealed that Qatar would host a conference for ”Iraqi reconciliation.” With all involved well attuned to the dog-whistle rhetoric of Iraqi politics, this was universally understood to mean ”Sunni Arab Iraqi reconciliation.”Much of the Shia press and political landscape in Iraq reacted with outrage. These voices grew even angrier as speculation intensified about who would attend. When the meetings began in Doha on September 2, Iraqi debate collapsed in a roaring pandemonium of threats and accusations against those Sunni politicians who had dared travel to Qatar. While details remain scarce, it seems clear that the Doha Congress was directly backed by the Qatari government. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64289

 

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

MESOP NEWS : Syrian Coalition Refutes Putin’s Claims About Refugee Crisis

5 Sept 2015 – Khatib Badla, member of the political committee, expressed astonishment at the remarks made by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin who claimed that Syrian refugees are fleeing from ISIS rather than the Assad regime. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64265

 

MESOP TODAYS FLASH : Russia’s foreign ministry: ‘Islamic State has access to chemical weapons’

By: Zuzana Pokrievkova – 04 September 4, 2015 – Islamic State now has access to scientific technical documents on the production of chemical weapons, according to Maria Zakharova, an official representative of Russia’s foreign ministry. She warned IS fighters’ use of chemical weapons will spread to a large-scale and cross-border level. As reported by Pravda.Ru, IS seized chemical enterprises and is engaging foreign specialists in the development of the chemical warfare agents. Read more: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64261

 

The Assassination of Sheikh Abu Fahad al-Bal’ous: Context & Analysis

05 Sep 2015 – By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – Last month at this site I profiled the main new Druze militia factions that have emerged in Suwayda province and how they are competing for influence: on the one hand, the clearly pro-Assad Dir’ al-Watan led primarily by Sheikh Jerbo and Nayef al-Aqil, and on the other hand Sheikh Abu Fahad Waheed al-Bal’ous’ faction Rijal al-Karama, whose aim could be characterized in short as critical of the regime but not desiring to overthrow it, seeking instead islah (‘reform’) of the system. Until now, both sides have continued to court locals in various parts of the province in a bid to build support, with Dir’ al-Watan working alongside already existing pro-regime factions in Suwayda such as the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP). The main backers of Rijal al-Karama have been Druze living in Israel and the Golan, though connections with the state of Israel are denied. Neither Rijal al-Karama nor Dir’ al-Watan appears to have given any credibility to Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, who has continued to urge the Druze to join the uprising against the regime. Read all + watch pics : http://www.mesop.de/?p=64287

 

MESOP TODAYS OPINION :  Christians are only second hand refugees – U.S. & West Victimize Christians Fleeing ISIS

by Raymond Ibrahim – 6, 2015 (GATESTONE) – Western nations are not merely ignoring Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East, they are actively supporting it by sponsoring “moderate” rebels who in reality are as “radical” and anti-Western as the Islamic State. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64300

 

How is the Arab World Responding to the Refugee Crisis?

Jerusalem Post – 6 Sept 2015 – Since the publication of the photo of Aylan Kurdi, the dead Syrian refugee toddler found on the beach in Turkey, the world has directed its attention to the refugee crisis in Europe. What has been the reaction in the Arab world to the crisis given that many of the people seeking to escape to Europe are fleeing from Syria and Iraq?Arab criticism has been directed at the wealthy Gulf countries who have not absorbed even one Syrian or Iraqi refugee. Critics have also blasted the silence of Saudi news outlet Al-Arabiya and Qatar’s Al-Jazeera who in the past championed the cause of the Syrian people and have been opposed to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64302

 

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

MESOP: EUROPEAN PKK BOSS ZUBEYIR AYDAR – Only negotiation can end tension between Kurds and Turks: PKK official

6 Sep 2015 – A leading member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has stated that negotiation is the only way to end the current tensions in Turkey’s southeast, demanding for the resumption of peace talks between the PKK and Ankara. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64306

MESOP : PKK affiliated law maker warns there may be no parliament election in Turkey Kurdish regions

6 Sept 2015 – A Kurdish political expert has warned that there could be no parliament election on November 1 in Turkey Kurdish regions in east and southeast if the current conflicts continue. Read more: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64308

 

THE GERMAN KURDICH CHAPTER

MESOP : HALLO – IHR GUTMENSCHEN ! VERGIESST KEINE KROKODILSTRÄNEN !

13-jähriger Syrer: “Wir wollen nicht nach Europa, beendet einfach den Krieg!” – www.stern.de   4 Sept. 2015

 

MESOP : DER BEAUFTRAGTE DER PKK DRÜCKT STEINMEIER DIE HAND

Der Mann gegen Erdogan: Berlin empfängt Demirtas

05.09.2015 dpa – BERLIN – Selahattin Demirtas ist der Mann, der den türkischen Präsidenten Erdogan bei den bevorstehenden Neuwahlen so richtig ärgern kann. Jetzt kommt der Kurden-Politiker zu Besuch nach Berlin. Das Interesse ist groß. Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=64281

MESOP FLASH : Bundeswehr bereitet Kurden auf Chemieangriff vor

Geheimdienste warnen, dass der Islamische Staat Giftgas besitzt – und bereits gezielt einsetzt Von Florian Flade – DIE WELT – 5 Sept 2015

Der Angriff dauerte mehr als zwei Stunden. Etwa 50 Artilleriegeschosse und Mörsergranaten schlugen in der Stadt Marea ein, knapp 50 Kilometer nördlich der syrischen Metropole Aleppo. Sie trafen vor allem Zivilisten. Als die Opfer anschließend in die Krankenhäuser eingeliefert wurden, sah zunächst alles nach den üblichen Splitterverletzungen aus. Doch dann bemerkten die Ärzte einen ungewöhnlich fauligen Geruch an den Wunden einiger Patienten: Es war der Geruch von Giftgas. Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=64259

 

Syrien nach dem Arabischen Frühling – „Das wird alles ziemlich hässlich“ / SADIK AL AZM

5 Sept 2015 – taz – Säkularismus ist die Voraussetzung für Fortschritt, sagt der syrische Philosoph Sadik al-Azm. Ein Gespräch über erstarkende Islamisten und die Zukunft Syriens.

taz: Herr al-Azm, eines Ihrer ersten Werke, mit denen Sie bekannt geworden sind, war die „Kritik des religiösen Denkens“ aus dem Jahr 1969. Welche Rolle hat Religion für Sie im damaligen Damaskus gespielt? Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=64267

 

MESOP : THE IDIOT OF THE WEEK / ….. BUT WHO THE FUCK HAS CREATED FIDEL CASTRO ?

Fidel Castro: US & Israel created ISIS

September 2, 2014 – Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro compared NATO’s recent statements to that of Nazi SS and accused US and its allies of igniting conflicts abroad. Castro slammed John McCain for backing Israel and accused both of being involved in the creation of ISIS. http://www.hangthebankers.com/fidel-castro-us-israel-created-isis/

 

MESOP : Wagenknecht und der „Reformer“ Bartsch: Linke nennen USA Hauptverursacher der Flüchtlingskrise (DER SPIEGEL)

……. Und haben natürlich beide goldrecht: früher wurden interne Problem mit den Unbotmäßigen praktisch an Ort & Stelle erledigt, wenn Saddam Hussein Teile der Bevölkerung daselbst vergaste. Mit toxischen Stoffen, die in den Nordirak durch die IFA Militärlastwagen der DDR ( = „Friedenslager“!) transportiert wurden. www.mesop.de