THIS IS HOW THEY DO IT

From Mediaite:

If it seems like the African-American community in Ferguson, Missouri is not crazy about Governor Jay Nixon (R-MO), a move he made as attorney general back in the early 1990s could be part of the problem. As the Washington Post’s Philip Bump reported this week, one year after becoming Missouri’s attorney general in 1992 Nixon filed a motion to end St. Louis’ school desegregation program, claiming it was not cost effective.

There's just one problem with that report. Jay Nixon is not a Republican.

In 2008, after incumbent Republican Governor Matt Blunt announced he would not seek reelection, Nixon declared his candidacy for Governor of Missouri, won the Democratic primary, and faced Representative Kenny Hulshof in the general election. On November 4, 2008, Nixon defeated Hulshof and was elected Governor. Nixon was sworn in on January 12, 2009.

ATTENTION DHIMMIS: ALWAYS BE POLITE TO YOUR ISLAMIC OVERLORDS!

Over at Instapundit, the always helpful and insightful Professor Reynolds points out an item that he recognizes as very useful:

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Be Polite.

"Indeed."

The article starts off like this:

Most people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would associate me with watercress sandwiches. Still, every year or so someone takes me aside and says, you actually are weirdly polite, aren’t you? And I always thrill. They noticed. The complimenters don’t always formulate it so gently. For example, after two years ago at the end of an arduous corporate project, slowly turning a thousand red squares in a spreadsheet to yellow, then green, my officemate turned to me and said: “I thought you were a terrible ass-kisser when we started working together.” She paused and frowned. “But it actually helped get things done. It was a strategy.” (That is how an impolite person gives a compliment. Which I gladly accepted.) She was surprised to see the stubborn power of politeness over time. Over time. That’s the thing. Mostly we talk about politeness in the moment. Please, thank you, no go ahead, I like your hat, cool shoes, you look nice today, please take my seat, sir, ma’am, etc. All good, but fleeting.

And it ends like this:

Last week my wife came back from the playground. She told me that my two-year-old, three-foot-tall son, Abraham, walked up to a woman in hijab and asked “What’s your name?” The woman told him her name. Then he put out his little hand and said, “Nice to meet you!” Everyone laughed, and he smiled. He shared with her his firmest handshake, like I taught him.

That's what it always comes down to, for these sanctimonious, self-satisfied liberals who want to teach you how to properly behave: showing deference to their Muslim betters. That's really the whole point of the article. If politeness were the whole point of it, he could have written that his son "walked up to a woman and asked," but no - and he didn't write that his son "walked up to a woman wearing a hijab" or that his son "walked up to a woman wearing a headscarf" or that his son "walked up to a woman in a hijab." He wrote, "walked up to a woman in hijab," because he wants you to know that he is so cool and hip, that he knows the Muslims like to say "a woman in hijab." He is so definitely down with his dhimmi subservience to his Muslim betters, that he wants to show off to you, that he knows the sharia-approved way to describe the dress that is as much a banner of Islamic supremacy as the blood-stained black flags of the ISIL pirates. And he is already teaching his son to kiss the hand that will slit his throat.

Allen West: "Barack Obama Is An Islamist In His Foreign Policy

Yesterday, Reliapundit posted about how Obama's policy makes him appear to be a "crypto-Islamist".

Allen West, essentially, says the same thing.

From the Daily Caller:

“The only plausible explanation for many actions taken by President Obama and his administration is that they are working counter to the security of the United States of America,” the former Florida congressman and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel wrote in the post published Wednesday. 

Among six examples he gives to back up his point is Obama’s decision to release of five Taliban in exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl in May, providing weapons of support to the Egyptian government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, and negotiating with Hamas. 

He also writes at length about Obama’s recent decision to lift a ban on Libyan’s attending U.S. flight schools and studying nuclear science, which had been in place since 1983. “Can anyone explain what the strategy and objective is here in lifting this ban with a nation that is or should be on the terrorist watch list?” he asks. 

”Sorry, but I can only explain this one way: Barack Hussein Obama is an Islamist in his foreign policy perspectives and supports their cause.” 

“The pivot away from the Middle East seems to be nothing more than an opportunity to enable Islamists and their goals,” he continues. “Anyone supporting this Libyan ban being lifted is indeed an enemy of this state.”

KINDERGARTEN STUDENT BARRED FROM EATING LUNCH THAT WASN'T HALAL

A kindergarten in Britain pulled a most offensive act (Hat tip: The Jawa Report):

24-year-old Yasmin Jackson sent Amari to her first day at the new nursery with a chicken salad sandwich for her lunch.

But when she picked her up from Kingswood Day Care Nursery, in Mitcham, south west London at the end of the day, the youngster complained about being hungry.

When I asked Amari if she'd had a good day at school, the first thing she said was 'is it time for me to have my packed lunch yet, mummy? I'm so hungry.'

I thought it was a bit strange, but maybe the staff had forgotten I'd told them she had a lunch. But the manager told me that it was against school policy for kids to bring in their own food.

I asked if it was because the food might be unhealthy, and then told her that the food I had made for my daughter was healthy. She told me it was because they didn't know if the chicken was Halal, and didn't want it poisoning other children.

But starving other children whose lunch doesn't meet their disgusting requirements is allowed? This is practically child abuse, even from a psychological viewpoint. It's bad enough there's some schools in the USA that require children to eat food that may not be healthy let alone tasty. This is possibly worse.

UN APPOINTS ANTI-ISRAEL PROFESSOR TO THEIR INHUMANITY COUNCIL

The latest of the UN's theater of the absurd steps has been to appoint a Canadian professor who's anti-Israel to their phony Human Rights Council:

That the UN Human Rights Council, whose membership is made up of many of the worst dictatorships and human-rights offenders in the world, wouldn’t give Israel a fair hearing was already a given. The Council devotes most of its attention to attempts to undermine the Jewish state’s legitimacy or to promote libelous attacks on its policies. While a lot of the attention on this panel was devoted to the decision of George Clooney’s fiancée to decline participation in the probe, the appointment of Canadian law professor William Schabas demonstrates that the Council is not even interested in the appearance of fairness.

Schabas has already demonstrated his animus for Israel and actually called for Netanyahu to be hauled before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for prosecution. Lest anyone think he takes sides in Israeli political debates, he also advocated the prosecution of Shimon Peres in a comment in which he compared Israel’s actions in Gaza to the genocide in Darfur.

The organization UN Watch, which performs the tiresome yet essential task of monitoring the unfortunate doings of the Human Rights Council, assembled this collection of quotes and dubious positions from Schabas. A dive into his record shows that he is not only an avowed foe of Israel but also something of an apologist for Iran.

It would come as no surprise if he were a Trutherist too. I'm glad Clooney's bride didn't attend, but it would be a lot better if Hollywood performers like them would just stay out of politics; they're not qualified to start with. Schabas sounds revolting as they come, just another kook who doesn't care he's making himself look like a crackpot.

THE LEFT HAS THROWN AWAY VICTORY IN IRAQ THE WAY THEY THREW AWAY VICTORY IN SOUTH VIETNAM - The Astute Bloggers scoops the brilliant Bill Whittle by, er... um ... 8 years!

The great Bill Whittle - brilliant as ever - in  July 2014:

TAB SEVERAL TIMES AS LONG AGO AS 2006! (KEEP SCROLLING)

Proves 2 things:
Great minds think alike. 
And, the doves of the left do predictably horrible things.
Sigh.

UN's Ban-ki Moon basically calls for Israel's destruction

 (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning that the failure to hold a conference on establishing a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East this year could jeopardize the success of next year's review of the landmark 1970 agreement aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear arms. In a report to the U.N. General Assembly circulated Thursday, Ban urged all parties to finalize arrangements for a conference to be held as soon as possible. At the 2010 conference to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, 189 member nations called for convening a conference in 2012 on establishing a Mideast zone free of weapons of mass destruction.

THE BELIEF THAT ISRAEL HAS A FEW HUNDRED NUKES IS WHAT PREVENTS ISRAEL FROM BEING ATTACKED ON ALL SIDES.

IT'S WHY THE ENEMY WHICH SURROUNDS ISRAEL MUST ALWAYS HOLD BACK.

THIS DETERRENT VALUE IS ESSENTIAL FOR ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE.

THE ANTISEMITIC CESSPOOL THAT WE CALL THE UN WANTS TO STRIP THAT DETERRENCE AWAY.

EFF'EM.

OBAMA MIGHT AS WELL BE A CRYPTO-ISLAMIST

SINCE OBAMA WAS ELECTED, THE ISLAMISTS HAVE STEADILY GAINED IN THEIR POWER, REAL ESTATE EVERYWHERE ON EARTH.

IF OBAMA ISN'T A CRYPTO-ISLAMIST HE MIGHT AS WELL BE.

SISI KNOWS THIS.

SO DO THE KURDS.

AND THE ISRAELIS.

THE ENEMY KNOWS IT TOO, AND THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY THEY HAVE GROWN MORE DARING.

WE CAN STOP THIS IN NOVEMBER.

IN FACT, IT'S NOVEMBER OR NEVER.

FEMINISTS REFUSE TO CONFRONT SHARIA

A woman writing for the Irish Independent points out the failure of alleged feminists to condemn sharia:

Last week the Council of Europe brought into effect the Istanbul Convention which aims to combat violence against women. Fourteen countries have so far ratified the convention and 36 states have signed it. Shamefully, Ireland has done neither. Where is the outcry from our feminist women in the Oireachtas?

Amongst other measures, the Istanbul Convention defines and criminalises forced marriages, female genital mutilation and sexual violence. Recently, we saw the first clinic open in Dublin to treat the almost 4,000 women here who have suffered from female genital mutilation. Globally, FGM is on the rise, as are child marriages, honour killings and forced gender segregation due to the increase in radical Islamism worldwide.

And Ireland too is among the countries taking no serious steps to combat sharia, nor are local feminists saying anything about it.

And yet western feminists, including our own female politicians who spoke so passionately last week in the Seanad about Israel's crimes, are strangely silent on these topics. Why? Are they afraid?

Because it's "politically correct" not to mention the increasing gender apartheid in Gaza for instance. Because you risk accusations of being "racist", "Islamophobic" or "bigoted" if you dare voice concern at the rise in radical Islam and the corresponding destruction of human rights for women and LGBT people. The popularity of "cultural relativism" in leftie, liberal circles has led to a two-tier system of human rights.

In May, the Sultanate of Brunei introduced Islamic criminal (Sharia) law - including stoning for alleged adulterers. In April, the Hamas justice minister announced a new criminal code based on Sharia into Gaza - where, according to Human Rights Watch activist Bill Van Esveld, "the Hamas government is trying to shore up its image as an Islamic reform movement in the face of challenges from more radical Islamist groups, is consolidating its social control by upping its efforts to 'Islamacise' Gaza."

Meanwhile, according to the UN, the two countries which have seen the most disturbing roll-backs in women's rights in recent times are Afghanistan and Syria - both implementing radical Sharia practices with greater and greater ferocity. Hilariously (not really) Iran, whom the UN has accused of "introducing [Sharia] laws that permit gender discrimination and promote violence against women", has a seat on the UN Women's Rights Commission (Status of Women).

It's not hard to see why the UN allowed Iran to keep a seat on that panel - they've long accepted sharia despite what they seemingly say. Good that the op-ed writer brought up what Hamas is doing in Gaza, because it proves they're no different from any other Islamofascists, as they've proven this past month. But the alleged feminists are guaranteed to remain quiet about it for a long time, no matter how bad things become worldwide.

YET ANOTHER ROCKET SPEWED OUT OF GAZA

And proof there was never a "cease-fire":

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed inside southern Israel on Wednesday, an Israeli police spokesman said, violating a three-day truce that had another two hours to go before expiry.

Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the rocket caused no damage or casualties, and that it was the first rocket fired from Gaza at Israel since the truce took effect on Monday.

A truce that should not have been, and by going along with this, it only prolongs the aggravation.

JOHN BOLTON SAYS CONGRESS MUST DEFUND THE UN'S WORST DIVISIONS

Bolton wrote about the need to stop funding the UN's institutions that are providing assistance to Hamas, as well as other Islamofascist movements around the world:

Although far from central to the ongoing Hamas-Israel hostilities, the United Nations has nonetheless inflicted substantial damage to its own reputation and credibility. So outrageously have several U.N. institutions behaved, before and during the current Gaza crisis, that the United States can no longer ignore or excuse it. Congress must act to defund U.N. bodies that perform unacceptably — thereby denying them the resources and the legitimacy of American support and putting other U.N. agencies on notice they could face a similar fate.

Three U.N. agencies in particular have demonstrated serious, sustained bias against both Israel and the United States, starting with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay. In recent weeks, based on press reports and Hamas accusations, Pillay has repeatedly accused Israel of war crimes because of Palestinian civilian deaths in Gaza, saying, “None of this appears to me to be accidental.”

The facts are precisely the opposite: Israel, like America, goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties but Pillay's intemperate allegations graphically demonstrate her ideological prejudices.

Her worst moment came when she criticized the United States for “not only provid(ing) the heavy weaponry which is now being used by Israel in Gaza,” but also almost $1 billion for the Iron Dome missile-defense system. She complained that Iron Dome was “to protect the Israelis from rocket attacks ... . But no such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling.” Pillay thereby demonstrated both the U.N.'s typical, utterly blind moral equivalence and also implicated America in Israel's alleged war crimes. There is simply no reason we should tolerate such behavior from international bureaucrats.

Most definitely not. The entire system of the UN should cease to receive funding, and Europe should be called upon to follow suit, and not waste taxpayers' money on such revolting people.

DOES THIS PROVE OBAMA IS REALLY WORKING FOR PUTIN...

... OR THAT HE MIGHT AS WELL BE?

JUST ASKING...

NOTE: There's a long list of high-ranking Soviet spies in the West: Alger Hiss, FDR's Dep. Treasury Secretary White, Kim Phiby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hannsen...

Obama would be the highest ranking spy/traitor of all-time.

MANY of Obama's key long-time mentors and friends were Soviet sympathizers (at the very least): Frank Marshall Davis, and - via Gerry Kellman - Saul Alinsky. A frequent baby-sitter for his daughters was neighbor Rashid Khalidi (the successor of Edward Said at Columbia) who had been the spokesman for Arafat's PLO which at the time was a Soviet supported project.

While at Columbia, Obama wrote an essay blaming the USA for Soviet aggression.

As president, Obama took a similar approach to the West's problems with the islamists.

Obama is firmly in the "BLAME AMERICA FIRST!" crowd of the Left.

But maybe he's been doing MUCH more since 1983. Maybe he was recruited then by the KGB?

Just asking...

GERMANY'S WW1 JIHAD PROGRAM

The UK Telegraph gives some history of how Germany used Muslim recruits during WW1 in the early 20th century. Unfortunately, it's got some dishonesty lurking in it. First, they say:

If history is dictated by the concerns of the historian’s day, then it’s surprising more of us haven’t heard the story of the Halbmondlager, or “Half Moon Camp”, a small First World War prisoner-of-war camp in Zossen, near Berlin.

It was like no other PoW camp in history. Reserved primarily for Muslim prisoners, detainees lived in relative luxury and were given everything they needed to practise their faith. Spiritual texts were provided, Ramadan observed, a mosque erected – the first on German soil – and there were sermons by visiting spiritual leaders and academics.

But Half Moon Camp was not some torchbearer for the more enlightened treatment of PoWs ushered in later by the Geneva Convention. It was, instead, the symbolic centre of a spectacularly unsuccessful pet project of Kaiser Wilhelm II: to turn Muslim soldiers fighting for Britain and France into jihadists loyal to Germany. Extensively written about in German history books but elsewhere a long-forgotten story of the Great War, the camp’s extraordinary role is finally being highlighted as part of the renewed scrutiny of the conflict in this centenary year.

The unlikely prophet of the jihad was German aristocrat, adventurer and diplomat Max von Oppenheim. The 54-year-old had returned to the Heimat after 20 years of travel and study in the Orient and, before Britain had even declared war on Germany, had convinced the Kaiser that Islam was Germany’s secret weapon. Oppenheim believed that a well-orchestrated propaganda campaign would stir up a mass Muslim uprising against Britain and France from within colonial territories such as India, Indo-China and north and west Africa.

Interesting, and alarming. However, they may be trying to whitewash Islam, as the following suggests when they bring up the failure to persuade some of the inmates to switch sides:

Why weren’t the men motivated by jihad? It’s perhaps more pertinent to ask, “Why would they have been?” As Rogan points out, the concept was daft to begin with. “It was not a natural thing: a targeted jihad focusing on three Western countries but excluding three other European countries. You hate Britain and France but not Germany, Bulgaria and Austria – what is that about?”

Rogan also thinks Oppenheim and his enthusiastic band of orientalists were deluded. “There was this misconception that Muslims behave in a uniformly fanatical way: they pray together in massive numbers, they obviously all surrender their thoughts in a uniform way, and if you turn that to your advantage you’ve got a powerful force to motivate and mobilise. It just doesn’t work that way.

“Muslims are like people anywhere else. Their willingness to get into something as risky as war is going to be determined by their interests, or their fears, or the threats that they face. It’s not because somebody waves a sword or a Koran and tells them to go to war.”

Oh please! Presumably, if this report has any meat to it, these were moderate Muslims at the time, maybe even Sufis convinced the civilized western world was better for them, but any religious movement that upholds verses and themes as repulsive as what the Koran contains is not like folks anywhere else. If they don't believe in true self-support and think women inferior to men, that's not like anyone else either. Some of the commentors on the article seem to understand this too.

There may be some more details being left out of this report, though it does acknowledge Germany's collaborations with Turkey at the time. But for now, it appears

A CLUE TO SCOTT SNYDER'S POLITICAL POSITIONS

A couple days ago, this comics writer at DC revealed what Marvel series he's reading:

Kid saw me reading @GWillowWilson ms. Marvel. on the ferry to Bridgeport and told me how much she loved the series pic.twitter.com/jS6lveBxi8
— Scott Snyder (@Ssnyder1835) August 7, 2014

Well at least we know where he could stand on the political spectrum, along with Islam, and the kind of company he likes to keep. And this was the same writer who made that sleazy boast about how far he'd take the Joker. What a disgrace. Upholding a book with a dishonest view on the Religion of Peace doesn't help one bit.

And that's not the only thing Snyder's doing that alarms me. Take a look at this picture taken of him at one of the recent comics conventions:

@Ssnyder1835 and @GregCapullo ya'll are so fuckin' metal. pic.twitter.com/Jopdnxj1mX
— Jake Lamotta (@cheeny_m) August 9, 2014

He - and the other guy with him - has a very crude sense of humor too. This is another example of what's wrong with comicdom and its representatives today. Anybody who wants the medium to be taken seriously wouldn't go out of their way to pull such a disrespectful stunt.

TO PUT DOWN MORSI AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, EGYPTIAN POLICE KILLED 1000 IN ONE DAY.

BBC:

The killings of at least 817 people by Egyptian security forces last year probably amount to a crime against humanity, Human Rights Watch says. A report by the US-based group says 1,000 or more people probably died in one day around Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque. 

The deaths came during demonstrations broken up by Egyptian security forces. Executive director Kenneth Roth said the deaths were "one of the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history". ...

... HRW's report says Egyptian police and army "methodically opened fire with live ammunition on crowds" demonstrating against Mr Morsi's removal from power. The clearing of the protest camp at Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque on 14 August 2013 followed "a plan that envisioned several thousand deaths," according to the report. The rights group estimates that a minimum of 817 people died during the violence at the mosque but says the actual figure was more likely 1,000 or more. "Given the widespread and systematic nature of these killings," the report adds, "these killings most likely amount to crimes against humanity."

IN ONE DAY, THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY KILLED AS MANY MUSLIM RADICALS AS THE IDF DID IN 3 WEEKS, YET THERE WERE NO PROTESTS.

THIS IS JUST MORE PROOF THE PROTESTS AGAINST ISRAEL WERE ANTISEMITIC AND THE PEOPLE WHO MARCHED AND CALLED FOR DIVESTMENT ARE ANTISEMITIC SCUM.

(BTW: HAMAS IS AN OFF-SHOOT OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.)

ERDOGAN'S RIG FOR PRESIDENT GOES THROUGH, AS EXPECTED

As was predicted, Turkey's autocrat has secured the role he coveted as president, thanks to the election rigging you can be sure he mastered behind the scenes. And he's already amassed plenty of support among his fellow Muslims there:

Mr Erdogan has built huge support among the country's conservative Muslims and provincial constituents, with his economic reforms tripling the per capita income of millions of Turkey's poor to £5,900 per year and bringing development to inland villages that had previously languished as backwaters.

Ah, I can see what's been going on: he's given welfare - or certainly something similar - to much of the Muslim population in Turkey. And you can be sure Christians didn't get much of that income, if at all. That's the strategy of these sinister Muslim politicians. The paper says Turkey's been prospering during Erdogan's regime, but they'd already been prior to his ascension, and a report I watched on France24 said their fortunes have been dwindling since 2007. So it's not like Turkey's bound to remain economically viable under their modern despot.

HAMAS RAN CHILD SLAVERY TO DIG TUNNELS

A recent report (via Power Line) told how the Hamas used child slave labor for digging the tunnel network the army had to work hard to destroy:

Hamas used children to help them dig numerous tunnels into Israel and Egypt, a 2012 paper written for the Journal of Palestine Studies reported.

The paper, titled Gaza's Tunnel Phenomenon: The Unintended Dynamics of Israel's Siege says that little had been done to stop the phenomenon of child labor during the digging of the tunnels by Hamas in Gaza.

In December 2011, the paper's author Nicolas Pelham accompanied a police patrol in Gaza and reported that "nothing was done to impede the use of children in the tunnels, where, much as in Victorian coal mines, they are prized for their nimble bodies."

He continued and said that "at least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials."

It's been reported today (also via Power Line) that the Hamas executed many of the tunnel diggers:

After the tunnels were completed, dozens were reportedly executed to prevent intelligence leaks to Israel.

“Anyone they suspected might transfer information to Israel on the tunnels was killed by the military wing,” a different source said. “They were very cruel.”

Given that Hamas used youngsters as human shields, it should be no surprise they'd use this kind of slave labor too, and murder anybody they thought would be a collaborator with Israel. To be sure, they didn't even care if they weren't. That's how barbarism operates.

IRAQ 2014: OBAMA BROKE IT, SO NOW HE OWNS IT

Obama and Biden reoeatedly bragged in 2012 about how they had bequeathed a stable Iraq.

[VIDEO MONTAGE AT THE LINK!]

Since then - and due to Obama's appeasement of Putin, retreats from Afghanistan and Iraq, his weak handling of Benghazi, his favoring the Muslim Brotherhood over Mubarak and Sisis, his appeasement of Iran, his disappearing red-line in Syria, his appeasement of Fatah and Hamas and his ill-treatment of Isreal - ISIS has effectively gotten a stranglehold on a fractured Iraq.

Bush handed Obama a stable Iraq; Obama's actions and inactions BROKE IT.

SO: Obama owns it.

If Obama had a shred decency or an ounce of patriotism, then he'd resign.

But perhaps Obama isn't upset with the results.

Maybe a caliphate and a world with  both Putin and Iran ascendant is what Obama always wanted.

It certainly is what the extreme left has long wanted.

And it jibes perfectly with the anti-American policies advocated by Obama's oldest long-time friends: Khalidi, Ayers, Dohrn, Frank Marshall, Father Pfleger, Louis Farrakhan, Vernon Jarrett, The New Party, The Working Families Party, ACORN, and the list goes on...

If Obama isn't a double agent working for Putin, and the caliphate then he might as well be!

SYRIAN WOMAN STONED TO DEATH FOR ADULTERY

Sharia in motion in Syria:

A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.

None in the crowd stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah Ahmad with stones until her body was dragged away.

"Even when she was hit with stones she did not scream or move," said an opposition activist who said he witnessed the stoning near the football stadium and the Bajaa garden in the city of Raqqa, the main Syrian stronghold of the Islamic State group.

The July 18 stoning was the second in a span of 24 hours. A day earlier, 26-year-old Shamseh Abdullah was killed in a similar way in the nearby town of Tabqa by Islamic State fighters. Both were accused of having sex outside marriage.

The killings were the first of their kind in rebel-held northern Syria, where jihadis from the Islamic State group have seized large swaths of territory, terrorizing residents with their strict interpretation of Islamic law, including beheadings and cutting off the hands of thieves. The jihadis recently tied a 14-year-old boy to a cross-like structure and left him for several hours in the scorching summer sun before bringing him down -- punishment for not fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The group has also brutalized Shiite Muslims and others whom it views as apostates. In neighboring Iraq, Islamic State militants have driven members of the Yazidi religious minority out of a string of towns and villages. Thousands of the fleeing Yazidis have been stranded on a mountaintop for days, a humanitarian crisis that prompted the U.S. to airlift aid to them this week.

Of course they're willing to brutalize Shiite Muslims, because Sunnis consider them inferior, and vice versa. We're seeing the downfall of a country that was already in dire shape, overrun as it is with jihadist vermin, some of whom came from overseas.

BRITISH WOMEN LIVING IN UAE SUBJECT TO SHARIA DIVORCE TACTICS

BBC reported how UK women living in the UAE have been victims of sharia, losing custody of their children:

UAE personal status law provides expatriates, even if they are not Muslim, with the right to have their case heard under the Islamic law.

It comes after a British mother lost custody of her son to her French ex-husband following a Sharia hearing.

In February, Afsana Lachaux was given a suspended prison sentence in Dubai.

Sharia is Islam's legal system and acts as a code for living to which all Muslims should adhere.

Ms Lachaux, from London, was found guilty of kidnap charges for failing to attend an access meeting between her son and her ex-husband.

'Bad mother'

The 46-year-old claims she was scared - having been the victim of domestic abuse, which her former partner strongly denies.

She told the BBC's Asian Network had she known Sharia law could be used by non-Muslims in court cases to decide divorce and child custody, she would not have moved to the UAE.

"The fact that I didn't obey my husband, that shouldn't be a matter to condemn… it shouldn't be a reason to take my child away from me," she explained.

Of course not, but that's the rule under sharia - mother cannot have full custody of child. And the courts there are all too obviously willing to apply the same for non-Muslims who exploit it too.

Tess Lorrigan, from Southampton, also lost custody of her adopted daughter, Olianne, in a Sharia court.

She was deported from the UAE in 2011 having been convicted of working without her British husband's permission.

Her now ex-husband was found guilty of assaulting her, but was able to put a travel ban on their daughter.

"When I went there as a single person I had my own sponsorship. But then things change dramatically once you're married," Ms Lorrigan explained.

"I never dreamed that a British man would turn around and start abusing the so-called power he now had over me," she added.

Her ex-husband Michael got custody because under Islamic law in the UAE, the man is the main sponsor of children, including those adopted.

It's not just in the UAE where this applies. It's in practically every and any regime where sharia reigns. But how could she think a man couldn't turn evil just because he was of the same background as her? That's stupid. The UK has a long record of dark situations spawning from it, and this is just one of those examples.

What do most Brits find great about the UAE anyway? I'd think it's too blazing hot under the sun there as it is, so it'd be better not to bother going there.