MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Julian Borger – “Any mention of an Iranian nuclear weapon is taboo in the Islamic Republic, which insists that its nuclear programme is entirely for peaceful, civil purposes. So it is remarkable, to say the least, that an article has appeared on the Gerdab website, run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, anticipating the day after Iran’s first test of a nuclear warhead. Here is a translation of the text:

The day after Iran’s first nuclear test is a normal day.

The day after Islamic Republic of Iran’s first nuclear test will be an ordinary day for us Iranians but in the eyes of some of us there will be a new sparkle.

It’s a good day. It’s seven in the morning. The sun is not fully up yet but everywhere is bright. In the northern hemisphere many countries are beginning the day…

The day before, probably in central deserts of Iran, where once Americans and some other Western countries wanted to bury their nuclear waste, an underground nuclear explosion has taken place.” Read more.

Update June 23, 2011:  ‘Iranian nuke test’ debunked as blogger’s ‘hoax’ – “An Iranian blogger revealed on Tuesday that the controversial article published on a Revolutionary Guard website in April, describing a hypothetical nuclear experiment by the Islamic Republic, was nothing but a figment of his imagination. The essay caused an international stir as it was not inline with the official Iranian claim that its nuclear program is being developed for civilian purposes only.” Read more.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will soon install more advanced centrifuges at its new uranium enrichment site, the country’s nuclear chief said Wednesday, underscoring Tehran’s continued defiance in the face of international sanctions imposed over its controversial nuclear program.

Vice President Fereidoun Abbasi also announced that Iran plans to triple its output of the higher enriched uranium in 2011 and move the entire program to the new, secretly-built facility.

The uranium enrichment lies at the heart of Iran’s dispute with the West, which is concerned that the activity masks efforts to make nuclear weapons — a charge Tehran denies, insisting the work is peaceful and only meant to generate electricity.

Abbasi, who also heads Iran’s nuclear agency, said that Tehran would set up the more efficient centrifuges, suitable for higher-grade uranium enrichment, at the Fordo site near the holy city of Qom in central Iran.” Read more.

Evidence Mounting That Iran is Supplying Taliban with Weapons – “Evidence is mounting that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban – and that British and other foreign troops are dying in Afghanistan as a result. ‘Hypocritical, two-faced and highly dangerous.’ Strong words from British Foreign Office Minister, Alistair Burt, referring to Iran’s flouting of UN sanctions to sell arms to militant organisations like the Taliban.” Read more.

This is from a FEMALE politician in Kuwait who claims that it is permissible in Islam to take non-Muslim women as sex slaves.  That’s right, the ‘religion of peace’ and ‘dhimmi’ sex slavery should now go hand in hand, and this indecent act would protect decent Muslim men from committing adultery with women who are not ‘sex-slaves’ …

By Daily Mail Reporter – “A Kuwaiti woman who once ran for parliament has called for sex slavery to be legalised – and suggested that non-Muslim prisoners from war-torn countries would make suitable concubines.

Salwa al Mutairi argued buying a sex-slave would protect decent, devout and ‘virile’ Kuwaiti men from adultery because buying an imported sex partner would be tantamount to marriage.

And she even had an idea of where to ‘purchase’ these sex-salves – browsing through female prisoners of war in other countries.

The political activist and TV host even suggested that it would be a better life for women in warring countries as the might die of starvation.

Mutairi claimed: ‘There was no shame in it and it is not haram’ (forbidden) under Islamic Sharia law.’

She gave the example of Haroun al-Rashid, an 8th century Muslim leader who ruled over an area covered by modern-day Iran, Iraq and Syria and was rumoured to have 2,000 concubines.

Mutairi recommended that offices could be opened to run the sex trade in the same way that recruitment agencies provide housemaids.

By Menachem Gantz – “Italian police have refused to handle security for an Israeli exhibit at a central Milan square next week due to threats of violence by Palestinian activists, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday.

The exhibit, set to take place at Piazza Duomo, has been planned in honor of ‘Israel Week’ in the city. It includes 15 towers showcasing Israeli culture, technology, agriculture, economics, and art ‘to present the unfamiliar Israel’.

But pro-Palestinian organizations are threatening to target the exhibit. Over the past few days the groups have been urging internet users to sign a petition to cancel the exhibit.

Web posters issued by the groups threaten to ‘ignite the city’ and say, ‘No to Israeli occupation of Milano’.” Read more.

By Duncan Gardham – “An Islamic preacher told students it was difficult to argue with the views of Osama bin Laden and said ‘terrorism works’ in a speech at the university attended by the Detroit bomber, it can be disclosed.

Abdur Raheem Green, a Muslim convert and former public schoolboy, told students at University College London that a ‘permanent state of war exists between the people of Islam and the people who opposed Islam’.

He gave the speech, seen by The Daily Telegraph, to the university’s Islamic society while Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, the Detroit bomber, was a student there in 2005.

A review by UCL into the Abdulmutallab case failed to analyse speeches made by the preacher and other visitors. It concluded that ‘speakers with controversial but not illegal views were welcome to the extent that they could be expected to stimulate debate’.

The disclosure follows a statement by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, in an interview with this newspaper, in which she said there had been ‘complacency’ by universities about Islamic extremism.

The Government’s Prevent strategy to combat extremism will say it is ‘concerned that some universities and colleges have failed to engage’ with the project, and cite a study showing that at least 55 per cent of institutions did not frequently engage with authorities running the scheme.

Qasim Rafiq, a spokesman for the Federation of Student Islamic Societies, invited Mr Green to speak at UCL along with two speakers from the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and another who has supported the Taliban.

Since then, Mr Green has been invited to give lectures at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, Queen Mary and Bart’s and at UCL.

Referring to bin Laden in his 2005 UCL speech, Mr Green, who claims he is not an extremist, said: ‘His rational [sic] is … we are going to keep on killing your women and children until you stop killing our women and children. How do you argue with that?’

Citing the IRA, he added: ‘The other thing is that it seems that terrorism works. We certainly have precedent.’

Saqib Sattar, a trustee of the Islamic Education and Research Academy, where Mr Green works, said: ‘The aim of the talk was to combat indiscriminate violence and terrorism and not advocate it.’

A spokesman for UCL said the inquiry had been aware of the speech but added: ‘Provided the law is observed, we do not operate a ‘no platform’ policy in relation to speakers with controversial, distasteful or even repugnant views.’” Source – The Telegraph.

By Robert Spencer – “In Stuttgart, Germany, last week, violent Leftist and Islamic supremacist demonstrators violently menaced anti-jihad activists – giving a sobering picture of where Germany, Europe, and the U.S. as well are headed if we don’t stand up and resolutely defend our freedom now.

Thursday afternoon I spoke in Stuttgart at the invitation of the human rights group Pax Europa. The event was well advertised, and so the thuggish Leftist/Islamic supremacist alliance mobilized and was out in full force.

About a thousand protesters from the frequently violent hard-Left Antifa group showed up, along with around 500 German riot police. ‘Antifa’ stands for ‘Anti-fascism,’ but if any fascism was on display, it was from the ‘anti-fascists,’ who did their best to destroy the Pax Europa event. They were menacing people, starting fights, banging drums, blowing whistles, and chanting Leftist and Communist agitprop slogans. One young man from Antifa came up to me as I was standing right in front of a line of German police and said, ‘You’re lucky there are so many police here today.’ He was not expressing solidarity.” Read more.

By VIN IENCO – “I have been producing a weekly synopsis and articles on the global encroachment of Islam for about two years. In that time, a week hasn’t passed without certain ‘staples’ of Islam perpetrated on Muslims and Non Muslims alike. One of the traits that are unquestionably unique to Islam is ‘forced conversion’.

With very little research, it is easy to discover that forced conversion in hand with over-breeding, is part of a larger Islamic strategy to achieve the state of Dar al-Islam, or the ‘house of Islam’. Simply defined, it is the chipping away at a country until it is an Islamic state and continuing this, on a global scale, until all religion is for Allah. The weekly synopsis certainly gives a clear picture of this objective.” Read more.

By Duncan Gardham – “Theresa May told The Daily Telegraph that universities were not taking the issue of radicalisation seriously enough and that it was too easy for Muslim extremists to form groups on campuses ‘without anyone knowing’.

She also said the Government would cut funding to any Islamic group that espoused extremist views, and set out the ‘key British values’ to which those seeking support must subscribe. It is understood that about 20 groups are already losing their funding.

Mrs May made her comments ahead of the publication this week of the updated version of the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy.

‘I think for too long there’s been complacency around universities,’ she said. ‘I don’t think they have been sufficiently willing to recognise what can be happening on their campuses and the radicalisation that can take place. I think there is more that universities can do.’

Mrs May said universities had to ‘send very clear messages’ and ‘ask themselves some questions about what happens on their campuses’.” Read more.

40 UK universities are now breeding grounds for terror as hardline groups peddle hate on campus – “England’s universities have become a breeding ground for extremism and terrorist recruitment, according to a disturbing government report. Officials have identified 40 English universities where ‘there may be particular risk of radicalisation or recruitment on campus’. A soon to be published Whitehall report – seen by the Daily Mail – will point to a string of examples of students going on to commit terrorist acts against this country or overseas.” Read more.

By Yitzhak Benhorin – “The Iranian regime is closer than ever before to creating a nuclear bomb, according to RAND Corporation researcher Gregory S. Jones.

At its current rate of uranium enrichment, Tehran could have enough for its first bomb within eight weeks, Jones said in a report published this week.

He added that despite reports of setbacks in its nuclear program, the Iranian regime is steadily progressing towards a bomb. Unfortunately, Jones says, there is nothing the US can do to stop Tehran, short of military occupation.

The researcher based his report on recent findings by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), published two weeks ago. Making the bomb will take around two months, he says, because constructing a nuclear warhead is a complicated step in the process.

Jones stresses that stopping Iran will require deploying forces on the ground, because airstrikes are no longer sufficient. The reality is that the US and Israel have failed to keep Iran from developing a nuclear warhead whenever it wants, Jones says.” Read more.

IAEA receives evidence Iran nuke program is military – “VIENNA – The UN atomic watchdog has received further information regarding activities that ‘seem to point to the existence’ of possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program, the agency’s head said on Monday. ‘There are indications that certain of these activities may have continued until recently,’ Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in a speech to the agency’s 35-nation governing board.” Read more.

“Israel Defense Forces killed 22 protesters trying to cross from Syrian into Israel during Naksa Day demonstrations Sunday, according to Syrian media reports. The IDF did not give any official number of fatalities.

IDF officers fear that Palestinian refugees will continue trying to breach Israel’s border with Syria, tying down large numbers of soldiers in the Golan Heights.

No Palestinians did cross the border Sunday in the second such attempt in less than a month. In contrast, hundreds surged across on Nakba Day, May 15. Syrian television reported that the IDF also injured hundreds in its effort to repulse them.

The IDF said that since all the casualties were on the Syrian side of the border it was unable to provide an exact count, but it expressed great skepticism about the Syrian figures. Soldiers fired ‘with precision’ at the bottom half of the bodies of the protesters, the army said. Many, if not most, of the casualties occurred when a brush fire, apparently ignited by Molotov cocktails hurled by the demonstrators, set off antitank mines along the border near Quneitra at about 5 P.M.” Read more.