“Clarion Project, what do you think about US-sponsored jihadist groups like Nour Al Din Al Zenki and Jaysh Al Islam? Why are we funding terrorism abroad and then complaining about it here?”
“Years ago many did not know of Al Qaeda, even after bombings of US Embassies in Tanzania and Sudan. Someday I’m afraid more will learn about Hezbollah.”
“They’ve been doing this for a long time. They even have children’s TV shows teaching kids to hate Jews and Americans while celebrating suicide bombers. Culture of Death.”
“Baby steps, He’s not forcing his beliefs on me so I don’t care. He’s supported POTUS in the Middle East and he’s supporting Israel. . I don’t want some Radical Islamic coming to my country and telling me that I have to support Sharia Law just because they think it’s palatable, any more than I would expect his country to want my Christian and American Constitution shoved down their throats.”
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Despite an ordered media blackout by authorities, a new blasphemy case in Pakistan has gained worldwide attention for the violent and sexual abuse of those accused at the hands of their government interrogators.
Two young Christian men, Patras Masih, 18, and his cousin, Sajid Masih 24, were accused of sharing an image on Facebook considered sacrilegious by Muslims.
As word got out, a mob made up of members of the extremist Islamist political party, Tehreek-e-Labiak Ya Rasool Allah (TLK), blocked all entrances to Lahore and demanded Patras (accused of being the main perpetrator) be beheaded. Extremists also congregated in front of Patras’ home, waiting to lynch him.
Armed with gasoline, the mob threatened to burn down the 1,500 Christian houses in the area, causing some 1,000 Christians to flee. The police, with the help of other law enforcement agencies, were able to disperse the crowd after promising the most severe blasphemy charges would be levied against Patras. Those charges carry a mandatory death sentence.
In 2016, a similar charge was made against a Christian man, Nabeel Masih, who was accused of “liking a Facebook post seemed insulting to Islam.” Such an “insult” falls under the blasphemy law that carries a punishment of 10 years in prison. However, because of the demands of a violent mob, he was charged with the most severe form of blasphemy as well.
Police officers arrested Patras and Sajid, but their interrogation was conducted not only by the police and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officers, but a large number of TLK party officials, who mainly served to scream at the young men.
During the investigation, Sajid suddenly jumped out the window of the multi-storied building, a fall which broke his legs and jaw and left him in critical condition.
Although he was not expected to live, after a number of hours, he regained consciousness and released a video statement detailing the harrowing treatment he and his cousin received at the hands of their interrogators.
On the video (see below), Sajid related:
“[The FIA officers] demanded my attendance at their headquarters to check my mobile phone.
“They used this pretext to take me to a bathroom where they started to beat me.
“They confiscated my mobile phone as part of their investigation, checked it and then started beating me again.
“I asked why they were beating me, what have I done that was wrong? They started roundly beating me again and told me they were hitting me because I was the ‘cousin of that boy’ [Patras].
“They told us to insult each other by using the word laanti (men under a curse). My frightened young cousin complied under great duress.
“They then asked me to remove my cousin’s trousers and perform oral sex on him. I refused outright…[which] made them angry. They then started shouting loudly at both of us. I saw a window in the room and quickly jumped out of it.
“After this, [the FIA officers] downstairs asked why I had jumped from the window, at the time I was semi-conscious. But I could hear everything.
“Khalid Saeed [the FIA sub-Inspector] took me there [to FIA headquarters]. No evidence of any crime was found on my phone”
After his statement, an investigation into the violence and sexual abuse during the investigation was launched by the federal minister for the Interior Department, although Pakistani’s Christians hold little faith in such an inquiry.
In addition, a separate police case was registered against Sajid for attempting to commit suicide.
On the instructions of the Pakistani government, the media did not cover this atrocity due to tensions with the United States, which has put Pakistan on a special watch list for increasing violence against religious minorities in the country.
Also, there is fear that Pakistan could be included in FATF (Financial Action Task Force) black or grey list for money laundering and supporting extremist organizations.
Further, the government fears reprisals by the European Union, which is not eager to renew Pakistan’s GPS-plus status (Generalized System of Preferences) for free trade to EU countries unless Asia Bibi, a Christian blasphemy victim suffering in Pakistan jail for the last eight years and sentenced to death, is released.
It is time for the international community to stand with Pakistan’s religious minorities. Pressures such as these can be effective in fighting Pakistan’s archaic and discriminatory blasphemy laws.
ISIS released a video Feb. 26, 2018 about the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria in which they beheaded hostages (Photo: Video screenshot)
A media storm ensued last weekend after filmmaker Michael Moore called the National Rifle Association (NRA) a terrorist organization worse than ISIS.
Moore tweeted, “The NRA is a terrorist organization. The media should speak of the NRA in the same way they do ISIS.”Moore was reacting to the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 dead.
While Clarion Project does not profess to have expertise (or even an opinion) on the issue of gun control, what we can tell you is what ISIS has been up to just in the last few days:
After claiming responsibility for an attack on a church last week in Dagestan that killed five women, ISIS published a letter urging its followers to kidnap and murder Christians in “Russian-occupied” areas. The letter was titled: “Strike Their Necks and Strike Each One of Their Sons.”
Before beheading hostages in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, one of the ISIS executioners declared, “From the land of Yarmouk, we have told you, don’t get involved in our war. But you have refused and been proud of yourself (for this) and this is the punishment. We are telling you in the name of Allah, we shall pave the road to Rome with the skulls of these [prisoners].” The statement was made in a gruesome video released today, February 26, 2018.
An “army” of close to 1,000 jihadi brides is expected to return to Europe as ISIS suffers more and more defeats in their self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq. European authorities fear these women, along with their children, were trained as terror assets as per ISIS’ philosophy of women taking “more active roles” in jihad. In addition, an estimated 30 percent of the 5,000 ISIS foreign fighters from Europe are believed to have returned to their countries of origin.
A prominent British couple is believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by an ISIS cell in South Africa.
A former police officer from Fairfax, Virginia, Nicholas Young, 38, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing material support to ISIS. Virginia has been a hotbed of ISIS activity in the U.S.
To find out where ISIS is still active in 2018, click here.
“There will always be room for abuse of ownership denial laws. We must always be careful what power we give the government. Crime reporting to national crime investigation services have been too lax. The Vegas shooting is a perfect example. This doesn’t require new laws. It requires old laws be enforced.”
“’We do not believe this was perpetrated by the Islamic state.’ Why not? Take them at their word. They’ve pretty much done what they said they’d do so far.”
“Don’t tell Trudeau this, or he want to hire all the Canadians that fought with ISIS as counselors for our prisons and perhaps for some schools for wayward boys, too.”
In a dangerous and bizarre precedent, a federal judge disallowed references to the Council on American Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) ties to Hamas in a lawsuit brought by a civil liberty group against the San Diego Unified School District, reported the Investigative Project on Terrorism.
However, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant did allow references to CAIR’s hostility towards Israel and allegations that CAIR “promotes discriminatory bias against non-Muslim students on the basis of their religion.”
The case involves a suit brought by the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) against the school district for instituting an anti-Islamophobia/anti-bullying program designed by CAIR.
The suit charges that the program is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another.
Since the program is solely about Muslims students, the FCDF charges that it establishes them “as a privileged group within the school community.” Moreover, the suit contends that CAIR, the designers of the program, is an organization that is “intrinsically religious in nature.” In addition, the suit charges that CAIR has “prioritized public schools as ground zero to advance its religious mission.”
This means, according to the FCDF, that the school district has given “a divisive religious group … unprecedented decision-making authority” in a public school program – a violation, they claim, of the Establishment Clause.
The FCDF was right to make reference to CAIR’s well-documented ties to Hamas to prove their case. Hamas is not “just” a terrorist organization, but rather it is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization.
Islamist organizations by definition discriminate against non-Muslims by promoting a world governing by an Islamic caliphate and ruled by sharia law – laws which make non-Muslims second-class citizens. Yet the judge ruled that references to CAIR’s ties with Hamas were not pertinent to the case and were “likely intended to ‘besmirch’” the school district for their ties with CAIR. (In fact, she called the references “impertinent, immaterial and scandalous.”)
It is bizarre, however, that the judge did allow references to CAIR’s hostility towards Israel (ostensibly because that could be coming from anti-Semitism) and allegations that CAIR “promotes discriminatory bias against non-Muslim students on the basis of their religion.”
While the ruling is a setback for the FCDF, to prove the above allegations – that CAIR promotes discriminatory bias against non-Muslim students on the basis of their religion – the FCDF’s lawyers need only prove that CAIR is an Islamist organization, which should not be difficult.
For example, in the fall of 2014, CAIR’s founder and executive director Nihad Awad signed a letter to ISIS rebutting the theological arguments behind their actions. However, the letter, which was also signed by 126 international Muslim leaders and scholars (including other top American Muslim leaders), endorsed the goal of the Islamic State of rebuilding the caliphate and instituting sharia governance, including its brutal hudud punishments.
That goal – which is the definition of Islamism – is discriminatory because of how such a society would treat non-Muslims.
Many other examples of CAIR’s support of Islamist goals and leaders exist (a slew can be found by simply searching for the worlds “CAIR Islamist”on the Clarion Project’s website).
The FBI and the Justice Department have both banned CAIR as an outreach partner because of their Islamist agenda and ties to Hamas and terror funding. The San Diego Unified School District should also not be partnering with them.
It is a scandalous waste of time and resources of civil liberties groups and the American court system to have to bring suits like this to dissolve such partnerships. It is even more unfortunate that a group like CAIR has been able to push its agenda on impressionable, young American students.
“As a Canadian who had to contribute to the $10.5 million our government paid Omar Khadr for his experience at Gitmo and who is now free, I say prosecute them in federal court and throw away the key. Do not give them any ground for appeal.”
“Support and aid the Syrian Kurds! They are being attacked by Turkey right now. The Kurds along with other minority peoples in Syria have banded together to fight ISIS and have won. Now the Turks are attacking the same forces that beat ISIS in Syria. The Turks are trying to start up the old Ottoman Empire and all that entails once again …Those who don’t know the history of the region are making a terrible mistake by not supporting the Kurds.”
“ISIS will be plotting. Fighters were recruited from 86 countries to fight in Syria and many left unscathed afterwards. The war is still on, but now we cannot see the enemy.”
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“Disgusting, painful, dangerous, mutilation of healthy, NORMAL young female bodies – to ensure that they NEVER know the wonder, beauty and pleasure of normal consensual sex with the man that they love. The brutality of this dreadful punishment of young women is equaled only by the hatred and misogyny – and primitivism of their …ahem….’men’”
A horrifying video that emerged online shows a drone hovering within only feet of an airplane reportedly landing at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. Shot by an unknown drone pilot, the video specifically depicts “the drone taking off from what looks to be the parking lot at Whitney Ranch near 95 and Russell, then flying dangerously close to a Frontier passenger plane heading to land at McCarran Airport,” according to local station KTNV.
Not only is this a potential violation of the Federal Aviation Administration’s rules for drones, which limit drones to a maximum height of 400 feet, but it’s also a possible sign of what’s to come in regard to the future ofradical Islamic terrorism. But we’ll get to that a bit later.
First, watch the video below:
Dovetailing back to the FAA, local station KLAS noted that “a drone pilot who flies unsafely could face fines from of up to $1,437 per violation, while businesses that fly unsafely can face fines of up to $32,666 per violation.”
“On top of that, people who fly drones unsafely can face federal criminal penalties including fines of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment for up to three year,” the station added.
Why all the hubbub? Because of the catastrophic consequences the pilot’s birdbrained actions could have conceivably triggered.
“You know, if he was to hit the plane or there were any transmission signals that could interfere with that plane, he could honestly jam something in the plane, anything could happen,” explained drone expert Steven Williams of Alpha Drone in a statement to KTNV.
If the FAA manages to track down the drone’s pilot, I therefore recommend hitting him or her with as large of a fine as possible.
In the meantime, both the FAA and the Department of Homeland Security need to determine a way to prevent this from ever happening again, and a report published in Fast Forward magazine last year offers a clue why:
“The possibility of terrorists using drones to drop explosives or even unleash biological attacks on U.S. soil is a growing threat, Nicholas Rasmussen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told a Senate panel Wednesday.”
But as is now obvious from the horrifying drone footage above, the threat isn’t just of “terrorists using drones to drop explosives”on land; it’s also of terrorists using drones to drop explosives (or whatever else) on airplanes.
Can you imagine the terror that could be caused by this?
Let’s be clear: This is a big, big problem, and one that the administration of President Donald Trump needs to resolve sooner rather than later.
Knowing Trump, though, I’m sure the administration will indeed resolve it.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra is an Islamist group with about 25 “Islamic villages” across the country that have been historically used for guerrilla training and cult-like isolation. After being suspected of murders, fire bombings, and threats around the United States and Canada, the Fuqra cult changed its name to Muslims of America / Muslims of the Americas.
“As much as I despise Iran, sanctions accomplish nothing but more hate. We can only hope that he is doing it for the people suffering and is banking on radical Islamic leaders to lose power.”
“When you have one guilty kid and 29 ‘innocent’ kids that watched him do it, sat there laughing and refused to tell on the guilty kid, much less get up and stop him from doing it, then the teacher was RIGHT to punish them ALL collectively. This is coming from the kid who lit a firecracker on his history teacher’s desk when the teacher fell asleep. Getting kicked out of a classroom I hated didn’t bother me in the slightest. Having all the other kids mad at me, ostracizing me and telling on me FORCED ME to stop acting up rather quickly. Therefore the SAME peer pressure that extremists use to recruit more extremists can also be used to drive extremism out. When the other kids stopped saying, ‘I dare you to …’ and started saying, ‘Don’t do it, or we’ll all get in trouble,’ that was incentive to stop.”
Authorities in New York are reportedly investigating what appears to be an Islamic State group-supporting young man taking “selfies” around New York City, specifically outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the One World Trade Center.
The images began circulating through social media over the previous weekend, according to Fox News, and their appearance has concerned countless thousands, if not millions.
According to the New York Daily News, “one of the images had the caption ‘We are in your own Backyard,’”said Eric Feinberg, the co-founder of GIPEC, a cyber-intelligence firm that monitors potential terrorist activity on social media. That’s certainly cause for some concern.
The above image from Twitter shows a young man wearing cold weather clothing with Islamic State branding on it. The purpose of such a photo is obvious: to instill fear in the hearts of the American people.
The Islamic State group wants to inspire lone wolves to believe that they are not alone, and that if they attack, they’ll be participating in the take-down of the United States, rather than the final gasps of the shell of a terrorist organization. Should they be foolish enough to believe that, they’ll pay for it dearly. Thanks to President Donald Trump, his administration, and the men and women of our armed forces, the Islamic State group is very quickly approaching “history textbook footnote” status.
Their antics may be slightly intimidating, but it’s important to keep in mind that the image above may well have been doctored.
“Maybe it’s Photoshopped, maybe it’s not. It should be taken seriously,” Feinberg said.
And this potential lone wolf is being taken very seriously. While a NYPD spokesman didn’t call the threat “credible,” he did say the matter was being looked into.
“The NYPD is aware of the photograph. As with all terror related threats, the NYPD is looking into the incident. At this time there are no credible threats related to New York City,” an NYPD spokesman said Tuesday night according to the New York Daily News.
It’s a dumb terrorist who deliberately provokes the boys in blue.
While leftist may crow that the United States has a mandate to keep its proverbial doors wide open to whoever would like to enter, incidents like these tell us a very different — and far more factual — story.
Former MI5 intelligence Officer Annie Machon has blown the lid on Germany’s more than terrible crack down on the sexual assault crime spike taking place.
Slamming Angela Merkel for failing to address the issue, Ms Machon said: “Germany is one of the leading western liberal democracies in the world.
“Yet women cannot feel safe to go out in the streets to celebrate a public holiday.
“What does that say about equality? What does it say about human rights for women in Germany these days?”
She continued: “You need to investigate the people who might be perpetrating the attacks and stop those attacks, rather than offering a safe haven for women after those attacks had happened.
“I can understand why the general authorities did this in Berlin, particularly after the assaults in Cologne two years ago, as well as in Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Hamburg – it was all across the country.”
A wristband campaign was launched by Henrietta Reker with the purpose to stop sexual assaults. The wristbands were given to hundreds of people, having the word ‘respect’brandished on them; to remind others how to treat women. Machon believed the wristband campaign was “not particularly” effective.
She added: “I’d thought pre-emptive policing and intelligence finding out who might be involved in this would be more effective.
“Apparently, the Cologne attack two years ago was widely planned over Twitter, for example, so there must be ways of finding groups that might be planning this sort of activity over social media in a targeted and legal way – not mass surveillance, but a targeted and legal way to protect women, so they can go about their normal lives in their own country and feel safe out in the streets celebrating New Year.”
In the past, German officials reported the majority of sex attack suspects in the city of Berlin were Syrian or Afghan nationals.
Machon says the spiked violence is proof Merkel’s migration policy had failed.
She said: “We had a situation in 2015, where Angela Merkel with very humane and realistic perspective invited migrants to come to Germany.
“But, of course, the sheer numbers meant that it was impossible to integrate and implement that plan effectively to ensure that everything went smoothly, and then the tensions rose.”
“What pains me is that our brilliant military had the capability of utterly destroying ISIS 4 years ago when Obama called them Junior Varsity. Why did Obama not do it? That is a question we must all ponder very seriously.”
“That is exactly why the three Founding Fathers met with the Barbary Pirates (radical Islam) — to find out why they kept attacking us. They brought the book back so the American citizens could understand why we went to war.”
The Muslim guy is bold enough to openly threaten the life the man handing out Bibles publicly.
Un-freaking-believable.
Just a few minutes later, the man had the table overturned and was attacked by several men.
Coincidence?
Probably not.
It’s so strange to me that the ‘tolerant’ leftists are so keen to jump to the defense of the intolerant Muslims. Come to think of it, it’s not really a surprise. Leftists aren’t tolerant either.
“No race, language, nationality, ethnicity, economic, social or educational background links them but just ONE common denominator, i.e., their ideology and sect, the Salafi Jihadism (confirmed by former Salafi Muslim Imam of the Holy Mosque in Makkah, Imam Kalbani) Shame on these terrorists, their ideology, their supporters, sympathizers, apologists, appeasers and obfuscators.”
“Bring our troops home or at least rotate them. It’s time to let these people take care of their own stuff. We’ve got some serious problems here at home to deal with.”
Iran unveils the Zulfiqar ballistic missile that reportedly is not detectable by radar (Photo: Fars News Agency)
Iran officially introduced a new ballistic missile the Islamic Republic says is not detectable by radar. Ballistic missiles can be used to deliver nuclear warheads.
The missile, dubbed the Zulfiqar, was unveiled December 17, at the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, according to the Iranian Fars News Agency.
According to Shiite tradition, the Zulfiqar was the legendary sword of Ali ibn Abi Talib given to him by Islam’s prophet Mohammed, his cousin and son-in-law. Ali was also the fourth caliph of Islam and the first imam of Shiite Islam. According to tradition, the sword was given to Mohammed by the angel Gabriel.
The missile’s range is reportedly between 435-466 miles (700-750 kilometers) and uses solid, conventional fuels. It is 29 feet (8.86 meters) long with a two-foot diameter (61 centimeters) and weighs 992 pounds (450 kilograms).
The missile is part of the generation of Fateh missiles, which Iran claims are highly accurate and can negate electronic waves used to divert missiles from their targets.
The missile was used by the Revolutionary Guards to destroy ISIS sites in Deir ez-Zor in Syria in June.
“Of course you should sell them to Iran… then when they land at international airports, seize them back for reparations, if the regime is still financing terrorism. Sell them again later. Keep the money.”
“Abu al-Zarqawi died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates. He slapped him across the face and yelled, “How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!” Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, “You wanted to end our liberties but you failed!” James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, “This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!” Thomas Jefferson was next, beat al-Zarqawi with a long cane and snarled “It was Evil men like you who inspired me to write the Declaration of Independence.” The beatings and thrashings continued as George Mason, James Monroe and 66 other early Americans unleashed their anger on the terrorist Leader. As al-Zarqawi lay bleeding and in pain, an Angel appeared. Al-Zarqawi wept and said, “This is not what you promised me.” The Angel replied, “I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you in Heaven. What did you think I said?”
“Yes. Definitely. It seeks (sedition) to undermine our Constitution and overthrow (treason) our government in order to establish a totalitarian system of sharia, terror and enslavement. I’d call that sedition. Anyone should be able to see it.”
“No. That puts enemy war soldiers into the legal system. They should be treated as ununiformed combatants at war with us. They ARE at war with us. They are soldiers, not criminals.”
“A girl kidnapped and abused a disabled young man, of a different race, for hours and the whole episode was posted on the internet. She got community service.”
“He seems to overestimate the tolerance amongst everyday Muslims for the myriad “lifestyle choices” expressed every day in the West. And he should NOT, given the uptick of honor killings and acid attacks in his own country. But he does make some good observations. Now if he could just manage to locate a freaking hairbrush….”
“He could have gone and joined the Kurds and fought against ISIS if he is that upset. He would be treated and rightly so as a hero. But he choose to plan to shoot innocent Muslims. Always a choice.”
“’Islamists’ will never assimilate. Therefore they are a danger to any decent society, particularly any society not based on Islam or sharia law. This is a repeatedly failed exercise & needs to end immediately.”
“These people are responsible for the most heinous acts. They are war criminals and need to be tried and punished to the fullest extent. They have murdered many many innocents as well as soldiers from NATO countries. This is skin to the South American countries that harbored Nazis after WWII. Its despicable.”
“Thank God Almighty…this is loooong overdue…many, many Christians have been slaughtered because of total inaction from the West’s testicleless politicians…”
“I think if you give the Egyptians some time, they will take out the people responsible for this last atrocity. They don’t like it any more than we do, and they have considerable resources. You watch. They will act.”
Taylor Force was an American army veteran who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist while on a university trip in Israel.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has just approved a bill called the Taylor Force Actwhich would strip U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority until it changes its policies on supporting terrorism.
What Is the Taylor Force Act?
Taylor Force was a U.S. veteran killed by a Palestinian terrorist while on a university trip in Israel. An officer who had served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Force was stabbed in Tel Aviv in March 2016. His killer was shot and killed at the scene.
The Palestinian Authority is paying a salary to the family of the terrorist who killed Force, as it does to the families of all terrorists killed in action by Israeli forces. Terrorists who are not killed or who are imprisoned receive salaries directly. The longer they are in prison the more money is awarded. Palestinian leaders have long defended these payouts.
“It is the right of all of theprisoners and martyrs who have struggled and sacrificed for Palestine to receive their full salaries from the PA,” Hassan Abd Rabbo, spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners’ Affairs has said.
Such payouts make up a significant portion of the Palestinian Authority budget. In 2017, the Palestinian Authority took in an estimated $693 millionfrom international donors, but allocated nearly $345 to pay terrorists and their families.
According to the official congressional website, the Taylor Force Act will halt U.S. payments to the Palestinian Authority until that body:
is taking steps to end acts of violence against U.S. and Israeli citizens perpetrated by individuals under its jurisdictional control, such as the March 2016 attack that killed former Army officer Taylor Force;
is publicly condemning such acts of violence and is investigating, or cooperating in investigations of, such acts; and
has terminated payments for acts of terrorism against U.S. and Israeli citizens to any individual who has been convicted and imprisoned for such acts, to any individual who died committing such acts, and to family members of such an individual.
Although the Palestinian Authority is technically a secular nationalist organization in direct opposition to radical Islam, Palestinian leaders have long used Islamist rhetoric to incite the population to carry out acts of terror against Israel. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2015 slammed Jewish access to the Temple Mount saying, “Al-Aksa is ours and so is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. They have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet. We won’t allow them to do so and we will do whatever we can to defend Jerusalem.”
Who Supports the Bill?
The bill enjoys bipartisan support despite being drafted by Republicans. The Senate bill was sponsored by Senator Lindsey Graham. Democrats were persuaded to support the bill after concerns that the U.S. would continue to provide direct humanitarian aid, such as paying for water, were addressed. It is predicted to pass and become law.
“With this legislation, we are forcing the PA to choose between U.S. assistance and these morally reprehensible policies, and I am pleased to see this measure move forward in both chambers with so much support,” committee chairman Ed Royce (R-California).
The bill is also supported by a network of pro-Israel think tanks and political organizations.
The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee passed the bill unanimously on Wednesday. The bill will now come before the House of Representatives for a floor vote. Parallel legislation has been introduced in the Senate and will have to pass both houses to become law. The Senate’s version of the Taylor Force Act passed the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in August.
The Taylor Force Act passed the committee alongside two other bills targeting Palestinian terrorism. One, the Hamas Human Shields Prevention Act, will impose sanctions on Hamas for its use of human shields. The other, the Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act, imposes sanctions on foreign persons, agencies and governments that assist Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad or any of their affiliates.
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