Philippines heats up, islam continues to make the world a crappy place: Links 3 on June 28 – 2015

1. Glasgow Isis bride Aqsa Mahmood ‘writes poem praising Tunisia, France and Kuwait attacks as Black Friday’

Mahmood warned that the attacks, in which scores died across three countries, would leave a “permanent and blunt [mark]” and that there were “many looking up to what more could be done”.

“If you show no mercy with us then why should we with you?” she said.

In its daily bulletin on Saturday, Isis’s official al-Bayan Radio outlet claimed both the Tunisia and Kuwait attacks, but made no mention on the incident in France which saw a lorry driver accused of beheading his boss “in a car park”.

(Classic muslim deliberate redefining of important concepts. If she had any clue what mercy meant she would know that the fact the West uses criminal justice instead of group think to deal with muslim terrorism is itself a mercy which costs us in blood and treasure. If she understood what mercy meant she would know that every day we do not use nuclear weapons which we have had for decades on the Islamic State etc. is mercy. Something they will not show when they have those weapons. Proof of mercy is the number of muslims who live within western nations with equal or greater state benefits than those who built these lands and civilizations yet their beachheads are not burned down and they are not sent away in rickety boats. This is mercy. And it has been strained.)

2. American mercenaries training for an anti Islamic State mission in the Philippines

3. A few days ago, we posted an article about a Nobel prize winning chemist who had his reputation smashed and his career of 50 years ruined because of what one woman said about some rather neutral observations about working with women in labs. So who is that woman exactly? What is her background and motives?

4. Greece: First ever Greek Bitcoin ATM installed in Athens suburb

(I still don’t get bit coin. Clearly some research needed. Any links to straightforward explanations appreciated)

5.Egyptian judges shot dead in Sinai hours after former president Mohamed Morsi sentenced to death  (Related video in Arabic here)

Police said the judges were travelling in a car in the city of al-Arish, Sinai, when it was attacked by suspected Islamist gunmen.

An fourth person was killed and at least three more were injured in the assault. A militant believed to support Mohamed Morsi during attacks on security forces in al-Arish after he was deposed in August 2013

It is unclear whether the attack was linked to anger over the death sentence passed for Mr Morsi in Cairo but the Egyptian government has blamed Muslim Brotherhood supporters for violence in Sinai in the past.

6. Sweden: Somali immigrant brutally raped 12-year-old girl, sentenced to 180 hours community service

Although rape of a child normally would give a prison sentence, the district court choose to let Muhamed get away with a light sentence – 180 hours of community service with probation. The verdict refers among other things to the offenders low age and that he has “some trouble with anxiety and sleeping problems, which he is medicated for when necessary”.

(Perhaps when that child grows up and blows up a mosque the judge will say that as she was brutally raped by a muslim when she was a child and he was let off by the system, its understandable and allowed to serve 3 hours cooking BBQ for a girl scouts meeting. Chances are she will get life for a hate crime instead on top of vigilantism)

Thank you M., Ox AO.,

Also a Taiwanese national was kind enough to scour the local news for us on the explosion yesterday. At the moment, all official sources say it was an accident: