T. Belman. Its about time we learned what Sharia is about. If someone has a link to another aricle which presents a different picture, please put the link in a comment.

By Toni Johnson, and Mohammed Aly Sergie, CFR

Introduction

Sharia, or Islamic law, influences the legal code in most Muslim countries. A movement to allow sharia to govern personal status law, a set of regulations that pertain to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and custody, is even expanding into the West. “There are so many varying interpretations of what sharia actually means that in some places, it can be incorporated into political systems relatively easily,” said CFR’s Steven A. Cook. Sharia’s influence on both personal status law and criminal law is highly controversial. Some interpretations are used to justify cruel punishments such as amputation and stoning, as well as unequal treatment of women in inheritance, dress, and independence. The debate is growing as to whether sharia can coexist with secularism, democracy, or even modernity, an idea that is being tested by several countries in the Middle East in the wake of popular uprisings and civil wars.

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By Ben Kamisar – THE HILL

Donald Trump has a secret weapon as he seeks to burnish his image in Cleveland: his daughter Ivanka Trump.

A mogul in her own right, Ivanka Trump has become her father’s most effective surrogate, softening the edges of Donald Trump’s brash and often controversial presidential campaign.

And she’s being called upon to play that role again in the spotlight of this week’s Republican National Convention.
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T. Belman. Gen Paul Vallely on behalf of StandUpAmericaUSA wrote,

“Declare war on ISIS and any other radical Islamic organization and country that harbors or supports them!”

Let me encourage you to improve upon this. Gingrich says outlaw people who support sharia law. CSP focuses on fighting Jihad. You want war on violent Jihad.  What about war on the stealth Jihad? What about outlawing the ideology just as America outlawed Communism.

What about passing laws that prevent Saudi Arabia from teaching the Wahabbi doctrine. And so on.

War on ISIS falls way short.

By Mitchell Bard, TOI

A lot has been made of the president’s irrational refusal to say that radical Muslims are responsible for the terrorist attacks they commit. He has rationalized that the semantics don’t matter, and argues that he does not want to create the perception that we are in a war with Islam, even as Muslim states openly engage in a war against these extremists. Obama is wrong, misleading the American people and sewing confusion as to the threat we are confronting.
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As the Left showed on Tuesday, yet again, it has no intention of cleaning up its act. Subversion is the only card it has left.

By Caroline B Glick, JPOST

It was an ironic coincidence that the same day the Knesset passed the updated, watered down “NGO law,” the US Senate Permanent Select Committee on Investigations published its final report on the Obama administration’s use of an Israel-registered NGO to run a campaign to bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the 2015 election.

Hours after opposition leader Isaac Herzog hysterically and falsely alleged, from the Knesset podium, that “the blossoms of fascism are rising in Israeli society,” the Senate committee announced that the OneVoice organization unlawfully used US taxpayer money to conduct a political campaign to bring down Netanyahu in 2015.
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Turkey coup: Live updates

LATEST REPORTS SAY COUP HAS FAILED

On Friday afternoon, an as-yet unidentified faction of the Turkish military launched a coup attempt aimed at toppling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.

The coup leaders, claiming to speak for the entire Turkish Armed Forces, said they’d done so in the name of protecting democracy — despite the fact that Erdogan and his party were democratically elected.

“Turkish Armed Forces have completely taken over the administration of the country to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedom,” the statement said.

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By Louise Mensch, HEATSTREET,  |10:50 am, July 15, 2016

HEAT STREET EXCLUSIVE – A French government committee has heard testimony, suppressed by the French government at the time and not published online until this week, that the killers in the Bataclan appear to have tortured their victims on the second floor of the club.

The chief police witness in Parliament testified that on the night of the attacks, an investigating officer, tears streaming down his face, rushed out of the Bataclan and vomited in front of him just after seeing the disfigured bodies.

The 14-hour testimony about the November attacks took place March 21st.
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CLARION PROJECT

Here are the top five reasons why the Islamic State attacked France.

France has been fighting the Islamic State and other Islamists.

French President Francois Hollande led his country into airstrikes against the Islamic State, bombing targets in Syria for the past two months. It was the first country in Europe to join America in bombing ISIS targets in Iraq and has so far been the only European country to join airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.

France also led the fight against Islamists in North Africa, it was French soldiers that liberated Timbuktu from Islamist insurgents belonging to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Mali.

The Islamic State is therefore fighting those who fight it the most, in an effort to persuade the civilian population of France that the war is about French foreign policy and not about a global Islamist Caliphate and to cow them into submission through terror.
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U.N. body’s 21-member World Heritage Committee seeks to pass a resolution declaring holy Jerusalem site sacred to “Muslims only” as part of calls for a return to the “historic status quo” • Israel expresses concern over EU’s backing of the move.

By Shlomo Cesana, ISRAEL HAYOM

Israel on Thursday was outraged to learn that the U.N.’s heritage body was planning to adopt a resolution declaring the Temple Mount sacred to “Muslims only.”

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s 21-member World Heritage Committee is set to vote on the resolution, a joint Palestinian-Jordanian initiative, during its annual meeting in Istanbul, which began on Sunday and runs through next week. The resolution calls for a return to the “historic status quo” on the Temple Mount, which it sees as favoring Muslims.
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by Vic Rosenthal

When the Zionists began to build the yishuv, the enterprise that would become the Jewish state, they had to develop an economy, a political system, an army for defense, a legal system, an educational system, a transportation network, a postal service, and countless other things. They got help, first from wealthy benefactors like Montefiore and Rothschild, and later – when they needed to resettle hundreds of thousands of often penniless refugees from the Holocaust and, later, from the Muslim world – from organized appeals in the Diaspora. In a highly controversial arrangement, Holocaust survivors in Israel also received billions as reparations from Germany (the state also received several hundreds of millions).
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HAARETZ

The proposed ‘Joint Implementation Group’ would be headquartered near Amman, Jordan, and would see the former Cold War foes sharing intelligence and targeting information.

The United States is offering Russia a new military pact against the Islamic State and Al-Qaida in Syria, according to a leaked U.S. proposal.

If finalized, the arrangement could dramatically alter America’s role in the Arab country’s five-year civil war.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/14/truck-crashes-into-crowd-at-bastille-day-celebrations-in-nice2/

By MARTIN SHERMAN

Incredibly, according to Israel’s “liberal” detractors, the only remedy for Israel’s “democracy deficit” is to establish yet another Muslim-majority tyranny.

Israel’s accomplishments have been remarkable. Israel has created a thriving economy, and has been a refuge for hundreds of thousands of the displaced and the needy. Israel has generated a rich and diverse cultural life and its scientific and educational achievements have been exemplary. In spite of these achievements, however, Israel in my view has gone astray…sadly, after a life and career devoted to Jewish community and Israel, I conclude that in every important way Israel has failed to realize its promise for me. A noble experiment, but a failure.
– Rabbi David M. Gordis, Reflections on Israel 2016, Tikkun, February 22, 2016
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Pence is an evangelical, a conservative, a Tea Party favorite and very pro-Israel

THE HILL

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick, according to multiple media outlets.

Trump campaign aides on Twitter said the presumptive GOP presidential nominee has yet to make a decision, but separate media reports said the conservative governor has emerged as Trump’s choice.

Pence had been on a final shortlist for the spot along with former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, according to Trump. He was also the overwhelming favorite of GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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T. Belman. This great development would not have been possible without the unanimous support of American Christians and their organizations. The Democratic Party would never pass such a platform because AIPAC and progressive Jews would never support it.

By Shalle’ McDonald/JNS.org

Amid the intrigue and speculation over the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, one item that the party has settled is its firm support for Israel and opposition to a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

On Tuesday, the Republican Platform Committee unanimously approved a number of significant changes to its platform in an attempt to further set the party’s pro-Israel credentials apart from the Democrats, who are facing concerns over their party’s future support for the Jewish state. The GOP’s platform changes included removing language encouraging a two-state solution as well as reinstating a reference to an “undivided” Israel that was previously included in the party’s 2008 platform, but was removed in 2012.
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The Knesset passed a law on Monday requiring local NGOs that receive more than half of their funding from foreign governments to disclose this information

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Here’s his reaction after reading the banned book The People v Muhammed

By Lorraine Caballero, CHRISTIAN DAILY

A bill prescribing jail terms to people who discourage Christian Arabs from joining the military service or persuading them to desert has been approved by a Knesset committee, prompting activists to speak out against it, saying it violates the Arabs’ freedom of expression.

The said bill, which gained opposition from the Joint List of Arab parties, was approved by the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee last week. Arab MKs contend that the controversial bill could be used to suppress the debate on whether Arab Christians should join the army, Haaretz reports.
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DEBKA

Israeli military bulldozers backed by tanks have crossed into the demilitarized zone dividing the Israeli and Syrian Golan borders. They are building a line of fortifications and anti-tank trenches 300-500 meters inside the DMZ.

This is the first time in the six-year Syrian war that the IDF has openly operated on the Syrian side of the border. The force has not so far run into opposition- or indeed any word of protest – or even mention – by Assad regime officials in Damascus.
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