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[KavkazUzel] An endocrinologist at one of the Khasavyurt clinics recorded a video in which she apologized to a patient wearing a niqab. The doctor explained that a misunderstanding arose between her and the girl, as a result of which she decided that she was denied medical care because of her religious clothing.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on June 25, the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, stated that he was against wearing a niqab, since it is clothing alien to Caucasian traditions. Radical sentiments are increasing in society, and in modern realities it has become more difficult to identify extremists, Melikov noted, commenting on the terrorist attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala.
On June 23, Trinity Day, which is one of the main Christian holidays, militants attacked synagogues and an Orthodox church in Derbent and Makhachkala. The attacks were the first armed incidents in Dagestan in more than a year.
A video of a doctor from Khasavyurt apologizing to a patient in a niqab was published on June 28 on the social network VKontakte in the public group "Voice of Dagestan". The description of the video says that the doctor allegedly refused to see the girl in religious clothing because she refused to take off her niqab.
"I am an endocrinologist," the doctor said.
According to her, the patient was not denied help, but on the contrary, emergency assistance was offered out of turn. A misunderstanding arose between the doctor and the patient. “[This misunderstanding] is also unpleasant for me, for which I apologize. I treat all people and all religions with full respect,” the doctor said.
This post in the public “Voice of Dagestan”, which has more than 197,000 subscribers, received more than 63,000 views and 803 comments as of 12.00 Moscow time. Some of their authors criticized the doctor, while the other part came out in her support.
Let us recall that earlier State Duma Deputy Speaker Vladislav Davankov proposed giving educational institutions the right to ban the wearing of religious clothing, as well as giving the right to legislative and municipal assemblies to introduce a ban on wearing religious clothing in public places. State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Matveev and Sergei Obukhov also prepared a bill that would introduce fines for wearing clothing that hides the face in public places.
After Davankov's proposal to ban the wearing of religious clothing, State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov criticized him. He promised to "clearly" explain to Davankov and others what "religious traditional values and customs" are.
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[Regnum] The wearing of niqabs in Russia should be banned, said the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, at the International Youth Legal Forum in St. Petersburg on June 29.
“We urgently need to ban all this,” Bastrykin said.
At the forum, a question was raised about whether it is possible to ban the wearing of religious clothing that covers the face in Russia. Raising this topic, one of the participants stated that in Uzbekistan, clothing covering the face is prohibited. As a result, those who cannot wear the niqab in Central Asia move to Russia and wear it here.
In response, Bastrykin said that the State Duma could pass the corresponding law. It is unclear why the niqab is banned in Asia, but not here, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation noted, recalling that he is "not a legislator."
The head of the Investigative Committee recalled that Islamists recently carried out a terrorist attack in Dagestan and took hostages in a pre-trial detention center in Rostov-on-Don. Since there is a flow of migrants to Russia, it is necessary to regulate their behavior, including through the adoption of new laws.
Niqab is a type of hijab with a slit for the eyes. The face of the woman wearing the niqab is not visible.
On May 19, presidential adviser and chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeyev proposed banning the wearing of the niqab in Russia. He recalled that this type of clothing is prohibited in a number of Central Asian countries. Banning the niqab is necessary to reduce the risk of extremism, he explained.
In response, the deputy chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Russia, the mufti of Moscow, Ildar Alyautdinov, said on May 22 that the ban on the niqab may not please the countries of the East, with which Moscow is strengthening relations. At the same time, he referred to freedom of religion and observance of religious canons.
This statement caused controversy among representatives of the Muslim community. On the Islam. news portal, the author Aidar Bariyev reminded that the niqab has nothing to do with religion, while clothing that covers the face makes it difficult to identify a person. He reminded that wearing a niqab is a custom associated with the need to protect the face from sandstorms in the desert. In Russia, there is no need to wear such clothing.
State Duma deputy Mikhail Matveev (fraction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation) announced on June 11 that he had sent to the government a bill to ban niqabs in the country. He called it a security issue for Russia.
On June 20, Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon signed laws banning the import, sale and wearing of clothing alien to the culture of the people in the republic. Thus, hijabs were banned. The head of the republic instructed to develop the design of national clothing, adhering to the religious and ethical needs of the women of Tajikistan.
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[Rudaw] The captain of a rescue aid vessel warns against the perils facing immigrants colonists when crossing the Mediterranean Sea after last week’s capsized ship off the coast of Italia that killed 34 people.
"No one should die in the sea because we don’t have any legal ways of going to Europe. So it is very necessary to get legal ways for the people so that they get visa... and they are able to use a plane or a ship because this boats [sic] they are so... dangerous," Ingo Veert, captain of the German RESQSHIP aid vessel that is aiding in search efforts in the Mediterranean, told Rudaw's Arez Khalid.
Two shipwrecks off the coast of Italia last week left more than a dozen migrants colonists dead. Most of the passengers were people from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Kurdish areas in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... (Rojhelat), as well as people from Bangladesh, Pakistain, Egypt and Syria.
Italian authorities reported that 67 people were on board one of the vessels that capsized. Italia’s coasties has found 34 bodies from a wrecked ship 120 nautical miles off the coast of Calabria.
"We have about 4,000 people every year losing their life in the Mediterranean Sea," he added. "But the sea life is expanding"
Veert explained that there is no safe way to make the journey across the Mediterranean Sea, even for modern boats with fewer passengers, adding that some journeys have been made with rubber dinghies carrying 160 people.
He said that the longest he knows people surviving shipwrecks there is 4 or 5 days without food and with little to no drinking water.
The situation reminds him of a similar rescue with a boat coming from Libya.
"They’re really poor people. They sail under the ship’s deck. This is the cheapest place on board because it is the most dangerous palace onboard," Veert said of the wreck that killed 10 passengers.
Among all the routes taken, the "Central Mediterranean" route between the coast of North Africa, Italia and Malta is the deadliest in the world.
According to data from Italia’s interior ministry obtained by AFP, arrivals to the country have dropped significantly since the start of the year, with 24,100 migrants colonists arriving, compared to 57,500 in the same period in 2023.
Around 20,000 people from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region migrated out of the country in the pursuit of a better life last year, with at least nine losing their lives on dangerous and illegal smuggling routes, according to the Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugees and Displaced Affairs.
[JPost] Anti-Israel activists called for a shift from protests to militancy and violent revolution at protests against the presidential debate between US President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump in Atlanta on Thursday.
"We say f**k the police, we will burn it down and take what is ours in the streets. And that isn't an empty threat, its a promise," said a woman speaking to around a hundred activists in a protest organized by Palestine Action US. "The days of protests are behind us, and to be peaceful in the belly of the beast that commits unlimited genocide on the global south is a disgrace. It is time we follow the lead of militants of oppressed nations. It is time to change our orientation from one of protest to resistance."
Advertisement for the "stop the debate" protest explained that both Biden and Trump were part of a system that needed to be upended, calling the choice between Democrat and Republican a "false choice. In a video published by Palestine Action US, the speaker calling for the beheading of the "two-headed beast."
OPTING FOR A 'TACTICAL RETREAT'
Escalate network said on X on Friday that the protesters had opted for a "tactical retreat" when confronted by police. The group claimed that a speaker cited the philosophy of deceased terrorist Basel Al-Araj, and told other protesters "we fight when we are ready, not when the enemy is ready."
The Party for Socialism and Liberation also held protests outside the CNN Atlanta studio where the debate was held. PSL's own presidential candidate, Claudia De la Cruz joined the pro-Palestinian protests.
"As Genocide Joe and arch-racist Donald Trump each clamored to call themselves bigger supporters of Israel and the war machine than their opponent, more and more people reject the two-party system and desire a alternative," PSL Atlanta said on Instagram on Saturday. "No matter who takes the presidency in November, we will not let up until we get a permanent ceasefire, an end to the occupation, and an end to all U.S. aid to Israel! We must build a mass movement that will tear down this unjust system!"
Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America and Atlanta Multifaith Coalition for Palestine also participated in the PSL protests.
One photograph shared on Saturday on Instagram by the coalition said that the "whole damn system's got to go."
Atlanta DSA said on Saturday on social media that neither Trump nor Biden represented the "will of working people."
[Rudaw] Global anti-money laundering watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF) removed The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... from the list of countries that require special scrutiny over money laundering concerns on Friday.
That seems a tad precipitous, as they seem to be struggling at the moment.
FATF downgraded Turkey to its "grey list" in 2021, for failing to supervise its banking and real estate and other sectors to money-laundering and financing organizations such as the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
Following rounds of meetings with Ottoman Turkish officials, the watchdog delisted Turkey.
That’s all it takes? Goodness, Pakistan could have put an end to their FATF misery years ago.
FATF said in a statement that Turkey made "significant progress" in addressing its anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism deficiencies.
"They have completed their Action Plans to resolve the identified strategic deficiencies within agreed timeframes and will no longer be subject to the FATF’s increased monitoring process," read the statement from the Gay Paree-based organization.
Before the Friday meeting of FATF, Ottoman Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek wrote "we succeeded" on X, following it with a Ottoman Turkish flag emoji.
Ottoman Turkish officials welcomed the decision.
"With this development, international investors' confidence in our country's financial system has become even stronger," Ottoman Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on X, adding that the decision is an "extremely positive" outcome for the country’s finance and real sector.
When the FATF adds a country to the grey list, "it means the country has committed to resolve, swiftly, the identified strategic deficiencies within agreed timeframes and is subject to increased monitoring," according to the organization.
The removal from the grey list could help to improve Turkey’s crippled economy. Following the announcement of the decision, the value of US dollars against the Ottoman Turkish lira decreased from 32.94 to 32.87.
There are over 20 countries in FATF’s "grey list" which are considered risky. The organization also has a "black list" which is for countries considered "high risk" jurisdictions.
The lira has been in freefall since a military coup in 2016, and the government of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... took unprecedented unilateral measures including successive state of emergency declarations which greatly isolated the country.
[Rudaw] Authorities in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region have unlawfully arrested and deported Syrian refugees, alleged an international watchdog.
"Iraq should immediately end its distressing campaign of arbitrary arrests and deportations of Syrians who have fled to Iraq for safety," said Sarah Sanbar, Iraq researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a report published on Thursday.
According to the report, the deported refugees had official Iraqi documents or were registered with the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as asylum seekers, enabling them to stay and work in Iraq. HRW did not estimate the number of people who have been deported.
Last August, Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council prohibited the deportation of Syrian refugees.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... in March, Iraqi authorities initiated a crackdown on foreigners violating residency regulations. This led to the detention and deportation of numerous Syrians following raids on their residences and workplaces.
The HRW has not received a response from Iraq’s interior ministry regarding their requests for comments, annd the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) office that responds to international reports did not immediately respond to the HRW report. The lack of response IS a response: "F You"
"The Iraqi government should immediately halt its campaign of arbitrary arrests, detention, and deportations of Syrian asylum seekers. Iraqi authorities should establish a workable system for determining refugee status in line with international standards," said the human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organization.
Iraq is hosting an estimated 280,000 Syrian refugees, who were displaced because of the Syrian conflict, with more than 240,000 residing in the Kurdistan Region.
"While parts of Syria have not had active conflict hostilities since 2018, Syria remains unfit for safe and dignified refugee returns. Deporting asylum seekers breaches Iraq’s obligations as a party to the UN Convention Against Torture (CAT)," the HRW report stated.
A report in March by the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry warned that Syria has witnessed a large escalation in fighting in the last four years.
Upon returning to Syria, those who fled the country following the onset of the deadly civil war face a myriad of abuses from regime authorities and various gangs.
Syrians rose up against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... in March 2011, leading to a full-scale civil war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and has left millions more in need of dire humanitarian assistance.
Over 13 million Syrians, half the country’s pre-war population, have been displaced since the start of the civil war, more than 6 million of which are refugees who have fled the war-torn country, according to UN figures.
[Rudaw] Around 1,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been repatriated to their homeland of Shingal (Sinjar) in coordination with relevant authorities a month before Iraqi plans to close all camps in the country.
Iraq’s Ministry of Displacement and Migration repatriated 569 people from Sharia camp in Duhok, Kurdistan Region, to their homeland of Shingal (Sinjar) in Nineveh with the support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and Nineveh Operations Command, Minister Evan Faeq Jabro told Rudaw on Thursday.
On Monday, the ministry also announced the return of 397 IDPs from Khanke camp in Duhok to Shingal.
"81 families... left Khanke informal site through our Facilitated Voluntary Movement programme, ensuring informed, safe, dignified movements from locations of displacements across [Iraq]," IOM Iraq announced in a post on X on Thursday.
The ministry’s Erbil office has increased efforts to implement Baghdad’s decision to close all IDP camps in the country, including in the Kurdistan Region, before July 30.
At the Lalish conference in Erbil on Tuesday, Germany’s Consul General Klaus Streicher said extending the deadline for camp closures could enable a safer and more effective repatriation process, preventing future relocations.
Many IDPs have been reluctant to return home. Some who voluntarily left camps to salvage their homes and livelihoods have been forced to return to camps, due to poor living conditions and infrastructure.
Members of the Yazidi community have repeatedly shared that many people have left Sharia and other camps, instead of returning to their places of origin, taking dangerous and illegal routes to immigrate to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... because of poor living conditions.
Mandira Sharma, a lawyer, and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... defender, warned during the Lalish conference that the government could be held accountable for failing to protect IDPs after pushing them out of the camps and into a dangerous situation if they know their lives might be at risk.
Following the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) takeover of large swathes of land in Iraq from 2014 to 2017, around 1.8 million Iraqis, predominantly from the Sunni-inhabited provinces and Baghdad, were sheltered in the Kurdistan Region.
Yazidis, a vulnerable population in Iraq, were subjected to countless heinous atrocities, including forced marriages, sexual violence, and massacres when ISIS captured Sinjar in 2014, bringing destruction to many villages and towns populated by the minority group. Many Yazidis were forced to flee to displacement camps across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, where many still remain.
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They are warning that the group should not count on the United States or anyone else being able to hold off Israeli leaders if they decide to execute battle-ready plans for an offensive into Lebanon.
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Back in July 2006, the IDF was pretty slow in taking out Hezbollah launchers.
Hope the IDF has significanly upped their game on this as Hezbollah has an order of magnitude more missiles this time.
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Diplomacy essentially peaked with Chamberlain. Hear me out. Diplomacy isn't about results, it's about saying what people want to hear, the further detached from reality the better.
It's all down hill since "peace in our time."
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That is interesting advice from the country that wasted $300 million on a floating pier that sank. And has failed to get supplies to folks who need them in Gaza. And the same country that spent a trillion to get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan only to leave it to the Taliban…..
#6
The point US, Europe trying to make: "don't count on us sabotaging Israel as we did for Hames - Der Juden not taking this sh*t the way they used to."
[IsraelTimes] Broadcaster cites Palestinian Authority sources as saying pro-Iranian elements believed behind efforts to smuggle sophisticated rockets to terror groups in West Bank via Jordan
At the current rate of smuggling from Jordan, Paleostinian terror groups in the West Bank will be able to launch rockets into Israel within a year, according to a Wednesday evening report citing bigwigs in the Paleostinian Authority security forces. So they have 11 months to be dealt with?
Speaking to the Kan broadcaster, the sources said that these rockets would be similar in quality to the tens of thousands of projectiles fired from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... in recent years — far more sophisticated than the primitive projectiles launched from Jenin at the Afula and Bat Hefer areas on several occasions in the past year.
Both the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror groups are believed to be involved in the smuggling operation, Kan reported, adding that explosives, money and knowledge on bomb-making were being transferred from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... to the West Bank via Jordan, with Iranian guidance.
Israel Defense Forces operations in Tulkarem and Qalqilya, in the West Bank, are related to the effort to smuggle more sophisticated rockets via Jordan, the report added.
In 2023, a Paleostinian group in the northern West Bank calling itself the al-Ayyash Battalion — apparently named for a notorious Hamas bomb-maker killed by Israel — attempted a series of mostly unsuccessful rocket launches at Israeli towns and West Bank settlements.
The IDF said at the time that the homemade projectiles did not contain explosive payloads, though one managed to fly some 100 meters (330 feet).
Fabian Hinz, a researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who specializes in missiles and drones, told The Times of Israel in mid-2023 that the West Bank rockets were not comparable even to early versions of projectiles launched from the Gaza Strip at Israel from 2001.
"I would imagine it would be possible to build something less crude than that, especially if you have some sort of experience, technology... knowledge and assistance from the Gaza Strip," he said. "It looks like something a guy made in his backyard."
On Wednesday, Kan also cited a senior Jordanian source as saying that Amman had discovered two explosives storage sites near the capital in the past few days, and suspects Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its proxies are behind them.
One was said to be located near an airport in southeastern Amman that is used by the United States military, and another was in the same area.
A Jordanian investigation into the sites was still underway, Kan reported, citing a bigwig in Amman.
Over the past year, Jordan has said it has foiled many attempts to smuggle weapons by infiltrators linked to pro-Iranian groups in Syria, who Amman says have crossed into the Hashemite Kingdom with rocket launchers and explosives. Jordan says some of the weapons have gone through undetected.
Iran has denied being behind such attempts.
Jordanian officials say that most of the clandestine flow of arms into the country has been bound for the neighboring West Bank, and that several citizens with links to Hamas have been detained on suspicion of smuggling arms to Paleostinians.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
