#JeSuisShayratAirbase

–Idrees Ahmad

“Where’s an emoji eye roll when you need it! 😒”

–Danielle Koerber

Saffiyah Khan, a Muslim woman from Birmingham, England, stepped in when Ian Crossland, a leader of the extreme right-wing English Defence League & 20 EDL supporters tried to bully a woman in a hijab who was giving them the business verbally.

The big bad fascist bully-ass taken down by a nonchalant, cool-as-a-cucumber Muslim woman. Now that’s terrorism for you. He won’t be able to go out in public again strutting like macho-man. A pipsqueak brought down to size.

Ah the sister does us proud. The photo can’t be shared too much.
(Photo by Joe Giddens/PA)

#HandsOffEmptyRegimeAirbases

#StopTheWarOnMetalandConcreteandRustyJets

(The inimitable sarcasm of Usman A Khan Tahir)

In the early 90s, a political & personal friend of many years wrote an article saying the Oslo Accords were the best the Palestinians could get & they would have to eat them. In a letter to the editor, I objected that the Accords were terms of surrender & self-determination could be won through struggle. The fellow responded with a fury, compared me to a rabid sectarian, & severed all personal & political connections with me. It smarted at the time.

A few years ago, another longtime political & personal friend called me a crank who is overly critical & nurtures old grievances. That smarted.

Today, both of them are Assad supporters rallying for counter-revolution against the revolution in Syria & in a furor about those old airplane hangars.

The moral of the story? Don’t disagree with me or you’ll end up less than redoubtable hacks marching for dictators like Assad & Putin alongside allies like David Icke & David Duke.

(Tongue-in-cheek alert but maybe disagreeing with  me will lead you straight to political hell. Why chance it?)

This photo was taken at the Hands Off Syria Coalition rally in Los Angeles on Friday protesting the killing of a couple old airport hangars. One of the Assadists is holding up a placard reading “White Helmets are Terrorists.” In the context of the US so-called war on terror, that is a deliberate provocation inviting US bombers to target rescue workers in Syria.

Last week, Bilal Abdul Kareem, a US journalist in Syria, announced he had filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for including him on the US kill list. Assadist social media sites were filled with elation & fist pumping that Kareem was being targeted by US drones.

Calling for the US to target civilians, rescue workers & reporters in Syria betrays the stinking rotten politics of Assadist forces. Since when do progressive antiwar forces call on the US Pentagon to bomb rather than immediately, unconditionally withdraw? Since when do they turn their backs to accusations that Assad is gassing & bombing civilians but get roused to furor over a couple old airport hangars? Since when do they proclaim the Syrian army a salvation army & denounce rescue workers as terrorists?

There is still time for erstwhile antiwar activists & socialists to withdraw from this conglomeration of political degenerates. Make a clean break before you end up in the same political place as fascists of other generations.

(Photo from Twitter)

Someone asked me if I liked the idea of the US bombing all of Assad’s airbases, as Clinton proposed. Anyone else unclear about where I would stand on that?

PS: I’m still picking my jaw up off the floor at the question.

Turns out the skeletal baby Chihuahua my Annie & Juan-Pierre rescued is an old miniature Pinscher who is a very sick little guy.

Sometimes, rescue is just giving the poor little ones a home to die so they aren’t alone. No comfort to those who watch them die so bereft of love.

They’re reporting record low turnouts for elections in Kashmir today. That should be read as a massive “no” vote. It was Ather Zia who said last year that Kashmiris have already voted a “referendum in blood.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/ather-zia/azadi-resurrected-a-referendum-in-blood/

One woman read my post about Salah Skaff mourning the death of his infant daughter Amira & commented: “As it may sound too rational, this war has been going on for at least six years, people should not (have) been having babies in the middle of a war zone.”

No sister, it doesn’t sound rational at all. It sounds supremely racist, insular, ignorant, & despicable.