If the Obama administration has its way, the United States will be welcoming an increasing number of new Muslim refugees to our shores. The targeted migration of Islam to North America and its influences in our government, courts and schools, poses a very real threat to Democracy and freedom in the United States. Islamic radicalization, a topic the White House prefers to avoid, is stealthily growing in America and if we continue to ignore it, one day Islam will achieve its goals of dominance in our culture.
As proof of my assertions, I offer our neighbor to the north, Canada.
According to the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canada's once peaceful Muslim population is growing more radical, and officials are at a loss to find ways to control Islam's prolific aspirations.
A newly revealed year old confidential de-classified report detailing Canada's Islamic extremism issues is available here.
For over two decades, Canada opened their arms to war weary Muslim refugees. Now Islam is the fastest growing religion in Canada. Growing faster rate than the population of Canadians who claim no religious affiliation. As a result of Islam's growth, Canada is facing a plague like escalation of a nasty bi-product of Islam, increased Muslim extremism. Extremism that is forcing Canadian officials to confront what they have categorized as a growing threat to their national security.
After excluding Muslim dominated nations and the United States, Canada has the second highest concentration of active terrorist affiliates and terrorist fundraising groups on the Globe. In the last three years, Canada has discovered and thwarted numerous homegrown Islamic terrorist attacks directed at government facilities, public transportation systems, and yes, the United States. Canada has also discovered that their Islamic communities are playing a growing role in global Islamic jihad.
According to the above de-classified report, beginning in 2013, an alarming number of naturalized Canadian Muslims---males between the ages of 18 and 35---have left their families in Canada and traveled to North Africa, Somalia, Syria, Chechnya, Dagestan, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, to fight alongside Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda affiliated groups.
What is truly unremarkable is the source of this radicalization, orthodox Muslim Imam's promotion of extremism from inside the growing number of Mosques in Canada's Muslim communities. Something the international counter terrorism community has been warning the Canadian and US government about for well over a decade.
Perhaps Americans should heed the warnings broadcast from Canadian Officials. At one time, liberal Canada imprudently believed---as some of America continues to believe---Muslims will assimilate into our culture. Canada is warning Americans of the folly of these naive notions.
Rough estimates suggest some 3 million Muslims currently live in the United States. Presently, many US cities---Dearborn, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota to name two--- are struggling with increased and unhealthy concentrations of Muslims refugees, Islamic centers, mosques and the unintended growth of Islamic extremism in these communities. After the Kenyan Mall massacre, intelligence reports revealed American Muslim immigrants---from both cities mentioned above and others---had participated in this brutal attack and murder of innocent non-Muslims, all in the name of Islam.
When it comes to Muslim radicalization and exporting violent Jihadists, clearly, Canada is not alone.
Currently, the violent aftermath of the Islamic Arab Spring has the Obama Administration---at United Nations insistence---clamoring to approve historic increases of Muslim immigration to the United States from formerly stable Muslim countries besieged by Islamic violence and Sunni/Shiite sectarian violence.
Americans may not realize---although they make up almost two thirds of US immigrants---Christian immigration to the United States is steadily declining. Moreover, for the last 20 years, America has seen its Islamic immigrant population double and its Muslim population rise. Why?
All over the globe, Christians are under attack. Muslim terrorist groups now claiming Obama sanctioned freedom fighter status are burning churches, executing those who do not convert; yet, I hear no Obama Administration calls to increase immigration of Christian refugees to the United States, just displaced Muslims.
Unlike Canada, US law discourages an accurate accounting of the numbers of Muslims currently residing in American communities. Never the less, the rise of the Islamic Mosque projects in American, the growth of Islamic conversions among our African American prison population and the increasing number of militant Muslim enclaves in America suggest Islamic extremism in America is on a similar trajectory to Canada's.
Moreover, all it will take to continue these dangerous and unhealthy immigration trends is American apathy and the ongoing pro-Muslim activity of the man in the White House.
Therefore, while we revel in celebration for recent failures of the President's Healthcare reform, I would like to remind America infiltration of our communities by our Islamic enemy continues. Unless Obama immigration policies stop, America, just like our neighbors to the north, can look forward to the uncontrollable Islamic radicalization.
You do not have to believe me; you can simply read the report.
A full-time professor on the faculty of the newly-minted Texas A&M University School of Law called for the repeal and replacement of the Second Amendment on Friday.
The professor, Mary Margaret “Meg” Penrose, made her controversial declaration during a day-long panel symposium on gun control and the Second Amendment at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford.
UConn’s main student-run journal, The Connecticut Law Review, organized the event, according to Connecticut Public Radio. It was well-attended, primarily by law students, law professors and local attorneys.
Penrose was among the speakers, reports CTNewsJunkie, a Connecticut news site.
Penrose cited the Sandy Hook massacre, which occurred in Connecticut, as well as other mass shootings including the 2011 Tucson shooting that left six people dead and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded.
Noting her own outraged that Americans continue to tolerate gun violence, Penrose asked audience members to raise their hands if they thought laws intended to prevent gun violence have been successful. No one raised a hand.
Referring to a section of the gargantuan Obamacare law which discusses "the president's own commissioned and non-commissioned officer corps," Gohmert drew attention to the notion that under the pretext of a "national emergency," such individuals could be used to impose some form of medical martial law.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the Ready Reserve Corps is directed to "assist full-time Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions."
"It says it is for international health crises, but then it doesn't include the word 'health' when it talks about national emergencies," said Gohmert.Why are so many federal agencies arming to the teeth? Does the IRS and HHS really need armed agents? Why does the federal government fear "We the People?" As Mark Levin says almost every day on his radio show, we are living in a post-constitutional era. The socialists/communists/progressives have finally infiltrated the government to the point where they can implement their policies and like every other socialist regime that has ever existed, they'll gladly and willingly commit genocide on their own people.
"I've asked, what kind of training are they getting….I want to know are they using weapons to train, or are they being taught to use syringes and health care items?" asked the Congressman, adding that "no clear answers" had been forthcoming on the issue."
Combined with the continued DHS arms build up along with the federal agency's hiring of armed guards with "Top Secret" security clearances, Gohmert characterized the issue as "very disturbing".
Des Moines, Iowa Islamic leader Nermin Spahic is facing one count of third-degree sexual abuse and two counts of sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist following claims that a 42 year old woman and her 18 year old daughter's claims that they were sexually assaulted by him during a religious ceremony. So now he is claiming that sexual abuse charges violates religious freedom.Iowa Islamic Leader Argues Sexual Abuse Charges Violate His Religious Freedom
Nermin Spahic is an imam at the Des Moines Islamic and Cultural Center Bosniak. The alleged sexual abuse occurred back in August 2013.
The Des Moines Register reports:
An attorney for a Des Moines Islamic leader charged with sexual abuse and exploitation is asking a judge to drop two of the charges, arguing that they violate the man's religious freedom.
In a motion to dismiss filed last week in Polk County District Court, Des Moines defense attorney Angela Campbell argued that Nermin Spahic, 40, had never met the two women who accused him of sexual abuse before the day of a religious ceremony that led to his arrest. The motion also says that Spahic never claimed to offer "mental health services" or counseling.
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Additionally, there's no evidence that the two women were "emotionally dependent" upon Spahic, the motion said. Spahic will also argue he is not guilty on the sexual abuse charge at trial.
The woman on Aug. 12 called Spahic to her house in Johnston for help with her daughter, who reportedly suffered personal issues, including depression and drug use, police and court papers said. Spahic allegedly performed an Islamic ceremony that involved "chanting and rubbing the body with oil," court papers said.
The mother of the girl told investigators that her daughter did have a "history of mental illness and deception."
Spahic's supporters however, tell another story. They claim that Spahic simply engaged in a ritual ceremony.
Founder of the Des Moines Islamic and Cultural Center Bosniak Elvedin Sivac says that Spahic "doesn't deserve this."
Sivac came to the United States in 2005 and has known Spahic since that time.
Sivac claims that the ceremony being performed was a sihr. Islamic sources indicate that sihr has to do with magic and that it is used in various ways, including in a sort of exorcism, at least from the claims of Sivac. He
While Sivac claims that oil is applied to the body while the Qur'an is read, several texts from Islamic books and hadiths indicate that "magic," which includes incantations, medicines, smoke, mist and oils, masked as "healing," are haraam (unlawful) and kufr (disbelief). So one wonders whether Spahic is engaging in demonic activity (even according to Islamic teaching) or whether Sivac is engaging in taqiyya.
Another of Spahic's supporters, Nijaz Besic claims that Spahic also performed the ceremony on his wife and daughter and claims that he does not believe the accusations against Spahic.
Spahic bonded out of the Polk County Jail after his arrest and is scheduled for trial on Dec. 2. The mother and daughter have issued a no contact order against him.
My perspective is that Islam is a demonic religion and that its founder was demon possessed. I believe the teachings of the Qur'an are doctrines of demons and I believe the historical record of Islam demonstrates that.
The interesting thing in all of this is that the charges against Spahic are asked to be dropped because it violates the Islamic religion (ie. Spahic's religious freedom). Does that strike anyone else as odd? How can charging someone with what is determined to be a violation of the law (ie. Sexual abuse) be considered a violation of Islamic religion? The only thing I can get from that is the twisted thinking of Islamic doctrine concerning how Islamic men are allowed to treat women via Sharia law. Islamists don't care for American law. They have their own and they are hell bent on making light of American law in order to enforce Sharia, as demonstrated earlier this year by a director for CAIR Herman Mustafa Carroll when he said, "If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land."
Well, if Islamists are above the law of the land, why are they then appealing to the law of the land to dismiss charges of sexual abuse? I'll tell you. They use the law to cloak themselves when it suits them and then when they don't agree with it, they think they are above it. Taqiyya at its finest!
Perhaps this is merely akin to not being able to prosecute 9/11 Muslim jihadists because it violates their religious freedom. What say you?
An attorney for a Des Moines Islamic leader charged with sexual abuse and exploitation is asking a judge to drop two of the charges, arguing that they violate the man's religious freedom.The mother of the girl told investigators that her daughter did have a "history of mental illness and deception."
In a motion to dismiss filed last week in Polk County District Court, Des Moines defense attorney Angela Campbell argued that Nermin Spahic, 40, had never met the two women who accused him of sexual abuse before the day of a religious ceremony that led to his arrest. The motion also says that Spahic never claimed to offer "mental health services" or counseling.
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Additionally, there's no evidence that the two women were "emotionally dependent" upon Spahic, the motion said. Spahic will also argue he is not guilty on the sexual abuse charge at trial.
The woman on Aug. 12 called Spahic to her house in Johnston for help with her daughter, who reportedly suffered personal issues, including depression and drug use, police and court papers said. Spahic allegedly performed an Islamic ceremony that involved "chanting and rubbing the body with oil," court papers said.
Approximately 15 Muslim leaders, including Dawud Walid, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan chapter, met at the end of September in order to discuss establishing Islamic Shariah law courts that would grant women a divorce.
Sometimes there are instances where the man divorces his wife in civil court, but refuses to divorce her religiously. This is an indication that Shariah trumps US state and federal law.CAIR & Muslim Leaders Plot Shariah Law Court in US
Remember, Islam allows for deception. I take it that the push to advance Shariah in the United States will start with this type of a court, but will quickly broaden in order to advance the caliphate.
Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR Director Herman Mustafa Carroll has openly stated "If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land."
When I was a child, I somehow picked up the notion that persecution against the Christian church basically ended with the collapse of the Roman Empire.
But it turns out that the last century was the worst century ever for the persecution of Christians and martyrdom. Dr. David Barrett, a leading church statistician, says there were more Christians martyred in the 20th century than had been murdered in all previous centuries combined.
Persecution today continues to rear its ugly head in various places around the globe, such as in remnant Communist countries, like Vietnam or North Korea. But anti-Christian persecution is especially found in the Middle East and those places where the philosophy of Islamism — a supremacist form of Islam — prevails.
It’s a cliché by now, but it’s true: The Arab Spring has turned into the Christian Winter.It’s a cliché by now, but it’s true: The Arab Spring has turned into the Christian Winter.
Dr. Peter Hammond of Frontline Fellowship says that just in the last few years the Christian population in the Middle East has shrunk from about 15 million to 13. Most of these have fled the homes their families have occupied for multiple generations — or perhaps even millennia.
Hundreds of years before Mohammed was born or Islam conquered that region, these families lived basically in peace and safety. Even after the Islamic sword swept over their lands and forced them into dhimmi status (a second class status, not unlike the old Jim Crow laws blacks lived under in parts of the South), these families still remained in Iraq and Syria and Egypt.
But in recent years, due to events like the “Arab Spring” and the war in Iraq, the region has dramatically destabilized for Christians. We need to pray for these hurting fellow Christians. Paul says, “And if one member [of the Body of Christ] suffers, all the members suffer with it” (1 Cor. 12:26).
More than 100 or so Christian cathedrals, churches, schools have been destroyed in Egypt just in the last couple of months. One Cairo-based church cancelled the Sunday-morning service in August for the first time in 1300 years.
Read more at http://godfatherpolitics.com/12790/killing-christians-church-state-remain-silent/#8qmuExTGMxQz8gO0.99
Dr. Peter Hammond of Frontline Fellowship says that just in the last few years the Christian population in the Middle East has shrunk from about 15 million to 13. Most of these have fled the homes their families have occupied for multiple generations — or perhaps even millennia.
Hundreds of years before Mohammed was born or Islam conquered that region, these families lived basically in peace and safety. Even after the Islamic sword swept over their lands and forced them into dhimmi status (a second class status, not unlike the old Jim Crow laws blacks lived under in parts of the South), these families still remained in Iraq and Syria and Egypt.
But in recent years, due to events like the “Arab Spring” and the war in Iraq, the region has dramatically destabilized for Christians. We need to pray for these hurting fellow Christians. Paul says, “And if one member [of the Body of Christ] suffers, all the members suffer with it” (1 Cor. 12:26).
More than 100 or so Christian cathedrals, churches, schools have been destroyed in Egypt just in the last couple of months. One Cairo-based church cancelled the Sunday-morning service in August for the first time in 1300 years.
In a recent weekend, Islamists killed dozens of Christians at a Pakistani church service and shoppers at a Kenya mall. (To the Islamists, virtually all non-Muslims are infidels.)
Recently, American attention has been focused on Syria, though it has somewhat subsided as of late, since a US strike has seemingly been averted for the moment.
Clearly, Syria is undergoing terrible developments. Some call it a civil war. Others would say that foreign invaders are taking advantage of the chaos that came in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, especially after the fall of Mubarak in Egypt.
In any event, Islamists are creating havoc throughout the region.
Syria played a key role in the start of Christianity. It was in a city of Syria that the famous moniker for believers in Jesus was first created. Luke tells us in the book of Acts, “the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch” (Acts 11:26).
Saul of Tarsus was on the road to Damascus (Acts 9; Gal. 1:17), when Jesus appeared to him and changed him into the great missionary known to us as Paul the Apostle. He went on to write half the New Testament.
It was out of Antioch, that the early Church sent Barnabas and Paul out on the first missionary enterprise. They were the first we know of to bring the gospel to Europe.
Best-selling author and speaker Bill Federer told my radio audience recently that after Greek (the language of the New Testament) and Latin (the main language for Church writings for more than a millennium), Syriac (a language based in Syria) contained the most amount of Christian writings.
Even now, thousands of Christians still live in Syria, but their lives and future are in jeopardy, as are the lives of many Muslims who do not buy into the Islamist philosophy of the Syrian rebels.
Reports show that our government is funding many of these rebels or providing them with weapons.
Most agree that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is a bad guy. Yet the rebels opposing him include Muslim terrorists committed to the same deadly philosophy of Al-Qaeda, whether directly affiliated or not. Meanwhile, Christians in Syria plead with foreign powers to stay out of the battle and not to support the Muslim rebels.
Saddam Hussein was a bad guy by anybody’s reckoning. But, reflecting the “law of unintended consequences,” the change in government in Iraq has been devastating to Christians — the majority of whom have been killed or driven out by Islamic militants.
Kirsten Powers wrote the following for the TheDailyBeast, “A Global Slaughter of Christians, but America’s Churches Stay Silent.” She notes, “Christians in the Middle East and Africa are being slaughtered, tortured, raped, kidnapped, beheaded, and forced to flee the birthplace of Christianity. One would think this horror might be consuming the pulpits and pews of American churches. Not so. The silence has been nearly deafening.”
It’s time to shatter the silence and mobilize the prayer warriors. The least we can do is pray. Next month will mark the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. The official date is November 10, 2013. However, their website states: “you are free to choose another date if you wish." Voice of the Martyrs and Open Doors have chosen November 3.
Read more at http://godfatherpolitics.com/12790/killing-christians-church-state-remain-silent/#8qmuExTGMxQz8gO0.99
It was out of Antioch, that the early Church sent Barnabas and Paul out on the first missionary enterprise. They were the first we know of to bring the gospel to Europe.
Best-selling author and speaker Bill Federer told my radio audience recently that after Greek (the language of the New Testament) and Latin (the main language for Church writings for more than a millennium), Syriac (a language based in Syria) contained the most amount of Christian writings.
Even now, thousands of Christians still live in Syria, but their lives and future are in jeopardy, as are the lives of many Muslims who do not buy into the Islamist philosophy of the Syrian rebels.
Reports show that our government is funding many of these rebels or providing them with weapons.
Most agree that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is a bad guy. Yet the rebels opposing him include Muslim terrorists committed to the same deadly philosophy of Al-Qaeda, whether directly affiliated or not. Meanwhile, Christians in Syria plead with foreign powers to stay out of the battle and not to support the Muslim rebels.
Saddam Hussein was a bad guy by anybody’s reckoning. But, reflecting the “law of unintended consequences,” the change in government in Iraq has been devastating to Christians — the majority of whom have been killed or driven out by Islamic militants.
Kirsten Powers wrote the following for the TheDailyBeast, “A Global Slaughter of Christians, but America’s Churches Stay Silent.” She notes, “Christians in the Middle East and Africa are being slaughtered, tortured, raped, kidnapped, beheaded, and forced to flee the birthplace of Christianity. One would think this horror might be consuming the pulpits and pews of American churches. Not so. The silence has been nearly deafening.”
It’s time to shatter the silence and mobilize the prayer warriors. The least we can do is pray. Next month will mark the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. The official date is November 10, 2013. However, their website states: “you are free to choose another date if you wish." Voice of the Martyrs and Open Doors have chosen November 3.
Syria-Saudi Arabia: Two western news services reported this week that Saudi Arabia is preparing to finance the training and arming of a new Syrian non-jihadi rebel force. The force is to be built around the Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) which was created in September 2013 by a merger of 43 fighting groups.
According to the news services, Saudi Arabia reportedly has hired Pakistan to help train the re-purposed force. It supposedly would start as two brigades and would be supplied through Jordan. It would not be jihadist, but also would not be a secular force.
Comment: If this information is accurate, it implies that the Saudis judge the fighting will go one for two more years because that is about how long it would take to develop an effective fighting force. By that time, the Syrian government is likely to have stabilized the security situation or, less likely, to have fallen to the jihadists.
The amount of time, energy and multi-national coordination required in this effort, with highly uncertain prospects for a return on the investment, plus the direct involvement of Jordan as pivotal to the logistics raise suspicions that this is not a serious initiative. Rather it looks like a perception management stratagem to prompt more US assistance, if not intervention.
The idea is to establish and enforce the principle that wherever Islamic law and American customs, practices, business policies, and laws conflict, the American side would have to give way.
A controversy has broken out at Washington University in St. Louis over a Facebook photo apparently showing five students dressed up for Halloween as a Navy SEAL team capturing Osama bin Laden with garish neon water guns.
The photo was originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 30 with the title “Halloween ’13 Amurrica!!” reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The photo shows three dudes in camouflage attire surrounding a kid also in camo garb who is sporting a long, fake beard and turban. There’s also a guy in the background holding up an American flag.
Washington University student Mahroh Jahangiri later objected to the photo because she views mimicking the American military’s killing of Osama bin Laden as a hateful Muslim stereotype.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance that places a confiscatory ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammo on Oct. 29.
Those who are in possession of the high-capacity magazines or high-capacity ammunition feeding devices will have 90 days to turn them over to police, sell them out-of-state or render them permanently inoperable. Failure to do so will result in misdemeanor charges.
“While not a panacea, this legislation provides law enforcement with more tools to continue to address gun violence and also continues to strengthen our city’s strong stance on gun regulation,” the bill’s sponsor, Supervisor Malia Cohen, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
In 2000, the state legislature placed a ban on the sale, transport, import or purchase of magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, but gun owners who purchased 10-plus round magazines before the enactment of the state ban were grandfathered in.
For residents of San Francisco, that no longer holds true unless you qualify for the exemption, i.e. you’re a law enforcement officer, an armored car driver, a museum curator or a Hollywood movie/television producer (these magazines can be “used as props”), according to the law.
Aside from putting a retroactive ban on 10-plus round magazines, the bill requires gun dealers to inform customers of local laws, establishes the presumption that an owner who has not reported a firearm lost or stolen remains in possession of the firearm, and prohibits minors from entering shooting ranges unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian, the SF Chronicle reports.
The jihad in Thailand is brutal, vicious, relentless, and yet we hear nothing in the media. Soft targets are their specialty. Schools, banks. automated teller machines (ATMs) ........ thousands slaughtered. And these nurses are giving a victory sign. Moderates unmasked.
Hi Pamela from ChaiTwo Muslim nurses had their photo taken flashing the 'V for Victory' sign over a just deceased bomb squad police officer. Police Sergeant Nimit Deewong had just died in the intensive care room of Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital where he had been taken with grievous injuries sustained in a Muslim bomb attack.
The Sergeant was one of three bomb squad police officers murdered last Monday by Muslim terrorists who had set a trap for bomb squad officers.The nurses' celebration of the police officer's death at the hands of Muslim terrorists raises very legitimate questions about whether the Muslim hospital staff really tried to save the Buddhist officer's life. It even raises questions about whether any Muslim staff member did anything overt to end the officer's life.
As everywhere, Muslim terrorists cannot operate on a long-term basis without the support of their co-religionists who support the terrorists' families, and provide money, weapons, equipment, shelter and information to support terror attacks.
Why aren't more Muslim terrorists identified and turned in by the Muslim community?
The nurses' behaviour illustrates one of the reasons.Nurses flash victory sign in front of slain bomb squad officer Bangkok Post, 30 Oct 2013 Thanks to Chai)Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital publicly apologised on Wednesday after a photograph of two of its nurses flashing a victory sign in front of a slain bomb squad officer circulated on the internet.Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital staff apologise to the public after a photo of its nurses acting 'inappropriately' circulated on the social media.The two nurses flashed the two-finger victory sign as they posed for a photo in front of the body of Pol Sgt Nimit Deewong, who was in the hospital's intensive care room.The 35-year-old sergeant was one of the three bomb squad members killed by an explosion while examining another bomb planted in a hole beside Phetkasem Road in Narathiwat on Monday morning.The photo was widely shared on social media. Many web board posters criticised the nurses for lack of professional ethics and for their inappropriate action.The hospital made its apology in a letter made public. it said:1. The photo was shared on the Line communication app and the incident did occur in Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital.2. An initial investigation found the nurses were guilty of professional misconduct but were not aware of the situation. However, there was no other agenda.3. All hospital staff working at that time were determined and committed to their work.4. Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital will set up a committee to investigate the issue and take disciplinary action against all staff involved in the incident.5. The hospital would like to apologise and expresses its condolences to the families of the officers and everyone concerned. The hospital will not allow this situation to happen again.A nurse who was in the photograph posted a message on her Facebook page saying she did not know how the photo was shared or who posted it."I did not mean any disrespect to those who suffered. (As for the victory sign), I was only trying to give moral support to my colleagues and security officers," she said. "I am very sorry and ask for forgiveness from the families and all sides who have been affected."Investigators inspect the crime scene where a municipal public parks worker was slain in Pattani's Panare district on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013. (Photo by Abdulloh Benjakat)Meanwhile, in Pattani's Panare district, two people were shot dead in separate attacks on Wednesday morning.
Police said Wicharn Chadarat, 41, a municipal public parks worker, was attacked in front of the Panare district library while driving to work on a motorcycle. The shooting occurred around 7am about 200 metres from the park where he was to work.Two men on a motorcycle followed him and the pillion rider opened fire with a handgun. Wicharn was shot in the head and died instantly.About two hours later, 59-year-old oil palm farmer Kaewkul Nilsri was killed at his farm.Kaewkul, who was the uncle of Thailand's Got Talent winner and song-for-life singer Somchai "Chai" Ninsri, was shot by an unidentified gunman on a motorcycle while he was taking a rest from work. The gunman fled after the shooting.A bystander, Nit Wanghongklang, 22, was also injured in the crossfire. She was rushed to Panare Hospital.The YouTube video below, uploaded by LAKORNHD ThaiTV on Aug 25 this year, shows Somchai "Chai" Ninsri performing a song about the southern unrest at Thailand's Got Talent television programme.Bomb squad doesn't shy from danger Bangkok PostOfficers stay dedicated after Narathiwat blast deaths give stark reminder of reality of jobPublished: 31 Oct 2013 at 00.00 Newspaper section: News"Life is uncertain. Every time I leave my house to defuse a bomb, I tell my wife and son to come to terms with what might happen to me in the future."These are the words of Pol Sub Lt Sayobmarn Maitreechorn, chief of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) squad of the 44th Border Patrol Police (BPP) Division based in Yala."I also tell them not to have regrets if I lose my life as I am helping restore peace and prosperity to the deep South."Pol Sub Lt Sayobmarn was expressing his feelings after three of his colleagues were killed in a bomb blast while examining another device next to Phetkasem Road in Bacho district of Narathiwat province on Monday morning.Deputy squad leader Pol Sub Lt Chaen Warongpaisith and two squad members, Pol Sub Lt Jaroon Mekruang and Pol Sgt Nimit Deewong, were killed in the explosion. Chief Warrant Officer Somkiat Youngsiri was also wounded in the blast that damaged a Toyota pickup truck containing the signal jammer used by the bomb squad.The deaths of Pol Sub Lt Chaen, better known as Darb Chaen, and his team have raised awareness of the difficult lives led by members of the bomb squad in the far South who work behind the scenes in some of the most dangerous conditions.Despite the life-threatening danger, Darb Chaen had never asked to be transferred from the restive region."This is our home. If we do not do it, who will do it for us?" he told the Isra news agency in an interview a few years ago.Darb Chaen was said to be dedicated to his job. He had defused between 200-300 bombs in the deep South.He received a National Police Office award for being an outstanding cop.In 2011, he was promoted to sublieutenant after many years of hard work.Several years ago he complained in a Channel 9 documentary that his unit lacked sufficient equipment. He asked for more support, but said he was told to keep quiet."I am dedicated to my job because I want to see peace in the three southern provinces.This is my home town and I want everyone to live in peace like they did before. My working philosophy is to be dedicated to my job for my family and the people so they can sleep well," Darb Chaen told the news agency.On Monday Narathiwat police's EOD team, comprising four police, rushed to the scene near Ban Sompoy in tambon Kayo Mati after receiving reports that a bomb had been planted in a hole next to the road.The bomb squad turned on a mobile phone signal jammer while examining the hole, and confirmed there was a bomb inside. Another bomb inside a 50kg gas cylinder then exploded nearby, killing the three policemen and injuring Chief Warrant Officer Somkiat.Pol Sub Lt Sayobmarn said the situation in the far South is getting worse. Insurgents in the area want to kill officials, he said. Attacks still take place every day there and insurgents are beginning to plant multiple explosive devices at the same time and the same place.Pol Sub Lt Sayobmarn said he had been informed by intelligence officers that bomb squad members working in the deep South would be prime targets for insurgents.The insurgents plant at least two bombs in the same place to lure police officers and squad members into positions where they can be attacked.The bombs can then be detonated by radio control by insurgents hiding nearby.Pol Snr Sgt Maj Charoen Pobmor, a bomb squad member of the 44th BPP Division, said he was sorry for the loss of the three officers.He said those officers working in bomb squads in the South had been warned that undesirable incidents were likely.Pol Snr Sgt Maj Charoen admitted the explosion in which his three squad members were killed has scared him, but he is not discouraged.He still intends to work in the bomb disposal squad to keep people safe and secure."My two children have often told me to quit my job. They said they only have one father. They don't want to lose me before my time comes," he said."I told them they do not need to worry about me as I always pray to Buddha to help save my life when leaving for a bomb disposal mission."Pol Snr Sgt Maj Charoen was almost killed in two bomb attacks in Sungai Padi and Tak Bai districts of Narathiwat province two years ago.Insurgents planted explosives in the two districts to lure the bomb disposal team to the scene before detonating them.
Fortunately he was not standing too close to the sites of the explosions. Pol Snr Sgt Maj Charoen sustained injuries, but three of his squad members were killed by the blasts.Pol Snr Sgt Maj Charoen said bomb disposal experts need to undergo training as often as possible to keep their skills up to date. This is because insurgents in the deep South are using increasingly complicated new methods to plant bombs.
"We need to keep up with the methods so we can defuse bombs and prevent more deaths," he said, adding the government must provide more training courses for bomb disposal experts.
The government also must obtain more modern mobile phone and radio signal jammers so disposal experts can examine the bombs and cut phone and radio signals effectively in every mission, he said.
