Biden’s handlers’ administration has persistently lied to the American people and the world in claiming that “white supremacists” constituted the greatest threat the nation faces. It is refreshing to see them be more honest about the real threat.
“US State Department: Terrorism Still a ‘Pervasive Threat Worldwide,’” by Ken Bredemeier, VOA News, December 16, 2021:
Terrorist groups remained “a persistent and pervasive threat worldwide” through last year, the U.S. State Department concluded in a new assessment on Thursday.
“The United States and its partners made significant major strides against terrorist organizations,” the report concluded about Western anti-terrorism efforts through the end of 2020, the last year of former President Donald Trump’s White House tenure. However, it said “the terrorism threat has become more geographically dispersed in regions around the world.”
The report said that although the Islamic State terrorist group lost all the territory it had seized in Iraq and Syria, “the organization and its branches continued to mount a worldwide terrorism campaign, carrying out deadly attacks globally,” killing more people in 2020 than in any previous year.
The report said that al-Qaida and its affiliates faced the “significant” loss of two key leaders, yet their networks “continued to exploit under-governed spaces, conflict zones, and security gaps in the Middle East to acquire terrorist resources and conduct terrorist attacks.”
The State Department concluded that al-Qaida “bolstered its presence abroad, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, where affiliates AQAP, al-Shabab in the Horn of Africa, and Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin in the Sahel remain among the most active and dangerous terrorist groups in the world.”
In addition, it said, “Iran continued to support acts of terrorism regionally and globally during 2020. Regionally, Iran supported proxies and partner groups in Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, including Hezbollah and Hamas.”
The report said senior al-Qaida officials “continued to reside in Iran and facilitate terrorist operations from there. Globally, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force remained the primary Iranian actors involved in supporting terrorist recruitment, financing, and plots across Europe, Africa, and Asia, and both Americas.”
The State Department report said the global COVID-19 pandemic “complicated the terrorist landscape, creating both challenges and opportunities for terrorist groups. While the pandemic disrupted terrorist travel, financing, and operations, terrorist groups adapted their approaches and appeals, using the internet to continue radicalizing others to violence and inspiring attacks worldwide.”
The Islamic State “exploited the crisis to reinforce violent extremist narratives, proclaiming to followers that the virus was ‘God’s wrath upon the West,’” the report concluded….
Aussie Infidel says
The Islamic State proclaimed that the virus was ‘God’s wrath upon the West.’”
Only someone ignorant of the ‘germ theory of disease’, and conditioned by fanatical religiosity, could come up with such an explanation.
somehistory says
OT:
Recall the attacks on Asian women said to be committed by “White” guys….thinking they were better, and the blame falling on Mr. Trump because he called the virus, “china virus.”
Well, this is just in:
“Six men have been arrested in connection to a string of robberies allegedly targeting Asian women in the Bay Area, concluding a yearlong investigation, according to authorities.
Twenty four-year-old Anthony Michael Robinson of Stockton; Cameron Alonzo Moody, 27, of East Palo Alto; Derje Damond Blanks, 23, of San Jose; Hassani Burleson Ramsey, 24, of Oakland; Clarence Jackson, 21, of East Palo Alto and Malik Short, 21, of Tracy were charged with hate crime enhancements by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, San Jose police said in a Wednesday news release.
in September 2021 and charged with felony robbery and hate crimes, police said. The men allegedly targeted Asian women because they believed they “don’t use banks” and would be carrying cash.
Ethnic slurs were allegedly used against some of the women by the three men and officials said the suspects followed the women to their cars in parking lots and waited until they were inside before opening the door or breaking a window to snatch a purse from their passenger seat.”
The photo with the article shows **no** White guys at all. No White skinned attacker in the bunch.
and notice the first names of two of the perps.
https://www.gopusa.com/six-men-arrested-in-connection-with-70-crimes-targeting-bay-area-asian-women-police-say/
gravenimage says
Yes, I read this ugly story, Somehistory. No surprises here.
Here’s a similar story, that shockingly happened not too far from where I live–a usually quiet neighborhood:
“26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault”
https://sfist.com/2021/03/11/26-year-old-oakland-man-charged-with-murder-after-elderly-asian-victim-dies-from-injuries-sustained-in-assault/
The perp has a long criminal record, and is covered in gang tattoos–including on his face.
And the thug who assaulted a 91-year-old man iun Chinatown was a Black Muslim named Yahya Muslim.
Wellington says
Confirming again that the West is now largely run by buffoons and ignoramuses.
Blinken comes to mind. You bet he does.
And still the chief problem remains, i.e., the refusal by the modern West to acknowledge that Islam—VIRTUALLY ALL OF IT—is inimical to Western Civilization and so many of the West’s enormous achievements, such as exploring parameters of liberty overall like no other civilization ever has, having the capacity to apologize for past wrongdoings (when has the Islamic world ever apologized for anything even though it has a ton of stuff to apologize for?), developing the greatest technological heritage, easily so, in all of world history, et al.
Still in Dumb Mode is the West. Will remain so as long as overeducated dumb people like Blinken have any say in matters.
somehistory says
Wellington,
Almost anyone who comments here could do a better job. It seems that the stupidest people are running things and people are getting that way in the public…it must be catching.
Yesterday, in traffic, some guy in a huge pickup was sitting on my bumper at a Red light. He was honking at me to go…because he wanted to turn right and I wasn’t moving because I intended to go straight.
My daughter bought me a shirt. On it is written: I used to be a people person, but people ruined that for me.
islam and stupid have ruined some of the things i once enjoyed.
Wellington says
I’ve never been a “people person,” somehistory. I read too much history to be so.
Yes, there are great and wonderful human beings in the world, and one must be on their guard not to become a cynic way down inside, because then something will die in you, but a regular skepticism about much of the human race has been my approach for many years now. It has served me well I believe. I have no illusions.
somehistory says
Frankly, neither have I been. My mother had a whole bunch of kids….with me right in the middle. I almost always felt alone and like I didn’t belong. There was a huge extended family and even they made me feel even more alone.
In school, most of the other students seemed shallow and self-centered.
But, I have met a few people in my life who truly are wonderful people and I treasure their friendship and for allowing me to be a part of their lives.
My daughter bought the shirt because she knows how irritated I get when people are foolish and worse.
she bought me one that has bigfoot who says he saw me, but nobody believed him.
My daughter is one of those “wonderful People.”
somehistory says
A little bit of Truth is better than no Truth at all. Now, he can go a little bit further and admit what all of these groups he named have in common.
And, he should be asked about who will be appointed as the i.elmi envoy to combat the fake “phobia,” that supposedly rises up due to mozlums committing the terror he has outlined.
He should be aware….c.a.i.rats and i. elmi won’t like his announcement.
Walter Sieruk says
The fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, wisely, had declared “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
gravenimage says
US State Department admits jihad terrorism ‘still a pervasive threat worldwide’
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Gee–y’think?
I guess we should be grateful that they haven’t denied Jihad terrorism as a threat altogether…
Infidel says
Ain’t that an ‘islamophobic’ statement, under the House’s new resolution calling on the State Department to combat islamophobia? Maybe the State Department can start w/ itself then?
Pray Hard says
Well, that’s might white of them, isn’t it? I always feel better when islamoleftists confirm what I already know.
joan_of_ark2005 says
Was there anything in that article, saying anything about what is being done about the “problems”? Or was it just talking about the subject, and telling us all, what we already know?
OLD GUY says
Looking at our government is kinda like looking at a major crime family where MONEY and RESPECT are always the most important Gorilla in the room. Who knows what to believe from these politicians when there is billions of dollars flowing around Washington, companies like military manufactures want to sell goods to the Government so a new or current threat pays off for them. If you have a few million dollars to spread around to congress you can get laws passed that favor your company or industry. And when you stand to make a few BILLION what’s a couple million dollars donated to campaign funds or family positions on corp. boards. If you look a little deeply almost all of our political leaders are in somebodies pocket. Trump may have been the exception to being controlled by someone else’s money. I know according to some Russia owned him.