MYSTERY surrounds the disappearance of a family of 12 including nine children who are feared to have joined the Islamic State in Syria.

On Wednesday, West Yorkshire Police said contact with one of the women suggests they have fled to the war-torn country and urged anyone with information on the “intensive investigation” to come forward.

“It is an extremely dangerous place and not a place where young children should be taken.”

“The choice of returning home from Syria is often taken away from those under the control of Islamic State, leaving families in the UK devastated and with very few options to secure their loved ones safe return.”

Three sisters Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their nine children have been missing for more than a week from their home in the Northern English town of Bradford. The husbands of two of the women reported them missing on June 11 after they failed to return from the family trip to Saudi Arabia.

Instead, the sisters paid cash for a flight to Istanbul for themselves and the children. It’s thought they have gone to join their brother, Ahmed Dawood, 21 who is understood to have joined the Islamic State. Their mobile phones and social media accounts have not been active since.

Husbands Mohammed Shoaib, 39, and Akhtar Iqbal, 48, made a tearful appeal to the public and anyone who might have seen them, begging for their family to return home.

“I like to appeal them please, please contact with me and please, please call me at least. It’s been eight nine days you’re out and we don’t know where are you,” a distraught looking Akhtar Iqbal said to his wife Sugra, 34, and their five children Junaid, 15, Ibrahim, 14, Zaynab, 8, Mariya, 5 and Ismaeel, 3.

“I miss you, I love you. All of you, I love you’re a lot. I can’t live without you. I don’t know what to say, I’m shaking. I miss you, it’s been too many days I don’t know where are you? Please, please come back home so we can live normal life. Please, please come back home. There’s nothing wrong. Please come back home. Nothing wrong. I miss you. That’s all I want to say, I want them back. Please.”

Lawyer for the family Balaal Khan said they are a moderate family although it’s understood a brother was being monitored amid reports he went to join IS.

Cinema worker Mohammed Shoaib sat beside him begging his wife Khadija, 30, to return with his children Muhammad Haseeb, 5 and Maryam Siddiqui, 7.

“We’ve been married 11 years and we were in perfect relationship. Please come back with the kids I cannot live without them … I miss them so much.”

“Please come back or contact me. I’m not angry, everything is fine Please come back everything is normal. Come back to normal life please. They are young kids, seven and five and you know I love you so much. We had a perfect relationship, we had a lovely family, I don’t know what happened.”

Another sister Zohra, 33, and her two children Nurah, 5 and Haafiya, 8, are also missing however her husband lives and works in Pakistan so did not appear at the conference.

Lawyer for the two men Balaal Khan said the men are distraught and there was “no inkling” the family had been radicalized. He said they were “normal people” who followed a moderate version of Islam and the husbands were distraught waiting for a phonecall from their children.

The three sisters and their children were all born in the UK to parents from Pakistan. However questions are being raised as to how they were able to pay for the flight.

Labour MP for Bradford West Naz Shah told the BBC the family did have “ongoing investigations with the police and that’s not for me to comment on at the moment.”

The Counter Terrorism Unit is investigating but has provided little information on the live investigation. A statement said they are “keeping an open mind” on all lines of inquiry.

Assistant Chief Constable Russ Foster said they are looking for anyone with information to come forward.

“Our priority is for their safe return; their families are gravely worried about them and want them home. One of our primary concerns is the safety and welfare of the young children.”

Originally published as ‘I’m shaking. I miss you, it’s been too many days’

GYMNAST Farah Ann Abdul Hadi blitzed the Southeast Asian Games last week, bringing home six medals, including two gold, for Malaysia. 
 
Not that the country’s religious hardliners noticed the impressive tally — they were too busy looking at the 21-year-old’s vagina.

Federal MP Jamil Khir Baharom announced a review of “Islamic compliance for clothing used for sports and other fields” following complaints the shape of Abdul Hadi’s “aurat” (genitalia) could be seen through her standard-issue purple leotard.

The politician, who has the Islamic Affairs portfolio, told parliament that it was the responsibility of all Muslims, regardless of gender, to cover their “aurat”.

The head of the National Muslim Youth Association’s female wing, Roszida Kamaruddin, also released a statement condemning Abdul Hadi’s costume.

“Women should not be stopped from sports, but they must prioritise the Islamic codes in sports attire,” she said.

“Furthermore, there are many Muslim female athletes who succeed even by covering their aurat.”

Senior Islamic cleric Perak Mufti Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria suggested the gymnastics was not an appropriate sport for Muslim women.

“If Muslim women want to participate in gymnastics, they have to find outfits which cover the aurat and this, in turn, might not be suitable for the sport,” he told Astro Awani. He also said Muslim men playing football should have to wear shorts that cover their knees.

However, the criticism has backfired, spawning an outpouring of support from a proud Malaysian public and a series of sarcastic opinion pieces by local journalists.

“While the rest of the ‘normal’ population saw an athlete perform amazingly flexible feats with ease and grace, the moral police of Malaysia — mostly men — saw a Muslim woman swinging from pole to pole with the coordination and precision of well-trained Eastern European stripper,” wrote Vulcan Post columnist Ajay Madhukar.

“And in the fashion of a true stripper, she didn’t just entertain the married men of Malaysia watching her performance but she intentionally managed to show them the shape of her ‘aurat’ or vagina.

“And they went berserk at the sight of her camel toe and they took to Twitter to talk about her grotesque sense of fashion and her choice as to where she’d spend eternity.”

Malaysian Minister for Youth and Sport Khairy Jamaluddin tweeted several times to defend Abdul Hadi from the criticism of his conservative colleagues and others, referring to them as “perverts”.

And a Facebook group called “Farah Ann Abdul Hadi For Malaysia” has attracted almost 18,000 likes in a week, with members referring to themselves as “FARAHnatics”.

Abdul Hadi has weathered the storm with grace and humour, posting the below tweet at the height of the debate over her “aurat” and thanking supporters on Facebook and Instagram: “I would just like to express my sincerest gratitude to all of you who have been supporting me. It is such an overwhelming feeling to have had such a great and positive respond (sic). Thank you so much.”

Originally published as Gymnast shamed for ‘

..........The competition is aimed at young males and is apparently offering Yazidi sex slaves as grand prizes to the most well-versed in the religious text.

According to breitbart.com, the opening sentence of the flyer translates to: “Soldiers of the Islamic State, Commanders and Troops, Greetings and salutations upon the advent of Ramadan, May it be the will of Allah to accept our fasts and prayers May Allah protect us all from the fires of hell.”

It then goes on to outline which mosques will be holding the event.

The grand prize is a “sabia” (a young girl) while second and third place are to be awarded a teenage girl.

Fourth through to 10th place get prize money.

It is difficult to verify the authenticity of the flyer and while it is possible the document could’ve be created at anti-ISIS propaganda, the group’s use of young sex slaves is well documented.
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Brian Ross wrote on Jun 18^th, 2015 at 10:36pm:


How unsurprising that Sprint won't offer an apology for his mistake...   

An Islamic State suicide bomber has attacked a Shi’ite mosque in the Kuwaiti capital during the main weekly prayers killing and wounding dozens. 
 
The blast hit Al-Imam al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City, security officials and witnesses said.

The official KUNA news agency confirmed that there were “dead and wounded,” but did not provide details.

A witness said “dozens were killed and wounded,” and pictures circulating on social media showed several bloodied bodies in the mosque amid debris.

A security official said “it is a suicide bombing.” Witnesses gave a similar account, saying a suicide bomber entered the mosque during the weekly noon prayers.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/islamic-state-suicide-attack-on-kuwai...

oh, someone wanted me to post two words .
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