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Austrian Teenage Girl Who Joined ISIS ‘Killed in Syria’

One of two young Austrian women who travelled to Syria to fight with Islamic extremists has reportedly been killed just months after arriving in the country.

Sabina Selimovic, 15, and Samra Kesinovic, 16, both the daughters of immigrant families from Bosnia, left their homes in Vienna in April with the apparent intention of fighting for Syrian rebels.

They are thought to have travelled to Turkey and then to have crossed the border into Syria, having become radicalised after attending a local mosque in Vienna and reading about jihad on the internet.

They posted on social media photographs of themselves handling assault weapons and wearing black, full length burkas.

But Austrian authorities now think one of them – they have so far refused to divulge which one – may have been killed during fighting.

“The parents of the girl concerned have been informed that there is a risk that their daughter is dead,” said Konrad Kogler, the director-general of public security for Austrian police.

Alexander Marakovits, a spokesman for the Austrian interior ministry, told The Salzburger News: “We also have this information, but cannot say with absolute certainty that it is true. But the parents have been informed their daughter could be dead.”

Austrian authorities fear that the two teenagers’ example is inspiring other young, radicalised Muslim women to travel to Syria and volunteer to fight.

In Germany, meanwhile, an alleged jihadist went on trial on Monday, accused of fighting in Syria for Isil.

In the first German criminal proceedings involving Isil, Kreshnik Berisha, a 20-year-old born near Frankfurt to a family from Kosovo, has been charged with membership of a foreign terrorist organisation.

He could face 10 years in prison if convicted by the city’s superior regional court.

Berisha is believed to have become radicalised when he fell in with a group of Muslim fundamentalists while on a job training programme.

Federal prosecutors say Berisha travelled to Syria via Turkey in July 2013 with other Islamists planning to join the fight to create an Islamist “caliphate” straddling Syria and Iraq.

Soon after his arrival, Berisha allegedly underwent firearms training and was put to work as a medic and a guard.

In the six months he spent in Syria, he is believed to have fought in at least three battles on the side of the jihadists against President Bashar al-Assad’s troops.

He returned home for reasons that are unclear to German authorities in Dec 2013 and was arrested at Frankfurt airport.

Authorities estimate around 400 German nationals have travelled to Iraq and Syria to battle for the militants.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/11098039/Austrian-teenage-girl-jihadist-killed-in-Syria.html

September 16, 2014
Why Swine Flesh Is Bad for Consumption?

1) A pig is a real garbage gut. It will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals.

2) The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison.

3) When eating beef or venison, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat so what little toxins are in the meat are slowly put into our system and can be filtered by the liver. But when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time.

4) Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.

5) Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons.

6) Farmers will often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because the pigs will eat the snakes, and if bitten they will not be harmed by the venom.

7) When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animal’s flesh. In a few days the swine flesh is full of worms.

Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs will be killed.

9) Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef. A 3 oz T bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork chop contains 18 grams of fat. A 3 oz beef rib has 11.1 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork spare rib has 23.2 grams of fat.

10) Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomachs. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing its food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the swine’s one stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh.

11) The swine carries about 30 diseases which can be easily passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcase (Leviticus 11:8).

12) The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism.

13) The pig is so poisonous and filthy, that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat of the pig.

Source: My Youth Public and Community Unit

September 16, 2014
Another Malaysian ISIS Member Died in Syria After Ambush by Syrian Forces

Former Kedah PAS Youth information chief Lotfi Ariffin reportedly died today in Syria after succumbing to his injuries, according to a Malaysian fighting in the Middle East.

The news of Lotfi’s death was posted on the Facebook account of Abu Talhah II, one of the 40-odd Malaysians fighting alongside Islamic State of Iraq and Syria forces.

Facebook users posted condolences in the comment section upon reading of the death of Lotfi, who had been injured after an ambush by Syrian forces.

Lotfi had reportedly been with a group of Malaysian Isis fighters when they were caught in an ambush by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

During the fight, Lotfi suffered severe injuries and fell into a coma, although his condition was later reported to be stable.

His older brother, Mohd Zainon Ariffin, 53, had confirmed Lotfi’s condition last week, saying he had been informed that his sibling appeared to be recovering.

Zainon said he had been informed of Lotfi’s condition by his brother’s friends through Facebook although no images had been uploaded.

Lotfi courted controversy in June when he disclosed his involvement in the ongoing civil war in Syria.

This resulted in his sacking from PAS as the Islamist party said it did not condone nor encourage its members to participate in armed movements.

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/ex-pas-member-lotfi-ariffin-killed-in-syria#sthash.6H0DwhoW.dpuf

September 16, 2014
Sakit Gout Kerana Kurang Minum Air

PENYAKIT sendi atau gout kerap dikaitkan dengan pemakanan.

Namun, sebahagian orang tidak sedar gout juga ada kaitan dengan kekurangan pengambilan air.

Menjelaskan tentang penghidratan itu, Konsultan Kanan, Klinik Reumatologi, Alergi dan Imunologi, Hospital Tan Tock Seng (TTSH), Dr Law Wen Giap, berkata: “Apabila tubuh kekurangan air, bahan-bahan di dalam tubuh akan menjadi lebih pekat.

“Jika kadar asid urik di dalam badan anda memang sudah agak tinggi dan anda pula bermandi peluh (proses pengeluaran air), asid urik akan menjadi lebih pekat dan anda bakal lebih berisiko terkena gout.”

Ini juga termasuk pesakit yang diserang sakit jantung dan angin ahmar yang mungkin hilang selera makan dan minum.

Tanpa pengambilan air yang mencukupi, serangan gout boleh menyusul.

Maka itu, di samping memantau pemilihan pemakanan, pesakit gout juga perlu memberi perhatian pada jumlah pengambilan air, ujar Dr Law. Jumlah itu, tambahnya, bergantung pada keperluan setiap individu dan kegiatan mereka sehari-hari.

Semalam, satu forum awam, Gout: Ubat-ubatan, Diet, Gaya Hidup, diadakan secara percuma dalam bahasa Melayu di TTSH.

Anjuran bersama hospital tersebut dan Yayasan Artritis Kebangsaan merupakan forum berbahasa Melayu mengenai gout di TTSH yang pertama setelah sedekad.

Antara topik yang disentuh ialah Apakah Itu Gout oleh Dr Anindita Santosa; Ketahui Makanan Demi Atasi Gout oleh pakar diet, Encik Nelson Chin; dan Tetap Cergas Walau Hidapi Gout oleh pakar fisioterapi, Cik Yong Sue Mei.

Dalam satu wawancara berbeza sebelum forum tersebut, Dr Law, yang merupakan antara penceramah dalam sesi berbahasa Melayu di TTSH sedekad lalu, berkata: “Secara umum, jumlah pesakit yang berkunjung ke klinik reumatologi khusus menangani artritis seperti gout memang telah bertambah. Tetapi ini mungkin kerana jumlah penduduk negara juga telah meningkat.

“Dari segi perangkaan, kami tidak mempunyai sebarang jumlah khusus memandangkan gout bukan satu penyakit rumit. Kebanyakan pesakit dirawat di poliklinik, klinik swasta atau sebagai pesakit luar. Hanya apabila keadaan artritis mereka agak meruncing barulah mereka dirujuk ke hospital,” ujarnya.

Gout adalah sejenis artritis – radang sendi – yang berpunca daripada tahap asid urik yang tinggi. Asid urik merupakan hasil akhir proses metabolisme dalam badan iaitu sejenis sisa buangan hasil degradasi atau pemecahan purina (purine) yang terdapat dalam makanan. Sisa asid urik biasanya dihantar ke ginjal untuk disingkir bersama air kencing.

Bagi pesakit gout, asid urik tidak dapat disingkir sepenuhnya dan paras asid urik dalam darah akan meningkat sehingga menyebabkan serangan gout.

Pesakit akan berasa sakit pada bahagian yang terjejas. Sendi tampak merah dan bengkak.

Apabila serangan berlaku empat kali setahun, Dr Law sifatkan ia sebagai tahap serius.

“Serangan itu disebabkan oleh sel darah putih menyerang asid urik atau kristal itu kerana menyifatkan ia sebagai benda asing. Apabila ia berlaku maka anda mengalami radang dan bengkak dan ia boleh menjejas di mana jua sendi dalam tubuh seseorang,” jelas Dr Law. Ia termasuk ibu jari kaki, buku lali, lutut, siku, telinga dan sebagainya.

Asid urik yang pekat itu juga boleh mendak, mengeras, membentuk kristal, bintil atau ketulan keras di permukaan kulit yang disebut ‘tophi’. Jika anda menusuk jarum di bahagian sendi yang bengkak untuk mendapatkan cecair, warnanya putih umpama susu atau kapur.

“Walaupun ia tidak mengancam nyawa, tetapi jika serangan berlaku pada sendi yang sama selama bertahun-tahun, sendi tersebut akan rosak dan terhakis.

Ia akan mengehadkan pergerakan, membuat anda sukar berjalan dan boleh menyebabkan kecacatan,” jelasnya.

Sumber: http://beritaharian.sg/premium/setempat/gout-juga-kerana-kurang-ambil-air#sthash.xt6ZmCrg.dpuf

September 15, 2014
AFL Reassessing Lucrative Sponsorship Deal with Royal Brunei Airlines Amid Sharia Anti-gay Laws

The AFL says it is reassessing a lucrative sponsorship deal with Royal Brunei Airlines amid international condemnation of Brunei’s new anti-gay laws.

AFL Europe – the governance body for the sport across Europe – had previously promoted a year-long deal with the state-owned airline as its “biggest-ever sponsorship” agreement.

A strict new sharia-based penal code, imposed by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, will punish gay sex with death by stoning once the legislation is fully introduced in 2015.

The AFL, which has pledged to stamp out homophobia in its ranks, made an embarrassing admission on Wednesday that it was unaware of Brunei’s adoption of laws introducing harsh penalties for a range of behaviour, including homosexual acts.

It is now reconsidering the deal between its European affiliate and the airline.

“AFL Europe entered into the sponsorship agreement with Royal Brunei Airlines in good faith, unaware of concerns outside the sporting arena about the Brunei government’s adoption in April this year of harsh and discriminatory cultural laws,” the AFL said in a statement.

“These laws are counter to everything the AFL stands for in regards to inclusion and diversity.

“In conjunction with AFL Europe, we are currently reassessing the appropriateness of the sponsorship arrangement and also the broader issue of the AFL’s oversight of potential sponsorship deals that are put to affiliate organisations overseas.

“Given the AFL has only recently been made aware of the situation, the sponsorship deal will be reconsidered in consultation with various key stakeholders.”

International businesses owned by the Sultan have been targeted by protesters over his harsh new laws, with celebrities including Jay Leno and Richard Branson calling for a boycott of the Sultan-owned Dorchester hotel business.

As part of its sponsorship deal, the airline flies international AFL players between London and Melbourne for competitions such as International Cup tournament held last month.

The airline is also involved in advertising events during live matches and events and on AFL Europe’s online platforms.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-reassesses-brunei-deal-amid-antigay-law-outrage-20140910-10f6fq.html#ixzz3DLO3MzMB

September 15, 2014