Choudary: Well, you know, as a lecturer in Sharia law I would say to the people in Russia, the Muslims and the non-Muslims, that every action for a Muslim must be based upon the Koran, the word of Allah, and the teachings of the messenger Mohammed...who is the final messenger for mankind. I mean I would first invite the people to think about and embrace Islam but those who are already Muslim must know that Allah mentions in the Koran, in fact if you look in chapter 8 verse 60 he said prepare as much as you can "steeds of war" to terrorize the enemy. So terrorizing the enemy is in fact part of Islam. I mean this is something that we must embrace and understand as far as the jurisprudence of Islam is concerned.He went on to say jihadists make no distinctions between army and civilian, who are all the same to the common jihadist. So why do some leftists act as though there's no connections?
Saturday, September 06, 2014
ANJEM CHOUDHARY CONFIRMS TERROR IS PART OF ISLAM
The Islamofascist preacher from the UK has been honest about the Religion of Peace's components. In a recent interview, he said:
RON MARZ IS NOT AN EXPERT ON RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM
Phil Robertson of the Duck Dynasty TV program, who was antagonized for disapproval of homosexuality last year, commented on the jihadists comprising ISIS who've taken over in Iraq and Syria, saying they should be converted or die. And Marz, that Roger Waters fan who's always eager to prove his contempt, said:
Some people think Marz isn't an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, or even cults like Scientology and Haredi cults like Lev Tahor, if that matters. The Christian Post's defended Robertson with the following:
Wait, people think Phil Robertson is NOT an expert on religious fundamentalism?
— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) September 3, 2014
Some people think Marz isn't an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, or even cults like Scientology and Haredi cults like Lev Tahor, if that matters. The Christian Post's defended Robertson with the following:
...was Robertson's stance really comparable to that of the radical Islamic terrorists? Absolutely not, although he could have found a better way to express himself (in which case, though, he would hardly have been speaking and acting like Phil Robertson!).Even Marz can't deny ISIS are a horde of murderous barbarians no sane person wants entering their house. But, based on his pointless, cynical tweets, it's clear he can't resist voicing his spite for conservatives either. He should make up his mind which side he thinks are preferable to have around.
To put his remarks in proper context, Robertson began by quoting a number of scriptures, including the highly appropriate verse from Proverbs 8: "All who hate me [speaking of divine wisdom personified] love death," his point being that these are evil people bent on destruction and murder.
Hannity then stated, "I think they are at war with us," and that's what Robertson was responding to. How do you deal with people like this?
Robertson described the terrorists as "street thugs on steroids," calling the conflict, "worldwide gang warfare, but this gang is well-armed and well-organized," suggesting that "we're going to have to deal with this group way more harshly than we have up to this point," which is actually the sentiment of many respected leaders, not to mention much of the American populace.
Who among us doesn't want to see these murderers stopped? Who among us doesn't want to see and an end to their atrocities?
Friday, September 05, 2014
HINDU ACTIVISTS WARN WOMEN TO BEWARE "LOVE JIHAD"
Women in India are speaking out about Muslim seducers:
Conservative Hindu activist Chetna Sharma looked sternly at her audience of more than 40 young Hindu women gathered in the living room of a rural home and issued a warning: Muslim men would try to trick them into marriage and force them to convert to Islam.We've already got a similar problem in Israel, even a case of Jewish women who deliberately convert to Islam, like this one did, and the most annoying part is how an anti-conversion group conducted their reaction. Jewish women, just like Hindu women, have to learn to be careful and realize why it's not worth marrying Muslims.
Given a chance, Muslim men would force a woman "to have two or three children and then leave her, or rape her, or throw acid on her if she resists, or murder her," she said. "You can't even imagine what can happen if you don't protect yourself from love jihad."
Right-wing Hindu organizations and politicians have mounted a high-profile drive against "love jihad," which they paint as a dark, international conspiracy aimed at eroding Hindus' demographic dominance in India by brainwashing Hindu women.
A HAREDI-LEFTIST ALLIANCE?
Tablet has an article about the potential alliances between insular Haredis and leftists, based on what beliefs they share in common. While it's got some eyebrow raisers, it may still not be entirely honest, so some of this will have to be taken with a grain of salt. It begins with:
As for the alliance with Yesh Atid, it's worth noting some of the Likud members didn't want the Haredi parties in the coalition this time, because they did find their demands for coddling going way too far, and their refusal to work and serve the country a very serious detractor.
Poisoned relations between Israel’s secular Labor Zionists and its ultra-Orthodox minority go back to the very founding of the state. After independence, Labor leaders were ruthless in secularizing newly arriving immigrants, refashioning waves of refugees into farmers and fighters, the “new Jews” needed by the fledgling nation. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox were horrified at the religious insensitivity of the leftists. Moreover, they rejected Zionism outright as a violation of religious law and so turned their backs in disgust on David Ben Gurion’s state-building enterprise. As the decades passed, the Haredi community swelled in size but continued to live as an insular subculture, treating the government as just another goyish sovereign to be played for communal benefits. When Menachem Begin’s Likud Party wrested control from Labor in 1977 Haredim found a more sympathetic political partner and the Haredi-right alliance remained solid.This starting paragraph fails to note Ben-Gurion gave exemptions to Haredis from serving in the army, among other mistakes, much to his regret later on. Nor does it mention how, in the early days of the modern state, United Torah Judaism had been part of early government coalitions, even if they didn't seek prominent roles in the cabinet. And today, Labor is anything but Zionist. It's utterly hypocritical how they try to claim they are, when Zionism, a synonym for patriotism, is something they probably rejected early on.
But today, a remarkable new path is opening up. After last year’s January elections, a weakened Likud sided with a new centrist party, Yesh Atid, which promised to force the ultra-Orthodox into the military draft and to effectively reduce their economic subsidies. Stung, the Haredi political leadership began to look elsewhere to shore up its diminished political clout. Meanwhile, the left, whose support had been steadily drifting to the center, and which had not won an election since 1999, was searching for new partners.Oh yes, and that's because of the socialist economic platform both sides uphold. Up to a point, Haredi politicians like Shas reps could be cunning, supporting the right on issues pertinent to Israel's geographic integrity. But there have been times they did this on the condition we furnish their lifestyle with our tax shekels, and don't require them to serve in the army. And that's no way to build confidence. Besides, the realization they've been milking non-Haredis for all they're worth - to say nothing of their insular MO and governing by collective mindsets - has made people realize the Haredi community cannot be coddled or permitted to get away with how they're fleecing everyone else.
So the time was right for a younger generation of Haredim and leftists to find common ground and forge new alliances on a shared platform of peace and multiculturalism. The transformed political landscape is fueling their efforts, which had quietly been going on for years but have now suddenly picked up momentum.
As for the alliance with Yesh Atid, it's worth noting some of the Likud members didn't want the Haredi parties in the coalition this time, because they did find their demands for coddling going way too far, and their refusal to work and serve the country a very serious detractor.
One young leader trying to bridge the divide between Haredim and the secular left is 35-year-old B’nei Brak native Moshe Friedman. An Ashkenazi kollel student and graduate of Jerusalem’s Hebron Yeshiva, Friedman is a scion of the prominent Broide rabbinic line and great-grandson of the leader of Jerusalem’s 1920s ultra-Orthodox community, Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeldt. But his pedigree has not stopped him from choosing an unconventional path—one that may be a harbinger for the next generation of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox elite. Today he is studying law at Hebrew University, thanks to a program directed at emerging leaders from among Haredi yeshiva students. He is also founder and director of Kama-Tech, a social venture effort to help promising ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students break into the upper ranks of Israel’s hi-tech industry.I'm afraid they are alright, one that thinks it's illegal for Jews to found a modern state and only when the Messiah comes can it be done, or maybe that's not what they think at all. Maybe their socialist mentality leads them to falsely believe they should live fully in exile, even if it means milking innocent non-Jews for all they're worth, and leading to resentment where it's better avoided. That's the case in some ways with Lev Tahor, whose ringmasters are likely infantalizing their subjects deliberately and giving them poor self-esteem so they can embarrass Jews with more common sense in the non-Jewish world.
Thanks to the success of the Kama-Tech initiative, a few years ago Friedman was invited by the U.S. State Department to join its prestigious International Visitor Leader Program, an exchange initiative designed to bring emerging leaders to the U.S. to expose them to American economic, cultural, and political life.
His road trip across America with a group that included Israeli Arabs, Palestinians, and secular-left Israelis, forced Friedman to consider the stance of Haredim toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and toward Zionism. “I had never been in a situation in which I had to articulate the core attitude of the Haredim towards these issues,” he reflected. “In my yeshiva education, geopolitical concerns were not at the center of discussion.”
He also realized that “nobody actually knows” what the Haredim think about peace issues. “But everyone assumes we’re on the extreme right.” Everywhere he went, religious people were blamed for the conflict; he was told that religious Jews were all settlers, that they were locked in a religious dispute with the Muslims, and that they would be the cause of World War III. “We Haredim are shrouded behind a veil of ignorance,” he concluded.
HOW LEV TAHOR'S RINGLEADER GOT HIS ANTI-ZIONIST VIEW
Haaretz published some history on the Haredi cult that borrows from Islam for how women dress, and along the way, reveals just where overlord Shlomo Helbrans got his anti-Israel standings from:
As for religious doctrine, Helbrans picks and chooses from different streams of Jewish sects, accepting certain traditions from the Hasidim, the Misnagdim, and Mizrahim, from which he arbitrates the most appropriate practices. The core of his doctrine is that of the extremely pious Satmar Hasidic sect, taken to the extreme.I see, his influence came from the worst possible sources, and he took that and ran it further into the ground by adopting Muslim-style beliefs for the women in his sick cult. As noted before, some of his subjects were once secular themselves. And as I've wondered before, how many leftists became Haredi, associating themselves with the worst of sects? The Satmar caused enough problems for Israel, and now, this is one of the results of their indoctrine.
Apocalyptic prophesies
The group’s leader, Helbrans was born in 1962 as Erez Shlomo Elbarnes. He was raised by secular parents in Jerusalem, but "found religion" during his teens and left to study at yeshiva.
After moving between different ultra-Orthodox schools, he found himself in the Satmar sect. He also adopted the anti-Zionist Satmar ideology, which is why he changed his name to Shlomo Helbrans, shedding the Zionist name Erez and taking a more diaspora spelling of his last name.
Thursday, September 04, 2014
UKRAINIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY DECIMATED
The Times of Israel reports that eastern Ukraine's Jewish community feels very uneasy in the wake of Russia's retake of the area since the time it went more into the hands of Ukraine in the 1950s:
International news media reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have reached a ceasefire agreement were greeted by skepticism by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Ukraine department. Its staff in Ukraine has been on emergency footing for months in attempting to ameliorate the dire situation of its clients in conflict-stricken eastern Ukraine.To think that anybody would have to suffer through this kind of depravity, stirred by neo-communists. Russia didn't have to do this, but they did. Communism, sadly, has returned, and it's costing the Jewish community in Ukraine just as much as it is the rest of the population.
“I can’t believe it right now, though I would love to believe it — it means my family will be safe too because my family is right there,” says Oksana Galkevich, head of the JDC’s Ukraine desk.
Since the start of the armed fighting in eastern Ukraine in April, nearly 2,600 people have been killed and over 340,000 forced to flee their homes, according to the UN. Countless thousands of Jews are among those who left the war-torn region, including some 2,000 welfare clients of the JDC. But another 3,100 clients — elderly, disabled, disadvantaged children — have remained in what’s left of their homes and suffered for weeks without water or electricity.
Eastern Ukraine once held 27,000 Jews, according to Jewish community estimates. Today in Donetsk and Lugansk, which have both declared themselves independent republics, there are some 1,600 welfare clients in constant need of life-sustaining aid such as extra food, water, and medications. Astoundingly, workers from JDC affiliates called Heseds continue to provide for them and the 1,500 others in the periphery.
HAS OBAMA EVER NOT BEEN CAUGHT BY SURPRISE???????
Obama was "caught by surprise" by ISIS.
AND:
Fast'n Furious
The IRS Scandal
Benghazi
The VA scandal
Russia's invasion of Ukraine
The invasion at our southern border
The failure to secure a troop agreement with Iraq
The failure of toppling Kaddafy
The failure of toppling Mubarak
The EPA's illegal use of fake email accounts
The failure of the Obamacare launch
Amazing how much bad news there's been that has nothing to do with Obama.
Was there any GOOD news the last 6 years that has anything to do with him?
Nope.
There's no surprise here for any of this; it was all predicted:
AND:
Fast'n Furious
The IRS Scandal
Benghazi
The VA scandal
Russia's invasion of Ukraine
The invasion at our southern border
The failure to secure a troop agreement with Iraq
The failure of toppling Kaddafy
The failure of toppling Mubarak
The EPA's illegal use of fake email accounts
The failure of the Obamacare launch
Amazing how much bad news there's been that has nothing to do with Obama.
Was there any GOOD news the last 6 years that has anything to do with him?
Nope.
There's no surprise here for any of this; it was all predicted:
WHAT ROTTERHAM REVEALS ABOUT THE RULING CLASS
THE ANCHORESS: Do The Rapes of Rotherham Tell a Tale of Conquest? “One of the terrible after-effects of invasion and war has been the subjugation of the women, the rape of wives and daughters, the seed of the conqueror, inserted into a culture and a society — yet another tactic meant to subdue and eradicate. And yet, there has been no old-fashioned ‘invasion’ and no ‘war’ in the southern part of Yorkshire. This conquering was invited, and it was invited throughout Europe, where Rotherham will be discovered to have been replicated. Why wouldn’t it be? Who in Europe would dare to prosecute?”
[GLENN REYNOLDS/INSTAPUNDIT:]
When you have a ruling class that dislikes the nation it rules, the invitations will be issued, and the prosecutions will be foregone.
Glenn wrote, "...a ruling class that dislikes the nation it rules...".
MORE ACCURATELY, it is a global ruling class that hates its own culture and civilization.
Postmodern leftism dictates that Judeo-Christian culture and Western Civilization are evil - that they are responsible for most of history's genocide, AGW - which threatens life on earth, Third World poverty, and hetero/caucasian sexual repression of humanity's true polymorphous sexuality.
ALL of these are demonstrably false, but the POMO left persists in their belief as it is now a religious sect and no longer merely a political POV.
The POMO left is as big a threat as islamo-extremism. In fact - because they are constantly serving the same goal, we cannot defeat the islamo-extremist until we first defeat the POMO left.
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
THE GATES OF HELL MUST NOT BE ANYWHERE NEAR SYRIA
“God help us, you had Joe Biden ranting about how ‘we’ll follow #ISIS to the gates of hell.’ We won’t even cross the border into Syria. This is an administration that relies on rhetoric for everything.” —Lt. Col. Ralph PetersVIDEO AT THE LINK
HERE'S WHY THE EU COULD AND SHOULD ALLOW NATION-STATE MEMBERS TO REVOKE PASSPORTS OF THEIR CITIZENS WHO HAVEFOUGHT WITH ISIS
LATIMES:
BUT BILL CASH IS RIGHT:
THESE ISIS-FIGHTERS WOULD NOT BECOME "STATELESS" BECAUSE BY FIGHTING FOR ISIS THEY'VE RENOUNCED THEIR "EU-CITIZENSHIP" FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES DECLARED THEMSELVES CITIZENS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE - WHETHER ANYONE ELSE RECOGNIZES IT OR NOT.
THEREFORE, DENMARK, BELGIUM, FRANCE. BRITAIN AND THE REST OF THE EU NATIONS SHOULD START REVOKING THE PASSPORTS OF THESE ISIS FIGHTERS AT ONCE.
AND THE EU AND THE USA CAN AND SHOULD REFUSE ENTRY TO ANY AND ALL OF THEM.
OUR LEADERS NEED TO PUT OUR SAFETY AHEAD OF THE DEBATABLE RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SWORN ALLEGIANCE TO OUR ENEMIES.
There has been discussion of stripping passports from British citizens who have already left the country, but the government has run into a range of political and legal obstacles, most notably the concern that it could leave some suspects stateless, which would contravene international laws to which Britain is a signatory.
During the parliamentary debate, a Conservative member of Parliament, Bill Cash, cited a provision in the United Nations' Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness that could allow Britain to render a citizen stateless if he or she “declared allegiance to another state.”
However, Erin Marie Saltman of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank, warned that such rhetoric risked granting Islamic State with a legitimacy it doesn’t deserve.
“We have to take a strong stance that we do not recognize Islamic State as a state,” she said. “They are a terrorist organization that have used terrorist means, violence and committed human rights crimes in order to establish a territory that they are ruling over.
That does not give them any international right or credence to be considered a state by any valid body.”COUNTRIES LIKE GREAT BRITAIN AREN'T ALLOWED TO REVOKE THE PASSPORTS OF CITIZENS WHO HAVE FOUGHT WITH ISIS BECAUSE THE EU AND THE UN DOESN'T ALLOW EU CITIZENS TO BECOME "STATELESS".
BUT BILL CASH IS RIGHT:
THESE ISIS-FIGHTERS WOULD NOT BECOME "STATELESS" BECAUSE BY FIGHTING FOR ISIS THEY'VE RENOUNCED THEIR "EU-CITIZENSHIP" FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES DECLARED THEMSELVES CITIZENS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE - WHETHER ANYONE ELSE RECOGNIZES IT OR NOT.
THEREFORE, DENMARK, BELGIUM, FRANCE. BRITAIN AND THE REST OF THE EU NATIONS SHOULD START REVOKING THE PASSPORTS OF THESE ISIS FIGHTERS AT ONCE.
AND THE EU AND THE USA CAN AND SHOULD REFUSE ENTRY TO ANY AND ALL OF THEM.
OUR LEADERS NEED TO PUT OUR SAFETY AHEAD OF THE DEBATABLE RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE SWORN ALLEGIANCE TO OUR ENEMIES.
UN HOSTS INTERNET DOMINANCE FORUM IN TURKEY
Michael Rubin brings up information proving that surrendering control of the internet to the UN is as bad as it sounds: they chose Turkey, now fast on track to become a dictatorship, as the country in which they'd host a conference on controlling the internet. You can be sure nothing good came out of that.
This is one more reason why UN control over the internet cannot be allowed, and a good thing Congress is opposing it, including some Democrats. Just think, not only would they do whatever possible to silence critics of Islam, there's every chance they'd try and use their influence to destroy Jewish businesses, including kosher sellers online. All the same, this is still why I think the time has come for competition to ICANN, since any company that may be willing to deal with an outfit unsuited for the job cannot be trusted to safeguard freedom of speech. This is why I think it's time for webhosts to start offering their own number assignment services and all countries run their own as well, among other things, since ICANN shouldn't have a monopoly on the services.
This is one more reason why UN control over the internet cannot be allowed, and a good thing Congress is opposing it, including some Democrats. Just think, not only would they do whatever possible to silence critics of Islam, there's every chance they'd try and use their influence to destroy Jewish businesses, including kosher sellers online. All the same, this is still why I think the time has come for competition to ICANN, since any company that may be willing to deal with an outfit unsuited for the job cannot be trusted to safeguard freedom of speech. This is why I think it's time for webhosts to start offering their own number assignment services and all countries run their own as well, among other things, since ICANN shouldn't have a monopoly on the services.
Tuesday, September 02, 2014
ISIS EXECUTES AMERICAN JOURNALIST
Breitbart reports that an American reporter named Steve Sotloff was decapitated by members of ISIS in Syria, the same group that murdered James Foley. This is absolutely repulsive, and proves these Islamofascists are not something that should be ignored.
Monday, September 01, 2014
CHALLENGE: NAME ONE PLACE WHERE OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVE FORCED ISLAMISM INTO RETREAT
IT CANNOT BE DONE.
FROM LIBYA TO AFGHANISTAN, THE DIRECT RESULT OF OBAMA'S POLICIES THE LAST SIX YEARS HAS BEEN THE ADVANCE OF RADICAL ISLAM.
IN EGYPT AND MALI, THE ADVANCE WAS HALTED - BUT NOT BY OBAMA; IN FACT, OBAMA SUPPORTED THE OVERTHROW OF MUBARAK AND THE INSTALLATION OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
WHEN OBAMA IS NOT ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE ISLAMISTS, OBAMA APPEARS TO BE DITHERING, BUT THIS IS MERELY SURREPTITIOUS SUPPORT BY OBAMA FOR THE ENEMIES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY.
THE FREE WORLD IS IN MORTAL DANGER AND WILL REMAIN SO AS LONG AS THE TRAITOROUS OBAMA IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
FROM LIBYA TO AFGHANISTAN, THE DIRECT RESULT OF OBAMA'S POLICIES THE LAST SIX YEARS HAS BEEN THE ADVANCE OF RADICAL ISLAM.
IN EGYPT AND MALI, THE ADVANCE WAS HALTED - BUT NOT BY OBAMA; IN FACT, OBAMA SUPPORTED THE OVERTHROW OF MUBARAK AND THE INSTALLATION OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
WHEN OBAMA IS NOT ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE ISLAMISTS, OBAMA APPEARS TO BE DITHERING, BUT THIS IS MERELY SURREPTITIOUS SUPPORT BY OBAMA FOR THE ENEMIES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY.
THE FREE WORLD IS IN MORTAL DANGER AND WILL REMAIN SO AS LONG AS THE TRAITOROUS OBAMA IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
UH-OH: "China Manufacturing Gauge Drops as Risks to Growth Target Mount"
BLOOMBERG: China Manufacturing Gauge Drops as Risks to Growth Target Mount... The Purchasing Managers’ Index was at 51.1 for August, the National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said today in Beijing, missing the median 51.2 estimate in a Bloomberg News survey and compared with 51.7 in July.... suggesting the economy is losing momentum. A pullback in manufacturing, coming as the property market slumps, adds pressure on the government to boost stimulus.
“Downward pressure on the economy is evident since July,” said Shen Jianguang, chief Asia economist at Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd. “The recovery in the second quarter can be attributed to stimulus measures such as railway investment and social housing construction, so that is not steady.”AS THE WORLD'S HOT-SPOTS DEVOLVE INTO OPEN CONFLICT AND EUROPE DECLINES INTO RECESSION, CHINA - LIKE THE USA, ONLY GROWING BECAUSE ITS CENTRAL BANK IS PRINTING MONEY - WILL COLLAPSE.
AND THIS MAY VERY WELL TRIGGER A CALAMITY THAT WILL MAKE 2007 LOOK LIKE A PICNIC....
AL QAEDA TERRORISTS IN SYRIA HOLD UN WORKERS HOSTAGE
Yes, there's al Qaeda jihadists right in Syria, and a few days ago, they took some UN activists hostage. Most of the hostages have been freed, but there's still some operative from Fiji who remain captives of the monsters:
The head of the Fijian army said on Sunday negotiations for the release of 44 soldiers abducted by an al Qaeda-linked group on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights were being pursued as the United Nations said it had no word on the troops whereabouts.Do they realize this was bound to happen sooner or later, and al Qaeda was bound to take UN employees hostage, even killing them? Unfortunately, they're unlikely to learn their lesson, and more situations like this could occur.
The U.N. peacekeepers from Fiji were seized by Islamist militants on Thursday, one of several groups attacked in the volatile frontier between Syria and Israel. U.N. officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity that they were now treating it as a case of kidnapping.
The United Nations and Manila said on Sunday all 72 Philippine troops trapped by Islamists in a different area of the frontier were now safe, but it is still not known where the 44 Fijians are being held.
"At this time, no additional information on their status or location has been established. The United Nations continues to actively seek their immediate and unconditional release," the U.N. press office said in a statement.
Fijian Army Commander Brigadier General Mosese Tikoitoga told a media conference in Fiji that they "are continuing negotiations at all levels."
He said they had been assured that the men were being treated well and had come to no harm, he said.
"However, we are still very concerned that we cannot confirm at this stage their exact location, whether they are still in Syria or whether they have been moved to neighboring countries," Tikoitoga said.