Blog Heap of Links for the day 22 December 2015

…French police have prevented an attack on police and army personnel in the central city of Orleans, an official has said.

Two Frenchmen, aged 20 and 24, were being held for questioning, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

Both men are believed to have been in contact with another Frenchman, currently thought to be in Syria.…

A Muslim man is threatening to move his family out of Fort Smith, AR after a series of events that took place on Saturday at Central Mall… went to the mall to shop, dressed in a thobe and hijab Saturday… Mall-goers became concerned with the Crawfords when they were saw them taking video of people at the mall and videoing the entrances and exits.…

Following an intensive 18-month governmental study, the United Kingdom issued a startling indictment of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). It described the organization as fiercely anti-democratic, openly supportive of terrorism, dedicated to establishing an Islamist government, and opposed to the rule of law, individual liberty, and equality.…

…You might live in a nation founded by geniuses but run by idiots…

Joseph and Michele Assad, former U.S. counter-terrorism officers, helped arrange for 25 families, 149 refugees in all including 62 children, to board a privately-chartered plane in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on Dec. 10, and land in Kosice, Slovakia, where they will be granted asylum within a month.…

…The opponents of “Merry Christmas” and other uses of the word “Christmas” know exactly what they are doing. They are disingenuous when they dismiss defenders of “Merry Christmas” as fabricating some “war on Christianity.” Of course it’s a war on Christianity — or, more precisely, a war on the religious nature of America.…

The Immigration and Nationality Act passed June 27, 1952 revised the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality for the United States. That act, which became Public Law 414, established both the law and the intent of Congress regarding the immigration of Aliens to the US and remains in effect today. Among the many issues it covers, one in particular, found in Chapter 2 Section 212, is the prohibition of entry to the US if the Alien belongs to an organization seeking to overthrow the government of the United States by "force, violence, or other unconstitutional means." This, by its very definition, rules out Islamic immigration to the United States, but this law is being ignored by the White House…

…Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday the climate agreement reached this week in Paris did not contain any enforcement provisions because Congress would not have approved them.…

A strain of bacteria that is resistant even to “last resort” antibiotics has been discovered in the UK. It had previously appeared only in China, and it was expected to take at least three years to reach Europe, so its discovery in Britain was a surprise to epidemiologists.

In migration news, the Islamic State is said to possess tens of thousands of blank passports which it intends to use to smuggle jihad fighters into Europe disguised as refugees.

In other news, a young woman in Las Vegas deliberately ran down pedestrians with her car, killing one person and injuring dozens more. The woman, who had a young child with her in the car, is now in police custody.