Jordan – Blazingcatfur

How dangerous is the Islamist victory in Jordan’s elections?

Before last week’s elections, Jordan’s most popular political party, the Islamic Action Front, regularly organized protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and recent incursions into the occupied West Bank.

During these, party supporters called out slogans like “we are all Hamas” and “Yahya Sinwar [who heads Hamas] is our leader.” Supporters of the Islamic Action Front, or IAF, also often demanded that Jordan scupper its long-running peace treaty with neighboring Israel, signed in 1994.

Perhaps, given the anger in Jordan about the civilian impact of Israel’s military campaign against the Hamas militant group in Gaza and the fact that around half of Jordan’s population has Palestinian roots, it should not have come as a surprise that the IAF did particularly well in Jordan’s parliamentary elections last week.

by Blazingcatfur•September 18, 2024September 18, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Jordan

Trudeau Showered With Gifts From King Of Jordan As Foreign Aid Buys Real Estate

An article published this week by National Post focuses on gifts sent to PM Justin Trudeau from foreign dignitaries:

“Jordan’s King Abdullah II has been the most generous of foreign officials, presenting ten gifts to Trudeau ranging from a handmade leather saddle to sculptural plant vessels to jars of honey.”

What a sweet deal. Over the past 10 years Justin Trudeau has authorized a shipment of $800 million in foreign aid to the Kingdom of Jordan. After which the Pandora Papers revealed that the King of Jordan is funneling large parts of that Canadian aid into a worldwide portfolio of luxury real estate.

by Sarcasticat•August 4, 2022August 4, 2022•0•Canada, Jordan, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

While Canada sent hundreds of millions in aid to Jordan, its king grew his collection of luxury homes

The King of Jordan secretly purchased 14 luxury homes in the U.K. and U.S. between 2003 and 2017. In total, Canada sent more than $750 million to Jordan over the last decade.

As his Middle Eastern monarchy strained under the weight of regional wars, Arab Spring protests and a flood of refugees, the King of Jordan secretly stockpiled a real estate portfolio of luxury homes from California to London, an investigation by the Star and its international partners has found.

King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein acquired 14 properties abroad worth more than $106 million (U.S.) using some of his 36 shell companies based in secretive tax havens, a cache of newly leaked documents reveal. He did it at a time when Canada and other Western nations were sending billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to Jordan.

And the man who orchestrated King Abdullah’s obscured offshore asset acquisitions was a former Saskatchewan government accountant.

CBC – Huge ‘Pandora Papers’ leak exposes secret offshore accounts of politicians, celebrities and billionaires

Guardian – Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful

I wonder if Justin is getting kickbacks.

by Blazingcatfur•October 3, 2021October 3, 2021•0•Canada, Jordan