Activists from church groups have banded together with community leaders in Vancouver to try to keep the American evangelist Franklin Graham from making an appearance in their city. Faith leaders and public officials are concerned that Mr. Graham’s intolerance and homophobia will cause danger to the citizens of Vancouver.
In other news, two madrassa students in Uttar Pradesh sodomized and murdered one of their fellow students.
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The country is struggling to meet bailout conditions even as three EU nations go to polls this year
The future of Greece’s €86 billion bailout — the third since the 2010 debt crisis — hangs in the balance in the absence of crucial backing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and with three European Union (EU) member states going to polls this year. Athens has to repay a loan instalment by July in order to avail of the next part of the rescue funds under the terms of the 2015 deal. To cross that hurdle, the Greek government has to satisfy the demands of both the creditors of the eurozone and the IMF. But there is uncertainty about the outcome, with the EU and the IMF at loggerheads over the health of the Greek economy and Athens unwilling to adopt a single euro more of austerity than what was agreed.
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Waste: Trudeau Government Deficit Reaches $14 Billion So Far
Through nine months of the fiscal year, Justin Trudeau’s government has run a budget deficit of $14 billion. For comparison, there was a $3.2 billion surplus at the same time last fiscal year.
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American Society Headed Toward a Breaking Point
Neoliberalism, which has destroyed Europe through immigration, and nearly destroyed the US by eliminating its middle class, has been the sole ruling agenda in the US for decades. It serves the interests of the small elite group of magnates who control the American economy, the media, and thereby the government, all the way up to the White House. They determine what is reported and what is not, who is defamed and who is glorified. By controlling the media, they have dominated public discourse, public opinion, and have avoided criticism. This is ingenious, but deadly to society.
Their best interest is not the best interest of the American people. They aspire for world domination. Through proxies such as Obama and Clinton, they “removed” Arab leaders such as Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and Bashar Assad, destroyed their countries, and created an influx of migrants into Europe. It is not that these Middle Eastern tyrants are or ever were anything to admire, but if you look at Iraq, Libya, and Syria today, would it not have been better for their people if their tyrants had remained in place, rather than the ruin, death, hunger, and terrorism that is their daily reality today?
If the people driving the “liberal” agenda in Europe maintain control over their governments, it will not be long before Europe accepts Sharia law. As this sad story of a forced child marriage shows, this is already happening, but it will spread much faster if they succeed.
And what they have done to Europe, they will continue in America: This same group will allow unchecked influx of migrants into the US, who will drain the already overstretched welfare system, create an impossible conflict of cultures and faiths, which will result in extremism and subsequent bloodshed on both sides. And all this will be done in the name of liberal thinking, pluralism, humanism, and democracy.
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Car Plows Into Crowd at Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans, 28 Revelers Injured
Five people have reportedly been taken to a trauma center and are in “guarded” condition, officials say.
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General McMaster and That “Perverted Interpretation of Religion Used to Justify Violence”
by Hugh Fitzgerald
President Trump has chosen Lt. General William McMaster as his new National Security Adviser. As a three-star general, McMaster’s appointment will require Senate confirmation, and one hopes that the Senators before they vote will take the opportunity to examine his understanding of Islamic terrorism. For surely this is the greatest threat not only to American security, but to that of the entire West.
General McMaster has pronounced on the subject of Islamic terrorism twice in the last year, in almost identical language, and what he said suggests that he has missed something important about the ideology of Islam.
In May 2016, in a speech he delivered on “Harbingers of Future War: Implications for the Army” at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, General McMaster referred to “groups like ISIL, who use this irreligious ideology, this perverted interpretation of religion to justify violence. They depend on ignorance, and the ability to recruit vulnerable segments of populations to foment hatred, and then use that hatred to justify violence against innocents.”
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Leader of Anti-Trump Women’s March is Palestinian Terrorist
ONE of the organisers behind the next women’s march against President Donald Trump has been revealed as a Palestinian terrorist who took part in two deadly bombings in Israel.
Rasmea Yousef Odeh was convicted in 1970 for her role in the two terror attacks, one of which killed two students while they were out doing their food shopping.
After spending ten years behind bars, she then became a US citizen and even took up a job working as a navigator for Obamacare.
— Hat tip: Nick | [Return to headlines] |
Liberated Women Take a Stand Against ISIS and the Hijab
More than one month has now passed since the Women’s March on Washington and we’re still waiting here at The Global Lane to see throngs of American women marching for kidnapped and abused Yazidi woman.
Both CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell and yours truly have interviewed and reported about the kidnappings, rapes, and sex trade of young Yazidi females by ISIS.
This week on Brietbart News, Tina Ramirez of Hardwired asks, “Where is the Women’s March for the Islamic State’s Yazidi sex slaves? She says “the silence of the so-called ‘Women Rights Movement’ is deafening.”
— Hat tip: Nick | [Return to headlines] |
Rachel Dolezal is Nearly Homeless, On Food Stamps and Still White
Former NAACP branch president Rachel Dolezal, who lied about being black but still identifies as black, is now jobless, living on food stamps and expects to lose her home next month.
“There’s no protected class for me,” the former NAACP branch president told The Guardian. “I’m this generic, ambiguous scapegoat for white people to call me a race traitor and take out their hostility on. And I’m a target for anger and pain about white people from the black community. It’s like I am the worst of all these worlds.”
Dolezal has applied for over 100 jobs, but has received no offers, even from a supermarket. She has, however, been offered work in porn and reality TV. While a friend helped pay her rent for February, Dolezal expects she’ll lose her home next month.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Republicans Divided on Russia Probe, Calls for Special Prosecutor Over AG Sessions
Republicans are increasingly divided over the issue of whether members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign made illegal contact with Russia and if a special prosecutor should be appointed over Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate such allegations.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski told “Fox News Sunday” that he has confidence in Sessions, a Trump campaign supporter and former Alabama senator, and his judgment.
“If he wants to investigate this under the Department of Justice, that’s his prerogative,” Lewandowski said. “I have the utmost confidence in Attorney General Sessions. If he believes there is something there, he will investigate that. I think he is completely capable and competent to do so. … and I would leave it in his hands.”
— Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Stars Make Political Statement With ACLU Ribbon at Oscars
Stars are mixing high fashion with some advocacy on the Oscars red carpet.
Several top nominees are sporting blue ribbons supporting the American Civil Liberties Union, including best actress nominee Ruth Negga and best original song nominee Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Miranda brought his mother to the Oscars, and she also prominently displayed the ribbon. The ACLU is among the groups suing over a travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration that has been placed on hold by federal courts.
— Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
What Judge Has No Lawmaking Authority?
So few powers are delegated to the Federal Judiciary that it takes less than 400 words to define them — fewer words than the column you are reading right now — while the powers of Congress and President number over 3,300!
So why are Americans allowing these unlawful court opinions to go into effect, which stop lawful presidential orders, and worse, challenging and appealing them in a higher court as if they have authority to do so?
Understand that the Judicial Branch of our Constitutional government has no more lawmaking power than a referee in a football game has power to make up new rules for the game. Both the court and the referee have a single job to do: discover and apply the rules to the rivaling parties before them.
Unfortunately, Trump’s new head of the Department of Homeland Security, General John F. Kelly, appeared to be taking orders from unelected judges instead of the Commander-in-Chief when he issued a statement promising “compliance” with the court order that has challenged the President’s executive order. Some have argued that this constituted a “mutiny” against the President. Kelly knows that “the order issued by Trump was both legal and necessary to the security of the United States and that the Commander-in-Chief had the full authority to issue that directive,” wrote columnist J.B. Williams.
“It’s a mess, a complete mess,” is what Trump might say of the rulings against his executive order. But as President, he can do something about it. Yet, he has simply issued a series of Tweets, one of the latest being that “dangerous” foreigners are being allowed into the U.S. because of the judicial rulings. But since when do judges decide the foreign or immigration policies of the United States? Where is that written in law or the Constitution?
Many legal scholars have clearly explained how the judicial rulings against the order are not based on law or the Constitution. What is lacking is an effort by the administration and Congress to remove or restrict the power of tyrannical judges who present their own personal opinions as expressions of the facts and the law.
Congress should impeach federal judges who make outrageous rulings that have no basis in the Constitution. Why? Because just like in this case, it puts all Americans at risk!
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
What the Politicians You Elected Have Done to America, Part 8
People today don’t believe that our Christian faith should be involved in our education even though islam is being taught in our public schools: Concerns have arisen over the perceived teaching of Islam in California’s seventh grade school curriculum. Questions have been raised as to whether the education within these classrooms are merely teaching about Islam or preaching the faith, in what many now view as a scandal of indoctrination of youth.
That question was central to a recent lecture and discussion addressing the topic of Islam in public elementary schools hosted by the American Freedom Alliance (AFA) at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles. A panel of four speakers, three of whom are public educators, conveyed their personal experiences with this subject.
One of the textbooks in question was History Alive, which was approved and adopted by the Palo Alto-based California state Board of Education in 1998. The text is part of their adoption of the History, Social Science Content Standards for CA Public Schools.
While teaching Islam, along Christianity and Judaism, is an important part of history, the educators present at the AFA lecture pointed out that History Alive pays an enormous amount of time and attention to Islam (55 pages) in the seventh grade. When teachers were asked whether Christianity (16 pages, which focused mainly on the Crusades) and Judaism (1 page) were given the same amount of attention in the classroom, they were told yes — but in sixth grade.
This proved to be untrue — Jewish and Christian curriculums were reportedly given half as much attention as Islam was. The lecturers found this to be particularly concerning when noting America’s Judeo-Christian foundation, where there is a separation of church and state. In Islam, there is no separation of church and state.
— Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Church and Community Leaders Campaign to Stop Visit by Controversial Christian Preacher
Church and community leaders in Vancouver, British Columbia, are campaigning to stop the controversial Christian evangelist Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, from speaking to thousands of people at a two day festival in the city next week. Graham is scheduled to preach at the Festival of Hope from 3-5 March at one of the city’s largest stadiums. But many of his past statements are causing concern. Graham has called on the United States “to use weapons of mass destruction if need be” and referred to Islam as “a very evil and a very wicked religion.” He has also made disparaging remarks about homosexuals, and praised Russian President Vladmir Putin for his oppressive stance toward members of gay community.
“This is unusual for us to deal with in Vancouver — this kind of individual and this kind of hate rhetoric. “We live in a country that has free speech, but there’s a difference between free speech and hate speech” said Councillor Tim Stevenson, who is also an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada.
Stevenson said the worry is that Graham will incite hate speech and that is particularly concerning in light of the recent attack at a Quebec mosque that left six dead. “The city has an issue of safety here and we’re really concerned about it,” he said.
— Hat tip: Nick | [Return to headlines] |
Austria: Elite Ball Under Attack — Protestors Pour Into Vienna Streets
AN angry mob of “eat the rich” protesters took over the streets of Austria on Thursday as of the world’s most prestigious balls took place.
Furious demonstrators launched a march against the Vienna Opera Ball as they claimed it symbolises the unfair distribution of wealth in Austria.
As debutants in stunning white dresses were presented to society during the elite event, which dates bach to 1814 during the time of the Vienna Congress, protests erupted outside.
With red flares, flags and signs saying “eat the rich”, the protestors marched on the opera to demand social justice.
Despite demonstrators taking to the streets, it did not appear to dampen the spirits of the debutants as they took to the floor for their opening dance.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
EU Lawmakers Call for ‘Federal Union’ of European States
The leaders of the lower chambers of parliament of Germany, Italy, France, and Luxembourg have called for a European “Federal Union” in an open letter published in Italian newspaper La Stampa on Sunday.
In the letter, four representatives of EU governments — Claude Bartolone of the French National Assembly, Laura Boldrini of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Norbert Lammert of the German Bundestag, and Mars Di Bartolomeo of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies — say that closer cooperation is essential for dealing with problems that no one EU state can tackle on its own, such as immigration, terrorism, and climate change.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
France: Muslim “Human Rights Activist” To Le Pen: “I Am Going to Slit Your Throat Muslim-Style”
AN ACCLAIMED French blogger has come under heavy criticism after thousands of racist, homophobic and hate-filled tweets he published years ago under a pseudonym resurfaced at the end of last week, triggering a storm of outrage.
For years, Mehdi Meklat, a 24-year-old human rights activist and former Bondy Blog journalist — who, until last week, was hailed as one of France’s rising media stars — published “sickening” tweets under the pseudonym ‘Marcelin Deschamps’, a “provocative” but “fictional” character who, according to the young writer, “does not reflect his personal beliefs, values and morals”.
On Twitter, Mr Meklat — writing as Marcelin Deschamps — threatened to kill Marine Le Pen.
He wrote: “I am going to slit your throat Muslim-style.”
— Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
France: Video: Vermeer Masterpieces Brought Together in Paris for Rare Show
The Louvre Museum in Paris on Wednesday will unveil a rare exhibition on Flemish master painter Johan Vermeer, the first such show in France in half a century.
The Louvre has brought together 12 works by Vermeer, an artist renowned for his detailed interior scenes, but who produced very few paintings in his lifetime (1632-1675). There are only 36 recognised works by the Dutchman across the planet.
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German Student Eyed in Mowing Down Pedestrians Held on Murder Charge
A man who mowed down pedestrians in the German city of Heidelberg, killing one man, is being held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, authorities said Sunday.
Two other people were injured in Saturday’s incident, according to police who ruled out extremism or terrorism as a motive. The driver was tracked down by police and shot.
“There are no indications of a terrorist background,” a spokesman for German police David Faulhaber said, according to Sky News.
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ISIS Terror Threat ‘Is Highest Since Days of IRA, ‘ UK Terror Laws Watchdog Says
Islamic State militants are planning “indiscriminate attacks” on UK citizens on a scale similar to those perpetrated by the IRA 40 years ago, the new terrorism watchdog has said.
Max Hill QC, the new Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that Islamists were targeting UK cities and said there was an “enormous ongoing risk which none of us can ignore”.
But Mr Hill, who successfully prosecuted the failed 7/12 bombers, praised the intelligence services’ “truly remarkable” success rate for foiling plots since the 2005 London bombings.
Speaking in his first interview in the role, Mr Hill told the Sunday Telegraph: “I think the intensity and the potential frequency of the serious plot planning — with a view to indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians of whatever race or colour in metropolitan areas — represents an enormous ongoing risk that none of us can ignore.
— Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Italy Expels Two Tunisians, One With Links to Berlin Attacker: Ministry
Italy has expelled two Tunisians, one of whom may have had contact with a man who killed 12 people in Berlin when he plowed a truck through a busy Christmas market, the Italian interior ministry said.
It said the name of the 44-year-old Tunisian, who was expelled on Saturday, was registered for a phone number which was found among the contacts of Berlin attacker Anis Amri.
Amri came to Italy by boat in 2011 and spent almost four years in jail there before being ordered out of the country in 2015.
The other expelled man was a 34-year-old who had shown sympathies with Islamic State militants and did not exclude the possibility of going to Syria, the ministry said.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Protesters Try to Stop Backers of French Far-Right Candidate
Demonstrators in western France have tried to block buses carrying supporters of far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen to a campaign rally.
The incident Sunday in the city of Nantes came after 11 police officers were injured Saturday in skirmishes with activists opposed to Le Pen’s appearance there. No injuries were reported from Sunday’s bus protest.
Sebastien Chenu of Le Pen’s National Front party said on BFM television that the protesters were “trying to stop us from delivering our message. We will not back down.”
Critics allege that Le Pen’s anti-immigration, anti-establishment campaign is a cover for a racist, anti-democratic worldview.
Recent polls suggest she could win the first round of the April-May election, but predict she would lose the ensuing runoff vote.
— Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Sweden Gang Rape ‘Live-Streamed on Facebook’
Police have launched a full investigation after the group of men, said to be from Tunisia, are alleged to have gang raped the woman in her 20s in Stockholm.
The footage was handed to officers after a man, who is of Arab origin, spotted the live footage on a Facebook group dedicated to Tunisians living in the west.
He recorded the footage on his mobile phone on January 26 and alerted police.
But since then he says he has received death threats.
He told Sweden’s Free Times: “Many Tunisians are defending these men and looks like I hate the Tunisians because I hung out my countrymen.
“I see it as a serious crime, but they see it as something normal.”
— Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Today’s Poland Unworthy of EU, As it Infringes on Rule of Law — Luxembourg FM
The current Polish state would not have been accepted into the EU, as it fails to meet the bloc’s key criteria, such as being a democratic and a lawful state, Luxembourg’s foreign minister said, accusing Poland’s authorities of restricting the rule of law.
Today’s Poland under Jaroslaw Kaczynski could no longer become a EU member,” Jean Asselborn told German Tagesspiegel daily, blaming Poland’s president for pushing his country away from core European values and gearing towards a national state.
“He believes that the EU is a brake pad for Poland. He wants to create a right-wing conservative social order based upon the concept of a national state,” the politician said, describing the leader of the Polish Law and Justice (PiS) party as an “ideologist.”
In the pursuit of this strategy, the “government in Poland is getting more and more involved in restricting in the rule of law,” Luxemburg’s foreign minister argued, adding that it may have been encouraged by Hungary.
Back in December, some members of the European Parliament suggested that Poland could be stripped of its EU voting rights in response to its government encroaching on the independence of the country’s judiciary and freedom of assembly. However, Asselborn believes this proposal is unfeasible, as it would likely be vetoed by Hungary.
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Two Suspects Charged in France Over Possible Terror Plot
Two men who had been arrested on suspicion of planning an “imminent” terror attack in France were charged on Saturday, legal sources said.
The suspects, one 19-year-old and the other a 27-year-old, were arrested Tuesday in the coastal city of Marseille and the central city of Clermont-Ferrand.
Both men, known to intelligence services for belonging to the jihadist Salafist community, were indicted on charges of criminal association in connection with a criminal terrorist enterprise, as well as for possession of firearms.
— Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
UK Terror Threat at Highest Level Since ‘70s, Says Watchdog
The UK is at its highest risk of a terror attack since the IRA bombing campaign of the 1970s, according to Britain’s new watchdog for terrorism laws.
Max Hill, a new independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said that radical Islamists were actively targeting UK cities and that there is an “enormous ongoing risk which none of us can ignore.”
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UK Terror Threat ‘At Highest Since 1970s IRA Plots’
Britain faces a level of terror threat not seen since the IRA bombings of the 1970s, according to a new watchdog.
Max Hill QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism laws, told the Sunday Telegraph that Islamist extremists were targeting UK cities.
He credited the effectiveness of the intelligence services in limiting the level of threat to Britain.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd told ITV’s Peston on Sunday that defending the UK was her “main priority”.
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What Happens if Geert Wilders Wins the Dutch Election 2017?
The anti-Islam leader of the Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is leading in the polls ahead of the election next month.
His election would mark Europe’s first political earthquake of the year ahead of the important French and German elections later in 2017.
Other Dutch parties are also unwilling to form a coalition with him, according to Rem Korteweg, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform (CER).
“The result of that is going to be a political mess after the election,” Mr Korteweg said, noting that there could be political stalemate.
“Wilders will claim that he has the will of the people. But there are very few — if any parties — that will go into Parliament with him.”
— Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
Egypt’s Islamists Issue Guide to Attacking Christians
A pro-ISIS group in Egypt is calling upon the country’s Muslim majority to manufacture home-made weapons and increase attacks against the country’s embattled Christian minority.
“Our goal is to spread the horror among apostates and infidels,” wrote the group that identifies as “The Wolves of Egypt” on the Telegram messaging app Friday evening. They circulated guides for “making a bomb in your mother’s kitchen,” including instructions for assembling pipe bombs and gas cylinders, which it said were to be used against “Egyptian apostates” and foreigners living in Egypt.
— Hat tip: Nick | [Return to headlines] |
Sharing the Story of a Life Changed
Egyptian-born Daniel Massieh spent most of his young life devoted to another religion.
He said he studied the Quran, followed Islam and was devoted to Allah and the prophet Muhammad. He believed Christians were infidels, immoral and void of any respectability.
But as a young man, everything changed. Massieh turned his back on Islam and converted to Christianity — an act that would lead his family to shun him, his fellow countryman to turn him in to the Secret Police and cause him to spend eight months in solitary confinement without a blanket, a bed, a bathroom and barely any food… During Massieh’s discussions on Islam, he is quite emphatic about his revelations regarding Muhammad and the Islamic religion.
“Islam is built on deception,” Massieh said. “Muhammad stole most of the Bible, about 80 percent, and copied it into his Quran. He never received any revelation from Allah.”
— Hat tip: Nick | [Return to headlines] |
More Than Half of Turkey-Syria Border Wall Complete: Housing Agency
More than half of the construction of a 511-kilometer concrete wall being built on Turkey’s border with Syria has been completed, the head of the state-owned Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOKI) has said.
Turkey shares a 900-kilometer (559 miles) border with Syria, which has been embroiled in a civil war since 2011.
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Sun, Sand, Religious Police: Holidays in Saudi May be Hard Sell
Saudi Arabia as a whole isn’t ready for tourists either. But its rulers are intent on revolutionizing the economy, and tourism is high on their list. They figure it can create jobs for a youthful population, earn revenue to reduce oil-dependence, and help open the kingdom to the world. Which it might — if anyone can be persuaded to come.
To be sure, the country attracts plenty of foreign travelers — about 18 million last year, the most in the Arab world. But they’re almost all Muslim pilgrims visiting Mecca. Regular tourism barely exists. And there are so many obstacles that a Saudi Arabia full of holidaymakers is as hard to envisage as a Saudi Arabia that’s no longer hooked on fossil fuels.
Saudi Arabia doesn’t even issue tourist visas. Its alcohol ban, strict dress code and curbs on gender mixing are red flags for many people who’d be happy to visit Dubai’s beaches or Egypt’s pyramids. Then there are the secret police, who often keep a close watch on foreign visitors, and the religious police, who chastise people for moral violations. Even many Saudis prefer to vacation in Dubai, where they can wear what they want and go to nightclubs or movie theaters.
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Afghan Official: ISIS Militants Kill 11 in Mosque Ambush
At least 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander were killed in an ambush by Islamic State group militants in northern Zawzjan province, a provincial official said.
ISIS-linked militants have been active in Afghanistan’s eastern regions, but have recently begun operating in the north of the country as well.
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Bangladesh: Police Delay Chargesheet for Arresting ‘Five Assailants’ of Writer-Blogger Avijit Roy
Two years on, police are still to submit the chargesheet in the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy.
Investigators say they were waiting to arrest the five, who were involved in the assassination of the Bangladeshi American writer, who founded the blog ‘Muktomona’ (free thinkers).
Roy and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya were attacked on the night of Feb 26, 2015 on the Dhaka University Campus.
Machete-wielding men attacked the couple as they came out from the Ekushey Book Fair.
Avijit suffered a deep gash on his head and died, while Bonya survived but lost a finger in the assault.
Islamist zealots had been threatening Avijit, a bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, for his active campaign against Islamist radicals, for quite some time.
— Hat tip: Nick | [Return to headlines] |
North Korea Spy Agency Runs Arms Operation Out of Malaysia, U.N. Says
It is in Kuala Lumpur’s “Little India” neighborhood, behind an unmarked door on the second floor of a rundown building, where a military equipment company called Glocom says it has its office.
Glocom is a front company run by North Korean intelligence agents that sells battlefield radio equipment in violation of United Nations sanctions, according to a United Nations report drafted for the Security Council seen by Reuters.
Malaysia is one of the few countries in the world which had strong ties with North Korea. Their citizens can travel to each other’s countries without visas. But those ties have begun to sour after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half-brother was murdered at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport on Feb 13.
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Two Madrassa Students Sodomise, Kill Fellow Student in UP’s Muzaffarnagar
Two madrassa students were arrested on Saturday in connection with the murder of a 14-year-old fellow student at Tewra village of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
Kamruzama (20) and Adnan (21) were arrested for their alleged role in killing the fellow student by slitting his throat after subjecting him to sodomy, said circle officer Akhil Ahmad.
The duo has confessed to their crime, he said.
The teenager had gone missing on February 8. His body was found in sugarcane fields on February 22.
A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, the police official added.
— Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari | [Return to headlines] |
China is Getting Tough on North Korea With Coal Embargo
China has stopped importing North Korean coal, cutting off a vital economic lifeline for the isolated country. What are the implications for N. Korea’s economy and the secluded regime’s relationship with Beijing?
— Hat tip: Fjordman | [Return to headlines] |
China Says No Intention of Using Currency Devaluation to Its Advantage
China said on Friday it had no intention of using currency devaluation to its advantage in trade, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s description of the Asian giant as the “grand champions” of currency manipulation.
Trump said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday he had not “held back” in his assessment that China manipulates its yuan currency, just hours after his new treasury secretary pledged a more methodical approach to analysing Beijing’s foreign exchange practices.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said he hoped the United States could “fully and correctly” view the exchange rate issue.
“China has no intention of seeking foreign trade advantages via an intentional devaluation of the renminbi. There is no basis for the continued devaluation of the renminbi,” he told a daily media briefing in Beijing.
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Driver Smashed Over the Head With a Hammer, Bashed and Then Robbed in Bulleen Attack
A man has been smashed over the head with a hammer, bashed and then robbed in a terrifying attack at Bulleen.
The victim, 25, had pulled over on Manningham Road to exchange insurance details when his car was bumped on Monday morning.
Police said the two attackers were of southern european appearance, with distinctive full dark beards.
They were driving a late model Honda Integra.
— Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
WA Election: Vote for Liberals Effectively a Vote for One Nation, Muslim Cleric Says
“We are by and large apolitical — that is the imams — we don’t really get involved in politics,” Sheikh Mohammed Shakeeb told 7.30.
“[But] due to the recent rise of political parties that advocate the politics of racism, division and hatred, we thought it was in our best interests to take this stance.”
In a handout to voters, the imams have urged followers to vote for the Greens, saying: “If you vote Liberal, you will effectively be voting One Nation into Parliament.”
“You will have … our kids growing up in a society which will be divided because of all the hate speech which comes with the policies of this particular party,” Sheikh Shakeeb said.
The Muslim leaders’ intervention could prove critical in seats in Perth’s outer suburbs with high Muslim populations, including Southern River.
There, the sitting member, Peter Abetz, is being challenged by Australian-born Toni Pikos-Sallie, who converted to Islam when she was a university student and is now standing for the Greens.
The mother of five is the deputy principal of an Islamic school in Perth and got the support of several Perth imams some time ago…
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Democratic Republic of the Congo: Wave of Attacks on Catholic Churches and Properties
A wave of violent attacks on Catholic churches and property has taken place in DR Congo over the last week. On 18 and 19 February there were incidents at the major seminary of Malole in Kananga, in Central Kasai and St Dominic Parish in Limete, in the capital Kinshasa.
During the night between 21 and 22 February, unknown persons vandalized the parish of Santa Maria of Lukalaba, in Eastern Kasai, while another group attempted to loot the parishes of St Robert Kansele and Saint Albert le Grand in Mbuji-Mayi, but their violent action was interrupted by the arrival of the police. In Lubumbashi (Haut-Katanga), Saint Kizito parish was assaulted by unknown persons who tried to set fire at the entrance of the church with cans of gasoline and tires, smashed the windows of the place of worship and the adjacent school, which was also looted. The same thing happened in the parish of St John the Baptist in the district of Gbadolite, and in the Convent of the ‘Servants of St. Joseph”‘in the same city.
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France Sends Backup to Niger After 16 Troops Killed
France is to send a contingent of counterterror forces to help the army in Niger after militants ambushed a military patrol killing 16, the defence ministry said.
The decision, announced late Saturday, was taken following a request from President Mahamadou Issoufou after Wednesday’s attack near the border with Mali.
The deadly ambush, which took place in an area some 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of Niamey, the capital, also wounded another 18 Niger troops, with the army blaming “terrorist elements”.
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4,084 “Refugee”-Criminals in Cologne and Düsseldorf
4,084 North African invaders pretending to be refugees were arrested for thousands of serious crimes in the German cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf in 2016, North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) Interior…
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Chicago ‘Much Worse’ Than Malmö: American Journalist
American journalist Tim Pool has spent two days seeing ‘dangerous’ Malmö with his own eyes.
But the city did not live up to the bleak picture he had been told to expect.
“If this is the worst Malmö has to offer, then don’t ever come to Chicago,” Pool told news agency TT after visiting Rosengård, a neighbourhood with a high immigrant population.
Pool met municipal council member Nils Karlsson, who gave the journalist a guided tour of Malmö neighbourhoods Lindängen and Rosengård.
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Germany: Migrants Attack Guards ‘With Iron Bars and Knives’ In Shock Incident at Refugee Shelter
Five people were reportedly injured in the disturbance, leading to the arrests of three people at the facility in Staufen, south Germany.
The clip shows a line of security staff standing in the grounds of the property as they are approached by a group of topless man carrying weapons.
One of the attackers hammers a guard in the side with what appears to be a plank of wood, igniting the fierce melee.
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‘Immigration Does Not Lead to Crime!’ Swedish MP Attacks Trump Over Controversial Comments
During a rally in Florida last week, the US President claimed the country was “having problems like they never thought possible” after taking in “large numbers” of migrants.
Responding to the controversy, Social Democrat Laila Naraghi hit back at Mr Trump — insisting there was “no evidence” immigration had lead to crime.
Speaking on Sunday Politics, she said: “I think [Donald Trump] was far out because he misled the public with how he used the statistics.
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Ministry Takes Aim at Familiar Claims About Sweden
Sweden’s Foreign Ministry is seeking to settle some widespread claims that have been made about Sweden in a webpage it launched on Thursday.
The website lists several claims that have been made about immigration and crime in Sweden, namely that violent crime is rising rapidly and caused by recent immigrants to the nation.
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A Swedish detective who has triggered a row by blaming violent crime on migrants has gone one step further and accused politicians of turning a blind eye to the problem because of ‘political correctness’.
Earlier this month Peter Springare, who has spent more than 40 years in the police, aired his anger on social media when he was told not to record the ethnicity of violent crime suspects.
Springare, 61, who is based in the central city of Orebro, wrote: ‘Countries representing the weekly crimes: Iraq, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somalia, Syria again, Somalia, unknown, unknown country, Sweden.
‘Half of the suspects, we can’t be sure because they don’t have any valid papers. Which in itself usually means that they’re lying about your nationality and identity.’
[Comment: Send this detective info on the Kalergi plan. He will soon realize that these politicians are not just turning a blind eye, they are traitors to their respective nations.]
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Trump: “We’re Throwing Them the Hell Out”
Illegal criminal aliens are being hunted down across America and are being “thrown the hell out” of the country, U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed-ending weeks of controlled media speculation that there had been an illegal immigration crackdown.
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UK: Driver Jailed for 30 Months After Trying to Smuggle Four Migrants
A DRIVER caught smuggling four Afghans into the UK in his boot has been jailed for 30 months.
Dwayne Lovelock, 31, was trying to cross the Channel Tunnel in Coquelles, France.
He told officials he had been to visit his girlfriend, a student at a college near Brussels, Belgium.
But when they opened the boot of his British-registered Hyundai Sante Fe they found four Afghans — two adults and two children.
He was passed to Immigration Enforcement Criminal Investigation officers and charged with assisting unlawful immigration in October 2015.
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Why Trump is Right: “Paris is No Longer Paris”
Paris is indeed no longer Paris, as U.S. President Donald Trump recently asserted-because legal and illegal nonwhite immigration has replaced at least half the original white population, plunging huge areas of the French capital into degraded Third World chaos.
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Transgender Boy Wins Texas State Girls’ Wrestling Title
Mack Beggs, a 17-year-old junior, began the transition from girl to boy two years ago; the transition includes supplements and shots of testosterone that some feel gave Beggs an advantage. Beggs competed for and won a Texas state girls’ wrestling title.
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WikiLeaks’s Assange: Yiannopoulos is Facing ‘Censorship’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos is facing “censorship” amid controversy over a video in which the far-right provocateur appeared to defend pedophilia.
“US ‘liberals’ today celebrate the censorship of right-wing UK provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos over teen sex quote,” Assange tweeted Monday night.
[Comment: This article is a few days old, but I just came across it, and I think its interesting.]
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Nigel Farage and Tucker Carlson Explain Why “Nationism” Means the Death of Neo-Liberal Globalism
Brexit leader Nigel Farage explains the nation state movement President Trump has brought to the GOP.
Tucker Carlson interviewed UKIP’s Nigel Farage about the BREXIT Movement, President Donald Trump’s Speech at CPAC 2017, and the shift from neo-liberal globalism to nation-state sovereignty.
Farage prefers to refer to BREXIT, and Trump’s US election win, as a “nationism” movement, not as “nationalism.”
Farage says that “nationism” movements are completely normal and should be protected, not shouted down upon.
The real “fascists” are the neo-liberal left, who fight to shut down alternative views and opinions based on fake virtue.
[Comment: Left has twisted nationalism into a dirty word and is probably why Farage used the word nationism.]
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“Former NAACP branch president Rachel Dolezal, who lied about being black but still identifies as black, is now jobless, living on food stamps and expects to lose her home next month.”
This is a bizarre story. If you remember childhood photos and parents who revealed she use to be a blonde white girl. But it demonstrates what can happen when the progressive agenda glorifies and champions victims. Certain socially inadequate people long to be victims also, to reap the sympathy and support victims (as long as they are “approved victims”) get. The muslims are now the new blacks. So I would expect that in the mixed up mind of the progressive liberal, conversion to Islam to bask in their victimhood glory could be attractive. Perhaps Ms Dolezal will re-emerge as a black muslima.
I’m afraid Dolezal is actually mentally ill, and should not be taken as anything, except an example of how affirmative action, privacy protection, equal opportunity, and the unwillingness to speak unpleasant truths keep people from seeing the obvious.
I don’t think the “New Black” is deserved by “our”invading army of bloody Hell worshipping deserters of humanity Muslim rubbish. Blacks of every stripe have always been the mostest American. Great Americans and great Christians.
And so on. I think you get the picture.
IMS her parents adopted a couple of African kids whom they focused most of their attention on while neglecting their own children. Their own kids then started to adopt black behavior and looks to win their attention.
This is the price of virtue signalling by the Left at the family level.
There’s clearly something wrong with Ms. Dolezal mental health wise, so I don’t know why she’s been demonized the way she has. Besides, while she did take it to the extreme, it’s not like America in general doesn’t love emulating “black culture” (funny, that never refers to the likes of Ben Carson, Jason Riley, or Michaela DePrince). And if a man can declare he identifies as a woman and people fall all over themselves to validate that, why can’t a white person identify as black?
“Activists from church groups have banded together with community leaders in Vancouver to try to keep the American evangelist Franklin Graham from making an appearance in their city. Faith leaders and public officials are concerned that Mr. Graham’s intolerance and homophobia will cause danger to the citizens of Vancouver.”
I repeat my claim: the mere profession of faith as opposed to atheism is not a guarantee of virtue, good sense, or survival instincts. This is not a screed against religion or believers. It is a screed against people who assert that all Europe, or the US, or Canada, need is to go back to Christianity..or to religious belief…or whatever.
Reconvention of Witch Trials should clear things up in short order.
The left has for decades stretching back to the 60’s been infiltrating Protestant denominations and the RCC. Now most are just Leftist front groups that are dying. Yep that’s what happens when Lefties take over a church, it’s parishioners leave.
Another sign is female and gay ministers and a strong sense of agnosticism or atheism running through the church and what it believes. Usually Jesus gets reduced to some sort of social reformer and feel good dude.
You can see it as plain as day with churches with female ministers and participating in PC/MC activities such as welcoming Muslims into their town or supporting illegal immigration and betraying Jesus.
How could some clergy be so mentally blind: Times have not changed for 2000 years, have they?
…33 When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left. 34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up His garments by casting lots.
forgive them for they cast lots to divide petrodollars and portioning cowardice amongst themselves. Paul and the other martyrs told the truth and it cost them their lives. Does telling the truth cost you anything?
Deny Jesus’ teachings and they have started the teachings of the World and Jihad. Deny Jesus openly and you will be denied entry into the book of Life.
How can Churches deviate so much ?
Many (most?) churches deny the power of the Cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. They have become clubs of comfortable, spiritually dead people who think that regular appearance on the church show is what Christianity is all about.
1 Corinthians 1:18 says:
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God”.
Thank you STJOHNOFGRAFTON and something relevant to our problems in the west:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/760013/islam-secularism-serious-threats-christianity-former-queen-chaplain
Can Greece really be in trouble *again* if they were never *out* of trouble?
Also, Chicago probably is worse than Malmö. They don’t call it “Chiraq” for nothing. But that doesn’t mean Malmö is fine. Just because someone else’s dumpster fire smells worse than yours doesn’t mean you don’t still need to put yours out. Chicago is just Malmö left to fester and waste for a few decades.
Oh, and I nearly forgot. That headline they put on that wrestling story is wrong. What actually happened was a girl taking massive quantities of testosterone won against other girls who were not juicing. I feel so sorry for the girls who play by the rules but know they have no chance of excelling in their chosen sport because of political correctness.
Breitbart is also reporting on the story .They say that that the girl is transitioning to become a boy and taking massive quantities of testosterone as part of her transitioning treatment.
This testosterone will eventually quite a way down the line begin to put hair on her chest and face and lower the timbre of her voice .But before that happens testosterone will make her much stronger and more powerful than the biological girls not taking testosterone.Wrestling is a contact sport.And those girls the transgender wrestler wrestles are at serious risk of severe and life threatening injury.
Health and safety should be prioritized over pandering to transgender individuals .
So some in Vancouver don’t want Franklin Graham to speak there?
See, you people in the US of A are not the only country with precious little PC snowflakes!
That a United Church of Canada minister would defend islam is disgusting, and it is only islam, as no other religions are mentioned.
It’s ALWAYS islam, as no other religion has the world in it’s sights.
Depends what he’s preaching, Peter35. If it’s that homosexuality is a sin, well, that’s the official line as I understand it. If it’s hatred for homosexuals, it isn’t (wasn’t it St Paul who exhorted us to “hate the sin, but love the sinner”?) The latter view might also transgress the secular laws against “hate crime”, depending whether he appeared to advocate discrimination or violence.
Head of Swedish Ambulance Drivers Union:
No-go Zones are a Reality for Us – if not for the power elite!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta5a02MzWjE
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