Two people were stabbed at the Mall of America in Minneapolis this evening, although neither of them received life-threatening injuries. The alleged assailant may also have been wounded. It is believed that one of the victims confronted the knifeman trying to steal his belongings in the dressing room at Macy’s, and the would-be thief reacted by stabbing him.
In other news, the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry has announced that it will endeavor to prosecute anyone who criticizes Kuwait on social media.
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Cops Bust Armed Thief After Shoppers Stabbed at Mall of America
Police in Bloomington are investigating a stabbing at the Mall of America that left at least two wounded.
A would-be thief knifed two shoppers he tried to rob inside a Macy’s dressing room at Minnesota’s Mall of America on Sunday night, according to police.
The suspect pulled the blade on the first victim who confronted him in the retail chain’s men’s department around 6:45 p.m. local time in the massive Bloomington mall, cops said.
Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts said a family member rushed in to help and was stabbed during the struggle. Their injuries are not life-threatening.
The wounded victims managed to disarm the blade-wielding suspect and keep him down until police arrived for the arrest, within two minutes of the initial 911 call.
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Minnesota: Christian Centre Fires Man for Involvement in “Exposing Sharia” Event
I just received this email from one of the organizers, explaining what happened next. Please contact the Ironwood Springs Christian Ranch and politely and courteously register disapproval of their Sharia compliance and persecution of Gary Froiland for calling attention to unwelcome and unpopular truths.
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Pro-Sharia Radical Linda Sarsour Comes Out as a Card-Carrying Marxist
Soviet-trained Palestinian terrorist Illych Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, wrote from a French prison, “Only a coalition of Islamists and Marxists can destroy the United States.” Sarsour and her ilk are trying to do just that.
Left-wing darling Linda Sarsour, who gained notoriety for playing a significant role in organizing the Women’s March last January, recently came out as a card-carrying member of the Marxist organization, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Her mode of thinking revealed itself when she held up that backward country as a beacon of progress
Sarsour, a Palestinian-American Muslim, co-founded MPower Change and Muslims for Ferguson. The latter group protested outside of the 2016 Republican National Convention, predicting a “new wave of terror” against “people of color” that would follow if Donald Trump became president.
Sarsour has joined a cohort of modern leftists who attack critics of her religion as “Islamophobic” — a word made-up in the leftist lexicon to lump critics of Islam in with xenophobes and racists. She has claimed the United States was founded upon genocide and slavery, and that “nothing is creepier than Zionism.” She also sees nothing wrong with Sharia Law, claiming the fundamentalist Islamic legal code is simply misunderstood.
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Racial Slurs at Air Force Academy a Hoax, Investigation Reveals
An alleged racial incident at the U.S. Air Force Academy that turned an officer into an Internet sensation was, in fact, a hoax perpetrated by one of the alleged victims, academy officials announced on November 7.
“We can confirm that one of the cadet candidates who was allegedly targeted by racist remarks written outside of their dorm room was actually responsible for the act,” academy spokesman Lt. Col. Allen Herritage said in a statement to the Colorado Springs Gazette. “The individual admitted responsibility and this was validated by the investigation.”
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Stabbings Reported Inside Macy’s at Mall of America; ‘Subject in Custody’
At least two people reportedly were stabbed at Mall of America in Bloomington shortly after 6:45 p.m. on Sunday.
Reports on Twitter said the stabbing happened in the men’s department at Macy’s on the first level. One person was stabbed in the back; another was stabbed multiple times. The suspect also was wounded. He was in custody, the reports said. The reports said two people have been taken to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
“A subject is in custody after a stabbing at Macy’s MOA,” said a statement from Bloomington police at 8 p.m.
Kim Schwieters of Grant, Minn., was at the mall with her three children. They were visiting Santa Claus, who sits just outside the Macy’s entrance on the first level. They went into Macy’s as the commotion started.
“We saw two cops running toward Macy’s,” she said. “By the time we got to the main area — the men’s department is to the right — more police started running in with their guns drawn.
“My daughter could see people lying on the ground who had been stabbed.”
Schwieters said her daughter saw two people on the ground. The police yelled at everyone in the store to clear the area and locked down the main level, she said.
She also talked to a man who may have seen the suspect before the stabbing.
“He saw the man walking through before, talking to himself, really really loudly talking to himself,” she said. “Kind of drew attention to himself.”
Another woman tweeted, “Just lived through the scariest experience of my life. I heard someone screaming ‘He got me! He got me!’ I knew something was not right. Some other shoppers ran toward the screaming, and someone (who I believe was the victim’s brother) yelled ‘911!’ I called the police and hid.”…
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Brexit News: Sir James Dyson Hails ‘Fantastic Opportunity’ Outside European Union
SIR JAMES DYSON has criticised the bloc insisting it is the “slowest growing area” in the world, as he hails Britain’s prospects after Brexit.
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Brussels Riot After Morocco World Cup Qualifier Win
More than 20 police officers were injured in Brussels when celebrations over Morocco’s qualification for football’s World Cup turned violent.
The Moroccan national side qualified for the 2018 tournament in Russia with a 2-0 victory away to Ivory Coast on Saturday, topping their group.
Belgium has a large Moroccan community and fans hit the capital’s streets after the game.
Damage included a burnt car, smashed glass and looted shops, police said.
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Catalonia News: Spanish PM Rajoy Urges Catalan Supporters to ‘Restore Normality’
CATALONIA will return to “normality” after fresh elections next month, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has pledged.
Madrid imposed direct rule on the north-eastern region two weeks ago in response to the Catalan government’s unilateral declaration of independence.
And rallying his supporters in Barcelona today, the Spanish premier said new leadership in the area would help end “separatist havoc”.
The wealthy region was plunged in to chaos after a controversial independence referendum on October 1.
But Mr Rajoy said the election of pro-unity politicians to the Catalan government on December 21 would restore stability after weeks of protests and several large multinationals moving their offices out of the troubled region.
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Central Europe and the U.S.: The New Alliance
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel recognized that multiculturalism has failed. All scientific studies show that a significant number of Muslims in Europe are fundamentalist; and that thousands of young European Muslims went to Syria to join ISIS. And yet, it is insufferable to Brussels and Berlin, to hear that the people of Central Europe have no intention of following the same path.
The European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU have made sure, through ruling after ruling, that it is virtually impossible to expel a “refugee” after his asylum request has been rejected.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines itself as a scientific body, although in reality, unsurprisingly, it is a purely political body. In composition, competence or functioning, there is not a shred of science in the IPCC. Yet, in the name of this “science”, European politicians are extracting from their people trillions in additional taxes, building pyramids of new regulations and inflicting prohibitions in every sphere of human activity.
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European Union Takes Step Towards Defense Cooperation to Counter Russian Pressure
The EU will move towards closer defence ties on Monday with more than 20 states signing a landmark pact that aims to boost cooperation after Brexit and counteract Russian pressure.
Similar efforts to deepen military links have been deadlocked for decades, partly by Britain’s fierce opposition to anything that might lead to an European army. But Brexit and Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 has once again brought the need for a strong European security stance back into focus. The permanent structured cooperation on defence agreement (PESCO) seeks to tighten defence between EU members and improve coordination in the development of new military hardware.
[Comment: The European Union aims to be a super-state, and having a European army is necessary for such an aim.]
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France Faces ‘Very High’ Terrorism Risk — Interior Minister Ahead of Anniversary of Paris Attacks
As France prepares to mark the second anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has warned that the terrorist threat remains “very high,” with a number of “small groups” planning attacks.
France has been on high alert since January 2015, when it was paralyzed by a series of Islamic State-linked terrorist attacks. The most horrific of these took place on November 13, 2015, when 130 people were killed and hundreds of others injured in coordinated attacks in and around Paris.
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Hungary’s Orban Accepts Party Endorsement to Fight Next Election
BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Hungary’s right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban accepted his ruling Fidesz party’s endorsement on Sunday to lead it into an election next year, saying he needed another four year term in power to make his transformation of the country “irreversible”.
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Iraq Earthquake: Middle East Rocked by 7.3 Magnitude Quake on Iran Border
A MASSIVE 7.3-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 129 people and injured hundreds more after it struck southeast of the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq, near the border with Iran.
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Legal Action Against Those ‘Criticizing’ Kuwait in Social Media
Subsequent to pervasive social media campaigns of calumny against Kuwait by some individuals from various countries, Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed its commitment to monitor individuals offending or dragging the country’s name through the mud, reports Al-Qabas daily.
The daily quoting a diplomatic source stated the ministry will take legal action against those criticizing the country maliciously on social media or other mediums of communication.
He reaffirmed the authorities will not condone the defiance of law by any party, indicating the ministry has since requested its ambassadors to submit a list of names of offenders to the security authorities in Kuwait so as to prosecute them.
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Facebook is Turned a Dangerous Islamic Tool to Attack Minority Hindus in Bangladesh
Jihadi attack on Hindu houses after controversial ‘anti-Islamic’ Facebook post uploaded from Rangpur. Muslim mob set fire upon 30 Hindu houses and destroyed another 20.
Atul Brahmachari | HENB | Dhaka | Nov 11, 2017:: Facebook has been turned a dangerous Jihadi tool to attack minority Hindus in Bangladesh time and again.
The controversial Facebook post being a ‘defamation of Prophet Muhammad’. that triggered the communal attack on the Hindu houses by irrate Jihadi mob in Rangpur’s Thakurpara village was uploaded somewhere in Gangachara upazila in Rangpur, according to sources at a law enforcement agency.
The user of the Facebook ID from where the controversial post was circulated was also found to have signed in for the last time from somewhere near Bangladesh Bank’s Rangpur office on Thursday night, they added.
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Japan Earthquake: Huge 5.8 Magnitude Quake Strikes Near Sendai
A HUGE 5.8 magnitude earthquake has stuck of the east coast of the Japan, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
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Controversial Muslim activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied has been slammed by Australians after posting yet another ‘culturally insensitive’ post on Twitter during Remembrance Day.
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The Muslim undertaker who filmed the message of forgiveness from father of eight-year-old Greenacre victim Jihad Darwiche speaks of community members rallying together.
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A hardline Islamic sheikh from Queensland Zainadine Johnson has been sacked from his day job for telling his followers women need to wear the hijab so men can control their sexual urges.
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Costa Rica Earthquake: Huge 6.8 Magnitude Quake Stikes Near San Jose
A HUGE 6.8 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Costa Rica, according to the US Geological Survey.
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About 6,500 asylum seekers owe the public purse the huge sum of money, including one benefits cheat who has been ordered to pay back $70,000.
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A Manus Island refugee allegedly punched a female doctor in the face and tried to strangle her with a plastic bag while he was being treated.
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Name: “Sword of Allah”? Let Him in!
Even the craziest immigration systems dreamed up by European officials have not yet come up with something like America’s “diversity visa” lottery, by which someone named “Sword of Allah” is promptly let into the country — only then to mow people down in a New York bicycle lane.
Nearly 56,000 foreign nationals have disappeared from the radar of the British authorities after being told that they were required to leave the country.
Instead of looking warm and big-hearted, you begin to look as if you were just unforgivably lax with the security of your own citizens. So an entire political class has been.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has blasted Australia’s handling of the refugee crisis on Manus Island as unacceptable as she seeks another meeting with Malcolm Turnbull.
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Public servants in Victoria are being offered counselling in case the Australian public votes against legalising same-sex marriage. A ‘supported space’ is being set up for the result.
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What happens if you object to your children being subjected to the Islamic curriculum indoctrination of Common Core?
You are ignored, you are banned from any school property or meetings, you are told that it is required by the Common Core Curricula, and security will be called to prevent you from entering the school building. You will not be allowed to attend or speak at public school board meetings. The principal and the teacher(s) in question will not answer your calls or letters.
What happens if you object, as a parent, to the teaching of your children in kindergarten and elementary schools about sexual perversions?
Your opinions and wishes will be overridden by the school, the principal, and the teacher. The curriculum will be taught as planned with or without your knowledge.
What happens if you object to mentally-ill grown men or boys, pretending they are women, use the restrooms and lockers that your little girls use?
You will be labeled a homophobe who does not respect their freedom of expressing who they are inside their heads. The fact that your child is in danger of molestation and rape does not matter. They have rights that supersede your rights or your children’s rights.
What happens if you object to the Common Core curricula and do not wish that your Christian children be indoctrinated into the Five Pillars of Islam?
Your child will still be made to wear hijab in order to feel what a Muslim feels like and they will attend a mosque despite your protests. They will be made to recite by heart the Five Pillars of Islam, and to pray in the mosque, thus indoctrinating them into Islam.
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Dinosaurs Might Have Survived the Asteroid, Had it Hit Almost Anywhere Else
The age of dinosaurs met an unlikely end — because had the cosmic impact that doomed it hit just about anywhere else on the planet, the “terrible lizards” might still roam the Earth, a new study finds.
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Mahad Abdirahman sounds really Scandinavian to me. Undoubtedly a third or fourth generation Minnesotan.
“Two people were stabbed at the Mall of America in Minneapolis this evening…”
My bet’s a Somali.
Here is a very good, and long, analysis on Saudi. IMO it is closer to the truth than just about any other I have read, and at the least raises the main points of contention in a clear way :
http://theduran.com/anatomy-of-a-purge-is-saudi-arabias-mbs-a-tyrant-reformer-or-charlatan/
Note that in Kuwait, the balance of power has become tested from various sides. The crackdown on freedom of expression is likely as much to protect royal standing as to strengthen associated Sunni religious power – the dissent is coming from Shiite religious/status difference , and (Sunni, though not religion based) modernising ( possibly progressive) influences.
Anecdote- I remember a biiiig project announced for Kuwait, Silk City I think, quite a while back for the eastern quarter of the country, very similar to Saudi 2030. Now I cannot even find mention of it in search.
…well there is a wiki entry for Silk City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madinat_al-Hareer
….but the project was first highly promoted maybe 10 yrs ago….and I find no mention of it actually starting… just a completion date of 2035 or so. Will see, but it seems pretty much still ” proposed ” and not much else, as the wiki states.
Duran links to one of his other essays which outlines why Iran is more democratic than Saudi Arabia.
But then the Persians are, and always have been, more intelligent (on the whole) and innovative than the Desert Raiders. Yeah, I’m “raaacist”.
Like other of my ilk, I notice differences.
http://theduran.com/10-ways-iran-democratic-modern-saudi-arabia/
Carlos the Jackal, wrote from a French prison, “Only a coalition of Islamists and Marxists can destroy the United States.”
http://canadafreepress.com/article/pro-sharia-radical-linda-sarsour-comes-out-as-a-card-carrying-marxist
Carlos’ statement presumably applies in France also, where counter-intuitively the US State dept, when one gets past the pc overly-optimistic language of the Rivkin Doctrine, is helping accelerate that process.
I’ll save you the trouble of wading through it:
“enhance social inclusion adopted by non-minority political leaders; expansion of inter-communal and inter-faith exchanges at the local level; decrease in popular support for xenophobic political parties and platforms.”
https://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10PARIS58.html
Which in reality has means opposing the FN and facilitating, whether indirectly or not, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Macron the Socialist candidate, favoured by the Muslim Brotherhood, who apparently fielded numerous candidates.
“Macron: President of the Elites and Islamists”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10392/france-macron-islamists