President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw the United States from Barack Obama’s deal with Iran. Critics of the president say that his recklessness will lead the US into a war.
In other words, more than a hundred migrants who had been left waiting at sea for two days in an NGO rescue vessel have finally been allowed into Italy.
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Euro Stumbles, Investor Sentiment Collapses as Eurozone Outlook Worsens
The European Union single currency Euro slumped Monday, reflecting gloomy investor confidence, slow economic growth, and strong Dollar performance.
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Job Openings Highest Since 2000, Reflecting Robust Economy
The “Job Openings” report released Tuesday by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was nothing short of remarkable: “On the last business day of March, the job openings level increased to a series high of 6.6 million. The series began in December 2000.” Translation: The U.S. economy, as measured by job growth, job openings, and unemployment numbers, is stronger now than at any time in the past 17 years.
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Billionaire Soros Drops $1.5 Million Into PAC Supporting DA Candidate Jones-Wright
For weeks Interim District Attorney Summer Stephan’s campaign has been promoting the not-so-closely held rumor that billionaire financier and criminal justice reform advocate George Soros was planning sizable campaign funding for rival candidate Genevieve Jones-Wright.
Rumor became fact Monday when campaign finance records filed late Friday showed Soros contributing $1.5 million to the California Justice & Public Safety committee, which is supporting Jones-Wright.
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Chicago Mayor Emanuel Wants to Unleash Spying Police Drone Against Protestors
About six years ago, Illinois passed a law requiring the Chicago Police Department to obtain warrants before using drones for surveillance purposes. As the law now stands, police officers can spy on public events if there is suspicion of criminal activity along with a warrant obtained from a judge. Now, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his allies in the state legislature are pushing for a new bill that would remove the requirement for a warrant — particularly when there is a high-risk event, including terrorism, loss of life, missing persons, and or monitoring a crime scene.
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Soros Continues Massive Cash Offensive in Florida
Billionaire political activist George Soros continues to write six-figure political checks in the swing state of Florida ahead of the 2018 elections, the latest being a $250,000 drop to Forward Florida, a political action committee supporting Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum in his run for governor.
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17-year-old “Channon” posted pictures of a white “dude” who stopped to help her dad after a tire on his vehicle blew out on the freeway. It didn’t take long for the images of kindness and unity to go viral. It also didn’t take long for black, liberal activists to turn the young teenage girls hopeful message into something ugly…
Channon tweeted: “So my dads tire blew up on the freeway and this dude, with a confederate flag tattoo, wearing a confederate flag t-shirt, with confederate flag car stickers, stopped and changed our tire. My mind is blown, don’t judge a book by its cover y’all”
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Even More Controversial Islamic Job Grants Recipients Emerge
Members of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre mosque prostrate themselves at midday prayer in Scarborough on Monday January 30, 2017. Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network
Five more controversial Islamic organizations with a history of anti-gay slurs and ties to terrorism have been approved to receive the Trudeau government’s Canada Summer Jobs Grant, the Sun has learned.
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Austria: More and More Readers Are Turning Away From the ‘Moralising’ Mainstream Media
The annually Austrian media analysis shows that mainstream newspapers have lost 400,000 readers, Wochenblick reports. For the last few years their monopoly has been crumbling, because of alternative news outlets.
Especially large tabloids like Kronen Zeitung, Kurier, Standard and Presse & Co have been shrinking for years and lost a part of their outreach.
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Hungarian President Asks Viktor Orban to Form New Government After Landslide Election Win
President Janos Ader has asked Prime Minister Viktor Orban, head of the election-winning Fidesz party to set up Hungary’s new government.
After meeting Orban on Monday morning, Ader told the press that the results of the April 8 election had “made it clear who would have sufficient support to form the new government”. The president added he would propose at the new parliament’s first session on Tuesday that the national assembly should re-elect Orban as prime minister.
Orban accepted the request and said that he would “serve Hungary with loyalty and commitment”.
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Milo Yiannopoulos to Give Speech in Hungary on ‘How to Save the West’
Political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos announced at the Day for Freedom rally in London on 8 May, that he has been invited to Budapest by the Hungarian government to deliver a speech on ‘how to save the West’.
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Mosque in Swedish Town Gets Green Light for Calls to Prayer
Fridays in the town of Växjö in southern Sweden will now feature a call to prayer from the local mosque.
The move comes after a controversial appeal from the local Muslim foundation.
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New Italian Election in July ‘A Possibillity’
Italy looks likely to return to the polls again this year, possibly as early as July, after the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the League said they were not in favour of President Sergio Mattarella’s proposal for a “neutral government” to take over until December.
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Paris court of appeal fined Eric Zemmour 5,000 euros for inciting hatred against Muslims, TRT reports. Back in 2016 Zemmour talked about the “Islamic invasion” that France was facing and he warned about the risks of a religious civil war in France.
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Protestors Wave EU Flags as Brussels Rebel Viktor Orban Begins Third Term as Hungary PM
VIKTOR Orban’s first day of his third term as Prime Minister was met with furious protests on the streets of Budapest.
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London’s rise in violent crime left authorities still unable to clean the youth’s blood from the scene of the crime in Kennington in London.
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UK: London’s Khan Wants to Meet Trump and Lecture Him on Diversity and Islam
London’s left-wing mayor says he would like to meet U.S. President Donald J. Trump so he can lecture him on “how diverse we are as a city and how that is a strength”, despite having previously said that Trump would not be welcome in London.
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UK: Oxford Paradise Square Gunman Siege Ends After 14 Hours
A 14-hour stand-off between a gunman and armed police in Oxford has “ended peacefully”, police have said.
Shots were exchanged between the suspect and officers in Paradise Square on Monday before negotiators attempted to end the situation.
A 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder at about 03:00 BST, police said.
One person is being treated for a non-life threatening injury, South Central Ambulance Service said.
Firearms officers were called at 13:15 BST on Monday after witnesses reported hearing gunfire.
Dean Dwyer, who saw armed police in the street, said: “They were screaming ‘put your hands up’…
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UK: Rebellion: Boris Johnson and Rees-Mogg Attack May’s ‘Crazy’ Brexit Customs Plan
The Foreign Secretary has defended a clean Brexit and blasted the Prime Minister’s “crazy” plan to keep the UK tied to the Customs Union, as Theresa May moves to pressure her cabinet into back the plan.
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UK: Report: Man Bloodied After Another Antifa Thug Uses Bike Lock in Sneak Attack
Liberal “tolerance” is looking remarkably violent, at least based on recent reports about a violent “antifa” incident.
Over the weekend, a disturbing assault reportedly left a right-leaning man with a bloody head wound after he was attacked during the “Day for Freedom” in London.
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When Will it End? Minor Girl Raped by 34-Year-Old Migrant in Swedish Park
A young girl was raped on Friday afternoon in a park in the city of Växjö, Sweden’s Vxo news reports.
That same evening a 34-year-old man was arrested. According to news outlet Fria Tider, the man is a migrant who raped the young girl in the Norremark area, which is near the Norrastugan club in Växjö.
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Why Pope Francis’s Call to Ban Weapons Would Destroy the West
For starters, the pope seems to forget that violence and the things that motivate it — hate, envy, rapacity, and plain old evil — do not need weapons. Had he turned to the book he claims to represent, the Bible, he would have seen that the first act of violence, of murder — that of Cain against his brother, Abel — did not require weapons, just a violent and envious will. The brothers “were in the field [when] Cain rose against Abel his brother and killed him.” Genesis 4 does not shed light on how this first fratricide occurred, but it was most assuredly done without a formal weapon — maybe a large rock, a branch, or simply Cain’s bare hands.
And it is from here that one understands why the West would be swept away without weapons and walls — another defense mechanism Pope Francis wishes to see eliminated. The same hate, envy, and rapacity that some non-Western peoples have for the West — understood in the context of a “clash of civilizations” — would remain, but there would be little to stop it, deter it, or keep it at bay.
Contrary to first appearances, were all weapons around the world instantly to disappear, that would not lead to an even playing field, where, if it comes to it, men limited to fighting with their fists would more or less maintain the status quo. For starters, in a world still largely defined by civilizations, the people of the West are much fewer in number than those of the rest of the — mostly third and desperate — world.
Already small Western numbers shrink even more on the realization that a great many men are not up to the task. Decades of enforced cultural emasculation have done their job, leaving many men in the West helpless and paralyzed against any would-be aggressor.
This is especially on display in the West’s interaction with Islam. One need only look to Western European nations, where the interplay of emasculated Western males and aggressive Muslim migrants is on constant display. Thanks to the latter, Sweden has become the rape capital of the world. That is not because Muslims use weapons, or are stronger, or are more numerous — they are still a tiny minority — but because many Swedish men have been so indoctrinated in passivity that they are not even able to protect their womenfolk.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif went on a tour of six Latin American nations in 2016. Iran’s diplomatic efforts resulted in, among other things, access to the use of Venezuelan territory to advance Iran’s solid rocket-fuel production.
Culturally, Iran has helped Hezbollah establish itself as the dominant force among Shia Muslim communities throughout Latin America, and has taken control of their mosques, schools and cultural institutions.
In 2012, there were 32 Iranian cultural centers across Latin America, to facilitate the spread of the Iranian Islamic revolution; today, less than a decade later, the number of centers has grown to more than 100.
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Trump Pulls United States Out of Iran Nuclear Deal, Calling the Pact ‘An Embarrassment’
President Trump on Tuesday said he is pulling the United States out of the international nuclear deal with Iran, announcing that economic sanctions against Tehran will be reinstated and declaring that the 2015 pact had been rooted in “fiction.”
Trump’s decision, announced at the White House, makes good on a campaign pledge to undo an accord he has criticized as weak, poorly negotiated and “insane.”
“The Iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen,” Trump said in remarks at the White House. “In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state-sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons.”
The move amounts to Trump’s most significant foreign policy decision to date. While he cast the U.S. action as essential for national security and a warning to Iran and any other nuclear aspirant that “the United States no longer makes empty threats,” it could also increase tensions with key U.S. allies that heavily lobbied the administration in recent weeks not to abandon the pact and see it as key to keeping peace in the region. They unsuccessfully tried to convince Trump that his concerns about “flaws” in the accord could be addressed without violating its terms or ending it altogether.
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Trump Pulls US Out of “Unacceptable, Defective” Iran Deal; Obama Slams Decision as “So Misguided”
Update 6: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that he is “deeply concerned by today’s announcement that the US will be withdrawing” from the Iran deal.
Guterres said controversies relating to the agreement should be resolved within its mechanism for handling disagreements, and that “issues not directly related to the JCPOA should be addressed without prejudice to preserving the agreement.”
He also called on the deal’s remaining partners to work together to preserve the accord.
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Turkish President Rages Over French Leaders’ Statements on the Quran
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at a group of 300 French politicians and celebrities who demanded Muslims denounce anti-Semitic and anti-Christian Quranic verses.
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, actor Gérard Depardieu and singer Charles Aznavour numbered among a group of 300 French politicians and artists who published an April 22 statement demanding prominent Muslim leaders denounce anti-Semitic and anti-Christian verses in the Quran so “no believer can refer to a holy text to commit a crime.” Erdogan decried the group as “despicable” in a Tuesday ruling party meeting, according to The Associated Press.
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Kuwait’s Ambassador Inaugurates Mosque, Islamic Center in Canberra
CANBERRA: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Australia Najeeb Al-Bader (right) is seen during the inauguration ceremony of the Sabah Al-Ahmad Masjid and Islamic Education Centre in Canberra, Australia. — KUNA
CANBERRA: The State of Kuwait’s Ambassador to Australia, Najeeb Al-Bader, has inaugurated Sabah Al-Ahmad Masjid (Mosque) and Islamic Education Centre in Canberra. The inauguration ceremony was attended by Dr Walid Al-Shuaib, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs for the Holy Quran and Islamic Studies, representing Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs Dr Fahd Al-Afasi. Also present was Chris Crewther MP, Member for Dunkley — Victoria, representing Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, alongside representatives from ACT Government, heads of diplomatic missions and Islamic organizations and a large crowd.
Ambassador Bader delivered a speech noting that complex construction reflects depth of the friendly bilateral relationship between the State of Kuwait and Australia. He noted that this blessed project was accomplished through the productive cooperation between the Embassy of the State of Kuwait and Canberra Islamic Centre, and by means of the generous contribution of the Council of Ministers of the State of Kuwait with a value of about two million Australian dollars. Furthermore, he expressed deep satisfaction that collaborative hard work has contributed towards finishing all construction work on time, noting that the contract of this Islamic edifice was signed in April, 2016. He emphasized that the mosque, along with the center, was named after the Amir of wisdom and leader of humanitarian work, His Highness the Amir of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
He explained that as a result of His Highness’s policies and guidance in taking outstanding generous initiatives, His Highness was recognized as a great humanitarian leader “of our world, and Kuwait has obtained prominence among the countries of the world in the last 10 years as a “center of global humanitarian action.” Hence, the Ambassador expressed his hopes that this project will contribute further towards highlighting the constructive and positive efforts of the State of Kuwait in relation to leading international humanitarian initiatives and humanitarian projects. Al-Bader clarified that Embassy of the State of Kuwait in Canberra has supervised all the phases of the project construction.
He explained that it was launched in response to a request from Canberra Islamic Centre due to urgent need for a mosque and a center that provide educational and religious services to the Muslim community in Canberra, which is about 10,000 Muslims. He also noted that naming this Islamic edifice after His Highness the Amir reflects genuine recognition of the Muslim community to the His Highness’ humanitarian work around the world…
[Comment: Why we will never see titles like: “Vatican Ambassador consecrated a church and a Christian Center in Kuwait”?]
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Defence Force Member Shoots, Robs the South African Public
A violent bodyguard for a South African general was protected by the system after he had almost killed a white woman, Carine van Staden, by shooting her in the street. A member of the South African National Defence Force has been arrested for armed robbery, even while he was still being tried for the attempted murder of a female motorcyclist. Corporal Jacob Marakalla (photo above) made headlines in Pretoria last year when he shot Carine van Staden, 28, in the chest at point-blank range after she had pursued him for knocking her over in a hit-and-run accident. In response, he took out his service pistol and shot her on 10 August, seriously wounding her.
In racist, anti-white South Africa, whites are routinely attacked by blacks. Because Marakalla was in uniform when he tried to kill his white victim simply for pointing out to him that he should have stopped after colliding with her motorcycle, it was initially not considered a crime and he was not even arrested. The country’s leftist, mainstream media also ignored the incident, except for a local community newspaper in Pretoria, the Rekord, who published an article on the incident in Afrikaans on 11 August 2017. At the time it was only known that the shooter was black and that he wore an army uniform.
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South Africa to Emulate Zimbabwe With Racial Land Expropriation
I realised to what extent our tragic subjugation in South Africa is being replicated in Europe, including Sweden, today.
The new South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has pledged to ‘expropriate white-owned land without compensation’, causing panic among the country’s farmers. Will it plunge the country into Zimbwean-style chaos?…
As I dug deeper and deeper into our history, a chill ran through my spine because I realised to what extent our tragic subjugation in South Africa is being replicated in Europe, including Sweden, today. There can be no doubt that South Africa is our country as it was virtually empty when we settled it in the first two centuries after 1652. In 1936 there were only 5,6 million black people who were largely confined to remote tribal areas. In only eighty years, that population has multiplied by eight, to more than 40 million. Scared of having its votes taken from the extreme left by the EFF, the ANC has now simply adopted its rival’s radical policies.
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South Africa: ‘Rioters in Operating Theatres’ As Northwest Chaos Spreads
Amid the rioting and carnage plaguing South Africa’s Northwest Province, hospitals are now being invaded by strikers who threaten to ‘burn doctors alive’.
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South African Police Minister Agrees to Release Farm Murder Stats
The South African Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, and the Police Commissioner, General Khehla Sitole, indicated that they would once again release statistics on farm attacks and murders after eleven years of silence on the burning issue as international pressure builds.
The last time that these statistics were disclosed was in 2007. The small white party in parliament, the Freedom Front Plus, however, continued to request the figures by way of parliamentary questions and some answers have finally been provided.
In essence, the party asked for the number of attacks and murders that took place in every province since 2012 to be disclosed. From the answer it can be gleaned that attacks increased (561 attacks) over the last year (2017/18).
The figures show that over the last six years since 2012, there were 3059 attacks altogether. On average, that is 509,8 per year in which 338 people were killed. On average, that is 56,3 per year.
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Mass Exodus: Venezuelan Army Troops Desert in Droves Ahead of Presidential Election
The Venezuelan Army could be nearing a collapsing point, as high-ranking military officers and enlisted troops “are joining the exodus of Venezuelans to Colombia and Brazil, fleeing barracks and forcing President Nicolas Maduro’s government to call upon retirees and militia to fill the void,” said Bloomberg.
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Financial Times: Mass Migration Will be Key Political Issue for Decades
Anti-mass migration policies “clearly resonate with large numbers of voters” and will remain highly politically relevant as “migratory pressures build over the next decades”, reports the Financial Times in an important concession for the globalist, establishment newspaper.
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Libyan Coastguard Blocks NGO Boat From Rescuing Refugees: Report
The Libyan coastguard on Sunday prevented a rescue ship belonging to two NGOs from approaching a boat in distress carrying refugees, an AFP photographer witnessed.
The Aquarius, chartered by SOS-Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), was informed by the Italian coastguard of the presence of an overloaded boat off the coast of Tripoli, reported the photographer on board the NGO boat.
But Rome also alerted the Libyan coastguard which took charge of coordinating the rescue operation and banned the NGO ship from approaching, also ordering it to move away when refugees jumped into the water to avoid being picked up by the Libyans.
The Libyan navy later announced it had rescued more than 300 refugees in three separate operations, reporting one dead and three missing.
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Mass Immigration Has Made Toronto a Very Alienating City in Which to Live
Toronto is my home town. It’s also been ground zero for mass immigration for decades. What’s it been like growing up in that situation?
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Migrants Accuse Italy of Responsibility for Libyan Abuses
ROME (AP) — Seventeen Nigerian survivors of a 2017 migrant boat sinking have filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights accusing Italy of violating their human rights by “subcontracting” their rescue to Libya.
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Rescued Migrants Allowed to Land in Italy After Two-Day Wait at Sea
Over 100 migrants were stranded for nearly two days in the central Mediterranean after being rescued in by an NGO over the weekend, with Italy and the United Kingdom undergoing a back-and-forth over their fates.
Rome decided on Monday evening to allow 105 migrants to land in Italy following an ordeal that saw them kept at sea while the Italians and British stalled on a decision.
[Comment: Article dated May 8, 2017.]
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Swedish Anti-Mass Migration Leader Åkesson Dominates Election Leader’s Debate
The leader of the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) Jimmie Åkesson dominated a party leaders debate over the weekend, winning the overall debate with policies on immigration and crime.
The debate, which featured Åkesson along with the leaders of several other major parties such as Moderate Party leader Ulf Kristersson and Green party spokeswoman Isabella Lövin, covered the four main topics of immigration, law and order, jobs and welfare, and environmental issues Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
Following the debate, polling firm Novus, conducted a poll on each subject with Åkesson winning the immigration debate with 30 per cent of the vote and the law and order debate, also with 30 per cent.
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Swedish Newspaper Admits Migrants Are Vast Majority of Gang Rape Convicts
Weeks after a Swedish mainstream newspaper conducted a study finding that migrants make up the majority of those convicted for gang rape, a second Swedish title has revealed another study revealing the same results.
The new study, which looked at 112 men and boys found guilty of gang rape, showed that the vast majority of convicts, 82 in total, were born in a different country Aftonbladet reports.
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UK: 550 Grooming Gang Deportations — Is That Enough?
I read in the Chronicle Live this morning that “Operation Sanctuary” — an investigation by Northumbria Police opened in 2014 — is looking at the possibility of deporting 550 people in the wake of gang and child abusecrackdowns.
The investigation was launched in January 2014 when a number of arrests took place, following allegations of abuse that were made in December 2013. The original probe was called Operation Shelter, but now we know it was part of a wider umbrella investigations known as Operation Sanctuary.
The report from the Chronicle said that over 200 warnings had been handed to suspected child groomers so far, and 60 taxi drivers who are suspected of sexual exploitation have been suspended. Now this takes my interest. I would like to know why exactly ‘warnings’ have been given out, and more extensive arrests not taken place.
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Feminism Over Multiculturalism: Germany Backs ‘Values’ Classes for Refugees
Centre-right parties in Germany want to introduce “rule of law” classes for refugee children in which it would be stressed that state ‘values’ including gender equality take priority over cultural diversity.
A draft document prepared by Angela Merkel’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party CSU ahead of the parliamentary group’s conference Monday would see young migrants taking lessons in ‘values’ at schools across Germany.
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How the Church is Being Undermined From Within
In their book, The Common Word: The Undermining of the Church, Sam Solomon, a Muslim apostate, devout Christian, and scholar of Islam, and Elias Al Maqdisi, an expert on Islamic teachings, expose the true meaning and spirit of “Common Word.” They contend that the message is “accept Islam or face the consequences,” rather than a paean of “unity” or the “oneness” of G €’d. Noteworthy is that the document lacked any apology for Islamic invasions and conquests or invitations to build churches in Islamic lands.
The authors point out that, despite the seeming message of peace in the document, sharia law mandates that Muslims are not allowed to enter into peace agreements with non-Muslims or forgo their obligation to perform jihad. They also state that whereas Judaism and Christianity teach, “love of one’s neighbor as one’s self,” Islam teaches followers to have enmity toward Jews and Christians as set forth in the Islamic doctrine of Al Wala Wa al Baraa, or Loyalty and Enmity. Mainstream Islam advocates the separation of Muslims from non-Muslims, who are viewed as “unclean.” Quran 58:22 states that devout Muslims do not befriend non-Muslims “even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin.”
Further quotations from the Quran cited by the authors include Quran 60:4, which proclaims, “Enmity and hate shall forever reign between us — until you believe in Allah alone.” In fact, the first sura or chapter of the Quran, Al Fatiha or “Opening,” recited at each prayer time for a total of 17 times daily, is a call to follow the “straight path” of Islam and not to follow the path “of those who have evoked Allah’s anger,” or the Jews, and those who have gone “astray,” or the Christians.
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Stephen Hawking’s Last Words: We Live in ‘The Matrix’?
Before he passed away in March, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking had published more than 230 articles on the birth of the universe, black holes and quantum mechanics. But, ten days before his death, Hawking finished his final theory on the origin of the universe — now published posthumously — and it offers an interesting departure from earlier ideas about the nature of the “multiverse.”…
Applied to inflation, the newly published theory suggests that time and “the beginning” of the universe arose holographically from an unknowable state outside the Big Bang.
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However long you’ve been alive, chances are you’ve heard a completely incorrect “fact” about the brain. The human brain is notoriously complicated, and despite many advances in modern science, much of the organ remains a mystery.
That’s probably why, when someone hears a rumour about how the brain functions, they spread it — regardless of whether or not it’s true.
Here are 10 of the biggest and most widely believed misconceptions about the human brain, and why they’re wrong.
According to popular culture and quizzes on Facebook, logical, analytical people have a “left brain” while creative and artistic types think with their their “right brain.”
But this isn’t true. No scientific studies have really ever been able to prove people are dominated by either side of the brain.
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In Russia there are two types of Islam: wild Islam and domesticated Islam, which is also called traditional. The so-called” traditional ” Islam was forged by Russian tsars and Soviet Communists with the help of hot iron. Now the state pays them a lot of money to restrain “non-traditional” Islam. But they are bad at it.
Today in Dagestan blew up a mausoleum on the grave of the famous Sufi Sheikh and theologian. Almost every day, special services detain “non-traditional” Muslims.
If things continue this way, the state will be full of problems and they will leave Islamorealists (islamophobes) alone.
“…young migrants taking lessons in ‘values’ at schools across Germany…”
Omg. do Germans really believe nonsense like that “taking lessons in ‘values””?
The only lessons they would be taking are lessons in violence, dealing in dope, rape and pickpocketing.
“Critics of the president say that his recklessness will lead the US into a war.”
And allowing Iran to go nuclear won’t?!?
One case is merely speculative, the other is a lead pipe cinch.
How people can remain so ignorant of Iranian subterfuge (centrifuge?) defies all imagination.
Sadiq Khan would do better to debate Robert Spenser, for example. Then we really would learn something.
I’d pay good money to see that!
Robert Spencer has been ban from entering the United Kingdom, I do not know if his Jihad watch website can be viewed there uncensored in the United Kingdom. Sadiq Khan is a member of the most protected species, an Islamic elected official representing a western, that is the city of London. Sadiq Khan will not openly debate Robert Spencer or anyone else about Islam in the United Kingdom because the whole country is on the road to be Sharia compliant, to debate or criticize Islam is wrong according to Sharia law.
It was a good provocation!
German brewing company, Eichbaum, have put the Saudi flag with the Islamic creed on their alcoholic drinks for the upcoming football world cup. This is very disrespectful and offensive!
https://twitter.com/doamuslims/status/994647604179939328
The brewery apologized.
https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-wirtschaft-eichbaum-entschuldigt-sich-bei-muslimen-fuer-saudi-arabische-flagge-auf-kronkorken-_arid,1247804.html
So did they withdraw the offending beer cans/bottles? Or did they apologize whilst selling their product? That’s what the Saudi themselves would do…oh, wait. Maybe without an apology.