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Pakistan: Islamists against Muhammad cartoons stage comeback

Last month, Pakistan lifted a ban on the hardline Islamist party, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), which has been the face of anti-France protests over the reprinting of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. The TLP’s jailed leader, as well as hundreds of his supporters, were released and the party will now be allowed to participate in mainstream politics. Many fear that the move has implications not just for Pakistan’s politics but also for the wider region and the rest of the world.

On 31 October, police officer Irfan Ahsan was posted to provide security at Wazirabad town in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, where hundreds of TLP protestors had been camping for more than a week with the aim marching to the capital Islamabad to force the government to expel the French envoy over the reprinting of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a satirical magazine.

The protesters were also demanding the release of their leader, Saad Rizvi, who had been jailed under anti-terrorism laws.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

BDS measure bans ‘pro-Israel’ kosher caterers at Toronto University

(November 30, 2021 / JNS) Just days before a report concerning anti-Semitism on campus is set to be released, the student union at a branch of the University of Toronto voted in favor of a radical BDS measure against Israel.

The resolution by the Scarborough Center Students Union, which was passed on Nov. 24, says, in part, that it will “refrain from engaging with organizations, services or participating in events that further normalize Israeli apartheid.” That includes “inviting speakers who are representing the Israel Defense Force or support the military occupation of Palestine, the displacement, incarceration and/or killing of Palestinian people.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•Anti-Semitism and the Left, WTF?

Alec Baldwin shooting: investigators track source of live ammunition on Rust set

Authorities are pursuing new leads on possible sources of live ammunition involved in actor Alec Baldwin’s fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of a western, as they searched the premises of an Albuquerque-based firearms and ammunition supplier.

The search took place after a provider of firearms and ammunition to the ill-fated movie production Rust told investigators that he “may know” where live rounds came from, describing ammunition he received from a friend in the past that had been “reloaded” by assembly from parts.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•Hollywood

Young Canadians launch court challenge to lower federal voting age from 18

A group of young Canadians has launched a court challenge to lower Canada’s minimum age for voting in federal elections.

On Tuesday, 13 young people from across the country, ranging in age from 12 to 18, filed an application at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice arguing that the section of the Canada Elections Act which bars Canadians under 18 from voting in federal elections is unconstitutional.

The group is making the argument that the rule violates two sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Section 3, which states that “every citizen of Canada” has the right to vote in an election for members of the House of Commons or a legislative assembly; and Section 15, which states that “every individual is equal before and under the law.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•"Peak F*cked Up", "Peak Weimar"

Jihadi Jack’s parents say he’s no terrorist

The family of a man currently held in a Kurdish prison in northern Syria is disputing the description of him as a terrorist.

… Letts has, however, described himself as a traitor to Britain, an enemy of the country where he was raised, and described how he wanted to be a suicide bomber for ISIS.

OOPS!

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Toronto police officer who shot renowned gunsmith won’t talk to SIU

The Toronto police officer who shot gunsmith Rodger Kotanko nearly a month ago won’t talk to Ontario’s police watchdog.

Special Investigations Unit (SIU) spokesperson Kristy Denette told CBC Hamilton on Tuesday morning, the subject officer also “declined to release his notes, as is his legal right.”

Kotanko’s family and their lawyer say they’re not surprised but are disappointed.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•Gun Control, Gun Rights

Ontario reports 780 new Covid cases … World Surrenders To Omicron

Ontario reports 780 new COVID-19 cases, 5 more deaths

Ontario reported nearly 800 new COVID-19 cases and five more virus-related deaths on Wednesday as the seven-day rolling average hit a high not seen since early June.

Provincial health officials logged 780 new infections today, up from 687 yesterday and from 591 a week ago.

Omicron keeps world jittery as more information drips out

TOKYO (AP) — The omicron variant kept a jittery world off-kilter Wednesday as Japan further tightened travel restrictions, infections linked to the new version of the coronavirus popped up in more places and new evidence made clear the mutant strain was circulating weeks earlier than thought.

Much is still unknown about the new variant, including how contagious it is and whether it can evade vaccines, and the European Union chief acknowledged that waiting for scientists to tell the world more felt like “an eternity.” Meanwhile, many nations in Europe are still dealing with a surge in infections and hospitalizations from their old foe, the delta variant.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

CNN indefinitely suspends Chris Cuomo over damning AG documents

CNN “indefinitely” suspended host Chris Cuomo on Tuesday over his secret role in trying to defend his brother, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, from the sexual harassment allegations that forced him from office — and for using his journalistic resources to aid that effort.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021December 1, 2021•0•#MeToo

Ethan Crumbley

Oxford high school shooter?

h/t Neo

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021•0•WTF?

Oakland Democrat Mayor Libby Schaaf: We Need ‘More Police,’ Far-Left ‘Defund’ Movement Hurting Cities

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) warned during a CNN interview on Monday that the far-left defund the police movement was hurting the abilities of cities to attract and retain police recruits which she says are badly needed to combat a surge in crime.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021November 30, 2021•0•"Depolicing", "Progressive Paradise"

Leaked papers link Xinjiang crackdown with China leadership

Excerpts from previously unpublished documents directly linking China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province to speeches by the Chinese leadership in 2014 have been put online.

The documents – including three speeches by Chinese president Xi Jinping in April 2014 – cover security, population control and the need to punish the Uyghur population. Some are marked top secret. They were leaked to the Uyghur Tribunal – an independent people’s tribunal based in the UK.

In the documents, the highest levels of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) leadership call for Uyghur re-education and relocation to rectify an imbalance in the Uyghur and Han population in Xinjiang.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021November 30, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Is Fredo Cuomo about to get whacked at CNN?

Chris “Fredo” Cuomo is one of the pampered princes at CNN whose usefulness to the network was pretty much nil after his bigger brother, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, went down in disgrace.

Now it comes to light that he was engaged in some despicable conflict-of-interest behavior that, as Rolling Stone noted, “would get any other journalist fired.”

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021November 30, 2021•0•#MeToo

How fear fuels the vaccine wars

Covid has been a revelation and an accelerant

Perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just blind prejudice, but when I wake to the news that the Austrian government has interned an entire third of its national population as a danger to public health, a chill runs down my spine.

I look at the news photos of armed, masked, black-clad police stopping people in the streets to ask for their digital papers, and I read stories of others arrested for leaving their own house more than the permitted once a day, and I hear Austrian politicians intoning that those who refuse to accede to the injection are to be shunned and scapegoated until they acquiesce.

by Blazingcatfur•December 1, 2021November 30, 2021•0•"China eats weird animals disease"

Crumbling decor and ‘refugee zones’: These ‘Syrian style’ cafes are China’s new trend

On Chinese social media, influencers are sharing photos from cafes they are calling “Syrian style”, decorated to look as if they were ravaged by war. You can take a selfie in front of a dilapidated wall and set your bubble tea on a table that looks like an ammunition crate, all while depressing music plays in the background. The design style, accused of being offensive and capitalising on human suffering, has stirred debate on Chinese social networks.

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2021November 30, 2021•0•WTF?

White Coat Sadist at Work – Fauci spends millions on “excruciating” experiments with rhesus monkeys.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci since 1984, conducts “excruciating experiments” on rhesus monkeys at NIH labs in Bethesda, Maryland.

“In many of these experiments, Fauci and staff intentionally withhold pain relief, even though these are some of the most excruciating experiments in the federal government,” John Goodman of the White Coat Waste Project (WCWP) told the Epoch Times.

According to a federal database, of the $13.5 million HHS spent to breed and maintain the monkeys, NIAID paid $8.9 million. Goodman told the Times it was “very unlikely that Fauci didn’t know about this given the amount of money involved and the fact that these experiments are happening in his own laboratories.”

by Blazingcatfur•November 30, 2021November 30, 2021•0•Bad Science