Author: Blazingcatfur

Pope Leo To Visit Algeria Amidst Increasing Christian Persecution

Pope Leo To Visit Algeria Amidst Increasing Christian Persecution

The Vatican has announced that as part of his upcoming African tour, Pope Leo XIV will visit Algeria 13–15 April.

Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming trip is a historic event. No acting pontiff has ever visited Algeria, a former stronghold of ancient Christianity whose current population of 48 million is about 99% Muslim.

2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the 1996 attack on an Algerian monastery in which seven monks were kidnapped and beheaded by an Islamic group. Today, religious freedom has significantly deteriorated in the country, particularly impacting Algeria’s roughly 156,000 Christians. Algeria is currently ranked as the 20th most oppressive nation for Christians by the human rights organization Open Doors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Algeria, Catholic Church

Canadian Confidence Hits 11-Month Low as Iran War Drags On

Canadian Confidence Hits 11-Month Low as Iran War Drags On

Canadian consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in almost a year as the war in Iran, which has sent energy prices soaring and stoked worries about persistent inflation, entered its sixth week.

The Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Consumer Confidence Index fell to 46.93 in the week ended April 3, while the expectations index extended its four-week loss to almost 10 points. A reading below 50 indicates net negative views. It was the lowest reading for both indexes since May 2025, when consumers and businesses were still digesting the initial shock of US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trump: I’ll wipe out Iran in one night if it rejects deal

Trump: I’ll wipe out Iran in one night if it rejects deal

Donald Trump has threatened to wipe out Iran on Tuesday if it does not agree to a ceasefire.

The US president said he could bomb the Islamic Republic back to the “Stone Ages”, destroying all of its power stations and bridges within four hours, if no deal were in place by 1am UK time.

“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” Mr Trump told a White House press conference on Monday evening. “I hope I don’t have to do it.”

 

Update …

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War"

Police probe gun, SUV used in Ryan Wedding-linked homicide for ties to unsolved cases

Police probe gun, SUV used in Ryan Wedding-linked homicide for ties to unsolved cases

Two years after the killing of a suspected drug trafficker in Niagara Falls, Ont. — purportedly targeted by a gunman hired by Ryan Wedding’s alleged criminal network — police are still trying to unlock the victim’s iPhone and identify at least one other suspect.

Investigators are also seeking to piece together how the homicide, allegedly carried out by a hitman known as Mr. Perfect, fits into a web of unsolved crimes suspected of being linked to the drug-trafficking organization allegedly led by Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime

Canadian navy base flies trans flag stating ‘hateful online conduct’ may be subject to ‘criminal justice process’

Canadian navy base flies trans flag stating ‘hateful online conduct’ may be subject to ‘criminal justice process’

CALGARY — Canada’s navy raised a transgender flag at its morning colours ceremony, accompanied by a message online stating it will not tolerate “hateful online conduct,” which may be subject to the “criminal justice process.”

Last week, “Transgender Day of Visibility,” was observed by the Royal Canadian Navy, or the East Coast Navy, on Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Halifax — Canada’s largest military base in terms of population.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada in decline", Big Tranny, Canada, WTF?

The U.S. should no longer reflexively pay for and protect all of Western civilization

Denying the U.S. the use of its European bases is an insane level of ingratitude and entitlement.

he United States has to be done paying for everything and everyone in the rest of the world.

We have to go back to the Founders’ vision of not entangling ourselves in foreign conflicts, unless it is clearly, absolutely in our best and vital interest to do so.

This is not a criticism of the decision to attack Iran, per se. Any reasonable person can see that there could be great benefit to knocking out or laying low a nation with Iran’s destructive capabilities, a nation that has made it clear for almost half a century that it would love nothing more than to kill the Great Satan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Iran Shot Down a Plane Carrying 85 Canadians, and Now Strikes Canadian Forces and Civilian Targets in the Gulf. What Does Canada Call That, If Not State Terrorism?

Iran Shot Down a Plane Carrying 85 Canadians, and Now Strikes Canadian Forces and Civilian Targets in the Gulf. What Does Canada Call That, If Not State Terrorism?

OTTAWA – On the night of January 8, 2020, a Boeing 737 carrying 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents climbed out of Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and was destroyed by two missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. One hundred and seventy-six people died. Iran denied it for three days, bulldozed the crash site, and then blamed a single soldier’s misidentification error.

Canada accepted that framing, more or less. It still does.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"US Israel Iran War", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Labour’s Islamophobia ban spells the death of English liberty

Labour’s Islamophobia ban spells the death of English liberty

The bigots who hounded the Batley Grammar teacher into hiding have been rewarded with a blasphemy law.

There is a schoolteacher in England whose name I cannot tell you, because he was forced to change it. In March 2021, he showed his year nine class at West Yorkshire’s Batley Grammar School a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad – a reproduction of the infamous Charlie Hebdo cartoon from 2015 – as part of a lesson on blasphemy. It was five months after Samuel Paty, a French teacher who had conducted a similar lesson, was beheaded by a jihadist in a suburb of Paris. One might have expected, in the aftermath of a colleague’s decapitation, some institutional solidarity. One would have been naive.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Blasphemy, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sharia, UK

Amy Hamm: How the NDP’s equity cards turned the convention into a circus

Amy Hamm: How the NDP’s equity cards turned the convention into a circus

Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) held a convention and elected their new leader, Avi Lewis, over three days last weekend. The convention made the NDP famous — perhaps “infamous” is more like it — and drew the attention of pundits from across the world.

All of this happened at a time when the party is in its death throes: it has lost its official status in Canada’s House of Commons, and has a measly six elected members of Parliament.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", NDP

The Art That We Keep Or Destroy

The Art That We Keep Or Destroy

The Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, has called for the removal of a mural of Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee whose brutal murder was caught on video, because, according to Mayor Smiley, because of its “misguided, isolating intent”.

Providence has a BLM street mural covering three blocks and a “Love is a Many Gendered Thing” mural, but Mayor Smiley urged supporting artists “whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us” and remembering Irina’s murder divides us.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Homicidal Progressives, Batshit Crazy Hypocrites

Data show more Americans aren’t heading to Canada — it’s the other way around

Data show more Americans aren’t heading to Canada — it’s the other way around

When Donald Trump was first elected U.S. president in 2016, there was a healthy dose of hyperbolic headlines about Americans fleeing to Canada in response, headlines that quickly re-surfaced after his re-election in 2024.

And while it’s true asylum claims from U.S. citizens have spiked in the first full year of both his terms and the ascension of Bill C-3 has opened the citizenship door to untold thousands of Americans with Canadian ancestral roots, new data from the Association for Canadian Studies show fewer U.S. citizens are emigrating north in recent years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Tourists visiting Chicago confronted by nightmarish Mad Max scene unfolding outside hotel window

Tourists visiting Chicago confronted by nightmarish Mad Max scene unfolding outside hotel window

A couple visiting Chicago were left confused and horrified by a Mad Max-style scene unfolding outside of their hotel window, as teen gangs continue to terrorize the city.

The pair, who were staying at the Hampton Inn near the South Loop, were woken up early on Sunday morning after youths gathered at an intersection and began drifting in circles.

As traffic backed up on either side of the intersection of Michigan Avenue and Cermak Road, a large group was seen crowding three cars spinning in the intersection.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Civil Unrest", USA, WTF?

Trump says he won’t invade Canada after all

Trump says he won’t invade Canada after all

Donald Trump has said he will not invade Canada after repeatedly threatening to turn the country into America’s “51st state”.

The US president questioned whether Canadians still recognised the King as their head of state as he weighed up the “problem” of taking over the territory during the rest of his time in office.

“I suppose the Canadians have got 200 years of history and all that ‘Oh, Canada’ thing,” he said. “You can’t deal with that in three and a half years. I guess it’s not going to happen!”

Trump doesn’t have to do anything Canada is imploding so all he’ll have to do is pick up the good parts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA